Chapter 462 The night of the full moon
The soldiers of the three armies shouted in unison: "Behead!"
Xiao Kangzhen said in a voice: “I didn’t hear clearly, just shout louder!
"Cut! Cut! Cut!"
The soldiers of the three armies rushed to the ground with guns and attacked the armor with swords, making a clanging sound.
"Military orders are like mountains. Liu Yilong and his troops are afraid of fighting and escape. They should be executed according to the order! Follow Your Majesty's orders and kill them all! Execute!"
Liu Yilong knelt down, his eyes rolling around, thinking about how many military sticks he would be beaten and how to pass by perfunctory. He knew that when he was using people, if he was killed, all the Han generals who surrendered to the Khitan would think. As the saying goes, the law does not punish the masses, but he did not expect that the Khitan emperor actually ordered the execution of the execution, and more than a hundred people, regardless of the officers, soldiers, and subordinates, were executed.
"No! Your Majesty, please forgive me! Lord Xiao, please plead for the general, and the general will never again..."
"puff!"
The executioner was clean and neat. At Xiao Kang's order, his head rolled to the ground in the cold light. For a moment, the sword lights rose and fell on the training ground, and blood appeared. In a moment, more than a hundred people were buried on the spot, and people were about to vomit in the bloody smell.
Xiao Kang said coldly: "The Southern Dynasties raised troops to invade our territory, so Your Majesty was ready to raise an army to support Youzhou. Your Majesty was to support the country. The righteousness was in. Although the Southern Dynasties had many soldiers and horses, they were just native chickens and dogs, and they were vulnerable. With Your Majesty, we can fight against all the troops in the north of Mo, and we can also defeat the unrighteous troops of the Southern Dynasties. If there are those who are afraid of fighting and those who are deceived by the morale of the army, they will be killed without mercy. Do you hear it clearly?"
As soon as the curtain was lifted, Xiao Kang walked in with a bloody smell. The wind outside the tent blew in. Yelu Abaoji held the candle in his hand steadily, and Xiao Kang quickly put down the curtain and replied: "Your Majesty, I am humble..."
Yelu Abaoji waved his hand and said in a deep voice: "We have to fight this battle, and we have to fight if we don't fight. We must not only fight, but we must also win. This is the first battle after the Southern and Northern Expedition Army arrived in Youzhou. If I avoid fighting, the army will be completely defeated and the soldiers will be defeated like a mountain. In the future, there will be no need to fight. Our 300,000 tiger soldiers and horses are strong, but we cannot all be put into the battlefield. Now the people in the capital are in panic. We must leave a large army to take charge. There are even more bitter and cold Jurchens and tribes like Wei Tuo are not convinced by our Khitan. Although they are weak, once our Khitan is out of support or confrontation, the Jurchens and other tribes will definitely not miss this opportunity to get rid of our control. We will also place a soldier in the north at will. In this way, the soldiers we can invest in are only about 200,000."
"What Your Majesty said is very good. The Xi tribe can draw out tens of thousands of troops and the empress personally leads the capital. I am willing to lead 30,000 troops to shock the Jurchen tribes. Your Majesty will be at ease to deal with the Southern and Northern Expedition Army." Xiao Kang replied in response.
Xiao Kang also knew that the Han soldiers who surrendered to the Khitan were actually not afraid of death, but were afraid of the orthodox instinct of the Southern court. Now only Liu Yilong's troops escaped, and the rest of the troops may not have no morale of the army. If this battle is won, the morale of the army can be settled. If it is avoided, although it is strategically correct, as the first battle with the Southern and Northern Expedition Army, fighting or not fighting is obviously of great significance beyond war.
"Okay, I will go to the battle myself." Yelu Abaoji said in a deep voice.
Yelu Deguang next to him said with a serious expression: "If this is the case, we can only concentrate our efforts to protect Qi County. If the Tang Dynasty can eat up the 10,000 troops of Luo Shifeng who surrendered to us in Qi County, it will be a great victory. Then we will have to break through many levels to support Youzhou!"
Yelu Abaoji said with satisfaction: "Wang Yanzhang, Shangrang is like a crab, Zhang Shuangao, Duan Mingyu's mouth is wide open. He put Luo Shifeng in front of him, probably because he was trying to lure me to rescue Luo Shifeng in Qi County. This is a dignified plot. Even though he knew it was a trap, he had to go ahead. If he was careless..."
Yelu Abaoji Xiao Ran said: "The arrow is on the string and I have to fire it. As for life and death, I have already put it aside when I rode on the horse!"
Yelu Deguang and other generals looked solemn, and they all leaned over and said, "I swear to follow Your Majesty to the death!"
Yelu Abaoji smiled faintly and leaned over to look at the sand table again. A glimmer that was not easy to notice quietly passed through his eyes: "Duan Mingyu, the tiger general of the Southern Dynasty, attacked every step of the way, and guarded it without leaking water. If it weren't for Zhuge, it would be difficult to deal with such a huge gap in strength between the enemy and us, but where is my Zhuge Kongming?"
The commander of Qi County Luo Shifeng, just a few years after surrendering to the Khitan, encountered the Northern Expedition Army, and the surrounding prefectures and counties fell one after another, and he was the only one who echoed Yanjing. The Han soldiers divided the north and south, but the people's hearts were not divided. What's more, although the Han people in Yan wanted to return to the orthodox Tang Dynasty, what about the generals? Generals were the soul of a military force. If the generals were heartbroken to the Khitan, who would have any objections to the soldiers under their command? The Han generals in Yan were ironclad and focused on the Khitan. The emperors before the Tang Dynasty pointed at the generals, and they often had to fight wars that should not be fought, and the battles that should be won were often defeated, resulting in the heroes' blood staining the battlefield and their ambitions were difficult to reach. The Khitans would not use literature to control the military, and the status of military generals was much higher. Therefore, the Han generals in Yan might not turn against each other and support the Tang Dynasty. At most, they would not help each other, but they would more help the Khitans and resist "foreign enemies."
The northerly, the harder the battle was to fight, so Duan Mingyu did not intend to take Qi County without bloodshed. He planned to drag Qi County until he was exhausted, then defeat the Khitan reinforcements, and finally occupy Qi County and attack Youzhou in general.
August 15th, Mid-Autumn Festival night.
Duan Mingyu attacked Qi County on the Mid-Autumn Night. The Tang army's horse exploration in Qi County had already sent back the news. Today is August 15th. Luo Shifeng was going to the county magistrate's office to attend a banquet, drink and enjoy the moon. Therefore, he chose to attack Qi County on the Mid-Autumn Night on the Mid-Autumn Night. The main general of the attack was the young general Xu Jing.
In the Qi County Magistrate's Office, Luo Shifeng was chatting and laughing with several civil and military officials, accompanied by Qi County Magistrate, the chief clerk, the county magistrate and other bureaucrats.
More than 20 dead guards of Shence Army, Yi Fei captured the slit and climbed up to the low city. After successfully dealing with the seven patrol officers and soldiers, they were finally discovered by the defenders. The police bells sounded, and immediately the alarm was spread throughout the city, and the shouts of killing were deafening. Several civil and military officials jumped up in surprise and said in a trembling voice: "No, the Tang army attacked the city!"
Luo Shifeng laughed and stood up. His drunkenness was swept away. He glanced at several colleagues in the suit and said disdainfully: "Why should you panic, lords? Luo made careful arrangements to lead the King of Zhao. If he doesn't come, I will be disappointed. Today he comes, and I will tell him that there is no return!"
He pulled off his outer robe, and the inner cover was covered with black iron armor. Luo Shifeng shouted with murderous aura: "Come here, follow me to the city! Today's battle will definitely kill the children of the Southern Dynasty!"
Luo Shifeng put a lot of effort into the deployment of Qi County. The Tang army's army could not take it for a while when facing this small town that was not very tall. Arrows and meteors rolled like fish, and more than 20 deaths in the Shence Army who had entered the city finally came to the city gate after most of the sacrifices and forced the city gate to open.
Chapter completed!