Volume 3 Mending the Cracks in the Sky Chapter 72 Blocking the Storm (2)

The pillar of smoke rose up, and Zhang slowly jumped out of a cloud of smoke and flames, and the bow in his hand had already broken the bowstring, and the armor on his body was full of wounds.

The knights who followed him turned out to be more than fifty people, all of whom were good men who could fight in the border area of Youyan, and at this time there were less than half of them left.

The people in the village, there are not many left, and at this time they are also leading horses and chariots, holding back panic and tears. Under the cover of Zhang Xuan's team of knights, they rushed out.

At this moment in the village, only the houses that were hunted and burned were left, and the corpses were all over the ground. These corpses, in addition to the sons brought by Zhang Huan, there are also the people in the village, as well as a team of Bohai soldiers who were strangled by Zhang Huan.

After the destruction of the Liao State, the Jurchen East Route Army also operated and strengthened the strength of the army in the heart of the Liao people. In addition to the mature Jurchen in Liaodong, a large number of Bohai people, Xi people and other former Khitan vassal nationalities were also recruited as troops. Even the Liaodong Han children, many of them were driven as vassals. However, in addition to greatly increasing the siege level of the Jurchen Eastern Route Army, these vassal military horses, because the Jurchens have no experience in running a vassal army now, their combat effectiveness is mediocre. But because Liaodong mature women really joined in large numbers, the power of true female Allah in the current sect of Zongwang has reached a scale of nearly 70,000!

Zongwang has always been in the north of Yandi and has kept a low profile. Let people focus their attention completely on the Zonghan West Route Army. can be regarded as a famous Jurchen general at this moment, Zong Wang's command ability is by no means under Zong Han. Once activated, there is a thunderous momentum!

Including the power of true female Allah, all kinds of vassal armies, all kinds of driven people. Zong Wang dispatched the specific number of military horses, and even he couldn't come up with the number. It can only be estimated that it is about 150,000 or more. Such an army. Divided into two ways. All the way from Pingzhou and other places, from the east to attack Yanjing. All the way is in the west, along the hole between the mountains and mountains of Yanshan, pointing directly to the strong army of the Southern Dynasties that gathered in Danzhou. After preparing to break this strong army of the Southern Dynasties, the two roads converged under Yanjing City, and then swept the entire land of Youyan, and entered the northern roads of the Great Song River in the south!

Once the 150,000 army moved, the land of Youyan was suddenly full of smoke. Everywhere there were Jurchen iron horses, and the True Female Allah force, under the cover of the deployed cavalry, resolutely pointed to the two places of Danzhou and Yanjing. And a large number of vassal armies, like locusts, swept through the towns of Wubao in the countryside of Danzhou and Yanjing, which had recovered a little, to raise grain for Allah, capture raw mouths, and plunder money.

In just a few days, the entire northern part of Yandi seemed to be overwhelmed by the overwhelming Jurchen army!

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Zhang Xuan was the first to discover the movement of the Jurchen Army's vanguard. After being attacked in the mountains, wait to get out of the mountains. When he fled to his own dock fort. I found that my dock fort had been opened by the Jurchen military horses, and the flames rose from all sides, and there was a sound of Jurchen military horses shouting and screaming proudly. Regardless of asking, it can be known that his home, which has survived in the troubled times, no longer exists.

Zhang Xuan's eyes were red, and he ambushed a Jurchen knight on the road, snatched his horse, and galloped towards Danzhou.

From now on, there is no other way but to follow King Yan and swear revenge!

When Zhang slowly rushed to the Danzhou Governance Office, there was already a scene of chaos. The city wall that had just been repaired was all around, the city gate was closed, and Ding Zhuang conquered the upper city. And outside the city, a large number of powerful soldiers and horses from all over the place who fled from all directions, as well as some people who had only gathered with difficulty in the past few years.

Everyone is running and shouting, everyone is shouting to open the city gate, everyone is asking King Yan to stay here to lead the leader, come up with an idea!

The decision in the city was also made very quickly, and immediately a general went to the city and ordered the city gate to be opened. But instead of luring these powerful private troops and fleeing people into the city, they sent out all the cavalry troops in the city.

Most of these powerful military horses fought outside the city, holding back the pace of the Jurchen army, covering the people who had worked hard in the past few years to flee to Yizhou, and if someone answered, they would retreat to the roads of the Great Song River North. If there is no answer, they will flee along the Flying Fox Trail to the war zone where Hanyue is located in Hedong.

The people in the city were all evacuated from the city, and about 2,000 military horses were relinquished, giving up all their war horses, which strengthened the mobility of the military horses fighting outside the city. Then he closed the city gate again, preparing to defend Danzhou. With the main points that this Jurchen army must take, as well as his own life, he will drag the pace of this overwhelming Jurchen army for a while!

Looking at the eyes of the soldiers on the city wall who were preparing to die, and looking at the cavalry who were also ready to use their own lives as a guard to delay the momentum of the Jurchen army horses when they left the city. Everyone in the hedgehog group outside the city understands that Danzhou seems to be unable to be saved.

It is rare for the king of Yan to settle the Yan, everyone has lived a peaceful life for two years, why do these Jurchen Tartars come to destroy this qiē again?

The people cried and shook the heavens, and they shouted and went south. And those powerful private troops, some of them lost their courage and dispersed. There are also Yandi men who are ready to grit their teeth and fight to the end like Zhang Zhuan, and shouted to the city: "Give us armor, and we can bite the Jurchen Tartar twice!" ”

The city sent out armor again, and these red-eyed Yandi men hurriedly organized themselves. also turned around and went north, ready to fight with the Jurchen Tartars for a while.

If there was no Xiao Yan's operation in Yandi, these Yandi men could only tie their hands in front of the Jurchen soldiers. Supply grain and grass, for the Jurchen army, for the Jurchen torrent to follow the south to fight with the people of the same race.

But now these Yandi men know that there is a Yan King standing behind them! Their children served in the Yan King's army. If they die in battle, King Yan will naturally bring their brother to take revenge. Behind them is the entire Great Song Dynasty!

Yandi boy has been ruling for the Khitan people for a hundred years. It was easy to meet the king of Yan and the boy of Yandi, so he went south with the army and won their dignity and wealth in the Great Song Dynasty. There is King Yan standing behind this, but it is a bit bloody, who is still impatient to be a slave of the Jurchen Tartars again?

The Yandi Hanmin, especially the armed group composed of powerful private troops, is a somewhat special group. It goes without saying that he can fight. After so many years of war, it has been tempered. Even an ordinary villager can practice to be able to shoot a bow. I can kill. Not to mention Doma here. Can raise a large number of cavalry.

But if you really want to say how deep their sense of belonging is to the Great Song Dynasty, it is not true, after all, they have been under the rule of the Khitan for so many years. In the time and space without Xiao Yan, the Yandi armed group first formed a victorious army like a wall-head grass, and then it was used by the Jurchens, and after the Jurchen elite withered, they formed the backbone of the Jin State's armed forces. Then the Mongols destroyed the Southern Song Dynasty. Yandi Hebei Han'er is also the main component of the Mongolian army.

But fortunately, at this time, Xiao Yan was born. His fame began in Yandi, his foundation began in Yandi, and he was a northerner. Naturally branded as a representative of Yandi Han'er. After entering the Song Dynasty, Xiao Yan rose to the top again, and now he has become the king of Yan who is powerful in the world. Yandi Han'er was accepted and trained by Xiao Yan in batches, and finally ordered to go straight to Bianliang.

Because of this, although Yandi Han'er does not have much sense of belonging to the Great Song Dynasty. But they have a sense of belonging to Xiao Yan! Not to mention that the Jurchens are ferocious and barbaric, and Xiao Yan at least holds part of the power of the Great Song Dynasty. But it is the same root and the same race, and it is more prosperous and civilized. Which end to fight for, is it still a choice?

Therefore, in this time and space where there is Xiao Yan, Yandi Han'er did not surrender to the Jurchens. Instead, he was red-eyed, ready to fight to the death with the Jurchen Tartars. The people of the Han family in Yandi, regardless of a qiē, abandoned their families and abandoned their businesses, and under the desperate protection of their own children, they helped the old and the young, no matter how many deaths and injuries there would be on the way, and they also embarked on the road to return to the Song Dynasty.

There is only one belief that underpins them.

King Yan will not abandon them! Their children are still under the command of King Yan!

Zhang slowed down these powerful private soldiers of Yandi, divided into small teams, and turned around and went north. Blocking the power of Allah can't, but using the familiar terrain, scattering between the countryside and mountains, copying those vassal army squads, burning villages, filling in wells, and rescuing the people, it is possible!

A series of intensive and fierce skirmishes suddenly unfolded after the Jurchen military horses entered the Yan Land. In the entire Youyan borderland, there are men from the Han family in Yandi riding horses and holding bows everywhere, fighting in all directions!

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Zhang slowly gasped and looked around blankly, the fight just now consumed too much energy, so he didn't know where he was for a while.

Behind him, he heard the voice of his son-in-law: "Go west!" Take advantage of the fact that the sky is about to get dark, and take one more step towards the west! In the mountains, turn south. When you arrive in Yizhou, someone will naturally arrange to pick you up! ”

A water hyacinth was suddenly handed over next to him, and Zhang Shu took it blankly, but he didn't open the stopper. The man who handed the water hyacinth was in his early forties, with strong muscles and bones, and a long and messy beard. He took it back silently, trying to pull out the plug, but his hands were full of blood, and he pulled it out twice but slipped, and finally cut off the mouth of the gourd with a knife. It was this sound that made Zhang come back to his senses.

The man handed the gourd over again and asked in a low voice, "How long will we fight?" Since turning around and heading north, our team has been joined by brothers from time to time in the past few days, and now there are only so many people left. ”

Zhang slowly turned his head and looked at him coldly: "Scared? ”

The man smiled: "I'm afraid of a bird, I have two sons, one is the main army, and I follow General Yu to the south." A dead ball that didn't escape in the Dock Fort. For these two sons, I also have to fight to the death with the Jurchen Tartars............ I just want to ask, how long can Danzhou last? ”

Their small group of men and horses has actually moved to the southwest of Danzhou, but it is very close to the state city office. It's only seventeen or eighteen miles away. Their position in this village is very high, and although the sun has set in the west, the visibility is quite high, and they can see clearly from all sides of the state and city offices.

The endless Jurchen army has surrounded the state city on three sides. Countless ants and horses are running outside the army, plundering all directions. There are also countless military horses, which are coming from the north, and there seems to be no end to it.

From here, the walls of the state city office were so low that they seemed to be lying on the ground, just a black circle. Around the city wall, seven or eight stone-throwing machines have been erected, and from time to time small black dots have crossed the air and smashed on the city wall, stirring up a little dust and smoke.

Under such an overwhelming Jurchen army, it seems that the state city administration office can be trampled on with one foot. The Jurchen army also deliberately released the south to give the defenders of Danzhou a way to escape. The defenders of Danzhou abandoned the city as soon as possible, and the Jurchen army could hold this key point of the back road in their hands as soon as possible, and they could continue to move south boldly with confidence. Those defenders in the city can be solved by field pursuit, and even if they can't be solved, it's not a big deal. Anyway, what the Jurchen army wants at the moment is to quickly conquer the city and grasp the key points to support the southward army.

However, the defenders of the city did not have the slightest intention of fleeing.

Zhang sighed, raised the gourd and drank water, then wiped the corners of his mouth and cheered up: "Straight lady thief, if Danzhou doesn't fall, we won't leave." Kill a few more fucking Tartars! ”

The man asked again: "What about the fall of Danzhou?" ”

Zhang slowly replied loudly: "Go south, go all the way, fight all the way!" King Yan will definitely defend Hebei, and we will fight to the death with the Jurchen Tartars in Hebei! King Yan will eventually bring my brother to kill! (To be continued......)