April 25, the eighth year of Xuanhe in the Song Dynasty.
Huazhou, a new embankment for thousands of years.
"The flood is coming! The flood is coming! The flood is coming..."
The panicked and noisy shouts sounded like a roaring mountain and a tsunami, sweeping from the ten-thousand-year-old new embankment on the edge of the Yellow River to the Song Army camp ten miles away from the dam!
On the Wannianxindi line near Sanshan Floating Bridge and Huazhou City, the armies of the Jin and Song Dynasties opened a battlefield with a frontal width of more than ten miles. About 50,000 Jin soldiers (including Alixi) occupied the top and south slope of the Wannian New Embankment. They also took soil from the spot (the soil from the embankment) and built two low fences. The horse wall also dug two moderately deep trenches on the slope.
The Song army set up a battle formation under the embankment. Although the situation was extremely critical, Li Gang, Zhong Shidao and others still followed the order of first setting up the stronghold and then setting up the large formation - setting up the large formation according to the Pingrong 10,000 full formation diagram written by Zhao Ji, and then slowly moved. Only when they reached the bottom of the Wannian New Embankment did they begin to mobilize their elite troops and launch wave after wave of upward attacks.
For many days in a row, at least 120,000 Song troops came out of camp, approached the embankment, and launched a fierce attack. To be honest, the battle organized by Li Gang, Zhong Shidao and others really impressed the enemies!
They intimidated, rewarded, and used personal conquests from officials to motivate people. They really forced the hundreds of thousands of Song troops to work hard.
But... it still doesn’t work!
Because now it is not the Jin army attacking and the Song army defending. Instead, the Song army attacked and the Jin soldiers defended... The Jin soldiers, who were in a high position and in danger, took advantage of the location, and their original combat effectiveness far exceeded that of the attacking Song army. The two sides launched a duel on the plain, and there would be no suspense about the outcome, not to mention that the Jin soldiers had secured a dangerous position?
What makes Li Gang, Zhong Shidao, Yao Gu and others burst into tears is... they have to fight even though they know they can't beat him!
Because Kaifeng is behind you and the Yellow River is in front of you!
Standing at a high place, you can now see that a U-shaped gap has been dug out at the top of the dam, which is about tens of feet wide... and you can also see many people driven by gold thieves. Han Ding Zhuang continues to dig day and night!
Anyone who knows a little bit about water conservancy knows that once the Yellow River water rises to the gap, it will flow out of the gap...Then the Yellow River water will continue to wash away the gap, constantly taking away the soil in the gap, making the gap It gets bigger and bigger until the dam breaks!
And now is the flood season of the Yellow River. There is enough water in the upper reaches, and the water level is rising every day!
So the Wannian Xindi is already as dangerous as a nest egg!
To avoid the dam breaking and flooding Kaifeng Mansion, the only way is to fight desperately to seize the dam... At least the Kaifeng soldiers and Kaifeng Minzhuang under Li Gang have already fought hard, and their loved ones and friends are all in Kaifeng Mansion!
You have to fight hard!
But no matter how hard they fight, they can't beat the Jin Bing... The Jin Bing of this era are the ace warriors who have defeated all the invincible opponents in East Asia. If we gather the elite combat power of the Song army and use the favorable terrain to deal with the small number of Jin soldiers, it is possible to win.
But the Bianliangzi who are working hard now are just craftsmen and small traders. How can they fight?
Their attacks one after another are just killing people!
Most of the corpses of Song Jun Erlang piled under the Wannian Xindi were from Kaifeng Mansion...
As for the more powerful Western Army... their family members are not in Kaifeng Mansion. They are just fighting for the bounty. How hard can they fight?
After receiving the bounty, he must also have a flower of life!
So at the beginning, these soldiers worked hard, but later on, the more money they got, the less motivated they were to fight...
But on April 25th, the constant consumption and rewards finally caused a qualitative change in the situation on the Wannian Xindi battlefield.
When the Song Army's wave of offensive collapsed, the Jin soldiers suddenly launched a large-scale counterattack!
Moreover, the Jin soldiers who fought back shouted in Chinese while charging: "The flood is coming! The flood is coming!"
This shout instantly triggered the biggest fear in the hearts of Song Jun on the battlefield!
Coupled with the continuous bloody battles for many days, the Song army was exhausted and suffered heavy losses (many people had already made enough), and their morale had long been on the verge of collapse.
Therefore, under the sudden attack of tens of thousands of Jin infantry and cavalry, the Song army was defeated!
The army was defeated like a mountain... Li Gang, who was still standing on a high platform, looked around and saw large groups of defeated troops. No matter how Li Gang and Zhong Shidao's soldiers tried to stop them, they just ran away. While running, he shouted: "The flood is coming! The flood is coming..."
Some of the defeated soldiers ran to the west, some to the east, and some to the Kaifeng Mansion in the south. They ran everywhere. The small number of soldiers of the Zhong family army could not stop them at all. Moreover, most of the Taiwei who followed Li Gang and Zhong Shidao into battle ran very fast under the protection of their own soldiers!
The only people Li Gang saw were Liu Yanqing and Yao Gu. Liu Yanqing was almost the first to flee. Under his Qin cavalry escort, he ran away without looking back, while his infantry He was followed behind with a lot of curses, and his armor and equipment were thrown away along the way.
The person running in front of Yao Gu seemed to be Yao Gu's adopted son Yao Pingzhong. Li Gang remembered that he was a very brave warrior! He and a tiger general named Wang De took the lead in every wave of Yao's army's charge before.
Unexpectedly, when I was running away now, Yao Pingzhong was also at the front...
Li Gang sighed, already feeling a little fed up.
The army of more than 200,000 was defeated in one fell swoop!
He Li Gang...I'm sorry for the Song Dynasty and the official family!
Thinking of this, Li Gang was about to touch his sword and wipe his neck!
Confucius said it was Cheng Ren, and Mencius said it was Qi Yi.
Now, Li Gang is about to act righteously!
But what about the sword?
Where did the sword go?
After touching it, Li Gang realized that his sword was gone?
"Ms. sir, are you looking for a sword?"
The speaker was a nephew of Zhong Shidao, named Zhong Ji, who was sent by Zhong Shidao to protect Li Gang. He was now talking to Li Gang with Li Gang's sword in his hand.
"Yes, yes..." Li Gang stretched out his hand for the sword, but Zhong Lao suddenly made a move, grabbed his wrist and pulled him into his arms. Li Gang was dragged over by him before he could stabilize himself. .
It wasn't over yet. Before Li Gang could react, Zhong Xi bent down and pressed his right shoulder against Li Gang's abdomen. Then he held his butt with one hand and lifted him onto his shoulder. Then he jumped off the high platform, and again He threw Li Gang onto a war horse that had been prepared long ago.
After finishing the matter, Zhong Lao also called to the people around him: "Get on your horses and protect Mr. Li from escaping!"
Someone on the left and right asked: "Where to escape?"
Zhong Lao deliberately raised his voice and said loudly: "Flee to the southeast and go to Xingren Mansion to defend the official family!"
By the way, there are also officials! Li Gang also thought of Zhao Ji who went out of the city to fight against the Jin Dynasty. He seemed to be going to Xingren Mansion...but was he there now? Don't bump into the gold thief heading south halfway!
At this moment, a bolt of lightning suddenly flashed across the already overcast sky, followed by a burst of rolling thunder, and then streaks of rain fell from the sky.
Maybe God didn't want to see more than 200,000 Song troops defeated in one fell swoop, so he couldn't help but burst into tears!
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"Guanjia, it's raining..."
Taiwei Gao Qiu, who was dragging his sick body with Zhao Ji on the expedition, saw the raindrops falling from the sky, so he rode his horse forward, came close to Zhao Kai, and whispered: "Guan family, it's getting late. The five-foot-long Hebei in front of us There is a water-controlling temple on the bank, which is quite large and has a strong outer wall, so why not go there and rest."
Zhao Ji turned his head and looked behind him. What he saw was countless bright flags, followed by more than 10,000 cavalry and infantry. After these cavalry and infantry, there were carts loaded with mules and horses and people wearing paper armor driving carts. The soldiers personally recruited by the Emperor of the Song Dynasty have not yet left the borders of Kaifeng Prefecture, and are still in Dongming County, where Kaifeng Prefecture belongs.
"Okay!" Zhao Ji saw those flags and remembered that many of his men were wearing paper armor... these couldn't be exposed to the rain, so he nodded and agreed to Gao Qiu's suggestion.
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First update, second update at 12 noon!
