Chapter 375: The Battle of Xishuipo

Yang An'er didn't want to be so desperate, but he knew that in the Han army, reckless heroes were not allowed, and if the brothers below caused trouble, it would be his own leading brother who would take the blame in the end. Besides, if her sister Yang Miaozhen wants to serve His Majesty, she is a relative of the emperor and the country, and she wants to go to the upper class and enter the power class, how can she leave a handle for her political enemies in this case?

Seeing that the brothers below had settled down, Yang An'er said: "I have already given you the opportunity, since I am not willing to leave, I am willing to stay and become the general of the Han army, then we will fight for the emperor of the Han Dynasty in the future." We are going to take Qi County this time, and we are destined to fight head-on with the Jin army. They cavalry, we are infantry, and in mobility, we suffer a lot. However, the Jin army has to transport grain and grass, so as long as we plan in advance, we can completely catch the enemy off guard. ”

Yang An'er is a decisive person, since he has decided to stay and attack Qi County, he must be victorious and prove that his men can gain a foothold in the Han army.

Qi County is a small county town, the city is not big, there are 3,000 Song troops stationed in the city who surrendered to the Jin State, and the capital commander Fang is really not a hero, and the Jin army has not yet been killed, so it surrendered early. Now Qi County, there are still 2,000 Khitan warriors, although they also surrendered to the Jin State, but the combat effectiveness of these 2,000 people is much stronger, and this is 2,000 cavalry, which is very mobile, and can well protect the grain road from being harassed by the rebels.

For a long time, the Khitan cavalry was responsible for protecting the grain road under the leadership of the commander Xiao Le, and the Song army, which was no longer the Song army, was responsible for guarding the city.

Yang An'er pointed to the map and said: "Five days later, there will be a 5,000-strong Jin State baggage team passing through Qi County, and Xiao Le will definitely patrol the grain road in advance, what we have to do is to eat Xiao Le's 2,000 cavalry first, and then take down the enemy in the city, and finally trap the 5,000 Jin army in Qi County." ”

It is not easy to take down 2,000 cavalry, as long as someone runs out and reports to the county seat of Qi County, it will be difficult to deceive the gate of the county seat of Qi County. Moreover, if you ask the surrounding Yao County and Hui County Jin Jun for help, the problem is still troublesome.

There is a section called Xishuipo in the middle of the grain road inspected by the Khitan cavalry, which is a good gathering place, the terrain is high all around, the middle terrain is low, and there are water plants in the middle, which is the best place for the cavalry to rest.

The key question is how to lead the Khitan cavalry to Xishuipo, which is the key to this battle, Yang An'er said to Guo Fangsan: "When the time comes, you will lead a thousand soldiers to disguise themselves as righteous soldiers, take the initiative to leak their whereabouts to the Khitan soldiers, and then begin to retreat to Xishuipo, while retreating, while abandoning some gold and silver, to give the Khitan soldiers an illusion, that is, there will be a large amount of gold, silver and jewelry in Xishuipo, as long as this group of guys comes, don't think about going back." ”

The Jin army has always been invincible and invincible, but there are great problems in the distribution of spoils, and there is nothing wrong with it when the war is going well, and once the war is not going well, all the problems will erupt.

Jin was transformed from slavery.,Especially the military system has always been the original slavery.,It's always been invincible.,There's never been sinicization.,It's always this ancient military system in operation.。 The most typical thing is that the spoils of war, as if they were all distributed by the nobles of the Jin State according to their military merits, on the surface it seems to be very fair, but in fact, it is only for the Jurchen warriors, and it is not the case for those Khitans, Bohai people, Xi people, Liaodi Han'er, Goryeo, and the Song army that surrendered, basically the spoils have nothing to do with them.

Before, the Jin army swept the world, and those vassal armies did not dare to show dissatisfaction, but after the Jin army was constantly defeated, that dissatisfaction became more and more.

Xiao Le is a nobleman of the Xi clan, just a side branch, his background is not good, and he is unlucky after surrendering to the Jin army, it seems that this guy has participated in several fiascos, and he has been reduced from the original commander to two thousand commanders, and the tens of thousands of troops under his command have become only more than two thousand points.

Although he can't see the future, Xiao Le still has the pride of the nobles of the Liao State, and he looks down on the Song army at all, so on the battlefield, this guy and the Khitan warriors under his command have always been brave to kill the enemy, but these bravery, due to bad luck, there is no way to transform them into military exploits, and they can't get the spoils of war, and over time, Xiao Le will lose his fighting spirit.

The general leads the troops, on the one hand, it is the general's personal prestige and ability, and on the other hand, it is the reward of the spoils of war.

Centurion Yelu Chang is getting more and more dissatisfied with Xiao Le, this guy is greedy for money and lustful, especially for women, there is nothing wrong with it before, how many men in the world are not lustful? Now that the Jin army has lost its former edge, the loot is getting less and less, Yeluchang is not enough money in this small centurion, the little wife is not complaining, but stealing people, and the person who stole is Xiao Le's own brother Xiao Kai, which makes Yeluchang gradually change from dissatisfaction to hatred towards Xiao Le.

On this day, there is no difference from usual, the Khitan soldiers are still patrolling on the grain road, and the two thousand people are pulling out two miles away from the team, which is not surprising for a long time, after all, the military discipline of the Khitan soldiers is very poor, and in the early days of surrendering to the Jin army, they were also strictly required by the Jin army, and then gradually relaxed, especially in this battle of Bianliang City, the tactical discipline was even more loose.

Yelu Chang was leading the team in front listlessly on horseback, he didn't want to fight anymore, he wanted to make a sum of money and go northwest, hoping to escape to Xiliao, thousands of miles away, after all, where is the country of the Khitans.

A few scouts from afar came on horseback, and when the leading scout leader saw that Yelu was there, he hurriedly reported: "Centurion, there is a team of Song rebels not far ahead, about 1,000 people, and it seems that there are a lot of supplies. ”

As soon as he heard the supplies, Yelu Changzai's eyes straightened, and he didn't bother to listen to the next words, he raised his horsewhip and shouted loudly: "Brothers, go and rob the money." ”

For these poor and frightened Khitan soldiers, when they heard that they were robbing money, it was as if a bachelor saw a little widow, and their eyes lit up one by one, and they stepped forward without command.

While rushing forward, he shouted to grab the money.

The soldiers in front rushed forward, and the soldiers in the back also rushed forward, after all, this group of Khitan soldiers were very poor and wanted to make a fortune. Even Xiao Le, who was at the back, heard it, he didn't take the Song army in his eyes at all, as for the righteous army, in the eyes of this guy, it was a group of rabble, no matter how many there were, they couldn't stop the cavalry under their command, and under the effect of this mentality, he acquiesced to the soldiers rushing forward.

The rebels, sure enough, were the rebels, as soon as they saw the Khitan cavalry rushing over, this group of guys panicked, and ran forward desperately one by one, and a lot of supplies fell.

There are a lot of things, but not much of value, in this case, Yelu Chang's first reaction is that this group of timid rebels must have fled with valuable things, and if they want to get money, they must chase after them.

Guo Fangsan is in the rebel army, he has the nickname of the general who escaped, this guy took the lead in the rat scurry, he didn't need to act at all, he was simply acting in his true colors, under his leadership, the thousand soldiers desperately fled towards the west water slope.

While escaping, he also scattered copper coins, silver and other valuables on the ground from time to time, the amount was not very large, but for the poor and crazy Khitan soldiers, the ant thigh was also a piece of meat, and they were desperately picked up one by one and grabbed desperately.

More and more gold and silver were discarded, and they were getting closer and closer to the western slope.

Guo Fangsan knew that it was time, if he didn't release the ultimate, it would be difficult to lead the Khitan soldiers down the Xishui Slope, so he ordered the soldiers to throw the valuables downward, and by the way, the weapons were also thrown away. It gives people the illusion that they are going to run for their lives and don't want anything.

Yelu Chang vaguely saw that there should be thousands of rebels in the Xishui Slope, there were not many people, but there were many boxes. This gives this guy, Wu Xian's imagination space, his reaction is to meet the transport troops of the rebel army, it seems that he is going to get rich today, in order to plunder more wealth, this guy is the first to charge.

The 'rebels' faced the Khitan cavalry that followed, and they were so frightened that they scattered and fled, and they didn't want anything or weapons, and they ran very panickedly, and the embarrassed posture was the most common reaction when they collapsed.

Many boxes rolled towards the center of the west water slope, and two boxes that were not very tightly sealed actually hit the stones in the process of rolling, and copper coins and silver ingots rolled out of them.

Rich, this word is like poison, guiding the Khitan warriors to rush forward, and the posture of the moth throwing fire is very spectacular.

Resistance, when approaching the bottom of the West Water Slope, the Khitan warriors finally met resistance, and it was precisely because of this stubborn resistance that the Khitan soldiers believed that there was a considerable wealth in the boxes below, otherwise these timid rebels would not have resisted desperately.

The treasure was dug up, and at this moment, the Khitan soldiers rushed forward one after another as if they had been beaten with chicken blood.

The rebels did not flee in all directions before, but struggled to resist, began to fight back with bows and arrows, hid behind large boxes, and constantly counterattacked with bows and arrows, putting on a posture of breaking the boat.

Acting is to do a full set, responsible for the defense of the bottom of the Xishuipo is Huang Sanlang, the 5,000 soldiers led by this guy are to drag the Khitan soldiers with tenacious defense, until the 2,000 Khitan soldiers are introduced into the Xishuipo.

The terrain of this place on the west slope is very strange, that is, there is a pond at the bottom that does not look very large, but the water is very deep, so deep that it is impossible to pass through it without a boat. Outside the pond, only a two-mile radius from the front can be entered, which is actually in the shape of a cloth bag, but it is not visible from the outside.

The Khitan soldiers continued to burrow into the cloth bags, and after Xiao Le's rear army entered the Xishui slope, the siege began.

In this battle, the emperor of the Han Dynasty gave Yang An'er 20,000 infantry and 10,000 cavalry, which can be regarded as a support for this uncle, hoping that Yang An'er can win the victory, be able to make meritorious contributions, and then gain a firm foothold in the Han army.

Yang An'er faced two thousand Khitan cavalry, he didn't want to use cavalry, this battle of Xishuipo, it can be said that it was all infantry, and these 20,000 infantry were Yang An'er's old subordinates, and they could be regarded as personal soldiers.

Thousands of infantry used bows and arrows to entangle the Khitan cavalry at the bottom of the Xishui Slope, and the remaining more than 10,000 infantry encircled from the outside. In order to avoid foolproof, Yang An'er placed 10,000 cavalry on the periphery of Xishuipo to hunt the fish that slipped through the net.

The periphery of the west water slope is not very steep, the lower it is, the steeper it becomes, the Khitan warriors charge down at a very fast speed, but when they want to retreat, the problem comes, the slope at the bottom is too steep, and the cavalry is very difficult when it comes up, and the speed is much slower, in this case, the mobility of the cavalry disappears without a trace.

With Yang An'er's order, the Battle of Xishuipo was in full swing, and the Han army scattered all over the mountains trapped less than 2,000 Khitan soldiers at the bottom of Xishuipo, and the bloody and cruel encounter began.

For a long time, Yang An'er's pride was trampled under the feet of Khitan warriors. The 20,000 troops under his command are ten times that of the Khitan soldiers, and they are still not defeated when they are killed, and the difference in strength is too great.

Why is this so? Yang An'er was a little confused, in fact, it was not Yang An'er's fault, during the entire war, almost all the rebel armies were small units of the Jin army, crushing the opponent with absolute numerical superiority. The real thousands of cavalry encounters are slaughtered, to be honest, only the slaughtered, this group of rebels who have not undergone sample training, to put it bluntly, is a group of rabble, even if it is tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, facing the cavalry, they will still be ruthlessly crushed, and they will not last long, they will quickly collapse and flee in all directions.

Seventeen Jin cavalry once chased two thousand Song troops, so if the trained Song army was replaced by the righteous army, it would be even more defeated.

It's embarrassing, this battle, if you continue to fight like this, you will win in the end, but the casualties will be too large, and you will win in the case of four or five thousand casualties, how to explain when you go back?

Yang An'er knew that he couldn't bear it, so in desperation, he had to order the cavalry to join the battle.

This 10,000 Han iron cavalry is led by Cao Yu, who is a side disciple of the Cao family, brave and good at fighting, and climbed up step by step on the battlefield. Despite this, he was received by His Majesty and received guidance from His Majesty.

10,000 cavalry rushed down with a thunderous momentum, and when he saw that it was the Han Iron Cavalry, Xiao Le was desperate, knowing that it was 100% impossible to rush out of this battle, so he chose to surrender in desperation.

In an hour's war, more than half of the two thousand Khitan warriors were killed or wounded, and nearly three thousand had been lost, and the Han Iron Cavalry had almost zero casualties, mainly because when they rushed down with Mount Tai pressing down, the Khitan soldiers chose to surrender and did not carry it hard.