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Chapter 636: Take Yingzhou Lightly

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At the end of February of the fifth year of Qianfu, the Bailangshui River Valley in western Liaoning was already the end of February, but there was still no breath here. As long as the cold wind whistled like a knife, the river was frozen.

Bailang Mountain is 200 miles west of Liucheng, Yingzhou District, Xi Liao, and guards the Wuzhong Road to the Central Plains into Liao.

Since the Tang army launched the offensive in western Liaoning in the last winter, wars have begun everywhere in western Liaoning and Liaodong.

On the eastern front, the town** launched an attack on western Liaoning from the direction of Anshi, and in the north of Anshi, as well as Wugucheng and Niangniangshan City, it also launched an attack on the Goguryeo people in Liaodong to restrain the Goguryeo soldiers and horses such as Liaodong City, Xincheng, Baiyan City, and Gaimu City.

On the western front, the troops of the Zhen** were divided into two groups, along the Wuzhong Road, and attacked the Bailang River through Xuanshui. Finally, they fought with the Khitan and Xi coalition forces under Dushan, and confronted each other for three months.

At the same time, the main military and civilians of Zhen** West Road were nearly 100,000. The Liaoxi Corridor was opened along the coast and the coast was constantly advancing forward. The forced Khitan had to divide his troops to stop him. More than ten major battles broke out in the flat area between mountains and seas.

However, overall, on the surface, the Liaoxi offensive launched by the Town** is already in a sluggish slough, and no battlefield can be broken through. The war lasts for a long time, and as the rivers thaw, a large area of ​​western Liaoning will become a swamp with the increase of rain. Especially the swamp belt of more than 200 miles to the east can make the town on the east completely unable to stand firm and can only retreat to Anshi.

The situation in western Liaoning seemed to be more beneficial to the Khitan side, especially although the Khitan lost its ally, Bohai, but after receiving the support of the Xi people, the situation in western Liaoning became more and more beneficial to the Khitan.

In the underwater of Bailang Water in eastern Liaoning, the Khitans were guarding the underwater of Bailang Water, from the west coast of the Liao River to the east coast of Bailang Water, Diela tribe was stationed in Huaiyuan City, Wulu City, Liaoxi City, Yancheng, and Rulu City. In addition, there were troops stationed in Wanghaidun, the water city at the mouth of Bailang Water.

Although the Tang army in the east launched several attacks, in the past three months, even a strong city was not captured.

General Diela, stationed in Liucheng, is the current clan brother of Yilijin and Yelu Shilu, the son of Yilijin Yundeshi.

Yelu Shilu led the troops of the tribes in western Liaoning, including 30,000 Khitan soldiers from the six cities in the east, 10,000 Khitan soldiers in Liucheng, 10,000 Khitan soldiers and 10,000 Xi soldiers in Dushan, plus 10,000 Khitan soldiers stationed in Bailang Mountain.

There were 70,000 soldiers and horses in the small western Liaoning territory, of which there were at least 20,000 combat soldiers. The elite cavalry of the Diela tribe alone had 8,000 combat soldiers.

Moreover, with the victory of the Diela tribe's soldiers on the Huangshui battlefield in the Khitan area, the Diela tribe was expected to completely defeat Hende Khan before the arrival of summer. In this way, the Khiantan thawed the Liaohai Sea in the summer, and the Tang army increased its offensive and sent another two to 30,000 to western Liaoning again.

One time, one dispatch of 100,000 troops will be the largest battle in the Khitan in a century. At the same time, the Xi people also sent about 20,000 more troops to help. Yelu Shilu had enough confidence to believe that Li Jing's good luck would come to an end in this battle.

Yelu Shilu sat on the city gate tower wearing a martened robe and watched the wind and snow, staring at the vast snow outside Liucheng for a long time.

"Father!" Yelu Wansi, the son of Yelu Shilu, strode up to the city gate tower and bowed to his father.

Yelu Shilu took back his thoughts from a distance, looked back at his son who was covered in ice and snow, and asked, "How did you find out about that?"

"Li Jing's flag was originally in Shanhaiguan and appeared in the Tang camp on the beach before. However, our spies tried their best to investigate and found an unexpected situation. Although Li Jing's flag was in the camp on the beach, the Golden Armor Shengjie Army, which has always been Li Jing's guard's personal army, was not there. Not only was the Golden Armor Shengjie Army not there, but even the elite army of the Silver Gun Xiaojie Army was not there."

Previously, Yelu Shilu found out that Li Jing, the chief general of the Tang army, seemed to have suddenly heard from him. Although Li Jing's flag was always in the Tang army camp, he had not seen Li Jing's movement for a long time, and no one had seen Li Jing. Yelu Shilu was worried that Li Jing was making any conspiracy and sent his son Yelu Wansi to inquire in person. Unexpectedly, the matter was indeed as he was worried, and Li Jing disappeared.

Yelu Shilu was the third uncle of Yelu Abaoji. Yelu Abaoji became the Emperor Taizu of Liao, which was largely due to the support of Shilu in the early days. Before the establishment of Liao, Yelu Shilu took over the military and national power and was appointed as the king of Yue. After the founding of the country, he was granted the title of King of Sui. Yelu Wansi, who served as the title of King of the Southern Court in Liao. His son, Yelu Xiuge, was the God of War in the Liao Dynasty.

"Father, maybe Li Jing is just making a fool of himself?"

"No, Li Jing must not underestimate this person. I am always worried that he will appear suddenly at some point and bite us." Yelu Shilu shook his head and frowned, "I have studied the battle between him and the Shatu people in Daibei. In several battles, Li Jing left the battlefield. Then when the Shatu people fought with the government army the most fiercely, he suddenly rushed out from the side and severely injured the Shatu people. Li Jing is uncertain now, and this is what I feel."

"But where can he hide? The Liaohe River is frozen now. Even if Li Jing has the strongest naval army, his naval army will not be able to walk on the ice. At least, it will take until March to raid from the sea. However, news from the clan that Hende Khan would not be able to hold on. Maybe he would not be able to wait until then, and several uncles would be able to lead troops from the grassland. At that time, we had more than 100,000 cavalry, were we still afraid that we could not defeat Li Jing?"

Yelu Shilu nodded, but there was still a sense of unspeakable worry in his heart.

"Have you contacted Youzhou?" Yelu Shilu asked with hope after taking a sip of the strong wine.

"I have contacted Fan Xinglong, and he is very interested in this matter. However, he proposed that if Li Jing is defeated, Pingzhou will belong to him, and we will also give him ten thousand war horses."

"How did you answer?" Yelu Shilu sneered.

"I paid the price with him and finally agreed to him that as long as he sends troops to help us, after the matter is completed, the land of Pingzhou will be returned to him, and we will give him three thousand war horses as a reward."

Yelu Shilu glanced at his son with appreciation, "You are doing well. Since Fan Xinglong is so greedy for small profits, just give him some sweetness. As long as he can defeat Li Jing, even if we return Yingzhou to him, will he dare to ask?" He smiled and asked again: "Does Liu Yue contact Liu Yue have contacted him? Although Youzhou is now nominally Li Jing is the leader of the military, in fact, Liu Yue is the biggest military leader. If Liu Yue is willing to send troops to attack Li Jing from behind, then our chances of victory will undoubtedly increase a little."

"I have sent someone to contact you, but Liu Yue has not replied yet. It can be seen that this person is very afraid of Li Jing."

"Maybe, he just doesn't see a rabbit or a hawk, and he is even more greedy than Fan Xinglong. After all, it is risky to send troops to attack Li Jing, and if he can't see the profit, how could this guy send troops easily? If you send someone to Youzhou, you might as well have more benefits, such as telling him that as long as he sends troops to help us defeat Li Jing, then we can help him defeat Fan Xinglong in the aftermath and help him achieve the land of Jizhuzhou."

Yelu Shilu was full of calculating, hoping to defeat Li Jing, a whole army in western Liaoning.

Almost at the same time, Li Jing led 10,000 Tang cavalry and another 10,000 Xi cavalry along Wuzhong Road, traveling day and night from King Xi's tent, and unexpectedly killed to the foot of Bailang Mountain.

In the quiet night, there were 10,000 Khitan soldiers stationed at the foot of Bailang Mountain, including 3,000 combat soldiers and 7,000 auxiliary soldiers.

However, there were 20,000 Khitans in Dushan Camp in front and Xi cavalry, and Liucheng behind. Therefore, the Khitan soldiers in Bailangshan Camp were not very cautious and vigilant.

When the 10,000 Xi people led by Xi Shijin Yigu arrived in front of the camp, the Khitan generals who were guarding the camp really believed that they were the Xi people's allies coming to reinforce, so they could feel at ease to get close to them and opened the camp gate.

Ten thousand Xi cavalry easily crossed the fences of the gulf and easily entered the camp.

Then, Yigu led the Xi cavalry to suddenly turn against each other, and the Khitan cavalry caught off guard, and many soldiers were still keeping warm in the camp. The Khitan soldiers were defeated and fled everywhere. But they didn't escape far, and Li Jing, who had been ambushing outside, led the cavalry to attack and intercept.

Under the White Wolf Mountain, by the river.

The tragic massacre lasted for nearly half a day, and blood stained the snow and ice red.

Ten thousand Khitan cavalry were wiped out, none of them fled, and they were buried for more than 30 miles.

Suddenly he went around the back of the Khitans and annihilated 10,000 Khitan cavalry in Bailang Mountain, Li Jing left three thousand elite troops to guard Bailang Mountain to prevent Liucheng from coming to reinforce Dushan. Now he also intercepted the defeated Dushan soldiers and fled to Liucheng.

Afterwards, Li Jing led 7,000 Tang troops and 10,000 Xi cavalry to move westward and attacked Dushan Khitan and Xi camp.

When Li Jing's troops set off, dozens of cavalry had been sent to Li Juyi and Liu Xun to report the news, and at the same time, they reported to the seaside camp, asking them to lead their troops to encircle Dushan.

On February 27, Li Jing's troops arrived at the east side of Dushan. At the same time, Liu Xun and Li Juyi led 10,000 elite troops to advance to the west side of Dushan. Lin Wei led 30,000 elite cavalry to arrive from the south.

The army was surrounded by 20,000 Khitans in Dushan and Xi coalition forces.

Khitan originally wanted to defend Dushan to the death, but Li Jing sent an envoy to see Shise and handed him a letter in public.

After submitting the letter, he left. Shise opened the letter, but saw that many parts of the letter were altered and there was no specificity at all. It was strange that the Khitan general Yelu Yanmu came to ask for the letter to watch.

Shi Se handed the letter to Yanmu. Seeing that the letter had been corrected, Yanmu couldn't see the content clearly, and couldn't help but feel suspicious.

Yelu Yan Munai Yundeshi, the second brother of Yelu Shilu, and Shise's wife and brother. After explaining faith for a long time, Yan Mu believed it on the surface, but after returning, there was a scout below that there was a banner of Xi army in the Tang camp at the foot of the mountain. Yelu Yan Munai was shocked and rushed to inquire carefully. Not long after, the reward was made, there was indeed Xi army at the foot of the mountain, with tens of thousands of cavalry, and the army also had the banner of the old Xi king Tu Dong Su.

Yelu Yanmu was frightened and had already determined that the Xi people had betrayed the Khitan. That night, Yelu Yanmu mobilized his troops and suddenly attacked Shise's troops.

The chaos broke out on the Dushan Mountain for a while, and Li Jing took the opportunity to attack the mountain. The Khitan lost the situation after less than midnight.

Several Tang troops fought on all sides, and Yelu Yanmu was defeated and fled. Li Jing led his army to pursue the victory and headed eastward.

On the first day of March of the fifth year of Qianfu, Li Jing led 20,000 vanguard cavalry to the city of Liu, and then Lin Wei and others arrived.

At the same time, Zhao Lu and Zeng Yuanyu from An City also led their troops across the Liao River to attack western Liao.

On the fifth day of the March, Pei You led his navy to capture the city of Linhaidun, the Bailang Water Enkou Water City. On March 6, Zhao Hun captured Liaoxi City. On the eighth day, Zeng Yuanyu captured Wulu City.

On March 10, Li Jing attacked Liucheng for ten days and finally captured Liucheng.

Yelu Shilu led the defeated troops to break through and fled to the east. At the same time, the Khitan soldiers in Ruluo City and Yan City also began to abandon the city and leave.

On March 18, Li Jing led his army to capture eight cities, including Bailang City, Liucheng, Yancheng, Rulu City, Linhaidun City, Liaoxi City, Wulu City, and Huaiyuan City. At this point, the entire Liaodong was recovered by Li Jing.

Yelu Shilu, Yelu Yanmu and others finally led only more than 30,000 Khitan soldiers to flee back to the upper reaches of the Liao River and retreated into the territory of the Khitan. More than 20,000 Khitans and the Xi people were killed in battle and captured more than 20,000.

When the news reached Youzhou, Fan Xinglong, the Lulong Army of Youzhou, led his troops from Jizhou to Pingzhou and besieged Shicheng in Pingzhou.

Seeing that the stone city was about to be broken, a rider rushed over and sent a letter to Fan Xinglong.

Fan Xinglong was immediately proud of himself when he took Xin's careless opening, his eyes fell on the parchment paper but instantly solidified. Then his face was gone and he suddenly fell off the horse.

"Not good, the general has a stroke, please pass it to the doctor!"
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