The next morning, the bean-sized raindrops were still falling.

It was already dawn, about three quarters in the morning, but the sky was still gray, as if chaos had just begun.

The ships of the Song army rippled in the boiling water, slowly lifted away, and slowly descended.

When it rains, the water level of the river rises, and it is very normal for the water level to drop after a period of time after the rain stops.

But while it was raining, the water level began to slowly decrease, which was obviously unreasonable.

Normally, unless someone has long been concerned about this, or is very sensitive to the ups and downs of the water level, few people will notice it.

However, Di Qing had already guessed the methods that the Liao army might use, so he quickly took countermeasures.

In the pouring rain, Yuguan was already in tatters, and the west city gate, which was nailed up by the Song army's wooden planks, slowly opened, and Di Qing wore a robe, riding on horseback and slowly walked out.

Although they did not have horses on their ships, the Liao army was mostly horses, and the Liao army he killed and wounded these days was not ten thousand, but seven or eight thousand, and countless were captured.

After coming out of the West City Gate, Di Qing turned his head and took a deep look at the city.

The city has long been devastated and full of traces.

There were a lot of corpses outside the city, and the Song army didn't even have time to clean them up, if it weren't for the winter, I am afraid that there would be a rotting and fishy smell everywhere at this time.

But no matter what.

He'll be back later.

Then he came to the shore of the Elm River, boarded a boat, and crossed the river to the west bank.

At this time, the strength of the Song army on the west bank had reached about 8,000 men, and the east bank was only defended by about 1,000 people.

If the Liao army comes to attack, Yuguan will be very dangerous.

But fortunately, the Liao army attacked all night last night and was very tired. And in the heavy rain weather, the vision is extremely poor, and they can't see the situation of the Song army at all.

If Di Qing's trick was not discovered by the Liao army, it would be an empty ship plan. found out, that is the outcast attack.

Regardless of the outcome, be tactically ahead.

At this moment, the Song army on the west bank gathered in the rain, and the captured Liao army horses were not enough to equip the whole army, not to mention that they were a naval army, and many people could not ride horses at all.

The soldiers walked deep and shallow in the mud, Di Qing slowly arrived at the front of the team, and Hu Yan Shouyong and Wang Kui had already come.

"Marshal, we have already reconnoitred the place where the commander of the Liao army is stationed, in Lulong County, which is about thirty miles northwest of Guangning."

"They hid in the city?"

Di Qing asked.

"No, camp in the wilderness."

Wang Kui said.

"Huh."

Di Qing sneered and said, "The Liao army is really arrogant. ”

Hu Yan Shouyong said: "Maybe they think we don't dare to leave Yuguan to facilitate the next attack. ”

"No matter what, it's the Liao army that is killing itself!"

Di Qing looked at the northwest direction and said in a deep voice: "Pass my military order, march thirty miles in a hurry, and attack the Liao army camp!" ”

"Yes!"

Wang Kui and Hu Yan Shouyong were both in their hearts.

This is a difficult task.

Although the Song army has long since departed from the previous era when soldiers had to bear armor and it was difficult to march long distances.

But they are water troops after all, and they spend more time training on the water than on land.

In terms of physical training, it is obviously much worse than the training of the army.

But this is Di Qing's death order, no matter how difficult it is, it must be carried out.

The west bank of Yushui is barren for hundreds of miles, approaching midwinter, and everything is silent.

There are some villages outside Quang Ninh, but since the start of the fighting, many people have fled to other places.

There were some people left in the village, and every household closed their doors and windows, and some of them were bold enough to go out to look, and they saw a neat procession heading northwest on the official road outside the village in the distance.

Many of them wore red cotton robes, hats, and robes. With a straight knife hanging from his waist and a spear on his back, his momentum is quite fierce.

"Is this the soldier of the Song Kingdom?"

"Looking at their appearance, they don't even have armor on their bodies, how can they beat our Liao army?"

"I heard that they don't need to use knives and guns anymore, what kind of firearms do they use."

"These days, there has been a loud noise in the direction of Yuguan, which is louder than firecrackers, that is, the power of firearms."

"Tell me, who will win between Liao and Song?"

Several villagers looked at the rows of Song troops in the mist and rain in the distance, and fell silent.

For the Han people in the land of Youyan, their emotions towards the Song State were complicated.

Later, during the Southern Song Dynasty, there were many Han people who fled from the occupied areas of the Central Plains to the south, and they regarded the Great Song Dynasty as their mother country and the Jin Kingdom as barbarians.

But that's because their ancestors were the people of the Song Dynasty for generations, and it has been 167 years since the founding of the Northern Song Dynasty to the Southern Song Dynasty, and the Han people's thinking has long been deep-rooted.

And the people of Youyan are different.

It has been a full hundred and nine years since Emperor Shi Jingjiao ceded the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun to the Khitan in 938 AD.

It has only been more than 70 years since Baodao left China, and there are already many people who do not identify with the motherland, let alone at this time.

Therefore, many Youyan people have been under the rule of the Liao State for generations, and many people still maintain the identity of the Han people, the blood of the Han people and various cultural habits.

But in terms of identity, they have long regarded Liao as the motherland, not the Great Song Dynasty in the south.

But it is precisely because of this that seeing the Great Song army, which is also a Han Chinese, defeated the Liao army one after another, indescribable emotions naturally emerged in my heart.

One side is its own country, and the other side is its own nation.

It's hard to say who they want to win.

Of course.

If it had been before, they would have hoped for the victory of the Liao State.

But today's Great Song Dynasty has long been different from what it used to be.

I heard that the Liao army had a very hard time on the front line, and even the Song army went directly to the hinterland of Yuguan.

Then reason will tell them that they should be on the side of national identity.

The pouring rain was still falling.

The marching ranks of the Song army hurried along the muddy roads.

Many of the soldiers had their boots soaked in water and turned white.

But no one spoke, and no one was left behind.

Everyone was in this silence, and the silence between heaven and earth was so silent that only this vast rainstorm remained.

After about two hours, Di Qing slowly walked through a dense forest, and in the distance was an undulating mountain, with hills and mountains on both sides.

There is a small mountain range in the southeast of Lulong County, which is the remaining vein of Yanshan Mountain, the mountain is not very high, but the forest is relatively lush.

Although it is winter, not all the mountains and forests are withered, and there are many evergreen plants that exude green.

The scout hurried over and said to Di Qing: "Report, marshal, the Liao army camp has been found ahead. ”

"Where?"

"Right down the hill ahead."

"Is the enemy on guard?"

"Not really."

"Take me to see it."

"Yes."

The scout then turned on his horse again.

Di Qing galloped on horseback, and under the escort of the surrounding personal guards, he arrived at a small mountain about 100 meters ahead.

At this time, it was already noon, the sky was still gray, and the visibility was not very high.

However, through the telescope, it was still possible to observe that three camps had been erected in the distance under the mountains, which should have been newly built, and there were no even defenses.

Previously, the Liao army swaggered and set up camp outside the city of Guangning, but was defeated by the Song army, and now retreated to the nearest city, Lulonglai, probably waiting for reinforcements from Yingzhou, or planning to attack Guangning again after regrouping.

Di Qing looked at the vicinity of the mountain for a long time, and he was sure that the Liao army had no defense, and in the pouring rain, there were even very few patrols and sentries on the periphery, only poor guards on the camp.

"The marshal is like a god, and the Liao army is really defenseless."

Hu Yanshou came to see this scene, and he also sincerely admired Di Qing's judgment.

"Under the heavy rain, the power of our army's firearms has decreased a lot, and it is not easy to rely on the city to defend, and the Liao army definitely did not think that we would take the initiative to attack."

Di Qing shook his head and said, "What's more, for them, what they need is to take back Guangning and Yuguan and re-dredge the roads between Liaoyang and Xijin, how can they go to great lengths to build walled walls and arrange so many fortifications?" ”

To put it simply, the Liao army is the attacking side, and the time is pressing, they must take Yuguan as soon as possible to open up the baggage conveyor line, and it is impossible for them to spend too much time here to play with Di Qing.

Therefore, even if the Liao army was attacked by the Song army and was forced to retreat for dozens of miles, it had to prepare for the next attack, and could not think about defense.

If it weren't for Xiao Xiaomu's imprudence, there was really nothing he could do about it, so he had to do it.

"Dashuai, there is a mountain beam over there, you can go around it."

Wang Kui noticed that there was a small hill on the west side of the Liao army camp, and if the Liao army was attacked from that side, the attack distance would be greatly reduced.

"Let the soldiers rest in place for half an hour, and then take the opportunity to cut down some trees and build some ladders."

Di Qing said in a deep voice: "This battle must be a big victory!" ”

"Yes."

Wang Kui and Hu Yan should respond, and then went to arrange orders.

After half an hour, the soldiers were almost rested, and Di Qing immediately ordered a new departure.

The Song army detoured to the west and approached the mountain by circumventing the wilderness with a wide field of vision.

Under the cover of hills and trees, they soon reached the back of the mountains, less than a mile away from the Liao army camp.

Through the field of vision of the telescope, I could see that in the gray, the Liao soldiers were leaning on the watchtower in the corner boredly, not even looking outside.

"Let's go!"

Di Qing greeted lightly, did not ride a horse, but bowed down and beckoned back, and then hundreds of guards followed him and slowly approached the Liao camp.

If it is a castle, there are people watching above the city walls at any time, and if you can't say it, you will find them.

But the periphery of the Liao camp is an ordinary fence, and it is definitely impossible to stand on the wood, except for the four corner towers that can see people, the Liao army does not notice anything wrong at all.

Soon they felt outside the fence, and through the cracks in the fence, they could even see many tents inside the camp.

"Dashuai, this fence is quite strong, not easy to cut."

One of the guards took advantage of the torrential rain to drown out the sound and tried to slash twice with a knife, but could not break it.

After thinking for a while, Di Qing said, "Explode with a grenade." ”

"Isn't it going to be too much?"

"I'm not afraid of movement, I want a gap that they can't plug."

"Yes."

The guards responded, and then everyone stayed away.

Some guards collected more than 30 grenades, pulled them and smoked, and threw them towards the fence.

Rainy weather will definitely increase the chance of a dud, after all, the inside of the grenade is a structure of gunpowder and iron sheets and oiled paper, although the oiled paper is waterproof, but the lead is not guarded.

The small stone inside turned into a dud if it didn't produce a spark to ignite the lead after being pulled, or if the lead was wet with water.

But there were a lot of grenades, at least twenty of which were able to detonate, and when they smoked, they were thrown straight at the fence.

I heard the sound of an explosion "bang bang bang" roaring, and in an instant sawdust flew all over the place, and the fence was blown straight out of a huge gap.

"What sound?"

At this moment, in the middle camp, Xiao Xiaomu was writing official documents on the table.

He planned to ask Yelu Zongzhen to send some more reinforcements.

There were many people on the east side of Yuguan because there were still some Liao troops who did not come from Shenyangfu.

As the firearms manufacturing base of the Liao State, Shenyang Prefecture needs a large number of rear Liao troops to escort and escort.

On the west side of Yuguan is Nanjing, the Liao State, and at this time, almost all the troops of Xijin Mansion are fighting with the main force of Fan Zhongyan's Song army, and they can't draw many troops out.

The Song army cut off the Yushui again, making it impossible for the eastern forces to cross the river to join him, so he now only had about 10,000 men and horses on hand.

This amount of troops will definitely not be able to capture Quang Ninh.

However, they still have 60,000 guards in the Dading Mansion in Zhongjing, and Yelu Zongzhen has been mobilizing these soldiers and horses after the war.

In this way, the Liao army in the entire Nanjing Province would be close to 300,000.

Coupled with the Liao army in the direction of Shenyang and the direction of attacking Goryeo, it can be said that the entire Liao State has been in full swing, and nearly four or five hundred thousand troops are fighting with the Great Song Dynasty.

It is believed that in a few days, when the Su Guards of Dading Mansion arrive, the troops will be abundant, and it will be easy to destroy the Song army in Yuguan.

However, at this pass, there were suddenly several muffled noises outside.

Xiao Xiaomu raised his head in surprise.

A general said, "My lord, maybe it's the sound of thunder." ”

"Hmm."

Although Xiao Xiaomu still wondered why the thunder seemed to be too dense, he didn't take it seriously considering the weather outside.

But after a while, there were chaotic sounds outside the camp, shouts of killing, screams, and sharp whistles.

"Enemy attack!"

In an instant, Xiao Xiaomu stood up from his chair.

The whistle was already heralding something.

At this moment, there was chaos in the camp, and a large number of Song troops outside were entering from the gap.

Di Qing led the personal guards all the way to the direction of the middle camp to fight.

Hu Yanshou held a gun in his left hand and a knife in his right hand, and used the knife to block the attack of a Liao army, and killed the enemy with a small short gun in his left hand.

Then he pointed at the tent not far away with his knife and said, "Marshal, that should be the big tent of the Chinese army that the captive said just now!" ”

"Kill it!"

Di Qing also fought bloodily, his troops were too small, and he had to personally go into battle to kill the enemy.

But his martial arts were so high that many Song soldiers were surprised.

Because wherever he passed, no matter how fierce the Liao army was, it was not as good as his generals, and he was easily picked and killed without any hindrance.

The rain was mixed with blood, and the surrounding soldiers were in chaos, and the Liao soldiers kept running out of the tent, and then they were attacked and killed by the Song army lying in ambush outside the tent.

Di Qing and the others didn't get too entangled with ordinary soldiers, they captured a few Liao soldiers when they first entered the camp, and coerced them to come all the way after telling Xiao Xiaomu's tent.

At this moment, in Xiao Xiaomu's tent, the group had just gotten up, and a Liao soldier broke in from outside and shouted: "King, Song. The Song army is coming! ”

"Immediately reorganize the soldiers and horses and kill them!"

Xiao Xiaomu gritted his teeth and said: "This heavy rain Song firearms are not easy to use, and we don't believe that we will lose if we fight them in close combat." ”

"Yes."

Several generals in the tent hurriedly went out, preparing to go back to their camp to gather people.

But almost at this time, a few grenades were thrown over, just outside the tent.

"Bang bang bang!"

Several loud explosions were heard, and several generals were killed on the spot.

Immediately after that, in a cloud of gunsmoke, Di Qing and hundreds of other pioneer death squads rushed all the way through many obstacles and killed to the edge of the big tent.

At this time, most of the big tent had collapsed, and Xiao Xiaomu struggled to climb out of the tent, but as soon as he came out, he was grabbed and pressed to death on the ground.

He looked up vaguely and saw a smiling face.

(End of chapter)