When Yang An'er was in Shandong, he was always known for his huge appeal. This appeal is based on the harsh life of the Jurchens who brutally expropriated the land in Shandong again and again, forcing the people of Shandong to the brink of death. Hundreds of thousands of Han people in Shandong were already in dire straits. Last year and the year before last, they were hit by floods, droughts and locusts. The government continued to recruit more people, and the subordinate officials acted wantonly.
At this time, hundreds of thousands of people were like firewood, and the Mongolian army swept across Dongping, Jinan and other places, and wiped out the Jin army that was capable of putting out the fire. When Yang An'er gave an order, it was like a spark falling into a pyre, immediately igniting a raging fire that could not be controlled.
But this huge appeal in Shandong does not exist in the Si, Ying, Cai, and Shou prefectures in Huaishang on the Henan Road.
Because the battlefields of the Jin and Song Dynasties were mostly in Henan for decades, various places experienced repeated military revolutions and sparsely populated areas. Especially the Huaishang area on Henan Road was quite desolate, and the imperial court regarded it as a "narrow township." In addition, because the imperial court adopted the strategy of strengthening the north and depriving the south of the country, the two taxes and millet taxes collected in various places in Henan were originally lower than those in Hebei and Shandong.
In this way, the people could barely survive, and their hatred against the Jurchens was not as intense as that of the people in Shandong. After Sui Wang Wanyan Shouxu arrived in Kaifeng, he was very good at selecting talents and training elite soldiers. Compared with the Red Coat Army, he gained the advantage of playing at home.
After Yang An'er led his elite troops to break into Huaishang, he became deaf and blind for a time due to lack of support from the local people. Not only was he unable to attack the weak points of Yan Heda's troops, but he himself was at a loss. ,
Although Yang An'er founded the country and became king, he was actually only the leader of the leaders of the Red Coat Army. If he wants to maintain his identity as leader of the alliance, he must not easily fail on the battlefield. One defeat would shake his reputation, and even five or ten victories would be hard to make up for it.
So Yang An'er had already seen that the situation was unfavorable, but he still moved to Huaishang with tenacity, trying to find an opportunity to turn things around.
But a few days ago, Yang An'er arrived at Linhuan Longshan Temple with his light cavalry, and was suddenly ambushed by the superior force of the Jin Army. The soldiers suffered heavy casualties, and Yang An'er's life or death was unknown. The Jin army took advantage of the situation and attacked fiercely. The troops divided into groups and moved forward bravely.
Yang An'er gathered the whole army with his prestige, but he could not come forward, and the red coat army was leaderless. Even Yang An'er's most elite headquarters, the thousands of soldiers transformed from the Tiewagan fighting army, have no fighting spirit, let alone other soldiers.
Within a few days, each department went from fighting and retreating to a partial retreat, from a partial retreat to a full-scale collapse, and finally the superior and subordinate command lost control.
At this time, many rumors were circulating in the army, saying that the leaders of various families were about to merge. The sad thing is that when this rumor spreads, some people actually take it seriously. There were indeed several teams that retreated and at the same time annexed each other and started fighting.
On the fourth and fifth day of the retreat, tens of thousands of people were already in a chaotic mess, not in formation or formation. Whether they were brave generals or farmers who had just joined the army, they all ran for their lives.
Only a very small number of troops can persist in fighting in this environment.
Yang Miaozhen, with a small number of cavalry and a few maids, rode back and forth, constantly launching counterattacks against the Jin army.
Her pear-shaped spear stabbed an enemy general when it met one, and countless people were stabbed through the throats and chests by this plain white spear.
There was an enemy general who came to stop her. He was a famous warrior from the Suppression Armor Army retained during the Taihe period. He had launched a national war with the Song Dynasty. However, he rushed to the nearby area with a roar like thunder. Before he could raise his sword or gun, he was killed. She stabbed to death.
However, the Jin army was extremely numerous and came from all over the mountains and plains, constantly dividing and surrounding the Red Coat Army from all directions.
Yang Miaozhen led more than a hundred cavalry under her men and drove back one group of the Jin army, and the second group swarmed up. After the two sides fought fiercely for three days, and the swords met nearly twenty times, the white tassel of her spear in her hand became Black and red.
Almost all of her original subordinates were dead, and the more than forty cavalrymen following her were all stragglers who had been gathered together over the past three days.
Yesterday morning, she and Yang You met together.
Yang You has more than 200 men, most of whom are infantry. Many of them were subordinates of the veteran Li Siwen. Because Li Siwen was the first to die in Longshan Temple, they followed Yang You.
But Yang You's temper is too irritable and he lacks enough tenacity. That day, he ignored Yang Miaozhen's persuasion and took his men to rest in a village. As a result, he was overtaken by the enemy troops who were pursuing him and set fire to the village.
After hearing the news, Yang Miaozhen returned to the rescue. He came close to fight several times, and finally attracted the enemy's attention, and sent out a troop to intercept. Yang You took the opportunity and took the remaining 20 or 30 people to the north with their heads full of blisters. Yang Miaozhen did not dare to delay and immediately withdrew his troops. Even so, more than ten of his subordinates died in the battle.
During the battle, Yang Miaozhen was hit by a cold arrow in the side. Although there was leather armor to resist, the arrow clusters penetrated deeply. She struggled to pull out the arrow and continued to fight. After a simple bandage that night, the wound was opened in the fierce battle the next day.
Today's fierce battle is here, and the blood has stained the saddle red. The severe pain and bouts of dizziness made her face pale, and she could only bite a strand of black hair in her mouth, trying to hold back the pain.
Fortunately it was getting late and no one noticed this.
At this moment, she and her companions were leading their horses on foot to let the horses rest.
Someone was walking, pointing to the side and shouting: "Fourth Lady, look!"
Because she was too tired, her vision was a little blurry. In the evening haze, she couldn't see the direction clearly. After staring for a long time, she realized that there were two general flags and three to four hundred cavalry following the general flags. It was slowly approaching from behind the ditch.
A soldier beside him shouted loudly: "It's Wanyan Congtan and Xielie Mingding!"
These two people were both generals under Sui Wang Wanyan Shouxu. Wanyan Congtan was the deputy commander of the Henan Road army after Wanyan Heda; and Xielie Mingding was Wanyan Shouxu's newly promoted general at Henan Road. This man was known to be powerful against the bravery of a hundred men, and he was officially worshiped by Bozhou Defense. make.
The soldiers and horses led by these two generals actually pursued them so close. It can be seen that they have also been planning for a long time. Maybe some knights stayed awake just to wipe out the commander-in-chief of the Red Coat Army and his trusted generals, and achieve feats that would shake the sky.
What's even more troublesome is that these pursuers also noticed Yang Miaozhen's troops.
Someone pointed in this direction and yelled a few words, and then nearly a hundred riders rushed into the shallow water of the river beach and rushed over with splashes of water.
The distance between the two parties is a few miles, neither far nor close.
Yang Miaozhen immediately got on her horse, but her strength was exhausted and her hands and feet were secretly shaking. She pulled the saddle bridge twice hard, feeling that the force was so strong that her fingers almost cramped, but she could not get on the horse's back.
She did not mount her horse, and her men did not move. The cavalry all looked anxious, waiting for her order on how to meet the enemy. In the past few years, Yang Miaozhen was only a figure in the legend of the Red Coat Army soldiers, but at this moment, she has truly become someone everyone relies on.
She took a deep breath, exerted all her strength again, and finally got on the horse.
"If we go east, it will be easy to expose the position of the marshal and others. We will lure the enemy to the south towards Liuzi Town. It will soon get dark. They will not be able to catch up with us. After we get rid of them, we will Join the group."
Yang Miaozhen had no experience in leading troops, and he didn't know how to deal with such a chaotic situation.
But she remembered someone's calm and calm demeanor in the midst of thousands of troops, so she followed suit and gave orders in the same calm tone. This calm tone really reassured his companions.
(End of chapter)
