Brother Yeluliu had just said the cruel words when he heard such news and was immediately surprised. He stopped suddenly and subconsciously looked back at the battlefield beside the Horsehair River.
Seeing that Ding Haijun's armored cavalry were still fighting with the Mongolian army, he felt relieved and thought to himself: "Ding Haijun's light cavalry?"
After frowning and thinking for a moment, he snorted coldly: "It's Heizui Gou! They came from Heizui Gou! But Brother Te and others didn't leave enough manpower to station! These Mongolians are too negligent!"
Everyone said: "The King of Liao is wise!"
Brother Yelvliu continued to calculate: "Then Guo Ning's troops came from Heizigou, and they were facing the back of Marshal Posha's troops. Marshal Posha was not prepared and was caught off guard, so he was defeated! In this way, Yelu ordered Xue Zhan and Yelu attacked the two generals alone. There is no need to rush to the south. After joining forces, they immediately stationed at the south entrance of Heizuigou to block Guo Ning's retreat! We still have troops and can suppress this small area. Hundred Cavalry!”
Immediately the cavalry was ordered to rush out.
Brother Yeluliu quickly walked west, found a high slope with a wide view in the northwest, and climbed up to investigate the situation. The high slope was not easy to walk on, and he was wearing leather boots. With the help of several attendants, he was sweating profusely before he reached the top of the slope.
When I wanted to take a closer look, another horse came running towards me.
The faces of the attendants all changed slightly. Brother Yeluliu patted their shoulders one by one and said with a smile: "Don't panic, listen to what the generals in front of you have to say first!"
The rushing cavalry reined up their horses at the bottom of the slope, raised their heads and shouted: "King of Liao! Then Guo Ning saw that we had blocked the south entrance of Heizui Valley, turned north, and crashed in the direction of General Li Jianu! "
When the attendants heard this, they were all delighted.
Brother Yeluliu also breathed a sigh of relief.
He said solemnly: "This guy is indeed a common man. He has thrown himself into a trap! Let the Li family slaves mobilize all his archers and shield bearers. Instead of killing the enemy, find a way to entangle him! Tell Yelu Si no, no, Just leave five hundred people to guard Pu Xian Wannu, and the rest of the troops will come back immediately and kill Guo Ning first! Then tell Yelu Tonggu, don't worry about anything else, I only want him to resist the Jin army coming to Beijing!"
These orders involved several marshals and generals. At that moment, five or six cavalrymen responded to the orders and went to lead their horses.
But before they set off, another rider came running from the hills in the northwest corner: "King of Liao! King of Liao!"
Hearing the fear in the knight's voice, Brother Yeluliu didn't care to let him go up the slope. He held his military robe and squatted on the edge of the slope, bowed his head and asked, "What's wrong?"
This knight is a confidant of the Li family slaves. Previously, the Li family slaves attacked the platform where Pu Xianwan slaves were. This knight came back several times and proudly reported his achievements. But now, his face was pale and he was not at all proud. Can't see it.
"I can't resist it! I can't resist it!" He shouted: "Guo Ning was very familiar with the surrounding terrain. He used the cover of a depression to rush straight into the formation of my general's archers, and then crossed the shield array from the back, killing them. Rivers of blood flow... King Liao, we can't resist it anymore!"
"Fart!" Brother Yeluliu said angrily: "Then Guo Ning is from Shandong! How can he be familiar with the terrain of Liaodong! What nonsense are you talking about? Let the Li family slaves stand up! If he dares to retreat, I will behead him immediately!"
Just as Brother Yeluliu was scolding, he rode down the high slope several times in a row. Seeing Brother Yeluliu having such a conversation with the previous knight, all the knights gathered around and said in a flurry of words:
"King of Liao! Then Guo Ning killed General Li Jianu!"
"King of Liao, something bad has happened! Guo Ning crashed into the north and stabbed through the formation of Yelu's general. Yelu's general was fighting with him when he was hit by a cold arrow in the forehead and retreated seriously injured. The military formation collapsed!"
"King of Liao! Then Guo Ning rushed into the ranks of Prince Yelu Sibu and fought several times... My king was afraid of being defeated and regretted the loss of his headquarters, so he sent me to inform the King of Liao that he should retreat first. Got it!"
"Young man Yelu, don't you dare to retreat?"
Brother Yeluliu was so angry that he casually took out his sword and threw it down without even taking it out of its sheath. He hit the messenger cavalry in the face and knocked him off his horse.
It turns out that after Brother Yeluliu raised his army, he fought in the north and south, but he was never able to really open up the situation and restore the momentum of the Liao Kingdom. Therefore, many Khitan nobles under him have only been close friends with his younger brother Yelusi in the past few months and have no recommendation. Yelusi does not replace Brother Yeluliu.
But Brother Yeluliu really didn't expect that at such a critical moment, Yelusi would actually think about his own interests and retreat before the formation? How to make it happen? His retreat meant that there was no one to command the Khitan army in the direction where Pu Xianwan Nu was located!
Brother Yelvliu touched his belt bitterly, trying to find something to throw away, but he heard the attendants beside him say repeatedly: "King Liao, there are knights here to report! Maybe there will be a change!"
Brother Yeluliu raised his head suddenly, and sure enough he saw several more riders approaching:
"Then Guo Ning turned to the north and penetrated the queue of General Yelu Tonggu. General Tonggu fought with him and was killed as soon as he joined forces!"
"King of Liao, when the generals saw that the queue was about to disperse, he personally raised troops to rescue him. As a result, he bumped into Liu Ziyuan, a brave general under He Shi Liede's command, and was captured alive by Liu Ziyuan! The soldiers who went to Beijing and the soldiers of Zhaozhou had already moved from north to south. , rushed straight in!"
Brother Yeluliu felt his hands and feet were numb.
He shook his head repeatedly: "Impossible! Impossible!"
But on the battlefield, what's impossible?
The Khitan army marched straight in from Guangning Prefecture and rushed to the north of Xianping Prefecture. They planned to eat a piece of fat easily, but when the soldiers and horses went to Beijing, the morale of the soldiers had been dampened. Encourage him to cheer up and keep fighting.
For three whole days, the Khitan people faced the enemy on both sides, fighting constantly, and even the iron-clad soldiers would become exhausted. Ding Haijun's cavalry had been recuperating for a long time, and suddenly appeared in the heavily defended inner circle, charging rampant...
How to resist? I just can’t stop it, there’s really nothing I can do!
What will the soldiers think when they cannot resist?
The chaos everywhere spread out like ripples, affecting the whole situation. When Guo Ning broke through the outer circle and faced the Beijing soldiers and horses, the entire battle situation in the north had collapsed!
Brother Yelvliu raised his head and looked into the distance, and he could hear shouts of people everywhere on the hillsides and ravines. In the camps on his own side, on the hills occupied by heavy troops, the trees were shaking everywhere, the figures were swaying, and the soldiers were running here and there. Let's go, it's like burning your butt.
Among the rebels, a red flag was fluttering, and a group of cavalry galloped like lightning, heading towards the direction of the Chinese army where Brother Yeluliu was!
In the cavalry, Guo Ning waved his whip and said: "Soldiers, follow me!"
The soldiers responded with a roar. They defeated several groups of enemy troops in succession, but their own losses were not heavy. At this time, there were more than 400 people holding bows and guns, riding closely behind Guo Ning. Everyone's morale was extremely high.
Guo Ning's troops were still known as the Laizhou Ding Navy of the Jin Kingdom at this time, but they were no longer the usual Jin army. Every knight in the Ding Navy is no longer an ordinary warrior from the Jin Kingdom.
The training of soldiers in the Kingdom of Jin has always been a problem.
Most of the talents of the two generations of elite soldiers at the founding of the country came from the accumulation of hard work of hunting in the white mountains and black waters. At most, they were added to some customs passed down by word of mouth among the barbarian tribes. But as the Jurchens entered the Central Plains in large numbers, this accumulation and inheritance became water without a source.
During the reign of Emperor Xizong, with the successive deaths of warriors from the previous generation such as Wanyan Zongqian and Zong Bi, the Kingdom of Jin was already facing a complete shortage of middle-level and grass-roots officers. Xizong was very anxious about this, so he launched a military examination to ensure the basic quality of officers.
As a result, in the martial arts events that were perfected during the Taihe period, in addition to the basic content such as shooting sticks, shooting deer, and galloping, only the recitation of Sun Wu's Art of War was left. Moreover, if you can answer five out of ten items, you will be considered superior.
The majestic Kingdom of Jin originally had military strategies and strategies to sweep across the territory, but they had forgotten all of them and had to make do with Han'er's military strategy. It was ridiculous in the first place. And the essence of real fighting, advance and retreat, can't be covered only by Sun Wu's Art of War?
Guo Ning opened a military academy in Shandong to solve this problem.
Only through the military academy model can we summarize the scattered experiences of many people, summarize the experience into principles, perfect the principles into regulations, and put the regulations in front of so many soldiers who have been on the battlefield for them to judge, memorize, and apply them.
Those regulations were very cumbersome and lacked literary grace. They only talked about trivial matters related to the lives of soldiers.
For example, what is the most effective way to avoid a thrown arrow? When charging at the enemy, which way is the easiest way to kill first with a long weapon? When two armies meet, how to estimate the enemy's tactics so as to select appropriate weapons in advance? When riding and charging, what echelon should a person who is good at be in?
Guo Ning was still a soldier on the frontier until last year. He felt that he really had no great talent. Most of his companions were junior officers with humble backgrounds, so what everyone came together to figure out was nothing more than these bits and pieces.
He mobilized warriors from various ministries and taught them in batches at the military academy. Most of them were fragmentary things that could not be brought to the table.
But these bits and pieces themselves are regarded by experienced soldiers as secret know-how, and as family heirlooms to protect their lives. Once they are promoted and held by hundreds or thousands of soldiers, and a unified standard is formed, the army will have a sudden increase in combat effectiveness.
Therefore, Han Xuan was able to fight fiercely with three Mongolian thousand-man troops with only one iron cavalry, so Guo Ning led the light cavalry and ran around, as if destroying the dead.
Even Guo Ning himself had not fully anticipated the extent of this improvement.
"Charge to the top of the mountain, defeat Brother Yeluliu, and Liaodong will be pacified! This battle is not a loss!"
Guo Ning laughed twice and said to Zhao Jue excitedly.
And Zhao Jue sighed: "Jie Shuai, I'll go and charge, I'll just go!"
As Guo Ning's Qingqi continued to approach, Brother Yeluliu's Chinese army was in chaos.
"King of Liao, we must immediately recall the two generals Yelu Xuejun and Yelu Dula! We still have more than 3,000 people here. We are defending with the mountains, and the light cavalry will definitely not be able to attack them!"
"King Liao, I can't wait to recall them! Let's go down the mountain immediately and join the two generals!"
"King of Liao! King of Liao!"
Many voices came and went in Yeluliuge's ears.
Brother Yeluliu waved his hand to drive away the buzzing sounds. He turned back and looked in the direction of the Mazhao River.
He was very convinced that as long as the Mongols could win, there was still hope for the whole war.
However, when he looked out with hope, Boduhuan's face was full of sweat, blood and dirt, and he shouted at Brother Kete: "Hundugu is dead! His head was trampled to pieces by horse's hooves, and he was there. It shattered before my eyes, like a bird egg breaking open! The Khitans are also in chaos, this battle cannot be fought, we have to find a way to retreat! Leave quickly!"
But Brother Te hesitated: "Retreat? If we retreat, what will Aruduhan do? Is his group of cavalry still in the south?"
While these two Mongolians were making plans, Li Ting, who was supposed to be fighting with Aruduhan's cavalry, was standing on a high slope in astonishment, looking out with a pergola in his hands: "Leaving? Leaving suddenly?"
Birds fluttered across the sky.
Li Ting looked at the bloody soldiers on both sides. He wanted to praise them and boost their morale, but he couldn't help but said: "The Mongols are moving a bit fast. Does this place seem like it can make a difference? It seems that I, Li Ting Erlang was deceived by Guo Liu!"
After thinking about it, I would like to reiterate to my readers: this book will not have drastic social reforms, let alone a technological explosion or renaissance. With my meager knowledge, I don’t dare to write, and I can’t write those things, so none of my books contain those contents.
As for what this book is about, it is just a dream of a fierce general brother who likes to hit people with a hammer, which triggered a series of legendary stories, that's all.
I hope you all like it. If you don’t like it, there’s nothing I can do about it :-)
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