Han Hai Tang Ergui

Chapter 509

Luoyang's defense, in terms of terrain, can indeed take on the words "easy to defend but difficult to attack".

The Wei Mountains, Xiong'er Mountains in the west, and Song Mountains in the east embrace Luoyang, forming the Luoyang Basin.

Luoshui, Yishui, and Jianshui were not only conducive to transporting troops and food, but also brought abundant water sources.

To the north is the natural danger of the Yellow River. Burning the pontoon bridge can stop the enemy.

Moreover, on this endless land of the Central Plains, Luoyang, surrounded by high mountains and surrounded by various waters, is like a natural fortress on a vast plain. This is also the reason why Luoyang has been the capital of several dynasties since ancient times.

But at the same time, the shortcomings of Luoyang City Defense are also obvious, that is, the Luoyang Basin is too small to be compared with the Guanzhong Plain and the Chengdu Plain.

This made Luoyang unable to withstand the long-term tug-of-war after being besieged on all sides.

Moreover, compared with the Guanzhong Plain, the top-level victory place, he still has a huge flaw, that is, there are too many places to defend.

As long as the Guanzhong Plain has won Bashu, what needs to be defended is basically the super natural dangers of Tongguan and Xiaoguan.

But what about Luoyang?There are as many as eight gates. Due to the insufficient strategic depth of the Luoyang Basin, as long as one of the eight gates cannot be defended, it will cause an extremely heavy blow to the overall defense.

So there is a reason why Luoyang City is called the capital of the prosperous age.

Its terrain, in fact, increases the country's fault tolerance rate. This kind of natural fortress extending in all directions is difficult to be defeated when the country has no end in sight.

Because of a little persistence, as soon as the army of King Qin from all over the place arrived, they would hold back again.

But when the country is in decline, the usefulness of Luoyang's natural insurance system is very limited.

Surround it casually, or as Cao Cao proposed in Romance of the Three Kingdoms, surround eight passes on all sides and beat hard, break one, and you will be finished.

This is the situation in Luoyang now. From the time when people laughed at Luoyang for Haoran Jingjing to bypass the green field, we can see how far Luoyang's defense system has declined.

Even Luoyang City has declined, and the surrounding eight passes are full of loopholes.

Ma Da, as the son of Yelu Abaoji and his mother's brother Yelu Lage, and the cousin of Yelu Deguang, has good military ability.

It should be good, because now is the rising period of the Liao Kingdom. From Yelu Abaoji to Yelu Deguang, the Khitan people have been fighting north and south, and they are generally winning battles.

As long as he is not a fool, after so many years of experience and experience, he will always have some ability, so Ma Da knows that Luoyang can't hold it.

He didn't intend to defend either, because he never thought that Zhang Zhao's Yongliang would become a threat to the Liao Kingdom!
Before that, Zhang Zhao's disguise was still very good, he looked like he was going to fight the Gaochang Uighurs, he kept conflicting with the Liao Kingdom on the issue of Kirgasi, and even more vigorously held a ceremony to elect the Great Khan.

In addition, Zhang Zhao always has a certain indelible Hulu color on him, which makes Liao Kingdom never regard Zhang Zhao's Yongliang as a country in the Central Plains like Mengshu and Wutang.

In the eyes of the Liao Kingdom, Yongliang was almost the same as themselves, a half-Hulu regime with a little connection with the Central Plains.

Yelu Deguang's goal for Zhang Zhao was actually to swallow the Central Plains, and then compete with Zhang Zhao for the grasslands, and finally achieve greatness.

That's why he tolerated Zhang Zhao for the time being, and went to subdue the Kirgasi people who had surrendered to Khitan.

How can the bitter cold of Beiting be compared to the Central Plains?After Daliao entered the Central Plains, wouldn't it be easy to use the whole world to attack Hexi Longyou, Anbeiting and Shuofang?
And there is another more important factor. Since Yelu Deguang went south, no one knows what the battle between Jin and Liao will be like?

Even after Yelu Deguang's defeat in Baituanwei Village in Yangcheng, he was shaken to a certain extent.

At this time, whoever said that he could know that the Jin army would be so strong and that the Jin country would perish so quickly would be considered nonsense.

But Zhang Zhao not only knew, but also started preparations before the war between Jin and Liao, and even before Shi Chonggui came to power.

He hoarded a large amount of grain and supplies in Qinzhou, Yuanzhou and Xiazhou.

Without these materials, Zhang Zhao's Yongliang army would not be able to get out of Tongguan at all.

It can be said that Zhang Zhao relied on the foresight of the traveler to push through the fog of time and space and plan ahead.

This also led to the fact that after Zhang Zhao took control of Guanzhong, the Liao Kingdom was still not vigilant, and even adopted a numb and forgetful attitude when there was no news from Guanzhong.

Because Yelu Deguang, Liu Zhiyuan, and Meng Chang all expected that even if Zhang Zhao occupied Guanzhong, he would at least settle down, raise food and grass, and would not send troops until July and August.

But now, Zhang Zhao spread the word to the world, and he really led the army from Guanzhong. Yelu Deguang's response, there was a big problem at once, so it seemed that he made mistakes everywhere, and it was so eye-catching.

He, the emperor of the Liao Dynasty, has such sharp eyes, let alone Ma Da.

Moreover, this bastard, Ma Da, is considered cruel even among the Khitan people, on par with Yelu Deguang's younger brother Yelu Lihu.

After he arrived in Luoyang, he only did one thing, that is to fight the grass valley.

Not only did he allow the generals to fight, but he also went into battle himself. Anyone who knew of any folks who had beautiful women and treasures would come and snatch them for himself.

Regardless of whether it is an official or a commoner in Luoyang, even Liu Jixun, the defense envoy of Zhengzhou who lives in Luoyang, cannot avoid his daughter-in-law and granddaughter being snatched away by Ma Da.

In addition to looting, Ma Da was also extremely cruel. In Luoyang, he invented the four punishments of covering the face, cutting off the eyes, cutting off the wrists, and burning the guilty people.

The so-called guilt refers to those who dared to resist when they were robbed by the Khitan soldiers, even if Ma Da thought the other party was not pleasing to the eye, they were also considered guilty.

He also often took out the severed limbs, liver and gallbladder of these people, embalmed them and decorated them on camp tents and even horses, so as to frighten the people of Luoyang.

Regarding the Heyang army stationed in Luoyang, Ma Da probably forgot how he was overthrown by Huangfu Yu and Li Shouzhen by the Yellow River. He actually thought that the Han army was useless, so it was better to deprive them of their food and clothing to the Liao army.

Under such high pressure, even if Zhang Zhao didn't come, the Heyang Army in Luoyang City would fight to the death.

But Ma Da felt that Zhang Zhao's army was coming soon, and received an urgent letter from Yelu Deguang, asking him to guard Luoyang, and sent Gao Song to help.

So, Shuang turned to Gastrodia and made an exception to call the military academies of the Heyang Army to his mansion to discuss the issue of defending Luoyang.

Ma Da's original intention was to think that although these Heyang troops are useless, they are still locals, and to see if there is any good way to defend the city.

But when this order was handed down to the upper and lower military academy of the Heyang Army, everyone felt the fear of imminent disaster.

According to the news inquired by Zhao Hongyin, Marquis of Yu, the capital of Ximen, the king of Yong had led his army down the south of the river. Ma Da feared that the Heyang army would join the king of Yong, so he wanted to kill the Heyang army to avoid future troubles.

All the generals who heard the news immediately believed it!Because this is too in line with the Khitan people, especially Ma Da's style.

Immediately afterwards, among the [-] to [-] people in Luoyang City, a frightening news also began to spread.

The Khitan people didn't have much food and grass, so Ma Da planned to kill all the people over 30 years old, leaving only those under 30 years old to be imprisoned.

Their meat is tender and plump, and they can be used as two-legged pigs and sheep. When there is no military ration, they can be made into dried meat.

Especially children under the age of ten are the favorite of the Khitan people.

At this moment, all the people in Luoyang began to panic. They wanted to escape from the city, but they found that there were Khitan cavalry outside the city.

It turned out that after Ma Da learned that Zhang Zhao might be coming, he also began to pretend to send people around to investigate, which happened to be thought by the people of Luoyang to block them all in the city.

In this way, Zhao Yanjin didn't know whether it was a rumor or not. After only one day of fermentation, the soldiers of the Heyang Army couldn't hold back. They joined forces in private, and people were panicked.

The reason why I don't know if it is a rumor is because Zhao Yanjin found out that after the rumor spread, Ma Da seemed to think that this was a good idea, and there was a tendency to follow it.

Jiamaying, Zhao family.

Mutiny is a very measured job. For example, if the rumors are allowed to continue, if the soldiers of the Heyang Army don't do it, the Khitan people should do it too.

So Zhao Yanjin and Zhao Kuangyin quickly seized the opportunity, and secretly connected military academies above the commander of the Heyang Army, the powerful Chenghu Sheshu in the city, and even monks from major temples in Luoyang, including Baima Temple.

Why don't you come? The temples in Luoyang also "voluntarily" offered Yelu Deguang 150,000 guan.snort!Is Buddha's money so easy to get?
In order not to attract the attention of the Khitan people, Li Jianchong and his son did not come at all, only Li Jianchong's eldest grandson followed.

The location was not chosen in Li Jianchong's mansion of soldiers and horse envoys, but in the mansion of Zhao's family in Jiamaying where there were so many people that Khitans couldn't get through.

When the Zhao family and the military academy of the Heyang Army saw that Li Jianchong hadn't come, they immediately backed down a bit.

Because although Li Jianchong's official position is not high, there is an advantage. This kind of boss is still very reliable. Although he can't get riches for the dental soldiers, he usually doesn't cheat them.

The prestige of Zhao Kuangyin's father, Zhao Hongyin, was still too low. Except for his confidants, he couldn't hold back the other Heyang Military Academy members at all.

Just when they were about to leave in a low voice, an old man with gray beard came out surrounded by two heroic generals.

The old man glared at the most noisy military academy, "Zhuzi, do you recognize me?"

The military academy looked back, carefully identified for a while, but was still not sure, walked in and observed carefully for a long while, and then suddenly knelt down on the ground and exclaimed.

"But the old benefactor is here? Aren't you always leading the comrades of the Feng National Army to guard Shanzhou? How did you get here?"

Both the Heyang Army and the Fengguo Army originally belonged to the Forbidden Army of the Later Tang Dynasty, so there are still some military academies in the Heyang Army who knew Zhao Hui.

Hearing that Zhao Hui was here, regardless of whether they knew him or not, all the military academies rushed over to pay respects, and everyone knelt down and cried as if they had found a backbone.

"Old benefactor help! Old benefactor help!"

These military academies are not stupid either. Zhao Hui's well-behaved soldiers of the Baoyi Army in Shanzhou don't serve as high-ranking officials. They come to Luoyang City and dress up as old farmers. They are definitely not here to visit relatives.

At this time, Li Jianchong's eldest grandson also came out from the back hall. Although he was only a teenager and would not be of much use, the meaning was obvious.

Li Jianchong knew about Zhao Hui's coming here, and was even an accomplice.

"Do you really want to live?" Zhao Hui asked coldly, this meeting must show the score, let them know that the opportunity is rare.

"The old benefactor was joking, if you can live, who doesn't want to live?"

After Zhao Hui heard this, a few smiles appeared on his face, "So you want to be rich?"

What about wealth?When the military academies heard this, they who had already stood up immediately knelt down again, kowtowing and shouting.

"Please guide the way, old benefactor!"

Only then did Zhao Hui take out a ochre-yellow cloth with characters written all over it from his bosom, and all the military academies were overjoyed when they saw it.

Because such a thing is only for the emperor, and no one has this on weekdays!

"This is an order issued by King Zhang of Dayong. King Yong's general Murong Baipao led [-] elite riders, and he has arrived at the sun of Mang Mountain, intending to destroy Khitan and save the world.

Order me in Luoyang, regardless of the officers, soldiers, officials and people, to quickly kill the Khitan soldiers and horses, and welcome the Dayong Heavenly Soldiers to enter the city. "

The Heyang Military Academy, the leader of the Chenghu Society, and the monks from all the monasteries cheered loudly when they heard the words. They all bowed their heads and shouted in unison: "I wish to kill the Khitan bandits and welcome King Yong into Luoyang."

(End of this chapter)