The hills above the wilderness are undulating, and lush thorns and vegetation grow on the ground. The land in China's world is vast, and six or seven years is not enough to develop the land between Lin'an and Shaoxing.
When Daxia and Zhao Song were fighting each other, it was even more difficult to develop.
In just one year, even the village farmland that was originally opened between the two places became barren again and was covered by countless green grasses.
At this time, a chilling atmosphere filled the land.
When Daxia's soldiers and horses first started to move south, Zhao and Song had already reacted. Soldiers from both sides began to fight on a small scale, and the originally restrained conflict intensified.
Woohoo!
The horn sounded, and thousands of men and horses who were fighting each other on the edge of a hilly forest heard the sound. The general wearing the Song Army's uniform immediately changed his face.
"The Xia army's reinforcements have arrived, retreat quickly!"
This Song general is called Zhang Wei, and there is a record in history. He was a good general in the Southern Song Dynasty, but his potential and strength were limited, and the chance of reaching the ninth level was not even 1%.
However, his upright character was praised by Yu Yunwen, and he currently serves as a military envoy in the Song army.
This time he led three thousand soldiers and horses of his headquarters out for inspection, but they ran into Xia Jun's thousand-man team.
After the two sides met, they had nothing to say and just started fighting.
Zhang Wei originally thought that with the strength of his seventh-level general, he could quickly annihilate Xia Jun's thousand-man team and then retreat, but he did not expect that Xia Jun's thousand-man team was very tenacious.
Any one of the Daxia warriors has the strength of level one or above, and the larger the number of warriors, the more powerful the military formations can be used. In a team of a thousand people, the leader of a thousand households must be of the fifth or sixth level. Strength.
Coupled with the blessing of the military formation, it is not impossible to resist a seventh-level general in a short period of time.
Zhang Wei has an advantage in strength. If he is given more time, it will not be a problem to annihilate Xia Jun's thousand-man team. However, at this time, Xia Jun's reinforcements have arrived...
"Quickly retreat!"
Zhang Wei shouted repeatedly, first asking the soldiers surrounding the enemy to withdraw, and then prepared to cut off the rear in person.
Boom, a burst of horse hoofbeats began to roar from far to near after the horn sounded. Zhang Wei looked in the direction of the sound and saw hundreds of cavalry appearing in the distance.
Only a few hundred cavalry?
Zhang Wei felt a little hesitant when he saw this. He felt that the Xia army's reinforcements were not enough to break the formation, so he hesitated a little and wondered whether his order to retreat was wrong.
"The thief will be punished!"
While Zhang Wei saw hundreds of Xia Army cavalry, the Xia Army cavalry naturally also saw the Song Army's movements. A Xia Army cavalry general who rushed forward, wrapped in armor and holding a spear, shouted loudly from a distance.
The sound was like thunder shaking the earth.
The soldiers of the Song Army who had not completely escaped from the fighting felt as if a thunder suddenly sounded in their ears, and their heads buzzed violently. His hands and feet were a little weak, and in a short time, dozens of Song soldiers were killed by their opponents.
Accompanied by a thunderous sound.
A thunderbolt of wind tore through the sky, wrapped in the dragon's blood horse, and passed the cavalry team in the blink of an eye. The spear stabbed through the air, and the sharp and overbearing thoughts locked Zhang Wei's body from a distance.
"No! It's a ninth-level general!"
After Zhang Wei was locked by the opponent's mind, his whole body seemed to be frozen, and he could hardly move. He could feel the piercing edge coming to him in the air.
And he didn't even have the strength to resist.
puff!
A fountain of blood gushes out.
Zhang Wei's body suddenly flew up, and after flying more than ten feet in a row, he fell to the ground like a rag sack. He couldn't even scream. His soul and strong vitality were destroyed the moment he was hit. That overbearing power was gone.
After beheading Zhang Wei, the person who made the move appeared in the fierce wind and thunder.
Immediately afterwards.
Hundreds of Xia Army's cavalry arrived suddenly. The thousands of men and horses who had just surrounded Xia Army's thousands of troops suddenly stopped.
It was a mess that was attacked by hundreds of cavalry, and hundreds of people were killed in one encounter.
The remaining soldiers of the Song Dynasty were all crying like wolves and running for their lives in all directions.
But their two legs couldn't run as fast as their four legs. The Xia army's cavalry took action and quickly captured all of them.
boom!
In the Song Army camp, Meng Gong, who had just received the military report, slapped the table angrily, with an aggrieved look on his face.
The Song Army generals on the left and right also had gloomy expressions.
The friction between the two sides has intensified in the past few days. From the attacks of a few people to the trial attacks of thousands of people, there have been twenty or thirty times. The battle line between the two armies stretches for hundreds of miles, and fighting is possible everywhere.
But the result of the battle made Meng Gong and others very dissatisfied.
When the two sides fought, the Song army won only 20% of the time, and the other 80% were won by the Xia army. Even generals like Zhang Wei, who had practiced Dharma, fell.
"General, may I ask if Zhang Wei was killed by that general of the Xia Army? With Zhang Wei's strength, he shouldn't have died in a test of this scale!"
A middle-aged general on the left pondered for a moment and asked.
Meng Gong glanced at him with an incomprehensible expression. He did not answer directly, but handed the military report on the wooden case to the other party.
"Yang Zaixing? Is it him?"
The middle-aged general took the military report and after taking a look, his expression suddenly changed. With his strength above the seventh level, his palms actually trembled a little, and his heart was clearly shaken.
"Yang Zaixing? Isn't he a general under General Yue? How could he appear in Xia Army?"
Several other generals and colonels also looked shocked when they heard the name. The camp immediately became noisy. The generals looked at each other and could see the shock in each other's eyes.
After Wang Jing recruited Yang Zaixing, he did not publicize it. Anyway, as long as Yang Zaixing went into battle, the news would naturally spread. If he deliberately spread the news, he would be suspected of using Yang Zaixing to attack the Song army.
There is no need to do this kind of thing so directly.
Just like now, when Meng Gong and many generals of the Song Army heard the news, the blows they received were no different.
"General, are you sure the spy got it right?"
The middle-aged general still couldn't believe it and asked for confirmation again.
Meng Gong sneered and said nothing.
The middle-aged general is Yang Yizhong, the most authentic descendant of the Yang family generals. Yang Zaixing is just a side branch, and he is a direct descendant of the Yang family generals.
Yang Yizhong was Zhao Gou's most trusted general. He had been in charge of Suwei for decades. In the original history, he was trusted by Zhao Gou and Zhao Rui successively. He held great power during his lifetime and was named the county king.
He also led his army to defeat the enemy army and defeated the Jin soldiers, and was called a famous general.
At the same time, he also had another identity, that is, the supervisor of Yue Yun and Zhang Xian... Yue Fei was sentenced to death in Fengbo Pavilion, while his son Yue Yun and general Zhang Xian were beheaded. This is his only stain.
Yang Yizhong held the military report, his expression constantly changing.
After a moment, he raised his head and said: "The general has asked for orders to lead his troops into battle. If Yang Zaixing really surrenders to the enemy, the general will fight him to the death..."
Meng Gong waved his hand, having calmed down, and said: "General Yang, there is no need to be like this. Our army is no match for Xia's army at the moment. We cannot attack recklessly. We will wait for General Han to lead his army to join us first before talking about anything else!"
Yang Yizhong knew that Meng Gong was right. The Song army was now at a disadvantage and a rash attack would only lead to death. I can only sigh slightly.
Yang Zaixing!
Yang Yizhong thought about the name secretly, and a trace of worry flashed in his eyes.
As a descendant of the Yang family generals, especially his contemporaries, Yang Yizhong paid a lot of attention to Yang Zaixing in the original world and knew the bravery of his clansman. Except for Yue Fei, almost no one in the world is his opponent.
Such a fierce general should have been a general of the Song Army.
Now he has become the vanguard of the Xia Army. Is it true that Da Xia is destined to be his destiny? Has Yang Zaixing been impressed by the Xia Lord regardless of his relationship with the Song Army?
Both Meng Gong and Yang Yizhong deliberately concealed the news about Yang Zaixing.
Unfortunately, many generals and commanders in the camp also knew the importance and did not dare to publicize it to the outside world.
But Yang Zaixing went into battle and killed several generals of the Song army in succession.
The general's flag embroidered with the word "Yang" can be seen by ordinary soldiers.
Because of Yue Fei, everyone from the top to the most common soldiers in the Southern Song Dynasty knew Yue Fei's deeds and legends very well, and they also knew the generals under Grandpa Yue Fei's command very well.
In particular, Yang Zaixing is known as the most powerful general in the Yue Family Army, and his reputation is one level higher than that of Yue Yun.
As long as his news appears, people will naturally spread it.
Just as Wang Jing and the others expected, when Yang Zaixing's name spread, the morale of the entire Song Army was greatly affected.
The soldiers at the bottom of the Song Army never imagined that General Yang Zaixing, whom they had always admired, would become their enemy one day early.
At the thought of meeting General Yang on the battlefield, the morale of all the soldiers automatically dropped.
The more he knew about Yang Zaixing's bravery, the less he dared to be his enemy.
June 20th.
Hundreds of thousands of elites from Great Xia gathered in Lin'an, among which the former army headquarters were already preparing for an attack along Xiaoshan.
but.
Wang Jing did not immediately order an attack, but let the army wait along Xiaoshan without attacking. There are two ways to attack the Song army from Lin'an. The first is to directly attack Shaoxing.
This road is bounded by the sea to the north, a relatively flat wilderness in the middle, and Kuaiji Mountain to the south. Although the wilderness is crisscrossed by rivers, which is a bit inconvenient for the army to deploy, the area is still sufficient and the impact is not too great.
The other way is to follow the Puyang River all the way to Yiwu, and then turn eastward. This road is too long and is not suitable for large armies.
Han Shizhong's troops attacked Jinhua along this road and drove Fang La into the ravine.
At this time, Han Shizhong's troops had arrived in Puyang and blocked the road for Xia's army to go south.
The two paths of the Xia army's attack converged in the south of Lin'an.
Meng Gong and Han Shizhong are also about to meet.
Wang Jing allowed them to gather together. He was waiting for two pieces of news. The first was the sea route led by Shi Wansui. Shi Wansui led the navy to Ningbo by sea, threatening the capital of the Song Army.
The other one is Fang La.
Although Fang La lost his troops and lost his strength greatly, the morale of the soldiers and horses under his command will be improved after they join Daxia.
Wang Jing also sent Yu Ziqi, Zhou Fang, and Zhou Chu with 20,000 troops and horses along the Fuchun River to Jiande to hold down the battle for Fang La.
As soon as news of the sea route came, Fang La began to attack Han Shizhong's rear route.
Wang Jing used hundreds of thousands of troops to suppress them head-on, and the three-pronged attack would definitely make the Song army confused and difficult to deal with.
Of course, famous ministers and generals such as Han Shizhong and Yu Yunwen of the Song Army, including Meng Gong, could all think of how the Xia Army would take action.
But what is clear is clear, and it is very difficult to deal with it.
Because this is the strength of the Song Army. Being able to manage to form hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses in more than half a year after the defeat was already the limit of what Zhao Rui and Yu Yunwen could do.
Except for the left-behind soldiers in Ningbo, all the hundreds of thousands of troops and horses were sent to the front line in Shaoxing.
If they can block Wang Jing's main force, Yu Yunwen and Han Shizhong will use all kinds of tricks.
There was no way to deal with Fang La's harassment.
"The morale of Fang La's army is decadent. I am worried that he is not strong enough to pose a threat to the Song army!"
Xie Hui frowned slightly while discussing matters in Lin'an Palace, but Fang La was still a little worried.
"Don't worry, I know it well!"
"Fang La has been able to withstand Han Shizhong for so many days. His soldiers and horses are still quite capable, but their morale is not good. However, since Fang La has joined our army and I have sent elite soldiers to suppress the formation, the opponent's morale problem has been solved!"
"Perhaps, the strength of Fang La's troops will be improved!"
Wang Jing smiled and answered personally.
Just like the source world
At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the Ming army was in a mess, but after surrendering to the Manchus, their combat effectiveness soared. They were like wolves and tigers on the battlefield, and in turn defeated Nanming to pieces.
The soldiers and horses are still the same soldiers and horses, but they have changed their banners, but their strength is completely different.
That's what morale is about.
When serving the Ming Dynasty, they couldn't get military pay, didn't have enough to eat, worked on an empty stomach and were discriminated against. Even the most elite army would turn into a mob.
On the other hand, as long as military laws are strictly enforced and the soldiers see hope, their morale will be improved and their combat effectiveness will be different from before.
Fang La's soldiers and horses were also in the same situation.
Knowing that Fang La was not the master of the Ming Dynasty, he was defeated one after another by Han Shizhong and suffered heavy losses. Most of the generals and soldiers under his command were disheartened.
But Fang La joined Daxia, and everyone became Xia's army. When they thought that they had become a member of the invincible and invincible Xia Army, their morale automatically recovered.
"Calculating the time, Shi Wansui should have arrived at the sea outside Ningbo. Yu Yunwen did not come to Shaoxing. He should have expected that I would send troops across the sea to attack Ningbo... Now it depends on who has better means!"
Wang Jing said lightly.
Except for Shi Wansui's troops.
Wang Jing also thought about the situation in Anqing. Yuwen Chengdu and Yang Dayan had already arrived in Anqing and were following He Ruobi's command.
The battle report just came from Jinling.
He Ruobi had already commanded the army and began to use the navy as the main force. He approached Hukou and started a battle with Lan Yu and Zhang Dingbian.
Now the two sides are in a war.
If you want to decide the winner, I'm afraid it won't be known until more than ten days.
