Chapter 348: Heaven Cry
Autumn in the north has always been dry and rainless, especially in this Henan Plain, encountered a great drought that has not been encountered for many years, and it has not been long since it rained.
The dripping rain soon turned into a rattling shower of leaves and roofs, and for a moment everything in sight was enveloped in overwhelming humid rain.
In the vertical and horizontal areas outside the city, those few crops that are a little yellow but not green are also like rain, slowly standing up their waists.
Hundreds of miles away near Bianzhou, the rain washed away the bloodstains and heavy stench of the city, giving the city a different look.
But in fact, even I didn't expect that this heavy rain, which was said by the locals to be crying in the sky, was just the beginning and symptom of a series of changes later.
The so-called Sky Cryer means that the Southern Army has killed too much, and God can't see it, and tears are like rain.
But in any case, this sudden heavy rain really brought a lot of trouble to the Yugoslav army that was on the offensive, not only in terms of the environment and climate, but also in the negative reactions of people's hearts.
For example, the Yunzhou regiment under my command has a certain restlessness, and it needs my bullet pressure, just because it is good to die, and the main force participating in the slaughter of the city is also under the name of the new army.
It is not easy to calm down the somewhat restless Yunzhou stragglers and other personnel recruited in the north.
For this reason, I had to put a little more thought and effort into the camp, only took a few guards to brave the rain and went into the camp to inspect alone, and stayed in it to eat a meal of Yunzhou local flavor chop three food, mainly with belly, fried liver, roasted kidney flower made of big stove stewed vegetables, and then took a nap by the way, before slowly coming back.
However, it has paid off.
Although I am just following the wisdom of my predecessors, such as the shrunken version of the famous general Guo Ziyi who rode alone in the camp and subdued the mutinous Hebei official army, it is obvious that these Yunzhou soldiers of the ancients are quite addicted to this set.
Their reaction to my calmness and trust was all kinds of gratitude, and they slapped Bang on their chests, saying that they should die to repay Yunyun, and they almost didn't have a chance to let them show it.
At this time, there was news of a sneak attack by the northern soldiers in many places, and the so-called morale could be ordered by me to send troops on the spot, driving them to meet the battle happily.
After defeating the northern soldiers who landed somewhere, and then using them to escort the captives, under the exclusive banner, and parade around the nearby city, the local noise and commotion naturally disappeared.
Although the methods are somewhat deliberate and contrived, the human heart is sometimes fearful and realistic......
At the same time, in the camp of the Northern Army, there was an atmosphere of mourning and hatred for the enemy, but a few people were toasting on the palace platform to celebrate this stupid move made by the Southern Army.
Luodu stayed behind Zhang Dekun, and Yang Si, the secretary of the military department, toasted each other across the crowd.
This is probably the only one of the few in their lives, and perhaps the last intersection and cooperation. And around them, the voices of other insiders continued.
"Thanks to this incident, it allowed us to thwart the success of the Southern Rebellion, and we had one more point."
"The dead soldiers in the secret camp who have been raised for many years are really indispensable......"
"For this result, I have been in the local area for many years, but I have given it up......"
"Now that the mourning soldiers are available, those who have other intentions also have to go down to ......"
Although it showed a declining trend of defeat and retreat on the battlefield, the influence and layout of the Northern Dynasties operating in the local area for many years could not be eliminated for a while, and this time it was regarded as leaving enough foreshadowing and surprises for those Southern Korean troops.
In the willow forest on the bank of the Yellow River, Ma Liuge stayed in the ranks of captives dejectedly. He is a naturalized descendant of the so-called wild Khitan species.
Since the remnants of the Khitan Great Eight Alliances hundreds of years ago were driven by the famous general Li Guangbi to the mountains and forests farther north than the Bohai Kingdom, on the edge of the permafrost, these Khitan remnants have also regressed from the traditional tent-building nomadic herding to the more primitive and backward clan fishing and hunting methods, forming the so-called "Savage Khitan", or Wild Khitan.
Because of the harsh local environment, hardship and barrenness and limited output, these Khitan descendants did not have enough resources, and they only had to form a similar political organization, leaving only large and small settlements to protect themselves.
The name Marugo is a product of his father's acceptance of the Han way of life. He was one of the few captives of the Northern Soldiers, and was the highest-ranking of them all.
As the Hebei soldiers who had just been dispatched back from the forefront of the Northeast Battlefield, they were busy all the way and had limited rest, and their will to fight and spirit were inevitably a little tired and weakened.
However, the instinct and quality of the battle-hardened still made them persist to the end, so except for the wounded who couldn't run, there were not many people who were really captured.
Because Ma Liuge had lived at the border for a long time, he had never seen much water and could not swim, so he couldn't help but hesitate before going down the river, and he was caught up by the villagers. Righteous and brave, and made prisoners of those who were knocked out and humiliated.
In retrospect, it was a battle of victory and defeat, twists and turns, and humiliation and despair. Originally, they had already managed to capture a number of beachheads, and they were connected to each other.
When he arrived, he led the southern soldiers stationed nearby, and the many suspicious soldiers who were attacked by them were at a loss, and they couldn't respond to each other and were broken one by one.
Then he began to divide his troops into two routes, one of which continued to sweep outward, pursuing the garrison troops who were fighting against each other, which was really a little unusual; Step by step, the beachhead was strengthened, and most of them were temporarily converted into workers, using stakes and planks to build several simple trestles along the mud bank of the shoals, which could be used to reach the big boats and carry heavy loads.
As soon as the next group of cavalry mounts landed on the south shore with the ship, there was nothing to stop them from galloping, and Marugo was such a cavalry officer who crossed first.
At this time, they were finally counterattacked by the local soldiers and horses left behind, but although the other party was the banner of the miscellaneous current, it was a little tenacious.
The generals who landed first ashore, but because they annihilated it with all their might, they still continued to divide the troops while containing Xu Xu Tuzhi.
As a result, this triumph and hesitation turned things into a different situation.
When those very strange southern soldiers arrived with men, thousands of Hebei soldiers who had successfully landed were surrounded by the other side on three sides with several thin horizontal battle fronts in the temporary riverside landing site.
Because of the light attack, they only have blades and some bows and crossbows with them, and even in order to load as many soldiers as possible, they have to strictly reduce their weight, so that they don't even have a high proportion of armor.
As a result, these differences eventually became their biggest obstacles.
No matter how hard they tried, they could not break through these southern armies after several sorties, and the thin front set up, which obviously only had a row of rejecting horses and spearmen behind them, was like a moat, making it impossible for these good fighters to break through.
With the sound of the other party's fire gun bursting beans, these Hebei athletes fell shoulder to shoulder, chest on their backs, piece by piece on the impact and protrusion of the short distance, and the rest of the people crashed into those horses and spears, exhausting the last bit of residual courage and draining the last bit of blood.
When the generals in the rear realized that the general situation was quite bad in the dispute, they even the riverboats that followed up were already exposed to the threat of those southern troops.
Although the opponent did not have the strength to fight on the water, he brought a weapon that could be projected far away, and threw the grease that could be attached to the water and burned directly into the vicinity of the riverboats stationed on the water.
When a few riverboats were set on fire, the rest of the sailors couldn't care much more, they were almost in a mess, shouting and shaking their sails, panickedly abandoning half of the loading and unloading personnel and supplies, and hurried off the shore.
As a result, the rest of the people became outcasts, either after the hard work was exhausted, they became captives waiting to be killed, or they were rushed into the river and turned into layers of floating corpses.
On the other side of the Yellow River, Zhang Shuye just got a mixed news, the landing in Puzhou was the most successful, and there was almost no decent resistance, and the two reinforcements in Jeju had broken through the blockade and merged with the local soldiers and civilians who held on, but in the territory of Yunzhou between the two, the news that the people and horses who landed in the three places were all defeated,
When he ordered the sailors and infantry generals who had fled from the battle to be beheaded on the spot and abandoned their bodies in the river, he finally faced up to a certain man on the opposite bank.