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"I am so angry that I lean on the railing, and the mist of rain stops. I look up, look up to the sky and roar, my heart is full of passion. Thirty years of fame and dust, eight thousand miles of clouds and moon. Don't wait for your youthful head to turn white, feeling empty and sad... ..”
The impassioned singing of Manjianghong shook the sky! Beside the embankment on the north bank of the Bianhe River, countless red flags were rolled and fluttering, and there were endless cavalry and infantry marching in formation! More than ten thousand Song troops on foot and cavalry actually left Kaifeng Fucheng and advanced towards the Jin soldiers coming from the direction of Chen Liu!
And Zhao Kai, the emperor of Chang'an in the Song Dynasty, was also among these more than ten thousand soldiers singing and marching with high morale!
Surrounding him were Guo Tiannu and 36 female banzhi in red chainmail, as well as more than a hundred trembling quasi-Hanlin cavalry, and three hundred men led by the consort Li Fuchen. The knight who is the brother-in-law of "Knight of the Feather Forest". In addition to these most personal armed forces, those who followed Zhao Kai out of the city today were the eight thousand Imperial Guardsmen led by Dong Jingang and the two thousand cavalry led by Wang De sent by Zong Ze.
Next to these more than ten thousand cavalry were hundreds of "iron-headed warships" and "powerful crossbow warships" driven by long oars. These two types of warships were actually modified from cannon ships made of five to six hundred materials. They all have the same appearance, that is, a circle of anti-arrow shields is installed on the side of the ship. There are two openings on the shield: a long oar protrudes from the lower opening, and the upper opening is a shooting hole. Used to launch the God's Arm Bow to fire wooden feather arrows.
The difference between the two warships is that the bow of the iron-headed warship is equipped with a tapered ram that can be used to ram enemy ships. There is a bed crossbow placed on the bow and stern deck of the strong crossbow warship - not a huge eight-oxen crossbow, but a smaller bed crossbow. The bed crossbow can be rotated to fire the crossbow in various directions. The gun can also be disassembled and transported to the case for use.
If these two types of warships modified from canals went to the Yangtze River and encountered Zhao Huan's navy, they would be vulnerable to a blow. But it is enough to run amok on the Bianhe River!
The more than 100 warships were manned by more than 10,000 navy soldiers who were converted from watercraft captains under the navy commander Li Bao.
Speaking of Zhao Kai's navy, it actually started quite early. As early as a year ago when he moved from Daiming to Xiangzhou, he incorporated Li Bao's fleet and began to form a navy.
Li Bao, who was born as a gang leader, really had some talent in commanding the navy. He spent a year exploring and building at the same time. Later, he collected the ships and crewmen who ran from Kaifeng Mansion to Biankou, and selected fine-covered ships from them. And the best watercraft. After some rectification and modification, we have the current situation.
Zhao Kai now dares to face the golden thieves by land and water because Li Bao's navy gave him the confidence. Zhao Kai may not be sure when fighting against the infantry and cavalry, but when fighting against the navy, the gold thieves won’t be able to stand up to him!
And as long as the navy can crush the opponent, Zhao Kai's attack will be invincible. Not to mention the 20,000 or 30,000 gold thieves, he will not be afraid at all even if there are 100,000 gold soldiers!
Because Dong Jingang's Ye Bushou had found out clearly that the Jin soldiers' infantry and cavalry were marching on the south bank of the Bianhe River. So Zhao Kai will now go to the north bank of Bianhe River to meet the enemy... If you have the ability, swim over and fight!
If you don't come over, our family will win again, and our fearless image will be consolidated again!
I have to admit that Zhao Kai has grown up rapidly during his military career for more than a year. When he first came here, his "soul age" (soul age) was only seventeen or eighteen years old. Now his "soul age" is eighteen or nineteen years old, but the stability and cunning he shows are already in his twenties.
At the front of the team, the Ye Bu Shu cavalry trained by Dong Jingang were running back and forth like water, constantly reporting to Zhao Kai the situation of the Jin army ahead.
"Officials, the Golden Thief rides 20,000 people on foot, and brings a large number of mules, horses and carts. They have passed Chenliu and are heading towards Kaifeng Fucheng. They are less than fifteen miles away from our army!"
"Guan family, the golden thief is riding 20,000 troops and is already ten miles ahead!"
"The official family, there are 20,000 gold thieves on foot and cavalry, and they are forming a team on the south bank of the Bianhe River seven or eight miles ahead..."
Hearing that the enemy was reorganizing seven or eight miles away, Zhao Kai also ordered the troops to stop moving forward, and then loudly asked the quasi-Hanlin knights beside him, "Fellow gentlemen, is anyone willing to go with me to explore the enemy's position?"
Want to explore the enemy's position?
Isn't this too courageous?
"Students are willing!"
Some people have gritted their teeth and come forward!
Zhao Kai looked over and saw Lu Xiucai again!
OK!
Zhao Kai nodded: Your Jinshi status is stable!
Whether you dare to explore the enemy's formation with Zhao Kai is actually a test - if you don't dare, you will be in decline...
Of course, Zhao Kai's exploration of the enemy's position was by no means a mindless adventure, because he did not cross the river on horseback (he couldn't cross, the wooden bridge on the Bianhe River had long been burned down), but he also boarded a 600-material The warship, escorted by another twenty or thirty strong crossbow warships, approached the south bank of the Bian River. There are a total of fifty or sixty crossbows on these powerful crossbow warships, as well as thousands of divine arm bows. It is impossible for the Jin people's army to get close... If they get close, they will die!
Therefore, there is no risk in following Zhao Kai to explore the enemy's position.
Those who dare to follow are either calm-minded and can accurately observe and analyze the battlefield situation and make judgments when they first go to the front line.
Either he is a true brave man, not afraid of gold thieves, not afraid of death!
Either Zhao Kai, a "brainless fan" of the official family, was willing to follow Zhao Kai out of blind obedience and superstition.
No matter which case it is, they have passed another assessment... If the number of people who pass is around thirty, then the next written examination will be just a formality. They are all Juren who have passed the examination. How can their writing skills be so bad?
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"Ten thousand households, in front of them is the banner of the Chang'an official family!"
A middle-aged knight who was dark and fat, wearing a white robe and no armor, was wearing a well-made white silk robe with a round neck and wide sleeves, a hat with a white fox fur, and a gold belt around his waist. The Jurchens have thousands of households with beautiful silver skills around them.
Wanyan Yinshu is already over fifty years old, but his body is still strong. Years of fighting left many marks on his face carved by wind and frost swords, which also made him appear more shrewd and powerful. He asked the Khitan generals who followed him to recruit the eunuch Yelu Ma as soon as they approached him. There is a thrilling feeling.
"Chang'an Guanjia? Which ship is it on?" Wanyan Yinkeshu stood up in the stirrups and squinted at the twenty or thirty warships lined up on the water five or six miles ahead.
Yelu Wuma pointed to one of the boats and said to Wanyan Yinke: "There, the biggest one in the middle...the one with the two white flags on it is the official boat of Chang'an!"
"What a big boat!"
"We are on the shore and have no boats, so how can we attack?"
"Why don't we send some ships from the east of Chenliu City to fight?"
"No...those are the Song Dynasty's ships that were forcibly conscripted. They are not warships at all and cannot be defeated!"
"Then there's no way to fight! This Chang'an official is so cunning..."
Several Jurchen generals had already begun to discuss how to fight in the water and capture Zhao Kai, but at the end of the discussion, no result was reached.
However, Yin Keshu chuckled and said: "This Chang'an official is actually afraid of my Jurchen cavalry, otherwise he would not march along the north bank of the Bianhe River with more than a hundred warships... He is like this He is bullying me because Jurchen has no navy! But this is the Central Plains, not Huainan or Jiangnan, so his navy has no use!"
Then, an arrogant look appeared on Wanyan Yinshuke's face, and his tone was iron-like, "And Zhongzhou is no better than Hedong, which is densely covered with mountains! Here is a flat plain... This is the world where our Jurchen cavalry can ride freely! In In Zhongzhou, only I, the Jurchen son, am the invincible heavenly soldier!
Didn't the Chang'an officials rely on their sharp warships and strong city walls? But he forgot that he had no way to transport food by water! Moreover, Zhongzhou has been ravaged by our Jurchens for more than two years. The land is barren and the farmers have fled, and there is no way to support the Zhao family's army. If their food route is cut off by us, we can win. Since the Chang'an official wants to show off his power on the Bian River, let him do it. Let's ignore him, organize our formation, and head westward. The target is... Mi County! "
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"Wan Sheng! Wan Sheng! Wan Sheng..."
Amid cheers that shook the earth, the golden thief "withdrew"... retreated to the west!
Dozens of quasi-college officers and thirty-six female class members who followed Zhao Kai on the boat to watch the formation were all cheering vigorously and seemed very excited - this was their "first formation"!
However, Zhao Kai and Guo Tiannu were a bit unable to laugh.
The golden thief "retreats" to the southwest! Where are they going to "withdraw"? It's definitely not going back to Chenliu, it's probably not going to open Fengfu, and it's probably not going to Guangwu Mountain, Xingyang, Heyin... So where are they going?
"Guan family," Guo Tiannu came closer to Zhao Kai, "there are many carriages in the Golden Thieves Army, and they all look to be fully loaded. They should contain a lot of food... This is a long-term preparation! "
"Permanent? They want to..."
Guo Tiannv said: "Maybe I want to attack Nanyang. There are not many defenders in Nanyang, so I might be surrounded!"
"Nanyang?" Zhao Kai was a little nervous.
He has stored more than 2 million shi of rice in Nanyang. Although King Xiangyang and Qu Duan have worked very hard to organize people and horses to transport grain, the Nanmi (rice from the south) that has been transported to the Guangwu Mountain camp so far has not been shipped. There are less than 300,000 shi, and most of the 3 million shi sent by Zhao Huan are still lying in Nanyang!
Not to mention that Nanyang was taken away, even if Nanyang was besieged, Zhao Kai would have a big head!
Even if the goal of this group of Jin soldiers is not Nanyang, as long as they capture Dengfeng or Yingyang, Zhao Kai's army's logistics line will still have big problems!
Thinking of this, Zhao Kai was no longer in the mood to go to Chen Liu Yao to show off his power, but said to Guo Tiannu: "Send the order, report the victory and return... After returning to Kaifeng Mansion, he will go to Cai Wei, Mi Youren, Chen Dong ordered them to organize the joint examination immediately! After the examination, we will return to Guangwu Mountain!"
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