Chapter Seventy-Six: One Thousand Chasers
Han Wang bared his teeth at Yang Keshi, "General Yang, when you arrive at Zhending, I will give you a handle."
Yang Keshi didn't know that Han Wang's steel factory was already capable of forging high-carbon steel knives, so he was naturally overjoyed, and while he was happy, he asked Han Wang how to retreat to Zhending next. Han Wang said the general situation of Zhending, at present, there is no problem for the city to protect itself, but the periphery may be harassed and destroyed by the Liao army. As for the retreat route, Han Wang and Xiong Da had already agreed that there would be two designated meeting points every day, and no one would automatically rush to the next meeting point when no one gathered when it expired.
Han Wang's department handed over the food and water bladder he was carrying to Yang Keshi's department, and Yang Keshi couldn't help but be moved inexplicably, he and his subordinates had not touched the water and rice for two consecutive days, and now Han Wang's consideration was too thoughtful. Han Wang took advantage of Yang Keshi's diet to let his subordinates tidy up their equipment, the injured were quickly bandaged, and the martyrs who died were wrapped in cloth towels and tied to the horses on horseback to bring them back.
Han Wang said, "Every child of the Liulian who sacrificed must be brought back to the Fengzhuang Martyrs Cemetery and buried with the thirty-six warriors of Zhending, this is the rule of the Liulian barracks!" ”
But in the hearts of the soldiers of the Sixth League, it was different, my comrades died in battle, and I took them back; If I die in battle, my fellow brothers will also take me home, and I can sleep in the same tomb as the Zhending warriors after I die, which is great! This strong sense of collective honor inspires every soldier in the Sixth Coalition Battalion. These things are done spontaneously.
Yang Keshi saw that Han Wang's subordinates were very disciplined and conscious, and the equipment on their bodies could not even be compared to his own white soldiers who were known as the heavy cavalry of the Western Army, the more he looked at it, the more surprised he became, where is this righteousness and bravery, and it is clearly the elite of the elite? Haven't heard of such a unit as the Sixth Combined Barracks before?
Before Yang Keshibu could eat and drink, he heard Han Wang's sentry coming from a distance, "Back to Yingzheng, nearly a thousand Liao cavalry soldiers are divided into two ways to try to encircle left and right, and the banner is Yizhou Shicheng's military horse." Han Wang didn't know who Shi Cheng was? Rolling his eyes, he didn't react.
Yang Keshi said, "Shi Cheng is a strong man in Yizhou, with thousands of soldiers, and his military strength is considered strong among other tribes, and he has always been trusted by Yelu Dashi." Now he is chasing and killing, presumably to take down us and avenge these Khitan dogs. We are not familiar with this place, and there is a labor camp to guide us."
Han Wang said lightly, "What General Yang said is that since the dog's nose is so smart, let's go now!" A group of more than 30 horsemen galloped towards Zhending, and Shi Cheng's cavalry behind them chased after him.
Shi Cheng was originally a Han Chinese, and his hands and eyes were all over the sky in Yizhou, and those rich merchants who did horses, raw mouths, armor and various luxury goods had to nod his head to trade in Yizhou, and he was naturally rich enough to rival the country. Seeing that the world was chaotic, he raised private soldiers early, and now he has a total of 1,000 cavalry and 3,000 infantry troops, and he is the strongest in the north except for the Khitans.
Yelu Dashi saw that he was quite a commander, not only gave him grain, grass, military horses, and equipment, but also specially granted him the right to arbitrarily command the Yizhou Han army. Shi Cheng was greatly moved by this special kindness, so he followed the Khitan with an iron heart, turned around and hated the Great Song Dynasty, and even the envoy sent by Tong Guan to persuade him to surrender was tied up and sent to Yanjing with all his own brains.
Originally, he took 5,000 men and horses to cooperate with the Liao army to beat Yang Keshi, Chongshi Dao and other famous generals of the Southern Dynasties all over the ground, and was preparing to take advantage of the situation to attack Baozhou and smash Zhending Mansion. Unexpectedly, a Liao general and nearly a hundred elite horsemen under Yelu Dashi were actually killed by the southerners, and he was the closest to Xiaozhuang River, so Yelu Dashi ordered himself to leave this southern army behind no matter what, to see people in life and corpses in death!
Shi Cheng didn't dare to slack off, immediately ordered all the cavalry, and rushed to attack the Xiaozhuang River, and when he arrived at Xiaozhuang, the Henan people had already left, and the corpses of the Khitans were all over the place, and the left ear was cut off by the southerners as a head. In the grass by the river beach, he finally found two Liao soldiers who were hiding, and learned that the two groups of men and horses on the other side combined were only more than 30 people.
Shi Cheng secretly despised in his heart, and the labor and management thought that the southerners had come with thousands of people, and there were only thirty feelings! The two hundred Liao army against the thirty southerners were actually beaten and lost their armor, not only nearly half of them were killed and wounded, but they didn't even leave a single hair of the other party, and the generation of the Great Liao Kingdom was not as good as the generation!
I didn't say it, chase them and eat them, and repay Da Shi Linya for his kindness to me! For the sake of prudence, Shi Cheng sent 400 people as the main force to pursue along the road, and sent 200 guards on the left and right to flank and expand the search, and he took 200 guards to the rear to dispatch.
Yelu Dashi's tall figure stood on the hillside, thinking about the report of dozens of Liao army routs just now, Yang Keshi had already been strangled to death, and a team that didn't know where it came from, was actually not afraid of death, the armor was invulnerable, and the sword was indestructible, and it was destroyed by thirty in one battle, and our army was defeated in another battle, fifteen against thirty, thirty against two hundred? When did the Nanren become so brave? Even Yang Keshi and the Seed Master Dao are all defeated under their own hands, I want to see if there is a hidden dragon and crouching tiger in this team!
Everyone knows that the Liao State is about to end, and millions of elite soldiers can be beaten and fled by 7,000 Jurchens with incomplete armor, and what is even more shameful is that Emperor Tianzuo actually abandoned the army and fled, running 500 miles in a day and night! The morale of the Great Liao Kingdom collapsed in an instant, and the face of the Khitan people was gone. I can't look at it when I bring out the Tianci Emperor, that kind of emperor is not worthy of being the monarch of the Khitan people at all.
What's even more angry is that Song Liao is about a brotherly alliance, and he has not moved troops for a hundred years, and now that the Jurchens are rising, the southerners are shameless and take advantage of the danger to stab people in the back. He and Xiao Gan have always been at odds, but they have the same view of punishing the southerners; Xiao Gan led 20,000 tribal troops to attack the Nanren East Road, and he led 10,000 people to attack the Nanren West Army.
The message to the southerners is already very clear: the Khitan is defeated by the Jurchens, and the country will fall, but you southerners want to take advantage of the fire to rob, but it is still not enough to see! At the same time, this reminds the Southern Dynasty how strong the Jurchens were, and after the fall of the Liao State, what did the Southern Dynasty do to resist the Jurchens?
Originally, Shi Cheng was going to make a real decision, and his own family was dispensable, so let him be; Unexpectedly, a member of the account pursued Yang Keshibu, but was defeated by more than 30 people, and the reproduction of the battle of Dagang was repeated under his own eyelids, which was unbearable! At that moment, all the defeated soldiers who fled back were beheaded, and the remaining fifty or sixty soldiers were at the forefront of the battle until they were all dead.
It is difficult for this Southern Army squad to have a legendary hero like Aguta, in order to prevent things from deteriorating in the direction, Shi Cheng must be intercepted and killed. Shi Cheng's soldiers and horses are strong, not inferior to the Liao army, and the sophisticated equipment he allocated to him is enough to resist 10,000 Southern Dynasty military horses, so let him send a thousand cavalry to deal with 30 southerners, it should be enough.
I'm almost forty years old, how nice it would be if I were twenty years younger!
The Jurchen soldiers and horses are like a rainbow, and they can't be violated by manpower, and they have been thinking hard about what the way out is in the future.
With 10,000 horses in his own hands, if he adds 20,000 to Xiao Gan and find a piece of land, he may not be able to pull up 100,000 people in ten years.
It's a pity that Xiao Gan's self-reliance is too heavy, and he refuses to be with a certain ambition, is this Da Liao's naivety really about to collapse?