Four hundred and thirtieth chapters anger is not infidelity
Just like this, another five days passed, and the Khitans suddenly went out of their normal way and began to assemble their troops on a large scale. It seemed that they were preparing to fight to the death with the Han coalition forces in Cangzhou. The reason why the Khitans put on such a posture, or maybe Yeluji
Liu Ling could guess why he had to do this.
The Khitan people are running out of food and grass.
Dugu Ruizhi took thousands of miles of detours and spent more than twenty days to finally get behind the Khitan army, and then had a great time playing on the Khitan grain road. When the Khitan grain guards arrived, Dugu Ruizhi
Leading people to pounce on them and bite them hard, even if they can't eat the entire food guard army, they will burn all the food and fodder in the car. If the Khitan wolf cavalry comes to look for them and try to annihilate them, then they will
It will transform into the rabbit that the wolf is waiting for, and it can run very fast... it should be said that it runs quite fast.
Dugu Ruizhi only has 6,000 cavalry. Their small size is not a disadvantage but an advantage. They belong to the type of small stature and big taste. They come and go as fast as wind and lightning. They will burn when they see grain carts and run away when they see wolf cavalry.
He does not have the good moral character of a soldier to fight to the death, which makes the Khitan people despise him and give him a headache. Food needs to be transported thousands of miles from Youzhou to supply such a huge army, even in Youzhou.
The big city is also facing some difficulties. Fortunately, Liu Ling's two fires in the south and north of Cangzhou City solved the problem of feeding 100,000 people for Yeluji, otherwise the Khitan people would have even more headaches now.
If every general has his own style of commanding his team to fight, then in a nutshell, Dugu Ruizhi's fighting style can be described in four words, cold-blooded and shameless. That's right, it's not cold-blooded, but shameless. To do
Fight until you can win, and be afraid if you can't. These ten-word golden rule is not easy, nor can it be achieved by just picking out a general. The war spirit that soldiers most respect has always been to fight to the last soldier.
Soldiers have the bloody spirit of never surrendering or bowing their heads, and Dugu Ruizhi's almost rogue and shameless fighting style really gave Yeluji a headache.
There is another thing that gives Yeluji a headache. A few days ago, the Han army set a fire in the Khitan camp, burning a camp that stretched for dozens of miles into organic fertilizer that nourished the earth. At the same time, he was burned
A half-carriage of fine wine from the Western Regions was specially brought here. Yelu likes drinking very much, but he doesn’t like the koumiss that is the favorite drink of the prairie people. Instead, he likes the amber-colored mellow wine produced in the Western Regions. Just like his appearance, he looks
There is not a single hair that looks like a prairie man. He is elegant, handsome, thin, and has a feminine personality. I really don’t know how much effort Yeluxiongji spent to improve the Khitan breed.
This is not only a physical job, it also requires skills.
Of course, no one dares to say that Yelu Ji is not Yelu Xiongji's biological son. First, they are afraid that His Majesty will cut out their tongues, and secondly, they are afraid that Queen Xiao will cut off their younger brother.
And often, when a person with a feminine personality is determined to do something, he will do it more thoroughly and more devotedly.
Yelu desperately wanted to fight the Han army. Even if he lost another hundred thousand troops, as long as he could kill Liu Ling, then half of his goal of going south this time would be achieved. If the weak and weak Han people in the Central Plains did not have a strong
If the leader takes the lead, they will immediately become panicked and timid.
I don’t know how many Persians who were hired with a lot of money were burned to death in the fire that night, and I don’t know how many survived. Because since the fire burned the camp that night, Yeluji had not seen it for several days.
Until those curly-haired and blue-eyed Persians appeared in front of him. It can be seen that the Persians either burped that night, or they took advantage of the chaos to escape. Without the support of those trebuchets, the Khitan offensive
It will be difficult to strengthen it any further.
When Yeluji decided to fight to the death with Liu Ling, he solemnly wrote a letter to Liu Ling. In the letter, he expressed his admiration and respect for the King of Han, and at the end, he proposed that if both parties continued to waste their lives like this, it would be harmful to everyone.
If it's not good, it's better to choose a good place for a showdown between the two sides while the weather is fine. He expressed his willingness to have a fair fight. Both sides can send out the same number of men and horses to fight. If the Khitan Wolf Cavalry led by him loses, he will immediately
If Liu Ling loses, he will give up Cangzhou to the prairie people to herd horses and sheep.
The last sentence in the letter was: "His Royal Highness, the King of Han, please consider it and show the courage a man should have and compete with me on the plains."
Liu Ling's reply to Yeluji was extremely simple, with only seven words.
What you are playing is not allowed!
These seven words almost exploded Yeluji's lungs.
Yelv was extremely angry and ordered Yelv Zhen to lead an army of 100,000 to attack Cangzhou. However, facing the defense line built by Luo Xu, Yang Ye, and Zhu Sanqi outside Cangzhou City, the Khitan Wolf Cavalry could not find any way to defeat the enemy.
Method. These three people relied on each other and supported each other. They blocked the Khitan cavalry and could not move forward even one step.
And Dugu Ruizhi was even more happy behind the Khitan people. In Dugu Ruizhi's own words, he was like a fish in water. And Liu Ling's evaluation of him was that Comrade Dugu Ruizhi was a good comrade and a qualified guerrilla leader.
Liu Ling was very familiar with such trivial matters as launching campaigns behind enemy lines.
Behind you, if I can punch you, I will punch you, and if I can kick you, I will kick you. If you want to hit me, I will turn around and run away, but you can’t hit me. If you turn around to guard against me, I will
When I can't hit you, then I will spit in your face, sprinkle yellow bubbly urine at your door, steal your woman's women's clothes or watch your woman take a bath. This is a very
Effective tactics and guerrilla warfare are three words that I really love.
With Liu Ling, Luo Xu, and Zhu Sanqi's 70,000 to 80,000 troops in the front, and Dugu Ruizhi's 6,000 cavalrymen who looked more like wolves than the Khitans behind, Yeluji became more and more depressed day by day. He had no choice but to mobilize an army of 30,000 to fight against them.
He carried out a thorough and crazy sweep at the rear, trying to completely wipe out the Han army hiding behind him. However, it was obvious that he underestimated Dugu Ruizhi's cunning.
It can be said that Yeluji has exhausted all his skills, but Liu Ling has not yet exhausted all his backup options.
Don't forget, no matter how difficult it was after arriving in Cangzhou, Liu Ling never let Ji Chengyun's vanguard battalion appear in the enemy's sight. Ji Chengyun will always be the variable that Liu Ling arranges in the darkest part of the battlefield. He is the master of sneak attacks.
They are also masters of assassination. The biggest advantage of Ji Chengyun's vanguard battalion is that when they put on military uniforms, they look like a group of fleeing beggars. If they put on beggar's clothes, even the beggars will despise their taste.
Ji Chengyun must use it, but he must use it in the most critical place and at the most critical time.
On the twenty-third day after two fires burned and killed the Khitan army of 100,000, the imperial edict of guilt sent from Daliao to Beijing also arrived at the Khitan camp in the north of Cangzhou. For such a major failure, Yelu
Xiongji was very angry. In the imperial edict, he scolded Yeluji severely, scolding Yeluji until he was completely covered in wounds. Yeluxiongji gave Yeluji the position of Marshal of the Southern Expeditionary Forces in Madu and changed it to Deputy Marshal. As for Yeluji,
The candidate for the marshal was yet to be decided. At the end of the imperial edict, Yelv Xiongji said that the army had suffered heavy losses and it was not advisable to rush into a decisive battle. He asked Yelu Ji to camp and rest in order to put pressure on Cangzhou. He had already transferred the second prince Yelu Deguang to Datong in Xijing to lead an army of 200,000.
Rush for reinforcements and wait for the two armies to converge before raising troops to move south.
Undoubtedly, this imperial edict was the last straw that broke down Yeluji's psychological defense.
Yeluji was demoted to deputy marshal, and the position of marshal was vacant, and his brother Yelu Deguang was about to come with an army of 200,000 to support him. So, what position would Yelu Deguang hold after his arrival?
Even if Yeluji thought about it with his buttocks, he understood what his father was trying to do.
After taking the imperial edict and returning to his large tent in the Chinese army, Yeluji leaned on a comfortable recliner and stared at the imperial edict in a daze, with a helpless and bitter look on his face.
This is forcing yourself to work hard!
The expression on Yeluji's face was very miserable, and he said to himself: "Father, what exactly do you want to do?"
Just when he was lost in thought, Han Zhigu, the head of the Nanmian Palace, Han Zhigu, who had half a head of white hair, entered his tent with gentle steps. Han Zhigu did not bow to Yeluji, nor did he say anything.
He sat down next to the desk, picked up the imperial edict and read it again carefully.
After waiting for a while, Yeluji didn't speak. After Han Zhigu put down the imperial edict, he looked at Yeluji's haggard expression and asked with some distress: "Your Majesty, what are you worried about?"
Yeluji was mentally agitated, but he could not lose his temper towards Han Zhigu. If he had not been assisted by Han Zhigu all these years in Youzhou, he might have given his father Yelu Xiongji a poor answer.
When there were people around, he called Han Zhigu prime minister; when there were no outsiders, he called Han Zhigu uncle.
"Uncle knows it well, why bother asking me again to arouse my irritability?"
Yeluji sighed.
Han Zhigu smiled, patted Yeluji on the shoulder and said, "Since the king calls me uncle, I can't just watch the king walk more crookedly."
He pointed at the imperial edict and said with a smile: "Your Majesty, don't worry, your Majesty will not send the second prince here."
"Why? Why is uncle so sure?"
Yeluji suddenly came to his senses and asked.
Han Zhigu smiled enigmatically: "Yes, it was your Majesty who forced the king and the second prince to confront each other. Your Majesty did this, firstly, to train your ability, the king, so that you can be stable in the future.
Sitting on that chair. In fact, in my opinion, His Majesty has never thought of changing his direct lineage from beginning to end. Up to now, the King is still the heir to the throne. In my opinion, the reason why Your Majesty said this is,
Perhaps he is just angry at the king's behavior in recent times. His Majesty forced his two sons to fight to the death, but he is not an idiot."
Han Zhigu used the word "idiot", which showed that he did not have much respect for the aloof Emperor.
"Your Majesty may be doing this just to test whether your heart is still loyal."
Yeluji's eyes lit up: "Uncle, do you mean that this imperial decree was actually made by His Majesty to scare me?"
"No! Absolutely not! If the king does not do well enough, every word in this imperial edict is true. Of course, if the king does well enough, His Majesty can transfer the second prince to another place with another decree.
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"What does uncle mean, that I should stand still according to the imperial edict?"
Han Zhigu shook his head again and said: "If the king really does not move, I am afraid that your majesty will be really angry, very angry."
"Sometimes, it is not a purely bad thing for a son to get angry with his father."
Han Zhigu smiled, like an old white-haired fox. (To be continued)
