Han Shizu

Chapter 1322 A Desperate Future

"Immediately report this good news to the whole army, the whole city, and report to Xian'an Rong Han Zhuzhou! Attach another letter, send someone to catch up with Xiao Siwen quickly, and let him deliver the good news to the emperor!"

"Can't catch up? If you catch up to Shangjing, if you catch up with the tent of the imperial palace, then report directly to His Majesty!"

Yelu Xiezhen lost his composure rarely, and finally calmed down the ups and downs in his heart, and said: "See? We are far from the end of the day! The Huanglong Mansion is pacified, and the rest of the rebellion can be done in the same way!

With Huanglong Mansion, we still have room to retreat, and we still have the opportunity to continue to deal with the Han army.Tokyo Road is still our blessed land. Every step forward, the Han army will have an extra burden. Every time we take a step back, we will accumulate a chance of winning. If we drag it down until winter, the severe cold, wind, ice and snow will be the greatest enemy of the Han army. Our greatest helper.

Even if there are millions of people, it is difficult to defeat the mighty power of heaven and earth. As long as the Han army dares to continue to go north, then they will surely be destroyed here like the Sui army's eastward expedition more than 400 years ago. The corpses of the Han army will become our land of Daliao The best nourishment."

As Yelu Xiezhen said, he couldn't help waving his hands, and his mood was even more energetic. Unfortunately, only Xiao Talin, Baoxin's subordinates and a few guards accepted his speech at this time.

Yelu Xiezhen has said similar words countless times before, but the development of the current situation is completely different from what he described.They are retreating, giving up, and failing, but the Han army is still calm and calm, and the pressure they bring is still suffocating.

The thoughts of other people are unknown, but Yelu Xiezhen asked himself, how credible are these words?
But, no matter what, Yeluxiu's victory in Huanglong Mansion is good news. The past experience is already the worst, and maybe the situation will be worse in the future, at least it is small news for now , is worthy of publicity, to boost the confidence of the soldiers of the Liao army, and to ease some tense contradictions
"Another order to reward! Send the envoy to tell Sunning that I will support him with whatever request and plan he has! Tell him that I am deploying defenses in Tongzhou to resist the Han army and buy him time. I will fight against the rebellion in the rear. Entrust him with full power, make decisions on the fly, and let him do it himself!" Yelu Xiezhen continued to order.

Although a little surprised by Yelu Xiezhen's almost unreserved trust in Brother Yeluxiu, the staff quickly recorded it and said yes to the order.

Even though Brother Yeluxiu was young and received a lot of criticism for his previous failures, anyone who really knew him knew this military hero of the royal family.Even regardless of past performance, among the several armies sent by Yelu Xiezhen to suppress the rebellion, only Brother Yeluxiu achieved results.

Brother Yeluxiu's battle report also mentioned that after recovering the lower cities of the Huanglong Mansion, they will continue to pursue and fight fiercely against the Jurchen tribes that participated in the rebellion.The primary goal is to eliminate the Jurchens in the territory, especially the Jurchens in the Huanglong Mansion.

After clearing the south of the Second Hutong River, they then marched northward to wipe out the Wanyan tribe, cut off the Songmo Governor's banner they had erected, and attacked the ambitions of the surrounding tribes.

For the Dalugu tribe, we still focus on appeasement. If it goes well, we can completely solve the threat of the two tribes and lure the remaining small tribes. Can be completely calmed down.

On this basis, go north to fight against the Shiwei rebels dominated by Tulu Bushiwei, and at the same time organize the counter-insurgency troops in the old Bohai Sea with the officers and soldiers who stick to it, and completely put down the Northeast Rebellion.
Brother Yeluxiu's plan, after the victory in the battle of Huanglong Mansion, was already possible.But there is only one problem, and that is the lack of time for realization, ranging from three to two months to a year and a half, and time is also what they lack
Of course Yelu Xiezhen could also see this, that's why he said that he was defending against the enemy in Tongzhou and let Yeluxiu put down the rebellion later.

Although, no matter Yeluxiu's anti-insurgency plan or Yelu Xiezhen's enemy defense plan, the possibility of realization is not so high, but like a drowning person, as long as he can catch his breath, he will struggle more few times.

As the highest military and political officer of the Liao Kingdom in the Northeast, Yelu Xiezhen's understanding and judgment of the situation is of course very profound.Therefore, after the rare enthusiasm has passed, the pressure and powerlessness are forced from all directions again.

In the final analysis, without the support of external forces, the final outcome of the Liao army in the Northeast is doomed to be hopeless. The remaining military strength of Tokyo Road alone cannot maintain the current deteriorating situation.However, what should be done must still be done, and what should be expressed should not be ambiguous.

And where does the external force that can break the game come from?

As night falls, the autumn is colder and cooler, and the lights in the room are a little colder. Yelu Xiezhen stands in front of the slightly rough map, looking at the map of the situation of the Han and Liao sides above, under the silent and serious face, his brain is crazy Turn around and think about the strategy to save the peril.

So far, he has barely built a Tongzhou defense line with Tongyuan City as the core and Liuhe City as the supplement. The two cities are both within Jiahe and serve as horns of each other.

As for the two cities of Guihua and Xianping in the south, they are too prominent to defend, and they don't have enough troops to spread out. As long as the Han army goes northward on a large scale, they will give up and burn the city.

However, the previous arrangement was to prepare for coexistence and death with the city, leaving no way out.The two cities of Tongyuan and Liuhe, although they are connected by the river, the two water veins in the north and the south limit the space for the Han army to deploy troops, and at the same time cut off the possibility of retreating. Once surrounded, if there is no accident, it is really only the same city. The result of life and death.

However, the situation has changed again now, and the rebellion in Huanglong Mansion has been put down, which also means that there is still the possibility of continuing to retreat.Looking at the northward retreat, it will be another three hundred miles, three hundred miles of primitive traffic, supplemented by the inevitable bad weather, the pressure it will bring to the Han army can be imagined.

Thinking of this, it seems that the defense strategy on the Tongzhou side can be adjusted appropriately again, leaving enough room for retreat, and it must not be besieged.

However, Huanglong Mansion has not completely settled down, and it is not yet determined how long it will take to settle down.And he needs to hold back the Han army and buy enough time for Brother Yeluxiu. The dilemma is, how to grasp the balance between the two?

Perhaps, we can only expect that the Han army can rest for a longer period of time. I heard that they were carrying out the Zheng Jun Anmin in Liaodong, intending to appease the people in Liaodong. What a turmoil.

However, more than a month has passed, no matter how you count, the Han army has almost rested, and it is impossible to delay any longer, and there is still a late autumn that can be used.

At the same time, even if the Han army came to attack from the north, he could escape smoothly and retreat to Huanglong Mansion. There is still a problem.What if the Han army seeks stability after capturing Tongzhou, instead of going north, but simply continues to rest and consolidate on the spot, and drag it through this winter?

If that's the case, the so-called luring the enemy to go deep will become a joke again. The Han army can definitely do it, and with its strong national strength, it can also support it.But for our own side, it is very difficult to survive this winter.

But to win the victory against the Han army, the ice and snow needs to be used, the Han army needs to go deep, the front line is stretched, and there needs to be enough strength, and the rear needs to be able to calm down.
There are too many conditions required, not only the help of objective factors, but also the cooperation of the Han army's mistakes, which is not so easy.And the more he thought about it, the more Yelu Xiezhen felt headaches and irritability, like walking in a maze extending in all directions, but every road is a dead end.

"My lord, there is a message from our secret work in the south!" The guard officer quickly stepped inside and reported.

"What's new?"

"The Southern Dynasty seems to be in conflict with Goryeo. The Han army is moving troops to the southeast of Liaodong. Goryeo's tens of thousands of troops have crossed the Yalu River and are coming to Yuancheng!" the officer reported.

"Oh!" Upon hearing the report, Yelu Xiezhen's eyes suddenly flashed a brilliant light: "The news is true?"

"It should be true!" The officer of the guard said: "It is reported that the Koryo army has been stationed in the Yalu River for a long time, and has the intention of advancing into Liaodong!"

"Gaoli! Hehe!" Yelu Xiezhen smiled twice: "The generation of snakes and rats at both ends! If you don't act early, at this time, you dare to offend the Han Dynasty and start a war instead of tearing up your face?"

"If this is the case, Hanli will fight, and the Han army will fight from the north and the south, which will help me a little bit!" After thinking for a while, Yelu Xiezhen murmured again: "However, it is still not enough."

"Your Majesty, Xianping is here to report that Ma Renyu's army in Yinzhou is heading north." Not long after, another military report came.

(End of this chapter)