Chapter 267: In a World of Great Controversy, All the Heroes (3)
As expected, Yelu Dabeinu's troops were ambushed by the Song army on the way.
More than 40,000 Song troops first penetrated, then divided and surrounded, annihilating them one by one. The 20,000 troops and horses led by Yelu Dabeinu were all lost in just three hours. Finally, with more than 2,000 remnants, they fled desperately for their lives and finally escaped back.
to Liaozhou City.
After this battle, the Liao army reduced its strength and stayed in the key cities of Tong, Xian, Yin, Liao, Shenzhou and Liaoyang. The Song army wandered back to the Wei and Haozhou areas in the west, waiting for opportunities.
Everyone is waiting, one side is waiting for its reinforcements to continue to increase, waiting for the balance of victory to tilt to its own side; one side is waiting patiently, waiting for the other side to reveal its weakness, and then launch a fatal blow.
Tokyo Road to Xianzhou is the main road from Jinzhou to Liaozhou.
On this day, a team winding for dozens of miles, from west to east, slowly walked on the road outside Xianzhou City. There were about 30,000 to 40,000 people in this team, and only one-fifth of them were riding horses or cavalry.
, there were also officers. The rest were foot soldiers.
Mixed in the middle were four to five thousand horse-drawn carriages, which were piled with grain, grass and military supplies collected from various states and counties in Nanjing and Xijing.
Li Si, Zhang Wu, and Wang Liu are three people in the team. They belong to the Han Army in Jizhou, Nanjing Road. They were all issued from the same village in Yutian County, Jizhou. So they joined the army and stayed together.
"What a bastard! How far is this Liaoyang Mansion? It's been half a fucking month and it's not over yet." Zhang Wu complained.
"Be content. Two years ago, the eldest brother of the Ding family from the next village went to Huanglong Mansion. He walked for more than two months and almost died on the road." Wang Liu said with a curled lip.
"What do you think we are signing for to go to Liaoyang for? To fight? Hasn't the Northeast been pacified? Why is there another war?" Li Si asked in confusion.
"Who knows when this world will be at peace?" Zhang Wu replied dejectedly.
"I heard that the soldiers and horses of the Song Dynasty came over!" Wang Liushen said nonchalantly.
"Nonsense! The Song Dynasty is in the south, how could it possibly reach the northeast? Could it be that they swam across the sea on the river? Don't even think about fooling me!" Zhang Wu was a little excited, saying that this was absolutely impossible.
"Haha, you are so lonely... solitary... so ignorant. Let me tell you, I went to Yutian County to pick up dung a few days ago, and I heard a fortune-teller on the street, Liu Blind, say something about it in the Song Dynasty newspaper
We have boarded the Shangdu, and the Song Dynasty has pacified the Mobei grassland, so why did they collect the Xuanwu flag... I didn't know where Mobei was at the time, so I asked casually, and he said it was on the edge of Shangjing and Tokyo."
As soon as Wang Liu finished his words, Li Si slapped his thigh and said, "That's not true. That's right. But how did the Song people get to Mobei? Isn't there our Liao Kingdom in the middle?"
Zhang Wu probably lost interest in this matter because he guessed wrong, and complained: "I don't care where it goes to fight or who it fights, just don't delay our autumn harvest. You said, in our village,
How many people have fled in the past few years. Now there are only a dozen young people left, and this time one guy has signed up for most of them."
"In two or three months, we will start busy with the autumn harvest. If we can't go back, what will we do if our family is full of women and children, old and young? But the taxes from the court and the rent from the landlord's family are all gone.
Not even a grain will be missing."
Hearing what Zhang Wu said, Wang Liu seemed to remember something and complained in a low voice: "If I knew this, I would have just followed him to the south in the past two years. I heard that the people who ran to the south had their land divided.
I was given a house to live in and live a good life.”
Zhang Wu snorted disdainfully, "Don't listen to people's nonsense. Is there such a good court in the world? They allot you land and give you a house to live in. They are more considerate than your parents. Is it still a government? After all,
Nonsense, tell me, from ancient times to the present, which emperor can do this..."
"Besides, what's the use of going south? The Liao State is strong and the Song State is weak. This has been the case for hundreds of years. If a war breaks out and the Liao army goes south, the folks who went to the Song State will have to be robbed again.
.At that time, families will be broken up and people will be killed, and some of them will cry!"
As Zhang Wu talked, he believed in his own judgment more and more, and finally made a conclusion with a very certain tone.
"That's right! When the Liao and Song Dynasties go to war, we can still get some soup to drink. Those who ran to the south won't even find a place to cry. That's right!"
Wang Liu didn't believe it and started arguing with Zhang Wu. Li Si scolded from the side: "What are you talking about? How dare you say such a thing here? If Zhang Gouyan hears it, he will turn his back and report us to receive the reward."
When the time comes when Guan'er travels to the camp and has fifty sticks, you won't even be able to find a place to cry."
Hearing the name Zhang Gouyan, Wang Liu and Zhang Wu couldn't help but glance far away.
A man who looked like an army officer was circling the two Khitan officers with smiling faces. He just wished he didn't have multiple tails on his butt, so he couldn't move around to show his sincerity to the two Khitan officers.
Zhang Gouyan is the second son of a large family in a village not far from Li Si and others.
His family has thousands of acres of fertile land. The eldest son is studying and took the mid-term exam two years ago. I heard that he became a writing official in Nanjing and became a disciple of Li Zuoxiang in the DPRK.
The second child joined the army, and within two years he became an officer in charge of more than a hundred people. This time he wanted to make a contribution and make a bright future. The Zhang family also had a daughter who was married to a Khitan nobleman in Jizhou City as a concubine.
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The family embraces the thighs of the Khitan people and can be regarded as one of the largest households in Yutian County.
Zhang Gouyan was as fierce as a wolf to ordinary soldiers, but as docile to the Khitans as a loyal dog. If he had overheard the conversation between the three of them just now, he would definitely report it to the Khitans so that he could receive the reward.
"The Romance of Fairy Wood"
Li Si saw that Zhang Wu and Wang Liu were frightened, and then whispered: "Be careful, there are people in our army who have issued certificates from various states and counties. People's hearts are separated from each other, who knows if they will take it."
What we said is to look the other way and get some benefits."
"Brother is absolutely right!" Zhang Wu and Wang Liu nodded in agreement, "Brother is indeed a person who has been issued two or three times. He has more experience than us. Please look after us when we go to the battlefield."
"It's easy to say." Li Si was flattered by Zhang Wu and Wang Liu, and he felt very proud that he could return home from the battlefield three times intact. "Let me tell you, when you get to the battlefield, the most important thing is...
.”
Halfway through the words, Li Si opened his mouth and his eyes widened in horror, unable to say a word.
He happened to see several cold arrows flying from nowhere. One hit the Khitan officer's neck, and the other hit another Khitan officer's chest. The two of them turned over and fell off their horses without saying a word.
Zhang Gouyan shrank his neck in fear, fell from his horse to the ground, rolled and crawled, and hid somewhere.
"Enemy attack!" Someone finally roared, but it was quickly drowned out by the sound of horse hooves like a spring thunder wave. This chapter has been completed!