Chapter 404: The Jagged Road (4)
Tian Chong came in and came to the city of Weizhou, which was in chaos.
Some have to fight, some have to escape, and some have to surrender.
The head general of Weizhou was Xiao Chuoli, and the envoy of the city was Geng Shaozhong. Xiao Chuoli was a Khitan, so of course he would not want to surrender. Geng Shaozhong was a Han Chinese, his father Geng Mei was the governor of the Khitan Fengshengjie, and his younger brother Geng Shaoyong was the envoy of the Three Khitans, so Geng Shaozhong was loyal to the Khitans. Some time ago, Geng Shaozhong was in charge of Tongzhou and was staying in the Chunnabo Yabo of the Emperor of Liaohe with Emperor Shengzong of Liao. When he heard the Song Dynasty's army was in the northern expedition, Xiao Yanyan hurriedly asked Geng Shaozhong to come to Weizhou to serve as the envoy of the city.
It was him and Xiao Chuoli who gathered up Dapengyi's defeated soldiers and organized two counterattacks against Feihu Pass, but unfortunately they were easily defeated by Tian Chongjin.
Seeing the situation in Weizhou City, Geng and Xiao discussed for a while, thinking that their current situation could not stop the attack of the Song army, so they planned to kill all the soldiers who wanted to surrender in the city, and then flee to the Liao Kingdom with the heroes in the city.
Who knew that the matter was leaked. Li Cunzhang and Xu Yanqin, the left and right governors in Weizhou City, took the initiative and led their subordinates to launch a sudden attack, killing Xiao Chuoli and the thousand guards, and Geng Shaozhong captured alive.
Then I sent someone to Tian Chongjin and said, "We have killed the Liao general and officials and surrendered to you."
Tian Chongjin was a little unbelievable, but it was not very similar. The officers and soldiers of the Liao Kingdom in Weizhou City were very tenacious. They could tell through two counterattacks. Could it be that they were a fraudulent surrender?
Especially when he organized the Northwest Battle last year, he knew very well how Cao Guangshi died.
After thinking about it, I looked around and saw Jing Si.
Of course, Tian Chongjin was still swearing in his heart that he would never follow this kid next time, but he had this general under his command. That would be really useful.
He shouted him over and said, "I said surrender in Weizhou City, but I don't know the truth or falsehood. I want you to go into the city to take a look, are you afraid?"
"Not afraid."
"Are you really afraid?" Tian Chongjin suddenly burst into laughter. This guy probably didn't know how the word "告" was written. We said the wrong thing.
So he asked Jing Si to lead dozens of warriors, throw them onto the top of the city with a hook, and roll them into the city along the rope.
Jing Si saw Li Xu and the others, and Li Xu and the others told him about the situation and took him to see Xiao Chuoli's corpse and Geng Shaozhong who was imprisoned. Geng Shaozhong saw Li Xu and the others coming and cursed. This probably wouldn't be fake. At least from so many corpses, many of them were Khitans, with some differences in appearance. In order to surrender, they killed so many Khitans. I think they didn't have the courage to do so.
Jing Si and his subordinates turned over the city again, saying that it was a real surrender in the city.
Then prepare to surrender.
The next day, Li Cunzhang opened the city gate and let the Song army in.
Suddenly, countless enemy troops emerged from the city and fought fiercely with the Song army at the city gate. They blocked the Song army near the city gate.
Tian Chongjin felt strange, so he waved his hand and said, "Jing Si, you can also go into the city with the help of a rope."
Jing Si picked up the hook again and took his subordinates to the city from the top of the city. After finding out what happened, Xiao Chuoli and Geng Shaozhong wanted to kill Li Cunzhang, Xu Yanqin and others who wanted to surrender. When Li and Xu learned that they took the initiative and killed Xiao Chuoli and nearly a thousand of his subordinates, but there were still troops in the city. There were a large number, most of which were defeated soldiers under Dapengyi. These people gathered from the states behind the mountain. They didn't know the situation in the city of Weizhou, so they waited and watched and did not intervene.
Today, Li Cunzhang began to let the Song army enter the city, and these people also knew the truth, so they stopped the Song army from entering the city and besieged those who wanted to surrender.
Jing Si and his subordinates killed in, rescued the people who wanted to surrender from the rebels, gathered to safety, and then left the city to ask Tian Chongjin what to do.
"Where will you continue to save people?" Tian Chongjin said.
The Song army did not retreat after the Northern Expedition, but came to occupy it. Those who wanted to surrender would be loyal people of the Song Dynasty and must be saved.
Jing Si then turned into the city from the rope.
These soldiers were rescued from the rebels one after another and sent them to a safe area. As for the rebels at the city gate, let the main force solve the problem. We have few people, so we can't just take all the credits.
But after a while, he couldn't stay there. Looking at the crowd of people, so many people were under my control. There were hundreds of people in his commander, but he was just the deputy commander, and it was not said that he was under his control. Therefore, he was excited and so many people had to do something. So he thought of something. The army rushed to the city of Weizhou, but the logistics could not keep up. The army was short of food. He called out one of the generals and asked where the food was in the city. The general took him to the granary.
There was still fierce fighting at the city gate, and the rebels still blocked the Song army, so Jing Si commanded the surrendered army and put the food down from the top of the city with a rope. Fight slowly at the city gate, I will give you the food first, fight at the city gate, and get the food ready, and then prepare the food later.
I guess I had enough food for cooking, so I started collecting supplies and prepared to send them back to the military camp.
But at this time, the Liao Kingdom's large army arrived.
Weizhou City was not a big city after all. Dapengyi and many subordinates fled back to Weizhou. They could not stay in the city, and many soldiers were stuck in the suburbs of the city. Most of them intercepted the Song army into the city at the gate, but some ran to the rear to inform the city of the city.
The army rushed over.
Today, Jing Si brought more people into the city, including six other military academies. Some were not afraid of death, while others were afraid of death. The deputy commander Jiang Qian began to talk nonsense. The army could not enter the city for a while, so let's retreat first.
Both of them are deputy commanders. If you don't understand, you may think they are regular positions. In fact, it is not. Jing Si is only the deputy commander, the deputy battalion commander. Jiang Qian has one more Du, but in fact he is the deputy commander. Yidu Commander has several commanders under his commander. If it is distinguished by later military ranks, it is the deputy commander. However, the Song army has directly jumped from the commander to the commander, and there are three levels of regiment and brigade divisions in the middle.
It’s okay to say that Jiang Qian is one level higher than that of several levels higher than that of Jing Si.
Therefore, when Jiang Qian said that the Song army who flipped into the city became a little timid.
Jing Si didn't say much, and he raised his sword and killed Jiang Qian.
Then, he led his men and ignored the enemy's number and we were scarce. He killed him head-on.
There was a tragic battle between the two sides, including Jing Si, a total of six military academies. Four of them died heroically, and it seemed that they were just for fear of life. They also had to be good at martial arts. If they were not good at martial arts, they would end up learning from Jing Si very sadly.
The Liao army could not resist and fought and retreated. This was another very funny scene. The side with an absolute advantage in numbers was suppressed and beaten by the side with a disadvantage in numbers, and forced to Dazhiling behind Weizhou City. The Liao army was cowardly and fled together.
At this time, Tian Chongjin also defeated the enemy soldiers at the city gate, led the troops into the city, and then asked Jing Si: "I just heard a lot of fighting sounds coming from the city. Where is the enemy?"
"Report to General Tian, thousands of enemies were beaten away by me."
Tian Chongjin: "..."
He murmured for half a day later, "So it's so easy to make contributions."
If you want to make a contribution, you only need one Jing Si under your command.
...
The nine states behind the mountain, the new Wu Yunshuohuan Yingwei. But the Liao Kingdom changed some names, such as the name of Xinzhou is now renamed Fengshengzhou and Yunzhou is renamed Xijing. Why did the Song Dynasty want to reclaim these sixteen states because they are all south of the Great Wall, and there are countless mountains, dangerous valleys and dangerous fortresses on the north edge. As long as the Sixteen states of Youyun are recovered, the ancient Great Wall is slightly repaired, which is the best line of defense.
But it cannot be said that it is outside the frontier to the north. Now the term outside the frontier has become a little blurred, and it even considers some bitter and cold places in the northwest. However, after passing the Sixteen Prefectures of Youyun, there are fewer Han people, mostly Hu people. But within the sixteen Prefectures, even if it is dominated by the Liao Kingdom, it is dominated by Han people.
Therefore, the Song Dynasty always wanted to take back the Sixteen Prefectures of Youyun, but was not very interested in the various areas outside the north. Of course, if the nomadic people were weak, the Song Dynasty would not be cautious about occupying one or two locations. But it does not mean that the north was completely bitter and cold. There are still many good places between the southern part of Yinshan and the Sixteen Prefectures of Youyun, including Fengzhou (located east of Hohhot), Dezhou (Xuande) and Beihetao. At this time, the water and soil have not been completely destroyed, and there are many pastures with abundant water and grass, even called Jiangnan outside the border...
The target of the two kings of Zhewang was to launch an attack on the western mountain of the Liao Kingdom. If possible, the troops would enter the Fengxuan prefectures.
But it would not meet with the three Song troops in Youzhou eastward. It would be too far from their base camps. Even if the Song Dynasty forced an edict, it would be too reluctant to do so, and the two families would not agree.
Because of this geographical location, the two families sent troops not to occupy the people, but to capture the people and plunder them as much as possible. However, there is a slight difference. The people who spontaneously came to the Song Dynasty arranged them in Nanhetao, especially near Dijinze, and nearly 60% of the people migrated this area last year. Therefore, these tribes were spread here, one was to fill in the vacuum zone, and the other was to come from a foreign land and had little contact with the rich clans of Yin Xiayou, and they would not be loyal to the Tuoba Li family, so they used this to restrict the difficulties of the rich clans.
However, it is estimated that there are not many tribes of this type. If they are almost the same near Jiashan, most of them are Tatars, Dangxiang Tuyuhun and Han people, with low status and Khitans are very discriminatory. With the opening of the wool trade route, many tribes will have a good impression of the Song Dynasty. There will be fewer further east. Even if there are, many people are willing to leave their homes.
Therefore, the latter will be more, that is, tribes and people who are unwilling to come, and they are forced to migrate if possible.
First, the two families will control the population and wealth. If the remaining population is small and the resettlement is not small, it will be handed over to the Song Dynasty, after it is broken up, it will be transferred to the mainland to fill the population.
The people are unwilling to do so, and it is difficult to forcefully migrate.
The practical significance is to let them share the pressure of the Song army.
If the Liao Kingdom ignores the situation and transfers a large number of people, it will invisibly weaken the power of the Khitan, and also give these tribes a bad impression that the Liao Kingdom cannot protect them, and may not be so loyal to the Liao Kingdom in the future.
If you take care of it, you must divide your troops.
As for the time being, the Liao Kingdom has the power to take care of them. Although the two families are not marching fast, they have kidnapped many people.
There is also Liaodong.
In fact, no matter how victory or defeat this time, it has caused great harm to the Liao Kingdom.
...
The Song army had scouts, and the Liao Kingdom also had scouts. In fact, before the Song Dynasty had attacked Gu'an, Yelu Xiuge hurriedly asked for help.
Xiao Yanyan realized the seriousness of the matter and urgently transferred the troops of the North and South Courts, Xi, Yi, and Bohai to rescue. First, let the Northern Court of Xuanhui Yelu Amuli be the commander of the Southern Expedition and take the lead in rushing to Nanjing. Then let Yelu Xizhen rush back to rescue the mountain. Then let Xiao Talin lead the Bohai army from Shangjing to rescue. Yelu Mo left the Tokyo sub-city Yelu Mo only led the army to continue. Linya Xiao Qinde led the army to Liaodong Peninsula to prevent the Song Dynasty navy from launching a large-scale attack on the sea. The southwest recruitment envoy Han Dewei temporarily ignored the coalition forces of the Wang and the two families, and first rescued Youzhou. Empress Dowager Xiao and the young emperor of the Liao Kingdom stationed troops in Tuolukou to unified command and deployment. Then, he gathered all the garrison troops in the Pishi Army and the Royal directly affiliated army, ready to support and participate in the war at any time.
The whole country responded.
But these hundreds of thousands of reinforcements from all walks of life are still in the distance, still gathering, still in the horizon...
Jing Si, who didn't know how to write the word "Fear", dared not lead 500 troops to rush towards more than 20,000 Liao troops.
Yelu Xiu Ge would not do this.
And the name of the tree and the shadow of the human being.
The great victory of Gaoliang River was like that, and Pan Mei also brought most of the Song army back to Zhuozhou.
Cui Yanjin let himself kill so badly and organized a counterattack calmly. But now, Pan Mei is only the commander of the Western Route Army, the second commander. Cui Yanjin directly became the deputy commander. In this way, isn't Cao Bin several times better than them?
However, he was Yelu Xiuge. Although he was hiding in Youzhou City, he did not act in vain and continued to send a large number of scouts to inquire.
Then I heard a message.
The Song army's logistics army was escorting a large amount of food and grass from Gu'an to Zhuozhou. Except for many civilians who escorted food and grass, there were not many troops protected.
"Talk again and report again." Yelu Xiu Ge shouted.
He thought Cao Bin had used some strategy.
But immediately thought about it and found that the opportunity was rare. He immediately summoned the army and sent a large number of scouts to continue inquiries. He personally led the army out of Youzhou City.
Maybe Cao Bin was careless, so if he missed this opportunity, he would regret it for life, and even lead to a complete change in the entire battle.
Chapter completed!