Chapter 9: Victory in the First Battle
Seeing that the tarpaulin on the car was ignited by a rocket, the villagers who received the water bladder immediately pulled out the plug of the water bladder and poured the water on the ignition point.
However, the Jin people did not give them too many opportunities, and when the Jin general released the rocket, he once again led his subordinates to rush towards the car array, and when the bowstring sounded, another round of arrow rain was scattered towards the car array.
The villagers who were busy putting out the fire were caught off guard, and they were suddenly knocked over by more than a dozen people by the Jin Army's blow, and rolled off the cart.
"Don't panic, release arrows to block them!" Gao Huaiyuan saw that the situation was not good, and immediately shouted loudly again.
But at this time, those golden soldiers had already rushed to the front of the car formation, and some golden soldiers threw the torches in their hands to the big car in front of them.
These torches suddenly caused several big cars to ignite a fire, and the villagers in the car array were in chaos, and the little water in those water bladders was sprinkled on the flames, and they couldn't control the fire at all.
"What's the panic? Digging in situ to suppress the fire, how can this ignition withstand me? Gao Huaiyuan saw that the villagers were beginning to be confused, and immediately shouted loudly again, ordering them to immediately dig on the spot and cover the burning cart.
Gao Huaiyuan's composure made these villagers feel the backbone again, and then settled down again, and hurriedly followed Gao Huaiyuan's instructions, dug the earth and covered the fire, and quickly controlled the fire, so the gang immediately resounded with cheers.
Seeing that the Jin army was arrogantly charging in front of the car array, constantly firing arrows at the car array, and constantly causing casualties to the villagers, Gao Huaiyuan felt that it was never a way to be beaten so passively, so he shouted: "Huang Yan, Zhou Hao!" ”
When the two of them heard this, they immediately shouted, "The little one is here!" ”
"Are you afraid of death?" Gao Huaiyuan asked them loudly.
These two boys are really good enough for them, and when they heard Gao Huaiyuan ask them like this, they immediately straightened their chests and yelled: "Follow the boss, the little ones are not afraid of anything!" ”
"Good! In this case, the two of you will each take ten people, and go out with me to kill the sharp spirit of the Jin people, and they will think we are easy to bully! Do you dare me to go with me? Gao Huaiyuan asked the two of them again.
Everyone was stunned when they heard this, the other party was all cavalry, and wouldn't it be like looking for death for more than 20 of them to rush out? But in his heart, he admired Gao Huaiyuan to death, and couldn't help but set his eyes on Gao Huaiyuan.
"I'm afraid of them!" Huang Yan and Zhou Hao were really bold, and replied casually, and immediately turned around among the teenagers in Crouching Tiger Village, and each pointed out ten people and stood up.
These twenty people are all spearmen and sword and shield bearers, and immediately lined up at the gap and stood in front of Gao Huaiyuan, at this time Zhang Qing on the side couldn't stand it, and felt that Gao Huaiyuan was young, he was really brave, and he was also the leader of Daye archers, if he shrank in the car formation and didn't dare to go out, he would really be small The identity of these regular villagers, so he also stood up and shouted: "Zhang Qing is not afraid of death, I will go with you!" With that, he walked in front of Gao Huaiyuan.
Gao Huaiyuan nodded to Zhang Qing and said, "Brother Zhang is really courageous!" Brother admires! Zhou Jun listened, I ordered you to bring the archers to wait for me to see the formation, and after I waited for a while, I immediately released arrows to cover our retreat! ”
Zhou Jun also wanted to jump out and rush out with Gao Huaiyuan, but after hearing his order, he immediately replied: "Little obey, young master, don't worry!" Archers follow me in the car! He immediately jumped into the cart with the rest of the archers.
After Gao Huaiyuan arranged the things in the car formation, he took this group of commandos composed of Crouching Tiger Village teenagers, formed a team with each other according to the method of daily drills, stood in front of the gap, and stared at the Jin army roaring back and forth outside the car formation, looking for the best time to attack.
When he saw a group of Jin troops approaching the gap in the car formation, he suddenly shouted: "Rush out with me to kill the Tartars!" As soon as the words fell, one person took the lead, raised the snowy Mo knife in his hand and strode forward, rushing out of the car formation.
And Zhang Qing, Huang Yan, Zhou Hao and others immediately followed Gao Huaiyuan and roared, rushed out of the car formation, and pounced on the group of golden soldiers in front of the gap.
This incident happened really suddenly, this small group of Jin soldiers didn't expect that the Song people who were hiding in the car formation still had the courage to rush out and fight them, so they were not mentally prepared at all, they were all holding bows and arrows in their hands, and they were not even prepared for melee weapons, and when they found that the momentum was not right, it was too late to change guys, and they were immediately knocked into their team by Gao Huaiyuan and more than 20 other people.
They didn't plan to rush into battle, so the horse speed was not too fast, and they didn't rush directly to Gao Huaiyuan and the others, otherwise, with the impact of the war horse alone, they would be able to crush Gao Huaiyuan and them, and it was precisely because of this that Gao Huaiyuan created a rare opportunity.
Gao Huaiyuan took the lead, crashed head-on into the crowd of the Jin Army, and waved the Mo knife in his hand, without waiting for the oncoming Jin soldier to react, he swung it down, the Mo knife was originally a sharp weapon specially used by the Tang Army to restrain the cavalry, and under the use of a powerful and perverted guy like Gao Huaiyuan, it was even more sharp and abnormal, after a knife was swung down, the Jin soldier was stunned to split the man and the horse into several sections, and the flesh and blood suddenly splashed Gao Huaiyuan's body, such a scene, even those Jin soldiers who were used to seeing murderous scenes were shocked.
After a stunned kung fu, the remaining Zhang Qing, Huang Yan and others also followed Gao Huaiyuan into the Jin soldiers, the pikemen were in charge of stabbing people, and the sword and shield men were protecting themselves and the gunners around them, while cutting horses below, and they killed this team of Jin soldiers on their backs, and more than a dozen people were killed, and the remaining Jin soldiers were afraid, and immediately turned their horses and left, fleeing from Gao Huaiyuan's gang.
At this time, Jin Jianggang, who was still commanding the attack on the periphery, discovered the abnormal movement here, and when he saw someone rushing out of the formation to kill his own soldiers and horses, he was even more dizzy, and shouted and commanded the surrounding soldiers and horses to come over to encircle and suppress Gao Huaiyuan and his party.
But after Gao Huaiyuan hit the blow, he didn't love to fight, and immediately shouted, and retreated towards the gap with more than 20 people, and a group of golden soldiers rushed behind him, trying to chase them down, as the golden soldiers approached, the three teenagers who fell to the end were shot in the back by the flying golden arrows, and fell to the ground, struggling to get up, but after stumbling a few steps, he was seriously injured and fell to the ground again.
Gao Huaiyuan heard their screams, but at this time he couldn't turn around to save them, and the tiger eyes tearfully ordered to retreat into the formation immediately, otherwise, slow down and everyone don't want to go back.
The three fallen teenagers were soon trampled in the crowd by the rushing golden cavalry, and were immediately trampled into a ball of flesh and blood, becoming Gao Huaiyuan's first batch of lost subordinates in this battle, and Gao Huaiyuan at this time was also under the cover of Zhou Jun and other archers volleys, leading people to rush back to the car formation, and once again blocked the gap with the simple rejection horses that those who did not join the team. Instead, they all threw their lives in front of the gap in the car formation, and were shot here by the archers.
The exchange rate of three to ten, and this is still the life of the cavalry in exchange for the infantry army, this time Gao Huaiyuan won anyway, but Gao Huaiyuan couldn't be happy about anything, after all, the three teenagers were all cultivated by him, and the feeling of watching them die in front of his eyes but being powerless to save them really made Gao Huaiyuan sad.
Although he couldn't be happy, but the township soldiers were so happy that they were almost crazy, if they listened to Gao Huaiyuan before, they were afraid of him, then after today's assault battle, no one in these villagers disobeyed him in their hearts, and now they have already regarded Gao Huaiyuan as a god, worshiped to death, and once again made a loud cheer, feeling that with Gao Huaiyuan here, they should not be afraid of anything at all.
So after this assault battle, Xiang Yongzhong suddenly improved a lot again, reached the peak, and the archers who were afraid to die just now were not afraid at this time, they got up one after another, and put arrows at the Jin soldiers outside the formation like crazy, and in contrast, the Jin soldiers were beaten by Gao Huaiyuan's morale in this assault battle, and they all turned their horses and ran back again, not daring to approach the car formation arrogantly.
So these Jin people no longer dare to underestimate this village soldiers, but they have no way to take them, but they can't eat them, and this is still the territory of the Song people, they were originally the vanguard army, the purpose is to attack the rear of the Song army, but the number of troops is small, so they dare not fight here for a long time, so after launching a few more charges, no results have been achieved, look at the besieged car formation for half a day, and the Jin general heard that the scout came to report, that there was a Song army in the east, and it was rushing to this side, It was already very close to here, he was worried that he would be surrounded by the main force of the Song army that came to help, although he was unwilling, but he had to lead his troops to leave here, and when he left, General Jin was almost angry and vomited blood to death.
Seeing that after the golden soldiers left their corpses on the ground, they retreated towards the north in a gray manner, and everyone in the car formation once again let out a shocking cheer.
In this battle, the Jin army killed at least 50 people, and injured no less than 30 or 40 people, and more than 200 Jin soldiers lost nearly half of them here, but they were stunned that they did not eat Gao Huaiyuan's township soldiers, but only killed and injured more than 100 township soldiers, and the ratio of battle losses on both sides basically reached one to one, for the township soldiers, this is simply a miracle, enough to make them proud.
Soon after the Jin soldiers retreated, there was a rumbling footstep in the east again, and then they saw a Song army banner on the road rushing over, which made Gao Huaiyuan and others suddenly feel relieved, and many people only found out at this time that the fierce battle for half a day had exhausted their physical strength, so they sat down staggered.
When this battalion of five hundred Song troops arrived here, they only saw the messy corpses of Jin soldiers and horses here, and did not see any trace of the Jin army, so they were greatly surprised, when they received the order to come back to help Gao Huaiyuan, a baggage team composed of Xiangyong, in fact, most people did not report any hope, thinking that after coming, at most, it was just to collect the corpses of this group of Xiangyong, but they did not think that after they arrived, the baggage team composed of Xiangyong still existed as a whole. The baggage vehicles were still firmly gathered together, in the hands of this village soldier, and a lot of gold soldiers were killed around the car formation, so they were all shocked immediately.
A young general, Tima, came to the front of the chariot formation and shouted loudly to the people in the chariot array: "I am Meng Hui, the head of the Great Song Dynasty's Shenjin Army!" I'm here to help you, who is in charge here, please come out and talk! ”
Gao Huaiyuan also breathed a long sigh of relief when he saw the arrival of the Song army, packed up his clothes and armor, and then walked out of the car formation, but after hearing the common name of the general, he couldn't help but be secretly surprised, although he was not too familiar with the history of the Southern Song Dynasty, but he was not unfamiliar with the name Meng Heng at all, you must know that in the last years of the Southern Song Dynasty, there were not many people in the Southern Song Dynasty who could really be called generals, and Meng Hui was just the biggest one among them.
This person should be the son of Meng Zongzheng, who followed his father to resist Jin, repeatedly made military exploits, and was responsible for the defense of almost two-thirds of the fronts in the entire frontier war in the Southern Song Dynasty.
I didn't expect to meet him here today, Gao Huaiyuan was overjoyed in his heart, and secretly rejoiced, this time he really didn't go in vain to come to Xiangyang, and it was his luck to get acquainted with such a famous general!
So he hurriedly walked out, hugged his fist at Meng Heng and replied: "In Xia Gao Huaiyuan, it is the escort team of this team of Xiangyong, and I have seen General Meng!" ”
While speaking, he looked up and down at the Meng Heng in front of him, and saw that Meng Heng was not too old, about the age of his twenties, his figure was not very tall, his face was like a crown of jade, and he had a short beard, he looked more like a scholar than a military general, but he had broad shoulders and a broad back, wearing iron armor and a copper helmet on his head, but he faintly revealed a heroic spirit, and he was also looking at himself at this time.
Meng Heng looked down at Gao Huaiyuan, who was standing in front of the horse, and was quite shocked, originally he thought that this team of township soldiers could fight such a beautiful defensive battle, and the person who led the troops had to be a young general to say anything, but he didn't expect that the escort of this team of township soldiers was actually a teenager, so he was surprised in his heart.
Seeing that Gao Huaiyuan was covered in blood, raw and powerful, and holding a snowy long knife, which was not to be underestimated, he didn't dare to be too big, so he quickly turned over and dismounted, came to Gao Huaiyuan, stretched out his hand and grabbed one of Gao Huaiyuan's hands and said: "We are a little late, so you are frightened, and I hope that the Gao Detention team will forgive me!" ”
Although Gao Huaiyuan was still dissatisfied with the delay of the Song army just now, but after seeing Meng Heng, he was also discouraged, after all, most of the Song army were infantry troops, and his baggage team was too far away from the main force, even if the Song army got the news, it would take some time to rush over, and after he looked at the panting Song army soldiers behind Meng Hui, he knew that they must have done their best, so he didn't have any resentment, and hurriedly said politely: "How dare you!" Fortunately, General Meng came in time, if it was any later, I would really be a little unable to support it! ”
"Don't call me a general anymore, Meng has not been in the army for a long time, and now he is just a capital head, this time he is just acting commander, and the Gao Detention team still calls me Meng Dutou! Tell Meng about today's battle! I think Jin Jun seems to have suffered a big loss under the Gaozhi team this time! The high team is really a wizard! ”
Looking at the corpses of the Jin soldiers left around, Meng Heng didn't dare to hold it up in front of Gao Huaiyuan, spoke very politely, and asked Gao Huaiyuan.
So Gao Huaiyuan briefly introduced the situation of today's encounter to Meng Heng, and when he listened to Gao Huaiyuan's understatement, he immediately heard the danger, so he admired Gao Huaiyuan even more, with 500 village warriors against more than 200 elite cavalry of the golden soldiers, he actually kept it unchaotic, and also beat the golden soldiers to lose their armor, such a record, even if it is placed in the regular army, it is enough to be proud, and this Gao Huaiyuan is not very old, not only did these things, but also seemed to personally kill the enemy, There was no arrogant posture, which made him feel good and decided to make friends with Gao Huaiyuan no matter what.
"Awesome! Today's Gaozhi team won this battle, Meng admired it to the fullest, now the former enemy army has been in contact with the Jin army in Zaoyang, the two sides have started a war, can get this news, it will definitely make the morale of our army rise, it seems that the Jin army is just like this, our army will be able to defeat the Jin army in this battle! After hearing this, Meng Heng immediately smiled at Gao Huaiyuan.
"Thanks to Meng Dutou's high view, it is these neighboring brothers who dare to use their lives, we waited to get this result, Gao did not dare to take credit! Since Meng Dutou is here, let's wait for Gao to clean up and settle these fallen brothers, and then let's go on the road! Gao Huaiyuan said modestly.
"As it should be, these villagers sacrificed their lives for the country, and they should be properly buried! Come on, quickly help the high escort team to collect the remains of these warriors, treat the wounded here, the scribe as soon as possible to count the high escort team's exploits, write it down and report it to the father, after the war, it is also convenient to reward the meritorious deeds! Meng Hui was a sincere person, and he didn't want to take the opportunity to snatch credit from Gao Huaiyuan, and immediately ordered the subordinates he brought.
And Gao Huaiyuan's gang was able to achieve such a result, which also made these Song soldiers who came with Meng Heng feel very admirable, and they didn't dare to look down on these villagers, so they immediately got busy and helped Gao Huaiyuan and these villagers collect the bodies of the dead and help treat the injured villagers.
After the counting, Gao Huaiyuan's heart was still gloomy, although the five hundred townsmen in this battle had a car formation to rely on, but after all, the combat strength was insufficient, and the protective armor was incomplete, so he still killed sixty or seventy people, and injured as many as seventy or eighty people, and even among his youth team, five people were killed, seven people were injured, and the team of five hundred people was reduced by nearly thirty percent at once.