Chapter 23: Ambush
Li Luoyun and the others packed up the affairs of the camp, after the incident of the envoy making a big disturbance in the camp, the old general felt that he should not delay, and should pull out the village as soon as possible, so as to avoid accidents, and send more spies not far from the Liao army to find out the news, so that he could find an opportunity to attack the Liao army. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info The whole army marched in a neat queue under the order of the old general, and set off in the direction of Yanmen Pass, now Yanmen Pass and other border cities have already gone through the baptism of war, and there are no longer any traces, before the Song and Liao armies, you earned me, and the people have already gone to the Central Plains for refuge.
Chaoping they out of Yanmen Pass, as far as the eye can see, are the desert Gobi, they follow the established route, the wind and sand blow more fiercely, Zhang Tao's face is wrapped like a big zongzi, and the rest of the generals are following the old general and Chaoping, here is where the Chinese army is. They walked all the way without seeing the shadow of the Liao army, and the old general sent out six or seven waves of people who did not find any trace of the Liao army, thinking to themselves, is it really as Zabako said, the Liao army is really pulled thirty miles away from Yanmen Pass. If it is said that the Liao army retreated, then they should have retreated more than thirty miles, because the Tanma also walked a long way, and there was no trace of them found in the endless Gobi, it must be farther away, or where they were hiding.
Li Luoyun commanded the troops to advance, and discussed with the generals the plan to fight the Liao army. On this day, everyone began to hurry in the morning, and when it was almost dark in the evening, there was a sound of fighting in the rear of the troops, and the fire was soaring, and the first reaction of the old general and the generals was that the grain and grass were attacked, and the old general ordered everyone not to panic, and sent people to tell the front army not to advance, and the tightening team moved closer to the Chinese army. The Chinese army sent a bunch of people to the grain and grass in the rear to support, and the troops in the rear had already dared to go in the direction of escorting the grain and grass. When they got there, there was a group of cavalry of the Liao army harassing the grain and grass troops, and several carts of grain and grass had been lit, and they numbered quite a few thousand, eight hundred. When more and more soldiers arrived, they also had plans to retreat, but they had already been surrounded by regiments, and the Liao army saw that they could not retreat, so they desperately resisted, and it didn't take long for these Liao troops to be wiped out. On the old general's side, not long after sending out the soldiers, I saw a person in the army send a red signal flare into the sky, and a group of cavalry rushed out from the side like the wind, and the old general's lieutenant hurriedly ordered the sergeant to line up in a defensive formation, and the person who sent the signal flare was killed by a general, and it was obvious that he was a spy. These people rushed straight to the old general, they were very brave, at first glance it was a very elite unit of the Liao army, everyone was protecting the old general, although Chaoping also had a lot of soldiers in the protection, but those few martial arts generals all moved to the old general, subconsciously thought that they were here to assassinate the old general, the old general They also retreated a long distance, these generals thought that the Liao army sent this soldier to attack the Chinese army is too self-sufficient. Everyone fought, naturally the Liao army was defeated by these generals and these guards of the Li family's army, just at the time of the battle, a few soldiers suddenly kidnapped Chaoping away, these soldiers are Song army, there are dozens of them, Chaoping shouted, there are many Li Jiajun rushed to Chaoping, want to go to him, I didn't expect that there was a large army of the Liao army in this to respond, and it was about to catch up with Chaoping, and the Liao army also arrived, blocking these soldiers who came to save Chaoping. After a fierce battle, Li Jiajun still did not save Chaoping, Chaoping was taken away under the cover of the Liao army, they did not hesitate at all, did not love war at all, and left immediately after catching Chaoping, the horses on their grassland are very good horses, and the speed of the Song army could not catch up with them, and they chased for a long distance to see that the Liao army was nowhere to be seen, and the generals of the Li Jiajun were helpless to return to the camp. Fifteen miles away from his ambush, the old general set up camp, and in the camp, the old general reprimanded these Li family soldiers and said to them: "You are all veterans, why can't you even protect Chaoping, they only took him away with only a few dozen people. The old general said a lot, but he didn't know what to say, he was thinking about his grandson, and he knew what it meant for Chaoping to be tied up and taken to Liaoying.
The old general sent out a lot of troops to find the whereabouts of the Liao army, and after inquiring for many days, it took him to find out that the Liao army was very far away from them, and they were about to return to their own country, and they withdrew to the depths of the desert, where not only the climate and geographical conditions were complicated, but there were also many grassland tribes there, and they retreated there to plan the kidnapping of Chaoping, and then they retreated to raise military supplies and planned to invade the Central Plains again. At this time, the old general was very embarrassed, and threw Chaoping not to say, even if Chaoping was not captured, he could not withdraw the army, because the strength of the Liao army had not been weakened, and they would definitely press up this retreat. Now, Chaoping has been taken captive, and the old general is anxious. He only thought that what would really happen at that time, so he had to focus on the general righteousness, no matter what, he couldn't be controlled by the Liao army, and the best plan was to rescue Chaoping. The old general interrogated one of the generals next to him, because the rebellious sergeants were this person's subordinates, and he told the old general that he had no idea what was going on, these people were all recruited before the expedition, and they were all from the Central Plains. Although the old general interrogated the general, he did not punish him too severely, but he was not strict in discipline, because the old general knew that these things must have been planned by someone a long time ago, and before the expedition, someone had planted spies, because they were all Song people, so the old general believed that these must be the ghosts of the people in the court, and could not be the means of the Liao army, because they could not do these things by sneaking into the Central Plains, and there must be spies in the court, so it would lead to such a thing, and the old general could order his cronies to strictly inspect all parts of the army to see if there were other spies, and then let everyone be fully prepared for battle, The rest is to send people to closely monitor the Liao army, the old general plans to go to the desert to fight with the Liao army after checking the troops, he not only sent back the battle report to the imperial court, but also sent a book to the uncle to let him continue to wait for his signal, telling him to go to besiege the Liao army in that position.
Chaoping was taken away by the Liao army, and it took a long time to reach the Liao camp, Yelu Xiuqi saw Chaoping, and asked unhurriedly: "You are Li Luoyun's grandson, looking so thin, not like a member of the Li family, I heard that you are knowledgeable I don't know if there is such a thing, I have always liked your Central Plains culture, I specially invited our military camp as a guest, we can communicate more often!" Chao Ping was silent, because he knew that this Yelu Xiuqi tied him up not to get any information, but to use him to threaten Li Luoyun, Chao Ping thought about it and waited to see if there was a chance to escape. Yelu Xiuqi didn't say anything, but ordered someone to tie Chaoping to a barracks, here is said to be a barracks, in fact, it is just a military tent of the Liao army, here except Chaoping and some sundries to save nothing else, there are four guards outside the door, Chaoping is tied with a rope very strong, very uncomfortable.