Chapter 19: Rest the Saddle Horse (1)

When the cavalry of the Tulong Army cheered for victory. The encirclement on the other side is finally nearing completion.

The advantage of the large depth formation like an iron cone gun is that the offensive sustaining ability is strong, and the disadvantage is that once the forward is stopped, the team following up behind will not immediately stop advancing, and the inertia of the advance will make the rear team squeeze the front team, just like the back wave hugs the front wave and constantly slaps the rock, compressing the whole army into a small space.

People next to person, the handle of the knife touches the handle of the knife, the spearhead is against the spearhead, there is no room to even reach out and draw the knife, under the strong pressure of the Song army on the periphery, the rebels of De'an cannot effectively counterattack, there is no formation at all, just a group of lambs waiting to be slaughtered.

Sitting under a cool umbrella and watching the boiling battlefield under the hill, Zheng Yunming raised the folding fan in his hand and drew a circle towards the dying rebels in the encirclement.

"As a general, if you don't know the yin and yang, the ministry discerns the geographical advantage, and does not understand the enemy's conspiracy and tricks, you are not enough to become a qualified commander."

"Old man Xia, you are actually far behind."

He raised his fan: "Send someone to carry the flag!" ”

Two hundred soldiers rushed out of the camp carrying red banners, squeezed into the encirclement of the Song army, and shouted: "Xia Quan is against you, it has nothing to do with you!" Put down the blade in your hand, and throw it under the red flag of your team, and those who surrender will not be killed! ”

"Those who surrender will not be killed!" "Those who surrender will not be killed!"

Having lost their courage and hope, the De'an Army threw down their weapons one after another and swarmed into the red banner of the exhibition.

The weight of victory on the scales has all been tilted in favor of the Song army, but there are still people on the other side who are unwilling to give up.

Liu Cheng faced more and more rebels who wanted to break out of the encirclement, he had already stabbed two branches and cut down a formation-breaking knife, but the followers were forced to pounce frantically by the pressure of survival, and the soldiers on their backs were all fighting bloodily, and they couldn't stop someone from breaking through from time to time.

When he killed a rebel who wanted to rush out with a backhand, he suddenly saw a man and a horse rushing towards him.

The iron whip in the man's hand danced like the wind, breaking through the obstacles of several Tulong soldiers one after another.

Although Liu Cheng is known as brave, he is not a fool, when he only has a formation-breaking knife in his hand, he is not willing to risk fighting the opponent's iron whip head-on, he rolls sideways past the charging horses.

Lupin finally broke out a small gap for the Deans.

Hundreds of sergeants rushed to the gap.

Lupin turned around and shouted in the direction where Xia Quan was: "The way out of life has been rushed, please retreat quickly!" I'm here to stop the enemy! ”

From afar, I only saw Xia Quan waving his hand in response.

It wasn't a gesture to ask him to come over and guard, but a wave to let him go.

Xia Quan watched Song Jun gather in large numbers in his direction, Zheng Yunming was obviously still afraid of his prestige, and made his location a key target.

If he really breaks through at this time, he will bring a large force of Song army attacks to Lupin, who has already broken out.

"I'm dead!" Xia Quan used all his strength to shout outside: "Take the brothers who escaped!" Today's revenge cannot go unavenged! ”

After that, he urged the war horse fiercely and killed it towards the thickest part of the Song army.

At this time, a young man's clear shout on the battlefield suddenly appeared, although it was still a little green, but it was high-pitched and firm: "Xia Quan! Thou hast no way out! Quickly dismount and descend! ”

Xia Quan was stunned for a moment, only to find that the cool umbrella on the hill had moved to the bottom of the mountain at some point, not far behind the Song army's formation.

That must be Zheng Yunming's voice.

If there were a few more young scholars in the Song army who could command the army, maybe the Mongols might not be able to cross the Yangtze River so easily, he thought, but everything had nothing to do with him.

Xia Quan pulled the reins, the war horse stopped walking, and the Song soldiers saw that he suddenly stopped moving, and they didn't know what tricks he was playing, so they also stopped attacking, and just looked at him from a distance.

Xia Quan smiled and took off his hood, his gray beard fluttering in the wind.

More than 20 years of fighting on the battlefield is enough.

He held the iron knife in his hand aloft, the blade gleaming in the sunlight.

"I am the minister of a great power!" Xia Quan shouted at the cool umbrella: "Accept the position of the Great Khan as a doctor!" How can you bend your knees and surrender to the Southern Dynasty! ”

"Today is death!"

With that, he waved his knife and rushed straight in the direction where Zheng Yunming was.

Zheng Yunming was surrounded by layers of guards, but he was still faintly surprised when he saw a veteran rushing towards him angrily.

Along the way, there were constantly people who wanted to intercept Xia Quan, but they were all repelled or hacked to death by him.

The mount under him rushed faster and faster, and he saw that it was only one or two hundred paces away from Zheng Yunming.

The spearmen of the vanguard lined up tightly, their spears stretched out, ready to respond to the fierce blow.

The oblique spur suddenly rushed out and stopped in front of Xia Quan. Raising the silver-inlaid iron spear in his hand, he shouted: "Xia Wuving, do you recognize Jiaoxi Qin Wu!" ”

Xia Quan didn't answer, but just raised his iron broadsword and slashed towards Qin Wu head-on.

Qin Wu raised the iron spear horizontally and put the knife out of the way.

Xia Quan watched in surprise as the young man slammed out his big knife, as if he didn't use any strength.

It's old after all. The fierce battle for half a day has gradually exhausted his strength, if he was young, this sword would not be so easy to receive even if it was Qin Wu.

Qin Wu passed the spear, and the war horse took a few steps back, ready to leap forward and stab.

Xia Quan had already made up his mind that there would be no life, and he waved his knife and prepared to slash at Qin Wu.

As soon as he raised the broadsword, he suddenly felt a chill in his ribs.

A Song army junior colonel rushed over regardless of life or death, and plunged the spear into Xia Quan's ribs.

His success seemed to send a signal, and the soldiers around him shot out indiscriminately, and soon tied Xia Quan into a hedgehog.

As Xia Quan's body slowly slid off the horse, the era of the Red Jacket Army finally came to an end on the stage of history with great reluctance.

The De'an rebels also quickly reached their climax, although they broke through the encirclement, and hundreds of enemy troops broke through. However, most of the rebels in the encirclement were either killed or surrendered, not to mention the great feat of beheading more than 1,000 people, even if they took the initiative to attack and annihilate the enemy infantry group in the field, it was enough to be proud of Jinghu's combat exploits.

The battlefield was littered with wounded soldiers shouting and wailing, and the medical officers directed the sergeants to carry the wounded back to the camp one by one. Some people carry corpses, others pick up weapons, and the bloody sunset reflects the bloody battlefield.

Qin Wu took Xia Quan's iron knife and came to Zheng Yunming to offer it. Zheng Yunming stretched out his hand to take it, and weighed the weight in his hand, "The weight is not light"

"It's twenty pounds." Wang Deng said: "Xia Tiedao's iron knife is very famous. ”

"He can also rotate like a big knife like flying," Zheng Yunming looked at the big knife covered with the blood of the soldiers of the Earth Dragon Army: "He really deserves to be the first hero of Wu Yong." ”

Wang Deng said proudly: "But he was defeated by us!" ”

"Yes," Zheng Yunming said, "But that's far from enough, we have to defeat not only Xia Quan, but also Shi Tianze, Zhang Rou, Yan Shi, Guo Deqing, Tasi, Qu Chu, Ta Cha'er, and Kuoduan."

He stood up, the blood-colored sunset sprinkled on his body, reflecting the armor on his body and shining dazzlingly: "Maybe one day, we will defeat the entire world!" ”

Some changes took place on the battlefield of Gyeonghu in January.

The Song Tulong army annihilated the main force of the army in De'an City in the first battle of Wulipo. Then, taking advantage of the emptiness of the troops in the city of De'an, he galloped forward for hundreds of miles, and sent hundreds of soldiers to change the banner of the De'an army at dusk, pretending that the defeated army had opened the city gate.

The news of the Song army's recapture of De'an unnerved the Mongol army throughout Jinghu. The Mongol troops attacking Gwangju and Xinyang hastily withdrew, the rangers harassing in Huangzhou disappeared without a trace, and a vanguard guerrilla army of Tachar had already invaded Anqing, and at this time it was also hastily withdrawn, and it was too late to take away the captive population and livestock.

The Mongol army stationed in Zaoyang also sent a cavalry force south along the Dahong Mountains in an attempt to reoccupy De'an.

When this cavalry traveled day and night around the avenue to the city of De'an, they found that there was no trace of half of the Song army in the city.

Zheng Yunming's plan was originally to occupy it for a short time, and he immediately retreated after spreading the news.

On his map, the area around De'an Province is littered with small pennants representing the presence of Mongol troops or suspected Mongol troops. The move to advance into Dean is simply a risky move to pull teeth out of the tiger's mouth.

Zheng Yunming's purpose was also to use the news of the occupation of De'an to attract the attention of the Mongolian army, so as to respond to the rescue of the Governor's Mansion in various places.

If you can't accept it when you see it, then soon there will be an army of Mongols outside the city, and you won't be able to leave if you want to.

The Tulong army then swept away the treasury in De'an, and even loaded the gold, silver, and cloth that the Mongols had hidden in De'an to transport northward, and then quickly retreated.

It's just that the hundreds of thousands of people in the city can't take it with them anyway.

It was suggested that it would be better to set fire to the city of De'an, and force the people to flee in all directions, lest the hundreds of thousands of people be taken captive to the north by the enemy and become the enemy's wealth.

Zheng Yunming flatly refused.

"Take them captive to the north, and one day we will take them back." He sternly refused: "But to kill them now is not the act of a righteous teacher." ”

The Tulong army left behind hundreds of thousands of people and an empty city, and quickly moved into Yingzhou with a large amount of Tibet.

The people of Yingzhou poured out of their homes and crowded around the city gate to watch the victorious heroes.

A large cart loaded with cloth, silk, silk and money boxes slowly drove into the city gates, followed by a porter carrying a flat pole containing copper coins and gold and silver utensils, and everyone could see that this sortie had not only made a meritorious service, but also made a fortune.

The victorious warriors marched into the city with their heads held high and marching in order, amid the cheers of the people.