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Chapter 66: King Xi's Account

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"So, all the Liao army captives in the Yiqiu battle were surrendered by Li Hu." Zong Wang smiled with a smile on his beard, "It seems that my order was wrong, we should continue to advance."

"Li Hu's strength is far beyond our expectations." Lou Shi said, "If he takes all Yelu Mage's men and horses for himself, plus the troops of Luo Qinghan, Zhang Gaoer, Huo Liuge and Li Jin, he has at least 100,000 troops in his hands. Even if the strength of the rebel army is vulnerable, Yelu Mage's army is definitely an elite. With these troops, Li Hu may capture the Tribulus Mountain."

Zong Wang smiled and didn't say anything, as if he didn't listen to Lou Shi's words.

"Second brother, don't forget that Li Hu is a genius in Shangjing Road. He must not underestimate him." Wu Shu then briefly explained the war in the past two days. "Second brother, this is the first time I have fought such a strange battle. Although Li Hu is very well-informed and has full reasons, I still don't believe him and always feel that he is digging a trap again."

Zong Wang frowned and concentrated. He couldn't understand that Li Hu was too outrageous and exaggerated to fight a counterfeit war.

Li Hu repelled the Liao army in a fire in the Jiu family, and had temporarily reversed the situation in the Beijing Road. Many generals of the Rebel Army certainly thought there was no need to rush to go south, but his ability to disagree and persuaded his subordinates to lead hundreds of thousands of people to go south, which showed his prestige and strength. At this time, he said that he could not subdue those subordinates, which was simply nonsense.

If you can't figure it out, don't think about it. Zong Wang was too lazy to bother to worry and decided to continue to force the killing.

"The army was moving forward all the way, and the soldiers were very tired and had to rest for one night. Tomorrow morning, the 30,000 troops would arrive here and then launch an attack together." Zong Wang turned his head and looked towards the direction of the Tribulus Mountain, and smiled, "I want to see what kind of trap the Han captain was going to dig."

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King Xi was in charge.

The generals of the Liao army sought war for days, and the Liao army was also frequently mobilized.

The army stationed in Chengzhou has arrived, and the Changning Army in Chuanzhou has set off and is coming day and night. Xiao Gan has transferred all the troops he can mobilize, but he has not issued an order to attack for a long time, because Xiao Gan always has a strange feeling and a bad premonition. Although he can't say anything specific, he is heavy and uneasy in his heart.

If you think about it carefully, the reason why Li Hu and Jin Ren turned against each other really can't stand the scrutiny.

Li Hu was born out of nowhere and was invincible on Shangjing Road, and even defeated Yelu Mage to annihilate. Such people would be fooled by Jin Dog and go south to help Jin Dog fight? If the rebels went south was a strategy of Li Hu and were helped by Jin people during the journey south, it would be abnormal for him and Jin people to suddenly turn against each other and become enemies. This may be Li Hu's trick to lure the enemy. He felt that it was too difficult to attack Tribulus Mountain and wanted to lead himself out to fight.

He was willing to be fooled by Li Hu, and he could go down the mountain to take the initiative to attack. As for the current situation of the rebels, they could not resist the impact of the 40,000 horse and infantry army, because Li Hu was in a dead place, and his army and hundreds of thousands of Han people who followed him were crowded in a narrow hilly area. As long as the Liao army broke through the blockade of the rebels' front, the rebels would inevitably collapse.

The rebels are easy to fight, but the Jurchens are not easy to fight.

The Jurchens had heavy troops in Yizhou, Weizhou and Xianzhou. I don’t know how much they were. Because the Jin army developed rapidly in recent years, the Liao army on Tokyo Road was captured in batches, and the Han and Fan armies of the Liao people who fought eastward. In addition, the Bohai people also surrendered, and all the captives of the British were surrendered, and all the prefectures and counties on Tokyo Road surrendered. Conservatively, the Jin army had at least 100,000 to 150,000. If so, at least 50,000 troops were stationed in Weizhou. However, in these three days, the Jin army fought under the army of 10,000 troops, and what they saw were Wanyan Loushi, Wushu, Shijianu and others. They could not see the banners of Wanyan Zongwang and Wanyan Zonghan (Nianhan) on the front line of Weizhou. This was obviously abnormal.

If Zong Wang and Nianhan's main forces were both ambushed in the rebel camp and were waiting for him with bloody mouths, then taking the initiative would be seeking death.

This is why Xiao Gan hesitated.

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That afternoon, Xiao Gan received a secret letter from King Yelu Chun of Yan.

In the letter, Yelu Chun told him that the news of the defeat of the Liao army in the Nine Family members could not be hidden, and the emperor and the ministers of the palace tent knew about it. Therefore, the emperor was very worried about the situation in the capital. The ministers also believed that the most urgent task was to kill the rebels, which caused the emperor to shake the Jurchens in the Eastern Expedition, and issued an order to Yelu Dashi, the governor of the Liao Xingjun, and ordered him to temporarily postpone the northward journey.

Due to the situation, Yelu Chun decided to launch an Eastern Expedition in advance and personally led a 100,000 army to advance eastward quickly. Before the emperor issued an order to give up the Eastern Expedition, he launched an attack on the Jin army from the line of Targasus Mountain, hoping to win several battles and recover several prefectures and counties, so as to strengthen the emperor's confidence in the Eastern Expedition and adhere to the strategy of the Eastern Expedition.

Judging from the content of this letter, when Yelu Chun wrote this letter, he obviously had not received an urgent report from Xiao Gan. He did not know that the rebels had already gone south to Mount Tsubasa. If he knew that the rebels were attacking Mount Tsubasa, the speed of the march would probably be faster, because the rebels went south to capture cities and land, which was more terrifying than the rebels stationed in Shangjing Road and would be more harmful to the Liao Kingdom.

From this we can imagine that once the emperor receives this news, he will immediately give up the Eastern Expedition and gather the main force to siege and kill the rebels. In this way, the efforts of the pro-war faction will be in vain.

Therefore, if you want to continue the Eastern Expedition, the first priority is to kill the rebels, and the best opportunity to kill the rebels is right in front of you. When Yelu Chun comes and the army is approaching, the rebels and the Jin army join forces, the battle will be difficult, but the emperor may issue an order to give up the Eastern Expedition at any time. Therefore, Xiao Gan had no choice but to fight, and he had to fight immediately.

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After the twilight, Xiao Gan urgently summoned the commanders of the six Xi army and the governors of each army, and commanded the commanders to the tent to discuss the military plan and deploy attack strategies.

Xiao Gan looked down on the rebels at all. Although the rebel Li Hu won several battles on Shangjing Road, it was mainly due to the credit of the Jin army and had little to do with the rebels. If there were no Jurchen cavalry, could the rebels defeat Yelu Mage? Can they conquer Longhuazhou? So when Xiao Gan planned an attack strategy, his main target was the Jin people.

Xiao Gan raised his suspicion again in the military discussion. In the past three days, the rebels have used more than 100,000 troops, while the Jin people only have more than 10,000. If the rebels were determined to fight, the Jin people would have withdrawn back to Weizhou and would not fight to the death with these rebels. So after thinking about it, this may be the rebels' trick to lure the enemy. You must be careful during the attack and never fall into the trap. If there is any error, retreat immediately.

A group of generals had no intention of listening to these nonsense. No matter what his plan, the rebels could not defeat us. The Jin people were forty miles away. They suddenly heard the fierce drums of war in the middle of the night and would never dare to attack rashly. When they figured out the situation, we would have won a great victory. The rebels were wiped out, and the Jin people would still dare to attack? They were so scared that they would have gone back to Weizhou.

For these people, there are only rich spoils in front of them, which is the most attractive thing. At this moment, there are mountains of gold, silver and silk piles at the foot of the mountain, and nearly one million livestock. It is so tempting. They are desperate to plunder these property. As for the danger, they don’t think much about it. As for war, of course there is danger.

There are six Xi troops in the Tribulus Mountain, with more than 20,000 cavalry. There are four personal guards, namely the Chengzhou Xingfu Army, Yizhou Chongyi Army, Chuanzhou Changning Army, and Xingzhong Prefecture Zhangwu Army, with a total of more than 20,000 people.

Xiao Gan planned to use the horse army to attack first to explore the virtual and the real. The six thousand horse army was divided into two routes, launching attacks from the left and right mountain directions at the same time. Once the attack was successful, another six thousand cavalry would be launched, running all the way, encircling and surrounding the traitors.

After the rebels were destroyed by chaos, the guards immediately rushed out and killed and plundered.

"At the end of the middle of the day, launch an attack."

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Xingzhongfu.

Yelu Chun led an army of 100,000 to Xingzhong City. However, it was too late. The resentful army had rebelled and slaughtered Xingzhong Prefecture, plundering all the valuable things in the city, leaving only a city with thick smoke.

A group of officials from Xingzhong Prefecture hurriedly welcomed them out of the city.

The highest official in Xingzhong Prefecture was called Zhixingzhong Prefecture, and the official who served as Zhixingzhong Prefecture was called Yang Hongqing. He was a Han Chinese. After the resentment army arrived in Xingzhong Prefecture, he was once advised by him. Everyone was Han Chinese, and the resentment army was composed of hungry people from Tokyo Road. They had to feed them for as much as possible and could not force them into soldiers and thieves to harm one side.

Because the local chief was very caring and turned a blind eye to some illegal activities engaged in by the resentful army, letting them make a lot of money, Dong Xiaochou was very grateful to Yang Hongqing and gave a lot of money in private. After a while, the two became friends.
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