Chapter Thirty-Eight: Defeat
Gao Huaiyuan was overjoyed after hearing this, and said with a smile: "Well done, we don't have to worry about this time, we don't have to go to Lishan Town with Vice General Shen in this battle, he has already ordered us to be the queen of his palace, and he will lead the troops to raid Lishan Town, as long as we hold this ditch, we can cover their retreat!" ”
Everyone was relieved when they heard this, after all, this raid on Lishan Town would take a big risk, and if they couldn't go, it was better not to go!
Gao Huaiyuan immediately found Shen Ning who was preparing, and explained to him with this sketch sketched out temporarily, Shen Ning was also secretly happy after hearing it, this time he heard that there were two thousand gold soldiers stationed in Lishan Town, and he was a little reluctant, but he was already difficult to ride a tiger, and it was something he proposed to fight Lishan Town, and now let him say that he would withdraw his troops, he felt that he couldn't get over it on face, so he could only grit his teeth and insist, anyway, they were a surprise attack, and they were not going to capture Lishan Town, As long as he can burn the grain and grass that the Jin army has hoarded in Lishan Town, it will be considered a great success, so he still thinks that it may not necessarily fail, and now Gao Huaiyuan has found a safer way to retreat for him, which is also in line with his heart, so he nodded and praised Gao Huaiyuan a few words.
In order to be fully prepared, Shen Ning made a special trip to follow Huang Yan to the south of Lishan Town, specially checked the terrain, selected a section of the river with the shallowest river water as the location for the river crossing raid, and checked the retreat route, and then began to order his subordinates to prepare for the capital and banner heads.
After looking at the terrain here, Du Hu felt that his scalp was a little numb, he only cared about calculating Gao Huaiyuan, but he didn't expect that the terrain of Lishan Town was so easy to defend and difficult to attack, and now let him go to Lishan Town with Shen Ning, a guy who is eager for quick success, he began to be afraid, this time it would be a life of death, if he had known that Lishan Town was so difficult to fight, he would not have instigated Shen Ning, a madman, to fight here, but now it is tantamount to lifting a stone to hit his own feet, there are words of suffering!
Gao Huaiyuan couldn't care what Shen Ning and Du Hu were thinking at this time! After making an agreement with Shen Ning, he immediately led his village soldiers around a mountain col and touched the ravine that had been chosen as the retreat route in advance.
When he arrived here, Gao Huaiyuan looked at the terrain, and was overjoyed, this ravine mouth is small and big, go inside, it is a dense mountain forest, only a small road can lead into the mountain, and the mountain walls on both sides of the mountain pass are steep, the Jin army can not enter this ravine at all except for chasing into the mountain from this mountain pass, no other place can not enter this ravine, not only a good way to retreat, but also a good place to ambush.
Gao Huaiyuan immediately changed his mind temporarily, scattered his subordinates and started to work, built simple fortifications on both sides of the mountain pass, and laid some things to defend against the enemy in the mountain pass, and dug a few traps, as long as the Jin army dared to pursue here, then he had the confidence to beat the Jin army fiercely here.
Looking at the waist-deep wild grass everywhere in the valley, Jia Qi suddenly had a plan, and muttered to Gao Huaiyuan for a while, Gao Huaiyuan immediately showed joy and agreed.
After it got dark, Gao Huaiyuan brought a hundred archers to find Shen Ning again, and at this time Shen Ning had already led his subordinates to get ready, and these Song troops each went into battle lightly, loaded the velvet with bamboo tubes, and gathered some rockets, which were distributed to the archers in the army.
After seeing Gao Huaiyuan bring people over, Shen Ning immediately said: "Commander Gao is coming just in time, we will start to act in a while, and I hope that after Commander Gao sees the fire in Lishan Town, he will withdraw as soon as possible, it's tired!" At this time, Shen Ning asked Gao Huaiyuan, and his attitude became much better, after all, he was not sure now, so he could only hope that Jin Jun would be careless tonight and let him succeed, otherwise, he could only hope that Gao Huaiyuan could pull him at a critical time, and now he really regretted that he didn't listen to Gao Huaiyuan's opinion at the beginning, and it was safer to go to Gaojiagang, but he was also a man, although he was not very broad-minded, but he was also a fierce general, and he still insisted on raiding Jinying until now.
Gao Huaiyuan nodded and agreed, and led someone to accompany him to sneak to the selected section of the river in the dark, Shen Ning took his subordinates and soldiers, gritted his teeth and endured the biting cold, went down to the river and slowly flowed through, and touched towards the lighted Lishan Town.
Gao Huaiyuan led people to stare at Lishan Town on the other side of the river in the dark, ready to respond to Shen Ning at any time, to be honest, Shen Ning's move is a bit like the action of the special forces in later generations, and it can be regarded as forward-facing in thought, which Gao Huaiyuan admires him very much, but the reason why he disagrees with Shen Ning to take such an action is because although the idea is good, but the target selection is not quite right, first of all, from his own side, the generals have not received similar training, and it is difficult to achieve the unity of action at night, A little carelessness may alarm the Jin soldiers and cause a catastrophe, in addition, during this time, they have repeatedly attacked the Jin army, the Jin army will already be alert, like this important place, as long as the Jin army is not a fool, he will be more careful, so he is not optimistic about Shen Ning's operation.
If this matter is handed over to him, he will prepare a few days in advance and train the people under him before taking action, in that case, he can be more secure and improve some chances of success, but obviously Shen Ning can't listen to him, and he has no experience in this area, so he rushes over so rashly, God knows what will happen.
Dripping with icy river water, Du Hu regretted wanting to slap himself at this time, he knew that he was suffering such a crime, it was better to give Shen Ning an idea, send Gao Huaiyuan and his fellow villagers to do this, it is more comfortable and safe for him to stay in the palace on the south bank of the river, now it is good, people stand on dry ground to watch the excitement, but he has to follow Shen Ning with damn cold water, this is the middle of February, although the river water is not frozen, but it is cold and biting, many Song soldiers will be like water, they are suddenly frozen and shivering, and they can't help but want to moan.
Fortunately, everyone knew what kind of place this was, and they didn't dare to scream, otherwise, they would have been screaming from the cold! In this way, Shen Ning and his five hundred soldiers gradually disappeared into the darkness, slowly crossed the small river, landed on the opposite bank, and cautiously touched the gold camp outside the brightly lit Lishan Town.
Five hundred people are not much, but as soon as they spread out at night, there is a large area, the eyesight of people in the dark is limited, and they can't see far, after Du Hu crossed the river, he gradually fell behind the team, and led a few cronies to quietly open the distance from the team, this guy is a soldier oil, as soon as he sees the downwind battle, he is braver than anyone else, and he looks very brave, but when something is not good, he is the first to shrink his neck, and then the soles of his feet are oiled, and he slips away. So I made up my mind, follow along to see how it goes, and then talk about it!
He thought so, not necessarily others didn't think so, and gradually someone else had the same idea as him, and began to slow down while it was dark, and the team of five hundred people suddenly sparsely pulled up.
In the night, Shen Ning also felt that something was wrong, but he couldn't see the surrounding situation clearly, he only felt that the people around him were slowly decreasing, but he couldn't give the order to retract, so he could only continue to move forward, when they were about to arrive at Lishan Town, suddenly a Jin Army scout team of more than ten people came out of the camp, rode horses and began to patrol outside the camp with torches.
If the Jin army is not stupid, I heard that the Song army in the Suizhou area was very active, and strengthened the garrison of Lishan Town, and sent a large number of scouts to patrol nearby every night, for fear that something would happen to the grain and grass hoarded here.
It can be regarded as Shen Ning's bad luck, far away the Jin soldiers could not see their existence clearly, but due to his lack of preparation, many of the soldiers and generals in the army were overly nervous, and showed their swords and guns in advance, most of the soldiers liked to maintain their blades Xue Liang, it looked very powerful during the day, but at night it was going to die, the torches in the hands of the golden soldiers swayed, and the firelight was reflected by these knives and guns, and it fell on the eyes of those golden soldiers.
One of the golden soldiers suddenly pointed to the sparkling lights in the night, and reminded the other golden soldiers: "I said brothers, look, how can there be light over there?" ”
All the golden soldiers then paid attention, and after seeing it, an experienced fellow was immediately shocked, and he took the golden soldiers and galloped towards the camp, and as he galloped, he drew out the Ming Di in the quiver and shot it into the sky.
A piercing sound of "swishing ......" suddenly tore through the night sky, and it was heard far away in the night, completely breaking the silence of the night.
Someone in the camp of the Jin army immediately heard the sound of the sound of the beep, and saw a team of their own scouts rushing towards the camp, they realized that something was wrong, and hurriedly blew the horn, and the camp immediately became lively, and the generals of the Jin army who heard the alarm immediately mobilized the Jin soldiers in the camp, and while strengthening the vigilance, they led the troops to rush out of the camp.
With the scout, the Jin soldiers swarmed towards Shen Ning's Song Jun and pounced on him, as soon as he saw that the Jin soldiers had discovered him, Shen Ning sighed, and immediately ordered to gather his subordinates and retreat towards the river beach, this time his subordinate Song Army was in chaos, like a swarm of headless flies in the dark, crashing around, where can an array be formed quickly!
As soon as the Song army was in chaos, it had no combat effectiveness at all, and it could not find a general, and it could not find its own soldiers, so they rushed towards the river beach in a chaotic manner.
In this case, if the Song army is not chaotic, it is not necessarily not the opponent of the Jin army, because the Jin soldiers also happened in a hurry, and the Jin generals only brought out a few hundred people, which is not much more than the Song army, and the Song army is in the dark, as long as it is properly organized, intercepting the Jin soldiers with archers, it is enough to make the Jin army pay a heavy price, and disrupt them, so that they dare not approach easily, and then retreat in an orderly manner, and it will be fine.
It's a pity that Shen Ning didn't make arrangements in advance, only thinking about success, but didn't think about what to do once he was discovered by Jin Bing, and the team was in chaos.
The Jin soldiers saw a group of people retreating towards the river beach in a chaotic manner, so under the leadership of their officers, they quickly pounced on the retreating Song army, a team of about fifty cavalry opened the way in front, and chased the Song army fiercely, how could the two legs of people run over the four legs of the Jin army's war horse!
Soon the cavalry of the Jin army caught up with Shen Ning's men and horses from behind, those Jin soldiers brandished their swords and spears in their hands, and immediately broke into the Song army.
The result was that the cavalry of the Jin army of fifty people, after catching up with the Song army, was like entering a no-man's land, and wantonly began to carry out a massacre of the retreating Song army, watching the Jin soldiers holding torches in the back and chasing after them, listening to the screams of the dying robes that kept coming out of their ears, the Song army was even more chaotic, and they rushed to flee towards the river, just handing over the entire back to the Jin soldiers.
These golden soldiers encountered almost no decent resistance, and every swing of the knife could almost take the life of a Song soldier, and blood splattered up, filling the air with a smell of blood.
Gao Huaiyuan was always paying attention to the situation on the other side of the river, and when he heard the sound of the sound in the night sky, he secretly said that it was not good, but he soon saw a large number of torches gushing out of the golden camp in Lishan Town, and rushed towards the riverbank, and soon heard a lot of screams and the shouts of the Jin army on the other side of the riverbank.
"Archers prepare! Pick up our men at any time to cross the river and intercept the pursuers behind them! Gao Huaiyuan immediately sent an order down to prepare the hundred archers he had brought.
Soon the archers were scattered and ready to fire their arrows along the riverbank, each of them inserting a few carved arrows in the tidal flat in front of them, ready to use.
At this time, the sound of fluttering water was heard, and the fast Song army had already begun to go down the river, running towards the south bank of the river with the icy river water, and at this time, with the help of the torches of the Jin soldiers, Gao Huaiyuan also vaguely saw the situation on the other side.
I saw a group of Jin cavalry galloping back and forth in the scattered Song army, constantly slashing and killing the panicked Song army, and the Song army had already lost its fighting spirit at this time, and there was no unified command, like a nest of stabbed wasps, just bowing their heads and running towards the river, where did they take care of the Jin soldiers behind them!
"Damn! How can it be so messy! Gao Huaiyuan scolded secretly in his heart, and said in his heart Although this Shen Ning is courageous, he is really a fool, at this time he should have gathered his soldiers and horses, carried it first, and then retreated after killing the other party's cavalry, but he didn't expect them to mess up with this virtue.
Seeing that more and more Song troops finally jumped into the water and fled towards the south bank of the river, Gao Huaiyuan raised his hand and raised the hard bow in his hand, and ordered his village soldiers and archers: "Stabilize me, once the Jin cavalry enters the firing range, give me a shot to aim!" Can't let them go down the river! Get ready! ”
As the Song army paid a heavy price, the remnants of the Song army finally jumped into the river, and some slow Song troops were surrounded by the Jin cavalry on the north bank of the river, rushing left and right but unable to cross the river beach, Gao Huaiyuan could only watch those Song troops who were one step slower, fall under the butcher's knife of the Jin army one by one, but there was no way.
At this time, the fastest Song army had already flowed across the icy river, landed on the south bank of the river, and stumbled up the river embankment in shock, trembling like chaff in fright.
"You immediately form a team, join me to resist the Jin army's pursuers, and cover the rest of the people to cross the river!" Gao Huaiyuan saw that the Song army had crossed the river, but he panicked like a frightened rabbit, so he immediately ordered them.
"*, there are thousands of golden soldiers coming from behind, can you let Lao Tzu wait here for death? Ignore that guy and run with me! A man's voice came from the darkness, scolding Gao Huaiyuan, and then climbed up the river bank with a few routs around him, trying to escape towards the reserved retreat.
Gao Huaiyuan was blown up by anger at this time, at this time he was thinking about how to save some more friendly soldiers, but he didn't expect this guy to admit his feelings, and scolded himself, and at this time the villagers were also nervous enough, and he shouted like this, and he was suddenly frightened, and he was a little flustered, there were not many Jin soldiers, but this guy actually said that there were thousands of Jin soldiers behind, and he was simply confusing the army's heart!
Gao Huaiyuan was furious, and a scurry stride rushed over, kicked the guy who was the leader out with a flying kick, and scolded: "Damn! Obviously, there are only a few hundred Jin soldiers, but you are lying to confuse the public, can't you want to die? Stabilize it for me, those who dare to continue to flee for their lives, be careful that Lao Tzu's arrows do not agree! ”
I couldn't see the guy's face clearly in the dark, but Gao Huaiyuan's kick was angry, and the kick was really not light, after the guy was kicked, he was almost kicked out, and he lay on the ground for a long time without struggling, humming and scolding.
His subordinates, although they were angry, were also frightened, and immediately picked up the guy, dragged him to the riverbank, did not dare to run anymore, took their bows and arrows from their bodies, and made preparations to defend themselves against the enemy.
At this time, hundreds of Song troops rushed forward in the river like a boiling pot, and the Jin soldiers and cavalry behind quickly killed the Song army that intercepted them, and then immediately rode their horses and rushed to the small river, the horses were not afraid of water, and the river was not deep, once they were allowed to go into the water, it was estimated that all the Song troops would not want to live anymore!
"Shoot the arrows! Shoot me hard! Gao Huaiyuan roared loudly in the night, and immediately aimed his bow at a Jin cavalryman, and raised his hand to shoot an arrow.
The unlucky Jin soldier couldn't see the arrows flying in the dark at night, and was nailed through his throat by Gao Huaiyuan's arrows on the spot, and he didn't have time to scream, but he just snorted, and hit his head off the horse, and he died when he landed, and he couldn't die anymore!
(Ask for a ticket!) Ask for a red ticket! Brothers, save a few red tickets! )