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Chapter 221 Dingding Central Plains
The group was in a good mood. Cangzhou, which had not been conquered for decades, was actually conquered in seven days.However, Yelu Deguang was really a little scared. If Fu Yanqing was allowed to open the floodgates and release the water, not to mention an army of 30, even an army of one million would be dispersed by the flood, and only a handful of people would survive.

Fortunately, Yelu Bei'er was suffering and had been begging in Cangzhou for half a year, otherwise he would not have obtained the outline of Fu Yanqing's five-shaped array.The most important thing is that Fu Yanqing has always called his formation as the five-shaped formation, but Yelubel saw only four formations for half a year, except for the water formation.Yelu really guessed boldly, so he went upstream to know the true face of the water array.

Everything was fully prepared, Yelu Deguang still spent the lives of [-] soldiers in exchange for a small Cangzhou.It seems worthless, but Cangzhou is the gate of the Central Plains. As long as Cangzhou is captured, the Central Plains will be broken soon.

But Cangzhou is also a hot potato, Yelu Deguang knows this very well.The Khitan army is good at field battles, and the cavalry is the strongest, but they are not good at defending the city at all.If you continue to defend Cangzhou, I'm afraid that the Central Plains army will be defeated immediately.At that time, only the disgruntled ones will run back to Daliao, so Cangzhou can't defend and can only continue to attack.

The question is which side to attack?Now Yelu Deguang must attack southward and defeat all forces one by one.

Now the most powerful troops should belong to the three Jiedushi of Hezhong, Hedong, and Hexi.The road to the west of Hexi is far away, and the army dare not rush into it. The same is true in the east of the river. When the troops of both sides come to Cangzhou, they will be exhausted and can be defeated one by one.The key lies in the forces in Hezhong. The distance in Hezhong is very close, and it is between Cangzhou and Kaifeng. They can connect from head to end. If you want to conquer the Central Plains, you must first break through Hezhong.

Moreover, Yelu Deguang knew that Li Shouzhen, the Jiedu Envoy of Hezhong, had been overthrown by Zong Xin, and the new Jiedu Envoy had been in office for less than half a year, so he could not stabilize the morale of the army, so he went straight south and took Hezhong first.The follow-up troops marched east and west respectively, holding down the two Jiedu envoys in the east and west of the river, and then defeated them one by one after the river was broken, and finally entered the Kaifeng Dingding Central Plains.

"Order the three armies to massacre the city tonight, take everything that can be taken away, and march south tomorrow morning, leaving 1 troops to defend Cangzhou. As soon as the follow-up troops arrive, [-] will march into Hedong and [-] into Hexi. Retreat, delaying time. As soon as the river breaks, the army will immediately reinforce it."

"Obey." Immediately someone went down to deliver the order, but Yeluzhen's expression was not good when he heard the order.

"Your Majesty, now we should stick to Cangzhou, take down all the forces in the Sixteen States of Youyun, and then try to develop steadily and eat away at the forces in the Central Plains bit by bit. I'm afraid it's not appropriate to rush into it." Ye Luzhen is still worried about Zongxin's plan , although this plan has been cracked by Yelu Deguang's unexpected move, and finally won Cangzhou, they should not continue to go south.

Yelu Deguang waved his hand and said: "The small city of Cangzhou is the gate of the Central Plains. If our army sticks to Cangzhou, we are afraid that the Central Plains will gather forces to attack. If Cangzhou is broken, we will have to flee north. We finally captured Cangzhou. We should take advantage of the unpreparedness and go straight to the Central Plains. These people must have never thought that the widow would send troops before the spring plowing, and most people thought that the widow would not dare to go south. They believed in the monk Zongxin too much, and lost the country because of a monk. , It’s really ridiculous.”

Yeluzhen didn't reply, because Yelu Deguang's analysis was correct.The Khitan soldiers are not good at defending the city. Even if there are two 10,000+ troops here, they may not be able to defend the Central Plains from attacking successively.In fact, in a head-on confrontation, the Khitan army will not lose to any army, or even far beat one of them, and even if the two forces merge together, the Khitan army may not necessarily be afraid.

But if the army sticks to Cangzhou, it may not be able to defeat one of the troops.This is the difficulty of the Khitan, they are only good at attacking, but not good at defending, because the Central Plains army has been beaten every time for so many years, so they are better at defending, while the Khitan is constantly attacking, so they are better at fighting.

Cangzhou will never be able to defend Cangzhou, and Yelu Deguang's plan is not wrong.Yeluzhen also knew that he had made a slip of the tongue, so he had no position to continue arguing.But Yeluzhen felt that something was wrong. If the follow-up troops didn't keep up...the army had to capture the river as soon as possible, otherwise it would be the enemy.

Yeluzhen's art of war is very good. As long as Hezhong is conquered, Hezhong and Cangzhou will meet head to tail. Any troops who dare to attack will be attacked from both sides. As long as the road is clear and unobstructed, the grain and grass troops can be called back and forth. At that time, the Liao army will take the initiative to attack The forces of the Central Plains are bound to retreat steadily.

In the early morning of the next day, nearly 25 Liao troops marched south, leaving 1 people to defend Cangzhou.Hezhong is powerful, but there are only more than [-] soldiers, and the city is not as strong as Cangzhou, so it is not difficult to capture Hezhong.

Soldiers are expensive and fast. Khitan was originally a nomadic people. They are good at riding and shooting. Their individual combat ability is far superior to that of the Central Plains. There are also some people who are greedy for life and afraid of death, and they directly kill Weizhou in Hezhong with almost no effort.Hezhong Jiedu envoy Murong Yanzhao stuck to Weizhou and delayed with Yelu Deguang's army for nearly half a month, causing tens of thousands of casualties. Finally, he fled south overnight with the remaining 25 soldiers, and directly sent Weizhou to Yelu Deguang.

After days of fighting, Weizhou was finally taken.Yelu Deguang's 25 army has less than 20 left.But the good news finally came that the follow-up troops of 10 troops had already arrived in Cangzhou, marching towards the east and west of the river respectively.Yelu Deguang was in a good mood, and was going to stick to Weizhou, let the soldiers rest for a while, and then marched eastward.

Yelu Deguang let the soldiers rest for three days.

"Report, Your Majesty, Hezhong Jiedu Envoy Murong Yanzhao brought nearly 10 horsemen to the city, ready to fight me to the death."

Yelu Deguang frowned, and asked curiously, "Are you sure he brought 10 horses?"

"King Shenwu went to the city wall first, and watched the army with his eyes. He was sure that there were 10 horses."

Yelu Deguang said: "This...isn't this courting death? Murong Yanzhao jumped over the wall in a hurry and gave me a generous gift. Order the three armies to prepare to go out of the city to fight."

Yelude only knew that the Khitan soldiers were good at attacking but not good at defending, and that the soldiers had recuperated for three days, they were full of energy, and they had taken in some Han Chinese who surrendered in the past few days, and their troops were far superior to those of Murong Yanzhao. Come to die?

When they came to the top of the city tower, Yelude just looked at the troops carefully, and King Shenwu estimated that they were only a hundred thousand at most, and they were probably found by patchwork, and many of them were not wearing the military uniform of a big man.

Murong Yanzhao shouted loudly from below the city: "Khitan dog, dare to go out of the city and suffer death?"

Yelude just laughed, Yeluzhen also laughed.Unexpectedly, the generals of the Han Dynasty are so ignorant. If they want to preserve their strength, the Khitan will still take care of it. Unexpectedly, Murong Yanzhao, as a military envoy, would not know how to advance or retreat, and he would give away the lives of [-] soldiers for nothing. Isn't this a joke?
"Open the city gates, let the cavalry rush to kill, the infantry follow closely behind, and the archers are ready to release arrows."

The opening of Weizhou's gate has turned into a gate of hell, and all the Khitan ghosts come out of it. Teams of cavalry are like sharp swords, rushing forward, completely breaking up Murong Yanzhao's troops, unable to respond from head to tail.Immediately afterwards, the infantry followed, marching in neat steps, and directly crashed into Murong Yanzhao's troops.

This collision alone turned Murong Yanzhao's troops into a state of disunity, and what followed was not a war at all, but a complete harvest. Murong Yanzhao's troops were powerless to parry, and the Khitans were too strong. Although the tactic is simple, it is very practical. Because it is against the Central Plains people who are not strong, these tall Khitan soldiers rush forward like crushing them, and they have no power to fight back.

Murong Yanzhao immediately ordered the withdrawal of troops and fled all the way north.You can't even defend a city, let alone attack a city?

Yelu Deguang ordered to pursue, Murong Yanzhao fled to the south for one city, Yelu Deguang then went south to attack the next city, almost without any resistance, and went deep into the Central Plains little by little.The rear came to report no worries and no joys. For Yelu Deguang, this was great joy.As long as the stalemate continues, go on, and don't confront Hedong Hexi head-on, they can't do anything about themselves.

In the blink of an eye, Yelu Deguang had already attacked the city of Kaifeng. At this time, many flags were erected on the tower of Kaifeng. Murong Yanzhao led a team of troops to confront Yelu Deguang.

Yelu Deguang couldn't help but attack the city directly.The lone army went deep and took Kaifeng directly.There was hardly much resistance in this battle, and Kaifeng was captured very smoothly, but when Yelu Deguang entered the city, he directly attacked the palace, sitting on Liu Chengyou's dragon chair with a proud face.

"Okay, okay, I finally captured the forces in the Central Plains. Hurry up and order the three armies to recuperate, and then march to Hexi when they are full of energy. After Hexi is broken, the Central Plains will have no forces to fight with the widows. Next, we can slowly clean up the east of the river. power."

It went so well, it all went so well.Although there were countless deaths and injuries in the continuous battle, Yeluzhen always felt that something was wrong, because this picture had appeared in his mind before.But looking at the current situation, the big man should not have the strength to fight again.As long as the east and west sides don't know how to fight, and the remaining troops of the Han Dynasty don't gather, who in the whole Han Dynasty would dare to provoke the 20 wolf and tiger divisions?
Yelu Deguang strengthened his defense in Kaifeng and rested for nearly a month. Over the past month, there have been constant battle reports. The Khitan followers kept going to Cangzhou and sent troops to Hexi and Hedong. Yelu Deguang did not even need to fight anymore. The Central Plains forces had been completely disintegrated. .

So Yelu Deguang proclaimed himself emperor in Kaifeng and declared it to the world.

"Report...Report! Guo Wei's army is approaching the city...King Shenwu sees that the enemy army has [-] troops."

Yelu Deguang smiled lightly and said: "Here he is, the widow has been waiting for him. One hundred thousand soldiers and horses will only be used as horseshoes for our army."

Yelu Deguang took his time and walked towards the north of the city in his dragon robe.It took nearly half an hour to reach the Kaifeng city tower, looked down, and then nodded. The troops and horses that Murong Yanzhao brought last time were not much different, which was about [-].

At this time, Yelu Deguang smiled sincerely, even Yeluzhen laughed too.What happened to the heads of these Han people?Every time they gather [-] soldiers and horses and want to attack the city, is [-] soldiers and horses invincible to the Han people?

(End of this chapter)