Chapter 18 The Birth of a Miracle
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On the fifth day of the 10th month, Xiao Gan received news from Juyongguan that Li Hu's reinforcements arrived, and Yelu Aguzhe asked Xiao Gan for reinforcements.
Xiao Gan had no troops to adjust. The heavy pressure brought by the frontal attack of the 200,000 troops of the Song Dynasty almost suffocated Yanjing. Although the two armies have not fought a decisive battle so far, the decisive battle is defeated. This feeling of waiting for death makes people very scary and painful. However, the news that Li Hu had added his troops to attack Juyongguan exacerbated this pain, and Xiao Gan felt that he was about to collapse.
He had thought of surrendering to the Jurchens and leading Jin soldiers to the south, but the Jurchens took advantage of the situation and flatly refused his conditions. The Jurchens clearly told him that being the King of Xi is OK, but being a vassal cannot be. If you want to surrender, you must be an obedient dog like Yelu Yushen, otherwise you will have no place to die.
Xiao Gan was unwilling to be an obedient dog. The Khitans were defeated, and the emperor fled to the desert. The Khitans still had a place to survive, but the Xi people lived in Zhongjing for generations, and Zhongjing was their home. Now Zhongjing was occupied by the Jurchens and their homes were gone. What should they do? Of course they wanted to regain their homes. Just when the Xi people were fighting bloody for this, the Song people came to kill, Li Hu and Han people also came to kill, and the Xi people were attacked from all sides and fell into a dilemma of defeat.
If you can’t even protect your survival, what can you protect your home?
Xiao Gan lay on the table and looked at the map. What appeared in front of him were burning houses, groups of crying and wailing Xi people, and Xi warriors who died in battle. What should I do? Where is the way for the Xi people to live? The Khitans in Yanjing can escape to the desert with the help of Li Hudi. The Han people in Yanjing can surrender to the Song Dynasty, but what about the Xi people? Did the Xi people be abandoned by heaven. They can only destroy the clan and the race, and can only be slaves to the Jurchens or the Song people?
Xiao Gan felt heartbroken, as if thousands of arrows were piercing his heart, and the pain made him feel sad and miserable. "Where is my way of living?" Xiao Gan punched the desk with a punch, and the pain roared.
The curtain was raised, and Xiao Yiba rushed in, "King, we have arrested two Song army scouts. Do you want to interrogate yourself?"
Xiao Gan shook his hand powerlessly, "Kill it."
Xiao Yiba turned around and left. After walking two steps, he stopped again, "Master, let's ask, maybe I can take out something from their mouths?"
What is the point? Xiao Gan smiled bitterly, and the things he asked were nothing more than adding fear. The Song people were very cunning. They stationed troops in Liangxiang but did not advance, and the army set up attacks in a mighty manner. This was even more terrifying than real attacks. The fear of the Liao army became increasingly greater as we waited, and the soldiers were panicked. If this continued, the Liao army would be crushed by huge fear. Without fighting, the soldiers were defeated. This was the highest level of military use that defeated them. The Song people were not terrible." Xiao Yiba shouted, "Although we only have 30,000 to 40,000 people, we are confident that we can defeat them and we can defend Yanjing."
Xiao Gan waved at him and signaled him to get out and stop making noise.
"If the king is really not good, we will join the Jurchens and let the Jurchens go south and let the Jurchens fight with the Song people." Xiao Yiba rushed to Xiao Gan a few steps and said angrily. "The Song people and the Jurchens fight. Li Hu must take advantage of the situation to rob. When Yanjing was so bloody that we were confused, our chance came."
"What do you know?" Xiao Gan sighed. "Song and Jin have always had an alliance. Li Hu's army forced Juyongguan to prevent the Jin army from going south to attack Yanjing. Even if we defect to the Jurchens, the Jurchens may not be willing to go south..."
Suddenly, a flash of inspiration flashed in his mind. He thought of a plan. "Hurry. Bring the scouts of the Song army here. (Computer reading w w w. .)"
One of the two Song army scouts was Zhu Kesong and the other was Zheng Jiafu. They were both subordinates of Zhao Xu. Zhao Xu was Dong Cai, the leader of the Yanjing rebel army. After he defected to the Song Dynasty, the emperor gave him the surname Zhao and named him Zhao Xu. Today, the two scouts were ordered to go to Yanjing to investigate the enemy situation. Although they were both Han people in Yanjing, their language and clothing were exactly the same as those of the local Han people, they were still accidentally exposed and were captured alive by the Liao army scouts.
The two of them knew they would die. They gritted their teeth and said nothing.
"I am the Prime Minister of the Northern Prefecture of the Great Liao Dynasty." Xiao Gan advised with kind words, "As long as you say everything you know, I can guarantee that you will be rich and rich in detail."
This is too old-fashioned. Zhu Kesong and Zheng Jiafu laughed, "Liao Gou, I have a kind of slashing my grandfather's head. Grandpa respects you as a man, and after becoming a ghost, I won't bother you."
Xiao Gan sneered and waved his hand hard. Xiao Yiba and several entourages rushed forward, fists and feet together, and in a blink of an eye they beat the two to death.
"Do you say it?" Xiao Yiba shouted angrily.
"Shiko, can grandpa surrender?" Zhu Kesong spit out the blood in his mouth and cursed disdainfully, "Come on, grandpa is still safe."
"I can't beat you to death." Xiao Yiba was furious and punched Zhu Kesong on the cheek. Zhu Kesong fell to the ground, spitting out a few teeth from his mouth, and cursed vaguely, "I'll pickle it up for you, come again..."
Xiao Yiba was so angry that he stepped forward and kicked. Zhu Kesong fainted immediately. Zheng Jiafu gritted his teeth and insisted, and gradually he was beaten to the point of dazedness.
At this moment, someone rushed in, "King, the Jurchens came to work and stood up, shouting at Xiao Yiba, "Drag them to the side tent first and block my mouth."
"Why is that thing done?" Xiao Yiba smiled and said, "Look at me..." He hit Zheng Jiafu in the neck. Zheng Jiafu cried in pain, then there was no sound.
Several entourage dragged two bloody prisoners into the tent.
Zheng Jiafu heard the footsteps of his entourage gradually fading away, and immediately opened his eyes, moved his body little by little, approaching the main tent, and listened carefully.
Several Jurchens came, and their status seemed to be very high. Xiao Gan spoke very respectfully, for fear of offending them.
Zheng Jiafu couldn't understand the words of the Jurchens. But Zheng Jiafu could understand the words of Khitans. The more he listened, the more frightened he became. It turned out that Xiao Gan had defected to the Jurchens, and the 100,000 Jin troops came down from Gubeikou and had arrived in Yanjing. Xiao Gan and the Jurchens agreed that at midnight tonight, both sides would raise fire as a call and attack the Song army camp at night.
Soon, the Jurchens bid farewell and left. Xiao Gan stood up and saw him off. The handsome tent quickly calmed down.
A bloody big hand suddenly grabbed Zheng Jiafu's head. Zheng Jiafu was so scared that he was about to resist when he heard Zhu Kesong's voice coming into his ears. "Can you still move?" Zheng Jiafu's soul came back, and he nodded, "I heard the secret military information and must repay it immediately."
"I heard it too," said Zhukesong. "Go away immediately, just go back alive."
The two were about to escape, and several entourages from Xiao Gandi walked in again. One of them asked, "Are you going to kill here?" "This is a handsome tent. If the smell of blood is too strong, the king will curse people, so he should drag it outside the camp to kill and feed the dogs."
Zhu Kesong and Zheng Jiafu dared not move. They allowed the Liao soldiers to drag them outside the camp. It was already dark at this time, and several Liao soldiers threw them to the edge of the woods. Just as they were about to chop their heads, they heard the melodious sound of horns coming from the camp.
"Gathered. Go quickly, go quickly." The Liao soldiers ran away. The remaining two Liao soldiers did not move. They had not cut off the captive's heads.
Zhu Kesong and Zheng Jiafu suddenly launched. The two Liao soldiers were caught off guard and were knocked over to the ground. Zhu Kesong and Zheng Jiafu took this opportunity to spread their legs and ran into the woods without a life. The Liao soldiers chased after him, shot a few arrows, and then gave up. They entered the pass? One hundred thousand Jin troops? In addition, the Liao army had more than one hundred thousand people, and most of them were horse soldiers, and the Song army was unable to resist. The Jin army was even more powerful than the Liao army. A few months ago, Li Hu formed a major alliance in Xijing, and gathered hundreds of thousands of troops from the Song and Liaoxia to barely fight with the Jin army. With the current strength of the Song army, he is no match for the Jin and Liao coalition.
If this news is true, the Song army would retreat overnight, but is this news true? Liu Yanqing stared at Zhu Kesong and Zheng Jiafu for a long time, but he still believed it. The two of them were covered in wounds and were beaten to a terrible surprise by the Liao army, especially Zheng Jiafu, who was shot three arrows by the Liao army during the escape. Now the long arrow is still stuck in the back mountain and has not had time to help him take it down.
"Retreat." Liu Yanqing flatly ordered, "retreat to Zhuozhou to defend." Zhuozhou still has 50,000 troops, and the Song army relied on a solid city to block the attack of the Liao and Jin coalition forces.
"I urgently reported to the Xuanfu Department, Yanjing surrendered to the Jin Kingdom, and 100,000 Jin troops went south to occupy Yanjing, and are now launching an attack on our army." Liu Yanqing said anxiously, "Please ask the Grand Tutor to urge the Han King Li Hu to conquer Juyongguan at any cost and cooperate with our army to attack Yanjing."
"I urgently report to the commanders Yang Keshi, Wang, Zhong Shizhong, Xin Xingzong, and Liu Guangshi to gather all the troops immediately and must evacuate Liangxiang before midnight."
In order to prevent the army from causing chaos during its retreat, Liu Yanqing specifically instructed the army to not leak news of the Liao and Jin coalition forces' raid tonight to his subordinates.
The commanders of each army knew very well that with the strength of the Song army, they could not withstand the attack of more than 100,000 Liao and Jin coalition forces. What is particularly serious is that there is only more than an hour left before the attack of the Liao and Jin coalition forces. However, Liangxiang is about a hundred miles away from Zhuozhou. If the speed is not fast enough, it will definitely be swallowed up by the huge cavalry of the Liao and Jin coalition forces. If you are not careful, you will be the fate of annihilation of the entire army. Therefore, the five commanders told their subordinates at the first time to discard the baggage, discard all the things that may delay the speed, and retreat at full speed.
The Song army camp suddenly became boiling, people shouted and neighed, and soldiers of each army rushed out of the camp tent and ran wildly in the dark.
Why should we retreat? Why should we retreat so desperately? The soldiers are all smart people, and you can tell at a glance that the enemy is coming, and the scale of the enemy must be very large.
"The Liao army is coming, run away..." Someone roared in the darkness. This voice quickly spread throughout the darkness. In a short period of time, more than 100,000 soldiers of the army knew that the Liao army was coming, so fear rushed into the hearts of the soldiers with the night and shrill whistling sounds.
Some people collapsed, and then more people were destroyed by fear. The officers and soldiers of Jingxiang, Jianghuai, Shandong, and Jiangnan who had never fought wars were knocked down by the huge fear of death. The orderly retreat immediately turned into a chaotic retreat. The chaos quickly evolved into an escape. The crowd of people who fled became larger and larger. Soon, more than 100,000 troops collapsed, and the crowds of people who fled formed a torrent in the dark night, and wherever they passed, they were in a mess.
Liu Yanqing and the officers and soldiers of the Commander-in-Capital were swallowed by the torrent.
Yang Keshi and several commanders were swept away by the torrent.
Guo Yaoshi and Gao Feng's army are like a few waves, and are swept away by the torrent in a blink of an eye.
The Zong army led five thousand northwest elite cavalry to stay at the end. They saw the light of fire soaring into the sky and heard the thrilling horns and the rumbling drums. Soon, the rumbling horse hooves came from far away, and the earth shook, and the enemy's attack began.
Chapter completed!