More than 100,000 Zhou soldiers were killed and abandoned their armor. They were chased all the way by the Han army. They didn't even dare to enter the Tanzhou camp and ran directly south. If Luo Xu hadn't led 10,000 tiger and fierce cavalry to fight to the death, they would have been beaten by the Han army.
The Zhou army, which chased for 150 miles, was unable to save even 20,000 people.
In eight consecutive battles in one day, the Zhou army retreated steadily. Luo Xu's 10,000 tiger and ferocious cavalry were reduced to less than 2,000 in the end, while the elites of the Zhou army included Zuowuwei, Youwuwei, and Zuoxiaowei, with more than 90,000 elite troops.
When Tongqi rushed to the Han-Zhou border and reluctantly gathered, there were less than 20,000 horses left. If Meng Hu, the general of Youweiwei, had not arrived with 50,000 reinforcements, I am afraid that the Han army would have chased them all the way across the border.
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Even so, under the impact of his own defeated troops, Youweiwei's soldiers and horses were in chaos. If Youweiwei General Meng Hu hadn't ordered the execution of deserters, his 50,000 reinforcements might have been driven back and killed by the Han army.
After thousands of defeated troops, the troops and horses of Youweiwei stabilized the position.
The hundreds of thousands of troops, including the soldiers and horses of the Five Elements Camp and the Youxiao Guard who were left behind in the Tanzhou camp, were overrun. The remaining soldiers were divided into countless routes and routed, and the soldiers and horses of the Five Elements Camp and the Youxiao Guard were still there.
To be considered complete, with the left Wuwei, the right Wuwei, the left Xiaowei plus the tiger and sharp cavalry, the army of 100,000 was completely disabled.
The Han army took advantage of the situation to take back Tanzhou and garrisoned it with 10,000 troops. Liu Ling personally led more than 100,000 troops to station at the border, eyeing the territory of the Zhou Dynasty with eager eyes. Chai Rong was seriously injured and was protected by others as he escaped all the way and crossed the border.
He has not yet woken up. He spent more than ten days recuperating in Jinzhou before being snatched back from the gate of hell.
Luo Xu and Youweiwei General Meng Hu gathered the defeated troops. The rebels who fled from the Northern Han Dynasty in unclear directions were intercepted and killed by Liu Ling. Only more than 10,000 people returned to Jinzhou. 200,000 troops went out and counted
After the number of soldiers, there were only more than 50,000 defeated soldiers left. Counting the Youwei Guard troops who came for support, it was barely 100,000 troops, fighting against Liu Ling in Jinzhou.
Fortunately, Liu Ling did not want to raise his troops to attack Jinzhou, otherwise the morale of the Zhou army would not be able to withstand the Han Dynasty's pacifying southern army. Jinzhou was the northern gateway to the Later Zhou Dynasty.
If Jinzhou is captured, there will be a vast plain to the southeast. The morale of the Han army is strong. Who can predict whether they will attack Bianliang, Tokyo in one go.
Liu Ling camped ten miles outside Jinzhou City and ordered people to send news of the great victory back to Taiyuan Mansion. One day later, news came that Xixia had raised more than 400,000 troops to attack Zhou, conquering Lingzhou in one fell swoop, and then marched straight into it without stopping.
Hundreds of miles of troops surrounded Xiazhou. The Liao Dynasty in the north also took advantage of the crisis and sent troops out of Bazhou, Kexiong Prefecture, besieged Yizhou, and Dingzhou. The Qianning army of the Great Zhou Dynasty retreated steadily, and Cangzhou could not be saved.
The Xixia soldiers descended from the mountain like tigers, and the Liao soldiers pounced on them like a pack of wolves. The entire north of the Great Zhou Dynasty fell into a war. In just twenty days, the Xixia Kelingzhou soldiers headed north towards the isolated Fuzhou.
During this period, hundreds of miles of territory fell into the hands of the Xixia people. The Liao army conquered Xiongzhou and Yizhou, and surrounded Cangzhou Prefecture. Of the 80,000 Qianning army, only less than 10,000 were killed. Chai Rong was on the sickbed.
Urgently mobilize the left leading army guard horses in Qingzhou, and the right leading army guard horses in Gunzhou to march north to fight the enemy.
He also ordered the 100,000 troops stationed in Jinzhou to detach nearly 50,000 troops from the Right Guards and march to Zhangwu to prevent the Xixia army from continuing to move south. In less than a month, the Zhou Dynasty lost thousands of miles of land. All the north of Cangzhou was returned to Daliao.
All areas north of Zhangwu belong to Xixia. The land area has dropped by nearly 20%.
Fortunately, the two generals, Yue Le and Mi Huang, who were leading the army guard, used their troops cautiously and worked step by step. They blocked Daliao's cavalry at the front line of Yingzhou, making it impossible for them to move even half a step south. And Daliao had gained hundreds of miles of prosperous territory.
Satisfied, he was busy digesting the results of the victory and no longer continued to push his troops south.
On the Zhangwu front line, General Meng Hu of Youweiwei led an army of 50,000, and assembled soldiers from various prefectures and counties as well as private soldiers from various wealthy families, totaling more than 100,000. They defeated Xixia General Li Shanhu north of Zhangwu and killed more than 10,000 enemies.
It stopped the Xixia army from going south. However, in the great rivers and mountains hundreds of miles north of Zi Zhangwu, the banner of the Great Zhou could no longer be seen.
The leader of the Xixia Kingdom, Wei Mingxiao, beheaded Li Shanhu and personally led his army to attack Zhangwu. The two sides fought several battles, each losing tens of thousands of people. The Zhangwu army would rather die than retreat, and Wei Mingxiao's army besieged Zhangwu with more than 300,000 soldiers.
Chai Rong urgently mobilized 60,000 troops from the left and right Longwu Guards near Bianzhou to rush to the northwest to support the Zhangwu Army. He also ordered soldiers from Linzhou, Fengxiang, Huguo, and Yongxing counties to rush northward, gathering a total of more than 200,000 horses and the Xixia army.
The battle and Zhangwu. The two sides went back and forth for more than a month. The Xixia soldiers left a total of 50,000 corpses under Zhangwu City. Seeing that it could not be broken, Wei Mingxiao slowly retreated with his army.
General Meng Hu of Youweiwei underestimated the enemy and led his army to pursue him. He was ambushed fifty miles south of Xiazhou by Wei Mingxiao. The two sides fought bloody battles. Zhangwu's army lost more than 60,000 soldiers and was severely weakened. The Xixia soldiers took advantage of the victory and pursued them, with more than 200,000 Zhangwu soldiers.
Half of the Wu army was lost. However, Xixia soldiers and horses also lost a lot and were unable to continue to attack the city. Wei Mingxiao divided his troops to defend the city, and changed Lingzhou to Shuofang, Fuzhou to Yongan, and Xiazhou to Dingnan.
The three northwest states were all returned to Xixia. The four northeastern states of Yizhou, Xiongzhou, Mozhou, and Dingzhou were annexed by the Liao Dynasty. Seven of the ninety-eight states were lost at once. The soldiers and civilians of Cangzhou and Yingzhou did not dare to go out of the north gate.
Ten miles away, in fact, most of the land was occupied by the Liao Kingdom. The area around Zhangwu was plundered by the Xixia and turned into ruins.
Just when Chai Rong was in dire straits, Liu Ling, the loyal king of the Northern Han Dynasty, negotiated peace with the Great Zhou Dynasty in accordance with the orders of Emperor Xiao of the Northern Han Dynasty. Chai Rong was unable to fight anymore, so he sent Dr. Jin Ziguanglu and the Privy Councilor Weng He to hold talks with Liu Ling at the gate of Jinzhou City.
The boundary was demarcated and the two sides negotiated a peace. Zhou paid an indemnity of 300,000 guan, 5,000 horses, and other supplies. The Han army then retreated to Tanzhou, but the Pingnan army of 100,000 horses did not disperse.
In the days that followed, envoys from Zhou State frequently negotiated with envoys from Xixia and Daliao. However, after a military defeat, it was impossible to expect a group of civilian officials to get the territory back by talking. The two sides fought back and forth for three months, and finally finally
Not even an inch of the land lost by Dazhou could be recovered.
Although Youweiwei General Meng Hu and Dudu Protector Luo Xu had merits in resisting the enemy, they could not receive too high a reward after the defeat. They were only rewarded with 500 pieces of silk each and were promoted to one level. In the Northern Han Dynasty,
Liu Ling's military exploits over there were too great, and since he was already a prince, the rewards were even more difficult. Wang Banjin, Cheng Yihou, Zhao Er, Hua Sanlang and others all received rewards, and the Northern Jianxiong Army Jiedushi was also rewarded.
He Kun's troops marched out of the Northeast and captured two counties of the Zhou Dynasty in the gap between the Liao's cavalry, and he was awarded the title of Champion General.
Wang Banjin, Cheng Yihou, and Liu Mao were promoted to the rank of county magistrates, and each of them was given an exception of 200 households.
As for Liu Ling, he only received a verbal instruction from Emperor Xiao: "Come back as soon as possible to stabilize the situation in the south. I... miss you."
Liu Ling left most of the former Fuyuan Army stationed in Tanzhou and Yuzhou. He ordered Du Yi, the former general of the Fuyuan Army, to be the commander of the Fuyuan Army, and Mao Yuan to be the deputy commander, to stabilize the chaos in the south.
After the Zhou army in Jinzhou slowly evacuated, Liu Ling ordered Luo Sanshui, the former general of the Jianxiong army, to lead the Jianxiong army back to the north to find He Kun.
He also appointed Liu Mao to be the acting commander of Yingzhou General Guard, and stationed 20,000 soldiers and horses in Yingzhou to coordinate the Han troops in Tanzhou and Yuzhou. Liu Mao followed Liu Ling's instructions and recruited 10,000 civilian soldiers in Yingzhou.
More than 5,000 people train continuously every day.
Seeing that everything had been arranged, Liu Ling returned to Taiyuan Prefecture with the remaining 18,000 men and horses who had gone through several bloody battles after going south from Taiyuan at the beginning of the third month after he went south. These 18,000 men and horses had experienced bloody battles.
Tempered with fire, they have been transformed. Whether they are members of the Forbidden Army, the Gyeonggi Camp, or the Taiyuan garrison, those who are still alive have become real warriors who have been tempered for thousands of years.
There is no youthfulness or timidity in them anymore, only high fighting spirit and unyielding spirit.
After Chai Rong, Emperor Shizong of the Later Zhou Dynasty, spent more than three months recuperating in Jinzhou, he drove back to the capital, Bianzhou, Tokyo. The 200,000 elite Zhou army troops came with great momentum, but when they returned, they only brought with them more than 10,000 Yulin troops. 160,000
The army buried their bones in a foreign country, and everyone who was still alive had a gloomy look on their face.
There was no more arrogance and arrogance, and even the Hundred-Selected Soldiers and Guardsmen were all dejected. The car drove all the way southeast from Jinzhou, passing through Zhaoyi and Zhangqing on the way. When the officials, civil servants and generals were in the city
Kneeling outside to pick up the holy driver, Chai Rong didn't even get out of the car. He just expressed a few words of relief to the guards in both places and then continued on his way.
After half a month, Chai Rong finally left the hellish battlefield that he would never forget and returned to the prosperous city of Bianzhou. Hundreds of civil and military officials went out of the city for hundreds of miles to greet the holy driver, and Chai Rong only asked a few questions about him.
Not paying attention to the incident at court, he then got back into the carriage and did not come out until he reached the entrance of the Forbidden Palace.
Knowing that His Majesty was in a bad mood, no one wanted to get into trouble. The civil and military officials reported good news but not bad news, saying that the country was peaceful and stable during His Majesty's expedition. They did not dare to tell Chai Rong that during his Northern Expedition, the Shouzhou bandit Yang Yishan Xiao gathered tens of thousands of people to attack.
There is no human habitation within a radius of 200 miles of Shouzhou, the state capital.
Chai Rong briefly asked everyone a few questions and said that he had returned to the palace tired all the way. After washing up, the first thing Chai Rong did was to ask someone to find a painter to paint the portrait of Liu Ling, the loyal king of the Northern Han Dynasty, and hang it on his
In his dormitory, Chai Rong wanted to remember this person who made him suffer the biggest failure in his life and never forget him.
Although the courtiers did not dare to tell Chai Rong about Yang Yishan's rebellion in Shouzhou, Chai Rong still found out the next day. He first scolded the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty, and then sent General Zuowuwei Han Geng to lead troops to put down the rebellion.
.General Han Geng, who was beaten on the battlefield of the Northern Han Dynasty and abandoned his armor, finally showed the demeanor of a famous general again when he faced Yang Yishan's thugs.
Han Geng commanded Zuo Wuwei, who had newly added 15,000 soldiers from various prefectures and counties. More than 20,000 people fought against Yang Yishan's main force on the banks of the Huai River in South Shouzhou. Facing the 60,000-strong army, which was said to be 150,000
Yang Yishan's bandits led the army, and Han Geng took the lead with a large spear in hand. In one battle, Yang Yishan's army was defeated and fled, killing more than 10,000 enemies and capturing more than 30,000 people.
Yang Yishan fled with only more than a hundred cavalry soldiers, and the Shouzhou Rebellion ended.
Yang Yishan became a street rat. He did not dare to go south, and kept fleeing to the northeast, entering the Shandong border. With his prestige, he recruited five to six thousand bandits along the way, and burned, killed, and looted all the way north. On the border of Shandong, they encountered the Qianning Army who was defeated by the Daliao cavalry. The Qianning Army, which had held its breath, had no trouble at all in fighting the rebellious bandits. Yang Yishan, who finally regained his strength, was defeated again, and with thirty Several soldiers fled into the mountains to escape.
At this time, Liu Ling, who was in Taiyuan, was preparing for his first marriage.
