Zhang Chengyou, 36, was at the prime of his life. He started to lead his troops alone at the age of 20. It has been sixteen years since he followed his father to fight south and north, and he was the real general of war and the son Zhang Zhongwu valued the most. He rarely suffered defeats in his life, and the rare times he suffered losses from his father at the hands of the Tang army.

As a natural leader of the young and strong sects among the Liao army, Zhang Chengyou was a staunch anti-Tang faction. He thought about one day that he could counterattack and return to the Central Plains, defeat the Tang army led by Li Ze, and avenge his previous shame.

As the highest commander of Zhang Zhongwu's sect to Goryeo, what Zhang Chengyou had to do was to constantly exploit the Goryeo people and plunder the wealth of the Goryeo people to strengthen the Liao land. Whether it was gold and silver, food, medicinal materials, or even the population, Zhang Chengyou would get whatever the land was in the Liao land was.

What kind of fish is not considered by Zhang Chengyou at all. In his eyes, the Koreans are not considered real people at all, they are just some alternative animals that can create wealth for him.

His high-pressure behavior in Goryeo finally caused a strong rebound. Although he was nominally invited by Li Zaidao, the people would vote with their feet.

When Tan's rebellion, the majority of the people who supported Li Zaidao still accounted for. No matter what, obeying the king was something that penetrated their bones. Tan's rebellion against the king was naturally wrong in the hearts of many people.

Tan Daoji was defeated step by step, retreated into the mountains and began to swim and attack him. After almost becoming the King of Mountains, Zhang Chengyou finally showed his fangs.

Only then did the people of Goryeo realize that they fell into the mud. The defeat of the traitors made them fall deeper in their miserable life.

Those who cannot survive start to flee.

Some people were lucky and fled into the mountains and became supporters of Tan Daoji.

Some people were unlucky and were caught, so they became slaves and were sent to Liao by Zhang Chengyou.

For a long time, in order to make up for the lack of labor force in Liao, Zhang Chengyou captured the population in Gaoli. People in the entire village and town were arrested in the name of Tan Daoji's subordinates, and then sent to Liao to become slaves.

Li Zaidao truly became a puppet king, and it was difficult for government orders to leave the palace.

Zhang Chengyou's cruel rule also made Tan Daoji finally breathe a sigh of relief, and as time went by, it became stronger and stronger.

However, they were still not taken seriously by Zhang Chengyou.

Just like now, Zhang Chengyou has only 10,000 people under his command. As for the thousands of Korean soldiers affiliated with Li Zaidao, in Zhang Chengyou's eyes, they are at most consumables. At this moment, the tribes of Tan Daoji opposite were at least 50,000, and there was no end to them at all.

Such a decisive battle between the two armies was exactly what Zhang Chengyou dreamed of.

The battle of the Liao army to attack the Tang territory had officially begun. At this moment, the Tang territory was the weakest. Only the more than 30,000 troops of the Right Jinwu Guard defended the Liao army in Pingzhou. Zhang Chengyou never cared about Xue Chong. The development of the war, as he expected, Xue Chong retreated without fighting. Before the battle started, he basically gave up Pingzhou.

Although Deng Jingshan suffered a loss in the battle of Jianchang, which forced Zhang Zhongwu's headquarters to set out in advance before the autumn harvest was completely over, the prospects for the war were still very optimistic.

Because Zhang Chengyou knew that Li Ze's large army would never come to help Xue Chong. How could Xue Chong, who was fighting alone, be the opponent of the main force of the Liao army?

He wanted to leave Goryeo earlier and participate in the vigorous war in the Central Plains, rather than playing hide-and-seek with Tan Daoji, a mountain-drilling leopard.

It happened that at this time, Tan Daoji also believed that the main force of the Liao army had left Yingzhou, and Zhang Chengyou became an isolated army. This guy who had been fighting guerrillas in the mountains actually began to assemble troops and go out to fight again and again.

After understanding Tan Daoji's idea, Zhang Chengyou was very excited and used his tricks to lure Tan Daoji out of the mountain to fight a decisive battle with him, thereby annihilation of the opponent in one fell swoop and completely resolve the rebellion problem within Goryeo, and then he could get out. At that time, only one tooth general here would be able to calm the situation. Without Tan Daoji, he just needed to control the Goryeo king Li Zaidao, and everything would be perfect.

The one-stop defeat in succession encouraged Tan Daoji's ambitions and made Zhang Chengyou finally wait for the moment of a decisive battle with his opponent.

At this moment, he had sent his general Yelu Yuan to detour to block Tan Daoji's retreat. Tan Daoji is so capable of escaping. Once things go wrong, he will pull back and run away. Once he is allowed to escape again, even if he wipes out this rebel, it will be a waste of Shan Jiuren. Only by catching or killing Tan Daoji can the problem of Goryeo be truly solved.

After Yelu Yuan left with three thousand Khitan cavalry, Zhang Chengyou had only two thousand cavalry and eight thousand infantrymen left, facing Tan Daoji's 50,000 rebels.

But Zhang Chengyou never felt that he would lose.

Look at the guys on the opposite side. Those who have complete clothes on them are considered rich. Most of them have a spear in their hands. That is, the area of ​​the central army, you can see about a few thousand people wearing armor. That is also Tan Daoji's main force.

Look at my side. Even the Korean soldiers of Li Zaidao had a piece of leather armor on their bodies. As for the Liao army, they had a helmet and armor, and their military appearance was neat.

The sound of rumbling snare drums sounded across the opposite side. After the three-way drum, the vast rebels shouted, and Hulala rushed over.

Zhang Chengyou laughed, stood up his horse and pointed his halberd in front of him, and shouted loudly: "My sons, today's battle will determine the outcome. If we capture Tan Daoji alive, we can go home."

"Go home, go home!" More than 10,000 Liao soldiers waved their swords and guns and shouted excitedly. In Goryeo, although they can show off their power and domineering, they are still quite hard to say, especially when they have to rush into the valley to fight against Tan Daoji, that is really not a life for people.

Those rebels are always like gopher, and they can come out from anywhere to get a knife. The place where they hide is sometimes eye-opening.

Since Tan Daoji escaped into the mountains, they have never fought a serious battle with their opponents and have always been chasing them. In summer, they are covered in smelly sweat, and when they fight mosquitoes, rats and ants, they are much more frequent than when they fight thieves. In winter, they are so cold that they are trekking in the thick snow, and even drinking a sip of hot water is a luxury.

Now, we can finally fight face to face with our opponents. Every Liao soldier is in a high spirit of fighting. In recent years, the anger that is covered with insects and ants bite me is finally able to come out.

"The whole army attacked!" Zhang Chengyou grabbed the war horse under his crotch and rushed out first.

To deal with such a group of mud legs, Zhang Chengyou didn't think there was any special tactics needed. Just face-to-face hard bars, just like a mill, crushing the ground, he wanted to crush all his opponents in front of his war horse.

The two armies collided heavily. As Zhang Chengyou expected, the Liao army was like a red-burned tong tongs and stabbed into the snow. The seeds passed by, the rebels were quickly melted like snow water.

But gradually, the Liao army still felt some obstacles.

The morale of the rebels was unusually high.

Perhaps it was because of their successive victory during this period, or because their number was several times that of their opponents. At the beginning, even though Zhang Chengyou was unstoppable, the large rebels still rushed over fearlessly, pestering Zhang Chengyou tightly, hindering him from advancing to the hillside where the Tan Daoji Central Army Flag was inserted.

Tan Daoji stood on the hillside, looking at Zhang Chengyou's troops, and under the layers of obstacles, although it was difficult, he still advanced towards him step by step, and couldn't help but sigh.

It’s not that his soldiers are not brave, but sometimes courage is really not the key to victory. When the strength of the enemy and us is very different, courage will cause them to suffer greater losses.

Just like now, the more his soldiers fought forward, the more people fell under the Liao army's butcher knife.

The rebels' sword slashed on the Liao army, splashing out sparks. A spear passed by. Before the power was enough, it was blocked by the armor and slid to the side. Even if they injured their opponent, it would be difficult to be fatal. If they were hit by a knife and hit by a spear, they would immediately lose their combat effectiveness.

"Daozhen, have everything arranged in Seoul?" Tan Daoji, who was calm on his face, asked, looking at Zhang Chengyou who was getting closer and closer to him.

Tan Daozhen beside him nodded and said, "Dolin has gone in person. At that time, as long as Zhang Chengyou loses, many people in Seoul will understand which side they should stand on. They are the grass on the wall. As long as we confirm that we have won, we will naturally do our best to help us in order to make some contributions in front of you, brother."

Tan Daoji sneered: "It's like hoping that these people will make our Goryeo stronger, it's like trying to get a tiger into a sneer. Well, I'll slowly deal with them in the future."

Tan Daozhen said: "Yes, I have to deal with Li Zaidao first. At that time, Zhang Chengyou's defeated soldiers and the defeated soldiers of the court rushed back to Seoul. Who can tell what happened there clearly? It was something that no one could have imagined when the king died in the chaos."

"The Tang people wanted to build an opposition between the king and me in Goryeo, so that they could make profits in the middle. Haha, I will take a pot of cutting off the firewood. Without the king, I think what else can they do? What else can they do besides relying on me to stabilize the situation in Goryeo? If they want to start from Goryeo to attack Yingzhou, we must provide them with supplies, food, and civilians. Who else can do it except me? Who else can make them attack Yingzhou without worries?"

"Brother, I have no choice."
Chapter completed!