The Happy Life of Small Officials in Northern Song Dynasty

Yelu Chongyuan led an army of [-] to the Shangjing road day and night. He really hoped to see Su Jin's army attacking Linhuang Mansion, because in that case, he could give Su Jin a blow from the back and join forces with the generals defending the capital. Su Jin made dumplings.

It is a pity that the news that came made him both frustrated and angry. Su Jin's army did not go north after flooding Zuzhou, but suddenly appeared at the boundary of Yongzhou a few days later. After the Dingfu tribal soldiers, they went all the way eastward into Tokyo Road, and the state capitals along the way were captured and destroyed one by one.

Yelu Zhongyuan had to adjust his strategy. He quickly ordered the defenders of Linhuang Mansion to move eastward, and he himself turned to the northeast to follow the footsteps of Su Jin's army, but he would not take the lead. It was nearly twice as many as him. Before the 15 troops in Linhuang Mansion were in place, Yelu Zhongyuan would never attack rashly. The best strategy was to encircle them on both sides.

When Su Jin's army captured Huanglong Mansion, Yelu Chongyuan guessed his next target. Except for Xinzhou in the south, almost all the other slightly larger cities were destroyed by Su Jin. To the east is another wilderness and the land of the Jurchens, to the north there are mountains and forests, and a large city, so Su Jin's next goal must be to attack Taizhou from the east; the trick of Su Jin's army is like drawing a circle The eastward attack on Taizhou happens to close the circle.

Yelu Chongyuan immediately led his army to rush to Taizhou in the northwest. At the same time, Pegasus ordered the army dispatched from Linhuang Mansion to occupy Taizhou before Su Jin's army; Successfully captured Taizhou before Su Jin's army, and at the same time took a defensive posture, waiting for the attack of Su Jin's army; Yelu Chongyuan also led his troops from the south two days later, he did not dare to stand beside Su Jin's army. Stay later, because if the Song army finds that Taizhou cannot be attacked and adopts the strategy of going southwest to break through the encirclement and fleeing south, he will bear the brunt of the brunt, so he chose to quietly go around from the east to Taizhou to join forces, so that he has 25 troops in his hands. Relying on Taizhou City and confronting the Song Army head-on, I have no emptiness in my heart. [

Sure enough, after the Song army entered Taizhou fifty miles east on the [-]th, they immediately stopped advancing. Obviously, they had already discovered that there were all Liao soldiers densely packed around Taizhou. After a short hesitation, the Song army was as cunning as a fox. , immediately chose to turn around and leave.

After Yelu Chongyuan received the report, he immediately realized that the Song people did not want to fight head-on, and must still want to rely on mobility to harass everywhere, so he decisively issued a decision to pursue; Song Jun kicked his ass hard.

To the east of Taizhou, the cavalry pursued very quickly, and soon they could see the Song army brigade billowing in smoke and dust. Yelu Chongyuan was very excited. Although he did not suffer in the battle on the southern battlefield, after all, he was not good at fighting fortified battles. The pursuit battle on this grassland is a good game.

The [-] cavalry in the front team quickly chased the Song army several miles away, and they could even see the backs of the Song army fleeing in panic. These Song soldiers seemed not good at riding, but they ran very slowly on horseback. Within an hour, you can directly rush into the enemy's formation and massacre.

Just when Yelu Chongyuan was about to order an attack, a detail caught his attention. He found that the enemy who had fled ahead was actually fleeing to the northeast. This is obviously illogical. A normal person would choose to flee to the south. Something is wrong in there.

Sure enough, after a while, Song Jun himself showed his feet. Song Jun, who was not running fast, suddenly galloped like chicken blood. The cavalry has been chasing at a fast speed. At this time, the horses are a little tired, and they are quickly thrown far away. The distance between the two sides quickly widens to ten miles away. The strange thing is that after increasing the distance, the speed of the Song army slowed down again. A seductive gesture of running and stopping.

Yelu Chongyuan understood that Song Jun was deliberately attracting himself to chase after them. The purpose of doing so was probably to cover up something; an hour later, the news brought by the scouts confirmed this point. It was very scattered, and it looked like the main force, but in fact there were only 4 or [-] people. That is to say, the main force of the Song Army disappeared.

"Fuck it! You're so cunning, you don't hesitate to sacrifice [-] to [-] cavalry to cover the main force fleeing south." Yelu Chongyuan cursed.

The general under his command hurriedly asked for instructions: "Your Highness, should we eat up the [-] to [-] Song Army, or go to find the Song Army's brigade?"

Yelu Chongyuan thought for a while and said: "Chasing the main force, these [-] to [-] cavalry came prepared, and they must have fled lightly. When they are wiped out, the Song Army brigade may have disappeared. The team searched southeast, as long as the main force of the Song army didn't have wings, as long as they had a little brain, they could only flee southeast."

The generals acted immediately, the army gave up chasing the rabbit, turned around and chased towards the southeast. The more than 3 cavalry of the Song Army turned around to seduce and harass, trying to lure the Liao army to chase again, but the Liao army ignored it. , headed southeast by himself; the Song army was too small, and could only harass and shout from a distance, but did not dare to really attack this huge Liao army; the general of the Song army saw that the Liao people saw through the trick, and yelled and cursed for a while, It disappeared at the end of the grassland.

The more than 3 Song troops are already dead in the eyes of Yelu Chongyuan. Although they may cause some damage to the north and east, as long as their own army catches up with Su Jin's main force, it will be a crushing battle. The main force of the Song army is less than 15. In terms of numbers and combat power, he will be overwhelming. This is why Yelu Zhongyuan gave up chasing the 3-odd Song army. After destroying the main force, he will deal with them later. Such as probing for things.

Various traces were gradually found on the grassland in the southwest, ruts criss-crossing, carts with broken wheels lying on the grass, full of grain bags on the carts; and Daliao-style armor weapons, which were obviously looted by the Song army The income; after a further journey, more supplies were abandoned on the grass, and the Song people retreated extremely hastily. Tents, food, weapons, and even carts filled with more than a dozen barrels of kerosene were all abandoned on the ground.

Yelu Chongyuan was elated, pointing at these things with the end of his braid and laughing: "Boys, Song people have no rules, even these important military supplies can be discarded, and the army's morale has been lost; moreover, this must be the main force of the Song army. Only the main force will bring these carts of supplies forward.”

Yelu Chongyuan's words were confirmed. After dark, the scout team reported that the main force of the Song Army was fleeing at night fifty miles ahead, and it was hard to see how many people were there because of the darkness. wrong.

Yelu Zhongyuan laughed loudly and said: "Okay, then they can't run away. The scout team is hanging on the tail of the Song army. They have been running for a day, and they can't escape all night. They must stop and rest; pass the order, The whole army rests on the spot, there is no need to set up camp, we will set off again in the middle of the night, if the Song army can't survive and stop to rest in the middle of the night, we will be able to level the Song camp in high spirits; even if they run away overnight, they can't fly out of our palms, This is Daoping, the upper capital of my Daliao, and it is still thousands of miles away from the Song Dynasty."

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There is a small lake depression [-] miles northeast of Taizhou. In the dark, soldiers of the Song Army lay in twos and threes on the grass by the lake and chewed dry food. The weather in October was already very cold on the grassland at night, but Marshal Su It was strictly forbidden to light a fire or make noise, so all the soldiers could only lean together to keep warm, watching the stars in the sky silently, listening to the chirping of autumn insects and the snorting of horses grazing grass.

Su Jin stood on a small soil bag with his hands behind his back, looking south, frowning; Zhang Long and Zhao Hu stood beside him, also looking south. [

There was a sound of shaking on the grass, and the soldiers lying on the ground got up one after another, grabbed their weapons and looked to the south nervously.

"Send a signal." Su Jin ordered.

Three gunpowder arrows pierced through the air, and the sharp whistling sound pierced the eardrums. The flames on the tails were very eye-catching in the night sky; after a while, three gunpowder arrows were also shot not far from the south, and sparks were scattered in the air. After a few bursts, it disappeared.

"My lord, they are the ones who have returned." Zhao Hu said happily.

The expression on Su Jin's face relaxed, and the dark figures in the distance swayed, and Ma Han's loud voice came from afar: "Commander, we are back."

Su Jin breathed a sigh of relief. In order to make the drama more realistic, Su Jin took the risk and ordered Ma Han to lead [-] Qingqi to deliberately lead the Liao army north to give the dynasty time to distance itself. This move also wanted to make the suspicious Yelu Chongyuan more convinced of the dynasty The army is the main force. This is the deceitful way of using troops. In terms of the use of military tactics, Su Jin is already qualified to become a famous general of a generation.