back to ancient times to be emperor

Chapter 72

"Hurry up!" A Khitan warrior said viciously in the Khitan language, and the whip in his hand fell on the ragged Han soldiers from time to time, driving them like cattle and sheep.

These Han soldiers looked numb, as if their souls had been hollowed out.Only among the ranks of the Han army, there were a few pairs of bright eyes glaring at these Khitan warlords.

Among the Khitan army, Yelu Zhongyuan rode a tall horse, and listened to the spies' report, frowning: "You mean, Nerugu's sneak attack was discovered? How could it be, how could the Han dog see through it? Could it be that someone leaked the news?"

No one of his subordinates dared to answer, he said angrily, "Why are you silent?"

At this time, a Khitan general said cautiously: "Uncle Huang, the general noticed that along the way, he hardly saw any farmers in Dashun. There must be something wrong here!"

Yelu Zhongyuan thought about it carefully, and it seemed to be the same reason.The Khitan marched very fast. Once an army was formed, the vanguard would set off immediately and change horses.Such a marching speed was known in advance, and the Khitan people were not stupid, so how could they not have thought of this?Someone must have leaked the news and sent information to Dashun.

But this can’t be helped, the Liao Kingdom is a multi-ethnic country, no matter where it is, there are Khitan, Bohai, Jurchen, Baidada, Shiwei, Xiren, Woyirat, Balhun, Wu There is a mixture of nomadic and agricultural peoples such as Ersute, Caiali, Penuli, Olimi, Yuelidu, Yueliji, Han, etc. Among them, there are still a lot of Han people!Even in Shangdu, there are a large number of Han Chinese who serve as slaves.If spies who are proficient in Khitan and Chinese are mixed in it, who can recognize it?

Yelu Chongyuan figured this out, but felt a tightness in his chest and couldn't vent it out.He said viciously: "Go at full speed, I want to see what a state city can do to me!"

The Khitan army speeded up, and many Han soldiers on the road couldn't bear such a high-intensity march because of their weak bodies. They fell to the ground while running, and couldn't get up again.

The rabbit died and the fox was sad. Many Han soldiers stopped to watch, but they were scolded by the Khitan warlords, and they started beating people with their horsewhips.The horsewhip was on the body, and the Han army could not feel the pain, but seeing their compatriots lying on the ground like this, they seemed to have an indescribable anger burning in their hearts.

The Han army continued on their way, but everyone remained silent.They knew that the faster they got to the city of Youzhou, the faster their lives would be lost.In each battle, less than two out of ten Han troops survived, and they were the troops with the most casualties.They were not treated as human beings at all, they were just a group of animals with weapons, defending the Khitan people from arrows and being their cannon fodder.

But they did not dare to resist. The Khitan people were very wary of the Han army. Apart from a small number of border army prisoners, most of them were Han people who had been taken captive to the Liao Kingdom.They took their families with them. If they escaped and were discovered by the Khitan people, the whole family would be killed.They would rather die in battle than flee.In their conception, there is no country.Planting land for someone is not farming. As long as there is still a bite to eat, they will not resist too much.

The Khitan people also grasped this characteristic of the Han people. At first they did not dare to plunder the population, and most of them killed them when they raided grass valleys.But after gaining experience, they treated the Han people as slaves, which has to be said to be a kind of sadness.

Originally it took more than 20 days to travel, but the Khitan army arrived in less than 20 days, only a few days behind the vanguard army.The price of such a forced march is that the non-combat reduction of the Han army is as high as 1%. Of the more than 2000 Han troops, no less than [-] fell on the road, and several hundred were missing.

But Yelu Chongyuan doesn't care about these things, what he cares about is to vent his anger: "Why does Xiao Xulie come back from victory every time, but I, Yelu Chongyuan, can't? Difference!"

In order to win this breath, Yelu Chongyuan hurried on his way desperately, just to break the city as soon as possible, so as to loot the city of Youzhou wantonly, snatching gold, silver, jewels, slaves and maidservants.

Knowing that Yelu Chongyuan had arrived, Yelu Nelugu was overjoyed. These days, he sent people to shout and scold under the city of Youzhou every day, just to force the defenders in the city to come out for a decisive battle.But the Dashun frontier soldiers on the city wall were unmoved, and only answered them with the arrows in their hands.

In the past few days, except for the loss of soldiers and generals, the Khitan vanguard did not take advantage of it at all.Yelu Nerugu's face became more and more ugly, and he had killed many generals who were not good at attacking the city, which made the army panic, and the morale of the Khitan vanguard dropped again and again.

Fortunately, at this time, Yelu Zhongyuan led the army and brought the most scarce siege equipment, so Yelu Nerugu's face looked better.After pleading guilty to Yelu Chongyuan, Yelu Chongyuan still appointed him as the vanguard to lead the infantry to attack the city.

After a short rest, the Han army, who was not treated as a human being, was rushed to the battlefield.Wearing ragged clothes, carrying inferior weapons and few shields, they were driven towards Youzhou City.

If you retreat, you will be mercilessly hacked and killed by the Khitan cavalry riding behind with sabers and bows.The Han army constituted the absolute main body of the Liao army's infantry, and they used their bodies to block the sharpest swords in any tough battle.And after these Han troops were driven to a desperate situation, the explosive fighting power made all the Dashun frontier troops tremble.

After Zhu Daguang saw the Han army dispatched from the city tower, he felt a "click" in his heart, secretly thinking that something was wrong.Immediately shouted loudly: "All of you should give me [-] points of energy. If the city is broken, we will all have to work as cows and horses. Your wife and children will never stand up for the rest of their lives! You want to be the Han soldiers below! Well, they are models!" At the same time, the messengers passed the order to the city gate guards in all directions, and the morale of the frontier troops was greatly boosted.

The bow and arrow in his hand were full of strings, and the arrow branches poured down like a rainstorm.The Han army, lacking in armor, screamed and shot arrows.More Han troops transported Duhao to the edge of the moat, and more than ten temporary bridges were erected in an instant.Because the moat of Youzhou City is deep and wide, the Khitan army can only fold two of them into one and use it as a folding bridge.It is to connect two Hao bridges, with a rotating shaft in the middle, two big wheels in front of the bridge, and two small wheels in the back, pushing them into the moat, and the bridge can be crossed if the wheels sink.

Originally, the Khitans did not know how to make siege machines, but after capturing the border troops, the siege machines also fell into their hands.These siege equipment is not difficult to imitate, so the Khitan people learned to make siege equipment.

Zhu Daguang saw Du Hao and shouted: "Catapult, I spotted it and smashed it!"

He also knows that the army below is also Han, but compassion does not command soldiers. If there is a trace of compassion and can't bear to shoot arrows to kill them, let them rush to the city wall, and Youzhou City will be over!The frontier army didn't dare to slack off, and hurriedly prepared the catapult, and with a few "whoops", stones fell into the enemy's formation one by one.

(End of this chapter)