Dawn of the Empire

Chapter 311 Joy is not over (12)

"Your Majesty, 23 generals including Xiao Tanggu and Yelulidi retreated without permission."

"Put it in prison first. After this battle, beheaded to observe military discipline." Yelu Dashi pulled out the saber from his waist and handed it to Brother Yelu Tie, the privy envoy of the North Court, and said in a deep voice: "You take three thousand guards to guard behind, and there will be more Anyone who retreats without permission will be punished without mercy!"

"Yes!" Brother Yelu Tie stepped back with his saber in his hands, and the expressions of all the generals around him were terrified.Yelu Dashi took a deep breath. In the distance, Jurchen cavalry came overwhelmingly, dismounted soldiers holding shields and scimitars, and charged the Liao army one after another.In front of the second camp that the Liao army hastily built, the corpses of soldiers from both sides were lying there, and the ground was stained purple with blood. Many Liao soldiers had shown timidity, but the Jurchen soldiers were still disregarding life and death. rushed forward.

"These savages are so capable of fighting!" Yelu Dashi was secretly startled, "It's no wonder that with the bravery of the Tokyo Taoist soldiers, they were repeatedly defeated by the Jurchens." There seemed to be a change on the ground, and the gunner was rushing to aim the artillery at this side. Yelu Dashi's face sank, and he called the guards. He pointed at the artillery barrage in front of him with his whip and said, "Let Yelu Guan lead the men and horses to rush to the fortress." Go up and execute all these rebels!"

As soon as the words fell, there was only the sound of cannons, "Boom!"Wherever the shells passed, there was wailing everywhere.The stone bullet was heavy, as if Mount Tai was pressing down on the top, and when it fell, it was a bloody mess. The iron bullet seemed small, and flew in an arc in the air. Anyone who was rubbed by it would be stumped and severed. The bomb still jumped a few times, piercing through more than a dozen Liao soldiers, and its lethality was much greater than the huge stone bomb.The Liao Army and the Jin Bingyuan were crowded in front of the second camp and were at loggerheads. After being bombarded by this round, the front line suddenly loosened.Many Liao soldiers are not afraid of hand-to-hand combat, but they are terrified by the inevitable and fatal shells.

"Good!" Zhao Xingde praised excitedly, pointing to the sun and moon flag symbolizing the emperor of Liao Kingdom, "shoot at full speed!"

The gunners did not dare to be negligent, and after adjusting the aim slightly, they immediately urged the gunners to reload the ammunition again.At this time, on the artillery position, in addition to the original fourteen three-inch guns, eighteen heavy artillery pieces from the Liao army were added. The effective range of a total of 32 heavy artillery pieces can reach the camp of Yelu Dashi.Xia Guo and the artillerymen of the Han army loaded extremely fast and fired accurately. They bombarded the enemy camp as if they were bombarding a pre-positioned target.Seeing this, Chai Yi secretly admired him, he had ordered his subordinates to bombard the emperor's tent, and there was no way out, so he could only serve the Han army wholeheartedly.

The golden soldiers in front were supported by artillery, and the morale of the army was greatly boosted.Generals like Wanyan Digunai, Wanyan Zonghan, Wanyan Loushi, etc. were all personally forced to lead their personal guards to attack the Liao army camp. The Liao army gradually couldn't hold on, and many began to retreat.Cannonballs landed around the Sun and Moon Banner one after another, getting closer and closer. Yelu Dashi stood motionless under the Sun and Moon Banner, looking at the fortress with a livid face.

"Boom!" "Boom!Because the flying speed of the cannonball is not fast, it can be seen clearly by almost all eyesight. However, as long as it passes, even if it is wearing heavy armor, it will either die or be injured.At this time, the Liao army was already terrified, and when they saw the shells flying towards this side, they immediately ran away one after another, "Run!"

Because of this continuous shelling, the stalemate between the Jurchen army and the Liao army was suddenly broken.In particular, the Liao army resisted the most tenaciously, and the imperial camp with the most dense soldiers suffered the heaviest blow.The Khitan warriors are not afraid of fighting the enemy face to face, but facing the artillery shells that cannot be resisted by manpower and are much more powerful than the bed crossbow, the morale of the army has been overdrawn to the limit.If Yelu Yanshan, Guo Baoyi and other generals were not desperate to maintain the army, fighting and retreating, the whole army might have collapsed already.

"The enemy's artillery is powerful, please retreat for a while, Your Majesty!" Yelu Yanshan came back covered in blood, and loudly advised, "The country cannot live without Your Majesty!" Yelu Dashi looked at the prostrate generals who were lying on the ground, and fell silent After waiting for a while, he looked ahead again. The Liao army's defense line was constantly collapsing, while arrows and shells were flying over their heads.A chill enveloped the whole body, and Yelu Dashi felt an ominous premonition from the bottom of his heart.

"Retreat? Or not?" In the midst of a dilemma, the rear army suddenly came to report that Brother Yelu Tie had assembled more than ten thousand cavalry to gather the rout and was ready to attack the golden soldiers. A camp.Because the second camp was within the firing range of Jin Guo's artillery, the Privy Councilor of the North Court asked His Majesty to retreat and urged all the troops to defend the third camp.

"Okay!" Yelu Dashi ordered the generals in a deep voice: "You lead the army to retreat first, and I will lead the guards of the palace tent!"

"His Majesty!"

"This is a military order!" Yelu Dashi said with a serious face.Retreating before the enemy is not easy.In the current situation on the battlefield, apart from the Liao army and the Jin soldiers fighting desperately for the camp with favorable terrain, there are also brigades of cavalry fighting in melee on the horizon.If they are chased by the cavalry of the Kingdom of Jin, it is very likely that they will be defeated for thousands of miles.The sun and moon flag is the symbol of the Khitan emperor, once the sun and moon flag is moved, the morale of the army will definitely be shaken.Therefore, in addition to Yelu Tiege leading thousands of horses to charge, Yelu Dashi personally cut off the rear and urged the palace tent army to guard the various camps, so as to ensure that the Golden Army can be temporarily resisted, and the retreat in front of the enemy should be completed, so that most of the Liao army Completely retreat into the third camp.

After Yelu Dashi insisted on cutting it off himself, the generals of the Liao army dared not persuade him any more.Brother Yelu Tie also led ten thousand cavalry to rush up from the rear army, stepping out of smoke and dust all the way, the Khitan cavalry along the way gave way one after another, after this new force entered the battlefield, all the Liao troops retreated to the third camp.

There are [-] elite palace tent cavalry under the command of the superintendent Yeluguan. After receiving the order to attack the Jinbing artillery fortress, Yeluguan has already left the camp as a whole.Although His Majesty's Sun and Moon Banner did not move, as long as the troops retreated, they would naturally retreat to the third camp. The [-] cavalry charge of Brother Yelu Tie, the privy envoy of the North Court, was a posture of swearing to die.If the troops of Yeluguan still follow the order to attack the artillery barracks of the Kingdom of Jin and become a single army, no matter whether they can attack or not, the ending will be bad or bad.

"Instead of attacking the well-defended artillery fortress," Yeluguan said to the lieutenant general, "it is better to wait for the enemy to advance with iron barrel cannons, and when it is inconvenient to defend, use iron cavalry to attack the middle, and you can win a big victory!" The cavalry army neither attacked the first base immediately, nor did they retreat to the third camp against the other Liao troops, but left the battlefield to the south and waited for an opportunity.The Jin soldiers only thought that the Liao army was defeated and fled, and there was no force to chase after it for a while, but the Liao army blocked the horse and looked at the banner of the palace tent army and did not dare to stop it.Three to four million horses from the Liao and Jin sides fought fiercely, and no one cared about the movement of the five thousand horses who left the battlefield, but the scouts under Yeluguan had been observing the movement of the battlefield.

The artillery battalion of the Han army was unaware of these hidden wolves. Brother Yelu Tie couldn't stop the attack of the Jin cavalry. After suffering heavy casualties, he had to retreat with Yelu Dashi. So far, the Jin army has successively broken through two camps of the Liao army , 37 camps, the morale is like a rainbow, but the Liao army has not yet collapsed. The Privy Envoy of the North Court led the army to fight bloody battles.All the armies knew that this battle was related to the life and death of the Khitan people. Although they did not retreat in the face of the fierce attack of the Golden Army, they regained their strength after a little recovery.After Brother Yelu Tie withdrew, he immediately rectified the rout and continued to deploy a new line of defense behind the third camp.

The Liao army was defeated again and again, and the generals of all the Jin soldiers were overjoyed, urging all the ministries to continue to attack the third camp.In the previous battle, the artillery battalion played a key role in breaking through the Liao army's camp. Wanyan Aguda ordered the artillery battalion to move forward again and bombard the third Liao army's camp.After a series of fierce battles, whether it was the Liao army or the Jin army, the original organizational system was already very chaotic, but the situation of the Jin army was slightly better than that of the Liao army. In addition to the fatigue of the soldiers, the morale was also very high.

Originally, the Liao army's iron barrel heavy artillery could not move on the battlefield at all. Zhao Xingde could only carry fourteen three-inch guns forward. He was worried about the original Liao army artillerymen, so he sent five hundred spearmen to escort them to the back. Hand it over to Tong Yunjie to take care of it.When the Kingdom of Jin was attacking the Liao army's camp, every time the generals wanted to send Zhao Xingde, the Han army, to help them out, Zhao Xingde refused. If it wasn't for this, all the infantry under his command to protect the artillery would have been emptied.The general of the Kingdom of Jin also wanted to mobilize the soldiers of the Tiebiying who had just survived the incident as the vanguard to attack the Liao army.In order to show off, Han Ningshuang transferred most of the iron wall soldiers to Tong Yunjie's command in the back line under the pretext of supervising and guarding the surrendered soldiers, so as not to be wasted on the battlefield.

Originally on the battlefield, the Jurchen cavalry was responsible for guarding the outside of the battlefield, but after this fierce battle, in order to break through the camp of the Liao army, Wanyan Aguda continued to send the Jurchen army into the battlefield, and the generals of the Jin Kingdom in front also continued to fight. Concentrate all the subordinates that can be dispatched to attack the Liao army camp.And as the entire Jinbing continued to win, the battle line moved forward, and seeing that a big victory was expected, Meng'an Mouke, who was originally on guard outside, threw himself into the battle one after another.The cavalry army of five thousand palace tents suddenly reappeared on the battlefield, and when they rushed towards the artillery battalion on the march, they were not blocked much.

"Fix the formation, form the formation!" the Han army officer shouted loudly.The spearmen stumbled into a circular formation, protecting the gunners and Jurchen archers in the inner circle, and several artillery pieces had to be left outside.The Khitan cavalry was getting closer and closer, and several Jurchen cavalry with hundreds of horses along the way tried to stop them, but they were easily scattered and defeated.