Facing the critical situation, someone advised Zhang Xiaohu to retreat and not to confront the Song army head-on, so as not to destroy all the rebel army's family assets here. It was really not worth it.
Zhang Xiaohu thought about it and wavered for a while, thinking that retreat might be the best choice.
But soon, Zhang Xiaohu listened to the cries of the defeated soldiers who had escaped from Luling, and learned that the Song army had carried out large-scale massacres and looting in Luling, destroying everything in Luling, and many people family members are dead.
This made Zhang Xiaohu furious.
Zhang Xiaohu was born as a hunter. He is in his thirties and makes a living hunting in the mountains.
He is a tall, brave, loyal man who hates evil as much as he hates evil. He is very popular and has a wide reputation. Most people in the village come to him to bring justice to any disputes they have.
This uprising was not initiated by Zhang Xiaohu's hometown people, but by the people in his hometown who had been oppressed and exploited by the government for a long time and could not bear it. Seeing that the people around him were revolting, the people in the village were also encouraged to revolt.
An uprising requires a leader, someone whom everyone is convinced to lead and give orders to.
So the villagers unanimously elected Zhang Xiaohu as their leader.
As soon as Zhang Xiaohu's head became hot, he followed the people's will and became the leader of one party, and began to fight in all directions as the leader of the rebel army.
Out of the hunter's keen insight, he noticed that everyone in the rebel army was fighting north and east. There were only so many places and so many people were rushing there. It was like hunters gathering together but limited prey. Maybe there would be another attack in the future. conflict.
He thought about it and decided to go south, avoid densely populated areas, and choose places where no one went to find prey.
Following this line of thinking, he successfully conquered the Nan'an Army, successfully raised an army, defeated the Song Army in many places, and developed very well.
However, the main force of the Song Army moved south too fast, leaving him no time to prepare, so he lost Luling City and a whole city of young and old were massacred, which made Zhang Xiaohu very sad.
Seeing that Taihe County was going to be treated like this, Zhang Xiaohu's heart of hoeing the strong and supporting the weak could no longer be restrained.
The reason why he rebelled was to comply with the will of the elders in his hometown, and to help everyone get rid of exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes, so as not to continue to live a hard life. If he retreated here, wouldn't it mean that the brutal Song Ting would come back to rule the elders and villagers?
Therefore, we cannot retreat, we must not retreat. We must stand here to withstand the Song army's attack and hold on to the fruits of everyone's victory.
Soon, Zhang Xiaohu publicly stated that he would stick to Taihe. Many soldiers from Taihe County also supported Zhang Xiaohu and were willing to fight alongside him, so the decision was approved.
Considering that the Song army might be relatively strong and a head-on confrontation might not bring good results, Zhang Xiaohu decided to evacuate the people of Taihe to Longquan for refuge. After the people retreated safely, they could fight the Song army without any distractions.
Zhang Xiaohu arranged for troops to help the people move, and he stayed in Taihe County to set up defenses to fight the Song army, giving the people of Taihe County time to retreat.
The escort troops helped the people evacuate to Longquan and then returned to Juntaihe County to help Zhang Xiaohu and others fight the Song army.
Anyway, right here, Zhang Xiaohu will fight Song Jun to the death and will never retreat.
As for the Song Army, Li Dao was very happy to learn that there was the main force of the rebel army in Taihe County. He immediately sent his army south to Taihe County, preparing to fight a beautiful annihilation battle in Taihe County to wipe out the main force of the rebel army. , in order to put down this great rebellion as soon as possible.
But he soon discovered that this rebel army was different from those he had encountered before.
This insurrectionary army did not collapse at the first touch, and fought relatively tenaciously. Not to mention Taihe County, just the military villages on some hills outside the city that had the function of blocking the enemy were tightly guarded by them, and they could not be attacked by the army.
Li Dao felt that he might have met the elite of the rebel army, and was even more happy. He made up his mind to destroy this elite with his own hands, so he threw in the most elite troops around him and stormed the army stronghold with trebuchets and thunderbolts.
The rebel army gradually could not resist, and the Song army successively attacked the military strongholds outside the city.
On August 8, the rebel army was pushed outside Taihe County by the Song Army. They could only close the city and defend it, unable to fight in the field.
The Song army surrounded the city on three sides, leaving only the south side unencircled. However, they hid an ambush at the south gate, waiting for the rebels to break out, encircle it on all sides and eat it in one bite.
Li Dao felt that destroying the main force of the rebels was no longer a problem.
For the rebels, the situation was indeed not good.
The strongholds outside the city were wiped out. The only one they could rely on was Taihe County. The city wall of this county was only more than ten feet high and its defense power was relatively limited. It was difficult to say that the situation could be reversed.
So from that day on, people kept trying to persuade Zhang Xiaohu to retreat from the south gate and push him to Longquan County to join the remaining troops to fight against the Song army.
But out of a hunter's instinct, he felt that the reason why the Song army left a city wall open and not surrounded them must have been prepared separately, and escaping out of the city was a trap.
So he refused to leave and insisted on resisting in the city, waiting for the arrival of the supporting troops before he could retreat safely.
The whole-day offensive and defensive battle on August 9th caused serious losses to the rebel army, and the morale of the already small defenders was even shaken.
The Song army used firearms such as trebuchets, bed crossbows, and thunderbolts to storm the city. The thunderous explosions and thick and even irritating smoke dealt a heavy blow to the rebels in the city. They were defeated by the Song army several times. Attack the city.
If Zhang Xiaohu hadn't personally led a group of the most elite strong men to fight hard, it would be really difficult to defend the city.
At this point, Zhang Xiaohu himself was a little shaken. He felt that the decisive battle with the Song Army here was almost over. If the situation could not be opened as soon as possible, they would all die here.
He began to think about the possibility of a smooth retreat and what to do if he encountered a Song army ambush.
However, what he did not expect was that in the early morning of August 10th, the Song Army's camp outside Taihe County and the Song Army's ambush at the south gate were suddenly attacked. The attackers set fire to the camp and slashed and killed the Song Army. , the Song army was unprepared and blew up the camp in an instant, resulting in a complete defeat.
There is no way for the feudal army to bomb the camp. No one can deal with the bombing of the camp. The only way is to use the army that has not bombed the camp to block off the part of the bombed camp, and wait until they kill each other and kill all their own people.
In his long career as an army commander, Li Dao only encountered one bombing of a camp, and that bombing almost killed him, so from then on he paid special attention to this kind of thing and paid great attention to providing relief to the soldiers who were usually brutally oppressed. "stress reliever".
This time the bombing of the camp came so suddenly and unprepared that Li Dao had not woken up when the camp was bombed. The sound of the bombing of the camp was too loud and the noise of Song soldiers killing each other was too loud, which shocked Li Dao. Only then did Li Dao wake up.
However, when he summoned the guards to inquire about the situation, he found that the military camp was in flames and it was already too late to do anything.
Li Dao was furious and wanted to order the army to counterattack, but was blocked by his subordinates.
"General! If you don't leave, it will be too late! You can't do anything, leaving is the best strategy!"
"I can't leave! This is my last battle. I didn't lose to the golden thief back then, so how can I lose to a group of rebel thieves now!!! I won't leave!!!"
Li Dao pulled out his saber with red eyes and asked the guards to launch a counterattack with him, launching a counterattack against the sneak attackers who were burning the military camp and massacring the Song army.
But their counterattack was not successful, because they soon ran into a large group of sneak attackers. The sneak attackers saw them and immediately surrounded them with steel knives. In a chaotic battle, Qiqi, the guard around Li Dao, was killed. Eighty-eight, the sneak attacker also suffered a lot of losses.
However, the sneak attackers still surrounded Li Dao. Li Dao fought vigorously with his sword, rushing left and right. He did not rush out until all his men were killed in the battle. He could only roar and brandish his sword in a useless struggle.
When he was exhausted, Li Dao felt extremely sad. He looked around and saw that all his men were dead in battle, lying on the spot. The strong smell of blood stimulated his nerves.
"I'm not willing to give in!!!!"
Li Dao looked up to the sky and screamed, unwilling to lose his victory in a blink of an eye. In grief, he killed himself with a knife and ended his life.
Until the last moment of his life, he did not figure out where the sneak attackers outside the city came from.
Obviously before the war, he had gone out to search for enemies for fifteen miles, and there were no enemy troops within fifteen miles. What was the situation with this enemy army?
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