Chapter 18 Chapter Eighteen
When Shang Boqian was running for his life, Zhao Guangyi was also running for his life. From victory to defeat, from heaven to hell, the distance is so close. Zhao Guangyi, who was lying on the donkey cart and was about to fall apart, still couldn't believe it until now. In fact, in the battle of Youzhou, Zhao Guangyi fought very well, especially when he attacked Youzhou with lightning, that kind of vigor frightened the always arrogant and rebellious Liao people. If it wasn't for Xiao Chuo's firm refusal to surrender, At this moment, the Liao people had long since given up on the Sixteen States of Youyun, and shrunk back to the desert grassland inherent in the era when they were still living on grass and grazing. However, there are still many talented people among the Liao people. The formation of the Song army is the most troublesome thing for them. The 200,000 reinforcements confront the Song army but are helpless. They can only watch them endlessly attacking Youzhou City. The reason is that they found it difficult to deal with the formations of the Song Army after countless scrutiny and simulations of various enemy situations, so they have been working hard to study the formations of the Song Army during the stalemate with the Song Army, hoping to be able to Find its weak point. This weakness was really discovered by them. They attacked the Song Army's formation every day. The army's "Pingrong Wanquan Great Formation" is invincible, at least for them, because their understanding of the battle map is far behind that of the generals in the Central Plains. After all, they can't compare with the Han people in the Central Plains. However, the "Ping Rong Wanquan Great Formation" is made up of people. There are no flaws in the formation, but people have flaws. After several days of careful observation and a lot of sacrifices, they finally discovered that this great formation has a weakness. The weak point is the camp of the Bohai Navy.The Bohai Navy was the first to surrender to the Song Army. The second commander of the Tielin Army, Li Zha Lucun, only brought over two hundred people, while the Bohai Navy surrendered the entire army. With so many soldiers and horses, Zhao Guangyi certainly couldn't raise them like idlers. It happened that he divided his troops to attack the surrounding cities and towns, and he also had to divide his troops to confront the Liao reinforcements. Insufficient, the loyalty of the Bohai Navy that had just surrendered was not enough, and they were worried about sending them out to attack cities and plunder villages, or confront the Liao army, so they were arranged in the "Pingrong Wanquan Great Array". The Bohai Navy has just surrendered, not to mention that they are not familiar with this formation, even the flag orders have not been fully grasped. Whenever they need to evolve according to the formation in battle, they will be in a hurry and lose their rules. .The Liao people found that the Bohai Navy was the only weakness they could find, so they focused their attacks on the direction of the Bohai Navy. A carefully selected army broke through the defense line of the Bohai Navy and entered Youzhou City smoothly. The other soldiers did not dare to leave the formation without orders, lest the entire formation collapse. , while the Bohai Navy was in a panic. It was too late to respond, and it did not expect to report the military situation in a timely and accurate manner. Zhao Guangyi, who was commanding an army of 300,000, was tens of miles away. He didn't know the news until the Liao army entered the city for a long time. This road of reinforcements entering the city is of little significance to replenishing Youzhou's defense forces, but this is the first reinforcement army that has successfully broken through the Song Army's defense line and entered the city since the Song Army's siege. The Youzhou defenders are desperate and on the verge of collapse. Thunderous cheers.This incident is of immeasurable significance to the Liao army inside and outside the city. Because of this incident, the morale of the defenders is high, and the will to stick to it is stronger, and the Liao reinforcements outside the city are also swept away. , Confidence is being restored. When Zhao Guangyi learned that the reinforcements from the Liao Kingdom had entered the city, he couldn't help being furious. He immediately moved the central army of the Imperial Battalion from Baoguang Temple to the north of the city.The emperor was angry, blood flowed, and the Liao reinforcements were defeated in this battle, but Youzhou City was still firmly in the hands of the Liao people, and the Liao flag was still flying on the top of Youzhou City. After that, the already desperate Liao reinforcements and city defenders started to resist again unrelentingly. If there were no such soldiers and horses entering the city, perhaps Youzhou City would have already raised a white flag, and perhaps the 200,000 reinforcements from Liao would have already They gave up the rescue and returned north sadly, but because of this incident, their resistance was extended for at least a month.The extension of time made the balance of victory in the war begin to tilt in favor of the Liao people. At this time, Brother Yeluxiu came. Guderian swung his army into the Soviet Union, and when he sang all the way, did he ever think that he would encounter Zhukov in Leningrad? When the British beat the Italians in Africa, did they ever expect to encounter a "desert fox"? In many cases, the development of history is just an accident, because of a certain person or a certain event, it is completely changed. The situation of traveling to foreign countries and fighting for a long time has already made the soldiers feel tired. The tenacious defenders of the Liao Kingdom seemed to be broken every time, but their fighting spirit repeatedly persisted. The soldiers who had gained nothing began to feel a little war-weary. At this time, Brother Yeluxiu led the elite soldiers of the Fifth Academy of Dielai to come from Shangjing aggressively. Diela's Fifth and Sixth Academy Departments are the most elite troops in the Liao Kingdom. The Sixth Academy Department was stationed on the western front. At the beginning, they went to Yinzhou to hunt down Qing Wang Yelusheng.The Fifth Academy has been stationed on the Eastern Front, and this is the first time it has appeared. This army has just defeated the joint army of the Jurchens and the Shiwei people, and drove the Shiwei people back to the extreme cold like rabbits, and drove the Jurchens into the deep mountains and old forests. They are about to continue chasing them relentlessly. When defeating the enemy, Brother Yeluxiu received the order from Empress Dowager Xiao.Therefore, the warriors of the Fifth Academy of Diela mounted their war horses, carrying the Beizhu mink fur and the Jurchen woman with them, and returned to Shangjing with high spirits. kill. When Brother Yeluxiu arrived in Youzhou, he was secretly surprised when he learned that the six reinforcements had been defeated in front of the Song army and had never fought a decent battle.After some careful thinking, he drew up a bold plan, which was supported by Yelu Xiezhen, so with the cooperation of the two tiger generals, a conspiracy to reverse the entire situation of the battle began. The next day, Yelu Xiezhen still challenged the Song army, but returned in a big defeat. Since the reinforcements from the Liao army entered the city smoothly, the fighting spirit of the defenders was strengthened, and the victory of breaking the city was nowhere in sight. Zhao Guangyi's patience was exhausted. Guang, in a fit of rage, he had forgotten to promote his own strengths and suppress the enemy's weaknesses, and launched a ruthless attack, unexpectedly wanting to defeat the reinforcements first. So when the Liao army came back in a big defeat as usual, this time he did not wave his hand to watch the defeated army leave, but ordered the pursuit fiercely, tearing up the dog skin plaster completely.The army of the Song Dynasty chased and killed them in mighty force, with two legs chasing four legs. They were out of breath, but they could only eat dirt behind the horse's ass. In the evening, after chasing to the vicinity of the Gaoliang River, Yeluxiu's soldiers and horses of Diela's Fifth Academy each held two torches, roaring in the night, clashing back and forth, looking from a distance, I don't know how many reinforcements came, Zhao Guangyi went Let the whole army camp by the river to resist the enemy.But this place is a vast plain, and the Song army who hastily chased here was exhausted, and the formation was scattered. There were no trench fences, no horse-repelling antlers, and no bed crossbows, large shields, and watchtowers for defense. Things like cars, even the flag horn lights of the battalions hadn't had time to set up, how could Brother Yeluxiu let this opportunity go, the advantage of the cavalry was finally brought into play, and the Liao people fought back viciously. After setting up the defense, Zhao Guangyi also immediately discovered the flaws in the deployment of the camp here, so he immediately ordered the retreat, the battalions exchanged in turn, fought and left, and retreated to the city of Youzhou, but unfortunately...it was too late.Not only was it too late, but it was all about returning without withdrawing the battalion. This retreat, at the moment of chaos, happened to coincide with the counterattack of the Liao army, and the two collided. It seemed that Zhao Guangyi took the initiative to cooperate with Brother Yeluxiu's attack. Since then, Song Jun, who has been invincible all the time, was defeated as soon as he came into contact. War is so wonderful. Yesterday you were the winner, but today you are the loser. The key to victory and defeat is just an opportunity. The Datong Army, the Diela Fifth Academy Army, the Tribal Tentacle Army on the outskirts of Youzhou, and the Han Cavalry Army launched endless onslaughts on the Song Army's Imperial Army from all directions, like a lion fighting a rabbit. The Song Army resisted desperately. After the panic, they gradually stabilized their position. If they can hold on for a while longer, when the Song army under the city of Youzhou comes to rescue, it is still unpredictable how the battle in Youzhou will turn out, and Brother Yeluxiu may not be able to turn the tide. But there are no ifs on the battlefield, only results. As a result, Yeluxiu, like a mad tiger, led the fine cavalry of the Fifth Academy of Diela, who had just arrived and had high morale, and rushed directly at Zhao Guangyi's Zhongjun Dayi.Under the canopy of Huang Luo is the emperor of the Song Dynasty. As long as he is killed, even if there are still millions of Song soldiers, the leaderless dragons will be turned into snakes! kill!kill!kill! In the night, Brother Yeluxiu didn't know how many people he killed and how many injuries he suffered. When he was shot in the hind leg, he dismounted from his horse in pain and became unconscious before being carried down by the soldiers.But as soon as Brother Yeluxiu woke up, he wanted to rush up again. If he couldn't walk, he was carried away, shouting and shouting, commanding the three armies. There was only one goal: the imperial camp of the Song army. In the night, under the moonlight, Zhao Guangyi's imperial camp was like a flaming torch, and the 200,000 Liao troops were like moths flying to the flame, risking their lives and rushing there.Every Liao people now understands a truth. Brother Yeluxiu has created an opportunity for them, but whether they can keep their homes or return to their nomadic careers, everything depends on the Song army. The emperor of the Han family in the imperial camp. If he dies, the Liao people will win a big victory. If they cannot be defeated tonight, then the red sun will rise tomorrow, and they will still be greeted with endless despair. All the Liao people went crazy, wailing, and rushed towards the Song army's imperial camp regardless of sacrifice.The already exhausted Song army couldn't hold on anymore. The left wing was defeated first, followed by the right wing, and then the front completely collapsed. In the chaos, Zhao Guangyi was hit by an arrow each in the buttocks and thigh, and the arrows of the Liao people were quenched. The toxin made by the fusion of arsenic, wolf dung, etc., although the amount is too small to be fatal, can make the body weaker and more difficult to heal. At this time, the lights were so dark that even the military doctor couldn't find it, so they didn't even bother to bandage and disinfect. They drew sharp arrows in a panic, took the emperor with them, and left. Flee from where there is little sound. In history, there was a battle of Feishui in which the imperial conquest was defeated. The former Qin Fujian's nearly one million troops were killed by 80,000 soldiers of the Eastern Jin Dynasty.In the original history, there was also the change of the civil fortress in the Ming Dynasty. The Wala Grand Master also defeated the Ming army with 80,000 Tatar soldiers and defeated the Ming army with 500,000. Another time is in front of us. The victory came so suddenly, when the Liao people won the victory, they thought it was a dream. The failure came so suddenly, when Song Jun fled for his life in desolation and panic, they almost thought they were having a nightmare. That night, Shang Boqian was also running for his life, his hair was disheveled, his body was scabbed with blood, his soldiers fled, and there were less than a hundred people closely following him.The horseshoes are strong, the night is dark, the stars are sparse and the moon is bright, and a dark city pass stands quietly on the ground in front of it. "My lord, we have arrived at Jiuyangzhai." The guards shouted in surprise, Shang Boqian, who was in a trance, suddenly lifted his spirits, Jiuyangzhai, this is his old camp, there are at least 10,000 soldiers and horses in the city, and the people in the city and the surrounding suburbs, Hu People, men, women, old and young, are all good at riding and shooting. Almost one person is a soldier. Here, he still has a chance, a chance! When Shang Boqian mentioned the war horse, the exhausted men and horses exerted their last strength and rushed desperately towards his last hope.