Chivalrous Song Dynasty

But this time you probably won't succeed!After laughing, he said: "Just because you mobs still want to go to Yanjing? I might as well tell you that sixty miles north of here, there are [-] Jin Kingdom cavalry camping, which is the only way to Yanjing , now you go back to me to see Dashuai Tong, if you insist on going forward, I am really worried about whether you will have the life to compete with Dashuai Tong in the future."

Chapter 921: Civil War Expert

Zhan Renlong was defeated by Wanyan Zongwang.

In fact, during this Northern Expedition, Zhan Renlong was the first person who wanted to fight for merit. As the front part of the Northern Expedition Army, he wanted to be the first to lead the army to the city of Yanjing and win the first battle. This was the first achievement of the Northern Expedition.

Of course, Tong Guan's approval of his act of striving for merit, he can only strive for such legitimate merit.Even if he wins the first place, Tong Guan deserves more than half of the credit. The leadership is good. After all, he is the vanguard officer personally selected by Tong Guan, and it was Tong Guan's instruction that he led the leading troops to advance.

However, what he never expected was that before reaching Yanjing, the scouts who were exploring the way ahead encountered a large number of Jin Guo cavalry.

At the beginning of the encounter, he thought that the cavalry belonged to the Liao Kingdom, and he discussed the battle plan with Zhang Jun, his deputy vanguard, but before he could formulate the battle plan, the Jin Kingdom The courier came over, and the Jin country courier showed his identity, saying that everyone was fighting the Liao country, and they were friends and not enemies.

Jin people?What is the Kingdom of Jin?In the Great Song Combat Headquarters, most of the generals were stunned.

Except for Zhan Renlong and Zhang Jun, who knew something about the Kingdom of Jin because they saw Bai Sheng fighting and killing Yan Jiamu outside the city of Xingqing, the rest of the generals didn't know what the hell the Kingdom of Jin was.

These people are not the generals of the Western Expedition. Tong Guan’s Western Expedition has made a large number of officers and men named wives and sons. To get a share of the cake, the Nanxia Boxing Gym, which has developed a lot of people, is even closer to the water. His subordinates have a large number of Nanxia Boxing Gym disciples, and of course there are his four masters Ding Zhanfu, Zhanlu, Zhanshou, and Zhanxi.

Even knowing the existence of Jin Guo, Zhan Renlong didn't take him seriously.

This is the news that the Kingdom of Jin has defeated the Kingdom of Liao and only exists in the circle of jesters of Zhao Ji and Zhao Ji. Of course, Tong Guan will not tell Zhanren that the Kingdom of Long and Liao has become weaker than ever. Let's go In fact, Yanyun Sixteen States is picking up cheap, so even if Yanyun is taken back, Tong Shumi's face will not be radiant, right?

The previous emperors of the Song Dynasty had left behind the teachings of their ancestors. No matter who they were, as long as they took down the sixteen prefectures of Yanyun, they would be crowned kings with different surnames.Since then, there has not been a king with a different surname in the Great Song Dynasty except for the emperor's uncles, uncles, elder brothers and younger brothers.How great an honor is it to be crowned king with a different surname?Tong Guan dreamed of becoming this prince, but he didn't want the gold content of this prince to be belittled.

So in Zhan Renlong's impression, the Kingdom of Jin is just a small country in a remote area. By luck, a master Wanyan Jiamu came out and Bai Sheng was wiped out. What is there to respect in such a country?

Therefore, his attitude towards the envoys of the Kingdom of Jin was very arrogant, and he demanded that the army of the Kingdom of Jin who was camping should make way for the [-] forward troops of Song Dynasty to pass through.

That's all for Zhan Renlong's arrogance. Wanyan Zongwang pays more attention to actual interests. Even if he has the ambition to swallow up the Great Song Dynasty, he will not clash with a sudden advance army of the Great Song Dynasty near Yanjing at this time.

This time Wanyan Zongwang led [-] cavalry to the south, and his strategic intention was indeed to go straight to Bianliang and kill a center of the Song Dynasty.In this situation, he believed that Yanjing of the Liao Kingdom was already in the wind, leaving only Tudan Dingge and Wanyan Zonghan enough to conquer, and the extra troops could be taken together with Da Song.

Leaving aside the differences in race, just like the Wa Kingdom in later generations, the Kingdom of Jin at this time also played a proud soldier in repeated victories, especially after seeing Wang Qing's team, Wanyan Zongwang was even more convinced that the Great Song Dynasty A team like Wang Qing can attack the city and pull out the stronghold, and the soldiers are pointing directly at Bianliang. Our Jin country's iron cavalry is a hundred times stronger than Wang Qing's. Why can't we just take the Song Dynasty directly?

In his plan, it would be useless to directly fight a blitzkrieg to win the emperor of the Song Dynasty, no matter how powerful the Song Dynasty was.

What's more, he has learned that Wang Qing is preparing to attack Nanyang, and the Song Dynasty must deploy heavy defenses in the southwest of Bianliang. This is a good time to break through Bianliang.

But since it is a blitzkrieg, you can't carry too much luggage and food, and you can't fight all the way to support the war, because then Da Song will be prepared, and the blitzkrieg will not be able to be fought. He doesn't think that only [-] The cavalry can take down Bianliang City, which is seriously ill and defended.

Therefore, before attacking Bianliang, he had to go to Zengtou City to make supplies, and then go directly to Bianjing to kill the Song Emperor by surprise.

It's time to get back the contempt and humiliation I received in Song Dynasty.

When he went to Bianliang and wanted to see the emperor, he was not qualified, not to mention meeting the emperor, but he wanted to see Cai Jing and was turned away.He has been holding back this tone all the time, is Jin Wushu the only one who has a bad temper in the Jurchens?Wanyan Zongwang is not a kind person.

It is precisely because of such a plan that he would not consider fighting Zhan Renlong near Yanjing. It is just right for you to come to fight Yanyun in Song Dynasty, and I, Jin Guole, would like to hide aside and watch the fun. Then let Tudan Dingge and Zong Han go out and clean up your two families together. At the same time, I captured your emperor in Bianliang, so that you can't go back even if you want to go home!

That's what Wanyan Zongwang thought, and he planned to hold back and let Song's army pass by, but the problem is that the soldiers of Song Dynasty didn't have any clues. When they passed the army camp of Jin State, they saw the people of Jin State roasting whole sheep, so they didn't fight. Just say hello, go up and eat, if you can't eat, you have to take the rest away, which annoyed Jin Wushu, a bad-tempered kid from the Kingdom of Jin.

Jin Wushu lost his temper, and even Wanyan Zongwang had nothing to do with him. Seeing the tens of thousands of foot soldiers of the Song Dynasty passing through his camp one by one, Jin Wushu was already very upset. What kind of military plan?He swung the ax and chopped more than a dozen people.

As soon as he made such a move, the two sides must have started a war immediately, and the fourth prince has already made a move, so why not start a war?The cavalry didn't even have to mount their horses, so they made dumplings from the Song army in the camp.

At this time, the cavalry of the Kingdom of Jin are the masters of a hundred battles. Whether it is tactical quality or fighting spirit, they are not comparable to the weak Song army. It is conservative to say that they treat the Song army as ten. How could the soldiers beat these ruthless people? The soldiers who passed through the camp were immediately slaughtered, and even Zhang Jun, who led the team, was captured alive by Wanyan Zongwang.

Before Zhan Renlong was sitting in the camp of the Song Dynasty, he found that there was a fight inside, and suddenly felt that something was wrong. When he was about to form an formation to meet the enemy, the Jin country cavalry had already mounted their horses and launched a charge. The charge smashed the tens of thousands of Song troops outside in pieces, only killing heads rolling in the wilderness.

Where has Zhan Renlong seen such an elite cavalry?Where have you seen such a cruel style of play?Even when they went to fight Xixia, they didn't clean up Xixia's iron kites. If they wanted to restrain the soldiers to form an formation to resist, how could the soldiers be obedient?They had already fled in all directions.

How can I fight this?I don't want to hold on anymore, seeing Jin Wushu's invincible golden giant axe, Zhan Renlong lost his fighting spirit and fled immediately.

He said he fled in a desperate situation, but he actually had considerations in the choice of direction. He felt that if the enemy deliberately attacked Song Dynasty, they would definitely chase and kill them in the direction of Bianliang, so he didn't dare to run in the direction of Bianliang in the southwest. , but fled in the direction of southeast and Shandong.

He escaped for a while, and when he found that the people of the Kingdom of Jin were not chasing him, he stopped to catch his breath. When he stopped, more than 1 routs gathered instead. He found that the smart people who had the same idea as Zhan Renlong were not there. A few, the more than 1 defeated soldiers all thought so.

Just when he didn't know where to go, he met Zhu Dian and Hu Yanzhuo's thousand cavalry. When he heard the sound of horseshoes, he was quite frightened, thinking that the Jin people were chasing them, but then he realized that the direction was wrong. The sound of horseshoes came from It came from the southeast direction. After seeing the opponent's clothes, the group of rout soldiers immediately regained their spirits.

The so-called civil war expert and foreign war layman are not the monopoly of a certain army at a certain period of time, but this is true of any army controlled by a decadent regime.

Seeing this group of cavalry wearing the costumes of Song soldiers, but not the clothes of the imperial army, the sense of superiority that was beaten to nothing by the people of the Jin country was instantly regained. When the opponent asked them to make way, they would of course take the opportunity to make things difficult. , even Zhan Renlong didn't mind killing a lot, and regained his confidence from this local motley crew.

Of course, when he heard the opponent's general report that he was the food and grass escort of the Northern Expedition of the Song Dynasty, and that the food supervisor was Bai Sheng, the idea of ​​killing people to find self-confidence was already dispelled.

Chapter 922

Zhan Renlong originally didn't want to tell Bai Sheng about the people of the Jin Kingdom, because firstly, it might expose the fact that he was defeated by the people of the Jin Kingdom, which would make him embarrassing; I was too scared to move forward.

But when the words came to this point, he also changed his mind, and decided to tell Bai Sheng about the people of the Kingdom of Jin, and provoke Bai Sheng again. It is estimated that with Bai Sheng's personality, he can't bear to be provoked in public, and he will definitely bump into him.

If Bai Sheng really bumped into him, it would certainly be in his interest. He was worrying about how to explain his defeat to Tong Guan. With Bai Sheng coming, everything would be solved easily.

When Bai Sheng bumped into him, the result would be a disastrous defeat like his own. He had seen the strength of the people of the Kingdom of Jin. With Bai Sheng's thousand cavalry, how could he defeat the [-] others?

As long as Bai Sheng starts a fight with the people of the Kingdom of Jin, he can blame Bai Sheng for the cause of the accident in the future. Well, it was Bai Sheng who provoked the people of the Kingdom of Jin in the first place. I, Zhan Renlong, just got involved, and I don’t know that the Kingdom of Jin is the enemy. Under the circumstances, he was suddenly attacked by the Jin people, that's all.

He said that the Jin people were watching Bai Sheng's reaction after they were in the front, for fear that Bai Sheng would not go forward after hearing about it, but unexpectedly, Bai Sheng laughed and said, "Okay, Zhengchou didn't have a meeting ceremony. It’s just in time for the Huojin people to come.”

Greeting ceremony?What's the meaning?Zhan Renlong didn't understand.

He didn't know that Bai Sheng was going to Yanjing to meet his father-in-law, and he was worried about what gift to give. The first time we met, he didn't bring a gift, so he went to see his father-in-law empty-handed. This is in the modern society of later generations Almost unimaginable.

Bai Sheng is adhering to the good habits of the men of later generations. He really wants to get some gifts to send, but he can't think of what to give. The emperor's house is not short of gold and silver, but what is lacking is funds for national wars. , it is said that there is no melatonin in this era.

It would be great to give gifts with the heads of these people from the Jin Kingdom, as it happens to show sincerity, see?The son-in-law is really here to help you, not to come to your house for dinner.

At this time, he already understood the reason for Zhan Renlong's defeat. He must have fought with the Jin people. If he was a Liao person, at this juncture, he saw the Song Dynasty suddenly approaching the city, and he was already facing the enemy. After some mediation, the two countries have gotten along very well for more than 100 years, and even the former emperor of the Liao Kingdom, Yelu Hongji, swore an arrow in front of him, what to fight, everyone is our own.

Zhan Renlong's defeat is only reasonable.The Jurchens are less than ten thousand and invincible.If the Great Song Imperial Army led by Zhan Renlong can defeat [-] cavalrymen of the Kingdom of Jin, then it will be difficult for the Kingdom of Jin to achieve the shame of Jingkang. After all, Zhan Renlong is far from being the backbone of the Great Song Dynasty .

Although Zhan Renlong didn't understand what Bai Sheng meant by the meeting ceremony, he finally understood that Bai Sheng was going to fight against the people of the Kingdom of Jin, and he was secretly happy, so that he didn't have to go back to the back to find Tong Guan for the time being. Crying, but just follow behind Bai Sheng, see how the outcome of this battle will be before making plans.

Since Bai Sheng decided to fight the Jin people, he ignored Zhan Renlong and the others. The Jin people were camping ahead. Even if Zhan Renlong's rout broke out of the way, his thousand cavalry could not move forward immediately. He sent Zhu Tong to lead dozens of brothers who were better at riding and not weak to go to the front to investigate the news, and the rest waited for the infantry behind to come up.

Field combat is definitely the strong point of Jin Guo people. Bai Sheng has no plan to fight field battles with Jin Guo people, although he is confident that according to his current strength, he can ride a jade lion alone and kill seven in and seven out of the team of ten thousand Jin Guo cavalry. , can also kill thousands of people on the other side, but he does not intend to do so.

There will be more battles to be fought in the future, and it is impossible for him to be in different places and rush to the forefront of each battlefield in person. The gang of Liang Shan is still very capable of fighting. In another time and space, Song Jiang and this gang can fight well. The Liao Kingdom signed an alliance under the city, so you can't be as good as Song Jiang and Wu Yong, right?

If he didn't even have this ability to command, the impressive record of sweeping Xixia back then would have been nothing but a fairy tale, a myth that was impossible to realize.

An hour later, Zhu Tong rushed back with dozens of brothers and reported to Bai Sheng that the Jin soldiers were still camping and there was no sign of leaving the camp.

Bai Sheng didn't know who the leader of Jin Bing was, let alone Wanyan Zongwang's plan, so he wasn't surprised that Jin Bing stayed behind. He asked Zhu Dian to arrange for a few brothers to continue to investigate, and only waited for the arrival of the Liangshan infantry from behind.

Around noon the infantry came up.

The infantry is temporarily led by Guan Sheng, the big sword, and Lin Chong, the leopard head. Although Guan Sheng also has a red rabbit and rouge horse like his ancestors, the infantry needs a man with outstanding martial arts and a calm mind to lead. Wu Song, who has a grudge against him, naturally It wasn't suitable, and Lu Zhishen didn't know where to find himself when he accompanied Liang Hongyu. Shi Jin, Yang Zhi, Shi Xiu and others were even worse, so Guan Sheng and Lin Chong were put in charge first.