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Chapter 3 Errors

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Li Hu had no choice but to do anything, so he decided to withdraw his troops overnight.

On the night of November 22, the Liao soldiers on the Yifeng City Tower cheered in the deafening drums. They held on for a full twenty days and finally won the victory and the rebels withdrew.

It was so fuzzy outside the city, with piles of bonfires burning in the night, and thousands of torches gathered into a red galaxy that stretched for miles. This huge galaxy whizzed across the plains outside the city, and then crossed the frozen Luan River, and flowed toward the darkness to the east.

At dawn, Li Hu led the Iron Guard Camp to Wangdu City, fifty miles away from Yifeng.

Yima sent him to the General's Mansion to report urgently. Huang Shishu told Li Hu that Wanyan Zongwang sent a messenger, saying that Nianhan had led his army to capture Longhua and met Yelu Yuk's army in Huanghe. Considering that the Liao army was constantly heading north from the direction of Zhongjing to support, it brought great difficulties to the Jin army's attack on Shangjing. Zong Wang hoped to join forces with Li Hu to lead the army to attack Xingzhong Prefecture and Chuanzhou, and then threatened Zhongjing, forcing the Liao army to reinforce Zhongjing. In this way, it would be beneficial to the Jin army's attack on Shangjing and the rebel army to attack Youyan.

Huang She said in the letter, I have accepted Zong Wang's proposal on your behalf, and ordered Dong Zhongsun to lead the Heishan army to cooperate with Zong Wang to attack Qianzhou and Chuanzhou; ordered Tuo Shuai Ying Qin to lead Yunshuo's troops to force Xingzhongfu to restrain Xiao Gan, the commander-in-chief of Liaodong Road.

After reading this letter, Li Hu immediately sent someone to invite Dong Xiaochou and Luo Qinghan to attack Xingzhongfu?" Dong Xiaochou was surprised and shocked by the strength of the Jin army. The Jurchens could launch attacks from three directions at the same time, and the number of troops was imagined.

"Didn't you say that Zong Wang and Nianhan went to fight Longhua together?" Luo Qinghan complained secretly. If the Jin army seized Xingzhong Prefecture and captured Shangjing, but the rebel army failed to occupy Pingzhou Road and was trapped in the western Liaoning Corridor, the situation would be too difficult. We could only rely on others' breath to survive.

"Look carefully." Li Hu handed the letter to Luo Qinghan. "The governors and governors of the Liao Kingdom surrendered one after another. Yang Xunqing, Luo Ziwei and Liu Hong from Fuzhou, Wuzhou and Fengzhou have all surrendered to the city. In this case, is it necessary for Zong Wang to help Nianhan fight Longhua?"

Luo Qinghan smiled bitterly and speechlessly. Dong Xiaohou stroked his beard and pondered.

"If you can't retreat, you must fight this battle," said Li Hu. "If I guess it's good, Zong Wang has already started attacking. The reason why he wrote this letter to me was just to sue me so that both sides would not have misunderstandings."

"As soon as Zong Wang fought, Xiao Gan asked for help. Zhongjing must be empty at this moment. In order to ensure the safety of Zhongjing, the Emperor of Liao must draw reinforcements from Nanjing Road." Li Hu stopped for a moment and looked at Luo Qinghan and Dong Xiaochou. "Once Yelu Chun gets the news that I have retreated, he will definitely stop. The only three armies of Yelu Gao, Yelu Foding and Yelu Ning in the end will enter Pingzhou Road, and Xiao Xiamai will quickly return to Zhongjing. Yelu Chun considers that Pingzhou Road is safe, he will probably withdraw back to Yanjing so that he can support Zhongjing Road at any time."

"What do you mean is to withdraw first and then fight?" Dong Xiaohou asked.

Li Hu took the letter from Luo Qinghan and held it in front of the two of them and shook it a few times. "Zhongjing is in a hurry, and Yelu Chun will be in a dilemma. It is difficult for him to figure out our target, but from his position, he may think we are cooperating with the Jin army to attack Zhongjing. As long as he makes a mistake in his judgment, we will have a chance to defeat him."

Dong Xiaochou and Luo Qinghan both agreed with Li Hu's opinion. If you want to fight this battle, you must induce all the troops from the five reinforcements of the Liao army to enter Luanzhou first, and also increase the distance between the five reinforcements. However, this is useless due to the efforts of the rebel army, and it must rely on the Liao army to make judgment mistakes themselves.\\\\\\\\

"Envigil in the direction of Yuguan, the speed is slower." Li Hu said, "Summon the commanders of each army and make specific arrangements."

Yelu Chun bent over with a candlelight, bent over and looked at the document on the table, and sighed helplessly from time to time. He has become much older, his temples are all white, and his thin face is also full of wrinkles.

After working hard for a year, he failed. At the last moment, he not only refused the advice of his close friends again and did not usurp the emperor, but also cut off the heads of these close friends and gave them to the emperor to quell the battle in the palace. However, this bloody battle and this war meeting completely broke up the last trace of trust and friendship between the king and his ministers. At this time of danger, the emperor was worried that the mutiny would break out again and that his throne would be lost. He took the main force of the palace army north to Xijing and threw all the affairs of Youyan and Northeast to him.

This is to kill people with a knife. The emperor did not dare to kill himself or deprive him of military power. He had to use the swords of the Jurchens and thieves to kill himself. As for the destiny of the Great Liao Kingdom and the foundation of the ancestors, it is not worth mentioning compared to the throne of other places.\\\\\\\\\

Yelu Chun didn't understand what the emperor was thinking all day long? The Liao Dynasty was already shaky. The reason was that the emperor and a group of treacherous ministers were extravagant and extravagant, and that they were imposing bribes against the people. The people had no way to survive, so they stopped the people, Han people, Jurchen people, and Bohai people. The rebellion brought war, and the war caused the devastation of life, resulting in the emptiness of the national treasury, and then became more cruel to the people. In this cycle, the country was not in a state. Therefore, there was a dispute over national policies in the palace tent, power struggle, and coups occurred.

At this time, the emperor abdicated, took the initiative to abdicate, handed over power very decently, and then succeeded the new emperor, appointed talents, and implemented the new policy, giving confidence to the desperate subjects, and the government and the people worked together to reverse the situation and revitalize the country. This is the only, the best, and the least cost to protect the country. Why can't this emperor understand? Now that you keep the throne alive, your trusted and treacherous slandering around you, you cannot subvert your own national policy. More importantly, the subjects of the Great Liao Dynasty have lost confidence in you and are desperate about you. In this case, how can you turn the tide? How can you create a miracle?

It was another year, another year of hard work, another failure, and the Liao Dynasty suffered a lot of destruction in this year, and the situation became increasingly dangerous. Now, let alone ordinary ministers, they even have no confidence in revitalizing the country's reign.

Under the attack of the Jin army, the prefectures and counties in the northeast of Shangjing Road surrendered one after another, and the doors were wide open. Longhua and Changchunyan could not be saved. If these two big cities were lost, Shangjing would have only a handful of days to fall.

As expected before, the Jin army and the rebels joined forces to attack Xingzhong Prefecture and Chuanzhou. If Xingzhong Prefecture is lost, the Zhongjing Road will be opened and Zhongjing will not be able to be saved. If Zhongjing is lost, the Jin army will attack from Gubeikou and Songting Pass, and the rebels will attack from Yuguan, Yanjing will definitely lose. Yanjing and the northeast are lost, and the Great Liao are only northwest and southwest. Although these two are vast, they are both prairie and desert. If the Khitans want to make a comeback and regain mountains and rivers, it may be more difficult than climbing to the sky.

In any case, to protect Zhongjing, as long as you protect Zhongjing, Youyan will have a solid barrier, and Shangjing will also have a strong support, so that the three capitals can be protected.

In other words, my previous judgment was correct. The purpose of the rebels attacking Pingzhou Road was only to restrain the main force of the Liao army, and thus to cover the main force of the Jin army and the main force of the rebels to jointly attack Zhongjing.

However, due to the loss of Yu Pass, the Liao army lost one thing and fell into extreme passiveness. What methods can be used to recover Yu Pass to ensure the safety of Yanjing, and then transfer the main force of the Liao army to the front line of Zhongjing to defend with all their strength? Jidu Marshal's Mansion, Nanjing Left-behind Mansion, Prince's Mansion, and three governments have all the official positions and great power.

"Have the rebels withdrawn?" Yelu Chun was surprised and happy, and his frowning frown suddenly unfolded, "Quickly, I'll report to Yanjing urgently and request the Prime Minister of the Northern Palace Xiao Te, the subordinate of the Han people's palace capital, to go north to support him without immediately sending him a command. The second, third, third, and the Xuanli Army and the Tiansheng Army will follow Xiao Degong to the north and be controlled by his command."

"Say Xiao Xia again, turn around immediately, hurry to Xingzhong Prefecture, and be sure to help Xiao Gan guard the Zhongjing portal."

Li Shuang immediately drafted a letter.

Chen Mi hesitated for a long time and advised carefully: "Li Hu is cunning, this may be a trick to attack the east and the west."

Yelu Chun concentrating and contemplating.

Chen Mi continued: "Li Hu attacked for twenty days in a row, with heavy casualties and returning without success, which seems a bit unreasonable."

"This is indeed a striking attack on the east and the west," said Yelu Chun. "The purpose of Li Hu's attack on Pingzhou Road was to attract the main force of our army to reinforce. His real goal was Zhongjing. If Zhongjing is lost, you can imagine how bad our situation is."

"Li Hu knew very well that there were heavy troops in Daotun, Nanjing." Li Shuang interjected, "Li Hu must have his purpose if he wanted to go south, but he would never be attacking Yanjing. He did not have that ability, so after thinking about it, his only goal might be Zhongjing."

Chen Mi wanted to speak but stopped. Yelu Chun looked at him and signaled him not to worry about all his concerns, saying boldly.

"If Li Hu wants to survive, he cannot join forces with the Jurchens for a long time. If the Jurchens are strong, how can Li Hu survive?" Chen Mi said, "Western Liao is a dead land, but if Li Hu captures Pingzhou Road, he will be alive. Advance can attack and retreat or defend, and can bargain with us. Therefore, I think the purpose of their attack on Xingzhong Prefecture is to restrain us, so as to help Li Hu conquer Luanzhou and occupy Pingzhou Road intact. We can imagine that if Li Hu gained a foothold on Pingzhou Road and threatened Yanjing at all times, what will we use to reinforce Zhongjing and Shangjing? This is the fatal place for a blow."
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