Chapter 325 The Minotaur Is Coming

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As soon as Jiang Hongfei's personal expedition arrived at Yunzhong Mansion (formerly Xijing of Liao Dynasty, which Jiang Hongfei changed its name to), Lin Chong, Yang Zhi, Guan Sheng and Qin Ming excitedly took over Yelu Yanxi's sons, all concubines, all daughters, and all daughter-in-laws , all the royal and clan daughters of the Liao Kingdom, all the royal families and clans of the Liao Kingdom, thousands of BMWs that can travel three hundred and fifty miles a day, more than 500 bags of the most that the Liao Empire has accumulated over more than two hundred years. Fine treasures, tens of thousands of felt carts and baggage, more than 20,000 fine horses from the North, as well as the imperial seals, golden chariots, royal chariots, legal chariots, honor guards, chariot heads and other things representing imperial power inherited from the Liao Empire were all presented. Gave it to Jiang Hongfei.

Jiang Hongfei was very happy, rewarded the meritorious soldiers heavily, and arranged for the Ministry of Rites to resolve marriage matters for the meritorious soldiers of the Fourth Army first.

It is worth mentioning that, at Lin Chong's reminder, Jiang Hongfei learned that Xiao Duolilan, the queen of the Liao Empire, was seriously ill and even dying.

Jiang Hongfei immediately arranged for An Daoquan to treat Xiao Duolilan.

After An Daoquan diagnosed and treated Xiao Duolilan, he said to Jiang Hongfei: "The Queen of Liao's illness is not serious. If she wants to recover, there are two ways: slow and fast. I wonder which one the officials will choose?"

Jiang Hongfei asked: "How do you say this?"

An Daoquan said: "This is a slow method. I can take care of her slowly. She should be able to sleep in half a year at most and three months at least."

Jiang Hongfei glanced at An Daoquan, a dirty old pervert, and shook his head, thinking: "This guy... really smells like me."

Jiang Hongfei definitely didn't want to let Xiao Duoli, who didn't have much youth, waste another half a year of his life lazily, so he asked: "What about a faster way?"

An Daoquan smiled ambiguously: "The official will give me a drop of the elixir of Xuna, and I promise that the Queen of Liao will be able to sleep with her tomorrow night."

The queen of the Daliao Empire, and she is legitimate!

How is it possible to say that Jiang Hongfei is not interested in Xiao Duoli's laziness?

As for the old brother who was always by his side, Jiang Hongfei didn't have to hide his preferences. He didn't make any excuses, but happily gave An Daoquan a drop of ginseng blood.

At the same time, Jiang Hongfei asked Xiao Rang to find a more beautiful reward from among the captured Liao women and give it to An Daoquan.

Not only An Daoquan, but also Lin Chong and the four of them, Jiang Hongfei each rewarded two Liao beauties, ten horses, and ten thousand treasures. Their lieutenants Deng Fei, Min Gong, Hao Siwen, and Huang Xin each received a Liao beauty. , five horses, five thousand treasures, promotion does not count.

In short, Jiang Hongfei must be very interesting to his old brother.

After receiving the beauty from the Liao Kingdom, An Daoquan naturally worked harder to treat Xiao Duolilan for Jiang Hongfei.

So, the next day Jiang Hongfei walked into Xiao Duolilan and Brother Xiao Gui's room.

Seeing this, Yelu Dalibao, who serves as Jiang Hongfei's personal bodyguard today, has a very complicated mood!

Although Yelu Dalibo was also a princess of the Liao Kingdom, she was given the title of princess after Yelu Chun ascended the throne, so she was somewhat watered-down.

——Actually, Yelv Dalilibo is just a princess of the Daliao Empire, a daughter of a clan. When she sees Xiao Duolilan and Brother Xiao Gui, especially the former, she needs to pay a big courtesy, because Xiao Duolilan and Xiao Gui Your brother, especially the former, is the most noble woman in the Liao Empire.

Now, the two most noble women in the Liao Empire were ruined by Jiang Hongfei.

Hearing the voices of Xiao Duolilan and Brother Xiao Gui begging for mercy from the room, Yelu Duolibo had the urge to rush in and rescue them.

But her father, who was so wise and powerful, was dead, and her stepmother, who was so smart and capable, was defeated by Jiang Hongfei and had to surrender to Jiang Hongfei. Yelu Dashi was so talented and Wu Yanguang was so good at fighting, but she could only surrender to Jiang Hongfei. Now only How could the extremely stupid Yelu Yanxi and the Liao Empire make a comeback? Therefore, there was no hope for the Liao Empire. So what if she saved Xiao Duolilan and Brother Xiao Gui?

Besides, Xiao Duolilan and Brother Xiao Gui are just the beginning. Other royal and clan daughters in the Liao Kingdom will definitely have such moments, just like the royal and clan daughters in the Jin Kingdom, and in Yanyun Except for those who are too old, too young, or have improper looks, all the daughters of the Liao royal family and clans in the Ping area have not been spared. Therefore, even if she can save one or two, it will not matter. No help.

Moreover, according to Yelu Dalib's own experience, it doesn't matter if this kind of thing happened.

If it happens, you will feel at ease.

Before this happened, I had to escape, run, and hide. I was in fear all day long, unwilling to accept the demise of my motherland. I always thought about restoring the country, wandering around, thinking wildly, and worrying about gains and losses.

By the time he was caught and played with, the raw rice had become cooked rice.

After calming down and thinking about it, Jiang Hongfei was young, handsome, strong, and had a good personality. The key was to protect them. With Jiang Hongfei, no one would dare to miss them anymore.

Moreover, they can return to the affluent life where they had enough clothes to put out their hands and food to open their mouths.

In short, as long as you accept all this, everything will get better...

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Just as Jiang Hongfei was eating batch after batch of Yelu Yanxi's concubines and daughters, the royal and clan daughters of the Liao Kingdom, Yelu Yanxi led an army of 80,000 people to leave the original southwestern Liaoning to attack Silai Arriving at the Yunzuo area, they stormed the passes of the Yuan Empire from here.

Jiang Hongfei appointed Zhu Wu as the Xuanfu envoy, Hua Rong as the capital commander, Lin Chong as the deputy capital commander, Wang Zhen as the capital supervisor, and Zhao Li as the chief of general staff. He asked various economic and strategic envoys to send troops to gather in Shuozhou to form A large army under the direct command of Yunzhong Xuanfu Division went to fight the coalition forces led by Yelu Yanxi.

In order to defend against the attacks of Liao, Jin, and Xixia, the Yuan Empire set up seven military divisions in Yundi, similar to the military divisions in Jiang Hongfei's previous life - the Jinglüe Anfusi (abbreviated as "Shuaisi").

Lin Chong, Shi Jin, Tang Bin, Yang Zhi, Hua Rong, Luan Tingyu, and Sun Li served as the Jinglüe Anfusi envoys and the general managers of the cavalry and infantry.

Yan Shude, Cao Zheng, Yu Cheng, Liu Guang, Jie Zhen, Shan Shiqi, and Wu Song served as the deputy Jinglüe Anfusi envoys and the deputy general managers of the cavalry and infantry.

In total, Jiang Hongfei stationed more than 100,000 troops in Yundi.

This time, Jiang Hongfei personally led the expedition and brought more than 100,000 imperial guards.

It is not difficult to see that although Jiang Hongfei despised Yelu Yanxi strategically, he still attached great importance to Yelu Yanxi tactically.

After the armies were assembled, Zhu Wu and others led seven cavalry troops out of Baidaoban to conduct a tentative battle with the Liao army brought by Yelu Yanxi.

After the two sides fought several exploratory battles, Hua Rong, Lin Chong and others were unable to win. On the contrary, due to the small number of soldiers and horses on the side of the Yuan army, the coalition forces had some advantages.

Seeing this, Jiang Hongfei personally led an army of more than 100,000 to the battlefield, preparing for a decisive battle with Yelu Yanxi.

Zhu Wu and others had already chosen the location for the decisive battle and had explored the terrain.

This location was the Qingshui River.

Therefore, after Jiang Hongfei led the army to leave Yundi, he went straight to the Qingshui River, set up the stockade, and set up an offensive and defensive formation - the Crane Wing Formation.

The Yuan army was generally arranged like this: infantry in the middle and cavalry on both wings.

The overall strategic idea of ​​the Yuan army was that Jiang Hongfei personally led the central army in the middle of this formation, attracted the main force of the coalition forces to attack, gradually retreated, lured the enemy to go deep, and then closed the pocket through the centripetal attack of the cavalry on both wings, and gave the enemy a decisive blow from the side.

To be honest, Jiang Hongfei would take some risks if he fought this battle this way.

Therefore, many people disagreed with this battle because they were worried about Jiang Hongfei's safety, and some people wanted Zhu Wu and others to replace Jiang Hongfei in the central army.

Later, Jiang Hongfei decided to fight this way despite all the opposition.

Jiang Hongfei said to everyone: "If I am not in the central army, Tianzuo may not send the main force to attack. Only if I am in the central army and use the method of provoking him can I lure him to come for a decisive battle. This battle is the first battle since the founding of the Yuan Dynasty. We must win a great victory to shock the barbarians on the grassland and make them dare not invade. As for my safety, I believe you will be able to defeat the mob that Tianzuo has put together."

Jiang Hongfei believes in the soldiers of the Yuan Dynasty and is willing to join the game, which makes the morale of the soldiers of the Yuan Dynasty high and wait for the coalition forces to come for a decisive battle.

Some people may ask, will Yelu Yanxi come to the decisive battle obediently?

Of course!

First of all, Jiang Hongfei took away all of Yelu Yanxi's concubines, children, many clans, and all his wealth. It can be said that he took away everything from him. In this case, Jiang Hongfei was ready to fight a decisive battle with Yelu Yanxi. If Yelu Yanxi did not come, then Yelu Yanxi would be disgraced and despised, and there would be no chance of turning things around.

More importantly, if Yelu Yanxi did not come for a decisive battle, Jiang Hongfei could continue to send a large army to defend the dangerous pass.

By then, the one who would be uncomfortable would be Yelu Yanxi, who wanted to take revenge and wipe out the previous shame.

In other words, coming out for a decisive battle was Jiang Hongfei's gift to Yelu Yanxi. If Yelu Yanxi did not accept it obediently, Jiang Hongfei might not give him this opportunity in the future.

Perhaps some people would say that what the enemy opposes is what we support, so why doesn't Jiang Hongfei continue to lead the army to defend the dangerous pass?

Because Jiang Hongfei also wanted to solve the trouble of Yelu Yanxi in one fell swoop.

Also because Jiang Hongfei wanted to go south to compete for the Central Plains, it would be best to eliminate the trouble of Yelu Yanxi and establish his prestige on the grassland, so as to prevent the countries and forces in the north from daring to tie up his energy.

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Soon, Yelu Yanxi also led 70,000 to 80,000 coalition troops to the Qingshui River and confronted the Yuan army across the river.

The coalition's formation was a big "∧" shape, which was the famous attack formation-the cone formation.

This formation mostly concentrated its powerful forces at the apex and the two wings, and the more it went to the middle and the weaker it was.

Therefore, someone suggested to Jiang Hongfei that when the war started, he could send a detachment to go around the back of the coalition to attack, that is, to kill the coalition for a thousand years, and it might be possible to defeat the coalition in one fell swoop.

This idea is good, but the two wings of the coalition's cone formation are very long, and this place is flat. It is almost impossible to go around the back of the coalition under the surveillance of more than 100,000 or 200,000 eyes and launch an attack on the coalition.

Similarly, the coalition forces are unlikely to use any conspiracy under the surveillance of 230,000 eyes of the Yuan army.

Therefore, this battle must be a fair and just decisive battle.

Such a large-scale decisive battle is naturally impossible to be commanded by one or two people. It requires a large command team, otherwise it will be a mess.

In order to avoid accidents and to solve the problem once and for all, Jiang Hongfei transferred all military strategists such as Xu Guanzhong and commanders who are good at fighting such as Yue Fei to assist in command, and divided the entire army into four parts.

The front army was commanded by Xu Guanzhong, and Yan Shusen, Cao Zheng, and Han Shizhong assisted in command.

The central army (including the rear army) was commanded by Zhu Wu, and Hua Rong, Wang Bin, Zhao Li, Yan Xiaoguang, Yu Cheng, and Liu Guang assisted in command.

The third part, the left army, was commanded by Chen Ke, and Yue Fei, Lin Chong, Qin Ming, and Yang Zhi assisted in command.

The fourth part, the Right Army, was commanded by Chen Xizhen, assisted by Liu Qi, Guan Sheng, Sun Li, and Mi Xian.

Jiang Hongfei, Liu Huiniang, Wu Yong, Wen Huanzhang, Madam Jia, Xu Qingniang, Wang Gongren, Wu Jie, Wang Yan, and Li Yanxian served as the general commanders.

After Liu Huiniang climbed up the flying tower and observed the coalition forces with a telescope, she said to Jiang Hongfei: "The coalition forces are still strong, especially the 30,000 Xia troops, who must be elite!"

This is actually reasonable. If the coalition forces did not have strong field combat capabilities, they would not dare to fight, let alone set up a cone formation to dominate the battle.

Wu Jie added: "The coalition forces also sent a group of elite cavalry to patrol along the river bank. They should be preventing our army from sending a small group to secretly cross the river and attack the coalition forces from behind. There should be someone who understands military affairs in command on the other side."

Li Yanxian said: "This shows that he is afraid that our army will attack him from behind. Your Majesty, please give me a cavalry. I will set out immediately and go around to the rear to help your majesty win this battle."

Jiang Hongfei thought for a while and said: "You take Yang Zaixing and Luo Yanqing with you."

After receiving the order, Li Yanxian immediately took Yang Zaixing and Luo Yanqing to organize the army and set out.

Zhu Wu continued the previous topic and said: "This river is more than ten feet deep and only a foot shallow. As soon as the coalition army arrived at the river bank, they occupied all the shallow places and sent cavalry to cross the river from those places. They built fortresses on the river bank belonging to our army. They must have planned to take the initiative to attack."

Yelu Dashi said: "The grassland people have always taken the initiative to attack and rarely defend."

Liu Hui Niang smiled slightly: "He likes to attack, so let him attack."

The Yuan army is still mainly composed of infantry, so defensive counterattack is also a good choice.

After the two sides set up their formations, they began to attack tentatively.

In this process, the layout of both sides was basically fully formed...

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Coalition army

After seeing the arrangement of the Yuan army and the probing attack, Xixia general Li Liangfu couldn't help but say: "They are as fast as the wind, as slow as the forest, as aggressive as fire, as still as a mountain, as unpredictable as the shadow, and as moving as thunder. No wonder they can defeat the Jin people."

The bull-headed man Yelu Yanxi pretended to be unconvinced and said: "The Han people are weak and only good at defending in dangerous places. Now they have fallen into my trap. How can they win a decisive battle with my army in this flat land?"

In fact, the reason why Yelu Yanxi dared to fight Jiang Hongfei was entirely because he could run away if he couldn't beat him.

——As an expert in escaping, Yelu Yanxi was confident that no matter how bad the situation was, he could leave the battlefield safely.

Of course, Yelu Yanxi came to Jiang Hongfei for a decisive battle because Jiang Hongfei had gone too far. Not only did he cheat on him, but he also took away all his remaining things. This was really intolerable!

Li Liangfu actually agreed with what Yelu Yanxi said, that the ratio of cavalry to infantry was at least 1:3, and it could even reach 1:5 or 1:10, especially on this plain.

So, in terms of military strength, there is no reason why the coalition of Yishui cavalry could not defeat the Yuan army that left the natural barriers, the Great Wall, and the pass protection.

At least that's what Li Liangfu thought.

Li Liangfu reminded Yelu Yanxi: "I hope your majesty will keep his word and don't forget the territory promised to our country."

Yelu Yanxi said unequivocally: "Don't worry, I mean what I say. As long as we win this battle or capture Jiang Yan, so that I can vent my endless anger, the land of Baguan will belong to your Xia country!"

The location of this battle was Qingshui River, which was neither adjacent to Shuozhou nor to Tiande Army. The baggage of both sides had to be transported from the rear.

More than 100,000 soldiers and horses had huge consumption. Jiang Jing and Zhao Ding, who were temporarily appointed as transport envoys, organized 100,000 civilians (most of whom were reserve troops) to transport food and supplies to temporarily ensure the consumption of the 100,000 troops.

The situation on Yelu Yanxi's side was slightly better because most of them were nomadic peoples, but they also drove hundreds of thousands of cattle and sheep for military supplies.

Therefore, neither side could last long.

So, after probing, both sides were seeking an opportunity for a decisive battle...

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