Chapter 72: Night Battle in Caozhou (5)
Looking at the Protector Elite Rider who had gone away, Zong Bi, who turned around and killed him, was furious, grabbed Meng Lie's neck, and lifted this Mongolian man weighing hundreds of pounds off the ground. It wasn't until Meng Lie stared and stuck out his tongue that he was about to be strangled to death that he let go and threw Meng Lie to the ground.
Zong Bi stepped on Meng Lie's back and blurted out, "Dog minion! Why don't you dare to stop them? Cowering in the face of a strong enemy, the whole family should be punished. Do you think I won't dare to destroy your tribe?"
Meng Lie coughed a few times before he raised his head and said, "Fourth Prince, when Yue Nanman arrived in the rear, our army was already in a hurry, and even if the last general tried to stop it, it was only in vain. In order to preserve the living force, the last general chose to avoid it temporarily. The fourth prince, although the last general's sin is unforgivable, he still hopes that the fourth prince will allow the last general to make meritorious contributions. Yue Nanman's cavalry went straight to Caozhou City. Fourth prince, don't forget that it was Han Chang's cousin Han Wave who surrounded and annihilated the people's army under Caozhou City. ”
Zong Bi trembled, and could no longer care about asking Meng Lie, turned on his horse, and shouted, "Sons, catch up with Yue Nanman, and each person will be rewarded with fifty taels of gold." Kill the barbarians in the south of Yue, seal 10,000 households, and reward 50,000 taels of gold. ”
The Jin soldiers who had just been chiseled by the Protector Army were originally a little depressed, but their greed was rekindled by Zong Bi's crazy reward. In particular, hundreds of Meng Lie's relatives were originally young and strong of his tribe. Meng Lie's tribe is not strong on the grassland, but because he hugged Jin Guo's thigh very early, his tribe is now strong on the grassland. But when all the wealth of Meng Lie is superimposed, there is no 50,000 taels of gold.
So Meng Lie immediately took the initiative to ask for battle. Of course, even if he doesn't take the initiative to ask for battle, he will be sent by Zong Bi as a striker. In Zong Bi's eyes, whether it is the Han'er of the Bohai Sea or the Mongolian Khitan soldiers, they are all the falcon lackeys of his Dajin Kingdom. Once the falcon is unable to catch a rabbit, it slaughters and cooks it.
Especially the Mongolian tribes, Zong Bi has never dared to despise them. He thought that these Mongol warriors were extremely strong, and each of them was on top of a half-Jurchen. When Zong Bi led his troops to conquer the Mongol tribes, the Mongol coalition composed of a pure rabble still inflicted a lot of casualties on the Jurchen soldiers. If there were strong people who integrated these Mongols, the Dajin Empire would not want to have a good life.
Because of this, after defeating the Mongol tribes, the Jin State deliberately supported several Mongolian vassal kings who hated each other and provoked them to kill each other. He also recruited soldiers from the Mongol tribes to serve as servants.
Among Zong Bi's 50,000 Jurchen iron cavalry, there were at least 8,000 Mongol soldiers. risked Menglie, a Mongolian household, and Chalar, a half-Mongolian and half-female household. As Zong Bi expected, the combat power of these Mongolian soldiers was extremely impressive, no less than the Jurchen elite. And on top of the war, it is still excessive. Of course, the better these Mongolian soldiers behaved, the more taboo Zong Bi became.
What made Zong Bi's eyes open even more was the brutality of these Mongolian soldiers. All the cities and villages that were attacked by the Mongol soldiers alone had absolutely no living life. Both adults and children will be tortured and killed by these Mongolian soldiers. They will burn villages to the ground, cities to ruins, they will sing the pastoral songs of the steppe, and they will carry the full moon baby on the tip of the spear.
Looking at the soldiers of Meng Lie who galloped away with torches, Zong Bi secretly said in his heart, if this battle is not harmonious, let Emperor Taizong go to the Mongolian steppe to recruit tens of thousands of Mongolian soldiers, let them come to Hebei West Road as horse thieves, and let the blood of the people in the Central Plains be radiated little by little.
No wonder Zong Bi was frustrated, although he still had more than 40,000 Jurchen iron cavalry and more than 40,000 Han'er troops at this time, he had an absolute advantage in terms of strength. But after Han Chang's rebellion, these Han army was extremely worried. Because Han Chang's guy has a very high prestige in the Han'er army, as long as he raises his arms and shouts, maybe the Han'er army will turn against him.
The most important thing at the moment is to rush to the city of Caozhou, stabilize the battle situation under the city first, and not be defeated by Yue Nanman in one fell swoop. As long as you block Yue Nanman's surprise attack and set up a large array tomorrow, you can still defeat Yue Nanban with your superiority in strength.
At this time, under the city of Caozhou, it has become a Shura field. Under the siege of the 20,000 Han army of the Korean Wave, the Protector Army formation was on the verge of collapse. In particular, the bandits who were forcibly collected by Meng An and Xin Zan had already thrown down their weapons under tremendous pressure, knelt on the ground, and waited for death.
What's even more terrifying is that on the battlefield, the head sheep effect is extremely obvious. Once there are people who are not afraid of death, there will be more people who are not afraid of death. In the same way, once someone cowardly steals a living, more soldiers will follow suit.
In particular, Zhihun is a soldier, most of them are reorganized Han soldiers, and there are also people from all over the country. Not only is the combat power not as good as the elite of the Protector Army, but the fighting spirit is also far inferior. After all, the elite of the Protector Army are now settled in Yingtianfu, and most of their relatives are in Yingtian and Xuzhou. So they will fight to the death to protect Ying Tianfu. Most of the hometowns of these Han soldiers are in the Bohai Sea, and of course they don't have the consciousness to die.
Even if Meng An took the lead and led the remaining more than 1,000 cavalry troops to rush left and right, he still couldn't awaken the courage of these soldiers. If it weren't for Xin Zan's 7,000 people, maybe before Yue Fei killed Caozhou, Zhihun and the others would have died on the battlefield.
Xin Zan's people's strong polemic power is not too strong, but their fighting spirit is enough to make these men ashamed. Because their homeland is here. Since the Protector Army entered Caozhou, although the army has not arrived in Shanzhou, with the prestige of the Protector Army, the people of Shanzhou have also lived a few months in peace. This is also the reason why Xin Zan was able to gather 7,000 people in one county. These people know very well that if even the Protector Army is defeated, the entire Jingxi Road will become a land for golden people and horses. His hometown will also become a murderous place for the accumulation of dead people, just like Michigan.
Xin Zan's injuries were extremely severe, the knife wound on his shoulder was still bleeding, and his face was as pale as paper after excessive blood loss. But Xin Zan did not dare to lie down, he held a big iron sword, and stood at the front of the team, constantly cutting down the fiercest Han cavalry. He also kept cheering up the people.
"Brothers, work hard, these golden dogs are dying. If you fight again, you will overturn a golden dog when you die. ”
The people of Shanzhou have always been in awe of Xin Zan, and when they saw that the county lieutenant was covered in blood, he still had a sword at a time, which immediately made these extremely tired people muster up their last strength.
"Lieutenant Xinxian, there are only people in Shanzhou who died in battle, and there are no soft eggs who surrendered. with the Golden Dog! ”
The desperate struggle of the people of Shanxian County made the Han'er army of the Korean Wave jaw-dropping. They don't understand why, when the defeat is decided, these people still refuse to put down their weapons.
One of the generals of the Korean Wave was brave and brave, raised his long knife, and went straight to a young man who was panting. Min Zhuang only had a broken knife left in his hand, and he was powerless to resist the long knife of his own general. But at the same time that the long knife slashed his body, he smashed the broken knife in his hand on the eyes of his general's war horse. The war horse roared, and the man stood up and turned the proud general off the horse.
Before the general could get up, he was surrounded by several people and cut into meat puree.
However, no matter how desperate the people were, they couldn't stop the incessant assault of the 20,000 cavalry. Gradually, the bandit army of Xie Zhen and Jiebao broke away from the battle, and half of the Han soldiers also broke away from the battle. They raised their hands and walked to the side of the golden soldiers. In the end, there were only 8,000 foot soldiers left, and more than 900 cavalry, surrounded by the army of Hallyu.
Master Zhihun no longer looked like a monk, and the monk's robe on his body had long been soaked red with blood. He was cut off one of his hands by Zong Bi, but with only one hand, he still danced an iron rod weighing dozens of catties, and always stood at the front of the team. Iron rods are everywhere, and flesh and blood are flying. It's a pity that Master Zhihun has also reached the end of the strong crossbow.
At this time, the fire of the Jin army camp reflected half of the sky, and the fire in the north of the city complemented each other. The two Jurchen Wanhu who stayed on the battlefield glanced at each other, as if they couldn't believe it.
Wanhu servant Sanzhongshi pointed to the fire of the big camp with his finger, and said to another Wanhu Jiagutu, "General Jiagu, our old camp is on fire. ”
Jia Gu frowned, and said hurriedly, "It's not good." It must have been the Song soldiers who attacked the camp. General Fusan, let's quickly divide our troops and return to help. Our grain and grass can all be in the camp. ”
"General Jiagu, don't panic!" Servant Sanzhong Shi said leisurely, "Han Chang's guy has always despised you and me, but this time he let him guard the camp but couldn't keep it, and he finally had to cut off the dog's head." ”
It turned out that Susan Zhongshi was the younger brother of Susan Zhonglie, and he was extremely arrogant because he had a sister who was a concubine by Jin Taizong's side. But Han often doesn't pretend to be a color to him. If it weren't for Zong Bi to protect Han Chang, he would have been beheaded by Fusan Zhongshi for some reason. Now that Han Chang's death crime has finally been found, how can he divide his troops to help!
Jiagu Tu didn't expect that Fusan Zhongshi would hate Han Chang so much. Although he is from the same household as Fusan Zhongshi, because he is from a small family, his status is far below that of Fusan Zhongshi. However, this person has a big picture. He said a little worriedly, "Scattered thousands of households, the last general thinks it is better to return to the camp." The fourth prince blocked the reinforcements in the north of the city, if we don't go back to help, once the camp is burned, we will kill Han Chang, and we will not be able to save the grain and grass. The grain and grass were cut off, and our army won the battle, and we could only retreat to Jinan. ”
"General Jiagu don't worry. We have our own ideas. Fusan Zhongshi pointed to Caozhou City, which was three miles away, with his hand, and said confidently, "Yingtian is rich, Caozhou is the gateway to Yingtian, and I heard that hundreds of thousands of stones of grain and grass are stored." As long as we destroy this people's army outside the city and take Caozhou City, wouldn't it be a great achievement! ”
"But the Raiding Camp Protector Army can break into the camp in a short period of time, which is really not to be underestimated." Jiagu Tu is still a little uneasy.
"It's easy to do!" Fusan Zhongshi pointed at the Han Wave who was assaulting the Protector Army and said, "Isn't this Han dog Han Chang's brother?" Let him return to the camp. We just ate this tired Protector. Sons, Mingjin, let the Korean Wave withdraw from the Han Army. ”
The Korean Wave saw that it could completely defeat the Protector Army's formation, but he didn't expect that at this juncture, his own people would actually withdraw their troops. Although Hallyu was unwilling, he did not dare to disobey the military order. Immediately led the Han'er army to retreat like a tide.
Zhihun and Meng An didn't understand why the Han'er army retreated, but they still took this opportunity to continue to strengthen the phalanx.
Han Wave walked in front of Fusan Zhongshi and was about to ask a question, but saw that Fusan Zhongshi used his hand to make a mockery of the squid!
Only then did Hallyu find that the camp was on fire, and he was immediately shocked and said, "My cousin is still guarding the camp, how can he be broken into the camp by the enemy so quickly?" ”