Chapter 084: False Path
On the official road of Shanxi, more than 300 gold soldiers escorted six or seven carts, and the drivers were sweating profusely, and they traveled all the way to the north.
The cart was piled with grain. From time to time, the Jurchen cavalry went up, whipped a whip or two, roared strangely, and urged the coachmen to work hard and get to the location as soon as possible.
Along the way, burned villages can be seen everywhere. The corpses of the people were everywhere, and the deaths were in various forms, and many of the women had hideous faces and were defenseless, apparently ravaged to death by the golden soldiers. Some of the corpses were rotting and foul-smelling, and the flies that landed on them were also fat green heads, apparently well fed by human nutrition.
Along the way, they kept encountering the galloping Jurchen rangers, and everyone ignored them and only cared about moving forward. A group of seven or eight Jurchen cavalry had to come forward to talk, but most of the people did not understand the language, so they had to attack secretly.
Huangyuling is located in Heshun County, Liaozhou, East Province of the Great Song River. It is located in the platform fault zone, with cliffs in the east and high mountains facing each other in the north and south, and the terrain is steep and abnormal.
Because the terrain here is steep, easy to defend and difficult to attack, the Great Song Dynasty court once set up the Huangyu Ridge about this, connecting Hedong and Hebei, which is a dangerous place in the Taihang Mountains. It's just that as the Jin people moved south, Liu Tao's army was defeated, and this place was already dilapidated and occupied by bandits.
At dusk, the group of grain escorted by everyone had arrived at the dangerous place of Huangyuling. Li Yanxian looked up and saw that the mountains and rocks were steep, easy to defend and difficult to attack, and he couldn't help but sigh in his heart, what a dangerous place that was easy to defend and difficult to attack.
When the golden soldiers on the mountain saw that hundreds of Jurchen knights personally escorted the grain, they all welcomed these Jurchen knights in happily and respectfully.
"Big brother, the food and silver were delivered, and the Jurchen cavalry personally brought them over!"
Zheng Dong, the deputy commander of the Han army, ran into the cottage hall happily, his face full of excitement.
"Straight bite, the food is finally here!"
Hu Long, the owner of the village, stood up from his seat. Now he is the commander of Liaozhou.
Relying on the thousands of brothers under his command, there are many brave and ruthless people, and their combat power is quite strong.
"Go and invite the envoy out, and say that the food has arrived!"
The Jurchens are generous, and they give food when they say it. That Wanyan Zonghan was really a big dealer, and he looked up to him Hu Long, not only did he not ask for his gold, silver and jewelry, but gave him official work, and also sent him money and food.
Death for a confidant! The Jurchens treated him so well Hu Long, he naturally had to work hard to serve the other party!
The front of the gate was already crowded with bandits, who had apparently heard the news of the arrival of the food and wages, and rushed over to see what was going on.
These people live a life of licking blood on the tip of a knife, and the picture is not to eat meat and drink wine. Although there are also a lot of looted wealth on the mountain, without the permission of the big boss Hu Long, no one can get a single bit.
This kind of silver is different, this is the Jurchen people according to human hair, and Hu Long can't touch it. Everyone stared at the several big carts that were transported, and all of them were concentrated in the open space in front of and behind the walled gate.
Xu Hu pretended to be a common man pushing a grain cart and secretly observed left and right. I saw the bandits running from a distance, all crowded on both sides of the cart, looking salivating. Xu Hu couldn't help but be secretly worried in his heart, for fear that the other party would see the flaws.
He tightened his clothes, and his hands were covered with sweat. There were five or six earth-shattering thunderbolts wrapped around his waist, and once he was discovered, he could only do it in advance.
Li Yanxian rode on a horse, shook his hand and shook a few horse whips, and opened a few bandits who wanted to come over to check the food and military salaries. The bandits were furious, scolded loudly, drew their swords one after another, and wanted to come forward and fight.
"Damn, if it weren't for the sake of you sending grain and grass, Lao Tzu would have chopped you!"
After all, the bandits still didn't do anything, and the people who escorted the food and salary were all Jurchens, and they couldn't afford to offend after all. Everyone muttered and said a few cruel words. Then quickly get out of the way to the sides and make way for an avenue.
Hu Long, the lord of Dazhai, Zheng Dong, the lord of Erzhai, a personable scholar, and several Jurchens in helmets and armor all stood at the door of the cottage, as if to greet the team transporting food.
"Han Tongshi, thank you very much!"
Hu Long hugged his fists and said: "Please say a few kind words in front of Han Xianggong when I go back, the villain is grateful, and he has a generous gift!"
Han Tongshi shook the folding fan and said with a smile: "My big golden iron horse is all over the world, and I am invincible. Brother Hu's choice of master is a wise move. Brother Hu rest assured, as long as he guards this pass, he will definitely speak well for you in front of his uncle and Marshal Zong Han. ”
"Thank you, villain!"
Hu Long was overjoyed, and then said in a low voice: "The villain has prepared 200 taels of gold for Han Tongshi, as well as a few authentic paintings of Su Shi, and I will bring them to Han Tongshi when I leave."
Han Tongshi smiled, and arched his hand: "Then it will be disrespectful!"
The two laughed, and the Jurchen cavalry next to them was very dissatisfied, and said loudly in non-standard Chinese: "Commander Hu, don't think that we can't understand Chinese!" Before leaving, don't forget the benefits of our brothers, as well as the little lady of the Song people!"
Hu Long laughed, patted the Jurchen knight's shoulder, and said loudly: "Don't worry, general, your benefits must be indispensable!" And the fragrant southerner beauties!"
Several Jurchen cavalrymen also laughed. Hu Long had a smile on his face, but his heart was like a flesh-cutting pain.
It doesn't matter how many Han women are sent, the key is gold, it looks like hemorrhage is going to bleed today.
"You guy, do things slowly, it's really unreasonable!"
Seeing that the gate of the village was wide open, Li Yanxian shouted angrily all the way: "Do you want to be whipped, and don't you start distributing the grain?"
As soon as the word "hands-on" came out, Xu Hu knew it, turned his head and said loudly to the "people" behind him:
"The Jurchen general has an order, do it immediately!"
Xu Hu stood behind the first car, squatted down gently, lit the fire fold, crushed the wax seal on the earth-shaking thunder, and when the fuse was lit, he stood up, and the sky-shaking thunder threw it at the bandits on both sides of the walled gate.
Seeing that Xu Hu had already made a move, Li Yanxian took out his knife and shouted: "Kill!"
All the people in the cart stood up, lit the fire, and then lit the fuse, and threw the smoking iron lumps towards the bandits at the gate of the village.
Several people rushed forward, and they lit a few earth-shattering thunders in their arms as they ran, and the smoking iron bumps went straight to Hu Long and the others.
"What are these guys doing?"
Hu Long and Zheng Dong were stunned on the ground, watching the smoking iron bumps flying over in the air.
The Jurchen sergeant next to him has been in the army for a long time, attacking the city, and has seen things like earthshaking thunder.
Several people were shocked, screamed, and quickly fell to the ground and rolled aside.
Han Tongshi was panicked, and before he could react, a loud sound of "boom, boom" continued to rise, several black plumes of smoke rose up, and Hu Long, Zheng Dong, and Han Tongshi were shrouded in smoke and dust.
Violent explosions rang out one after another, and pillars of smoke continued to spread among the bandits, flesh and blood flew sideways, screams were heard again and again, and people were turning on their backs everywhere.
"Brothers, kill!"
Li Yanxian shouted, slapped his horse and went straight to the gate in front of him. The other 300 cavalrymen dressed as Jurchens took out their swords and guns one after another and headed towards the panicked crowd of bandits.
Xu Hu took the "people" and threw earth-shattering thunder at the bandits who fled in all directions.
Several Jurchen knights crawled up with pale faces and panicked. Although the earth-shattering thunder just now didn't kill them, it was enough to make them scatter.
When the smoke and dust cleared, several people raised their heads, and a group of Jurchen cavalrymen with helmets and armor had already pounced viciously.
"What are you doing, we are the personal soldiers of Wanyan Yinshuke!"
The Jurchen knights shouted loudly, full of Jurchen words, who knew that the galloping Jurchen cavalry was unmoved, riding spears and stabbing with long knives, completely ignoring the friendship of their comrades.
"Lao Tzu is a Han person, a real Han person!"
Li Yanxian shouted coldly, blood dripping from the tip of the spear.
Several Jurchen knights didn't have time to dodge, and soon their flesh and blood were blurred, lying on the ground, half lifeless.
Han Tongshi fell in a pool of blood, his broken calf was white and boneless, blood was pouring out, and he cried out in pain: "Mother, help!"
Li Yanxian stabbed Han Tongshi in the chest with two consecutive shots, piercing two blood holes in his chest, and the blood stained his entire chest.
"Betraying one's ancestors, having no father and no mother, is really a sin that deserves death!"
Li Yanxian snorted coldly, and with another shot, he stabbed Han Tongshi's throat.
Zheng Dong was blown to a blur of flesh and blood, and his breath was dying. Hu Long's shoulders were dripping with blood, and he stood up tremblingly, covering his shoulders, his face like white paper.
"General, please spare the villain's life, the villain is willing to sacrifice all the gold and silver treasures in the village to ......"
With a "whoosh", before Hu Long's words fell, the tip of a gun pierced Hu Long's throat, and he fell backwards to the ground heavily, struggling a few times, and finally did not move.
"I will naturally take the gold and silver treasures!"
Li Yanxian drew back the bloody spear and said loudly: "Cut off the heads of these thieves and hang them on the gate of the village to show the public!"
Several rebels mounted their horses, one with a spear and a man's head, and headed towards the crowd of bandits. While galloping on horseback, the rebels shouted loudly: "The bandit leader is dead, why don't you kneel down and surrender quickly!"
Two rounds of hundreds of earth-shaking thunderbolts went down, and each sky-shaking thunder could kill and injure several bandits, and the bandits suffered heavy casualties and lost their fighting spirit.
The Song army pursued and killed mercilessly, and the gate and the village were soon full of corpses. The wounded howled and groaned, and the rest trembled and panicked like frightened birds.
"It's down, it's down! Don't throw it away!"
The leader is dead, and the bandits' psychological defenses crumble in an instant. The crowd knelt down and began to surrender.
The process of the battle was very easy, when Wang Song led the army into the village, Li Yanxian was already dealing with the corpses and the wounded, a large number of prisoners trembled, and the whole battle process was over.
"Great official, you have gained a lot!"
In the warehouse of the cottage, boxes and boxes of gold and silver ingots were piled up, which made Li Yanxian and others smack their tongues.
"The wounded rested here, leaving a thousand brothers to garrison here, while the others continued north. ”
Wang Song's eyes turned to the north, and he was secretly worried in his heart.
The Jin people have hit here, and I don't know whether it is good or bad among the seed masters?