Chapter 75: When Hope is Damaged

This is the absolute truth! In this battle, 50,000 Liao troops were wiped out, from commander Yelu Ming to ordinary soldiers, no one escaped. This alone is a perfect victory.

Yelu Ming originally thought that he would take Xiongzhou City by attacking the city, but unexpectedly, the Congxin Army came from behind, and the Liao army became a trap. When he entered Xiongzhou City, he got into the cage and had no chance to escape.

If the Liao army did not enter the city regardless of the care, but was outside the city, no matter how many thunder bombs the Converted Army had, it would not be possible to wipe out the Liao army completely, and tens of thousands of Liao troops would flee.

"General Zhou, you have to report the victory to the official family quickly." Zheng Tai hurriedly reminded: "Xiongzhou attacked Liaogou into the city, and this news is unbearable for the official family. It is the right thing to let the official family know the news of Xiongzhou's recovery earlier."

The daily success is just a joy and joy. However, Xiongzhou is too important, and the success of Xiongzhou's victory is extremely important. This is related to the strategic deployment of the Song Dynasty. The sooner the Song Shenzong knows, the better.

"Yes! Yes! Yes!" Zhou Wei slapped his forehead and claimed: "I am so happy that I almost forgot such a big thing."

For Zhou Wei, this period of time was an extremely painful torment for him. The Liao army attacked the city and Xiongzhou was about to fall, which was his most painful moment. Now, Xiongzhou's recovery is another time for him to be the happiest moment. This pain, joy, seemed to be a difference between clouds and mud, and the difference was too big.

"It is the most important thing to send a letter to the surrounding cities and ask them to send troops to guard Xiongzhou." Wu Ji saw it very far-reachingly: "Although we won, we are also disabled. The Xiongzhou army can defeat less than 3,000 people, and our three thousand people are purely miscellaneous troops. More importantly, there are less than 1,000 thunderbolt bombs, and the Convert Army is equivalent to being destroyed. If the Liao Kingdom sends another army at this time, we will have to wait for death."

This is definitely the most important thing, and everyone couldn't help but claim: "It's still Commander Wu who can see it correctly! You have to do it quickly! You have to do it quickly!"

Zhou Wei didn't say anything nonsense and immediately sent someone to send letters to the surrounding cities, asking them to send troops to guard Xiongzhou immediately.

After the work was over, everyone saw the people who were plundering the spoils, got some firewood, raised the fire, sat together, and started to barbecue meat, simmer wine, and eat and drink.

In the past few days of reinforcement of Xiongzhou, Wu Ji has not eaten a bite of hot food, has not eaten a sip of hot water, nor has he simmered it on the fire. He was simmered next to the fire. The warm feeling made his pores comfortable, almost like in heaven.

The wine was simmered and the meat was simmered and hot. Everyone started to eat meat and drink, saying some interesting words, jokes, laughing constantly, laughing happily and extremely happy.

"Brother Wu, didn't you say there were 100,000 reinforcements? Where were the reinforcements?" Zhou Wei was drunk and was already a little drunk and started to joke.

"Bang! Bang! Bang!" Before Wu Ji could speak, Zheng Tai patted his chest and shouted: "General Zhou, if you convert to three thousand reinforcements, it is worth 300,000 troops. One person can support one hundred, it is not a problem."

Zheng Tai has always been close to the people, is low-key, rarely speaks big talk, and rarely brags. In front of him, he is yelling: "Three thousand converts the army, killing tens of thousands of Liao dogs, throwing their armor and defeating the army. What a great power! Not to mention, even if the court sends a 100,000 army, how much money and food will be spent? Our converts the army, with 3,000 people, can't ask for much money and food, and killing enemies is no less than a 100,000 army. General Zhou, what do you think is more cost-effective?"

He boasted so hard that his mouth flew everywhere. The more he spoke, the louder he heard, he spread from afar, causing a lot of echoes: "Of course it's a good deal for the Converted Army!"

"Ha ha!"

A burst of laughter sounded, and everyone ate meat and drank wine, and the bragging sound became louder.

I was so happy that I didn't rest until I was over.

When they woke up the next day, those who were overly excited cleaned up the spoils, and one by one, they came up with amazing digital newspapers. More than 37,000 war horses were seized, and the food was enough for 50,000 troops to use them for a month. The total gold and silver was over one million taels, more than 9,000 tents, scimitars, and armor were tens of thousands.

Listening to the digital newspapers one by one, Wu Ji and his friends' mouths became bigger and bigger, and they couldn't close them at all. Among these spoils, what made Wu Ji the most happy was that more than 37,000 war horses were seized, which was the first time in the history of the Song Dynasty that so many war horses were seized. The Song Dynasty was seriously short of horses and could not form cavalry. They were all war horses. If they were used to form cavalry, then the Song Dynasty had a cavalry of tens of thousands, which played a very important role in the Song Dynasty.

However, these things have little to do with him, and he can't control such things. One thing is clear, that is, there will be no problem with forming cavalry. He seized more than 3,000 war horses when he converted, and there is no problem with forming cavalry. If he couldn't speak, Zhou Wei generously gave him five thousand best war horses. Together, he had more than 8,000 war horses.

At present, Wu Ji doesn't need so many war horses, but Zhou Wei said it is certain that after this battle, Wu Ji will be promoted. He will be more troops, and these war horses will be used in the future. Zheng Taida agrees with this point and is also a guarantee that Wu Ji will be promoted this time and will be commanded by more troops.

Although the Song army became corruption and made great efforts, and it was no problem to seize and invade the merits, Zhou Wei was not such a person. He reported to Song Shenzong truthfully. Xiongzhou was able to lose and regain his achievements, and Wu Ji made great contributions, and it was a foregone conclusion that he was promoted.

Wu Ji took all these horses without hesitation.

The city of Xiongzhou has turned into ruins, and there are not many houses in the city. The tents are of great use. They are all handed over to the military and civilians. The tents are set up in the city. The military and civilians of Xiongzhou finally have a place to live. The remaining houses are left to the injured, sick, elderly and weak, and Zhou Wei, all of them live in the tents.

As for the seized gold and silver, Zhou Wei gave 300,000 taels to Wu Ji and asked Wu Ji to share them with the converted soldiers and civilians who came to reinforce. On this matter, Zhou Wei was very sorry. He said that it was not a problem to give all the million taels of gold and silver to the convertible army with the reward army because of the contribution made by the convertible army. However, Xiongzhou was broken and needed money in urgent need, so I asked Wu Ji to forgive me again.

Xiongzhou has almost been destroyed, and it is evenly in the snow and ice. If there is no money, it will be difficult to survive the winter. Wu Ji understood it very well. He distributed 300,000 taels of gold and silver to the Converted Army, each with one hundred taels, and Converted Army was all happy.

The reason for sharing equally is that this is a capture, an additional one, and it is a reward of 3,000 return to the military and civilians to provide reinforcements without hesitation. As for rewards according to the merits, they have to wait for the imperial court to reward them. I think Song Shenzong would not be stingy.

As for jerky, the Converted Army did not divide it apart from eating and drinking. Although Converted Army was seriously damaged, it would be much better than Xiongzhou. If there weren’t so much food and grass, the soldiers and civilians in Xiongzhou would be hungry now, so Wu Ji would not need to pick food from their mouths. Besides, the food and grass seized by the Converted Army would have been enough to be used for a long time.

For this point, Zhou Wei repeatedly thanked the military and civilians for their righteousness.

After a little settled down, he began to clean up the bodies and abandoned garbage in Xiongzhou City, and prepared to rebuild Xiongzhou. Xiongzhou must be rebuilt. Without this Xiongzhou City, it would be impossible to stop the Liao army's advance south. This is the top priority and the first priority. Although the return is also extremely necessary to be rebuilt, Wu Ji, Zheng Tai, Huangfu Song, Qi Dabao and others discussed and decided to stay and help.

There was no complaint about this point of Converting the military and civilians. They knew very well that if Xiongzhou could not be rebuilt, no matter how well it was built, it would be destroyed by war. Only when Xiongzhou was rebuilt, Converting can be preserved.

So, under the leadership of Wu Ji, the Converted Army entered the reconstruction of Xiongzhou.

Youzhou, the Marshal's Mansion.

Marshal Xiao Lu stood upright and looked at Yelu Hongji.

Behind him, there were many civil and military ministers standing, each with smiles on his face and endless joy, looking at Yelu Hongji with respectful eyes.

Yelu Hongji wore a high-quality fox fur and stood in front of the huge military map. His eyes were shining brightly in his tigers and he kept looking at it. This map is the map of the Central Plains, with all the geographical, mountains, cities, and roads of the Central Plains marked on it.

The ministers knew very well that Yelu Hongji was studying the map of the Central Plains, and that he was preparing to attack the Central Plains. The Liao army had already attacked Xiongzhou City, so it was a matter of time before Xiongzhou was taken down. As long as Xiongzhou was taken down, the road to block the Liao army from entering the Central Plains would be opened, and the Liao army could drive straight into the Central Plains.

"My dear friends, I have seen this map countless times! The late emperor has seen it countless times!" Yelu Hongji's eyes moved away from the map, turned around, looked at the ministers, his face with unique brilliance, his eyes were particularly bright and bright: "I, late emperor, have a dream, to enter the Central Plains and turn the Central Plains into the ranch of the Great Liao!"

"Haha!" The ministers burst into laughter, and this was the best answer.

"Since Taizu founded the country, the Great Liao Dynasty has wanted to enter the Central Plains. Since Emperor Taizong entered the Central Plains, proclaimed himself emperor in Bianjing, and established the Great Liao Dynasty, the Great Liao Dynasty has never entered the Central Plains again." Yelu Hongji continued: "It is not that the warriors of the Great Liao Dynasty do not need life, but because there is Xiongzhou blocking it. Xiongzhou was originally a part of the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun, and it was taken away by Chai Rong and became a natural barrier on the way to the Song Dynasty to move south. For more than a hundred years, the Great Liao Dynasty has wanted to regain the Waqiao Pass, but it has not succeeded. However, I have succeeded!"

"Long live the emperor!"

"Long live the emperor!"

The ministers were so excited that they waved their arms and shouted loudly. They were so excited that they looked at Yelu Hongji, just as if the believers had seen the gods.

Xiongzhou has always been the focus of the century-long war in the Song and Liao dynasties. For Xiongzhou, there were countless troops invested by the Song and Liao dynasties. The two countries died under the city of Xiongzhou, but there were not one million troops, and there were hundreds of thousands. This shows the intensity of the competition.

Although a branch of the Liao Kingdom suppressed the Song Dynasty, with the Chanyuan alliance and the Chongxi increase of coins, it was that it did not regain Xiongzhou, making it impossible for Liao Kingdom to dream of entering the Central Plains to realize.

However, this century-old dream has finally succeeded, who can not be excited?

"I order you to mobilize all the troops to enter the Central Plains! Capture Zhao Xu alive!" Yelu Hongji was full of energy and waved his hand south, with a majestic momentum, just like commanding thousands of troops.
Chapter completed!