Chapter 17 Nine Sesame Officials
After Huang Yan heard this, he quickly stopped, although he was scolded by Gao Huaiyuan, this guy immediately broke into tears and laughed, and his mouth was almost on his ears.
It's no wonder that Huang Yan misunderstood that Gao Huaiyuan was about to hang up, at this time, Gao Huaiyuan's virtue was no different from dying, because he was fighting at the pass, he didn't know how many enemy soldiers he had chopped, and his whole body was covered with blood from head to toe, there were his own, more of them were enemies, and even his face was covered with blood, plus he was lying on the ground weakly, and anyone who seemed to think that he was not far from death.
Seeing that Gao Huaiyuan didn't look like he was about to hang up, Huang Yan was relieved, so he let go of Gao Huaiyuan, threw him to the ground, stood up and immediately shouted: "Zhou Hao!" Zhou Hao, are you a bastard? Hurry up and give the master a shout! Zhou Jun, Fei Wenlongγ...... You're all fucking giving me a sound! He called out a series of names, and his voice began to tremble again.
Gao Huaiyuan was thrown away by this guy, and immediately fell to the ground again, his head crashed on the ground, snorted in pain, and scolded in a low voice: "You are a pig!" Don't let go lightly, I want to fall to death! β
A few Xiang Yong lying next to him couldn't help it, and laughed with a chirp, and after a while, the people who were still alive around laughed along.
At this time, another hand was raised in the pile and said, "I'm not dead!" Zhou Hao also agreed at this time.
With Zhou Hao's voice, one hand after another raised his hand and followed him and promised: "Second brother, I'm here!" β
Huang Yan jumped in the crowd like a rabbit, checked one by one, and when he saw a brother, he cheered, and many people knew at this time that Huang Yan and these people's feelings, and in the end, Huang Yan still cried.
"Why do you want me to report it! Whining...... There are a few more why can't I find them! Where did they go? Tell me where they went? β¦β¦ It's not fair...... Why don't you let me stay! β
No one answered his voice, and everyone fell silent again, because they knew that some of the people who could not be found had died under the pass, and the rest had died in the battle wall, and now they were reduced to ashes along with those golden soldiers.
Although they repelled the Jin soldiers in this battle, everyone knew that the Daye County Township Barracks were basically disabled, and no one counted how many people were left, but everyone also knew that there was probably not much left, so just because of the joy of victory, they were suddenly washed away by this sadness without a trace, and some people began to cry quietly, and gradually the laughter just now was replaced by a cry, and finally someone couldn't help but lie on the ground and cry loudly.
This cry is not only a mourning for the dead brothers, but also a celebration of his escape, anyway, it contains many meanings, and even the corners of Gao Huaiyuan's eyes moistened.
At this time, a group of Song soldiers sweating profusely followed an officer on horseback and rushed along the mountain road, and the sound of footsteps covered the cries of everyone in the mountains.
The officer at the head frowned and looked at the people who were lying on the ground here, his heart was quite shocked, and he was very surprised, to be honest, when he was ordered to lead the troops here, he really didn't have any hope, from the young man named Huang Yan who brought them here, he learned that there were only less than 500 people here, and at most there were about 100 regular army archers, and Huang Yan said that the Jin army was at least thousands of people, in his opinion, even if he rushed over, it was in vain, these people were definitely dead!
And his task should be to intercept the way of the Jin soldiers in the mountains, block the Jin soldiers and drive them back, and it would be good not to let them smuggle into Fenglindu, so he was very nervous all the way, and ordered his generals to speed up their pace and be ready to engage at any time.
But when he came over, he saw from afar that the pass was still spitting black smoke and the fire was still burning in the pass, but he did not hear the sound of fighting, and he was greatly surprised in his heart, but he heard a cry from the pass.
So he hastened his pace and rushed over with his troops, and when they arrived, he was shocked by the scene before him.
For they saw that the whole pass was in shambles, and there were some bloody people lying all over the place, and it was certain that some of them were not dead, but were crying, but more were the neatly arranged corpses, and the matter had long been silent.
And the young man who brought them over, sitting on the ground at this moment, holding the corpse of a young man and crying loudly, he can be sure that these people are all his own Song people, and they have not died yet, and because of the obstruction of the fire, they are blocked from sight, and they can't see where the Jin army is, so he immediately asked loudly: "Who is leading the team here now, answer quickly, where is the Jin soldier?" β
Gao Huaiyuan also saw this Song general, so he struggled to sit up and shouted: "The Jin soldiers have been repelled by us!" β
This Song general glanced at Gao Huaiyuan, who was like a bloody man, and couldn't see his face clearly, only knowing that he didn't seem to be very old, and he said suspiciously in his heart: "Retreated?" You repeat, you can say that the golden soldiers have been repelled by you? β
Gao Huaiyuan didn't know his identity, so he nodded and said, "Back to the general, the Jin soldiers have been repelled by us!" β
Only then did this Song general turn over and dismount, stop the army behind him, wave his hand and let his subordinates immediately disperse and set up defenses, check the movements of the Jin army, and then walked into the crowd and looked around.
No matter how Gao Huaiyuan's embarrassment looked, he didn't feel like a soldier, he really didn't believe Gao Huaiyuan's words, thinking that just with these rabble, he could actually block thousands of gold troops here and repel them, this is simply unimaginable! In other words, this is simply a fantasy!
But when he looked at it, his heart began to be solemn, although these people staggered and didn't look like a soldier at all, but everyone was covered in blood, which must not be denied, they did have a very tragic fierce battle with Jin Bing here, it can be said that the vast majority of people alive are basically injured.
The leather armor on the body of the person who answered was cut in many places, and the tattered ones hung almost like a piece of rag on the body, and blood was oozing in many places, which showed that he also suffered a lot of battle wounds, which is enough to show that this person was brave enough to meet the enemy in close combat, so he was injured like this.
The rows of corpses of the fallen soldiers and soldiers on the ground also show that they were not killed by the Jin soldiers when they escaped, if that were the case, their corpses would not have been collected so neatly, and even everyone's remains have been sorted out, which shows that they fulfilled their duties and finally died here.
And the pass is still in the burning wall of fire, there are still many blackened human remains, he can't tell whether it is the corpse of the Jin or the Song, it can be seen that at the last moment, these people set fire to the vehicles at the pass, blocking the road of the Jin army.
And what surprised him was that at the small pass, there were still a few simple cannons that could not be more simple, and ugly could not be uglier, two or three of them had fallen apart, and a large number of trees in the surrounding woods had been cut down, and many of them had disappeared, and it was estimated that they had thrown them to the pass as rolling logs.
From these scenes alone, he could see that there had indeed been an extremely tragic battle here, and it was these people who blocked the way of the Jin army with the price of blood, so he no longer dared to underestimate these villagers.
"Commander of the Herald Army, come over and treat the wounds of these warriors immediately! Others hurry up and help! "The officer gave the order.
So the medical officer and a large number of Song soldiers rushed over and began to help take care of the wounded lying on the ground.
Gao Huaiyuan was also helped up, and took off the armor on his body, and everyone saw that even the clothes under his armor were stained with blood, so they quickly tore off his clothes, revealing his body, after seeing it, several people gasped, only to see that there were as many as six or seven wounds on Gao Huaiyuan's body, shoulders, arms, chest, lower abdomen, thighs, and wounds everywhere, and the flesh was blurred, which was very scary, fortunately, Gao Huaiyuan's body muscles were unusually strong, otherwise, I really don't know how he survived.
The officer of the Song Army also stood not far from Gao Huaiyuan and looked at Gao Huaiyuan, watching him frown and asking the medical officer to treat his wounds one by one, and then bandaging them again, before letting people caress him, come to a clean place, and get him a stone to sit down temporarily.
Only then did he start asking Gao Huaiyuan about the process of this battle, Gao Huaiyuan was not polite, and told everything that had happened in the past two days, and he heard this Song General nodding again and again and sighing.
"The Gaozhu team is really brave, Liu admires! Unexpectedly, the Gao Escort team only relied on hundreds of villagers to block the Jin army here, and it was difficult to move an inch, and the people under him were so brave It was really admirable! This Song Jiang sighed.
Gao Huaiyuan also learned from the conversation that this person was the commander of the Xiongsheng Army of the Jingnan garrison, and this time he was ordered to lead the army to rescue them, so he hurriedly said politely: "Commander Liu praises falsely, we are also Song people, and we should serve the country, this is also what we should do!" β
Seeing that Gao Huaiyuan looked tired, Commander Liu asked him to arrange for him to rest first, and then began to lead the troops to clean up the battlefield, no matter what, he still had to go through the pass to check the whereabouts of the Jin soldiers.
So he sent someone to hook down the grain bags that were still burning with a hook gun, and it took a long time to finally extinguish the fire, and also pulled out a lot of bones from the fire, only to know that the fire burned a lot of people, and it is estimated that the Jin army also saw that the fire was ignited, and then had no choice but to retreat, which shows how dangerous the situation has been.
After Gao Huaiyuan took a short rest, he struggled to stand up again and began to count the losses of his men.
After nearly 400 village warriors went through this battle, less than half of them were still alive, and 200 people were still a little weaker, including the remaining dozen archers under Fan Dutou, and the fifty teenagers he brought out, now only thirty-two people remained, and more than a dozen were killed or missing in battle.
And almost all of these living people are injured, including Fei Wenlong, there are more than 20 seriously injured, and it is still unknown whether they can survive.
Zhang Qing was heroic in this battle, Fan Dutou also died on the car wall, plus Gu Laoer, who died in the battle last night, except for Guo Liang, who survived with injuries, almost all of them died in battle, and the losses were so great that Gao Huaiyuan couldn't help but almost cry again.
The team of about 500 people, by this time, most of them had died here, and the township barracks in Daye County had basically completely lost their combat effectiveness.
And among the five hundred township warriors brought out this time, the smallest loss among the teams is even the junior team of Crouching Tiger Village under him, although the junior team is often used by Gao Huaiyuan as a commando, and it can be said that they are the most dangerous work, but the strict training on weekdays still makes them suffer the least loss on the battlefield, and even when they face the Jin army trappers, they did not suffer any big losses, which is also inseparable from the protection of the sandwich leather armor he prepared in advance, which greatly reduced the number of their casualties. There are more than thirty of the fifty people left, and the loss is less than forty percent, Gao Huaiyuan is finally relieved, if they are all gone, then they will be busy in the past two years!
After counting the number of soldiers, Gao Huaiyuan sorted out the list of fallen soldiers and reported it to Commander Liu, who was also solemn, as a leader of the troops, he knew that the combat effectiveness of the Song army was not strong, and often as long as one or two adults were lost on the battlefield, they would lose their fighting spirit, and they would often collapse, and the elite troops would lose three percent at most, which could be regarded as a complete loss of combat effectiveness.
And this ordinary township barracks held out here for two days, and the number of dead exceeded sixty percent, and almost all of the rest were wounded, how much courage does it take to hold on! So even he, the commander, had to express his admiration after hearing about this battle loss, and asked himself, if it were him, whether he could hold on was really unknown, but he himself guessed that he couldn't hold on!
When the Song army opened the things blocked by the pass, they saw the situation under the pass clearly, so they were once again subjected to a huge impact, only to see that the downhill road beyond the pass was full of twisted corpses of Jin soldiers, and a large pile of rolling wood and stones were mixed in it, and the arrows shot from the pass alone almost sprinkled a layer below, making it almost impossible for people to settle down.
Only then did they figure out that the reason why the Jin soldiers retreated was not as simple as being blocked from the way, but that they had to retreat after paying a huge price for casualties here, so they admired Gao Huaiyuan's township barracks even more.
This battle can be said to be a great victory for the Song army in the near future, and the great credit made these Song soldiers a little red-eyed, but they didn't dare to grab the credit, after all, they were also people, and they knew that this credit was all the military exploits that the township barracks had exchanged for their lives and blood, and they couldn't grab it if they wanted to.
After confirming that the Jin soldiers had retreated, Commander Liu sent a scout team out of the pass to explore the whereabouts of the Jin army, and after asking the time of the Jin army's retreat, he knew that if he wanted to pursue them, it was already too late, so he camped again on the spot for the night.
Two days later, Commander Liu led the army to escort Gao Huaiyuan and his party back to Xiangyang City, after the news spread, it immediately caused an uproar, and the news that a small group of Daye County township soldiers repelled thousands of gold troops suddenly boosted the morale of the army, and the original argument about the decline of the Song and Jin battles was suddenly choked.
After hearing the news, he immediately personally inquired about the matter, and ordered the best medical officer in the army to go to the barracks to treat the wounded in Gao Huaiyuan and his party, and also sent people to send them a large number of excellent medicines and condolences.
Originally, he wanted to summon Gao Huaiyuan in person, but he heard that Gao Huaiyuan's injury was not light, and after returning to the army camp, he collapsed, so he had to give up, and then planned to visit Gao Huaiyuan in the camp in person, but because of the tension of the war, he really couldn't get out, and he couldn't make the trip in the end, but the name Gao Huaiyuan kept him firmly in his heart.
Although Zhao Fang did not have time to visit Gao Huaiyuan, but still sent his officials to the camp to visit all the soldiers of this hero battalion, Gao Huaiyuan was rewarded by Zhao Fang with a thousand pieces of money, two hundred brocades, and awarded him the title of Zhengjiupin Bao Yilang, acting as the commander of the baggage battalion, after he was allowed to recover from his injuries, he selected strong men from other township barracks, supplemented to the Daye County Township Barracks, under his command, and this time the quota for him was 1,000 people, and he could choose his own subordinates.
But don't underestimate this Bao Yilang's nine-grade sesame official, it sounds really small, it is because some people in later film and television works and novels are nonsense, in fact, in the military of the Song Dynasty, although many officers are commanders and other officials, but they have no grade at all, they can only be regarded as a loose official.
And Di Qing, a famous general in the Northern Song Dynasty, is a bull! He was at the beginning of Baoyuan, Zhao Yuanhao was opposed, and the edict selected the guards from the side, Di Qing was the third class messenger, the palace attendant, and the Yanzhou commander, this "palace envoy" mentioned that the list of rank officials was unproductive, and Di Qing killed the Xixia people at that time, but they only knew that Di Qing was the commander, but they didn't know what the commander was, so they called Di Qing Di Angel; Later, he made meritorious contributions in the defense of Yanzhou and was awarded the title of Sanban Dianzhi, and he officially became an official of Zhengjiupin.
And Gao Huaiyuan was able to award Bao Yilang with merit this time, and he also awarded him the official position of Zheng Jiupin at once, which is essentially a one-step breakthrough hiring! What's more, Zhao Fang knew that he was still young, and he was not officially a military member, so he was not qualified to be awarded an officer, and the reason why he was awarded this Jiupin Bao Yilang was that in addition to praising his exploits this time, the most important thing was to hope that he would use this incident to stimulate morale and prepare to fight the next war with the Jin Army!