Ma Weiying looked at Yi Lacheng who was tied into a rice dumpling with an unhappy face. She pulled out her sword and picked up Yi Lacheng's neck with the knife.
Yi Lacheng was horrified, but he didn't want to lose face, so he looked at Yi Lacheng with an unyielding look on his face.
"Name, position."
"Bah! A mere rebel dares to rule the roost!"
"Hit me!"
Ma Weiying was furious and kicked Yi Lacheng over. The soldiers around him immediately stepped forward and punched and kicked Yi Lacheng. Yi Lacheng was beaten until his nose was bruised and his face was swollen, and he screamed in agony.
After beating him for a while, Ma Weiying asked his subordinates to lift his head up by his hair and stare at him fiercely.
"Bitch thief, tell me your name, position, wearing this kind of armor, and a tough body, but don't tell me you are just a nobody, I don't believe you."
The pain was very painful, and he was afraid of being beaten again and being killed because his position was too high, so he had to falsely report his position as a middle-level officer, neither high nor low, and randomly gave him a Jurchen name.
Seeing his evasive eyes and unnatural tone, Ma Weiying immediately judged that he was lying.
"Take off his pants."
Ma Weiying gave an order, and the soldiers immediately took off their trousers.
Yi Lacheng was surprised and didn't know what Ma Weiying was going to do. Ma Weiying glanced contemptuously at the gadget that Yi Lacheng had turned into a toothpick, and then pointed at his gadget with a knife.
"If you don't tell the truth, I will take action. Stop being a man. You can live like this for the rest of your life, just like the Zhao Guan family in the South. How about that?"
Yi Lacheng suddenly felt a chill in his heart.
"How could you do this?"
"You are my prisoner. I can do whatever I want. If you don't tell me, I will do it. You can say goodbye to your descendants."
Ma Weiying put the cold, shining blade close to the pricked gadget and stabbed it lightly.
Yi Lacheng suddenly shivered from top to bottom, his whole body went limp, and any will to resist no longer existed.
"I say! I say! My name is Yi Lacheng, the deputy commander-in-chief of the right-hand army leading this march. Please! Move the knife away! Move it away!"
Ma Weiying was stunned for a moment, and the surrounding soldiers were also stunned for a moment.
Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Right Leading Army?
According to the accounts of the previously captured Jin Army generals, the Jin Army used a large number of troops to move south this time, and they were divided into three groups. Except for the Hedong group, the main force led by Wanyan Liang himself was divided into two parts, one on the left and one on the right. A chief governor and two deputy chief governors.
And this is the deputy commander-in-chief of the right-leading army.
Isn't that a member of the highest decision-making level of the Jin Army?
This is a huge, huge fish.
Good guy.
Ma Weiying had no time to be happy. Just as she was about to say something, she suddenly realized something was wrong.
"You are the deputy commander-in-chief of the right-leading army? Then why are you here? Why don't you lead troops on the front line in Jinan? What is your purpose?"
Yi Lacheng was stunned for a moment.
"Because... we were defeated."
"Defeated?"
"The battle was defeated, so..."
Yi Lacheng looked at Ma Weiying's sharp blade and swallowed: "So I led my troops to escape."
Ma Weiying took a deep breath.
"Are you telling the truth? You didn't lie to me?"
"Do I dare?"
Yi Lacheng looked at Ma Weiying with a bitter face: "We were really defeated, almost the whole army was wiped out, that's why I escaped here, really, I didn't lie to you! There were many people who escaped with me , but I don’t know where they escaped to! It’s true!”
Ma Weiying blinked and put down the knife that had been pointed at the gadget below. For a moment, he didn't know what to say to express his emotions.
He didn't know how much time had passed, but he suddenly heard the soldiers around him burst into extremely enthusiastic cheers.
The cheers were so enthusiastic that Ma Weiying raised her head due to the shouting, and when she glanced over, she saw that she was surrounded by a sea of joy.
The soldiers were running and jumping, hugging each other, and throwing innocuous objects into the sky. Some people gathered together and threw their squad leader or platoon leader into the sky, as if they were the ones who won the decisive battle. .
Well, it’s pretty much the same. We are all members of the Liberation Army and have been fighting, and there is no such thing as saying that no one has done more than anyone else.
The only person who was not so excited was Ma Weiying himself. Yi Lacheng was quite surprised when he saw Ma Weiying's calm expression. He thought that this man was indifferent to emotions and was a high-ranking member of the Liberation Army.
But soon Ma Weiying's eye circles turned red and she started wiping tears, which made Yi Yacheng very surprised.
Isn’t this a victory? Why are you crying?
There's nothing strange about this.
If it wasn't for the depth of love, how could one cry?
Unfortunately, Yi Lacheng didn't understand.
On the fourth day of fleeing north, Yi Lacheng's fleeing troops were annihilated in Jizhou and the entire army was wiped out. Yi Lachen himself was captured and became the first remnant of the troops fleeing north to be annihilated.
While Ma Weiying sent people south to report the news to the Jinan headquarters, he also led people southward to seek further instructions from the headquarters.
Is this battle really won?
Ma Weiying felt like she was walking on the clouds, floating and floating.
At the other end, Duan Yi and Xu Ang led the troops to Xianzhou and Jingzhou. These two places basically did not encounter the threat of the Jin soldiers. The Jin soldiers' route was blocked by Jiang Liangping's troops in Hejian City. , so I could not go south smoothly along this route.
So overall, the entire Xianzhou and Jingzhou are complete. Duan Yi and Xu Ang were able to gather a relatively large number of regular troops and militia troops here, expand the army to 20,000, and smoothly move south, marching all the way to Jiaohe County.
After arriving in Jiaohe County, the army rested for a day or two, then sent people south to investigate the situation, summoned garrison troops in other cities and troops in Wubao, and prepared to add more troops.
On the other side, Wanyan Benjian also encountered similar difficulties as Yi Lacheng.
He was in a hurry to escape, and the soldiers he brought were not fully prepared. He carried little food, and there were not many people with two horses. As a result, he was not fast enough, and there were not enough food and horse materials. The road back north was full of difficulties.
Due to the lack of food and insufficient rotation of horses, the speed could not be increased. Wanyan Benjian was unwilling to abandon the armed forces that could protect him at this time, so he took the soldiers with him who were not prepared. .
In order to allow them to go further, Wanyan Benjian collected all the food and distributed it uniformly, strictly controlling expenditure.
But in the final analysis, it’s not quite enough.
After running wildly for two days, they had to slow down to slow down their consumption and look for forts that could be plundered to replenish their supplies.
Because he carried a military map, Wanyan Benjian could at least grasp the route to the north.
After he carefully avoided Dongguang County, which was guarded by the Guangfu Army at night, they entered the border of Xianzhou, intending to enter Qingzhou through Xianzhou, and then go north from Qingzhou to the land of Yanyun.
Although the route was planned, without a guide who was familiar with the road, they could only fumble their way forward, carefully searching for enemies and avoiding any human settlements that might reveal their whereabouts.
At the same time, we must not give up the advance, and we must leave traces of the march of the large troops with specialized personnel after the advance, so as to avoid being pursued by the Liberation Army.
Wanyan Benjian is still very good at this aspect.
Of course, if they encounter some forts that look easy to conquer, they will still launch an attack in the early morning to conquer these forts and collect more grain to support the team's advancement.
In order to hide his whereabouts, Wanyan Benjian ordered everyone in Wubao to be killed, leaving only a lucky guide to guide them so that they would not go astray.
Wanyan Benjian thought fear was enough to make people surrender, but this survivor was really courageous.
His family and friends were slaughtered, and as the last survivor, he confirmed his hatred after the initial fear.
He decided to avenge his family and friends even if he risked his life.
Just a few hours before Wanyan Benjian attacked Wubao where they were located, someone from the Liberation Army station in Jiaohe County contacted them and asked them to provide a certain amount of troops and equipment to arrive in Jiaohe County to join the army in preparation for the southern expedition. They could not refuse.
While preparations were being made inside the Wubao, Wanyan Benjian made a sneak attack.
It happened to be cloudy and rainy days, and the sun could not be seen during the day and the North Star could not be seen at night. Even Wanyan Benjian, who had some knowledge of astronomy, did not know that they were being led to the Yellow Spring Road by this brave guide.
They are heading towards Jiaohe County.
This is a very dangerous action. Once the Jin Army sentry scouts ahead discover traces of the Liberation Army, the guide will most likely be killed, but he no longer cares about this kind of thing.
He just wanted to bring Jin Bing to Jiaohe County and let the Liberation Army avenge him.
However, in fact, Wanyan Benjian's headquarters had been discovered by the Liberation Army sentry in Jiaohe County.
When they attacked Wubao to kill people and steal goods, the scouts of the Liberation Army discovered their traces and brought back the news that a large number of Jin Army cavalry suddenly appeared.
Duan Yi and Xu Ang were very nervous and immediately began to plan an offensive strategy against the Jin Army cavalry.
They did not know that this cavalry was the remnant of the Jin Army after its defeat, but thought that this cavalry was sent back from the front line to check the logistics situation, so they were very wary of them.
Considering that the opponent has many cavalry, and our own cavalry only has a few hundred cavalry in total, which are basically sentinels, it is difficult to fight against the Jin cavalry, so Duan Yi and Xu Ang couldn't come up with any good way to deal with it for a while. them.
It may be possible to fight with the strength of numbers, but it is impossible to pursue after a victory, and it is difficult to escape after a defeat. It is indeed a bit difficult on this large plain.
They soon discovered that this cavalry was heading towards Jiaohe County, and they thought that this Jin Army cavalry might want to occupy Jiaohe County.
The population of Jiaohe County has been relocated before. It does not belong to a city with strong walls and clear fields, so there was no one there before the war started. Except for a few forts defending themselves, no one else existed around it.
After the war started, the Jin Army did not take this route, so it was not occupied by the Jin Army and did not become a food storage point for the Jin Army.
In other words, this is a pure no-man's land where neither side sends anyone to intervene.
Duan Yi and Xu Ang regarded this place as a temporary foothold and settled their troops here, preparing to continue south to support Su Yonglin's frontal battlefield.
But now a Jin Army cavalry force of several thousand people appeared, with an unknown purpose, pointing directly at Jiaohe County.
