Five Dynasties River Mountains Fengyue

At daybreak, the governor of Daizhou City heard that the emperor of Qin was coming, so frightened, he hurriedly brought all the civil and military officials in the city to worship, offered wine, meat and delicacies, and invited the emperor to come to the city to settle down.

Shi Congyun first admitted his surrender, but he did not appoint him as the governor of Daizhou. He only made him the co-prefect of Daizhou.

Then he refused to enter the city and only stayed outside the city. He had to keep abreast of the battlefield.

The civil and military people in Daizhou City were too frightened to breathe. In the north of Daizhou City, the situation of the Qin Army encircling the Liao Army was very clear from the top of the city. I remembered that Shi Congyun killed tens of thousands of Liao Army in the south of Youzhou two years ago. Everyone was trembling in their hearts.

In the past, they could only look up to the people of the Northern Han Dynasty, the humble Liao Kingdom, and the tyrannical Liao army galloping freely, now they fell in front of Shi Congyun again, and this time they were right under their noses, with a panoramic view of everything.

The Qin army's bravery, strict discipline, and well-trained skills made them terrified, restless all night, and did not dare to do anything against the holy will.

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In the next few days, the forward troops of the Qin Army surrounded the small town, then dug deep ditches and set up deer villages to resist horses, with a width of dozens of steps. Inserted in shallow water, the entire length of the river is full of miles.

In the west, they directly followed the mountain situation and used local materials to build walls with mountain stones. They had no intention of entering the town and fighting the Liao army at all. They didn't have the style of chasing and attacking the Liao army before the slightest bit, and seemed to have completely given up on fighting the Liao army head-on. mean.

This time, the Liao army did not relax, but became anxious. They made six breakouts to the east of the river that day, trying to rush out, but they broke their halberds and sank into the sand before crossing the river.

In addition to the strong bows and crossbows on the other side, the Qin army placed more than 70 bed crossbows on the east bank besides the wooden stakes in the river, the Jumalu village on the beach, and the sinking horse pit. The crossbow can kill a horse with one shot, and the effect is terrifying.

After fighting from morning to afternoon, the corpses of the Liao army even paved a road in the river to prevent the sharp wooden stakes in the river from working, and stepped on the corpses of their companions to rush to the east beach to fight with the Qin army.

The Qin army was not a vegetarian either. The crossbowmen put down their bows and crossbows, picked up the axes and spears at their feet, and immediately engaged the Liao army.

The two sides fought a bloody battle until dusk. The Liao army dropped hundreds of corpses, and then retreated to the west bank of the river.

As night fell, the Qin army on the periphery repeated its old tricks and lit a large number of fires and torches. The whole town was as bright as day, and the Liao army was not given a chance to break out of the siege at night. People went to the mountains on both sides to cut firewood for the army.

The Liao army was completely anxious, changing direction at night, and suddenly launched a breakout to the south. It must have been an unexpected reverse breakout, but it was soon waiting for the Qin army who had repaired layers of fortifications and easily defeated them. After dropping more than 100 corpses, they retreated.

In the middle of the night, they turned to the east again, still trying to break out of the siege, and almost all their troops were gathered, and there were people everywhere along the two-mile-long river bank.

As a result, Li Chuyun ordered to put fish oil jars on the Luzhai on the east bank, and then lit a big fire. In an instant, the night sky lit up like day, and a long fire dragon traversed north and south, burning blazingly by the river.

After the Liao army crossed with the howling arrows in the darkness, what stood in front of them was a few feet high flames, which hindered their progress for a while, and then the reserve team from the rear arrived quickly, and Jing Si and Zhe Dejian were also in front of them. Leading troops to reinforce from the south of the river, surrounded the Liao army on the bank in just two quarters of an hour.

The Qin army had a superior force, and soon encircled the Liao army on three sides, killing the Liao army on their backs, flying blood and blood, and retreated to the east and west banks of the river in a panic. The Qin army immediately stopped pursuing and did not cross the river or go deep into the town.

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After a stalemate like this until dawn, the trapped Liao army was unable to struggle.

In the afternoon of the same day, Wang Shenqi led more than [-] infantry troops from various armies including Control Crane, Shenhuo, and Hujie to arrive, and the follow-up supply army also arrived in Daizhou.

Shi Congyun immediately called Wang Shenqi to issue military orders.

Then, under the banner of the Qin army, the overwhelming army spread all over the mountains and fields, and went north from various roads in the south to supplement the encirclement circle on all sides, thickening the encirclement of the Liao army several times.

In the afternoon, the Liao army also discovered the situation of their increase in troops, and launched a final struggle, attacking from the east, south, and north at the same time. Most of them didn't want to go out together, but only hoped to attack at the same time to create chaos. It was tragic to go out one by one. .

It's a pity that since Wang Shenqi's main Chinese army joined the encirclement, they had no chance. The Qin army surrounded by several times didn't give them any chance. Bow and crossbow arrows knocked back.

Faced with such a heavy siege, the Liao army was completely desperate...

After dawn the next day, the Khitan sent envoys to wrap their arms in a hundred cloths at the southern town entrance, and loudly said in broken Chinese that they wanted to surrender and negotiate.

When soldiers came to bring the news, Shi Congyun directly ordered: "Shoot the arrow, I won't negotiate with bandits."

The loyal ministers of the army ahead carried out the emperor's order, and completely made the Liao army in the encirclement despair...

Chapter 349: Knowing a hundred victories from afar

The grass grows and the warblers fly, and the gongs and drums outside Daizhou City are noisy. The small town has changed its appearance now. Nearby, 6 or [-] troops of the Qin army gathered, which is really a sea of ​​people, boundless.

Unknowingly, the Liao army outside the city had been besieged for six days. Shi Congyun specially arranged scouts at the head of Daizhou city to observe the situation of the Liao army in the town condescendingly.

A few days ago, at night, they demolished the houses and used them to keep warm, but after all, there were thousands of people. Ma rushed out of Daizhou City and excitedly came to report to him the situation of the Liao army.

"Officials! The Khitans are killing horses!"

After hearing this, Shi Congyun immediately got out of the big tent, looked to the north, and said happily: "Killing the horses means that they are almost done! It is estimated that the food and grass are almost exhausted, and if they starve for a few more days, they will not have the strength to try their best."

"The official family is really, really bad!" The soldier next to him said happily.

"What are you talking about, the officials are wise and powerful, and they have no plans! How can the Khitan people compete with the officials with a little knowledge!" The accompanying secretary even corrected, saying that scholars speak differently.

Shi Congyun was very happy, "Let the soldiers sing and sing when they have nothing to do, especially at night, sing louder, so that they can sleep soundly! The catapults in the south should not be idle, and throw some stones into them at night.

If you dare to come to my territory in Qin State, you have to treat them well and let them remember it for a lifetime! "

Everyone laughed, "I'm afraid it will be the next life!"

The orderly immediately mounted his horse and delivered the order.

"This is an ambush from ten sides, besieged on all sides!" The clerk was very excited, seeing such a big scene for the first time.

Ma Pijing, a member of the living room, said in a serious manner: "The official, I heard that the official took the lead near Xinkou a few days ago, led the army to charge the battle, killed a hundred people and broke the Liao army's formation. I don't know if it is true or not?"

Others would never ask the emperor what he said, but the living room is different. The living room is also called the living man. The officials set up in the Sui Dynasty are mainly responsible for recording the words and deeds of the emperor at any time, and then compiling them into a book, which has become an important part of many history books. Historical sources.

Because of this, Ma Pijing ran with the emperor, and the battlefield did not fall behind.

As soon as Shi Congyun said this, before Shi Congyun opened his mouth, the soldiers beside him said together: "That can still be fake, I will follow the officials to charge into the battle, and I will see it with my own eyes."

"The officials put on armor and held spears, at least two hundred were killed!"

"It's useless to say the official's ability, it must be true..."

"......"

Everyone said one sentence to another, making Shi Congyun's thick old face a little red, and even stopped them: "Stop, stop, stop, don't listen to their nonsense, I know this matter well.

You just do what I said. "

Ma Pi nodded in shock, prepared the bamboo slips, and licked the writing brush he took out from his pocket.

"It is true that I lead the charge in a strong and sharp manner, but the first to break into the formation is the Jincheng army led by Yang Jiye.

I didn't kill any two hundred people, but I still worked hard. I stabbed twenty people to death casually. You can remember it. I don't want to show off to future generations.

What is important for a good emperor is to strategize and win a decisive victory thousands of miles away, not to fight bravely. This small achievement does not need to be described in a big way. "

Ma Pi nodded in surprise, and wrote down everything the officials said,

"Officials are so brave! There are few generals in the past and present who can compare, even the overlord of Chu back then." The secretary in charge said with admiration.

Shi Congyun laughed, shook his head and said, "I'm not as brave as Xiang Yu, but it's about the same."

"The official family is a place where heroes are useless. Besides, Xiang Yu is the courage of an ordinary man. How can he compare with the official family's Wentao Wulue, Wenchengwude..."

Everyone praised him, and Shi Congyun's heart was in full bloom, and the atmosphere was very harmonious. It was a harmonious scene where the monarch and his ministers get along well. Outsiders couldn't recognize that the praise was really a model of a monarch and his ministers.

I don’t know if the courtiers are happy or not. Emperor Shi was very comfortable being flattered. In the end, Lang Ma Pijing also truthfully recorded this battle. More than fifty people, the rebels were defeated, the three armies fought bravely to be the first, defeated the Liao army, and captured [-] and Xinkounan...

Shi Congyun was very pleased with the factual records of the official historian, and even praised a few words. He was very excited. He could almost imagine what a wise and mighty monarch he would be in the eyes of future generations, and how many people would praise him. His literary and military strategies are brave and invincible, and it is humility to say that ten thousand enemies are invincible.

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Unknowingly, at the beginning of April, spring has passed, the weather is getting hotter and hotter, and the situation of the Liao army in the town is getting more and more difficult.

Unknowingly, the siege has lasted for 20 days, and the Liao army in the encirclement has demolished all the houses, carried all the trees, and even ate almost all the bark and horses.

Many people were so hungry that they wanted to come out and surrender, but they all fell under the arrows.

As time went by, the Liao army had no chance.

On the 20th day, the scouts at the top of the city reported to Shi Congyun with horror and joy that the Liao army had already experienced cannibalism.

After hearing this, Shi Congyun thought for a while, "Let them starve for a few more days."

"promise!"

"Also, we have had a good harvest in Hebei this year, and Luzhou and Taiyuan have also seized a lot. Let the soldiers eat well, eat and drink enough to fight, and eat in front of the Liao people."

"promise!"

After making all the arrangements, Shi Congyun lay comfortably on the bed brought by the eunuch, looking at the mountains and rivers in the distance, feeling extremely happy.

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In mid-April, the weather was hot and food and water were cut off. The Liao army risked their lives to fetch water from the east river for several days, and they spent all night, but most of them died under the strong bow and crossbow of the Qin army.

The army can survive for many days without food, but it cannot survive without water.

The few horses were eaten up early, and the situation of people eating and killing each other also happened in the encirclement. The situation was already very tragic. The bad people were crying and kneeling out to beg for surrender. The Qin army carried out the emperor's order and returned arrows arrow.

Seven days into the siege of No.20, the soldiers at the top of the city reported that the Liao army in the town started fighting by themselves, because they had no food, and they were starving to death. Looking for the Qin army outside was courting death. The only one who could fight Only our own people have lived, and only biological instinct remains.

This kind of siege is cruel. Shi Congyun remembers that in the Five Dynasties, there was an army besieging the city for a year. As a result, the population of the city dropped from 10 to [-] to [-]. The people inside were not killed by the enemy, but were eaten by their own people. .

At the beginning of the Battle of Changping, after the Zhao army led by Zhao Kuo was surrounded by the Qin army, there were also incidents of quietly killing people and sharing food.

At this point, it is impossible for the army to have any combat power, and the Liao army may have been too hungry to resist.

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No.20 On the morning of the [-]th, Shi Congyun ordered people to wear clothes for himself, brought a horizontal knife, fed the horses, and then went to the town in person, accompanied by many civil and military personnel, everyone looked excited and nervous.

Shi Congyun looked at the town to the north from a distance, and said, "I know a hundred victories from a distance, and I will pay back by sweeping the ghosts!"

Chapter 350: Trade him for Xiao Yanyan

Outside the town, after Shi Congyun ordered the attack to begin, various armies began to pour into the town from all directions.

This time, the emperor didn't put on a strong and sharp head, and took the lead. He just waited outside the town to give orders.

The morale of the generals of the Qin army was high, the drums sounded, and the flags flew up. The army began to attack the small town in the distance from three sides.

The densely packed Qin army is well-armored, with high morale, strict formation, well-trained, and neat formation, pouring in from everywhere, encircling the Liao army in different directions, and constantly compressing their space.

At this time, the skinny and frail Liao army had no power to resist. Some kept running to the center, and many gave up struggling, their eyes were dull, and they were weak and leaned against the ruins of the roadside to wait for the slaughter.

In Shi Congyun's order, he repeatedly emphasized that we should fight steadily, and don't worry. The reason why he starved the Liao army for so many days was that he didn't want his own casualties. Unexpected casualties outweigh the gains.

So he asked to be steady and steady, not in a hurry.

Half an hour later, the flag of the Qin Army had moved to the rear of the four gates of the town, and messengers from all over the place also came to report to him that the Qin Army had occupied the gates and roads outside the town, and blocked all intersections.

The offensive goals of the first stage were all achieved. Only the wounded soldiers of the Qin army had been withdrawn to rest and bandage, and no one was killed.

Shi Congyun was very relieved, he starved the Liao army for so many days, just for this moment.

Just like in the Battle of Changping, after the Qin army besieged the Zhao army's large corps, they did not launch an attack even though they had an advantage in strength. Eight thousand miles.

Enemies trapped in the encirclement will also die and survive, knowing that they must die and fight to the death, especially when the enemies in the encirclement are not interspersed and divided but gathered into a group, it is more dangerous.Those who are in a hurry are afraid of being stunned, those who are in a daze are afraid of dying, and those who are in a hurry to jump over the wall have the most combat effectiveness.There are many battles where the enemy was surrounded and was broken out or counter-killed.But when I was so hungry that I didn't have the strength to jump over the wall, everything would be settled.

It was noon, and after a short rest, Shi Congyun ordered the second phase of the attack to start again.

Immediately, the horn of desolation resounded through the wilderness again, and in front of the Luan of the Son of Heaven, the flags of various colors began to wave in an orderly manner, and the soldiers of the three armies chanted from all directions, resounding through the sky, deafening.Eagle feathers and golden servants, swallowtails and embroidered arcs; independent promotion of new orders, thousands of battalions call together!

The black torrent approached the center from all directions, and the wind in the early summer was a little restless, rolling up flags all over the field, but they still couldn't hold the big flag of Luan. The Qin army marched against the wind, advancing towards the town step by step.

But the shouts of killing were rarely heard in the periphery, only Qin Jun's shouts.

The whole army was led by generals such as Wang Shenqi, Jing Si, Dang Jin, and Li Hanchao. Shi Congyun was only on the periphery, did not go deep, and did not intervene in the command. In war, he is most afraid of leapfrog command. Hearing the orders of two people will be at a loss, and the battle will be difficult.

If a soldier hears orders from multiple people, then there is no need to fight, so it is taboo to leapfrog a commander. A soldier only obeys the orders of his superiors, and the superiors obey the superiors of the superiors, and the superiors of the superiors obey the superiors. This requires that the higher the order, the more general it needs to be, and only give orders to the subordinates directly under its own control.

And at the level of the emperor, in the end, only give orders in the general direction and strategic direction, and don't think about the details of the rest, and don't intervene in the command of the generals below.

Emperor Shi, who has experienced many battles, naturally has a deep understanding of this point, and it is not because of laziness, it is simply because of his superior outlook on the overall situation.

In the distance, he could clearly see that the Qin army was slowly advancing towards the village from three sides like a black torrent. The red and black military flags were moving around, fighting steadily and steadily. There is no power to fight back in the face of the torrent.

After the end of Floating Cloud Jun, Pianpian came out to join the army.And relying on the anger of the emperor, he will rely on the general Xiong again.Thousands of drums and thunder are on the ground, and thousands of flags and fire make wind!As the saying goes, when the emperor is angry, millions of corpses are laid down and blood bleeds for thousands of miles. In the past, Shi Congyun didn't have a very specific concept.

Up to now, the army is gathered, the flags are like clouds, and the drums are loud; the three armies use their lives, and the soldiers are united!All the way to the wind and clouds, galloping northward, destroying the dead, charging into the battle, the attackers are defeated, the winners are defeated, the bandits are awarded the head, no one can be the leader!The air of soldiers unites in the sky, the sound of drums is heard at the bottom of the river, the sword is swung to break the floating clouds, all the princes come to the west!

Only then did he really understand what the right of the emperor is and how far it can go. This kind of good and enjoyable feeling of satisfaction with the world in his chest has reached its peak at this moment. He seems to have a long arm around him and the world in his chest Within the arm, pointed by the sword's edge, can be a million heroes.

The previous depression and worry were suddenly swept away and disappeared.

Shi Congyun breathed a sigh of relief, stroked the handle of the knife, and couldn't help laughing.

That's right, I have millions of powerful troops under my command, and there are so many capable people, plus he is an emperor who can rule the world with his writing, and Wu Ze is unstoppable, what else is there to fear in the world?

Thinking about it carefully, in the final analysis, it is nothing more than some bureaucratic groups, so what if you lend them courage, how much trouble can they make?Can you still drown him?It's just unfounded worry.

Thinking through these things, listening to the sound of killing drums and horns from all sides of the sand and dust, murderous aura overflowing, soaring to the sky, I suddenly felt that my heart was clear, and the spiritual platform became clear.

I thought to myself, with Laozi's literary and military skills, nothing in the world can be handled!

The surrounding civil and military officials were nervously watching the situation in the distant town, but for some reason, the emperor suddenly smirked on the horseback, his face full of intoxication for a long time.