Chapter 519: The Power of the People
"If, if it's discovered in advance, you can bring as much as you want, you know?"
"Don't worry, my lord, I will do my best." Sun Wenfu patted his chest with reassurance and said.
"Take care." Zhang Jian patted Sun Wenfu on the shoulder, turned around and entered the carriage, and went straight to Fanyang City behind him under the escort of four hundred soldiers in a foot barracks.
Just when Zhang Jian left Qigou Pass, Su Shi had already called the generals and arranged the next battle.
"Fight, first take the 30,000 Liao troops outside Qigou Pass, and then go all the way north, capture Fanyang, and enter the territory of Zhuozhou, as much as you can destroy. But please remember, we only have half a month. That is to say, as soon as half a month comes, the whole army will retreat."
"At that time, whatever you're doing, retreat. And you can only retreat after dark, go back to Xincheng first, go to Yi County, pass through Flying Fox City, Lingqiu City, and return to the realm of the Great Song Dynasty from Taixi Mountain, do you understand?"
This is clearly the secret road for the Liao army to enter the Song Realm before, but now it is being used by Su Shi.
"Understood." The generals answered yes in unison.
"Okay, let's get ready to attack. Hu Yunfeng and General Shi Qianshan will stay for a while."
The words fell, everyone went to prepare, and Su Shi's eyes fell on the two generals who were left.
"Both, your goal is to capture Yi County, Flying Fox City, and other places. If the city is difficult to attack, don't storm it, just sweep the surroundings and create enough conditions for the army to pass in half a month."
Su Shi chose Hu Yunfeng to do this because the other party knew the situation in this area very well, which was equivalent to finding a local snake.
The 30,000 Xinzhou soldiers of Shi Qianshan were chosen because they were mainly infantry, and there were no war horses, and once the army marched, it would affect the overall speed. In addition, the Xinzhou army is indeed brave in battle, and he can rest assured that he will hand over the matter to Shi Qianshan's department.
"General Shi, next you leave all the war horses for the use of the civilian soldiers in other states, and I will also draw troops from the other civilian armies to make up your 30,000."
"Young Marshal Xie. Please rest assured that we will complete the mission." Shi Qianshan felt Su Shi's trust, and at this time, his eyes were quite a bit of a confidant who died.
In the sixth year of the Qingli calendar, at the beginning of September.
Just as Zhang Jian left Qigou Pass during the day, at night, the Song army under Su Shi's command launched a night attack on the outside of the pass.
It was still this night, Sun Wenfu was commanding a Liao army of 5,000 people to leave the pass at night.
When Zhang Jian left, he said that the retreat of the army should not be discovered by Su Shi as much as possible, so Sun Wenfu adopted the method of retreating in batches.
Unexpectedly, the retreat time he chose coincided with the attack time Su Shi chose.
This may be a coincidence, or it may have been predestined for a long time, just as Sun Wenfu sent away 5,000 Liao soldiers, countless Song troops rushed out of the Qigou Pass directly opposite, and launched a fierce frontal attack on them.
There was no temptation, and the army was put up, and the Song army, which was full of 80,000, came straight out of the gate like a tiger.
The 2,000 Liao soldiers who were responsible for guarding the first line of defense did not even hold on to half of the incense, and most of them were wiped out, and the rest went towards the second line of defense.
The second line of defense was only a thousand Liao soldiers, and it could not stop the iron cavalry of Su Shi's army, and it was broken before even half of the incense sticked.
"Crazy, Song Jun is crazy."
While commanding the Liao soldiers to fight back, Sun Wenfu ordered the 10,000 Liao troops who had just gathered to retreat.
"You go to Fanyang City, Lord Zhang Jian is waiting for you there, he also needs you." After giving the order to the 10,000 Liao soldiers, Sun Wenfu turned around and said to the remaining 10,000 or so Liao soldiers: "Go, everyone go with me to kill the Song soldiers, and let them know that there are warriors in our Liao army."
Sun Wenfu did not take the opportunity to leave, with the heart of death, he wanted to stay and block the attack of the Song army.
He had to buy time for the army to retreat, otherwise, he would definitely be beaten by the Song army and picked up
It's not just them who come down, I'm afraid that Fan Yangcheng behind him will also face danger if he is unprepared.
It's just that he thinks too highly of himself.
Or maybe they look down on Su Shi too much.
Since Su Shi decided to attack the Liao soldiers, he wanted to beat them ruthlessly, so ruthless that they would not dare to watch the land of the Great Song Dynasty in a short period of time, so how could they have the slightest stay when attacking.
If you have to describe it, it is like the waves on the sea, which are endless, and it is not complete until you kill the enemy completely.
The Baozhou soldiers, Xiongzhou soldiers, and Bazhou soldiers, in addition to being singled out and sent to the Xinzhou soldiers, there are more than 50,000 people left.
Divided into three groups, each group of more than 10,000 people, launched a desperate charge.
According to the pre-battle requirements, the troops of the three states attacked in echelons, and each main attacker only needed to move forward 500 meters, that is, one mile, to stop, and replace the next army to continue the charge. They stay where they are, clean up the battlefield, recharge their strength, and wait for their turn to launch their next attack.
This rotational attack method can strengthen the Song army's attack strength to the greatest extent possible, and it will not make them really tired on the road of charging and have no spare strength.
As soon as the battle began, the soldiers of the three states rushed forward like crazy.
As the first attack, the Baozhou army captured the first line of defense, then cleaned the battlefield, rested, and waited for the order to attack.
The second group of attacking Xiongzhou troops took the second line of defense and cleaned up the battlefield to rest.
The third group of attacking Bazhou troops captured the third line of defense and began to rest.
The fourth group was replaced by the Baozhou army, which had been resting for a while, and continued to launch a fierce attack.
Under such a cycle, the Liao soldiers always faced the Song army with the most energy and physical strength, which made them lose one after another, retreating and retreating.
It wasn't until Sun Wenfu appeared with more than 10,000 main forces that the situation was temporarily alleviated.
But it was at this time that the Sanzhou army got a new order, not to attack in turn, but to fight together to destroy the Liao army on the opposite side in a battle.
Over the years, Sanzhou has been bullied by the Liao people.
Many times, they became prey, and when the Liao people were unhappy, they would come to fight the grass valley, rob or kill them, and did not take them into account at all.
Now that Su Shi is out, after having an organizer, everyone will be gathered together for revenge. When the soldiers of the three states attacked, none of them were soft-handed.
Some people are killing and shouting, "Father, mother, my son has avenged you."
As he spoke, he slashed down with a knife, and the half-pulled head of a Liao soldier fell to the ground.
There are countless such scenes, it was originally dark night, and the soldiers of the three states were so crazy that it made this night suddenly seem even more weird.
"Rush!"
Seeing that the Liao army had not rushed out of any reinforcements for a while, Yang Wenguang, who had been waiting for a long time, gave an order, and rushed out of Qigou Pass with 6,000 vanguard cavalry, and rushed straight towards the battlefield where the two sides were fighting together.
Xu Ba led 10,000 reserve forbidden troops, Lei Meng with 5,000 dragon warrior cavalry, and Ji Zhu followed closely with nearly 5,000 black cavalry, and one by one men and horses rushed out of the pass and rushed straight to the north.
On the battlefield, Sun Wenfu slashed down with a knife and killed a Song people's army, but then he panted and stunned.
In the time of this meeting, the number of Song people's troops who died in his hands was already in double digits.
Speaking of which, the strength of these Song people's army is really mediocre. They don't cooperate, and there is no discipline when they start a war, and the way they shoot and shoot is full of loopholes.
These people's armies fought by brute force.
But these people are not afraid of death.
Even at night, these common people have a pair of glowing eyes, and when they look at them, it is like a rogue seeing a beautiful woman, like a merchant seeing countless money.
If you can kill the first People's Army, then the second, the third...
In short, no
Kill you, and these common people will never stop advancing.
Sun Wenfu also served in the border army, but the Song people in his eyes were not like this.
There may be no shortage of bloody people among them, but more of them are people who follow the crowd. As soon as they find that they cannot be violated, or that the enemy is too fierce, they will retreat.
It is precisely because the Song soldiers are not ruthless enough that the Liao army does not take them in their eyes, and will go to the Song Land from time to time to fight the grass valley, which is not only to train the troops but also to deter, and at the same time to seize some foreign wealth, which is one of the favorite things of many Liao soldiers.
It's just that the people of the Song Dynasty, who have always been cowardly like sheep, suddenly became hardened.
In the face of tens of thousands of Liao soldiers, shouldn't they be afraid and retreat?
Now they can charge like a death-defying charge, this is still the Song people they know?
Or does Su Shi really know some kind of spell that can instantly change a person's nature?
Sun Wenfu couldn't figure it out, and he didn't have time to think about it, because the next Song people rushed in front of him again, and a big knife slashed at him.
As soon as the long knife in his hand slid away, he let the chopping knife aside, and then turned around and slashed with a large canopy of blood.
The injured Song people on the opposite side did not fall down, but dragged their bleeding bodies and continued to sweep towards him.
Blocking again, and then splitting back, this knife fell on the skull of the Song people, and the blade of the knife dodged in it, and when it was pulled out, there were obviously some gaps on it.
Finally, the Song people fell to the ground. But I don't know if I was wrong, or if I had a hallucination, and there was a sense of relief and relief in the eyes of the Song people who fell to the ground.
It's like he's done something great.
In times of war, no one knew the importance of food to ordinary people.
As the saying goes, there are people who are alive but dead. This can also be applied to people on the border who don't even have food.