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Volume 5 Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter, Looking North Chapter 187 Seizing the Army and Moving to Battle

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    The next day, at three o'clock in the morning, the 200,000 enemy troops besieging the city suddenly marched towards the east, apparently to attack Kaifeng Mansion. After receiving the report, Lu Qi went to look outside the city wall, and the commanders of the various armies also gathered together.  "The Liao army may have faked a retreat and used the strategy of besieging Wei and rescuing Zhao to lure us out of the city. Then they used cavalry to ambush us. We would defend the city first and let my 30,000 cavalry troops deal with the Liao army. If the Liao army really left in three days,  We must leave King Qin of Kaifeng Mansion," Lu Qi deliberately explained to the commanders of the armies.  The commanders of all the armies nodded without any objection. At this time, it is easy to make mistakes when speaking out, and what Duke Yu said is in line with military logic. If the infantry leaves the city, it will easily be killed by the Liao army's cavalry. If the Liao army really  Once the infantry has gone far, once it encounters a carbine after attacking, it will have time to find ground and resist the enemy by taking risks.  Half a day after the Liao army left, officers, soldiers and rural soldiers from all over the country arrived in Luoyang City one after another to report. They had received orders from King Cao who stayed in Luoyang to assemble. Three days later, the number of officers, soldiers and rural soldiers gathered reached 60,000.  And they are still reporting to Luoyang City in batches.  Of course, Lu Qi could not repatriate the officers and soldiers. Instead, he reorganized them and gave them official positions. The one who brought the five hundred troops was the commander. By analogy, he formed a legion of hundreds of thousands of troops who followed his lead.  Lu Qi ordered to march because he had already received his revenge. King Ji responded to his request for help and ordered Cao Bin to lead an army of 200,000 people eastward. They would reach Luoyang in a day or two. Of course, Lu Qi could not join forces with Cao Bin. Cao Bin was  The privy envoy had the authority to take over the military forces assembled in Luoyang, but Lu Qi did not have the authority to take over the Zhou army outside Longyou.  The 140,000-strong army marched towards Kaifeng Mansion before Cao Bin's troops arrived. Lu Qi handed over the responsibility of staying behind in Luoyang City to Zhang Yan, asking Zhang Yan to continue to receive rural soldiers and reorganize them into an army. After a battalion was full, they set off eastward.  Lu Qi tried his best to control as much of Zhou's military strength as possible, that is, to occupy human resources. Most of these rural soldiers gathered were good and brave local people without a backer. Once they belonged to that commander, they would only follow the general's orders.  When Cao Bin's army arrived in Luoyang, Zhang Yan successively sent another 20,000 troops eastward, and also took away half of Luoyang's warehouses. As soon as Cao Bin arrived in Luoyang, he refuted Zhang Yan's arbitrary power. Zhang Yan knew what he was doing.  He left Luoyang City and led his army east to join Lu Qi.  Cao Bin only stayed in Luoyang for half a day before the army set off. The 200,000-strong army marched eastward at a rapid pace. However, Lu Qi led the army halfway and suddenly turned north and ran towards Taiyuan, abandoning King Qin's Kaifeng Mansion.  .  The army going north directly killed Jinzhou, and found Jinzhou and rushed to Fenzhou. Fenzhou and Xizhou are adjacent. Lu Qi's army easily fell Fenzhou, and the soldiers went straight to Taiyuan Prefecture. Jin Guozheng led fifteen  An army of ten thousand fought against a hundred thousand Kaifeng Prefecture forbidden troops in Luzhou. Lu Qi's army could be said to have passed by Luzhou on its way north.  The commander of the 100,000 Kaifeng Forbidden Army was the Prince of Zhou Dynasty, and Han Tong was the military supervisor. In fact, Han Tong was leading the army. Han Tong commanded the army in Luzhou and fought fiercely. He launched a tug-of-war with the rebels.  It completely blocked the Duke of Jin's attack on Kaifeng Mansion, and more than 60,000 people were killed on both sides.  The Duke of Jin was very angry, hated Han Tong for blocking the road, and was even more annoyed by the Liao army's lack of cooperation. The biggest purpose of the Liao army's borrowing the road was to join forces with the Duke of Jin. After that, the soldiers quickly invaded the Central Plains. As long as they captured  After Kaifeng Mansion quickly occupied a large territory, the Duke of Jin was able to expand his military strength through war. If this continues, the Zhou State will be able to gather more and more military power, which was originally a place that he could absorb.  military strength.  If the Liao army can join forces with the Duke of Jin, then Han Tong's military strength can be defeated in one battle. The commander-in-chief of the Liao army insists on pursuing Lu Tianfeng's army, which makes the advantage of the Duke of Jin's army weak and unable to defeat the roadblock in front.  When the Seventh Army of the Lu Army marched north and fell to Jinzhou, Cao Bin's forward force was attacked head-on by the Liao Army's 50,000 cavalry on the way to Kaifeng Mansion. The 50,000 Liao cavalry originally ran towards the Lu Tianfeng Army, but they did not want the Lu Tianfeng Army to attack.  Suddenly turning north and walking north, Cao Bin was anxious. Unexpectedly, Lu Tianfeng dared to escape from the battle, and accidentally hit a rock.  Fifty thousand Liao cavalrymen were holding back their anger and wanted to vent their anger. Who cares, who was the enemy? They launched a large-scale charge in a flat area. Thousands of horses galloped across the ground like thunder, and each one of them had a round shield on his left arm.  Some wielded sharp swords, while others bent their bows and threw them.  Cao Bin's 50,000-strong vanguard army had no time to retreat to dangerous areas or cities, so they were forced to launch a battle formation, with spears lined up and arrows flying. Facing the surging Liao cavalry, the fierce temperament developed in the martial arts trend, at this moment  After receiving the burst, the 50,000 Zhou troops were all fearless and launched a desperate fight with the cavalry.  Fifty thousand cavalry were no less powerful than an infantry force of 150,000. Except for the Liao cavalry in front who was blocked by the infantry, the cavalry behind them rushed into the Zhou army's formation and immediately attacked the brave Zhou army with their swords.  Being slaughtered mercilessly, the Liao cavalry showed their horse fighting skills to the fullest.As a result, 50,000 Liao cavalry rushed through, and the ground was almost covered with Zhou army corpses. However, the Liao cavalry only lost 3,000 and injured 2,000.  Cao Bin was so frightened by the news that he ordered his troops to defend the danger. He even cursed Lu Tianfeng as a shameless national traitor without any restraint. Lu Qi should indeed bear some of the blame for the destruction of the 50,000 Zhou army.  But the people who were most guilty were Cao Bin and Zhou Jun's forward commander. Lu Qi led his army to leave before the battle. In fact, Zhou Jun's forward commander was rewarded by the scouts. Since he knew it, he should have retreated in time, but Zhou Jun  The striker coach was hard-headed and carried out Cao Bin's military order wholeheartedly.  But having said that, Lu Tianfeng himself is the enemy of Zhou State. Any decision he makes will be to maximize his own interests. In his heart, Cao Bin's military power and the military power of Liao State are both enemies. He never thought that Cao Bin would commit a crime.  It was a mistake to be impatient, and why Cao Bin made the mistake was because he hired the wrong person, and secondly, he never thought that Lu Tianfeng would run away before the battle.  Cao Bin was forced to fall into a defensive posture, but Lu Tianfeng's army attacked Taiyuan Mansion. The Duke of Jin stationed 30,000 troops in Taiyuan City. It should be said that they were 30,000 weak troops, old and young, with basically no armor. The Duke of Jin left  His second son guards him.  When he heard that hundreds of thousands of Zhou troops had invaded Fenzhou, the second son of the Duke of Jin was extremely shocked. He had been hoping that the Liao army could break through Fuzhou and come to support him. However, 300,000 Liao reinforcements did not arrive, but the Zhou army was  Approaching, they hurriedly sent people to announce the emergency to the Jin State. Less than a day after they left, hundreds of thousands of Zhou troops also arrived. However, the soldiers surrounded the city gate to the west of the Fen River, but did not cross the Fen River to surround the east gate.  city.  The second son of the Duke of Jin stood on the wall of the west gate and looked outside. He saw a sea of ??troops outside the city. Most of them were armored soldiers. However, he did not see any cavalry. But he knew that the troops left behind in Taiyuan were very weak. Most of them were soldiers.  They are young and old who were temporarily requisitioned, and 30% of them have no weapons.  "If there is no breakthrough in the war in the Central Plains for a long time, I am afraid that I will not escape defeat. Should I escape and hide as soon as possible." The second son of Jin Guogong in his early thirties wondered in fear.  It turns out that after the Duke of Jin ceased to rule ten years ago, he was worried about the genocide in the future, so he secretly built two houses outside Taiyuan. Only the Duke of Jin and his second son knew about these two houses. In fact,  Those two secret houses were bought by the second son of Jin Guogong.  When Lu Qibing arrived at Taiyuan Fucheng, he was not in a hurry to attack the city, and asked each army to prepare more siege equipment. He would attack the city two days later. He informed the generals of each army that now that the soldiers surrounded Taiyuan Fucheng, Taiyuan Fucheng would definitely attack the outside.  If the rebels ask for help, this will disrupt the morale of the rebels and put the rebels into a dilemma.  The general of the Zhou army who followed Lu Qi north had no objections and had already followed Lu Tianfeng, so it was better to follow Lu Tianfeng's lead. Moreover, the strategy of attacking Taiyuan was easier to achieve success. In addition, the local soldiers did not know much about Lu Tianfeng's disobedience.  Even if he knew, he would still doubt it, because if Lu Tianfeng was disobedient, how could His Majesty the Emperor go to Hexi for inspection.  After Lu Qi was stationed outside Taiyuan City, he received intelligence from all parties one after another. After the Liao army invaded Xizhou, the Xia Kingdom did not send troops to follow up and take advantage of the situation. There seemed to be a confrontation with the Liao army in Fuzhou.  But the military information from Kaifeng Mansion surprised Lu Qi. After thinking about it, he wrote a letter to Cao Bin, explaining that he was moving the army north. He had informed Cao Bin of his military strength and did not leave without telling him. After all, he was  Fifty thousand soldiers died, Lu Qi could only add "inform" for the sake of reputation.
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