Chapter Forty-Seven: The First Battle of the Golden Horse

In the previous chapter, it was mentioned that Yue Fei saw through the Jin people's plan to lure the sheep out of the hole, and Zhang Sanlang planned to borrow the swamp in Liangshan to set up an ambush and capture the Jin soldiers alive. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

After the goal was determined, everyone discussed the specific division of labor for the ambush: Liu Binjun was responsible for seeing the Jin soldiers scatter and flee; Zhang Sanlang's army, guard battalion, and teaching battalion were responsible for protecting Zhao Gou to lure the Jin army cavalry, Zhang Sanlang pretended to wear gold armor and raise a big flag, and when the battle started, he turned his head and ran to the swamp, throwing the flagpole while running; Yue Feijun was responsible for pretending to block the Jin army, and fought and retreated; Zhang Junjun with a firearms battalion ambushed near the swamp; Han Yuanjun, who was good at archery, lay in ambush after breaking off in the swamp, so as not to let the Jin army rush out of the swamp and really catch Zhao Gou.

Listening to everyone's arrangements on the side, and then contacting the previous situation, Zhao Gou summed it up, Yue Fei and Zhang Sanlang are both good at fighting; Zhang Jun is brave and strategic, but he has a lot of calculations in private; Han Yuan doesn't take the usual path; Liu Bin is down-to-earth, knowledgeable, and usually looks very good, but if he really leads troops to fight, he still needs to exercise. These five people, like Yue Fei and Zhang Sanlang, the more the merrier; Zhang Jun needs to be harnessed properly; Han Yuan is similar to Jia Xu, although it is very inconsistent with Confucian tradition, but it is actually a generation of cattle; As for Liu Bin, he still needs to observe and exercise.

In fact, not only does Liu Bin need to exercise, but he Zhao Gou is also a novice who is a little dazed, and everything has to cross the river by feeling the stones. For example, in the past, Zong Ze, Wang Boyan, and Zhao Ye recommended the scholar to Zhao Gou, and he always felt annoyed. But now, Zhao Gou really felt that he needed the help of the scholars, because he found that the major flaw of his Marshal's Mansion was the lack of military divisions and the lack of think tanks. At present, the Marshal's Mansion has the highest military strategy, and it seems that the two generals, Yue Fei and Zhang Sanlang; And the politically strategic, Wang Boyan and Han Yuan. This is like Liu Bei only Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, Cao Cao only has Zhang Liao and Cao Ren, and they can deal with small-scale battles, but in the future, they will fight in a big battle group, and I am afraid that they will have to be enlightened. Need Zhuge Liang, Zhao Gou rubbed his beardless chin and thought, if there is no Zhuge Liang, at least there will be a Xu Shu! However, in the late Northern Song Dynasty, or the early Southern Song Dynasty, there didn't seem to be any particularly good strategic masters. Alas, Zhao Gou was a little frustrated, it would be good if he wore to the Three Kingdoms to be the emperor, Wei had Xun Yu, Shu had Zhuge Liang, Wu had Lu Su, all of them pointed out the direction of development for their group. It's a pity that the two songs don't seem to have anything to ......

Wait, no, Zhao Gou realized that he wanted to go astray, is there a master of strategy, the key is not whether the scholar is a cow or not, the key is what the level of the monarch is! With Qin Mugong, Shang Ying was able to implement the Shang Yang reform, and as soon as Mu Gong died, Shang Ying was no longer useful; With Song Shenzong, Wang Anshi was able to change, as soon as Shenzong died, the opposition forces immediately counterattacked, and Wang Anshi immediately recited a lot of infamy; The emperor at the end of the Northern Song Dynasty was the two brain-dead of Huizong and Qinzong, so Sun Fu's strange thing, this strange thing that actually believed that the god stick could use rune paper to return the golden soldiers, had the opportunity to enter the Zaizhi team to scourge the Great Song Dynasty.

Thinking of this, Zhao Gou has confidence again, he has confidence in the Song Dynasty, China has always produced many talents, and the two Song Dynasty are the pinnacle of Chinese culture, of course, there will be excellent strategic masters. If not, then it can only be said that he, Zhao Gou, is also a stupid emperor and did not provide them with a good stage. How could he be a stupid emperor? Zhao Gou couldn't help but get proud, eating cake and drinking rice wine, as if he had recruited a certain master under his command.

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Layue was transferred from Xiangzhou to the Daimyo's Mansion, and the volunteers had prepared enough cars and baggage at that time, so now that they are transferred, they can almost be called leaving. On the third night of the second month, Zhao Gou made a plan with the commanders; On the fourth day of the second lunar month, Zhouhang's scout camps were arranged to various places along the way; In the early morning of the fifth day of the second month, a centurion or above meeting was held; At noon on the fifth day of the second lunar month, 11,000 volunteers, plus streamlined civil officials, craftsmen, and miscellaneous servants, totaling 15,000, were ready to go in front of the Daimyo's Mansion.

Zhao Ye, the prefect of the Daimyo Mansion and the governor of the Northern Song Dynasty's Anti-Jin North Province, saw that Zhao Gou was about to leave, and went out of the city to see him off, looking relaxed and nervous. Zhao Gou understood as soon as he saw Zhao Ye's expression, Zhao Ye relaxed because the goal of the Jin Army was Zhao Gou, and now that Zhao Gou is gone, the Daimyo Mansion is no longer as hateful as before, and the nervousness is because Zhao Gou has taken away 11,000 elite soldiers and strong generals in the end, and there is such a force, although the Daimyo Mansion is no longer the main target of the Jin people, but Zhao Ye is still a little unsteady. Zhao Gou shook his head secretly, Zhao Ye, a timid person like a mouse, was actually responsible for the security of the north of the Song Dynasty, it was strange that he could be safe!

After Yang Yizhong fought the vanguard, Liu Bin and Yue Fei broke off, the volunteers blew the horn in the joy of the officials of the Daimyo Mansion and the worries of the people, officially marched towards the prosperous Dongping Mansion.

Along the way, the volunteers sent observation posts with binoculars to climb trees, go to houses, and climb to the top of the mountain, carefully observing the news of scouts in the distance.

At night on the seventh day of the first month of February, the observation post Pegasus reported that two red and one blue lanterns had been lit up in the distance (the volunteers used red lanterns or fireworks, representing the enemy soldiers, one red lantern or red fireworks represented a small group of enemy troops, two lamps represented a large group of enemy troops, and three lamps represented a large number of enemy troops; Colors other than red represent the number of the reporting scout station, which determines the location and calculates the distance). As Yue Fei expected, Jin Jun was really playing a little trick to lure the snake out of the hole! Zhao Gou was furious, and Jin Ren looked down on him too much!

On the morning of the ninth day of the second lunar month, the volunteers were twenty-five miles away from Liangshan, scouting Pegasus to report, and two red and one green lights flew up in the distance. Zhao Gou was worried that the whole army would not be able to reach Liangshan on time, so he immediately asked the miscellaneous servants to escort the donkey carts carrying civil officials and craftsmen to zero, and first dispersed into the village to hide, and met in Dongping Mansion on February 11.

Only the volunteers of the battle department were guided by the observation post at high places, sometimes fast and sometimes slow, marching to Liangshan, at three o'clock in the afternoon (11:45 p.m.), the volunteers arrived near Liangshan, but the Jin army light cavalry was still twenty miles away from the volunteers, Zhao Gouxin said that the speed of the gold cavalry is not powerful, not as fast as the bicycle! Why don't you stop and eat and wait for them!

Zhao Gou ordered the whole army to light a fire to cook and rest, and the cigarette lit when cooking should be as strong as possible, so that the Jin army could see it from a distance. It was almost midnight (nearly 13 o'clock), the horn of the alarm in the distance finally sounded, Zhao Gou stuffed the last piece of bread into his mouth, and Shi Erlang led Tengyun to ask Zhao Gou to get on the horse. The volunteers should throw their weapons and flee to the mountains.

The battle is on!