Chapter 350
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82_82308 Li Zhen took Di Yan back to the marching tent, pointed to the seat and said, "Sit down and rest for a while."
Di Yan curled her lips and sat down angrily. She was originally going to get married at home and would not go out again. In ten days, Li Zhen would marry her as her sweet wife, but her father told her that Li Zhen had temporary military affairs and led the army north, so the marriage could only be postponed. This made her really angry. Li Zhen didn't say goodbye to her and left.
Her eldest lady had a temper and immediately changed into clothes and rode a horse to chase after Chang'an. She chased Li Zhen for two days, and was already tired and hungry, exhausted.
At this time, Di Yan felt aggrieved and angry. She stretched her face and said to Li Zhen: "I didn't bring dry food, and I forgot to bring money. I haven't eaten for two days."
Li Zhen was both funny and distressed. He quickly took a portion of his dry food and a kettle and handed it to her. Di Yan took the dough and started eating it voraciously. She drank some water, and then her face was gentler and said: "Why are you going to persuade me to go back?"
Li Zhen said helplessly: "I don't have to go back. If I go out and execute anything, I wish you were by my side, but this is going to fight a war. I won't say that there are dangers. The key is that there are no women in the army. This is the military rule. What should you do if you ask me?"
"You're not right!"
Di Yan retorted him: "I once asked my father if there must be no women in the army. Dad said this is not necessarily the case, but there are women who are not allowed to dress up charming and have nothing to do with the war, which will affect the morale of the army. But if it is a combat woman, she can stay in the military camp. For example, Princess Pingyang Zhao of the founding country, Li Huining, and her husband Chai Shao led the army to fight and made great contributions to the founding of the Tang Dynasty. She is a woman, so why can she stay in the military camp? Not to mention the distance, there is also Zhao Qiuniang, who is also a woman, but she can serve as a general in your inner guard. Why don't you drive her out of the military camp?"
"This..." Li Zhen couldn't say anything about her. In fact, the Tang Dynasty has always been tolerant of women. It is normal for women in the army to have women. Moreover, even the emperor is a woman. Di Yan wants to fight with him, so what's wrong?
Li Zhen was actually worried that he would not be able to explain to Di Renjie. At this time, Di Yan suppressed the pride in his heart and stood up and said, "Now I am also a member of the inner guard. Go and ask the inner guard generals, who would object to me as a member of the inner guard?"
After Di Yan's justified argument, Li Zhen had to give in and promised her to follow the army. In fact, Li Zhen also knew that since Di Yan had arrived, it was basically impossible to let her go back.
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The fierce battle in Youzhou has been fighting for nearly half a month. The 70,000 Tang troops were divided into three parts, stationed in Ji County, Huairou County and Yuyang County respectively. The Khitan army dispatched 36 troops including Khitan, Xi, and Wu, with a total of 130,000 troops, launching fierce attacks on the three counties.
Especially in Ji County, the Khitan Army used more than 20 heavy catapults to attack in turn, but Ji County was tall and thick. Under the 30,000 Tang army and Tang army, Ji County always stood tall and was not captured by the Khitan Army.
On the city wall, Su Honghui looked into the south from afar, his eyes full of worries. Although he was forced to give up his assistance to Wang Xiaojie under the repeated pressure of Wu Sansi, he did not expect that Wang Xiaojie would unfortunately die in battle, which made him extremely regretful. He could only use desperate fierce fighting to save his faults.
However, the 70,000 Tang troops could not resist the 50,000 iron-hoofed cavalry of the Khitan army. In the battle of Lushui, his army was unfortunately defeated, with more than 10,000 casualties and wounded. They were divided into three parts by the Khitan army. General Du Yuanshan led 20,000 people to retreat to Yuyang, and General Zhang Wenbin of the Left Guard led more than 10,000 people to retreat to Taogu Fort in Huairou County.
Huairou County has a dangerous terrain, high mountains and dense forests, easy to defend and difficult to attack, and sufficient grain reserves. Su Honghui was not worried. He was worried that the 20,000 Tang troops who were trapped in Yuyang County were far less solid than Jixian County. The city walls were relatively short and the food was insufficient. The 20,000 Tang troops could not last long. Once the Khitans moved heavy siege weapons to Yuyang County, it would probably take only half a day for the city to be compromised.
The 20,000 Tang troops were surrounded by a large army of 100,000 Khitans, and they had no choice but to be massacred. Now Su Honghui can only pray for the imperial reinforcements to arrive as soon as possible to lift the siege of Yuyang County.
At this time, a report soldier rushed over, knelt down on one knee, and presented a letter high, "Report to the Deputy General Manager, this is General Zhang's pigeon letter!"
Su Honghui took the letter and read it quickly. The letter said that the Khitan army attacking Huairou unexpectedly withdrew its troops. The reason was unknown, which made Su Honghui full of doubts. How could the Khitan army give up the attack on Huairou? Did they feel that they could not capture Huairou, so they withdrew their troops?
Or is Sun Wanrong preparing to concentrate his troops to attack Yuyang County? Su Honghui asked again: "Is there any news about General Du of Yuyang?"
"Report to the Deputy Chief Executive, there is no news for the time being."
Su Honghui's heart hangs again. There has been no news in Yuyang County for two days. Has the county town been broken and the Tang army has been wiped out? Su Honghui becomes more and more worried. Although the city is surrounded by the Khitan army, he still ordered: "Send my order quickly, send thirty scouts to break through separately and go to Yuyang County to investigate the situation."
There were 70,000 Khitan troops stationed around Ji County, including 30,000 cavalry. They launched an offensive to Ji County day and night, and they also suffered heavy casualties. Nearly 9,000 people were killed in just five days. The heavy casualties slowed down the Khitan army's attack on Ji County. However, at this time, Sun Wanrong's eyes were fixed on the Tang army in Yuyang County.
Since the killing of the famous Tang general Wang Xiaojie in Liaodong, Sun Wanrong's prestige in the Khitan has soared, and almost all the Khitan tribes have expressed their surrender to him. The most direct manifestation is that a large number of reinforcements have arrived in Youzhou, increasing their troops from the initial 50,000 to 130,000.
There is another extremely important reason why the Khitan tribes sent troops to reinforce Sun Wanrong at all costs. Sun Wanrong had already captured Miyun County and entered Hebei. In order to maximize the spoils, the tribes sent elite young and strong people to Hebei to plunder wealth and women.
However, Su Honghui led his army to defend Youzhou to the death, which hindered the Khitan army's plan to move south. At this time, Sun Wanrong also received news that the Tang Dynasty's court sent Prime Minister Lou Shide to lead a 100,000 army north. If the 100,000 troops in Xiangzhou were added, it would be 200,000 Tang troops.
Sun Wanrong did not dare to take it lightly. He was preparing to gather the army to fight against the main force of the Tang army. He knew very well that once he defeated the 200,000 Tang troops, the female emperor of the Tang army would have to ced the territory and seek peace from him.
At this time, soldiers outside the tent reported: "General Luo came to news that the 20,000 Tang troops in Yuyang County had left the county town and retreated eastward."
Sun Wanrong was overjoyed. He knew that the Tang army in Yuyang County could not hold on anymore. As expected, they abandoned the city and left. Sun Wanrong immediately ordered: "Let Luo Wu attack the entire line, and be sure to wipe out the Tang army."
In contrast to the Tang army in Huairou County and Ji County, which always defended the county town, the battle to defend the city in Yuyang County was extremely fierce.
Yuyang County is the most important military center between Youzhou and Yuguan. Taking Yuyang County opens the western gate leading to Yuguan. The Khitan army can directly attack Yuguan 150 miles away along the southern foot of Yanshan Mountain, and Yuguan has no danger to defend.
The 20,000 Khitan troops in the north of Yuguan will also lead their troops south to sweep across the eastern prefectures of Hebei. Therefore, the battle for Yuyang County has reached a point of life and death.
As soon as the sky was dawn, a cold current crossed Yanshan Mountain, and the bitter cold wind swept through Youyan land. Although the river channels on the ground were cut off and the ice ponds were everywhere, the low sound of trumpets was still sounded west of Yuyang County, and the black Khitan cavalry appeared on the horizon again.
The battle to siege Yuyang County has been fought for nearly ten days, with thousands of casualties on both sides. Although the Khitan army wanted to capture Yuyang County several times, they were all stubbornly resisted by the Tang army and were defeated again and again.
In fact, the loss of Yuyang County is already expected.
Even if the Tang army defeated the Khitan army again, it would be useless. What is important is that the Tang army's food and supplies have been cut off and they can no longer support it again. They can only abandon the city and withdraw their troops eastward.
The Tang army had nearly 15,000 people. Under the leadership of the Tang general Du Yuanshan, they formed a formation in the endless wheat fields. The vast mountains were as majestic as a giant dragon. About two miles away was Gushui, and the river was shimmering in the warm winter sun.
Gushui is composed of two tributaries originating from Yanshan Mountain and flows all the way to the coast of the Bohai Sea. It will stop flowing when it freezes in winter. However, in spring and summer, Gushui becomes a source of water for irrigation of hundreds of thousands of acres of wheat fields. It is called the River of Life in Jizhou. You can reach the foot of Yanshan Mountain by traveling north along Gushui.
Five thousand Tang troops arranged into gun and arrow formations in the vast wheat fields, namely, five thousand crossbowmen in front and ten thousand spears and spearmen behind.
Du Yuanshan knew that they could not escape the pursuit of the Khitan cavalry. Instead of defeating, it was better to form a formation to fight, whether to die or live, and to fight here if you win or lose.
Crossbowmen are powerful weapons to deal with cavalry. They are actually spearmen, and they are arrayed in infantry, so that they can pull the crossbows and have a longer range. When the Khitan cavalry comes to their sight, the spears and infantry will fight behind them. The crossbowmen pick up the spears and become spearmen again.
The Khitan Army still has less than 20,000 troops, and the two armies have little difference in strength. The number of Khitan soldiers is slightly superior. Moreover, they have 10,000 powerful cavalry, and their field combat strength is significantly stronger than that of the Tang army.
However, the Tang army had the advantage in weapons, especially the Tang army's crossbows were extremely sharp. During the ten-day tragic siege, most of the Khitan soldiers died under the dense crossbow arrows of the Tang army.
The Khitan general was Luo Wuzheng, who slaughtered tens of thousands of people in Zhaozhou. He was nicknamed Liaodong butcher knife. He liked to enjoy massacre cities and kill people the most. When Li Jinzhong rebelled for the first time, Luo Wuzheng massacred thousands of Tang army prisoners of war in Yingzhou.
Luo Wu was about 40 years old, with a fat face and a cruel appearance, but he was also an experienced general, especially familiar with the terrain of Hebei.
After the Khitan army conquered Miyun County, he led 5,000 cavalry to travel lightly, and only brought dry food for one day, burned, killed and looted all the way to Zhaozhou, frightened Wu Yizong, who led a 100,000 army, and fled. Luo Wu seized the Tang army's supplies and equipment, and his army was replaced with the Tang army's advanced armor and weapons, making the combat power even stronger.
Luo Wu is bound to get the 15,000 Tang army that completely wiped out Yuyang County. And if they can no longer rush to the Yuyang defense line of the Tang army in the past two days, or the total number of casualties exceeds 5,000 soldiers, their mission will end in failure.
Luo Wuqian looked at the Tang army array in the distance silently. He breathed a sigh of relief in his heart. Today, he would wipe out the Tang army in any case.
"kill!"
Luo Wuzhi roared, and five thousand Khitan vanguard cavalry launched. They held up their shields, galloped in war horses, rolled up rolling yellow sand, murderous aura filled the Gobi Desert, sweeping towards the Tang army...
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Chapter completed!