Wanyanbi's troops marched continuously for three days from Guide Prefecture to Xuzhou, covering a distance of nearly 210 miles. Half of the way, the road was close to the bank of the Yellow River, with gravel and swamps crisscrossed along the way.
Being able to march in such a hurry shows Wanyan Bi's ability in running an army.
This kind of army is worthy of being the elite soldiers assigned to the east by the Kaifeng imperial court, and Wanyanbi himself is worthy of being a veteran general who has been on the battlefield for a long time.
As a veteran general, how could Wanyan Bi not read the Art of War?
There is a saying in the art of war: if you fight for a profit fifty miles away, you will defeat the general. How could Wanyanbi not know this?
The reason why he urged his troops to advance rapidly was because he heard that the Taishan bandits divided their troops to attack in two groups. Both groups had the upper hand, but they could not capture the fortified city for a while. If he moved slowly, he would be allowing the Taishan bandits to capture Xuzhou or Shanzhou and then join forces.
At that time, it will be very troublesome for the bandits to attack another city or to besiege the city for reinforcements. But only now, when both sides are fighting, is the right time for our elite troops to make a surprise attack.
His idea was right, but unfortunately, his understanding of the enemy was completely wrong.
As soon as he saw the flag with the word "Luo", Wanyan Bi knew without further explanation that this trip was caused by Taishan bandits.
The commander leading the troops on the opposite side was clearly Luo Chongwei, the general of the Ding Navy in Shandong and the governor of Nan Qingzhou!
That old guy Liu Erzu and Guo Ning are standing together!
Jurchen generals like him have natural contempt for the Red Coat Army or the Taishan bandits and bandits. But Ding Haijun is different! Ding Haijun is a powerful enemy that has truly fought hard and fierce battles, and in the past two years, their
The fighting style is gradually being revealed... They will do nothing if they don't fire, and one shot will be fatal!
This is by no means an ordinary border conflict. This is the Dinghai Navy specifically using tricks to lure them, and then setting up heavy troops to intercept them! They have been planning for a long time and are planning a big move!
Wanyanbi was alarmed and immediately made up his mind.
He gave the order in a deep voice: "The infantry in the rear group will change into the front group, form a formation and retreat slowly."
When the military flag was waved and the drum horns sounded, he whispered to the left and right again: "Follow me closely!"
Most of the infantry around Wanyanbi were gradually recruited after arriving at Nanjing Road and then rigorously trained; the cavalry was made up of the strong warriors he recruited when Marshal Zuo Jianjun took office in Liaodong as the backbone.
At that time, Tu Shanyi made a proposal to the emperor, requesting to recruit 20,000 elite soldiers in Liaodong to form an army. If the capital was in emergency, they could return to the war to save themselves. The general who led the army that Tu Shanyi liked was Wanyan Bi. As a result, the emperor was afraid of Tu Shanyi.
Shan Yi's political potential was not confirmed, and he demoted Wanyan Bi to the position of defense envoy of Yunnei Prefecture with an imperial edict.
Although they were demoted, most of the first batch of warriors recruited by Wanyanbi continued to follow them in the name of his personal followers. These people were all veterans who had survived hundreds of battles. They had fought in Monan and Henan in the past few years. Many of them had scars on their bodies and faces.
Covered with scars, in terms of combat experience and skills, he is by no means inferior to any strong soldier in the world.
After hearing Wanyan Bi's instructions, these elite cavalry immediately understood what he meant and immediately responded in unison.
At this time, from behind the sand embankment hillocks on the left and right sides of the road, military flags were fluttering. Nearly ten thousand Taishan bandits shook off the mud, sand and dust on their bodies, like countless pottery figurines rushing out of the yellow dust. Another arrow was missing in the air.
Like locusts flying down.
The Jin soldiers who were marching in a hurry were hit by arrows one after another. After several failed formations, they had already collided with the enemy's front line. The next moment, the two sides directly entered the most intense fighting state.
On the front line parallel to the road, the soldiers at the front of both sides burst out with blood at the same time, so that two long blood mist rose in the air. Under the blood mist, the dead and injured fell to the ground like withered grass, with miserable howls and roars
There was a constant sound, as well as the characteristic popping sound when the spear penetrated the body.
The Taishan thieves succeeded one after another, and in a short period of time they showed their bravery to the extreme. However, Wanyanbi's training level and combat coordination proficiency were obviously higher. Their leader Wanyanbi was indeed a famous brave general.
.The first team of Taishan bandits who intercepted horizontally were repelled almost instantly.
Wanyanbi led Jingqi to charge along the road.
He waved the iron chain with his left hand, sweeping back and forth, and slashed with the heavy sword with his right hand. The waves were split wherever he went, and there was no enemy. Every time he bumped into a group of enemy soldiers, he would kill the infantry entangled by the enemy soldiers.
The soldiers gathered together and continued to charge backwards. In the blink of an eye, the iron chains and swords were covered with blood and minced meat, and the light armor all over their bodies was soaked with blood.
After two collisions, he stopped his horse for a moment, and the red-coated sergeants on the left and right sides of the road came closer.
He clamped the horse hard with both legs, turned his left arm, circled the iron chain around his forearm, and struck it down. The weight of the iron chain added to the force of the swing of the arm was like a hammer, which would poke people who were trying to get close.
He stabbed the enemy soldier until his face exploded, and his eyes and teeth popped out.
Hundreds of cavalrymen followed and continued their charge.
This group of people was so brave that they naturally attracted the attention of the enemy. The arrows that flew in suddenly became denser, causing heavy casualties to the cavalry. Another arrow fell from a height and penetrated Wanyanbi's chest.
Left shoulder socket.
Wanyan Bi couldn't hold on to the heavy iron chain, so he simply let go and let it fall to the ground. Then he placed the machete in his right hand across the front of the saddle, broke the trembling arrow shaft on his left shoulder with his backhand, and pulled off a piece of his robe to wrap the wound.
Just as he was dealing with the wound, the third team of red-coated soldiers had already rushed into the battlefield and joined the second team, whose momentum had not diminished. The gray-yellow figures covered in dust suddenly gathered together, like the rising tide of the Yellow River.
These are bandits who have been in the mountains for a long time. They are not the same as Yang An'er's red coat army... Before Yang An'er raised his army, these Taishan bandits had been rebelling for decades! Almost every one of these people was related to
Dajin has a blood feud, so they rush to kill each other, they are really not afraid of death!
With so many enemy troops swarming towards him, the impact power of the cavalry was almost exhausted. The cavalry surrounding Wanyanbi were instantly shaved off a layer.
A red-coated sergeant aimed at Wanyanbi's figure and threw his saber.
Wanyanbi's subordinate leader was eager to protect his master, so he stepped sideways from his horse to block him. He had all the armor and stomach on his body, but his luck was bad. Because his body was tilted, a gap opened between the two armor leaves on his chest. The saber penetrated through this gap.
Enter, forcefully penetrate more than half a foot deep.
The leader screamed and fell off his horse, his heavy armor making a loud clang.
The red-coated soldiers were all overjoyed when they heard the sound. This man was wearing sophisticated heavy armor and looked like an official!
The dog officials who are about to kill these Jurchens!
Three or four red-coated soldiers nearby rushed forward, stabbing and slashing with their short-handed soldiers. The leader, Xicong, propped himself on the ground with one arm, and before he could get up, his back, neck, chest, and face were stabbed one after another.
With blood splattering, his arms lost strength and he fell to the ground again.
A red-coated soldier stepped on the leader's forehead and pulled out his sword. Just as he cheered, another golden knight rushed over and swung his sword from bottom to top.
He used all his strength this time, but after marching for several days and fighting for a while, his physical strength was at the bottom. So only the tip of the blade opened the red-coated soldier's chin, then moved to the upper jaw, and then cut the bridge of his nose and face into pieces.
The left and right halves, up to the forehead. The red-coated soldier threw away his sword and covered his face and retreated, blood gushing out from between his fingers.
With the full cover of the cavalry, Wanyanbi rushed to the back of the road for more than two miles in one breath, throwing off the flank attack of the Red Austrian army. But there were only thirty or fifty cavalry left around him. Looking in the distance, the Yellow River
Behind the countless mounds left behind by repeated flooding, groups of enemy troops continued to appear.
The disparity between the numbers is too great, not to mention that our own army is tired from marching?
In two more moments, no, a moment or half a moment, the whole army will collapse!
"Let's go!"
Wanyan Bi had no intention of dying in battle at all. He gave a loud command, turned his horse and left. The cavalry had just started to speed up, but the arrows missed and they caught up with them, shooting down several more cavalrymen.
A few miles away from the battlefield, where the Luo flag fluttered, was the center of the army. Liu Erzu coughed lightly: "Wanyan Bi is running away, should we send someone to chase him?"
Monk Luo shook his head and laughed twice: "No need, let's eat the elite enemy troops in front of us first... We have to eat one bite at a time, and we have to fight step by step!"
In the eyes of everyone, Monk Luo ranks first among the generals of the Ding Navy, and is also the most important person after Guo Ning himself. Now he is the commander-in-chief of the Ding Navy in Shandong. The reason why he can hold such authority is because
He and Guo Ning had a life-long friendship. On the other hand, it was also because the fat monk was as wise as a fool and never made any mistakes in his affairs.
Just like the use of troops in Xuzhou and Shanzhou in the past few days.
Xuzhou was able to capture the city in just half an hour because of a lurking secret. However, the troops besieging the city kept making noises around the city. They also lit pine torches at night and arranged for hundreds of people to hold weapons and run along the city wall to fight.
It still looks like it's continuing.
In Shanzhou, only more than a thousand men under Liu Yue's command were actually used. After they captured several garrisons one after another, they did not continue to attack the city at all, but specially deployed troops and generals to the remaining garrisons in Shanzhou.
The posture of an army sweeping in tens of thousands.
After Xuzhou was captured, they pretended to attack, while Shanzhou was bluffing from the beginning. Between the changes in reality and reality, the main force of the army moved westward in a leisurely manner, and then faced Wanyanbi's troops who were rushing towards them.
For three and a half days, thousands of elite troops from Guide Prefecture came to their homes to die, and the gateways to Kaifeng were opened one after another. Even with the advantage in military strength, the generals of the Red Coat Army had to admire Monk Luo's ability to win so easily.
After using troops, I realized that it was not a fluke that the Dinghai Navy was in its current situation.
Shi Qing came up to join in the fun, praised Monk Luo a few words, and made a few jokes, which made everyone laugh.
Amid laughter, he looked around and asked: "Where is Peng Yibin? He keeps saying that he wants to be a pioneer. Why haven't you seen him kill the enemy and perform meritorious service in front of Duke Zhou today?"
His question was very interesting. He was obviously asking Peng Yibin, but in fact he was asking where Guo Ning was.
Monk Luo touched the short, hard stubble on his head, which made a rustling sound.
He said: "Peng Yibin is jumping to be a pioneer, so he must do it beautifully... He should be in Guide Mansion at this moment, and it is unknown whether he is leading the horse for Duke Zhou."
