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Chapter 143 Yelu Hongji's Ambition

"The whole army is on alert!"

After Lu Qiusuo yelled, he muttered, "The navy has taken over the job, and the army has nothing to do with it."

After several rounds of shelling, the Khitan cavalry suffered heavy casualties, causing them to collapse completely. They no longer cared about attacking the Song army and fled in all directions.After Lu Qiusuo waited for the Liao army to flee far away, he separated a group of soldiers and horses, cleaned the battlefield, collected the corpses of the Liao army, and transported the dead or wounded horses back to the camp for additional meals. Seriously injured also give a happy.

Lu Qiusuo did not order to pursue. After all, the Liao army is cavalry, and the horses can run faster than humans. It is impossible to catch up with them. More importantly, this place is located outside Liaoyang City. There are a large number of Liao troops in the city. , I am afraid that it will be divided and transformed by the Liao army, which will damage the strength of the troops.

After Di Yuan commanded the warship to blow up the Khitan cavalry, he still felt that it was not enough, so he simply commanded the warship to move forward, and bombarded the city head in the northeast corner of Liaoyang City again. Birds and beasts scattered.

Over there, after the collapsed Khitan cavalry escaped from the battlefield, they slowly calmed down the frightened horses. The general gathered the rout and counted the number, and there were less than 4000 people left. That is to say, in the explosion just now, thousands of people Many Khitan warriors were killed or wounded and remained on the battlefield.

"Damn it!" Khitan General Lingluan scolded fiercely with horror, but he never dared to reorganize the attack, led his troops and fled back to Liaoyang City in a hurry.

"Go back to the palace!" On the tower of the east gate of Liaoyang City, Liao Emperor Yelu Hongji, who witnessed the defeat of five thousand cavalry in an instant, was silent for a long time, his lips moved, and he wanted to say something but in the end he didn't. With a gloomy face, he turned around and left, and the officials of the North Privy Council hurriedly followed behind him.

Blessings are unparalleled, and misfortunes never come singly. As soon as Yelu Hongji returned to the palace, he received two more news that made him frightened and angry.

Chenzhou Tongdeng Kaicheng surrendered, and the city of Chenzhou was broken; more than [-] Song troops set out from Chenzhou. At this time, they were already a hundred miles away from Liaoyang and were speeding up their march. It is expected that they will arrive in Liaoyang tomorrow evening or the morning of the next day.

"Too much deceit!" Yelu Hongji gritted his teeth and tore up the battle report, throwing it on the ground.

"Your Majesty, calm down." All the ministers pleaded guilty in "fear".

"Calm down, I'm going to be angry...Yelu Nerugu, are the palace tent troops ready to go out?"

"Your Majesty, the palace tent troops are ready to go out and can be mobilized at any time." Yelu Nerugu stood up and replied.

"Okay! If that's the case, go out of the city immediately and wipe out the Song army on the east bank of the Dongliang River, and then move south to wipe out the Song army from Chenzhou! I want to conquer by myself!" Yelu Hongji slapped the armrest and stood up, shouting.

"Your Majesty, no!" Yelu Nelugu hurriedly stopped him: "There is a saying in the south that the son of a daughter cannot sit still. Your Majesty has already passed the age of hearing, and rashly leads the army to go out. This, eating and sleeping in the open, may be unpredictable! From what I have seen, His Majesty still sits firmly on the bowl and dispatched the three armies to come."

Of course, Yelu Nerugu refused to let the emperor conscript himself. His father and son wanted to rebel, and finally collected most of the military power. What if the emperor took back the military power in the name of personal conquest?After all, Yelu Hongji is orthodox!

"Your Majesty, according to my minister's opinion, the Song army in the east of the river may not be so easy to fight." The loyal and pure Southern Privy Council envoy Xiao Wuna stood up worriedly and said: "Your Majesty also saw the warships of the Song army on the Dongliang River. I don't know what kind of powerful weapon was used. I guess it may be a trebuchet with a long range, throwing gunpowder out? It can actually create an explosion in our army's charge formation at a distance of more than two miles. It is quite powerful! Stationed on the shore, completely under the cover of warships. Your Majesty, this warhorse cannot withstand so many explosions! My Daliao palace guards are all cavalry, this..."

"This doesn't work, that doesn't work, so what do you say! Could it be possible for me to abandon the city and flee?" Yelu Hongji irritatedly grabbed the teacup on the table and threw it on the ground.

Xiao Wuna smiled confidently: "Your Majesty, please calm down. From what I have seen, the warships of the Song Army on the Dongliang River are nothing to worry about. Although they are powerful, they can only be in the water and cannot go ashore. Even if they attack the city, the damage will only be in the northeast. It's just the corner of the city. If he dares to approach the city, the catapults and crossbow carts on the top of the city are not vegetarian, so he can fight back. Your Majesty can sit firmly in the Tokyo mansion and order the Yanyun frontier army to be on guard against the Song army, and Recruit the defenders from Linhuang Mansion, Dading Mansion and other places to Liaoyang Mansion Qinwang, and you can also send a brave general to lead the [-] palace tents to go south to defeat the Song army who is on their way to Liaoyang."

After a pause, Xiao Wuna continued to add: "However, my suggestion is to hold back and let the Song Army go to Liaoyang Mansion. Since the Song Army's warships have new weapons, I am worried that the Song Army's infantry may also be able to use them. What kind of strange things, our army is not prepared, there will be losses. If you don't defend the city, you can find out the details of the Song army, and then send troops to wipe it out in one fell swoop."

"What's more, the Song army has limited strength, and it's an expedition with labor force. Our army waits for work with ease. The longer the time is delayed, the more unfavorable it will be for the Song army."

"Xiao Qing is old enough to seek the country, no matter what, then follow Xiao Qing's advice." After all, he is getting old, not as impulsive as young people, and regardless of his passion, Yelu Hongji listened to Xiao Wuna's suggestion , I sat down and thought about it for a while, and felt more and more reasonable. Although my plan to take the opportunity to seize military power failed, it was beneficial to the country to deal with it this way, and there seemed to be another way to seize military power?
Yelu Hongji rolled his eyes, and agreed to Xiao Wuna's proposal: "Order the palace tents to guard the city, order the frontier troops along Xijing Road and Nanjing Road to guard against the Song army's sneak attack; and then order Shangjing, Zhongjing, Tokyo All the prefectures, counties, armies, tribal armies, and township armies of the three provinces came to Tokyo Prefecture Qinwang, and told the military states of the states and counties of Tokyo Province to recruit more Jurchens and Shiwei people! The military states of the states and counties along the way dispatched money, grain and soldiers, and there must be no mistakes! "

After all, he has been the emperor for nearly 40 years, Yelu Hongji is quite scheming, he followed Xiao Wuna's proposal, and suddenly thought of a strategy to push the boat along with the current and kill four birds with one stone.

Taking advantage of the opportunity of the Song army's surprise attack on Tokyo, the king dispatched troops to gather three soldiers and horses outside Liaoyang City.

Since the warships of the Song army are powerful, they will use Jurchen and Shiwei as the vanguard to reduce the population of these restless ethnic groups with the help of the Song army; After destroying the Song army, he took advantage of the gathering of King Qin's army to eradicate Yelu Chongyuan, his father and son and their forces, and cleared the obstacles for Yelu Yanxi, the emperor's grandson, who passed on to the throne; Song Zhu was young, and the Empress Dowager who was in power was seriously ill, and the court was unstable, so she completely seized the North Bank of the Yellow River.

Yelu Hongji's plan was perfect, and he silently admired his foresight and foresight deep in his heart. Of course, to achieve all this, the basis is to wipe out the Song army around Liaoyang!
On the evening of April [-]th, Li Yu led the army to set up camp fifty miles away from Liaoyang Mansion in Tokyo. On that day, Khitan rangers began to appear around them and constantly harassed the marching team.

(End of this chapter)