Chapter 88: Yue Fei Stands Up, The Lonely King Comes!
On the third day of March, the eighth year of Xuanhe.
In the night, a fire dragon is still rolling forward on the official road in Cizhou, Hebei!
Although Zhao Kai's behavior was a bit reckless and a little crazy, his military group had super strong execution ability... A reckless crazy king was whipping with a whip from behind, and was also motivating with heavy rewards, and kicked too many calculators and too many politicians out of the military decision-making level. How can this work be less efficient? Can the execution ability be strong?
So on the first day of March, Zhao Kai held an emergency military agreement on the day when he learned that the Pingding Army was surrounded by the Jinxi Route Army, and the decision to send troops and the scale of the troops was made at the military agreement. Then he spent another day gathering and reorganizing troops to prepare chariots, horses, equipment, and supplies.
By the second day of the March, eight thousand war soldiers, two thousand auxiliary soldiers, fifteen thousand mules and horses, five hundred large carts, fifteen-day food, a large number of arrowheads, javelins, silk, copper coins, land deeds, and official photos for rewards were all ready to be stopped, and the packaging of the cart was completed.
Early in the third day of the third month, Zhao Kai bid farewell to Zhu Fengying and Pan Cailian, and at the same time issued an order to order his son Zhao Lun to act as the Grand Marshal, and ordered He Guan and Lu Yihao to assist him, and ordered Wang Yuan to lead the Wei army out of Huaizhou.
After the arrangement was made, Zhao Kai, Chen Ji, Du Chong, Han Shizhong, Liu Ziyu, Huang Wuji, Li Xiaozhong, Xiang Ke and other civil and military officials led their troops to leave the Xiangzhou camp outside Anyang City and headed north. By night that day, the army had already passed the county town of Handan County, an important town under Cizhou, and was about to enter Xinde Prefecture.
During the day, Zhao Kai's army traveled 1120 miles!
Not to mention the speed in the Song Dynasty, even if it was a few hundred years later, it would be considered a forced marching with a flintlock rifle and a bronze cannon.
But Zhao Kai still thought it was slow... Yue Fei was still waiting to save him! If he went too late, maybe Yue Pengju would become Yue Wumu!
Zhao Kai cannot afford to lose Yue Fei!
And he also believed that this battle would be a sure win! How could he lose? He was the chosen one, Yue Fei was born with a god, and Han Shizhong, the general who was named after Yue Fei... So what if there were few people? Even the terrain of Niangziguan, a million troops could not be disguised! To be honest, an army of 8,000 people was just right for Niangziguan.
Zhao Kai certainly had confidence in Yue Fei defending the pacification army, and he had no doubts about whether he, the chosen king, could defend the Niangzi Pass.
So in his opinion, the key to this victory or defeat is whether the 8,000 army he led can be in place in time.
After nightfall, in order to save horsepower, all the soldiers dismounted and walked on foot. Zhao Kai also got off the horse, leaning on a horse rifle, carrying straight swords, arrow bags, water bags and dry food bags, and walked step by step. The surroundings were Xiangzhou soldiers who had just joined the army. When the torch came down, the men of Xiangzhou also walked with their kings, measuring the official road from Handan to Xingtai with their feet, and the big guys couldn't help but speed up a little.
Zhao Kai was also extremely enthusiastic. He also talked with these Xiangzhou people while walking and said some inspiring words. Along the way, he specially transferred the Xiangzhou people to his side to encourage these farmers who had just put down their hoes with words and examples.
"How do you call it a big man?"
"When you say the king, the little one is Wang Minggui."
"Wang Gui..." Zhao Kai glanced at the "farmer" beside him with a honest look on his face and said with a smile, "Good name... I met the king and I would be noble! Now that you meet the lonely king, you will definitely become noble!"
"The younger one thinks so too. The younger one plans to kill a few more golden thieves under the wife's custody and gain an official position..."
"Hahaha......"
This words called Wang Gui immediately attracted a burst of laughter.
The soldiers of Xiangzhou around were laughing. They were all men from afar, they could be skilled in martial arts, and they could ride horses. They were also very strong, but the matter of being a prostitute was beyond reach.
When Wang Gui was ridiculed by everyone, his face turned red. He glared at the two young men who smiled the most fiercely, "Zhang Xian, Xu Qing, don't you think? Do you want to farm well at home, what's the matter with the recruitment?"
Zhao Kai smiled and said, "It is for the purpose of becoming an official. The military strategist said: If you don't want to be a general, you are not a soldier! Your fellow villager in Xiangzhou is also a farmer and a customer of the Han family. This time, he didn't kill many Jurchens in the Pingding Army, and he has become an official... You have to learn from him!"
Wang Guizhong's key point: "The king is right. If the brother of Yue's family can be an official, why can't I be a Wang Gui be an official? I'm not to hide it from you, I, Wang Gui, have been a brave warrior... I have already fought with the barbarians!"
"Don't you just dare to fight? I've been a soldier too!"
“Many of us have been…”
It turned out that many of the elite soldiers selected by He Guan and his son from the Xiangzhou soldiers had already been soldiers once, but they were not serious imperial guards, but the brave soldiers recruited by Liu Wei when he was the staff officer of Hebei and Hedong Xuanfu, which was considered temporary mercenaries. After the end of the battle against Liao, they all returned to their respective houses.
Zhao Kai smiled and nodded, raised his voice and said, "Okay, you are all good men in the Song Dynasty. This time when you arrive at the Madam Pass, the Lone King will take you to fight well... The Golden Thieves are nothing great. Yue Fei can kill a lot, and we must be able to kill a lot!"
"Yes, that Yue Fei can do it, so can we do it!"
"I'm no worse than Yue Fei!"
The morale of these people in Xiangzhou has been boosted by Zhao Kai. They are all ready to be Yue Fei second and Yue Fei third... Seeing the millions of Yue Wumu getting up, Zhao Kai's confidence is even more complete!
Zhao Kai looked up at the northern Xinkong and said in his heart: Pengju, you are waiting... I will bring thousands of Yue Wumu to save you!
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On the same night, Yue Fei didn't know that there were already thousands of "self" coming to save him soon... Although he had always claimed to his comrades that reinforcements would come, he actually didn't believe this.
It seems that the pacification army is not that important yet!
How could His Highness, Prince Yun, let Kaifeng Prefecture not go to rescue him and come to Pingding Army? Only the nerd Qin Hui could say such nonsense - Qin Hui has also followed the demons these days, and when he saw someone, he said that Prince Yun would definitely bring troops to rescue Pingding Army and Yue Fei.
He also said that Prince Yun wanted Yue Fei in his dreams... This sounds wrong!
So no one from the Pingding Army believed Qin Hui. He was scared crazy by the not-so-powerful Jin thieves outside the city!
That's right, the Jin thieves who besieged the Pingding Army were indeed not very powerful. Now, Yue Fei had just brought people to a night attack and burned out more than a dozen sling guns that the Jin thieves had worked hard to create. These sling guns were just moved outside the north gate of Pingding Army City this afternoon, and they were useless, so Yue Fei led 300 death row soldiers to destroy them.
Yue Fei adopted a new style of fighting in this just-concluded night attack. All three hundred death row soldiers put on the armor of the stomp, carried battle axes, javelins, and rode out of sheep and horse walls and trenches. After approaching the position of the Jin thieves (actually the Khitans), they first dismounted the horse and bid for the javelins, then rushed into the crowd and killed them with a big axe. After killing the Jin thieves, they burned all their guns with a torch.
This style of play seems to be no big deal, it is just a tactic of horse-riding infantry, but it is amazingly powerful when used properly!
Because this tactic is extremely sudden, hundreds of heavily armored soldiers can be put into a certain section of the enemy's front in a very short time, creating an overwhelming advantage in a short period of time. And it can also quickly evacuate after completing the task, so that the opponent's counterattack and pursuit cannot be fought.
So Yelu Yuji could only watch the cannons that his subordinates worked hard to build were destroyed... No matter how they saw this Song army in the Punishing Army, they were wrong! How could they be so capable?
Thinking of this, Yelu Yuji sighed. He was about to go down from the high ground where he was to the frontier where he had just been attacked by Yue Fei, and he heard a burst of rapid and dense sound of horse hooves, and then the personal soldiers loudly informed: "Tai Shi, Deputy Marshal Zuo is here!"
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Chapter completed!