Chapter 30 Deputy Marshal
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At the right time of You, the Liao army pulled all the main forces of the infantry up, and the 60,000 troops launched a fierce attack on Tongchang City.
In order to reduce losses, Wanyan Zongwang pulled all the infantry in Zongfu's army up, and the troops guarding the city reached more than 15,000. At the same time, the Jin army's weapons and supplies were also delivered to the city one after another, and the defensive power was strengthened, making the fierce battle even more bloody.
The more Yelu Yuji fought, the more he felt something was wrong. When he was hesitating, Xiao Ta came here, and his words were shocking, "I suspect that there is no rebel in the city."
Xiao Ta was also a deployment and deputy marshal of the Khitan Palace. This man had been through a long battle and led his army to fight with the rushing man Mogus for several years. Later, he participated in the rebellion of the Han Li Hong and fought many battles with the Jurchens on the battlefield of the Northeast Road. Compared with Yu Shu's achievements, he was not bad.
Tab also said it was not a rebel, it was the Jin army. When I saw the cold hair standing up, I immediately broke out in a cold sweat. If there were Jin troops in the city and the rebels were waiting for troops in Xihe, then this battlefield was a trap, and the Liao army was now at the center of the trap. This was really incredible. Xiao Gan said that on the day of the Battle of Targas Mountain, the Jin army vowed to fight to the death with the rebels. After three days, the two armies actually shook hands and made peace and joined forces to attack Liao. This was incredible, but the things in this world only talked about interests. As a result of interests, enemies can become brothers.
"What are the credentials?"
"I'm sure there are Jin soldiers in the city." Xiao Ta said again. The old man is almost sixty years old, with gray hair and beard, but he is well maintained. He has not had too many wrinkles on his face, his eyes are bright, and there are naturally a calm and majestic spirit between his eyebrows. "Look, the Han people who fought with us in the afternoon, and now there are Bohai people again. Even if the rebels have foreign soldiers, there will not be so many Bohai people, right? Where did the rebels recruit Bohai people? The main force we used to attack the city was the guards of Zhongjing. They had fought with the Jin army and also fought with the rebels. When they retreated to rest and recuperate, I went to visit them. They said that the guards of the city were not the rebels, but the Jin army. Because they heard many people shouting in Jurchen words and conveying orders."
Yu Ji has been commanding behind him and has not personally contacted the siege soldiers, but Ta Bu has always loved soldiers like his sons. He is approachable and likes to communicate with his soldiers. He will never be wrong when he hears what he does.
Yu Ji began to believe Ta Buyi's judgment.
Tabu continued, "The Xihe floating bridge was fought by our locals. During the fierce battle, Xi Bing was pushed to the front by the rebels as a shield. We captured some of them and found that there was a purple scarf on their necks. I was curious and asked casually. Xi Bing said that it was ordered to wear before the war, and everyone had it. As for what it was, they didn't know."
Yu Jiran changed color suddenly. Although the army guarding the city was holding the rebel flag, there was no purple silk scarf on his neck, which was enough to show the problem.
Yu Ji didn't dare to fight again, so he had to change the formation immediately, even if he was wrong, it didn't matter. As long as he didn't fall into the trap, he wouldn't be wiped out.
It has been two or three hours since the attack was launched. If there were rebels in the city and there was a passage for retreat, then when the rebels in the direction of Targas Mountain retreated, the rebels would immediately abandon the city and leave. How could they defend the city so wildly at all costs? What is the significance of defending the city to the rebels at this moment? But if there were Jin troops in the city, defending the city to the death can be reasonably explained, and the rebels have been in constant operation on the east bank of the West River, and the two armies are obviously preparing to launch a fatal blow when the Liao army is exhausted.
After getting Yu Gui's affirmation, Ta Bu also pondered for a moment, then looked up at the mountains surrounding him that were buried in the darkness, and asked slowly: "Look, where does the enemy's fatal blow start?"
Since it was confirmed that the Jin army was in the city and the Liao army fell into a trap again, the only way to get out of the predicament is to find the enemy's vitals and give him a fatal blow.
Yu Ji thought about it and calculated the time with his fingers. After the rebels captured Tongchang City, it was necessary to retreat. When the Liao army arrived at Tongchang City, the retreating people and baggage were only twenty or thirty miles away from the city. In other words, the Jin army entered Tongchang City at about noon. In addition to the infantry guarding the city, he should also have a horse army. If he wanted to launch a fatal blow, it should be launched by the Jin people's horse army. According to custom, the horse army raided, generally killing the enemy's central army and destroying the enemy's command center. From noon to now, three or four hours, this horse army should have reached the raid position.
Yu Ji also looked up and looked around, and his eyes stopped at the West Mountain. If a cavalry rushed from the direction of the West Mountain and killed the flanks of the Liao army, and the rebels of the Xihe direction launched an attack from the other side, then the Liao army, who was sieging the city, would definitely be severely damaged and then defeated. Even if the entire army was not wiped out, it would be more than half of it. That result would be terrible.
I raised the whip and pointed to the west mountain.
Ta Bu also smiled slightly, "Let's change the formation. There are still 40,000 people in the rear army, and the King of Yan has a gunner army and a palace army. Our future army is the main force, and set up a flying dragon formation, and the gunner army is hidden in the formation, and the Jin people and horse army are surrounded and killed."
"There is another message to Yelu Aba, commanding the Bu, the enemy Lie and the Wugu horse army, immediately attacking the east bank of the Xihe River, entangling the rebel horse army, and not giving them a chance to attack."
"Order Yelu Chen Tunu to command Yanyun's militia to launch an attack from the direction of Xihe floating bridge, and fight south along the Xihe River. At all costs, attack with all your might, forcing the rebels to retreat, pressing them ten miles away, and keeping them away from the battlefield in Tongchangcheng."
Yu Ji hesitated for a long time and asked in a low voice: "Would you like to tell Yan about this matter first?"
Tabu also shook his head, "The King of Yan is the commander. He asked us to conquer Tongchang City and force the rebels to leave. That's enough. As for how to fight, that's our business."
Yu Jiwei could not decide. Tabu obviously didn't want to tell the King of Yan that he was the deputy marshal of the army and the front line commander, and he had the power to fight. If he won, the credit was the King of Yan. If he lost, the blame was also the King of Yan. If he lost, the blame was also the King of Yan. If he did such a big event, it would be too inappropriate not to tell the King of Yan. However, he told the King of Yan that with Yelu Chun's character, it was very likely to withdraw his troops.
Under this situation, no matter how you can't defeat the battle, even Yelu Chun, he could not bear the blame for losing again, so Tabu didn't want to tell the King of Yan that once the army retreated, it would definitely be defeated under the left and right attacks of the Jin army and the rebels. At this moment, there was only one to fight, and the Liao army had a great chance of winning.
Yu Ji knew why Ta found him personally. He must have told the monk Nu, the commander of the Later Army, that as long as the three of them work together, they will surely win this battle.
Yu Ji had no choice. He thought for a moment and said, "The King of Yan said, "Your Majesty wants to force the rebels away." Then he pointed to the direction of Xihe, "Does we invest too much troops in the Xihe battlefield?"
"The King of Yan means to keep that big insect, but we cannot raise a tiger as a disaster. We will take this opportunity to cause severe damage." Tabu also smiled, "Li Hu's strength is greatly damaged, coupled with the burden of hundreds of thousands of people, how long can he last? If he can't hold on, he will naturally surrender."
Yu Ji nodded and did not hesitate any longer. "I will keep the offensive and secretly withdraw the main force and cooperate with you to siege and kill the Jin army."
Tarting doesn't even stroking his beard and laughing, and then tilting his horse and leaving.
The Liao army suddenly launched an attack on the east bank of the West River.
The horse army took the lead in attacking and directly killed the middle section of the rebels' battle positions. The meaning was very obvious. They wanted to cut off the rebels' battle formations in half and divide them into pieces. Gao Baolong immediately commanded the Hulie First Army to meet them. He also blocked the Liao army on the west bank of the West River. The two sides fought in the valley within a radius of one mile.
The Liao army gradually increased its troops, and teams of knights rushed from Tongchangcheng and Zidutai.
Mao Jun, the head commander of the Tiger Lie Army, was overjoyed. He was worried about how to attract the Liao army and horse army to cooperate with the Jin army to launch a raid. Now, the Liao people came to their door by themselves.
The Mao army immediately ordered the Second Army to re-send reinforcements, ordering Mu Taoli to take the first and fourth two generals to face the horse army from the two flanks of the battlefield, and do their best to entangle the Liao army.
The Mao army was worried that the Liao army would be more and more, so they urgently sued the general general Li Hu, asking to mobilize the resentful horse army to be a backup.
Li Hu decided to call the resentful army.
After fighting with Changcheng for so long, the fierce battle lasted for more than three hours. No matter how tenacious Zong Wang was, he had to transfer Zongfu's army to use it, otherwise his losses would be too great. Sure enough, after dark, the scouts continued to reward, and Jin reinforcements appeared and continued to pour into the city.
Li Hu concluded that Zong Wang was no longer able to make a bad move behind his back. Li Hu was very happy when he thought of Zong Wang shooting himself in the foot. Zong Wang thought he could get a bargain, but the Liao people didn't listen to him and attacked Tongchang City, which made the Jin army go crazy and scarred. This city was too much of a loss.
Since Zong Wang took out all his belongings, Li Hu felt that there was no need to hide it anymore, so he should take out the resentful army.
After receiving Li Hu's order, Dong Xiaochou immediately assembled the Sixth Battalion's Horse Army, three thousand cavalry, led by Guo Yaoshi, and immediately rushed to help.
When Mao's army was happy, the Liao infantry launched another attack, and the attack method gave the rebels a great headache.
The rebel army set up a formation along the eastern bank of the Xihe River, spreading out one by one for twenty miles. The Liao army's attack method was very strange. It did not attack head-on, divide and surround, but started from the Xihe floating bridge and attacked from the flank.
If the rebel army had a long snake formation with a character, then the Xihe floating bridge was equivalent to a snake's head. The Liao army started from the snake's head and then fell down with a stick. The snake's head would naturally shrink. If another stick was hit, not only would the snake's head shrink again, but the snake's body would shrink back. The rebel army was in this embarrassing situation now.
This official office came from the Oludo system of the Liao Kingdom.
Oluduo, the name of the Liao Palace. From the Emperor Taizu of Liao, all the emperors and the empress dominance of the rulers all established Oluduo, with direct troops, civilian households and prefectures and counties, forming an independent military and economic unit. After the death of the emperor and the empress, they were inherited by the family.
"History of Liao" contains records of twelve Oludos of emperors of all dynasties and some queens and princes, and a royal palace equivalent to Oludos.
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