Chapter 189 Recovering Yanyun Thirteen
Soon, under the guidance of Xiao Qi, the Song army found the ancient Yelu Hu headquarters that did not retreat completely and was still wandering on the battlefield...
Although the rainy season has not passed, because the Yelu Hugu headquarters has no heavy cavalry, and Xiao Qi's hard work has enabled the Song army to capture all the weaknesses of Yelu Hugu headquarters.
Every fight basically defeated Yelu Hugu. The remaining soldiers and the troops who were later reinforced from Xijing were basically exhausted in these battles.
Yelu Hugu, who had lost several times in a row, sat in the big tent and fell into endless troubles that day. Such a battle was so frustrating. Not only did he not have the power to fight back, but he was also swung his weakness all the time. As a general, the battle was basically desperate to fight like this.
"Oh..." Yelu Hugu, who was frowning, sat in the middle of the tent, looking at his subordinates who were also unhappy, didn't know what to say.
"General, I can't understand. Although we have basically never beaten the Song people since the war started, we have never been beaten like this. Why does this Song people seem to know our weakness overnight, and they are cruel and accurate in every battle."
"Isn't that?" The general just started to slogans and was quickly picked up by another general. Like him, the general who was responding was also full of anger. "There is only one feeling after the battle these days. We are like we are not wearing clothes in front of the Song people, and there are a few hairs on our bodies that seem to have been seen. It's so frustrating."
As they told their dissatisfaction, the entire battle meeting became a complaint meeting for the generals. These generals on the battlefield now turned into a group of resentful women who gathered together to complain about their husbands when they were fine. They talked about it all over and said nothing, and the resentment became heavier and heavier.
Yelu Hugu was helpless about the following meeting that evolved into this way. He was also full of resentment. If he hadn't held his own identity, he would have wanted to go on and offend him together.
But at this moment, a sound suddenly overwhelmed the other sounds. It was a not too loud sound, but when the voice said a word, the audience suddenly became silent.
"Did Xiao Qi go to join the Song people? Otherwise, how could our weakness be fully known to the Song people?"
Since the last mutiny, Xiao Qi has always been a taboo in this army. Yelu Hugu was originally unwilling to mention him, and Xiao Qi was rescued by his confidants on the night of the mutiny, which made Yelu Hugu even more disgraceful. The army of tens of thousands of people could not bear to see more than a dozen people.
However, after Xiao Qi escaped, Yelu Hugu did not search for him. Instead, he gave the above letter to the Liao court, indicating that Xiao Qi's miscommand command in Wei County led to the defeat of the Liao army, and after the new defeat of the Liao army, he still fled for fear of crime, hoping that the court could give the punishment he deserved.
However, Yelu Hugu did not expect that after the memorial was submitted, although the court gave him a receipt and asked him to continue leading the army to fight, he did not give Xiao Qi a punishment method.
The explanation for this court is that Xiao Qi has not returned to the court so far, so he cannot be punished for the time being.
This made the entire army very puzzled, where did Xiao Qi go? Some people think he ran to the Bohai Kingdom, some were from the Dongdan Kingdom, or he had actually returned to his tribe on the grassland, but the tribe concealed his whereabouts from the court.
In short, there are many speculations about his whereabouts, but no one speculated that he surrendered to the Song Dynasty.
The reason for this is not because the Khitans are stupid, but because no general has surrendered to the other side when the two countries are fighting.
This behavior of surrendering to the enemy is a great humiliation in the eyes of the Khitans. But they never thought that the insult Xiao Qi would have suffered on them would have been greater than the great humiliation of surrendering to the Song Dynasty.
However, as the Liao army was hit one after another, some people finally began to think about that aspect, because if they didn't think so, there would be no way to explain why all their weaknesses were seen by the Song army.
"I'm afraid it's unlikely." After experiencing a silence that was shocked by this statement, someone broke the silence.
"Impossible? If that's not the case, how do you explain what we've experienced over the past few days?"
As the silence was broken, the generals present began to speak loudly again, but this time it was not a complaint about a certain issue, but a fierce quarrel.
The generals who had a quarrel were roughly divided into two factions. One faction believed that Xiao Qi should not be able to do such a treason for the enemy, because the Khitans did not have the tradition of surrendering to the enemy. The other faction firmly believed that Xiao Qi was still rebelling, otherwise he would not be able to explain the previous things.
The opinions of the two factions are tit-for-tat, but they all have their own reasons. Just when the two factions were quarreling and were about to take action, the scout suddenly broke into the tent and said that he had caught a single Song Bing and came to ask the general how to deal with it.
At this time, Yelu Hugu, who was having a headache because of the two generals who were arguing, caught a Song Bing and was immediately overjoyed when he heard that he had captured a Song Bing. Because the two factions quarreled in the tent could not prove that the other party was wrong, and now the answer was in the mouth of the Song Bing, and he would naturally find it after hiring him over to interrogate the truth.
So Yelu Hugu immediately ordered the captured Song Bing to be taken over.
The generals who were divided into two factions and had their own opinions were about to come as soon as they saw the answers, so they naturally stopped quarreling, because the right and wrong were about to be revealed and there was no need to quarrel.
Soon, the captured Song Bing was taken into the tent. From his eyes, it can be seen that being caught by the Khitans was a very terrifying thing for him.
The Song soldier basically walked into the tent tremblingly, and as soon as he walked to Yelu Hugu's seat, his legs became weak and he knelt on the ground.
"Why are you arrested alone?"
I wonder if Song Bing didn't hear Yelu Hugu's words because they were too scary, or they were unwilling to answer them. After Yelu Hugu finished speaking, Song Bing did not react at all.
Seeing that Song Bing had no reaction to the general's question, the Khitan soldier who begged him in was furious and kicked him on the back, kicking him directly to the ground: "Are you deaf? The general is asking you!"
Only then did the Song Bing react and hurriedly apologize to Yelu Hugu: "I'm sorry, Grandmaster, I was a little scared just now. Can you tell me your question again?"
"Why were you arrested alone?" Yelu Hugu didn't care much about Song Bing's performance, and he repeated the question just now.
"That's right." Song Bing, who finally heard the problem clearly, began to tell his situation all the time: "I am a deserter. I originally wanted to escape back to the Central Plains, but after leaving the camp, I got lost. Unfortunately, I was captured by the commander's subordinates."
Although Song Bing was very sincere when he said this, Yelu Hugu still didn't believe it. After all, the Song army is in a strong spirit now, so how could there be deserters?
Yelu Hugu's confusion was easily captured by his deputy general. The deputy general who noticed the commander's intentions asked Song Bing instead: "Don't lie to us, now you Song people are so angry, how could there be deserters? Say! Are you a detailed work sent by the Song people?"
The deputy general's tone of questioning was very sharp, and he suddenly scared Song Bing, who was kneeling on the ground, and he saw Song Bing tremblingly in a crying voice: "That... Although our Song people... have a strong morale... but I am a naturally timid man. I am a captured man. I didn't want to be a soldier. Some time ago, I couldn't escape because I was watching it tightly. I have won several big victories over the past few days, and everyone is a little relaxed, so I was able to run out."
Song Bing's remarks seem to others to have no flaws. After all, there are always timid people, and no matter how strong the morale is, it is impossible to avoid cowards in the army.
His remarks were very convincing in conjunction with his cowardly look. Basically, no Khitan general was still doubting the authenticity of his words.
After confirming that what this person should say was true, Yelu Hugu asked the question he wanted to ask: "Tell me honestly, have there been Khitans coming to join you recently in the Song army camp? If so, what is the name of that person or what he looks like? Do you know?"
Song Bing did not directly answer Yelu Hugu's question, but instead showed a very embarrassed look and hesitated.
Seeing Song Bing's behavior like this, Yelu Hugu thought he was afraid that he would silence him directly after asking questions, so he hurriedly added: "It's okay, as long as you answer the question I asked you well, I will not only not harm you, but will also let you go back to your hometown and even give you a lot of travel expenses."
When Song Bing heard that he could return home and had a travel expense, he felt less scared and said boldly: "It seems that a Khitan general came to join Yang Dashen some time ago. He was probably with a dozen people, not long after the battle in Weixian was over.
I only know that his name seems to be Xiao Qi, and I haven't seen clearly what he looks like, but his figure seems tall and strong, a bit like this general." As he said that, Song Bing pointed at the Liao general who was standing aside.
After these words were finished from Song Bing, the generals who were still insisting that Xiao Qi could not rebel suddenly became depressed.
Because the Xiao Qi mentioned by Song Bing is their former coach Xiao Qi. From the time he joined Song, the number of people plus the description of his figure, it is basically Xiao Qi.
Chapter completed!