Chapter 318: Recovering Ying Tianfu

The riot of Jin Bing can be imagined, this is the answer that Xiao Ming said to Wang Shu, it is the secret weapon that Xiao Ming prepared and transported from Hangzhou this time, a steam tank!

In fact, the less than ten steam tanks were transported one after another, but they were always hidden in the material tents of the rear army, and the reason why Xiao Ming did not use them immediately was because the coal needed for the tanks had not yet arrived, and once the cargo ship transported the coal needed for the tanks, Xiao Ming launched an attack at no time.

These "tanks" riveted with steel plates are very large, due to the need to install a boiler in the body, so the space left for the crew is very small, and the interior is extremely stuffy, so a lot of ventilation pipes are opened outside, and the main weapon of the tank is an infantry gun!

The steam tank didn't use tracks, because it couldn't be built yet, so it could only use very wide stiff wheels, which were also very flexible because of the use of the Mohist trick in it! It is not effortless to climb the ditch uphill or something, and the stoker burns the boiler hot! Sweat like rain! The speed of the steam tank also rose.

His speed was not slow at all, and even a few of them had broken away from the formation and rushed into the camp of the golden soldiers, such a monster rushed in, and the golden soldiers were frightened and ran around, but there were also those who pounced on it and clanged and smashed it together, but the scimitar cut the gap, and the mace smashed up and shook the tiger's mouth to crack, and the people were fine, at most a few white marks!

The tank turned the upper half of the body, and suddenly shot out iron projectiles from a small hole in the body! This projectile has an extremely high rate of fire, "poof...... The golden soldiers around it beat the pendulum in the wind, and everyone was beaten into a sieve! It turned out that the overburned steam was connected to the "machine gun" of this vapor ejection through the pipe! This makes for a melee weapon of a steam tank!

The steam tank spewed a puff of white smoke, followed by black smoke, and it began to continue to chase the golden soldier and constantly crush and fire iron projectiles! Jin Bing's camp suddenly became a pot of porridge! The guards who followed behind these vehicles also came up with steel iron helmets and rifles, and with the dense gunfire, a large number of golden soldiers were killed on the ground.

The massive rout of the soldiers is simply unstoppable! Even if it's a golden vulture, the outcome of this battle has already been decided! The tiger guards shouted "Surrender and don't kill!" The slogan kept moving forward, and any golden soldiers who tried to resist would be shot down, and sometimes they would collectively shoot in the direction where the bow and arrow were fired, and at the same time shoot at the same time, beating the archers into a sieve!

Xiao Ming and the front personnel and Wang Shu sat on a steam tank behind and then caught up, and the Great Song Royal Tiger Guards couldn't guess a total of 10,000 horses and nearly 1,000 artillery, so this attack only used less than 6,000 people, a total of five regiments of men and horses, and the rest of the people came up to capture the prisoners!

The steam tank relied on its speed to quickly insert itself into the back of the golden soldiers, and then turned around to compress the golden soldiers to the middle of the strip, which was to wrap them in dumplings! From time to time, the Jin soldiers who wanted to break through were killed by artillery or shot down by "machine guns", and the more than 20,000 Jin soldiers were gradually compressed into a small space.

If you don't surrender, you will face the danger of being killed directly, and the Jin soldiers have no fighting spirit, so they surrender one after another! So the Tiger Guards began a vigorous campaign to capture prisoners again! At the same time, the medical personnel of the battlefield also entered the field and began to treat the wounded, but most of the wounded were Jin soldiers, and only a few people in the Tiger Guards were wounded by arrows.

When the captured Jin Bing saw the banner of Xiao Zi, everyone was also relieved, and it was not once or twice that they had fought with Xiao Ming! The Jin soldiers all know that this master likes to capture prisoners very much, and even goes to treat those seriously injured who can only wait for death, and they don't have to worry about being abused if they fall into his hands! I heard that he treated his captives well.

This battle took less than five hours, annihilating the elite cavalry of the Jin soldiers and capturing more than 20,000 people! What a big win! But when counting the prisoners, Xiao Ming found that he had not found a few high-ranking generals, and it turned out that Jin Wushu took off his royal robe this time and escaped under the cover of several personal soldiers! In addition, Chi Zhanhui was not among them because he was interspersed with the rear of the Song army to rob the grain road.

After listening to the report of his subordinates, Xiao Ming sneered and said, "He can't run far, send a company, ride the captured horses, and chase me after him!" ”

His subordinates had to be ordered to go, and Xiao Ming was going to organize the escort of these captives to the capital Kangjing! Wang Shu is now completely convinced of Xiao Ming! And he was very curious about the steam tanks used by Xiao Ming, and after the car stopped, he specially asked people to open the door to see the facilities inside.

Xiao Ming wanted to take advantage of this opportunity to escort the prisoners into Beijing to let Wang Shu return to the court, but Wang Shu was killed and did not leave, he sincerely expressed his willingness to follow Xiao Ming to continue to visit the next battle, and really learn the current war tactics, as Wang Shu, who has dealt with the army all his life, what he has seen in the past few days has exceeded all the past few decades!

But someone has to come to escort the 20,000 Jin soldiers back to Beijing, Xiao Ming doesn't want to stay here for too long, he wants to push it all the way up, although the Jin Wushu ran away, he still has heavy troops in the Xuzhou area, where is the real battlefield, if it weren't for the capture of the prisoner at the door of the house this time, the prisoner Xiao Ming who was usually caught elsewhere would not be sent to the capital, but immediately assigned to the major construction sites.

But he was still delayed for more than a day, and the soldiers sent to capture Jin Wushu came back to report that the horse's hooves went all the way north, and the pursuing tiger guards were afraid of falling into an ambush, so they returned to Xiao Ming to return to his life, since Jin Wushu had run away, then forget it, there would be a chance to catch him in the future anyway.

The Tiger Guard Army specially divided a regiment to escort the Jin soldiers into Beijing, first mobilized a large number of canal barges to transport the prisoners, and then after arriving at the Yangtze River, the royal Yangtze River Naval Division there took over, when the prisoners entered Kangjing, it immediately caused a sensation! Almost all the common people took to the streets to watch the dejected captives, and almost all the alleys were empty!

Gaozong Zhao Gou is even more happy, not only does he have face, but also benefits more, the price of the war debt brought by a big victory has soared, and he has earned a lot of wealth! He had to order another three million bonds to be printed, and at the same time reward the soldiers who fought with him, and send him wine and pig samples!

After the ceremony of dedicating the prisoners to the temple, the captives were all assigned to several large construction sites in Kangjing City, where there were still projects to be built, due to the lack of manpower, and even a large number of prisoners were also participating in the labor, and the arrival of more than 20,000 prisoners greatly alleviated the shortage of manpower.

After the tiger guards handed over the captives at the Yangtze River ferry, they immediately turned back, they went to chase Xiao Ming, but they were temporarily stopped, but it was the people of the imperial court Yushitai, they handed over the imperial wine and cattle and sheep and other things to them and left after reciting the holy decree, and the tiger guards had no choice but to take these things north to chase Xiao Ming.

And Xiao Ming's progress at this time is very fast, which fought a few small battles, but the harvest is not big, three days later to recapture Yangzhou Mansion, the Jushi Gu's 20,000 troops received under his command, and then continue to pursue the Jin army north, Xiao Ming's goal is the main force of the Jin soldiers on the periphery of Xuzhou, but before they arrived, the Jin soldiers withdrew again!

Xiao Ming transferred to Xuzhou, and then settled in Taiping City! This time he had to stop, it turned out that some of the steam tanks had already broken down, and there was not much coal he carried, so he had to go to Taiping City to repair and replenish the coal first, and only Taiping City could repair the tanks within a radius of many miles.

The scale of the Taiping Iron Works has expanded even more since the last time Xiao Ming came, and the general purpose of the Jin soldiers in Xuzhou is actually to covet the iron manufacturing of the Taiping Iron Works, but the permanent tiger guards in Taiping City are not less than 5,000 people, and there are many cannons to defend the city, and the Jin soldiers have to control Taiping City by capturing Xuzhou, but this calculation did not come true.

After resting for a few days, Xiao Ming set off again to target Ying Tianfu, transferred a locomotive from Taiping City, loaded all the horses and supplies, and drove straight to Ying Tianfu, Ying Tianfu had nearly 10,000 gold soldiers, which was a nail inserted in the Kaifeng Song army, and it must be pulled out.

Ying Tianfu, the original Nanjing of the Great Song Dynasty, the train station here is not in the suburbs outside the city but in the city, in order to build this station has opened a city gate, after the Jin soldiers occupied Ying Tianfu, for this station did not send many people to defend, although they are very interested in the train in the Central Plains but also know that they can not play this thing.

The train rushed towards the city gate from a distance with black smoke, and when it was not far away, it blew up the city gate with one shot, and then the train rushed into the city with full horsepower, and soon stopped on the platform, and the tiger guards on the train swarmed out, and suddenly the entire city of Ying Tianfu exploded, and the battle quickly unfolded in the city.

Ying Tianfu was successfully taken in only two hours, and the weapons prepared in the city to defend the city were basically useless, and those powerful bed crossbows and crossbow carts were all placed on the city wall like waste, which made Wang Shu even more shocked! Although the defenders in the city were small, there were more than 10,000 people, and this time almost all of them were captured.

The large group of prisoners lined up and walked out of the city, and the people in Tianfu City began to welcome Xiao Ming's Tiger Guards, but when they were screening the prisoners, they found a big fish, this person was Kong Yanzhou, the general of Liu Yu's puppet Qi court! Xiao Ming was surprised when he was told about this when he came over.

It turned out that after Liu Yu's Daqi regime was abolished, Liu Yu's generals Li Cheng, Kong Yanzhou and others were all organized into the new annex army of the puppet army of the Dajin State! And Kong Yanzhou is also quite a general, so he was awarded a commanding military rank by Jin Wushu, and led a team of Jin soldiers to follow him to launch the autumn offensive.

Kong Yanzhou knelt on the ground, and when he saw Xiao Ming and the others coming over, he shut up! Wang Shu saw Kong Yanzhou and said angrily: "You traitor! Xiao Ming smiled, this is a big fish, but he is a traitor! He said to Kong Yanzhou: "What do you want me to do with you?" ”

Kong Yanzhou said: "Kong only wants to die quickly!" ”

Xiao Ming said: "Then I have to meet your requirements?" ”

"Taishi!" Wang Shu beside him said: "Although Kong Yanzhou deserves to die, this person is quite talented!" It should be sent to the imperial court! ”

A group of golden soldier captives behind Kong Yanzhou said: "My lord, spare your life!" We are all bewitched by thieves, we are all Han people from the Central Plains, and we were forced to become new annexes! ”

Xiao Ming scolded angrily: "Shut up! You soft bones, when the people of the Great Song Dynasty were ravaged by the iron hooves of the Jin people, you didn't know how to resist but wagked your tail and begged for mercy, all of them were traitors, and they all deserved to die! ”

He turned to Kong Yanzhou and said, "You know that you are guilty, but what did you do earlier?" Don't think that if you have talent, you won't be punished, and all traitors who help the country in times of crisis will not end well! He pointed to the captives again and said, "And you! If you don't pay the price, you'll never reflect on the crimes you have committed!