Chapter 031: The Dead
Tokyo City, in front of Xuande Gate.
Nearly 20,000 ironclad sergeants stood on the snow, all solemn and majestic, silent.
The snow was falling, the cold was deep to the bone, the north wind was howling, and the wind was like a knife. The sergeants on the snow still held their heads high, their faces flushed, and their eyes were faintly excited.
Most of these people are dark-faced and frosty, is this the elite of the elite, the last dignity of the forbidden army of the Great Song Empire?
"Wu Tong, this is the elite of the forbidden army under you?"
Since Zhang Heng and Dong Ping ended this group of sergeants for a few days, Wang Song has not had time to watch, and today is the first time they have met.
Wu Ge shook his head and said with a wry smile: "General Wang, these are the elite men of the two rivers recruited by the old man since the siege of the Jin soldiers this spring. Although these people are not forbidden soldiers, they are all dead soldiers, and their loyalty does not need to be said. General Wang can rest assured. ”
He approached Wang Song and said in a low voice: "General Wang, there are still some prisoners here, all of whom are unruly, fierce and chivalrous. Now that the city of Tokyo is under-armed, the forbidden army is rotten, and that's all. ”
Wang Song nodded slightly, but there was not much disappointment in his heart. Compared with those "young master soldiers", these outlaws are real.
Zhang Heng said in a low voice on the side: "Big officials, although these people have poor military discipline, their foundation is good. There are a lot of people who are good at riding and shooting, and they are better than the soldiers we recruited!"
"The big officials see it clearly!"
Dong Ping pointed to the sergeant in front of him and said: "These 7,000 people here are good at riding and shooting, and they can do it immediately!" The 10,000 people here are foot soldiers. Because I was in too haste, I only practiced spear stabbing skills, and the queue was not enough! ”
Wang Song nodded, walked down, stepped on the war horse, and beat the horse through the crowd, and everywhere he passed, all the sergeants stood tall and strong, trying to make themselves look more energetic.
Wang Song looked carefully, many of these people were hideous, fierce, and couldn't hide the anger between their eyebrows. There were knife marks and arrow marks on the faces of the group, and many of them had tattoos on their faces, and it seemed that there were many people who were in the army and those who committed adultery.
Wang Song stopped the horse in front of a strong man with a face full of meat and a golden seal on his face, and said loudly: "Man, the people there can be martial arts, and they should be named!"
The strong man was shocked in his heart, his face was a little tight, and he said in a low voice: "The big official, the villain Dong Wei, the person from Wei County, Hebei Daimyofu, has been practicing martial arts since he was a child, and he can ride and shoot."
Wang Song nodded and said loudly: "Dong Wei, who else in your family went out of the city to kill the gold thief, but he was willing?" Why is the tattoo on his forehead?"
Dong Wei nodded again and again: "Back to the big official, it is indeed willing." Both parents in the family were killed by gold thieves, and there was no one left. The villain just wants to kill the gold thief and avenge his parents, and there is nothing else to ask for! As for the forehead gold seal......"
He slowed down for a moment and said categorically: "The villain was drunk, quarreled with others, injured others, and caused a big disaster, so he had to go to Tokyo City to join the army."
The familiar bridge is quite similar to the tiger hero. It seems that the drunkenness of the Song Dynasty is indeed a major drawback.
Wang Song pointed at another thin man in front of him, and said loudly: "You man, where are you from, what did you do, and who is in your family?"
The thin man's face was calm, and he hugged his fists and said: "The big official, the villain Liu Hui, the Hedong people, have been practicing martial arts since childhood, riding and shooting averagely, and have a bit of brute strength." Don't ask about the rest, just take the villain to kill the Tartars. ”
Wang Song was stunned for a moment, laughed, and said loudly: "Good man! In the land of two rivers, the people are strong, and there are many people with tragic songs of Yan Zhao, sure enough! ”
The style of martial arts practiced by the people of the Great Song Dynasty is difficult to compare with any dynasty, such as Zhao Kuangyin's Taizu Changquan, Yue Fei's Yuejia Boxing, etc. Why such excellent genes can't form lethality is really incredible.
He swung his horse around the crowd of sergeants a few times, returned to the front of the line, faced this group of unruly people, and said loudly: "Brothers, I think you all know who I am. Now, I'm going to take you to your death, are you willing? ”
The crowd was silent.
Wang Song nodded, and said loudly: "Brothers, if anyone is willing to withdraw, it's too late to stand up now, if you wait until the military order is issued, you can't retreat if you want to!"
This time, someone in the crowd finally spoke.
"Wang Tiegun, you can directly give a military order! Every brother here has no intention of coming back alive!"
"Saibawang, we will follow you to kill the gold thief, willingly! You just give the military order!"
"Just give a military order, Wang Tiegun, I'm afraid I won't come here if I die!"
Wang Song couldn't help but nod secretly. Sure enough, every righteous slaughter dog! The people of the two rivers are so fierce that he really can't think of it.
There was an inexplicable sadness in his heart. At the time of the country's survival and the autumn of troubled times, it is necessary to rely on a group of robbers and rangers abandoned by the country to redeem it, and the irony is really great enough!
"Brethren, I will not say much about the iniquity of the gold thief. My brothers and I have just come from Hedong, and there are corpses and bones all over the way, and there are refugees everywhere, and some people are starving to death and freezing to death on the road!"
Wang Song continued to say loudly: "Each of you may have a family, parents, and maybe a wife. However, when the gold thief went south, everything was over. Each of you may have a stomach full of hatred! So, the gold thief is outside the city, do you want to revenge this revenge?"
"Of course I want to report it!"
"I can't wait to cramp and peel the skin, break my stomach and pull my intestines!"
Someone in the crowd shouted, but most remained silent.
"Yes, you want to report!"
Wang Song's face was calm, and his voice was throughout the audience.
"You want revenge, but you are afraid of dying in vain! You say, 'Is this what you think in your hearts?'
This time, there was finally a commotion in the crowd, and a man in front of him finally looked excited and spoke out loudly.
"What dog doesn't want to avenge his family!"
His face was flushed, his tower-like body was a little hunchbacked, and his words were full of indignation.
"Those ministers in Tokyo can only point fingers, and they don't know how to urinate. If the brothers follow them, they don't even know how they died, and how can they take revenge!"
Another man scolded loudly:
"King Saiba, you said that Li Xianggong of the southern city wall, the golden soldiers fill the moat there every day, but he drinks and has fun on the city tower, and he doesn't do anything about birds! The official family doesn't care, they just send him to the south, and they don't still be an official!"
"And what is He Xianggong, who took more than 100,000 people to guard the Yellow River, but was scared away by two or three thousand golden soldiers! What the fuck is this!"
"There are also several ministers around the emperor, all of them are soft-boned and cowardly as mice! I don't know how such a person could become a minister!"
The soldiers chattered and talked a lot, and they were almost exhausted, and finally quieted down.
Wang Song secretly shook his head and sighed. These scholars and elite forbidden soldiers in the imperial court have really lost enough face for the Song people!
When the army was in the face, it turned out to be a Wenchen commander with no ballistic experience and no strength to restrain the chicken, either he was scared and peed his pants and fled, or he had no opinion and commanded blindly, where did the soldiers still have morale.
"Brothers, you follow me Wang Song, you can rest assured that you are a little tight!"
Wang Song's voice was loud and spread throughout the entire ranks of soldiers.
"I will fight side by side with you, and I will not abandon any of you on the battlefield! If anyone dies in battle, their family will be taken care of by my loyal army! I, Wang Song, will also build a loyal ancestral hall in the future to pay tribute to you! ”
The unruly people, everyone's faces showed surprise, and their faces slowly turned red.
However, what Wang Song said below changed his style, and his face became very cold.
"This time, our army will have to die at least half of them!"
At least half of them have to die!
Everyone looked solemn and looked at Wang Song together.
"The brothers who died in the war, each of them received a pension of 100 yuan in their families, and the corpses returned to their hometowns. Each survivor will be given 30 yuan, and the guilty will be exonerated from all culpability, and the innocent will be rewarded with another 20 yuan. ”
Finally, there was a cheer in the army, and someone asked loudly: "Wang Tiegun, you are serious, you won't lie to us, right?"
Wang Song laughed and said: "Joke, how many thieves have I killed Wang Song and my brothers all the way, and how can I deceive you when they break out of the sea of blood in the mountain of corpses!"
He looked at the army in front of him, and said: "In this battle, I, Wang Song, are fighting side by side with you, let's try to see who kills more thieves!"
All the troops shouted together: "Wang Iron Spear, Wang Iron Spear!"
The war horses of Tokyo City were gathered together, except for the emperor's imperial horses, the twenty or thirty horses needed by the ministers, and the rest were all gathered in Wang Song's hands.
11,000 cavalry, 30,000 foot soldiers, a total of 41,000 men and horses, ready to go.
Zhang Xian, Niu Gao, and Dong Xian, three of them each had 3,000 cavalry and advanced in a sharp sagittal pattern; In the middle were 1,000 cavalry, 1,000 grenadiers, 1,000 sword and shield men, and 3,000 pikemen dispatched by Wang Song; Dong Ping followed with 5,000 pikemen.
This is the attack formation of 21,000 men. To put it bluntly, it was a surprise attack of 9000 cavalry.
This was followed by the sniper army of Li Yanxian and Zhang Heng, with 20,000 people, 10,000 people each living on both sides, forming an infantry formation to deal with the Jin people coming from the left and right.
As for Deng Shixiong under the city wall, he led two battalions of 5,000 people to form a large formation, living on both sides of the city gate to cover the army entering the city.
"Liujia Temple is only five miles away from Chenqiaomen, and Wanyan Zonghan's front army is less than four miles. The terrain outside the Chenqiao Gate is flat and empty, four miles, at most ten ...... It's a moment. The Jin people would never have thought that our army would completely use cavalry to sneak attack. ”
Zhang Xian nodded and said:
"According to the characteristics of the Jurchens' sparse formation and the large distance between the camps, we must quickly defeat the Jin people's front army and drive the Jin soldiers to break up the camp. If you encounter stubborn resistance, you will use the "10,000 enemies" to blow it up!"
Wang Song nodded, his face was gloomy, and his gaze was even more chilling.
"This time, our army wants to make all the snow on the ground of Liujia Temple turn red with the momentum of thunder! We must erase the place name of Liujia Temple from the ground from now on!"
Zhang Xian's face turned red, slapped the table hard, and said loudly: "Don't worry, the big official, Liujia Temple will definitely disappear from the ground!"
Walking out of the room, Wang Song took a deep breath and felt a lot more relaxed.
Throughout the ages, there are eight wildernesses, brilliant China, and the country has no borders. If he sheds all his blood, he can save the continuation of Chinese civilization and save the lives of thousands of Han people, and he will be worthy of this life!