Chapter 213: Returning with a full load
When Han Li did not go out to fight, he led a miscellaneous army, and the Chinese army was naturally composed of his own people, which was their main force, and he was dizzy by the sudden artillery bombardment just now and didn't react for a while, but the elite is the elite, and he put himself into the battlefield after relieving himself, but the crisp sound like bursting beans shattered the luck in Hanli's heart, this is the fucking Yuanzhou Army, even if it is not, it is inseparable from the Yuanzhou Army!
The first charge of the Jin army was quickly crushed by the rain of bullets like a storm, but Han Li did not intend to give up, he always had a pimple in his heart, when the army was defeated under the city of Wonju, he thought that it was because the Wonju army occupied the fortified city. If it was fought in the wilderness, the Yuanzhou army would definitely be trampled by the Jurchen Iron Cavalry, so Han Li would not immediately organize a second round of charge.
In his impression, the Wonju army was firing with firearms at a long distance, and at close range, it still relied on hand-to-hand combat with broadswords and spears, so he thought that as long as they rushed through the blockade line and broke through the enemy's formation, they would definitely be defeated.
But that's because he only knows one thing and doesn't know the other. During the Battle of Wonju, the Wonju Army did not have firearms at all, and they did not use cold weapons, but this Marine Corps had a repeating spear, no broadsword and spear, and a short knife was still an auxiliary weapon. The Jurchens with torches are a target, and the machine gun is the nemesis of the cavalry, whether they come head-on or sideways, there is only one end.
The two charges were repulsed, but the temptation of the 10 million taels of silver was too great, and Han Li did not take an old saying that circulated among the Jurchen army - a soldier who could not charge seven times in a row could not be called a Jurchen warrior, and encouraged his soldiers to rush forward again, and Han Li did not take the Jurchen cavalry charging tactics to the extreme. Wave after wave of attacks continued.
Cheng Xishou, who had been paying attention to the situation on the battlefield, ordered the sailors to speed up the rush and ordered the naval guns to fire again to support the marines. It turned out that even infantry armed with firearms relied only on improvised fortifications. It can also defeat the onslaught of large-scale cavalry on the plains with the support of artillery fire, even the Jurchen cavalry, which is known as invincible in the world...
The Bodhisattva Prince's heart is dripping blood. A thousand-man team rushes up, and less than half of them can come back alive, and those who can fight again have to be reduced by half, and if they continue to fight, they have to account for here, and all the casualties of their southern expedition are less than this half of the night. Although Han Li was reluctant to give up the 10 million taels of silver, he also knew that the Dao could not be fought any further, which could only increase the casualties in vain.
By this time, the silver and the rescued civilians had all boarded the ship, and the mission of the 1st Marine Brigade had been completed, and they began to board and retreat in an orderly manner under the cover of naval guns. And this time it was the Jurchens who escorted them away, and they followed from a distance, not daring to step into the range of the ship's guns.
When Han Li didn't set foot in the stockade again, there was not a single ingot of silver left for him, and even the loot that he didn't have time to take away was swept away by the enemy, and all that was left for him was a dead corpse. No, there is another living one, that is, Zhang Bangchang, the envoy of the Great Song Dynasty, looked at the ground and cried bitterly. While telling how he was loyal to the saint, loyal to his duty, loyal to Dajin, and fought to the death to not be captured!
Although Han Li really wanted to chop the person in front of him with a knife, he thought that he had been tossing for half a year and left such a crying bar and a contract, he endured it! Take a look left and right. He suddenly found that there was one person missing, and Pharmacist Guo was missing, so he hurriedly sent someone to look for him. It was found that he was missing along with the hundreds of cronies he had smuggled and the 300,000 taels of silver he had secretly hidden.
Han Li immediately decided that Guo Yaoshi had absconded with the money in the chaos, which prompted him to make up his mind to get rid of the hidden danger of Chang Shengjun! This kid can really do what he says. After returning to Yanjing, he tricked Chang Sheng's officers and soldiers out of the city under the pretext of disarming them and returning to the field, and then disarmed them in the name of searching for private weapons. Then there was a flurry of arrows that sent them back to their hometown, and the betrayer finally got the end he deserved!
At this time, someone reported that the more than 10,000 Han people who had been captured were also rescued by the enemy, Han Li was not angry, these people were really too much, you all snatched the silver, and the people were all taken away, and I was busy for a long time to save up for you, and immediately led the remnants of the soldiers to chase down the route they escaped.
But under the strict protection of the 2nd Marine Brigade and the threat of river ship guns, the Jin army ran away in vain, chased for a long time, and watched the people who had worked so hard to drive home board the big boat, and watched them sail to the sea full of their belongings and booty in the rising red sun.
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Let's talk about the troops prepared by Li Gang to pursue the Jin army. Soon after the departure of the large army of more than 100,000 people, the imperial court received news from Zezhou that the Jin Army's Western Route Army, under the leadership of Mu Han, in addition to continuing to surround Taiyuan Mansion, sent troops to continue to attack other prefectures and counties, and now has captured Longde Mansion and approached Gaoping County.
This news shocked the government and the opposition, and everyone was worried that it would not be easy to send away a separation, and if the army of Muhan crossed the river and approached Tokyo City again, what else could the court do to deal with him at that time. So Zhao Huan hurriedly ordered Li Gang to transfer back all the troops that were pursuing and separating, in case of emergency. Li Gang advised Zhao Huan not to worry, one is that we have already signed a peace treaty with the Jin State, and the Muhan army will not attack again after receiving the news. Even if Muhan were to cross the river and attack Tokyo, we now had 20,000 garrisons at the mouth of the river, and it would be difficult for the Jin army to successfully cross the Yellow River.
Zhao Huan was very relieved when he heard this, and said that I would be relieved. After Li Gang retreated from the court, someone secretly said that Li Gang's statement would never be believed, and if we called Muhan, how could we deal with it, Zhao Huan felt that it was very reasonable, so he sent gold medals to all armies and ordered them to return to the capital as soon as possible. After Li Gang knew the news, he hurriedly went to the palace to fight with Zhao Huan not to withdraw the army, Zhao Huan was shaken again after hearing this, and ordered the troops not to retreat, turned his head and continued to pursue, and when the Song army really caught up with the Jin army, no one dared to move, they were afraid that they would finish the fight, and the emperor would change his mind again...
The Eastern Route Army withdrew safely in Zhao Huan's swing dance, but at this time, he felt that the Zonghan Division of the Western Route Army occupied Hedong and directly threatened the Hejin region. Zhao Huan was angry again, how could the Jin army be endless, so he ordered Shizhong and Yao Gu to send troops to Hedong and Hebei to aid Taiyuan, Zhongshan, Hejian and other counties respectively, and no longer cede the three towns! (To be continued......)