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Perhaps in the eyes of modern people who have not experienced war, 10,000 enemies may not be much. In terms of historical data, the confrontation between the two armies is often a battle of 100,000 troops. To them, the soldier is just a number.

When you really arrive at the ancient battlefield and see 10,000 horses, that is the real sea of people.

That's right, when Wang Shen was in high school, the entire school was only in his early 2000s. Every time the flag is raised, it densely occupies the entire playground. If it is changed to 10,000 people, what is the concept?

The attacking Li Yubu was about 20 kilometers away from the Huaixi Military Treasury in Pingyuan Town, and although the marching speed was very slow at night, as soon as the torches were raised, the entire horizon was dyed red by the firelight.

This is the wave of flames, and by tomorrow afternoon at the latest, the waves will roll in, and I am afraid that the hundred or so people stationed in Plains Town will be swept away in an instant. Including the dozens of hundreds of people, as well as Yue Yun and An Niang, they will also die in this Shura field.

Standing on the top of the warehouse with a walking bow, looking into the distance, Wang Shen's heart was bitter.

It was already dawn, and it was already cold in the late summer night of the Song Dynasty, and a drop of dew ran down the bowstring and disappeared into the darkness silently.

"Brother Wang." A voice came from behind.

Wang Shenhuo turned his head and saw An Niang climbing up the ladder, carrying a burden in her hand.

"Anniang, what are you doing, it's cold here, you better go back to the house, Ying Xiang can't leave anyone."

Ying Xiang drank some porridge just now and was already asleep. The medicine you gave has been taken, and it looks like it is getting better, and it has been a day without running out of the stomach. Lu Yuhou asked Lang Zhong in the army to prescribe soup and medicine for him, and sent some food and clothes over. I see that you are thinly dressed, big brother, so you ...... I picked out a shirt for you at random, and I don't know if I drink the big brother's heart. After speaking, An Niang opened the package and took out a linen shirt from it.

"Thank you, little lady." Wang Shen's T-shirt has been worn for two days, and it is covered with mud and blood, and it is very dirty. I felt a little cold, so I hurriedly took it and put it on my body and tied it with a belt. Then he took a hat from the burden in An Niang's hand and put it on his head.

"I'll come, I'll come." An Niang hurriedly went over, and knotted her feet behind the folded scarf behind Wang Shen's head.

Not to mention, Wang Shen's dress instantly turned into the appearance of an ancient.

I saw him holding a big bow in his hand, a pot of sprinkling bags on his back, and a horizontal knife on his waist.

An Niang's hand trembled and stopped. In a trance, it was as if he saw his father standing in front of him. Yes, Brother Wang...... Brother Wang looks like his father...... Thinking of this, a face suddenly turned red.

Wang Shen: "Little lady An, what's wrong?" He was amused in his heart, what a heroic figure Grandpa Yue was, why was An Niang so thin and shy.

"I didn't ...... It's nothing ......" An Niang's heart suddenly panicked, and she mechanically went to sort out Wang Shen's somewhat crooked hat, and she couldn't get it right for a long time.

"Little lady An, let's go."

"What?" An Niang was stunned for a moment, and her hand stopped.

Wang Shen turned around and said, "You must also know the situation in front of you, the thief army is coming so fast, and the total number is at least tens of thousands. If I'm not mistaken, for Pingyuan Town, Li Yu is determined to win. These 10,000 people are just his forwards, and the devil knows how many men and horses are following behind, and we will definitely not be able to hold it. By tomorrow afternoon at the latest, this place will fall, you quickly take Ying Xiang out of here and go south, as long as you enter Tianchang County, it will be safe. ”

"Can't hold it?" An Niang's voice trembled.

"Yes." Wang Shen nodded solemnly.

This story is written in the history books, can it be fake?

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The Great Song Dynasty in August of the third year of Jianyan changed.

Jingkang was humiliated, after the second emperor was captured by the Jurchens and returned to the north, King Kang Zhao Gou succeeded to the throne in Nanjing Yingtianfu, because he was afraid of the Jin people coming again, he simply moved across the Yangtze River and fled to Jiankang, as for the defense of the Yellow River in Tokyo, it was handed over to Zong Ze's Tokyo Left-behind Division.

Zong Ze is indeed a figure, during the Kaifeng period, he recruited rebels from all over the country, contained the soldiers of the Western Army scattered in Henan, and won several victories on both sides of the Yellow River to stabilize the situation.

At that time, the national strength of the Song Dynasty was still there, and the soldiers and horses were also strong. During the Jianyan period, as the main force of the Southern Song Dynasty Army, it can be roughly said that there were three branches: the first was the Imperial Camp Army, the second was the Tokyo Left-behind Division Army founded by Zong Ze, and the third was the Shaanxi Army. Even if you can't recover the lost land in Hebei and Shanxi, it is not a problem to defend the land.

However, after Zong Ze died of illness in July last year, the post of staying in Tokyo was handed over to Du Chong.

This person was rigid and free, brutal by nature, and could not convince the public, which caused the soldiers left behind in Tokyo to deviate from Germany, and soon the military horses there were infighting. Hebei tycoons Zhang Yong, Wang Shan, Kong Yanzhou and others raised troops to defeat Du Chong and capture Kaifeng. After suffering this defeat, Du Chong did not dare to stay in Kaifeng and fled all the way to Jiankang. After this war, the men and horses of the Tokyo Left-behind Division were divided into more than a dozen large and small units, and they became powerful or became rogues, which became a major problem in the early years of the founding of the Southern Song Dynasty. And this army has disappeared.

The main force of the Shaanxi Army went out of Shaanxi under the leadership of Lao Chong, Xiao Chong, Tong Guan, Liu Yanqing and others, conquered Fangla, and invaded Liao in the north, and was all lost on the Lianghe battlefield in the Jingkang national humiliation, and only one remained in Shaanxi.

As for the imperial camp and forbidden army, since Zhao Gou opened the Generalissimo's Mansion in Xiangzhou, he followed the future Southern Song Dynasty emperor, with a total of 10,000 people, divided into front, middle, rear, left, and right five armies.

It's a pity that Zhao Gou was cowardly and cowardly, and fled all the way from the Daimyo's Mansion to Kaifeng, then to Yingtianfu, and then to Jiangdu and Jiankang. The Imperial Camp Army has been on the run since its formation, and has not fought a few battles seriously.

Because of this, the military strength of the Imperial Camp Forbidden Army is quite strong, and there are also many talents among them. Among them, the most famous are naturally Zhang Jun and Han Shizhong among the four generals of Zhongxing, as well as Wang Yan and Yang Yizhong.

In order to firmly grasp the military power, Zhao Gou left the Privy Council and the Sanya of the Northern Song Dynasty idle, and set up another imperial camp department, with the prime minister and the ruling minister serving as the imperial camp envoy and the deputy envoy of the imperial camp respectively, after taking charge of the imperial camp army, considering that Liu Guangshi was after all, he was a rare general with combat experience at that time, and he was the first old man to invest in the generalissimo's mansion, and ordered him to raise a line of affairs, independently lead the army, and be stationed in the line from Chuzhou to Yangzhou to crusade against the Shandong thief Kou Li Yu.

Speaking of which, it was purely by chance that Liu Guangshi was able to join the imperial camp and become Zhao Go's descendant. When Jingkang changed, he was leading the main force of 3,000 Yan troops to Kaifeng Qinwang. As soon as the people arrived, the war was over, and the second emperor had been captured by the Jurchens and sent to the north. There was no way, so he had to lead his troops to the Generalissimo's Mansion, after all, he was the elite of the Western Army, and his troops and horses were one of the most capable troops under King Kang at the beginning.

At the end of last year, Jinan Kou Li Yu and Chiyang Kou Zhang Yu went south to Jianghuai to plunder, and received an order from the imperial court. Zhang met Liu Guangshi, the battle formation of the Huaixi Army was loose and chaotic, and he raised the elite and went straight to Liu Guangshi's military commander's banner.

As a result, the dignified Liu Guangshi was beaten by the bandit troops. If it weren't for the fact that Wang Dewang Yasha, the first fierce general under his command, would have rescued him desperately again, Liu Guangshi would have been caught by the bandits.

After Zhang Yu and Li Yu robbed Huaibei, they returned to Shandong with satisfaction.

Just as Liu Guangshi was about to accumulate strength to enter the thief army again, he happened to encounter a mutiny launched by Miao Fu and Liu Zhengyan, killing Zhao Gou's favored ministers and eunuchs to clear the monarch's side, and forcing Zhao Gou to cede the throne to the three-year-old crown prince Zhao Yang. Receiving an order from Prime Minister Zhang Jun, Liu Guangshi led the elite to quell the rebellion.

When he got to the ground, before Liu Guangshi could come out, Han Shizhong had already put down the rebellion.

In any case, Liu Guangshi is one of the initiators of the joint name of the world's Qinwang to ask Miao Liu, which is the work of Qingtian. After the war, he was appointed as the envoy of the non-Fengguo Army, and opened his teeth to build the festival.

Over there, Liu Guangshi led the main force to quell Liu Miao's rebellion, and here, Shandong Li Yu called again.

At this moment, the situation between the two Huai has changed again. At the beginning of this year, Chiyang Kou Zhang Yu accepted the Liangzhejiang system to make Wang Yuan Zhao'an and surrendered to the Song Dynasty. The rest of the troops scattered and left, and most of them were under Li Yu's command.

Speaking of this, Wang Yuan is also a bitter fate, he is the first minister to support Zhao Gou as the emperor, and he is very important. Later, because of Liu Guangshi's false accusations, he lost the trust of the Son of Heaven and was removed from his official position. Miao and Liu were killed by Miao Fu when they mutinied.

After Zhao Gou was restored, he remembered his past feelings, which rehabilitated him.

Wang Yuan was deposed, Zhang Yubu was also suspicious of the imperial court, and after a year, he was scattered, and most of them were thrown under Li Yu's command, and they started to do business without capital again.

After Li Yu recruited Zhang Yu's subordinates, coupled with the coercion of a large number of ordinary people and displaced people, the total number has reached 100,000. With so many people, eating is a big problem.

As a result, Li Yu's troops all went south, and for a while, the smoke of the two Huai beacons rose everywhere, and it had become a big battlefield.

Today, the main force of the Huaixi Army is stationed in Chuzhou, which is Huai'an in later generations. With Chuzhou as the base camp, it governs the front line from Chuzhou to Tianchang, and the battle line drags on for an extremely long time.

And Li Yu's troops occupied Suqian, and most of them traveled day and night, going south to attack Chuzhou. As long as Chuzhou is taken, it can control the vast area from Surabaya to the Huai River and the Yangtze River, and cut off the main artery of the Southern Song Dynasty's water transportation economy.

At this time, Jiangnan was not like the Ming and Qing dynasties, where the wealth of the world was exhausted.

Before it was fully developed, Lianghuai was the important place for taxation and the foundation of the small court of the new Southern Song Dynasty.

If the two Huai are lost, they will be shaken at all.

If the Liukou occupies the area from the Huai River to the Yangtze River, to put it mildly, Zhao Gou is afraid that he will not even be able to send out the ministers' money.

It can be said that Li Yu has become the most vicious enemy of Zhao Gou's team at this stage.

After Li Yu refused to recruit An, Zhao Gou had no way out, and ordered Liu Guangshi to cut off the fang before the autumn harvest.

The curtain of war is about to begin.

Unlike the sabre-rattling and smoke-pumping in Chuzhou, Tianchang's side is safe because it is separated by the huge water of Hongze Lake. In addition, the river network here is vertical and horizontal, which is not conducive to the movement of the army, and it has also become the rear of the Huaixi Army.

Therefore, Liu Guangshi placed Li Qiong's rear army in Tianchang, guarded the southern river, and transported grain and military materials to Chuzhou through water transportation.

However, probably because he couldn't defeat Chuzhou, Li Yu took advantage of the great drought in Huaixi to suddenly lead the main force around Hongze Lake and raid Tianchang, wanting to copy Liu Guangshi's rear, so that the Huaixi army was in a great passivity.

Li Yu's army raided the rear of the Huaixi Army, which was just an understatement in historical materials, and Wang Shen didn't know what the final result was.

But he knew one thing very clearly, Pingyuan Town was located at the forefront of the rear of the Huaixi Army, and it was also a grain and straw transshipment hub, which was a key point that Li Yu was bound to take, and the one or two hundred people in the treasury could not resist it at all.

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An Niang suddenly grabbed Wang Shen's hand and said in a low voice: "Brother Wang, since this is the case, let's go together." ”

Wang Shen smiled bitterly and shook her head: "I can't go." ”

"Why?" An Niang asked in surprise.

Wang Shen's heart was even more bitter, and he almost couldn't help but slap himself: What kind of foolish am I doing, I can't leave, but I want to stay here and die. Previously, when the soldiers and people saw the mutiny of Li Yu's army in the distance, I should have taken advantage of the chaos to take An Niang and Yue Yun and snatch an ox cart to take away his mother's. Anyway, everything is messed up, and no one cares.

However, I didn't care about killing Yi Jie with Lu Can's military order, and what did I say, "Marquis Yu has an order, escape from the battle, no matter the soldiers and soldiers, there is no mercy for killing!" ”

Now it's okay, the order of the team has been rectified, and I am already in the baggage battalion on business, how can I walk in front of everyone?

Not to mention ancient times, even in modern society, being a deserter in battle will be shot.

Wang Shen, Wang Shen, why are you so uncalm?

However, if I don't kill Yi Jie's beast, I can't reach this idea.

Wang Shen: "I have now joined the army, although Wang Shen is lowly and low, there is a mouthful of blood to kill the enemy and serve the country." Meng Ziyun: Reflexively shrinking, although there are tens of millions of people, I will go forward. I know that tomorrow I will die in a battle, but that is not a reason for us to back down. Man is inherently dead, or as light as a feather, or as heavy as Mount Tai. Dying for the country and the nation is as heavy as Mount Tai. Anniang, I heard you say that your father resolutely joined the army and killed the enemy to serve the country. Let me ask, if your father is here, the enemy is now, will he leave? ”

Although he was frustrated in his heart, it was impossible for him to talk about it in front of the little girl, and he couldn't afford to lose this person.

You can only force your spirit and say something lofty against your will.

Hearing Wang Shen's words, An Niang's eyes filled with tears and murmured: "Yes, if Daddy is here, he will naturally refuse to leave." ”

In the hazy tears, Wang Shen's figure coincided with his father's voice and smile.

She was deeply blessed: "I understand, Brother Wang, let my sister and brother accompany you on this last journey!" We also stayed, although An Niang is a woman, she also knows these truths, and she can also make some meager contributions. ”

"Ahh Wang Shen was startled and suddenly became anxious. Is this An Niang stupid, it's not good to live well, you have to accompany me to death.

was about to scold his mother, when a voice came: "Okay, true righteous man!" ”