Chapter 177: Holding the Calf Village (1)
Bi Jin was the latest general to arrive at Yingtianfu, and he was the first general to leave Yingtianfu. Because he is the farthest away from Ying Tianfu. The Zhending Mansion Baoqian Village he guarded was on the edge of the Great Song Dynasty, and it was dozens of miles north of the Baoqian Village, which was the border of the old Liao. That is, the sixteen states of Yanyun where the Song people read it.
Since Emperor Shi Jingtang ceded the sixteen states of Yanyun to the Khitan, Hebei West Road was under the threat of Liao soldiers at any time. From Yanyun to attack the Central Plains, it is almost a flat river, and there is no danger to defend. Since Emperor Er's cession of Yanyun, the people of the Central Plains have never given up their ambition to recover. The Yanyun Han people have never stopped resisting.
After pacifying the Central Plains, Zhou Shizong Chai Rong, the most eloquent monarch of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, did not attack the rich and weak Southern Tang Dynasty, and did not attack the Hou Han who had the hatred of killing his son, but personally led a large army to the north to attack Yanyun, which was aimed at the Khitan's unstable foothold in Yanyun. The Northern Expedition army was like a bamboo, and it attacked three passes in one day. It's a pity that the sky is jealous of talents, seeing that Yan Yunguang is about to recover, Chai Rong died violently in the army. When Zhao Kuangyin was added to the yellow robe, he mistakenly believed in the scholar Wang Pu's strategy, and adopted a strategy diametrically opposite to Chai Rong, first in the south and then in the north, and it took more than ten years to destroy the Southern Tang Dynasty, Wu Yue, the Southern Han Dynasty, and the Later Shu.
When Song Taizu pacified Jiangnan and looked back to the north, he found that Yanyun had become an important grain and tax place for the Khitan people, and all the iron-blooded men who fought bloody battles were killed, but those who survived became Khitan Shunmin.
Although Song Taizu is not as good as Chai Rong in terms of strategy, he is also an emperor born in a hundred battles. He saw that the Khitan was in Yanyun and could not be rushed, but could only be encroached, so he set up a pile sealing warehouse and put a part of the tax revenue every year for the purpose of recovering Yanyun in the future. Song Taizu has a saying, "The Khitan athletes are only 200,000, and I will buy one of their heads for ten guan, but 2 million guan, which is enough to destroy the Liao State." "Song Taizu encouraged the Central Plains rangers to hunt Liao soldiers in the Yanyun area, and each head was ten yuan.
Under the high reward, the people who dared to fight either walked alone or in a group, rampant among the Yanyun, killing the Khitan military horses and did not dare to walk alone outside the city. It can be said that Song Taizu's method is also clever, if it continues to be implemented for twenty years, maybe the Khitan army and horses will really withdraw from the sixteen states of Yanyun.
Helplessly, the axe sounded in the shadow of the candle, Song Taizu returned to heaven, and Zhao Guangyi, who was good at conspiracy but had great ambitions and talents, succeeded to the throne. Zhao Guangyi, because of his improper position, coupled with his great joy, wanted to block the mouth of the world with the merit of recovering Yanyun. So after destroying the Later Han Dynasty, he led 200,000 forbidden troops to drive into Yanyun, trying to complete his work in one battle.
Zhao Guangyi is only one city wall away from becoming Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, a city wall of Yanjing City. 200,000 forbidden troops were killed under Yanjing City, and Yanjing stayed behind to defend Han Derang to defend the fortified city. Although Han Derang is a Han, he is the concubine of Empress Dowager Xiao. Zhao Guangyi didn't even understand this, and wrote a letter to Yanjing City, trying to persuade Han Derang to surrender. As a result, Han Derang only replied with two words. "Don't fall!"
200,000 forbidden troops stormed Yanjing City and attacked it for seven days. The Khitan military god Yelu Huge led 50,000 leather room troops from the north of Daliao to the city of Yanjing day and night, and the Song army was defeated. Most of the 200,000 elites were lost.
Zhao Guangyi was not convinced, and after a few years, he reorganized the army again and attacked Liao in three ways. As a result, the east road he was responsible for was attacked by the heavy troops of the Liao State because of the lone army, and he was defeated first and returned to Zhending Mansion. The other two armies were defeated and returned, and the famous general Yang Ye died on the battlefield.
The Song Kingdom, which had exhausted its elites, began to lose the upper hand. From then on, it was no longer the Central Plains rangers who went to Yanyun to hunt the Khitans, but the Khitans who crossed the Song Realm from time to time to fight in the grass valley.
When it came to the cowardly Song Zhenzong, the bones of the Song people were broken by the Khitan, and they sent New Year's coins to ask for peace.
Even in the Xuanhe period, the Khitan, who was on the verge of extinction under the blow of the Jurchens, was still under the command of Yelu Dashi, and defeated the 200,000 elites of the Northern Expedition of the Great Song Dynasty with a rabble of 40,000 on the Baigou River. That battle not only made the Jurchens see the weakness of the Song Dynasty, but also made Yanyun Han'er despise the Song people from the bottom of their hearts.
When the Jin soldiers destroyed Liao and broke the Song Dynasty, the Liao land collapsed, the Central Plains was in chaos, and Yanyun Han'er flocked into Hebei West Road, gathering as thieves, robbing houses, killing people and setting fires, and doing not much less evil than Jin Dog. Among them, the most harmful is the Chang Shengjun led by Guo Yaoshi.
Guo Yaoshi is a well-known hero in the Yanyun area. More than ten years ago, there was a severe drought in Yanyun, and people were everywhere. Guo Yaoshi became a Yandi giant in a few years as a homeless person. Later, he was recruited by Emperor Liao, killed his righteous brother Dong Clown, and his subordinates were stationed in Zhuozhou, known as the Changsheng Army. After rebelling Liao and returning to the Song Dynasty, and then rebelling against the Song Dynasty and returning to Jin, he was an out-and-out slave with three surnames.
When Zong Wang attacked the Song Dynasty, Guo Yaoshi was the vanguard of the Song Dynasty. The main force besieging Zhongshan Mansion was also a victorious army. This army that lived by plundering was mostly outlaws, and they were formidable. Whether it is the Yanyun area or the rebel army on Hebei West Road, they all hate the Changsheng army to the core, but they can't help the Changsheng army.
Liu Yiyun is the defeated general of Guo Yaoshi's men. Liu Lixian is the defeated general of Guo Yaoshi's men. Ma Kuo is the defeated subordinate of Pharmacist Guo. Zhang Gong, the commander of Tiegu County, was also a defeated general under Guo Yaoshi.
The calf village, which had 100,000 righteous people, was beaten by a mere 3,000 victorious army, forcing Zhang Gong to go south to Taihang Mountain, cheekily looking for Yue Fei to borrow generals, and borrowing the head of Bijin, who was still unknown at the time.
When Bi Jin led 50 Beiwei troops to arrive at the calf village, because of his short stature, he was quite despised by the righteous people in the village, and called him General Bi.
But Bi Jin quickly convinced the righteous people with his actual expression. He led 50 backswain troops to break out of the fortress gate, and caught the victorious army by surprise. Bi Jin slashed the victorious army of thousands of households, Zhao Junshi. Fifty backswainers slaughtered at least nearly 200 victorious troops, and there were no casualties of their own.
When Bi Jin returned to the village with Zhao Junshi's head, he was greeted by the cheers of thousands of righteous people. "General Bi God! General Bi God! ”
Bi Jin immediately selected 8,000 young men from among the 100,000 righteous people and trained them according to the standards of the Beiwei Army. Yes, you read that right. Bi Jin is trained to be young and strong according to the standards of the Beiwei Army. Elimination that does not meet the standard.
After three months of training, there were only more than 3,000 people left in the 8,000 young people. The young men have to train every day under the scolding of the victorious army.
When Guo Yaoshi learned the news that Zhao Junshi had been killed, he was furious and personally led 50,000 Changsheng troops to attack Baoqian Village. Helplessly, the terrain of the calf village is dangerous, and no matter how many victorious troops come, they can only send more than 1,000 people to attack at a time. Even Zhang Gong, who is not familiar with military affairs, can defend the calf village, let alone complete the progress.
For three whole months, Bi Jin held on and couldn't come out, and there was not a single counterattack. When the Chang Shengjun thought that Bi Jin was going to be a turtle with a shrunken head, Bi Jin led 3,000 elites to suddenly cut out, and wiped out the Chang Sheng's army of 5,000 besieged in the first battle. Bi Jin once again beheaded Guo Yaoshi's deputy Zhen Wuchen.
World War II was won, Bi Jin changed the conservative tactics, with 3,000 elites to invite the winning army of more than 40,000, within a month, seven battles and seven victories, so that Guo Yaoshi retreated to Zhuozhou.
When the Jurchens attacked the Song Dynasty in three ways, and the Central Plains was in danger, the three surnamed family slaves Guo Yaoshi, under the strict order of Zongwang, summoned up Yu Yong and led 50,000 victorious troops to attack the calf village again.
Bi Jin did not defend the fortified village, and led 8,000 young people to intercept Guo Yaoshi in the north of the deer. When the enemies see each other, their eyes are red. The two armies engaged in a life-and-death struggle.
When the battle reached the end, Liang Xingliang's little brother descended from the sky, and 5,000 iron cavalry entered the Changsheng army from the flank. The victorious army collapsed. More than 50,000 Changsheng troops were killed, more than 10,000 escaped, and the rest surrendered. Guo Yaoshi, who has the name of Xiaoxiong, was also captured and beheaded by the little brother Liang Xing.
Guo Yaoshi's death suddenly made the Yanyun horse thief remember Bi Jin's name. "General Bi God!" It also made the security of Zhending Mansion better all of a sudden. Whether it was Taihang Caokou or Yanyun Horse Thief, none of them dared to come to Zhending Mansion to plunder. The 100,000 soldiers and civilians in the calf village were no longer trapped in the village all day long, and began to tend the abandoned fields.
From the beginning of the fourth year of Xuanhe, Zhending Mansion was in chaos, and during the Jingkang period, the local residents either died in the rebellion or fled to other places, which can be said to be more than three. This is also the reason why Zhang Gong was able to settle the displaced people on Hebei West Road in Zhending Mansion.
Bi Jin occupied Zhending Mansion, Liang Xing occupied Daimyo's Mansion, and the two northernmost towns on Hebei West Road were hung with the banner of the People's Protector Army. From time to time, Liang Xing Bijin would lead elite soldiers and horses to kill in the Yanyun area, and even connected with Liu Yiyun and Liu Li's busy resentful army, which made Zongwang stationed in Yanjing worried.
Zong Wang had to worry. The Khitan army he sent was no match for Liang Xing Bijin. The 10,000-strong Jin soldiers he sent could only force Liang Xing Bijin back to Zhending Mansion, but could not defeat him. This proves that the partial division of this people's army has become an elite unit. Bi Jin and Liang Xing are not the cowardly Song generals of the past, they are both young people who are in their prime. Bi Jin is twenty-three years old, and Liang Xiaoge is nineteen years old. There are young generals like them, and there are also among the golden soldiers, but there are not too many. Now in charge of the Jin soldiers, it is still the veterans who follow Wanyan Aguda. Compared with the young generals of the Protector Army, the Jurchen Army was obviously showing its twilight. This is precisely the reason why Zongwang, who has a strong view of the overall situation, is worried.
When Bi Jin left Ying Tianfu, he left with his little brother Liang Xing. When the two of them came to Bianliang, they each brought dozens of personal guards. When he left the city, he still only brought a few dozen guards. But among the dozens of their personal guards, there are two big men who will make Yan Yunjin's soldiers look different when they hear it. One Yang Zaixing, one Han Chang.
In this army expansion, neither Yang Zaixing nor Han Chang were promoted by Yue Fei to be the division commander. But on the evening of the end of the meeting, Yue Fei called Yang Zaixing and Han Chang to Jinying alone and gave them an important task.
Yue Fei said solemnly, "The Protector Army is currently limited in strength, and can only concentrate all its strength to deal with Zong Han in Hedong. Zong Han will use soldiers, and if he wants to defeat him, it will not happen overnight. But we can't make the mistake of Taizu Zhao Kuanyin again. We can't just attack Hedong, but let the Jin soldiers stabilize the sixteen states of Yanyun. I'll give you three thousand fine rides. And the task I gave you is to enter the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun and act as the most ferocious horse thief. You can attack Zhuozhou, Xiongzhou, and Danzhou first, and if the Jin soldiers attack in a big way, then retreat to Zhending Daimyo. Anyway, your task is to go through the state and county, kill all those small groups of golden soldiers, kill all the wealthy families with the greatest public anger, and destroy the foundation of Jurchen rule. What do you think? Zaixing, Han Chang, do you have the confidence to turn Yan Yun upside down? ”
Yang Zaixing laughed, "Yue Shuai, I have not set foot in Yanyun's hometown for more than 100 years. can become the first Central Plains hero to enter the depths of Yanyun, and dare not do his best! ”
Han Chang also directly expressed his loyalty. "Yue Shuai, there are a lot of Yanyun Han'er troops. I will do my best to assist General Yang and persuade those Han'er troops to come and protect the people's army. ”
This time he went north to Yanyun, and Han Chang was Yang Zaixing's deputy. Han Chang, who confessed that his martial arts were second only to Yue Fei, immediately had a fight with Yang Zaixing when he saw Yang Zaixing. As a result, Yang Zaixing convinced Han Chang. Whether it is foot combat or horse fighting, Han Chang is not Yang Zaixing's opponent. So Han Chang willingly served as Yang Zaixing's deputy.
Yue Fei said. "I hope that the day of the return of the two generals will also be the time when the world will be shocked."