Chapter Twenty-Eight: Plotting and Closing the Siege
When the old general arrived at the news of Chaoping's peace, he had a bottom in his heart, and he was ready to stop delaying and was ready to find an opportunity to fight to the death with the Liao army. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
It was raining lightly, in the Song army camp Li Luoyun was studying with the generals how to start a war with the Liao army, they studied for a long time, and finally worked out a perfect battle plan, the core content of this plan is that the old general led the entire army to confront the Liao army head-on, and then let the uncle lead 30,000 soldiers and horses to attack the Liao army from the flank, just Uncle Guo was stationed in the desert to standby, so that there is no need to detour. The old general Feige passed the book to tell the uncle of the country about this plan, and the uncle also replied to the old general, the old general received the news and adopted the strategy of loosening the outside and tightening the inside, and did not send extra horses to find out the news, but in the barracks everyone is ready, just wait for the old general to give an order to go out to fight, the old general they are waiting for the news of the uncle, they agreed with each other, and when the position of the uncle is close to the Liao army, it will be hidden, and then the old general will send troops to attack the Liao army camp.
After Uncle Guo was ready, he took these 30,000 strange soldiers who had been stationed in the desert for a long time to rush to the direction of the Liao army, and they saw a canyon after walking for more than forty miles. The soldier came to his uncle with a compass and said, "General, we seem to have gone wrong by following the route of the map, and we seem to have deviated from the direction we are going according to the topography here. Uncle Guo said, "Yes, I'll take a look and bring the map." Uncle Guo carefully looked at the map, looked at the sky for a long time, he raised his head to look at the sun, and said to the deputy general next to him: "Look, we are traveling according to the map, and there is a compass pointing in the direction, it stands to reason that we can't go wrong, but you see that we do go a little wrong on the map, you look at the sun in the sky, it is still in this direction, according to this hour to calculate, we have not deviated much, we pass through the valley in front and then adjust the direction you can see." Naturally, the adjutant general couldn't say anything, and he replied: "What the general said is reasonable, let's move forward like this." Then the adjutant general shouted to the herald behind him: "Order the whole army to advance, cross the canyon in front and then adjust the direction and go straight to the Liao army camp." After saying that, their entire army walked into the canyon, in fact, this is said to be a canyon, in fact, it is just a large gap between two hills naturally piled up of some stones in the desert. One after another, 30,000 soldiers came in, and everyone had been basking in the sun for most of the day, and the adjutant general ordered them to stop and rest, eat some dry food, drink some water, and feed the horses. When the 30,000 of them were particularly tired, they only heard a rumbling sound from above, and looked up to see a thousand huge stones falling from the sky. Everyone had no time to escape, and those who could stand up were already considered lucky, and the sudden ambush caught them off guard, and only a moment of effort, the boulders rolled down, killing and wounding thousands of soldiers and horses. Uncle Guo retreated to the mouth of the canyon under the protection of the deputy general and others, only to see ambushes in all directions, and a large number of Liao troops appeared at the mouth of the valley on both sides and above, and the soldiers who survived with Uncle Guo were very panicked with swords in their hands. Someone on the mountain gave an order: "Release the arrows." Most of the soldiers in the canyon died, and the adjutant general and the uncle were very panicked, and the uncle shouted: "Don't panic, everyone, withdraw from the canyon in an orderly manner, and we will rush out." After a round of arrow rain, the Liao army walked to the soldiers in the canyon with scimitars with hideous faces, most of these soldiers were recruited later, they didn't even kill anyone, naturally no more than this group of experienced Liao army, just like that, the Liao army rushed over and slaughtered them, except for the deputy general and the rest of the people who were killed by the Liao army. These 30,000 people were buried in the desert. The adjutant general was wounded in the shoulder by the Liao army's arrow before, and the blood on the robe was stained red, he knew that he couldn't live now, he tore off his shirt and tied it around his waist, and then removed a piece of cloth and tied the wound on his shoulder diagonally, and said to the Liao army with a sword: "You wait for the thieves to stop hurting my general, can anyone dare to fight with me." I saw a general of the Liao army on the opposite side looking up to the sky and smiling, and the deputy general felt a tingling pain in his abdomen, saw a sword piercing through his abdomen from behind, and said, "It's you." And he died. The general of the Liao army said: "Uncle Guo, what a means, my general is waiting for you." Uncle Guo said: "Thanks to your general's love, you should quickly dispose of all the people here, you should bring enough people, put on these armor of the Great Song Dynasty, we can go and attack the Liao army, ahahaha." Then these Liao soldiers changed the clothes of these Song soldiers, and then rushed to the front line with this uncle.
At this time, in the palace, the emperor was in the study to review the folds, and Tian Zhen, the commander of the guards, came to meet him. The two of them were in the study, and Tian Zhen said to the emperor: "Your Majesty, the minister has already been a little eyebrow about investigating the traitor these days, but... The emperor said: "Don't be distracted, what do you say, even if you are a relative of the emperor." Tian Zhen said: "Although the minister has not found any favorable evidence these days, the clues are pointed at Uncle Guo Kui. ”
"Ah, it turned out to be him, Uncle Guo has always been loyal and steady, I didn't see that he had such wolf ambitions, it's not good, whether this thing is true or not, you can't slack off, if it's true, it's bad, he took 30,000 troops to support the border pass, you hurry up and go out of the capital to go to the border pass in person to tell General Li Luoyun. Tian Zhen didn't say anything, but hurriedly took the emperor's edict out of the capital to find the old general at the border.
Here at the border pass, the old general received a message from his uncle, who ordered the army to besiege the Liao army camp. The Song army of millions of people, mighty in front of the Liao army camp twenty miles in front of the position, the Liao army closed the door, the old general they are not in a hurry, but here waiting, the Liao army and other tribes of the alliance army in the barracks are also already ready to fight, they are deadlocked for several days, this day the Liao army went to war, but also set up a position, first the two sides sent a general who can fight well heads-up, the two sides sent more than ten people in three days, each other has won and lost, on the afternoon of the third day, the Liao army ordered to charge, the two armies fought together, fought for half an hour, there were casualties, both sides Ming Jin collected troops。
Back in the camp, the old general said to everyone: "The Liao army is now in a war with us, we have to contain them in this way, confuse them to preserve their strength, and when the uncle comes, we will charge directly and strive to annihilate the Liao army in one fell swoop, I think their allies are also about to disperse, and their other tribes don't seem to want to cooperate with them, as long as we drag on for a few days, we will definitely be able to win a big victory, and then we can return to the court." After the old general finished speaking, everyone agreed with his statement very much, and they were all waiting for the day of victory.