Chapter 44 Jinjiazhai's first battle to test the edge
Jinjiazhai has a history of more than 100 years, the ancestors of the Jin family were not surnamed Jin, they were the green forest heroes in Shandong, I don't know if people have killed enough, or conscience found, one day the golden basin washed his hands and withdrew from the rivers and lakes. Since then, he came to the Jinzhai on the side of the river in this history, from the surname Jin, the ancestor of the Jin family is bold, often helps the villagers, solves disputes, and funds the past heroes of the rivers and lakes, where there is a need, the ancestor of the Jin family never asks where the person comes from and why, so he is also very respected.
Jinjiazhai is a three-regardless zone, the personnel are very miscellaneous, because the ancestors of the Jin family in addition to being kind, willing to be kind and charitable, have a very good kung fu, love to make a point of gold spear, the people in the rivers and lakes do not dare to make trouble in Jinjiazhai, the Jin family is also pushed to be the owner of Jinjiazhai, several generations, Jinjiazhai men, women and children have three or four thousand people, the prestige of the Jin family has become more and more stable.
When the Jin people went south, the current owner of the village, Jin Wuliang, mobilized the villagers to repair the wall, the wall is three feet high, and the wall is eight feet wide and five feet at the bottom. The cost of repairing the wall accounted for eighty percent. He also organized Zhuang Ding for training, and undertook daily security patrols and vigilance. Six years passed like this.
A month ago, a group of soldiers came to the other side of the Shi River, one of them was wearing tattered official uniforms, claiming to be the prefect of Gwangju, from Gwangju, Gwangju fell, and retreated to Jinjiazhai. The surname is Lu. Although LΓΌ Zhizhou, LΓΌ Dan, and Jin Wuliang had never met, there were rumors that this person was an honest official, and that he had fought several battles with the officers and soldiers of the Jin State and the puppet Qi in the strategic place of Gwangju. Jin Wu admired it a little from the bottom of his heart.
Hearing that the Lu Governor's Mansion was about to transition, Jin Wuliang hurriedly sent a boat to take them across the river into the village. These seven or eight hundred people include some family members. But I haven't eaten for the past two days.
Speaking of this Lu Dan, I have to mention the matter of Prince Yuanyi.
In the third year of Jianyan (1129), the Jin soldiers went south, Gaozong fled to Hangzhou, and Miao Fu and Liu Zhengyan took the opportunity to launch a rebellion and forced Gaozong to abdicate and become the emperor. On March 5, in order to stabilize the situation, Empress Dowager Longyou (Empress Meng of Song Zhezong) sent a decree to let Zhao Yang ascend the throne, when Zhao Yang (1127-1130), the prince of Yuanyi, was the only son of Zhao Gou of Gaozong of the Southern Song Dynasty, and his mother was Concubine Pan Xian, who was only three years old. Change the name of the year to a clear grant, and listen to the government by himself.
On April 1, after several setbacks, Prime Minister Zhang Jun killed Liu Yanzheng and others, and the rebellion was quelled. Zhao Yang abdicated, and Empress Dowager Long You returned to power. After the rebellion was quelled, Zhao Yang had a high fever on the way back to Lin'an from Yangzhou, and a palace maid accidentally tripped over the stove on the ground while walking, making a loud noise, scaring him to death at the age of 3. Gaozong is such a son, and he will never have children in the future.
Besides, this Lu Dan, who was sent to Gwangju as the prefect because of his meritorious service in supporting Gaozong to quell the Miao Liu rebellion. As a result, Lu Dan struggled to support on the front line of this war.
This year, the rebel general Li Cheng led a large army, from Kaifeng to kill, this Lu Dan has no army in his hands, only a few box army, after the defeat of the forbidden army, Gwangju fell, he also retreated to the mall. However, after Li Cheng conquered Xiangyang, he immediately sent an army to these remote and small counties to clear them. The elite of his army that beat Li Cheng was defeated after a long time.
But although the battle was lost, and the enemy was strong and I was weak, the battle was not ugly, and they did not retreat until the people in the city were almost gone. Li Cheng's troops were also three out of ten, and on the way of the enemy's pursuit, a captain of the Xiang Army, called He Tao, shot and killed the enemy's adjutant general, making a great contribution.
Under normal circumstances, the troops occupied the county seat, and those who fled did not have regular troops, so a little chase, it would be forgotten. But first, the sacrifice was too great this time, and second, his deputy general also died, and this Li Cheng's subordinate Cui Huai, who really couldn't get down on his face, let other people enter the city, and he brought 800 people to chase after him. Chased to Jinzhai.
But this Jinjiazhai is an easy to defend and difficult to attack place, to attack the village, you have to take a boat to cross the river, but this boat, up and down ten miles, Jinzhai can be put away. Cui Huai sent troops to search for more than a day, but they couldn't find a boat. As a last resort, he set up a raft to cross the river, and the raft just reached the middle of the river, and the arrow on the opposite side shot like rain, so that the people of Jinjiazhai made a half-crossing and attacked, and killed more than 100 brothers, desperately crossed the river, but the people of Jinzhai and the box army had retreated into the village. This Jinjiazhai faces the river on one side, along the mountain on the other side, and there is a triangular field opposite the village, even if there are too many people, it can't be opened, and it is useless to give him 100,000 or 80,000.
Cui Huai commanded his subordinates to attack the village like this, and after attacking for two or three days, there was no result, but he lost his troops and lost his generals. While he sent people to get the hundreds of people who had been in the mall to rush over, he continued to attack the city. I want to attack again this afternoon, if I still can't attack it, and I can't attack again if I don't get reinforcements, and after a few days, he only has less than 500 people left, and nearly half of them are cavalry, and now Cui Huai can only use cavalry to attack the city.
Although this cottage has been fighting for a few days, it has also achieved great results, and many people have died. Most of the people in the village are Zhuang Ding and Xiang Yong, although there are many people, let them shoot arrows, stay still, when people run away, they shoot hard, and they can't scream, but the waste of arrows is also big. And the enemy soldiers on the opposite side, the arrow shot accurately, and almost let people attack the village several times, but fortunately, the original Lu Dan's box soldiers were slightly organized and pressed the enemy down.
A few people were lying on the hill, and when they saw this offensive and defensive battle, they shook their heads, and this Li Cheng's commander only had one tendon in his head? Just these more than 400 people still want to attack the city? But for sure, this guy and his soldiers are very brave.
Gao Zhong called Dazhu and Sigui to the front, and asked Dazhu to take fifty people to the ferry to snatch the raft, blow it up or break it up, so that not one enemy soldier could escape, and asked Sigui to take the others lightly, approach in concealment, and attack the enemy soldiers from the south hill to the flank and rear of the enemy soldiers below. Let Qian Jichen's people take care of the items in place.
When more than 190 people were in place, Gao Zhong divided 150 of them into three teams of 50 people, and the remaining 40 people were used as reserves.
When he approached the enemy's position of three hundred paces, Sigui shot an arrow:
"All of them, 300 paces, No. 2 arrow (short arrow), 10 thrust (45 degrees of maximum range)".
"The first team prepares, releases, and the second and third teams prepare"
"Second team put!"
"Three teams, let's go!"
I saw 150 arrows divided into three rounds, densely packed, and penetrated into the enemy team. In the middle of the enemy team, a blank space was formed, and there were no more people standing.
"All have, 270 steps, No. 2 arrow (short arrow), nine-point projectile (40 or 50 degrees maximum range)".
"The first team prepares, releases, and the second and third teams prepare"
"Second team put!"
"Three teams, let's go!"
Another 150 were pierced into the enemy group. The first time, the arrows were fired into the enemy group, and before these Li Cheng's soldiers could figure out what was going on, the second round of arrows arrived again. Seeing the locust-like arrows coming, they turned around to find a group of people attacking them from 300 paces away. Is there an arrow that shoots so far? They rarely make projectiles of such maximum range, not knowing such probabilistic shots.
"Quick, cavalry, get back on your horse and attack the enemy soldiers behind."
Cui Huai's mind is still a little clear. It turned out that the cavalry had dismounted to participate in the siege before, and now the distance between the horse and the cavalry was three or four hundred meters, and they had to rush back and mount their horses.
But Gao Pet had already seen it, and there were a few people guarding the group of horse arcs behind.
"Reserve, go down the mountain to grab the horses, high battalion commander, block the shooting."
"Three teams, commanded by the captain, with the same goal."
"Team 1, Team 2, Target, Retreating Enemy, 200 Meters, 6 Points Projectile, Ready, Put!"
The cavalry who wanted to regain their horses were killed by a round of arrows, but they still rushed forward, but the arrows were in front of their team, and they could not rush out of the rain of arrows, and the people behind had stopped. In these rounds of arrow rain, nearly 200 people died.
When the city saw the reinforcements coming, they cheered, and their morale was greatly shaken. Lu Dan and the master of Jinzhai saw that the puppet Qi army was not the opponent of the friendly army at all, and organized men and horses to rush out, "Assemble, assemble, rush out of the city to kill the enemy, kill the enemy!" β
I saw that the gate of Jinzhai was wide open, and a team of Zhuang soldiers and Xiang soldiers rushed out of the city.
"All of them, shoot straight ahead." Another round of accurate direct fire, and the enemy chieftain who rushed in front fell to a platoon.
"Shout to the enemy chieftain, surrender and don't kill!"
All shouted "Surrender or kill, surrender and kill!" β
Seeing that there was no way to escape, Cui Huai's soldiers threw away their weapons one by one and raised their hands to surrender.
Cui Huai saw that the general trend was the trend, and asked his own soldiers to put down the flag and surrender.
The walled building cheered "We won, we won!" β
A part of Gao Chong's personal guard battalion escorted the surrendered officers and soldiers to Gao Chong, and most of them cleaned up the battlefield, collected arrows, and collected the booty.
The two pro-soldiers escorted Cui Huai to Gao Chong.
"Report to the eldest young master, surrender one general, two hundred and forty-two other generals, and kill two hundred and thirty-one enemy chiefs. Four hundred and eighty-two horses were seized, and the rest of the booty was being counted. β
"Report, our department has captured 24 enemy chiefs, a batch of supplies, and none of the enemy have escaped the net." Dazhu also returned from completing his mission.
"Zhao Yi, you are responsible for compiling the loot and recording the merits of each person, so that they can be rewarded at that time. Sigui, bring the enemy generals over, I will interrogate. β
This Cui Huai came over, thinking that such a rigorous attack was the forbidden army, but he didn't know that it was the private soldiers of that family, but these private soldiers were very fierce. When he came to Gao Chong, he saw that the commander of this private army was a young boy, and Cui Huai was extremely depressed when he saw it.
"What's your name?"
Gao Pet asked.
"No general, Cui Huai, General Li Cheng, a partial general of the left army."
"Your mission, what troops are nearby, how many people there are, what is the mission, recruit from the truth."
It turned out that Cui Huai still had nearly 600 people in the mall. Among them, there are 150 cavalrymen, and yesterday they have been notified to send 400 men to support, and the distance is more than 140 miles, and it is estimated that they will be able to arrive tomorrow afternoon. At this time, Gao Pet had an idea, and he would discuss it with everyone in the evening. Cui Huai asked Sigui to continue the interrogation, including the verification of the confession. At this time, Jin Wuliang, the owner of Jinjiazhai, and the former governor of Gwangju were already waiting beside him.
"This strong man, in Ha Gwangju Zhizhou, Lu Dan, the word Chenfeng, thank you for the rescue grace of all the strong men."
"Jin Wuliang, the owner of the village in Xiajinjiazhai, is benevolent, and I thank you for the rescue of all the heroes. The brothers have worked hard, please go into the village to rest"
"Lord Lu and the master of Jinzhai don't have to be polite, killing Jin Nu and beating Liu (Yu) dog (leg) is within the part of my Song people. Below is the son of the Gao family in Tongling, and this is Zhao Yi, the housekeeper of my Gao family. β
"Zhao Yi has seen Lord Lu, the master of Jinzhai." Zhao Yi gave a salute to Lu Dan and the lord of Jinzhai.
"Lord Lu, the master of Jinzhai, I also have a fellow Qian Jichen, the eldest prince of the Xuancheng Qian family, in the forest behind, I'm afraid I'm in a hurry, I'll send someone over to pick it up, and go into the village to rest together, is it okay?"
"It should, it should, we are old acquaintances of this Xuancheng Qian Ye, old brothers, please!"
Gao Zhong and other brothers cleaned up the battlefield and entered the village, not to mention.
Let's say that Qian Jichen has never shown up since Gao Pet left, and then saw that Gao Pet sent people and took away all the personnel, leaving only his Qian family and dozens of cars, waiting for nearly two hours, wanting to send someone to see, but there are few people in the car and he is not at ease, and he is in a hurry. Dazhu came with seventy or eighty people. briefly talked about the battle and led them into Jinjiazhai.