The Jin soldiers are cavalry, and when they retreat, they are like flowing water. With only more than 400 cavalry left, the Huyan Geng Department was unable to intercept the Jin soldiers. Hu Yangeng bluffed and chased a few steps, and let him retreat, so as not to chase in a hurry and be bitten by him again. As the sun sets, the red glow of the western sky shines like clouds, and on the eve of nightfall, this unexpected encounter is over.

Hu Yangeng ordered to camp on the spot, and at the same time sent people to clean up the battlefield. The red-eyed Song soldiers did not give preferential treatment to the prisoners, and all the wounded Jin soldiers who were not killed on the battlefield were all mended with a knife, and cutting off the heads was considered a war achievement. After the Jin soldiers retreated, the Song army began to clean up the battlefield.

Soon after nightfall, the results of the battle were calculated, and the enemy had left more than 2,000 men on the position, including corpses and wounded who had been turned into corpses.

On the side of the Song army, Lu Zhishen's three regiments suffered the greatest losses, all five commanders were disabled, the full strength of 2,500 people is now only 1,800 wounded, and the remaining four regiments have 2,300 casualties. The treasure monk led the medical team and began to treat the wounded.

Hu Yangeng was unhappy, looked at the battlefield full of corpses in the night, and sighed: "This battle is not a victory, the enemy and our armies have equal casualties, at best it is a tie." ”

Hao Siwen followed the left and right, and said: "The strength of Suolu's army is three times that of our army, and our army has been divided into three divisions. ”

Hu Yangeng said: "How many fighters are left in our army?" ”

"In addition to casualties, there are also many people who have lost their strength due to the fierce battle for too long, but there are only more than 11,000 soldiers at present."

"Divide out a thousand, guard the ......" Hu Yangeng looked at the terrain near and far, "Defend the hilly area in front of you to prevent Suo Lu from killing a horse gun." The rest of the armies hurried to set up camp. ”

Seeing the hills, he remembered the man from before with a beard and hair that was unkempt like a hairball, and asked, "What about Lin Laosi?" ”

He also asked casually, don't stop returning to the division, the Jin soldiers will resist when they retreat, and the pressure on Lin Laosi can be imagined, and it is estimated that he will hang up early.

Unexpectedly, as soon as the words fell, a person suddenly rushed out, full of energy and spirits, hugged his fists, and said loudly: "The end will be here." ”

Frightened Hu Yangeng, he turned his eyes to look at him, and saw that he was wrapped in armor and helmet, and a pair of thin eyes peeked out of his hair to look carefully, his armor was stained with blood, but it seemed that it was all left by the enemy, and he couldn't find a single wound on his body.

Hu Yangeng smiled in surprise: "What a Lin Laosi!" ”

Then he shouted, "Soldiers, bring me wine!" Today's death battle is won, and General Jing is white. "Drunk and lying on the battlefield, how many people have come back to fight in ancient times?

Lu Zhishen took the regimental shelf of the three regiments and all the seriously wounded to return to Cangzhou by boat, and the rest of the three regiments were supplemented into the remaining four regiments, and each regiment was filled with five commands.

The Song army rested on the bank of the Nanyishui River, waiting for another battle with Wanyan Dala, but the next day, hearing the urgent report of the sentinel, Hu Yangeng stood on the high pole in the camp to watch, and in the distance in the north, on the Baigou River, a team of golden soldiers was crossing the river.

"Where did the Suo come from?"

"Look at the banner is Wanyan Puluhu."

"It seems to be Yanjing's gold thief."

Wanyan Dalazy sent people to Yanjing to ask for an army together. Wanyan sent out Wanyan Puluhu. Wanyan slanted his own pro-army to watch his family in Yanjing.

"Looking at the formation of gold thieves, at least tens of thousands of people have come, and the enemies in front of us are more than 40,000 people, which is really four times as many as me." Qiu Muling Zhonglian analysis.

"Dig a trench deep along the camp, set up a trench outside, and build a chessboard inside." Faced with more than four times the enemy, Huyangeng decided to rely on the fortified area to hold on.

Except for Qiu Muling Zhonglian, all the generals had doubts in their hearts, and after the meeting, Xiong Dabai asked Yang Kefa: "How long will you abide by the law?" ”

Yang Kefa said: "The general has a lot of ideas, and Lao Yang doesn't know it, but listening to the general, it seems that he has never suffered a loss." ”

Gaoping at the junction of Dingzhou and Zhending, Lulu Guleping and Puliuru Bosheng sat side by side and listened to the report of the Chinese officer.

"After the battle of Xinkouzhai, the 15th Regiment recovered the various county towns under the jurisdiction of Daizhou, integrated the powerful armed forces, and the 15th Regiment expanded from 2,500 people to tens of thousands, and established the new Baojia and Luange in accordance with the orders of the general."

Zhao Bangjie led the 16th Regiment to Shouyang, Jinglong, Pingding Army and other places west of Zhending, incorporated the fortress, mobilized young adults, and established the Pingshan Self-Defense Brigade.

In such a situation, when Huyan Geng launched a rescue operation to rescue the daimyo, Lulu Gu Leping moved the station of Fusi in Fanyang Town to Gaoping and infiltrated north.

When Wanyan Dalan led the main force of Jin soldiers to attack Xiongzhou in the east, Fanyang Town recovered Quyang, Tang County, and Ding County.

In the interval between battles, the capital was used as a unit, the troops were mobilized, and the "Red Turban Baojia" was established in each county, that is, Huyan Geng's new Baojia was directly organized in the name of the Red Turban in the area occupied by the Jin soldiers.

Now, Puliu Ru Bosheng led the 11th, 12th, and 13th regiments to make a big circle from Jingcheng to the Hutuo River Valley, avoiding the Zhending Jin army and joining up with Lulu Guleping.

After Suo Chao gathered 2,000 famous defeated soldiers, he went to Xingzhou to join the Tianxiong Army, and this time he also came with him.

"Leping, this time out of the stopper, you are the main one."

"Where, Bosheng, you have a lot of eyes, you should be the leader."

"I am holding the young brother's Bingzhou Thorn History Seal, and you are holding the Henghai Regiment Training Envoy Seal, and you have a high official rank."

The two half-jokingly politely spoke, and then sat side by side, first checking the current troops, baggage and tasks of the Fan Yang Zhenfu Division.

"The young brother has already attracted the gold thieves of Wanyan Dalazi and even Yanjing to Xiongzhou, let's get out of the fortress, and the gold thieves will no longer have the strength to confront us and the other two towns."

"And Datong's Wanyan Sticky Han?"

"He has already gone south, and in the military report a few days ago, Sticky Han had just been burned by Li Yanxian."

"Then it's really as the young brother said, after getting out of the jam, the world will be vast and there will be great achievements."

The task assigned by Hu Yangeng to the Fusi of Fanyang Town was to get out of the Maguan Pass or the Bauhinia Pass, open up the outside of the Saiwai, get in touch with the White Tatars, Black Tatars and other tribes in the north, and establish an anti-Jin alliance on the grassland if conditions permit.

And the law on the grassland is to convince people with virtue, in order to convince the tribes on the grassland, the three main regiments under the Tianxiong Zhenfu Division went north together.

Although the grassland environment is harsh, after hundreds of years of multiplication, the grassland people will once use sabers and bone arrows to carry out a tribal fusion. This cycle is about 500 years, including the Xiongnu 1,300 years ago, the Wuhu 900 years ago, and the Turks more than 500 years ago.

The new integration of the grassland tribes was originally initiated by the Khitan, but the original initiator was partially sinicized, which in turn suppressed the rise of the grassland tribes, and the Jin State destroyed the Liao State and broke the shackles imposed on the grassland tribes, while the population of the Jurchen headquarters was too small, and it was not able to effectively use the resources of the Central Plains, so it was unable to suppress the integration, unification and rise of the grassland tribes.

Huyan Geng knew this trend, so the exit of Lulu Guleping had to achieve two purposes: first, the grassland tribes and the Jin State consumed each other, and second, tried to establish the military prestige of the Central Plains on the grassland, and it was best to establish an institutional inheritance similar to the golden bottle of another time and space.

But this is all an afterthought, and Bulu Guleping's current task is out of the jam.

After the Liao State occupied the sixteen states of Yanyun, the Inner Great Wall was regarded as an obstacle to the southward attack on the grass valley, so the Guancheng of the Inner Great Wall, such as the Fallen Horse Pass, the Bauhinia Pass, the Juyong Pass, and the Yanmen Pass, were all abandoned.

The Jin State inherited the geographical location of the Liao State, and did not repair the destroyed Inner Great Wall Guancheng, and did not even have a garrison.

There is a river in Dingzhou, Lulu Guleping, Puliu Ru Bosheng build ships in Tang County, levy civilian boats, go north along the river, and easily pass through the reverse horse pass.

After leaving the 15th Regiment of Ma Kuo to guard the Fallen Horse Pass, and after collecting grain along the line from Gaoping to the Fallen Horse Pass, the Song army of more than 10,000 and 5,000 people marched north, turned into Laishui in Lingqiu, and arrived at Flying Fox Laiyuan. After the Flying Fox abandoned the ship and landed, the whole army went north and went straight to Fengshengzhou.

Fengshengzhou is located on the inner side of the outer Great Wall, is the Liao State every time the south to attack the Song Dynasty, the north into the fortress of the army assembly place, Fengshengzhou in the Sanggan River, to the west can be along the Sanggan River to Shuozhou, to the southeast is directly driven to Yanjing Wanping County, it can be said to occupy Fengshengzhou, it is against the back of the sixteen states of Youyun, especially in the case that the Jin State is not defended to the north.

After capturing Yongxing County, the capital of Fengshengzhou, Bulu Guleping sent people to inspect the warehouse and found that the warehouse was actually full, in addition to the grain and grass for the infantry, the horse feed was particularly sufficient.

Although the Jin soldiers began to attack southward at the end of August, the grassland tribes' annual routine "snow shelter" time is autumn, which is why the Central Plains uses "anti-autumn" to refer to the grassland peoples.

When the steppe cavalry goes south in an organized way, they must first reserve horse feed, because people's food can be grabbed on the spot, or called "local transfer", but horse feed is not good.

"Enough grain and grass to last half a year," said Gule Ping, "but the arrows are a little insufficient." ”

"Leping is in Yongxing, and I will go to take the surrounding states and counties."

Regardless of the Jurchen Khitan, the northern tribes did not pay much attention to the city defense, saying that it was a county seat, but it was just a few earthen enclosures. Li Jingzhong's 12th Regiment took Huai'an, while Yang Jizhong's 11th Regiment took Xuande.

Xuande is in the northwest of Fengsheng Prefecture, and this place was later renamed Xuanhua, which is the Xuanhua of Xuanda Iron Horse, and the reason why Xuanda can afford to raise Iron Horse is because near Xuande, there is a grassland with mountains and rivers on its back, which can be said to be a natural horse farm.

After Suo Chao seized the horse farm, he was so excited that he sent Ou Peng back to report that there was a tribe in the pasture that was grazing, and after Wang Shi arrived, they were willing to give more than 800 animals to Wang Shi.

"What about these tribesmen?"

"Went north."

"Which tribe is the tribe north of Fengsheng Prefecture?" Pu Liuru asked.

Lulu Gu Leping shouted: "It doesn't matter which branch he is, out of the mountain pass in the north, it is my Xianbei hometown, and they haven't paid taxes to my Daxianbei for seven hundred years." ”