In October 1131, the autumn was crisp, and there was already a faint cold air in the north. Zhao Tianci's northern expeditionary army set out from Kaifeng Mansion and advanced northward in an all-round way, and the armies of all roads assembled along the Yellow River, and officially crossed the river on October 23.

Weizhou and Puzhou, on the north bank of the Yellow River, had long received the news that the Song army was going to cross the river in a big way, and the men and horses of Liu Yu, the king of Qi, remained here, but when they saw the overwhelming number of large and small ships on the Yellow River, the commanders of these two states "consciously" abandoned the city and left.

Therefore, the operation of landing on the north bank of the Yellow River was almost undisturbed, and the people of Weizhou and Puzhou came to the outside of the city and prepared wine and meat ****, Zhao Tianci only sent someone to express his gratitude, and then led the army directly across this place and continued to break north.

His target was Zhending Mansion, where Liu Yu was located.

Yue Fei led 120,000 horses to respond on his left flank, Niu Gao and the Wu brothers on the right flank, increased the army to 100,000, and Liang Hongyu's 50,000 horses continued north along the Grand Canal, and Han Shizhong landed in Haizhou and joined forces with Liang Hongyu.

Zhao Tianci's subordinates only brought 80,000 battalions of the eight-color battalion, and the losses of Shen Mingzhu's orange battalion had been made up by other arms, but the difference from before was that the army of the Northern Expedition was already all field cavalry.

Needless to say, Zhao Tianci also gave up the car and replaced it with a fast horse. Although Lu Fangfei, Lige'er, and Lin Fengxian all stayed in Kaifeng, Luo Yunfei has always been by his side, which also adds a lot of spring to his journey. Since the master's sister wants to "return", of course, it must be "returned" little by little to have an effect.

And the temperament of Hong Aya and the others who woke up after falling asleep has changed, although they also talked and laughed with him as before, but Zhao Tianci still noticed the subtle fluctuations in their emotions, which was a cold color that they deliberately hidden.

According to Luo Yunfei, their own memories have not been damaged, and although the prohibition imposed on them by the snow demon has been removed, I am afraid that it will still have some impact. So Zhao Tianci didn't care much about this matter.

However, the extent of this impact is still slowly becoming apparent.

In less than a day, his army drove to Luzhou, and the Luzhou guard was Liu Yu's brother Liu Qi, who was clever and fickle, and sent his family to the Daimyo's Mansion long before he learned the news, and he himself only went around the city a few times, and then casually found a reason to retreat to the Daimyo's Mansion.

In this way, Luzhou became an empty city unattended, Zhao Tianci's army stayed in the city for a day, it was only because two stone towers needed to be built here, he found the local officials, briefly admonished them, gave them the task of building the tower, and then continued to the north with the men and horses.

His purpose is very simple, that is, to inflict tremendous psychological pressure on the enemy with the momentum of thunder, and then to overcome it in one fell swoop.

This method was very effective in the beginning, almost to the point of being invincible, but when it came to the Daimyo's Mansion, it stopped. Because it is impossible for Liu Qi to retreat, after passing Xingzhou, it is the Zhending Mansion where his brother is located, if the Daimyo Mansion is lost, relying on a small Xingzhou alone, it will not be able to protect the Zhending Mansion at all. So he stepped up his defense on the one hand, and asked his brother for reinforcements on the other, Liu Yu was not ambiguous, and transferred all the most elite teams under him, and the small Xingzhou simply stuffed more than 100,000 defenders.

Zhao Tianci's army drove ten miles outside Xingzhou and saw a spectacular scene. A long earthen and stone wall stood in front of him, and under the wall was a ravine about two meters deep, and the city wall of Xingzhou City behind it was also increased to more than two meters, and there were countless migrant workers sweating there.

Zhao Tianci took a bow and crossbow, shot it, only to hear a muffled sound, the arrow was all submerged in the earthen wall, he shook his head, thinking that it had just been built, and the foundation had not yet been solid, how useful could it be?

He can ignore this wall, but he can't ignore the deep ditch under the wall, mainly because the width of the ditch has reached about two meters, and the war horse can't pass it.

"God, how do you think you can quickly overcome the obstacles in front of you?" Yang Zizi asked with a smile.

Zhao Tianci also smiled, "Brother Yang, is there a good way?" ”

Yang Zizi nodded, "I don't dare to say that it's a good way, they dig ditches and build walls, just to stop our cavalry, but at the same time, their men and horses can't get through." As long as you make sure that there is no mechanism behind the high wall, and the foundation of the new wall is unstable, you can simply bulldoze it. ”

Zhao Tianci said with a smile, "It's best to push it directly into the ditch, the wall is upside down and the ditch is flat, the best of both worlds." ”

Yang Zizai said, "That's right, Liu Qi is too anxious, this wall is obviously built of soil dug out of the ditch, because of the rush of time, there is no separation, directly from the ditch to throw the soil up, we will fill it back." ”

Zhao Tianci said, "We don't care if there are ambushes behind the high wall, just dig its roots." ”

So 20,000 soldiers crossed the deep ditch with machetes in their hands and began to clear the earth from under the base of the wall.

About an hour later, the thousand-meter-long roots under the wall were almost hollowed out, Zhao Tianci ordered to tie the rope to the support plate, everyone withdrew, the soldiers behind drove the bow and crossbow, and then gave an order, all the ropes were pulled together, only to hear a loud bang, with the withdrawal of the support plate, the entire earthen wall collapsed instantly, and most of the soil on the wall fell into the deep ditch.

The disappearance of this high wall made the enemy soldiers hiding behind the high wall immediately appear, and stood there in a daze, not knowing what was happening, and at this time, countless sharp arrows were fired, and those people lost their lives in ignorance.

As soon as the wall was withdrawn, the eyes suddenly opened up, and Zhao Tianci ordered people to go to the ditch to stabilize the fallen soil, and then commanded the cavalry to easily cross over and approach the Daimyo's mansion.

The men working at the head of the city saw the situation from afar, and after a commotion, they ran away, and were soon replaced by the soldiers who were subtly armed.

On the city wall, Liu Qi looked down surrounded by the generals, and saw that the first line of defense that he had worked so hard to build was easily broken, and he couldn't help frowning and shaking his head, "Why did the Song army suddenly become so sharp and difficult, it seems that they are planning to attack hard." ”

One person beside him said, "General, the last general is invited to fight." I heard that the leaders of the eight-color battalion below are all women, all of whom are delicate, so I asked the general to take 5,000 men and horses out of the city to meet the enemy, and by the way, capture one or two beautiful women and come back for the general to enjoy. ”

Liu Qi glanced at him twice, nodded and said, "It's okay." Lin Yuncai, you also have to be careful, don't underestimate the enemy. ”

Liu Yuncai arched his hand and said, "Please rest assured, general." Then he turned and went down from the tower, gathered five thousand men, opened the gate, and slew them.

Zhao Tianci said with a smile, "Brother Yang, this person surnamed Liu seems to have a bit of courage and dares to confront me head-on." ”

Yang Zizai said, "The ignorant are fearless, this is not surprising. ”

Zhao Tianci nodded and said in a loud voice, "Sisters, which of you wants to go and have two tricks with him?" ”

Shen Mingzhu preemptively said, "Xianggong, I'll go and bring his dog head back." ”

Zhao Tianci said, "Okay, you should be more careful!" ”

Shen Mingzhu snorted and brought the two thousand cavalry of the Orange Battalion to meet him.

Then Lin Yun saw that the person leading the troops on the other side was wearing a mask and an orange robe, and the cavalry behind him were all murderous, and he was also a little drumming in his heart, but after carefully looking at the person at the head, he found that she was in a beautiful posture, and she should be a woman, so he slapped his horse out and said in a loud voice, "Is the orange camp handsome ahead?" ”

"It's your aunt and grandmother who have arrived!" Shen Mingzhu took off the bow and crossbow as he spoke, and took the arrow buckle spring, the sharp arrow roared out and went straight to Huang Yuncai's chest, Huang Yuncai only felt a flower in front of him, the wind had arrived, and he leaned back in a panic, lying flat on the horse's back, the sharp arrow flew past against the armor in front of him, and there was a scream behind him, and the sharp arrow penetrated a person's body and fell to the ground with all his strength.

Lin Yuncai was shocked into a cold sweat, he had just sat up straight, but he was shocked to find that Shen Mingzhu and her orange camp had already arrived, and he shouted: "Meet the enemy!" But he struck his horse and retreated.

Shen Mingzhu's more than 2,000 people crashed straight into the panicked enemy formation, and it was a big mess immediately, and the 2,000 people directly rushed Lin Yuncai's 5,000 men and horses to pieces, and Shen Mingzhu kept an eye on Lin Yuncai, always beating horses and following him, circling around the battlefield.

Lin Yuncai couldn't find a chance to make a move, and he didn't dare to look back, the little lady behind him had already turned into a man-eating tiger, and she would pounce on him and bite his neck at any time. He was annoyed in his heart, he was chased by a woman everywhere, saying it would make people laugh off his big teeth, Lin Yuncai gritted his teeth, and when he passed by a soldier, he reached out and lifted the soldier from the horse, and threw it behind him, and then he took advantage of the momentum to stop the horse and turn the horse's head around.

Shen Mingzhu was chasing hard, suddenly it was dark in front of her, a figure flew over, she leaned over, the steel knife in her hand slashed upward, only to hear a scream, blood burst out, the steel knife in her hand broke the armor on the man's chest, and directly disemboweled.

"Shameless!" Shen Mingzhu snorted and turned the horse to the side, letting the soldiers who had turned into corpses look at Lin Yuncai angrily, "Are you fighting the enemy like this?" ”

Lin Yuncai smiled and said, "You care about me? Little lady, you don't wait for the gentlemen at home, run to the battlefield to be ruthless, uncle, I will teach you how to be a woman today! As he spoke, he waved the big knife in his hand and rushed up.

Shen Mingzhu snorted, didn't say anything, put the steel knife in his hand to protect his chest, and rode up to meet him.

Lin Yuncai had a big knife in his hand that was two feet long, and Shen Mingzhu was only a short-handled steel knife in his hand, so he would never have a good advantage against her, so Lin Yuncai had no scruples, and slashed down with the big knife. (To be continued.) )