Wu Dalang's Counterattack

Chapter 401 Flee!
After the news of He Chongbao's defeat and capture came back to Youzhou, the Liao Kingdom's ruler was almost scared to pee, and he immediately summoned Zhongcheng to the main hall to gather.

After gathering all the civil and military officials, the leader of the Liao Kingdom looked at Prime Minister You Xibojin on the left, Prime Minister Chu Jian on the right, General Wu Yan and other civil and military officials in the hall and said:
"Dear dears, now that General He Chongbao has also been defeated, I don't think the land of Youzhou is safe anymore. In my opinion, we'd better retreat to Shangjing.

In the past, we moved the imperial capital here because the Song Dynasty was weak, and we were sitting in Youzhou, where we could send troops to the south at any time.

To seize the Huahua Jiangshan of the Song State, but the situation is different now. Since the Song State came out with the God of Wealth, their country has developed too fast.

Now that the Song Dynasty is strong and has many elite soldiers, we no longer have the strength to attack them. Now there is no use for us to stay in Youzhou.

Not only is it useless, but based on the current situation, it will be very dangerous for us to stay here, and I'm afraid it won't be long.

The Song army will arrive here. Let's go back to Shangjing early while this place is not yet surrounded by the Song army. "

As soon as the Liao State Lord's words fell, all the civil and military personnel looked at each other in blank dismay.When they got to this point, apart from military generals, there were a few civil servants who were not afraid of death.

Although the generals were not afraid of death, they did not dare to persuade the king to change his mind. After all, Youzhou was indeed too dangerous.

They are not afraid of death, but they may not feel at ease to let the king stay in such a dangerous place and face the Song army with them.

Commander Wu Yan stepped forward and said: "Lord Wolf is wise, I will take everyone to protect the Lord back to Shangjing first, and then I will escort you, Lord Wolf, back to Shangjing safely.

I must personally lead our Daliao warriors to fight to the death with the Song army. "After listening to Commander Wuyan's words, the leader of the Liao Kingdom finally felt relieved.

He looked at Commander Wuyan and said approvingly: "If General Wuyan escorts me, I will feel relieved. I believe in General Wuyan's bravery.

You will be able to safely escort me back to our old capital, Shangjing.It's not that I don't want this Youzhou City, it's just that we have been fighting against the Kingdom of Jin year after year.

And in this land of Yanyun, each state and county needs to separate troops to guard it, and now it is really impossible to spare extra troops to guard Youzhou.

General Wuyan wants to escort us back to Shangjing again. This Youzhou City must be an advantage for the Song people.Without further ado, let’s set off immediately. "

After saying this, the leader of the Liao Kingdom directly packed his bags and saluted, and with all the civil and military officials under the escort of Commander Wuyan, he abandoned the city and fled.

When the Liao army abandoned Youzhou and fled, Lu Junyi would naturally not be polite.He directly led the army into Youzhou City.

When the Song army occupied Youzhou, the first thing it did was to appease the people.Then Lu Junyi called Wu Ming again.

Tell Wuming that Youzhou has fallen into the hands of Da Song.Ask Wu Ming how to arrange the next step, is to continue to pursue the Liao Kingdom Lord.

Or rest and reorganize the troops in Youzhou City, let everyone relax, and then attack other places in Liao Kingdom?
After listening to Lu Junyi's report, Wu Ming directly told Lu Junyi that there is no need to go after the Liao King, since Xiongzhou's Taizhen son-in-law dared to bring troops to disrupt the situation when you attacked Youzhou.

Then they must be prepared for retaliation. Originally, Wu Ming had not planned to attack other state capitals among the sixteen states of Yanyun.

After all, according to Wu Ming's marching route, Tanzhou, Jizhou, Bazhou, Youzhou, this is a straight line, after defeating these state capitals.

You can take advantage of the situation and go directly to the administrative center of Liao Kingdom, Shangjing.As for other state capitals, it’s not that Wu Ming doesn’t want to fight.

But Wu Ming did not come out to lead too many generals this time. Wu Ming did not want to divide his troops to occupy cities that were not in his way.

Every time an additional city is occupied, an additional general and some soldiers must be assigned to guard it, which is a serious waste of resources.

Doing like that not only wastes resources but also wastes time. It is better to go straight to Huanglong and take down Shangjing City in one go.

Wu Ming didn't believe that the king of the Liao Kingdom had been captured alive, so the remaining guards from all over the country hadn't surrendered until that time.

Even if there were only a few who refused to surrender, it would have little impact on the overall situation. Wu Ming could just send troops to kill the generals who refused to surrender.

The generals who were willing to surrender directly replaced the defensive positions and continued to let the Liao people manage the Liao people, but they changed from officials of the Liao people to officials of the Liao County of the Song Dynasty.

Although Wu Ming's plan is like this, the plan will never keep up with the changes.First, Yanyun Eighteen Riding Lightning made a move.

They directly captured Suzhou as a gift for them to defect to Wu Ming, and then Lu Junyi led troops to attack Youzhou.

Taizhen's son-in-law from Xiongzhou led troops out to make trouble for Lu Junyi, Wu Ming would never let them be used to such thorns.

Wu Ming did not take the initiative to attack them, but they took the initiative to jump out and cause chaos for Wu Ming. For Wu Ming, the person who jumped out was the chicken that he killed to scare the monkeys.

Let's deal with this reckless chicken first, and see if after dealing with this typical example, which other state guards will jump out to cause trouble.

Wu Ming gave Lu Junyi an order to let Dadao Guan Sheng and vanguard Suo Chao lead 1 horses to Xiongzhou to attack Taizhen's son-in-law.

In Wu Ming's view, Xiongzhou Taizhen's consort only had [-] Liao troops, and the [-] Liao troops were not all elite like the Liangshan rebels.

The 1 troops he sent out were definitely worthy of Xiongzhou's defenders, but what Wu Ming didn't expect was.

Taizhen's consort seemed to be completely frightened by the Liangshan rebel army, when Guan Sheng and Suo Chao led their troops to Xiongzhou City.

Xiongzhou defender Taizhen consort and his deputy Li Jinwu fled the city with their men, but this Taizhen consort was more vicious.

Although he escaped, in order to prevent the Song army from chasing him, he asked his subordinates to set fires in Xiongzhou City before escaping.

When Guan Sheng saw Xiongzhou City on fire everywhere, he had no choice but to save the lives and property of the people.

In order to help the people put out the fire, Guan Sheng could only watch helplessly as Taizhen's son-in-law led the people to escape, but he was unable to pursue them.

If he didn't care about the life and death of the people of Xiongzhou, and directly led his troops to pursue the chief culprit of the arson, Taizhen's son-in-law, he would definitely be able to catch up with them.

But if you do this, the fire in Xiongzhou City will cause the people of Xiongzhou to suffer greater losses due to insufficient manpower to fight the fire.

Guan Sheng has been following Wu Ming for a long time, so he naturally knows what to choose in such a situation.For Wu Ming.

The safety of the people is the most important thing. As for Taizhen's son-in-law, if he escapes, he should escape. Anyway, he can't be caught this time.

And the next time, there are so many opportunities, now there is no need to make a big deal out of small things.

(End of this chapter)