The battle behind him was fierce, and Han Shizhong had already turned south. Fortunately, the military department of the Shenwu Changsheng Army has been accused by him all the time. When it was guessed that the Jurchen army was attacking the front and thought that it was contained, it was actually possible to break through the border from the west. Han Shizhong immediately dispatched the four commanders of the elite horse army of the Chinese army, more than 1,000 horsemen, lightly armed and packed with grain, quickly went south, and then turned in the direction of Lanshui. Pass through Jingle County, go to block the boundary between the Ninghua Army and the Lan Army, and Honggu Village on the Lan Mountain!

The Honggu village defenders are the headquarters of the folded family. This is not Han Shizhong's defense range. As a major general under Xiao Yan, Han Shizhong also understands Xiao Yan's current strategic layout, which is to try his best to reconcile the Western Army system. Yao Gu was sent to the door, and if he didn't devour and deter, it would be regarded as weakness. However, Xiao Yan lived in the dynasty, no matter how it spread, it would never touch the sphere of influence of the Western military system for the time being.

Although Han Shizhong has always been worried about the weakness of the western flank, he has always restrained himself from occupying this rather important Hongguzhai dangerous pass. Otherwise, there is a Jurchen army in front of him, and he will turn against the Zhe family behind his back, which will be a big trouble, and it will also greatly hinder Xiao Yan's overall situation.

But now, I can't hesitate anymore!

Although because of the isolation of the Jurchen military horses in person, it is not really possible to detect whether the main force of the Jurchen military horses has turned to the west. The news of whether the direction of the Lan army is a breach has not yet come definitely. But Han Shizhong showed the overall situation and determination of a real general at this time.

Although Han Shizhong looks a little unreliable on weekdays, and he is also a little beyond the ordinary in terms of enjoyment, good mansions, good wine, and good gold beads. Good show. Good girl. But this guy. He is a man of great wisdom. Choosing sides is never wrong. And at a critical time, I also gritted my teeth, grasped the key points, and was open-minded!

Now the focus is on the final decisive battle with the Jurchens, and we must not lose the initiative at the beginning. Although the Jurchen Tartars attacked fiercely, they relied on the defense system. Hold on. Once the side back direction is lost, it will be the trend of the entire Hedong battle situation to be shaken! Even if his family rushed desperately and snatched Honggu Village, it turned out to be a false alarm. It's also a bad thing to fold the family army, and if you show this face, and then carry the black pot and let the court punish you for your crimes, it is estimated that you can get through it.

As soon as he sniffed out that the battle situation in front of him was wrong, Han Shizhong immediately took action. Immediately dispatched troops to lead the south by himself, and went to seize Honggu Village as quickly as possible. At the same time, he immediately sent out the Chuanqi and reported to the Yanmen Pass Yue Fei Department. One is to repay Xiao Yan, who is probably already on the way at this moment. At the same time, I prayed desperately in my heart, hoping that when I arrived, Lao Han arrived. Honggu Village has not been lost!

The Shenwu Changsheng Army is worthy of being Xiao Yan's old foundation, and as soon as he gave an order, the Chinese military headquarters immediately selected and dispatched the elite. The four commanding more than 1,000 horsemen were all the mobile forces that could be drawn out at this moment, and it didn't take two or three hours of preparation time. When they set off, it was already nightfall, and these more than 1,000 horsemen followed Han Shizhong to the south in the night.

The firelight shook all the way, and the villages and towns in the Fenhe River valley watched the firelight walk like a dragon in the night, and all of them shook their hearts.

What is the situation with the Jurchen? The name of Shenwu always winning the army and strengthening the army is well-known, can it keep the peace of the Hedong side?

In this war with the Jurchens, in the midst of internal and external troubles in the Great Song Dynasty, what was the final outcome?

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A dark night and half a day passed, Han Shizhong led more than 1,000 light horses, has traveled more than 200 miles, after passing through the cave valley village, turned to the southwest, along the direction of the junction of Ninghua Army and Xianzhou, and ran towards Honggu Village.

If you break through the border from the Lan army, more than 200 miles to the south, it is the junction of the Lan army, the Ninghua army, Xianzhou, and Lanzhou. The northeastern part of the junction has already lowered down. The Luliang Mountains, which stretch from the southwest, are also low. Several roads are forming on this side that allow for a certain number of military horses. Lanshui flows here in an east-west direction, where it divides into two roads, one to the east into the Fen River, and the other to the south, flowing through the range of Loufu County, Yifang County, Xianzhou.

All in all, this is a passage into the Fen River valley from the west. If you lose here, let the enemy come in from the west. The Shenwu Changsheng Army, which was congested on the edge of the Ninghua Army, was being copied from the back road. To the north, the enemy can encircle the Shenwu Changsheng army, and to the south, he can go straight to Taiyuan Mansion!

The people of the Great Song Dynasty naturally never forgot this place when they operated the Hedong defense system. At the junction of Lanjun and Lanzhou, the Flying Kite Fort and Honggu Village were set up to block it. Within the scope of the Ninghua Army, a cave valley village was set up to respond.

Han Shizhong's trip is to plug this gap!

After more than 200 miles of galloping, the people and horses were so tired that their bones were soft and their muscles were crisp. From time to time, there were war horses that could not run and were abandoned on the side of the road, but fortunately, all of the four elite commanders had horses, so there was no delay. On weekdays, running away so many war horses, even Xiao Yan's Shenwu Changsheng Army, who did everything he could, was very distressed, but now no one can care about it. The horses are like this, and the Song soldiers who are more able to bear hardships and stand hard work also gritted their teeth to support them, and no one dared to stop and rest for a while!

For no other reason, they came all the way to the south, and then turned west through the cave valley village. Finally, on the way, I saw the refugees who had fled across the Lan Mountain, and also brought the news that the Jurchen Tartars had broken through the border exactly!

With such a military situation, the local defenders did not have time to reciprocate. Han Shizhong had already hurried south. I saw the scene of the Chinese cavalry desperately rushing south, and saw the banner of Han Shizhong in front. But for the people in the army who often win for Shenwu, who doesn't secretly praise in their hearts, what a Han general, and react quickly!

The military information obtained from the refugees is fragmented and fragmented, but it also roughly outlines a complete picture. The Jurchen Tartars broke through the border a few days ago, and the slightest resistance seemed to have never been encountered. The beacon fire burned from north to south. It was as if in an instant, the Jurchen Tartars would enter the hinterland of the Lan army at high speed. As for how the Lan army broke down and what kind of war happened, there is no definite information.

Such bits and pieces of information. It was enough to make Han Shizhong no longer sympathetic to the soldiers' mounts. Desperately moving forward. Now is the race for time. Let's see if we can plug this gap straight to the thief!

In addition, Han Shizhong had to scold all the way in his heart. The straight lady thief's folded family, and his reputation was great, but he was beaten through the Lan army by the light yì. At first glance, it was to the west to avoid the war. As long as I don't die, there will be a chance to break your straight thief in the future!

The sound of horses' hooves, the Song army armor soldiers walked through the Lanshui River Valley, the road was quite broken, and the mountains on both sides had already seemed to be somewhat calm. Although the water next to Lan splashed broken jade. But the Song army soldiers descended from Han Shizhong, and everyone was covered with dust and dry colors. No one had time to stop and scrub a little.

Suddenly, the sentry in front stopped, drew their blades, and opened their bows and arrows. Han Shizhong, who was trying his best to relax his body in the saddle and save his body, woke up as soon as he was alert, and urged the horse to rush forward. Niu Gao and Qu Gai, who went south with him, also gathered their spirits and guarded them tightly.

Without waiting for the whistle to scream, I heard Song dialect coming from the opposite side, which was the Hedong accent: "Master Jun, we have escaped from the Lan Army!" Don't shoot arrows! ”

The Sentry Armor shouted, "Hands up." Come out of the rocks and check it out! The slightest change in this arrow is unrecognizable! ”

After the order of the sentry armor. I saw dozens of people looking like people, dodging out from the side of the mountain rocks. There are both old and weak, women and children, and everyone is full of exhaustion. The big bags and small bags were carried on their backs, and they all looked like they had fled. Some sturdy men, with hunting bows on their backs and knives on their backs, looked nervous.

Han Shizhong had already bumped into him from behind, and he asked, "Where did you escape from?" Where are the Jurchen Tartars? ”

An old man was carried out of the crowd, and it seemed that he was also a person with a little face in the township, and he actually spoke Han Shizhong's habitual Kansai dialect: "We are villagers from the left side of Flying Kite Fort, and we started to escape two days ago." I didn't expect to bump into the general here. ”

Han Shizhong's heart tightened, and he hurriedly asked, "How is the Flying Kite Castle?" ”

The old man sighed: "I can't say! If we hadn't watched the defenders of Flying Kite Castle flee, how would we have abandoned our homes and businesses and run out? In the past two days, I have been picking up the difficult places in the mountains, and there is no need to talk about the difficult places. I don't know what the house has become like now that it has been ruined by Tartars! ”

The defenders of Flying Kite Fort actually dispersed in a hurry? Flying Kite Fort controls the beginning of the eastward tributary of the Lanshui River Valley, and travels along the river valley all the way, or it will be in front of Honggu Village in one day. Breaking the flood valley village to the east, it entered the territory of the Ninghua Army, and it was already copied from the side of the Shenwu Changsheng Army! This is the trend of shaking across the board! Even if he is guarding the cave valley village, he is trying his best to maintain the defensive line. But the Shenwu Ever-Victorious Army changed from being only on one side to maintaining two defensive lines, and the troops were suddenly overstretched.

And what about the Jurchen Tartars continuing to go further south? You can also break Lanzhou, transfer from Yifang to Lou, and go straight to Taiyuan Mansion along another tributary of Lanshui! How much more should the defense line of the Shenwu Victorious Army extend to the south? How can this be kept?

Most importantly, the original strategic decision was to try to confine the Jurchen Western Route Army to the broken clouds, consume its sharp energy, and limit its supply by strengthening the walls and clearing the wilderness. After the veterans of Zonghan's division were tired, he gathered a large army to defeat them in one fell swoop. And the Jurchen Tartars can now plunder the Lan army and Lanzhou, and I don't know when this war will be fought!

In such a situation, this Hedong war must be fought by the Western Army and the reinforcements led by Xiao Yan to have the possibility of winning!

But can the Western Army be relied on? In such a critical place, the Lan Army was actually penetrated deep by the Jurchen Tartars all at once!

Han Shizhong's face turned pale, and he asked again: "When you left, did you see the Jurchen Tartars?" Presumably you have also passed through Honggu Village, how is it there? ”

The old man smiled bitterly: "Seeing the Tartar, can you still escape?" As soon as the defenders of Flying Kite Fort dispersed, we left. Half a day ago, I passed through Honggu Village, where there are still our military horse flags, and there is nothing unusual in the distance. ”

Han Shizhong nodded, turned his head to Qu Gai and ordered, "Give some reward!" ”

If Yue Fei was here, he would have to give a few words of advice and point out a safe place in the rear for the refugees to escape. Han Shizhong never bothered to do these things, just beckoned to the Chinese army soldier who had just stopped to catch his breath: "Straight lady thief, go quickly!" The Bird Folding Family Army is mud, and Honggu Village is in our hands! Stabilize Honggu Village in person, and then I will go to the thief and bird of the folded family to calculate this account! ”

The brigade of soldiers immediately set off and rolled past these panic-looking refugees. Qu Gai took out the consistent text from his waist, threw it casually, and smiled at a villager with a strong body carrying a bow and a knife: "Good bird strong body, when you see a tartar, you run away, and there are no eggs under your crotch?" ”

The villagers didn't know what to say. However, the old man did not choose the consistent text, but sighed to Qu Gai: "You military masters, you all run away when you see the Tartars, what can we do to help the people?" We work hard, pay taxes every year, and have to run for service. How many years have the people on the border of Hedong and Guanxi been working hard? It's so easy to expect that the western thief is down-to-earth, why did he let the Tartar come in again? What about you military masters? ”

Qu Gai snorted: "Let's see us kill the enemy!" ”

Qu Gai is a simple-minded person, who is satisfied with wine and food, and when he fights. What kind of course will this war develop, what will be the final result, what kind of shock will it have to the world, and what kind of crisis the Great Song Dynasty is facing. He didn't know anything. But now, Rao is a rough man like him, and his face is hot and painful when the old man says anything.

He was born in the Western Army, and among the Shenwu Victory Army, how many of them were born in the Western Army? But in the past few decades, the Western Army, which was the strongest soldier in the Great Song Dynasty, why did it let the Tartars kill lightly?

The thieves and birds of the broken family, and so many soldiers and soldiers of the Western Army, what are you doing? (To be continued......)