Chapter 351: Northern Expedition! Northern Expedition! (6)
The moment Zhou Bai stepped onto the pass, the first thing this iron-clad man did was to slowly kneel down in front of more than 100,000 soldiers from all over the army.
"General!"
The three armies were so heartbroken that their tears were wet.
"Send a report to Your Majesty and the Grand Marshal's Office, and send it truthfully."
Zhou Bai stood up staggeringly and said word by word.
"Our army has conquered the great pass, but this is based on the shelling of our commander without distinguishing the enemy. Nearly a hundred of my great Chu'erlangs died at the hands of me, Zhou Bai. I am willing to apologize for this sin."
"General."
"Write it truthfully!"
Military newspapers will never allow for false precautions, and the governor in the army also knew about it, so he nodded and left with a sigh.
This is the reality, no matter how great the achievements are, they cannot be defeated.
"Did Brother Yelu Yu catch it?"
Zhou Bai only wants to catch the culprit, but all he can get is a cold corpse.
Brother Yelu Yu committed suicide.
He is not stupid, of course he knows what kind of ending will be if he falls into Zhou Bai's hands, which will be unimaginable terrifying.
The Han people will definitely execute him to death.
"Corps, corpses are OK."
Looking at Brother Yelu Yu's body, Zhou Bai smiled a little crazy: "Take him, take his body to Youzhou! I want to peel and cramp his son in front of Han Dechang! Tell Han Dechang that I will cut his whole family into pieces and not even one of them will run away!!"
The guards and several generals looked at each other and sighed.
Yelu Yuge's wrong approach obviously completely angered Zhou Bai, causing him to almost lose his mind.
Perhaps Yelu Yuge should be glad that he was facing Zhou Bai, not Luo Chengwu.
If Luo Chengwu is the one who commands the battle of the pass, then who is completely angry and loses his mind will not know what crazy things will be done.
It is even possible that from here, no one will continue to be flexible when he reaches Huanglong Mansion.
“By the way.”
Zhou Bai paused for a moment and remembered something: "Cross a copy of this military newspaper to Luo Shuai."
At this moment, Luo Chengwu, as the marshal of the Northern Expedition, was still waiting in Taiyuan Prefecture.
Luo Chengwu's duty was to lead the cavalry of Da Chu into the grassland.
Everyone looked at each other and their faces tightened.
What happened here came to Luo Chengwu's ears, and the Khitans were really going to suffer.
The prairie will be flooded with blood.
"The three armies quickly picked up the remains of comrades, buried them on the spot, and built a cemetery and stele of heroes."
Early summer is about to enter, and the temperature rises, and the body should not be left for a long time, otherwise a major epidemic will occur.
However, only the Great Chu Erlang was treated like this, such as the tens of thousands of Liao soldiers who were burned into ashes and buried in the ground.
"I want to trample them under my feet for generations, so that they will never be reborn!"
The nearly 50,000 Liao soldiers killed were naturally not all Khitans. To be precise, more than 10,000 Khitan soldiers were the first to escape as soon as the entire army collapsed.
Of course, Yelu Yuge also had a chance to escape, but he chose to die here.
Because he couldn't afford to lose this person, because if he returned to Youzhou alive, his father Han Dechang might die.
Most of the Liao soldiers who were captured and massacred were other ethnic groups enslaved by the Khitan, and of course, they also included the local Han people in the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun.
Being a traitor is even more damn!
Or maybe it is not right to call them traitors.
Since the end of the Tang Dynasty, Hebei fell into the Khitan and has been approaching for a hundred years. How can people in the north face the Hu but not the Han?
If it is true that the Zhao Dynasty, who has never been able to recover its hometown in Hebei, should bear this guilt even more!
It was the inaction of its dynasty government that forced the people here to become Liao people and traitors.
After two days of renovation at the pass, Zhou Bai led his troops north again without stopping.
Before Han Dechang completely stabilizes his walls and clears the field, he will lead his troops to Youzhou City!
However, Zhou Bai underestimated the speed of the Liao people's purge of Hebei. The army headed north along the way and almost everywhere became ghosts, and was silent.
After the army passed Qigou Pass, Zhuozhou was soon enough to get Youzhou.
And outside Youzhou City, there is a place that we have to talk about.
Sorghum River!
Thirty years ago today, Zhao Er was shot in the butt by a Khitan man here and fled in a donkey cart.
Thirty years later, Zhou Bai and more than 100,000 Chu troops set foot on the land again.
Han Dechang was frightened and despaired and cold in his heart as he was about to advance so quickly.
The defeated soldiers who fled back from the defeat of Xiongguan had reported some of the situations of the Chu army to him. The Han people had a powerful weapon called artillery, and the so-called dangerous passes of Xiongguan had no effect before this weapon.
Just thousands of shells bombard the city walls to pieces.
The rules of the game war are destined to change with the birth of artillery.
Although Han Dechang is not a famous general in Kou Yan's mouth, he has been in military service for more than 40 years and is still a little brainy.
Since the city cannot be defended, we can only fight positions.
So Han Dechang directly moved the central army out of the city and dug deep into trenches and trenches based on the two rivers of Gaoliang River and Gu River (Bohai tributary). In this way, even the large army could not be promoted without artillery or siege vehicles.
Only scattered troops can charge.
"Han Dechang, is he going to fight with us?"
Zhou Bai looked up and saw clearly that there were hundreds of forts on the Liao army's positions opposite.
"Han Dechang gathered the remaining troops, emptied the entire Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun, and forced more than 100,000 males. Although they were all mobs, they were still very threatening to rely on Youzhou's endless bows, arrows, swords and guns."
The staff officer frowned like a clerk, feeling very difficult.
"The number of Liao troops now is probably more than 200,000, which is much more than us. Gaoliang River and Gu River are full of trenches and mud roads, and this battle is hard to fight."
When Zhao Eryu personally led the army to fight with hundreds of thousands of troops in the northern expedition, he also fought all the way to Youzhou City. The Liao people also used this trick at the beginning. The Song army could not get up, and the front-line army was disconnected from the central army. The marching speed was delayed. The Liao army seized the opportunity to play intermittent division, and in the end, Zhao Er was defeated by Gao Lianghe.
In one battle, Zhao Song lost more than 100,000 elite imperial guards, and he also ran into a donkey cart to escape.
Will history repeat itself?
"How to fight the battle? Let's make a good decision later. Now, I will bring Brother Yelu Yu to the front of the formation for me first."
Zhou Bai waved his hand and ordered people to lift Yelu Yuge's body out, and sent a few loud soldiers to start calling in front of the formation.
"Dog Damn Han Dechang, come and see your bastard son for the last time."
Han Dechang is on the front line, of course he can see it truthfully.
He saw it the moment Brother Yelu Yu was carried out.
My heart couldn't help but feel ache.
But when he was far away, Han Dechang couldn't tell whether Yelu Yuge was dead or alive at this moment, and he only knew that he was tied to a wooden stake with his head hanging down.
"Han people, what do you want to do!"
"I don't want to do anything, so I'll let you watch the punishment."
Zhou Bai raised his hand, his eyes full of hideousness.
"Skin and cramp my handsome guy Yelu Yu!!"
"Han Dog Dare!"
Han Dechang was so angry that his whole body was trembling, but he was firmly held by several personal soldiers around him and could not move.
I could only watch my son be stabbed one after another, peeling off the entire skin.
Skin, bone removal, cramps!
"Son, son!!"
Han Dechang covered his heart, his eyes turned black, and he exclaimed.
"It hurts so much!"
After shouting, he vomited blood and fell on his back.
Chapter completed!