Chapter 667: Xiashuo Prefecture
Yang Zhi sneered: "Brotherly covenant, what did you do when the Great Song Dynasty attacked Western Xia? Ask us to withdraw from the army, did you value the brotherly covenant at that time? What you value is interests, do not do to others what you do not want, and now the form is reversed, it is not what you and I can say, what I can say to you, it is your mistake." ”
"Misstepping. "For another person, Xue Libao has already started to roar, but in the face of Yang Zhi, Yang Zhi is not only the Liao general who has killed the most Jin soldiers in recent years, but also the Song general who has killed Liao soldiers in recent years. ”
Yang Zhi nodded and said, "With your current situation, you shouldn't stick to Datong at all, why, because this is a dead place." Also as a nomadic people, your current combat effectiveness is not as good as that of the Jin country, you should withdraw the materials and people to the open area in the west, there is still more than half of the land in the west of the Great Liao, with a population of hundreds of thousands, but because you are greedy for prosperity, while dreaming of restoring your homeland, let the Liao army, which is already a small number, fight a decisive battle with the Jin soldiers. Even if we don't come, how long can Datong defend, and what if the Jin soldiers come over?"
Xue Libao thought about it and sweated coldly behind him, and hesitated and said, "You mean that the emperor made a mistake?"
Yang Zhi nodded, and said mercilessly, "Yelu Chun is the emperor in Youzhou, it is doomed to the end of the Liao State, after Yelu Yanxi recovers Yunzhong with the help of the Western Xia people, he should withdraw the men and horses of Youzhou to Yunzhong as soon as possible, so that even if he can't defeat the Jin State in the future, it is a big deal to continue to retreat westward." After the withdrawal of the Western Xia army, you will not hold out for more than ten days on the Zhongjing side, and Yelu Yanxi will not even dare to return to Datong, do you still need to defend it?"
Xue Libao naturally knew that the last time Yunzhong was lost, Yelu Yanxi fled into Jiashan and handed over the task of guarding Datong to Yelu Xinilie, the king of Zhao, and it is estimated that it will be like this again, Xue Libao stared at Yang Zhi and asked, "Yang Zhi, you have also been an official of the Liao State, what do you say will happen to the Liao State in the end?"
Yang Zhi thought for a while and said, "If you don't want to perish, you have to go west, and wait until the Jin State is defeated in the hands of the Great Song Dynasty, the more you want to fight now, the less hope you have for the Liao Kingdom to recover." I hope you understand that there is no comparison between the illusion of the present and the long years to come, I will give you a promise, capture Shuozhou, and I will let go of all those who are willing to be loyal to the Liao State in Shuozhou, Sha Jing, you talk to him again. ”
Sha Jing walked out of the crowd, Xue Li Leopard's face was like ashes, because where is Sha Jing's identity, Master Tianxin's proud disciple, Shuozhou Jiedu made Brother Yelu Nu know, as long as Sha Jing went with the tiger talisman, Brother Yelu Nu would still be fooled. Xue Libao said that Datong received the news of the destruction of the Liao army, and on the one hand, decided to block the news to the outside world, and on the other hand, mobilized the troops and horses of Shuozhou, Yingzhou, and Huanzhou to retreat to Datong.
Yang Zhi decided to let Sha Jing pretend to be Xue Libao to spread the news, and he led the army to ambush on the road, and asked Zhang San and Zhong Bin to lead people to hide in the woods on the road; After traveling less than fifty miles, I heard the sound of bangzi, thousands of arrows flew out from the side of the road on both sides, and the shouts before and after were shaken, and the Song army was divided under the leadership of Yang Zhi and others.
The two commanders, Zhao Gongjian and Liu Junfu, met Yue Fei and Han Tao, and Zhao Gongjian was killed by Yue Fei in just two rounds; Liu Junfu and Han Tao fought more than 20 times together, and they turned their horses to leave, but were caught up by Han Tao and stoned to death. The Liao army lost most of it, Yelu Nuge was shocked, and he took his men to fight to the death, and more than 1,000 Liao troops fled to Shuozhou in chaos, and Yang Zhi and others followed behind and chased after him.
It was getting late, Yelu Nuge and the Liao army were in a panic and did not care about noticing the fleeing companions beside them, Zhang San and Chong Bin mixed in the army with five hundred horsemen, and finally arrived at the city of Shuozhou, Yelu Nuge shouted the city; the guards saw that they were their own main generals, and put down the drawbridge from a distance to open the city gate, Yelu Nuge was about to enter the city, Zhang San, who had been following Yelu Nuge not far behind, suddenly shouted, and slashed Yelu Nuge with a knife, and took the city gate with 500 horsemen mixed in the defeated army.
Yang Zhi's army entered the city overnight, and when he heard that Yelunuge was dead, and he didn't know how many Song troops there were, the Liao army almost gave up resistance, and the Canglang camp took control of the whole city in the middle of the night and took all the prisoners to the school ground. In the early morning of the next day, Yang Zhi came out to appease the people, Yang Zhi understood that these people had been separated from the Central Plains for hundreds of years, and they had no feelings for the Great Song Dynasty at all.
Shuozhou was originally a place where Han people and Zahu gathered, and their loyalty to the Liao State was not very high, most of the people stayed in the local area, only more than 20 officials such as Liu Ruxin and more than 300 Khitan soldiers and more than 100 families hoped to return to the Liao State, Yang Zhi asked them to bring enough dry food and follow Xue Libao out of the city on foot, and all the family property and materials were detained; Liu Ruxin looked at Yang Zhi and asked, "You are not going to move the people into Taiyuan and other places?"
Yang Zhi smiled and said, "The population of the Great Song Dynasty is tens of millions, and I will care about the number of people in Shuozhou. ”
Liu Ruxin sneered, "Shuozhou is in your hands, it is like a fish in the throat for the Xia people, and in less than ten days, the army of the Xia Kingdom will arrive." ”
Yang Zhi stared at Liu Ruxin, which made Liu Ruxin shudder, Yang Zhi said to Liu Ruxin lightly, "If it wasn't for the promise of Xue Libao, I should have killed you now, you don't want to return to Liao, you want to go to Jin, it's best when Jin comes to sell, you betray Shuozhou and change an official position." But I'm telling you, you're wrong, the battle between nations lies in the long run, as you will see later. ”
Liu Ruxin is a Han Chinese, in Huanzhou is just a general judgment, there is no future in returning to Datong Mansion, but he still wants to encourage the people and the Liao army to leave, if it is not loyal to the Liao State, it is another plan; Yang Zhi was not sure, but Liu Ruxin said that the Western Xia army is not the Liao army, Yang Zhi looked at him at the same time, basically dared to be sure that Liu Ruxin was not loyal to the Great Liao, but did not want to see the Great Song Dynasty.
Liu Ruxin's face changed, he knew that Yang Zhi had an idea, he didn't dare to say more, and commanded the departing people to hurry away; Zhang Heng, the general who was responsible for supervising the departure of this group of people, saw that something was wrong, and asked Yang Zhi in a low voice, "Do you want to find a reason in the wilderness and do them all?"
Yang Zhi's mind moved, shook his head and said, "No need, just think it's a thousand dollars to buy horse bones." "I like the dragon, please collect the dragon.