Chapter 982: The Willows and Flowers Are Bright
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The meeting lasted for more than an hour, and after heated discussions, the strategy of the breakthrough operation was finally reached, in view of the fact that the enemy's main attack direction was Dongcheng and the south was Seoul, which was not conducive to getting rid of the pursuit in time, and could not break through to the north, so the best breakthrough was the west.
There are 20,000 Liao troops besieged outside Xicheng, which is the weakest point, Su Jin decided to assemble the army overnight and transfer to Xicheng, and after dark, he attacked the Liao army camp in Xicheng with all his might, and after breaking through the siege, he went southwest along the line of Huaizhou in Gyeongju to the edge of the desert, and strived to fight back to Yunnei from the original Gobi sand sea and evacuate from the territory of Xia Kingdom.
After the strategy was set, all the generals immediately arranged it, and after a full dinner, the Song army all gathered in the city square, and the 50,000 Song troops were unkempt and unhuman, their armor was torn, and their thin clothes exposed the dry grass and rags that kept out the cold.
Su Jin looked sad, but he still had a resolute face, and ordering a breakthrough was actually a risky move, Ximen seemed to be weak, but once the breakout battle started, the soldiers and horses of Beicheng and Hancheng would immediately go to support, whether they could get out could only depend on the creation of God, at the pre-war meeting, someone raised this point, Su Jin asked them: Are you willing to watch the Liao people stone themselves to death with arrows and trebuchets, or are you willing to fight to the death to find a glimmer of life? The answer is obviously the latter, there is no material to defend the city at all, the city is broken only overnight, and when the whole city falls, the result is naturally that all the people will die in battle, but Su Jin doesn't want to die with the Liao people, to put it bluntly, he feels that it is not worth it.
"Brothers, you have followed me to fight for half a year, and have made immortal feats, there has never been an army as brave and fearless as you, Su is very proud, and he is proud to have your brothers; Su thanked you for fighting bravely without fear of life and death along the way, and doing your duty for the Great Song Dynasty, but we also witnessed the brothers around us fall one by one, one by one, and sacrificed their lives one by one, death is terrible, but it is also sacred, they sprinkled their blood on the land of the Liao people, which will be remembered by us and remembered by the people of the Great Song Dynasty; But we can't die senselessly, we have to return to the Great Song Dynasty alive, this is the final victory, so today we have to break through overnight, we have to return to the Great Song Dynasty, and accept the emperor's reward and the cheers of the people; I don't know how many brothers will die here tonight, and even we can't be spared, but we can't give up this last hope, we have to rush out, return to the Great Song Dynasty, return to our homeland, and return to our relatives! ”
The soldiers burst into tears, raised their weapons and shouted: "Return to the Great Song Dynasty and swear to break through." ”
Su Jin raised his hands and said, "Let's do our best to do the last battle, believe me, I will take you back to the Great Song Dynasty and reunite you with your relatives." ”
The soldiers shouted: "Su Dashuai, we believe in you." ”
Su Jin drew the blade at his waist and was about to give the order to attack, when suddenly, a thunderous cry came from afar, followed by a rapid horn, and the sound of people neighing and swords clashing.
Everyone looked at each other, and Su Jin shouted: "Where is the sentry agent, what happened?" ”
After a while, the soldiers came galloping on horseback, and when they came to Su Jin, they rolled their saddles and dismounted their horses, and they couldn't breathe and shouted: "Hello Marshal, the Liao camp outside the east gate seems to be fighting." ”
Su Jin was stunned and said, "Who fought with whom?" ”
"It's too dark to see clearly, and someone has been sent to investigate."
Su Jin quickly got on his horse and galloped to the east gate, the generals hurriedly got on their horses to follow, and everyone climbed the city tower to look down, only to see a mess in the Liao military camp, torches swaying, shouting and killing; Looking at the north gate and Seoul to the south, a long dragon with a few torches galloped towards the east gate, which was the supporting army of the Liao army.
Su Jin shouted loudly: "Send a red flame rocket." ”
In the whistling sound, three red fireworks bombs flew into the dark night sky, stayed in the air for a moment and exploded into thousands of flowers, and a moment later, three red fireworks bombs rose in the distance behind the Liao military camp, which were also the royal signal arrows of Su Jin's northern expeditionary army.
Mahan shouted excitedly: "It's the dynasty them, it's the dynasty them." ”
Su Jin's palms trembled a little with excitement, and the sky in the southeast corner suddenly rose with green signal arrows, Su Jin couldn't believe his eyes, the green signal fireworks were the contact signal of the main force of the Song army, could it be that the support of Fan Shuai and Han Shuai had arrived? Originally, I was still doubting that even if the dynasty survived, there would not be many soldiers and horses on hand, so how could it dare to raid the Liao army camp, but in this way, it can be explained.
"Marshal, reinforcements are coming." Jingtai muttered with tears in his eyes.
Pan Jiang said: "What are you waiting for, the inside and the outside should go out to attack the east gate." ”
Su Jin said: "Yes, yes, Pan Jiang Jingtai listened to the order, immediately reorganized the army, attacked the Liao army from the east gate, and gave them a big dumpling for the New Year." ”
The east gate was wide open, and the 50,000 Song army rushed out of the imperial city like a wolf and went straight to the Liao army camp to kill, the 110,000 army of the dynasty and Di Qing had already taken the lead, and the Liao army could not resist it, not to mention the three-P game of attacking before and after, Yelu Chongyuan never thought that there would be such an army from behind, and when the battle started, he understood why the scout team sent to the east in the past two days had all mud cows into the sea and did not come back, obviously robbed and killed by this group of Song troops, and he didn't expect this at all, It's so stupid.
160,000 Song troops were like wolves and tigers, the Liao army camp was scattered, and the Liao army on the other three sides hurried to the rescue, but it was to no avail, in the end they could only rescue Yelu Chongyuan, escorting him to flee in the wilderness, the Song army pursued in all directions, and did not withdraw the troops until the sky was light.
The morning sun rose, shining on the head of the imperial city of Linhuang Mansion, Di Qing climbed to the top of the city under the leadership of the generals, and from a distance they saw Su Jin standing in the golden sunlight in a purple cloak, with a smile on his face, Di Qing instantly rose the urge to worship, it was this person in front of him, who had created countless miracles, and he could control the fate of the country with his own strength, and it was impossible to lead an army to crisscross the belly of the enemy country; Although Su Jin in front of him has a haggard face and a black beard on his chin, his eyes are blazing, his waist is straight, and he has no tendency to be depressed.
Su Jin stepped forward quickly, hugged Di Qing, and laughed: "Except for General Di, who can run thousands of miles, and the Liao people launched an attack without realizing it, General Di worked hard, you saved my Su Jin's life." ”
Di Qing said: "Da Shuai said there, it was Da Shuai who saved Da Song." ”
Su Jin laughed and said: "You and I don't flatter each other, fight overnight, let's be tired, I've prepared a banquet, let's drink and celebrate in this city, facing the morning sun like blood, facing the mourning everywhere, I hope you still have an appetite." ”
Di Qing said with a smile: "Hungry for Hulu meat, thirsty for barbarian blood, the handsome man has an appetite, how can we have no appetite?" ”
The generals laughed, and Su Jin smiled and said, "Please take a seat." ”
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After this battle, Yelu Chongyuan encircled and suppressed the army, the remnants of the defeated army of more than 30,000 fled to the north, throughout the battle of Linhuangfu, the Song army took Linhuangfu at the cost of 70,000 people, annihilated the main force of the Liao army 180,000 people, captured and killed more than 500 senior generals of the enemy, more than 5,000 Liao generals were killed, the three princes of the Liao royal family were captured, the queen of Renyi Xiao Dali, the eldest prince Yelu Hongji, the little prince and the two princesses all died here, there are still more than 100 royal princes, dozens of ministers were imprisoned.
Su Jin's army of 200,000 still has 60,000 elites, plus Di Qing's 70,000 army, attacking 130,000 troops gathered south after a few days of rest, because Zhao Hu has sent the news of the capture of Linhuang Mansion to the capital, Zhao Zhen ordered the army to attack on all fronts, in order to cooperate with the actions of the army, Su Jin and Di Qing's army rushed south to smash Dading Mansion, and then went down to Yuzhou, Lizhou, Zezhou and other cities, and approached the main flank of the Liao army.
The main force of the Song army in the south launched a fierce offensive and recaptured more than a dozen state capitals of the Song state occupied by the Liao army; By the beginning of the month, the Liao army had been compressed in the small and narrow boundary of Xijing Road and Nanjing Road, and the day of the deadline was coming.
In February, the second year of Huangyou, Liaoxing Sect sent people to sue for peace, Zhao Zhen did not allow it, Yelu Zongzhen launched a final fight, gathered 260,000 remnants of Nanjing Road and Xijing Road to turn around and storm Dading, in a vain attempt to flee north; Su Jin and Di Qing held out for 17 days until the main force of the Song army arrived and fought a decisive battle with the Liao army southeast of Dading.
On March 19 of the second year of Huangyou, the Liao army was defeated, Liao Xingzong Yelu Zongzhen killed his ministers on the way to flee, dedicated his head to Su Jin, Xiao Hui, the king of the North Courtyard, committed suicide, and the army of 260,000 was wiped out.