Chapter 583: Expedition
"How unreasonable!" Shu Luping swept all the documents on the desk to the ground with one sleeve, and swept the Manchu civil and military in the tent with a pair of cold eyes, "At the beginning, the mourning family said that Yelu Honggu should have been allowed to succeed to the throne a long time ago, but you found all kinds of excuses to delay. Now, Yelu Ruan's rebel grandson actually took the lead, vainly proclaimed himself emperor, and seized the opportunity. What do you say?"
The ministers lowered their heads one by one, and no one dared to look at Shu Luping, for fear that Shu Luping would be unhappy with a word, so they were sent to Taizu's side to deliver a message to Emperor Taizu.
Yelu Honggu took a step forward and said loudly: "What can Yelu Ruan do, he is just a clown who jumps off the beam, how can he be so angry with his mother?
My great Liao martial arts are world-famous, and the king's soldiers are everywhere, and they are invincible. How long can Yelu Ruan jump?"
As soon as Yelu Honggu opened his mouth, the ministers under his tent echoed one after another, which made Yelu Honggu feel even more high-spirited. The second brother, Yerod, is dead, and now his time has finally come. For so many years, Yelu Deguang has suppressed him intentionally or unintentionally, allowing him to use his skills, but there is nowhere to show them. This opportunity came, and he finally had the time to show his talents.
He wanted to use the battle to destroy Yelu Ruan to declare to the world the existence of Yelu Honggu. He wanted to tell the world that Yelu Honggu would be the lord of the Liao kingdom who was wiser and greater than Yelu Deguang.
As for Yelu Ruan's claim to be emperor, Yelu Honggu didn't think it was a big deal. He is the crown prince designated by Yelu Deguang, the imperial brother of Da Liao, the generalissimo of the world's soldiers and horses, and the support of the queen mother, and the power under his command is not small. Yelu Ruan didn't think he could do anything, and he dared to be the emperor in Zhenyang, which was a joke.
Is it true that the emperor of the Great Liao can be the emperor if he wants to? If that were the case, then the Great Liao would no longer know how many emperors there were. Yelu Ruan, with an army of 1670,000, wants to be this emperor, and he doesn't want to think about whether it is enough for this weight.
In terms of marching and fighting, who can compare with him Yelu Honggu? Wen Taowu is called the second, and who in the world can be called the first? It's just that for so many years, he has not had the opportunity to show it.
Although Yelu Ruan had an army of 1670,000 troops, in the eyes of Yelu Honggu, it was just a dish in front of him, a lamb to be slaughtered.
Shu Luping glanced up at Yelu Honggu, and sighed in her heart, she was going to take this opportunity to get rid of some ministers who secretly colluded with Yelu Ruan, but she didn't expect that she would be disturbed by her son who didn't have much scheming just after making a start.
Of course, Shu Luping didn't think that Yelu Ruan had the strength to compete with her to the end, after all, she was the Empress Dowager of the Great Liao, the queen of the land back then, with a great reputation, and most of the Khitan tribe was in her hands. Yelu Ruan had an army of 1670,000 in his hands, which sounds like a lot, but compared to Da Liao, it is insignificant.
The 70,000 elite soldiers and horses of Xiao Yu and Yelu Mada have been withdrawn to the outside of the pass, and now although the troops of Daliao are empty, there are more or less 70,000 or 80,000 soldiers and horses scattered in various places. If you add the herdsmen who have been temporarily conscripted, it is not a problem to form an army of millions. The Khitan started with cavalry and archery, and every herdsman was a heroic warrior.
In comparison, what is Yelu Ruan's 70,000 horses?
Moreover, the families and tribes of Yelu Ruan's 1670,000 army were under the control of Shu Lu Ping, and with these people in their control, Shu Lu Ping did not believe that Ye Lu Ruan's soldiers could do their best.
Fighting a war is like using a hammer to drive a nail, if you can't get it in once, you use it twice, and if you can't hit it twice, you use it three times...... With such a huge amount of power in his hand, he can afford to spend it, even if he fails once or twice, it will not affect the overall situation, and Shu Luping does not believe that he can't smash Yelu Ruan to pieces.
What Shu Luping was really worried about was not Yelu Ruan's more than 100,000 troops, but the ministers in the tent.
Among these people, I don't know how many of them colluded with Yelu Ruan, and Shu Luping was worried that once the two armies went to war, these people would do things behind their backs. The visible enemy is not terrible, but the invisible enemy should be carefully guarded.
"Mother, please let your sons lead the army!" said Yelu Honggu, who fell to one knee and urged again.
Xiao Ce, Yeluchun and other generals also came out and knelt behind Yeluhonggu, pleading: "We are willing to follow His Highness to go on the expedition to exterminate the traitors!"
Shu Luping actually didn't want Yelu Honggu to take the expedition now, because once he failed, the blow to Yelu Honggu would be too great, and the impact on morale would be too great.
Moreover, the 300,000 soldiers and horses who conquered the Central Plains at the beginning were the most capable soldiers of the Khitan, and although Xiao Yu and Yelu Mada brought back more than 70,000 elite iron cavalry, who could say that they would be the victors until the end? Shu Luping did not have the confidence that he could solve Yelu Ruan in a single battle.
What she meant was that she wanted to send a general to lead the army first to consume the spirit of Yelu Ruan's army and drag Ye Ruan's army to a dead end. Although Shu Luping didn't like the Han people, many of the Han people's words were still very right. One blow of strength, then decline, three and exhaustion. At the end of the strong crossbow, you can't enter Lu Min. This truth is correct wherever it is placed. The first battle of Yelu Ruan's army must have been violent, and Shu Luping didn't want Yelu Honggu, who had never had experience in big battles, to touch this mold.
Shu Luping knows very well that although Yelu Honggu is born with extraordinary talents, infinite strength, and martial arts have entered the first-class realm, personal bravery and leading troops to fight are two different things. A high level of martial arts does not necessarily mean that you can lead troops to win a battle, and a low level of martial arts does not necessarily mean that you cannot win a battle. In the final analysis, the set of military techniques that Yelu Honggu learned has not been tested in actual combat, and it is difficult to say how effective it is.
However, when Shu Luping saw her son's fiery eyes, she softened. She knew that if she couldn't let Yelu Honggu lead his troops to the battle, the blow to his psychology would probably not be much worse than fighting a losing battle.
"There must be a first time!" Shu Luping thought to himself, "What if you fail once? How many famous generals since ancient times have not crawled out of failure? Who is born to be a victorious general and is born to fight." Sooner or later, Da Liao will have to be handed over to him, and it may not be a bad thing to let him get in touch with the war earlier.
As long as I stabilize the situation in the rear, what does it matter if I lose him one or two games? ”
Thinking of this, Shu Luping stood up, walked to Yelu Honggu's side, helped Yelu Honggu up, and said loudly: "Okay, he is worthy of being a good son of the mourning family, and I am the future emperor of Da Liao." The mourners believe in you, and this battle will be won. ”
A few days later, Shu Luping took the stage to pay homage to the commander, with Yelu Honggu as the commander of the three armies and Xiao Ce as the deputy marshal, leading tens of thousands of soldiers and horses that had already gathered around Shangjing to the south, and they would join the army of Xiao Yu and Yelu Mata, and bring the soldiers and horses gathered along the way, the number of which would reach as many as 200,000. They will fight with the army of Yelu Ruan.
A huge long dragon wind and thunder rolled, waving its flags, and killing southward like a torrent.