Five Dynasties River Mountains Fengyue

Chapter 349
At noon, when everyone dismounted, Shi Congyun endured his tiredness, ate a few rations of grain cakes, and drank some water while he was on his way.

But I don't care about it at this time, but I must not stop, once I stop, I will fall asleep, and the soldiers are also, only relying on a wave of thoughts for support, especially at this time, the more difficult it is to relax.

After walking forward for a while, finally a person from the north rushed over and excitedly said in front of him: "Officials, stop it! Stop it! The Khitan people were stopped by General Wang and General Liu in the north of Dai County!"

Shi Congyun was shocked immediately, "Catch me!"

Soon the news was passed down layer by layer, and the whole army cheered up and went northward.

In the afternoon, the army went north along the meandering river, and soon saw Daizhou County from a distance, but there were not many people around the county, but the smoke and dust in the north, and a large swath of dust could be seen from a distance. Soaring into the sky.

Daizhou is relatively flat on all sides, with a meandering river to the east, majestic mountains to the east, and large mountains to the west, but the plain in the middle is very vast.

When he walked along the river and crossed the road outside the city, he saw the situation in the north. In a small town outside the city, there were hundreds of households. Behind the houses and the large poplar forest at the entrance of the village, there was billowing dust. , you can see a large number of looming people and horses.

It is the Liao Army!

On the north side, there are rocks everywhere, and there is a forest to pass through, and on the hill behind the forest over there, Qin Jun's flags are everywhere from a distance!It was Wang Quanbin and Liu Qingchuan's roundabout interspersed troops!
No wonder the Liao army was trapped there, because the way back to the north was cut off.

On the rocky hills to the west and the outer periphery of the south, the Qin army coming from all directions is regrouping and converging on the outer periphery of the town.

Those guarding the hillside to the west couldn't see clearly five or six miles away, but they could only see the banners of Meng Xuanzhe, Dong Zunhui, and Li Hanchao.

Li Chuyun's flag can be seen in the east. He led mostly light cavalry and moved the fastest. He was the first to seize the river. Reject the horse, relying on the river water in the west to completely block the west passage.

The river is not deep and not wide, so people and horses can cross, but when they get into the water, they will slow down greatly. From a distance, there are many corpses of people and horses piled up on the bank, and there are bloodstains everywhere on the small shoal. The Khitans had already tried unsuccessfully to break out from the river to the east.

Daizhou is located under Yanmen Pass, one of the important towns in the north. There is a section of city wall several miles long in the north. The pass is not comparable to those grand passes, but now it is occupied by Wang Quanbin and Liu Qingchuan's interspersed troops. It is very difficult to fight down. It is a mountainous area. If the Liao army dismounts and breaks through the mountain, it will be even more courting death when facing the Qin army.

Even if you can break through, you can't run without a horse.

To the south is the main pursuit force of the Qin army, which is constantly coming.

In this way, it is not surprising that the Liao army, which is fighting a trapped beast, wanted to cross the small river to the east to break through, and it is quite rational.

To the south is Daizhou City with closed gates, which is the front of the town guarded by the Liao army.

At this time, the outside of the city was very lively, the Qin army gathered, the banners of the forwards Yang Jiye, Jing Si, and the Dangjin Office were particularly conspicuous. Across a small forest, Shi Congyun could clearly see the situation two miles away, and had a panoramic view of the situation.

The mighty Qin soldiers and horses gathered outside the town, and there were still soldiers and horses coming from all the roads in the south, like the confluence of hundreds of rivers, more and more, and the teams of soldiers and horses raised their tails of smoke and dust, and they were completely blocked. Live in the width of three or four miles from the front.

Shi Congyun looked around and saw that there were many people and horses around him, like stars and moons surrounding him, but everyone looked tired and crumbling.

Immediately ordered, "Don't worry about me, rest on the spot for three hours, and then all go to support Li Chuyun in the east, and listen to his orders. We must not let the people in the town go!"

Many soldiers obeyed the order, got off their horses and rode their horses to the east, out of the avenue without blocking the road, and fell asleep in the weed piles and yellow soil by the roadside.

At this time, Shi Congyun couldn't hold on to the chase after a day and a night and a sleepless day. He got off the road and found a piece of dry wood with the thickness of an arm to pillow on and fell asleep in the weeds.

Because he is the emperor, he can still have a wooden headrest. Others don't have this high-level treatment, and they just fall asleep on the spot.

More than a hundred imperial guards of the Son of Heaven did not sleep, so a group was assigned to sleep first, and the rest endured sleepiness and stabbed their thighs with the tip of a knife to stay awake and protect Emperor Shi.

Wait for an hour and wake up the other batch before going back to sleep.

Soon, people in the distance saw that the emperor had arrived, and sent people to report and ask for instructions. However, because the emperor was asleep, there was no instruction for the time being. All the troops still followed the previous deployment and besieged the Liao army in a small town outside the city. .

When he woke up in a daze, the moon was bright and the stars were sparse, and strange birds were singing.

Si Yang, who was in charge of the army's catering, immediately brought him Ren Tengteng's meals. The place where he slept was also surrounded by a curtain to block the wind, but the top was open.

"What time?" Shi Congyun rubbed his dry eyes and asked.

"It should be Maoshi, and it will be dawn in a while." The soldier next to him agreed.

Shi Congyun nodded, his stomach was growling with hunger, so he got up and ate something voraciously, grabbed two grain cakes and went out. It was still dark outside, and the surrounding weeds and short trees had been leveled. A large open space was made, and tables and chairs were placed. Not far away, the emperor's tent has been set up, waiting for him to live there.

Outside, inside and outside were guarded troops, surrounded several times, and the Tianzi Luan banners and peripheral flags were all erected in the open space beside the avenue.

In the distance, there are bright fires everywhere around the town, but the town is completely dark, only occasionally a little fire can be seen.

On the east side of the river, there is a fire pile every five or six steps, which illuminates the narrow river surface red. The flames seem to be burning, flowing, and jumping in the river water, sparkling and converging into a long dragon for miles.

During the day, the stumps, human corpses, and horse corpses are all hidden under the cover of night. Looking at it this way, the light and shadow flow around, and the streamers are scattered. It is like a wonderful and wonderful scene under the moon, which is quite bloody and romantic. .

The night wind floats and dances lightly, the thin clouds in the sky are shy and do not cover the moonlight, the mountains and rivers in the distance are sleeping quietly, and unknown birds sing and sing from time to time. Discomfort, the unspeakable emotions in my heart have been difficult to calm down for a long time.

"Officials, several generals are already waiting on the main road, do you want them to come over?" Shi Congyun waited for the soldiers around him to eat and drink before he spoke.

Shi Congyun scolded: "What the hell are you doing, tell me about this kind of thing in advance next time."

"The officials are still hungry, so let them wait." The soldiers disagreed.

Shi Congyun was upset, "They are generals in the court and the pillars of the country, do you know what you are talking about?"

The soldiers were so frightened that they said: "Forgive the officials, but the villain somehow said something wrong."

Shi Congyun asked him to get up, but he also remembered this soldier in his heart, and planned to transfer him out of the inner palace after he went back, so he couldn't stay.

After a while, Li Chuyun, Yang Jiye, Jing Si, and several Dangjin generals were led from the northeast avenue and passed through layers of siege.

After seeing them, Shi Congyun raised his hand: "Don't be too polite, just talk about the matter directly, how is the situation over there?"

"Officials, there are about five or six thousand Khitan soldiers trapped in the town.

In the middle of the night, they tried to cross the river to the east again, most of them were beaten back, and a hundred people rushed out, and then the soldiers were asked to find firewood and fish oil to light a fire every five steps by the river.

The Khitan charged twice more, but they were found before reaching the river and were beaten back. "Li Chuyun reported.

"Are there any breakthroughs in other places?"

Several people shook their heads, "They were just staring at the river."

"Officials, let a certain leader rush into the town tomorrow!" Dang Jin pleaded.

Shi Congyun shook his head, "No need, the Liao army has no way out if they are trapped inside, and they will jump over the wall if they are in a hurry. They never bring much food and grass in war, and they like to burn, kill and loot. This time, let them eat what they want."

"All the armies are stationed in place, dig more trenches, sink horse pits, and prevent horses from setting up deer camps. Surround them to death, especially in the east, and don't let them cross the river.

All the personal soldiers were temporarily assigned to Li Chuyun's dispatch, and went to the river to deploy defenses. "

"No!" Everyone agreed in unison.

Shi Congyun looked at Yang Jiye again, and praised alone: ​​"The Jincheng Army fought this battle beautifully, and the ambition of the three armies to fall into the battle is obvious to all. I am also very happy. This is worthy of your nickname Yang Wudi, and you can also be upright in the future." I'm going to see your brother.

I will remember this credit for you, and I will reward the Khitans when they are dealt with. "

Yang Jiye was so excited that he knelt down on one knee, "A certain generation of soldiers thanked the official family for their kindness!"

"The casualties are not small."

Yang Jiye's expression turned darker: "To die for the official family is a worthy death."

Shi Congyun nodded, "I love to listen, but the soldiers shouldn't die in vain, and they shouldn't die for no reason. Let the secretary in charge of your army count all the casualties. The Jincheng Army is newly formed, and many soldiers have not died yet." The Privy Council and the Ministry of War have been included in our military registration in the Qin State, so let’s send it directly to me now, and the compensation will be issued by the imperial court according to the forbidden army.

I also know what you most want. I will tell the whole army and the world about the achievements, bravery, and fearlessness of the Jincheng Army. "

What they want most is to hold their heads up and be human.

Yang Jianye's eyes were red, and he solemnly kowtowed three times: "Official, I am willing to die for the official!"

"Do it well, the soldiers of Hedong are my iron wall towards Qin."

At daybreak, the governor of Daizhou City heard that the emperor of Qin was coming, so frightened, he hurriedly brought all the civil and military officials in the city to worship, offered wine, meat and delicacies, and invited the emperor to come to the city to settle down.

Shi Congyun first admitted his surrender, but he did not appoint him as the governor of Daizhou. He only made him the co-prefect of Daizhou.

Then he refused to enter the city and only stayed outside the city. He had to keep abreast of the battlefield.

The civil and military people in Daizhou City were too frightened to breathe. In the north of Daizhou City, the situation of the Qin Army encircling the Liao Army was very clear from the top of the city. I remembered that Shi Congyun killed tens of thousands of Liao Army in the south of Youzhou two years ago. Everyone was trembling in their hearts.

In the past, they could only look up to the people of the Northern Han Dynasty, the humble Liao Kingdom, and the tyrannical Liao army galloping freely, now they fell in front of Shi Congyun again, and this time they were right under their noses, with a panoramic view of everything.

The Qin army's bravery, strict discipline, and well-trained skills made them terrified, restless all night, and did not dare to do anything against the holy will.

In the next few days, the forward troops of the Qin Army surrounded the small town, then dug deep ditches and set up deer villages to resist horses, with a width of dozens of steps. Inserted in shallow water, the entire length of the river is full of miles.

In the west, they directly followed the mountain situation and used local materials to build walls with mountain stones. They had no intention of entering the town and fighting the Liao army at all. They didn't have the style of chasing and attacking the Liao army before the slightest bit, and seemed to have completely given up on fighting the Liao army head-on. mean.

This time, the Liao army did not relax, but became anxious. They made six breakouts to the east of the river that day, trying to rush out, but they broke their halberds and sank into the sand before crossing the river.

In addition to the strong bows and crossbows on the other side, the Qin army placed more than 70 bed crossbows on the east bank besides the wooden stakes in the river, the Jumalu village on the beach, and the sinking horse pit. The crossbow can kill a horse with one shot, and the effect is terrifying.

After fighting from morning to afternoon, the corpses of the Liao army paved a road in the river, making the sharp wooden stakes in the river ineffective, and the Liao army was able to step on the corpses of their companions and rush to the east beach to fight with the Qin army.

The Qin army was not a vegetarian either. The crossbowmen put down their bows and crossbows, picked up the axes and spears at their feet, and immediately engaged the Liao army.

The two sides fought a bloody battle until dusk. The Liao army dropped hundreds of corpses, and then retreated to the west bank of the river.

As night fell, the peripheral Qin army repeated their old tricks and lit a large number of fires and torches. The whole town was as bright as day, and the Liao army was not given a chance to break out of the siege at night.

The Qin army had a lot of fish oil in reserve, and with sufficient troops, they could dispatch special personnel to the mountains on both sides to chop firewood for the army.

The Liao army was completely anxious, changing direction at night, and suddenly launched a breakout to the south. It must have been an unexpected reverse breakout, but it was soon waiting for the Qin army who had repaired layers of fortifications and easily defeated them. After dropping more than 100 corpses, they retreated.

In the middle of the night, they turned to the east again, still trying to break out of the siege, and almost all their troops were gathered, and there were people everywhere along the two-mile-long river bank.

Li Chuyun ordered fish oil jars to be placed on the East Bank Luzhai, and then a big fire was lit. In an instant, the night sky was lit up like day, and a long fire dragon ran across the north and south, burning blazingly by the river.

After the Liao army crossed with the howling arrows in the darkness, what stood in front of them was a few feet high flames, which hindered their progress for a while, and then the reserve team behind the Qin army quickly arrived, facing Jing Si and Zhe De Jian also led troops to reinforce from the south of the river, and surrounded the Liao army on the bank in just two quarters of an hour.

The Qin army had a superior force, and soon encircled them on three sides. They killed the Liao army, blood and blood flew all over them, and retreated to the east and west banks of the river in a panic.

After a stalemate like this until dawn, the trapped Liao army was unable to struggle.

In the afternoon of the same day, Wang Shenqi led more than [-] infantry troops from various armies including Control Crane, Shenhuo, and Hujie to arrive one after another, and the follow-up supply army also arrived in Daizhou.

Shi Congyun immediately called Wang Shenqi to issue military orders.

Then, under the banner of the Qin army, the overwhelming army spread all over the mountains and fields, and went north from various roads in the south to supplement the encirclement circle on all sides, thickening the encirclement of the Liao army several times.

In the afternoon, the Liao army also discovered their increase in troops and launched a final struggle, attacking from the east, south, and north at the same time.

Dayou didn't want to go out together, he only hoped to attack and create chaos at the same time, it would be tragic to go out one by one.

It's a pity that since Wang Shenqi's main Chinese army joined the encirclement, they had no way out. The Qin army surrounded by several times didn't give them any chance. Bow and crossbow arrows repel.

Faced with such a heavy siege, the Liao army was completely desperate
After dawn the next day, the Khitan sent envoys to the southern town, wrapped their arms in a hundred cloths, held a white flag, and loudly said in broken Chinese that they wanted to surrender and negotiate.

When soldiers came to bring the news, Shi Congyun directly ordered: "Shoot the arrow, I won't negotiate with bandits."

The army ahead faithfully carried out His Majesty's orders, and completely made the Liao army in the encirclement despair.
(End of this chapter)