Chapter 13 Take the initiative

I went to a relative yesterday, so I didn't update it. Today, I updated 6000 as compensation

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The cold wind roared, causing the fire that was about to be extinguishing to rise again and continue to burn the few remaining remnants. And Yelu Huzhong, who saw all this, just stood quietly and had no intention of going up to save him. The people standing behind him on horseback were also ordinary, but their eyes were full of anger and puzzlement.

Everything is irreparable. Why, why did you just go hunting for a few days and turn your home into a fire when you come back? The people in the clan, young and old, have died, and all the dead have been burned, so they can hardly distinguish their identity. Nearly 500 people were killed and burned alive in this way, which had a great impact on Yelu Huzhong, who saw all this with his own eyes.

"Why? Why did such a thing happen? In the past, people came to rob food and horses, didn't they hurt much? A young man howled loudly, as if asking the sky, as if he were asking himself.

"I'm afraid it's not the Turks or Jumans who came to attack us this time!" Although his heart was full of anger, Yelu Huzhong's judgment did not lose: "This time, our three clans joined hands to use troops against the State of Song. They will never go out to rob us at this time, not to mention killing so many people this time."

"Who made that? In this grassland desert, in addition to the people of their two ethnic groups, who is so bold that they dare to invade our Khitan wild donkeys!" Another solid man also asked loudly. His new wife was also killed in this disaster. If it hadn't been for Yeluhu's high prestige among them, he would have gone to hunt down the murderers.

"It's Song people!" Yeluhu took a deep breath and spit out the answer: "I have long heard that the Song people on the other side of Youzhou have burst into my grassland, and now it seems that everything is true! Only the Song people will make such a decisive thing!"

"What? Song people? They have never taken the initiative to attack us, and this time they have been defeated by our three ethnic groups. Why did they appear here at this time? The solid man couldn't help asking again. His doubts are also reasonable. Their tribe is already more than 100 miles away from the junction of Song and Hu. There is really no need to beware of this.

"Because we have such an idea, Song people will so easily enter our home, burn and plunder!" Yeluhu's eyes showed regret: "If we had been on guard, we would not have had this opportunity, and we would not have dared to come!"

After hearing this, the anger and hatred in the remaining dozens of young people in the wild donkey department became stronger. They can tolerate the bullying of their own people by the same grassland tribe, but once they hurt themselves as the Song people who have always been bullied by them, they can't stand it: "We must take revenge!" Kill all these despicable Song people who only know how to take advantage of the danger of others to pay tribute to our relatives!"

Yelühu knew that at this time, no matter how high his prestige was, it was impossible to stop everyone's determination to revenge, so he did not object to such a statement, but said, "We must avenge, but it is not enough for more than 30 of us alone. Since they can kill all our 276 people, they must have considerable strength. If we catch up in this way, we will just die!"

Everyone can understand what he means. Hu people are different from Song people. Even old and weak women and children can open their bows and go to the battlefield. Although more than 300 people are not elite, they are enough to protect themselves when they meet ordinary enemies. But this time they were all killed, and looking at the situation around them, which was not too fierce, you can imagine the strength of the Song people who came this time.

"So what should we do?" Everyone's eyes fell on Yeluhu.

"If we want revenge, we should have a detailed deployment. Wu Zulu, you are good at tracking, so you can follow the traces they left first, but you can't let the Song people know your existence!" Yelu Huzhong immediately made arrangements. The most capable young man in the wild donkey department of the divine throne quickly came out of his sadness.

"Okay, I'll be there right there. I'll leave a mark along the road!" Uzulu answered and hurriedly patted the horse and chased along those obvious traces.

"As for us, let's go to the Datuo Department in the west for help. Presumably, they will avenge us for the sake of the same Khitan people!" Yeluhu said heavily and took the rest of the people to the west.

"Kill!" In the night, Xu Jinghong's dry dragon gun in his hand was the first to kill a gathering place of a barbarian tribe hundreds of steps away. The thousand Song cavalry behind him were also excited and roared from their throats towards the target. In their eyes, the gathering place of these barbis is not a threat, but a treasure full of gold, silver and other goods. As long as they kill all the people here, all this belongs to them.

It was not until they entered the grassland and found the first Hu tribe along the water source that Wang Liehai and others finally knew why Xu Jinghong chose these people who did not guard the military discipline to come to Hudi.

In Xu Jinghong, he mentioned: "As long as you kill all the people you see, everything here is yours!" After that, these seemingly listless soldiers showed their shocking combat effectiveness. But any barbarian standing in front of them, young and old, regardless of whether they have the ability to attack or not, were killed by them without any mercy.

If they become ordinary soldiers, they will naturally do their best on the ordinary battlefield, but if they really want to attack the barbarians who have lost their resistance, many people are afraid that they will not be able to do it. But these ruffians who don't know much about military discipline are different. In their eyes, as long as they can get benefits, no matter who he is facing, they can kill them!

Because of such efficiency, after entering the grassland, Xu Jinghong and others have wiped out more than a dozen Hu tribes, and nearly 5,000 Hu people have died in their hands. After each killing and looting, Xu Jinghong will order people to burn all the tents and other things of the barbarian people without leaving them any materials that can be reused.

Wang Liehai still wanted to persuade such a desperate method at first. After all, it was hurtful and cruel that the Han people could accept. But Xu Jinghong didn't listen. He just smiled and said, "Only with this cool means can we really hurt the muscles and bones of the Hu people, so that they dare not easily invade the Song Dynasty. Because if they want to go to war in the future, they will think of this painful lesson!"

After saying this, Xu Jinghong once again ordered people to launch a devastating attack on a found barbarian tribe. More than 400 left-behind barbarians were slaughtered.

"The team is, if it goes on like this, the hatred of the Hu people will be even greater. They will definitely struggle with their troops and round us up." After the attack was successful and turned the whole barren tribe into a sea of fire, Wang Liehai once again raised his concern. This time he no longer mentioned benevolence and righteousness.

Xu Jinghong smiled: "Hate? The hatred between Hu people and us has long been insoluble. Do you still care more? And they used to harm our people, and this time they naturally want them to taste the same taste! It is precisely because we have never dealt with them with killing before that they have been offending me. I don't think they will easily forget this lesson! You should know that these old Hu people who have fallen into our hands have killed our innocent people before, and those young children will become our enemies in the future. So to kill them today is to kill the enemy for the past and the future!

"As for the Hu people who will struggle with their troops, this is exactly what I want to see! At present, Hudi has only more than 3,000 available troops, and it is impossible for them to look for us regardless of their own defense, but we can flexibly find the target. So in this battle, we will only win, and they will lose miserably.

"Once all these left-behind forces of Hudi are swallowed by us, the Hu people who entered our Songdi will come back, and then our goal will be achieved!"

After listening to Xu Jinghong's plan, Wang Liehai didn't say anything, but after entering the killing, he rarely really attacked those Hu people who had lost their ability to resist. However, he didn't do it, and the Hu people could not live. At this time, the 5,000 Song army had already regarded Xu Jinghong as the absolute leader. He issued a killing order, and these Hu people had no possibility of continuing to live.

A gathering place of the barbarian in front of him was once again destroyed by Xu Jinghong with a thousand cavalry in one fell swoop. More than 100 injured barbarians leaned together and faced ten times the enemy. Naturally, they suffered a great loss when they were suddenly attacked in their sleep, and the gap in strength made them have only resistance and unable to fight back effectively.

Now, the battle has come to an end. Xu Jinghong's dry dragon gun in his hand trembled and killed the Hu people first. The two barbarian knights were not willing to be killed like this, and also urged them to rise. As soon as the three looked at each other, Xu Jinghong's gun in his hand turned into two dark shadows and hit the knife bodies of the two barbarians heavily.

The two barbarian knights have been injured for a long time and consumed too much physical strength. How can they stop his full blow? With a click, the knife in their hands broke open. At the same time, the empty door in their chests opened, and Xu Jinghong quickly returned to the gun and stabbed them again.

Under the leadership of Xu Jinghong, other Song cavalrymen were also brave. After several rushes, the more than 100 barbarian warriors who protected their people also fell into a pool of blood. At this time, only more than 300 Hu people gathered together and looked at the Song soldiers who were constantly forced up with fear.

"All, kill?" Several generals who had already killed red eyes came over and asked Xu Jinghong for instructions. Now Xu Jinghong has been completely obeyed by them, so even if he wants to kill in his heart, he must first obtain his consent.

Xu Jinghong did not disappoint them, but saw him nodding slightly: "Kill! Don't leave one! Before that, ask the whereabouts of the Hu people around us. Before the Hu people gather a large number of people, we will destroy five more tribes!" He knew that with the deepening of his people and the huge killing and injury caused to the Hu people, the barbarians of all ethnic groups who stayed in the land were bound to unite to resist. However, he is not worried about the Hu people doing this, because he has long been prepared to fight with him.

"Yes!" Shortly after the generals took orders and left, the cry resounded through the world. The old people and children among the barbarians were directly dragged out and cut off their heads by the already red-eyed soldiers, while the women will live longer, and they will face the warm treatment of countless soldiers. For the traitor (river crab) ** (river crab) woman, although Xu Jinghong did not do it himself, he still acquiesced in the soldiers under his command to do so, because he knew that the army was full of men, which would make many people irritable. It was quite useful for the team to have such a catharsis.

After a long time, this Hu tribe became a dead place. After all the people were killed and the cattle and sheep were slaughtered, they became the rations of the Song army. Others that could not be taken were burned by a fire, leaving only a sea of fire and ruins, as well as the corpses on the ground...

Within 20 days, Xu Jinghong and others have carried out crazy killing of dozens of tribes in the Hudi. This devastating blow that made the Hu people feel really afraid finally made those who still have a festival dare not unite. On December 23, the remaining Hu people finally gathered all the useful people and horses, rode more than 4700, and began to search for the Song army that broke into their territory.

But this grassland is so vast that they say they can find it? In two days, not only did he not find the Song army to give him a head-on blow, but also because all the ministries sent out capable soldiers, thus making their own defense weaker, which made the Song army attack several tribes one after another.

In this way, the blow to the Hu people is even greater, but they can't think of a better solution for a while. Judging from the attack of the Song army, they were looking for such a few people on the grassland in one or two thousand rooms, just like looking for a needle in a haystack. In the past, the terrain in the grassland has always been the key for the Hu people to protect themselves, but no one expected that now this has also become the advantage of the Song people.

"What should I do? Twenty-three tribes have been killed by this group of Song people. If we can't find their whereabouts and destroy them in one fell swoop, our loss will certainly be irreparable." With a black face, Xicong, the elder of the Khitan tribe, said that his identity is the highest among these people now, so he naturally became the head of the crowd.

Other Hu people also showed helplessness. They were not many, but now so many people have been killed. Even if the battle in the Central Plains is won, this loss cannot be offset.

"But now we don't even know where the Song people are. What else can we do? Why don't we turn it to zero and look for them?" Someone put forward their own opinions.

But Xicong shook his head and denied the idea: "No, the Song people should have nearly 2,000 cavalry. If we disperse our troops, even if we find them, we will not have a chance to win, just increase the number of casualties."

"Then what else can we do? Song people are cunning and will not fight with us at all!" The Hu soldiers said angrily.

Just as everyone felt helpless and annoyed about this, Yeluhu said again, "I have a way, but this will destroy some tribes again."

"Oh, what's the idea?" Everyone hurriedly asked.

"I sent the most shrewd people under me to track down the whereabouts of Song people, but in the end I let them go. Now that I think about it, it's because their whereabouts are uncertain, so we can't find them. But as long as they still want to attack our ethnic group, there must be traces. What I mean is to use those tribes as bait to find the traces of the Song people and capture them in one fell swoop!" Yeluhu reuttered his thoughts.

Other people were quiet after listening to this suggestion. Although they were eager to eliminate Song Jun, they did not want their own people to die at the hands of Song people. But after a long silence, everyone couldn't find a better idea. Finally, Xi Cong only said: "Just do what you want and make way for the Song people to attack us so that we can find them.

"In addition, we also need to report the situation here to the three leaders immediately, hoping that they can bring some people back as soon as possible. Otherwise, once the Song people invest more troops in us, it is not enough to rely on this manpower alone!"

"Yes!" The Hu people immediately moved. More than 4,000 cavalry stopped searching around, but stayed on the left side of Dat's department and sent a small number of scouts to inquire. And the people who rushed to the Central Plains did not dare to neglect at all and went south at the maximum speed.

At this time, the Hu people's army had already joined the city of Xuzhou. After learning that there was a change in Youzhou, the Hu people did not turn back, but continued to advance south. This time, their situation is still good. Bazhou City, with heavy troops in front of them, still fell into the enemy after more than ten days of resistance. However, due to such a period of delay, the people in the city were preserved, and at the same time was given to the imperial court, so that Xuzhou could be more prepared to deal with the attack of the Hu people.

With more than 40,000 original defenders in Xuzhou, and more than 10,000 defeated troops who escaped from Bazhou, there are already nearly 60,000 defenders in Xuzhou. However, the Hu people outside the city are full of only 25,000, but in terms of momentum, the two sides have completely adjusted one. The Song army just defended the city and dared not fight back. Of course, there is a reason for morale, but more important is because of the importance of Xuzhou. This is already the last line of defense of the enemy approaching the beam. Once it is lost again, the beam is in danger, and the whole Song Dynasty is not far from collapse.

For this reason, the court has only one order to the Xuzhou garrison this time - we must defend this city and not let the Hu people go any further! In case, they naturally dare not have other ideas.

And this shranking tactics are also quite a headache for the Hu people. The two states in front of them are either obtained by surprise attacks or by annihilating the enemy after ducting them out of the city, but Xuzhou City can no longer use these two methods. The only thing that can be done is to attack, and the Hu people are not as good as the Song army's insiders in attacking the city. In a few days, they haven't even touched the head of the city.

On the 27th day of the twelfth lunar month, when the Hu people's attack failed again, Tongus, the commander of the Turkic army, summoned everyone and said bluntly, "If it goes on like this, our casualties will be too great. Now we have two ways to go, one is to withdraw our troops and take back everything we have gained. Second, we are consumulating with the Song army in the city. We can supply it by looting the surrounding Song villages and towns until the Song army completely collapses. What do you think we should do?"

Among the barbarians, they were immediately divided into two factions, and it was difficult to distinguish between retreat and continue to attack. This also made Tongus very difficult. He had to station troops for the time being. Let's see. But their hesitation did not last long, because Hu Di's information had been sent one after another.

Tungus and other leaders panicked when they knew that their nest was actually attacked by the Song army, and many people were killed because of it. Xuzhou in front of us can't take it for a while, but those tribes on the grassland don't have such a good city to protect. If they can't rush back to rescue in time, maybe when they take down Xuzhou City, the casualties there will make the three Hu people depressed from now on.

So after some discussion, the Hu people finally made a unified decision this time and immediately withdrew from Xuzhou. In order not to let the Song army see the problem, they retreated overnight. Except for some valuables and necessary food, the Hu people left almost all the other looted property outside Xuzhou City this time. So when the Xuzhou garrison looked out in the morning, they were surprised to find that there was no enemy outside the city, and only a few miles of property remained there.

In fact, the Hu people are still too careful. At this time, the Song people have long become a frightened bird and have no idea of chasing at all. Even if they can be sure that the barbarians outside the city have gone to camp, the 60,000 troops in the city still dared not make any action. They just looked at the quiet scene outside the city for more than half a day.

It was not until it was almost dark and there was nothing wrong that Song Jun was sure that the Hu people really retreated this time. At this time, the Song army in the city immediately gushed out of the city and robbed the property left by the Hu people, which was much more heroic than against the enemy.

After that, the generals guarding Xuzhou immediately counted the credit of the retreat of the Hu people on their own. They wrote to the court, only saying that they defeated the Hu people under their heroic fighting, so that they were allowed to retreat and return to the north. In their opinion, no one will compete with themselves for this credit, so that they can be valued by the court.

But the reality still disappointed them. When they sent the news of "victory" to the beam with an urgent war report, the court only slightly praised it twice and turned their attention back to another more urgent and serious matter.

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