Chapter 24 Joining hands again
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What Gao Baolong needs is not Li Hu's gratitude, but Li Hu immediately changed his deployment and won this battle at any cost. In particular, the Jurchens cannot reap the benefits of the fisherman and take advantage of it.
The Bohai people and the Jurchens had a long history. In the past, the Khitans conquered the Bohai people, and the Jurchens charged for it. This time, the Bohai people wanted to restore the country, but the Jurchens shattered their dreams and became even more hatred. In fact, in Liaodong, the French often fought and had hatred for each other. The Jurchens have always been the vanguard of the French and gradually rose up in the war. Therefore, it was natural that the Jurchens hated them by the French.
Several British tribes in Liaodong once fought with the Khitans, one was the enemy Lie Ren and Wugu people, and the other was the Shubu people. They fought for hundreds of years. The most recent rebellion was more than ten years ago. The leader of Shubu, Mogus, fought for eight years and finally lost. The other was the Bohai people, with many people in the Bohai Sea. The Bohai Army and the Han army have always been the backbone of the Liao army. This Bohai rebellion, the attack on the Liao country was far greater than that of the Jurchens. The Jurchens defeated Gao Yongchang, and the Bohai people failed to restore the country, and the Bohai Army immediately became the army of the Jin country, which is an important reason for the expansion of the Jin army.
Restoring the country has always been the dream of the Bohai people. Now this dream has broken down, and the Bohai people are divided into pieces. Most of them have become slaves of the Jurchens. Restoring the country is impossible, and only revenge is left. In the past, the Bohai people had only one enemy, Khitan, and now there is another Jurchen. Looking at Liaodong, who else can help the Bohai people avenge? So Gao Baolong placed all his hopes on Li Hu and the Liaodong rebel army. If Li Hu and the rebel army were defeated, the Bohai people should not say that they would dream of restoring the country. Don’t say that they would avenge them, and be honest as slaves.
The victory of the Battle of Targlutinous Mountain made Gao Baolong's blood boil and the Bohai people in the rebel army were boiling. They had a strong desire to fight. They were eager to kill the Khitans and the Jurchens in the war. Revenge, but the desire is desire, and reality is reality. Faced with today's situation, Gao Baolong could not come up with any strategy to win, so he could only do his duty and remind Li Hu not to repeat the mistakes of the Bohai people.
Li Hu once again invited Luo Qinghan and Dong Xiaochou to the General's Mansion, and analyzed in detail the various consequences of joining forces with the Jin army to attack Liao, and expressed concern about the Jin army's true intentions.
Luo Qinghan and Dong Xiaochou also felt the same way.
The purpose of Li Hu's words was to mobilize the resentful army. Although the resentful army marched in a hurry, they did not fight and could recover after a night of rest. Therefore, Dong Xiaochou placed the three battalions of the resentful army on the front blocking battlefield. To be honest, this kind of mind and demeanor was impressive, but after Li Hu was reminded by Gao Baolong, he did not dare to use it anyway.
Li Hu couldn't say it explicitly, but he just didn't believe in the resentful army, which would hit Dong Xiaochou and the resentful army soldiers and would be in trouble, so Li Hu thought of a solution and prepared a set of rhetoric.
How to prevent the reserve army from betraying their faith and killing two birds with one stone? It’s very simple. Hiding strength, hiding in the dark, opening a bloody mouth, waiting for him to come and attack. If he dares to come, he will be unable to take it.
In order to go north to support the rebel army, the resentful army tried every means to hide its traces. Yelu Chun should not know now. Or was not sure that the resentful army was in Chengzhou. The Jin army did not know the resentful army, so he hid the resentful army and put it in the dark. At the critical moment, whether it was used to deal with the Liao army or to prevent the Jin army from raiding, it could have a fatal blow.
This is a good idea, and there is no reason to disagree. Luo Qinghan and Dong Xiaochou both agreed. However, in this way, the frontal blocking of the Liao army was the rebels who had just emerged from the Targasus Mountain, and their strength was obviously different from that of the Liao army.
Li Hu disagreed, "The Iron Coach will be back soon, so we will have eleven generals of the Tiger Lie Army, plus one general of the Black Mountain Army, the King of Hell Army, the Dragon Army, the Thunder Army and the Yunshuo Army, a total of sixteen generals, about 40,000 horse and infantry, and we have the power to fight."
"General General, there are at least six or seven thousand prisoners in these 40,000 people, and perhaps more than this number. Once the fight starts, there is not only a problem of combat effectiveness, but also a worry that the prisoners will flee." Luo Qinghan had to remind Li Hu.
In the past two days, the generals of each army brought people from the prisoner camp and supplemented the injuries. After the war between Targasus Mountain, the rebel army captured more than 7,000 Xi people, about 12,300 Han people. Some of the Han prisoners died in the Battle of Tiger Xiaotai, and some of them were supplemented with the generals of each army. Even so, the two generals of the Heishan Army were unable to rebuild and merged into one general. However, Li Hu had already given the 3,000 Changning Army captured in Chengzhou to the Heishan Army, but this army was not available for the time being, and the prisoners were still taken away with the old camp.
"I still have more than 7,000 Xi people to use." Li Hu smiled, "Before the war begins, I assigned these Xi people to the generals of the infantry and let them die in front of them. More than 7,000 people can always withstand for a while, right?"
Luo Qinghan and Dong Xiaochou looked at each other without saying a word. Li Hu hoped that the Jin people would attack, so why didn’t the Jin people want to get a bargain? You plotted against me and I plotted against you. How much chance of winning can you have when you join forces to attack Liao in this way?
In fact, in their opinion, if you can repel the Liao army and buy four or five days for the rebels to retreat, you will win and achieve your goal. Four or five days later, the rebels had retreated to the south of the Daling River, which was to enter the death ground and be surrounded by the Liao army. The weather was so bad that Yelu Chun would not attack again. He wanted to return to the palace tent to deal with the emperor and the ministers who were determined to seek peace. At that time, the siege was better than the attack. The longer the rebels were surrounded, the closer they were to the period of defeat. The Liao people knew very well.
However, can Li Hu and Zong Wang join forces to repel Yelu Chun?
The commander of the rear army, Gao Yuan, brought the four generals' infantry, backed with the horse and immediately entered the battlefield. Soon, Mu Taoli, who had been blocked from the cover of the rear, also returned to Tongchang City safely with the first general of the Hulie Cavalry.
At the beginning of Si, the Jin army's vanguard army arrived thirty miles outside Tongchang City and stopped.
Wanyan Zongwangshu invited Li Hu to meet him.
Li Hu and Huang She, Chai Yun, and a team of iron guards, rushed out of the city.
This is the second time the two sides met. When they see Li Hu again, Zong Wang felt different. I don’t know if it was because Hu Xiaotai returned in a battle and he was at a disadvantage in front of the two armies, or because Li Hu passed through the hurdles and defeated the generals, and his aura was like a tiger. In short, Zong Wang felt a murderous aura that was coming to his face.
He is very familiar with this kind of murderous aura. People who have lived and died on the battlefield all have this kind of murderous aura, but the degree is different. As the killing increases, the murderous aura will become more and more fierce and heavier. With Li Hu's age and the war he has experienced, he is not enough to have this kind of murderous aura, but now he has it, and it makes people feel fear and timid. Even Zong Wang has an irresistible feeling. This feeling cannot be expressed in words. It is very bad and can easily make people lose confidence and fall into depression. Zong Wang will not lose confidence, but he has a sense of ominousness, just like during the Battle of Tiger Roaring Taiwan, he always feels powerless.
Li Hu's smile was very confident, his words were also very confident, and even his every move showed a strong sense of confidence. This confidence put a lot of pressure on Zong Wang. This was an experience he had never had before. He had always been very confident and would be decisive if he had confidence. But today he hesitated. He felt that the situation was out of control. Neither Li Hu was opposite or Yelu Chun who was gradually approaching, he could not control the situation.
This is a taboo in military strategists. If you don’t have confidence in controlling the situation, then what are you using to fight?
Chai Yun spread out the map and explained the current situation and the battlefield terrain in detail. Zong Wang listened and looked at Chai Yun, very curious about him. There was a masked person next to me, and there was one around Li Hu, which was a coincidence. This man’s face mask was very ugly, and it was a bit scary when he saw it at night. However, this person’s statement was clear and his ideas were clear. He knew that he was good at this. In the past, he must have been a subordinate of a senior administration. Where did Li Hu find such a person?
After listening, Zong Wang thought for a moment and asked Li Hu, "How many people do you have?"
"Thirty thousand horses and infantry." Li Hu said, "I originally had more than 40,000 people, but I killed 10,000 for you and several thousand for Xiao Gan, leaving only 30,000 people. What about you?" He asked back.
"I originally had 40,000 people, but I killed 10,000 for you, and only 30,000 people were left." Zong Wang looked expressionless, "But I have 20,000 horse soldiers, how many do you have?"
"Five thousand." Li Hu said, "This is my old capital, and I lost all my money after I finished it."
Zong Wang looked suspicious, because in the battle of Hu Xiaotai, the Jin army failed because of the timely support of the rebels and horses. Li Hu knew that he had some doubts, and immediately explained: "The one who came to Hu Xiaotai to support the infantry, and in order to seize the time, he used horses to travel. If I had a 10,000 or 20,000 horse troops, would I let Xiao Gan run away? I would have chased him long ago and killed him and pissed him off."
Zong Wang pondered for a long time, then said, "I want to see the battlefield."
Chapter completed!