Chapter 670 Chasing the Dead and Chasing the North
The grasslands in autumn are gradually getting colder, and the Song army has also put on military jackets.
Countless crimson robes gathered together, like a sea of fire moving on the grassland. It was Yizhou soldiers and horses following Wu Jie to pursue Hebule.
No one knows the situation on the grassland now. These Mongolian soldiers can't wait to go back without any intention to fight.
I followed Lou Shi to conquer some places, and the things I plundered were pitifully small. They were not as good as the Caogu Valley where I attacked the Khitans before, but I paid a heavy price of losing my base.
As the initiator of this incident, Hebule's prestige was declining rapidly, and many tribal leaders openly scolded him for harming everyone.
With people's hearts divided, there was no internal strife, let alone organizing troops to defend the Song army behind them.
Wu Jie pursued them all the way to Jinhe Mountain, while Yao Pingzhong and others led a large army to suppress Baiyu River.
As soon as they crossed the Baiyu River, which was the western flank of the main force of the Jin soldiers defeated by Wanyan Agu, the Jurchens were exposed to the Song army from both sides.
The battle between Song Dynasty and Jin Dynasty had passed the most difficult time. When it came time to fight for the truth, the Jurchens were no match for the Song Dynasty.
In the autumn of the third year of Xuanhe's reign, the northern border was defended for three times, and finally the dawn of counterattack came.
The morale of hundreds of thousands of soldiers is like a rainbow, the generals are like clouds, the troops are like rain, and the money and food are abundant. Since the late Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties, the trend of Hu strong and weak Han has reached the stage of reversal.
Yao Pingzhong ordered to set up camp on the west side of Baiyu River, and sent people to contact Han Shizhong in Tanzhou to wait for the opportunity to cross the river.
The water mist of Baiyu River was cold and cold. Yang Keshi, who was warming himself by the campfire, gloated: "Pohanwu killed Wanyan Zonghan, which made him famous for a while, but also angered Aguda. For more than a month, Jin Bing
They attacked like crazy and fought hard both inside and outside the Great Wall. I heard from people that Han Shizhong wanted to retreat to Tanzhou and Jingzhou to defend on several occasions. Unfortunately, there was a military order posted on the wall. If he dared to retreat even one step, he would lose his head."
Han Shizhong was very famous in the Western Army, not because of his high official position, but because he was a troublemaker.
I don't know how many soldiers were familiar with him. Because of him, he fought with people in Goulanwashe and went to the gambling house to save people. It can be said that he has lost the face of the Western Army.
However, he fought bravely and made many military exploits. He was the best candidate for the Western Army general's son to pretend to take military exploits, so he never received any serious punishment.
Later, he got lucky and went to the south of the Yangtze River to capture Fang La. By some strange combination of circumstances, he captured Fang La alive. The most important thing was that he became a disciple of Yang Shaozai, and he rose to prominence from then on.
Everyone in the Western Army was a little jealous of this old soldier, and their words were inevitably ridiculed.
Yao Pingzhong had no intention of reading Han Shizhong's joke. He raised his telescope and glanced at the opposite side.
The fog was so thick on the vast river that nothing could be seen at all.
Yao Pingzhong sighed and said: "This river needs to be crossed by force, and brothers who don't know how much they will die must come up with a strategy."
Behind him, there was a young general from Hebei, pointing to the river: "This season, the river is freezing cold, and the only suspension bridge has been cut off by the Tatars. Even after crossing the Baiyu River, there is still a black river..."
When everyone was at a loss what to do, suddenly there was a violent sound of horse hoofbeats in the distance, and a soldier hurried over, clasping his fists and saying: "General Wang Zhen from Feng Shengzhou, and Zongze, the general manager of the North Road at Juyongguan, are here to support us."
Yao Pingzhong drove the Lou clan out of the Baiyu River. Both Wang Zhen and Juyongguan were captured. They no longer had to guard the city, and hundreds of thousands of troops were released at once.
Yao Pingzhong held the riding whip and said: "Let's go meet the two generals and brainstorm. They may have some good ideas."
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In front of Constantinople, Yelu Dashi led the crowd into the city, and Xiao Baobao and others greeted him at the city gate.
The coalition of hundreds of nations sounded so scary that the entire Liao Dynasty was in panic. The emperor personally marched to fight this "battle that determines life and death."
At that time, there were so many vassal states in Liao, and the smallest one could mobilize 10,000 horses, and the number could be more than 100,000.
Now that a coalition of hundreds of countries has come, how many millions of people are there? The Liao Dynasty has never paid so much attention to it since they arrived here. Yelu Dashi even took the initiative to send people to show his goodwill to the Song Dynasty.
He had already made up his mind to return east and join the Song Dynasty. After entering the city, Yelu Dashi inspected the city defense of Constantinople and was quite satisfied.
When he fled westward, he brought the craftsmen's methods with him, which invisibly improved the status of these people.
The craftsmen of the Liao Dynasty were second only to those of the Song Dynasty, and in some places they had children even worse. After all, they occupied most of the northern part of the Han territory and had millions of Han people under their rule.
Xiao Baobao patted his chest and said with a fierce look on his face: "Your Majesty, don't worry, this city is facing the sea on both sides, backed by our vast territory, and there are such soldiers and horses, it is Wanyan Loushi, Yao Pingzhong led his troops to fight, the final general
You can also keep it for Your Majesty."
Yelu Dashi nodded and said: "The most important thing in defending the city is Xiao Aiqing's will and morale. Otherwise, even majestic cities like Jinyang have been breached several times. This battle is related to the life and death of our Khitan.
I will work with you dear friends to work together to relieve the national crisis."
The Khitan people on the city wall all raised their arms and shouted, and the sound went straight into the sky.
The top of the city is fully equipped with rolling stones, wood, crossbows, iron furnaces, and gold juice bows and arrows.
Yelu Dashi looked towards the west with deep eyes and a hint of worry.
At this time, the Allied Forces of the Hundred Kingdoms... were on a rampage, causing harm to the western provinces of the Byzantine Empire.
These people are the same as the so-called Crusaders. It is not an exaggeration to say that they are bandits.
Wherever they went, they burned, killed, looted, raped women, plundered slaves, stole property, killed and set fire to all kinds of evil.
In order to resist the powerful Turks and the even more powerful Khitan, Byzantium transferred most of its troops to Constantinople.
Unfortunately, they still failed to stop the Khitan attack. As a result, the western provinces not only lost the imperial court, but also lost most of their soldiers and horses, allowing them to be slaughtered by these bandits.
At this time, the Holy Roman Empire was different from its fellow sufferer Byzantium. They were still implementing a backward feudal enfeoffment system. Even the vassals of my vassal, not my vassal, were not as advanced as the Spring and Autumn Period.
These people are more barbaric than the Byzantine Empire, and they are always ready to rob, but the reason is just like the Mongols, they are poor!
People who are poor naturally become barbaric, because if they want to survive, they have to rob.
The Turks of the Seljuk Empire were not something they could afford to offend, so they could only stare hungry at their Roman compatriots.
Friet, nicknamed "One-Eyed Dragon", was the king of the Hohenstaufen dynasty and the biological father of the later Barbarossa the Red Beard.
His son who would unite Germany had not yet been born at this time. Feret was thirty years old and was wearing a red robe with a layer of chain mail on the outside.
Less than five or six years after he inherited his father's title, he married Judith of Bavaria, who came from the famous Welf family.
This allowed him to have the support of many nobles, and he was unparalleled in the limelight, ruling the roost in the Holy Roman Empire.
This time, his supporters defeated his old enemy, the Duke of Saxony, and became the leader of the coalition, which made him very proud.
You must know that the title Duke of Saxony is extremely ancient. It was one of the first tribal dukes (Saxony, Swabia, Lorraine, Bavaria, and Burgundy) that had the same status as the German king.
Their family once ruled the Holy Roman Empire and the German Kingdom for a long time.
This group of "Allied Forces of All Nations", which were obviously a mob in terms of strength and appearance, when they reached the gates of Constantinople, they faced the Liao Empire, which was waiting for them and treated them as life and death enemies.
Yelu Dashi organized the army, strengthened the city defenses, sent scouts everywhere, and expanded the distant barriers to explore the horses.
He was like a later generation student preparing for the college entrance examination. He studied Chinese and Mathematics painstakingly, did a hundred sets of real questions, and entered the examination room with trepidation.
As soon as the bell rang, the invigilator smiled and handed him a set of papers for junior high school.