The journey to the heavens starts from the underground station

Chapter 141 Chenzhou is broken, soldiers arrive in Liaoyang (two chapters in one)

Just when Liu Jing's troops in Chenzhou surrendered, a war of annihilation also came to an end on the port side.

Last night, Wu Hongyi led [-] cavalrymen quietly out of the capital city of Chenzhou. They were armed with horses and hooves, and quietly lurked five miles outside the port camp.

Seeing the Song army burying pots and making food at five o'clock, and sending troops to the north at dawn, and the number of defenders in the camp dropped sharply, Wu Hongyi was secretly happy. He decided to cut off the Song army's retreat. Song Jun hurried back to the sea.

After feeding the war horses and tidying up the weapons, after everything was ready, Wu Hongyi led four thousand cavalry to charge towards the camp.

Then it's cold!
Li Yu had already used drones to discover this cavalry lurking around. After Yang Ponu led the army away, Li Yu immediately ordered the guards to use the tents to set up a plum blossom formation, and waited for Wu Hongyi to open the fence of the camp. , When Qiang rushed into the camp, it was not the panicked Song Jun who greeted him, but the muzzles of the soldiers.

It was too late for Wu Hongyi to realize that he had been fooled. The four thousand cavalry were divided and surrounded by soldiers arranged in small hollow formations, and then gathered and annihilated them.

In an instant, gunshots like popping beans resounded through the camp, human screams, and horses neighing together.

The hot weapon battle lasted for a short time. About half an hour later, the four thousand cavalrymen of the Liao army either lay silently on the ground, bleeding all over the ground, or knelt and surrendered, trembling.

In this campaign, [-] iron cavalry of the Liao army were eliminated, [-] were captured, more than [-] horses were captured, [-] rough horses were captured, and countless weapons and armor were captured. However, Li Yu's troops only suffered more than [-] casualties.

At the end of the battle, the soldiers were ordered to clean up the battlefield, and the dead horses were skinned and cut up for extra meals. Not long after, Yang Ponu sent people to escort back [-] people who surrendered to the Han army. Li Yu ordered the soldiers to expand the prisoner-of-war camp and take care of all the prisoners. Save it for later.The body of Wu Hongyi, who was shot and killed immediately during the ambush battle, was handed over to the general sent by Yang Ponu, and transported to Chenzhou.

At noon, when Yang Ponu's headquarters outside Chenzhou City was setting up camp, they received a notification from Li Yu in the rear and a carriage carrying Wu Hongyi's body.

Seeing this, Yang Ponu smiled slightly, took care of himself, and personally wrote an emotive persuasion letter, and sent envoys to send Wu Hongyi's body back to Chenzhou City and hand it over to the Liao Army along with Wu Hongyi's body.

Halle Zhuo hid in the tower, and the curses in his mouth never stopped. While cursing the eighteen generations of Liu Jing's ancestors, he ordered people to capture Liu Jing's family members in the city.Unexpectedly, the soldiers came to report in a hurry, and Liu Jing's mansion had long been empty, and his whereabouts were unknown.

Hearing this, Harlejo felt lonely for a while, carefully calculated the strength of his troops, and couldn't help sighing.

Seeing that the sun was rising to the top of the head, it was already noon. Although the Song army outside the city was still in line, they did not continue to attack the city. Most of the Song army had already retreated and began to set up camp and cut down trees. I understand that Song Jun is planning to build siege equipment.

But helplessly, I now have only [-] Bohai navy soldiers in my hands. As for the [-] township army, Halezhuo has no hope at all. They defend the city?I am afraid that he will abandon the city and flee in a moment.

In the same way, Halle Zhuo didn't count on the soldiers in the Weicheng Wubao around Chenzhou. It was already noon, and no reinforcements showed up. The quality of these soldiers, hehe, it's hard to say!

Fortunately, there are still [-] cavalry cruising outside, probably looking for an opportunity to deal a fatal blow to the Song army!

While he was thinking about it, suddenly his sergeant came to report that the Song army had sent an envoy and brought a carriage with Wu Hongyi's body still lying on the carriage. Besides, there was also a letter of persuasion.

Hallejo was shocked when he heard the words, and his fingers trembled uncontrollably.

Wu Hongyi was dead, so the cavalry who left the city last night must have been in danger!Four thousand cavalry!Was it wiped out by the Song army overnight?

"Letter, letter, give it to me." With trembling lips, Hallejo took the capitulation letter from the sergeant's hand, tore it open with trembling fingers, opened it for a second look, suddenly crumpled it into a ball, and threw it on the ground.

"Too much deceit!" Hallejo yelled angrily.

The content of the persuasion letter is very simple. It is nothing more than telling Harlezo that all his cavalry has been wiped out, and the surrounding townsmen dare not support him. He has only one lonely city left, and his morale has collapsed. Let him surrender as soon as possible. For the safety of the army and the people, don't resist to the end, otherwise the day the city is broken, it will be the time for its execution.

At this moment, Harlejo only heard a loud bang outside, followed by the panicked shouts of the guards.

"The Song army is attacking the city gate!" "Go to the corridor!"

"What's going on!" Harlejo was furious, picked up the scimitar, got out of the tower, hid behind the shield and looked out.

However, on the Song army's position outside the city, the weapon that made the explosion suddenly rang again, and amidst the smoke, countless black bullets slammed straight into the west gate.

This was Yang Ponu's whim after sending out the surrender letter, and ordered the artillery battalion to replace it with solid ammunition and smashed the city gate, hoping to put psychological pressure on the Liao army and force the Liao army to surrender.

In the first round of shelling, the iron-clad city gate, which was as thick as a board inch, was riddled with holes from solid projectiles; in the second shelling that followed, countless iron balls hit the gate, and the unknown The city gate that had been used for many years could no longer withstand it, the bolt broke, and after a burst of creaking, it went eastward, and half of the broken city gate fell to the ground with a slam, revealing the terrified soldiers behind the corridor.

"The city gate is broken!" "Quickly block the tunnel!" "The Song army is about to come in! Run!"

In the chaos, whoever yelled first, the soldiers in the corridor retreated hastily, and immediately collided with soldiers who were about to rush in to defend, or some weak people were thrown to the ground, and I don't know how many feet stepped on them. Make meat puree...

"Who dares to disturb the morale of our army!" Hallezhuo hurried down from the city with a scimitar in hand, swung the knife and killed several panicked soldiers, and shouted: "What are you panicking! The suspension bridge is still there! Song Dynasty The army did not cross the moat! There was no siege! Everyone stood still!"

The soldiers behind him also raised their swords to suppress the panicked soldiers.

But for a moment, the chaos was suppressed. Harlejo separated the crowd, squeezed into the corridor, looked at the Song Army's position across the moat through the half-collapsed city gate, and was silent for a long time. He sighed and said nothing. Turn around and leave.

Back at the tower, Hallejo wrote a secret letter, ordered his soldiers to go out of the city and send it to Liaoyang, and recruited the remaining generals in the city, and showed the renewed letter of persuasion to the generals to read, but none of the generals dared to act. Voice.

Halezhuo looked around, and smiled self-deprecatingly: "The Song army's weapons are powerful, but they broke through the city gate in a while, and sooner or later they broke into the city. Yelu Zhizhou has long been captured, Wu Hongyi's cavalry has been wiped out, Liu Jinggou The thieves led the army to surrender again, and the defense of the city was broken. As for the reinforcements? Hehe, the urgent envoy to Liaoyang is probably still on the way! Where did the reinforcements come from! Alas! This city cannot be defended!"

Biting his lips and remaining silent for a while, Hallezhuo saw that all the generals were silent, and no one dared to answer, and said in a painful voice: "For the sake of the lives of the soldiers and the people in the city, you all surrender!"

"I will judge you..." one of the generals asked hesitantly.

"Me? Ha ha!" Hallezhuo smiled silently, tears streaming from his eyes: "I am a Khitan, different from you and others. I have received the emperor's grace, how can I go to the palace like Liu Jing?" Be that traitor who has no king and no father!?"

As he said that, Harlejo drew out the scimitar across his neck, and shouted: "I am incompetent, I can't defend the city, so I have to repay Your Majesty with this body!" After speaking, the scimitar slid gently, together A line of blood appeared on Hallejo's neck.

After a while, all the generals looked at Halle Zhuo, who was sitting on the ground, clutching his throat and grinning his teeth. They were silent for a long time, and a general of the township army stabbed his colleagues around him, and whispered: "Speak, judge Did you misunderstand, thinking that you can die by cutting your throat?"

"To shut up!"

"Do you think we should help the judge?"

"Fart, Tong is dead, if the Song Army is defeated by His Majesty, will you bear the responsibility of surrendering?"

"That's right, what about us?"

The colleague rolled his eyes and ignored him.

Harlejo didn't use any strength with this knife, he barely cut his own throat, without hurting the artery at all, so he definitely couldn't die, but if he didn't keep it straight, he would become dumb.

In the silence, someone shouted, "Hurry up and call the doctor!" Someone else shouted: "There is an order in the judgment, Kaesong surrenders!"

Two quarters of an hour later, the suspension bridge outside the west gate of Chenzhou City was lowered. Hallezhuo's neck was wrapped in a white cloth, his limbs were tied to the carriage, and beside him were the household registers, land registers, and official seals of Chenzhou. , surrounded by the generals, slowly crossed the moat and went straight to the Song Army's position.

On April [-], the city of Chenzhou was broken. Li Yu ordered Su Shi to stay at the port and left two infantry battalions for him. He led two infantry battalions and one artillery battalion with [-] soldiers to escort weapons and ammunition to Chenzhou.

The whole army was corrected in Chenzhou for one day, and on the second day, a battalion of soldiers was left to stay in Chenzhou. Li Yu personally led an army of more than [-] to go north to directly attack Liaoyang.

On the narrow Dongliang River channel, a fleet is cautiously heading eastward upstream, and all the fishing boats and merchant ships along the way are fleeing.

This fleet is the naval squadron led by Di Yuan. Since entering the Liaohe River in the evening of two days, the fleet has not stopped day and night. Towards the east, the river became narrower and narrower, and the fleet was gradually stretched into a line formation.

It is now noon on the twenty-eighth day, after two days of difficult sailing, we finally arrived at the boundary of Liaoyang Prefecture. The river in front of us turns south, and according to what the Liao army captives on board as guides said, after crossing the corner of the Dongliang River, we head south. Sticking to the west bank of the river for more than twenty miles, is the Liaoyang Prefecture of Tokyo.

"Check the gunpowder and prepare for battle!"

Liaoyang Mansion, as one of the five capitals of the Great Liao Kingdom, is the largest city on Tokyo Road. The river flows into it and surrounds the whole city; its circumference is 24 miles, and the city wall is eight feet high. Not only is there a urn city, but also defensive buildings such as Luocheng, Arrow Tower, and enemy towers. The defensive facilities, their defense is far from being comparable to the small Chenzhou.

Of course, there is no unbreakable city in the world!But as Liao Emperor Yelu Hongji moved Nabo to Liaoyang Mansion, there were [-] palace tent relatives along with him.

The [-] pro-army, after deducting the empty pay, and removing the palace guards, bureaucrats, etc., at least [-] cavalry can be produced!
In the palace, the emperor of Daliao, Yelu Hongji, who was nearly sixty years old, came down early, and was hiding in the palace garden at this time, eating cakes made by the southern cook and enjoying the concubine's massage, feeling very comfortable.

Yelu Hongji has long passed the age of forging ahead. He has experienced several rebellions in his life, and he killed the prince by mistake because of suspicion. It made the people complain.

After admiring the concubine, Yelu Hongji raised his hand slightly, and one of the servants helped him up, waved his hand, and ordered the concubine to back down, Yelu Hongji lazily stretched his waist, took steps, and planned to go to the palace. Listen to a piece of Buddhist scriptures in the Buddhist hall.

At this moment, the privy envoy of the South Court, the inspectors in front of the hall, and the king of Lanling, Xiao Wuna, pushed aside the eunuch's obstruction, and rushed into the garden in a hurry.

Hearing the movement, Yelu Hongji frowned slightly, and was about to reprimand him, but seeing Xiao Wuna came, he waved his hand to make the eunuch retreat, sat down again, and asked: "Qing came to see me in the palace, what's the matter?"

For Xiao Wuna, Yelu Hongji still has a good impression of him, Xiao Wuna came from the imperial tent pro-army, had served as the Xuanhui envoy of the Northern Academy, and had a pure and good nature. 14 years ago, when Yelu Hongji was out hunting, Yelu Yixin asked the emperor's grandson Yelu Yanxi to stay so that he could take the opportunity to murder him.It was Xiao Wuna who reminded Yelu Hongji to pay attention to the safety of the emperor's grandson. Yelu Hongji came to his senses and brought the emperor's grandson Yelu Yanxi with him, avoiding an assassination.

"Your Majesty, there is an urgent report from Chenzhou that the Song army came across the sea, broke through the acropolis at the mouth of the Liaohe River, occupied the pier and landed!" Xiao Wuna hurriedly submitted an urgent report before he had time to plead guilty.

"Qing, don't be joking. How could the Song army come across the sea? The envoys of the Song Kingdom just left Tokyo. I heard that the Song Lord was young and the queen mother in power was seriously ill. At this time, why would he want to provoke me, Daliao? Even if he did, That's the trouble to find Lord Xia!" Yelu Hongji didn't change his face, he took the so-called urgent report slowly, and joked a few words: "In my opinion, it must be some kind of Korean thief or They are just pirates of Japanese slaves, and they are regarded as Song soldiers. This Yelu Debao likes to make a fuss, and I will issue an order to order... order..."

Watching and watching, Yelu Hongji suddenly stopped talking, and his expression gradually turned into frightened anger. After reading the detailed report, Yelu Hongji suddenly stood up and shouted angrily: "This is impossible! Could it be that Lord Song is crazy? No!"

"Your Majesty, I have sent scouts to Chenzhou to inquire about news." Xiao Wuna replied neither humble nor overbearing.

"Very good, I'll report to you as soon as we have any news." Yelu Hongji responded, and muttered to himself: "It's strange..."

At this moment, a eunuch came into the garden in panic, knelt down in front of Yelu Hongji, and reported tremblingly: "Your Majesty, Your Majesty, a large number of warships suddenly appeared on the Dongliang River. , Yes, it is the banner of Song State!"

(End of this chapter)