Chapter 1264: Ending the affairs of the king and the world
Chapter 1272 Ending the affairs of the king and the world
Liu Changzuo was known for his caution in using troops, and this time was no exception.
When the beacon towers on the mountains around Wuyan Gorge issued warnings, the Song army had already received the message, and all soldiers and horses were woken up an hour earlier at night and had breakfast early.
Although some soldiers suggested that Liu Changzuo take advantage of the confusion of the party's troops and horses to conduct a night attack, Liu Changzuo believed that the variables of the night attack were too great. Now that the Song army's success rate was already very high, there was no need to take this risk.
All the three armies knew that the war was coming, and the cooks worked all night to prepare meals.
Smoke was rising from the kitchens in each camp, and the cooks were sweating steaming cakes and kneading dough.
It is a custom in the military camp to give soldiers a good meal before a big battle.
Basket after basket of cakes were carried out by the cooks and distributed to various military camps.
There is meat, vegetables, steamed cakes, and corn porridge, so everyone has enough to eat.
The three soldiers also worked hard to eat and drink. Everyone knew that the battle would take several hours, and the next meal would not come so soon, or even never.
The soldiers were stuffing food into their mouths desperately, and the sound of cooking could be heard in the military camp. The soldiers and horses fought with empty stomachs and fought with full stomachs, which were two completely different combat strengths.
We can learn from the allusion of Qi Qinggong destroying the food of this dynasty.
The striker was also drinking some alcohol.
As for the war horses, they were also fed with refined ingredients - soybeans and mixed with some eggs. They buried their heads in the trough and chewed them loudly.
The cavalrymen of the horse army patted their horses' backs and looked at these companions who were going to the battlefield to live and die together.
The soldiers and horses of Xihe Road were not only excellent, but the soldiers also had yak meat to eat. The Xihe Army's equipment, horses, and food were the best among all the soldiers, which made the soldiers and horses of all walks of life envious.
The three armies were well fed and well-dressed and ready to go.
At the same time, Liang Yibu came to surrender and reported to Liu Changzuo the actual situation of the party's troops.
All the generals were confused and suspected that the other party was pretending to surrender, but Liu Changzuo made a decisive decision and launched a three-army attack!
The Song army's ambush troops emerged from the valley path.
The main force of the Song Army fiercely attacked the elite main force of the Dangxiang Army, which had retreated for more than ten miles from Pingxia City!
The elite Dangxiang soldiers who had been arrogant under Mingsha City had not eaten since the camp was bombed last night. When they saw the Song Army Yao Xiong brothers on Huanqing Road recharging their energy, they were like tigers descending the mountain.
However, Dangxiang's elite troops took over the formation and held on to the death, and the generals fought to the death without retreating.
The two armies fought, but the Song army retreated without sending troops.
Just when the Dangxiang generals were either thankful for God's help or laughing at the Song army, they saw that after the Song army retreated on Huanqing Road, they did not continue to attack the stronghold, but continued to go downstream of the Huluchuan River to plunder the back road.
Immediately, the rear troops of the Song Army arrived and attacked the stronghold again. Seeing this scene, all the party members and horses were frightened.
Li Bingchang ordered the imperial guards to shoot at the formation and ordered the soldiers to fight again.
The attacking Song army was composed of soldiers and horses from Qin Fenglu and Zhe Keshi. After the two sides fought for a while, Dangxiang's soldiers fought and retreated. They were killed by the Song army and retreated several miles before they regrouped.
However, Zhe Keshi did not continue fighting and continued to lead his army to the lower reaches of the Huluchuan River.
At this time, Li Bing met Liu Changzuo of the Song Army, and Peng Sun led the soldiers and horses on the Jingyuan Road to intercept and kill the defeated troops of various parties. The riverbank covered with rocks and grass was littered with corpses, and the corpses of men, horses, and camels floated down from the river.
Seeing this scene, all Dangxiang generals were shocked.
The generals protected Li Bingchang and fought and retreated. At this time, the sound of war drums sounded, and a large army came from the south again.
It was the troops led by Professor Miao, Miao Lu and his son on Xihe Road, including 5,000 Liangzhou horse troops.
Along the way, the Song army bypassed Dangxiang's miscellaneous soldiers and dispersed without killing them, recharging their strength and waiting for the elite troops of Dangxiang's central army.
Seeing that Dangxiang's most elite army had successively defeated the Song troops on Huanqing Road and Qinfeng Road, Professor Miao did not dare to attack easily. Professor Miao personally arrived in front of the formation to observe carefully and saw that Dangxiang's formation was moving slightly. It was obvious that the soldiers were moving.
Although the horses are good, the morale of the army is unstable and the soldiers are uneasy. It is already the end of a strong crossbow.
Miao Shuo immediately ordered the whole army to attack. The two armies fought fiercely for half a day, and one of the key points, the mouth of the valley, changed hands with each other.
This time, the main force of Dangxiang finally could not withstand the Song army, and the soldiers couldn't help but scramble to retreat, which finally led to the collapse of the entire army. The soldiers fled for the road, trampling on each other, and the dead were buried in Seichuan.
The Song army took advantage of the situation to cover up the killing. Miao Shuo was eager to make a contribution and led more than a thousand horse troops to the Yellow tent. However, he was shot back by powerful crossbows many times. This left Li Bingchang safe for a while.
However, his mother, the Empress Dowager Liang, died in the rebellion.
Just then the wind and sand were blowing hard, making it impossible for people and horses to see anything.
This resulted in not all of the party's elite troops being lost in the formation, but it also resulted in a heavy loss of the main force, with tens of thousands of armored soldiers losing seven out of ten.
Later, the Song army cleaned up the battlefield and peeled off tens of thousands of armors from the corpses alone on the river beach.
When they first besieged Pingxia City, the party's more than 200,000 troops deployed a hundred-mile joint formation in the long canyon.
Hundreds of miles of joint camp turned into hundreds of miles of corpses in an instant, and abandoned military supplies piled up like mountains.
The Huluchuan River meanders, and the Song army rushes out from all directions, ambushing party soldiers and horses everywhere.
Many party troops wanted to surrender, but the Song army was so eager to take advantage of them that they cut off the heads of each of them regardless of whether the opponent surrendered or not, and kicked their corpses down the river to continue the pursuit.
Li Bingchang was greatly panicked. He saw soldiers and horses running around in all directions. Now the soldiers were just scrambling to escape.
When the party's troops and horses could hardly support him, Meile Dubu led his army to rescue Li Bingchang and cut off the rear with his own troops.
As a result, they were besieged by three armies of the Song Army. Liu Changzuo ordered his men to surrender, but Meile Dubu not only refused, but instead cursed, "Dangxiang General An is willing to surrender to the weak!"
In the end, all his troops were wiped out.
Meile Dubu was hit by dozens of arrows, but he still held on to the flag and did not fall.
Although Meile Dubu died, he also helped many party soldiers escape from the Song army's ambush.
When the army at the front was defeated, Weiming Ami, the general of the Dangxiang royal family, was leading his army to attack Xu Xi and Xiaoguan guarded by Zhongpu day and night. Weiming Ami was shocked when he heard about the defeat, and immediately led his army to greet him. He saw that the army in front was in a panic.
In a desperate situation, both Tieyaozi, Bubazi and Poxi's army were trapped in the Wuyan Gorge.
Weiming A'Mian couldn't help but be shocked and said: "The troops and horses our party had raised for fifty years were all lost in one day, and we no longer have the tendency to look southward."
Wei Ming A buried his face in deep mourning. The elite field regiments of the Dangxiang established by Li Yuanhao were all lost in the canyon, and they no longer had the power to fight the Song Dynasty in the field.
Wei Ming A'ma reined in his horse and returned, leading his army to retreat. Just as Xu Xi and Zhongpu's Song army came out of Xiaoguan, another Song army came chasing them from behind.
After two flanking attacks, Weiming Ami's men were defeated without a fight, and he was finally defeated and captured.
Meile Dubu, Wei Ming and Amian were the six general armies established by Li Bingchang after he seized the military power of the Liang family. They jointly commanded the Party's 12th Army Supervision Department. In this battle, one of them was killed and the other was captured.
Xu Xi stood outside Xiaoguan and saw the setting sun as bright as blood, and the mountains and plains were covered with banners and drums of the party's surrender and withering to the ground.
When he saw this scene, he couldn't help but think about the past. The dreams he had been immersed in for many years and the long-cherished wishes were now intertwined in his heart. He couldn't help but squat down and cover his face in silence.
When the attack on Weiming A'Mian was very urgent, Xu Xi carried two sesame cakes every day and patrolled the city. He personally used arrows and stones to attack the thieves. When he was sleepy, he slept on the soldiers' thighs. The soldiers were so moved that they helped their sores to fend off the party invaders.
Xu Xi once thought that if he died here after the city was destroyed, it would be a worthy death.
Now Xu Xi thought of a poem Zhang Yue often chanted.
At this moment, Xu Xi couldn't help but draw out the long sword, put his hand on his back and said.
"I read the sword while I was drunk, and I dreamed about the horn-blowing camp..."
Finish the affairs of the king and the world, and win the reputation in life and death..."
Thinking of this, he said with his long sword: "I, Xu Xi, can do many, many things that I can do to end the affairs of the king and the world!"
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Zhongshu East Hall.
Cai Qiezheng chatted with Huang Lu after finishing the business talk.
"I heard that Chizheng you took another concubine!"
After hearing this, Cai Que raised his eyebrows and said, "Anzhong, you are very familiar with these details in the capital."
Huang Lu said: "Zhi Zheng, your incident cannot be regarded as a trivial matter. Now your every move has attracted much attention."
Cai Que spread his hands and said, "Okay, I won't cover it up anymore, it's something that happened."
"People are full of emotions and desires in this world, which breeds ambition, and only with ambition can one achieve success! A real man must know how to use this to drive himself."
Huang Lu laughed when he heard it.
Cai Que, however, was not at all embarrassed and said: "You also know that I don't like women very much. It's just that when I'm in my position, I need a little embellishment. It's lonely when I don't have someone to explain to me."
Huang Lu said: "That's true."
At this point, Cai Que looked at Huang Lu and said, "Anzhong, I heard that you will follow Du Yi and go to the countryside in two years. Why bother?"
"Wouldn't it be better to keep this useful life and do some things for the court?"
Huang Lu said: "You also know that I am from Xianyun Yehe. I can't stand the constraints of officialdom and have long wanted to leave."
"Besides, do you think I am working for the court, or am I working for you with integrity?"
Cai Queze said: "Two years later, how will working for the imperial court be different from working for me?"
Huang Lu smiled slightly and said, "In that case, I would like to give Chizheng a cup of tea instead of wine."
Cai Que smiled and said, "Tea is fine, but I've given up drinking."
"Why? Didn't you say that you should use your emotions and desires to breed ambition?"
Cai Que waved his hand and said: "That's true, but wine can make people miss things. I don't like anything to be out of my control."
Huang Lu said: "Zhizheng, you are so bad. How can everything in the world go as everyone wants?"
Cai Quedao: "That's why I envy Duzhi. He has had a smoother journey than anyone else."
"You may not believe it, but I have always kept the friendship between you and Duzhi in my heart."
Huang Lu said: "I believe that. I also believe that there is a list of evidence of the crimes of hundreds of officials on the wall in your home. I don't know what Du Zhi and I wrote."
Cai Que said with a stern look: "If I really want to take action against you... how can it be like this?"
Huang Lu said: "Be upright, the world needs someone like this to save you."
"The government of Yuanfeng cannot be carried out without his leadership."
"The only way to be able to control the affairs of the world is to manage it."
Cai Que was silent for a moment and said: "You are right, the one who really needs to be saved is His Majesty."
"As it is said in "Answering the Guest", if you resist, you will be above the blue clouds; if you suppress it, you will be below the abyss; if you use it, you will become a tiger; if you don't use it, you will become a rat."
"The fate of a person's life is really difficult to describe. If we meet a monarch who suppresses his talents at will, we will never get ahead. Fortunately, we met His Majesty. So we have the opportunity to display our ambitions today."
At this moment, we are in the Zhongshu Duty Hall.
Wang Gui put down the official document and said to his entourage: "If there is news about the victory at Jingyuan Road, wake me up immediately!"
After saying this, Wang Gui closed his eyes and lay down on the chair to take a nap, muttering to himself: "It's almost time."