Chapter 235 Literati leading the army is a big joke
Sometimes people are the most contradictory and ridiculous creatures. On the one hand, Fan Yong was worried about Dangxiang's invasion, but on the other hand, he was mentally hinting to himself that this was impossible. Dangxiang was a barbarian! The Song Dynasty was also China! How could barbarians violate the power of China?!
However, there have been countless barbarian invasions of China in history, and the tragedy of the Five Chaos in China has long been forgotten. After the Central Plains was stabilized, the inherent thoughts of the Han family occupied everyone's mind.
Only Ye An, who was far away in Zhending Mansion, didn't think so. Flying pigeons to send messages were considered the fastest communication tool in this era, but when he saw the message in his hand, he knew that Fushi City in Yanzhou had been taken over by Li Yuanhao.
surrounded by a large army.
Peace talks are nothing more than a joke, and we will use all possible means on the battlefield. This is a war that never tires of deceit.
Li Yuanhao would not stop attacking. What he lost in Ganliang, he had to make up for it in the Song Dynasty. The reason why he did not use troops against Ganliang but went south to besiege Yanzhou was because Yanzhou was far more powerful than Ganliang.
More strategic.
These messages were all replaced with special symbols, but even so, he still burned the note in his hand.
During this period, he clearly knew that the Liao people would not go south. The Liao Dynasty's concentration of troops in Youzhou was just a pretense. If it really planned to cooperate with Li Yuanhao's invasion and form a north-south pincer attack on the Song Dynasty, the soldiers and horses of Youzhou would have already gone south.
The vast Zhending Mansion!
During this period, the Song and Liao countries did not even have the most common friction in border states. On the contrary, the market was extremely developed. A large number of Song and Liao merchants came and went in the market in Xiongzhou every day. They made a lot of money and paid no taxes.
A lot of payment was enough to show that the Liao Dynasty did not want to go to war with the Song Dynasty, but wanted to be a fisherman for profit!
On the other hand, Li Yuanhao used negotiations to confuse Fan Yong and delay the Song army's subordinates. However, Fan Yong really fell into the trap and actually sent Shi Yuansun to lead troops to seize the lost Tumen Village. This was a cocoon for himself!
So what if the retreat of the Xixia army is cut off? They will take advantage of the enemy!
Unlike the Song Dynasty, Xixia never had a long supply line. The best way to deal with them was to clear the country and defend the city, but Fan Yong repeatedly committed a military taboo!
Everyone in the court also said that he was most suitable to be in charge of Yanzhou, but now it seems that this is an extremely stupid appointment.
However, Ye An knew that what really destroyed Yanzhou was not the gain or loss of a city, but the game between the armies. Yanzhou did not have many troops, and even if it was conquered by Li Yuanhao, it would have a limited impact on the situation of the war.
If Liu Ping and Shi Yuansun could gather a large army to retake Yanzhou, then Li Yuanhao's strategic intention of the southern invasion would be completely over. Of course, such an outcome would be difficult to achieve.
In fact, the Song Dynasty had an advantage from the beginning. No matter how many troops Li Yuanhao had, as long as he could keep Fushi City, Li Yuanhao would lose!
It's just that no one can see this kind of defeat. This is a victory or defeat based on strategic intentions, which is completely different from the outcome of war.
At this time, thousands of miles away in Yanzhou, outside Fushi City, Fan Yong saw a scene that horrified him. The Xia people's camp was fifty miles north of the city at the mouth of Wulongchuan. The following team went directly to Yujiazhuang, and Zhuang was twenty miles away from Zhouzhou.
There are more than 100,000 more people!
How could he, a civil servant, have seen such a shocking scene? He was immediately frightened to the point of fear, and his two bodies were trembling uncontrollably. Even his voice began to tremble when he spoke, and he was in an ugly state for a while.
"Lu Shouqin... General Lu... maybe a battle in Yanzhou?!"
"The last...the last general...I don't know!" Lu Shouqin, the commander-in-chief, had long since lost the courage to lead the security forces in a battle.
Fan Yong was furious, turned to look at him and said: "How could you not know?! As the commander of the Yongxing Army Road, if you don't know what the commander wants you to do? Then you can ride out of the city alone to fight against the enemy!"
Lu Shouqin was immediately frightened to the point of crying. The appearance of a seven-foot-strong man was really disgusting, but he soon said: "Perhaps we can negotiate peace with the Xixia people?"
"Meet peace?! Then He Zhen came to negotiate peace just to deceive me!"
Lu Shouqin kept saying: "Li Yuanhao's purpose in going south is to get money. As long as we give it to him and abandon a few military strongholds, we may be able to make him retreat..."
Fan Yong also gradually regained his composure, looked at the endless enemy formation and said: "There are only a few hundred soldiers in the city. Fushi City is divided into two cities by the river. The battlements are small. Soldiers can get a picturesque view of the city from the Jiuzhou Terrace! Jinming Village is surrounded by
If a big city is occupied by Li Yuanhao... we can only give it up to him! Where are Liu Ping and Shi Yuansun?!"
Lu Shouqin hurriedly said: "Mr. Fan, these two are returning to Fushi City as quickly as possible, but the time it takes will not be enough to make the Xixia people surrender as a condition for peace!"
In Fan Yong's opinion, this is all that can be done. Nothing is more important than wealth and life...
So the two people planned to negotiate peace with Li Yuanhao, and ordered the governor Li Kangbo to go out of the city to negotiate. Li Kangbo, who was a member of the military for three generations, was furious when he heard Fan Yong wanted to negotiate peace. He refused with generous words and sent someone to report to him, hoping to get him out of the city.
If you want to make peace, I will kill myself first! As for the order, I will never accept it.
Fan Yong and Lu Shouqin didn't expect Li Kangbo to be so determined, and they didn't dare to take action. If they really killed him at this time, there would be no one left. Moreover, Li Kangbo also sent people to ask for help. If he died, those soldiers would be killed.
He would openly publicize this matter, which is a disgrace to the imperial court. It is not a capital crime if investigated, and it cannot be evaded by national law!
The two had no choice but to try their best to recruit troops to defend Yanzhou, but everyone knew that this was a drop in the bucket.
Fortunately, they received news from Liu Ping that night. He led his elite troops to a place less than a hundred miles outside the city and would soon march into Sanchuankou.
On the other side, news came from Shi Yuansun. Shi Yuansun learned that Fushi City was besieged, so he led his army to return for reinforcements at night, hoping to join forces at Sanchuankou.
The arrival of these news gave Yanzhou Fushi City confidence, and also gave Fan Yong and Lu Shouqin some relief.
They just wanted to get the army to help as soon as possible, and they kept asking questions and sending people to urge them. It was quite troublesome to deliver news in this era. Moreover, all the troops and horses were divided into separate operations, otherwise it would be difficult to provide logistical support.
So under chaotic command, Shi Yuansun first received an order to rescue Tumen in Gyeongju, and hurriedly took 3,000 cavalry and set off first. Later, he and Liu Ping received an order to rescue Yanzhou. At the same time, Liu Ping sent all directions to
The troops issued an order to assemble their troops.
Liu Ping and Shi Yuansun knew the critical situation in Fushi City, so they hurried forward. They walked ten miles away from Sanchuankou before they realized that the other people had not arrived. Worried about being eaten by the Xixia ambush, they walked back twenty miles.
Finally, they met up with the 2,000-strong troops of Huang Dehe, the governor of Fuyan Road, and the inspectors of Wanqi Zheng and Guo Zun. At this time, the number of the Song army reached more than 10,000 on foot and cavalry, and not far away there was an army of 100,000.
Xixia military formation.
Huang Dehe, the governor of the capital, saw the Xixia army in such a formation and said: "There are so many bandits now, there may be an ambush at Sanchuankou!"
Liu Ping was furious, drew his sword and cut off the wooden stakes on the ground and said: "A righteous man goes to the enemy's urgent need. If he walks through fire and water, it will be a matter of state affairs! Even if there is an ambush, we cannot retreat!" After saying this, he sent an order to the entire army to go to Sanchuankou.
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At this time, he didn't know that Li Yuanhao had sent troops to attack Yanzhou in three places at the same time. He was fighting Xu Huaide's troops all the way to the east. The main force was besieging the city of Yanzhou, and he was setting up an ambush at Sanchuankou all the way to the west!