I became the son of Renzong

Chapter 952 The Deliberate Backdoor

The imperial court started a new round of suppression, which was a coordinated suppression team of infantry, chariots and cavalry.

The cavalry pursued, the chariots defended, and the cavalry, that is, the musketeers, supported in the middle. This was the strategy of the imperial court to suppress the remnants of the Northern Liao Dynasty.

Very effective, no more stories about being intercepted by remnants of the Northern Liao Dynasty...

Zhao Xi has not yet figured out how to deal with the Beiliao troops who fled to the north of Yanshan Mountain.

To the north of Yanshan Mountain, there must be a conquest, otherwise the Great Song Dynasty could have forced the Northern Liao Dynasty to send Yanyun respectfully before the war.It was agreed to fight to the north of Yanshan Mountain, and it was agreed that the grassland north of Yanshan Mountain would be rewarded to the Fanqi team, assist the Fanqi team, and the cavalry recruited later.

The imperial court must not break its promise, and it does not want Yanshan to become a frontier of constant disputes in the Song Dynasty in the future.

Even if there are disputes, it means that nomadic groups such as Dangxiang and Tubo are fighting with the nomadic groups of Khitan on the grassland.

Therefore, at this stage, the imperial court did not think about breaking through Yanshan Mountain and marching northward. It just deployed heavy troops in Yanshan Mountain to encircle and suppress the remnants of Beiliao soldiers who failed to escape from Yanshan Mountain.

He didn't expect to find the Dieci tribe of the Northern Liao royal family in the campaign against them. Zhao Xi's goal was to be the leader of any of the other seven tribes.You can't be busy for nearly two years, and you can't touch the foundation of Khitan in the end, right?

The eight parts of Khitan are the footsteps of the origin of the whole Khitan.Know eight tribal alliances including Wandan tribe, Hedahe tribe, Fufuyu tribe, Yuling tribe, Rilian tribe, Pijie tribe, Li tribe, and Tuliuyu tribe.Even if the Khitan ethnic group finally established the Northern Liao Dynasty, the relationship between close and distant, in the final analysis, was passed down according to the ancient eight tribes.

That is to say, the Khitan Ancient Babu is the core of the entire Northern Liao Dynasty, and it is also a belief.Zhao Xi understands the power of faith best, and he is more terrifying than the praise of the sages in the Central Plains.

Destroying Beiliao, occupying land and buying people's hearts can't completely make the Khitan people despair. Killing their beliefs, or letting them see the leader they admired fall from the altar, may be the best way to completely defeat the cohesion of the Khitan group. Method.

In fact, except for the tribes such as Xi, Shiwei, and Menggu that were annexed by the Northern Liao Dynasty in the later period, basically the entire nobles of the Northern Liao Dynasty were inherited from the eight ancient tribes.

It can even be said that the decision of the entire Northern Liao court is based on the descendants of the ancient eight tribes.The elite main forces of the Northern Liao Dynasty were also concentrated among the leaders of the ancient eight tribes.

Although the current Northern Liao Dynasty no longer mentions the ancient eight tribes, the root is always inseparable from the ancient eight tribes.

If the ancient eight tribes cannot be destroyed, it means that the Northern Liao Dynasty will not be destroyed.

"It's a pity, because the five hundred cavalry were wiped out last time, the [-] army swept the five thousand Northern Liao cavalry in a radius of three hundred miles, and none of the five thousand Northern Liao cavalry was left alive. people."

The power of belief may not be understood by you ministers, but you still understand the eight ancient Khitan tribes that the officials said.We also know that the inheritance of the eight ancient tribes of Khitan represents the core of the entire Northern Liao Dynasty.

I also agree with the Khitan, the eighth ancient army, and its totem effect on the entire Northern Liao Dynasty.Just like the sages of the Central Plains Dynasty...

At this time, the cabinets accompanying the army also began to focus on the extermination of the Khitan's eight ancient tribes, and were no longer in a hurry to return to the court... The officials have given permission to select officials.As long as the Qing Dynasty is over, the officials of the imperial court can go to work one after another...

For all the senior cabinet ministers, wherever the official family is, there is the imperial court.

"Is it possible to start with the totem tattoo of the Khitan people?"

This is indeed a way of thinking, at least it can identify those Khitan nobles who died in vain in the melee...
Therefore, the suppression team of the Song Dynasty added another task. After the enemy was wiped out, the Khitan people would be stripped off, and the Khitan people's tattoos would be used to report the military exploits...

Xiao Dai was also in the depression of Zhulu Mountain at this time, with [-] Uludo from his own tribe.

At the moment when it was confirmed that His Majesty the Emperor of Daliao had abandoned the soldiers and fled, Xiao Dai also mobilized Uludo from his own tribe to go north in the name of blocking the northern army of the Song Dynasty.

It's the same excuse as Emperor Daliao.

However, Xiao Dai did not leave the theater in a hurry, nor did he flee northward like other leaders.Instead, when the North Army of the Song Dynasty was marching eastward and deploying to besiege the Xijin Mansion, they saw the gap in the Song Dynasty's army, and immediately crossed to the northwest and entered Zhulu Mountain directly.

Song State has already occupied Fenghua Prefecture and Guihua Prefecture, that is to say, the west of Zhulu Mountain is already the rear area in the view of Song State, and the passage from Yunzhou to Fenghua Prefecture has been connected.

And Yanshan Mountain in the north is still the territory of Daliao.No one thinks too much, I will lead the troops to the west...
Xiao Da also went west.

Because he knew that Song State's battle was not only to recover Yanyun, but also to flee north to Zhongjing and Dading Mansion, and he would not be able to escape the attack of Song State's army after all.

In the Battle of Nanjing Road, because His Majesty fled first, the Song State had already broken the backbone of Daliao. Since then, it has been difficult for Daliao cavalry to muster up the courage to fight Song.

Moreover, if His Majesty the Emperor of the Daliao Dynasty is not dead, and the ranks of the royal family and descendants are not destroyed, the Song State will not let it go.

At this time, going north to join in the fun is purely a way to kill.

Therefore, at the first moment when he decided to flee, Xiao Dian chose Zhulu Mountain.

At that time, the Northern Route Army of the Song Dynasty had already crossed Zhulu Mountain, and the entire Zhulu Mountain was guarded at a fixed pass.

Xiao Dai is also very familiar with the competition, and knows which paths can avoid the conventional marching route.

So, he hid in the depression of Zhulu Mountain, waiting for Song's army to relax.

Although Fenghua Prefecture and Guihua Prefecture had already been occupied by the Song State, the Song State sent troops from the northwest and Yunzhou, with the purpose of encircling Daliao on Nanjing Road.

Xiao Yu also estimated that the Song Dynasty’s rule over Fenghua Prefecture and Guihua Prefecture would definitely not be like those prefectures and counties in Nanjing Daoxijin Prefecture. It would only be a nominal occupation, and it would be too late for governance. thing.

At the same time, because the Northwest Army of the Song Dynasty and the Yunzhou Army marched eastward from Fenghua Prefecture and Guihua Prefecture, and fought all the way there, the Daliao army along this road was basically wiped out.

Therefore, in the areas of Fenghua Prefecture and Guihua Prefecture, Song Guo will not stay with too many troops, this is his chance...
Xiao Dai didn't know that the Northwest Recruitment Department of the Daliao Dynasty was stationed, that is, Kedun City. Because of the defense of the Northwest, the ancestors stipulated that there should be no less than [-] war horses and fine cavalry at any time.

Even the Northwest Army of the State of Song never set foot in Ketun City... because the Northwest Army of the State of Song went out, and the strategic goal was to encircle and suppress the Daliao Army on Nanjing Road.

This also makes today's Ketun City the only remaining new force in Daliao.

As long as he moves to Fenghua Prefecture and Guihua Prefecture to the north, he will be able to reach Kedun City, and use Kedun City as a base to gather all forces from the Northwest Recruitment Division of the Great Liao Dynasty to plan for the funeral!
Da Song's campaign against Xijin Prefecture should come to an end.

During the nearly one-month campaign, a total of more than [-] Khitans with totem tattoos were exterminated.That is to say, in addition to the frontal battlefield, Song Dynasty wiped out nearly [-] main cavalry of Beiliao.

The entire sweeping operation basically went through the entire Nanjing Road, and there should be no more organized remnants of the Northern Liao Dynasty.As for those wandering soldiers, it depends on whether Wang Yang's people in Nanjing Road can complete the final elimination under the specific temptation.

At this time, the front court of the Song Dynasty began to prepare for the next attack goal of crossing Yanshan.

"Report..."

It had been a long time since there was such an urgent report, and the entire Chinese military tent fell silent for a while.

"Report... Fenghua Prefecture's garrison team urgently reported that nearly [-] Northern Liao cavalry passed through Fenghua Prefecture yesterday and marched north. The Northern Liao cavalry were all equipped with one man and two cavalry, and did not report to me in Fenghua State attacks."

"Considering the disparity in combat power between the enemy and us, the Fenghua Prefecture garrison did not attack, but stuck to Fenghua Prefecture City."

Not many people take what the orderly said behind them.The garrison left behind in Fenghua Prefecture is less than [-], which is a way of declaring sovereignty, and he does not need to undertake the task of intercepting and killing the remnants of the Northern Liao Dynasty.

Especially this kind of formation with a large number of teams.

Everyone is thinking about the origin of this part of the elite cavalry of the Northern Liao Dynasty...
"There are still experts in Beiliao!"

Zhao Xi looked at the entire sand table on Nanjing Road and admired it from the bottom of his heart.Indeed, with such a report, combined with the sand table of the entire Nanjing Road, it is not difficult for Zhao Xi to figure out the whole story of the incident.

They are very smart, they don't attack Da Song's garrison at all, they just pass by.In this way, the hostility can be reduced to a certain extent, and it can also avoid the Song Dynasty's beacon message, so that it will attract a large number of Song troops to encircle and chase.

"At the beginning of the Hebei Dao battlefield, people saw the right time to withdraw from the battlefield. When all our attention was focused on the melee of the Chinese army and the recovery of the Xijin Mansion, there was a gap in the western armies... Right here, Chasing the Deer Mountain.”

"Find a col to hide at will, and wait for our army to clear it... The thinking is clear and the timing is ingenious!"

Zhao Xi was commenting, almost restoring Xiao Dabuye's escape process.It's just that this feeling makes the entire Chinese military tent very uncomfortable.

The entire Hebei Road War was basically an encirclement with three missing one.To put it bluntly, Song Dynasty was unable to deploy troops in the northeast direction of Nanjing Road in Beiliao, so it let go of the way out in the northeast direction.

This is also the direction in which the imperial court will continue to send troops.

But who would have thought that someone from the Northern Liao Dynasty would get out of the encirclement of the Song Dynasty, and it was still the northwest direction of the three armies of the Northwest Army, Yunzhou Army, and Weizhou Army.

"Officials, the generals in the northwest have failed their duties!"

It's not to shirk responsibility, it's just a feeling.The entire encirclement performed its own duties, and if there was a problem with someone's defense line, it would naturally be whose responsibility it was.

"There is no dereliction of duty. At that time, the Chinese army issued an order to form an encirclement circle on time. The Northwest Army and Yunzhou Army on the North Road focused on moving northeast and clearing all obstacles to the north of Xijin Mansion."

"At the beginning of the war, that is, when the Beiliao frontline was in chaos, the Northern Route Army needed to go northward across the board to intercept the Beiliao army fleeing north."

"And at this time, the North Route Army no longer has the responsibility to defend the western front. This time there is a mistake, the responsibility is not on the North Route Army."

Zhang Dun hated Wen Yanbo's wording that he should be held accountable.How should I put it, it should be a new generation of generals, or a new generation of civil servants, who are not used to this kind of practice of taking the blame when something happens.

However, nearly [-] Northern Liao deserters passed through Fenghua Prefecture, and there was indeed a problem on the West Road.Zhang Dun was not allowed to explain the whole process.

The words behind it are: the responsibility lies with the frontline headquarters.

Zhao Xi suppressed Wen Yanbo's willingness to continue arguing.Then he gave Wang Zhongzheng a wink and asked him to clear out the irrelevant personnel in the palace tent, and asked the Imperial City Siqin to guard the surroundings of the palace tent.

"I am not responsible for this matter, I did it on purpose!"

"Everyone, please think about it. After the formation of the encirclement circle around Beiliao, we only need to advance steadily to force all the soldiers and horses of Beiliao forces to flee to the northeast. Why did we transfer the Northern Route Army to the east after the formation of the encirclement circle? "

"Is it possible to intercept the Northern Liao army fleeing north? It is impossible for any large army, especially a simple cavalry team, to intercept more than a dozen or even hundreds of thousands of fleeing cavalry from the Beiliao army."

"I'm not going to let my soldiers die in vain."

"The reason why the Northern Route Army was transferred out of the way to the west, so that there was a gap, is that I deliberately let some of the Beiliao army escape from the west."

"Now it's basically clear that the emperor of Beiliao had already left the battlefield before the encirclement and suppression campaign. At that time, the only way to escape was to the northeast, that is, he could only escape to the Zhongjing Road in Beiliao."

"The behavior of the emperor of Beiliao is to abandon other forces in Beiliao, and abandon the hundreds of thousands of cavalry in Beiliao. Can no one complain?"

"But such grievances, as long as they finally escape to Zhongjing Road, with the elite strength of the Beiliao royal family of [-], those forces who fled to Zhongjing Road will have to accept the continued rule of the Beiliao Emperor."

"The difference in escaping to the west, when choosing a different escape route from the Beiliao Emperor, means that he has lost confidence in the Beiliao Emperor and intends to start anew."

"Such germination, I, Da Song, should give it convenience."

"Everyone, apart from the relationship with the wool economy, the rule of the prairie is to use barbarians to control barbarians. The specific terrain of the prairie determines the way the imperial court governs the prairie."

"Leaving aside the question of the complete elimination of the Northern Liao court, the imperial court needs to prepare as soon as possible for how to maintain the disputes and balance among the various grassland tribes such as Dangxiang, Tubo, Khitan, and Menggu after the Northern Liao was wiped out."

"The reason why I left such a retreat when deploying the encirclement circle is to prevent the future of the grassland from being unified by the current state's Fanqi, auxiliary Fanqi, and recruiting Fanqi."

"Next, the task of going deep into the grasslands to pursue the remaining soldiers of the Northern Liao Dynasty, and even attacking the exiled imperial court of the Northern Liao Dynasty will be completed by Fanqi, assisting Fanqi, and even recruiting Fanqi."

"Some hatred needs to be guided, and only hatred can build the balance of the grassland's future. Only in this way can Da Song live at the level of an adjudicator."

(End of this chapter)