The imperial court has been paying close attention to the situation of the Northern Liao court's siege on Yelu Yixin.
At this time, not many people paid attention to the originally grand mission. Also, attention is useless. When the imperial envoys arrived at Zhongjing Road in Northern Liao Dynasty, they were treated with great courtesy.
Unfortunately, it has never entered the so-called negotiation stage.
At this time, the Northern Liao court could not ignore the Song Dynasty, so it was the best way to receive the envoys with high standards without starting negotiations.
The Northern Liao court wanted to wait until the encirclement and suppression campaign was over and Yelu Yixin's rebels were annihilated... By then, they would contact the Song envoys.
At that time, anything you say will be fine, but it will be meaningless.
Killing the rebels like Yelu Yixin was the primary goal of the Yankee court. If possible, they also wanted to kill the family members of the Northern Liao rebels as well, preferably without leaving any dogs or chickens behind.
When those articles about the arrival of the Song Dynasty were spread to the Northern Liao Dynasty, it was a shame for the Khitan ethnic group!
As for the high-level reception of Song envoys at this time... Things must be prioritized. At this time, the Northern Liao army is all in the north, and they have to temporarily appease the Song envoys to avoid the empty southern border.
The Song Dynasty took advantage of it and invaded.
Maybe the court in the Northern Liao Dynasty was laughing at the pedantry of the Song Dynasty court! To rescue Yelu Yixin, it was the right way to send troops northward at this time. What kind of envoys should be sent?
Although there are rumors that the Song State is gathering a large number of troops, there are envoys here, so the war cannot start. As for the rebels, even if the Song State does not send troops, Daliao will have some things to settle with the Song State...
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All the plots destined Yelu Yixin's rebels to have no way of survival.
No one expected that Yelu Yixin's rebels would explode with such great fighting power when they were finally cornered.
With a scale of 50,000 cavalry, even in an encirclement and suppression campaign, it was impossible to trap the entire team in a small space where each other could be seen.
What's more, you are still prepared when you are surrounded.
Therefore, among the large armies of the Northern Liao court, the left and right armies almost did not see each other, and it was difficult for the front and rear camps to communicate with each other.
This created an opportunity for Yelu Yixin to work hard.
You can't escape by running, but you can still fight hard.
Yelu Yixin first sent tens of thousands of fast horses to charge north at high speed, while more than 40,000 fine cavalry laid an ambush on the pursuit road...
Yelu Yixin was very familiar with Daliao's cavalry, and was even quite familiar with Daliao's fighting methods.
When the Liao army fought, every five to seven hundred cavalrymen formed a team, with ten teams forming one team and ten lanes acting on one side. Each team, lane, and side had a commander. Each team took turns charging at the enemy formation, without giving the enemy a chance to breathe.
Your own troops can take a break.
This time to encircle and suppress them, the Daliao court recruited almost all the tribal cavalry in the north and central part.
This resulted in uneven combat capabilities of the cavalry led by various ministries, which gave Yelu Yixin an opportunity to attack.
Moreover, Yelu Yixin also judged that the Liao court had been on guard against the Song Dynasty and had always retained a certain amount of combat power.
Although over the years, the Pishi Army has been relieved of its duties of guarding the palace tents and has been handed over entirely to the palace guards.
However, Yelu Yixin judged that after the general trend of encirclement and suppression was formed, the Daliao court would definitely not send the Pishi army to the scene immediately.
Why do a group of rebels fleeing in panic need the main force of the Pishi Army to be dispatched?
What's more, as soon as we knew we were being surrounded, we could just flee north...
Sure enough, when it was discovered that Yelu Yixin was fleeing north, the Liao army immediately sent out pursuit troops...
This was destined to be the first battle of the siege that was won by Yelu Yixin.
The fleeing cavalry turned back after thirty or fifty miles, while the forty thousand fine cavalry that had already been ambushed quickly formed a counter-encirclement against the pursuers.
The battle was fought in darkness, and it was not until the support of the Liao army from the periphery that Yelu Yixin led his troops to separate from the battlefield.
A battlefield with tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of people, covering an area of hundreds of miles in radius...~
The so-called encirclement was just that the Liao army blocked Yelu Yixin's escape routes in all directions. It did not mean that hundreds of thousands of cavalry were directly facing the rebels.
Because, this is the beginning, and the deployment of compressing the strategic space of the rebels has not yet been implemented.
"Yelü Yixin won the first battle..."
Starting from the siege of Yelu Yixin in Bei Liao, Zhao Xi started to go to the meeting hall every day again.
After external public opinion building is completed, the imperial court needs to grasp the opportunity to send troops at any time.
The battle situation of the rebels such as Yelu Yixin determined the Song Dynasty's decision to send troops.
Although it is destined to send out troops, there still needs to be a division that is famous... That's how fucked it is.
But it seems to be the same in later generations.
However, later generations gave this name to other countries, and the Song Dynasty needed a name to refer to the past when recording in the future, and to silence Shilin.
"From this first battle, we can see that Yelu Yixin is a master tactician."
In the cabinet, Wang Shao was the only one who had ever truly commanded the army, and the only one who had truly led the army in battle was Wang Shao.
Wang Shao can think about the battle situation at that time.
"The encirclement was formed. When the troops of the Northern Liao Dynasty were not stable and could not communicate with each other smoothly, they quickly made the illusion of fleeing north and ambushed the large troops...~"
"In this battle, it can be seen from Yelu Yixin that Yelu Yixin grasped the timing of the battlefield very accurately and was able to make the most correct response."
Wang Shao's analysis is still very reasonable.
"Prince Xiang, we all know that when cavalry or infantry are fighting in formation, the most important thing is morale."
"Nowadays, it is difficult for the rebels led by Yelu Yixin to maintain the morale to fight bravely when facing a large siege. How did he do it?"
Indeed, a large siege has been formed, and there is almost no chance of survival... Let alone risking death and having no scruples. No one can be calm when facing death.
When you know you are going to die, the possibility of fighting is too small.
"I'm also confused about this..."
"There is no need to wonder. If Yelu Yixin gave the rebels hope for survival, it would not be surprising to see such morale."
Fighting in one's heart, or in other words, gathering courage and unifying one's thoughts before the war, Zhao Xi is relatively understanding.
"Everyone knows it's a dead end. Where is the hope for the rebels to survive?"
Wang Anshi also inquired.
"The hope Yelu Yixin gave the rebels was not in the Northern Liao Dynasty, but in the Song Dynasty."
"In the Song Dynasty?"
It's not that I doubt the officials, it's just that I can't figure it out.
This is a barrier to knowledge. What you know and understand forms an obstacle to your own thinking.
"Just like the current public opinion in our Song Dynasty, everyone feels that the rebels have hope of survival...~"
"The officials are saying that the rebels only know the information that Song Dynasty is running for them? But Yelu Yixin shouldn't have thought of it!"
"What if Yelu Yixin thought of it but used it in the opposite direction?"
Zhao Xi had to admit that Yelu Yixin was not only a master of tactics, but also a master of tactics.