In the countless wars of the Heavenly Dao Army to pacify the world, the battle of "Killing the Wind" is not large in terms of scale and the number of people participating in the war, but it has left a strong mark in history, which is widely known to the world and future generations, and has also derived countless versions of artistic expression, which can be regarded as legendary, because this is the founder of the Dahua Dynasty--- Zheng Linfeng, one of the only few defeats in dozens of large and small battles commanded by himself, and it is also the most dangerous battle, and he himself is almost like that "Killing Wind" The hidden meaning is the same as that of being buried here, and more importantly, this battle is also the first battle between Zheng Linfeng and Li Gang, and the first collision between the two heroes of the times.

Zheng Fei didn't know that Li Gang had arrived at the Daimyo's Mansion, let alone that Li Gang had begun to command the Song army, he was just in a hurry to rush to the Daimyo's Mansion, and this just fell into Li Gang's trap.

After Li Gang arrived at the Daimyo's Mansion, he completely ignored the fatigue of traveling for several days and days, and quickly went to see Yao Gu, and brought Yao Gu three "surprises" one after another.

The first is that Yao Gu was very surprised that Li Gang could come so quickly, he only received the news that Li Gang came to be the supervisor a few days ago, and it was estimated that Li Gang would arrive in at least ten days, but he didn't expect to see Li Gang only three days later, when he learned from Yao Pingzhong, who accompanied Li Gang, how Li Gang rushed over this way, Yao Gu instantly made three preliminary judgments on Li Gang, one, madman, two, don't die, three, don't die.

And in addition to his admiration for Li Gang, he is extremely grateful, because Yao Gu has known his life from other channels, and even the reason why the entire Yao family can be saved can be said to be completely thanks to this Li Gang, who was born out of nowhere, and now he finally met the great benefactor, Yao Gu originally wanted to treat Li Gang well, but he didn't expect that as soon as they met, before they could say a word of greeting, he was pulled by Li Gang and rushed to the front line to inspect the situation, Li Gang was not idle along the way, and asked him to introduce the latest battle situation in detail.

After initial contact, Yao Gu had already seen that Li Gang was a highly responsible person, and he came here to help the Great Song Dynasty and himself win the battle, but there was a heart, fighting a war is not a game, let alone talking on paper, he didn't believe that this young, milky, undried official, who was born as a magistrate, had never even been a magistrate, and from this point of view, the great benefactor who was inferior to Zheng Xiunian could help the war, so he only had the idea of "coping" with Li Gang's question, Try to satisfy the good feeling of the new official of the great benefactor taking office, but with the further in-depth discussion with Li Gang on the battle situation, he was really surprised by Li Gang again, as the saying goes, the layman looks at the posture, the insider looks at the doorway, whether he really understands, the insider will know it when he tries it, and he was surprised that although Li Gang's words are not much, they are all right to the key and the point, between three words, the intricate changes in the situation between the enemy and me have been explained very clearly, Yao Gu knew that this was really meeting a capable person, and immediately put away his contempt, turned to Li Gang to introduce it in more detail. This was the second surprise that Li Gang brought to Yao Gu.

The third surprise is the battle of "killing the outlet", of course, it is not so much "surprise", but "shock".

After listening to General Yao Gu's account of the causes and consequences of why he united with the thieves to attack the Liaoxia and the two armies, Li Gang pointed out the true purpose of the thieves and judged that the thieves would inevitably attack in a big way after surrendering the two Liaoxia armies, and the purpose was to force Yao Gu to surrender.

These Yao Gu naturally knew about it, and he immediately said that his majesty had pardoned his sins, and sent his two sons to the front line, showing his incomparable trust in him, and the emperor's grace was immense. Even if His Majesty wants to execute him now, he will resolutely not betray the Great Song Dynasty, not only will he not betray, but he will also give orders to the Yao family, if anyone dares to betray the Great Song Dynasty, he will not be a descendant of the Yao family. Now, he has mobilized the whole army, the whole army has been fully prepared, although the thieves are now strong, we are in a weak position, but we have not yet reached a desperate situation, first of all, since the escape of the two armies of Liaoxia, the baggage originally supplied to them has been saved, so a large number of baggage, plus the original belongs to us, we are now not short of food and money, and we are completely qualified to hold on for a long time. Secondly, the Northwest Army is not a vegetarian, if the thieves dare to come, the 200,000 Northwest Army can also make them pay a huge price!

Li Gang pondered for a moment after hearing this, but shook his head and said, "Now our biggest difficulty is not the grain and grass, nor the troops, but the military spirit!" ”

Yao Gu hurriedly said when he heard this, "Lord Li doesn't have to worry about the army's heart, the Northwest Army is the same as the old man, and will not betray ......,"

Li Gang shook his head again, "I don't doubt the loyalty of the Northwest Army to the Great Song Dynasty, what I mean by military spirit is actually courage. ”

Yao Gu wondered, "Courage? ”

Li Gang said, "In the first battle of Liangshan, tens of thousands of troops of the Great Song Dynasty were annihilated, missing the best opportunity to exterminate the bandits in Liangshan, and directly led to the loss of Jingxi Road. In the first battle of Jingxi Road, the 200,000 troops of the Great Song Dynasty were annihilated, the commander Gao Yu was killed, and the Great Song Dynasty was forced to recruit the thieves, and fell into the double reed scheme of Zheng Linfeng and Zhu Wu. In the first battle of the rebel army, the 350,000 army of the Great Song Dynasty was almost completely annihilated, the commander Zhao Kai was captured, and several roads quickly fell, causing the Great Song Dynasty to completely lose the initiative, and even had to lead the Tibetan army into the court in order to resist the thieves. Now, the thieves have done an incredible thing, defeating hundreds of thousands of Liaoxia coalition troops and surrendering. General Yao, how do you feel after hearing this? ”

Yao Gu knew all this, but from Li Gang's mouth, he was dumbfounded again, and he didn't know how to answer,

Li Gang sighed and continued, "Since the thieves started their army, it has only been a few years, but they have invaded half of our Great Song Dynasty. And in the whole process, we fought more than a dozen big battles with the thieves, and invested nearly a million troops, but we didn't taste a victory! This is our biggest difficulty! Don't hide it from General Yao, I have been out of Tokyo in the past few days, while hurrying away, while observing the situation along the way, the entire Great Song Dynasty has been filled with pessimism and panic, and as we get closer to the Daimyo's Mansion, this panic is becoming more and more obvious, when you come to the Daimyo's Mansion, although your Northwest Army is still holding its ground, but its morale has fallen to the extreme, I believe that they will fight to the death with the thieves, but under this kind of morale, we have no possibility of winning at all, we can only die in vain! ”

Yao Gu's face was very ugly, as the commander, of course he knew how bad the actual situation of the Northwest Army was, but he had no choice, because the thieves were too powerful, they were already incredibly strong, and in the face of this kind of strength, any words that boosted morale were so pale and had no effect.

"Master Li......, what do you say?" Although Yao Gu didn't believe that Li Gang, who had just arrived at the front line for less than half an hour, could do anything, he still asked with a glimmer of hope,

Li Gang said in a deep voice, "Now that the enemy is outnumbered, we must be based on defense!" ”

Yao Gu pouted in disappointment, defense? That's it?

But I heard Li Gang continue, "But before comprehensive defense, we must take the initiative to attack once, this time to defeat the thieves, defeat the undefeated myth of the thieves!" ”

Yao Gu couldn't help but gasp and took the initiative to attack? You're not kidding, sir, are you? You all understand the current morale of the army, and you also know how disparity the strength of the enemy and us is, and now it is too late to even defend, you want to let the army take the initiative to attack? You don't think we've lived long enough, do you?!

"This ......, I'm afraid it's ......," Yao Gu racked his brains to think of words to persuade Li Gang to give up this crazy idea, although he is the commander, but Li Gang is the supervisor of the army, if Li Gang insists on sending troops, he is helpless, and Li Gang is still his benefactor, how can this be said tactfully,

Li Gang saw Yao Gu's doubts, he smiled slightly, "General Yao, please listen to what I say, I estimate that the thieves will soon come to attack us, they are now in full swing, they must be proud and complacent, and we have retreated on all fronts, and have put on a posture of mourning, don't say that the thieves can't think of it, even you can't imagine that we dare to take the initiative, and my plan is to ......." ”

Li Gang's voice became smaller and smaller, Yao Gu's expression became more and more surprised, and after Li Gang finished speaking, Yao Gu pondered for a long time with a shocked face, and then looked up at Li Gang's face that was full of tiredness, but also full of strength and courage, he finally gritted his teeth and nodded fiercely!

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In this way, under the command of Li Gang, the best scouts of the Song army kept running between the Heavenly Dao Army and the Daimyo's Mansion, constantly reporting the movements of the Heavenly Dao Army to Li Gang and Yao Gu, and when Zheng Fei led the Heavenly Dao Army to approach the Daimyo's Mansion, it didn't take long for Li Gang and Yao Gu to know,

On the hundreds of miles from Bozhou to the Daimyo's Mansion, along the way, the Song army pretended to be afraid of fleeing as soon as they saw the Heavenly Dao Army, luring Zheng Fei and the vanguard army to move faster and faster.

It's just that at the beginning, Li Gang didn't know that the person who led the vanguard of the Heavenly Dao Army was Zheng Fei, and when Zheng Fei marched less than a hundred miles away from the Daimyo's Mansion, Li Gang learned that the person who came was actually Zheng Linfeng!

Li Gang was overjoyed, the thief leader Zheng Linfeng had already gotten into his pocket, if he could kill or even capture him alive in this battle, the benefits would be immeasurable! It's a pity that Li Gang's original purpose was just to win a victory and break the myth of the undefeated Tiandaokou, in order to boost the morale of the Song army, but he didn't expect that the person who rushed into his ambush circle was actually the thief leader Zheng Linfeng, so he didn't lay too many troops, and only brought 80,000 people, otherwise, I was afraid that he would dare to send all the Song army to encircle and suppress Zheng Fei, although he knew it now, but it was too late to send troops to send troops, Li Gang had to order the whole army to attack and directly attack the thief leader Zheng Linfeng, at the same time, in order to cause psychological pressure on the Tiandao army, also deliberately changed the "Shafeng Mouth" to "Killing Wind Mouth" at the ambush site, which means killing Zheng Linfeng's place!

The battle has begun!

Zheng Fei soon found himself trapped in the layers of the Song army, and the troops he brought with him were only the independent army, but along the way, he had also divided the three thousand cavalry in the independent army in the empty cities that had just been captured everywhere and waited for the main force to arrive, that is to say, now in Zheng Fei's hands, there were actually less than seven thousand cavalry!

If these 7,000 horsemen are in the plains, not to mention facing 80,000 Song troops, even facing 180,000, they also come and go freely, but now they are in the mountains, and the power of the cavalry has plummeted, and this is also the purpose of Li Gang to set up an ambush here, Zheng Fei and the independent army fell into the most cruel and passive mountain battle in history, the encirclement of the Song army is getting smaller and smaller, the casualties of the independent army are getting bigger and bigger, and they are driven up an empty hill by Li Gang commanding the Song army intentionally,

But the independent army is an independent army, even if it can't rely on war horses, its combat effectiveness is amazing, the Song army launched more than a dozen charges, but they were all stubbornly repelled by the independent army,

And as the scouts continued to report, saying that the Tiandao army behind had discovered the abnormality and was launching a fierce attack on the Song army that was blocking them, Li Gang's joy had to begin to fade, he didn't expect that the combat effectiveness and fighting will of the army that followed the thief leader Zheng Linfeng was so strong, he couldn't even catch a living prisoner, everyone was fighting to the death, and finally, in the face of the huge casualties that outweighed the losses, Li Gang chose to retreat, and could only order the withdrawal with great regret.

Not long after the Song army withdrew, the Tiandao army behind finally arrived, Zheng Fei escaped, but the independent army suffered the worst casualties since its creation, more than 3,000 horsemen were killed in the battle out of 7,000 horsemen, and almost everyone was injured in the rest, even the army commander Pang Wanchun was also injured by stray arrows.

Zheng Fei's first encounter with Li Gang ended with Li Gang's strategic victory.