I saw amidst the billowing dust, groups of Khitan athletes and tribal vassals skimmed over the city head skilfully like the wind, and the rain of arrows shot from the city, like a hungry wolf and tiger pounced, into the battle under the new city. In the formation; then, in the screams that became more intense, they rushed back and forth, or shot an arrow like water on the back of the horse.
At this time, the Dongxi tribe soldiers who were helping out were also re-arranging their formations not far from the new city. They used high-wheeled cars wrapped in cowhide and blankets to bring Yelu Shilu into the eager battle formation. Make an irregular ring formation for the encirclement, just stack wooden guns and wool rope fences, and set up basic positions and camps;
This is also the customary tactic that Xi Bu has developed during the battle against the Qidan for many years. In the face of harassment from the various Khitan tribes in Rao Le Shui, they will use this as a basis to block the first wave of offensive, and then use the cavalry to drive or drive Entangled for a while, and then rushed out with a large team to cover and kill him; so that he could not stand on the ground and walk away.
Therefore, King Xi of the past dynasties resolutely resisted and repelled the Khitanese's many incursions in the territory of the Rao Le Dudu Mansion, where there were many hills and mountains. It was only after the Xi family, which was dominated by the five parts of the Beishan Mountains, defeated and split the Qidan, this kind of tactics followed the Dongxi king's account supported by the Khitan people, and became the most important person in charge of fighting with the Khitan cavalry. Good cover and boost.
The southern expedition is also the land of Liaodong with many hills. These tribal soldiers who came from the Dongxi Tribe but still remain in the Beishan ancestral land are undoubtedly for attacking, plundering and attacking those almost omnipresent Tu mountain cities and ramparts. ; It is also a natural good and advantage. And as long as the capture of some cattle and sheep slaves is shared.
However, when the formation under the city gradually took shape, the other three soldiers and horses who went up first were covered, but they still failed to win or defeat the enemy in front of them. On the contrary, under the running and coming of the messenger of the headquarters, they continued to add more people to help; however, the battle situation did not change much because of this. On the contrary, many of the other tribes' miscellaneous people who had attacked earlier have been defeated and retreated one after another.
At this time, Yelushadi, who was in charge of suppressing the main formation, was also a little unable to sit still. Then, after he looked at Yelu Shilu for instructions, he led the team out like an arrow to face the smoke and dust into the dusty face and drag the flag. Miscellaneous among the tribe. After being burned for a while, Yelushudi and the others put a human body on horseback, and threw them on the ground in front of Yelu Shilu one after another.
"Let's talk, what's going on, what happened to you..."
But Yelu Shilu said calmly:
With these defeated soldiers being brought back, they were beaten by whips and clubs and screamed and screamed for days. Only after a small man with a fur hat decorated with tail feathers, knelt in the dust and shouted hoarsely. Road:
"It's Tang Bing, it should be Tang Bing..."
". They lined up under the city, sending bows and crossbows like rain, and the younger ones couldn't rush through, and they separated. Even the athletes from the various ministries were not afraid, except for the soldiers and horses from the Tang Dynasty. The local Tu people may not be able to come up with such a battle."
"Is it Ping Lu Jun?"
Yeluxidi, who was next to him, speculated: at least for the moment, there are only a handful of Tang forces capable of interfering and participating in the land of Liaodong. Compared to the Lu Longjun, which is separated by more than half of the west of Liaoning, they have been there for many years. On the coast of the peninsula in southeastern Liaoning, the Pinglu Army, which has several towns and port bases, is more likely.
However, Yelu Shilu, who heard the not-so-good news, felt wide and gloomy in his heart. Although he comes from an ethnic group outside of Serbia, he at least knows that as a general, facing an unclear enemy is the most troublesome existence. But after knowing the faction of the place, it means that there is a basic strategy that can be targeted.
Although I don't know why these Pinglu army suddenly broke, the Khitans only wreaked havoc in the northeastern and central parts of Liaoning, and rarely affected the long-term tacit understanding of the southern peninsula; they took the initiative to intervene in the situation in the land of Liaodong. But these Ping Lu army, who are suspected to have come across the sea, are now a good choice for him to make contributions and consolidate his authority.
We must know that although the Great Tang Dynasty of China has been suffering from internal and external troubles for many years, the prestige and legends left behind outside the Great Wall remain in the bones of these grassland tribes for a long time, rather than being so shaken and obliterated; although in the history of Khitan It is not that people have not succeeded in defeating Tang Bing headed by the Pinglu Army and the Chengbang and Fanluo that were attached to it.
But every time the Tang army retreated, the result was an intensified counterattack in a few years or even more than a decade later; then, under the stronger survival crisis, he did not hesitate to kill the leader of the original battle and his relatives, and then bowed his head. Become a minister and survive for a while; waiting for Datang to shift his attention and hostility from his body to another place.
Therefore, a hundred years ago, the Yaoru clan, who was only a branch affiliated clan, also caught up with the long-term control of the Khan Dahe clan. In the crisis of being liquidated after standing in the wrong camp during the Anshi Rebellion, he did not hesitate to break out. Killed the Dahe clan, and as the upper tier of Wangzhang was killed, and then obtained the canonized body of the Tang Dynasty from this, and Mingzheng swallowed his tribe's inheritance, and forced the other seven heads to become the new head of the Wangzhang. .
As a witness and witness of the change of the king’s account, he was just a little-known toeman who was able to take revenge on the old party status and killed the Dahe Clan, who was born in Songmo. Li Guozhe's family, and in the process of pushing the Khan from the Yaonian clan to the upper position, the seventh ancestor Yeruneri of Diechabu was able to rise up.
Therefore, next Yelu Shilu even initially figured out how to play against these Pinglu army. For example, the main force of the Ping Lu army was entangled and dragged along with the horses of the three adults, and then the king's account of all cavalry and the athletes of the Yelv Department were used to raided the back road and robbed and intercepted their food passages. Tang Bing coming across the sea is bound to be difficult to last.
Under the blockade of the Khitan safari, it is also difficult for the local area of Liaodong to eat and eat. At this time they will face the dilemma of running out of food and retreating, or they will collapse without fighting in the midst of starvation; and once Tang's soldiers are shaken and declining, the local soldiers in Liaodong who are compliant will find it difficult to continue to persist and resist. Up.
Then, as long as he secretly sent people who would make him surrender to the city, or make a decisive blow, it would be enough to make these Tang soldiers self-defeating, or they would suffer enough setbacks and losses halfway through their retreat. This is also what Yelu Shilu, who is not obvious as a pioneer, but is still quite famous among the eight books, is the most good at and good at.
In the battle of Rao Leshan that year, when faced with the desperate resistance of the Beishan Five Departments, he instigated and instigated the disputes and infighting in this way, paving the way for the conquering of the Xi people. In this way, there is no need to lose too many heads of athletes and do their best, and with the best tactics and methods of Khitan athletes, they can grab the greatest victory and advantage.
However, the impatient voice from Yelvahidi interrupted his initial thoughts again:
"Dafu! Do you want to send troops to help?"
"Don't worry, hold on... It's useless to catch up before the time is right..."
He glanced at the eager Yelu Shilu said:
"Then when is the best chance..."
The rough-looking Yelvahidi swallowed and murmured:
"Naturally wait until the three adults, and take the initiative to ask for help from the main formation..."
Yelu Shilu frowned, and still explained in a cold voice:
Although he wants to defeat Tang Bing’s merit and fame, he does not want to pay too much for it; even if he feels that he is always loyal to Wang Zhang, loyal to that person so far, there has been no major mistakes and weaknesses. Hende Khan of the state; but he is also the ruler of the Diescha Tribe, and he has to consider the future and more possibilities of the Yelu clan.
In this case, taking advantage of the trend to let the other three adults consume more strength, and at the same time have to resort to their own favor and status, it seems to be easy to do. After all, they didn't ask for instructions and pass on the Chinese army's big account before, and the result of their own fighting without authorization can also become an opportunity and result of establishing their own authority.
However, at this time, there was a strange noise that overwhelmed the fierce fighting in the battlefield in the front of the city; it also made the horses and horses of the Khitan main formation who were watching the battle and sweeping the formation, suddenly shaking their heads and shaking their tails and shaking their ears and their noses. Uneasy and restless.
"Did it thunder?"
Yelu Shilu looked towards the direction where a faint rumbling sound was heard in the distance, but all he saw was a few white clouds under the clear blue sky, and there was not even a trace of the monsoon rain in the dark clouds. However, out of a certain prudence and thoughtfulness, he still said to Yelvahidi
"Send someone to investigate..."
However, not long afterward, in the direction of the upstream of the Liaoshui tributary outside the city, a looming white line appeared suddenly in the gradually moistened air and the rustling cold wind. Then this unclear white line turned into a faint low wall with a little dirty and faint yellow in a short period of time;
Then, along with the rangers and sentry who fled back from the upper reaches, they turned into heart-piercing shouts from the wind:
"water..."
"A lot of water..."
"Vast water..."
It was originally in the dry season and the water level sank into the narrow river channel that had exposed a lot of river beach rocks, and was suddenly filled with fierce swelling waves; it was overflowing like a thunderstorm, rushing out of the shackles of the river bank, And all of a sudden, the messy neighs and the equipment of the people and horses running away along the river were wrapped in each other and became part of the wild Hongtao.
Then, the turbid wave continued to spread, seemingly slow and resolute to catch up, the troops did not hesitate to abandon all their burdens in a panic, and tried their best to flee to the northwest of the main formation of the Khitan Army. Because of the relatively low-lying terrain of the northwest, most of them who were panicked were unable to escape the raging waters.
Therefore, in the end, they have slowed down and become shallower, and they are no more than the torrent that flooded the horseback; but they did not hesitate to float up, and tossed and struggling to flutter in the vortex and spray. ; Then the foreign objects, large and small, carried in the water flow, become blood-colored vortices under the impact.
On the second day, many swollen corpses were piled up and stranded among the countless rotten mud and puddles left behind after the flood receded. Of course, most of them belonged to the Khitan people and their subordinate tribes.
Before the firearms mobilized in the south from the large salt marshes at the mouth of the Liaohe River, the temporary ports established and rushed to support them, this traditional cold-weapon synthesis army, which marched northward into the hinterland of Liaodong, already used its own unique His strategy and tactics severely damaged the invading Khitan army and basically ended the battle.
Then, Lin Ming, the deputy general who led the team to help, can only lament these special troops selected and trained by the former Taining Army, Wuning Army and Heping Lu Army after knowing the whole story. Not only is he fierce enough to the enemy, but also cruel to himself. They actually directly drew thousands of people under the city and the entrapped native soldiers as bait.
Then, in the camp that fought against the city, it attracted and dragged more Qidan Cavaliers until the moment before it was breached, the flood came. In addition to providing cover and support on the city’s head, the greatest contribution of the Taiping Army as the Supervisory Front is to provide the assistance of explosive blasting in the civil work of the upstream barrage and damming.
Although sufficient preparations had been made beforehand, the desperate men deployed under the city. In the end, only half of them could be recovered by various means, or recovered a dying life.
As a result, the next biggest problem was the muddy ground after the water had crossed the border, which hindered and restricted the progress of the follow-up pursuit. It also allowed a small part of the Khitan cavalry who had not been affected to escape. However, what happened next is a bit weird. The remnants of the Khitan who fled and the apostles, slaves, and herds that fell behind became a carnival feast for the Tu people along the way.
They appeared from their hiding places one after another like Yuhou spring bamboo shoots, and they attacked and looted these fleeing Khitan tribes day and night in turn; although, most of them just left or grabbed one. It was just bluffing harassment, but the defeated Khitan remnants caused a lot of trouble and distress, so that they all became frightened birds with rumblings and arrogance.
Therefore, when the Taiping Army reorganized the Liaodong Dispatch Army, after being able to follow up, all you can see are the corpses of the Khitan people who have been chopped off and thrown on the side of the road; and those tentatively holding the head of the dead, leading the cow and horse. Carrying the robbed flags and drums and equipment, the Tu people exchanged for the corresponding reward materials from the transit army. (End of this chapter)