super concubine

Chapter 824 The Commanding Heights

Xiao Guanyin was finally willing to go to Kaifeng. As Xiao Guanyin and Zhang Xiaojie embarked on the road to Anchao, Yuan Guo also appointed Meng Han as a general to attack Muzhou in order to express his sincerity in cooperating with Anchao.

In this way, the Yuan Kingdom was in the north, the Jurchens were in the east, and the Great Wall was also occupied by Xiao Mo's army. Zhongjing Dading Mansion was under unprecedented pressure. Yelu Zongde immediately sent someone to contact Yelu Aluhan.

So Yelu Aluhan sent people to discuss with Zhang Yuanzhi. Zhang Yuanzhi had been fighting around Bazhou for nearly a month. Li Zhun's troops in Bazhou had 10,000+ troops, which was hard to handle for a while, but Zhang Yuanzhi knew that success would be easy. It's in sight.

As long as the food and grass in Bazhou City are exhausted, then Li Zhun will be the turtle in the urn. Defeating Li Zhun's army is tantamount to disintegrating the coalition forces of An Chao's massive attack this time!
And...if Li Zhun can be captured alive, I believe that An Chao will also compromise in some aspects.

But at this critical juncture, Yelu Aluhan deliberately asked Zhang Yuanzhi to retreat!
The reason is simple, Dading Mansion is the imperial city of the Liao Kingdom and the foundation of Yelu Aluhan, so Yelu Aluhan is reluctant and wants Zhang Yuanzhi to return to the rescue.

Zhang Yuanzhi sent someone to say to Yelu Aluhan: "Your Majesty, this is Xiao Mo's plan to encircle Wei and save Zhao. If Bazhou cannot be captured this time, and Xiao Mo leads his troops to the south in the future, I am afraid that Nanjing will be in danger again. At that time, the Emperor will do the same." Why?"

After hearing Zhang Yuanzhi's words, Yelu Aluhan was furious, and sent someone to ask Zhang Yuanzhi, "Do you want me to have no place to stand?"

Meaning, do you think I don't even have a foothold?
Hearing these words, Zhang Yuanzhi knew that Yelu Aluhan was angry, so he had no choice but to come to Nanjing alone to meet Yelu Aluhan, and then said to him: "Your Majesty, the grain and grass in Bazhou are now unsustainable. Bazhou, in the future when crossing the Yellow River to the south, it will reach Kaifeng, Xiao Mo will definitely not just ignore Bazhou, this is obviously Xiao Mo's plan to encircle Wei and save Zhao!"

Yelu Aluhan said: "You mean to let me give up Zhongjing. If Zhongjing gave away hundreds of thousands of people in Daliao and my foundation to Anchao? Don't say too much, I have already let Meng Gong Zuo led his troops back to rescue Zhongjing, and Nanjing will be handed over to you!"

Zhang Yuan heard it straight, and knew that Yelu Aluhan had made up his mind and it was difficult to change it, so he sighed and had no choice but to retreat from Bazhou.

Without Meng Gongzuo's restraint, once Di Qing's army arrives, can Bazhou still be captured?Zhang Yuanzhi also had no choice. Yelu Aluhan was worried that Zhongjing would lose something, so Zhang Yuanzhi could understand.

Now the Liao Kingdom belongs to Yelu Aluhan. After the loss of Xijing and the independence of the Yuan Kingdom, the territory of the Liao Kingdom is now only Nanjing and Zhongjing. Among them, Nanjing is inside the pass, while the foundation of the Liao Kingdom is outside the pass. Yes, Yelu Aluhan is naturally reluctant to part with Zhongjing outside the pass, but in this way, if returning troops rescue Zhongjing, Nanjing will be in danger!
So... Zhang Yuanzhi let out a long sigh, he was sighing for the future of the Liao Kingdom!
Does Liao have a future?
Losing the chance to defeat Li Zhun's 10,000+ army in Bazhou is equivalent to losing the only chance to win this battle!
After a long sigh, Meng Gongzuo came to find Zhang Yuanzhi. After seeing Meng Gongzuo, Zhang Yuanzhi said to Meng Gongzuo: "The general should know that capturing Bazhou is our army's only chance. Why do you agree with the emperor's return to rescue Zhongjing?" Of the policy?"

Meng Gongzuo thought for a while, and said straight to Zhang Yuan: "Today's Liao Kingdom is no different from the setting sun of the empire! Therefore, the final general will not let the army go south to attack the Song Dynasty. He only wants to keep Zhongjing, and then Xutu goes to Beijing and Liaodong. If so, there may not be no chance of a comeback in the future!"

After all, Meng Gongzuo said goodbye to Zhang Yuanzhi, and now, Zhang Yuanzhi finally understood!

It turns out that the so-called No.1 general in the world is so short-sighted!

"Meng Gongzuo, Meng Gongzuo..." Zhang Yuanzhi looked at Meng Gongzuo's back and murmured to himself: "You are wrong, back in Zhongjing, do you think Xiao Mo will give you a chance to breathe? Your knowledge, It's just at the same level as Yelu Aluhan... It is undeniable that your grasp of the overall situation on the battlefield is admirable, but compared to Xiao Mo...

Shaking his head, Zhang Yuanzhi was a little helpless. In the final analysis, it was Xiao Mo!
If I knew today, I should have killed Xiao Mo in the Liao Kingdom, but now, it is too late for Zhang Yuanzhi to regret it, and now, Zhang Yuanzhi also feels that he is not very proud of being under Yelu Aluhan.

Zhang Yuanzhi had gained absolute trust under Yelu Hongji before, but under Yelu Aruhan, although Yelu Aruhan had tried his best to win him over before, Yelu Aluhan seemed very dissatisfied with Zhang Yuanzhi's strategy of abandoning Xijing, so Yelu Aluhan also has some mistrust of Zhang Yuanzhi's ability!

This reason, speaking of it, is due to Zhao Quan. Zhao Quan let Xiao Mo and Li Zhun attack the Liao Kingdom in two ways. It was originally a stupid move, but unexpectedly, it turned out to be a strange move!

It's no wonder that Zhang Yuanzhi and Xiao Mo are enemies, how could he guess that Xiao Mo, who has always been shrewd, would send troops to split into two groups?

So the Liao Kingdom not only lost Xijing, but also Bazhou, which also made Yelu Aluhan dissatisfied with Zhang Yuanzhi!
The current Zhang Yuanzhi can already be said to be a fighting dog who has been defeated all the time...

The Liao army suddenly returned, all of this was within Xiao Mo's intention, and at this time, although the flood season of the Yellow River had not yet passed, the tide had begun to ebb, and although the shells could not be transported across the river, there was no problem with food and grass.

Moreover, after the passage to Xijing in the Liao Kingdom was opened, Xiao Mo's army did not need to worry about the problem of food and grass, so Xiao Mo immediately sent someone to tell Li Zhun to lead his troops to encircle Nanjing, and even sent someone to send them to the city. Some artillery shells gave Li Zhun all the artillery battalions.

Xiao Mo's request to Li Zhun is to surround Nanjing and use artillery to frighten him, so that Zhang Yuanzhi dare not go out of the city and surround Nanjing without fighting!
Although he didn't understand Xiao Mo's meaning, Li Zhun did as he did and sent Di Qing and Yang Paifeng to Xiao Mo.

If you want to attack Zhongjing, you must have cavalry, because outside the pass, there is a plain, and... now all the people in Zhongjing are cavalry.

Xiao Mo's battle strategy is to surround Nanjing, trap Zhang Yuanzhi, and then launch a fierce attack on Liao Kingdom's Zhongjing with the Jurchen and Yuan Kingdom!
Zhang Yuan guessed rightly, Xiao Mo would not give Meng Gongzuo the chance to attack Shangjing and escape into the grassland, so Xiao Mo had to use absolute strength to deter the Liao army.

That's why Xiao Mo wants to occupy the Great Wall!
After occupying the Great Wall, Xiao Mo is equivalent to occupying the commanding heights, a commanding height that can be advanced, attacked, retreated and defended!

(End of this chapter)