Warrior in Turbulent Han Dynasty

The dark clouds are surging in the sky, as if ink has been poured into the water, and the large clouds are surging in the wind. Between the gaps in the dark clouds, the sun's halo hides behind, but it still shines brightly... It lurks, but it still can't hide the edge of the edge.

The drizzle fell into the puddles on the road, making the water look like rough frosted glass. "Crack!" The heavy boots trampled on it, splashing muddy water.

On the main road, walking, riding, and cars are moving slowly, and people are walking heavily in the mud, but they still maintain order.

As the soldiers walked, they looked back at Youzhou City, which stood deep in the rain curtain and clouds. It is still not far away, but it seems to be in the sky, like a mirage, and like the shadow of a mountain.

Decades ago, when this piece of land was lost, few people probably thought that it would be so difficult to get it back again.

At this moment, a large group of people hobbled from the side road, carrying baskets and loads, and trudging through the mud. The women took the eggs out of the baskets and stuffed them into the arms of the soldiers on the side of the road.

An old man squinted his eyes, looked at the soldiers with his back bent and his head up, and asked, "When will you guys come back...will you come back?"

The soldiers had nothing to say, and silently followed the team. The old man sighed several times.

At this moment, Dong Zunhui's men passed by, and the young Dong Zunhui jumped off his horse and said with a livid face, "This is not the end, it's just the beginning!"

Thin rainwater gathered into beads on the helmet, and the water droplets dripped down along Dong Zunhui's young face exposed to the wind and sun.

...

At the head of Youzhou City, Xiao Siwen with a tired face looked at the messy fortification camp outside the city in the drizzle, and let out a long breath. He raised his hand, but there was no place to hold it. This section of the city wall was bare, and the female wall had already collapsed.

"Zhou Jun really retreated so quickly... Shall we send a cavalry team out to chase them?" Xiao Abudi asked.

Xiao Siwen turned his head and glanced at him: "Chasing? How to chase? Can the cavalry of the Youzhou army be compared with the elite of the Daliao palace tent? How have the palace tent army been beaten up? I'm afraid the Youzhou army will make a joke when they go out."

Xiao Abu frowned and said: "The Zhou people are also very good at scaring people. So many people came and surrounded the city of Youzhou. The last general thought it would take a year or so. It's only a little longer, let's go..."

Xiao Siwen said: "Don't you forget that Jinyang City was broken in half a month! Guo Tiejiang came here to capture Youzhou City, and now he can't break it, and he doesn't want to confront the main force of Daliao, so he retreated. Guo Tiejiang..."

He took a hissing breath, "This person is interesting and elusive."

Seeing that Xiao Abudi was in a daze, he sighed slowly: "A person who calls himself emperor and has won hundreds of battles in the past, it is not easy to retreat decisively. Maybe you don't understand people in that position."

A general said: "Brother Yeluxiu came back to Youzhou, he looks like a lifesaver."

After hearing this, Abudi was a little annoyed: "If we hadn't defended Youzhou City, would we have won over the people of Zhou? We can't let him take the credit alone!"

"It's too early to say we won." Xiao Siwen said softly.

Abudi asked: "The Zhou people are afraid of Daliao and ran away, do they still have the face to come back?"

Xiao Siwen turned and left the city, glanced at the vast fields in the south, and said: "I will definitely come... Order to celebrate the victory in the city, and tell the soldiers that Guo Tiejiang is not a monster with three heads and six arms, and he can also be defeated by the Daliao cavalry."

At night, a visitor with a gray and black cloth covering his head came to Xiao Siwen's study.

There was an oil lamp the size of a bean in the study room, and the man asked in a low voice in Khitan, "My master asked the King of the South Courtyard, what do you think of this opportunity?"

Xiao Siwen frowned and said: "What I mean is that we should not rush for success for the time being, but focus on the overall situation."

"Oh..." The man responded lightly.

Xiao Siwen said: "At this juncture, if there is turmoil in Daliao, outsiders will be able to take advantage of it... The public opinion is also unfavorable, and the time is not yet ripe."

... At the Liao army camp in Tanzhou, the young brother Yeluxiu was not happy.

A bonfire was burning under the grass pavilion, surrounded by tents. In the flames, Yeluxiu's sharp-edged face didn't show any smile at all. He reached out and stroked the mane of the horse that was eating beans, with a gloomy face and said nothing.

At this time, several generals strode over, pressed their hands on their chests and bowed: "He Xi, Commander, has made new achievements!" "After returning to the capital, Da Khan will rely on the Commander even more."

Someone else said: "We can regroup all the troops in two days, and take advantage of Zhou's retreat, we can increase our gains by taking advantage of the opportunity!"

Brother Yeluxiu was uninterested, he nodded his head to deal with the generals.

Upon seeing this, Yang Dagon turned around and whispered to the generals, "I have a few words I want to talk to the commander in chief."

Everyone resigned knowingly.

Yang Gun walked into the grass pavilion, picked up a piece of firewood on the ground and threw it on the bonfire, and said slowly, "Aren't you happy to win?"

Brother Yeluxiu said coldly: "Our 40,000 palace tent army is also a helpless force on the grassland; the Zhou people are farmers, and they actually fought with our horses. After fighting like this, the 40,000 army can't recover even now. Can General Yang be happy?"

The tent army of the Daliao Palace is the elite of the elite, and it is different from the tribal army and the Wujing army with incomplete armor and loose men. As a popular general in the Liao Kingdom, Brother Yeluxiu knew the combat power of the Liao Army very well.

In this battle, his prediction was not so risky.

He believes that the Liao army on the North Road and more than 20,000 cavalry tent troops (Li Chuyun's department) raided.

The Liao army on the South Road detoured out of the Wenyu River, harassing and threatening the central army of the Zhou army, mainly by attacking the emperor of Zhou to deter the Zhou army; Then marched westward to the Deshengkou Zhou Army (Han Tong Department), with a slight upper hand in numbers and defeated the Zhou Army.

Brother Yeluxiu's idea is to defeat Zhou's mobile cavalry in World War I! Then wander around the vast area outside Youzhou City, harassing the attacking troops of Youzhou City at any time.

The horse army of the Zhou army has little advantage over the cavalry of the reinforcement cavalry of the Liao army, and the Liao army has more horses. Brother Yeluxiu is confident that he will defeat the cavalry of the Zhou army first.

As he said before: The cavalry of the Southerners is not called cavalry, it is just to run faster in battle. He had never seen cavalry marching on foot for a long time.

Brother Yeluxiu thinks highly of the city defense of the Central Plains, but he has never thought highly of the southern countries in field battles.

Yang Gun said kindly: "No matter what, the Zhou army retreated because the commander led the army to reinforce the army. This is also a victory, and the commander can still receive credit when he returns."

Brother Yeluxiu looked at the bonfire with a very complicated expression.

In his mind, the experience of rapid heartbeat and galloping like riding a blind horse appeared in his mind.

For example, in Wenyuhe, there was no progress against (Li Chuyun's department), and the right-wing Zhou army approached quickly, fleeing desperately, and would be flanked if one step later, the consequences would be disastrous!

Another example is that after the Southern Route Army harassed outside Youzhou City, just as they were about to advance westward, the Zhou Army (of Li Chuyun's department) threatened their back; they were almost encircled. When marching into Deshengkou, because the rear might be attacked at any time, they broke up and ran in a hurry.

Brother Yeluxiu closed his eyes, raised his head and took a deep breath. He had the illusion of walking over the tip of a knife.

He gritted his teeth and said: "I don't believe that a farming country can compete with Daliao on horseback. This time I will underestimate the enemy, next time I must have a good meeting with Guo Tiejiang!"

Yang Gun reminded: "Our mission is to protect Youzhou, not to fight for power."

Brother Yeluxiu sneered, "To be a military commander is to win battles! If we mix in those conspiracies, there will be no good results."

After hearing this, Yang Gun said in a complimenting tone: "It's not unreasonable for the Great Khan to rely on the Marshal."

Yeluxiu didn't pay attention to it, he still thought to himself: "Tiejiang Guo is a born general."

Yang Gun breathed a sigh of relief: "He is the emperor of Zhou."

Brother Yeluxiu shook his head and said, "This man... has a very keen sense of smell. He doesn't look like a southerner, but like a hunter..." His voice lowered, thinking "or a hunting beast. It quietly approached the prey without any movement, looking for an opportunity, and turned around and ran away as soon as it found out that the wind was not right. But it's still there, and you don't know when it will swim back."

Yang Gun said: "The commander-in-chief may be right. He is very good at fighting, and he is indeed a qualified general, but if he goes back now, with Zhou's situation, he may be in trouble."

Brother Yeluxiu said: "I wish he didn't run away, what's wrong with him doing that?"

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