Chapter 542 Nine Deaths and One Life

I naturally understand Yin Yinglei's mood at the moment, since the lone army went deep into the enemy-occupied area in the north, the advance team has gone through a lot of hardships, and the ups and downs are difficult to describe in words, if it were not for the help of throwing grenades, if it were not for the arrogance of the main generals of the Yuan army, if it were not for the ...... In short, in the "bandit career" of the past few months, Yin Yinglei has brushed shoulders with death several times, and it can be described as nine deaths.

"Yin Aiqing, tell me more about your experience later."

"Yes, Your Majesty."

At this time, Han Jing beside Yin Yinglei whispered: "Yin Shuai, don't you invite the emperor and the generals to enter the city to rest." ”

Yin Yinglei let out an "ah" and said busily: "Your Majesty, generals, please enter the city with the last general." ”

"Okay, let's go into town."

After dinner, Yin Yinglei told me about his experiences over the past few months.

With the assistance of the naval division led by Li Beiyang, the advance team successfully landed on the Shandong Peninsula. When he first landed, all the members of the advance team, including Yin Yinglei himself, were full of spirits, and they thought in their hearts that they would destroy a few groups of Yuan troops first to boost morale. In the beginning, the scattered Yuan army in some small towns was indeed vulnerable, and soon became a meal on the plate of the advancing team. However, several times, it also exposed the whereabouts and strength of the advance team, first the Mongolian East Route Army sent troops to encircle, and then there were 5,000 cowardly Xue led by Edu to chase and kill, plus the state capitals and counties Yajian Bi Qingye, it didn't take long for the advance team to fall into a predicament and be in a dilemma.

The most difficult days were when he was pursued by the cowardly Xue army.

Although the number of people was less than that of the advancing team, the overall combat effectiveness was stronger than that of the advancing team. As soon as the advancing team gets out of the mountain, it will encounter the encirclement of the Yuan army, and the Edu will lead the cowardly Xue army to arrive in time.

In September last year, the weather was cold, food was scarce, everything that could be eaten in the mountains was eaten, and the people living in the mountains were already very scarce, and the villagers located near the mountains were seriously warned by the government not to help the bandits who were wandering around, otherwise the whole village would be killed, and secondly, they did not agree with this team under the banner of the Song army, thinking that they were a group of "rogues", although the advance team never robbed the people of a grain of food, and tried their best to publicize that they were the regular army of the Great Song Dynasty, but they could not be recognized by these northern Han people in a short time.

In desperation, Yin Yinglei ordered the troops to rob the grain and grass of the Yuan army or the Mongols in the small county town. After robbing a few times, the local Yuan army also learned to be smart, either the wall was cleared, or the grain and grass were used as bait to lure the Song army to the bait, and then the nearby cowardly Xue was notified to carry out the siege. The most thrilling time, Yin Yinglei led the troops of the two capitals down the mountain, and was ambushed by more than 600 Yuan troops and local armed forces. Although the ambushed Yuan army was not strong in combat, Yin Yinglei and the others would not be able to break out for a while. Fortunately, Han Jing, who responded, arrived in time, showed his might, and single-handedly killed more than 100 enemy troops in front of him, and scared off this Yuan army, and rescued Yin Yinglei at the moment before the arrival of the cowardly Xue army, otherwise, it is difficult to say whether Yin Yinglei can retreat with his whole body.

On the way to hide, Yin Yinglei and the generals combined, and the guerrilla tactics mentioned by the emperor must be in the "swim" in order to seize the opportunity of "attacking". As a result, the advance team began a rapid march for nearly three months, mainly on mountain roads, eating wherever they went, sometimes without purpose, sometimes dividing troops into action, and the suspicious soldiers continued, so that the pursuing foreheads went around in circles, although the soldiers of the advancing team were exhausted, but also made the forehead capital run everywhere. These cowardly soldiers of the Xue Army were all arrogant, and they were led by Yin Yinglei to run around, but they found nothing, just like a cat that saw a mouse, but could not catch it. Gradually, the cowardly soldiers began to become impatient.

Finally, Yin Yinglei seized the opportunity to set up an ambush near a remote village in the southwest of Liaocheng.

When talking about this paragraph, Yin Tianya was obviously excited.

At that time, the forehead should have been aware of the strategy of the advancing team, but the conceited forehead did not take the strategy of the advancing team in the slightest. Edu thinks that even if the other party has an ambush, there is no way to take them as cowardly Xue Jun, not to mention, the Song army is all foot soldiers, it is really not good, with the speed of Mongolian war horses, it is just to leave.

Edu's idea was recognized by the other cowardly generals of the Xue army, and the impatience obviously prevailed, and the trap set by the Song army, in their opinion, turned into an excellent opportunity, and the first battle was solved, saving them from running away again.

It is undeniable that the combat effectiveness of the Cowardly Xue Army is the most powerful among the Yuan Army, and because of this, the arrogance of the Cowardly Xue Army is also one of the best.

When the cowardly Xue army swaggered into the ambush point, it did not wait for the expected Song soldiers to attack it, but ushered in hundreds of projectiles.

Of all the armies of the Yuan Dynasty, only the Middle Route Army had seen the power of firearms. In order not to affect the morale of the other armies, Kublai Khan did not elaborate on the power of the firearms of the Southern Dynasties, but only gave a general order that all armies should be careful to take precautions against the firearms of the Southern Dynasties. And the Mongolian soldiers who have always been proud, especially the cowardly Xue Jun, would think how powerful the firearms of the Southern Dynasties were. The main generals of the Yuan army who encircled and suppressed the advancing team were all members of the royal family, and their skills were famous, and a big gun was quite good, even compared with Ah Shu, Boyan and others, it was almost the same. But Edu has always served as a cowardly guard by Kublai Khan's side, and in addition to his strong martial arts, he does not have much actual combat experience. At that time, Kublai Khan ordered Boyan to serve as the commander of the cowardly Xue army and train the cowardly Xue, but did not let the older Edu serve as the commander, because Edu has always been disgruntled, in his thinking, the Southern Dynasty firearms are powerful, just Ashu and Boyan They found a reason for failure.

When one projectile after another exploded in the cowardly Xue army, Edu and the others felt panicked. First of all, the war horse was out of control, even if it was not hit by the projectile, but the smoke, debris and deafening explosion sound were enough to make the war horse run around, and then, there were constantly cowardly Xue soldiers falling off their horses and dying, as more and more projectiles exploded in the cowardly Xue army, they found that there were fewer and fewer soldiers around them who could ride on the horses.

Edu thought of breaking through, but the projectiles thrown from all directions made the war horses of the cowardly Xue army chaotic, and in the end, Edu ordered to form a death squad of 300 people, identify one direction, and abandon the horse to fight. In order to boost morale, Edu personally waved the spear in his hand and rushed to the front with the death squad.

However, the cowardly Xue Jun did not expect that the projectiles of the advancing team would be so powerful. Under the attack of thousands of projectiles, the always invincible cowardly Xue army was blown to pieces, and the death squads were almost completely wiped out.

The strong martial arts Edu, although he rushed out of the range of the grenade explosion with more than 20 daredevils, was also seriously injured, perhaps his luck was too bad, fate should be so, when he rushed to the position of the advancing team, he happened to meet the first master of the Song army, the deputy general Han Jing.

According to the skills between the two of them, if they were placed in normal times, they would definitely fight equally, and the seriously injured forehead only lasted more than ten moves under Han Jing's gun, and was hit by a shot and died in the hands of Han Jing.

The death squad was killed, but it also played a great role, and the follow-up more than 1,000 cowardly Xue soldiers took the opportunity to break out of the encirclement, and the advancing team was difficult to stop, so they had to let them leave.

After this battle, the advance team broke out of the large encirclement of the Yuan army and sent people to get in touch with Li Tingzhi.

Later, Yin Yinglei received my order to immediately adjust his strategy, approached Bianliang and Xuchang, and joined Zhang Shun's army under the city of Xuchang, defeated Guo Kan's troops in one fell swoop, and recovered Xuchang.

"General Yin's trip is really not easy." After listening to Yin Yinglei's personal narration, Fang Ling sighed.

I finally asked, "Yin Aiqing, when you arrived at Xuchang City, how many casualties did the 10,000 advance team members suffer?" ”

Yin Yinglei said in a deep voice: "The casualties of our army plus some missing people are more than four thousand. ”

More than 4,000 of the 10,000 horses were lost, nearly half of the proportion, which is not insignificant.

"Yin Aiqing, the advance team marched north, disrupted the deployment of the Yuan army, made its main force of cowardice in Dadu unable to go to Xiangyang or Dengzhou in time, and eased the pressure of our central Northern Expeditionary Army, which has merit, but on the whole, I have not considered it well, so that more than 4,000 soldiers are sleeping here, and it is almost impossible to establish a large-scale base in the enemy-occupied area, unless we pay a greater price, this point, I regard it as self-examination."

"Your Majesty, the way to advance is completely feasible, but the last general does not have a deep understanding of His Majesty's guerrilla thinking, which is why so many soldiers have died. These sacrificed soldiers died well, and they are the pride of our army. ”

"Well, I and Da Song will remember them. Yin Aiqing, after practice, the power of firearms can completely restrain the strong combat power of the Mongols, so the advance team was disbanded, and the department was incorporated into the Northern Expedition Army of the Middle Road. ”

"Yes, Your Majesty, the last will obey."

"Okay, Yin Aiqing, you tell the reporters accompanying the army about the annihilation of Edu by your unit, and let them polish it and publish it in the Great Song Dynasty Royal Newspaper, which is another excellent example of improving the confidence of the people of our dynasty."

"Yes, Your Majesty."

On 24 February, the day after I arrived in Xuchang, I received a battle report from Wang Lixin of the Yunnan Military Region, saying that the hostile forces in Yunnan had been basically wiped out, and according to the original plan, the main force of the Yunnan Military Region would go north to central Sichuan and join the Northern Expeditionary Army on the West Road.

On the 25th, I received the battle plan of Li Tingzhi on the East Road.