Five Dynasties River Mountains Fengyue

Chapter 546 Dismemberment
Along the way north, Emperor Shi and Han Derang had a pleasant chat, and asked a lot of useful information, especially the intricate relationship and power structure of the Liao Kingdom's top leaders.

Only now did he know that Yelu Xiezhen was the grandson of Yelu Helu, that's why he was activated so quickly, and that's why Xiao Siwen was willing to take him in and treat him as a confidant.

Because Yelu Helu is a brother of the same clan trusted by Yelu Abaoji, he was entrusted with a big task, and after the founding of the country, he held a high position.

Along the way, Emperor Shi asked Han Derang many questions, and he knew all the answers. When the army arrived at King Xi's Yazhang on the eighth day of June, he was still too shocked to say a word. The Qin army took over, and Qin flags were everywhere in the settlement of the Xi clan. He was still too shocked to speak.

Li Jilong and Yang Jiye, who stayed in King Xi's tooth tent to rest over there, also came to meet the saint and explained the situation to him.

"Officials, the vanguard army has gone north. General Yang and I have been in the vanguard. The soldiers are exhausted and there are many casualties, so Xiang Shuai ordered me to stay and wait for the Chinese army." Li Jilong was a little excited when he saw him.

Seeing the busy Li Jilong and Yang Jiye, Emperor Shi was quite relieved, especially Li Jilong, who performed brilliantly in this battle, the key is that he is still young and has a bright future.

Emperor Shi has always had a hidden worry, that is, the top generals of the Qin army are gradually getting old, and if there are no successors, the situation after Emperor Gaozong of the Tang Dynasty will appear.

Fortunately, now I see that Li Jilong and others in the youth are very brave and good at fighting. Although Zhang Qixian lacks experience, he is also very brave. Yang Jiye, Hai Jin, Meng Xuanzhe and others in the middle-aged generation are all brave men who dare to fight, at least in the future. In 30 years, Qin will not lack military generals.

"You have done a good job. The breakthrough behind the mountain has established the situation. Guo Jin has already told me that this is the credit of you and Yang Jiye. I will remember it." Emperor Shi said, Li Jilong and Yang Jiye knelt down on one knee, Yang Jiye opened his mouth and said: "It is the duty of a courtier to serve the official family, and we will go through fire and water without hesitation."

Emperor Shi helped them up, and then asked them about the history of the battle behind the mountain, and how they got into King Xi's tooth tent.

Li Jilong said that under the leadership of the local guide, they went north from Yanzhou, then went all the way north, crossed the Daxianbei Mountains and turned east, and then went straight into Xi Wangya tent all the way.

During the period, the mountains were high and the road was far away, and it was indeed very difficult to walk. They walked for nearly a month before reaching their destination. Six soldiers accidentally fell off the cliff and died on the road. Only two of their bones were collected and buried. Can't get it back.

Fortunately, the emperor paid off. After going through all kinds of difficulties, the morale of the whole army was still high, and they successfully left the Daxianbei Mountains, and headed eastward to King Xi's Yazhang, just in time for the frontal battle in the Liao Kingdom to be tense, and they kept moving the people behind Go to the vicinity of Beikou to add. When they arrived, there were only a few thousand people, and they had more than 2 main troops.

The opponent was defeated on the first day of the confrontation, especially the false emperor of the Liao Kingdom, who escaped faster than anyone else. He ran away as soon as the fight started, and he never caught up after that.

Yang Jiye also described the process of his pursuit of the false emperor: "Officials, they are very cunning. It didn't take long for his personal guards to run around in a team of more than ten people. We were not familiar with the road to the north, and we didn't know where to go for a while. Chasing, it is not easy to divide the troops to chase, fearing an ambush, so I had to choose a few stocks to chase, but failed to catch up.

This is my business, please punish the officials. "

Emperor Shi laughed: "He is very dedicated to running away. It's not your fault. You've done a good job. As long as you wipe out the Liao army steadily, he won't be able to do much. What's more, what the Liao army is best at is guiding your troops to disperse and lure the enemy. Go deep and set up an ambush, you are right not to pursue."

This is largely due to their large number of horses and strong mobility. In the past, the Liao army often dispersed its troops to attack in small groups when it went south. It can be assumed that they are small in number and it is easy to be fooled by sending a similar number out to pursue them.

It's true that they are few in number, but no matter whether they are scattered or assembled, relying on the mobility of Ma Duoxing's support will give them the upper hand. Difficult.

If the same 1000-man troop is divided into teams of 200 and marches in different directions, the Liao army can use mobility to gather people in one direction to fight more and fight less, and then quickly move to the battlefield in the other direction. It is difficult for inferior troops to respond and assemble quickly.

So before the start of the fight, Emperor Shi explained that when fighting the Liao army, even if they retreated, they could not pursue too far, because if they pursued too deeply, their defeated troops might gather and launch a counterattack that was caught off guard.

No matter in Beikou or Xiwang Yazhang, everyone implemented this point very well.

After discussing some trivial matters with them, Emperor Shi ordered the whole army to be dispatched in three days, and the whole army went north to Beijing!

When Emperor Shi announced the matter outside the big tent, everyone cheered, and the soldiers were so excited that they wished they could leave immediately.

Shi Congyun didn't come on a whim either. Li Chuyun ahead had sent someone back to report that they had cleared all the obstacles along the way. There was no one on the long road north to Beijing, and Shengjia could go north safely.

And their army has advanced to a place less than fifty miles away from Shangjing. The Liao Kingdom was shocked, and temporarily recruited blocking troops were deployed on the river outside the city. However, their fate is probably the same as that outside Youzhou City, because the accompanying artillery has reached Ten battalions, except for the city wall built by Shangjing imitating Youzhou, there is no line of defense that can withstand the artillery attack.

After reading it, Emperor Shi already knew it, so he asked the civil servants around him to write for him, and wrote a very nasty letter reporting safety, and exaggerating the results of the victory. The letter was taken back to Zhao Shijian in Youzhou, saying that their army had surrounded Liao In the capital of the country, the day of breaking the city is just around the corner, and the day of capturing the false emperor alive is not far away.

He also said that the Qin Army's three-way army was interspersed with encirclement and defeated head-on. With all kinds of heavy blows, 50 Liao troops had been wiped out, and there were no more invincible soldiers in Liao. Announce good news to Empress Fu, Prime Minister Fan Zhi, and Privy Envoy Luqiu Zhongqing.

In short, he said it in a hype. This is a little trick he learned from Napoleon.

Through letters with relatives and friends to "inadvertently" reveal some exaggerated results, in order to achieve the purpose of publicity.

This is not only true and reliable, but also can greatly inspire the morale of the army and the people. Anyway, [-]% of the people in the country must rely on their imaginations for the battle situation in places thousands of miles away, and they have never been to or seen. The right to speak of public opinion is in the hands of Emperor Shi, and everyone does not know if they are bragging, and they all take it seriously.

In fact, even ordinary soldiers and mid-level and low-level officers who actually fought the war had no specific concept of casualties on the overall front, and only a few generals at the top had a clear idea.

Emperor Shi also knew it in his heart. If the death, capture, disappearance, injury and loss of combat effectiveness were added up, the loss of the Liao army on the front thousands of miles was close to 50, and [-] was definitely not there.

However, just like the fact that Emperor Shi used one against a hundred, few people know the truth about many things, but the facts were created by a few people. At least in Shu, everyone has believed that history in the Battle of Three Passes The emperor killed [-] Liao troops for a reason.

Three days later, the army set out with the emperor Luan, heading towards Beijing with momentum like a rainbow.

Before that, good news came from the east again. Outside Jinzhou City, Lin Renzhao led his army to defeat Gao Xun, the privy envoy of the Southern Court of the Liao Kingdom, killing more than a thousand enemies, and more than 6000 people surrendered. Gao Xun was captured. The Route Army was almost wiped out.

Yelumo, who stayed behind in Liaodong, only heard the news that the Qin army had reached Jinzhou and Gao Xun led the army to attack the city. Under the pressure of female straight men to harass the city, he gathered a team of soldiers and horses to go west to join Gao Xun to attack Lin Renzhao's army. .

Unexpectedly, before arriving in Jinzhou, he heard the news that the Liao army was defeated and Gao Xun was captured, so he immediately went back to his home and went to defend Liaoyang.

In the current situation, the territory of the Liao Kingdom has been clearly divided into four parts by the offensive of the Qin Army. The economic center south of Yanshan Mountain, north of Yanmen Pass, and east of Juyong Pass have all been occupied by the Qin Army.

On the other hand, the tribes in the Mobei Grassland to the west of the Daxianbei Mountains (Daxing'anling) were separated from the Liao Kingdom. The new emperor of the Liao Kingdom could not move at all. has been occupied.The Qin army in the Liaodong area in the east has not set foot, but they have completely cut off their connection with the central government in the west from the Jinzhou area. The hunting and hunting tribes raided and harassed them, so it was difficult for them to protect themselves.

At this point, Emperor Shi dared to go north to Beijing with more confidence. In the huge Liao Kingdom, the overlord of the north has been dismembered by his military, political and diplomatic offensives. The next step is how to eat
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