Speaking of Li Liangzuo, the Xia army rested in Dading Mansion for a winter, its combat effectiveness has been fully restored, at this time although the number of the Xia army grassland army is much smaller than when the expedition was made, but the combat effectiveness has been greatly strengthened, although the Xia army did not carry out a large-scale march in this winter, but Li Liangzuo did not stop the training of the army, in Li Liangzuo's cruel training under the grassland army is more elite than before.
Li Liangzuo was looking for a swearing-in meeting under the city of Dadingfu, Li Liangzuo stood on the city tower and looked down at these Xia soldiers standing below and said loudly: "Soldiers, do you know what I like the most, Li Liangzuo likes the most I like wolves, especially the wolves, they are the most ferocious and cunning animals in the world, and now we are like wolves on the grassland, we have endured a winter of hunger, it's time to show our sharp fangs; Soldiers ride your horses, take up your scimitars, and join me in destroying those who dare to oppose us, and kill."
"Kill, kill, kill," shouted the whole army together.
Under the leadership of Li Liangzuo, more than 300,000 Xia troops left Dading Mansion and went south, there were rotting corpses everywhere along the way, these corpses were frozen in winter, and now the ice and snow melted in spring, these corpses were exposed to such an environment and soon began to decompose, in this era, the consequences of corpse decay are very serious, it is easy to cause a large-scale plague outbreak, once these plagues spread to the army, then the Xia army does not have to fight, and the plague can wipe out Li Liangzuo's army.
A few days later, inside the camp of the march of the summer army.
"Your Majesty, something is wrong, more than a dozen people have fallen today."
Li Yi walked up to Li Liangzuo's side and said.
Li Liangzuo frowned and said: "It seems that things are not going well, let the military doctor see it, can you be sure that it is a plague, what are the symptoms?"
"Your Majesty, the military doctors don't know what this disease is, but they all have a unified symptom, that is, a high fever, which does not go away, and some people will suddenly have nosebleeds."
Li Yi reported to Li Liangzuo.
Li Liangzuo said to Li Yi: "Let's go, you take me to the wounded barracks to have a look." ” Li Yi hurriedly stopped Li Liangzuo and said, "Your Majesty, don't do it, once it infects you, it's not a good thing." ” "It's okay, I'm a true dragon emperor, and I'm still afraid of this."
Li Liangzuo said with a smile.
After saying that, he strode out.
Under the leadership of Li Yi, Li Liangzuo soon came to the wounded barracks, as Li Yi said, the situation is very serious, hundreds of people have fallen in just a few days, a tent on the side of the wounded barracks is full of dead soldiers' corpses, Li Liangzuo asked the military doctor: "How many have died?"
"There are already more than a hundred."
The military doctor said to Li Liangzuo.
Li Liangzuo asked the military doctor, "Isn't there a way?"
The military doctor shook his head and said, "Your Majesty, this epidemic is different from the past, this time it comes quickly, and it is very ferocious, and ordinary infected people can't survive for five or six days." ” "These dead corpses must be disposed of as soon as possible, they can't be left like this all the time, and the wounded barracks will not be allowed to enter or leave from today onwards, and those who violate the order will be beheaded."
Li Liangzuo issued a military order.
"Yes, Your Majesty."
Li Yi immediately took the military order.
Under the leadership of the military doctor, Li Liangzuo entered the big tent of the wounded barracks, and in the process of visiting the wounded soldiers, Li Liangzuo found an officer he knew, this was a veteran who had followed Li Liangzuo very early, Li Liangzuo walked to his bed and asked: "Manchu, why are you sick?"
” Man Ho struggled and said: "Your Majesty, the villain just felt a little uncomfortable at first, but I didn't expect it to get more and more serious, and the villain may not be able to serve His Majesty in the future."
Man Ho couldn't help but cry as he spoke.
Li Liangzuo patted Man Hoard's shoulder and said, "I promise you, you will definitely survive, and I will definitely find a way to save you." ” Li Liangzuo put down this sentence and strode out, when the strength of the camp of the wounded soldiers did not go far, these wounded soldiers took their weapons and helped each other out, the wounded soldiers snapped their weapons and shouted: "Loyal to the monarch and patriotism, advocating literature and martial arts; Loyal to the monarch and patriotic, advocating literature and martial arts" Li Liangzuo glanced back at them, rode on the war horse and galloped out, at which one Li Liangzuo had just stepped out of the camp gate, all the soldiers infected with the plague wiped their necks together under the leadership of Man Hoard, Li Liangzuo rode on the war horse and galloped, although he did not look back, but Li Liangzuo also knew what was happening behind, Li Liangzuo wiped the corners of his eyes with his sleeve and said: "Li Yi ordered, these soldiers died for my Great Xia Kingdom, their ashes must be transported back, and their weapons should be put into the sword hall to enjoy the worship of ten thousand people." ” "Yes, the last general commands."
Li Yi took the military order and said.
From this moment on, the steppe legion has an unwritten rule, that is, once the wounded soldiers can confirm that they can't survive, they will kill themselves, the soldiers of the steppe legion hate themselves, and they are even more ruthless to their enemies.
After paying a heavy price, Li Liangzuo led hundreds of thousands of Xia troops to finally pass this dead no man's land, the Xia army's forward troops pointed directly at Beiguguan, Beiguguan is an important strategic fulcrum of the entire Eastern Liao Army's Yanshan defense line in the northwest, as long as the Xia army can break through Beiguguan, it can enter Nanjing Road.
When Li Liangzuo led the Xia army to Nanjing Road, Yelu Nerugu was planning to attack the Song Dynasty, since the last time he submerged the 300,000 Song troops with a big water, Yelu Nerugu has been thinking about getting something from the Great Song Dynasty, and now the opportunity has come; Due to Wang Anshi's loss of 300,000 Northern Expeditionary troops of the Great Song Dynasty, this led to a large vacuum in the garrison of the Great Song Dynasty north of the Yellow River, and there were basically not many Song troops left north of the Yellow River.
After Yelu Nelugu successively recovered Xincheng, Rongcheng and other places, he successively transferred 20,000 soldiers and horses from the cities in the south of Nanjing Road, plus the original 10,000 remnants of the army to form a 30,000-strong Southern Expeditionary Army, 30,000 people said more and more than little, and more importantly, this is 30,000 cavalry, although the combat effectiveness is not very strong, but the four legs are always running very fast, once occupying the two legs of the Song army, how can they not catch up with the four legs In fact, the purpose of Yelu Nerugu's southward movement this time is very simple, is to grab resources, was attacked by the Song army from behind, the entire southern area of Nanjing Road has basically been broken, if you don't want to get something from the hands of the Great Song Dynasty, the entire Eastern Liao Army may soon collapse, at this time the northern region of the Great Song Dynasty has not experienced war for decades, with a large population and a prosperous economy, and it was an important economic production area in China at that time.
Yelu Nelugu led the Eastern Liao army to cross the Song-Liao border and launched a fierce attack on the Great Song Dynasty.
At this time, Wang Anshi, Xu Xi and others were embarrassed, and led the remnants of the army to retreat to Hejian Mansion before they could be regarded as controlling their footsteps.
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