I don't know how long this wait lasted, but the knight of Zahu still reined in the distance of a powerful attack from the cavalry. Hesitating, hesitating, and cring, they had not moved a single step forward before such a tired formation, and at last, the poignant trumpets sounded, and the knights turned around and slowly retreated to the west!

Zhang Xian and hundreds of sons insisted until those miscellaneous knights retreated, and insisted until the fleeing people were out of sight for a long time, and then slowly walked backwards.

As soon as he withdrew from Zahu's sight, Zhang Xian and his horse fell down violently, and the faithful mount had exhausted its last bit of strength, and once it fell, it was out of breath.

The soldiers under his command hurriedly went to help Zhang Xian, but unexpectedly, Zhang Xian jumped up, "Haosheng buried my mount!" ”

After this sentence was explained, Zhang Xian closed his eyes and fell backwards, snoring loudly before he touched the ground.

Niu Gao stood in the middle of the team transporting the people, looked back at these armor soldiers who could no longer walk, looked at the war horses that were falling, and a war horse with soft hooves was on the ground, still trying his best to raise his head, and tried to watch his master say goodbye.

Just when Yang Ling and everyone were talking and laughing in the new barracks of the Jinyang Army, in the attached county seat of Shuozhou City, the village fort was staging a scene similar to Zhang Xian's deeds, of course, Zhang Xian was lucky, but many Jinyang Army soldiers and horses fell in such a battle, among which the dead and wounded, but not only the soldiers, because once the Song army failed, almost all the people they transferred were spared, and all of them were poisoned, and such tragedies also happened a lot.

In a small county in Shuozhou, Lu Junyi has led the people of Dazu County to retreat calmly, and now it is just a small county town to garrison, but the Jurchen Tartars are still gritting their teeth, and many small forces are still testing this. In the whole camp, at this time, there were mostly dense and chaotic footsteps, bonfires burning, and the smoke and dust were also large, and many people bypassed the smoke column and brought the prepared porridge and food to be distributed.

The prisoner who was coerced by the Jurchens when he defeated the Jurchen sentinel outside the city of the First War. At this time, most of them were also mobilized to participate in cooking and caring for the wounded.

The captives, who had been bullied, only felt weakness and fear when they first arrived in Dazu County, and then they began to join in the help under the gradual mobilization and infection, in fact, on the one hand, because of the cold situation of Dazu County being besieged, it was chilling; The second is that these soldiers outside can really fight with the Jurchen army. It gave them a lot of encouragement.

By this day, this team that had been tortured, most of them were women, and they had been able to boost their morale with their efforts, although in the battles for several days, the defenders of Dazu County had suffered heavy casualties, and their combat skills and proficiency were originally not comparable to the ranks of the Jurchen army. It was not easy to rely on the defensive to kill the Jurchen army with higher casualties. A large number of people were trained in it, and a large number of people were injured or even died as a result, but even if the body was injured and tired, I saw those scrawny women who were even wounded doing their best to take care of the wounded or prepare meals and help defend.

It is inevitable that there will be warmth and a sense of honor in the hearts of these soldiers, and an army must grow up. There are big things to say, and the facts in front of us are also to be seen.

In this regard, whether it is victory, or the gratitude of the guarded. All have a considerable weight, because there are many women among these people, the weight will be aggravated by this, and the appearance of women in the army sometimes reduces the will to fight, sometimes not.

Lu Junyi let these people have contact with the soldiers, on the other hand, he also gave a death order, never allow disrespect to these people, random bullying, in the past, there may be fish that slipped through the net under such orders, but the situation has been tense these days, but there have been no incidents of soldiers can't help but rape women, everything is still developing in a positive direction.

Lu Junyi looked at the people who came down to deliver food, and then looked at the position of the Jurchen army opposite, and sighed after a while.

Yang Ling is also in moderation at this time, after all, asking them to pay attention to the Jurchen Tartars does not mean that they are afraid of the Jurchen Tartars.

At this time, although Yang Ling knew the tragedy, he did not show any worry and lack of confidence here.

Because these were his deployments, everything was expected by him, and of course many of them did not know the inside story.

Yang Zhi also said, "General Xiao Yang, so what should we do now?" ”

Yang Ling smiled, "Naturally, it is a strong wall to clear the wilderness, build a high wall and accumulate grain, at the same time, we are stationed in this Shuozhou city, and the Tartars can't help us for a while, and then build a fortress in the state city to defend the Shuozhou state city, I will send troops to attack the Tartars from time to time, and they will naturally not be bothered." ”

At this time, Lin Chong, who had not spoken and had a relatively steady temperament, said, "General Xiao Yang, General Yue Fei has already sent an urgent report some time ago, although Yingzhou is strong and difficult to gnaw, but there is not much grain and grass in it, and now it is not enough to support the needs of the army for two months, how can this be good?" ”

Yang Ling smiled, "Yingzhou City is small and strong, only a few thousand people can be defended as impregnable, and the Tartars are not willing to come down, because of this, Yin Keshu chose to bypass Yingzhou City to fight Shuozhou, trying to directly fight Hedong from the inside, and at that time, the Jurchen Tartars had too much room to move." ”

Yang Ling has now cultivated his strategic awareness, and with the vision of later generations, at least the control of the overall situation is far beyond that of ordinary second-rate commanders.

Here in front of the generals is to talk eloquently, "Yue Fei's department can choose a steady old general, leaving thousands of soldiers and horses to guard Yingzhou, he can lead more than 10,000 people out of Yingzhou and go north, there are few Jurchens, in Ulzhou to deploy defense, put pressure on the Feihukou, and in the north of Yingzhou is Yunzhou under the jurisdiction of the Jurchens." ”

"General Xiao Yang said well, the Yinkeshu Department was originally transferred from Yunzhou to the army, at this time Yunzhou's heart must be empty, if General Yue waves his troops north, he will definitely be able to achieve miraculous results." Yang Zhi was also born in Jiangmen, and at this time, he also saw the turning point of the battle.

Yang Ling nodded, "If Yunzhou is lost, Yin Keshu will definitely panic, and then we can chase and kill and win a big victory." ”

"But let Yue Fei not rush to send troops first. Let's keep the silver technique here first, and sharpen the claws of the soldiers, in the end, our foundation is too thin, and the time is too urgent! ”

In the final analysis, even the most elite part of the Jinyang Army, Heiyundu, can only fight with the Jurchens in terms of combat quality, if you count the Jinyang Army, which has not been integrated into the forbidden army of the Xiang Army. There is also the strength of a battle, but now, the difference in strength between the two sides has reached a point that cannot be ignored.

In the final analysis, the fundamental problem is that the foundation is too thin, the entire Great Song Dynasty, before Yang Ling, can only fight the two or three hundred thousand horses of the Western Army, but in the entire Great Song Dynasty, the million forbidden army is not just talking. But the low combat effectiveness is really outrageous!

The erosion of military affairs is no longer a matter of one or two days, the Great Song Dynasty has been raising soldiers for a hundred years, and with the literature and imperial martial arts, the bloody nature of the Han family has almost been wiped out, Yang Ling said that what he wants to do is to slowly pick up such blood.

Fortunately, the sons of the Han family have always been shameful and courageous, and their vitality is extremely strong. In a short period of time, these vulnerable forbidden armies. They have faded away from their dead air and are beginning to become radiant, although this is not enough, but anyone can see that their potential is definitely not small, and they just need time to get through. You can also become a hero.

The current situation in the border area is like this, it is always unpredictable for a while, but fortunately, Wang Hao is in Taiyuan, and the prefect Zhang Xiaochun cooperates seamlessly, and countless grains, grasses and ordnance are transported out of the customs. arrived at the front line in Shuozhou, and these things are the national strength accumulated by the Great Song Chengping for a hundred years, and now they can finally come in handy.

I have to say that at this time in the fifth year of Xuanhe in the Great Song Dynasty, due to the Jiangnan Rebellion, the Fang La Rebellion, and the two Northern Expeditions, the officials of the Great Song Dynasty spent extravagantly, and the money was already stretched.

Fortunately, the people in the border area are used to living a bitter life, and the money is used for a fart, maybe one day they will bury their bones here, and they will not be cleaned?

The imperial court has a headache for financial schemes, but in the capital, the military salary of the so-called 800,000 forbidden army still has to be paid, although the wealthy nobles control the forbidden army, it has become an inviolable group, it is needless to say that drinking the blood of the soldiers and eating the empty amount, the whole dynasty is tacit, and the actual amount of the people who are still registered is only about 100,000, except for the thousands of people under the noses of the officials in front of the palace, the others are not all raised by the nobles to become domestic slaves and manage the financial plans for them? Maybe I can't even wear armor, but my ability to meet people on all sides has grown a lot.

This cake is too big, although everyone knows it, but not all of them turn a blind eye, no one dares to touch the slightest, these forbidden army nobles have almost become a cancer of the Great Song Dynasty, until the same as the Great Song Dynasty, even the staunch reformist Wang Anshi of the previous dynasty can only make up his mind from the open source, and the forbidden army does not dare to move.

The combat effectiveness of the forbidden army has long been a joke in Bianliang, as for the officers of the forbidden army, they are all inherited from generation to generation, and the children of big families who grew up in the hands of women are brittle and weak, and they can't ride horses.

How can such a forbidden army be trained? The gods have no way, and the Taizu trained the forbidden army that day, in addition to some of the hundred battle teams in his hands, he also collected the elite of the world in Bianliang, and now the indigenous forbidden army in Bianliang City is mud and can't support the wall, where can there be soldiers in the world? Except for the Western Army, other places are only worse than the Forbidden Army, how can the Western Army hand over their sons and daughters to the Forbidden Army? If you prepare for the border defense of Xixia, you can finish the fight, and if you continue to force it, I am afraid that it will not be able to sit back and watch the chaos in Hedong like now.

In real history, during the Northern Expedition, more than 500,000 Bianliang forbidden troops were reluctantly transferred, and in the end, only 20,000 were barely transferred, and the slightest role could not be sent, several times almost mutinied, and the 80,000 Gongwei forbidden army set up by Cai Jing that day was also abolished, and the Great Song Dynasty court really realized what the forbidden army had become.

After Cai Jing regained his appearance later than now, he wanted to pick up the Gongwei Forbidden Army again, but at that time, Tong Guan was still able to control the Western Army, and he was crowned the king of the county, and his strength was already achieved, so he desperately tried his best to hinder the back, and in the end, the Great Song Dynasty did nothing.

The Jurchen army went south, and the momentum was like a bamboo, and it hit the city of Bianliang, the first time Bianliang was surrounded, relying on the western army to enter the guard, coupled with the humble words of the two emperors of Huizong and Qinzong, the humiliating treaties concluded a shameful treaty to make the Jurchen retreat, and then the Great Song Dynasty infighting still refused to give up, because the forbidden army was too bad, and the western army was too strong, and the outside was heavy and the interior was light.

This thing is really stupid, the contract is indeed humiliating, the important town of Taiyuan was ceded to the Jurchens, but at that time, the Great Song Dynasty was so weakened, they could only endure the humiliation and accumulate strength, and have some strength to regain the lost territory, instead of easily provoking the Jurchen nobles who had already snatched their hearts and minds - these barbarians really did not realize enough that they could easily destroy the Great Song Dynasty, this was not a capitulation statement, but a living and bloody reality.

In order to transfer the Western Army, or even weaken a little bit to make the Western Army look less terrible - at that time, the combat strength of the Western Army was not enough, and it was far from being the opponent of the Jurchen military horses, but compared to the worse Bianliang Forbidden Army, it was still too strong, and the Great Song Dynasty, which was already out of breath, sent the Western Army into the mountains and mountains of Hedong, and Hebei was sparsely fought, and it could not provide much military resources.

Signing the alliance for only half a year, the weak Great Song Dynasty first brazenly repented of the alliance, nearly 100,000 Western troops and could not defeat the less than 10,000 Jurchen cavalry army of Yinshu, the whole army was wiped out under the city of Taiyuan, and the Jurchen army was killed in battle, and the Jurchen army went south again, and also added a road from Taiyuan, and finally conquered Bianliang and destroyed the Great Song Dynasty.

In real history, the whole Song Dynasty knew that the Central Forbidden Army was too bad and must be reorganized, but under the party struggle and infighting, nothing could be done, and in the end, the Western Army was lost.

The Great Song Party has fought to the end of the world, and it is no longer dependent on the parties to the point where they can not gain a foothold, and it is very clear who is who is who in the court, and Yang Keshi, who has been unjustly killed, is because neither party is it, so that Zhao Ji did not hesitate to start, and now Yang Ling does not know, but this matter has not reached Yang Ling's ears for three or five days.

It's early to come.

The Jurchens in history went south in advance, and Yang Ling's time was indeed running out, I don't know what kind of reaction Yang Ling would have when such a shocking news of Yang Keshi's unjust death reached Yang Ling's ears, and at this time, Tang Huai, who was sent out by Yang Ling, escorted Zhou Tai, who had finally escaped from the tiger's mouth, was rushing to the road to Hedong...... (To be continued.) )