In the eighth year of Xuanhe, it was the third day of March.
In the night, a fire dragon is still rolling forward on the official road in Cizhou, Hebei Province!
Although Zhao Kai's behavior is a bit reckless and a bit crazy. But under his recklessness and madness, the execution ability of his military group is super strong... A reckless mad king is whipping behind him with a whip, and he is also motivating with a huge reward. He also kicked out a group of too many calculating and prudent civil servants from the military decision-making level. Isn't this efficient? Can the execution ability be strong?
Therefore, on the first day of March, Zhao Kai held an emergency military meeting on the day he learned that the Pingding Army was surrounded by the Jinxi Route Army, and the decision to send troops and the scale of the troops were made at the military meeting. Then another day was spent gathering and reorganizing the troops, preparing carriages, horses, equipment, and baggage.
By dinner time on the second day of March, there were eight thousand soldiers, two thousand auxiliary soldiers, fifteen thousand mules and horses, five hundred carts, provisions for the fifteenth day, and a large number of arrowheads, javelins, and weapons. The reward silk, copper coins, land deeds, and official photos were all prepared and packed for the truck.
Early in the morning on the third day of March, Zhao Kai said goodbye to Zhu Fengying and Pan Cailian. At the same time, he issued an edict, ordering his son Zhao Lun to act as general marshal, and ordered He Guan and Lu Yihao to assist him. He also ordered Wang Yuan to lead the Wei army out of Huaizhou.
After the arrangements were made, Zhao Kai, together with Chen Ji, Du Chong, Han Shizhong, Liu Ziyu, Huang Wuji, Li Xiaozhong, Xiang Ke and other civil and military officials, led their troops to leave the Xiangzhou Camp outside Anyang City and march north. By nightfall, the army had crossed the county seat of Handan County, an important town under Cizhou, and was about to enter Xinde Prefecture.
In one day, Zhao Kai's army marched one hundred and twenty miles!
Not to mention this speed in the Song Dynasty, even a few hundred years later, in the era of marching with flintlock guns and bronze cannons, it would be considered a forced march.
But Zhao Kai is still too slow... Yue Fei is still waiting to be rescued! If he had gone too late, maybe Yue Pengju would have turned into Yue Wumu!
Zhao Kai can't afford to lose Yue Fei!
And he also believes that this battle will be won! How could it be possible to lose? He is the chosen one, Yue Fei is a natural-born general, and there is Han Shizhong, a general named after Yue Fei... So what if there are few people? Even with the terrain of Niangzi Pass, even a million troops can't move away! To be honest, an army of 8,000 people is just right at Niangziguan.
Zhao Kai certainly had confidence in Yue Fei's defense of the Pingding Army, and he had no doubts about whether he, the chosen king, could defend Niangzi Pass.
Therefore, in his opinion, the key to victory in this battle lies in whether the 8,000 troops he leads can arrive in time.
After nightfall, in order to save horsepower, all soldiers dismounted and walked. Zhao Kai also dismounted, leaning on a carbine, carrying a straight knife, quiver, water bag and dry food bag like ordinary soldiers, and marched step by step. They were surrounded by Xiangzhou soldiers who had just joined the army. Under the torch, these Xiangzhou men saw that their king was walking with them, measuring the official road from Handan to Xingtai with his feet, and they couldn't help but move. Speeded up a bit.
Zhao Kai was also in extremely high spirits. While walking, he chatted with these Xiangzhou people and said some encouraging words. He deliberately moved the Xiangzhou people to his side along the way, just to encourage them with his words and example before he put down his hoe. Soon farmers.
"How do you call me big man?"
"In reply to the king, the younger one's surname is Wang Minggui."
"Wang Gui..." Zhao Kai glanced at the honest-looking "farmer" beside him and said with a smile, "What a good name... When you meet a king, you are expensive! Now you have met a lonely king. , will definitely be distinguished!"
"The younger one thinks so too. The younger one plans to kill a few more gold thieves at Niangziguan, and also gain an official position..."
"Hahaha......"
The words named Wang Gui immediately caused a burst of laughter.
The surrounding Xiangzhou soldiers were all laughing. They were all men picked from ten miles apart. They knew some martial arts and horseback riding, and were strong enough, but they were out of reach for being a Boguan.
Wang Gui's face turned red when everyone laughed at him, and he glared at the two young men who laughed the most fiercely, "Zhang Xian, Xu Qing, don't you want to? If you don't want to, just farm at home. Why do you want to be recruited into the army?"
Zhao Kai smiled and said: "Being a soldier is for being an official. As military strategists say: If you don't want to be a general, you have to join the army! Your fellow countryman Yue Fei from Xiangzhou is also a farmer and is a client of the Han family. This time he is not in the army. The Pingding Army killed many Jurchens, and they have become officials... You must learn from him!"
Wang Gui nodded heavily: "Your Majesty is right. If the brothers of the Yue family can be officials, why can't I, Wang Gui, be an official? To tell you the truth, I, Wang Gui, have been a brave warrior... a long time ago. I have competed with Hulu!"
"Isn't it just a dare warrior? I have been one too!"
"Many of us have been..."
It turned out that many of these elites selected by He Guan and his son from the Xiangzhou soldiers had already served as soldiers once, but they were not serious Forbidden Army soldiers, but brave warriors recruited by Liu Kai when he was the staff officer of Xuanfu in Hebei and Hedong. , regarded as a temporary mercenary. After the battle against Liao ended, everyone returned to their respective homes.
Zhao Kai nodded with a smile, raised his voice and said: "Okay, you are all good men of the Song Dynasty. When we get to Niangzi Pass this time, the lonely king will lead you to fight... The golden thief is nothing special, Yue Fein can If we kill a lot, we will definitely be able to kill a lot!"
"Yes, if Yue Fei can do it, so can we!"
"I'm no worse than Yue Fei!"
The morale of this group of Xiangzhou people has been boosted by Zhao Kai. They are all gearing up to become Yue Fei second and Yue Fei third... Seeing that thousands of Yue Wumu are about to get up, Zhao Kai is even more confident!
Zhao Kai looked up at Xingkong in the north and thought to himself: Pengju, just wait... I will bring thousands of Yue Wumu to save you!
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On the same night, Yue Fei didn't know that thousands of "selves" were coming to save him... Although he had been claiming to his comrades that reinforcements would come, but he In fact, I don’t believe it.
It seems that the pacification of the army is not that important!
How could His Highness Prince Yun leave Kaifeng Mansion alone and not rescue him, and instead come to quell the Ding army? This kind of nonsense can only be said by that nerd Qin Hui - Qin Hui has been following the devil these days, telling everyone that King Yun will personally lead troops to rescue the Pingding Army and Yue Fei.
He also said that King Yun wanted Yue Fei in his dreams... This doesn't sound right!
Therefore, no one in the Pingding Army believed Qin Hui, and they all thought that he was frightened crazy by the not-so-powerful gold thief outside the city!
That's right, the gold thieves who besieged the Pingding Army were indeed not very powerful. No, Yue Fei just led another night attack and burned a dozen cannons that the gold thieves had worked so hard to build - these cannons were just moved outside the north gate of Pingding Military City this afternoon. It was of no use, so Yue Fei led 300 death warriors to destroy it.
In the night attack that just ended, Yue Fei adopted a new style of fighting. The three hundred warriors all put on infantry armor, carried tomahawks and javelins, rode out of the sheep and horse walls and trenches, and approached the Jin Dynasty. After the thieves (who were actually Khitans) took up their positions, they first dismounted and threw javelins, then rushed into the crowd and chopped with axes. After killing the gold thieves, they burned all their cannons with fire.
This style of fighting doesn't seem like a big deal, it's just a tactic used by mounted infantry, but when used properly it's surprisingly powerful!
Because this tactic is extremely sudden, hundreds of heavily armored warriors can be thrown into a certain section of the enemy's front in a very short period of time, forming an overwhelming advantage in a short period of time. Moreover, after completing the mission, you can quickly evacuate, making it impossible for the opponent to counterattack and pursue.
So Yelu Yujian could only watch the cannon that his men had worked so hard to build destroyed... The Song Army of the Pingding Army was wrong no matter how they looked at it! How come you can fight so well?
Thinking of this, Yelu Yu sighed. Just as he was about to go down from the high ground where he was, to take a look at the front line that had just been attacked by Yue Fei, he heard a rapid and intensive sound of horse hooves, followed by a loud announcement from the soldiers: "Grand Master, Deputy Marshal Zuo is here!"
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