Five Dynasties River Mountains Fengyue

In the early morning of the next day, Zhao Shijian shook him awake, no matter how angry he got up, he said that there were forbidden soldiers outside asking to see him.

Emperor Shi saw him with sleepy eyes, and it turned out that it was Li Chuyun who asked to see him.

He came early in the morning to report their deployment and dispatch to Emperor Shi.

After discussions last night, Li Chuyun, Lin Renzhao and other senior generals finally made a decision that Li Chuyun would personally lead the main force of the Chinese army to go northward, and cooperate with ten gunboats from the Guhe River to attack Tanzhou.

Guo Jin led the [-]th battalion of forbidden troops to form the western army to attack Juyongguan. There were two battalions of artillery in the [-]th battalion. open.

The navy was led by Lin Renzhao, one part attacked from land, the other entered the Bohai Sea from the Haihe River, continued to go north, and then went north to the Yinma River to attack Yingzhou and Pingzhou.

Yingzhou and Pingzhou are important places.

Lulong, the government office of Pingzhou, is where the pass in the eastern section of Yanshan is located, and Yingzhou has Linhailing Town of the Liao Kingdom. It is mainly responsible for guarding Yuguan in the north, which is later known as Shanhaiguan.

However, the main line of defense of the Liao State was in Youzhou, and Yuguan was also a defense outside the pass during the Sui and Tang Dynasties. Therefore, in the hands of the Liao State, Yuguan was not as important as in the hands of the southern regime, but it was still an important military town.

Taking Yingzhou, Pingzhou, and Yuguan will at least ensure that the Qin army will block the Liao army in the northern section of the Liaoxi Corridor, and because it is close to the Bohai Sea, the navy can enter the inland from the coast along several rivers to support land operations, so It is most advantageous for the navy to fight the eastern battlefield.

Emperor Shi looked at their deployment according to the map sent by Zhao Shijian, and he agreed with it very much. At the same time, he said to Li Chuyun: "As the commander-in-chief of the three armies, you must fight for every cent. You can't be delayed by such a trivial matter. I will call your secretary later. Just report to the official, if there is anything, I will let him take it back."

"No!" Li Chuyun said repeatedly.

"The great war is about to break out, and the frontline battles are changing rapidly. If it is an emergency, you can make your own decisions, and you don't need to ask for instructions one by one." Emperor Shi instructed.

Li Chuyun knelt down on one knee, gratefully said: "I will never let down the trust of the officials! Otherwise, come and see me!"

In the early morning of that day, the sun had just risen, and it was as red as blood. Except for the defenders in Youzhou City, the army outside the city began to gather and dispatched quickly. They left Youzhou one after another and marched in three directions: east, north, and northwest.

The battle against the Liao Kingdom eased up after a few days of capturing Youzhou, and it entered a state of full-scale attack again. Emperor Shi rode a horse outside the city, personally seeing off the troops and boosting morale, and the people inside and outside the city also noticed these changes. .

A few days after Emperor Shi went north, the Qin army stabilized from the death of the navy leader, and more importantly, completed the transformation of strategic goals. The offensive near Youzhou began to move from point to surface, and opened its bows in all directions.

Chapter 514, The Difference Between Cloud and Mud

In early April, Youzhou was still chilly. Emperor Shi stopped at the Youzhou Palace, and the garrison had completely controlled the city defenses. Youzhou seemed to have returned to its old rhythm. Except for a new batch of defenders, it seemed that there was not much change. .

In the Jianing Palace, battle reports from all over the world flew in like snowflakes, and there were quite a few every day.

Fortunately, these complicated battle reports were all handled by Zhao Shijian, and they were streamlined and then sent to his desk for reporting to him, which was not so troublesome.

In Daliang, there is a whole team of prime ministers to handle these matters, while in Youzhou there is only Zhao Shijian, but after years of baptism and training, the daughter-in-law is fully capable of such a job, even better than those prime ministers.

The two are intimate and know each other's strengths and weaknesses. Of course, Zhao Shijian understands Emperor Shi's habits and hobbies. He knows what kind of official documents and reports he wants to listen to, what he likes and what he doesn't like. They are completely different.

No matter how much he emphasizes that the old men are practical and talk about people, they still like to show off their ability to find and extract sentences, and Emperor Shi is so angry that he wants to scold his mother.

Sometimes Emperor Shi wished he could fire the prime ministers in the Zhengshitang and let Zhao Shijian do it.

Of course, he wasn't prepared to do this, those things were too tiring and annoying, and from time to time someone had to take the blame, how could he let his own wife do it, of course those old men had to do it.

On the fifth day of April, Emperor Shi had just returned from Yuanhe Hall, when Zhao Shijian came over to him and said, "Juyongguan has been breached."

Shi Congyun was stunned, surprised and delighted, and happily took her hand and walked into the main hall of Daijianing Hall. Zhao Shijian said as he walked, "It's the news that Guo came in from the northwest. He and the striker Li Jilong met three days ago. When we arrived at Juyongguan at noon, we found that fighting had already started at Juyongguan.

They guessed that Yang Jiye's army might be starting from Daizhou and going to Fanzhi, Lingqiu, Weizhou, and Zhuozhou from the northwest, so they launched an offensive from the southeast back of Guancheng.

The battle went smoothly. On the same day, they attacked Guancheng from the south hillside. At night, they joined forces with the friendly army from the north. It was indeed Yang Jiye's army. "

Emperor Shi looked at the map and said with emotion: "This Yang Jiye's march is really fast."

Zhao Shijian agreed, "It's only been more than half a month. They traveled from Daizhou to the west, passed through Fanzhi County, climbed over the mountains and took down Lingqiu, and then went to attack Weizhou. Some went northwest to capture Zhuozhou, and then went southwest to attack Juyongguan. , This road crossed rivers and mountains, and traveled more than 700 miles."

Shi Congyun nodded: "It's really not easy. The Hedong Army is not as well-equipped as the Forbidden Army. I heard from Xiang Xun that the artillery only gave them one battalion, so they can fight so well.

They want to prove themselves too much, but this is also a good thing. "

Emperor Shi understood the feelings of the Hedong army. At the beginning of the Northern Han Dynasty, the Emperor of Liao Kingdom was regarded as his father, and he was looked down upon by the people of the world. Even after the Qin army took back Hedong, there were many people who looked down on them all over the country.

Because of this, the Hedong Legion has been suffocating to prove itself, and this time they finally got the opportunity to attack the Liao Kingdom.

The reported casualties also confirmed the desperate efforts of the Hedong Army Corps. They were part of the division, and their casualties were several times that of the main force that attacked Youzhou.

Emperor Shi thought for a while, and said to Zhao Shijian: "You write an edict to commend Yang Jiye's army on my behalf, and at the same time tell them not to act too hastily. A victory with a loss of [-] is unnecessary.

If you save people and lose land, everyone and land will survive; if you save land and lose people, you will lose everyone and land. "

Zhao Shijian nodded, and tacitly went to draft an edict for him.

The defenders of Juyongguan probably never expected that the Qin army would attack from the direction of Youzhou. They were fighting against the Qin army in the northwest, but they did not expect that another Qin army would come up from the southeast and kill them all at once.

Emperor Shi was very happy with the victory at Juyongguan, and he also understood the blood and courage of the Hedong Army. However, people are the foundation of everything. There have been many victorious countries in history.

That would be better than preserving strength and forming a confrontation, so the Hedong Army's courage is commendable and worthy of praise, but their tactics still need to be changed, and they can no longer fight with such a large number of casualties.

Emperor Shi did not expect that Juyongguan would be captured only a few days after Guo Jin led his troops out.

He marked the situation of the Qin army on the map, "In this way, Shuozhou, Huanzhou, Weizhou, Lingqiu, Zhuozhou, Juyongguan, Youzhou, and Shunzhou have been connected together. Next, we will look at Tanzhou and the camp. State, Pingzhou."

"Let's celebrate!" Emperor Shi looked at Zhao Shijian with a smirk: "It's hard to come to Youzhou, but I haven't tried it yet."

"Don't make trouble, there is a business!" Zhao Shijian refused, and she was seriously choosing words and sentences to write an edict, "These will be preserved and observed by future generations, and must be carefully considered and considered."

Emperor Shi didn't care: "Let them see, as long as the frontline generals understand it."

Emperor Shi did not wait too long in the direction of Tanzhou. Only on the eighth day of April, three days after the breach of Juyongguan, Tanzhou was also breached.

The battle report arrived in Youzhou in the middle of the night, the city was broken in the afternoon, and the battle report was delivered in the evening. Emperor Shi was sleepy in the middle of the night, and couldn't fall asleep immediately after getting up and reading the battle report.

Danzhou has been captured!

After the navy arrived in Tanzhou, ten naval guns of the navy bombarded the defenders of the Liao army in the river more than a mile away from the city wall.

However, because the ground troops did not arrive, the ten gunboats were very careful not to approach the east bank, and kept cruising after firing at the same time to avoid possible land counterattacks.

However, because the distance was too far, the farthest point of shelling was even two miles away, and the sailors were short of manpower, so they dared not go ashore rashly to confirm the results of the shelling, but kept shelling one after another.

As a result, three days later, when the land army arrived in Tanzhou, the Liao army in Tanzhou surrendered directly.

It was later learned that at noon on the second day of the naval bombardment, the Tanzhou defender who had been insisting on defending before went to the top of the city to check and deploy the defenses. As a result, the Qin army's navy also just started shelling.

The navy will pick up the Liao army to eat, and bombard the Liao army during the rest time. The purpose is that even if it cannot cause mass destruction, it will greatly consume the morale of the Liao army, harass them, make them restless, and make them feel like a frightened bird. After all, the navy is far away. In the rivers inside and outside, you are not afraid of counterattack.

But on that day, a cannonball cut off half of the head of the Tanzhou guard who had just ascended the top of the city.

The Qin army's navy didn't know the result of the battle, and continued to shell, but the morale of the Tanzhou defender collapsed.

In fact, the bombardment continued for three days, and the final statistics only killed 28 people, of which eight were ordinary people in the city, and no more than 50 people were injured.

But the morale of the Liao army in Tanzhou had completely collapsed. When the land army gathered under the city densely, they immediately opened the city and surrendered.

Tanzhou, an important town in the north that was originally thought to be more difficult to fight, was taken in this way, which was unexpected.

More than 2000 defenders surrendered. Only one soldier of the Qin army entered the city because of the narrow and crowded city gate.

When seeing the results of this battle report, Shi Congyun was both surprised and even more pleasantly surprised. This is another huge advantage of artillery, that is, being able to prostitute for nothing.

Indeed, in the face of the navy's attack style, they fought two miles away into the city, coupled with the mobility of the gunboats, the Tanzhou defenders could only be prostituted, and the Liao army could not effectively counter the Qin army's attack. , in theory, as long as the supplies are sufficient, they can keep shelling.

Even though the casualties in the city were not too many, there was no hope of counterattack, and the soldiers and civilians of the Liao Kingdom were most desperate only to be beaten.

Emperor Shi also realized another important strategic value of artillery. In theory, as long as the ammunition is sufficient and the waterways are unimpeded, the water army of the Qin Army can destroy a fortified city. For ten days, or even every three to five years, the bombardment has been going on for many years.

Whether it's the defenders or the civilians, facing an enemy who can't fight back and can only be beaten passively, sooner or later they will collapse.

"Now, only Yanzhou, Wuzhou and Yunzhou are left in the sixteen states."

"It's been less than a month since we dispatched troops"

The progress of the war was really fast, especially the large-scale use of artillery, which sped up the overall war process. In order to win the four or five states in the north, they fought against the Liao Kingdom for half a year, with about [-] casualties on the whole line, and finally sealed the victory. , and compared with more than ten years ago, this attack is completely different!

Chapter 515, The New Lord

Shangjing in the Liao Kingdom is located at the foot of the Great Xianbei Mountain, between the Shali River in the south and the Lang River in the east.

Shangjing was built after the Youzhou City of the Han Dynasty. The city wall is about fifteen miles long. The north and west of the city are the main residential areas. The army from Nanjing is stationed on the south bank, a few miles away from the city.

The original Imperial Guards in Shangjing were stationed in the valley to the east of Langhe River (now Wuliji Muren River, Inner Mongolia), forming a delicate balance.

Afterwards, this confrontation and stalemate was broken when Ye Luxian hurried northward under the protection of Gao Xun and ascended the throne.

The generals of the imperial army of the Liao Kingdom went to the city to meet the new emperor one after another, and then obeyed the dispatch and returned to the camp in Montenegro to the north, and the situation began to get on the right track.

At that time, the faction headed by Xiao Siwen and Gao Xun breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that the overall situation had been settled and the most dangerous moment had passed. When the news of the assassination was released, they immediately dealt with several assassins seriously and quickly to inform the whole country.

The situation is stable, and everyone is looking forward to a virtuous king and master leading the Liao Kingdom to a better future.

Xiao Siwen, Gao Xun and the others were also complacent about their victory and meticulous planning, and were quite proud. They were thinking about their bright future. Become one of the new power cores, with a high position and weight.

Xiao Siwen went one step further. He had already thought that when his daughter arrived in Shangjing and became a queen, he would be both the head of the state and an important minister with great power.

It's just that these are just expectations and imaginations for the future. Just when they were full of ambition, panicked soldiers brought terrible news from the south.

The Qin army launched a full-scale attack from Yanmen and Lingqiu to the west of Taihang Mountain, Gu'an and Youzhou to the east of Taihang Mountain.

And after that, there were constant urgency, according to the news that was collected one after another like snowflakes, Xiao Siwen, Gao Xun, Yelu Xiezhen and others, who were astonished and terrified, deduced a fact that made them even more restless.

On the long front of more than 1000 miles from Daizhou in the west of Taihang Mountains to Yingzhou in the east of Taihang Mountains, the Qin Army has at least 15 troops attacking, and it may even be on a larger scale.

This has far surpassed the scale of the three-level battle led by Shi Congyun in Houzhou, which caused them heavy losses. How can this be parried?

Yelu Xiezhen also raised a doubt. Such a large-scale battle must have sufficient preliminary preparations, and logistical supplies will not happen overnight. This shows that Qin's dispatch of troops has been planned for a long time, but why did they send troops as soon as they went north?

It's really a coincidence that a blind cat meets a dead mouse, or...

For this question, no one can give an answer, and everyone chose to remain silent, because the topic is too sensitive, the new monarch has just succeeded to the throne, and the court situation is unstable. If someone connects the Qin army's northward march with the monarch's change, it will be very unfavorable to them .

But in the following days, bad news came one after another, and there was no way to stop it.

The shadow of fear pervades the banks of the Wolf River, lingering in everyone's hearts...  

.......

Outside the hall, raindrops hit the white jade stone steps, and the rain in late spring and early summer still brings a chill in such a northern place.

Ye Luxian was kneeling in the hall, and the crystal clear rain curtain was drawn from the eaves outside the hall, and the tinkling sound knocked on the ground, which made him restless.

The instigator was not an ordinary rain, but Gao Xun and Xiao Siwen, who were sitting across from each other before the rain curtain, with serious expressions on their faces, telling bad news one after another.

Although he has heard too much bad news since he became the throne, such as the fall of Huanzhou, the fall of Shuozhou, the Qin army breaking through the Sanggan River, the fall of Youzhou, the surrender of Shunzhou, the capture of Lingqiu by the army of Hedong, etc.

But the bad news never ends...

"Your Majesty, the governor of Weizhou has fled back...Zhuozhou fell, and Juyongguan..."

Xiao Siwen's voice was caught in the raindrops, which was particularly annoying. Before Xiao Siwen finished speaking, Gao Xun hesitated to speak.

Ye Luxian raised his hand to stop him, and ordered the people around him to bring a bowl of hot

Goat milk tea, he suffered from a coup d'état when he was young, and his health was not good when he grew up, and he couldn't stand the cold. The fright these days also made him exhausted, and he often needed hot tea and goat milk.

After he finished drinking, he asked the attendant to withdraw his wrist, then straightened his body and said: "Private Gao, you can continue talking."

"Your Majesty, Tanzhou has fallen..."

After a few words, the hall was quiet for a while, except for the dripping rain beating tirelessly on the stone steps, which was exceptionally clear.

It took Yeluxian a while to digest the news, "When did it happen?"

"Five days ago...the soldier delivering the message met a soldier of the Qin Army near the north entrance. He hid in the mountains for a whole day before delivering the message."

Ye Luxian is 24 years old this year, and he is no longer a child, but his hands still tremble uncontrollably, and the calmness he tried to maintain is full of loopholes. Xiao Siwen and Gao Xun can only pretend not to see it, because even they can't help it at this time. Terrified, apprehensive.

Ye Luxian tried to calm down and asked, "Will the Qin army go north from Tanzhou to attack us?"

Gao Xun paused, "If it was the past, I don't think the Qin army would take the risk of going north. There is a large piece of land in the south that they need to occupy and consolidate, but..."

"But what?"

Xiao Siwen's tone was heavy: "The informant in Youzhou risked his life to send someone to bring news that Shi Congyun has arrived in Youzhou."

"If the emperor of the state of Qin conquered Youzhou in person, it is enough to show that they fought this battle with the strength of the whole country, and they probably wanted to take this opportunity to put us to death..." Gao Xun said A reasonable and horrifying speculation: "So they may go north, and they may directly attack Shangjing. As long as the situation in the south is stable, with Shi Congyun's past style, there is a high probability that they will launch an attack..."

"Your Majesty, this is a battle of life and death, we have no room to retreat..."

After Yeluxian listened, he didn't speak for a long time, the rain was still dripping outside the house, and the courtyard in the distance was hazy in a thin layer of water mist.

Ye Luxian was thin, so he asked, "Is Yanyan going to Beijing too?"

Xiao Siwen nodded: "There is someone protecting her. Your Majesty is still focusing on important matters at the moment. There is no room for distraction at such a juncture."

However, Ye Luxian's eyes gradually became firmer. He gradually lost sight of the noisy and annoying rain, but said solemnly to the two of them: "If it's unavoidable, then let him come. I've wanted to meet Shi Congyun for a long time. .

Let the imperial army prepare for the war, and issue an edict to summon all the tribes to assemble to the Langhe River. They must arrive within 20 days. Some of them must not want to come. Send people to warn them that if they don’t come this time, no matter what the outcome of this battle is, they will be defeated. my sworn enemy. "