Chapter Thirty-Six: Defeat Without a Fight
The next day, Huang An led his troops from Yuncheng County to Shijie Village.
This time, after Huang An left Yuncheng County, he sent many scouts and horses to prevent Liangshan soldiers and horses from raiding again.
All the way to Shijie Village, the soldiers and horses of Liangshan did not appear, even the horses were not seen.
Huang An felt that the Liangshan strongmen did not dare to come to the enemy, as long as they were not attacked by the Liangshan bandits, he could crush the Liangshan bandits with 3,000 soldiers and horses.
In order to prevent the night attack of the Liangshan bandits, Huang An did not lead troops into Shijie Village, but camped outside the village, buried the antlers deeply, sprinkled tribulus terrestris, and arranged sentry posts inside and outside the camp.
This night, the Liangshan soldiers and horses did not come, but Huang An also slept unsteadily, and he was worried all night, for fear that the Liangshan soldiers and horses would attack the camp.
"Report ......"
Look at Tianming, Huang An had just slept peacefully, and a loud cry sounded outside the tent.
Huang An shuddered, sat up suddenly, walked out from behind the screen barefoot, and ordered the people outside to come in.
"General Yu, the Liangshan thieves are out of Shuibo, and they are arrayed outside Shuibo to fight with us."
"Huh?"
Huang An looked at the soldier who reported the news in disbelief and asked, "Is the Liangshan thief really out of the water?" β
"Yes, the villain saw the Liangshan thieves get down from several big boats, and the thieves on horseback are afraid that there are not more than 200 people, and there are about 500 people without horses."
"Haha"
Huang An heard that there were only about 700 people, and laughed: "This gang of thieves is also rampant, but it has saved us a lot of trouble. The order went down, and the whole army assembled. β
"Yes."
Soon, the order of the assembled generals spread throughout the battalion.
Huang An's plan today was originally to send someone to collect boats, and when the boats were enough, he would find some nearby fishermen and go to Liangshan Water.
These things can't be done in one day, so Huang An didn't urge the soldiers and horses of each battalion, but let them recharge their energy and prepare to fight in the coming day.
After hearing the order, the officers and men of each battalion hurriedly began to put on their clothes.
After tossing for half an hour, Huang An took 2,500 soldiers and horses out of the camp and came to the place where the soldiers and horses were arrayed in Liangshan, leaving only the 500 soldiers and horses on duty last night to guard the camp.
The soldiers and horses of Liangshan had already been waiting in an open field outside the berth for a long time, and the horse army was in the center, and the two wings were infantry.
This time, Shi Jin only ordered three teams of well-trained horse troops and ten teams of infantry troops.
In front of the Chinese army, Shi Jin was wearing golden silk fish scale armor, a snow-white curly horse under his crotch, and a two-point steel gun in his hand.
This pair of golden silk fish scale armor was copied from a large family in Hecai Town, and it is said that it was handed down from the ancestors, and its elasticity is much better than that of the armor used in the army today. It weighs more than 50 catties, and the protection is also very good.
Shi Jin was also overjoyed when he saw this pair of fish scale armor, and immediately collected it for his own use.
Chen Da, the jumping tiger on the left, was dressed in gold pig iron armor, with a tall white horse in his crotch, and an eight-point spear in his hand, which was longer than Shi Jin's steel spear.
Yang Chun, the white-flowered snake on the right, is wearing the same gold-wrapped pig iron armor, with a black horse in his crotch and a big knife in his hand.
The four generals, Zhu Gui of the Dry Land Hulu, Ruan Xiaoqi of the Living Yama, Zhang Qing of the Vegetable Garden, and Sun Erniang of the Dominatrix, all four of them were dressed in leather armor, each holding a weapon, and stood behind.
Standing Tai Sui Ruan Xiaoer and short-lived Erlang Ruan Xiaowu were also clamoring to come, but they were stopped by the cautious Zhu Wu, and asked the two to lead the naval army to be ready to meet the Ma Bu army at any time.
Looking at the officers and soldiers coming in the distance, Yang Chun said: "Brother, the officers and soldiers have not yet gained a stable foothold, and we rushed to kill them?" β
Chen Da also held the spear in his hand and said, "These handfuls of birds are finally here, and grandpa is impatient to wait." β
Shi Jin looked at the officers and soldiers who were slowly approaching two or three miles away, shook his head and said, "The officers and soldiers are prepared, as soon as we move, they can hold their ground." rushed over, but I was afraid that the casualties would be small. Let's pick him up a few times, and when the officers and soldiers we kill don't dare to go out of the battle, we will kill them again. β
Chen Da said with a smile: "Brother, this is a good idea, lest there be a charge, and those guys will flee again, and they will not be happy to kill." β
Ruan Xiaoqi rushed and said: "Brother, I'll take the lead, how about it?" β
Shi Jin shook his head and said, "Your martial arts are very good, but you don't know how to fight." If an officer or soldier sends a man on horseback, it will not be good for the enemy. β
Chen Da immediately responded: "Yes, yes, leave the matter of this fighting general to me and Yang Chun, you just wait to fight." β
Ruan Xiaoqi shouted: "What about the horseman, I can knock him over with a simple knife." β
If Wu Song said this, Shi Jin would be relieved to let him fight, but if he was Ruan Xiaoqi, Shi Jin would not be at ease.
Ruan Xiaoqi's martial arts are really good, and more than a dozen men are not close to him, and he has a certain ability to protect himself in the chaotic army, but it is difficult to say about the opponent's officers and generals.
Although the imperial court is rotten now, most of the generals in the army are from military families, and some are from martial arts, and their martial arts are even stronger.
Ruan Xiaoqi is a dragon in the water, if he breaks it on land, he will not be wronged.
Shi Jin said with a smile: "Those generals are pampered on weekdays, but they have long abandoned their martial arts, and it is not possible to kill them." Well, before everyone returned to the battle, Yang Chun took the lead, and Chen Da responded. β
"Yes."
Shi Jin gave an order in front of the battle, and everyone stopped making noise and surrendered their orders.
Chen Da, Zhang Qing, and Sun Erniang walked to the front of the left flank formation, and Yang Chun, Zhu Gui, and Ruan Xiaoqi returned to the front of the right flank formation.
2,500 officers and soldiers came in formation, and the battlefield was suddenly slaughtered.
Shi Jin calmed the somewhat restless war horse under his crotch, and looked at the approaching officers and soldiers.
Although Huang An practiced urgently for several months, it still could not change the bad habits formed by the Song army in the past hundred years.
A hundred years of nothingness also made the forbidden army of the Song Dynasty no battlefield grinding, especially when today's son succeeded to the throne, the traitorous villains were reused, and the civil and military officials only thought about collecting money.
Gao Yu created a precedent for paying money to avoid school review, and the forbidden army in various state capitals also imitated it effectively, and the soldiers took some money to bribe the officials to be exempted from school review, and they did some business outside on weekdays to supplement their families.
Local officials are also happy to see this, and the more they do business, the more tax they can collect.
An important indicator of the Song Dynasty's assessment officials is the completion of taxes, and those who pay taxes on time or in excess of taxes every year can reduce the grinding time according to the number of taxes.
In addition to normal taxes, local officials can also pay "envy" to the imperial court.
The envy surplus was originally supposed to be the surplus of local financial expenditures, but in order to curry favor with the emperor's ministers, many local officials set up clever names, exploited the people, and paid "envy surplus" to the imperial court, seeking to be promoted and rich.
Therefore, the civil and military officials of the Great Song Dynasty turned a blind eye to the unscrupulous work of the forbidden army.
Except for the frequent wars in the Kansai Five Roads, the entire Great Song Dynasty is like this, how can Huang An turn it around.
Therefore, after several months, the phalanx of Jeju officers and soldiers was still not in line.
This is still the officers and soldiers slowly coming, if they are allowed to rush to kill, I am afraid that this phalanx will collapse in an instant.
Although there were many officers and soldiers, before leaving the camp, Huang An promised a heavy reward.
However, when they saw the well-organized Liangshan soldiers and horses in front of them, many officers and soldiers suddenly trembled their legs.
Some of them have become small people in Shengdou, and even the ruffians are just bullying and bullying the people in the city, and they have seen such battles when they have seen such battles.
When he arrived, Huang An ordered the archers to shoot at the position.
Yang Chun beat his horse out of battle and shouted, "Who will suffer death?" β
Huang An is also from a martial arts background, but he is not a person who does not dare to go into battle, so he brought more than a dozen generals to the front of the battle and said, "Who will go with me to build the first gong?" β
The generals on both sides looked at each other, but no one answered for a while.
They also learned martial arts, but after a long time, they also felt useless, and their kung fu had long been wasted. After marching in the past few days, they felt all kinds of discomfort, looking at Yang Chun who was showing off his might in front of the battle, they really didn't dare to fight.
Huang An looked left and right, and saw that everyone was avoiding his sight, and he couldn't help but be angry, and shouted: "Raising soldiers for a thousand days and using soldiers for a while, I have been waiting for the country for many years, and now is the time to serve." In this battle, whoever dares to retreat will not be spared. Zhao Qi, you go and arrest this thief with me. β
"Order."
The military attache did not dare to disobey the order, and rode the horse and danced the knife to take Yang Chun.
"It's good to come."
Yang Chun saw that someone was fighting, he shouted, kicked the war horse under his crotch, and greeted him.
Unlike this military attachΓ©, Yang Chun has been walking on the rivers and lakes for many years, and when he robbed his house in Shaohua Mountain, he also relied on the knife in his hand to speak, and fighting was just commonplace.
This Zhao Qi's original martial arts were not as good as Yang Chun's, and his fighting experience was not as good as Yang Chun's.
"Okay."
"Okay."
Before the battle, Shi Jin watched Yang Chun's first battle and shouted.
The soldiers and horses of Liangshan applauded the owner of the village, and they all responded.
The officers and soldiers saw that a military attache was killed on the spot in a moment, but everyone was terrified.
Huang An was also stunned for a while, but the matter had come to this point, and it was difficult to stop, so he ordered another military general to come out.
Chen Da, who answered before the battle, saw that Yang Chun had already made meritorious contributions, and his hands were a little itchy, and shouted: "Brother Yang Chun, how about fighting for me this time?" β
Yang Chun said with a smile: "I only fought a few times just now, and when I take this guy's life, my brother will go out again." β
When he had finished speaking, he struck his horse again to meet him.
The generals who came out of the battle heard Yang Chun's shouting, and they were even more afraid in their hearts.
The two horses intersected, just desperately shielding, and there was no idea of killing the enemy.
When Shi Jin saw the appearance of this military attachΓ©, he knew that Yang Chun was about to make meritorious contributions again.
This military general barely supported six or seven he, and the horse was about to leave, so Yang Chun might as well catch up from behind and cut it into two sections with one sword.
Chen Da saw that Yang Chun had won two generals in a row, and he couldn't help it anymore, so he stepped forward and shouted, "It's my turn." Grandpa Chen Da is here, who will beg for death. β
Seeing this, Yang Chun turned his horse back to the battle and said with a smile: "These guys are all useless, brother don't kill them all, leave some for me." β
The military attache beside Huang An saw that the two people in the formation were killed in an instant, and they didn't dare to raise their heads.
"The general Huang An is here, and the thieves are killed."
Huang An looked at the appearance of everyone and knew that he couldn't count on them, otherwise they would be killed by the Liangshan thieves, and their morale was completely gone, so he shouted violently and beat the horse to take Chen Da.
"The dog officer is killed."
Chen Da heard that the official in front of him was Huang An, the training envoy of the Jeju regiment, and he was also overjoyed, so he hit his horse to meet him and fight with Huang An.
Later, Shi Jin was also ready to meet Chen Da at any time, and Liang Shan also found out that this Huang An was born in martial arts, but Chen Da's martial arts were not bad, and he also fought for a long time when he captured Chen Da alive in Shijia Village that day, and he would lose to this Huang An before he tasted it.
The two fight together, it is the chess opponent who will meet the talent.
After twenty or thirty fights between tumbling and rolling, Chen Da became more and more courageous.
Huang An was born in martial arts, and he didn't take the Liangshan thief in his eyes, but he didn't expect that after fighting for a long time, he couldn't take this thief, and seeing Chen Da become more and more courageous, he was even more resigned.
After a few more battles, he forced Chen Da away, and turned his horse away.
When Chen Da saw Na Kenshe, he chased after him.
Shi Jin saw that the two of them were walking around the formation, and he did not delay the fighter, and immediately rushed over with his troops.
"Kill."
"Kill."
Shi Jin gave an order, and the soldiers and horses of Liangshan rushed straight over under the leadership of the leader in front of the battle.
The military attache in front of the battle saw that the Liangshan soldiers and horses were coming so fiercely, and they were afraid of losing their lives, so they turned their horses one by one and went to the formation.
Seeing this, the soldiers in front of the battle, who were willing to give their lives, followed the military attache and fled backwards.
The rout of the Chinese army immediately made the few officers and soldiers on both wings lose their fighting spirit, and they all began to flee in unison.
Shi Jin was originally worried about how many casualties his soldiers and horses would have if a rain of arrows would cause him, but he didn't expect that before he rushed into the range of the officers and soldiers' bows and arrows, the officers and soldiers retreated.
"Abandon your weapon and don't kill."
"Abandon your weapon and don't kill."
Shi Jin simply stopped shouting and killed, and recruited officers and soldiers again.
Some Jeju officers and soldiers heard the sound of horses' hooves behind them, so they simply stopped running, lost their weapons and stopped on the spot, and some consciously took off their armor and threw it on the ground.