Chapter 100: Scout Warfare
Jingyuan Road Dashuai Qu Duan sat in Chang'an, and confronted Wanyan Lou Room for three months, winning and losing each other. However, since entering February, the Golden Soldier Battalion, which has always liked to attack, has suddenly become quiet. Qu Duan knew that Wanyan Lou Room was full of wisdom, and when he saw that Jin Bing suddenly closed the camp and couldn't come out, he thought it was some trick of Lou Room, so he immediately sent more than a dozen generals under his command, each leading capable men and horses, to guard the pass.
Qu Duan is eight feet long, and his years of fighting career have made this famous general of the Western Army look forward to it. Since the Xuanhe period, most of the elite of the Western Army were defeated in the battle of Liao, and the Western Xia military horses repeatedly entered the Song Dynasty to fight the grass valley. Qu Duan led more than 1,000 people and horses, repeatedly defeated the Xia army, and was prepared by a member to fight to the position of the marshal of Jingyuan Road, and the army and horses under his command were also fought by 1,000 people into 70,000 elite soldiers. The Xia people could not capture the Zhenrong army, so they could only withdraw to the territory. If there is no Quduan, during the Jingkang period, the Western Xia may have driven straight into the entire North Shaanxi Road. The entire northwest is no longer owned by the Great Song Dynasty.
Wanyan Lou's westward advance this time, in front of the 70,000 Jingyuan army in Quduan, still could not take the slightest advantage. In a battle outside the city of Weizhou, Qu Duan took a BMW iron elephant, led twelve generals, and fought head-on with the Jin soldiers, and the three days of the war, the Jin people did not take any advantage. It's just that because the Song people have few horses, it is not suitable to fight hard with the iron cavalry, so Qu Duan withdrew his troops into Chang'an.
Quduan's bloodiness is flowing with the unyielding blood of the old Qin people, he is not afraid of war, not afraid of war, although he is stationed in Chang'an, 70,000 military horses only retreat into the city of 30,000. 40,000 military horses were around Chang'an, entangled with the Jin people.
However, the combat power of the Jin people also made Qu Duan's heart broken. He, the elite military horse that has repeatedly defeated the Xia people, has been fighting against the Jin people for several months, and he can only maintain a draw. Even most of the time, they could only rely on danger and defend it, and with the assistance of the Shaanxi Righteous Army, they could block the attack of the Jin people.
After a few days, all the troops and horses came to report, and the Jin soldiers showed no signs of attacking. Not only is the Jin Bing camp outside Chang'an City as quiet as a virgin, but even the small battalions are also very quiet, and it seems that even the soldiers and horses are gone.
"Could it be that the golden dog really withdrew? No, the weather is still cold, and the Jin people have not yet had the opportunity to withdraw their troops. But if the troops are not withdrawn, where can the golden dog go back? Qu Duan frowned and pondered, his finger followed the map all the way to the east, and suddenly pointed at Luoyang. Could it be that the golden dog dared to abandon my Jingyuan army and wave his army to Luoyang? Luoyang has a sect marshal in charge, how can Wanyan Lou's room not know? ”
Soon, Quduan's conjecture was confirmed. His generals, Wu Jie, Wu Phosphorus brothers, led 5,000 elite soldiers to break through the Jin soldier camp outside the city, but found that there were only more than 1,000 Jurchen soldiers in the camp, and the rest were all Han'er troops.
At the same time, Li Yanxian, the commander of the Shaanxi Righteous Army, sent an urgent report, and tens of thousands of Jurchen troops suddenly appeared in Shaanzhou, defeated the Shaoxing Department of the Righteous Army, and the troops went straight to Luoyang.
Qu Duan stood up, pulled out his waist knife, slashed forward, and said in a hateful voice, "Wanyan Lou Room, this dog thief, dares to underestimate my Western Army so much!" Xi Tong sentenced, wrote to the court to me, Qu was willing to lead 50,000 righteous troops and rush to the Central Plains. ”
The reason why Wanyan Lou's army abandoned Shaanxi and took Luoyang was that he received two secret letters from Jin Taizong and Zongwang. Since Yue Fei led 2,000 elite cavalry to capture the Daimyo's Mansion, both Jin Taizong and Zongwang immediately listed the Protector Army as the number one enemy of the Jin State. Seeing the Lou Army's horses and soldiers in Chang'an, Zong Wang immediately decided to abandon the Shaanxi soldiers and horses, first lay Luoyang, and then wave his troops to the east.
Jin Taizong and Zong Wang are both people with a strong sense of the overall situation. They weren't as stupid as Zhao Go. Especially Jin Taizong, who followed his brother Wanyan Agu to become the lord of a country from a small tribe, but he knew that a powerful commander was enough to create something out of nothing and build a foundation in a very small opportunity. It is precisely for this reason that Jin Taizong almost unanimously ordered Lou to send troops to Luoyang.
As for the Quduan military horse, Jin Taizong thought it was not a cause for concern. With the Song people's control of the army, it was at least three months before Qu Duan was allowed to leave Shaanxi. And during this time, maybe Luoyang has been returned to Dajin.
When the military horses of Yan Lou's room stepped on the corpses of tens of thousands of righteous soldiers and broke into Shaanzhou, which was still hundreds of miles away from Luoyang, Yue Fei and Zong Bi had already begun the second confrontation.
After Zong Bi was defeated by Yue Fei in Caozhou, he completely dispelled his contempt for Yue Fei. Knowing that Yue Fei led 7,000 cavalry and 20,000 infantry to Yu County, Zong Bi, who only had 7,000 cavalry, no longer dared to hold it up, and soon summoned the 20,000 cavalry in the rear again.
"Kill!"
Meng Bangjie roared angrily, his legs lightly urged the war horse under his crotch, and he was like an arrow to kill the Jin soldier scout. The five backsakers raised their sabers and followed closely behind Meng Bangjie. The Golden Soldier Scout on the opposite side was a ten-man team. Since the Beiwei army arrived in Yucheng, Jin Bing's scout team has changed from a five-person team to a ten-person team.
The Beiwei army had just started, and the ten commanders on the opposite side, who were slightly stunned, had already raised their maces and shouted loudly in Jurchen words, "Warriors, rush up and cut off the heads of these Song pigs." ”
Don't blame this ten-captain for being confident, they have ten people, while Meng Bangjie only has six people. Although the Beiwei army is strong, it can't have much upper hand in front of these Jurchen scouts composed of veterans of a hundred battles.
As for Meng Bangjie, who rushed to the front, in the eyes of this ten-year-old, he was just a stinky kid. He knew that there was a very powerful young general Wang Gang in the Beiwei army, and when he broke into the formation, he almost beheaded the fourth prince under his horse. But the kid on the other side is obviously not Wang Gang. Because judging from the armor he wore, it was obvious that he belonged to a low-ranking officer of the Protector Army.
The heavy mace was as light as straw in the thick hands of the ten-leggon, but it carried a heavy wind sound. Meng Bangjie slashed at him and was easily blocked by the ten-division commander. There was a hint of hideousness on the face of the ten-master, and the mace smashed diagonally towards Meng Bangjie's young face.
If this ten-division knew that Meng Bangjie was the grandson of old Meng An, maybe he wouldn't be so careless. Although Meng Bangjie is young, he has a name that is neither big nor small in the rivers and lakes, "Meng Bangjie has a lot of money in his sleeve." ”
Facing the menacing mace, Meng Bangjie was not in a hurry, and suddenly raised his left sleeve, and a black light shot out, but it was a small arm crossbow! The two men were no more than five feet apart, and the crossbow shot through the left eye and into the brain. The ten-captain didn't even let out a muffled roar, and then turned over and fell off his horse.
Meng Bangjie struck a blow, and once again aimed his left sleeve at another golden soldier scout in front of him, this scout saw the captain die in a blink of an eye, and was already vigilant, Meng Bangjie raised his hand, and the scout shrank his body, hiding behind the high horse's head.
But this time, Meng Bangjie did not send another crossbow, taking advantage of the scout's dodge kung fu, Meng Bangjie held the seven-foot long knife with both hands, and slashed Huashan with one blow, and actually cut off the head of the golden soldier and horse, and cut the scout who was about to jump off the horse to escape into two sections.
Seeing Meng Bangjie so ferocious, the five Beiwei soldiers couldn't help but be even more arrogant, and collided with the Jin Bing scouts and fought past. In just one round, out of ten Golden Soldier Scouts, only five remained. Of the five backers, only one of them was wounded in the left arm, and they were still able to fight again.
The five Jin soldier scouts turned in defeat, and before Meng Bangjie fell off his horse and killed back, they beat their horses and galloped away.
Meng Bangjie couldn't help laughing when he looked at the appearance of the golden soldier wolf fleeing. "Rejoice! It's a pleasure. Commander Wang sent me to be the captain of the scout, which can be regarded as a duì. In the past two days, we have also cut down more than 20 gold soldiers. I don't know how many gold soldiers my brother can kill today? ”
Meng Bangxiong, like Meng Bangjie, is also the leader of the scout squad leading the five backslaught army.
When Meng Bangjie was fighting, he was full of deceit, and used all the secret tricks on the rivers and lakes, so that the Jin soldiers could not be guarded against. Meng Bangjie's sleeve does not refer to his sleeve arrows. In his two distinctly wide sleeves, sometimes a sleeve arrow came out, sometimes an iron pellet, and sometimes a handful of lime. Anyway, many Jin Bing scouts whose martial arts were comparable to Meng Bangjie's died under Meng Bangjie's knife in such a daze.
Meng Bangxiong's fighting style is diametrically opposed to that of his younger brother. He used his strength to descend to the Ten Societies, and with his superb martial arts, when he met a golden scout, he broke up a golden scout. When you encounter two Golden Soldier Scouts, defeat both Golden Soldier Scouts.
He was only followed by five backs, but no matter whether there were ten or twenty Jin scouts he encountered, he was not afraid to kill them. Today, Meng Bangxiong met a bit too many Jin scouts, and there were thirty horsemen. The scout who led the army was a centurion.
The place where the two sides met was a stone bridge that crossed the river. When Meng Bangxiong appeared on the west side of the bridge, the centurion of the golden soldiers happened to come to the east of the bridge.
Meng Bangxiong saw that the Jin soldiers had thirty horses, his brows couldn't help frowning, and he said to the Beiwei army behind him, "Big head, skillful hands, today we are in the city again." ”
The Beiwei sergeant named Datou pulled the saber in his hand and said with a smile, "Captain Meng, in the past two days with you, I have found that every time we meet the Jin soldiers, there are more people than us." ”
Skillful hands were obviously a little nervous, he tightened the saber in his hand, and said with a little stutter, "Big head, with Captain Meng here, what are we afraid of." A hundred golden soldiers is not enough for Captain Meng to cut alone. ”
The other three backstabs also nodded.
Meng Bangxiong laughed, and suddenly his expression froze, "Big head, skillful hands, there seem to be too many golden dogs today." But as long as we hold this bridge, the golden dog can only come side by side and ride three times. No amount of horses can be used. ”
As soon as Meng Bangxiong's words fell, he saw the golden soldier centurion wave his hand, and more than a dozen sharp arrows shot over like lightning.
A sharp arrow hit the big head in the forehead, and the big head screamed strangely, turned over and fell into the icy river. The other three backswainers were also hit by arrows, but they were not hit. Only Meng Bangxiong and Qiao Shou had great luck and pulled out the chaotic arrows with a knife.
The centurion of the golden soldiers was about to wave his hand and shoot a second round of bows and arrows, but he saw Meng Bangxiong killing him like a mad tiger with one man and one horse. Long knives were everywhere, and the centurion's head flew into the water.
The five men and thirty Jurchen cavalry fought for a while, and only Meng Bangxiong was left. However, of the thirty Jurchen scouts, only seventeen remained.
This time, it was Meng Bangxiong who fled.
The armies of Yue Fei and Zong Bi had not yet faced each other, and the blood of the scouts on both sides had already been sprinkled on every traffic artery in eastern Henan.