Great Song Pirate

Chapter 685

After Basuo knocked down a heavy armored cavalry in front of him with a stick, his body was immediately pierced through the chest by another Fubo cavalry's big spear. The three-edged gun head immediately tore his muscles, blood gushed out from his body, and his body was immediately taken off the saddle by the huge impact, but Basso still transported all the blood out of his body. With Yu Li, he threw the mace in his hand violently, and knocked the Fubo cavalry who was flying him off his horse. Even though they were wearing heavy armor, they were hit by such a heavy mace. After the great attack, their lives could not be saved, Basuo fell heavily on the ground, and watched a piece of iron hoof stepping down on him, the last thought in his mind was to shout, Zong Pan, I have to do what I have to do. Suo has already done it, and it can only go so far!

Immediately, Basuo fell to the ground and was stepped on by Xiao Jianfeng's iron cavalry who roared over, rushing into the red-clothed warlord's team.

When they passed the Jurchen soldiers of the supervising team, only a piece of flesh and blood corpses were left on the ground. No one in the supervising team survived, but their bravery only blocked Xiao Jianfeng for a moment, and gave him The heavy cavalry caused a loss of more than a dozen people.

Looking at the tragic scene below the city, Yang Zaixing put down the binoculars, sighed slightly and said to the people around him: "Any warrior is worthy of respect! When cleaning the battlefield, collect them properly and don't insult their corpses!"

Everyone nodded in agreement, and at the same time asked themselves, if one day they encountered such a situation, would they be able to treat death like home like those Jurchens?

But fortunately, everyone quickly came up with their own answers. If their lords and lords need to do this by themselves, I believe they can do the same thing as these Jurchen warriors. After thinking about this problem, everyone It was as if a stone had been removed in my heart, and I began to relax again.

Zong Pan did not persist on the hillside until Xiao Jianfeng arrived, and was finally put on his horse by a gang of followers, guarding him and fleeing in the direction of Zonghan's camp. He stopped the pursuit, and struck out with a single blow, smashing the flagpole of Zongpan's handsome flag standing here into two pieces, and the flag fell down with a bang.

It wasn't that he wanted to let Zong Pan go on purpose, but because after a while of fighting, their horses were about to lose their strength. The heavy armored cavalry has such a shortcoming, that is, they can only do short-distance assaults, and cannot fight for a long time. Even if people can stand it, horses can't stand it. This is the reason why heavy cavalry has not been widely used in China. It is not only because they are too expensive to equip, but also because of the limitations of heavy cavalry in application. their development.

After seeing the commander-in-chief's flag fall, the already disorganized Jin army no longer had a trace of fighting spirit, and fled in all directions like a flock of lambs, while the light cavalry of the two thousand-volt wave army were all over the mountains and fields. Watching these golden soldiers, they killed them until they couldn't wield their sabers, and when they heard the sound of gold ringing from the top of the city, they reined in their horses one after another, turned their heads and retreated towards the city of Liaoyang Prefecture. At this time, the three thousand infantry They had already driven into the abandoned Zongpan Camp, and after a search, they dragged out countless mules, horses and vehicles from Zongpan Camp, loaded with all kinds of supplies, and happily returned to Liaoyang Mansion, leaving behind only There was a raging fire.

Xiao Jianfeng led his heavy armored cavalry, gathered the remains of his soldiers along the way, looked at the dust appearing in the northwest corner of the city, sneered, followed the vehicles of the infantry into Liaoyang Mansion, the suspension bridge was closed again behind them. Pulling it up slowly, the heavy city gate was closed again with a bang.

Zong Han personally led a cavalry of more than [-] men, and when he rushed to the battlefield in the north of the city aggressively, he just saw that the north gate was closed. Looking at the corpses of the golden army scattered all over the city, Zong Han also had a feeling of wanting to hit the wall Feel.

After all, Zong Pan was still a little too tender, and he launched a fierce attack regardless of life and death. I really don't know where he was messed up, and he did such an unwise thing. Under the cover of killing, it is difficult not to be defeated!Thinking of this, Zong Han couldn't help wanting to kill Zong Pan, what an idiot!

But now that the battle has ended like this, what else can he say?Although Zong Han's status in the Dajin Kingdom is not low, but Zong Pan's Lao Tzu is the emperor of the Da Jin Kingdom today, and he still has to listen to his Lao Tzu's orders. Even if Zong Pan loses all his troops, it is not his turn. dispose of him.

So after forcibly suppressing his anger, Zong Han ordered people to gather up those fleeing soldiers and horses under Zong Pan's command, and gather as many as they can now!Moreover, he had to allocate part of his troops to take care of the north gate to prevent the Fubo army from sneaking out of the city from the north gate and launching surprise attacks on the Jin army in other places. Apart from these, what else could he do?

After a night and half a day of busy work, Zong Han finally helped Zong Pan pack up another big camp, and gathered up the rout soldiers. After counting, the two looked at each other speechlessly. The soldiers and horses of the door were completely disabled after the battle yesterday. Of the 3 soldiers and horses, only less than [-] were collected. The remaining [-] people either died outside the city, or had mental breakdowns and completely deserted. , ran away without a trace.

Fortunately, Zong Pan's army still has a barracks in the east of Liaoyang Prefecture, where 2 soldiers and horses are still preserved, but they also suffered heavy losses in the siege yesterday, and there are only more than [-] soldiers who can be used as human beings at the moment. , I really don’t have any combat power anymore, the remaining soldiers are like a bunch of rabbits, they will be woken up by fright when they sleep, and they want to let them fight, hehe!It is estimated that as soon as the cannon fires, these guys will immediately pee their pants, and they will run away as deserters!

At this time, the battle of Liaoyang could only be temporarily stopped. Zong Pan himself ordered his subordinates to tie him up, and after leaving these remnants and defeated generals to Zong Han, he went all the way back to Huining Mansion and went to find his father himself Wu begged to buy and plead guilty!Zong Han is responsible for the whole matter of Liaoyang Mansion. He has no heart or face to stay here anymore.

With the defeat of Zong Pan's army, the balance of strength between the two sides in Liaoyang Mansion has also changed. Although Zong Han still has an army of [-], he is already exhausted. If he wants to continue to attack Liaoyang Mansion, he himself is not too big Confident, he had to order the army to truce again, so that the exhausted soldiers could breathe, and even in order to reduce the losses of the Fubo army's sneak attack, he finally chose to retreat [-] miles, set up a new camp, and began to fight against the Fubo army who was defending the city. The Polish army formed a situation of confrontation at a distance.

At this time, Zongfu of Xingzhong Mansion also received the imperial decree from Wu begging to buy. After listening to the reprimand in the imperial decree, Zongfu accepted the imperial decree from the envoy with a stinky face that was almost suffering from running water , put it away.

"Third Prince! You should find a way to solve the matter of Dading Mansion as soon as possible! The Holy Majesty is furious this time! If you don't solve the matter of Dading Mansion as soon as possible, I'm afraid your son may not be safe!" Come to award The person who made the decree had a good relationship with Zongfu. After he handed over the decree to Zongfu, he looked around and said carefully to Zongfu.

Zongfu smiled wryly and said: "This matter is indeed my fault, but I'm afraid it will be difficult to handle! In the past two years, after the Dajin Kingdom occupied this place, it used troops against the Song Dynasty three times in a row, and forced the people to recruit people in this area. Joining the army and forcefully requisitioning food and fodder have already aroused public anger. If it weren't for this, how could Dading Mansion be lost so easily!

This time the Fubo Army attacked Dading Mansion, it was precisely because the people in the city of Dading Mansion rose up and opened the gates from the city, so that the Fubo Army took down Dading Mansion without any effort. For them, the hearts of the people Useful!

I also wanted to mobilize troops to retake Dading Mansion as soon as I moved here, but what happened recently made it impossible for me to mobilize enough troops to attack Dading Mansion or Jinzhou City. Unexpectedly, Xu Yi of Fubo Army The treachery was abnormal, and he encouraged the local people to rebel. As a result, all the local nobles were in danger.

On the contrary, I received a detailed report that after Xu Yi captured Dading Mansion, he immediately began to recruit troops in the surrounding areas. The number of horses has far exceeded my troops, and the strength of the Fubo army is not unknown to the Holy One. In the past, our Dajin army could not win with more hits and fewer strikes. If the army is mobilized to help, it may be more difficult for Dading Mansion to take it back than ascending to the sky! "

The envoy who issued the decree was shocked when he heard it. He didn't expect the situation to deteriorate to this point in such a short period of time. He said anxiously: "Please, Your Majesty, continue to recruit troops to help? I'm afraid it won't work! You must know that since the Fubo army captured After Liaodong, our country suffered a series of defeats and suffered heavy losses. The Dajin Kingdom was newly established, so where can we recruit more soldiers?

Now Zong Han and Zong Pan are leading troops to besiege Liaoyang Mansion, and they started to fight in the beginning of spring. Up to now, they have not even touched the city wall of Liaoyang Mansion, and the losses are still great. Attacks, relying on their naval forces in the coastal area, wantonly attacking and plundering, all places are now asking for help, and some loyal people from the old Liao Dynasty are still making trouble in some places from time to time, trying to restore the country. The current military strength in the north is already It is very short, and soldiers are needed everywhere. How can we recruit more soldiers and horses to help you fight Dading Mansion!

Besides, the Zongwang army in the south was held back by the Song Dynasty, and the battle situation was not optimistic. If you want Zongwang to come back to help, you may be unable to do it. Is it true that you have nothing to do? "

Zongfu sighed and said: "I'm afraid this matter is really difficult to handle! We shouldn't have sent troops to attack the Song Dynasty immediately when we had just settled the Liao Kingdom. Otherwise, how could we have caused such trouble? If the Holy One had If you don’t listen to Xie Ye et al’s instigation, first stabilize the country, and then take it easy on the Great Song, how can you be in such a mess now?”

The two sat in the tent, speechless for a long time, and after thinking for a long time, they couldn't think of a better way. The envoy saw that he couldn't help Zongfu, so he had to leave and told Zongfu before he left. When I go back, I will report the situation in the area around Zhongjing Road, and try to excuse Zongfu as much as possible. As for this, Zongfu must find a way to stabilize the situation.

Zongfu nodded helplessly in agreement, thanked him, and then went back to the big tent, thinking hard.

To say that this matter is really difficult for Zongfu, the situation on Zhongjing Road is developing so fast, let alone Zongfu, the gods probably did not expect that the people of the old Liao who were already bullied by the Dajin Kingdom At first, they were under the rule of their Jin people safely and cautiously, not daring to disobey in the slightest, but everything changed drastically after Xu Yi arrived in Dading Mansion.

A group of rabbits that were considered harmless by the Jinren suddenly turned into fierce beasts with sharp teeth. Zongfu and many local officials were caught off guard. They wanted to suppress them, but found that they did not have enough power at hand It turned out that some of their own soldiers began to waver after seeing this situation. There was even a Han soldier who killed his own centurion and cut off his head. The matter of defecting to the rebel army made many Jin people feel insecure, and even their own subordinates did not dare to trust them.

This is the wall that was pushed down by the people. After the founding of the Jin Kingdom, they did not appease the people. Instead, they extorted violently. Compared with the officials and nobles in the old Liao Dynasty, they oppressed the people too much. Now it is finally time for them to accept their retribution It's time, but it seems that this kind of retribution has come too soon.

It should not have been like this in history. Even if the Jin Kingdom was in chaos, it would be more than 100 years later. However, because Xu Yi's Fubo army intervened horizontally, the rule of the Jin people here was shaken just after it started.

When Zhang Shuye, the emissary of the East East Road, received Zhao Xu's imperial decree, he did not dare to be negligent, and immediately dispatched Guan Sheng, Zhang Qing, Lu Cheng and other generals to lead their troops to Dengzhou immediately. , Laizhou, Weizhou, Qingzhou and other places, to take back the sites that the Jin soldiers have retreated.

At the same time, Han Shizhong was also ordered to lead the troops to advance to the front line of Dezhou, put pressure on the Jin soldiers, and not act rashly. The entire Zhang Shuye's soldiers and horses left their original stations after this dispatch. According to the order, he started to get busy.

Things seem to be progressing very smoothly. In these cities that have been abandoned by the Jin people, there are only a few puppet troops left. After learning the news that the Song army came, most of the officials and soldiers chose wisely. Give up resistance, it should be!We used to be a family, and the gold soldiers are gone, so why bother!There are only some people who helped Jin Bing to do evil in the beginning. After Jin Bing retreated, they were afraid that the court would overturn their old accounts. It is doomed to be impossible to win, the hearts of the people are no longer on their side, and the morale of the army is even more chaotic. With the master gone, does the dog dare to bite people casually?
So soon, the Jiaodong area was regained control by the Song Army, and those diehards who tried to resist were wiped out. After defeating them, the angry officers and soldiers even refused to allow them to surrender, and killed them all on the spot. Gao Zhu hung their heads up for public display, and finally let out the anger in his heart.

It turns out that not only later generations hate traitors, traitors are not popular in any era!So I advise you all, you can do whatever you want, don’t be a traitor, it’s not that you won’t report, it’s not time yet!

When this news reached Beijing, it naturally made the officials and people of Bianliang cheer for a while, thinking that the Northern Expedition had finally achieved great results, but they didn't know that those Song troops who accepted these places were suffering from headaches. Speaking of which, they recovered these places.

But in fact, when they arrived here, they found that this place was already a hundred miles away. Before the Jin people left, they ransacked the place. The corpses of the common people of the Song Dynasty killed by the Jin army, wild dogs wandering in the wilderness, biting the rotting corpses from time to time, the place that was originally good, after suffering this unprecedented catastrophe, all economies were completely destroyed up.

What made these Song soldiers even more depressing was that after they arrived here, they found that they could hardly replenish their food and fodder, so they could only urgently send someone to Zhang Shuye for help. The provinces and other places need to transport grain and fodder to supply the soldiers and horses in front, and we must try our best to ask Zhao Xu to quickly issue an order to transport grain for them by taking the water route from the south of the Yangtze River. Otherwise, Shandong will starve to death before the summer harvest season. A large number of people.

On the surface, it seems that the Song Army has achieved a stage victory and regained a large area of ​​Jiaodong's homeland, but in fact, the Song Army only took back a batch of empty cities, which caused huge logistical pressure on Zhang Shuye's army and dispersed them. their strength.

Wu Shu stood in the handsome tent, with a cold smile on his face, listening to the news from Xi Zuo, he has not been idle these days, after careful consideration, he took his mind back from Dading Mansion After arranging the defense of Yanshan Mansion, he rushed to the Dezhou camp in person.

Everything was as Zongwang expected before his death. After they gave up many places in Jiaodong, tens of thousands of troops had gathered in Dezhou, and they no longer had to worry about the shortage of troops. At that time, the Jin army let go and ransacked a lot, bringing back a large amount of food and valuables from the Jiaodong area, and countless women were hoarded to Dezhou and Hejianfu.

In this way, the short-term food problem of the left army was solved, and it greatly made them a windfall. The situation in Shandong also began to improve for the Jin army.

"What is the movement of the Song army now?" Wu Shu looked at the map of Song Dynasty hanging in the tent. This map was drawn very carefully. Many places even villages and creeks were marked. I am afraid that such a map should thank Da Song If it weren't for their hard work, it would not have been easy for Jinren to get a map like this!
"Report to Commander! In the south, Han Shizhong is now leading about [-] troops. He has arrived in Pingyuan County and stationed there, and will no longer approach us. Zhang Qing, with more than [-] troops, is moving toward the enemy. The rest of Guan Sheng's army is moving towards us from the direction of Qingzhou. We have already found out that although Han Shizhong's army does not have many soldiers, they are all elites under Zhang Shuye's command, and most of Zhang Qing's army is newly recruited Da Song Yiyong. Moreover, Zhang Qingjun brought a lot of food this time, so he walked very slowly!" A general replied to Wu Shu.

Wu Shu calmed down, stood on the map and checked it, and asked the general to come over. After pointing out the location of Zhang Qingjun on the map, Wu Shu immediately turned around and went to the back of the handsome case, and ordered the drum to be raised.

Not long after, all the battalion leaders ran to the handsome tent one after another, and stood in two rows in the tent.

"Everyone must have heard about the incident in the Dading Mansion behind us. I will not hide this from you. The current situation is very unfavorable for our Daikin. In a short period of time, we may not be able to get support from the middle school, so During this period of time, we have to rely on our own ability to survive. If we cannot defeat the Song Army, then we will not be able to return to the Zongfu Army and regain the Dading Mansion. The Song army along the road was so beaten that they dare not attack us again, let Da Song see how powerful our Dajin soldiers are!" Wu Shu stared at the faces of the generals in the tent with his falcon-like eyes. , opened his mouth and said to the crowd.

During this period of time, these generals were very depressed. When they fought against the Song army before, they didn't feel this way at all. Since the start of the war this year, they are no longer as they used to be. They would be attacked by the Song army and lost many battles. This time, they had to withdraw from the land they had already occupied, and spit out the fat in their mouths. One can imagine how they felt in their hearts.

In addition, recently, people started to hear that Fubo Army appeared behind them, Jinzhou was destroyed, Laizhou was destroyed again, and then Dading Mansion was also captured by Fubo Army, causing panic in the army , although these people have been fighting all the year round, they can be regarded as a bunch of desperadoes, but that was said to the Song Dynasty. They returned to Liaodong once a year ago, and they were killed by the Fubo army after only the Taiping Mountain battle. I'm afraid, not to mention that even Wan Yanchang, the most ferocious in their army, was killed by the Fubo army, so they have a different mood for the Fubo army.

To put it bluntly, as long as they are people, they will be more or less bullying and fearful. If the Song army is weak, they will be strong. When the Fubo army is strong, they will feel weak. They will feel uneasy. After all, they are all northerners, and they always want to go back to the north. Although they are fighting in the Song Dynasty, they don't want to see their way home being cut off by the Fubo army. , so it is reasonable for people to feel a little anxious.

(End of this chapter)