Chapter 896 The Governor of Shanxi
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After the battle started for an hour, under the fierce attack of Linwu's headquarters, the troops of Shiwei, who were arranged to take on the rear of the palace, were almost wiped out. Shiwei's Lang Chi's headquarters had been consumed extremely seriously in the previous two days and one night of fierce battles. At this time, Yelu Shilu directly regarded it as a abandoned son and kept it as the rear of the palace. Faced with the fierce attack of the Qin army, they only persisted for a moment and were defeated, and then there was a pursuit battle. The situation of the tribal army was already extremely tragic, and the total collapse was only in the middle of the night.
Yelu Shilu and others barely escaped for a distance with the rear of the tribes such as Shiwei.
Just when the Hu people breathed a sigh of relief and thought they could escape from the birth of heaven,
The sound of the horns of the sad calendar sounded again. In front of them, a black flying eagle battle flag suddenly drifted in the wind. Amid the sound of thunderous iron hooves of war horses, the leader of the Eagle Yang army, Li Wei, jumped his horse and raised his spear, and rushed straight to the front.
"ambush!"
Yelu Fenggu only heard a panic sound, his face changed drastically. This army appeared from the northwest, obviously not the troops that Lin Wugang arrived, nor were they still from Xuyuan here, nor were they the Shatuo people. Their eagle flag and breastplate revealed that they were definitely not the soldiers and horses of other vassal states such as Zhenwu Army. They were Qin army and elite Qin cavalry. And looking at the number, there were more than 10,000 people all over the mountains and fields.
He cried in his heart, "Oh, it's true that as Shi Yan expected, Li Jing was not really alone and was baiting himself. This guy was extremely cunning. He actually had troops to protect him. It's a pity that they fought for 20,000 people, but they had no ability to let Li Jing call out the soldiers hidden in the dark.
Almost at the same time, Yelu Shilu looked at the Qin cavalry rushing towards the mountains and fields ahead, and his eyes were filled with despair and anxiety.
"Turn to the south to break through!" At this time, Yelu Shilu was like a mouse crossing the street, being attacked from front and back. In panic, he began to drill into the gap beside him.
The tribal warrior who was running in the front just now was bitten by the Yingyang army. In a blink of an eye, thousands of people were cut and surrounded, and then submerged in a shiny breastplate.
With a loud bang, the tribal cavalry turning toward the south rushed into a wave of people and horses, killing and injured.
With the sound of the cannons, one after another, the sound of cannons began to roar, one after another.
Flashes of gunpowder rose in front of the smoke, and under the smoke, flying eagle battle flags appeared.
"It's an ambush again!"
"The ambush of the Qin people!" The tribal warriors revealed despair. They did not expect that Li Jing had more than one ambush. There were tens of thousands of ambushers in the northwest. As soon as they turned south, they encountered tens of thousands of ambushers. Moreover, the other party had artillery, so they set up artillery on their retreat.
The commander of the three armies, the governor of the Five Army Governor's Office, Wang Chong, one of the six major Dukes of Qin Fan, stood solemnly under the flying eagle battle flag, and smiled.
"Damn it, I squatted in the grass and basked in the sun for two days and fed the mosquitoes for a few days. I was already impatient. Finally, I could kill myself."
Yelu Shilu and Yelu Sugu broke through in two consecutive directions, but they both encountered ambush and were hit with a lot of soldiers and were swallowed up. While galloping wildly, Yelu Shilu was struggling in despair. Where did the Qin army get so many ambush? But these are no longer important now. Now, a total of 70,000 to 80,000 people have suddenly been added to the battlefield. If they cannot fight for a bloody road, they will not see the sun tomorrow.
Rush, continue to rush, and rush toward a place where no one is.
Yelu Shilu led the panicked and desperate Hu cavalry to break through again. This time, they escaped for more than ten miles in one breath, but they did not encounter the pursuit of the Qin army. They couldn't help but have some hope. Perhaps there are no ambush here.
Yelu Shilu even had the urge to laugh loudly. Li Jing, you will be misleading even if you have a long secret.
Before he could have had enough time to be happy, a sudden gust of wind and rain sounded everywhere. Then a black line appeared in front of him, followed by the familiar black flying eagle battle flag that made him afraid.
"Qin Army!" Yelu Shilu wanted to cry, but he didn't expect that there were still Qin army ambushing here. Could it be that naive to destroy me?
Qiu Shengong held a two-meter-long sword in his hand. The sword was as shiny as snow and black as charcoal.
"Hu Gou, it also fell into your grandfather's hands. Brothers, kill!"
Yelu Fenggu rode his horse to Yelu Shilu: "Master, Li Jing set up a dozen ambushes, we have no way to escape!"
Yelu Shilu seemed to have grown a lot earlier in an instant, and he said desperately: "At this point, we can only die with the enemy and order to stop breaking through. We will fight the Qin people to the death!"
"Wait a moment!"
Yelu Shilu turned his head, but it was Li Keyong's general Shi Yan, the stout man, who came behind him at some point.
"General Yang, do you have anything to say?"
"It seems that the Qin army has already made arrangements, setting up ten ambushes, and there are tens of thousands of troops in each line of troops."
"That's true, so what?"
"In such a situation, it feels difficult for us to escape without any loss."
Shi Yan's expression and voice seemed so calm. Yelu Shilu saw it, but there was a hint of hatred in his eyes. It was Li Keyong, the representative of this person, who entered the grassland, and finally told them to go south. But after going south, the Shatuo people were betrayed their faith and failed to send troops and soldiers to help. If not, they would not have fallen so big. However, Shi Yan seemed to have not seen their eyes, "So, I thought that if I wanted to escape from this dead place, the only hope was to disperse the troops immediately. It would be more scattered and more scattered, and the remaining tens of thousands of people broke through separately, and perhaps, they could escape in the end."
"Escape in dispersion?" Yelu Fenggu only snorted coldly. After the troops were dispersed, they would be completely a group of scattered sand. How could they fight? The warriors on the grassland would rather fight to the death with the enemy and fight to the death than run away in such a panic. Doing that would be just a waste of death.
"Stay here and die!" Shi Yan said calmly.
"Even if we die, we will have to bite off a few bites of flesh and blood of the Qin people before we die." Yan Gu said with only gritted his teeth.
Yelu Shilu said: "If you break through in groups, you may be able to break out with a bloody path. If you break through with a scattered breakthrough, you will only let tens of thousands of soldiers be slaughtered by the Qin people."
"The more you get together, the more impossible it is to escape. There are many people, the target is bigger, and the people are scattered. This place is already outside the pass, and there will always be some soldiers who can escape."
"Oh!" Yelu Shilu sighed long and did not agree with Shi Yan's proposal.
"Then I'll say goodbye!" Shi Yan said very simply. The Hu people might still have the idea of breaking through blood, but he didn't want to die here with them. He broke through with them. It seemed that he was self-removing his force, but in fact, if he dispersed, the smaller the target would be. Compared to escaping with one another, there was still some hope.
Shi Yan, who returned to his team, immediately said to his team of Shatuo guards, "We evacuate in a scattered manner. Are we still carrying the Qin army armor, cheongs and flags we collected earlier?"
"The general said that these things will be useful sooner or later, so we keep them with you."
"Okay, it will be dark soon. We will leave the tribe's team, change into Qin people's outfits, and then break south!"
After dark, the tribe's troops were defeated, with neither a complete combat formation nor a unified command system. Under the interception and pursuit of Li Jing's troops, Lin Wu's troops, and four ambushers, some were cut off from all over the place, and some were surrounded. The Hu people in each unit could only fight on their own and continue to force their last stubborn resistance.
The Qin army and Gongsun Lan happily reported the battle situation to Li Jing.
"The organizational resistance has ended. Next, we will immediately order each unit to launch a sweeping battle to completely annihilate every remaining barbarian." Li Jing was not surprised. He nodded calmly and then issued the latest combat order.
After dawn, the overnight sweeping war had ended, and all departments reported the results.
When Wang Chong saw Li Jing's king flag moving forward, he immediately rushed forward to greet him. He first showed a Khitan wolf flag to Li Jing and shouted: "I have met the King of Qin."
Li Jing looked at the flag and recognized it all at once. This was the commander-in-chief of Khitan Yu Yue and the commander-in-chief Yelu Shilu. He couldn't help laughing. Zhang Chengye, Gongsun Lan and others were all happy, and the flag of the commander-in-chief of the Hu Lu was seized. Then the captive leader was very likely to have been captured.
Zhang Chengye couldn't help but ask, "Yelu Shilu and Yelu Fenggu are only two chiefs to capture?"
Wang Chong smiled and replied, "We had already surrounded these two thieves, but they finally broke through the siege, but they ended up fighting to the death. In the end, they were snatched by the third brother and the eldest nephew who rushed over." When Wang Chong said this, he was still a little depressed. The people who surrounded and blocked Eryelu were his men, but in the end, the two big fish were not snatched away by Lin Wu and Li Wei. This matter is really unfair, but Lin Wu is his sworn brother, and this time he came to rescue him day and night. Li Wei is Li Jing's nephew of his clan, and this ambush battle was also very desperate. To be honest, it was considered that he would not flow to outsiders' fields. After all, he also seized a Khitan flag.
Hearing Eryelu being buried, Li Jing nodded. This was a true perfect battle. While he rode his horse slowly on the battlefield for dozens of miles, he said to Wang Chong: "Fight hard for a night, first clean the battlefield, send the injured soldiers to medical treatment, then count the results, and then send a few groups of cavalry to expand the search range and continue to search and chase the fish that felled. This time, we will not let a fish that slips away."
Wang Keyou, this battle was beautiful.
Not only did they defeat Shatuo, they seized the two towns of Datong and Yanmen in Daibei, occupying the foundation of Li Keyong's nest, and now almost all the 200,000 Hu people who went south were wiped out. Unfortunately, before Yelu Shilu left Yunzhou, he had already sent thousands of wounded Hu soldiers back to the grassland. At that time, they left Baishuili camp and Li Jing arrived. However, in order to catch the big fish of Yelu Shilu, Li Jing finally let the wounded Hu soldiers go.
But Li Jing didn't know that among the injured soldiers, there was actually a coma named Yelu Abaoji. He didn't know that he had a wonderful performance under Yunzhou City before he fell into a coma. Otherwise, he would definitely think about it again.
Gai Yu said to Li Jing: "Yang Xingmi, Qian Liuzheng, Cui Anqian, Du Qing, and Li Zhen led 80,000 follow-up troops and horses just out of the army, but they missed the opportunity to defeat the Hulu."
"Liu Xun's Wansheng Legion and General Heng Chong's subordinates did not meet this feast, either." Zhang Chengye smiled.
Li Siyuan was wearing a piece of armor and several gauze wrapped around his body. He rode a horse and followed behind Li Jing. He heard the voice and said, "This time, because of his incompetence, he mistakenly attacked the Hu people's plan to lure the enemy, and even Baishui was defeated. He also asked the King of Qin to send troops to help each other thousands of miles and take risks in person. He was so guilty."
Li Jing stepped down his horse, turned around and waited for Li Siyuan to come forward, patted his shoulder: "This is a bad statement by the general. Since you come to surrender sincerely, how can you ignore your safety? From the day you led your troops to change your flags and surrender, you are a member of my Qin army. I would still like to thank you. If you hadn't abandoned the darkness and the light this time, my Qin army would not have recovered the two towns of Dai Datong and Yanmen in one fell swoop. This is a great contribution! You said, what kind of reward do you want!"
Li Siyuan turned over and got off the horse and knelt down on one knee, "I have a request, and I would like to ask the King of Qin to agree."
As soon as some words were spoken, the soldiers present couldn't help but change their color slightly, and thought to himself that Li Siyuan was indeed too presumptuous. When the King of Qin said that, he really made a request to climb on his nose and face.
"Just say it!" Li Jing's face remained unchanged and he smiled slightly.
Li Siyuan said: "The last general was incompetent in command of the army, and he was defeated. Therefore, the last general wanted to go to the Yanjing martial arts lecture hall to study for three years, study hard to lead troops to fight, and serve the King of Qin in the future."
The generals were surprised again. They just thought Li Siyuan was a rude guy who was too arrogant and did not know how to advance and retreat, but now they instantly felt that Li Siyuan was too conscious of advance and retreat. At this time, they proposed to go to the martial arts lecture hall to study for another three years. Isn’t this a disguised expression of willingness to hand over military power and completely expressing loyalty to the King of Qin? Is this true heart or a show? For a moment, all the generals couldn’t understand this young Shatuo general.
Li Jing stared at Li Siyuan, was silent for a moment, and then slowly said: "It's the time to use people, especially in the northeastern part of the Hebei region west of Taihang, you need someone who is capable and prestigious like this. I have already thought about it and now I officially grant you the title of governor of Shanxi Province and promoted you to the title of Marquis of Yanmen County. I wonder if you are willing to surrender?"
Li Siyuan was stunned, and the other generals present were also stunned. Many people couldn't help but wonder, what was wrong?
"What kind of virtue is there? How dare you take on this great task?" Li Siyuan quickly came back to his senses and said immediately. He didn't know whether Li Jing's words were true or false. The governor of a province was in charge of a province's military. Although this governor of a province was more of a recruitment and training united soldiers and village soldiers, and even the military troops had no right to manage them. Moreover, even the united soldiers and village soldiers, he did not have the right to transfer troops. In other words, the provincial governor who did not take military positions had a high position and was actually not very powerful. But no matter what, this was also a heavy position in charge of a province. He was in charge of a provincial general and was not as good as the governor of each town, but he was higher than the observer and defense envoy. Li Jing might just want to test him?
Unexpectedly, as soon as he refused, Li Jing said, "Are you unwilling to serve the Qin army?"
This was a bit harsh, and Li Siyuan hurriedly said, "I am just worried about my lack of ability and I am afraid of misleading the matter of the King of Qin."
"Since that's the case, I will then transfer General Liu Zhijun to the commander of the left commander of the Shanxi Province, and General Zhang Guiba to the commander of the right commander of the province, and let the two generals assist you?" Li Jing asked with a smile. However, Li Siyuan felt a sense of relief. The commander of the left and right commander of the province was the deputy commander of the provincial governor. Li Jing asked Liu Zhijun and Zhang Guiba as his deputy, which obviously left a hand. However, this made him feel relieved. It seemed that Li Jing was indeed planning to let him stay in Daibei and did not intend to cross the river and destroy the bridge immediately, otherwise, why bother so much? Thinking of this, he finally agreed.
Unexpectedly, Li Jing immediately made two appointments one after another.
"Appoint Liu Yunniang as the governor of Shanxi Province, and Li Cunxin as the governor of Shanxi Province." After these two important appointments that surprised Li Siyuan, Li Jing issued several more military orders, transferring Yang Shihou to the commander of the Chitang Pass in Yanmen, Gao Siji as the commander of Yanmen Pass, Wang Yanzhang as the commander of the Taixi Pass, Li Si'an as the commander of the Niupi Pass, and Dong Zhang as the commander of the Jincheng Pass.
Chapter completed!