Chapter 117: Continue (1)

Yanshan Mountain is majestic and lies ahead.

More than a thousand armored light horses, red tassels on the helmet fluttered like clusters of flames on the desolate land of the swallow field in autumn.

This is exactly half of the Shengjie Army's light cavalry led by Xiao Yan. Everyone is equipped with a pair of horses. In order to gather these mounts for them, the part of the Shengjie Army who stayed in Tanzhou left many war horses out.

Everyone knows that they have not yet established a stable foothold in Danzhou, and the movements of the Jurchen soldiers and horses ahead are unknown. Just going deeper is like this, how dangerous it is. But in the army, everyone is very energetic.

I just thought that Xiao Yan was ahead of them this time!

The cavalry came and went like the wind. Throughout history, as long as the cavalry was an important part of the army, they always advocated the spirit of active attack, and cavalry was never limited to death with front lines. Even though the Song Dynasty in history was never famous for its strength in cavalry, the only elite light cavalry group of the Song Dynasty, which advocated the active cavalry temperament, still did not diminish slightly.

A hundred thousand army gathered in Gaoliang River, and elite soldiers gathered together. However, since Liu Yanqing, no one thought of taking the initiative to resist the Jurchens' soldiers. Instead, he thought about how to find the cheaper ones such as Xiao Gan and the defeated generals to steal the Yanjing City, and just as if the Jurchens had not gone south.

Only Xiao Yan, who will always be Xiao Yan, led them to roar northward to cover the flanks of the entire Song Dynasty army. Just as he was the first to cross north in Baigou River that day, and started a counterattack tide.

When the 100,000 army was facing the Jurchens as a turtle, they snatched the Tanzhou in one fell swoop, and now they went deeper and went straight to Gubeikou to meet their brothers who fought against the enemy in bloody battles!

On this vast land of Youyan, thousands of cavalry go north, pulling out dust and smoke, following the invincible commander. No matter what the enemy is, they just rush forward and rush forward. This is the real Great Song cavalry!

The scenery in the border area of ​​Youyan and late autumn is somewhat like the scenery of Shaanxi that these cavalry are most familiar with. It stretches across Yanshan Mountain and has a view of the northwest mountains. In the world, the grass is yellow and the sky is blue. After war, the walls around are almost deserted except for those who are terrified as they are terrified to watch them heading north. It seems like the fertile land at the foot of Hengshan Mountain.

Seeing the scene in front of these Shengjie light cavalry, they all shouted in the team. Xiao Yan has always been happy to see his soldiers maintain such high spirits and fighting spirit, and sometimes they even deliberately support them. They are not very careful in front of the team.

Some soldiers of Shengjie army raised their feet on the saddle, while others put their armor bags high behind the saddle bridge, lying half lying and half leaning on it to let the horse run free. Some people were hungry, rode on their backs and chewing dry food, and responded to the whistle and went deep into the dangerous ground from front to back. There were unpredictable enemies in front, but they were all talking and laughing loudly as if no one was around.

"Qiu Family Silang, look, does the village in front look like the Deshun Army Cage City where you were born? The thiefs are all walls made of white stones, and the sun shook the eyes of flower people! When we were going to Jiangnan with Xuan Shuai, you girl came to the camp to take a look, and she was so timid that she could reach the hearts of people! She also promised that others would not have it? If not, if they could come back alive this time, would they promise me?"

"Go to be your pickled dream! My sister promises someone from Zhong'anbao, how close is to home? She has no parents-in-law at home, and her sister-in-law is a Sima who manages military food and food, and she can't become a widow at any time. How comfortable is she going to live? Follow you, don't have your head on the belt, and you have two money sent to Guanpu. The gambling fortune is half a pound compared to our Han Du Yu Hou Envoy. I have no blessings, and I can only charge forward with you, but you can't imagine it, my sister!"

"What a great place, why did you steal it for more than a hundred years for the Liao people? If our Western Army were there, the Liao people would never be able to pass this Yanshan Mountain again! We would be more than a hundred years for us to stay here, and we would be more than hundreds of thousands of orphans and widows. We would be able to stay in the various roads in Shaanxi, and we would also be able to stay in the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun!"

"I'll be buried here when I die. Look at it. This place is similar to ours in Shaanxi. I'll just take it home. Whoever has the time to tray my coffin for thousands of miles to go home!"

"I can see that it's true. When I followed Xuan Shuai to Jiangnan, I thought I couldn't die there. I was so hot that I wanted to peel off my skin! I buried it there with many mosquitoes, and itchy in the ground!"

The soldiers behind the armor whistled, and Xiao Yan walked in front, with a relaxed smile on his face. Only by commanding such a large army can he know what it feels like to be in the world. This feeling is hard to describe - in an era when he was still a useless young man, how can he experience this feeling?

But for a normal man, once he experiences this feeling, it makes people's blood rush and can never be given up.

——I was even addicted to it.

When this Shengjie Army first met in Xiongzhou, it was being pressed by Yelu Dashi and Xiao Gan's army in the camp and did not dare to show up. It looked like a desolate look. In Xiongzhou City, they often saw their domineering appearance in drinking and breathing.

You should know that in history, this Victory Army created an amazing achievement of defending Taiyuan until the entire army died in battle!

At that time, Tong Guan was so handsome. It was not until in his own hands that the elite light cavalry that gathered the essence of the Song Dynasty restored its original appearance, lying across the Yan land. Even though the Jurchen army that destroyed the Liao Kingdom in front of him was still fearless, heading forward and going deeper alone!

This sense of accomplishment is unimaginable to outsiders.

Xiao Yan rode on the horse, coughed, trying to find someone beside him to show off his skills. But he found that Zhang Xian on the left and Tang Huai on the right were all calm, and no one was as happy as he would say a few words with him. Their mood was understandable, and they were full of the words Yue Fei!

Yes, Yue Fei, Yue Fei.

Xiao Yan's good mood disappeared without a trace in a blink of an eye, and he sighed softly in his heart.

Is he still alive?

For Han Shizhong and others, or even Ma Kuo, who had fought side by side with Yue Fei. Yue Fei is just a newly emerging young general of the Song Dynasty. He is extremely brave and loyal, and his future achievements are limitless. But like any military minister of the Song Dynasty, he is not unsacrificed in such a key battle. Even Han Shizhong and Ma Kuo himself can sacrifice himself without hesitation for the victory of the war.

It is precisely because of this that Ma Kuo said with difficulty that he would not save Yue Fei, hoping that Xiao Yan would stabilize his footsteps in Tanzhou and gather strength in order to fight the Jurchens. He would quickly defeat the enemy and then turn south.

Xiao Yan convinced them with the reason of showing the great Song Dynasty military force and unfair fighting spirit to the Jurchens on the grounds of intimidating the Hu people, and then led half of the Shengjie Army to resolutely head north.

There is no doubt that this is a persuasive reason. As Ma Chao declined, he was convinced by Xiao Yan's initiative and boldness. Han Shizhong also complained about not being able to follow him north.

But ask yourself, how much did you choose this very risky northward? It was just to save Yue Fei?

Thirty fame and fortune are dust in the soil, eight thousand miles away from clouds and moon.

Return my rivers and mountains, return my rivers and mountains...return my rivers and mountains!

This name is really one of the most brilliant and painful names in national history. Every Chinese Yanhuang Hero, who has a little heart, feels glorious that he and the owner of this name are of the same bloodline. Although this history may change forever because of his arrival. But how can I see it? Because of my time travel, the name has lost the brilliance that he should have that shine for thousands of years!

Even if you are willful, even if you are fighting against this fucking thief, I have to rescue Yue Fei!

Although the thoughts in his heart were like this, Xiao Yan did not show it to his face, and even rejected Zhang Xian and Tang Huai's suggestion to march through the army. After all, he led more than a thousand Shengjie troops and was responsible for the safety of this army.

Although they were equipped with twin horses to head north, they were still at the speed of the brigade march. There were many mail-strikes in the front and rear, and they gathered their camps at night. After a brief contact in Tanzhou, the Jurchen horses gathered backwards very quickly. These horse-backed nations who are used to fighting have a good feeling of power. Saying that they are fierce and able to fight does not mean that under any circumstances they will fight to the death regardless of their lives. The so-called ability to fight also includes having patience and waiting for the opportunity that is most beneficial to them before they can fight to the death with the enemy!

The news that Tanzhou was revived by the Song Dynasty was soon spread to the border of Youyan, at the foot of Yanshan Mountain, and Qiduhebei. According to the news sent back by the wide-open sentry, the Jurchens, who had only more than 200 Zhenjurchens, had retreated to the north, but did not run wildly and met the brigade towards Gubeikou. Instead, they stopped on the way and controlled the dock wall fortress that had surrendered to them, accumulated abundant reserves and had important terrain. Before Gubeikou and Song Army.

The nameless Jurchen generals who commanded more than 200 troops were quite accurate in their grasp of the war. One did not fight hard with their opponents, and the other did not retreat. Instead, they occupied the important advancement south of Gubeikou, waiting for the arrival of the army to prepare for the future battle with the Song army.

Xiao Yan now has some experience in battle formations, and he found that his sense of smell on the battlefield was not bad - this was given by God and it was difficult to cultivate. Without traveling through time, he did not know that there was such a talent for dragon-slaying skills hidden under his body of a useless white-collar worker. When he met the Jurchens, the strongest rival of this era, just looking at their actions of not many soldiers and horses, he knew that the Jurchens, a fighting nation, had a reputation in history and this era, which was not a blessing!

When you meet such a great enemy, no matter how much you want to rush to Gubeikou in one breath, you have to suppress your anxiousness!

The more than a thousand victories of the Jie Army were divided into three groups, plus one cavalry behind the hall. The four columns were almost the same number. The cavalry was originally long and scattered, and these four teams of horses were light cavalry, which could control a large battlefield. In addition, Xiao Yan sent out at least one hundred cavalry provocates, and swam forward and backward and left and right, and it could be said that the radius of dozens of miles was all within the eyes of this cavalry.

The entire army's itinerary was not very fast, but after two days of road, it approached the foot of Yanshan Mountain and turned northwest. For only a few dozen miles, it was the Wubi Fort controlled by the Jurchens who had been exploring the front of the army. It crossed there and then went forward twenty or thirty miles to the Gubeikou. The villages and towns guarded by the powerful and powerful in the border areas are now all the lands to protect themselves, and they dare not defeat the front of the Song Dynasty Light Cavalry with thousands of cavalry. Some are still watching, and some are asking for Xiao Yan to meet with him. Xiao Yan sent them to Tanzhou to talk to Han Shizhong. He asked for everything, and he asked Han Shizhong to use his talents.

The sky is high in autumn and the clouds are light, and the vision is very good. There are already a few dark fortresses in front, which are the support of the Jurchens defending. The whistle detectives in front have already returned from a circle of horses, and more are still guarding the front. Those who come back are far away, and they whistle sharply. Xiao Yan was thinking deeply about his thoughts, but was alarmed by the whistle sound and turned around to raise his hand. Several personal guards behind him uttered orders: "Each battalion is in charge, wait for Xiao Xuanzan's military orders!"

The officers under the banner of the soldiers of the Shengjie Army of the various teams went forward and rushed towards Xiao Yan in the front. The entire army had stopped, and the soldiers who were lazily resting on the horse's back also opened their eyes and stared at the front. As they grasped this skill, some soldiers had taken off the material bag and put it on the ears of the mount to let the mount eat a little and replenish their physical strength. Almost everyone jumped off the horse, took a few steps on the reins, and gave their mounts a slow qi.

Xiao Yan sat on the horse, straightened his back, and looked at the dark dock walls in front of him. He couldn't see clearly at such a distance. Even the dock wall itself was almost a small black dot, but if you crossed there, you could face the Gubeikou directly. And the Jurchens' large group of people heading south might be hiding there, waiting for his arrival!

If Gubeikou has been captured at this time and the Jurchens’ retreat has been opened, if he is a Jurchen general, he will gather the main force and give himself a heavy blow in this battlefield where they can control!

Is Gubeikou still here? Is Yue Fei still here? Is he leading the elite cavalry and resolutely heading north to go deep into Gubeikou. Isn’t it too much for me to romance?

At this moment, Xiao Yan was a little short of breath and couldn't help but want to turn his head back!

The sound of dozens of officers' hooves rushing toward Xiao Yan, and suppressed all the shake in his heart. The great Song cavalry under his command dared to follow him as he pointed at the flag. Isn't it because of his image of never defeat and always creating miracles? No matter what his heart is, he always looks confident in front of them!

Xiao Yan tried his best to restrain his emotions, turned around and laughed loudly at the dozens of officers running towards him, "It's almost over the ground, and I've gone deeper for nearly two hundred miles. The Jurchens are called powerful and can't even see their shadows! It seems that they may not be able to chew this Gubeikou!"

The dozens of officers who were welcomed burst out laughing, and they were brave enough to be the army. Xiao Yan is like this, what are they afraid of? We have never fought a war or seen dead people. More than a thousand elite light cavalry can't walk sideways?

Someone laughed and said, "The Liao Dog blows the Jurchen Tartars into the sky. We have also met in Tanzhou. That's all. Xiao Xuanzan leads us to fight all over the world! Even if there is a large group of Jurchen Tartars near Gubeikou, we will kill one round and go and snatch out our brothers!"

"What are you snatching it out? Gubeikou may not be there. The Jurchens and Tartars may not be so good! We just drove them to the south of Gubeikou. Let's see if they dare to go south! If there wasn't a Yanjing behind us waiting for us to clean up, we might as well cross Yanshan and give them a gift to their territory and go to their territory!"

Xiao Yan laughed and turned over and dismounted. Of course, he knew that the Jurchen soldiers were not as bad as his commanders. His reputation in history was not a joke. But at this time, the morale was strong and his commanders were in high spirits of fighting. This was a good thing.

He got off the horse, Zhang Xian and Tang Huai, left and right, and both followed him off. They were originally loyal to Xiao Yan, but now Xiao Yan personally led the army to pick up Yue Fei. This gratitude came from the depths of his heart. The two of them followed Xiao Yan tightly for the past two days, only to regret not giving Xiao Yan back. As long as Xiao Yan looked at him or waved his head slightly, even if there were thousands of troops in front of him, they would not kill him without thinking!

Dozens of cavalry officers rushed over at this time, dismounted and surrounded Xiao Yan. Everyone wanted to salute, but Xiao Yan smiled and waved his hand: "Why are there so many rules? Are you living and dying together now? I have no forgiveness for military orders. I am impatient to see so many kowtow insects on weekdays!"

The officers smiled loudly, looked at Xiao Yan attentively, waiting for his order.

Xiao Yan put his waist on his waist and glanced at the northwest walls. At the back, it was Gubeikou, but he couldn't see it. He turned around and pointed the direction of the walls: "The Jurchen Tartars are now guarding these bird walls, but only two or three hundred cavalry are supporting their army. Gubeikou is now in the survival and demise... This time we come here, in addition to supporting these brothers in our own robes, we also show the power of our Song army to these Jurchen Tartars who went south! Now, we are heading straight to Gubeikou, only fifty or sixty miles away. All the horses are left here, and the rear army is guarding. The others will only carry two days of dry food, so let's kill them in one breath!"

The officers looked solemn unconsciously, and listened to Xiao Yan talking about his plan in a relaxed tone.

"... These bird dock walls are just around the sides. The road is facing the sky, and we go one side. We are too lazy to attack him, and they dare not come out to intercept him... I just thought, since I have been here anyway, the thousands of cavalry are alone, and the days without support are much less risk..."

Xiao Yan touched his chin, looked at the direction of Gubeikou in the distance, and said lightly his judgment. Dozens of generals, Zuo's armor, surrounded him, and the cavalry around him kept projecting their eyes, waiting for Xiao Yan's final decision.

Hearing him say this, Zhang Xian couldn't help but growl: "Xiao Xuanzan, what do you say, isn't it? Even if there are thousands of Tartars in front of us, we just rushed by following Xuanzan!"

Xiao Yan looked at him and muttered in his heart. I was calm and composed in my face, but I didn't think that you Qiu Ba was really careless and not afraid. He thought that following me would be a miraculous victory. Then another one, taking thousands of cavalry into the dangerous ground, without any support, and crashing straight into Gubeikou. Anyway, it was something that the great soldiers and generals of the Song Dynasty would never do in this era... Forget it, I was so lucky to die anyway. The entire Youyan Land, plus the safety of a national hero, were all tied to him. No matter what, I had to bite the bullet.

Ahhh, it’s time to travel through time. Why can’t I even meet a fucking group of people? There are so many birds left on the same plane, and at least I can help me share some pressure!

There were such curses in his heart, which was not something that could be told by outsiders, but Xiao Yan still had a calm expression on his face. He held the horse whip and pointed at Gubeikou with nothing to do: "Since that's the case, besides the two capitals guarding the horses, do you guys dare to follow me to Gubeikou? If Yue Fei is there, we will rescue him among the troops. Even if there is a case, we will walk up in front of the Jurchen Tatars who are heading south, so that they can see the majesty of the Han flags!"

Dozens of cavalry generals around him responded at the same time, and they all beat horses away. They were afraid that they would become unlucky people who stayed behind in both cities, the two cavalry officers reacted slowly and were already pulled behind. Xiao Yan shouted loudly that they were still pretending to be stupid, so they had to turn around and look at Xiao Yan with a bitter face: "Xiao Xuanzan, we don't have much luggage and supplies. Those who prepared horses have enough time to keep the horses in the battle, so they don't have any birds to hit... Besides, keep our two cities, and the power to support them is insufficient, and you have no shame to retreat. Now follow Xuanzan, one more person will kill in, and the more power you have..."

The two unlucky riders talked about you and me. Xiao Yan thought for a moment, and he was about to jump into the well, and he still had two ears hanging on the edge of the well. Why do you do this? I hope you can go here and fight quickly and everything goes well!

He rushed forward as if he was flying, and was about to rush forward to the front of these cavalrymen who were forming a rushing column. Zhang Xian and Tang Huai reacted quickly, one left and one right, following him tightly. The three of them had good horses under their crotch, running like lightning, and dust and smoke splashed under the horse. After passing a team of cavalry, they were greeted with a loud cheer to Xiao Yan!

Before leaving, Xiao Yan left only one sentence: "You two guys are willing to fight with me, can I still say? The Northern Expedition Army is more than 100,000, and who can fight against me and other athletes! Follow me!"

The two cavalry generals were stunned, then cheered loudly, quickly met the people in the unit, shouted and dispatched, and asked everyone to raise the horse speed and followed Xiao Yan tightly!

As Xiao Yan's figure moved, the sound of shouting and orders sounded in the wilderness. The more than a thousand scenic spots of Jiemen were whistling loudly and laughing, and they were in high spirits and galloping towards the depths of Yunshan at Gubeikou. No one looked back. Dozens of flags belonging to Xiao Yan and Shengjie Army were hunting and dancing in front of the team.

A large group of light cavalry roared past the walls of the fortress and hamlets guarded by the Jurchen soldiers and horses. The walls were full of figures, and they looked at the more than a thousand cavalry and Song army, stalking around Youyan. That arrogant spirit seemed to be no less than the Jurchen spirit cavalry that destroyed the Great Liao Empire and chased the north!

When Xiao Yan and his other cavalry appeared in sight, these Jurchen outposts who were divided into troops to guard the walls of the fortress and the dock walls were already discovered. Under normal circumstances, even if the Song army was going to advance towards the Gubeikou to fight the Jurchen soldiers, they would never go deep without support. Instead, they should first pull out these fortresses as support, and then move forward step by step. Since the back road is stable, they can seek a decisive battle.

These are the most basic principles of using troops, so when they appeared, the Jurchen soldiers from several Wubi Fortresses forced these dependent local tyrants to catch all their young and strong men up to the village wall, and all the reserved guards were brought up, as if they were facing a great enemy. Looking from a high distance, they only saw more than a thousand light cavalry moving forward at normal speed, and did not carry too many baggage attack tools, but no one dared to relax. These light cavalry might be outposts. Everyone knows that the Song Dynasty lacks cavalry and can take out more than a thousand light cavalry as outposts. God knows how many army there should be behind!

Perhaps behind, the infantrymen of the brigade were followed, and the team could cover the clouds and sun. Among this brigade of infantry, there were ladders, Lv Gongches, stone cannons, thunderbolt chariots, arrow towers, collisions... attack tools that could not be counted clearly!

Everyone's local tyrants depended on the Jurchens had their faces turned pale, and everyone regretted it. If they had known that the Song people were so powerful and that they would be so determined to win the Youyan Land, they should have looked at the style. Who asked everyone to scare the Jurchens reputation? The Daliao is over. It would be better to seek wealth under the new master as soon as possible. Who knows who the Youyan Land belongs to now is unknown!

Why didn't you stay behind closed doors? These Jurchens went south and were light cavalry, and they didn't carry attacking tools. They might not be able to pull out their walls. They just wanted to let them plunder in the four fields. They wanted to believe that bird Dong Dalang's words, and opened the walls and depended on the Jurchens. As soon as the Song army arrived, they were ready to be stewed!

Zongshe was on the wall of the largest dock wall, pressing the mercedes, and his face was also ashen. He was surrounded by Jurchen guards, and everyone looked solemn on his face.

It was also a terror to say that Zong Shi and these Jurchen soldiers were also scared. Although they met with the Song army fiercely, the Song people's spirit of fighting to the death on the top of the city made Zong Shi and their view of the southerners raise a little. However, they were originally indifferent to attacking Danzhou. More than 200 cavalry of the Jurchen soldiers were used to spread their momentum in the border areas of Youyan and control the army to come forward. They had completed their mission, and attacking Danzhou was beyond the limit of their strength. If Dong Dalang had not sweared to the swear, they might not have wanted to fight there. The Jurchen soldiers could fight, but it did not mean that the Jurchen soldiers could only fight in a strait.

So as soon as Han Shizhong's reinforcements arrived, Zong Shi and others turned around and left, without even thinking about it for a while.

The Song army came, which made them feel that this trip south was not easy. I am afraid that there would be a decisive battle with these Song army - but it was nothing. If reinforcements came later, they would defeat the Song people. If there were no reinforcements, it would be great to go back. At worst, those plundered women were young and strong. As long as they defeated Yelu Yanxi and others in the future and Zong Han made a comeback, this prosperous and prosperous Youyan land was not Juzhen? This trip, the mountains and rivers of Youyan border have been understood by Juzhen!

So when the Song army vanguards were approaching more than a thousand light cavalry slowly, Zongshe and others were not panicked, but just urged the dependent powerful men to guard the cliff on the wall and waited to see how the Song army moved.

However, unexpectedly, the actions of the Song army and the light cavalry were greatly beyond their expectations. The more than a thousand cavalry suddenly put away their open fronts, formed several columns, and suddenly accelerated, roaring through the dock walls they were guarding! The horse knights shouted and laughed at the village walls when they passed by, looking distracted. From a distance, they saw some Song army knights immediately expelled contemptuously, as if they were too lazy to take care of these dock walls, so that the dock walls should be opened and surrendered, and the Jurchen soldiers would escape as soon as possible, otherwise they would not end up when they came back!
To be continued...