It's the end of March and the beginning of April. It turned out that the land inside the clouds covered with snow finally had a hint of warmth.

However, as the warmth emerges and the snow melts and the ice melts, it is time for the road to turn over. It is more than ten times more difficult to pass than the original frozen road.

In the mountainous area of the northern plains of Wuzhou, a series of small-scale power searches were launched, and the two military horses of the Great Song Jurchens who caught and killed each other stopped invariably.

This change was good news for the Song army, which temporarily maintained the front in the Wuzhou area. The Jurchen light cavalry sentry could barely move, and the two sides were entangled in a cavalry power search battle. However, if the Jurchen military horses of the brigade marched, they still needed a large number of baggage to accompany the army, which showed that it was difficult for the Jurchen military horses of the brigade to kill the mountains near the left of Yingzhou before the pulping season ended. If there is a main battle, it will be postponed to the late spring and early summer season. This provided enough time for the arrival of reinforcements from the Great Song Dynasty.

It turned out that the battle between Yinshu and Wanyan Lou led by the deep winter raid on Yunnei may also be partly to buy time for the army to move freely before turning the pulp. may plan to open the way in a short period of time to defeat this strange military horse entrenched in Yunnei under the banner of the Fuliao Army, and then sweep through Yunnei, the army can be raised until the turn of summer and autumn, when the autumn is high and the horse is fat, and then go deep into the territory of the Great Song Dynasty in one fell swoop, and go straight to the city of Bianliang.

However, Yinshu can be so bold as Wanyan Lou's room, and he encountered a hard stubble. Yingzhou fought a hard battle, and the silver art department was already greatly injured. And when Yan Lou took over, reinforcements from Hedong came up again. The action of forcing the Jurchen army horses can only be postponed backwards, presumably the Zong Han army is now struggling in the quagmire.

The spring rain finally fell on the land in the clouds. Melt snow and ice. Moisturize the fields. The snow has been freezing for a long time today. It is enough to control insect pests at very low ranges. The spring rain came at the right time, and the rain was quite large. Normally, the land will have a good year.

But as far as the eye can see, on a piece of black and white, muddy land, most of the original fields have been abandoned. The Potang embankment and weir that the Han people in Yunnei worked hard to open up are undoubtedly destroyed. Heaven and earth are just a desolate scene, where can you see that this place is also the Great Liao Empire, second only to the Yandi Prefectures, which can provide a large amount of food and wealth Dingkou.

An empire collapsed. It is often a great catastrophe for this land.

A band of knights came from north to south, making their way through this desolate land. There were about fifty or sixty of these knights, and it was the Ma army that all of them had built. Everyone wore armor, everyone rode on a pack horse, and the other hand led the war horse, walking them slowly. The horses seemed to have experienced a fierce hedging battle, the horses were covered in mud, their manes were wet with rain and sweat, and their heads were no longer high, and they were just walking slowly in the cold mud that had no longer covered the hooves.

Immediately the knight also has battle scars. There were also seven or eight knights tied to their horses with their crossbars, and trembling gently as their mounts moved. I don't know if it's life or death. There are a lot of blood stains on the bodies of people and horses. More than a dozen knights under the head of the horse, and also helped the Jurchen head with money rattail hair, all of them maintained a frozen posture of either shouting angrily or fearing and frightened.

The first three knights were dressed almost identically to the others. A tall and rough man, Gu Pan is already quite powerful, but there is still a little laziness that has not completely disappeared. It was the commander of the Hedong Shenwu Changsheng Army, and after the palace change, Xiao Yan mentioned his title to the guard, the pro-army, the horse army, the Marquis of Yu, and the other three Ya in charge of the army, such as Pohan Wu Han Shizhong. If the battle in Hedong goes smoothly in the future, there will be another military envoy.

In just a few years, Han Shizhong has climbed from a grumbling junior officer in the Western Army to the peak level of the Great Song Dynasty military minister.

He has two generals on the left and on the right, and he looks a little alike. They are all black-faced and stout, and their necks are wider than their faces. The only difference is that he has a full face and is thirty years old. Although he is trying his best to keep a beard, he has not yet formed a scale, and he is only in his early twenties.

The younger ones are naturally the Niu Gao who is the least seeking to go to Beijing in Yue Fei's five-person group that day. As the earliest confidant to follow Xiao Yan, it stands to reason that Niu Gao's ascending channel is much wider than others. He is just not willing to lead troops to fight, and he doesn't learn to read, and now he is still illiterate. He also often gets himself drunk. Xiao Yan was a little indulgent to him, but Yue Fei often disciplined him fiercely. Niu Gao felt that the boss was uncomfortable, and he didn't know when he would be mixed up with Han Shizhong. Now the dispatch is Han Shizhong's personal guard Ma Jun commander, and the official rank Xiao Yan has done a good job to give a right martial arts doctor's Jilu. The military attache of Zheng Liupin can also be regarded as a member of the senior military ministers of the Great Song Dynasty.

Although the status has risen with the tide. But Niu Gao is still a careless person. It's just that when he is about to fight, he will fight closely with Han Shizhong. With his temperament, even Yue Fei could only let go in the end.

The other thirty is the strange one who provoked the chaos in Taiyuan Mansion, and Qu Gaiqu is a big fool. His status is much worse than Niu Gao, and he changed from an auxiliary soldier to a regular soldier. Now he is a pawn in Han Shizhong's personal guard. Fighting bravely in battle, never under Niu Gao. He and Niu Gao don't know how to look at each other, and now they are so good that wine and meat are not separated. Under Han Shizhong's account, Zhenri was thinking about how to circumvent the ban and steal alcohol.

Once the incident happened, Han Shizhong gave Niu Gao a little face. The punishment is often on Qu Gai, and this guy is also durable. Folded hands on the ground, head resting on it, let your rod strike. The thighs were cocooned, and after twenty canes, he got up, and walked with a limp at most.

After fighting too much, Niu Gao only felt that he couldn't go down in his heart. I had to quit drinking on the occasion of the military march. Full of resentment, it can only be sprinkled on the enemy's head.

Niu Gao went to Qu Gai half a step behind Han Shizhong, just muttering there, not knowing what he was discussing. Among these knights, there are the most Jurchen Tartar heads tied under the heads of the two horses, and each of them is the third level.

While he was trekking hard, Han Shizhong looked ahead, and suddenly sighed and shook his head: "It's really unfavorable for the passing years, and I bumped into Pengju again." It's still far away! Anyway, it's either in the big tent, or it's a few words of Pengju. It's not too embarrassing. ”

Horseman behind the carry. It was all a burst of laughter. Niu Gao looked a little cringe. Carefully think about whether his family has committed anything in the past few days, and whether Brother Pengju will fall on his own head.

Yue Fei attacked Yingzhou and responded to Guo Rong. In the end, he rushed out of the mountains. Although the wolf bèi, even the wounded were brought out. The Yinshu Ke Department seemed to have knocked out Yue Fei's spirit, and he stopped chasing him early. And the mountains are vast, and there are thirteen geographical ghosts to guide the way, and Wanyan Lou's room can't be intercepted.

After rendezvous with the vanguard led by Liu Baozhong, Yue Fei decisively ordered the whole army to retreat south. Didn't go to Wuzhou. and the brigade led by Han Shizhong was connected. Han Yue's two generals joined forces and immediately stabilized their position in the north of Wuzhou.

Even if it is a strategic retreat, there is never a reason to collapse a thousand miles. Now behind the butt is just a Wanyan Lou room, you can hit him hard in the north of Wuzhou once, and weaken the strength of the Jurchen army as much as possible.

Just when tens of thousands of troops were preparing to join forces with Wanyan Lou's department, spring rain fell and the road turned over. Any large-scale military operation is difficult to conduct. Han Yue's department can only confront Wanyan Lou's department here. At the same time, light cavalry sentries were constantly dispatched to push the power search curtain northward as much as possible.

Yue Fei rode lightly to attack Yingzhou, and the army of ten thousand people fought in and out to pick up the main mother. It has become a legend in the army. Han Shizhong doesn't look at the appearance of a big grin, in fact, he has a lot of thoughts. He also needed to maintain his prestige as a general in the army. In this series of small-scale light cavalry conflicts, Han Shizhong only needs to seize the loophole. Just attend in person. led his own pro-army, and has swept away many of the girl's true ranger squad.

Yue Fei behaved like this to Han Shizhong. Naturally, it is strongly admonished. But Han Shizhong also has his reasons, but as the main general, how can he not know the enemy's situation? You, Yue Pengju, have already dealt with the Jurchen military horses going south a few times, and when you were at Gubeikou, you fought from the beginning to the end. You already have an understanding of the Jurchen military horses, but I am still a little unfamiliar with Han Wu.

Nowadays, in a small-scale hand-to-hand war, it is precisely the method of organizing the advance and retreat of the Jurchen military horses to understand the law of fighting, how can this just sit in the tent and listen to the military information reported by the subordinates? Nowadays, on the front line in the north of Wuzhou, it is their own family that has the advantage of troops, and they are often a squad of fifty or sixty horsemen who besiege and beat the Jurchen Tartars. For the sake of the general, he didn't dare to take this risk, so he might as well go home and pick up the child.

In this way, Yue Fei just advised him, and Han Shizhong still couldn't help but personally lead the patrol cavalry to run north. The two have formed a balance again.

However, under the personal leadership of Han Shizhong, the Shenwu Changsheng Army temporarily had a military advantage. After beating Yan Lou's room, the light riding chicken flying dog jumped. The guard curtain couldn't help but retreat northward, and it was almost retreated back into the mountains.

Han Shizhong finished complaining in a low voice, and dozens of small black shadows in the distance had already splashed through the muddy water all over the ground and galloped over. The first knight was Yue Fei. Among his personal guard knights, he actually saw the figure of thirteen, Yang Zaixing was listless in the team, and he had been fighting recently, Yang Zaixing had not caught it, and his head was really not high. And Yang De should also be a member of Yue Fei's personal guard, but the big man can't do kung fu now, and he is still squatting in the camp today.

Yue Fei arrived, and Niu Gao hurriedly bowed his head. Even if I thought about it for a long time, I didn't come up with anything wrong, but I saw that Brother Pengju was still a little scared.

Han Shizhong salivated and smiled at Yue Fei: "Pengju, this time it's me!" Obviously, I told you to stop for three or two days, it rained today, and the tent was stuffy, and the cowhide boots were a musty smell of the thief. If you can't bear it, you will take the guards out to move your muscles and bones. It's all my fault! Don't hold on to Niu Gao, so that you can give birth to a man, you will be scared like a quail when you bump into Pengju, he has me staring, you can rest assured! ”

After saying a few words, Han Shizhong felt that he was still insufficient, and seeing Yue Fei's gloomy face, he hurriedly praised his merits: "Our luck is not bad this time, and we finally bumped into a team of Jurchen Tartars." We beat them sixty and twenty-three, we broke five and injured four, and the Jurchen Tartars swept us clean, and also caught a negative wound alive, and we were still a bird............

Yue Fei's face, which had always been a little heavy, changed slightly, and he asked, "What did you ask?" ”

Han Shizhong rode his horse and walked a few steps to the side, and the guards behind Yue Fei and Han Shizhong also consciously dispersed, leaving only Han Yue and the two walking side by side.

Han Shizhong's tone has always been relaxed, and at this time he was finally a little more solemn: "Zong Han's bird tartar head has arrived in Yingzhou." The Jurchen Tartar Western Route Army should be as large as possible. Although the bird Pu Liyan refused to spit out how many Jurchen Tartar Western Route Army there were, but when those scattered military information were summed up, you can always imagine the approximate ............ There are 30,000 or 40,000 Jurchen Tartar soldiers, plus the miscellaneous Hulu auxiliary army, and there are no less than 60,000 people who control the strings. Counting the auxiliary soldiers and people, the army of more than 100,000 is really in front of us............ To deal with them, we have to have a good pair of teeth! ”

Yue Fei's expression became more and more solemn, and he shook his head and said, "Zong Han can't stay in Yingzhou. ”

Han Shizhong slapped the saddle heavily: "How did you say it?" With an army of more than 100,000 people, how can a white Yingzhou support it? There is only one road behind it, even if all the people who enter the mother are transferred from Datong Mansion, they can't keep up. Only to kill out of the mountain pass and sweep through the clouds! No matter how difficult the road is, these Jurchen Tartars will have to desperately go south. We can't afford to fight with them here! I had hoped to be able to stalemate here for a while, but it seems that I can only give up. Pengju, prepare to retreat south all the way to the edge of the east edge of the river! When the time comes, will you break the queen, or will I break the queen? Also, is there any news from King Yan? If there is no brigade of troops and horses to help, we will have to be in a hurry in Hedong! ”

Yue Fei silently digested Han Shizhong's words for a while, and thought about it for a while. Finally, he exhaled and said, "I can only retreat...... Also, there was an urgent military situation from King Yan's side, and I just came to find you to inform you early. ”

Han Shizhong's spirits perked up, and he hurriedly asked: "What kind of military situation?" ”

Yue Fei's expression was already solemn to the extreme, and he said slowly: "King Yan personally wrote, and will send a large army to aid Hedong." In these few days, the Chinese army of the new army of Bianliang, which has the most old foundations, will be the first to leave Bianliang, and the rest of the departments will be led by the prince of Yan. ”

Hearing the news, Han Shizhong did not show joy, but his expression changed greatly!

Although Xiao Yan was the King of Yan, Han Shizhong knew on his knees that Bianliang City was full of people who regarded King Yan as an enemy. In addition, the group of the Western Army is now silent and watching, and may take action at any time. If you really want to help Hedong, you must obtain the name of righteousness, let the western army tie up, and let Bianliang be stable for the time being, so that Xiao Yan can talk about Xiao Yan personally going to Hedong and fighting fiercely with the Jurchen Tartars.

King Yan subdued Bianliang and relied on military horses. And to subdue the new army, it depends on the Chinese army with the most old foundations. Now that everything is undecided, King Yan will take the most reliable Chinese army first. Isn't this waiting for Bianliang to cause chaos?

In an instant, Han Shizhong's expression changed again, and he seemed to vaguely understand Xiao Yan's intentions. It's just that this one is a bit risky. But then again, with such a weak foundation and such a dangerous situation, what can he do if he doesn't take risks? It is really necessary to settle all aspects of the Bianliang Western Army, not to mention the battle in Hedong. Let's honestly wait for the organization of the defense of Bianliang.

Looking at Yue Fei again, Han Shizhong understood that this somewhat dead-eyed Yue Pengju should also think of this layer.

That's why his face is so solemn.

On this topic, Han Shizhong didn't want to discuss it any further. Just nodded and said, "But it's naturally a good thing that reinforcements are coming." We can belong to the command of King Yan again, and we will fight happily! I'm covered in blood and mud, and the straight thief hurried back to the camp and washed it well! ”

After saying that, Han Shizhong turned his horse's head and turned to his own guard. But suddenly stopped moving, turned around and only said: "Pengju, Bianliang's matter, we just look at it." We are the minions of King Yan, as long as we fight for King Yan, there is nothing else! If there is anything in Bianliang, they also caused it themselves. King Yan, who worked hard for the Great Song Dynasty, still has to worry about the sun, for fear that there will be no place to be buried. Is there any heavenly reason in this world? ”

"We just look at King Yan's means!" (To be continued......)