Chapter 296 Yinzhou
"Where is our envoy of the Song Dynasty?" Yue Fei thought for a while and said suddenly.
Previously, these Khitans said that they were invited by the Emperor of the Song Dynasty. Since that was the case, they must have met the envoys of the Song Dynasty! However, now all he saw was the Khitans!
"The envoy of your country is here!" Yelu Yiliu said.
Yelu Yilie clapped his hands and saw several Khitans carrying a stretcher.
There was a man lying on the stretcher, covered with thick quilts and clothes, and his face was covered. The Khitans slightly opened the quilts, and a Han man's face appeared in front of Yue Fei.
The appearance of the Han people is very different from that of the Khitans. They are relatively more elegant and can be identified at a glance.
Seeing this Han man, Yue Fei nodded slightly.
"You are General Yue!" The Han man looked extremely haggard. His face was pale, his lips were chapped, and his eyes were covered with blood. He struggled at this moment.
"It's Yue Fei!" Yue Fei nodded.
"General Yue, I am a soldier from the Intelligence Department. I left Wugong County a year ago and then went all the way northwest! I passed through more than ten deserts, passed countless Gobi areas, and I found the Khitan tribe thousands of miles away! Now Yelu Dashi is the Khitan Khan. When I saw him, I submitted his Majesty's letter of state. Yelu Dashi was willing to cooperate with us, so he sent his eldest son here! When he was on the way, I encountered a cold wind and I couldn't get sick..." The soldier coughed suddenly and stopped for a long time.
His hand had already reached out at this moment, holding the gold medal from the Intelligence Department in his hand, and a reply from Yelu Dashi.
"In addition to me, three other comrades died in the desert! They will never be able to come back!" The soldier gasped.
Yue Fei had already pressed him down quickly, and Yue Fei's internal energy had been continuously sent into the warrior's body. Soon, a rosy luster appeared on the warrior's face. Yue Fei could see that there were almost no pieces of meat on the warrior's body, and bones were everywhere, which looked extremely terrifying.
Yue Fei was filled with tears in his eyes.
In recent years, the whole country has been working hard to recover the Central Plains. In order to find Yelu Dashi, the Military Affairs Office and the General Staff Headquarters sent hundreds of soldiers in front of each other, but few soldiers have returned until now. The only one who can see Yelu Dashi with his own eyes is probably the only soldier in front of him.
Historically, Yelu Dashi escaped to the later Uzbekistan area, which was already very far away from Guanshan. It was necessary to pass countless deserts, grasslands and Gobi before it could be seen Yelu Dashi and find the Khitans who fled from the Liao Kingdom.
Now Yelu Dashi has become the leader of the Khitans, but after losing all his territory, he no longer calls himself "Emperor", but is known as the "Khitan Khan".
Yelu Dashi was also determined to restore the country, but he did not have the strength to restore the country at all. Over the years, he had been hiding the pursuit of the Jin Kingdom. He accumulated strength on the distant grassland, but unfortunately his strength was still too much away from the Jin Kingdom!
It was not until the arrival of the soldiers from the Intelligence Department that Yelu Dashi felt the hope of restoring the country, so he sent someone to come.
Yue Fei read Yelu Dashi's reply, and he read the Khitan letter brought by Yelu Yilie and others, etc. Only at this time did he feel completely relieved.
"General Yue, what are you going north? As far as I know, the strength of Xixia has been greatly reduced, and it is impossible for you to threaten you. Are you trying to deal with the Jurchens?" Yelu Yilie asked at this moment.
It was snowing heavily. In the heavy snow, the cavalry team could not see at first sight, and it looked extremely large! Yelu Yilie was also secretly surprised. The Khitans had confronted the Han people for more than a hundred years, but for the first time they saw such a cavalry team appear in the Han people! The Han people lost the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun and the Hetao area of Xixia. From then on, there was no place to raise horses. The Han people no longer had the qualification to form cavalry! It seems that the Han people have gained great benefits in the war with Xixia, so this cavalry appeared!
"Not bad! The Jurchens are organizing hundreds of thousands of troops in China, and are about to go south to threaten the safety of our Song Dynasty! We are trying to go north to block the Jurchen army!" Yue Fei said.
"It's great! I was originally on my father's order to pay homage to the emperor of your country and discussing with the emperor of your country to send troops together! I didn't expect that your country would send troops now, but now it's impossible for me to notify my father!" Yelu Yili said.
Yue Fei frowned slightly. If he could contact the Khitans earlier and cooperate with the Khitans earlier, the war situation would be much more beneficial than now. Although the Liao Kingdom was destroyed, the number of Khitans fled was not large, and Yelu Dashi took away only 30,000 to 40,000 soldiers and 40,000 people, and only 600,000 people were taken away. However, if the Khitans were in the northwest, they could accidentally threaten the safety of Huining Prefecture, the capital of the Jin Kingdom. The Jin Kingdom would definitely not dare to go south unscrupulously. Unfortunately, they were only in contact with the Khitans now.
It takes more than two or three months to go from Guanshan to the distant Central Asia and Uzbekistan. With the transportation conditions of this era, it may take half a year! It takes nearly a year to go back and forth! It can still be smoothly passed through the countless deserts and grasslands, and there will be no obstacles and setbacks in the middle.
"Our army is going north immediately! You can go south to meet my Emperor of Song! However, even if you go south, you may not be able to see him now. Your Majesty may no longer be in Guanshan." Yue Fei said lightly.
"General Yue, I haven't finished speaking yet! Although we can't send troops with you, when we came over halfway, we had already contacted our tribe members! Our tribe members were oppressed by the Jurchens, and life was worse than death. They had endured to the extreme! Now, in Shangjing, Zhongjing, our tribe members are brewing resistance! But our tribe members are afraid of insufficient strength, so they have never dared to cause trouble! If the general takes it seriously to fight against the Jurchens, the situation is favorable. When we are in Shangjing, the tribe members of Zhongjing will immediately raise the corresponding general! I will send people to contact those tribe members! Also, many of our tribe members have been defeated and joined the Jurchens. We can also find ways to contact those tribe members in the Jurchens! General Yue, I will send other people to the south and bring the letter of the country to pay homage to His Majesty the Emperor. I will follow the general north and contact the tribe members at any time." Yelu Yili said.
"Take it seriously?" Yue Fei said in disbelief.
"Of course it's true! It's related to my Khitan's restoration, how dare I say it randomly?" Yelu Yili said.
"It's God really helping me!" Yue Fei roared to the sky, feeling very happy.
If what Yelu Yilie said is true, then the hope of fighting against the Jurchens will be much greater.
Yelu Yilie now explained in detail the current situation of the Khitans in the Jin Dynasty, including some leaders of the Khitans, their contact methods, their preparations for the uprising, etc.! Yue Fei was even more happy while listening!
The army was still moving forward, only Yue Fei and others stayed here. Yue Fei thought for a while and ordered a hundred soldiers to escort the rest of the Khitans towards Yan'an Prefecture. After arriving at Yan'an Prefecture, Li Xianzhong would naturally entertain them and would naturally take them to the Wugong County General Staff Headquarters! Yue Fei himself took Yelu Yilie to continue moving forward.
The northward, the heavier the snow falls and the deeper the snow accumulates!
By the afternoon, the snow on the wasteland was half a waist deep! Under such circumstances, Yue Fei first sent someone to explore the way forward, and the 110,000 troops behind followed the people who were exploring the way forward! The cold wind whistled and blew on people's faces like a knife. Under such circumstances, the army still did not stop at all! They were still moving forward! They had already come down from the horse and pulled the horse forward.
Yelu Yilie followed Yue Fei. At first, he looked down on the Han army! He received education since childhood. The Han people were the worst-selling race in the world. The Han soldiers were extremely lazy and lazy. The Han soldiers were also indifferent to generals and generals. However, what they saw and heard at this moment, Yelu Yilie was shocked! Such a heavy storm, even the Khitans would stop, but this Han army was still moving forward!
"In just over ten years, our Liao Kingdom was destroyed, and the Song Dynasty lost half of its territory. The two emperors of the Song Dynasty were captured by the Jurchens! But after so many hardships, this nation seemed to have undergone some changes! We can no longer underestimate this nation! In the future, even if the country can be restored, the Han people will still be a great enemy!" Yelu Yilie said secretly.
He was educated by Yelu Dashi since he was a child and had a great vision. At this moment, the strength of the Khitans was already weak and outrageous, but he still had the ambition to restore the country, and he was also preparing for the Khitans to restore the country at any time.
The army kept trekking forward until late at night, when they found a shelter from the wind, and then stopped to rest.
At this moment, countless bonfires lit up on the vast snowfield, and soldiers were making fires to cook.
Yelu Yilie sat beside Yue Fei at this moment and said, "General Yue, I see that all your army is light cavalry. There are not many people in your 100,000 troops with heavy armor? I heard from my father that the Song Dynasty has always been rich. Could it be that because of the Jurchen invasion, the Song Dynasty has also lost all its wealth and cannot even wear heavy armor?"
In this era, all cavalry were wearing heavy armor. It was not until Genghis Khan appeared that there were purely super-large light cavalry battles of tens of thousands and hundreds of thousands.
When Zhao Chen first captured Guanshan, he obtained tens of thousands of war horses from the Jurchens. At that time, the imperial guards formed 20,000 cavalry. At that time, the 20,000 cavalry were still traditional cavalry, wearing heavy armor. It was not until the end of the Battle of Xixia that the imperial guards began to organize pure light cavalry, including the former 20,000 veterans, and they also began to turn light cavalry.
The mobility of light cavalry is far better than that of heavy cavalry, which is conducive to long-distance combat and more conducive to achieving strange battles. It can appear unexpectedly in the rear of the enemy, disrupt the enemy's strategic deployment, make the enemy lose sight of the other, and eliminate the enemy on this basis. Genghis Khan's great detour strategy back then came from countless light cavalry, relying on his genius command to continuously eliminate the enemy.
Yue Fei "copyed" all this, but the formation of this army was still short and there was not much military achievements.
At this moment, Yue Fei just smiled faintly and said, "We have seized countless war horses from the Xixia people, but we cannot equip the army with so many armors in a short period of time!"
What Yue Fei said is the truth. For half a year after the Battle of Western Xia ended, the armor of the cavalry was very different from that of the infantry. It was impossible to prepare so many cavalry armors.
Yelu Yilie nodded and then suddenly realized.
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The next day, when it was dawn, Yue Fei's army continued to head north.
The road was extremely desolate, and there were almost no people to see, and even wild animals were not many in such winter.
The army does not rest until late at night every day. Sometimes it cannot find a place to shelter from the wind. The army does not even rest at night, but continues to move forward.
It was not until the 18th day of the first lunar month that the army arrived at Yinzhou City on the eastern front of Xixia.
This place was occupied by the Dangxiang people for more than a hundred years, but after the Battle of Xixia, it had been occupied by the Han people again.
There are more than 2,000 soldiers of the Huanqing Army stationed here. In addition to these soldiers, there are countless young people from the Production and Construction Corps.
Since last winter, the General Staff began to prepare for the upcoming war, and countless food, supplies, siege equipment, etc. have been transported here. Of course, the young people from the Production and Construction Corps were transported. After they came here, they were ordered to stay and did not leave here! Now the number of young people in the Production and Construction Corps here has reached 50,000.
Outside, there was a snowy sky, and from a distance, you could only see a vast white area.
However, when the army appeared, countless young people came to the city wall and they cheered.
They had already received news yesterday, and they have been welcoming the arrival of the army from yesterday to today.
This time the army went east, they also received orders to follow the army to east and transport supplies! These young people have long been eager to go to the battlefield, and now their wish has finally come true!
The gate of Yinzhou City was opened, and the more than 2,000 defenders were already braved by the wind and snow to welcome the arrival of the army!
A leading general rode on the horse and ran forward.
"Brother Yue!" His voice had already come from afar.
Yue Fei was already heading forward alone at this moment.
"Dong Xian!" Yue Fei was overjoyed when he saw the general who came to greet him.
Dong Xian is Yue Fei's fellow villager. When Yue Fei was appointed as the Henan recruitment envoy, Dong Xian followed Yue Fei to join the rebel army. When he was killed by Zhe Keqiu, Dong Xian followed Yue Fei to Hanzhong. Then, Dong Xian entered the imperial guards, and then Dong Xian transferred to the Huanqing army! After the Battle of Western Xia, Dong Xian led more than 2,000 people to guard Yinzhou!
Now, they finally met again!
"Brother Yue!" Dong Xian was extremely surprised!
"How are Yinzhou City preparing now? The battle is about to begin soon!" The two of them moved forward together, Yue Fei said.
"The food, grass and supplies are already well prepared! Materials from Guanshan, northwest, and Lingzhou are transported here! This place is enough to support the 100,000 troops in half a year of combat!" Dong Xian said.
"This time, it was not just a 100,000 army, but 200,000!" Yue Fei said.
"Brother Yue, don't worry, our food and supplies will continue to transport here! In the past two years, the harvest in Guanshan and Sichuan has been excellent, and we have reserved a lot of food and grass, which is enough for the army to fight!" Dong Xian said.
"It's best! Dong Xian, you are very skilled in martial arts and quite wise. You will fight with me this time!" Yue Fei said.
Dong Xian was originally the main general of the Yue Family Army in history. He, together with Wang Gui, Zhang Xian, Xu Qing and Niu Gao, were called the "Five Tiger Generals" of the Yue Family Army. His talent was beyond doubt, so Yue Fei was the first to use him after he came here.
"That's great!" Dong Xian was overjoyed.
After a while, Zhang Xian, Liu Qi and others also led their troops over, and Dong Xian greeted the two of them, not to mention this.
The army soon entered Yinzhou City.
Yinzhou City is a small city, but fortunately there are not many residents here now, only more than 50,000 young people, so the soldiers of the army can barely squeeze into this city.
At this moment, Yue Fei, Zhang Xian, Liu Qi, Dong Xian and others had already entered the prefecture yamen, and everyone began to discuss the important matters of siege.
Chapter completed!