On the other side of the Northern Liao Datong Mansion, Yelu Renxian and Xiao Yuanshan have received a secret report, saying that Yelu Chongyuan is going to attack Datong Mansion on a large scale, at this time Yelu Renxian and Xiao Yuanshan have 150,000 troops in their hands, but the soldiers and horses that can be mobilized are only 120,000, as for the other 30,000 soldiers and horses, most of them are stationed in Shuozhou and Shenwu, also known as Wuzhou, mainly to guard against the Great Song Dynasty, but also to prevent the Western Xia from behind the sneak attack.
Xijing Datong General's Mansion, at the beginning of Yelu Chongyuan's rebellion, Yelu Chongyuan once tried his best to win over Yelu Renxian, especially after Yelu Chongyuan's victory in the Battle of Huanghe, in this case, Yelu Hongji in order to win over the ministers of the town guarding one side, Yelu Renxian rewarded Yelu Ren first.
Originally, Yelu Renxian, who was only left behind in Xijing, has now been named the king of Ruyang, and the official is the envoy of Xijing Jiedu, the general of the rebellion, and the envoy of the thieves in the southwest and Beijing, to put it bluntly, the military and political power of the four states of Datongfu, Shuozhou, Yingzhou and Ulzhou are all owned by Yelu Renxian, and now it is not an exaggeration to call Yelu Renxian a prince.
However, in order to balance Yelu Renxian, Yelu Hongji also added an official to Xiao Yuanshan, who was originally only a Shuozhou assassin, and now he is named the town waiter, and the official is the deputy envoy of Xijing Jiedu, the general of Dangkou, and the deputy envoy of the two southwestern capitals to fight for thieves; That is, Yelu Renxian's deputy, in fact, is also to prevent Yelu Renxian from being too powerful and causing the consequences of not being able to shake off his tail.
In the general's mansion, the generals at all levels under the king of Ruyang, Yelurenxian, arrived, and Yeluren sat on the handsome chair and said to the generals: "Generals, this king has received accurate information, the rebel Yelu Chongyuan raised 300,000 thieves to attack Xijing, and this king has sent someone to report the war to Yong'an Mountain to your majesty; As long as we can hold back the main army of Yelu Chongyuan, Your Majesty will be able to conquer Dading Mansion in Zhongjing from the south of Yong'an Mountain, and then flank the rebels with us on both sides, and finally, after annihilating the main force of the rebels, join forces in Xijin Mansion in Nanjing; Therefore, before Your Majesty sends troops, we must firmly hold off the thief army, and now I announce the battle plan for this time, the main force is led by this king himself to lead an army of 100,000 troops to garrison Shunsheng along the Sanggan River defense; 20,000 soldiers were stationed in Ulzhou by the town border waiting, mainly in Songzikou and Feihu Pass, and organized the southern route army of the thief army; The generals, this battle is related to the rise and fall of our Great Liao, and this king is here to ask you.
After speaking, Yeluren bowed to the crowd first.
Xiao Yuanshan took the lead in receiving the military order and said: "Obey the general's military order." ” After coming out of the Great General's Mansion, Xiao Yuanshan's adjutant general complained: "Yelu Renxian, this is obviously a communiqué personal vendetta and wants to annex our army, Master Hou, why are you still taking this military order?"
Xiao Yuanshan said meaningfully: "Now that the national crisis is at hand, everything must be based on the overall situation; The herald ordered the army to march to Ulju tomorrow. ” "Yes, the last general commands."
The adjutant general answered.
In fact, with the outbreak of the Liao Civil War, coupled with the increase of Yelu Renxian's rights, Yelu Renxian has changed under the erosion of rights, Yelu Hongji named Yelu Renxian as the Xijing Jiedu envoy and affirmed his merits, but also harmed Yelu Renxian and the entire Great Liao State, since he was named the Xijing Jiedu envoy, Yelu Renxian began to rectify the military and political affairs of the four states, and replaced all the important positions with his cronies.
In addition, in addition to the large-scale appointment of cronies, but also to Yelu Hongji on the fold to ask for things, after Yelu Hongji paid, from the Western Xia to transport the material resources to Datong, but control the four states, after getting the materials, Yelu Ren first did not do anything, although and Yelu Chongyuan is the opposite, but never took the initiative to send troops to attack Nanjing Road and Fengshengzhou, blindly only to protect their own acres and three points of land.
If it weren't for Yelu Chongyuan taking the initiative to attack this time, I'm afraid that Yelu Renxian would never have sent troops to attack Yelu Chongyuan, although now Yelu Renxian has not yet rebellious, but he already has the fact of supporting the army and self-respect, if Yelu Chongyuan can find this in advance, maybe he can also pull Yelu Renxian to his side, but unfortunately there is no if.
Half a month later, Ruyang King Yelu Ren first led 100,000 troops to Shunsheng, at this time Yelu Chongyuan's 150,000 main army also set off from Fengsheng Prefecture along the Sanggan River to Shunsheng to kill, Datong Army and the Southern Liao Army confronted each other on the north bank of the Sanggan River, Datong Army based on Shunsheng City to establish a defensive line, and Yelu Chongyuan set up camp thirty miles away from Shunsheng City.
The confrontation between the two armies lasted for a month, during which Yelu Hongji sent Yelu Xin to command 30,000 troops and killed them from Yong'an Mountain, and Ye Lu Xin did not fight with the Southern Liao army, but attacked the towns controlled by the Southern Liao everywhere, and each time he looted and retreated, which made Yelu Nerugu, who was stationed in Zhongjing, very angry, but there was no way to deal with it.
At the same time, this great battle was taking place in the south, Yan King Yelu Mu and Zheng Hun commanded an army of 50,000 troops from Zhuozhou to kill Ulzhou, Ulzhou is in a small basin, there are only two ways to attack Ulzhou from the east, one is to attack from the north of Songzikou, Songzikou is the gateway of Ulzhou in the northeast.
The other way is to attack from the Flying Fox Pass in the south, the Flying Fox Pass is one of the eight paths of Taihang since ancient times, it is an important pass for the Central Plains Dynasty to guard against the northern nomads, the Flying Fox Pass at this time is less than 100 miles away from the border between the Song and Liao countries, it is an important pass of the Great Liao State in the south, for which the Liao State has built a solid pass here since getting the Sixteen Prefectures of Youyun.
Under Zheng Hun's plan, Yan King Yelu Mu agreed to the plan of sneak attack on Flying Fox Pass, in order to ensure the smooth implementation of the plan, Zheng Hun sent a deputy general to lead 10,000 people under the banner of 50,000 people, and marched from Zhuozhou to Songzikou in the northwest; On the other hand, Yelu Mu and Zheng Hun led an army of 40,000 men day and night to come to Flying Fox Pass.
Under the leadership of Yelu Mu and Zheng Hun, the Southern Liao army of the South Road passed through the White Horse Mountain and Qifeng all the way, and crossed the Laishui at the mouth of the Bauhinia Ridge to kill the Flying Fox Pass, at this time the Flying Fox Pass had 3,000 defenders, as an important pass of the Great Liao in the south, the Liao army here was very vigilant at any time, especially in this special period.
Late at night, the Southern Liao army that secretly rushed to the outside of the Flying Fox Pass immediately organized an attack, the Flying Fox Pass was built at a mountain pass, and there were camps on the mountains on both sides of the pass.
Moreover, because Taniguchi was too small, it was not conducive to attacking at all, and the maximum number of troops invested in each attack was about 1,000.
On the night of arriving at the Flying Fox Pass, Yelu Mu personally led a thousand soldiers to attack the city overnight, but Ye Lu Mu did not expect that the defenders of the Flying Fox Pass were very vigilant, and the sneak attack troops led by Ye Lu Mu were discovered by the defenders as soon as they arrived at the city, and then there was a burst of random arrows, and more than 1,000 soldiers who attacked were shot and killed more than 300 people, fortunately, this is the defenders in the night pass can not see clearly, if it is estimated that more than half of the dead and wounded must be killed and injured during the day.
The failure of the sneak attack made Yelumu very angry, and at the same time brought Yelumu's southern route army into a very unfavorable situation, now the defenders of Feihu Pass already know that there are enemy troops to tackle the problem, and they will naturally ask for help from Xiao Yuanshan stationed in Ulzhou, and the reinforcements from Ulzhou to Feihu Pass will only take three days at most, in these three days, if you can't take Feihu Pass, it will be even more impossible to wait for Xiao Yuanshan's reinforcements to arrive.
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