Chapter 003: Capture the Pass
As the garrison commander of Tianjing Pass, Song Gui has been worried about deserters these days. Since the Jin soldiers retreated, Song Gui, as a general, became the garrison officer of Tianjing Pass, leading his original subordinates to garrison 2,000 troops here.
Song Gui also thought about surrendering to the Song Dynasty, but he was worried that the Great Song Dynasty would spare him. The Great Song Dynasty was beaten all the way to Bianjing by the Jin people, besieged the city for three months, and almost lost the country, isn't it the masterpiece of their so-called "warriors" of the country who either broke and fled.
With their "shocking" performance, will the imperial court accept them as the culprits?
Since the Jin soldiers withdrew north, the minds of the people in this village have come to life. Tianjingguan is located at the junction of Hedong and Henan, and across the Yellow River is Xijing Luoyang. Such a close distance, coupled with homesickness, the soldiers fled secretly, and now there are only about a thousand of his subordinates left, how not to make him anxious.
While pondering and meditating, Song Da knocked on the door and came in, and said excitedly and loudly: "Yanei, some villagers have joined the army, and there are about two or three hundred people!"
Song Da is his family and now serves as his personal soldier in the army. Hearing Song Da say this, Song Gui also moved in his heart, stood up and said, "Let's go, go out and have a look!"
Hearing that some people were coming to join the army, the wall was full of soldiers who came to watch. In these years, there was a shortage of soldiers, and most of those who could come to join the army were poor people who couldn't survive. As for the children of those rich and noble families, they naturally have already passed through Henan to find another livelihood.
Seeing the two or three hundred down-and-out men in ragged clothes and beggars below, these golden soldiers on the wall laughed and teased and made noise.
"Look at these poor ghosts, all of them are like beggars, they are here to be soldiers, they are here to eat and cheat!"
"Look at who wears it, I'm afraid that the clothes haven't been washed for three months! I don't know where the beggar is, he must not be able to survive outside, and he wants to find food for us here!"
All kinds of sarcastic sounds on the wall came into the ears, and the people outside the wall were all unconscious, one by one just lowered their heads and kept silent.
"The straight lady thief, when the Jin people went south, they didn't resist well, but voted for the Jin people. Wait a while, as long as I enter the gate, I must let these beasts taste the power of the earth-shaking thunder!"
Xu Hu smiled at the "Song" soldiers on the wall, and turned his head, but his face was fierce.
As an officer of the Loyal Army, he more or less knew some things on the battlefield. Tianjing Pass, back to Niuling, the reasons why these dangerous passes fell one by one, he understood what was going on.
On the wall, these shameless people who led the court in front of him, and then turned around and threw themselves into the arms of the Jin people, really made him angry and couldn't help himself.
"Brother Xu, wait a while and you say what to do, the brothers will follow you!"
Li Jin next to him was nervous and excited, as the initiator of the sneak attack plan, he was nervous in his heart.
Among the 200 people in disguise, fifty or sixty were soldiers from various villages and townships led by him, and the rest were soldiers of the grenadier battalion of the loyal and righteous army.
The first time he led the Loyal and Righteous Army to fight, Li Jin was also a little apprehensive in his heart, although he had experienced a lot of such battles, but because he was in the Loyal and Righteous Army, in front of Wang Song, he didn't want to lose face.
These elite soldiers of the loyal and righteous army, he can be regarded as knowledgeable. Not to mention the fierce and brave, and they are all masters who are not afraid of death, which makes him heartbroken.
Xu Hu nodded, and whispered to Li Jin: "Brother Li, pass the word, let the brothers all stabilize, and when you enter the gate, everything will be subject to my instructions!"
Originally, Xu Hu wanted to blow up the gate directly, and rushed in to bombard. When I got to the wall, I found that the gate was high and thick, not to mention, there was a trench in front of the door, for the sake of insurance, I still waited until I entered the stockade, I was more sure.
The gate slowly opened a crack, and more than a dozen soldiers walked out of the gate and walked down the long and steep slope, led by Song Da.
In front of everyone, Song Da began to wander around in the crowd, Xu Hu, Li Jin and others nodded one by one, and laughed in a low voice, which was also Song Da's sense of self-pride, holding his chest high and holding his head high, feeling much more majestic than before.
The sour and rotten aura emitted by these people made Song Da cover his nose involuntarily, he just glanced at it a few times, and then walked out of the crowd with other subordinates.
Song Da waved his hand, the gate of the village opened, and Song Da led everyone through the long steep slope, passed through the gate of the wall, and entered the pass.
Entering the walled gate, the soldiers watching the school field in the walled gate gave way one after another, looking at the group of sloppy ghosts who walked in with a hippie smile, and did not notice at all, one by one the iron lumps emitting white smoke were thrown out and fell into the pile.
"Boom! Boom!"
Violent explosions rang out one after another, and puffs of black smoke rose with them, enveloping a large area at the city gate.
The screams came, and the soldiers on the city wall reacted, and they hurriedly picked up their weapons and rushed under the city wall.
The earth-shattering thunder flew in the air, and one by one the smoking iron bumps were thrown at the feet of the golden soldiers one after another.
An earth-shattering thunder fell at Song Da's feet, "呲呲" burned, and before he could react, the person rose into the air, and his body became blurred with flesh and blood.
"What sound?"
The violent explosions outside sounded one after another, and Song Gui in the lobby was shocked, he stood up from his chair and walked out quickly.
At the gate of the wall, the screams came and went, the black smoke billowed out, the soldiers panicked, and the bandits were like wolves and tigers, with hideous faces.
The gate of the wall was wide open, the pillars of smoke on the wall of the wall were rising, and when he heard the tragic cries of the soldiers and the deafening shouts of the other party, a thought instantly floated in Song Gui's heart.
This patio is over!
"Li Jin and Zhang Sheng, each of you will bring one person up, immediately occupy the wall, and kill those who resist! The rest hold the gates and wait for the army to arrive!"
Xu Hu threw the earth-shattering thunder in his hand, watched it drown several soldiers in front of him, and then commanded Li Jin and Zhang Sheng beside him.
Zhang Sheng and Li Jin each led a team of men, picked up the knives and guns on the ground, and quickly climbed towards the walls on both sides.
A violent explosion came from the pass, Niu Gao gave an order, and the soldiers beat their horses and galloped, and the wind and clouds turned out of the col and rushed towards the gate in front.
Zhang Sheng and Li Jin rushed to the wall, but found that there were not many soldiers on it. The walls were littered with corpses and wounded, and the survivors were all on their knees, their hands holding their knives and guns, their faces full of horror.
Zhang Sheng snorted disdainfully. Relying on these cowardly soft eggs, how could the Great Song Dynasty court hold such a strong pass?
Suddenly, the back door opened, and dozens of people sat on horses, surrounded by hundreds of sergeants behind them, and fled towards the outside of the gate.
The soldiers of the Loyal Army were all dumbfounded, and their own team had just rushed in, and before there was any fierce fighting, the other party fled.
It's no wonder that when the Jin people went south, they were like bamboos all the way, and the Xiongguan was dangerous, it turned out that these shit-like things were guarding, and the court and the people were really entrusted to them.
Everyone was infantry, and there was no way to pursue, only to wait for the cavalry behind to come up, and then they could pursue.
"Gather all the prisoners together and put them together, leaving the wounded alone. These eggless guys are really disappointing!"
Xu Hu greeted the soldiers weakly. Ending the battle so quickly, without even sweating on his body, really caught him by surprise.
"Xu Tongzhi, you said that in today's battle, do our brothers have a silver reward?"
One of the soldiers asked timidly.
"That's what you're embarrassed to ask!"
Xu Hu glared at him and scolded sharply: "There is a fart reward for silver, just these wretches, even the earth-shaking thunder is a waste, you are embarrassed!" Next time you kill a few more Jurchen fans, how much silver will you need, how much silver will you need!"
The soldier retreated with a red face, and Xu Hu asked people to clean up the front of the village.
Without a moment's effort, Niu Gao led the cavalry army to rush in, and when he heard Xu Hu's explanation, he immediately led a part of the cavalry to rush out through the back door.
Song Gui took more than a dozen henchmen, surrounded by hundreds of soldiers, and went from the back door to the direction of Zezhou. Song Gui's heart was extremely frightened, for fear of being caught up by the Song soldiers in the rear, so he galloped forward all the way.
Suddenly, countless rolling stones and sassals tumbled down from the slopes on both sides, smashing over some of the soldiers in front of them and blocking the mountain road.
Song Gui hurriedly reined in his war horse and looked forward, only to see that on the slopes on both sides, in the woods, countless Song soldiers with sharp blades rushed out.
"It's the loyal and righteous soldiers of the dog day, hurry up and meet the enemy!"
Song Gui was taken aback, and there was no choice but to fight to the death at this moment.
Looking at the panicked deserters below, Liang Xing waved the spear in his hand and shouted, "Kill the thief!"
led his shouting subordinates to the mountain road.
Niu Gao led the cavalry forward, chased all the way on the mountain road, and arrived at a valley, but saw that a fierce battle was taking place in front of him, and the deserters were engaged in a life-and-death white-knuckle battle with a group of Song soldiers.
These hundred people were all Song Gui's personal soldiers, and their combat effectiveness was naturally extraordinary, and the besieging township soldiers fell one by one. Niu Gao saw that the villagers had suffered heavy casualties, and joined the battle with his subordinate cavalry.
Seeing Niu Gao coming over like a god, Song Gui bravely greeted him. Niu Gao smashed it down, Song Gui blocked it hard, his arm ached, and the knife flew out.
Song Gui ran away when he hit the horse, Liang Xing shouted angrily, the spear wheel was round and smashed on the horse's front hooves, Song Gui's war horse screamed and fell heavily to the ground. Song Gui couldn't react, and the person was also thrown out.
Song Gui got up from the grass, and before he recovered from the dizziness, Liang Xing had already arrived quickly, and smashed it down, Song Gui was shot in the throat, and he was killed.
Song Gui died, and the rest of the deserters were even more panicked, and under the pursuit of the cavalry and village soldiers, they were all cut down and stabbed to the ground.
Seeing that the situation on the battlefield was already clear, Liang Xing walked over and bowed to Niu Gao: "Dare to ask the general's name, but the army of the imperial court?"
Niu Gao nodded and said loudly: "Yes, this brother, we are under the account of Wang Song, the envoy of the two rivers, and you are the local township soldiers?"
Liang Xing was shocked, and hurriedly stepped forward and hugged his fists and said: "Villain Liang Xing, the people of Jinzhou, the leader of the local Zhongyi Society and township soldiers." I have heard the name of the prince for a long time, and I also asked the general to introduce the villains and others......"