Five Dynasties River Mountains Fengyue

At this time, the Liao army had surrounded the Qin army convoy in groups, and circled around the west with four or five hundred cavalry in each team.

The Qin army used the outer chariot formation to withstand the cavalry attack, and the internal crossbowmen kept fighting back, desperately holding on.

The two sides fought for almost an hour, and the Liao army had already rested for a round. It took a risk to rescue the wounded in front of the battle and was ready to go again. Both sides suffered casualties and were very tired, but the Liao army was not ready to give up.

For the Liao army, they have two huge advantages, one of which is that they have a large number of troops.

The second is that the Qin army can only defend passively and move slowly, but there is no possibility of defeating them at all. No matter how powerful the Qin army's car formation is, if they lose to them, just turn around and leave.This is the biggest advantage of the Liao army. As a veteran, Brother Yeluxiu is also very aware of this advantage. They fight only when they are invincible, and their psychological pressure is not as great as that of the opposite Qin army.

For the Qin army, defeat is basically equivalent to death, and for them, there is a high probability that they can still run after being defeated, so the Qin army must be more afraid of fighting than them, and must be more afraid of fighting than them.

In the worst case, a small number of troops will be lost to retreat and come back again. If they are lucky, once they are exhausted with the Qin army, they will be exhausted, their bows and crossbows will be exhausted, and their morale will collapse.

Brother Yeluxiu is full of confidence. He has been waiting for this day for a long time. He has actually left the mountain since the army went south, but he is herding horses in the northeast of Yanzhou, but he dare not go south easily.

Because he led only partial divisions, only more than 1 people reached the northwest of Yanzhou, and there may be tens of thousands of Qin troops in the area behind the mountain. After all, if they can take Shuozhou, Huanzhou, Weizhou and other places one after another, their strength Certainly a lot.

He didn't even think about fighting Juyongguan or the fortified cities of the states in the past. Their strength cannot allow too much loss, and siege warfare is not what they are best at, and the Qin army has more troops than them. It is too dangerous to set up an ambush on the road.

So the countermeasure he thought of was to attack everywhere, attack the food roads, constantly weaken the Qin army, and then look for opportunities to fight a bigger battle of annihilation.

Just like today's situation, a few days ago their scouts discovered that the Qin army was gathering outside the city of Yanzhou, and they were recruiting a large number of cattle and horses. Most likely, they were afraid of their attack and planned to organize a large-scale supply of food and grass to go south. transportation.

He had his eye on this team at that time, and waited until noon, when he saw the smoke from the Qin army's cooking, he started to attack and launch an assault.

But when he got close, he was shocked. Although many people in the court, especially his colleagues in the Southern Academy, had told him about the elite of the Qin army and their victories in the south over the years, he didn't have much idea in his mind.

Because he has been fighting rebellions in the north for many years, and his opponents are mostly soldiers from various tribes. He has never encountered such a quick-responsive and perfectly coordinated army like the Qin army. They adjusted almost instantly, organized their defenses, and blocked their attack. Quick raid.

This surprised Brother Yeluxiu. It should not have taken more than a quarter of an hour from the time the opponent discovered them to when they rushed to the front of the formation. Thousands of people, so many cattle, horses, and carts were dispatched and cooperated to form an formation in just a quarter of an hour. He couldn't believe it. ....

Alerted, he immediately thought of a possibility, the other party came prepared!

After the first wave of charge was thwarted by the Qin army's chariot formation, he immediately looked around after he stabilized his heels. Yanzhou was far away, and it was not a big city. There are flat land or cultivated land everywhere, and the few trees along the road do not form a forest...

In the subsequent attacks, he kept a small half of his troops in the rear, in case there were enemy reinforcements to deal with them.

However, until more than half an hour after the battle, hundreds of people were killed and injured in both attacks, panting and exhausted, but there was still no sign of Qin's reinforcements.

Only then did Brother Yeluxiu put all his troops into the attack in turn, vowing to completely devour the Qin army.

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"General, are you still not sending troops?"

This is not the first time someone has been on the mud hill

Nervously raised this question to Li Jilong.

"No, wait..." Li Jilong couldn't remember how many times he refused the request to send troops, and he never took his eyes off the battle situation.

The Qin army in the distance obviously had suffered a lot of casualties, many of them were hit by arrows, and the Liao army who rushed up to sneak attack from time to time also caused some casualties to them.

At this time, the two sides were fighting for almost an hour. In order to maintain the front line and prevent the Liao cavalry from getting too close, the Qin army had to use a large number of bows and crossbows to force them back.

At this moment, hurried footsteps came from behind, "General, my brother Hedong is dying, let's go to the rescue!"

The two cavalry commanders of the Hedong Army came over. They stared angrily, obviously very angry. The brothers below were dying and wounded.

Facing the angry two men, Li Jilong explained, after all, the following were also Hedong soldiers: "The two commanders, I also want to save, but we are all iron-armored iron cavalry, and the speed and stamina are not as good as the light cavalry of the Liao army. They come and go like the wind.

If you go out too early, the Liao army will turn around and leave when they find something is wrong. We can't catch up!This ambush was for nothing, and the brothers below died for nothing. They had to wait until they were exhausted before they had a chance. "

After listening to his explanation, both of them were speechless, but they watched Paoze's lone army fighting and fell, and everyone was very anxious, wishing they could rush down immediately.

After a few quarters of an hour, the battle below has become intense. At first, the Liao army kept about two to three thousand troops in the rear as a reserve team, but after a long attack and no rescue, they also sent those troops to take turns to attack Among them, the battle became more and more intense.

At this time, Li Jilong also stood up and stared closely at the bottom, because as the Liao army also put the reserve team into the battle, there were still about a hundred horses left in the rear.

This must be the general of the Liao army and his personal soldiers!

In this raid by the Liao army, there was no flag at all in order to conceal it. At first, there were so many people mixed together, it was difficult to recognize who the commander was, but now it is suddenly clear at a glance!

Li Jilong immediately called the commanders of the two artillery battalions over, pointed to the hundreds of cavalry behind the Liao army below and said: "See, fight accordingly, the Liao army leader should be there!"

The two commanders took the lead and immediately went back to organize the artillery hidden in the mountains. ....

Soon the cannon gangs reported that they had completed the calibration.

Li Jilong took a deep breath, and said silently: "How many battles can be avoided if this cannon is accurately fired!"

Immediately ordered to fire, and the artillery positions were not installed at this time. Dozens of field artillery suddenly opened fire, and the rumbling sound rang through the hillside. The Liao army in the distance did not react for a while, because the sound had not yet reached them, but the shells But here it is.

Li Jilong opened his eyes wide and watched. The hundred or so riders behind him were obviously centered on one person. He was sitting on the horse, and soon there was a lot of smoke and dust around him. fly out...

He looked around in horror, and the horse under his crotch was frightened and circling uncontrollably, but Li Jilong's heart tightened, damn it!After killing seven or eight people, he missed that person!The roaring in the ears seemed to be inaudible.

Just when he was extremely anxious, the man was thrown from the horse in an instant, and half of his shoulders and chest were seen thrown into the air like mud from afar.

Some artillery positions are slow, but just right......

The rear of the Liao army in the distance was also in chaos, but those who were still besieging the Qin army in front did not notice it for the time being, and were still organizing the attack until the rumbling sound came over there, and everyone looked up the mountain suspiciously.

Li Jilong suppressed his emotions with excitement. The shelling continued, but it had been changed to shelling the main force of the Liao army. He said to the messenger: "The artillery will continue to provide fire support on the mountain."

Immediately, he grabbed the spear leaning on the tree trunk beside him and slid directly down the hillside behind him. Regardless of the heat in his buttocks, he got on the back of his horse and faced the thousands of cavalry that had been prepared in the valley behind, he said loudly: "Brothers, the general of the Liao Army Already dead, follow me to kill the enemy!"

The messenger on the top of the mountain has already played the semaphore, and the horn of desolation is sounding

, Li Jilong took the lead, and quickly led many cavalry to rush out of the valley like a torrent of steel, turned to the southwest at the mountain pass in front, and then poured down along the gentle slope to the side of the Liao army in the distance...

Chapter 528, The Battle Behind the Mountain

The ground trembled amidst the sound of horseshoes, rolling up a vast expanse of dust, as if a curtain had been drawn in the sky, covering half of the sky.

Thousands of cavalry were divided into several factions and rushed down the mountain, and the ground was bumped up and down amidst the sound of heavy horseshoes.

Accompanied by the hissing of the artillery on the mountain and the sharp whistling of the shells, the iron cavalry of the Qin army opened a long black iron wall in the northeast, and approached quickly with fear.

Because the artillery was too far away, it was so accurate that it fired dozens of cannons and killed eight or nine people, but the momentum was still very scary. When the besieged Qin army heard the sound of cannons all over the mountain, they immediately knew that the reinforcements were coming. After fighting for a long time, they were exhausted. The morale of the soldiers was greatly boosted, they marched forward bravely, and began to fight back.

The equally exhausted Liao army was terrified. Their horses had not undergone desensitization training like the Qin army, and they fell into varying degrees of panic as soon as the guns sounded. The most important thing was the rear team commander and the peripheral Liao army.

They clearly saw the cavalry of the Qin Army Brigade rushing towards them in the distance, and wanted to ask what to do, but when they looked back, there was a mess behind them, and the figure of the chief general Yeluxiu was gone.

Then some soldiers cried and shouted, "The commander was killed!" and so on.

There was a lot of people and horses, and everyone was horrified, but they couldn't be sure whether it was true or false, but they really couldn't see the figure of the coach, and fear poured into their heads. "The Qin army is coming!" "The Nan soldiers are behind!"

The sharp and whizzing shells hit some unlucky lucky people from time to time in the chaos, and their flesh and blood flew instantly, but they did not cause too much trouble in the melee. It was not until people were hit one after another that the people around them panicked and panicked. Find where the attack is coming from, where the enemy is coming from.

All the shouts were mixed with the shouts of killing. At first, not many people paid attention, until Qin Jun's cavalry completely rushed down the distant hillside and approached the other side of the avenue. Shouting to kill, the peripheral Liao army was ready to flee.

At such a critical moment, another piece of frightening news spread in the army formation, the main general Yeluxiu died!Some military officers yelled loudly that it was a rumor, but it spread more and more widely, and the morale of the army was in chaos for a while.

Qin Jun's iron cavalry came too fast, and they quickly crossed the road, rushing fiercely towards the back of the Liao Army's formation like a black torrent.

The cannons on the mountain stopped firing, and amidst the noise of gold and iron horses, the sound of interlacing metals could be heard endlessly, and the neighing and wailing of war horses intertwined.

The formation of the Liao army did not resist the offensive of the Qin army like a solid embankment, but began to be squeezed and fled to the other side.

On the other side, the besieged Qin army began to fight back. The soldiers changed from a circular formation to a square formation, pushing their chariots forward to squeeze the living space of the Liao army.

After fighting for a while, the Liao army suffered heavy casualties and began to flee to both sides. Those who ran slowly in the middle were immediately unlucky, and fell in large numbers under the attack from both sides.

The Liao army who fled from both sides did not run very far before being overtaken by Qin army's iron cavalry from both sides. After a day of fierce fighting, they were exhausted for a long time, and they couldn't outrun the energetic Qin army who was waiting for a rabbit.

Once they can't run away, facing the Qin army's iron cavalry armed to the teeth, the Liao army's chances of winning are very small...

Soon, the battlefield changed from fierce fighting to Qin cavalry chasing and killing the fled Liao army everywhere. The entire Guishui River Valley to the north of the mud mountain was full of cavalry chasing and fighting.

The Liao army fled everywhere, while the Qin army chased and killed them. Until the sun slanted to the west, the cold mountain wind howled and swept along the river valley, and the noise remained.

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Yang Jiye's army captured a large number of prisoners of the Liao army who surrendered on the spot, cleaned the battlefield, sorted out the supplies, and gathered the horses. At the same time, when burying the corpses, they did not hesitate to kill and bury the slightly injured Liao army.

When it was dark, Li Jilong also gathered people and horses. They brought back a large number of horses and many heads on their backs, but there were far fewer prisoners.

Everyone was disheveled, the horses were panting heavily, oil was leaking from their armor, but they were all very happy, this battle was a complete victory!

When Li Jilong came back, he entered the camp temporarily set up by the Hedong Army. After he entered, he found that there were wounded everywhere waiting for treatment, in dozens of tents.

In order to drag the Liao army to exhaustion, the Qin army in the valley paid a high price, with an astonishing 5000 casualties. You must know that there were only [-] people in the valley.

The large number of wounded basically filled all the tents.

Seeing this, the joy of victory in Li Jilong's heart was diluted a little.

He dismounted and handed over the reins to the soldiers, and then found someone to lead the way, and went directly to the Chinese army. There were exhausted soldiers all the way, and many of them fell asleep on the ground. The day's fierce battle was really exhausting.

When he arrived at the big tent of the Chinese army, Yang Jiye was talking to several army clerks, and he nodded when he saw him. "Li Qianfeng came just in time, we are talking about the results of the battle."

A clerk went on to say: "Our side killed about 1000 enemies and captured more than [-] people. However, more cases are still being counted. The soldiers are all tired and need to rest."

Li Jilong followed: "We brought back more than 1000 heads, but we will only kill more. Thanks to the general's delay, most of the Liao army is exhausted and unable to escape the pursuit. When the troops gather tomorrow, There should be greater results.”

Yang Jiye nodded, his face full of excitement: "There is another great achievement here. It was confirmed by the Liao soldiers that the leader of the Liao army, Brother Yeluxiu, was killed by the artillery at the beginning, so they were in chaos."

"Have you found the body?"

"I found it, but only half of it. The cannonball hit him on the left chest, basically killing him in half. Fortunately, the head is intact and his face can be confirmed.

Moreover, the generals of the Liao army confessed that there were only about 1 people on their journey, but now they are all accounted for. "

Li Jilong also became excited, "So the soldiers coming from this direction of the Liao army have been wiped out in all likelihood, and the front is completely empty!"

Yang Jiye nodded: "If the officers of the Liao Army didn't lie, it should be so. After we interrogated many people and compared them, we shouldn't be wrong."

The two looked at each other, seeing light in each other's eyes.

If the information is accurate, it means that the west is empty!

The main force of the Liao army in the middle is confronting the Qin army in the area of ​​Beikou, while Lin Renzhao's army is facing the enemy in the west of Liaodong in the east, but now there is an empty area of ​​the enemy on the battlefield behind the mountain.

Just as Li Jilong was about to say something, Yang Jiye already understood and said, "I have already sent someone to Guizhou."

That's right, they thought at the same time that, taking advantage of the emptiness of the enemy behind the mountain, they could use Xiangxi's tens of thousands of main troops to go straight from the northeast to the side of the Liao army and cut off the retreat of the Liao army's [-] troops!

Thinking about it this way, Li Jilong seemed to feel that the sacrifices of these casualties were all worthwhile. If he hadn't come down cruelly to let the Qin army in the valley hold on, maybe there would not have been such a result, and there would have been no changes that could change the overall situation. Chance.

In the end, he said seriously: "Today's victory is mainly due to the bloody battle between the soldiers of Hedong and tens of thousands of Liao troops in the river valley. Only when they are exhausted can they have a chance to annihilate most of them. This matter must be reported to the official! General Yang, please rest assured. .”

Yang Jiye nodded and cupped his hands: "General Li Gaoyi!" He didn't fight for his own credit, but also for the credit of many Hedong soldiers. There is no room for hypocrisy in this kind of matter.

Chapter 529, Strategic Turnaround

"The Liao army in Beikou is still gathering, and it seems that they are about to launch a big battle. They launched several small-scale attacks but were repelled." Zhao Shijian sorted out the battle report and reported to Emperor Shi.

Emperor Shi wore a red and black round-neck official uniform with a jade belt around his waist. Under the high platform outside the palace, green willows had new hair. A sudden heavy rain washed away the dust in the air and made the fresh green in the distance fresh.

But the wind and rain have just stopped, and the mountains and rain are about to come in the distance.

"Can the supplies be delivered?" Emperor Shi asked a question he cared about.

"Yes, the fleet along the Hebei can easily send supplies to Lotus Fort. The enemy has no way to do it, and has already organized two supply deliveries."

Emperor Shi nodded. Three of the six Lotus Fortresses were built on Gushui to transport ammunition and other supplies from the water, while the three on the east side were connected by tunnels to the riverside and the three were connected underground in twos. The reason why many people went to stop the tens of thousands of troops is that as long as the supply is constant, shells, fire mines, gunpowder, food and energy are continuously sent to the fortress, in theory it is not a problem to stick to it.

"The soldiers on the front line said that the Liao army seemed to be using cauldrons to boil talisman water in front of the formation. There were people like Taoist priests. They seemed to have come up with some other methods." Zhao Shijian couldn't help laughing.

His daughter-in-law also believed in Buddhism before, and she often went to Daxiangguo Temple with her second sister to pray and burn incense for him, but now she no longer believes in him under the persuasive teachings and temptations of Emperor Shi.

"Are you afraid of being beaten?" Emperor Shi asked.

"No, the Liao Kingdom boiled more. At the beginning, only three large pots were prepared to make talisman water. Now it has been urgently increased to more than 100 pots. I heard that the number is still increasing." Zhao Shijian said with a playful smile.

Emperor Shi was a little confused, and pulled her over to sit on his lap, because he inherited his father and was too tall, and the husband and wife were used to such small movements.

Zhao Shijian said with a smile: "The frontline soldiers said in the battle report that the Liao army used small-scale troops to test that it was impossible to fight, so they deliberately fired some empty artillery to reduce the enemy's casualties."

Shi Congyun immediately understood why the Liao army became more and more effective in practicing talisman water. Although there were still casualties, the casualties were greatly reduced after drinking the talisman water!This created a kind of superstition for them, making them associate the significant reduction in casualties with drinking the talisman water, and self-righteously established a causal relationship.

After hearing this, Emperor Shi couldn't help but sigh with emotion: "As expected of the soldiers brought out by Lao Tzu, they are really clever!"

It is conceivable that if the Liao army built up their confidence and then drank all the talisman water to launch a large-scale attack and use their flesh and blood to attack the bastion cannon, the tragedy would be unimaginable.

"It's all because the officials allowed them to make their own decisions." Zhao Shijian is not like he used to be now, and everyone knows to speak well of him: "It is said that the general's military orders are not accepted, and they say that they are not suspicious, but they can really do it. There are a few, and the officials believe that they can naturally let go of their hands and feet and use their second thoughts."

"You're right. It's really my credit to think so." Emperor Shi said proudly.

Zhao Shijian couldn't help pinching him, "I've never been modest." Then he continued: "In the west of Liao, General Lin Renzhao sent a letter, saying that they found signs of Liao army activity in the north of Yuguan. Go north slowly."

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