"Mo Dun? General?" Cao Yi said to himself, then turned sideways and asked Liu Baiqing, "Bai Qing, do you know him too?"

Liu Baiqing looked excited, sat back on the chair, and said excitedly: "General Mo, I was his personal soldier six years ago. At that time, I was just a young man at the age of twenty-six, but he was already a certain figure at the age of twenty.

General Yuan, he was the youngest Dingyuan general in the Great Yan Dynasty, and he earned his income entirely by pacifying the military industry in the remote areas. He could be said to be the most popular and promising young general in the Great Yan Dynasty at that time!"

"What about him now?" Cao Yi looked at Wang Zhiyuan and found that he was still immersed in memories and seemed to be lonely. He then turned to ask Liu Baiqing.

"I actually don't know much about him now. It's just that things were very noisy back then..." Liu Baiqing said with emotion.

"In fact, Mo Lin, the old Laozhen Ding Army that Mo Dun commanded at that time, was an army that all the young soldiers under General Cao wanted to join, because the commander-in-chief made General Mo Dun have outstanding military exploits, good military management, and high martial arts.

, coupled with the proper combat command, it was easy for the Mo Lin Army where I was to obtain a lot of military glory. Moreover, since Mo Lin took charge of the Mo Lin Army, he has been eating and sleeping with us, and there is no general at all.

There is a barrier between the superiority and inferiority of soldiers, so they are also deeply loved by soldiers. Originally, everything was going in a good direction... Alas!" Liu Baiqing said this with a sigh of relief.

"What happened next?" Cao Yi asked quickly.

"It's a long story..." Liu Baiqing looked at Cao Yi with a questioning expression, obviously wanting to know if Cao Yi wanted to listen to it from beginning to end. Cao Yi, Hongxiu and Xiren all nodded.

They are all people who love to listen to stories, and now that the important matters of the Taibai Chamber of Commerce have been settled, there is no harm in listening.

"The thing is like this. It starts with the attack on the Northern Han Dynasty in the fourth year of Yongxi's reign, that is, six years ago..." Liu Baiqing said eloquently.

"Because General Cao led troops to conquer the south of the Yangtze River for his meritorious service, he was promoted to the Privy Council and led the Zhongwu Army Jiedushi. After the Southern Tang was pacified, the situation of separatism in the south was basically ended, and the conquest of the Northern Han Dynasty became the top priority of the country at that time. This

The Northern Han Dynasty was a separatist regime supported by the Khitan Liao Kingdom. In order to prevent the powerful unified dynasty in the Central Plains from posing a threat to itself, it tried its best to prevent the unification of the Yan Dynasty. When Taizu of this dynasty was still alive, he conquered the north twice.

Han, one was the battle of Shilingguan in Leping County, and the other was the battle of Tuanbai Valley, but both battles ended in our defeat," Liu Baiqing said.

"Later, after the current emperor came to the throne, he summoned General Cao, the privy envoy, and asked the general: 'Both Zhou Shizong and Taizu personally conquered the Northern Han Dynasty, why did they not succeed?' General Cao replied: 'Shizong conquered the Northern Han Dynasty, and Shi Yanchao

After the defeat at Shiling Pass, the morale of the army was disturbed, the people were not united, and the morale of the army was weak, so they retreated. Taizu was stationed in Tuanbai Valley. The weather was hot and rainy, and many soldiers fell ill, so he stopped the battle.'

Later, the emperor asked again: "Now I want to conquer the north, what do you think?" General Cao analyzed the situation of the world at that time and believed that the Northern Han Dynasty was weakening, and our country had just recovered the Hou Shu and the Southern Tang Dynasty, and the unification of the south was due to morale.

When it was prosperous, it also received a lot of resources from the south, so it was very easy to conquer the north. After hearing this, the emperor made up his mind to conquer the Northern Han Dynasty.

Therefore, in the first month of the fourth year of Yongxi's reign, the emperor decided to send his troops north to attack the Northern Han Dynasty. He appointed Pan Mei, the envoy of Xuanhui Nanyuan, as the envoy of the North Route Capital Recruitment System, and led Cui Yanjin, Li Hanqiong, Cao Han, Liu Yu and other troops to attack the capital of the Northern Han Dynasty.

Taiyuan. Later, General Cao was appointed to deploy the capital at Shiling Pass in the north of Taiyuan to block the Liao army that would be reinforced from the north. Tian Renlang and Liu Xu were ordered to reconnoitre the trenches and fortresses surrounding Taiyuan City and inspect the various forces attacking the city.

He planted equipment and granted Meng Xuanpu the title of Commander of the Military and Horse Capital, stationed in Zhenzhou to block the reinforcements of the Liao army from the east. He ordered Hou Dou, the transfer envoy to Hebei Province, and Lei Xiang, the transfer envoy to the North Shaanxi Road, to take charge of the east and west roads of Taiyuan respectively.

The transshipment envoy, and Liu Baoxun, the transshipment envoy on the move, was also appointed as the transshipment envoy to the north.

Then the emperor personally led the main imperial army to attack Zhenzhou, and restrained the Liao army in Youzhou from large-scale aid to the west or going south. In mid-February of the fourth year of Yongxi period, the emperor led his army from Kaifeng, Tokyo, to Zhenzhou in March, and divided his troops.

Attack Yu County, Qinzhou, Fenzhou, Lanzhou and other outlying counties to contain the Northern Han army in these areas from reinforcing Taiyuan. At this time, General Cao led our army to Shiling Pass.

When Emperor Liu Jiyuan of the Northern Han Dynasty heard that our army was approaching the border, he hurriedly sent an envoy to the Liao Kingdom to request support. The Emperor of the Liao Kingdom then ordered the Prime Minister of the Southern Prefecture, Yelusha, to be the governor of the capital, and the King of Ji Dilie to be the supervisor of the army. He led his troops to rescue the Northern Han Dynasty.

In mid-March, Yelusea led the Liao army to Baima Ridge day and night, and met our army commanded by General Cao who was stationed here to prevent the Liao army from supporting. At that time, the two armies faced each other across the river. The opposing general Yelusea seemed to have originally planned to wait.

We then fought again after the follow-up troops arrived, but for some unknown reason, perhaps they thought it would be advantageous to attack immediately, so they rushed across the river to attack us. At that time, the military adviser suggested that General Cao should surprise the Liao army and lead an attack when they were halfway across the river.

It was General Mo Dun who led our 2,500-strong Mo Lin Army as the main force, and joined other armies to kill Di Lie and other five Liao generals, killing more than 10,000 Liao troops, and the remaining Liao army fled in panic.

If Yelu Xiezhen, the Great King of the Northern Court of the Liao Kingdom, hadn't arrived with his army and fired thousands of arrows, our army would have had no choice but to give up the pursuit, otherwise we would have left them all behind.

Later, the Northern Han Dynasty once again sent people to ask for help from the Liao Kingdom, but the envoy was caught by General Mo Xun who was patrolling outside. Later, the military adviser suggested that he kill the envoy in front of Taiyuan City to lower the morale of the other party and disturb the morale of the other party's military so that they would no longer

With the confidence and hope that the Liao Dynasty would come to support them, the Northern Han Dynasty secretly sent troops to attack them that night. The military advisors predicted this in advance and ambushed them early. They captured the turtles in the jar and surrounded them and annihilated them. Later, the Northern Han Dynasty had no choice but to occupy the city.

Stick to it.

We, the Yan Dynasty, won the reinforcements, so we took advantage of the situation to attack across the board. By mid-April of the fourth year of Yongxi's reign, several other armies had captured Yuxian, Longzhou, Lanzhou and other places. The emperor also led his troops to Taiyuan. At that time,

Hundreds of thousands of troops gathered to surround Taiyuan, the capital of the Northern Han Dynasty. I remember it was in late April. At that time, the emperor patrolled the city to appease the soldiers and wrote a letter to recruit Liu Jiyuan, the leader of the Northern Han Dynasty, to surrender, but he was rejected. Later, the emperor personally

He went to the armies on all sides of Taiyuan City to supervise the battle, and launched a sudden attack on all sides in early May. The Northern Han Dynasty Xuanhui envoy Fan Chao, the Northern Han Dynasty Horse Infantry Commander Guo Wanchao and others all surrendered one after another. Later, when the emperor went to the south of the city, it was General Cao who led the army.

In our military camp, we once again recruited the Northern Han Dynasty to surrender, and at the same time asked General Cao to send troops to attack the city fiercely. The battle was very fierce. Even the most elite Mo Lin army suffered heavy losses. Only about 1,800 people were left out of 2,500.

, but the city gate was still not breached. Later, the military counselors came up with a plan to flood Taiyuan City with Fenshui, so that Taiyuan City was flooded with water. The Emperor of the Northern Han Dynasty left the city and surrendered when there were no reinforcements outside and no fighting spirit inside.

Before we attacked the Northern Han Dynasty, the emperor had promised that as long as he attacked the Lower Northern Han Dynasty, he would return to the court to celebrate and award rewards. Therefore, after the victory, everyone was very excited, and their tense spirits were completely relaxed. The Northern Han Dynasty was destroyed.

In the end, all of us were already exhausted physically and mentally, and our morale had dropped due to the end of the war, so we wanted to go home immediately. Many people in the army had already written letters home, saying that the battle had been won and we would wait for the emperor to comment on our merits.

After the reward, he can go home immediately. After all, he has not seen his family for half a year from the first month to May. General Mo Jun also wrote to his fiancée, his childhood sweetheart since childhood, saying that he can take him with him right away.

With the emperor's reward, he returned to his hometown to marry her.

Later, for some unknown reason, we suddenly received an order from the emperor to continue marching north to conquer Youzhou, which was occupied by the Liao Kingdom. We hoped to take back the Sixteenth Prefecture of Yanyun. They said that as long as we captured Youzhou, we would also receive the previous rewards.

Give. This made all the armies at that time complain. They felt that since Jun Wu was joking, how could he go back on his promise? They didn't really want to continue attacking the Liao Kingdom just after defeating the Northern Han Dynasty and before receiving the reward. Even the military advisor and General Cao reported to the Liao Kingdom several times.

He told the emperor that the army and horses were tired at this time and it was no longer suitable to attack the Liao Kingdom. However, the emperor ignored the strong opposition and dissuasion of all the generals and insisted on the principle of going all out. Instead, he refuted General Cao and the military advisers and said that they should not deceive the troops and delay the opportunity to fight.
Chapter completed!