Chapter 148: Zhu Xianzhen
Yufei Yingchang belongs to the Central Plains town, south of Tang, Deng Zhuzhou, and Xiang, Fan and other important towns in the south of the Yangtze River, and due north is the direction of Kaifeng, all the way belongs to the plain area, fast horse gallop only two days and nights, you can reach Kaifeng City, Yang Zaixing left the barracks in the middle of the night with three hundred dangerous soldiers, it is strictly forbidden to make noise along the way, hundreds of cavalry all the way forward, only the hooves of the war horse monotonous and brisk sound.
Although it was the end of April, but due to the continuous rain a while ago, the temperature at night was very low, and there was a lot of dew, when the eastern sky dawn star exuded the last light, Yang Zaixing raised his hand at the front of the team, and the team behind him immediately stopped, Yang Zaixing ordered everyone to get off the horse and rest, wipe the dew on their bodies, eat some dry food to replenish their strength, and after a short pause, then look at the enemy situation and decide their whereabouts.
This is already the boundary of Zhuxian Town, and there is still more than a day away from Kaifeng.
The Song army was stationed in Yingchang, and there were often ranger scouts to reconnoiter near Zhuxian Town, and the pseudo-Qi had to shrink the remnants of the army because of the total loss of the main force in the Changshui battle, and retreated to defend in several large cities and towns, so in many places at the junction of the two armies, except for a few local township soldiers to maintain law and order and arrest bandits, they almost did not intervene in the war at all, which also made the Song army rangers drive straight in, and no one dared to stop them at all.
At this time, close to the enemy border, Zhuxian Town is the gateway to Kaifeng, although Yunzhen, in fact, is bigger than many states and counties, in peacetime, many merchants and merchants from the south to the north and south to settle down in Zhuxian Town, is an important place for the north and south, to wartime, it is to strangle the north and south, protect the gateway of Kaifeng, it can be said that whether it is the Jin soldiers in the south, or the Song army in the north, they need to gain a firm foothold here. Yang Zaixing settled outside the town, first sent rangers to reconnoitre, see the situation in the town, and then make plans.
Under his orders, a few vigilant cavalrymen went to reconnoiter first, and the rest dismounted, moving in unison, and few people made a sound. Yang Zaixing took the lead in soothing his muscles and bones, moving his body that had been sitting stiff all night, and only after feeling comfortable that he sat down to drink water, eat dry food, and recover his tired body and spirit after a night of galloping.
These are not Yang Zaixing's prestige enough to deter these soldiers, but the conscious behavior brought about by years of training and horse fighting career. Even if there is no order from the general. In such a situation, these soldiers do not need to be commanded, and they will do the same themselves.
Dawn in the East. There have been sporadic pedestrians in the distance of the official road, and on the edge of the farmland, there are also farmers who get up early to go to the fields, more than 300 soldiers hide in the depths of the farmland, hiding their bodies by the shrubs, some people are bored and lying on the ground to rest with their eyes closed, some people whisper, and some pull out the weeds on the ground and chew them in their mouths, feeling the smell of dirt with the fishy smell, plus the barking of dogs and chickens in the distance. Looking at the pedestrians on the road, it turned out to be like a peaceful season, and people didn't know where they were.
It's just that the enemy's defenses are so sparse, which also proves that the puppet Qi no longer has the intention of fighting with the Song army in the field, and the main force and energy are all on defending the city, so at the junction of the two armies, they are so defenseless.
It's just that after a long time, everyone is anxious, and many people have already stood up. Looking into the distance, Yang Zaixing repeatedly whispered and reprimanded, but still drank a group of retreats, and another soldier stood up in twos and threes, not taking him as the main general very seriously. Yang Zaixing was furious in his heart, fortunately, during this time, he also had several henchmen and generals to assist, the generals were no better than the soldiers, and after a few battles, he knew Yang Zaixing's roots, and he was very convinced of him.
After waiting for a while, a few cavalrymen who went to reconnoiter rushed back, and a few people didn't care about sweating profusely, so they hurriedly exchanged and summarized what they saw, and then used charcoal to make a simple map and presented it to Yang Zaixing.
This kind of reconnaissance map was thought simple by later generations, but these professional scouts studied in Chang'an for a few months, and after a long period of practical training, they were proficient in using it and no longer made mistakes.
Yang Zaixing took a cursory look and knew that the enemy in Zhuxian Town did not arrange heavy troops, and the situation was still the same as before, only a few commanders and commanders, with five or six thousand soldiers and horses stationed in the town, divided into echelons, mutual support and early warning, as soon as there was an enemy situation, first sent people to Kaifeng to report the information, it was completely a large-scale reconnaissance cavalry situation, and did not expect to be able to defend the attack of the Song army.
If it was someone else, knowing that the situation in Zhuxian Town was not enough to constitute a threat, and the information was already on the boss's desk, he would choose to take a detour and go straight to Kaifeng, test the reaction in the interior of Kaifeng City, and see if the Jin soldiers had arrived, but although Yang Zaixing was reminded by Yue Fei, his heart was still strong and difficult to contain.
After listening to the report of the detective, Yang Zaixing looked at the many generals around him, lowered his voice and asked:
"How? Is it a fight, or is it a spare? The generals around him are all his carefully selected henchmen, Wang Lan, Gao Lin, Li De and others, either deputy generals, or all commanders, can command more than 1,000 people in other armies, each of them is a first-class warrior in the army Seeing Yang Zaixing's expression, how could he not know the truth of his thoughts, everyone immediately glanced at each other, and said: "Zhu Xianzhen is such a small person, what are we afraid of?" After not fighting for so long, the enemy has become more and more arrogant, do you think that we are afraid of them? Wang Lan thought most carefully and delicately in the center of the generals, looking at Yang Zaixing's face, he knew that Yue Fei must have ordered him not to be too dangerous, his eyes were slightly spread, and he smiled at Yang Zaixing: "We are ordered to come, but it is just to sentry to investigate the enemy's situation, to scare the grass and scare the snakes, and three hundred people can't attack the city and plunder, and they can't burn and loot, and if they don't fight these garrisons, how can they be surprised?" Fortunately, there are not many garrisons in Zhuxian Town, let's hit him by surprise, take advantage of it and then leave, in this way, Kaifeng City will get the military report, and what countermeasures will come out, isn't it better than us running around? ”
Yue Fei sent Yang Zaixing, in fact, he originally had such an intention, Yang Zaixing was reprimanded by him for not being brave, but he stopped thinking for a while, and at this time, he was woken up by Wang Lan's words, and immediately realized.
immediately nodded heavily, and smiled at everyone: "This is reasonable, since this is the case, fuck it." Give the order to go down, and everyone get on their horses and set off! The Lord gave an order, and more than 300 impatient soldiers immediately turned over and mounted their horses, and everyone did not have to hide their images at this time, and the sky was bright, although they hid in the depths of the bushes, in fact, those who had a heart could see them. Everyone rushed out, and simply rushed towards the town on the official road, and along the way, pedestrians in twos and threes bumped into this group of cavalry, and they were all shocked, but they were all happy.
Yang Zaixing saw clearly on the galloping horse, knew that people's hearts were back, and felt more sure in his heart.
The place where they are hiding is only a few miles away from Zhuxian Town, hundreds of cavalry rush forward with the fastest horsepower, but the tea kung fu has been everywhere outside the town and the suburbs, the outermost garrison in the town has discovered this Song army, the noisy sound in the military camp outside the town is loud, more than a thousand soldiers and pseudo-Qi soldiers sparsely come out in a group, many people are still tired, the weapons in their hands are crooked, many generals shout and scold, but always can not succeed in the whole team.
Yang Zaixing showed disdain, and said in his heart: "Such an army dares to block my soldiers." He waved his hand, more than 300 horsemen rushed up, most of the enemy was infantry, a small number of officers rode horses, saw the fierceness of the back danger army, immediately panicked back, the generals retreated, the soldiers were even more panicked, and when the back danger soldiers rushed to the front of the formation, the infantry formation had not yet been formed, more than 300 back danger soldiers shouted in unison, all kinds of weapons in their hands danced wildly, guns and bayonets were chopped, axes and sticks were smashed, one shot down, dozens of people had been lying on the opposite side, a strong smell of blood spread in the air.
At this time, many enemy soldiers had already found that this Song cavalry was unusual, with a slightly sharp-eyed one, but they found that on the right side of the cavalry's breastplate, there was an image of a black iron gourd, and they were immediately frightened, waving their hands and shouting: "It's the back of the Ke army coming!" As soon as the words came out, all the pseudo-Qi soldiers who were really frightened were colorless, and they retreated one after another, and the generals who had just had the heart to resist were also shocked and decided to flee.
The back of the army was originally meant to carry a wine pot for the commander, and it was also a personal soldier around the general, so the combat effectiveness was extremely strong. In the Song army, many generals originally had the establishment of the backstabbing army, and only Yue Fei's backstabbing army was the most famous. In order to make each army retain its own personality and combat effectiveness after the restructuring, Zhao Huan specially allowed the forbidden army of all departments to keep a special military number outside the official army establishment, and the back army under Yue Fei was the only cavalry unit with this military number among the hundreds of thousands of forbidden troops because of its strongest combat effectiveness. Such an elite division is not afraid of even the hard-defending gold soldiers, let alone these shrimp soldiers and crab generals. And when the other party heard that it was a dangerous army, he immediately turned around and fled in fright, which is not surprising.
Yang Zaixing originally cared about Yue Fei's lesson, and this time he didn't rush to the front, but seeing the excitement of the killing in front of him, people were rolling around, and stumps were everywhere.
He stepped off the war horse is specially configured for the general, it was better than the ordinary soldiers, he was bent on hitting the horse in a hurry, there were originally more than a dozen people behind him, and when he chased the cavalry of more than 100 people, he was the only one. The enemy saw that he was lonely, many people turned around and stabbed him with guns, Yang Zaixing was not afraid at all, the iron spear in his hand was waved, where there was a stain is broken muscles and bones, fell down and dismounted, no one was his enemy, the enemy rode to see him so brave, no one dared to fight with him, just shouted, desperately escaped, Yang Zaixing was not polite, followed behind calmly pick and stab and swept, after a while, it was actually dozens of people knocked off the horse, he slightly recognized the appearance of the enemy's armor and robes, and saw that the enemy was about to flee in all directions, but there was a big general in front of him, With great joy in his heart, he didn't use a spear to stab him, but rushed to the general's side, stretched his right arm, hugged the other party by his side at once, looked at the other party with a frightened expression, and laughed and said: "Don't be afraid, I guess I will exchange you for wine, and I won't kill you!" ”