Chapter 896: Governor of Shanxi

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An hour after the battle began, under the fierce attack of Lin Wu's department, the soldiers and horses of the Murowei department, who were assigned to take on the task of the palace, were almost wiped out. In the fierce battle of the previous two days and one night, the Wolf Chisuo Department of Murowei had been extremely seriously consumed, and at this time, he was directly regarded as an outcast by Yelu Shilu and left as the queen of the palace. In the face of the fierce onslaught of the Qin army, they only held out for a moment before they were crushed, and then the pursuit battle. The situation of the tribal army is already extremely tragic, and a complete collapse is only a matter of time.

Yelu Shilu and the others relied on the palace of the Murowei and other tribes to barely escape a distance.

Just when the Hu people breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that they could escape,

The poignant horn sounded again, and in front of them, suddenly a black flying eagle battle flag fluttered in the wind, and in the thunderous sound of the iron hooves of the war horse, Li Wei, the leader of the Eagle Yang Army, jumped on his horse and raised his spear, and rushed straight ahead of the horse.

"Ambush!"

Yelu Gu's panicked voice sounded, and his face changed drastically. This army appeared from the northwest, and it was obviously not the soldiers and horses that Lin Wu had just arrived, nor was it Liu Xun's department, which was still far away from here, let alone the Shatuo people. Their eagle banners and cuirass reveal that they are by no means the soldiers and horses of other feudal towns such as the Zhenwu Army, they are the Qin Army, the elite cavalry of the Qin Army. And look at that number, there are more than 10,000 people all over the mountains.

He secretly screamed bitterly in his heart, dog, as Shi Yan expected, Li Jing was not really alone in the depths and baited himself. This guy is extremely cunning, he actually has soldiers and horses around him all the time to escort him, but it's a pity that they have 70,000 people fighting 20,000. But he has never had the ability to let Li Jing call out the soldiers and horses hidden in the shadows.

Almost at the same time. Yelu Shilu looked at the Qin cavalry rushing across the mountains and fields in front of him. There was also despair and anxiety in his eyes.

"Turn south to break out!" At this time, Yelu Shilu was already like a rat crossing the street, being struck back and forth, and in a panic, he began to drill into the gap around him.

The tribal warriors who had just run at the forefront had been bitten by the Eagle Yang Army, and in the blink of an eye, thousands of men and horses had been cut and surrounded, and then drowned in a shiny breastplate.

There was a loud bang, and the tribal cavalry that turned around and rushed south turned on their backs, killing and wounding.

With the sound of this cannon. A succession of artillery began to roar, one after another.

Bursts of gunpowder smoke rose in front of them, and under the gunsmoke, one after another flying eagle battle flags appeared.

"It's an ambush again!"

"The ambush of the Qin people!" There was despair in the voices of the tribal warriors, they didn't expect that Li Jing had more than one ambush army. In the northwest direction was tens of thousands of ambush soldiers, and as soon as they turned to the south, they encountered tens of thousands of ambush soldiers. And the other side still has artillery, and it is directly erected on their retreat.

The commander of the three armies, the governor of the five armies. The prince of Baoguo, one of the six great princes of the Qin Domain, rode his horse and stood under the fluttering eagle battle flag. Hey hey laughing.

"Dog's day, squatting in the grass for two days in the sun, feeding mosquitoes for a few days, I have long been impatient, and I can finally kill."

Yelu Shilu and Yelu Ganggu only broke through in two directions in a row, but they both encountered ambushes, were hit all over the head, and many of their soldiers and horses were swallowed. While riding his horse and galloping, Yelu Shilu was desperately struggling, where did the Qin army come from so many ambushes? But none of this matters now, and now there are suddenly seventy or eighty thousand horses on the battlefield. If they can't fight their way out, they won't see the sun tomorrow.

Rush, keep rushing, rush where no one is.

Yelu Shilu once again led the panicked and desperate Hu cavalry to break through, this time, they escaped more than ten miles in one go, and they did not encounter the pursuit of the Qin army, and they couldn't help but have a little hope. Perhaps, there are no ambushes here.

Yelu Shilu even had the urge to laugh out loud, Li Jing, there will be a time when you will be sloppy.

Before he could rejoice for a moment, a sudden storm sounded, and then he saw a black line emerge in front of him, followed by the familiar black eagle battle banner that terrified him.

"Qin Jun!" Yelu Shilu wanted to cry, but he didn't expect that there were still Qin army ambushes here. Is it true that you want to kill me!

Qiu Shengong carried a zhang Ermo knife in his hand, the knife light was as bright as snow, and the person was as black as charcoal.

"Hu Gou, it's also in the hands of your grandfather, brothers, kill!"

Yelu Ganggu only rode his horse to Yelu Shilu's side: "Dashuai, Li Jing has set up an ambush on ten sides, and we have no way to escape!" ”

Yelu Shilu seemed to have aged a lot in an instant, and he said in despair: "Now, the only thing is to die with the enemy, order to stop the breakthrough, and we will fight to the death with the Qin people here!" ”

"Wait a minute!"

Yelu Shilu turned his head, but it was Li Keyong's subordinate general Shi Yan, the stout man, who came behind him at some point.

"General Yang, do you have anything to say?"

"It seems that the Qin army has already laid out an ambush on ten sides, and there are tens of thousands of soldiers and horses on each road."

"That's true, so what?"

"In such a situation, I feel that it is difficult for us to get out of the situation."

Shi Yan's expression and voice seemed so calm, Yelu Shilu saw it in his eyes, but there was a trace of hatred in his eyes. At the beginning, it was this person who entered the grassland on behalf of Li Ke, and finally said that they were moved south, but after going south, the Shatuo people failed to send a single soldier to help. If it weren't for that, they wouldn't have fallen so much. However, Shi Yan didn't seem to see their eyes, "So, I thought that if I wanted to escape from this place of death, the only hope was to disperse the soldiers and horses immediately." can be divided into more and more scattered, and the remaining tens of thousands of people will break through separately, and perhaps, they will be able to escape some in the end. ”

"Scatter and flee?" Yelu Ganggu only snorted coldly, after the soldiers and horses were dispersed, they would be completely a group of scattered sand, how could they fight? The warriors of the steppe would rather fight to the death with the enemy and break the net than run away in such an embarrassment. To do so would be to die in vain.

"Stay, the same is to die!" Shi Yan said flatly.

"Even if we die, when we die, we have to bite off a few mouthfuls of Qin people's flesh." Kogu only gritted his teeth.

Yelu Shilu said: "If you break through the siege together, you may be able to fight a bloody way." Disperse the breakout. It's just that tens of thousands of soldiers are slaughtered by the Qin people. ”

"The more you huddle. The more unlikely it is to escape. There are many people, and the goal is big. The people are scattered, this is already outside the gate, and there will always be some warriors who can escape. ”

"Alas!" Yelu Shilu let out a long sigh and did not agree to Shi Yan's proposal.

"Then I'm going to take my leave!" Shi Yan said very simply, Hu Ren may still have the idea of breaking through in a bloody battle, but he doesn't want to die here with them, scatter and break through, it seems that he is self-defeating. But in fact, the more you spread out, the smaller the target. Compared to fleeing in a group, there is still some hope.

Shi Yan, who returned to his team, immediately said to his team of Shatuo guards, "We dispersed and evacuated, do you still carry the Qin army armor and battle robes and banners collected earlier?" ”

"The general said that these things will be useful sooner or later, so we always carry them."

"Well, it will be dark in a few moments, and we will be out of the ranks of the tribe. Change into Qin costumes, and then break through to the south! ”

After dark. The tribal soldiers and horses have collapsed, and there is neither a complete battle formation nor a unified command system. Under the interception and pursuit of Li Jing's department, Lin Wu's department, and the four-way ambush soldiers, some were cut off everywhere, and some were surrounded.

Qin Jun and Gongsun Lan happily reported the battle situation to Li Jing.

"The organized resistance is over, and now we will immediately order all the troops to launch a sweeping battle to completely annihilate every remaining Hulu." Li Jing was not surprised, nodded calmly, and then gave the latest battle order.

After daybreak, the night's sweeping battle was over, and the various units reported the results of the battle.

At the edge of Baishui, Wang Chong saw Li Jing's Wang Qi moving forward, and immediately clapped his horse to greet him. First gave a Khitan wolf flag to Li Jing, and said loudly: "I've seen King Qin." ”

Li Jing looked at the flag and immediately recognized it, this is the handsome banner of Khitan Yuyue and the marshal of the Southern Expedition Yelu Shilu. At the moment, I couldn't help but laugh, Zhang Chengye, Gongsun Lan and others around me were all overjoyed, Hu Lu Shuai Qi was captured, so it is very likely that the captives have been captured.

Zhang Chengye couldn't help but ask: "Yelu Shilu and Yelu Ganggu can only be captured?" ”

Wang Zhong replied with a smile: "Originally, we had surrounded these two thieves, but who knew that they were the most stubborn but desperately broke through, but the meat came to their mouths, and they were robbed by the third brother and eldest nephew who rushed over." When he said this, Wang Chong was still slightly depressed. It was his men and horses who surrounded and stopped Eryelu, but the last two big fish were snatched by Lin Wu and Li Wei. This thing is really unjust, but Lin Wu is his righteous brother, and this time he also rushed to the rescue day and night, and Li Wei is Li Jing's nephew, and this ambush battle is also very desperate. Speaking of which, it can be regarded as a fertile water that does not flow into the fields of outsiders. Anyway, he also captured a Khitan handsome flag.

Hearing that Eryelu was ambushed, Li Jing nodded, this is a real perfect battle. While riding his horse on the battlefield for dozens of miles, he said to Wang Chong: "Fight hard all night, first clean up the battlefield, send the wounded soldiers to the medical camp for treatment, then count the results, and then send several groups of cavalry to expand the search area, and continue to search and pursue the fish caught in the net." This time, we won't let go of a single fish that slips through the net. ”

Wang nodded, this battle was fought beautifully.

Not only did he defeat Shatuo, but he captured Datong and Yanmen in Daibei in one fell swoop, and occupied the foundation of Li Keyong's old nest, and now almost all the 200,000 Hu people who went south were annihilated. It's a pity that before Yelu Shilu left Yunzhou, he had already sent thousands of Hu wounded soldiers back to the grassland. At that time, they left the Baishuiluo camp with their front feet, and Li Jing arrived with their back feet. However, in order to catch the big fish of Yelu Shilu, Li Jing finally let go of those wounded soldiers of the Hu tribe.

It's just that Li Jing didn't know what to do, among the wounded soldiers, there was actually an unconscious guy named Yelu Abaoji, and he didn't know how to do it, before he fell unconscious, he had a wonderful performance under Yunzhou City. Otherwise, he would definitely think about it again.

Gai Yu said to Li Jing: "Yang Xingmi and Qian Bi are leading 80,000 follow-up soldiers and horses with Cui Anqian, Du Xian, and Li Zhen to just leave the capital pass, but they missed this opportunity to break Hulu." ”

"Liu Xun's Wansheng Army and General Rampage's subordinates didn't catch up with this feast." Zhang Chengye also smiled on the side.

Li Siyuan was wearing a piece of armor and several gauze wraps around his body, and he rode behind Li Jing by the head of a horse and followed behind. Hearing this, he said: "This time, because of his incompetence and mistakenly falling into the Hu people's plan to lure the enemy, he was defeated by Bai Shuiluo, and he also asked the King of Qin to send troops to help, and he personally took risks, which is really full of guilt." ”

Li Jingle stopped his horse, turned around and waited for Li Siyuan to come forward, and patted him on the shoulder: "General Hengchong's words are wrong, since you are sincere in your vote, how can you ignore your safety." From the day you led your troops to surrender, you have been a member of my Qin army. I still want to thank you, if it weren't for your abandonment of darkness and light, my Qin army would not have been able to recover Daibei Beitong and Yanmen Second Town in one fell swoop. That's a great achievement! Say, What kind of reward do you want? ”

Li Siyuan turned over and dismounted, kneeling down on one knee, "There is a request, and I also ask the King of Qin to agree." ”

As soon as some words came out, the soldiers present couldn't help but change color slightly, and secretly said that this Li Siyuan was really too presumptuous, King Qin said that, he really said that he made a request on his nose and face.

"Just say!" Li Jing's face remained unchanged and he smiled slightly.

Li Siyuan said: "The last general is incompetent in commanding the army, and there have been some major defeats, so the last general wants to go to Yanjing to study in the martial arts hall for three years, earnestly study and lead the troops to fight, and serve the king of Qin in the future." ”

The generals were surprised again, just now they thought that Li Siyuan was a presumptuous guy who didn't know how to advance and retreat, but now they instantly felt that Li Siyuan was too knowledgeable about advance and retreat. At this time, he proposed to enter the lecture martial arts hall for further study, and he would study for three years, isn't this a disguised expression of willingness to hand over military power and completely show loyalty to the King of Qin? Is this sincere, or is it a play? For a while, all the generals couldn't understand this young Shatuo fierce general.

Li Jing stared at Li Siyuan, was silent for a moment, and then said slowly: "Now is the time to employ people, especially in the northeastern region of Hedong, west of Taihang, there is a need for someone as capable and prestigious as you." Lone has already thought about it, and now he officially appoints you as the governor of Shanxi Province and promotes you to the title of Marquis of Yanmen County, I wonder if you are willing to give in? ”

Li Siyuan was stunned, and the other generals present were also stunned. Many people can't help but wonder, what the hell is going on?

"How can he be in the future, how dare he take on such a big responsibility?" Li Siyuan quickly came back to his senses and said immediately. He didn't know whether Li Jing's words were true or false, the governor of a province was in charge of the military of a province, although this military was more about recruiting and training unity soldiers and township soldiers, and even the combat troops had no right to manage them, and even the unity soldiers and township soldiers did not have the right to transfer troops. Speaking of which, the governor of the province who does not have the rank of soldier is in a high position, but his power is not heavy. But in any case, this is also the important position of the governor of a province in charge of the military, and the governor and the admiral are the senior officials in charge of a province, although they are not as good as the festival envoys of the towns, but they are higher than the observation envoys and defense envoys. Maybe Li Jing just wanted to test him?

Unexpectedly, as soon as he refused, Li Jing said: "Isn't General Rampage unwilling to serve the Qin army?" ”

These words were a bit heavy, and Li Siyuan hurriedly said: "I'm just worried about my lack of ability, and I'm afraid that I will miss King Qin's affairs." ”

"In that case, how about transferring General Liu Zhijun as the commander of the left capital of Shanxi Province and General Zhang Guiba as the commander of the right capital of the province, and letting the two generals assist you?" Li Jing asked with a smile. Li Siyuan felt a sense of relief in his heart, the left and right commanders were deputy positions under the provincial governor, and Li Jing asked Liu Zhijun and Zhang Guiba to be his deputies, obviously leaving a hand. However, this made him breathe a sigh of relief, it seems that Li Jing really planned to let him stay in Daibei, and he did not plan to cross the river and demolish the bridge immediately, otherwise, why bother. Thinking of this, he finally agreed.

Who knows, Li Jing immediately made two appointments in succession.

"Awarded Liu Yunniang the post of governor of Shanxi Province, and awarded Li Cunxin the post of governor of Shanxi Province." After these two important appointments that surprised Li Siyuan, Li Jing issued several more military orders, transferring Yang Shihou as the commander of Yanmen Chitang Pass, Gao Siji as the commander of Yanmen Pass, Wang Yanzhang as the commander of Taixi Pass, Li Si'an as the commander of Niupiguan, and Dong Zhang as the commander of Jincheng.

The first company appointed the guards of five important passes in Shanxi Province, and the five generals were all disciples of Li Jing, which shows the importance of these military orders. However, the appointment of these five important guards in Shanxi was announced after the appointment of Li Siyuan as the governor of Shanxi, which made this matter a little unusual and very subtle. (To be continued......)