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Volume 1: Entrance Chapter 114: They are all chess pieces (1)

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    "War and politics are actually more like a drama than a real drama. Everyone involved in it is consciously or unconsciously trying to play their own role. However, some people know their status and role from the beginning.  , know where they are going, while some people have no idea that they are in the drama at all. They are just a small role, a small chess piece at the mercy of others, even if they occasionally look like pawns crossing the river, they may look like they can kill.  "Sifang, in fact, it is still a vulnerable chess piece." This is a paragraph from an essay called "Play" that was once published in the "Shouzhou Business News". It was later used by interested people to describe what happened this winter.  A series of dramas in the Great Zhou Dynasty: After setting off at midnight on October 22nd, Guo Wei, who was driving the expedition in person, led the imperial army like the wind. They marched sixty miles that day and arrived at Sishui. They arranged to cross the river overnight. The whole army arrived on the 23rd  Cross the Si River in the morning and head north to the Yellow River.  Zheng San, who arrived at the Sishui River one day in advance, witnessed all the Western Expedition troops crossing the river in the grass. He immediately got up and hurried back eastward.  On the 23rd, Wang Jun, the Northern Recruiting Envoy of the Great Zhou Dynasty who had been stationed in Shaanzhou for 12 days, finally moved. Fifty-five thousand elite soldiers crossed the Yellow River through pontoon bridges in one day and headed north.  .  At noon on the 23rd, all the troops stationed in the northwest of Dazhou in Jiezhou lined up to send Yao Yuanfu to receive Wang Jun's urgent order to conquer Mongolia within three days and open the northward passage to Jinzhou.  Yao Yuanfu did not move in the afternoon that day, but arranged for all the five thousand vanguard soldiers to rest and recharge their batteries. When night fell, Yao Yuanfu led five thousand men to sneak out of Jiezhou. He and the five hundred Zhou cavalry all  The horse's mouth is tied with a rope, its hooves are wrapped with cloth, and the horse gallops forward.  This team traveled a hundred miles in a hurry and arrived at Mongolia in the south of Jinzhou at midnight.  The terrain of Mengdi is an official road opened between two hills. It is the most dangerous place between Jinzhou and Jiezhou. There are currently nearly a thousand Liao soldiers stationed, led by the Khitan chief Huhan.  By coincidence, Huhan led a group of his cronies to go hunting for several hours during the day. In the afternoon, they plundered a village and captured two beautiful Han village girls. After gathering the crowd to ravage them, they set up a banquet and drank heavily.  The centurion who was supposed to be on patrol that day was also drunk. Even Huhan, the entire Liao camp's leading generals were all drunk.  Yao Yuanfu was not aware of the situation in the Liao camp, and still acted according to the plan he had made before setting off. He personally led his personal guards around the hills on both sides and raided down the temporary checkpoint. After easily seizing the checkpoint, he then moved the simple  All checkpoints were demolished and an order was issued for the entire army to attack.  Five hundred Zhou cavalry formed a long snake formation in four rows and rushed towards the Liao camp five hundred meters behind the checkpoint with all their strength.  Easy, surprisingly easy.  The five hundred elite cavalry were like a silent black torrent, sweeping through the scattered sober Liao soldiers in front of the camp, knocking over the camps that were not deep into the ground, and overturning the hastily pitched tents. In a few breaths, the area would be covered  The small Liao camp broke through, then turned around and started the second round of attack.  Hu Han, who was pushed awake by his men, struggled to get up from his hangover, hurriedly got on the horse that the guards had snatched, stabbed diagonally to the northwest to break through, and luckily escaped the encirclement of the Zhou army's cavalry, and disappeared into the darkness.  Yao Yuanfu led the cavalry to plow the Liao camp three times before gathering his troops. Together with the infantry that had just arrived, he cleared the battlefield and rebuilt solid checkpoints and defensive positions in Mengdi. Of course, Yao Yuanfu also immediately sent people to the rear.  Jiezhou and his coach Wang Jun reported the good news and urgently requested reinforcements.  In the early morning of the 24th, Wang Jun received an urgent battle report and shouted happily in the camp: "My great mission has been successful." Then, Wang Jun ordered the imperial cavalry to immediately set off for reinforcements, and the entire army rushed to Jiezhou.  In the name of the envoys to the north of the Great Zhou Dynasty, the privy envoys, Tongping Zhangshi, Zuopushe and the minister, he issued orders to Huaizhou due east and Zezhou to the northeast, urgently ordering the two places to gather all their troops and stand by.  Also in the early morning, Huhan and five personal guards, who had fled for their lives in a panic and got lost, finally found the road to the north and fled to Jinzhou City. They directly apologized to Xiao Yujue, the military governor of Daliao Zhangguo, and reported the fall of Mengdi.  After losing Mengdi, the Liao-Han coalition forces were about to be attacked from both sides by the Jinzhou Army and the reinforcements of the Zhou Dynasty. Xiao Yujue was furious and ordered Hu Han to be dragged outside the tent and whipped. He immediately gathered 30,000 cavalry.  Rushing towards Meng Di.  However, when Xiao Yujue rushed to Mengdi, he found that a wooden checkpoint nearly five meters high had suddenly been erected in front of him. In front of the checkpoint was a horse-rejecting formation of 500 meters wide and 500 meters deep, which happened to guard all the passages in front of the checkpoint.  There are countless Zhou soldiers in the horse-rejecting formation, waiting for them.  Xiao Yujue didn't waste any time and organized his cavalry to attack the horse-rejecting formation in turns.  The Khitan cavalry galloped forward with all their strength, using their horses and their own bodies to slam forward, taking turns to attack those who resisted the horses, plowing a path of life with blood flying all over the sky.  The old Yao Yuanfu waved his iron spear and stood in the anti-horse formation, roaring and leading the battle, receivingWith the encouragement of the old general, all the elite Zhou troops shouted uniform chants and fought to the death.  At a quarter past noon, when the Khitan cavalry finally reached the checkpoint at the cost of more than 4,000 cavalry, Xiao Yujue, who was supervising the battle behind the formation, despaired. He found that several more big flags with surnames were planted on the checkpoint.  , the soldiers stationed above became more dense, and a neat array of arrows began to cover the front of the level and attack.  Xiao Yujue was so angry that he gritted his teeth and had to raise his hands to order the entire army to retreat.  At the checkpoint, Yao Yuanfu, who was covered in blood, and Qiu Hongchao, the commander of the camp and horse army who rushed to the scene, and Chen Sirang and Kang Yanmao, the commander of the left wing platoon, hugged each other, pointed at the fleeing Liao soldiers, laughed wildly, and high-fived each other.  The Qing, Liao and Han coalition forces are about to be destroyed.  Xiao Yujue, who had returned home in defeat, met Liu Chong and Liu Chengjun, his father and son, who had rushed to the Northern Han Dynasty on the way back. With a sullen face, he told the story of Mengdi's fall at night and his failed attempt to retake it. Everyone was dumbfounded.  Dumbfounded on the spot.  Whether the two sides will fight in the final battle or withdraw their troops now, this has become a life and death issue that the Liao-Han coalition forces must consider.  On the evening of the 24th, Wang Jun led his army to Mengdi. He sternly rejected Yao Yuanfu, Qiu Hongchao and other generals' plan for the entire army to pursue the victory, and ordered the entire army to be stationed in Mengdi. Anyone who dared to cross the Mengguan Pass would be dealt with immediately by military law.  .  On this evening, Zheng San and Zheng Si, who had been traveling day and night, also rushed back to Yanzhou and reported to the governor Murong Yanchao that the imperial army of the Great Zhou Dynasty had crossed the Si River and that there were only 5,000 garrison guards in Tokyo. Murong Yanchao was ecstatic and immediately  He launched his own plan to seize the throne: Murong Yanfeng led 8,000 troops to guard Yanzhou and raise money and food for the front line; he personally led 34,000 soldiers to sneak out of Yanzhou City and kill towards Jeju in the southwest.  Leaving Yanzhou, Economic Prefecture, passing through Shanzhou, and going straight to Tokyo City, this route was one that Murong Yanchao had long favored. There were few troops stationed along the way, and there were few rivers and mountains along the way, which was very conducive to a rapid march.  What Murong Yanchao didn¡¯t know was that just when he was under martial law in the city and summoning troops to leave the city, several homing pigeons flew out of Yanzhou City, fluttering their wings and disappearing in the northwest at high speed.
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