The Jin army's offensive was not urgent enough to retreat all the Song people of Daizhou to the south. But Hu Yangeng hopes to use the pressure of Jin Bing to implement the new armor.

Whether it was in Cangzhou or Hejian, or in Daizhou during this time, the implementation of the new Baojia was not very smooth, and the Dubaozheng sent out by Huyan Geng encountered resistance and perfunctory resistance from the local Haoqiang and clans.

With the arrival of the Jin soldiers, the residents of various counties were mixed together, and Huyan Geng wanted to use this to disrupt the formation of the people.

Not only the affiliation within the clan, but also within the family. No more than two adult males shall be allowed in a household under the jurisdiction of A.

Now all the grain is controlled by the Fanyang Zhenfu Division, and the grain is distributed by households. If there are more than two adult males in each household, there will be a shortage of food to eat. In this way, the large family is forced to divide the household.

The militia commander and the Marquis of Yu were served by the head of the Song army, while the capital Baozheng, Baozheng and Jiatou were selected as soldiers. Each militia commander manages each of them in peacetime, and in wartime, according to the principle of two households and one ding, they make up 500 people to fight with the army.

At this moment when the golden army was pressing, the people were very obedient, saying that the household would be divided, and the army would be formed, and the so-called family, family affection, and ancestral training were all ruthlessly put aside.

Although Huyan Geng's explicit order was to disrupt the counties, when it was actually implemented, the various militia command divisions were organized according to the counties, so that it was easy to operate when returning to the county seats.

Ma Kuo was in charge of these things, and Hu Yangeng led the Beiwei Army and three complete regiments to maneuver along the Hutuo River, and led the Jin soldiers around Wutai Mountain to the south.

The Jin soldiers who broke into from Yanmen Pass and the bottle-shaped village have converged in Yanmen County, and what Jin Bing got was an empty city, thanks to Jin Bing's several southward movements, there were basically no decent buildings in the various counties of Daizhou. The people were fortified and cleared, not only food, but also the door panels were removed and taken away.

"Except for a few stockades that were broken in front, no food was found along the road." Finish Yan Yan's mother's way.

"Your Majesty, why don't you follow the five strategies of Xuanfu? If we have scared the people away, who will give us food? ”

"Nonsense, don't break the village, where does the fighting spirit of the various tribes come from, Prime Minister of State, let me ask you, is the food you get willing to be given by the people, and you, the people who are with the army, are not captured?"

Wan Yan Muhan sighed: "It makes sense that our ancestors only went south to fight the grass valley in the autumn for generations. In the spring, there is no food. ”

The Song army was in front, and the tanma could catch up with it after chasing for half a day, but every time it was beaten back by the Song army. Moreover, there was another trouble with advancing along the Hutuo River: the Song army had boats, but the Jin soldiers did not.

On a stretch of river between Yanmen County and Lao County, more than a dozen vehicles and boats of the Song army waited. Suddenly, a red rocket rushed into the sky not far from the north.

"Here," Wu Song, who was standing on the top of the canopy, nodded, "Divine Fire Flying Crow prepares." ”

The Divine Fire Crow actually combines the advantages of the two winged rockets of the Ming Dynasty, the Divine Fire Crow and the Flying Sky Strike Thief Earthquake Thunder. It is a Raven-shaped rocket with multiple gunpowder cartridges in parallel.

The body of the crow is made of bamboo scorn or reed, shaped like a bamboo basket, containing explosives and a few shuttle horns coated with poison, or containing sulfur and other ignition materials, drilling holes on the back, from which four fire wires more than one foot long each are passed, and making it connected with the fire wires of the four take-off rockets diagonally inserted under the belly of the crow, and then the crow body is pasted with cotton paper, and the head and tail of the crow and two wings are installed.

The brigade of Jin soldiers came in splendor, a total of 35,000 Jin soldiers, and at the head were thousands of light horsemen, who noticed the Song boats on the river, but did not attack, because it was not the responsibility of the horses.

Following Tanma was the Chinese army composed of the Jurchen Bohai Khitan elite, and Wanyan Yanmu and Wanyan Sticky Han were both in the Chinese army.

The generals of the Chinese army also saw the Song ships on the river and reported to Wanyan Muhan what to do.

"The northerners rode horses, and the southerners sailed. But he couldn't, so he stepped forward. Go to the county seat ahead to rest. ”

Finally, there is the grain and grass escorted by the signing army.

"That's him." Wu Song shouted: "Flying Fire God Crow, let go!" ”

The soldiers lit the fuses of the four rockets of the Flying Fire Crow, and the paper crows flew towards the Jin Army hundreds of feet away. When the fuel in the rocket burns out, it ignites the line of fire on the back of the paper crow.

The paper crow with explosives and iron water chestnut in its abdomen exploded, and the water chestnut spun down from the top, killing and injuring the signing army. The paper crow with the ignition powder in its abdomen burned directly, and the paper crow turned into a ball of fire and fell on the cart escorted by the signing army and the people, and burned.

The signing army was in chaos.

Wu Song shouted: "It is a good time to fight, and the children will go ashore with me." ”

The car and ship quickly pulled aside, and the soldier who had already put on his half-body armor on the boat stepped on the water and landed on the shore, with a hammer in his left hand and an axe in his right, and killed the signing army.

The damage and losses caused by the Flying Fire Crow were actually not large, but the chaotic signing army had no time to resist a warrior like Wu Song. Wu Song was the first to rush to the side of a large car and set it on fire.

The signatories scattered and fled, watching from afar. Wu Song took a good time to set the carts on fire one by one.

A rocket with black smoke suddenly rose downstream, and the military man on the side shouted: "Martial envoy, the golden thief is back." ”

"What are you afraid of, I'm about to cut off a few Suo Lu's heads to celebrate my new commander."

Yu Hou on the side pulled Wu Song, "Hugh must forget the orders of the general." Wu Song was still unsatisfied, and followed Yu Hou to withdraw to the car and boat.

Jin Bing's Chinese army rushed back to a Meng'an, and Wu Song and the others had retreated to the middle of the river.

The Jin soldiers lined up on the river bank to shoot arrows at the boat, and the Song soldiers were hiding in the cabin, Wu Song waved his hand: "Shoot them all." ”

On the roof of each ship there were three boxes of leopard shadows running sideways, and the soldiers climbed out of the cabin from the west side of the ship and lit the fuse.

More than a dozen ships fired 1,500 rockets in an instant. The golden soldiers who were lined up neatly on the bank of the river were shot to pieces. Wu Song ordered all the vehicles and ships to withdraw downstream.

Under the harassment of vehicles and ships, the Jin army marched very slowly, and the people of Daizhou were able to retreat to Wutai County safely.

In this way, the Jin soldiers had been walking along the Hutuo River for ten days, and Wanyan Muhan finally couldn't hold it anymore and ordered all the regular troops to mount their horses and chase down the Song army in front.

Hu Yangeng took the 11th, 12th and 16th regiments and waited for the arrival of the Jin soldiers in Xinkou Village.

In this era, there was no telegraph, and the golden soldiers could not coordinate the two lines of soldiers and horses thousands of miles away. Moreover, the battle of Pingyang has reached a critical moment, most of the Jin soldiers in Taiyuan are heading south, and Wanyan Yinshu can't draw a large number of troops to the north.

Xinkou Village is where the Xinkou of later generations is located, the terrain here is dangerous, the right is supported by Wutai Mountain, the left is Evian Mountain, and there is a river valley between the two mountains. In the middle of the river valley stands a soil mountain of dozens of zhang, and Xinkou Village stands on the soil mountain.

The three regiments under the command of Hu Yangeng, the 11th and 12th regiments are veteran regiments, although there are two-fifths of the recruits, but the recruits mainly constitute the second row of spearmen and the last row of side players, fully equipped and can fight tough battles. In order to give full play to the combat effectiveness of the veterans as much as possible, Hu Yangeng temporarily appointed Li Jingzhong as the Sima of the 12th Regiment.

Huyan Geng arranged the 11th Regiment on the east bank of the Hutuo River, relying on Wutai Mountain for defense, and Yang Jizhong also waited for an opportunity to attack Yanmen County. The 12th Regiment was stationed in Xinkou Village to resist the Jin soldiers head-on.

Zhao Bangjie temporarily led the 16th Regiment as a reserve. In the 16th Regiment, the ratio of the veterans of Gongshi and the newly recruited people of Daizhou was two to three, and their equipment was not complete, and many of them were still holding knives and sticks.

Wanyan Yanmu and Wanyan Muhan had about 35,000 people, of which 18,000 were signed. After running behind the Song army for ten days, they finally caught up with the Song army at Xinkou Village. It's just that the stockade in front is heavily guarded, and the overlapping trenches have been dug in front of the wall. The Hutuo River flows through the west side of Xinkou Village.

The Jin soldiers wanted to continue to "suppress the crusade" to the south, seize the grain, grass and Ding Zhuang, either from Xinkou Village, or from Hexi or Hebei bypass.

What to do in the face of layers of trenches with gaps staggered with each other? Wanyan Muhan was a man who had experienced the Taiyuan Offensive and Defensive Battles and the Siege of Bianliang, and instead of attacking as the friendly forces at Yanmen Pass a month earlier, he ordered Minzhuang to cut down trees and build siege equipment.

"Build equipment, and then attack the stockade? We don't have much food and grass. Wanyan raised his doubts.

"That's better than filling your son's life in a trench." In this way, 35,000 Jin soldiers sat in front of Xinkou Village for three days, and the grain and grass of the Jin soldiers were all in Lao County.

Jin Bing finally built a batch of cave carts, and they pushed the cave carts to the edge of the trench and filled the trench with earth.

"Flying Fire Crow, let's go!" On the wall of Xinkou Village, incendiary rockets are constantly released, some of which detonate above the cave car, some fall on the Jin Bing behind the cave car, and some are directly nailed to the cave car, and the edge of the trench is a sea of fire.

Under the supervision of the whips and broadswords of the golden soldiers, the people braved the blazing fire, braved the arrows shot from the stockade, and frantically filled the trench under the cover of the cave carts.

After paying hundreds of people's lives, the Jin soldiers finally filled in a straight road one zhang wide in several trenches. It's the 23rd of May. The weather is getting hotter.

The Jin soldiers' attack on Xinkou Village began. It's still the same old way, first the army is tentative, and then the hard army is attacking. And the response of the 12th Regiment was also very clear, shooting with arrows from afar, piercing with those who climbed the wall, and finally greeting with knives and guns that climbed the wall.

The front of Xinkou Village is so big, no matter how many Jin soldiers there are, they can only go up to a few hundred people at a time.

Although he was very distressed, Wanyan Muhan still sent Tiefu Tu to forcibly break through. Dozens of Iron Floaters were dressed in two layers of heavy armor, carrying axes, hooked sickles, and maces behind their backs, holding shields in both hands, and charging with bows and arrows. Under such protection, only a few people were shot through the armor by the Divine Arm Bow, hit the vital point, and fell to the ground. Some of the golden soldiers' shields were shot through, and their hands were nailed to their shields, but they still rushed forward in pain.

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