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At the end of February in the fifth year of Qianfu, the White Wolf River Valley in western Liaoning, although it was already the end of February, it still did not feel the breath of half a spring here, as long as the cold wind howled like a knife, the river was frozen.

White Wolf Mountain, two hundred miles west of Liucheng, the seat of Yingzhou in western Liaoning, guards the endless road from the Central Plains to Liao.

Since the Tang Army launched the offensive in western Liaoxi last winter, the entire western Liaodong has been fighting everywhere.

On the eastern front, the Zhenguo army launched an attack on Liaoxi from the direction of Anshi in the lower reaches of Liaoshui, and in the north of Anshi, as well as in the two directions of Wugucheng and Niangniangshan City, it also launched attacks and harassment against the Goguryeo people in Liaodong at the same time, so as to contain the Goguryeo soldiers and horses of Liaodong City, Xincheng, Baiyan City, and Gaimu City.

On the western front, the Zhenguo army was divided into two routes, all the way along the endless road through Xuanshui to attack in the direction of White Wolf Water, and after the last battle, the Khitan and Xi coalition forces fought under the capital mountain, and the confrontation lasted for three months.

At the same time, the main force of the Zhenguo Army on the west road was nearly 100,000 soldiers and civilians, and the western Liaoning corridor was opened up along the coast, and the Khitan who was forced to divide troops to block, and the two sides broke out more than ten battles in the flat area between the mountains and the sea.

However, on the whole, on the surface, the Liaoxi offensive launched by the Zhenguo Army seems to have fallen into a quagmire, and all battlefields cannot break through. As the war drags on, and the rivers thaw, large areas of western Liaoning will become swampy areas as the rain increases. In particular, the swampy belt of more than 200 miles in the east direction made the Zhenguo army in the east completely unable to stand on its feet, and could only retreat to Anshi.

The situation in western Liaoning seems to be more favorable to the Khitan side. In particular, the Khitan lost Bohai as an ally. But after getting the support of Xi people. The situation in western Liaoning became more and more favorable to the Khitan.

In the lower reaches of the White Wolf Water in the eastern part of Liaoxi, the Khitans were stationed in the lower reaches of the White Wolf Water, and in this area from the west bank of the Liaoshui to the east bank of the White Wolf Water, the Diera Department was stationed in the five cities of Huaiyuan City, Wulu City, Liaoxi City, Yancheng and Ruluo City, plus the water city of Wanghaidon at the mouth of the White Wolf Water also had soldiers and horses.

Although the Tang army in the east launched several attacks, in the past three months, it has not been able to take even a single fortified city.

General Diera, who is stationed in Liucheng, is the brother of the current Yili Sumire, and the son of the previous Yili Sumire, Yelu Shilu.

Yelu Shilu led the soldiers and horses of the tribes of western Liaoning. These include 30,000 Khitan soldiers in the six cities in the east, as well as 10,000 Khitan soldiers in Liucheng, as well as 10,000 Khitan soldiers and 10,000 Xi soldiers in Dushan. plus 10,000 Khitan soldiers stationed in White Wolf Mountain.

In the small territory of western Liaoning, a total of 70,000 soldiers and horses were deployed, including at least 20,000 soldiers. The elite cavalry of the Diela Division alone had 8,000 soldiers.

Moreover, with the successive victories of the Diela tribesmen on the Huangshui battlefield in the Khitan territory, the Diera tribe was already expected to be able to completely defeat the Hinde Khan before the arrival of summer, so that the Khitan thawed in the Liaohai Sea in the summer, and before the Tang army increased its offensive, it sent two to thirty thousand additional soldiers and horses to Liaoxi again.

100,000 soldiers and horses were dispatched at a time. This will be the largest battle in the Khitan in a hundred years. At the same time, the Xi people will also send about 20,000 additional soldiers and horses to help. Jerushhiro had enough faith to believe. In this battle, Li Jing's good luck came to an end.

Wrapped in a mink robe, Yelu sat on the tower of the city gate and watched the wind and snow, staring at the vast snow outside Liucheng for a long time.

"Father!" Jerush, the son of Jerushruth, strode up to the gate tower and saluted his father.

Jerush's thoughts withdrew from a distance, and he glanced back at his son, who was covered in ice and snow, and asked, "How is that matter?" ”

"Li Jing's handsome flag was originally in Shanhaiguan, and it appeared in the Tang camp by the sea before. However, our spies desperately investigated, and found an unexpected situation. Although Li Jing's handsome banner is in the seaside camp, the Jinjia Shengjie Army, which has always been Li Jing's guard, is not there. Not only is the Golden Armor Shengjie Army not there, but even the elite of the Silver Spear Jie Army is not there. ”

Previously, Yelu Shilu found that Li Jing, the marshal of the Tang army, seemed to have news suddenly, although Li Jing's handsome banner had been in the Tang military camp. But I haven't seen Li Jing's movements for a long time, and no one has seen Li Jing. Yelu Shilu was worried about what conspiracy Li Jing was up to, so he sent his son Yelu Wansi to investigate in person. Unexpectedly, things were as I feared, this Li Jing was gone.

Yelu Shilu is the third uncle of Yelu Abaoji, and Yelu Abaoji became the Liao Taizu most, largely from Shilu's early support for him. Before the establishment of the Liao state, Yelu Shilu took over the military power and worshiped Yue. After the founding of the country, he was crowned the king of Sui. Yelu Wansi, who served as the king of the Southern Courtyard in the Liao State. His son, Yelu Hugo, is the god of war in the Great Liao.

"Father, maybe Li Jing is just playing tricks?"

"No, Li Jing must not be underestimated. I was always worried that at some point, he would suddenly appear and bite us. Yelu Shilu shook his head and frowned, "I have studied his battle with the Shatuo people in Daibei in the first place. In several battles, this Li Jing was out of the battlefield, and then when the Shatuo people and the official army were fighting the most fiercely, he suddenly pounced from the side and severely damaged the Shatuo people. Li Jing's whereabouts are uncertain now, which gives me such a feeling. ”

"But where can he hide? Now that the Liao River is frozen, even if Li Jing has the strongest navy, his navy cannot walk on the ice. At the very least, it will have to wait until March for a surprise attack from the sea. However, there is news from within the clan that the Khan of Hind will not be able to hold on, and perhaps before that time, several uncles will be able to bring troops from the steppe. At that time, we rode more than 100,000 horses, are we still afraid that we can't beat Li Jing? ”

Jerushul nodded, but there was still an unspeakable worry in his heart.

"Have you been contacted from there?" Jerushorus took a sip of his liquor and asked expectantly.

"Fan Xinglong has been contacted, and he is very interested in this matter. However, he proposed that if Li Jing was defeated, Pingzhou would belong to him, and we would give him 10,000 war horses. ”

"How did you answer?" Jerusherus sneered.

"I made a price with him, and I told him that as long as he sent troops to help us, after the matter was completed, the land of Pingzhou would belong to him, and we would give him 3,000 war horses as a reward."

Yelu Shilu glanced at his son appreciatively, "You did a good job. Fan Xinglong is so greedy for small profits. Then just give him some sweetness. As long as you can defeat Li Jing. Even if we return Yingzhou to him. But does he dare to ask for it? Smiling, he asked again: "Is Liu Yue in contact with him, although Li Jing is nominally the commander of Youzhou now, in fact, Liu Yue is the biggest military leader." If Liu Yue is willing to send troops to attack Li Jing from behind, then our chances of victory will undoubtedly increase by a few points. ”

Someone has been sent to contact, but Liu Yue has not replied. It can be seen that this person is very jealous of Li Jing. ”

Perhaps, he just doesn't see the rabbit and doesn't scatter the eagle. is more greedy than Fan Xinglong. After all, it is also risky to send troops to attack Li Jing, and if you can't see the benefits, how can this guy easily send troops. If you send someone to Youzhou again, you might as well have a little more benefit, for example, tell him that as long as he sends troops to help us defeat Li Jing. Then we can help him defeat Fan Xinglong afterwards and help him obtain the land of Ping and Jizhou. ”

Yelu Shilu was full of calculations, looking forward to the annihilation of Li Jing's entire army in Liaoxi.

Almost at the same time. Li Jing led 10,000 Tang cavalry and another 10,000 Xi cavalry along the endless road, from King Xi's tent day and night. Unexpectedly, he was killed at the foot of White Wolf Mountain.

In the quiet night, there were 10,000 Khitan soldiers stationed at the foot of White Wolf Mountain, including 3,000 soldiers and 7,000 auxiliaries.

However, there were 20,000 Khitan and Xi cavalry in the Dushan camp in front of it, and Liucheng in the back, so the Khitan soldiers in the White Wolf Mountain camp did not have much vigilance.

When the 10,000 Xi people led by Xi Qijin Yigu arrived in front of the camp, the Khitan generals guarding the camp really believed that they were Xi allies who had come to reinforce them, so they let them approach with confidence and opened the camp gate.

10,000 Xi cavalry easily crossed the fences of the ditch and easily entered the camp.

Then, Yi Gu led Xi cavalry to suddenly turn his face and rush to kill, the Khitan cavalry was caught off guard, and many soldiers were still warming themselves in the camp tents. The Khitan soldiers were routed and fled in all directions. didn't escape far, Li Jing, who had been ambushed outside, led the cavalry to intercept it.

At the foot of the White Wolf Mountain, by the river.

The brutal massacre lasted nearly half a day, with blood staining the snow and ice.

The 10,000 Khitan cavalry were all wiped out, none of them fled, and the corpses were ambushed for more than 30 miles.

Suddenly went around to the back of the Khitans and annihilated the 10,000 Khitan cavalry of the White Wolf Mountain, Li Jing left 3,000 elites to guard the White Wolf Mountain to prevent the soldiers and horses of Liucheng from coming to reinforce Dushan, and now he also intercepted the defeated soldiers of Dushan and fled to Liucheng.

After that, Li Jing led 7,000 Tang troops and 10,000 Xi cavalry to the west, and directly killed the Dushan Khitan and Xi Ying.

When Li Jing's soldiers and horses set off, they had already sent dozens of horsemen to report to Li Juyi and Liu Xun, and at the same time reported to the seaside camp, asking them to lead the army to Dushan to encircle.

On February 27, Li Jing's soldiers and horses arrived at the east of Dushan, while Liu Xun and Li Juyi led 10,000 elite soldiers to attack the west of Dushan, and Lin Wei led 30,000 elite cavalry to arrive from the south.

The army surrounded 20,000 Khitan and Xi Lian regiments in Dushan.

The Khitan originally wanted to defend the capital mountain, but Li Jing sent an envoy to ask to see Shi Se and handed him a letter in public.

After handing over the letter, Shi Se opened the letter, but saw that many places on the letter had been altered, and it was impossible to see the specifics. Strangely, the Khitan general Yelu Yanmu came to ask for a letter to watch.

Shi Se handed the letter to Iwaki, who saw that the letter had been altered, and he couldn't read the content clearly, and couldn't help but be suspicious.

Yelu Yanmu is the second son of Yundeshi, the second brother of Yelu Shilu, and also the brother of Shi Se's wife. The confidence explained for a long time, and Iwaki believed it on the surface, but after he went back, there were scouts below who reported that in the Tang camp at the bottom of the mountain, there was a Xi army banner. Yelu Yanmu was shocked and hurriedly sent someone to investigate carefully. It didn't take long to report that the mountain was indeed a Xi army, with 10,000 horsemen, and there was also the banner of the old Xi Wang Tu Dong Su in the army.

Yelu Yanmu was terrified, and at this time he had already decided that the Xi people had betrayed the Khitan. That night, Yelu Iwamu mobilized his troops and horses and suddenly attacked Shi Se's subordinates.

There was chaos on the mountain for a while, Li Jing took the opportunity to attack the mountain, and the Khitan resisted it in less than half the night, and then lost it.

Several Tang armies fought on all sides, and Yelu Yanmu was defeated and fled. Li Jing led the army to pursue the victory, all the way to the east.

On the first day of the third month of the fifth year of Qianfu, Li Jing led 20,000 vanguard cavalry to Liucheng, and then Lin Wei and other 50,000 soldiers and horses arrived.

At the same time, Zhao Li and Zeng Yuanyu of Anshi also led troops to cross the Liaoshui River and attack western Liaoxi.

On the fifth day of the first month of March, Pei You led the naval army to break through the water city of Linhaidun at the mouth of the White Wolf Water. On March 6, Zhao Li broke through Liaoxi City, and on the 8th, Zeng Yuanyu broke through Wulu City.

On March 10, Li Jing stormed Liucheng for 10 days and finally broke through Liucheng.

Jerushrus broke through with his defeated army and fled to the east. At the same time, the Khitan soldiers in Ruluo City and Yancheng also began to abandon the city.

On 18 March, Li Jing led his army to capture eight cities in western Liaoning, including White Wolf City, Liucheng, Yancheng, Ruluo City, Linhaidun City, Liaoxi City, Wulu City, and Huaiyuan City. At this point, the entire Liaodong was recovered by Li Jing.

Yelu Shilu and Yelu Yanmu only led more than 30,000 Khitan soldiers to flee back to the upper reaches of the Liao River and retreated into the Khitan territory. More than 20,000 Khitan and Xi people were killed in the battle and more than 20,000 were captured.

The news spread to Youzhou, and Fan Xinglong, the Lulong Army of Youzhou, was leading his troops from Jizhou to Pingzhou to besiege Pingzhou Shicheng.

Seeing that the stone city was about to be breached, a horse galloped over and sent an urgent message to Fan Xinglong's hand.

Fan Xinglong was triumphant when he straddled the horse, took the letter and opened it casually, his eyes fell on the parchment but froze instantly, and then the whole person was colorless, and suddenly fell off the horse.

"Oh no, the general has a stroke, send the doctor quickly!"

Fan Xinglong, who was drooling with crooked eyes and crooked eyes, was lying on the cold snow, and one hand was still tightly grasping the urgent report, revealing a line of big characters on it, Li Jing broke the Khitan and seized the entire territory of Yingzhou! (To be continued......)