Chapter 67 The water is too cold?
Ruisheng City is a branch fort built on the basis of the Song Dynasty's official family's palace, Levitra Palace Ruisheng Garden, and is still a distance from Jingyang Gate, the north gate of Kaifeng Prefecture's outer city. There are two routes to Ruisheng City after leaving Jingyang Gate. One is to walk east along the inside of the moat, reach Ruisheng City and lean against the back of Kaifeng Prefecture's outer city, then set up a floating bridge to cross the moat, and then walk about three miles to enter Ruisheng City.
The advantage of taking this route is that it is relatively safe. The enemy has to go around the back of Ruisheng City to launch an attack. If they want to do this, it is easy to be attacked by the defenders in Ruisheng City, which is very dangerous. In addition, trenches were dug between Ruisheng City and Kaifeng Prefecture's moat to cover the connection between Ruisheng City and Kaifeng Prefecture. The disadvantage is that the detours and the temporary assumption of the floating bridge - Kaifeng Prefecture's moat is very wide and cannot use suspension bridges. Moreover, building a stone bridge behind Ruisheng City is not conducive to the defense of Kaifeng Prefecture's outer city. Therefore, it is time-consuming and labor-intensive to enter Ruisheng City, which is very inconvenient.
Another route is to go out of Jingyang Gate and pass directly through the moat (the original stone bridge on the moat outside Jingyang Gate was demolished and a suspension bridge was built. When the enemy came, you could pull up the bridge deck), and then follow the official road leading to Ruisheng City and arrive at the west gate of Ruisheng City.
The advantage of taking this route is that it is easy to walk near and easily. It is six or seven miles apart. It takes less than half an hour to walk faster. However, the disadvantage is that it is easy to be attacked by Jin thieves on the way to Ruisheng City. However, the Song army also had a solution. They dug two trenches on both sides of the main road between the west gate of Ruisheng City and the Jingyang Gate of Kaifeng Prefecture and built two wooden fences.
Of course, these two trenches are not very wide, and the two wooden fences are not very strong. The Jin thief's large group of troops really want to fight, which means they just want to resist it a little.
So when Jin Wushu led more than 10,000 Jin cavalry and suddenly walked around from the front of Ruisheng City to the left side of the road between Jingyang Gate and Ruisheng City, Liu Yanqing and Yuwen Xuzhong were both shocked...
Why are there so many golden thieves? It’s not that there are only a few hundred... No, when Ruisheng City reported, it said that there were tens of thousands of them. This time, there are actually some!
Which bastard was on duty in Ruisheng City today? Why did he tell the truth? If he had known that there were tens of thousands of infantry and cavalrymen, he would not have come.
"Hurry, protect me quickly and retreat to Jingyang Gate to defend..."
It was Yuwen Xuzhong, a good man who sang the name outside Donghua Gate, who reacted quickly. Before the Jin thief could reach within 300 steps, he had already decisively issued an order to retreat.
However, no one shouted "Get orders" behind him, only the noise of horse hooves and footsteps. Yuwen Xuzhong looked back and found that Liu Yanqing had already spread his feet and started to run away! The flag and long-handled weapons were thrown all over the floor, and the ones who ran fast and slow ran even collided with each other. The screams and cries started to scream, and it was noisy. It was so embarrassing!
"How dare you..." Yuwen Xuzhong was so angry that he was not even able to say anything. Although he wanted to escape, he was a civil servant. It was appropriate for civil servants to escape. Liu Yanqing was a military general, and he had to wait for his order to run away! And he had to protect himself and run away first! Where can he just care about running for his own life? Humph, after I returned to the city, I must study with you, Liu Yanqing, in front of the official family!
Thinking of this, Yuwen Xuzhong shouted: "Master Liu, don't run away, wait for me!"
While shouting, Yuwen Xuzhong rushed to beat the horse and turned around, and ran along the road between the fence and the trench towards Jingyangmen.
Seeing the Song army running away, Jin Wushu, who came with more than 10,000 Jin soldiers, was also anxious!
What's this? Why is it so difficult to send a "scam" into the city? There are thousands of arrows in Ruisheng City, and the Eight Niu Crossbow is also brought out to shoot! Finally, when Kaifeng Prefecture sent people out, why did you run away as soon as you meet? You still have fences and trenches to protect them. It looks quite safe. Do you need to run so quickly? And if we don't hit you, just scare you...
"Chasing! Chase quickly, don't let the Song people run away!" Jin Wushu quickly ordered the pursuit, leading more than 10,000 cavalry under his command to chase him along the fences and trenches.
The Jin soldiers did not chase them too far. The Song army, who was running away in front, suddenly stopped, and then the chaotic scolding, shouting, and crying started.
It turned out that the Song army led by Liu Yanqing and Yuwen Xuzhong could not escape. When the Song army guarding Jingyang Gate saw the Jin soldiers coming, they were so scared that they put away the suspension bridge on the moat. Now Liu Yanqing, Yuwen Xuzhong, and the five thousand defeated soldiers who followed them out of the city were in a miserable state... They had to swim across the moat!
So when Yuwen Xuzhong finally caught up with Liu Yanqing, the commander of the commander of the Grand Song guards, Liu Yanqing, was unloading his armor with the help of his personal soldiers. He had to take off his armor weighing dozens of kilograms of armor before he could get into the water to swim!
Yuwen Xuzhong didn't know how to swim, and he didn't know that he could not wear iron armor weighing dozens of kilograms of pounds of iron - this is a physics problem. The imperial examination in the Song Dynasty did not test this, so he asked loudly: "Why did the Taiwei take off his armor? Could it be that he wants to go into battle with bare shirt?"
Liu Yanqing also saw Yuwen Xu being captured at this time. He ran too fast just now and actually saw a military supervisor, Grand Secretary of Guanwen Hall, who was with him! Fortunately, he didn't lose him, otherwise he would not be able to explain after returning to the city.
So he quickly said to Yuwen Xuzhong with a pleasing look on his face: "The Jin thief is approaching, and the suspension bridge is broken. Only by swimming across the river to survive, the scholar quickly wears his clothes and is about to go into the water with the last!"
What? Yuwen Xuzhong's head buzzed and almost fell off the horse's back in shock. In this situation, shouldn't we fight back and survive in death? How can we swim across the river... Don't you, Liu Yanqing, know that this official is a scholar and can't swim?
Seeing that Yuwen Xuzhong had not taken off his clothes, Liu Yanqing was also a little anxious, "Why are the bachelor's clothes not loose? Do you want to be loyal to the country?"
Be loyal to the country? You Liu Yanqing, you escaped like a flying person. If you want me to be loyal to the country, I will never let you go!
Thinking of this, Yuwen Xuzhong rode his horse forward with a dark face. When he arrived at Liu Yanqing, he was about to turn over and get off the horse. Liu Yanqing thought he was ready to think about it, so he hurriedly went up to support him. While helping Yuwen Xuzhong off the horse, he said flatteringly: "Bachelor, hurry up and loose clothes, drink some wine to warm up your body. The water is too cold..."
As soon as Liu Yanqing said "the water is too cold", Yuwen Xuzhong put out the sword and put it on his neck. It was not the water, but the neck was cold.
"Yu...Bachelor Yuwen, what are you doing? Why did you put your sword around your neck?"
Yuwen Xuzhong said with a dark face: "Master Liu, have you forgotten that your official is a military supervisor? You escaped at the last minute and deserve to die. What's wrong with this official killing you?"
"Kill, kill... me?" Liu Yanqing had already felt the murderous aura of this Yuwen Bachelor, and he was immediately panicked, "Study, bachelor, the Jin thief is powerful!"
"Is it my official's sword big, or is it the Jin thief's soldiers strong?" Yuwen Xuzhong used force in his hand, and the sword blade pressed against Liu Yanqing's neck. His sword was sharpened, but it was sharp. After pressing, Liu Yanqing's neck was broken.
Liu Yanqing was really anxious now, "The bachelor's sword is the bachelor's sword..."
Yuwen Xuzhong shouted: "Then why don't you just start the army and fight immediately!"
Chapter completed!