Pharmacist Guo made people praise him, but in fact he had long wanted his precious cavalry to retreat - the purpose of sending his cavalry was to kill the Song Army's infantry soldiers. He only needed to defeat the Song Army's limited infantry soldiers. If there are heavy casualties, then his camp can be defended!
Therefore, Guo Tiannu's cavalry should withdraw immediately after the attack. There is no need to tangle with the Song's infantry soldiers, lest the Song's cavalry come back to kill them.
Unexpectedly, Guo Tiannv became furious and refused to retreat after the attack was completed. She almost went to fight Zhao Kai, but she shocked and frightened Pharmacist Guo!
The reason why he was frightened was that Zhao Kai attacked again - was this guy the real King Yun or the fake King Yun? Why are you so kind? Just now he personally plotted against Liu Yanzong and Guo Tiannv, and now he personally leads the cavalry to charge at the camp gate! How could the prince of Song Dynasty be so fierce?
What frightened Pharmacist Guo were the two feather arrows inserted into his daughter's body... Could her chain armor be able to withstand it? She wouldn't listen even if she was told to wear Zha Jia again, saying it was too heavy. It's so good now, that damn King Yun is about to turn into a hedgehog! Fortunately, she didn't go to duel with the Song general, but ran back quickly, otherwise her life might have been lost.
Seeing that his daughter was out of danger, Medicine Master Guo paid the gold and retreated his troops, taking back his cavalry and the 1 or 200 infantrymen of the Han Army on the Nanjing Road who had narrowly escaped death.
While Guo Yaoshi withdrew his troops, Zhao Kai also withdrew his cavalry. Because he couldn't use his cavalry to step on his infantry - they were still fighting with the Jin's infantry! When Zhao Kai led the cavalry up just now, the foot soldiers who were running away all realized their shame and mustered up the courage to go back to kill the thieves. As a result, they got entangled with the gold thieves.
In addition, Zhao also discovered that the Ever Victorious Army had rebuilt a line of defense within the south gate of the camp—a line of defense composed of carts, horse rifles, infantry pikemen, and archers. Although it's not very solid, it takes some effort to break through.
These golden soldiers reacted so quickly, it doesn't look like the coach was killed!
Therefore, Zhao Kai had no choice but to give up when he saw the opportunity, and first used the cavalry on hand to fire arrows to support the soldiers in front of him, defeating the golden thieves' infantry, and seizing the south gate of the camp and a section of the camp wall. Then readjust the deployment, organize the forces, and launch a new attack...
At this time, Zhao Kai found that his strength was a bit insufficient... He had a lot of cavalry on hand, as many as 4,500.
However, there are not many infantry soldiers who can engage in assault and hand-to-hand combat. The total number is only seven or eight hundred. And a large number of archers, crossbowmen, and sword players cannot play a big role in the attack.
Unless Zhao Kai is willing to use his cavalry as infantry to attack the fortress, it will still be difficult to quickly attack the Jinbing camp.
But how can the power of cavalry in offensive battles be compared with that of infantry soldiers? The protection between the two is not on the same level. Now the cavalry armor of the Song Army can only cover their front and rear, and their defensive capabilities are not comparable to that of infantry armor. Therefore, if the dismounted cavalry is used to attack the enemy, there will definitely be heavy casualties. And the Tiance cavalry is far more important to Zhao Kai than the annihilation of Guo Yaoshi's troops... This is really embarrassing!
"Lieutenant He, how are you doing, your master?"
Zhao Kai, who was worried about the Jin army's rebuilt defense line, suddenly saw He Guan coming on a flying horse, so he asked loudly.
"Thank you, Your Majesty, for your concern. The dog is fine." He Guan dismounted and said to Zhao Kai, "However, my subordinates lost more than 150 infantrymen and soldiers... Although we gained a lot, It’s up to five or six hundred, but it’s still a bit of a loss.”
It's not a loss, it's because there are too few soldiers! Zhao Kaixin said, there are ten thousand infantry troops here. If there were five thousand, no, three thousand infantry soldiers, we would have won a complete victory now! However, he only had a mere 700 foot soldiers in his hands, and most of the others were archers and crossbowmen. It seemed that the Song Dynasty was still cowardly!
Zhao Kai frowned and asked, "Can the remaining infantry soldiers still fight?"
He Guan shook his head and said: "We are all exhausted...and our morale is a bit low. We need to rest for at least one day and give ourselves a good reward."
"Are you exhausted now?" Zhao Kai was stunned, "You just fought for a while, why can't you feel better?"
He Guan smiled bitterly: "Your Majesty, you don't know. The Shuaifu Yajun under my command are all the foundation of the Hebei Forbidden Army... Hebei has been at peace for a long time, and the Forbidden Army has never been accustomed to fighting, so its body is naturally not as strong as the Northwest Forbidden Army. . They were already exhausted after walking from Daming Mansion wearing infantry armor weighing dozens of kilograms. They had fought hard for a while and spent a lot of energy. If they didn't take a break, it would be impossible to fight again. "
Does this cost a lot of energy?
Zhao Kai didn't even know what to say, where were he now? How far is it from Damingfu to the west bank of the Yellow River? I don’t know if the beating just now lasted two quarters of an hour? It's time for a good rest. How can such an army fight a protracted war with the Jin people?
"The lonely king can give you a big reward!" Zhao Kai thought for a while and gritted his teeth and said, "Recruit people from the ranks of archers and crossbowmen to serve as gunners, swordsmen and axemen... Each person will be given fifty guans." Wealth!”
He Guan did not move, but just shook his head and said: "Your Majesty, it won't work...Archers and crossbowmen are not accustomed to using weapons. Even if they are greedy for rewards and hastily go into battle, they still can't defeat the long-term victorious army." Old soldiers. There were originally more than 10,000 people on the side of the Ever Victorious Army. We killed or captured at most 1,000 or hundreds of them with a sudden attack. There were at least 8,000 or more left. Not too few. They were enough to hold on. Encamped.”
He paused and then said: "Your Majesty, I have observed that the Jin army's camp is strong and the defenders are well-organized. There was no chaos due to the death of Medical Master Guo. This shows that their army is very elite and well prepared... Our army Although there are many, they are not good at attacking fortified areas. If we cannot fight for a long time, it will only damage our prestige, so it is better to give up when the situation is good."
"Your Majesty, what Lieutenant He said makes sense!" Wang Yuan, the commander of Wei Fu Yi's army, suddenly remembered, "If we withdraw our troops now, it will be an unprecedented victory!"
Zhao Kai looked back and found that Wang Yuan, Han Shizhong, Liu Yan, Ma Kuo and others were walking towards him together. Judging from their looks, all of them were beaming with joy, and there was no regret at all about not being able to destroy the golden thief.
Even Han Shizhong looked smiling... Zhao Kai suddenly became a little annoyed. It doesn't matter if others don't have ambition, you are Han Shizhong! Why are you like this? Is it possible that Yue Fei is the only one who can fight the gold with the Gu family to the end?
But where is Yue Fei?
"Your Majesty, what a great victory!" Han Shizhong stepped forward with a smile and crossed his hands and said, "What a great victory. I have already checked the beheadings. I have beheaded more than 700 levels, captured more than 600 people, and captured more than a hundred war horses. With more than a thousand soldiers under armor...this is an unprecedented victory since the war against the Jin Dynasty!"
As he spoke, Han Shizhong raised his arms and shouted: "The king is mighty! The king is mighty..."
"The king is mighty! The king is mighty..."
He Guan, Wang Yuan, Liu Yan, Ma Kuo and others immediately started shouting together, and then the guards around Zhao Kai also started shouting.
However, Zhao Kai still has a bad face... he is not satisfied! Very dissatisfied! I have put so much thought into it, even lost face, used all the beauty traps, and even personally shot and killed Pharmacist Guo. Why did I just give up in the end?
And you people are all so happy, do you have any sense of shame?
Besides, I am now on the battlefield in person... I am not an official in the court of Kaifeng Mansion, fooling the people below. You can repay a prisoner who was killed in his early days of a thousand to ten thousand or twenty thousand. Great victory, now you and I have no money to pay for it! What are you happy about?
"But the Lone King has fourteen thousand people!" Zhao Kai's face darkened, "Fourteen thousand is a lot more than eight thousand! Why can't we wipe out all the bandits?"
Yes, fourteen thousand is much more than eight thousand, how could we not win? This does not conform to the laws of mathematics!
Mathematics is science, right? Science is the number one fighting force, right? So how can we not win? It is unscientific not to win!
And now that Medicine Master Guo is dead, the more than 8,000 gold thieves Han Army and Chang Victory Army here are really fat! As long as they are defeated, thousands of people should be captured... Give them a profound education, they are all loyal to the Song Dynasty!
"Your Majesty," Wang Yuan shook his head, "if we fight in formation, our army has a good chance of winning, but now that the gold thieves are holding fast to the camp, our army's cavalry advantage cannot be used!"
Zhao Kai snorted: "The lonely king still doesn't believe it. The lonely king wants to recruit warriors with heavy rewards and storm the gold thief's camp!"
