The next morning, big raindrops were still falling.
It was clearly daybreak, around three quarters past noon in the morning, but the sky was still as gray as if it were the beginning of chaos.
The Song army's ships swayed in the rolling water, slowly rising and then slowly falling.
When it rains, the river water level will rise. After the rain stops, the water level will drop after a period of time as the rainfall flows away. This is a very normal natural phenomenon.
But it is obviously unreasonable that the water level began to slowly decrease while it was raining.
Under normal circumstances, few people would notice it unless they had already paid attention to it or were very sensitive to the fluctuations in water levels.
However, Di Qing had long guessed the tactics the Liao army might use, so he quickly took countermeasures.
In the heavy rain, Yumen Pass was already in ruins. The west gate, which had been nailed shut with wooden boards by the Song army, slowly opened. Di Qing, wearing a straw raincoat, rode out slowly on horseback.
Although there were no horses on their ship, the Liao army had many horses. In these days, he had killed or wounded at least 7,000 or 8,000 Liao soldiers, and seized countless trophies.
After coming out of the west gate, Di Qing turned around and took a deep look at the city.
The city has long been devastated, with traces everywhere.
There were so many corpses outside the city that the Song army didn't even have time to clean them up. If it weren't winter, there would probably be rotting and stinking corpses everywhere.
But anyway.
He'll be back later.
Then he came to the bank of the Yushui River, boarded a boat, and crossed the river to the west bank.
At this time, the Song army's strength on the west bank had reached about 8,000 people, while there were only about 1,000 people defending the east bank.
If the Liao army attacks, Yuguan will be in great danger.
Fortunately, the Liao army had been attacking all night and was very tired. In addition, it was raining heavily and visibility was extremely poor, so they could not see the situation of the Song army at all.
If the Liao army didn't notice Di Qing's move, it would be an empty ship plan. If they did, it would be a sacrifice to attack and kill.
Regardless of the outcome, we are tactically in a leading position.
At this moment, the Song army on the west bank was gathering in the rain. The captured Liao army horses were not enough to equip the entire army, not to mention that they were a navy and many of them could not ride horses at all.
The soldiers walked in the mud, one step deep and one step shallow. Di Qing slowly arrived in front of the team. Huyan Shouyong and Wang Kui had already arrived.
"General, we have discovered the location of the Liao army's main commander's base. It's in Lulong County, about thirty miles northwest of Guangning."
"They hid in the city?"
Di Qing asked.
"No, we're camping in the wild."
Wang Kui said.
"Oh."
Di Qing sneered and said, "The Liao army is really arrogant."
Huyan Shouyong said, "Perhaps they think we dare not leave Yuguan, so as to facilitate the next attack."
"No matter what, the Liao army is seeking its own destruction!"
Di Qing looked northwest and said in a deep voice, "Pass on my military order. March 30 miles quickly and attack the Liao army camp!"
"yes!"
Wang Kui and Huyan Shouyong were both startled.
This task is undoubtedly arduous.
Although the Song army had long since left behind the era when soldiers had to wear armor and it was difficult to march long distances.
But they are navy after all, and they spend more time training on water than on land.
The physical training is obviously much worse than that of the army.
However, this is Di Qing's death order, and it must be carried out no matter how difficult it is.
The west bank of the Yuli River is barren for hundreds of miles. As mid-winter approaches, all things are dead.
There are some villages outside Guangning City, but after the war broke out, many people have fled to other places.
There were only a few people left in the village, and every household had closed their doors and windows. Some of them bravely went out to see, and they saw a neat team heading northwest on the official road outside the village in the distance.
Many of them wore red cotton robes, conical hats, and straw raincoats, with straight swords hanging from their waists and long spears slung on their backs, looking quite fierce.
"Are these soldiers from the Song State?"
"Look at them, they don't even have armor on them, how can they defeat our Liao army?"
"I heard that they no longer need to use knives and guns, and now they use firearms."
"There have been loud noises coming from the direction of Yuguan these days, louder than firecrackers. That's the power of firearms."
"Tell me, who will win between Liao and Song?"
Several villagers looked at the rows of Song army in the misty rain in the distance and fell into silence.
For the Han people in Youyan, their emotions towards the Song Dynasty were complicated.
Later, during the Southern Song Dynasty, many Han people fled from the occupied areas of the Central Plains to the south. They regarded the Song Dynasty as their motherland and the Jin Dynasty as barbarians.
But that was because their ancestors had been citizens of the Song Dynasty. From the founding of the Northern Song Dynasty to the Southern Song Dynasty, it had been 167 years, and Han Chinese ideas had long been deeply rooted.
But the people of Youyan are different.
It has been exactly one hundred and nine years since the puppet emperor Shi Jingtang ceded the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun to the Khitan in 938 AD.
In later generations, only seventy years after the island left China, many people no longer identified with their motherland, let alone now.
Therefore, many people in Youyan have been under the rule of the Liao Kingdom for generations, and many of them still maintain their Han identity, Han blood and various cultural habits.
But in terms of identity, they have long regarded the Liao Kingdom as their motherland, rather than the Song Dynasty in the south.
But it was also because of this that when he saw the Song army, which was also Han Chinese, defeating the Liao army step by step, indescribable emotions naturally emerged in his heart.
One side is one's own country, and the other side is one's own nation.
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