Brother Song Taizu

Chapter 213 Fight to the death!

"Form up, form up, protect His Highness, protect His Highness!"

"Protect Your Majesty, protect Your Majesty."

"Kill! The Song people betrayed their trust and killed King Qin to avenge His Majesty!"

Under the high platform, there is a mess, everything can be said.

Zhao Guangmei understood the Khitan language and said angrily and amusedly: "Your soldiers said I was holding you hostage."

When Yelu Jing saw this, his face was as gloomy as water, and he said: "Long before I became the emperor, Yelu Wuzhi had already commanded the Pishi Army. It is normal to have his people in the army, but it is a joke to Your Highness." ”

Zhao Guangmei was so angry that she yelled: "My own soldiers can be infiltrated by the ministers. How did you become the emperor? Damn, if I had known that you, the emperor, are such a waste, what else would I talk to you about? I will directly confront Yelu House. How good is it to talk? Really"

With that said, he quickly dragged Yelujing off the platform.

He was still mumbling: "Didn't you say that this Yelu house master is a figure like Zhou Gong Yi Yin? Why did he directly rebel?"

Yelu Jing lamented: "The Duke of Zhou was afraid of the rumor, but Wang Mang was humble and did not usurp the throne. Xiangshi died at the beginning, who knows the truth in his life?"

Zhao Guangmei glanced at him and said, "Are you mocking my elder brother?"

"........."

The current crisis has actually reached the most critical juncture. In fact, the power and prestige of Yelu House may be higher than that of Zhao Kuangyin before usurping the throne. Zhao Kuangyin can usurp the throne successfully. To put it bluntly, it is because the orphans and widowers of the Later Zhou Dynasty were too young. , and since the fifth generation, everyone has been accustomed to the benefits of huge inertia of changing dynasties, the foundation is not actually deep.

But Yelu Wuzhi was a clan member who served as an official during the Yelu Abaoji era. He was the mainstay of the Liao Dynasty as early as the Shuluping era, and was the prototype of the bad guy Leo Gu. It can even be said that if If he hadn't always been at the forefront as a clan member, then Shu Luping might not have become a Liao version of Wu Zetian, and maybe the Liao country would have had the surname Xiao.

For such a character, it is natural that if he does not move, he will be fine, but if he moves, he will be extremely powerful.

In fact, after the death of Lu Ping, there was no one in the Liao Kingdom who could suppress him. In the original history, Xiao Siwen was still there to check and balance him, and the complicated conflicts within the Liao Kingdom still remained. Buried under the surface of the clan and descendants falling in love and killing each other, they fight but cannot break it.

However, because of Zhao Guangmei's constant interference, the Shulu Department represented by Xiao Siwen was about to abandon the Liao Dynasty and go alone. In such a large-scale Song-Liao battle, Xiao Siwen and Yelu Xiezhen, who represented Xiao Siwen, were present for almost the entire process. When making soy sauce, it was not mixed in at all.

However, this Yelujing is still careless, and has been thinking about using various means to deprive Yelvwu of his military power. He was originally the king of Beiyuan, so he had to let him become the prime minister.You really think you are the original emperor?The prime minister of Liao Kingdom has no use.

At least in this era, there is no clear division of powers and responsibilities between the King of the Northern Court and the Prime Minister.

And he also knew that if this happened, the letter he wrote to Zhao Kuangyin would definitely fall into the hands of Yelujing. When the time came to return to the court, Yelujing would be afraid that he would have to kill him.

No, this old man was also made anxious.

Simply rebel.

Seeing Wuyang Wuyang's Liao army coming to kill them, and there were actually traitors among Yelvjing's personal guards. It was difficult to distinguish between ourselves and the enemy for a while, so Zhao Guangmei had no choice but to make a decisive decision: "Let your soldiers block the perimeter, and you and I will follow you." Enter the Song Army's military formation."

"This... hey~"

Yelujing sighed, but for a while, she had no choice but to do so.

After all, Yelujing is a clan veteran from the Abaoji era. He took over and rebuilt the entire Pishi Army after Shuluping's death. No one knows how many of his people there are in these Pishi Army.

However, as a result, the Liao army behind them became more and more confused. The excuse for Yelvuzhi's rebellion was that the Song people had betrayed their trust and harmed their emperor.

Now Yelujing hid in the Song army's formation and did not dare to show his face. Naturally, the Liao army behind him was confused. Many people did not have so many twists and turns in their hearts. When they came up from behind, they really thought Yelujing was Jing was killed or captured by Zhao Guangmei, so a loyal person would fight together.

As for the three thousand Pishi troops brought by Yelujing, they had been completely split into many pieces in a short period of time. Few of them actually killed the enemy side by side with the Song army, but more often they made mistakes.

Seeing that more and more rebels were gathered in Yelu House, and they became increasingly unable to resist, many people simply turned their horses around and began to attack the Song army's formation.

The composition of the Pishi Army of the Liao Kingdom was indeed too complicated. Many of them were originally members of the Shushan Army directly affiliated with Shuluping. Since the queen of Daliao was not named Xiao, they were originally interested in this. The emperor had no loyalty at all. Although they were not the hostages of Yelu House, when they saw the two sides fighting, they simply rode around on horseback and became battlefield gangsters.

He neither attacked the Song army's formation nor blocked the Liao army's rebels. He was just here to walk his horse, which made Zhao Guangmei's teeth hurt.

In the end, it was Song Jun who bore everything.

"Hold on! Hold on! Hold on! Reinforcements will arrive soon. Hold on!"

Then as soon as he finished speaking, the Song Army's formation was cut open, frightening Zhao Guangmei, who was watching from above, to the point of being heartbroken.

The Song Army's military formations mostly relied on the power of bows and crossbows and the dense forest of spears. To put it bluntly, they were like porcupines, blocking the charge like hedgehogs, and then killing the enemy with powerful crossbows.

However, everyone brought too few soldiers to show their sincerity in signing the peace agreement. Although Zhao Guangmei's 3000 people could form a formation, they would inevitably be out of control. Crossbow arrows... crossbow arrows were of no use. Their goal was Hold on and wait for reinforcements, the casualties are not important.

Similarly, the Yelu House Quality will naturally not be slowly consumed by the Song Army. They will figure out how to break the formation bit by bit like a conventional war. After all, the Forbidden Army in the early Song Dynasty really dared to fight with the Liao Army in the field, and they were not even willing to defend the city. .

This is a shitty formation, just hit it all at once.

"Change of formation! Abandon Mao! Zhanma Dao!!"

The elite veterans of the Song Army did not need anyone's command at all. Seeing the Liao Army fighting so unrestrainedly, they spontaneously changed their formation. The soldiers in the front row simply dropped their shields and raised their long-handled swords. Ma Dadao, facing the Liao army's charge, leaned over and struck the horse's head with the sword.

The rear army abandoned their bows and crossbows and took out their hooks and sickles, and bent down to hook the horses' legs. They seemed to have adopted a desperate strategy of directly confronting the Liao army. With all of them heavily armored, they were more capable of attacking arrows and other things. They didn't even want to hide, but in a moment, both the Liao and Song armies suffered numerous casualties.

A national war that had been going on for more than a month finally revealed its cruel and bloody true colors at this moment.

The entire battle formation was like a huge meat grinder. The Liao army was cut open by the saber and it was terrible to watch. The heroic Song army also fell one by one under the charging spears of the Liao army. In less than half a minute, In a short time, the Song Army's military formation lost at least 500 people!

The Liao army suffered no fewer deaths than the Song army. The two most powerful empires in the tenth century finally lost their affectionate hesitation at this moment, and only fought each other in the most direct way.

But in general, the Song Army still had a slight advantage. Although the Song Army suffered heavy casualties in half a minute, it successfully suppressed the first and most violent wave of Liao Army's charge. Within that time, the Liao army probably had no way to engage in a second wave, and they were all killed by the Song army with their swords and hook-and-scythe spears.

But after all, the Liao army was too numerous, and they were able to defeat their cavalry with foot. It was very tiring to engage in close combat. The 40-pound saber-sharp sword would hurt your hands after just a few cuts after it was lifted up. There was a bloody wind that hit your nostrils. Zhao Guangmei's heartbeat quickened for a moment, and her adrenaline surged. She immediately put down her visor with a clang, picked up a two-handed sword and stood behind the military formation, planning to fight with the Liao army.

Then he looked back at Yelujing, who was still hiding behind: "I've already stepped forward, is it okay for you to still be hiding behind?"

Yelujing said: "Why are you still coming forward? Are you alone?"

"Bah, bastard."

"Hmph, this is what I call stability."

I thought to myself, if you go up and kill two people, you are leading the way to boost morale. If I step forward in your Song army's formation, isn't it just to add more kills?

No, this King of Song and Qin is really full of tricks. Maybe he wants to kick me out of the army and kill me. In this case, these rebels may withdraw.

Huh, I won't be fooled.

While he was talking, he saw that the gate of Yinzhou City was open, and the cavalry of the Song Army had already charged forward. The leader of the charge was none other than his father-in-law Zhang Lingduo.

The situation was critical, but he didn't care whether he led the troops directly or not. He ran into the Liao army's cavalry formation without any change or strategy.

The Liao army had been completely mobilized at this time, and Yelu Wuzhi led the Chinese rear army in dense numbers. They shouted slogans about the Song people's betrayal, and deceived the Liao soldiers who did not know the truth or pretended not to know the truth to advance.

Nuo Da was a national war battlefield. It was obviously supposed to be an extremely high-level battle, but instead, with Zhao Guangmei's military formation as the center, a meat grinder was played with no sense of beauty, no offense and defense, and a meat grinder with eyes closed.

The Liao army was desperate to kill Zhao Guangmei, while the Song army was fearless in protecting Zhao Guangmei.

By the way, protect Yelujing.However, he saw that Zhang Lingduo was also leading the way, regardless of his own identity, holding a Ma Shuo and galloping around. Occasionally, he couldn't help but feel a sense of confusion in his heart.

After a lifetime of fighting, this is the first time such a bad battle has been fought.

The Song Army's cavalry was much smaller than that of the Liao Army, and the elites naturally had their own uses. They always used detours and coordinated with the infantry, and finally found the right moment to make the final decision, either directly driving away the enemy's commander, or simply beheading the general. Capture the flag, of course, is more often responsible for covering the left and right flanks of the infantry formation.

As a result, in this battle, Zhang Lingduo didn't know how to fight the battle after killing for a while.

The infantry had no square formation at all. The original 3000 people soon became less than [-]. The formation also became more and more scattered, and countless cavalry surrounded them.

As for the enemy chief, the hostages in Yeluwu were attacking from behind and did not move forward at all.

"What should we do, General?"

"What else can we do? Dismount! Form a formation and protect His Highness!"

Someone on the side said: "But we are cavalry."

Zhang Lingduo whipped him in the face: "We are all tied together, and none of us are as important as His Highness King Qin's finger. At this time, what are the cavalry and infantry?"

Cavalry, once the horse stops, is basically ready to be slaughtered. Instead of doing this, it is better to fight on foot.

However, after the two armies and horses joined forces, there was no time to reorganize the formation. In addition, after all, the cavalry and infantry used different equipment. Although these cavalry could walk in formation after dismounting, the formation was different. However, the level of complexity was greatly reduced. Facing a steady stream of Liao troops, they also died quickly and miserably.

It's all about fighting for your life.

Zhao Guangmei was also able to kill. Wearing heavy armor and holding up a two-handed sword, he killed in a daze and reached the front of the formation. He and Zhang Lingduo were both at peace.

"Father-in-law, why are you out of the city? What should I do? I can't beat you."

"Hold on, the opportunity will come at any time."

After saying that, they heard the explosions of boom, boom, boom. The soldiers and horses of the Liao army did not realize that they could not adapt to the sound, and they all panicked for a while.

"It's the sound of gunpowder. Where did the gunpowder weapons come from?"

Zhao Guangmei felt confused for the first time after hearing the news.

Did the Song army use artillery?How come I didn't know this beforehand?
He quickly turned back, threw away the sword in his hand and climbed up to the high platform again, but he was suddenly shocked by the scene outside.

Yelujing was also stunned. He pointed forward in confusion and said, "Is that... some kind of secret service of your Song Army?"

"This is... my hero-killing soldier of the Song Dynasty."

"The hero-killing warrior? The hero-killing warrior is not..."

Yelujing looked confused and looked at Zhao Guangmei blankly, because the scene in front of him was completely unreasonable in his perception.

Of course he knew that gunpowder was powerful. He himself had been blown up by a landmine. After being raised for more than a month, he still felt pain everywhere. If he hadn't signed a covenant here today, he might not have gotten out of bed.

However, it is still a new thing after all. Although the purity has improved, the way the Song army uses gunpowder is still relatively primitive. It will be more useful in siege warfare, but at least it is not that useful in field battles.

Hand grenades are not that easy to make, and the current purity of black powder is still not enough. Even if the grenade problem is solved, the lethality is still not enough.

However, it was discovered that these heroic warriors were the first to rush into the battlefield besides Zhang Lingduo's cavalry in Yinzhou City. They were not even equipped with armor, but they were holding a jar of explosives in one hand and a saber in the other. They were not even armored. If not, they dare to charge towards the dense cavalry formation, then light gunpowder and explode it in the crowd.

These heroes-killing warriors are not real soldiers at all, they are just serious criminals. If they are asked to set up any kind of military formation, they will not know how to do it. If it is a serious fight, they may really do it at this time. Useless.

However, such a strategy of using gunpowder cans to blow people up, not to mention the Liao army, even the Song army was confused. Each gunpowder jar contained at least a dozen kilograms of black gunpowder that was as pure as the late Ming Dynasty. , plus some gravel fragments and iron sand, it may not be able to kill the Liao army cavalry wearing iron armor immediately after the explosion, but it is always no problem to blow up a person. Even if he is wearing iron armor, he will not be killed or damaged by the explosion. What?

As the saying goes, the soft are afraid of the hard and the hard are afraid of losing their lives. When these warriors rushed out with the gunpowder jar, they didn't even think about going back alive. Even though they were lightly armed, they could assemble and charge faster than the regular Imperial Army. , after exploding for a while, it started to chase the Khitan soldiers’ four legs with two legs.

No one can offend the self-destructing infantry!
These heroic warriors did not have a decent command, but at least they knew where the Song Army's military formation was, so they chased it to nearby places where there were many cavalry. With this suicidal style of fighting, they really succeeded in defeating the Song Army's army. A blank area was cleared around the array.

Then they launched a counterattack towards the Liao army without hesitation.

The 10-strong Liao army cavalry was beaten away by a mere few thousand infantry.

Just listen to the explosions that were heard almost constantly on the battlefield. One after another, the warriors who killed the heroes relied on this hand to create the momentum of the Liao army's retreat in a short period of time. Zhao Guangmei, however, could not help but feel pain in her heart. She knelt on one knee and could not get up for a long time.

Yelujing also sighed: "He is really a strong man."

Zhao Guangmei went up and kicked the person to the ground, and then yelled: "Isn't it all your fault? As an emperor, you can't even manage your own soldiers, bah! What kind of emperor are you? These guys Warriors, all died because of your incompetence!"

Then he kicked the football to Yelujing who fell to the ground.

However, despite being sad and angry, he was actually slightly relieved. He knew that the most difficult and dangerous moment had passed.

Thanks to the little time these warriors gained, Zhang Lingduo immediately began to reorganize the formation, and reorganized the almost scattered formation into the Turtle Formation in the Forest of Guns. The Forbidden Army formation in the city was finally led by Shi Shouxin and others. They slowly fought out and moved closer to Zhao Guangmei. When the tidal wave of Liao army came over again, the Song army was once again as immovable as a rock in the waves.

Not long after, Yang Jiye finally led the party cavalry originally stationed on the other side of the city to arrive belatedly.

He came a little late, but you can't blame him. The quality of the party soldiers was not comparable to that of the Song army, and it seemed that he knew that he came late. When Yang Jiye arrived, he immediately put on a desperate posture. Like a sharp blade, it charged towards the center and rear formations of the Liao army.

While rushing to kill, he shouted: "The King of Qin is in trouble, and the rescue army is too late. If we can't rush into the central army and repel the enemy chieftain, won't we party members break our trust in the King of Qin? Think about your shares, think about it The work of your family members, brothers, let me kill you!"

Then, these feudal soldiers began to fight tooth and nail.

At this point, in fact, the battle situation had been gradually reversed by the Song Army. Zhao Guangmei also threw away the heavy sword, took off his helmet and sat on the ground, breathing heavily.

He knew that this time he was close to death.

Less than half an hour later, before Yang Jiye and others had time to tire their horses, Zhao Kuangyin had already personally led the elite cavalry of the Song Army to join the battlefield. Comrade Zhao, who had not seen him for a long time, personally shawled his sword and wielded a coiled dragon stick. If you win the tiger, the tiger will make the wind, kill the general and capture the flag.

Seeing this, Shi Shouxin and other old partners immediately ordered the infantry to change their formations and advance slowly. In cooperation with Zhao Kuangyin, they began to squeeze the Liao army's activity space. Yelu Wuzhi sighed, knowing that the opportunity had been lost, so he ordered the troops to retreat.

This battle has become a pure head-to-head confrontation, and in a head-to-head confrontation, the Liao army cannot be the opponent of the Song army. He will not give up his mobility advantage to fight with the Song army. He will not do this kind of thing where he can defeat the enemy's strengths with one skill. .

He is not the Zhao Guangyi in history.

Although he failed to take the opportunity to kill Yelujing, Yelujing had been captured by the Song army after all, and the guards loyal to him around him were probably almost dead. For him, his goal was actually achieved.

Whether the Song army kidnapped the Liao Emperor first, leading to the Liao army fighting against each other, or whether the Liao army fought first and then the Song army kidnapped the Liao Emperor, wasn't it all up to him, Yelvuzhi?

As the emperor of Daliao, he was captured by the Song army. What is this loser still doing?Why would he have the nerve to come back and continue to be the emperor?
A country cannot live without a king for a day.

Unfortunately, Yelujing has no children.

So, who should inherit the unification of the Liao Kingdom is not a matter of a word from Yelu House.

　Based on the completeness of Liao history, I actually seriously doubt whether Yelujing was really childless. He was not much younger than Zhao Kuangyin. He had three thousand beauties in the harem, so he really had no sons?Or was the son too young and was killed directly?Yelvxian is his brother's son. He was the emperor who killed his brother to usurp the throne. After Li Shimin's death, the throne was passed to Li Jiancheng's son. Isn't it ridiculous to say that this is a normal throne change?

　　And because of Xiao Chuo and Handerang's boredom, I even seriously doubt that Xiao Chuo and Handerang were not engaged when Yelujing died, but simply married. After all, Xiao Chuo was old enough at that time. Well, late marriage and late pregnancy were not popular in the Liao Kingdom, but the conflict between the clan and descendants was too great at that time, so Yelv Xian couldn't wait to marry Xiao Chuo to balance it, and at the same time borrowed the Law Department to check and balance the quality of Yelu House. At this time, It really doesn't matter whether Xiao Chuo is a married woman or not. Considering that Xiao Chuo later risked everything to let Yelu Longxu call Handerang his father... Yeluxian is a ruthless person, and his power is limited while he is alive. It's already in Xiao Chuo's hands. If Xiao Chuo really cuckolds him, Yelvxian really can't control it.

　　Of course, these are all conspiracy theories imagined by the author himself, but sometimes I feel that the history of Liao is really interesting. The possibility I mentioned is at least not completely impossible. If Yelu Longxu is really Handerang's biological son, this is particularly So the Liao Kingdom became a Han government?

　　
　
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