One Piece of Song Dynasty

After receiving Li Xin's order to set off, Ma Kuo summoned his generals to a meeting and said: "Your Majesty has sent the order. Everyone, the Northern Expedition has begun. This will be a great battle that will go down in history. We are going to do it this time." He made unparalleled achievements in the battle."

Guan Sheng said: "Commander, just fight how you want."

Ma Kuo pointed to the map and said: "The target given to us by the prince is here - Shandong. We will land in the Juzhou area by boat, and then go straight to the rear of the enemy's East Route Army to cooperate with our East Route Governor's Mansion to encircle and annihilate this enemy. After landing, we will We plan to divide the army into two groups. On the one group, two generals, Guan Sheng and Zhai Liang, will lead an army of to capture the city in Juzhou and Yizhou to consolidate our occupied area. I will take the remaining troops to go straight to Chuzhou to cooperate with the east group. The Governor's Mansion has defeated the enemy troops besieging Chuzhou. We are preparing today and we will board the ship tomorrow."

The generals clasped their fists and said, "Yes, Commander."

At the Dudu Mansion on Yangzhou East Road, Han Shizhong received Li Xin's order and summoned all the generals: "Your Majesty sent the order, let us be prepared to counterattack the enemy's army, first deal with the enemy's East Route Army, and then cooperate with Your Majesty to encircle Jin Wushu As the main force, I decided to march to Baoying tomorrow, and asked Xie Yuan in Chuzhou to lead his army to Changzhou, and then ordered Liu Bao in Lu'an to lead his army back to Shucheng to be ready to respond to the prince in Luzhou at any time."

On the other side, Yue Yun led cavalry and headed northeast after leaving Luzhou. They marched day and night for three days. On the morning of July , it was time to rest again. Yue Yun called his deputy general Dong Qing and said, "Where are we now?" "

Dong Qing replied: "We have already sent people to investigate. We are now on the boundary of Hong County. To the west of Hong County is Lingbi."

Yue Yun took a sip of water, spread out the map and looked at it: "That means we have entered enemy-occupied territory. Hong County is behind Xuyi, and tens of thousands of enemy Eastern Route Army troops are besieging Xuyi. So tonight we will move towards Xuyi." Go, try to reach Xuyi tomorrow morning, and deal with this group of enemies first. The old rules are that no matter whether they are enemy scouts, groups of enemies, or grain transport teams, we must eliminate them all and don't let anyone go."

Dong Qing cupped his fists and said, "Yes, General."

In this way, Yue Yun led cavalry and arrived thirty miles behind Xuyi on the morning of July . Dong Qing reported to Yue Yunhui: "General, the enemy camp has been found twenty miles ahead."

Yue Yun nodded and said: "Order the entire army to rest, raid the enemy camp at night, select a few more people to change into enemy clothes, sneak into the enemy camp at night and set fire to create chaos."

Dong Qing replied: "Okay, I will make arrangements right away."

Just when Yue Yun was planning a sneak attack on the enemy troops besieging Xuyi at night, Xuyi County guard Yue Chao looked at the Jin army outside the city who was preparing to attack and said: "Zhuowei, how long can we defend Xuyi City?" Zhuo Wei graduated from Xingxing A student of Handao Chongwu Academy, he was later assigned to work under Han Shizhong of the East Road Governor's Office, and is now Yue Chao's deputy general.

Zhuo Wei sighed and said: "We are already sixty years old. Of the soldiers who originally guarded the city, there are only left who can still move. But with the young men and women recruited from the city, our number is still ."

Yue Chao said: "After all, the role of young people is not as good as that of soldiers who have received formal training. How can we still have food and grass in terms of defensive equipment?"

Zhuo Wei replied: "The ammunition for the Tiger Crouching Cannon has been used up a long time ago, and the kerosene has also been used up. Now I rely on the crossbow and the Thunder Cart. There are not many crossbow arrows left for the crossbow. It is estimated that they will be used up after four or five more shots." , there is no need to worry about the Thunder Car. There are a lot of rocks in the city, so there is no need to worry about food and grass. Before the war, the city had stored food and grass for half a year. It has only been two months now. It will be no problem to eat normally for another four months. If you save a little, You can eat it for another half a year.”

Yue Chao nodded and said: "That's good. This city will still have to be defended for a while, but I think the Jin army has reached the end of its strength. Now every time the Jin army attacks the city, it is like a routine, and the intensity of the attack is far less intense than in the first twenty."

Zhuo Wei asked: "General, how long do you estimate we will have to defend?"

Yue Chao said thoughtfully: "It should be soon. The generals of the two Koreas have sent news that General Jie Yuan has led his troops to station in Chang. Chang is behind us. Xuyi is not far away, only ten miles away. I estimate the distance is The time for counterattack is not far away.”

Zhuo Wei said: "To be honest, we don't lack anything to defend the city now, but we lack trained soldiers. Only four or five recruited civilians can be equal to one well-trained soldier. If there are more soldiers, we will be able to defend the city." It wasn't a problem for a year, but now when I look at the soldiers who fall every time, sometimes I wipe my tears at the situation in Zhuo Wei.

Yue Chao patted him on the shoulder and comforted him: "You are right, but unfortunately this is war, a life-and-death war. The hatred between us and the Jin people cannot be resolved. There will be many such scenes in the future."

At about ten o'clock in the evening on July th, Su Lie led a dozen soldiers dressed as Jin soldiers to sneak attack on a Jin Army patrol detachment, got the secret code, and then they successfully sneaked into the Jin Army camp and hid it. .

At three o'clock in the morning on July th, Dong Qing woke up Yue Yun and said: "General, it's almost time."

Yue Yun woke up and said: "Okay, let the whole army mount their horses and get ready, and send a signal to Su Lie and the others."

After Yue Yun gave the order, the cavalry team was quickly prepared. Then Dong Qing ordered his people to take out a few monkey firecrackers, ignited them, and soon exploded in the night sky.

After Su Lie and others saw the signal, they set fire everywhere in the enemy camp, causing chaos in Jin camp.

Seeing the fire in Jin camp, Dong Qing shouted: "General, Su Lie and the others have succeeded."

Yue Yun shouted: "The whole army listens to the order, rush in and kill the golden dog."

So Yue Yun led cavalry and rushed towards Jin Camp. Soon on the road leading to Jin Camp, the sound of horse hooves and shouts of killing could be heard. Yue Yun was seen riding a white horse. Uzhumu Qin's horse, holding the reins in his left hand and a spear in his right hand, with a Damascus scimitar hanging from his waist, rushed into the golden camp first.

Yue Yun raised his spear and charged left and right. It was like entering a deserted land in the Jin camp. In an instant, several Jin soldiers were killed by his spear. The soldiers who followed Yue Yun also waved Damascus knives after they rushed into the Jin camp. Slashing left and right.

Yue Yun led his army to attack the Jin Army's rear camp, and most of the Jin Army's food and grass were also placed in the rear camp. So how could Yue Yun miss the good opportunity to burn the enemy's food and grass? Soon the Jin Army was on fire. The fire in the military camp became even more intense.

Seeing that the Jin Army's rear camp was almost ready, Yue Yun led his army to drive the defeated troops towards the Jin Army's central camp. Since Yue Yun spent some time in the Jin Army's rear camp, he prepared a plan for the generals in the central camp. Opportunity, but the hastily prepared defense was vulnerable to the impact of the defeated army. Yue Yun followed the defeated army into the Lierao Chinese Army Camp, and another fight ensued.