Although Qu Duan has a general reputation among his colleagues, and even some bad ones, in the eyes of the middle and lower level officers and ordinary soldiers of the Western Army, Qu Duan has always had a very high prestige, and after hearing that he was re-appointed as a general and commanded the whole army, the morale of the whole army was even higher. Near Chang'an, the imperial court also began to build water conservancy and plant trees, but it was a moment to take care of the east of the river, put it down, only to see the crops depressed, the scorching sun, even the air seemed to be distorted and mutated, at a glance, hundreds of thousands of troops were in good spirits, bright red military uniforms under the scorching sun, on the high slopes of the loess, showing extraordinary spirit, vitality spraying. Swords and spears are like forests, silver helmets are dazzling, and on the side of the army, there are countless people pushing carts, following and accompanying each other, supporting food and grass for the army.

The mountain road is dangerous, starting from Taiyuan, but a few days of effort, the army has entered the range of the Taihang Mountains, the high and low hill slopes are everywhere, sometimes see the opposite valley seems to be within reach, really walk over, but it takes more than half a day. Fortunately, the armor of this forbidden army is not heavy, compared with the infantry army, it is not even light infantry, most of the soldiers only wear red fat jackets, and then in the vital parts, there are some iron armor protectors. Only a small number of infantry, prepared to fight the enemy's cavalry, wore slightly thicker armor. As for the archers and crossbowmen, they simply wore only cloth robes, and there was no armor on them at all. It's just that this army, although the armor and equipment are not as good as Yue Fei's department, the weapons in his hands are not bad at all, and a large number of elite knives, bows and arrows that have just been produced are now continuously equipped in various departments of the Western Army, Mo knives, and horizontal knives. Spears, spears, ring-headed knives, shields, crossbows, and bows. Each standard weapon, in terms of accuracy, sharpness, and fit, is much stronger than the previous weapons, a large number of assault rifles, carried by the infantry on their shoulders, or placed on small wheelbarrows, with the army marching, hundreds of thousands of rockets equipped with gunpowder. Equipment was given to crossbowmen. There are also 10,000 enemies in the improved land, small bed crossbows, all of them, all over the place.

The Western Army abandoned the formed cavalry units, as well as heavy armor equipment. What is pursued is the ability to strike from a distance, all in order to climb the mountains lightly. In the 200,000 troops that went out this time, more than half of them were crossbowmen or other types of troops using other long-range weapons, and they fired at once. Hundreds of thousands of arrows flew like locusts, under this level of blow. Even if Jin Guo is riding iron, he can only flee from the wind.

After the whole army enters the Taihang Mountains, along the old road of the well path, march rapidly, after entering the mountain, the scenery is different from the vicinity of Taiyuan, it is already full of verdant mountains, the birds and beasts roar all around, and on both sides of the road, you can vaguely see the hillside people, on the road, it is the mountain people who are endless, responsible for guiding the army, replenishing drinking water, rescuing the forbidden army who have lost their footing and being injured, and even the mountain songs are lingering, refreshing and cheering for the soldiers of the forbidden army who are marching in a hurry.

The exclusive text version of this work was first released, and it may not be reproduced without consent, excerpts, for more of the latest and fastest chapters, please visit.16~! Qu Duan was surrounded by the soldiers of the Chinese army, and marched at the forefront of the army, except for a small number of soldiers of the forbidden army, only the soldiers of the righteous army who stayed to help the army move as a guide. The mountain road is difficult, the Chinese army of Quduan is one of the two formed cavalry teams in the Western Army, the original strategy under his own command has brought out all the cavalry, plus the cavalry drawn from the various departments, the light cavalry team of more than thousands of people, most of them are short feet and inferior horses, galloping on the plain and running with poor foot strength, galloping on the mountain road, but it is much stronger than the tall good horse, in addition to the Quduan department, there is a cavalry unit of nearly 2,000 people under Yao Duan, which is the elite of Yao Duan's operation for many years, It is also the most capable field cavalry team in the Western Army, the previous supplement to Yue Fei's department, Yao Duan could not grab the captured war horse, but the ground cavalry under his command was also killed and refused to surrender the war horse, the generals and the cardinal of the Western Army also knew that he was a rare cavalry general among the generals of the Song Army, so he did not force it, and when he went out this time, Yao Duan was the vanguard of the front and had a certain number of elite cavalry, which was also suitable.

After days of marching, when Qu Duan led his troops to march, it was the beginning of May, and in less than ten days, the front of the army had reached the eastern part of the Deshan Mountains, and it was only two or three days away from Zhaocheng, Jingjing, Pingyang and other state capitals.

Qu Duan knew that the army was working hard, and he was about to reach the battlefield, but instead ordered the whole army to slow down, cook more meat and vegetables along the way, and let the soldiers rest more to replenish their strength.

He himself took the cavalry of the Chinese army, as well as his own Chinese army commander Zongji, galloped all the way, and under the leadership of a few Taihang righteous soldiers, he went straight to Zhaocheng.

Yao Duan and Zhang Xian cooperated, entered Hebei more than ten days ago, fought hard for several days, and completely annihilated several elite soldiers left by the Jin soldiers near Taihang, and had captured Zhaocheng and Pingyang.

In fact, a small number of soldiers and horses went out of Taixing to fight in Hebei, which was originally one of the plans of the Cardinal. The enemy commander is not a fool, in the Central Plains War, the Song army near Tongguan did not attack many people, and the performance was not strong, Zong Bi and others thought about it a little, they might suspect that the Song army would plunder the back road of the Jin soldiers. However, a small number of soldiers and horses entered Hebei in advance and defeated several state capitals near Taihang, but Zong Bi and others doubted whether the Song army forced the Jin soldiers to retreat with suspicious tactics.

In the past few days, the soldiers have been working meticulously along the way, and many military information has not had time to report with the black card of the Cardinal with an urgent 500 miles, but the military pigeon stations around the country use military pigeons, which are transmitted quickly, and then supplemented by black card military cavalry to be confirmed.

As the commander of the first army, Qu Duan has an endless stream of military reports every day, and they are presented one after another, so although he is in Taihang, he is just as clear about the war thousands of miles away.

Yue Fei led the elite, crossed the Yellow River, and once again defeated the Jin soldiers stationed in the Xiangzhou area. This time, there was no need to step out of the armor at all, the cavalry of Yue Fei's department gathered together, the number was close to 30,000, and the army fought against the golden cavalry of more than 40,000 people, and the battle was engaged in the early morning, and at noon, the golden soldiers had already begun to rout and flee. In the first battle of Yingchang, Yue Fei not only annihilated the elite troops of the Jin soldiers who had fought for more than ten years, but also crushed the self-confidence of the enemy.

Zong Bi collected the remnants, and the whole army retreated to Daimyo, preparing to build a second line of defense in the area of Daimyo and Zhending, and while defending the Song army in the north, it would be integrated with the Jin soldiers and Khitan soldiers stationed in Yanjing at any time.

The Song army's offensive was so fierce and strong that the Jin soldiers, from commanders to ordinary soldiers, had clearly realized that even if it was Yue Fei, as long as the logistics supply was sufficient, it could be directly thin Yanjing, and none of the majestic Jurchen cavalry was willing to be its sharp.

At the same time, Han Shizhong, Yang Yizhong, and Zhe Yanzhi had conquered Jinan and crossed the Yellow River from Shandong.

Liu Xi, Liu Zhu, Guan Shigu and other generals of the Western Army, after capturing all parts of Shangzhou, arrived in Henan Mansion, leaving one to protect the flank of Wang Guisuo's department besieging Kaifeng, and the main force crossed the river from the territory of Henan Prefecture to conquer Zeyuan, Huaizhou, and the front of the army pointed directly at Zezhou.

It can be said that the total number of soldiers of the forbidden army exceeds 400,000, and within the range south of Yanjing, any one of them can completely wipe out all the living forces of the Jin soldiers in the Hebei Mirror.

The Jin army stationed soldiers and horses in Hebei, only a few Zongbi brothers, with 50,000 households, more than 40,000 remnants, plus the original local garrison Han army and a small number of Khitan cavalry, it seems that there are more than 100,000 people, but in fact, the soldiers who can fight, only tens of thousands of Jin soldiers who were beaten and fled.

After Zhending, hundreds of miles of plains, dozens of important cities, there were no organized troops stationed at all, and it was difficult for a small number of Han troops to strengthen their determination to compete with the Song army that had an absolute advantage at this time. As soon as it was really lost, the liaison between Yanjing and the Daimyo, Enzhou and other places was completely severed, and with the garrison situation of Yanjing, self-preservation was still very problematic, and the garrison troops in Shangjing and the newly recruited Jurchen soldiers could not form an army, and there was no army that could compete with the Song army at all.

Under such circumstances, it would be unwise to stick to the original battle plan. Qu Duan has experienced a hundred battles and knows that the infantry who have been rushing to the road is too reluctant to enter the battle in a short time, and Zhang Xian and Yao Duan's two divisions arrived in Hebei in advance, and there are more than 100,000 Hebei rebels to help, and they are fully capable of relying on the strength of the two armies to lay a true decision.

In view of this, he left the generals to command the troops and marched slowly, while he led the Chinese army and quickly crossed Taihang and went straight to Zhaocheng.

When he passed through Taihang and stepped down on the war horse and landed on the land of the Hebei Plain, even if he was as resolute as a curved end, his expression changed.

The commander is like this, more than 1,000 cavalry are also excited, since the second year of Jingkang, the whole territory of Hebei has fallen, and there is no footsteps of the soldiers of the Song Dynasty to settle here.

Seeing that it was almost evening, the blazing white sun began to turn red, and slowly slanted towards the west, Qu Duan asked that there were still two hours away from Zhaocheng, and immediately whipped his horse, and more than a thousand cavalry followed, and galloped in the direction of Zhaocheng. When it was dark, he did not stop his horse, but lit torches and hurried all night.

When he arrived near Zhaocheng, he happened to meet a team of Song cavalry patrolling, and when he learned that the new commander arrived with the Chinese army, the Dutou officer who led the team did not dare to slack off, and immediately turned his horse's head, gave up the patrol task first, and led Quduan and his party to the city.

Because someone had already returned to report the news in advance, when the cavalry arrived at the city, the lights near the city gate were bright, and many middle- and lower-ranking officers stationed nearby had already arrived to greet them.

Qu Duan opened his eyes and looked around, he couldn't see it in the dark, but in the lights of the city towers everywhere, he vaguely estimated that the city was not big, the circumference was more than ten miles, and there were probably only four city gates, but near the city gate, you can still see the blood stains, I think it was the Hebei righteous army that attacked and harassed for many years, and the Jin soldiers also stationed a lot of elites in this small city, and when they attacked, they were quite killed and wounded.