Chapter 51 Section ten
The next five days will be the Liao army's big attack, big sweep, and big victory, and it will also be the five days of the Song army's big retreat, big collapse, and big defeat.
After Yelu Dashi and Xiao Qian defeated Yang Keshi's surprise attack army, they did not allow the other party to take a breath. On the same day, they led the whole army to advance towards the Lugou River.This time, Empress Xiao didn't mention the imperial conquest, not only the important place in the capital, but she needs to be in command; .
Yelu Dashi and Xiao Qian were on the march when they suddenly received an urgent report from Empress Xiao.According to the Tanma report, on the ground north of Tongzhou in the southeast of Beijing, a Song army moved northward, aggressively, and threatened to invade the capital.This army horse is estimated to have as many as 30,000 to 50,000 people, and the word "King" is on the banner.At this time, Empress Xiao had already become a frightened bird. After receiving the news, she hurriedly ordered Xiao Qian and Yelu Dashi to return to the teacher to help, so as to consolidate the foundation.
It may not be reliable to explore horses, but if it is estimated that there are 30,000 to 50,000 people, there must be a large army.Yelu Dashi also judged that this Song army general surnamed Wang was probably the general manager Wang Teng.Although Wang Ting was not well-known in the Western Army, he had rich experience and was capable of both combat and defense. When he was on the front line of Xiongzhou, he had fought against him several times, and both of them knew each other's positions.He pondered for a while and said:
"After the Song army was defeated, this surprise soldier suddenly appeared. It was clearly intended to contain my army. Unexpectedly, there was such a capable person in the Song army. If my entire army returns to help, I will hit his plan. If I ignore it, there will be a mistake at all, and the overall situation will be corrupted. Yes. This king has a deep understanding of strategy, is sophisticated and calm, but he should not be underestimated. It seems that I have to resist him for a while. I don’t know what the fourth army thinks?"
After the two discussed and decided, Yelu Dashi divided up 20,000 troops, and immediately turned to the flanks to deal with Wang Teng's (and Liu Qi, who he didn't know was also in the army) the containment army.
Here Xiao Qian and Xiao Wuli led a large army, and that night they returned to the bank of the Lugou River, lit ten thousand open fires, sounded ten thousand face drums, laid out a large formation stretching for more than ten miles, and shouted loudly, Liu Yanqing, a pustulant, came out of the camp to answer and challenge.
In fact, the Liao army's offensive did not start on the night of the twenty-fifth day. On the evening of the twenty-fourth, after Xiao Qian led a large army to rescue the capital, the Xi army left behind launched a feint attack to distract the Song army's attention.Originally, after Yang Keshi led the army to set off, the Song army in Lugouhe should launch a big offensive to cover the surprise attack, but Liu Yanqing couldn't see it, and instead let the Liao army take the lead, and it became a situation where the enemy was the main force. Some capable people are enough to assist Xiao Qian's inadequacy.
However, the offensive on the evening of the twenty-fifth was large in scale and majestic, far exceeding the feint attack on the evening of the twenty-fourth.This is an attack determined to bring down the entire Song army with the intention of defeating Yu Wei.
At this moment, Xiao Qian held two trump cards in his hand:
First, Xi Jun found the iron armor and horse gear left by Yang Keshi, Guo Yaoshi and others in Yanjing City and Chenggen.These can be impersonated. The most important thing is that Yang Keshi's pair of iron maces were also found. This pair of iron maces is known to everyone in the Western Army, and it can prove his identity more than his "Yang" character identification flag. , or to prove that he was indeed killed in action.These trophies, together with a large number of military flags, and Yizhangxue's body, were brought to the front by Xiao Qian to make full use of them, hyping up "Yanjing Great Victory", "Song Army's piece of armor is not left behind" and "Yang Keshi was killed" and so on. And so on.
Second, in addition to the dead trophies, the Liao army captured two living trophies.They are Xuanfu Division's accompanying writer Jiyi Jia Ping and grain guard Wang Yuan.In Xiao Qian's propaganda campaign, this pair of cultural and military treasures played a more effective role than armor and harness.
Jia Ping was an important member of the Xuanfu Department and Tong Guan's confidant. Tong Guan specially sent him to Yanjing with the army. It turned out that he had the dual tasks of guardianship of the generals and literary communication and propaganda.Now that the Xuan Fu envoy had sent him by name, Jia Ping had no choice but to come out and work hard.After winning the Yingchun Gate, he was really busy, wrote a good report, and sent people to the camp.Then in the fierce battle in the market, he presented another poisonous plan.Among the Khitan aristocratic women captured alive, choose a plump woman of the same age, with her hair disheveled, her arms outstretched, tied to a cross wooden frame, and then loaded into a car with the hood removed. , On the open-air Daxi car on the wall of the car.A white cloth was hung on the back of the car, with big characters written on it, "The fugitive and rebellious woman Empress Xiao of Liao was arrested for a day of patrolling to serve the public".Jia Ping personally brought a few sets of gongs and drums, and dozens of accompanying soldiers, surrounded the fake queen tied to the dew cart, and pushed them to and from several important streets to show the public.Empress Xiao is usually very dignified, she comes to the court to listen to the government, and she only has contact with a few trusted ministers, and ordinary officials, the sky is so close, they can't see the holy face clearly.Now in such a state of embarrassment, ordinary Khitan warriors and Han'er rich and powerful people can't tell the truth from the fake, and they are deceived for a while, which also plays a role in deceiving people's hearts.Jia Ping thought he had made a great achievement and was extremely proud. When Yang Keshi led his troops to attack the royal city, he asked for an errand to stay in the outer city and be responsible for restoring order.As soon as the sound of Yang Keshi's horseshoes passed, he took some of his entourage to do a non-literal "opportunity" job that disrupted order. It was the officers and soldiers he had promised to win the victory in Chenzhou Mansion. Once they invade Yanjing City, they can let go of their happy activities.He himself fulfilled his promise first, and lived a very unsatisfactory half of the day!Unexpectedly, Xi Jun counterattacked, Yang Keshi ran away in a wilderness, and his entourage dispersed, leaving him alone. He was so frightened that his limbs trembled and he couldn't stab the horse, so he was taken by Xi Jun.
Wang Yuan is also Tong Guan's confidant, he was in the Liuli River area to urge food for Liu Guangshi's rear army, Liu Guangshi's army suddenly disappeared without a trace, but encountered Xiao Qian's army, chased him down for a while, and he also followed Bring it in hand.
Among the captives, Xiao Qian only set his sights on this pair of live treasures.He treated him in his own way, sent a team of cavalry to escort the two of them, and patrolled along the riverside.The two of them were asked to report their names and official titles, and said that the surprise attacking army had been wiped out. Yang Keshi, Guo Yaoshi and other generals died and surrendered.The army of the Song Dynasty on the south bank here is facing the pursuit of the kings of the four armies, and the back road has been cut off. There is no way to advance or retreat. It is better to surrender early, which is the best policy.These two cartilaginous worms want to keep their lives safe, and follow Xiao Qian's orders one by one.Around the river bank, they shouted hoarsely, their throats were hoarse, and they lived up to the appreciation of Xiao Qian's giant eyes.
Xiao Qian's strategy of attacking the heart really produced a miraculous effect in the moment of panic.When Liu Yanqing heard the news of a series of failures, he was so frightened that he hid in the camp and closed the door.
On the afternoon of the 11th and 24th, almost when they received a simple report from Liu Guangshi, saying that the former army had entered the city of Yanjing, Tong Guan and Liu Yanqing also received a report from Yang Keshi. A victory book, this article has four parallels and six parallels, with neat confrontations and gorgeous rhetoric, exaggerating the victory ten times in tone.It turns out that although Jia Ping is good at writing, he usually likes to write small articles such as notices and petitions. If he is asked to write an article that can be sued to the ancestral temple and hang down forever, he is unable to do what he wants, so he has to write Overjoyed and sighed.Before he set off with the army, he had already planned ahead and entrusted someone to write for him to catch the knife, and prepared in advance a successful draft for recovering Quan Yan.After winning the Yingchun Gate, he thought that the overall situation was settled, and he didn't have time to think about it carefully, so he just added the sentence "Xiao's family is yet to be found", and copied it out.The article speaks with such certainty that it didn’t even explain the fact that the king’s city hadn’t entered yet. It can’t be blamed that after receiving the good news, the Xuanfu Division and the Commander-in-Chief concluded that Yanjing had already been recovered, and only some remnants of the enemy were left. Continue to sweep the impressions.The great merit has already been obtained at your fingertips, how dare Tong Guan be negligent, and hurriedly asked Yu Wenxu, who was working in the Xuanfu Division at the time, to draw up a congratulatory form, and together with this good news, they rushed six hundred miles Delivery to Tokyo.
In the middle of the night on the 26th, the good news of Quan Yan's recovery spread throughout Tokyo.At dawn on the 27th, Wang Fu led a group of officials to submit a congratulatory letter. Officials officially received the congratulations in the Zichen Hall. Yubi personally named Yanjing City as Yanshan Mansion, and the rest of the prefectures and counties that had been recovered and were yet to be recovered were also renamed. , and issued an imperial edict to pardon Xinfuzhou County and reward the frontline soldiers. The monarchs and ministers happily prepared an unprecedented "universal celebration" ceremony to celebrate this unprecedented military victory.
The day when the monarchs and ministers in Tokyo were in high spirits was the time when the frontline officials felt like they were sitting on pins and needles.
Tong Guan and Liu Yanqing were happy for less than twelve hours. At noon on the 25th, Liu Guangshi brought the bad news that Yang Keshi's former army had been wiped out, and that Yang Keshi, Guo Yaoshi and other generals were missing. The Ministry hastily fled back.In fact, the news brought by Liu Guangshi is purely conjectural. He only heard that Xiao Qian had returned to aid him, so he concluded that Yang Keshi would undoubtedly be defeated. When he turned back, it was Yang Keshi who was bleeding at the gate of the king's city. It is a hard battle, when the rear army is urgently needed to respond.If Liu Guangshi's reinforcements arrived before Xiao Qian's reinforcements, the outcome of the battle might have been very different.Tong Guan and Liu Yanqing heard the news immediately, but they didn't see someone sent by Yang Keshi, so they believed it and were scared out of their wits.Seeing that the overall situation was not good, Tong Guan reprimanded Liu Guangshi for fleeing back without authorization and delaying the military opportunity. On the other hand, he made excuses to deal with the aftermath, and hurriedly fled back to Xiongzhou with his staff, and completely blamed Liu Yanqing for the front military, asking him to take the blame and make meritorious service.
How could Liu Yanqing bear such a heavy burden?On the twenty-fifth day and night, Xiao Qian's bravado challenge fully confirmed the bad news brought by Liu Guangshi.As if he was in the midst of fire and water, he only wanted to follow Tong Guan's footsteps and leave this place of right and wrong immediately.
On the 26th, Liu Yanqing got his confirmation. Yang Keshi, Guo Yaoshi and a few others were neither killed nor surrendered. They fled back to Zhuozhou via Guci and Sanjiadian.The news did not reassure him one bit.At this time, Xiao Qian sent people to sneak into the rear of the Song army on the south bank of the Lu River and set fires everywhere, burning all the military supplies and food of the Song army, and some camps of the garrison were also set alight.In addition, Xiao Qian checked the water potential everywhere, built pontoon bridges, and threatened to cross the river on a large scale to encircle and wipe out the Song army.It is also said that Zhuozhou and Yizhou have been recovered, and the encirclement is shrinking day by day. If the Song army does not escape, there is only one dead end.Xiao Qian's rumor offensive, propaganda offensive, water attack, and fire attack came one after another.The Song army blocked the uncertain river in front, and there was fire all over the sky behind, and the left and right wings were threatened by the Liao army who was about to cross the pontoon bridge. It was really in dire straits.
On October 27th and 28th, Liu Yanqing applied for 12 documents in a row to the Xuanfu Department, demanding that "that time" immediately.
A section of the river bridge was called Lugou River in Song and Jin Dynasties.
Tong Guan also made a mess of his ideas, and he didn't show up, but asked "Mohuluo" to give Liu Yanqing a written answer in the name of Xuan Fu's deputy envoy:
"Looking up at each other to measure the situation, if you can do it, then you can do it, and there should be no mistakes."
Both Liu Yanqing's Shen Wen and Cai You's reply are worthy of being masterpieces of clericalism. Liu Yanqing obviously wanted "that time", and in order to shirk responsibility, he asked the Xuanfu Department to give him a written answer and agree to that time.Tong Guan is well-behaved and pushes it to Cai Youfuwen.Cai You said something ambiguous, "If it's possible, then it's possible." Liu Yanqing had to make his own decisions, push back the responsibility, and then formally ordered him to "do nothing wrong."Lun Suan that time, how can I not miss other things.In fact, whether they make mistakes or not is not in their consideration. They only ask themselves to be irresponsible and less responsible.But this reply did save Liu Yanqing's life.Later, the imperial court investigated the responsibility for the defeat, Liu Yanqing presented the reply, Tong Guan and Cai You could not put all the responsibility on him alone, so they got a lighter punishment.It can be seen that this fool is not too foolish when it comes to protecting himself.
On the twenty-ninth day, wildfires broke out everywhere, and the wind became tighter.Liu Yanqing was already in a state of anxiety, and when he saw that the reply from Xuan Fusi had arrived, he felt as if he had been amnesty.He didn't have time to discuss the retreat steps with the generals, and took Liu Guangguo, Liu Guangshi, father and son, and ran away.The generals and their subordinates couldn't find the main general, and they saw the grain platform of the Chinese army on fire, and the order suddenly fell into chaos.The staff of the Xuanfu Division, who had always had the priority to escape, were unwilling to lag behind and rushed to run around.There were so many people crowded, some people couldn't wait to get out of the camp gate, and even pushed down the short wall, destroyed the wall and escaped for their lives.The generals of the battalions abandoned the army when they heard that the Chinese army was in chaos and the grain platform was burned.The soldiers couldn't get orders from their superiors, couldn't find the commander in chief, and they were in a mess, running around and collapsing in an instant.Taking advantage of the situation, Xiao Wuli assassinated the army to catch up, and killed all the Song Dynasty army on the south bank of the Lugou River without a single battle.The defeated soldiers were frightened and trampled on each other. Some were trampled to death by war horses, some were crushed to death by vehicles, some were squeezed into the river and drowned, and some fell to death from the cliff.From Lugou to Baigou, for more than a hundred miles, there are corpses everywhere who did not die in battle, but escaped, did not die at the enemy's front, but died in the absurd measures of the chief.Half of the military supplies and food were burned, and the other half was thrown away. The loss was exhausted.
Since the end of September, the military achievements that have been achieved with great difficulty have happened overnight.It was all lost, and the capital of tens of thousands of officers, soldiers and gangsters was also affixed.This is a complete failure, a complete collapse.
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