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Chapter 578
"Yelu Deguang is very confused! He is hiding something."
Liu Ling, who was watching the battle in the city tower, suddenly said something confused.
Hua Ling asked in confusion: "Your Majesty, how could you tell?"
Liu Ling thought for a while and said: "A Khitan force of ten thousand people can only attack Yuliang Avenue. Yelu Deguang is not a fool. Why not send a large army to attack the city to share the pressure of the ten thousand people who attack Yuliang Avenue? If he ordered the east gate
, attack the west gate at the same time, and then use elite troops to attack the north gate, and use the Yuliang Avenue to fight up is the most correct strategy. He has been fighting for many years, he can’t even understand this truth. Look!"
Liu Ling pointed to the Khitan camp in the distance and said: "In the Khitan camp, only the Chinese army is brightly lit, and the two camps surrounding the west gate and east gate of Taiyuan only have dots of firelight! There are two hundred thousand Khitan people, and two
An army of 100,000 people is watching a team of 10,000 people attack the city, but why is there no movement at all in the two camps in the east and west?"
Hua Ling frowned and suddenly thought of something: "What the prince means is that there is no one in the Khitan's east and west camp at all!"
Liu Ling nodded and said: "I'm afraid that most of the people in the two camps have been mobilized. I observed a while ago that Yelu Deguang sent many people out to cut down trees. It seems that at that time he had already assigned the troops.
Out. Yelu De just wanted to make a pretense of besieging Taiyuan City and storming it. He must have sent a capable general to lead his army south."
"Going south? He wants to attack Jinzhou?"
Hua Ling's face changed slightly and she said: "Yelu Deguang divided his troops to attack Jinzhou. Isn't he worried that his troops are weak and will be defeated one by one?"
Liu Ling smiled and said: "It's just a guess. You'll know if you try it. If he really divides his troops, his camp will be burned down tonight!"
Hua Ling immediately said: "I am willing to lead the troops to give it a try!"
Liu Ling thought for a while and said, "Okay, you can personally lead five thousand elite cavalry out of the south gate to attack the Khitan East Camp. If the defense is really empty, there is no need to fight and just burn his camp. I will ask Xu Xuan to lead five thousand elite cavalry."
If we go to attack Yelv Deguang's west camp, we just set fire to it. If the camps on both sides are set on fire at the same time, the Khitan army will definitely be in chaos. If the Khitans really divide their forces, Yelv Deguang will be defeated tonight! I'm just waiting in Taiyuan City.
If the fire starts, it means you have succeeded. I will send a large army to attack the Khitan army head-on."
Liu Ling pointed to the still-burning Yuliang Avenue and said, "Yelu Deguang has paved a road for us to come out. We can go down the road and catch the Khitan people off guard!"
Hua Ling said quickly: "The prince must not leave the city easily. Now it is only speculated that Yelu Deguang secretly divided his troops. If there is an ambush, how can the prince's body of thousands of gold be put in danger? Furthermore, if the Khitan people know that the prince is in Taiyuan,
I'm just afraid that Yelu Xiongji's army will come non-stop."
Liu Lingdao: "On the battlefield, fighter opportunities are fleeting. Although I hid my troops in Taiyuan City to wait for a fatal blow to Yelu Xiong's machine. But now that I have the opportunity to defeat Yelu Deguang's army in one fell swoop, there is no need to be so rigid. To do so.
Knowing how to adapt, the reason why Yelv Deguang dared to divide his troops was that he felt that Yelv Xiongji's army could be killed in less than ten days, and he must have observed these days that the soldiers and horses in Taiyuan City did not dare to go out to fight. If so,
Defeating Yelu Deguang's army in one go will also allow the people to return to their homes sooner."
"Go ahead. Remember, the Khitan's strongest force is their cavalry. Their cavalry has almost never encountered an opponent on the plains. Just burn the camp and wait until Yelu Deguang's army divides its troops to rescue them. I will lead the attack with my own army."
Hua Ling could only clasp her fists and say: "I obey my orders!"
After saying that, Hua Ling turned around and left in a hurry. Liu Ling frowned, looked at the lights of the Khitan camp in the distance and said to himself: "Could it be that something happened in the Khitan country? Why is Yelv Deguang so anxious? If someone
If he is planning to rebel, he should return to the army immediately, why should he divide his troops instead?"
Suddenly, Liu Ling thought of a possibility.
Could it be that the Xixia people are going to use troops against the Han Dynasty?
Immediately, Liu Ling denied his speculation. The main Xixia army was in Swan City, and most of the armies of the three military divisions of Heishan, Heishui, and Baishan were deployed in Xiazhou and Wuzhou. There were Cheng Yihou and Maoyuan.
With an army of 300,000 people suppressing them, the Xixia people would never dare to send troops rashly. However, as long as the soldiers and horses of Swan City go south, in Fuzhou, Wang Banjin left a force of 100,000 troops to garrison.
simple.
"forage!"
An idea flashed in Liu Ling's mind!
Yes, Yelu Deguang must have had a problem with the supply of grain and grass, so he hurriedly divided his troops. Qinzhou and Liaozhou in the south of Taiyuan were the first places where the Han Dynasty implemented farming. The granaries in both places were full, Yelu
Deguang did not divide his troops to attack Jinzhou, but aimed at the grain supplies of Qinzhou and Liaozhou! If this is the case, the Khitan offensive against Taiyuan was just to cover up the division of troops to go south, so Yelv Deguang would not send a large army
Attack from three sides! Although I don’t know why Yelu Deguang’s army suddenly ran out of food and grass, but it is obvious that Yelu Deguang used civilians to build the Weirang Avenue, and then used an army of ten thousand people to attack. This was all to cover up
, to cover up his lack of troops!
He had to attack, otherwise I would see some clues. So I only attacked a little bit, which not only showed that the Khitan's offensive was not reduced, but also saved troops.
Yelu Deguang must be very confused now!
Liu Ling let out a long sigh of relief when he thought of this.
According to the information obtained by spies and scouts, the food, grass, cattle and sheep carried by Yelu Deguang when he went south were enough to feed the 200,000 troops for a month. But something must have happened when Yelu Deguang divided his troops in such a hurry.
Question. As for what the problem is, Liu Ling is not a god, so he can't guess. But that's not important. What's important is that the weakness of the Khitan people has been exposed. If we raid the Khitan camp tonight, even if we can't kill the Khitan people in one go,
, Yelv Deguang himself will slowly retreat!
Liu Ling's thinking became clearer and clearer. He thought that if he forced Yelu Deguang's army to retreat north, and then transferred Jinzhou's troops and horses, Taiyuan would then send tens of thousands of troops to send Yelu Deguang to Qinzhou and Liao.
There is no need for a fierce battle. As long as Qinzhou and Liaozhou hold on and block the Khitan army's retreat, the Khitan army that has been separated will be starved to death between Taiyuan and Qinzhou!
Without food, once Yelv Deguang withdraws his troops, Su Ge's troops who are besieging Qinzhou behind him will also be in chaos. If they can withdraw to Datong by then, how many people will be left?
What happened in the Khitan camp? Why did Yelu Deguang send people to grab food in such a hurry?
Liu Ling didn't expect, nor did Yelu Deguang, that things would develop like this!
In order to sew the bags, those farmers sheared almost all the wool off the sheep. Tens of thousands of sheep froze to death in two or three days! The most unlucky thing was not that the sheep froze to death, but the people who handled the dead sheep.
It was so inappropriate that an unknown plague broke out. As a result, the cattle and sheep that the army relied on for survival were all infected with the plague. In just a few days, the cattle and sheep raised in the transport camp almost died!
Moreover, Yelu Deguang did not dare to feed the cattle and sheep that died from the plague to the soldiers! If the soldiers were also infected with the plague, there would be no need for the Han army to fight. An army of 200,000 would have to be defeated by such a small army.
All his mistakes were ruined outside Taiyuan City!
The hundreds of thousands of cattle and sheep originally brought were enough to sustain the army for a month, but now they could no longer sustain it for seven days!
If food is not obtained in seven days, the army will have to retreat north early. Xinzhou has not yet been captured, and Daizhou has not yet been captured. If the news spreads that food has been out, the troops behind will be panicked!
If the army escapes first, and the Han army from Daizhou and Xinzhou come out to block it, the two hundred thousand troops will be dragged to death!
After Yelu Deguang heard the report from the generals of the supply camp, the first thing he did was to order the news to be suppressed. He must not let the soldiers know that the cattle and sheep were infected with the plague and died. Once the morale of the army was unstable, the 200,000-strong army would be deserted.
Escape, even if you are the prince, you can't bear the anger of His Majesty the Liao Emperor!
He now hates Han Zhishan who came up with the idea to build the Yuliang Avenue, and hates those common people to death.
In order to cover up the fact that the army was out of food, he dispatched almost all the soldiers and horses from the East and West camps to attack Qinzhou and seize the Qinzhou granary. Then he ordered the supply camp to return a pound of fodder for cattle and sheep to the pasture every day.
He must not let the soldiers see any flaws. Then he had to pretend to be confident and had to send people along the Yuliang Avenue to attack Taiyuan! The most uncomfortable thing was that he could only watch his subordinates helplessly.
The soldiers rushed forward to die!
This is a very aggrieved anger.
Yelu Deguang never expected that things would develop like this.
His biggest hope now is that the Han people in Taiyuan City will not find anything. He hopes that the 80,000 troops led by General Hua Lachi can successfully conquer Qinzhou within seven days. No, Hua Lachi only has four days, because he led the
The leaving team only carried four days of rations! If Qinzhou could not be captured within four days, Hua Lachi would have to lead his men back. Then he would join the whole army and slowly retreat north, all the way to the north of Daizhou.
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Yelv Deguang couldn't imagine that if Qinzhou really couldn't be captured, how could two hundred thousand soldiers who had no food and were so hungry that they couldn't even lift their scimitars and couldn't even climb their horses to stop the Han pursuit?
Looking at the fire rising on the Yuliang Avenue, Yelu Deguang thought helplessly that if there was really no other way, he would have to start killing the horses. But that could only be done after retreating. If he started killing the horses now,
I'm afraid the soldiers will immediately become panicked!
perhaps……
Yelv Deguang thought uncomfortably, maybe Chang Sheng innocently abandoned the descendants of Canglang. (To be continued)
