choke element

Chapter 39

The two armies gradually approached.

Yang An'er's headquarters was originally under Fanyang City, and at this time gradually moved to the open land to the east.However, Heshi Liezhi's army was originally more than ten miles north of the city, and at this time they followed suit, making the distance between the two sides gradually shortened.

The plain between the two armies was about four or five miles away from the west gate of Fanyang City, and it was generally open and flat.The plains are sparsely wooded and some shrubs don't reach knee height.At this time, spring has just begun, and the undulating ground is rarely green, but more iron gray.

"The area between the two armies was Dukang in ancient times. During the Warring States period, it was called the fertile land of Yan State. In Tang Dynasty, a farm was set up here, and the annual harvest of rice and millet was 40 shi. It's a pity..."

Xu Wei pointed out the situation in front of her with her hand, and explained in her mouth: "Look, Liulang, there are several east-west small rivers in the south of Pingye, which are the relics of Fanshui and Taoshui in ancient times. Hundreds of years of water migration have long since disappeared. The river has been in disrepair for a long time, and in the area where it joins the Zhuo River, it is even more tortuous and congested, flooding in summer and drying up in autumn and winter. Over the years, people have moved to other places, and their fields have been abandoned."

He turned his head, looked behind him, sighed, and said, "The whole stretch of lowlands, dry lakes, swamps, woodlands, and pastures is a good place for river thieves and water bandits. This is the most appropriate. If there are a hundred spies who are not proficient in the terrain, they can’t find any traces!”

Speaking of this, he was a little proud: "Liulang, this place is very good!"

Guo Ning was wearing precious green velvet armor, leading a war horse, standing behind a tall reed, staring at the plain in front of him.

After a long while, he smiled and said, "Your brother Xu's arrangement, how can there be a bad time?"

The black war horse behind him had been standing for a long time, his hooves sank into the mud, and was soaked by the moisture of the wetland, and the horse's mane was wet and stuck to the ground in strands.The war horse stomped its front hooves in a hurry, and shook its neck anxiously, trying to neigh a few times.

Guo Ning stretched out his hand, stroked the horse's forehead twice, and calmed it down.

He looked at the sky and saw that there were some cloudy clouds in the sky, and said to Xu Yu: "Since the beginning of spring, it hasn't rained. I think there is a possibility that there will be a heavy rain with the depressed state today."

Speaking of this, he asked Liu Cheng, the new military officer on the other side: "Materials for rain protection..."

"The arrangements were made when we set off, Liu Lang can rest assured. In addition, we have gathered enough spare bowstrings. Even if it rains, there will be no hindrance to the fight." Liu Cheng said respectfully.

"it is good."

Guo Ning turned his head again and looked southwest of Fanyang City.

A little further in that direction, there is the famous Qigou.In the early years, the Song army raised an army of [-] to attack Zhuozhou. The famous Khitan general Yeluxiu led the troops and defeated them.So far, in that gully, bones or armor of Song people are occasionally washed out by the current.

According to Xu Xuan, Jing Anmin led the crowd to ambush there at this time.But Guo Ning looked at it for a long time, but he didn't find any traces of people lurking. It can be seen that Jing'an Min is a veteran and acted properly.

He nodded slightly to Xu Yu: "Everything is in order here, brother, you go back and tell Brother An Min and others, and then just wait and see what happens."

Xu Yu agreed, turned around and left, took two steps, then came back and said: "Liulang, He Shilie's arrival is strange, if you make a decision, no matter whether you advance or retreat, you must tell us immediately."

"That's natural."

At this time, the two formations under Fan Yang's city gradually faced each other.

The scale of the two armies is not very large. Heshi Liezhi's troops are relatively small, about [-], but the closer to the front enemy, the more stringent the formation, and the spirit of killing seems to be rushing out of the formation, and it seems to be squatting in the formation. Facing the terrifying monsters, they leap and leap at any time.

Yang An'er's troops are in the early [-]s, which is a bit larger.After all, the people of Zhuozhou are fond of martial arts, and in recent years, there are countless people who are dissatisfied with the imperial court.Yang An'er made a trip south and north, engulfing people along the way, and his troops swelled greatly.Because of the loose formation, at first glance, the area of ​​the army formation is more than three times that of the enemy army, and the momentum is even more impressive.

In Guo Ning's eyes, those mobs are only worthy of waving the flag and shouting, and they cannot be counted.Only near the high ground behind the entire army, the headquarters of more than a thousand people is unusual... That is the headquarters of the Tiewa Ganzhan Army, plus the tough men from the northern border that were selected after the past few days.

Once they formed a solid formation, they were suddenly orderly, and their posture was different from what Guo Ning had seen when he set up an ambush in the night battle.Everyone is wearing armor, all of them are proud, and they have a strong and resolute spirit that is not afraid of death. They are worthy of being a rebel who has endured turmoil since the Taihe Rebellion, but his bones are still hard!

The two armies gathered together, all in awe.

The wilderness is desolate, and the wind howls past. At first, it brings noise from the defenders in Fanyang City, but then somehow, the defenders become silent and no longer speak.

Li Ting glanced at the formation with squinted eyes: "Hu Shahu is going to attack first! He will use his pawns to push forward first, suppress the loose front formation of Yang An'er's subordinates, and then use the left and right kidnappers to outflank and break through. Once Yang An'er's headquarters is on the battlefield, he will use it The kidnapped horse is restrained, and the heavy cavalry waits for an opportunity to forcibly break through."

"Yes."

"As for Yang An'er's side... His formation, if he divides the loose front team into three groups, left, middle and right, to protect the central army. Then he intends to rely on the superiority of his troops to defend firmly, and then...then, use his central army The infantry... No, he also has a cavalry, you see, it is further behind."

Speaking of this, Li Ting was at a loss for words for a moment. He frowned and thought for a while: "I can't understand it. In this way, what can this cavalry help? Isn't that very passive? Isn't it occupied by Hu Shahu? Is it cheaper?"

Hearing what Na said, several military academies all looked unhappy, and someone muttered: "That's impossible!"

Li Ting looked at Guo Ning again.

Guo Ning tugged at the newly grown mustache on his chin: "Yang An'er is still very alert, he knows we are nearby. Look at the position of the cavalry, it is very suitable for cutting off the road from south to north...that is for defense Ours. That cavalry won't move unless we withdraw now."

"It's a bit embarrassing, it seems like we are conspiring with that bastard Hu Shahu." Li Ting nodded and cursed in a low voice.

Yang An'er's troops raided the camp of the rout soldiers before, and they had an enmity with Guo Ning and other leaders of the rout soldiers. Later, although they made peace temporarily, they both knew each other, but they had their own schemes, so we had to.

When Yang An'er raised his troops, Jing'an Min, who represented the local armed forces in Zhuo, Yi, and Ding, reached a tacit agreement with Guo Ning, and the two families raised their troops to the north.

These two soldiers did not face Yang An'er's troops head-on, but the meaning of deterrence was very clear.They are just telling Yang An'er that rebellion is fine, please feel free, but if they violate the sphere of influence of the two families from the north of Zhuozhou to Xiongzhou, then absolutely not.

So Yang An'er attacked Xiongzhou only with partial divisions, forcing Bird and Zhang Nu to leave after a few poems.That's not because Bird and Zhang Nu are good at fighting, but because Guo Ning's troops are approaching, and it's obvious that Xiongzhou is regarded as a taboo.

This situation was naturally beyond Yang An'er's expectations, but there was nothing he could do.Back then he was entrenched in Zhuozhou, and he was able to communicate tacitly with the local forces; now that he is going to rebel and move to other places, he will leave the tea to cool down, and the local armed forces in Hebei will reunite, and there is nothing to criticize.

Therefore, even when Yang An'er was attacking Fan Yang, he set aside a small group of extremely elite cavalry and placed them behind the formation just in case.

Even if the private soldiers of Heshi Liezhi were killed on the way, Yang An'er's fine cavalry still did not relax their guard against Guo Ning and Jing'an Min's troops in the rear.

This is also in line with common sense.

The problem is that Heshi Liezhizhong came here suddenly, completely out of the expectation of Guo Ning and others, and Guo Ning and others have absolutely no intention of defending against the enemy side by side with Heshi Liezhizhong.

He Shi Liezhi, who was confronting Yang An'er, was Hu Shahu in Li Ting's mouth.Hu Shahu is his real name.

In recent years, the Great Jin Dynasty has made great use of Confucian scholars, and prides itself on being a great country with the righteousness of the world.Although it is said that Jurchen's old customs are advocated from time to time, in fact, the degree of Sinicization is getting deeper and deeper, and they often boast of "Tang Riyue, Shun Mountains and Rivers, Zhou Riyue, and Han Clothes".So much so that after the Jurchen aristocrats became officials, they had to deliberately change to Chinese names.Outsiders casually mentioned the Jurchen name of a certain general or a certain minister, as if with a contemptuous meaning.

Li Ting is someone who extremely despises Hu Shahu, or hates him.Therefore, it is not enough to call her by the Jurchen name, and she has to bring a mouthful of "dog things" to relieve her anger.

This is due to the fact that Li Ting is a fastidious person, and if there are other soldiers, there will be even worse words coming out.

This Hu Shahu participated in the battle at Yehuling as a left behind in Xijing.

Wang Shixian and Monk Luo both came from Datong Mansion in Xijing.

When Hu Shahu was the left behind in Xijing, he was greedy, brutal and reckless, and he didn't take the lives of ordinary subordinates seriously.When Wang Shixian's tribe was transferred from Gongchang Mansion to Xijing, there were more than [-] people in the tribe, everyone had horses, and all of them were excellent riders.As a result, they were driven by Hu Shahu for several years, and the clan members became fewer and fewer. When they retreated to Hebei, there were only two or three kittens and puppies left.

Monk Luo hated Hu Shahu deeply.The Jurchen aristocrat Wanyan Age and the Bohai native Gao Youchang, who caused Monk Luo's family to be ruined back then, were both Hu Shahu's cronies. Their corruption and perverting the law were in the final analysis to amass money for Hu Shahu.

As for Guo Ning, Li Ting, and the others, they didn't even want to mention the name Hu Shahu.

Outsiders only said that Hu Shahu had a history of fleeing without a fight.In the memory of Guo Ning and others, it cannot be summed up in one sentence.

During the Battle of Yehuling, although the three prefectures of Chang, Huan, and Fu were lost, the imperial court still had 45 troops, and their strength was still there, and it was Hu Shahu who was responsible for leading the army to fight against the enemy.

At that time, the Mongolian army broke through several states and was plundering. The horses were grazing in the wild. Many veteran generals suggested that they should attack them with light cavalry.Hu Shahu rejected these suggestions, and determined to fight the Mongolian army head-on with a posture of marching and riding.

On the day of the fight, the Mongolian army was brave and the Jin army had many generals. The various ministries fought fiercely, and it was difficult to tell the winner.At the most critical moment, Hu Shahu was terrified for some reason, and led the army away without warning!

How can there be such a general in the world?
His run not only took away the [-] elite of the headquarters, but also caused a huge loophole in the golden army's front that supported each other.

It was through this loophole that the Mongolian Wanhu Muhuali broke in, and as a result, all the armies collapsed together, leading to an unprecedented defeat and collapse, which led to a series of tragedies and tragedies later, resulting in the corpses that covered the back of the Monan Mountain, and even There is blood that flows into the East China Sea and never dries up!

Who can forget that scene?Who would not hate the instigator?
Now Guo Ning and Jing Anmin are threatening Yang An'er, but they are taking advantage of Hu Shahu, who stepped in halfway... Why?Yang An'er is a traitor after all, no matter how much they hate each other, everyone respects his courage and knows that he is a hero.

And what is Hu Shahu?Is he also worthy to pick up cheap here?

"Liulang, then let's retreat! Put up the banner and leave now!" Li Ting yelled.

(End of this chapter)