Song Dynasty Cannon Fodder Counterattack Record

Chapter 240

The Liao army was chased by the cattle and fled in all directions. After running for twenty or thirty miles, no one dared to stop gradually. Some troops who had just arrived at the battlefield thought that the main force was defeated by the Song army because they didn't know what happened, so they didn't dare to stop. Stopped and fled all the way back to Xijin Mansion.In order to avoid being punished, these generals who fled back to Xijin Mansion all exaggerated the strength of the Song Army, and said that the Song Army was chasing closely.

Since the [-] army was defeated in just a moment, and the whereabouts of Yixin and other generals were unknown, the Liao Lord believed that the Song army went west in the morning to set up a trap, so he chose to believe in the generals who fled back to Xijin Mansion.For a while, the city gates of Jinfu were closed tightly, and they began to seriously guard against the Song people coming to attack the city.Moreover, the Lord of Liao sent messengers to recall Yelu Chongyuan's army, and ordered Yeluyi to send troops back to support them first, which was completely jittery.

The two troops that Yixin sent to bypass the rear of the Song Army after trudging through mountains and rivers, arrived at the main road when it was almost dark, but did not find the Song Army.Then they searched eastward, and they didn't even see the shadow of Song Jun, but they saw a mess at the mountain pass.They sent people to look for the coach, but they couldn't find Yixin anywhere.By the time the news of the Song people's westward movement was reported to the Liao Lord, it was already the next morning.

The disintegrated troops of the Liao people gathered in the Xijin Mansion one after another in the afternoon, but because they all ran away, the soldiers could not find the generals, and the soldiers would not be found, so they had to resume their formation in the Xijin Mansion.The king of the North Court, Yixin, and several generals were never found. Only at night did someone mention seeing Yixin's banner fall in front of the herd of cattle.

At the same time, in the south of Wangdu, the Song and Liao armies had already engaged in several rounds of forward battles, and the main force had already approached each other.Yeluyi first rode on the horse and looked at the strict formation of the Song army and hesitated.

Although the Liao army broke through Wangdu County, the Song people resolutely set fire to the granary when the city was broken.Without the food and grass from Mancheng and Wangdu, the Liao army must rely on supplies from the rear when fighting in this icy world.The news from the rear was that several food storage locations, including Zhuozhou, were burned by the Song people, and even cattle and sheep were massacred by the Song people.From the border of Song and Liao to Zhuozhou can be said to be a hundred miles of red land.

Moreover, the Song people also destroyed the bridges on Laishui and Zhuoshui.In a few days, the south wind will blow and the ice will become thinner. Even if it is necessary to send cattle and sheep from Xijin Mansion, it will not be easy.Moreover, the Song people looted all the way to the north, and almost all the reserve horses raised by the Liao people in that area were looted.Without these reserve horses, Yixian had to reduce the combat power of his cavalry by a few points.

Now there are already rumors in the army that tens of thousands of Song troops have entered the Liao territory, just to cut off the retreat of Yeluyixian's army, causing panic.Although Yeluyi killed some people first to stop the spread of rumors, the officers who had farms in Nanxijin Prefecture and the soldiers whose homes were in Nanxijin Prefecture no longer had the will to fight.

Now Yeluyi's first problem is not how to defeat the Song army, but the question of whether this battle can be fought. He really can't guarantee that he can defeat the Song army that is fighting every step in this situation.

No matter what is going on outside the mountain now, Li Buqi can only run as fast as he can.After getting rid of thousands of undisciplined and food-consuming uncle cattle, the speed of the team's march was significantly accelerated.Now that there are no cows to drag them down, and there are enough horses to transfer, how fast they can run depends on whether the infantry of the Zhenwu Army can support them.Although since last year, Li Buqi ordered the soldiers of the Zhenwu Army to ride on horseback for a day and a night, but that was after all a slow-moving situation.Now they basically keep galloping all the way, and many infantrymen are exhausted.In order to allow the infantry to keep up as much as possible, Li Buqi ordered the infantry to take turns to rest in the chariot, while the cavalry could only gallop on horseback.

Fortunately, there were enough horses. When Li Buqi Yanling found that the horses were failing, he immediately threw away the exhausted horses; when he found that there was a problem with the vehicles, he immediately threw them on the roadside and burned them.So he ran all the way, throwing away the horses and vehicles all the way.Most of these horses are overworked and will not live long.

According to the knowledge he got from the Internet, the Mongolian cavalry relied on sufficient horses to consume, and the average daily speed reached 90-95 kilometers in the assault of thousands of miles.This should still include the time spent in combat, so the Mongolian cavalry will only march faster.

Li Buqi now also requires the troops to run more than 200 miles a day and night to reach the Bauhinia Pass, which is basically the average marching speed of the Mongolian cavalry.As long as there are no major accidents, it should be achievable.

While discarding the horses, Li Buqi plundered along the road again, looting all the horses in the Liao people's posts and gardens along the way, and when he was more than 40 miles away from the fork in the road to Weizhou The post stations and villages were burned, and trees were cut down and piled up on the road to form several fire barriers.It is normal for these big trees to burn for several days and nights. Even if the Liao people chase them, they must first find a way to put out the fire and clear the way out.

The next day, the Liao king and ministers finally confirmed that the Song people did not come to Xijin Mansion, and it was very likely that they went west.The Liao army sent troops from Xijin Mansion returned to the battlefield yesterday in fear. Along the way, they saw dead cow corpses everywhere, thousands of them.The cows were overly frightened, exhausted after running for their lives, and exhausted themselves to death.

Seeing this scene, the Liao army, no matter nobles or ordinary soldiers, scolded the Song people as prodigal sons. There are thousands of cows!
On the funnel-shaped battlefield that entered the mountain, the scene was even more horrible, especially at the mountain pass, where there were corpses piled on top of each other, and the Liao people had to spend a lot of energy to clear a passage.

The bodies of Yixin and several senior generals were also found.This was due to the fact that their war horses were hung with silver barrier mud, and their people were dressed luxuriously, otherwise they would not be able to recognize him at all.Their bodies had been trampled to pieces by cows and horses.

Seeing this tragic scene, the Liao people were afraid when they entered the valley, fearing that thousands of crazy beasts would rush out of the valley—maybe the Song people had used up all the cattle they plundered, but it is said that the Song people had more cattle in their hands. There should also be plenty of horses.Just look at Li Buqi, a lunatic who immediately released cattle worth hundreds of thousands of guan, so why is it strange that he released thousands of horses to attack the Liao army?

Since the Song people had been walking along the main road to Weizhou and Feihu, their intentions were obvious, but they didn't know whether they wanted to enter Shanxi or leave Yi County.Yelu Zongzhen, the Lord of the Liao Dynasty, immediately ordered the messenger to travel all the way through Yizhou, Zijingguan, and Feihu to inform Feihu and the Weizhou defenders to intercept the Song army, and detour from the north to Weizhou to inform the Weizhou defenders to intercept them. Detour from the north to find Xiao Hui who annexed Datong Mansion in Xijing to transfer troops, and go all the way to Yelu Yixian to dispatch a cavalry from Yi County to occupy Zijingguan to block the Song army.

Bauhinia Pass is a dangerous place where one man should guard the pass and ten thousand cannot open it.But such a dangerous pass is of no use to the Liao Kingdom, so there are no garrisons, and it is basically deserted.The Liao Lord believed that without additional troops, it would be impossible to stop the fierce Song people.

Li Buqi was also afraid of being blocked by the Liao people at the Zijing Pass, so although the five hundred cavalry who raided Yizhou should have controlled the Zijing Pass as planned, he did not dare to be careless at all. The next day Chou Shi saw the majestic Bauhinia Ridge under the moonlight.

Li Buqi immediately sent people to investigate Zijing Pass, and joined the cavalry occupying Zijing Pass, and then let the troops stop and rest in peace.

(End of this chapter)