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Wan Yanbi's army marched for three consecutive days from Guide Mansion to Xuzhou, with a distance of nearly 210 li.Half of the road is close to the bank of the Yellow River, with gravel and silt along the way.Being able to march in such a hurry is a testament to Wanyan Bi's ability to govern the army.

Such an army deserves to be an elite soldier who was entrusted by the Kaifeng court to the east, and Wan Yanbi himself is worthy of being a battle-tested veteran.

As a veteran general, how could Wanyan Bi have never studied the Art of War?
There is a saying in the art of war, if you fight for profit within fifty miles, you will lose to the general.How could Wanyan Bi not know about this?

The reason why he urged his troops to rush forward was because he heard that the Taishan bandits divided their troops into two groups to attack, and both groups had the upper hand, but it was difficult for them to fall into the strong city for a while.If one's own side moves slowly, it is tantamount to connivance with Taishan bandits to capture Xuzhou or Shanzhou, and then join forces.At that time, it will be very troublesome for the bandits to storm another city or besiege the city for reinforcements.However, only when both sides are fighting right now is it suitable for one's elite soldiers to make a surprise attack.

His idea was right, but unfortunately, his understanding of the enemy was completely wrong.

Looking at the Luo character banner, Wanyan Bi understood without further ado, where is this trip being harassed by bandits from Mount Tai?
The commander-in-chief leading the army on the opposite side is clearly the general of the Ding Navy in Shandong, Luo Chongwei, the envoy of Southern Qingzhou Jiedu!
That old bastard Liu Erzu is standing with Guo Ning!

A Jurchen general like him has a natural contempt for the Red Coat Army or Taishan bandits.But Dinghai is different!Ding Haijun is a powerful enemy who has fought fierce battles, and in the past two years, their fighting style has gradually been seen... If they don't attack, they will be dead, and once they attack, they will be fatal!
This is by no means an ordinary border conflict. This is a special trick by the Ding Navy to lure it, and then set up heavy troops to intercept it here!They have planned for a long time, and they will make a big move!
Wan Yanbi was startled, and immediately made up his mind.

He sent an order in a deep voice: "The rear team of infantry becomes the front team, form a formation and retreat slowly."

When the military flag was unfurled and the horns sounded sharply, he whispered to the left and right: "You guys follow me closely!"

Most of the infantry around Wan Yanbi were recruited gradually after arriving at Nanjing Road, and then trained strictly; the cavalry was composed of the warriors he recruited when Marshal Zuo Jianjun was in Liaodong as the backbone.

At that time, Tu Shanyi asked the emperor to recruit [-] elite soldiers in Liaodong to form an army. In case the capital was in a hurry, he could go back and save himself.The leading general that Tu Danyi had his eyes on was Wanyan Bi, but the emperor was afraid of Tu Danyi's political potential, so he didn't allow it, and even demoted Wanyan Bi as the defense envoy of Yunnei Prefecture with an imperial edict.

Although he was relegated, most of the first group of warriors Wanyanbi recruited continued to follow in the name of his followers.This group of people are all veterans who have survived many battles. They have moved to Monan and Henan for several years. Many of them have scars on their bodies and faces. In terms of combat experience and skills, they are by no means inferior to any strong soldiers in the world.

After hearing Yan Bi's order, the elite cavalry immediately understood what he meant, and they responded in unison.

At this time, from behind the sand embankment and mounds on the left and right sides of the road, army flags were flying, and nearly ten thousand Taishan bandits shook off the mud, sand and dust from their bodies, just like countless pottery figurines rushing out of the yellow dust.There are arrows flying down in the air like locusts.

The Jin soldiers who were marching in a hurry were hit by arrows one after another, failed to form formation several times, and had already collided with the enemy's front team.In the next instant, the two sides directly entered the most intense fighting state.

On the front parallel to the road, the soldiers at the front of the queue on both sides burst out blood at the same time, so that two long blood mist rose in the air.Under the blood mist, the dead and wounded fell to the ground like withered grass, with miserable howls and roars, as well as the unique muffled sound of guns and spears piercing through the body.

The bandits of Taishan came one after another and brought their blood and courage to the extreme in a short period of time. However, the training level and combat coordination skills of Wanyanbi's troops were obviously higher. Their leader Wanyanbi really deserved to be a famous brave general .The first team of Taishan bandits who intercepted laterally were repulsed almost instantly.

Wan Yanbi led Jingqi to charge along the road.

He swung the iron chain with his left hand, sweeping back and forth, and slashed with a heavy-duty saber with his right hand. Wherever he went, the waves split into waves, and there was no single enemy.Every time he ran into a group of enemy troops, he entangled the infantry that was entangled by the enemy troops and continued to charge backwards.In a blink of an eye, the iron chain and the sword were covered with blood and minced meat, and the light armor all over his body was also soaked in blood.

After hitting him for a while, he rested his horse for a while, and the red-coated soldiers on the left and right sides of the road approached.

He clamped the horse with both legs, turned his left arm, and swung the iron chain on his forearm to beat down.The weight of the iron chain added to the force of the swinging arm was like a hammer, hitting the enemy pawns who were trying to get close and stab them until their faces burst, and their eyes and teeth flew out together.

Hundreds of cavalry followed and continued to charge.

This group of people was so brave that it naturally attracted the attention of the enemy.Immediately, the rain of arrows that flew over was much denser, causing heavy casualties to the cavalrymen, and another arrow fell from a high place, piercing right into Wanyan Bi's left shoulder socket.

Wanyan Bi couldn't hold on to the heavy iron chain, so he simply let go and made it fall to the ground.Immediately, he put the machete in his right hand across the front of the saddle, snapped off the trembling arrow shaft on his left shoulder with his backhand, and pulled a piece of robe to wrap around the wound.

The moment he was dealing with the wound, the third team of Red Coats rushed into the battlefield and merged with the unabated second team. The dust-covered gray-yellow figures suddenly gathered together, as if the Yellow River was at a high tide.

These are bandits who have been in the mountains for a long time, and they are not the same as Yang An'er's Red Coat Army... Before Yang An'er raised his troops, these Taishan bandits had been fighting against each other for decades!Almost every one of these people has a blood feud with Da Jin, so they are not afraid of death when they rush to kill!

With so many enemy troops swarming in, the impact power of the cavalry could hardly be exerted, and the cavalry surrounded by Wan Yanbi were cut off in an instant.

A red-coated soldier took aim at Wanyan Bi's figure and threw his saber.

Wanyan Bi's Jue was eager to protect the lord from the leader, and he turned sideways to block from his horse. He was fully armored, but his luck was too bad, because his body was tilted, and a gap was torn between the two armor leaves on his chest.The saber penetrated through this gap, more than half a foot deep.

With a scream from the leader, Jue turned over and fell off his horse, and his heavy armor made a loud bang.

All the red-coated soldiers were overjoyed when they heard the sound. This guy was wearing heavy armor, and he looked like an official!

The dog officials who are about to kill these Jurchens!

Three or four red-coated soldiers rushed forward, stabbing and hacking with short soldiers.The leader stood on the ground with one arm, and before he could get up, his back, neck, chest, and face were chopped and stabbed one after another.With the blood splashing, his arms lost strength, and he fell to the ground again.

A red-coated soldier stepped on the head of the leader and pulled out his waist knife.Just as he shouted with joy, another Golden Army knight urged his horse to charge forward, swiping his saber back and forth.

He used all his strength for this move, but because of the forced march for several days and fighting for a while, his physical strength has already bottomed out.So only the tip of the blade split the red-coated soldier's chin, then to the upper jaw, and then cut the bridge of the nose and face into two halves, all the way to the forehead.The red-coated soldiers dropped their waist knives and covered their faces and retreated, blood gushed out from between the fingers of their ten fingers.

Relying on the full cover of the cavalry, Wan Yanbi rushed to the back of the road for more than two miles in one breath, throwing off the flank attack of the Red Austrian army.But there were only thirty or fifty cavalry around him, and looking at the distance, behind the countless mounds left by the Yellow River's flooding again and again, groups of enemy troops continued to appear.

There is too much disparity between the number of people and widows, not to mention the exhaustion of our own army?
In two moments, no, in a moment or half a moment, the whole army will collapse!

"Come on!"

Wanyan Bi had no intention of dying in battle at all, he shouted orders, pulled his horse and left.Just as the cavalry got up to speed, the arrows swished to catch up and shot down several cavalrymen.

About a mile away from the battlefield, where the Luo character flag fluttered was the center of the army.Liu Erzu coughed lightly: "Wanyan Bi is about to run away, shall we send someone to chase him?"

Monk Luo shook his head, hehe laughed twice: "No, let's eat up the elite enemy army in front of us first... You have to eat food at one bite, and you have to fight step by step!"

In the eyes of everyone, Monk Luo ranks first among the admirals of the Ding Navy, and is also an important figure second only to Guo Ning himself. Now he is the commander of the various departments of the Ding Navy in Shandong.The reason why he can hold such authority is because he has a life-long friendship with Guo Ning on the one hand, and on the other hand, it is also because this fat monk is wise and foolish, and he never makes mistakes in his affairs.

Just like the use of troops in Xuzhou and Danzhou in the past few days.

Xuzhou took it in only half an hour due to hidden lines lurking, but the various ministries besieging the city kept clamoring around, lit pine torches at night, and arranged hundreds of people with weapons to run along the city wall, fighting Still from the appearance of continuing.

In Danzhou, only Liu Yue's more than a thousand people were actually used.After they captured several garrisons one after another, they did not continue to attack the city at all. Instead, they dispatched troops to the remaining garrisons in Shanzhou, posing as if tens of thousands of troops swept across.

Xuzhou played fake after winning, and Shanzhou bluffed from the beginning.Between the changes of reality and reality, the main force of the army headed west in a leisurely manner, and then directly faced Wan Yanbi's troops who were rushing towards them.

Three and a half days before and after, thousands of elite troops from Guide Mansion came to their homes to die, and the gates leading to Kaifeng were opened one after another.Even with the superiority in military strength and winning so easily, all the generals of the Red Coat Army had to admire Luo Monk's use of troops. Only then did they know that Dinghai's current situation was not a fluke.

Shi Qing came up in a joking manner, praised Monk Luo a few words, and made a few jokes, which made everyone laugh.

Amidst the laughter, he looked around and asked, "Where's Peng Yibin? He keeps saying he wants to be a pioneer. Why didn't you see him kill the enemy and perform meritorious deeds in front of Zhou Guogong?"

His question was very interesting, obviously he was asking Peng Yibin, but he was actually asking where Guo Ning had been.

Monk Luo touched the stubble on the top of his head, which made a rustling sound.

He said: "Peng Yibin wants to be a pioneer by jumping his feet, so he has to do it beautifully... He should be in Guide Mansion at this moment, and it's unknown if he is leading the horse for Duke Zhou."