Chapter 42: Ambush
The unprepared Jin soldiers only shouted an enemy attack, and they were covered by this torrential rain of arrows, followed by a scream, they were in the light, and became the best target for the Song army's crossbowmen, almost none of the Jin soldiers escaped in this round of fire, and they were all shot into hedgehogs and rolled to the ground.
Then a cavalry of more than 100 people has galloped to the gate, smashed open the thin gate, like a whirlwind into the camp of the Jin army, many people reached out from the gate to snatch the torches that were burning, galloped away in their hands, rushed into the camp, and struggled to throw these torches to the big tent of the Jin army.
A large number of Song infantry troops followed closely behind the cavalry like a torrent, and suddenly poured into the golden camp, and the shouts of killing immediately resounded throughout the golden camp.
Most of the soldiers of the Jin army were still asleep at this time, and they didn't even know what was going on outside, but they saw that the tent was lit with torches, and the whole tent was immediately filled with thick smoke, and some people were stabbed to death in the tent without waking up from their dreams at all.
After the Song army entered the gold camp according to the realized arrangement, they immediately killed in the predetermined direction under the leadership of their respective officers, and the pikemen struggled to enter the tent with the spears in their hands, regardless of whether there was anyone inside, or who it was, and many Jin soldiers died in their dreams.
These Song troops swept through the camp of the Jin soldiers like a whirlwind, and the tents were quickly torn to pieces everywhere they passed, and the blood of the Jin soldiers was sprinkled along the way.
More Song soldiers began to take out the torches that had been prepared, lit them one after another, and continued to rush forward with torches, and threw the torches into the tents of the Jin army, the fire immediately rose into the air, and a miserable howl immediately sounded in the ignited tents, and some of the Jin soldiers rushed out of the tents with a body of flames, screaming, and the result was that they were immediately killed by the swept Song army to the ground.
Soon after Hu Zaixing's army rushed into the gold camp, patches of fire rose from all over the gold camp, and under the light of the fire, the gold camp was full of figures, and the shouts of killing resounded throughout the night sky.
After the Jin soldiers were attacked so suddenly, they suddenly became a mess, and even if they were lucky enough to rush into the camp, they were all dizzy, and they didn't know what to do.
In a hurry, there was no suspense at all, although most of the Jin soldiers were lucky enough to rush out of the camp, but they were all shirtless, many people were in a panic, they didn't even get their weapons, and ran out empty-handed, where could they stop these red-eyed Song troops!
This raid was like a one-sided massacre, and the Song army met with little decent resistance wherever it passed, and everywhere the Song army passed with swords and guns, there were mutilated corpses of Jin soldiers everywhere, and the screams filled the entire camp.
Gao Huaiyuan took the lead and led his township soldiers to the northwest corner of the golden camp, where the golden soldiers' stables and grain and grass hoarding place, but also the main target of the Song army, the villagers had already prepared rockets, torches and other fire-igniting things, and when they rushed into the golden camp, they lit the torches one after another, and the rockets were lit, put on the bowstring, just approached the piles of grass and grain piled up like mountains, and they opened their bows and arrows, and launched these rockets.
The sky suddenly felt like a meteor shower, and the rockets scattered on the grain and straw stacks one after another, and then ignited the grass stacks.
The panicked Jin soldiers rushed out of the camp tent one after another, but they were immediately swept by Gao Huaiyuan and his party like a violent wind, and the stumps and broken arms rose into the air, and blood splattered everywhere.
Gao Huaiyuan's heart was beating wildly at this moment, straddle the horse, and the glaive sword in his hand danced like a wheel, leading the wanton rush in the camp of the golden soldiers, and the unorganized golden soldiers had no one to stop their assault, and they were cut to the ground by their knives and guns like mustard.
Gao Huaiyuan had an irrepressible impulse, and he was only thinking about killing and killing at this time...... It was as if he had become a killing machine, and even he didn't know where this emotion came from, as if he had never been so happy, and he just wanted to kill all the enemies that appeared in front of him.
This may be the reason why there is a primitive beast in the human body that is stimulated, not only him, but also those under him, including those under him, are all like a different person, with red eyes, constantly looking for the target of slashing, many times as long as they see a golden soldier appear, several people will pounce at the same time, and the unlucky golden soldier will be divided into corpses, this emotion seems to be uncontrollable, everyone has become a bloodthirsty demonic beast, and only the beast nature of killing is left at this time.
Wan Yan Ke was snoring loudly with a young woman snatched for him from nearby by his subordinates, and he had already squandered all his energy on this woman in the first half of the night, and he didn't realize the danger at all, until his own soldiers rushed into his big tent and shouted that the enemy was attacking, he was still in his sleep and grabbed a lump of richness on the chest of the captive woman with one hand.
When he was woken up by the exclamations of his own soldiers, for a few seconds, he didn't react, as if in a dream, he looked at the frightened subordinate who appeared in front of him with sleepy eyes, wondering how he could stand in front of his bed at this time, didn't he know that he was very busy last night?
Watching the pro-soldier's mouth open and close, his hearing finally hooked up with his nerves, feeding the information back into his not yet fully awake brain.
It was only at this time that his brain began to wake up, and he began to work normally, and when he heard the shouts of this soldier, like a bare pig that had been kicked in the ass, he let out an exclamation, and jumped up from the bed in a flash, listening to the earth-shattering shouts and screams in the camp, he finally understood what was happening.
"Damn! Hurry up and get me a horse! Block Song Jun for me! He panicked like a frightened fat pig, scurrying around in the tent naked, and he didn't know what to do, but his first thought was to quickly let people block Song Jun and bring him a horse, he wanted to escape.
The soldiers shouted: "The horse has been prepared for the general, the general should hurry up!" The Song army is about to kill here! ”
After hearing his subordinates say this, Wan Yanke immediately raised his legs and ran out of the tent, but after running two steps, he found that he was still naked, so he hurriedly turned around and grabbed a piece of clothing on the bed, by the candlelight, he happened to see the frightened Song woman on the bed, and a thought actually flashed, and secretly said It's a pity, the Song woman's skin is really smooth and delicate!
But this thought was only fleeting, after he grabbed a robe, he easily pulled out a bright waist knife from the waist of his own soldier, and waved it casually, the woman immediately screamed, blood splashed and fell on the bed, and then rolled to the ground, after a few struggles, she was silent.
Wan Yan Ke put on his clothes and strode out of the tent, at this time the entire gold camp was already in chaos, the firelight almost illuminated half of the night sky, there were Jin soldiers running around in a mess, and there was still a sound of Song army shouting and killing not too far away.
Wan Yanke, with the support of his own soldiers, climbed on his war horse in a panic, and then immediately slapped his horse and fled in the direction where the fire had not yet started, and a team of personal soldiers followed closely behind, protecting him and running to the east gate.
Wan Yan Ke's escape, but also made the Jin army completely lose the unified command, even if the Jin army tried to resist, can not stop the effective resistance, chaos like a plague, soon infected everyone in the Jin army, the soldiers can not find the general, will not find the soldiers, many Jin soldiers have chosen to flee, a swarm towards the various gates.
In this way, the Hu Zaixing army basically did not encounter any decent resistance, and soon swept through the entire camp, igniting the huge northern camp of the Jin army.
At this time, Wanyan Saibu also got the news, and when he was shocked to hear that the northern camp was raided by the Song army, he thought that Meng Zongzheng led the army out of the city to attack the northern camp, so he immediately ordered a group of soldiers and horses, immediately left his big camp, and pounced on the north camp of the city.
But when he led his army out of the camp, he was confronted by a small group of golden soldiers, one of whom was a disheveled fellow sitting on a horse, panicked like a fat rabbit, and by the light of the torch he immediately recognized the identity of this man.
"It's all over! What really happened in Beiying? Wan Yan Sai didn't roar angrily, and drank Wan Yan Ke, who was running over.
Wan Yan Ke, who was already frightened, saw Wan Yan Saibu leading the army over, so he immediately turned over and dismounted, threw himself in front of Wan Yan Saibu and shouted: "Handsome! The marked Beiying was suddenly attacked by the Wan Song army, and he resisted desperately, but there were too many enemy troops, so he had to come to the marshal for help! ”
Wanyan Sai was almost stunned by this guy, and said angrily: "Desperate resistance? Where's your knife? Where's your pants? Are you desperately resisting like this? Over 10,000 Song Army! Where did the Ten Thousand Song Army come from around here? Did they fall from the sky? Come on, tie this guy to me first, and then send it down as appropriate when Ben Shuai comes back! ”
At this time, everyone saw Wan Yanke's dress, only to see that this guy was wearing a cotton robe on his upper body, but his lower body was still exposed like two hairy thighs like pigs, and he didn't even wear boots on his feet, barefoot, and his hands were even empty, and he didn't even take a straw, so the ghost believed that he resisted desperately!
So a few knife and axe men immediately came up, and they tied up Wan Yanke with all hands and feet, and this guy was still stubborn and noisy.
Wanyan Saibu led the troops along the way while collecting the rout, and hurried to the north camp, but when they arrived at the north camp, it was already a sea of fire, except for the corpses all over the ground, the Song army had already evacuated here.
"Give me chase! Damn the Song people, they are so arrogant that they must not be let go! Looking at the scene in front of him, he almost vomited blood, this time he attacked Zaoyang, he can be said to have not achieved an inch so far, but he has lost more than 10,000 soldiers from the time he sent the troops to the present, such a result is really unacceptable to him, if the Song army continues to toss like this, then this battle will not have to be fought anymore, just by being so grinding by them can also polish their soldiers and horses.
So now Wanyan Sai is not in a hurry to get a big victory to boost the morale of the army, otherwise, he will not be able to explain to the gold owner.
In order to exterminate the Hu Zaixing army outside Zaoyang City, Wan Yan Sai could not personally lead the troops to pursue, so he had to send his general Wan Yan A as the main general, and led 7,000 elite soldiers to leave the camp outside Zaoyang County after dawn, and along the traces left by the withdrawal of Hu Zaixing's army, all the way to the west of Zaoyang, there is a great posture to annihilate Hu Zaixing Army in one fell swoop.
In this battle, the northern camp of the Jin army was completely destroyed, more than 5,000 Jin soldiers were killed, and countless losses of grain and grass were lost.
It's a pity that that night, because Hu Zaixing failed to make an agreement with Meng Zongzheng in the city in advance, and when Meng Zongzheng heard that the Jin army camp in the north of the city was in flames, he realized that it might be the time when the friendly army raided the north camp of the Jin army, it was too late, and he failed to lead the army out of the city to cooperate with Hu Zaixing's army to flank the Jin army, otherwise, it was likely to defeat the Jin army in one fell swoop, which really made Gao Huaiyuan sigh afterwards.
However, to achieve such a result, for Hu Zaixing and even his generals, they are already very satisfied, 3,000 people killed 5,000 enemies, such a record is enough to shine in the army, so this battle was later recorded as one of the rare victories in this protracted Song and Jin War.
After Hu Zaixing led the army to successfully raid and set fire to the entire Jin army camp, he immediately led the army to retreat towards the west of Zaoyang, so that the belated Wanyan Race would not be pounced.
After dawn, Hu Zaixing's army had retreated to more than 20 miles west of Zaoyang, and then settled down and began to rest.
Gao Huaiyuan led the township barracks to raise his eyebrows again this time, with more than 700 people in the township barracks, killing at least 1,000 enemies, and taking advantage of the chaos to take away more than 300 horses of the Jin army, and capturing about 10,000 stones of food from the Jin army, which greatly enriched the use of the Hu Zaixing army, and captured more than 100 Jin troops, which can be regarded as a great achievement in each battalion.
At this time, even Gao Huaiyuan didn't bother to calculate how many people he had killed this night, anyway, even the glaive knife in his hand was cut a little curly, and his body was covered with blood, and after dawn, he looked at him again, and there were still some minced meat, anyway, this battle was fought happily, from Daye to now, Gao Huaiyuan was the first time to kill the enemy so freely, and he was quite happy in his heart, but when he cleaned up his outfit, he began to feel a little nauseous.
After this period of continuous fighting, the baggage battalion has long since changed from what it used to be, and has become an iron army, so that the people in the army no longer dare to despise them.
According to Gao Huaiyuan's suggestion, Hu Zaixing led the troops to retreat to the area of Taiping Town west of Zaoyang, and then stationed to rest, although the terrain in this area is flat, it is a ravine, and the water network is dense, and the Jin army is no longer attacking.
In the next nearly half a month, Hu Zaixing took Taiping Town as the center, and came to chase them Jin Jun to deal with, this kind of thing Gao Huaiyuan can't help, can only take advantage of this opportunity, with Hu Zaixing such a veteran to learn a lot, leading his heavy battalion to be willing as an auxiliary, constantly maneuvering in the water network area, opened his eyes.
In such a place, the Jin army is accustomed to the movement of the large corps can not be carried out at all, often after seeing the whereabouts of the Song army from a distance, the Jin army general led the army to rush over, but saw that the Song army was within reach, but across a river to see that they had no way, most of the Jin army were northerners, not good at water, even if it was a small river, they did not dare to venture into the water to cross the river to pursue.
Most of the Song army are southerners, most of them are proficient in water, so it is very convenient to act in this kind of place, and often give the Jin army a surprise attack, and when Yan A led the troops to pursue, the Song army immediately crossed the river and ran to the other side of the river.
After half a month of maneuvering like this, the Song army became more and more courageous, while Wanyan'a's 7,000 Jin army was dragged to the point of exhaustion and lost the ability to continue to pursue Hu Zaixing's army, so he had to find a place and settle down, trying to lure Hu Zaixing to lead troops to come to a decisive battle with them.
It's a pity that Hu Zaixing saw Wanyan'a's intention at a glance, and he didn't fall for him at all, but settled down not far from them, and looked at the Jin army from afar, and sent a small group of soldiers to cross the water network every night to ambush the Jin army's scout team, which made the Jin soldiers' scouts panic and didn't dare to leave the main force too far, which greatly limited the Jin army's ability to perceive the battlefield, so that Wanyan'a couldn't understand the specific situation of the Song army at all.
It was not until he saw that the Jin army had completely lost patience that Hu Zaixing chose a place, and led the army to build several pontoon bridges on an unknown river overnight, making a posture of leading the army across the river and fighting a decisive battle with the Jin army.
After dawn, Hu Zaixing led his army to cross the river, and Gao Huaiyuan was ordered by Hu Zaixing to stay in the west direction of the river, responsible for receiving the retreat of the Song army.
Gao Huaiyuan stood on a * with great interest, holding a pergola and watching the actions of the Song and Jin armies on the other side of the river, several bed crossbows were arranged by him in the bushes not far from the pontoon bridge, and they were well hidden, and after the seven hundred townsmen chose a grove near the pontoon bridge to ambush it, the whole army was hidden on the west side of the river.
"General Hu's move is really ruthless, if this battle is successful, then it's time for us to run away with the Jin army towards Zaoyang!" Huang Yan took a straw in his mouth, stood behind Gao Huaiyuan, looked at the actions of the Song army in the east of the river from afar, and said to Gao Huaiyuan with a hint of a wicked smile.
"Yes! This general Hu doesn't look like a big boss usually, but he can still come up with such a method, which has to be admired! Jia Qi, who was standing on Huang Yan's side, touched his bare chin, pretended to be old and shook his head.