Section 74 Xinkou

Xinkou Village is not on flat land, but on the east bank of the Hutuo River, intercepting a section of soil slope from Wutai Mountain, and then cutting the slope on all sides to form a high platform, Xinkou Village is at the top of this high platform.

The golden soldiers rubbed shoulders one after another, squeezed in front of the high platform, and climbed up the steep mountain wall. The Song army is on the high platform, and on the outermost side is the side player, who stands the side card on the edge of the high platform. In the gap between the side cards, the pikeman stabs his spear diagonally downward. The two layers of armor of the Iron Float were able to withstand bows and arrows, but most of the place could not block the spears, and the pikemen avoided the golden soldiers' goggles and pierced the enemy from the shoulders downwards.

Occasionally, the golden soldiers who were lucky enough to climb the high platform would immediately face a siege with three spears and two straight knives.

The Song soldiers' defense on the high platform was simple, but the Jin soldiers' engineering preparations were more rudimentary.

The west of Xinkou Village is the Hutuo River, and the west bank of the Hutuo River is Yunzhong Mountain. To the east of Xinkou Village is Wutai Mountain, and the Jin soldiers can't bypass it.

Just as the Jin soldiers crossed the dense corpses and attacked the high platform of Xinkou Village, on their left side, that is, to the east, a commander in a fancy costume suddenly rushed out and stabbed at the Jin soldiers. Shatter the array of golden soldiers.

Wanyan Muhan transferred a Meng'an to eliminate this Song army, the Song army under this command retreated to the valley, the mountain road was the road, the eleventh regiment had already lined up the formation, the front was the rejection of horses and fences, behind the three rows of fences was a trench, after the Song soldiers passed the rejection of horses, several wheelbarrows quickly sealed the gap.

Jin Bing launched a charge, and Yang Jizhong ordered the shooters to prepare. A Marquis Yu asked on the side, "Sima, don't we use rockets?" ”

"Rockets are not easy to manufacture, and materials are expensive, so they must not be abused."

Don't look at the power of rockets, but sawing wood, painting, braiding, saving cartridges, grinding gunpowder, are all delicate work, and skilled craftsmen must be used, so Cangzhou's rocket production is extremely slow, and after several major battles in a row, only armored grenadiers can carry and use rockets.

The Jin soldiers entered the firing range, Yang Jizhong ordered the arrows to be released, and the divine arm bow and the foot bow were fired intensively along the mountain road, and seven out of ten arrows could hit the target. The Iron Float in the front row of the Jin soldiers was shot like hedgehogs, some of them fell to the ground, and some rushed to the fence.

They smashed the fence and repelled horses with axes and maces, and the spears of the Song army crossed the fence, pierced the iron armor, and killed the Jin soldiers. But more golden soldiers rushed up, desperate to tear open and tear down the fence.

Zhang'er spear solved the golden soldiers who rushed in the first row, but more golden soldiers rushed up, smashed with maces, chopped with axes, and carried them by hand, making a gap in the second row of fences, and these golden soldiers were also stabbed to death by spears.

There were more and more golden soldiers, and they were finally breaking through the third row of fences.

Yang Jizhong beckoned the spear in his hand, and the two commanding Song soldiers had already formed a flower team, and the Song soldiers in the front row withdrew from the gap in the queue, and then the two commanders firmly blocked the mountain road.

Wu Chang Zou Run stood in the third row of the line, armed with a spear, while his uncle Zou Yuan held a side sign and lined up three columns between him.

At the command of the commander, the first row of spears was flattened, the second row of spears was raised high, and they stabbed diagonally downward from the right shoulder of the first row, and the third row pointed upwards at forty-five degrees, extending from the left side of the men in front.

The commander roared, and the spear kept outstretching.

As the commander of the army, Zou Run had the idea of the flaws in the first two rows to prevent the Jin soldiers from breaking through to the back of the spear head, and his spear was raised for a while, and the two soldiers in front of him attacked the same Jin soldier. The spear stabs left for a while, and together with the soldier on the left, he takes out the enemy. After a while, the spear pointed downward, half a foot above the ground, and blocked the way of the golden soldier who was lying on the ground.

Suddenly, Zou Yuan, who was not far away, roared, and the next two rows of players stepped forward and joined in the fight.

Although there were many Jin soldiers, the mountain road was so wide, and the Song army, which was fighting in array, gathered more troops in a small area. In the rear of these two commands, the Song army threw arrows to kill and wound the Jin soldiers.

A Meng'an Jin soldier in such a special terrain is not at all an opponent of the regimental Song army.

The 11th Regiment on the side came out of the Wutai Mountain from time to time, hit on the side, hit on the back, and if the Jin soldiers chased after them, the 11th Regiment was stuck on the mountain road and arranged a stacked formation, using the narrow terrain to repel the Jin soldiers.

35,000 gold soldiers, facing the two regiments of Xinkou Village, the 5,000 Song army had no choice, and Huyan Geng even had the leisure to replace the 16th regiment with new recruits to learn in actual combat. Moreover, after Ma Kuo settled the people of Wutai County, he also came with the 15th regiment.

Such a war of attrition lasted until 28 May.

Late at night, on the Hutuo River on the west side of Lao County, dozens of cars and boats came to lean on the shallows, and dozens of black shadows gushed out of each boat. The shadows scurried to the shore and began to put on their armor.

It was the Panzergrenadiers led by Wu Song, a total of 500 men, all in half-armor, who then rushed under the city wall with several large tree trunks.

The golden soldiers stationed in the city spotted these black shadows and were about to shout, when a half-sized man without armor bent his bow and arrow, and an arrow sealed his mouth.

The Song army rushed under the city wall and began to dig the bricks of the city wall with hoes. They quickly dug holes, stuck the trunk in, lit the lead at the top of the trunk, and ran away.

Rumble! Rumble! Rumble!

Several explosions exploded, blasting a six-foot-wide gap in the wall. These trunks are a variant of the Pine Cannon. The trunk was hollowed out, leaving only a thin layer of wood, and then the trunk was stuffed with gunpowder, and the two ends of the trunk were sealed.

The blasting canister is not very powerful, but a few of them are enough to deal with the city wall of the county seat, and after blowing up the gap, Wu Song has a seven-leaf hammer in his left hand and a four-foot axe in his right hand, and he is the first to rush into the gap.

The parade of panzergrenadiers was unstoppable in the county town, and they first went to the county office, found the head of the golden soldiers, and beheaded him. Then find the warehouse where the grain was stored and set it on fire.

Wanyan Muhan saw the firelight in Lao County, and couldn't help beating his chest and sighing.

After the grain and grass in Lao County were burned, the grain and grass of the Jin soldiers with the camp could only last for five days, and when the grain and grass were used up, the 35,000 army was the life of being slaughtered. And even if Xinkou Village is laid down in five days, will they be able to find new grain and grass immediately?

Wanyan Muhan immediately decided: "Withdraw the army." ”

Jin Bing's first "solemn crusade" ended in this way.

Looking at the queue of Jin Bing in the distance, Zhao Bangjie asked, "Don't you chase?" ”

"I can't chase it, there are tens of thousands of gold soldiers, and we are only in our early 10,000s, half of which are new soldiers. It is not cost-effective to be bitten by Jin Bing back. ”

The Jin soldiers retreated, but the people who had taken refuge in Wutai County did not return to their original county seat, but began to stop around the county seat. for there is no food to go home. Hedong is already barren, there was no grain stored last year, and this year's spring ploughing was disrupted by the Jin soldiers, and there will definitely not be much grain to be harvested.

After the Jin Bing's rectification crusade, Daizhou's Haoqiang was basically dismantled, and most of the remaining 50,000 or 60,000 people in Daizhou stayed in Wutai, and the households were all named.

The marriage with Daizhou Haoqiang proposed some time ago seems to have become less resistance after the people have been compiled. Because the various dock forts were broken or abandoned, Haoqiang had lost its foundation. He has no family property to be proud of, and he has no loyal subordinates to be strong.

Zou Yuan's uncle and nephew, Zou Run, was originally an unemployed homeless person in Daizhou, and made a living by being a helper for Haoqiang, but now after joining the Song Army, because he had practiced martial arts and had a good physical foundation, he was promoted to Shi Chang and Wu Chang. They also married women among the common people according to the unified arrangement in the army.

"Uncle, I didn't expect that such a rough embryo like ours could be as lively and lively as a big family."

"This is all the kindness of the Lord of the General, after marrying the daughter-in-law of this house, the three hundred catties of the uncles and nephews will be sold to the Lord of the General."

This pair of uncles and nephews are going to marry, but they are the original tenant farmer daughters of a big family surnamed Mu in Daizhou, this Mu family is also a local small haoqiang, and has also pulled up more than 1,000 households of Wubaobao, and now they are taking refuge in Wutai County, and the people in the Wubao fort, including the former tenants of the Mu family, have been incorporated into the new Baojia.

"The court is very hateful, the little girl of the Bai family has not been touched by the young master and me, but she wants to cheapen Zou Run's helper." The younger brother Mu Hong was indignant.

"Zou Run is not ordinary now, he is the commander of the imperial court's military horses." Although his brother Mu Chun is known as "unobstructed", the Jin soldiers have repeatedly invaded, and the Mu family has died, and he has become calmer now.

"Wu Chang, he is not even an official, and Zou Run's martial arts are not very good. Rated to make a fuss. ”

"Hugh has to come here, Zou Run has joined the official army, if you want to trouble him, you will not be able to get along with the official army." Mu Chun thought for a while, "The day before yesterday, Ma Zhizhou asked him to serve as the commander of the militia, it seems that he has to agree, second brother, you go to the fifteenth regiment to join the army, there is a brother to cover you, to fight for a future, how can you not be overpowered by an idle man like Zou Run." ”

Hu Yangeng sent a messenger and asked him to go to Cangzhou along the Hutuo River to bring a batch of grain. On the side of Daizhou, it is to grasp the integration of the army and the people.

The population of the entire Daizhou was not large, and the original subordination relationship was disrupted by the Jin soldiers, and the standing army mobilization structure expected by Huyan Geng was the first to be realized in Wutai County.

The Standing Army will remain in the 15th Regiment in Daizhou, with Zhizhou Ma Kuo as the regimental Sima, while Li Jingzhong will stay in Daizhou for a period of time to complete the training of new soldiers.

The various capitals usually farmed and paid taxes, and the men participated in military training on time, and could serve in the form of two households and one ding at any time. At present, there are more than 200 metropolitan guarantees, which can mobilize 20,000 people.

The salaries of all the standing armies were uniformly distributed by the Fanyang Zhenfu Division.

Although the 16th Regiment is also a new regiment, this regiment will return to Cizhou with Puliu Ru Bosheng.

After finishing the big things, Hu Yangeng came to visit Zheyuelan: "Three ladies, I want to hold a group wedding in Wutai." Please also ask the three ladies to help. ”

"Group wedding, what's that?"

Hu Yangeng was explaining to Zhi Yuelan, and suddenly his own soldiers came to report: "There are people from Hebei West Road, and I want to see General Hu." ”