Chapter Forty-Seven: The War of the Slippery State (1)

Just when Yue Fei led the elite cavalry to ten miles away from the Golden Camp, the two main generals of the Golden Camp, Wanyan Bali Su and Pucha Shijianu, were sleeping soundly in the blazing tent. There were several empty jars of wine poured into the tent. There were also a few drunken soldiers, also on the ground with knives and guns, seemingly guarding, but when they came closer, they were snoring.

In fact, in the entire Jin army camp, except for the tens of thousands of Han'er soldiers who were not qualified to drink, they were shivering and guarding the camp and besieging the city, and more than 20,000 Jurchen iron horsemen were sleeping soundly with wine and food. Don't look at it, it's already the eighth day of the Lunar New Year, and the Jurchen Iron Rider is still celebrating the first day of the Lunar New Year.

Speaking of which, although Wanyan Bali and Pucha Shijianu are good at drinking, they are not people who make mistakes because of alcohol. In the past, although they also drank freely every night, they would definitely divide half of the Jurchen iron cavalry to surround the enemy's city gate and defend their own camp.

But this time they attacked Huazhou, but they were extremely depressed. Although Huazhou is an important town on the West Road of Hebei, the Song soldiers defending the city are just some urgently assembled box troops and militia groups, and they are all rabble. However, Wanyan Bali and Pucha Shijianu led 27,000 Jurchen iron cavalry, plus 30,000 Han'er troops. Not to mention the Jurchen Iron Cavalry, even the combat power of these Han army is far more than the defenders in the city.

When he arrived at the foot of Huazhou City, Wan Yan pulled out his hand and pointed at the head of Huazhou City, and said proudly, "Sons, within three days, I will plant the banner of the Jin Kingdom on the corner tower at the head of the city." ”

In fact, I don't blame Wanyan for being arrogant. Since the Jurchen attacked the Song Dynasty, they have encountered countless strong cities, but except for the four cities of Taiyuan Zhongshan and Xiangzhou, which can hold on for several months, the other cities have fallen from the wind after the Jin soldiers have arrived. Wan Yan pulled out the speed and thought that the Huazhou defender would definitely do the same.

Huazhou guards Liu Yan and Zhang Xie are all favorite generals under Zong Ze. Although the two of them are not famous generals, they are both extremely hard-boned people. In the face of the menacing Jin soldiers, the two swore to resist.

Liu Yan and Zhang Xie all knew that the combat strength of the Song soldiers was far from that of the Jin soldiers, and they were unbearable in the field. So I decided to defend the city early. They sealed the other three gates with large stones, leaving only the south gate, which was mainly attacked by the Jinren.

Just above the south gate, the Song soldiers and the Jin people launched a brutal battle that lasted for more than a month.

Although the Jin people were strong, the Song soldiers defended the city, but they took a big advantage. The Han'er army who climbed up the city wall along the ladder may be warriors who have survived a hundred battles, but a strong man on the head of the city can also stab him to death with one shot.

However, because the fighting quality of the Song soldiers was too poor, even if the battle was geographically advantageous, the number of casualties was still about the same as that of the Jin soldiers. However, most of the casualties of the Jin soldiers were the Han'er army and the people captured from the surrounding villages.

Liu Yan and Zhang Xie had a total of 20,000 defenders, and after fighting for more than a month, there were less than 7,000 people in the city who could fight. If it weren't for the continuous replenishment of the people in the city, the city of Huazhou would have been lost long ago.

Seeing that Huazhou could not be attacked repeatedly, Wanyan was immediately furious, and gave the Jin army an order never to seal the sword after breaking the city. This left the people in the city with no way to retreat, and they could only stand on the same front as the defenders.

When the news of Sha Guzhi's death in battle came, Wan Yan Ba quickly decided not to use cannon fodder to siege the city. He began to send out the real Jurchen elite. The Jurchen soldiers were not only good at mounted archery. They are all excellent hunters in the Changbai Mountains, and their climbing skills are extremely superb.

The Jin soldiers attacked for seven days, and the number of defenders in Huazhou was sharply reduced to more than 4,000. When it was about to break the city, Yang Zaixing led a mixed army of 10,000 foot cavalry to the city of Huazhou.

On that day, the defenders at the head of the city all opened their mouths wide, watching Yang Zaixing lead 4,000 cavalry troops to and fro among the Jin army, unstoppable. The invincible Jurchen warriors in the past, in front of Yang Zaixing, were like local chickens and tile dogs, and they were not vulnerable at all. When Wanyan Bali and Pucha Shijianu withdrew the siege troops and prepared to encircle and annihilate Yang Zaixing, Yang Zaixing led the team to retreat outside the south gate step by step.

When Liu Yan and Zhang Xie opened the city gate to welcome Yang Zaixing into the city, Wan Yan pulled out of the city and thought that this was the best opportunity to break the city. He personally led 500 iron guards to attack bravely, trying to bite the ass of the Song army and attack Huazhou.

On the suspension bridge at the south gate, Yang Zaixing rode alone behind the palace, and a Zhangba iron gun moved and blocked the suspension bridge with a width of five zhang. No matter how desperately the Jurchen Iron Guard tried, he could never take a step forward. One by one, the remaining guards shouted and rushed forward, and were then shot into the moat. Wanyan Ba, who was eager to win, quickly stepped forward to fight with Yang Zaixing, and with only one move, Yang Zaixing picked off the helmet.

When the whole army entered Huazhou, Yang Zaixing, who had been injured in more than 20 places, reined in his horse and slowly entered the city. The Jurchen Iron Guard, who was killed by Yang Zaixing, did not dare to step forward again.

Yang Zaixing entered Huazhou and immediately became the backbone of the Huazhou defenders. Liu Yan and Zhang Xie witnessed Yang Zaixing's martial arts, and they all willingly enshrined Yang Zaixing as the chief general of Huazhou.

Under the command of Yang Zaixing, the next attack of the Jin soldiers was extremely depressed. After attacking for more than ten days, he could no longer make any progress. Even if a Jurchen warrior fought to the death to climb the city, as long as Yang Zaixing, who was in black armor and black armor, appeared at the head of the city with a big gun, the Jurchen warriors would immediately lose their fighting spirit, or climb down the ladder, or simply jump down from the top of the city as high as several zhang.

You talk about such a scene, how can you not make the arrogant Wanyan pull out and be depressed? Don't let the horse Pucha Shi slave be frightened? Looking at Yang Zaixing at the head of Huazhou City, Pucha Shijianu unconsciously remembered the fierce man Fu Qing. Thinking of the fierce man Fu Qing, Pucha Shijianu lost the courage to fight with Yang Zaixing.

The only thing that made the two feel fortunate was that the soldiers brought by Yang Zaixing were not strong. Therefore, Yang Zaixing could only defend Huazhou City, unable to go out of the city to fight back. In the end, Wanyan Bali and Pucha Shijianu decided to besiege Huazhou without attacking, anyway, at this moment, the marshal Zong Han had already attracted all of Yue Fei's troops. It is simply impossible for another Song to save Huazhou in the future. When the food in Huazhou City is exhausted, Huazhou will be self-defeating. At that time, Yang Zaixing must be cut with a thousand knives.

It was precisely because of this plan that from the thirtieth day of the Chinese New Year's Eve, the tasks of besieging the city and defending the camp were all entrusted to the Han'er army. All the Jurchen iron horsemen began to fish and meat in the camp every day, drink and have fun, and enjoy the New Year in the Central Plains to the fullest.

There were a total of three Han Er soldiers and ten thousand households who came with Wan Yan Ba. All of them are from Bohai Han'er. One is named Han Xu, who is Han Chang's distant cousin, who was picked by Yang Zaixing with a shot when he attacked the city ten days ago. One is named Wang Xun, who was born in the Bohai General's Sect and is known as the title of ten thousand enemies in the Han'er Army. However, he has also died at the hands of Yang Zaixing. The name of the ten thousand households that are still alive today is Gao Wanli, and the name is magnificent, but the people are extremely obscene.

Gao Wanli is seven feet tall, with a tiger's back and a bear's waist, but he has a surprisingly small head. From a distance, it looks like a mushroom growing on a rock. However, although this person's head is small, his IQ is not low. Every time Wanyan ordered him to lead an army to attack the city, he would always avoid the place where Yang Zaixing was. So he lived peacefully in the present and successfully commanded all the Han army.

There were more than 30,000 Han'er troops who came to attack Huazhou, and after a month of attrition, there are now only 18,000 left. Although the number of Gao Wanli's commanders changed from 10,000 to 18,000, he was not happy at all.

Because he thinks that the two bastards Wanyan Bali and Pucha Shi Jianu are too bullying. For the Chinese New Year, even if other Han Er soldiers are not qualified to drink wine and eat meat, is Lao Tzu a dignified Han Er Army of 10,000 households not qualified to drink wine and eat meat? Could it be that Lao Tzu is not even as good as an ordinary Jurchen cavalryman?

Facts have proved that in the eyes of Wanyan Bali and Pucha Shi's slaves, Gao Wanli is indeed inferior to an ordinary Jurchen cavalryman. Ordinary Jurchen soldiers could also get drunk and dangle around the camp. Gao Wanli didn't dare to hide in the camp tent and drink a pot of hot wine.

Because Wanyan Ba quickly arranged ten pro-soldiers, he would walk in front of Gao Wanli and a group of Han army thousands of households from time to time to smell whether there was any smell of alcohol on his body. If there is a smell of alcohol, it is definitely pulled to cut off the head.

Originally, Gao Wanli was still a little unconvinced. As a result, on the first day of the Lunar New Year, two Han army thousands of households who secretly drank were hung on the gate tower of the camp to show the public, but Gao Wanli put out the idea of secretly drinking.

Jingkang's three-year New Year, how others spend it, Gao Wanli is unknown. But Gao Wanli shook his little head every day, running from the big camp to the city of Huazhou to see if the besieging troops were lazy. Then run from the city to the camp to see if the Han'er army guarding the camp has secretly slept.

On the eighth day of the Lunar New Year, Gao Wanli still ran back and forth dutifully. He was covered in armor, and if it weren't for the fact that the helmet was a little funny, he still had the demeanor of a general.

Carrying his four-foot-long saber, he braved the biting cold wind for thousands of miles, standing on the corner tower in the camp and looking into the distance. It snowed heavily for several days, and the entire city of Huazhou was snow-white.

The scenery reflected in Gao Wanli's eyes is still the same as before, with white sky, white earth, white hills, and white forests that reveal a faint black. Gao Wanli let out a long breath, and the heat lingered in front of his eyes.

Gao Wanli looked back at the camp. At this time, it was already noon, and the Jin soldiers, who were full of wine and food, were still sleeping soundly in their tents. Most of the people walking back and forth in the camp were shivering Han'er soldiers. Gao Wanli cursed in his heart, ate and slept, slept and ate, you are Jurchen iron horses, and you are clearly Jurchen lazy pigs.

When he turned his gaze to the outside of the camp again, Gao Wanli's little eyes suddenly narrowed. Because he found that the scenery today seemed to be different from the past. Because a few miles away, it seemed that a force of men and horses was rushing towards the camp of the Jin army.

Gao Wanli's heart chuckled. However, he did not immediately beat the drum on alert. The first is that he is afraid that he will delay Uncle Jin Bing's sleep, and he will be whipped by Yan Pulling. The second is that he doesn't think that in such weather, there will be Song soldiers to attack the camp.

So Gao Wanli narrowed his small eyes even smaller and carefully observed the rushing team. He thought it might be reinforcements sent by Zong Hanbo. When they arrived three miles away, Gao Wanli finally saw that the cavalry that rushed was all dressed as Jurchen iron cavalry.

Sure enough, it was a Jurchen soldier. In addition to the Jurchen soldiers, what army could march long distances in the ice and snow?

Gao Wanli let out a sigh of relief, secretly glad that he did not ring the golden drum of vigilance. Otherwise, a whip will not run away.

At this time, the cavalry had rushed to 500 meters outside the main camp. However, what stunned Gao Wanli was that the other party not only did not have the slightest intention of slowing down, but instead drew the bright saber from his back.

The saber chilled Gao Wanli's eyes. Gao Wanli finally understood what was going on. He opened his mouth and cried out in a heart-rending voice. "Enemy attack! The Song army is coming! ”