Chapter Seventy-Eight: The Night Battle in Caozhou (11)
If Yue Fei is the soul of the Protector Army, then Wanyan Zongbi is the soul of the 50,000 Jurchen Iron Horsemen. The arrival of Wanyan Zongbi immediately gave a boost to the Jurchen Iron Cavalry, which was about to collapse. The Protectors were surprised to find that the Jurchen Iron Horseman, who was scurrying like a rabbit, had suddenly turned into a vicious wolf that would rather die than bite someone.
"The fourth prince is here! Fight with these Song pigs! ”
A Jurchen iron horseman with a helmet running away reined in the war horse, sat down on the horse, and raised his mace at Jiao Wentong, who rushed to the front. Jiao Wentong shouted loudly and cut off the head of this Jurchen iron horseman. But then three more Jurchen irons rode off their horses and turned back, and pounced on Jiao Wentong again. Jiao Wentong's long knife was obliquely one square, opened two maces, and took advantage of the situation to cut down a bearded golden soldier again, and with the handle of the knife turned upward, it just hit the chest of a golden soldier who took advantage of the situation to bully him. The horns of the bull under the crotch flickered, and two sharp knives pierced the head of the golden soldier's horse. But the last Jin soldier still threw the saber in his hand towards Jiao Wentong even though his horse was jumping wildly. Jiao Wentong turned his head and flashed the saber, but a protector behind him was stabbed in the face by the saber, snorted, and fell off the horse.
"What's going on?" Jiao Wentong looked depressedly at the Jin Bing, who was still running away just now, suddenly turned his horse's head slowly, and began to pounce on the people's protector spirit horse. Although their horses lost speed because of the U-turn, the Jurchen Iron Horse, who turned around first, gave the Jurchen Iron Horse, who turned around later, space to charge with his life. A ten-captain led his squad to rush over, and was quickly slashed by the Protectors. But then two hundred-man teams rushed over.
The mad cow Jiao Wentong was finally stopped by the Jurchen Iron Horse. Luo Yanqing, who was armed with two guns, was stopped by the Jurchen Iron Horseman. Xiao Shan, who was holding a saber, was stopped by the Jurchen Iron Horseman. The only ones who were not stopped were Yue Fei, Ji Qian, and Wang Gang.
At this time, Yue Fei became a sharp cone again, and Ji Qian Wang Gang was the guard, and they led hundreds of back-to-back troops to shout and fight, and once again chiseled a gap in the Jurchen iron cavalry that had been rolled back. Jiao Wentong Luo Yanqing Xiaoshan saw the opportunity very quickly, and immediately merged the cavalry behind him to Yue Fei, and the two thousand cavalry once again formed a huge cone. The target of the tip of the cone is Zong Bi, who is holding the mountain opening axe.
Shoot the man first and shoot the horse, and capture the thief first and capture the king. If you don't kill Zong Bi, once all the Jurchen iron horsemen raise their fighting spirit, all the protectors will die outside Caozhou City. So Yue Fei made up his mind that he must kill Zong Bi.
From the beginning of the war to the present, Yue Fei's big gun has killed more than 100 golden soldiers, and even though he was born with divine power, Yue Fei still felt that his arms were a little tired. Even so, Yue Fei still killed this number one warrior of the Jin Kingdom without hesitation, whose martial arts were on par with his own.
"Good time!"
Zong Bi saw Yue Fei from afar, like a stormy wave, forcibly chiseling the Jurchen iron horse ten times his size in half, and was killing him. Immediately shouted excitedly.
Zong Bi was about to lead thousands of heavy armor to attack Han Chang's 5,000 Han Er army from behind, but when he saw Yue Fei coming to the door, he immediately left the Han brothers and led 3,000 heavy armor to meet him.
When Han Chang saw Yue Fei use the momentum of the inverted bead curtain to disrupt more than 20,000 Jurchen iron horses, he was overjoyed in his heart, thinking that he had a winning ticket. Unexpectedly, Zong Bi suddenly killed, and stabilized the precarious battlefield situation in a blink of an eye.
Jia Gu Tu, who was a little flustered just now, also calmed down again, and commanded eight thousand golden soldiers to surround Han Chang's men.
At this time, the shape on the battlefield is like this. Yue Fei's 2,000 elite cavalry chiseled through most of the golden soldiers, but collided head-on with Wanyan Zongbi's 3,000 heavy armor. And the frightened Jin soldiers were gathering a team under the leadership of Fusan Zhongshi, preparing to divide half of the men and horses to intercept Yue Fei's back road. The other half of the Jin soldiers still rushed directly to the Caozhou Protector Army, preparing to eat thousands of Caozhou defenders first.
What's even more worrying is that the Han army's 10,000 households and 10,000 houses also saw the cheapness, plucked up the courage, and commanded more than 20,000 Han troops to pounce on the Caozhou Protector Army. Although the combat power of these Han army is not as good as that of the Protector Army. However, it took most of the night to recuperate, and there were only more than 7,000 people left in the Caozhou Protector Army, and almost all of them were wounded. It is absolutely impossible to withstand the combined onslaught of the Jin soldiers and the Han Er army.
Thankfully, another support army came at this time. This support army is not Wang Gui's infantry division, nor is it a god soldier descended from heaven. It is the 2,000 families gathered by the big families in Caozhou City, and tens of thousands of young people holding various agricultural tools.
Caozhou was occupied by the Protector Army for several months, and Wang Gui and Master Zhihun used both soft and hard methods, and soon made the family submit to the Protector Army. These heads of the family are all smart people, and they have long seen that the future of the Protector Army is limitless. In particular, the very courageous head of the Huang family personally went to Yingtianfu, and after he returned, he sent half of the family's sons and nephews to the Protector Army. In the words of the head of the Huang family, the Protector Army is the time to employ people, and it is attached at this time, and it will be a minister of the dragon in the future. Because the head of the Huang family believes that the one who will dominate the Central Plains in the future must be the Protector Army.
Since the day Guan Bisheng was killed and the Jin soldiers were killed in Caozhou, the head of the Huang family has been instigating other families to gather their families and prepare to join Master Zhihun 's Protector Army. Master Zhihun politely declined their kindness. Zhihun was originally from the rivers and lakes, of course he understood that these family members were all gangster rangers, and they might have some skills, but they didn't understand the method of battle formation at all. Letting these family members join the Protector Army will not only not work, but may also be dragged down.
But the head of the Huang family has never abandoned this thought. The main reason is that the sons and nephews he sent to the people's protection army are too ordinary, and now the biggest official is only the head of the capital, and he is still in Wang Tianbao's militia division.
When Zhihun and Zong Bi were fighting outside the city, the head of the Huang family had been leading several similar heads of the family to stand at the head of the city and watch. Seeing that the Protector Army was in defeat, the other family heads were frightened, only the Huang family head rubbed his hands and said loudly, "I said a few brothers, it's useless for you to be afraid." The golden dog had already given the order to slaughter the city. Once Master Zhihun is defeated, none of our people in the city can escape the butcher's knife of the Jin soldiers. Don't think that we are a family, and the golden dog will be merciful. They will only kill harder, because they want to rob us of our gold, silver and jewelry. Now there is an opportunity to make meritorious contributions, and it depends on whether you can grasp it. ”
Several other family heads hurriedly asked, "Brother Huang doesn't know what the plan is?" "In fact, the financial resources of these families are not smaller than those of the Huang family. But who made them not surnamed Huang? It is said that this Huang family master went to Yingtianfu once, and he actually went to his own family with the prefect Huang Zong, and now he often praises his Huang Zonghuang brother in front of others.
The Huang family master looked at the faces of several family heads, and said confidently, "You also know that my Huang brother is both civil and military. He once told me that when the two armies are deadlocked, it may be an insignificant group of men who will decide the victory. I think Brother Huang is right. Now Master Zhihun is fighting hard outside the city, but we still have 2,000 elite family members in the city. Why don't we pull out of the city and give the golden dog a hard time? As long as this battle is won, our Caozhou family will emerge on the territory of the Protector Army. ”
The other family heads have no masters, and I feel that the Huang family head is right. If Zhihun is defeated and the Jin soldiers attack Caozhou, they will definitely not be able to hold it with 2,000 families. In that case, it's better to fight with the golden dog.
I have to say that the Protector Army has been stationed in Caozhou for several months, and it has indeed changed the thinking of the people of Caozhou with the spirit of martial arts. Li Qingzhao's life is regarded as a masterpiece of poetry, and almost everyone blurts out poetry. And Huang Zong timely sent Jianghu artists who were also missionaries to constantly publicize the heroic stories of the people's protection army, so that the people of Caozhou were full of blood.
It is precisely because of this that the words of the head of the Huang family have encouraged several families. But when they gathered their families, tens of thousands of young men who fled into Caozhou City to avoid soldiers also volunteered to follow them out of the city to fight the golden dog.
Seeing this scene, the head of the Huang family said excitedly to the other family heads, "See, the people's protector army has won the support of the people so far, how can it be unreasonable for the world?" ”
It's a pity that what makes the head of the Huang family depressed is that the 300 people guarding the city do not allow his family soldiers to leave the city. Dutou looked at the Huang family master for thousands of miles, and said neither humbly nor arrogantly, "Huang family master, the battle situation outside the city has not yet reached the time of necessity. Yue Shuai said that as a protector army, the first task is to protect the people. If I let you out of the city, I will harm you. Huang Family Master, if you look at the intensity of the battle outside the city, it is not at all something that untrained people can bear. ”
It was just like that, and it took three watches in the middle of the night. Although Wan Lifei repeatedly advised the heads of the family to go home and rest, all the heads of the family stood at the head of the city, ordered the family to hold torches high, and stared intently at the battlefield outside the city.
While they watched, Wang Gui's reinforcements came and went. But then Zong Bi led 20,000 iron horsemen to leave the battlefield. Then there was the fire in Jinying in the east of the city, and then there was Yue Fei's 2,000 elite cavalry to the city of Caozhou.
From the moment Yue Fei's banner appeared, the mouth of the Huang family master never stopped. "Everyone, everyone, I think you also know that you have also learned a little bit of the art of looking at qi. On the top of Yue Shuai's head, there was obviously a true dragon aura, which rushed straight to the clouds for three thousand zhang. Look at those back sergeants, there is a tiger aura on their heads, which is the momentum that only the founding generals have. Well done! Yue Shuai chiseled through the golden soldiers. We won. Who's killing again? It turned out that it was Wanyan Zongbi again, the golden dog! ”
Seeing that more than 20,000 Han'er troops also began to mobilize, preparing to encircle and annihilate the remnants of Master Zhihun and the remnants of the army, the Huang family master could no longer care about bragging, he blew his beard and glared at Wan Lifei and said, "Wandutou, our army is in danger at this time, and we don't go out of the city to rescue each other, but it will be a big deal." ”
Without the Huang family master to speak, Wan Lifei also saw that the shape was in danger. Yue Shuai has very few people, but he just relied on a sharp spirit to kill the Jin soldiers, once he was relieved by these Jin soldiers, even if he used people, he could also exhaust Yue Shuai to death. Therefore, Wan Lifei immediately led 12,000 young men out of the city to rescue the remnants of Master Zhihun . The head of the Huang family and the others did not go out of the city, but just stood at the head of the city, leading a group of old and weak women and children to beat drums and cheer at the head of the city.
Although more than 10,000 young people are outright rabble, their momentum is so great that Fang Wanjin's Han'er army does not dare to step forward. When they joined forces with the remnants of Master Zhihun and Master Zhihun were even more powerful. The nearly 10,000 Jurchen iron horsemen sent by the servant Zhongshi did not dare to come forward to fight lightly for a while.
But everyone on the battlefield understood that it was not them who would decide the outcome of this battle, but Yue Fei, who was fighting with three thousand heavy armors.