Although Yao Pingzhong was reluctant to be defeated, as a general of the Song Dynasty, he dared not ignore the command of Li Gang, the Privy Councillor!

Moreover, he had already been repaired once because of offending Tong Guan. This time, he finally cursed Li Gang, a big backer. Can he not learn from the lessons and perform well?

Not to mention that Li Gang asked him to "fake defeat", even if he wanted him to "really defeat", he had to execute it!

Of course, if Li Gang insists on him winning a battle, he may not be able to do it well. After all, it is easy to defeat a battle. Can you not win a battle? "Fake defeat" and "real defeat" are both attitude issues. And winning a battle is a matter of ability.

In fact, Yao Pingzhong is also a little capable, but he does not have the ability to command the army to fight. He is just a brave man who leads hundreds or thousands of cavalry to rush to death, similar to Wang De, the second-rate man in their Yao family army.

Before Xuanhe's Northern Expedition, Yao Pingzhong was quite powerful in both attacking Xixia and Fang La, and was known as "the best in the entire army". If he had not been arrogant and repeatedly offended Tong Guan, Xuanhe would have been the pioneer during the Northern Expedition.

Yao Pingzhong, who failed to catch up with the battle of Xuanhe to attack Liao and was also idle, learned that the official family had changed and Kaifeng was in trouble and the court called on the heroes of the world to be reborn. So he spent a lot of money and summoned a group of relatives from the Yao family in Sanyuan, equipped with the best armor and equipment war horses, and also teamed up with Wang De, a powerful general of the Yao family, and gathered 1,000 elite soldiers to come to Kaifeng Prefecture to serve the king!

That's a total of 1,000 cavalry!

Compared with the other Wang Yijun who could not even get enough paper armor, these 1,000 Yao family cavalry were definitely a luxurious lineup. When Li Gang saw these cavalry, his eyes were really shining! He was immediately promoted to the commander of the front army of the camp, and this time he sent troops to make him the vanguard.

Of course, Yao Pingzhong has to work harder to defeat the battle to repay Li Gang's kindness!

Do you have to work harder to defeat a war?

Of course! Li Gang did not let him escape by looking at the wind or just run away when he saw the thief, but instead asked him to kill the thief before running away, and before running away, he had to kill a wave of thieves!

In fact, Li Gang's arrangement was not a "fake" at all, but just wanted to package it as a fraud.

Whether this is a deceiving person is a deceiving person depends on whether Yao Pingzhong and Wang De fight harshly! If they can defeat three or five hundred Jin Thiefs' vanguard, Li Gang's army should be able to escape safely.

After sending Yao Pingzhong to lead the cavalry to defeat the battle, Li Gang immediately ordered the drums to gather the generals, summoned all generals and above officers to start to arrange for the escape.

"Failed to defeat and return to Kaifeng Prefecture" is Li Gang's major goal, but in terms of specific implementation, he cannot cover his head and run back to Kaifeng Prefecture from Huhe Town, Puzhou. It is 230 miles away. Li Gang's army is mainly infantry. If he wants to escape all the way, he will not be exhausted?

Moreover, the Jin soldiers are mainly cavalry, so they need to pursue them at the tail rank. The 100,000 troops will not be chased and wiped out?

Fortunately, there are still people who understand Li Gang, a military layman. His marching senator, Zhe Yanzhi, was born as a general of the Zhe family. Although he was like Zhong Shidao, he took the route of abandoning martial arts and following the literature. However, he had not lost his family's military learning and still knew how to march and fight (but he was like Zhong Shidao, with insufficient practical experience), and of course he also knew how to escape.

So the plan he made for Li Gang was to run south from Huhe Town and head straight to Dingtao, the military city of Guangji Army.

Dingtao is located on the north bank of Wuzhang River, only more than 80 miles away from Huhe Town. If you can run harder, you can get to the place in one day.

As local administrative units, the "army" of the Song Dynasty was generally established in military key areas, and the military city was generally relatively strong. Moreover, Dingtao was next to Wuzhang River, making it easier to obtain supplies, which was conducive to long-term persistence.

Now Li Gang has summoned all the officers below and above to assign "defeat defeat" to them. Of course, before announcing "defeat defeat", he has to announce good news first to stabilize the morale of the army.

After the three-way gathered the generals, a large group of rebels or officers from all over the world gathered in the central army tent where Li Gang, Zhe Yanzhi and Qin Hui were located.

"Tell you all good news!" Seeing that the people were almost there, Li Gang, who was sitting upright in the position of the commander, held his beard with a neat official uniform, opened his mouth with a smile, "I just got the news that the soldiers led by the official and the soldiers led by Han Taiwei got the help of King Yishi in Jingdong in Liangshanbo, and defeated the Jin thieves several times. Moreover, the Jin thieves soldiers were attracted by our army again. Now the official has escaped danger. I have not come in vain. After returning to Beijing, you will definitely reward you!"

When the generals below heard his words, they cheered in unison.

Li Gang held his beard, smiled and nodded, then raised his hand to signal the people below to be quieter so that he could continue to listen to his foolings.

Li Gang said: "The Jin thieves' army is likely to be coming to Huhe Town!"

What? The Golden Thieves are coming?

The atmosphere in the big tent suddenly became tense!

The army brought out of Kaifeng Prefecture was basically a mob, except for the 1,000 Yao Pingzhong brought by Yao, the only one Zhe Yanzhi brought by the 1,000 Jie family army was slightly stronger (much worse than Yao Pingzhong's soldiers).

In the army, except for Yao Pingzhong, who was a little hot-headed, everyone else knew that he was a scumbag!

So when he heard that the golden thief was coming, he immediately panicked.

Li Gang was calm and confident, actually he was also panicked, otherwise he would not have "deception and defeat". But he was so calm!

"I have already had the method of seducing the enemy. As long as you act according to the plan, you will definitely be able to return to Kaifeng Prefecture safely!"

What? The people below are confused again.

How is it a way to lure the enemy?

What does this mean?

Shouldn't you run away now? How did it become a lure of the enemy? Is it a gentle statement to lure the enemy to escape?

Li Gang looked at the group of stunned military officers below and smiled and said, "I know the rules and will not let the brothers give rewards first. One soldier will give a piece of silk first. After running back to Kaifeng Mansion, each person will give a reward of copper coins!"

ah!?

It's OK!

This group of military officers was even more surprised.

Although the officers and soldiers of the Song Dynasty were all asking for money, when everyone wanted money, they still went to fight with conscience to kill the enemy, and they would ask for money. But when they ran away, they didn't want money.

Now this Shumi Lee actually even gave a reward before escaping. Is it necessary to be fierce and everyone run faster?

Li Gang smiled and said, "If you can follow your official to go out of the city to lure the enemy and solve the problem of the official family, everyone will make contributions. If you have merits, you will be rewarded with the soldiers, just take them!"

Then he changed his expression and said to Zhe Yanzhi beside him: "Senator Zhe, now announce my military order!"

Zhe Yanzhi immediately stood up, with a stern face, and said to the generals below with a serious face: "The camp commander Li Shumi has an order, and the entire army is ready to set off. After that, he will retreat south in order and retreat to the Guangji army city Dingtao. All generals must not panic and must not rush to the forefront. If they encounter Jin thieves, they should form a formation of square and circumference on the spot and wait for assistance! In addition, the following generals must retreat into Leize, Linpu, Nanhua, and Chengshi, and there must be no mistakes!"

"Kill the golden thief, earn rewards, follow the Sa family and kill them."

"Dongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdong"

In the early morning of the tenth day of the second month, on the plain east of Huhe Town, with a shout and a rapid drum sound, thousands of cavalry rushed out of the darkness with the moonlight that had not yet disappeared.

The horse's hooves stepped on the earth that was full of water, brought up pieces of soil, and whistled towards the four or five hundred knights in white robes who were driving along an official road!

The four or five white-robed knights seemed to be shocked by the sudden impact of the cavalry in front of them. But they soon realized that several of them immediately turned around and galloped eastward. The remaining cavalry took down their spears on their shoulders, then dispersed their formations, and also shouted and launched an attack with a horn sound, without fearing that the opponent had many people.

A cavalry hedge against Mai Mang broke out in a blink of an eye on the plain east of Huhe Town.

This is a night battle between cavalry!

The horses galloped at night and rushed against each other in the night. If you are not careful, you will have to run into the cavalry when they are hedging. That would be a horse that will destroy people!

In other words, Yao Pingzhong, a successor of Yao family who is very aggressive and a little abnormal, dared to take his own soldiers to do this. In the original history, he was more active than he is now. Not only did he lead troops to Kaifeng Prefecture, but he also fought several battles with the Jin thieves, but he actually won. In the end, he was so worried that Li Gang would ask him to lead his troops to attack the Jin soldiers' camp, and the result was that sheep entered the wolf group.

However, although this guy was defeated, he was a little stronger than the other defeated generals of the Song army in this era. He knew his shame! He had no shame to see anyone after defeating the battle, so he fled to Qingcheng Mountain, Sichuan to become a Taoist priest.

It's also a man!

Now Wang De, who follows him, is also a fierce man in history. The Jin people call him "Wang Yasha". Of course, Yasha is particularly awesome at night!

The two of them got together and contributed such a desperate night battle of cavalry!

The ambushed by the two of them was a Jin soldier, a subordinate of Wanyan Jiemu. All Jurchen kidnappers were responsible for making the way for the army. Unexpectedly, they met such a group of lifeless madmen!

However, these Jurchen kidnappers and Ali Xi who followed them were also fierce enough. They were not panicked when they encountered an enemy attack. Except for a few cavalry to report the news, the rest immediately launched a counterattack!
Chapter completed!