The situation has taken a turn for the worse!
It is really not easy to lead the army and people of the Song Dynasty to resist the Jin Dynasty. Zhao Kai is about to achieve a staged victory. He temporarily returns to Kaifeng Mansion to relax and enjoy the services of the exclusive school beauty group... But Immediately afterwards, an unexpected and huge crisis struck. The transition between the two moods was so rapid that there was no buffer at all. It was like falling directly from heaven to the eighteenth level of hell.
Climbing to the highest point of Dingtao City, Zhao Kai stretched his neck and looked at the enemy... and his men who had pushed him to the brink of crisis!
It was already getting bright now, and it was already the afternoon of the tenth day of the second lunar month in the eighth year of Xuanhe's reign. The leading troops of the two armies, which had been running wildly since early morning, had already traveled sixty to eighty miles.
Among them, those who ran sixty miles away were Li Gang's troops who fled south from Huhe Town. They were quite organized when they first ran. They carried torches and formed a unit, marching in a mighty formation. But when the Jin soldiers began to turn southwest and split off a group to move quickly, the fleeing Song army became a little panicked.
And when the torch-bearing Jin Army cavalry got closer and closer to the fleeing Song Army, they were about to catch up. The Song army began to scramble and seized the road and fled. The formation also began to scatter. Instead of covering each other's way, the rear team and the front team collided with each other and competed with each other. Everyone wanted to run faster!
The chaos in the team also means that Li Gang has lost control of part of the army, and naturally he is unable to organize an effective resistance when the Jin soldiers catch up... But even if Li Gang can still control the entire army, relying on It was impossible for the improvised King Qin army to withstand the attack of a similar number of gold thieves in a field battle.
But fortunately, Li Gang and his staff still used their brains to plan their escape. Before running away, they had already anticipated that they would not be able to escape, so they had already prepared their backup plan.
After discovering that the Jin soldiers were chasing urgently and it was difficult for all the army to escape, Li Gang's Chinese army began to turn slightly to the southwest and headed for Chengshi County, which belonged to Xingren Prefecture. The generals following the Chinese army naturally also rushed to Chengshi County.
Therefore, the fleeing Song army was divided into two, about one-third of which continued to advance towards Dingtao. Its lead was less than 20 miles away from Dingtao.
The remaining troops, pursued by the Golden Thief Cavalry, fled to the vicinity of Chengshi County, not far away... and then were surrounded by the Golden Soldiers!
The Jin soldiers chasing Li Gang were still about twenty miles away from Huhe Town when Li Gang started to run away. In addition, they had driven from Yuncheng before, so they had more distance to run.
But there are many golden men and horses, and they are also better at running - they are all veterans of long-term battles, and they still have plenty of physical strength. Therefore, in the same period of time, the 20,000 cavalry led by Wanyan Yanmu not only repelled the two-step cavalry sent by Li Gang to delay their actions, but also chased the Song army for a full eighty miles. !
And after the 20,000 Jin soldiers, there are still a steady stream of Jin soldiers rushing to Chengshi County... It seems that the Jin people have planned to surround Li Gang's troops in Chengshi County.
I wonder if Li Gang’s troops brought enough rations? I don’t know how much grain is stored in that small Chengshi County? Have you ever been robbed by gold thieves who are hunting for grass everywhere?
Zhao Kai felt that his head was getting bigger when he thought that Li Gang's army might be trapped and died in Chengshi County.
At this time, the sound of footsteps came from behind Zhao Kai, and then the voice of Zhiguang Jijun Xin Zan came.
"Your Majesty Xinzan, led by Commander Yao Pingzhong, is introducing Wang De, and respectfully invites His Majesty Tianyu to inquire..."
Zhao Kai looked back and saw three sturdy men standing in a row behind him. Two of them had not even taken off their armors. They had not even wiped off the blood on their armors. The arrow shaft has not been removed.
These two armored men are of course Yao Pingzhong and Wang De. After the two of them won the first battle, their "military luck" began to fail. After being sent out by Li Gang to stop the enemy again, he was surrounded by a large group of Jin cavalry. He finally managed to fight his way out, and was chased by the Jin thieves cavalry all the way to the vicinity of Wuzhang River. He saw "Palace Commander Zhao Bupo" After recognizing the flag and the long queue of warships on the water, the golden thief cavalry slipped away with their tails between their legs. Yao Pingzhong, Wang De and hundreds of cavalrymen were finally rescued. They learned from the warship that the official Zhao Kai had arrived in Dingtao City, so they led their men along the Wuzhang River to Dingtao to report to Zhao Kai on the front line. Condition.
Sandwiched between two sturdy men in armor was a green-robed civil servant who was burly and looked as majestic as the two military generals. This green-robed civil servant is the parent officer here in Guangji Army. His surname is Xin Mingzan. He is an old acquaintance of Zhao Kai. He and Zhao Kai are Jinshi in the same subject. He was originally an official in Kaifeng Mansion. In January, because the original envoy of Guangji Army ran away, Zhu Fengying sent him to Guangji Army as a military commander...
"Xin Zan," Zhao Kai did not speak to the two generals immediately, but asked Xin Zan, "How many defeated troops have been accommodated now? The gold thief didn't approach Dingtao, right?"
Xin Zan replied: "Reporting to your Majesty, we have now accommodated about 30,000 defeated troops, belonging to more than 20 generals... Now the generals and deputy generals of these generals are waiting below."
Zhao Kai nodded without comment, then smiled and said to Yao Pingzhong and Wang De: "Thank you for your hard work, two heroes... What positions do you hold now?"
Yao Pingzhong intervened and said: "Reporting to your majesty, my subject Yao Pingzhong is now the doctor of Wuyi and is in charge of the army in front of the camp!"
Wang Deze also saluted and said: "Reporting to Your Majesty, I am Wang De, now Dunwu Lang, and the cavalry general of the camp in front of me."
Zhao Kai thought for a while and already remembered who they were (obtained from Zhao Kai's physical memory), "It turns out to be Yao Pingzhong, the young lieutenant of the Yao family, and Wang De, the tiger general of the Yao family army... Are you willing to follow me?" Shall I kill the thief?"
"My minister Yao Pingzhong is willing to be the king's pioneer!"
"I, the King, are willing to kill thieves for Your Majesty!"
Of course Yao Pingzhong and Wang De would not let go of this opportunity to hug the thickest legs in the world... Compared with Zhao Kai's thighs, Li Gang's legs were just like toothpicks!
Zhao Kai smiled and asked again: "How is the situation with Li Gang? Can the Cheng family be defended?"
"this......"
"His Majesty......"
Both Yao Pingzhong and Wang De were speechless for a moment and could not answer.
Zhao Kai said warmly: "But it doesn't matter."
Yao Pingzhong said: "Your Majesty, the general thought that Privy Li was trapped in Chengshi, and the odds were against him. Because most of Privy Li's troops were improvised, with insufficient training and poor equipment, he had no intention of fighting the gold thieves. I want to bluff and lure the gold thieves westward to get His Majesty out of trouble. I don’t want to..."
Zhao Kai nodded, "Although Li Gang doesn't know how to use soldiers, he is still very loyal!"
Wang Deze frowned and said: "Your Majesty, I think Chengshi is difficult to defend and rescue. Our army has limited strength. Except for the 100,000 people who were brought out of Kaifeng Mansion by Privy Li, there are only less than 50,000 troops left in Kaifeng Mansion. , and most of them are rebels, they are so embarrassed that they can only barely defend the city!"
His words were convoluted, but the meaning was still very clear... This Li Gang was loyal, but now there was really no way to save him, so he had to give up.
Zhao Kai glanced at Xin Zan again, "What do Xin Qing think?"
"Your Majesty," Xin Zan said, "I believe that if you want to defend Tokyo, you must defend the southeast water transportation. And if you want to defend the southeast water transportation, you must deploy defenses along the Wuzhang River. If the southeast water transportation is interrupted... hundreds of thousands of people in Tokyo How can I feed my family with my surname? How can I reward the soldiers of the diligent king in the world?"
His words sounded like he was off topic, but the actual meaning was very obvious... There are no troops to save Li Gang now!
If Li Gang is not counted, the number of troops currently available to the court is between 100,000 and 150,000. Being able to maintain the three important strongholds of Kaifengfu, Liangshanbo, and Sanshan Floating Bridge, and at the same time deploy defenses along the Wuzhang River to block the Jin soldiers from going south to destroy the more important Bianhe River water transportation, is already a high-profile event. .
This Li Gang...let's make him a loyal hero!
Zhao Kai shook his head, "Li Gang has lived up to me, how can I live up to Li Gang? Besides, in the twelfth lunar month of last year, I dared to stop the 150,000 gold thieves from attacking the Sanshan Floating Bridge with ten thousand people. Now there are 150,000 people. How can I still give up what Li Gang wanted?" Do you have tens of thousands of soldiers? I will rescue them all!"
Having said this, he said to the three people in front of him: "Let's go, take me to see the heroes who just escaped from the tiger's mouth... Victory and defeat are common things for soldiers, it's not a big deal!"
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"What? Uncle Eleven, what did you say? The southern officials Zhao Kai and Gao Qiu went to Liangshan together?"
"It shouldn't be wrong... I have asked many captured southern military attachés, and they all said so! And they also said that there are no 800,000 forbidden troops in Kaifeng City, not even 100,000 forbidden troops. No!"
"No? What's going on with the Sanshan Floating Bridge?"
"We were fooled by Gao Qiu... He had a total of 30,000 to 50,000 people, and he went out of the city with Zhao Kai to bluff, and deceived us all!"
"This is so cunning! By the way, how many soldiers and horses are there in Kaifeng City now?"
"Fifty thousand, at most fifty thousand...Olibu, let's go and attack Kaifeng Mansion!"
Wanyan Zongwang was in the Jinbing camp being built outside Chengshi County. He saw Wanyan's mother who had been chasing Li Gang all the way. He also got a lot of shocking news from him.
However, in the face of Yan Mu's suggestion to attack Kaifeng Mansion, Wanyan Zongwang fell into silence. After a while, he shook his head gently: "You can't advance so rashly... Sanshan Floating Bridge and Wannian Xindi are still under the control of the Southern Army. Now, if they dig a dam when I attack Kaifeng Mansion, the Battle of Yuncheng will happen again."
He was afraid of being flooded!
Wanyan Zongwang thought for a while: "We still have to fight Gao Qiu to the death first, defeat Gao Qiu in the field, and then we can capture Tokyo Bianliang."
"But Gao Qiu is still in the Dingtao area." Of course, Yan Mu knew that Gao Qiu's banner appeared in the Dingtao area.
"No problem, just surround Li Gang and beat Gao Qiu!"
