Chapter 119: Aftermath
The battle of the Qi family compound has come to an end, the Jin army guarding the front hall was defeated by the assault team led by Erwa, and the remaining forty or fifty remnants of the soldiers were guarded in the hall to block the attack of the commando, and the defenders outside the courtyard also began to attack desperately, trying to recapture the compound, which made the second baby who attacked the front hall fall into the situation of being attacked by the enemy on his back, he could only trap Wuling Ga Si Mou first, and make every effort to deal with the enemy troops coming from the front door.
"Destroy the enemy quickly, don't care about anything else!" Zhao Ta led two groups to support, and when he saw that the team members were going to fight with the enemy house by house, he immediately stopped it, and the yard could be rebuilt if it was broken, but their team members were limited, and one was injured and one was missing.
"Yes, Second Master!" Everyone agreed, and with the words of the prince, they had no scruples, and several small explosive bags were thrown into the house, screaming in the explosion, and the severed limbs and remnants flew everywhere.
"Ignition!" A few people hid behind the wooden pillars in the main hall and kept firing arrows to prevent the commandos from approaching, Zhao Ta didn't bother to talk nonsense with them, and under the cover of the bead guns, he ordered people to throw in a few torches, and set the whole room on fire, and the Jurchens who tried to resist were trapped in it, and they didn't want to be killed, just wait to be burned to death...
Under Zhao Ta's destructive fighting style, the enemy army in the front hall was quickly annihilated, and even the Dutong Erluguan could not escape, the raging fire illuminated the entire battlefield, and Erwa organized people to carry the vehicles placed in front of the hall to block the gate, set up a simple bunker, and finally blocked the route of the Jin army's attack. Then he dug out a shooting hole in the wall and set up a machine gun on the corner tower to form a crossfire and repel the attack of the Jin army. The Jin army, which reinforced the west gate, was also blocked on the west side of the compound.
The situation stabilized slightly, and two explosions were finally heard at the city gate. The city gate was blown to pieces, and two signal flares shot into the sky marked the successful capture of the tower by the third commando team. Access was opened for reinforcements and their evacuation.
But Zhao Ta did not dare to slack off, this was only the first step in the success of the operation, it would be more difficult to evacuate the rescued clan and ministers safely, and the reinforced three brigades in order to avoid premature exposure of the attempt, had been lying in ambush ten miles away from the city, and it would take some time to arrive, which required them to resist the enemy's attack before the reinforcements arrived.
"Subordinates see the prince!" After arranging the defenses, Zhao Ta returned to the backyard, and the burning house illuminated the yard. When a man saw the prince coming, he hurriedly saluted.
"Lord Chen, you have suffered!" Zhao Ta hurriedly picked up the next person, and this person was Chen Guoting, an old official of the palace.
"My subordinates didn't expect to see the prince..."Chen Guoting was suddenly rescued, and he was also very excited, and his old tears were rampant, "The country has suffered a great disaster, and his subordinates have a heavy trust." If you can't be loyal to the country, the country will be ruined! ”
"It's good to be alive, to keep a useful body, and now is the time to employ people. Lord Chen, why worry that there is no place to be loyal to the country! Zhao Ta hurriedly comforted him, he was also worried that the old man would be overjoyed and go back to him, and he would not lose a pillar.
Followed by. The rescued ministers, the descendants of the clan and their younger brothers all came to thank them, but Zhao Kai stood aside and watched without moving. At this moment, he was both angry and ashamed in his heart. I am not angry, but if I had ascended to the throne that day, I might not have what I have today. Not to mention that the second brother will steal the limelight, and he is ashamed that he claims to be the first in Chinese and the first in knowledge, but he has to be saved by the 'country villager' who he has always looked down on.
"Ladies and gentlemen, the situation is still critical, the Jin Army Brigade is still outside the hospital, everyone must not panic, we must obey the command, and evacuate in batches after the arrival of reinforcements, the old and young women and children go first, and the young and strong will go back, and you can't fight!" Now the rescued people gradually calmed down under the comfort of the Queen Mother, and Zhao Ta stepped forward and said, Now we must set up rules for these people, so as not to cause trouble.
"Second brother, we are all Tianhuang nobles, we should evacuate first, how can we be behind others!" At this time, King Jing Zhao Qi said, he is the sixth among the brothers, and now in addition to the wordless corpse-like Yun King Zhao Kai, he is the leader of the brothers who go north, and then he stood up and said, I was secretly glad that I didn't accompany my father to Zhending and was rescued, but now I was arranged by the second brother to evacuate after the most rear, and the gratitude in my heart immediately turned into resentment, worried that he would leave him behind.
"Sixth brother, since you know that you are still a nobleman, you should understand that you should be brave in times of danger and fight for the community, instead of fighting with these women and children, the old and weak, for the opportunity to escape, and steal your life!" Zhao said.
"Second brother, ants are still stealing life, let alone people? We are the princes, and the Great Song Dynasty needs us to continue the national lineage, what is the idea of the second brother arranging it like this! Jiwang Zhao Xu said.
"The Buddha said that all beings are equal, not to mention that in times of crisis, it is these courtiers and slaves in your eyes who accompany you here, and they have fallen to this point because we are nobles these days? But have they complained about any of you, and can you bear to abandon these people just because they are old and weak! Zhao Ta frowned, the fire went up, when was it, and he set up a score before he got out of danger, but he still suppressed his anger and said to the two, of course, it didn't sound good.
"If you want you to die, why should my prince take the risk to come here, he just needs to leave the Central Plains far away like King Kang, and wait for the Jurchens to escort you all to the northern country, is it worth such trouble?" Lu Xiaoyao walked out from behind the prince and said coldly.
"Bold, what is your identity, how can you speak here!" Although Zhao Xu was still a few steps away from Lu Xiaoyao, he also felt a murderous aura rushing towards him, and couldn't help but take a step back and said.
"Shut up, don't make a fool of yourself anymore, they are right, as princes, we can't keep festivals for the country, we can't die fighting for the king, and we have lost the society of our ancestors, if it weren't for your ministers all the way, I'm afraid that we would have been exposed to the wilderness long ago, where is there a face to hold the prince's shelf in front of them!" Zhao Kai, who had not spoken, shouted to Zhao Xu and Zhao Qi.
"Third brother..."Zhao Qi and Zhao Xu knew that the third brother and the second brother had always been at odds, but today they were talking to the 'outsiders', which made them very puzzled.
"Second brother, junior brother is not talented, please give me a knife. I will slay the enemy with all the armies, and I will be ashamed of the snow country! Zhao Kai said with a deep salute to Zhao Ta.
"Third brother doesn't have to be like this. All you have to do is follow the arrangement and take care of your brothers. As long as I can get out alive, I will definitely rescue everyone safely! Zhao Ta returned the salute and said, I didn't expect King Yun, who had competed with him in the past, to stand on his side at this critical moment, it seems that he still knows the righteousness of the Tao and can distinguish the severity...
When the city guard of Zhaozhou rushed to the Qi family's compound, the battle was basically over, and his shock can be imagined, who would have thought that someone would dare to pull out his teeth in the midst of thousands of horses and thousands of troops, and want to rescue the captured Southern Dynasty clan. Always went wrong where it shouldn't have been.
Although the soldiers in the city have been drawn several times, there are still no less than 10,000 people. Erluguan also knew the serious consequences of losing these captives, which was not only to disgrace Du Shuai, but also that after those princes and grandsons got out of trouble, they would inevitably gather all the armies to return to the country and continue to be enemies with the Dajin Kingdom, and their way home would be even more difficult. Erugan hurriedly mobilized troops to recapture the city gate all the way to prevent them from leaving the city, and besieged the compound all the way to recapture the prisoners.
Although the two battlefields are not far apart, they are both extremely fiercely fought. The Jurchens attacked as if they were dying, but fortunately, the streets were limited, and it was difficult for them to launch a large army, so they could only attack in waves in turn. But the continuous impact also brought great pressure to Zhao Ta. They only had 100 men to defend the entire courtyard, and their troops were definitely slightly insufficient, relying only on their sharp firearms and excellent skills and tactics. At the moment of crisis, Zhao Ta also has to join the fight.
Although the number of the three assault groups on the city wall was small, the enemy forces they faced were large. But the battle was much calmer than the battle, and they occupied the tower. The condescending shooting took advantage of the position, and only needed to hold the junction between the main city and the city of Weng, and prevent the enemy from entering the city from the horse road, and the city gate was saved. The Jin army launched attacks from above and below the city, but they were all repulsed, the corpses covered the city walls, and the blood gathered into a stream and flowed down the horse road...
"Second master, we don't have much ammunition, why don't we cover your breakthrough and send reinforcements outside the city!" Under several rounds of attacks, the ammunition loss of the commando team was huge, and the reinforcements had not yet arrived, but the enemy was not killed wave after wave of impact, Erwa saw that the situation was becoming more and more unfavorable, and said to the prince.
"Hehe, can I leave my mother and brother behind at such a moment, and you go to steal life?" Zhao Ta said as he shot.
"Second master, I won't say those big truths, but I know that there will be no good life for us without you, as long as you can rush out, my parents and brothers will also be taken care of, it is not a pity for subordinates to die, but the second master can't!" Erwa said.
"I've already given up once, I can't give up on them and you again, otherwise I will be uneasy for the rest of my life, even if I live, what is the taste!" Zhao Ta said with a wry smile.
"Second master, we are here, as long as my second baby has a breath, I will protect the queen mother, you better go!" The second baby was unmoved and continued to plead.
"Don't say it again, none of us will die, I still want to be the emperor and give you an official knight!" Zhao Ta said with a smile.
"Second master, if you become the emperor, just make me a door official, I will stand at the Xuanhe Gate every day to show you the gate!" Erwa's face tightened, it was the first time he had heard the prince say such a rebellious thing, but he was still excited.
"Ha Luha, I'm going to be a doorman after a long time, I can promise you this request!" Zhao Ta said with a smile.
"Okay, the subordinates will show the second master the gate for a lifetime, and they will never let these Jurchens step into the Central Plains half a step again!" Erwa pulled the trigger, shot a bullet and said...
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In order to ensure that the enemy could not catch up with the commandos who had evacuated first and the prisoners rescued, he blocked the enemy in Zhaozhou City for two hours, and only after receiving the evacuation signal to blow up the pontoon bridge at the water ferry crossing.
After Zhao Ta led the assault team and rescued the last group of prisoners to leave Zhaozhou City, they quickly rushed to the predetermined place of pick-up of the Wuma Cottage. When the first batch of personnel had already left first, Zhao Ta found more than ten carts for them to transport to the assembly area, and he led the assault team and a dragon horse to break off.
When they arrived at the assembly place, the captured personnel and property rescued from Gaoyi and Baixiang also arrived one after another, with the growth of the team, they got a batch of carts again, at this time there were not only horse-drawn carts, donkey carts, but also ox carts, the mighty rush to Zanhuang, the two wings were escorted by the volunteers sent by the Wuma cottage along the way, at this time the vehicles have reached as many as 100, and the convoy stretched for nearly ten miles.
At this moment, not only the scattered Jin army gathered in pursuit, but the Jin army in other states and counties also intercepted on the way, and such a large-scale march increased the difficulty of crossing the road through the enemy-occupied area. But after passing through this fifteen miles, you can enter the mountainous area, which is the area controlled by the rebels. The likelihood of the Jin army intercepting it will be greatly reduced, and even if the Jin army implements a pursuit. A large number of rebels were enough to crush them.
Zhao ordered the construction of barricades on two sections of the road, and the commandos rode to the west of the road to provide a guard. The large army began to pass through the enemy-occupied area during the Yin period, but fortunately the Jin army only stationed troops in the prefecture and county administrative offices, and the rebel army controlled the entire rural area, which relatively ensured the safety of the assault team and the retreating personnel. At dawn, the brigade sent by the Wuma Cottage arrived, and the brigades also withdrew after completing their tasks, and the Jin army that followed did not dare to chase anymore, seeing the brigade hidden in the mountains. So far, the rescue mission has been successfully completed.
The successful completion of this rescue operation under the circumstances of the great disparity between the enemy and the enemy was both inevitable and accidental. Han Li's army focused on Zhending Mansion, and when they learned the news, it was too late to return to the army, and the 1st Guards Brigade, which had more reinforcements, controlled the narrow passage, and it was naturally not possible to achieve it in a short time if they wanted to pass through for a while. Although the Erlu Guan Division in Zhaozhou City may cause great trouble to the assault team, Zhao Ta made relative arrangements according to the possible situation, so that after the battle began, the assault team and the prisoners did not stay too long before withdrawing from the city.
In addition, this operation not only rescued the queen mother and concubines. There were also more than a dozen princes, hundreds of clan personnel, and more than a dozen ministers who refused to give in to the Jin army, which reserved a trace of contention for the Great Song Dynasty. And the two cities of Baixiang and Gaoyi also rescued thousands of craftsmen, all of whom were skilled people. After the siege of the two cities, a large amount of goods and food were obtained, which could be used to replenish military funds and for the resettlement and reconstruction of the displaced people.
However, there are also regrets in this operation, the emperor Zhao Ji was not in Zhaozhou City. This most heavyweight figure was taken away by Han. Another is that a large number of gold, silver, jewelry, and classics stored in Zhaozhou City have not been snatched out, which is a pity. Sadly, when we set out from Bianjing, there were more than 12,000 people in the team. Only more than 8,000 people could be rescued, and more than 4,000 people died in the torture of the Jin army on the way in just a few hundred miles!
But tactically it was a very successful operation. Only five of the 130 commandos were killed, eleven were wounded, and the other departments also suffered minor losses, but they caused large losses to the Jin army, and more importantly, the rescue of many clan personnel, breaking the Jurchens' plan to destroy Zhao Song...
"The country cannot be without a king for a day", accustomed to the life of an emperor, once the object of worship is lost, the spiritual loss and hesitation make the people panic. Zhang Bangchang was forced to announce his abdication, demoted himself to the left servant of Shangshu, and led hundreds of officials to ask Zhao Gou to take the throne. Meng's "legendary queen" wrote an order in his hand, announcing it to the world, saying that Zhao Gou was already the new emperor of the Great Song Dynasty. The two deputy marshals Wang Boyan and Huang Qianshan, who followed Zhao Gou and Qin Wang, saw the sudden change in the situation, and also strongly asked Zhao Gou to be the emperor and continue the national lineage of the Song State.
This is a very bizarre thing, the new emperor himself has not yet recognized this, everyone is ready to treat him as the emperor, Zhao Gou waited until Han Shizhong, Liu Guangshi and a group of generals came to vote, he felt that his strength was enough, and then officially agreed to take the throne. At this time, the Jin army had already left Henan, and he was ready to lead his troops back to Beijing.
Under the specific historical conditions at that time, Zhao Gou called the emperor the only way to save the fate of the Song State, and Zhao Gou called the emperor rightly and there was no problem. After the withdrawal of the Jin army, there was no longer the scope of the Jin army's power south of the Yellow River, even if it was Hedong and Hebei, the Jin army only occupied a dozen state capitals such as Taiyuan and Zhending, and there were still large areas that refused to surrender to the Jin army.
At this juncture, Cho Hoon was sent to Jeju by Zhao Ta, conveyed the will of the Emperor Taishang to him, and sent the token he brought back. Among them, there is a white gauze handkerchief embroidered with a yellow warbler to wipe away tears from Zhao Gou's mother, Wei Xianfei; Xing Bingyi is a gold earring created for her by King Kang back then, the shape is a pair of winged butterflies, lifelike, commonly known as "Dou Gao Fei"; Tian Chunluo and Jiang Zuimei were the gold hairpins and necklaces given by Qiao Guifei when King Kang traveled last year.
Zhao Gou didn't know where he looked, these were the belongings of his mother and wife, but he didn't say on the spot whether he obeyed the edict and obeyed King Qin's orders. Sometimes the emperor's throne is like the magic chair of Feng Gong and the herd of cattle in the Spring Festival Gala, which can completely change a person's character, and the Zhao Gou who performed very well in the golden camp is really gone, and now only this Zhao Gou, who looks more and more like his father and eldest brother in all aspects, is flying away!
So after Zhao Gou settled Cao Xun, he ordered people to ask Huang Qianshan and Wang Boyan to discuss how to deal with this sudden incident. The two of them were also silent for a while, this matter is quite tricky, the King of Qin holds the edict of the Emperor Taishang, which is higher than the edict of the Empress Dowager Meng and the abdication edict of Zhang Bangchang and the pseudo-Chu of Zhang Bangchang, both in terms of effectiveness and orthodoxy, but they do not want to give up this mastery of supporting the dragon. (To be continued......)