Chapter 162 Dilemma
"Shu Zi, Shi Zi!!!" Since the scout just entered Yelu Mo's tent, such curses began to keep coming out...
There were people around him who were quite familiar with Yelu Mo. In their impression, Yelu Mo had never had such angered moment. Even after just experiencing such a crushing defeat in Bianliang City, he would not be so angry.
The subordinates who didn't know why the coach got so angry did not dare to enter the account to inquire. Just when everyone was at a loss, they stood up alone and volunteered to enter Yelu Mo's tent.
This person is Xiao Lang, the adviser who Yelu Mo usually trusts the most.
After Xiao Lang entered the tent, he saw the scout who had just entered to report military information kneeling aside and trembling. The table in front of Yelu Mozheng was overturned to the ground, and everything on it was scattered around, which was a mess.
After the scout noticed that Xiao Lang came in, he immediately gave him a look of help. Xiao Lang could see from the scout's eyes that he was really scared, so he immediately waved his hand to ask him to withdraw from the tent.
After receiving Xiao Lang's instructions, the scout Ru was granted a general amnesty and immediately rolled out of the tent, leaving only Xiao Lang and Yelu Mo in the tent.
The moment the scout ran out of the tent, Yelu Mo naturally noticed Xiao Lang's arrival, but he was still angry, so he did not talk to Xiao Lang.
Xiao Lang didn't care about Yelu Mo's attitude. He silently put the table in front of him that was overturned to the ground again, and then packed up the things that had been sprinkled all over the floor and took a Hu bed to put it in front of Yelu Mo.
"What exactly is Yi Lijin so angry because of?"
Yelu Mo had basically calmed down at this moment. When he heard Xiao Lang's question, he knew that this might be a question that everyone else outside the tent wanted to know, so he ordered Xiao Lang to call all the generals outside the tent in.
When everyone was basically here, Yelu Mo announced a shocking news, that is, the Dangxiang people who had originally restrained Li Jiguang's troops in the northwest had been defeated, but Li Jiguang, who had already made his hand free, was leading his 30,000 elite troops to Bianliang City, intending to serve the king.
After the news was announced from Yelu Mo, it immediately caused an uproar among the generals below. They never expected that Li Jiqian would fail again. Not only did he fail, but he was still at this critical moment. Once Li Jiguang, who had freed up his hand, would return to the army to serve the king, their five months of efforts would be wasted.
Not only is it in vain, but it is not impossible to directly annihilate everyone present in the city of Bianliang with the terrifying combat effectiveness of the Song army in Bianliang, and cooperate with the elite soldiers trained by Li Jiguang in the northwest. It is very likely that the people present will be directly annihilated under Bianliang City. It is no wonder that Yelu Mo, who has always been elegant, was so furious.
Just as the generals were still talking about this matter, a veteran suddenly stood up and asked Yelu Mo: "Dare you ask Yi Lijin, hasn't this party member been completing the task of dragging Li Jiguang and other troops well before? He has never heard of any defeats coming from them. Why did he suddenly lose like this and let Li Jiguang return to the army to serve the king?"
After hearing the old general's question, the other generals stopped discussing one after another and looked at Yelu Mo together, hoping to get an answer.
Seeing that everyone was very interested in knowing the answer, Yelu Mosuo no longer hid it and published all the facts he learned from the scout.
It turned out that Li Jiguang took advantage of the arrival of spring plowing and the people within the entire Dangxiang army launched a sudden attack. After conquering several tribes' troops, Li Jiguang released another news.
That is, the Song army at Yanmen Pass had defeated the invading Khitan army and was now rushing northwest, vowing to confiscate Dangxiang's hometown.
As soon as this news came out, the Dangxiang army became even more panicked. The Dangxiang soldiers, who were already active, had no will to fight at this moment, and many tribes were directly led by the tribe leaders to start a large-scale retreat.
Although Li Jiqian repeatedly stopped it and claimed that all the news was a lie released by Li Jiguang, trying to confuse everyone. However, no one listened to Li Jiqian's words, and all those who escaped were based on one belief, that is, they would rather believe that they had something than they did not.
Besides, the siege of Xia Prefecture lasted for half a year and no results were obtained. The food provided by the Liao people had already eaten almost the same amount. If they didn't go back to grow grain at this time, there would be no food available in winter. Can they still expect the Liao people to provide support? Many tribe leaders do not think so.
It can be said that Li Jiguang had figured out all Dang Xiang's thoughts. Although he was unable to defeat the opponent as soon as Dang Xiang was siege, he was able to withdraw from the northwest in time, but in the end he was able to defeat Dang Xiang completely.
After the Dangxiang troops began to retreat on a large scale, Li Jiguang immediately began to lead troops to pursue and defeat Dangxiang's tribe one by one, so that even though Li Jiqian safely retreated to his original base, he was unable to start another war within at least half a year, which won the time to return to aid.
After listening to Yelu Mo's narration, all the Khitan generals were silent. Although they could think that even if the Liao Kingdom gave money and food, Li Jiqian might not be able to gain any advantage in Li Jiguang, they never expected that Li Jiqian was defeated because of the season.
In fact, this is not the fault of the Liao generals, but because the Liao Kingdom has been established for too long. Even though the Liao people were grassland herders, the country's political system can still adjust the domestic military and peasant relationship when starting a war, so as not to cause the country to stagnate grain production during the war.
However, the Liao people forgot that they were a country, while the Dangxiang people were just tribal alliances. The political system of tribal alliances often caused tribes to have higher interests than ethnic groups. Tribal chiefs often mobilized all the power to fall when doing anything, and this was the case when going out to fight wars and agricultural production.
It is impossible to allocate the proportion of labor and the distribution of labor fruits as reasonably to the state.
This also causes that as long as Li Jiguang does not lose too much combat power in the previous battle, once he reaches the 10th of spring plowing, the Dangxiang tribe will inevitably retreat to the spring plowing, otherwise their tribe will have no food in the second half of the year.
Moreover, there were also a period when the Khitans had a large number of strong men going out to fight. Once the war took a long time, the food in the Khitans would definitely only be able to supply what their country needed. It would be impossible for the Dangxiang people to count on the Khitans to support them.
After understanding why the Dangxiang people lost their chains at this time, Yelu had to face a very difficult situation, that is, Li Jiguang's reinforcements were about to arrive, and there was no hope of quickly capturing Bianliang City. However, if they retreated, they were really unwilling to accept such a state of advancing and retreating.
Just when Yelu Mo was unsure of his mind, the Bianliang City showed a state that was different from the previous few months. When Zhao Weiji defended the Khitan army's attack in a state of nearly zero cost on the city, the morale of the entire Song army suddenly expanded to the highest point.
At the same time, Li Jiguang defeated the Dangxiang troops and made a move to start returning to Bianliang to help him also spread to the capital.
Under the stimulation of this positive and internal and external favorable situation, the entire Bianliang City swept away the haze of the previous few months and regained its vitality.
At this time, Zhao Weiji had already begun to imagine how to leave the city and cooperate with the upcoming reinforcements of Li Jiguang to annihilate the Khitan troops.
So he began to do two things in the city. The first thing was to let him start making shells from Xinhua City, who brought the workers who produced shells in the entire Bianliang City, organize the blacksmiths in Bianliang City.
At this time, the cannon shells were still made of the relatively early spherical ammunition. Compared with the cone of the rifle, it was easier to produce. If it was organized by technical workers, ordinary blacksmiths could also be built.
Another thing is that Zhao Weiji began to organize carpenters to design and build sports cars for the cannon body. If he wanted to go out to fight, the maneuver power of the cannon must be guaranteed.
While doing these two things, Zhao Weiji did not let these generals be idle either. He asked Tie Zheng to lead a group of staff and several generals to study how to combine the rifle troops with other cold weapon troops, so as to effectively fight against the Khitan cavalry in the subsequent battle.
Just when the two heavens of ice and fire appeared inside and outside Bianliang City, the second news of changing the balance of the battlefield came again, that is, Yang Yanzhao, who had resisted the Liao army for a long time, did not support it after all. Yanmen Pass was lost, and Yang Yanzhao only led a small number of troops to escape back to the pass.
At this moment, the Liao army that had broken through Yanmen Pass was advancing towards Bianliang City at full speed, hoping to reach Bianliang City before Li Jiguang's troops and provide reinforcements to the Liao army that was still under Bianliang City at this time.
The news came, injecting a shot of a heart-warming shot into the morale of the Liao army, which had already fallen into a trough. The soldiers of the Liao Kingdom once again saw hope of capturing Bianliang City.
However, the senior executives of the Liao army, especially Yelu Mo, were reserved about whether to wait for reinforcements to launch another attack on Bianliang City after they arrived.
In Yelu Mo's heart, siege again may be the same as the last time. In his heart, he hopes to annihilate the main forces of the Song army through field battles before siegeing the city.
After all, the invincible Khitan army was more combat-effective in the wilderness.
After discussing his ideas with other generals, Yelu Mo made a decision, which was to retreat first and retreat near Chanyuan north of the Yellow River.
When the news of the Khitan retreating reached Bianliang City, Zhao Weiji knew that he would have to lead his troops to chase him out at this time. Otherwise, the previously lost territory would basically not be able to be taken back in a short period of time.
Chapter completed!