Chapter 156: Iron Hoof
Yue Fei underestimated the perseverance of this crying Langjun. Yue Fei originally thought that with Dong Xianji, Qian and Wang Gang joining forces, as long as the road to the east was blocked, Wanyan Sa Lijiu could only retreat to the original place and join forces with Wanyan Lou's room. In the first battle of Shenyuan, the Jin soldiers lost 6,000 iron cavalry, and 2,000 heavy armor were completely damaged, which can be said to be a great loss of vitality.
However, Wan Yan Sali did not fight again with the whole army, nor did he retreat to Luoyang along Songshan, but led more than 10,000 iron cavalry to kill Ruzhou in the starry night. Ruzhou is also a big city, if the city is closed and defended, it will be absolutely difficult to capture the city without any siege equipment.
But after Yan Sali drank it, he finally made the right bet. Not all the rebels are as strong as the Protector Army, and not all the generals are as brave as Ji Qian. More than 10,000 iron horsemen just rushed towards Ruzhou City, and the rebel generals of Ruzhou obediently opened the city gate and led a group of soldiers to kneel on both sides of the city gate to welcome the Dajin Iron Cavalry into the city.
"As I expected!" Looking at the open gate of Ruzhou, Wanyan couldn't help but look up to the sky and smile. "Except for Yue Nanman's Protector Army, the other rebel armies are not vulnerable at all. Sons, go into the city and never seal the sword! ”
More than 10,000 Jurchen iron horsemen with low morale were immediately boosted by Wan Yan Sali's words, raised their swords, raised their swords, and howled like wild beasts and rushed into Ruzhou City. When the city of Ruzhou landed, blood splashed everywhere, and the fire soared to the sky.
There were more than 100,000 people in Ruzhou City, but less than 1,000 people survived this catastrophe. After setting fire to the entire Ruzhou city, the Jurchen beast soldiers with great morale followed the saber of Wanyan and killed Baofeng.
The Jurchen slaughtered the city in Ruzhou for three days, and it reached Dong Xian's ears early. Dong Xian scolded, "What an old thief who doesn't know how to advance or retreat!" If you don't go back to Luoyang, then stay in the Central Plains and bury the Li people who died under your saber. ”
But having said that, it's really not so easy to eliminate Yan Sa Li. The bloody battle outside Shenyuan Town has proved that the combat power of the Protector Army is at best a tie with the Jin soldiers. Although the Beiwei army was brave, it was only eight hundred. What's more, Wan Yan Sa still has 14,000 iron cavalry under his command, while Dong Xian's second division only has 8,000 cavalry left.
Despite this, Dong Xian and Ji Qian still left 3,000 cavalry in Shenyuan Town, with 5,000 iron cavalry, as well as Wang Gang's Beiwei army, and chased after Wanyan Sali's buttocks.
As a protector army, if you can't protect the people of the Central Plains, you will just die!
But after Yan Sali easily captured Baofeng, his courage became bigger again. He divided the more than 10,000 iron cavalry into two teams, one team went straight to Nanyang, and the other team went straight to Queshan.
There was no formed Song army in these places at all, and some were only regimental training in some places. However, these team exercises are real local team exercises, and their combat power is slightly equal to nothing. In the face of the red-eyed Jurchen Iron Cavalry, the local regimental training did not dare to surrender, because if they surrendered, they would die, but their resistance did not bring much trouble to the Jin soldiers.
Behind the Jin soldiers of the second road, what was left behind were the people who died tragically, the villages that became ruins, and the homeless people who had escaped the massacre of the Jin soldiers.
Dong Xianjiqian scolded all the way, but he always couldn't catch up with the Jurchen cavalry. After Yan Sali determined the bloodletting tactics, he gave full play to the mobility of the cavalry. His second squad of cavalry suddenly divided into dozens of squads, burned down villages, and suddenly joined forces to attack fortified stockades and towns.
After seven days of pursuit, the Protectors still failed to catch up with the Jurchen Iron Cavalry. More than 200,000 people have died under the iron hooves of the Jurchens. Nearly a million people have become homeless.
"What the hell is going on with Dong Xian and Ji Qian?" Bianliang stayed in the mansion, Yue Fei said very angrily. "He actually let Wan Yan Sali drink and slaughtered Ruzhou under their noses, which revived the morale of the Jurchens. They are guilty of this battle! ”
Xue Bi thought for a moment and said slowly, "Yue Shuai, in the first battle of Shenyuan, our army also suffered heavy losses. Presumably, Master Dong and Master Ji mistakenly thought that they would return to Luoyang after finishing their lives, so they made this mistake. However, the current plan is to send troops to expel Crying Langjun from the Central Plains. Otherwise, the people in the southern part of the Central Plains will suffer a great sin. ”
Zhang Xian volunteered and said, "Yue Shuai, I am willing to lead five thousand iron horsemen to Nanyang to intercept Yan Sali's drink." ”
Yue Fei secretly thought to himself, fighting is like this, what he is most afraid of is a madman-like army. Wanyan Zongbi was defeated by Yue Fei, a madman, and now Wanyan has also become a madman. If he is allowed to kill enough before leaving, the entire southern part of the Central Plains will become a sea of blood. But if you want to annihilate Yan Sali and drink, it is not something that Dong Xianji, Qian, Wang Gang and others can do.
Now that May is approaching, the weather is getting hotter and hotter by the day. The army of Wanyan Lou now has the intention of retreating to Luoyang. News also came from Niu Gao on the north bank of the Yellow River, and Zonghan's army also stopped, and some Jin soldiers had withdrawn to Taiyuan. If it weren't for this madman, the battle to defend the Central Plains would have come to an end. The Protector Army defended every place that should be defended, and annihilated no less than 80,000 Jurchen iron horsemen, which can be said to have beaten the Jurchens to the bone.
What's even more gratifying is that even the Daimyo's Mansion in the far north has received excellent news. Liang Xing, Zhao Yun and Bi Jin of Baoqian Village joined forces and defeated the famous three-surnamed family slave Guo Yaoshi. Guo Yaoshi's head was cut off by Zhao Yun. Now the situation in the Shinding and Daimyo provinces has been stabilized.
However, the southward attack added a bloody end to the entire Central Plains defense battle. Although those places were not the territory of the Protector Army, the rebel army in those places only served Zhao Song as Zhengshuo and did not listen to the orders of the Protector Army at all. Dong first pursued Qi Fang to Dengzhou, but not only did he not get the support of the local rebels, but he almost met with swords. If it is replaced by another general, maybe it will be left to the end.
But Yue Fei is not another general. He could not tolerate the massacre of any Central Plains civilians by the Jin soldiers. Regardless of whether those people supported the imperial court or Yingtianfu, they had Han blood in their veins.
However, Yue Fei is currently inseparable from Bianliang. Since Wanyan Lou wanted to return to Luoyang, Yue Fei would definitely give him a ride. The Jurchen Western Route Army easily entered the Central Plains, but if they wanted to withdraw from the Central Plains, it was impossible to shed blood.
Yue Fei thought for a moment, and then said to Xue Bi, "Send an order to Luo Yanqing of Xiaoshan and let the bald army march to Dengzhou." Sent an order to Jiao Wentong of Lion Camel Hill to let him take 2,000 fine horsemen and go south for me. Give me the fastest speed to reach Funiu Mountain. Now that the weather is getting hotter, no matter how crazy he is, he doesn't dare to stay in Nanyang for too long. If he wants to retreat, he must retreat from Funiu Mountain to Shangzhou. Let Jiao Wentong be there to intercept this guy for me! ”
With Yue Fei's order, the bald army, which had been resting for less than a month, set out from Chenzhou and traveled day and night to go straight to Queshan. Jiao Wentong also left the Lion Camel Gang where he had been fighting for a month, and with 2,000 elite horsemen who had been tempered, he joined the newly appointed deputy commander Zhang Yong and his wife, and flew to Funiu Mountain.
On the second day of the first month of May, the 800 Beiwei army finally intercepted a group of Jin soldiers in Jinding Village, ten miles north of Queshan County. There were more than 1,000 people in this Jin army, which was originally the vanguard force attacking the county seat of Queshan.
After killing the Jin soldiers for more than ten days, the morale rose again. In the face of the red-eyed Beiwei army, the golden soldier Qianhu Gaolishi not only did not retreat, but directly sounded the horn of attack.
The battle is still uncontested. As soon as the two armies clashed, Colliers was poked under his horse by Shi Quan's knife for gun. Shi Quan was stabbed in the ribs of the waist, and Colliers was shot in the chest. More than 1,000 Jin soldiers only supported it for less than half an hour, and the whole army was defeated. Under the pursuit of the Beiwei army, only more than 100 pro-soldiers escaped.
This defeat made Jin Bing wake up. The Jin soldiers Wanhu Wanyan Zahe did not avenge Gao Lishi, but led 6,000 cavalry to bypass the mountain and go straight to Nanyang. He gave up Shinshu and chose to join forces with Wanyan Sa.
At this time, Xiaoshan Luo Yanqing also rushed to Queshan County. The bald army and the back army joined forces and chased after Wan Yan's ass.
Dong Xianjiqian's army also entangled Wan Yan and left at this time. Immediately after the armies of the two sides were united, a bloody battle began in Wollongong. The Lingxiu hometown of Zhuge Liang, the great sage of the Three Kingdoms, witnessed the fight between the Han and Hu armies.
Although Dong Xianjiqian's 5,000-strong army is slightly worse, it is also extremely tenacious under the leadership of Dong Xianjiqian's three generals. Although the number of military horses was thousands more than that, there were no fierce generals under him who could break through the battle.
In the face of Wang Gang's assault, Shi Quan's assault, Luo Yanqing's assault, and Dong Xianjiqian's assault, Jin Bing did not have a general who could go up. Seeing the generals of the Protector Army galloping through their own ranks, the morale of the Jin soldiers was greatly depressed. The two sides fought bloodily for most of the day, and finally led the army to escape again.
This time the escape is no better than the town of Shenyuan, and this time it is a rout. He wanted to hold out until dark and then run away, but after Luo Yanqing's twin guns overturned his war horse, he finally stopped holding on, rode on the war horse of his own soldiers, and ran away with his head in his arms.
In this battle, 7,000 gold soldiers were annihilated. Wanyan Sa took away from drinking, but there were only more than 4,000 riders. ran away all the way, and Wanyan Sali cried even more painfully. But this time, Dong Xianji Qian was determined to end his life. Even if you chase it to Shaanxi, it will chase it to Huanglong Mansion, and you must finish drinking it. They all received military orders from Yue Fei. Yue Fei severely reprimanded Dong Xianjiqian in the military order. This makes Dong Xianjiqian, who has always been arrogant, how can he tolerate it.
Eight thousand elite riders followed Wanyan Sali's buttocks, chased from Nanyang to Xichuan, and chased from Xichuan to Xixia, but they were still escaped by the extremely cunning Wanyan Sali. After Yan Sa left the hall with a thousand elite soldiers, he bought him a day, and he fled into the lush Funiu Mountain with three thousand cavalry.
"Hahahaha!" Wanyan Sali knew that Dong Xian couldn't catch up with him, so he couldn't help standing at the mouth of the Tiger Killing Valley in Funiu Mountain, looking up to the sky and laughing. "Sons, although we failed to take Dengzhou, we at least created millions of displaced people for Yue Nanman. Now that the hot summer is coming, let's retreat to Yanyun and fight the Central Plains again this winter. Maybe he can't wait for winter, and Yue Nanman will die under the knife of these hungry homeless. ”
Although the three thousand cavalry did not agree with the prophecy of Wan Yan and the drink. But they knew they didn't have to die like their comrades in the palace. So they all burst out laughing.
The laughter had just fallen, but I saw an extremely tall bull slowly driving out of the Tiger Killing Valley. The bull was snow-white, with a large waistcoat on his back, and two sharper knives tied to his two sharp horns. A pair of bull eyes showed a fierce light, and there was no tame aura. On the back of the ox, sat a young general with two knives.
The general's face was covered with scars, and he looked extremely terrifying. He rode the bull to the outside of the valley mouth, and smiled at Wan Yan Sali, "Golden dog, do you know me Jiao Wentong?" ”
The laughter that Yan Sali drank suddenly suffocated back to his stomach. He gritted his teeth and said, "Mad Cow Jiao Wentong! ”
Jiao Wentong nodded, "On the order of Yue Shuai, Jiao has been waiting for you in the Tiger Valley for three days." ”
On the tenth day of the first month of May, more than 3,000 people from Wanyan Sali who tried to sneak back to Shaanxi were blocked by Jiao Wentong in the Tiger Killing Valley. The whole army of Jin soldiers is exhausted. Wanyan Sali drank and died under Jiao Wentong's double knife.