Dawn of the Empire

Chapter 61: Fate is a big fallacy (5)

There was still hesitation on Tong Guan's face, Wang Yan said: "If my lord raises the commander's flag and orders the generals to recruit soldiers, we can still retreat to Hejian and fight the Liao people." He paused and took a step forward , Pointing to the tens of thousands of soldiers on the pier, said: "Does your lord have the heart to abandon the river like a shoe, and abandon the army like a piece of grass?"

Tong Guan was stunned by his words, and looked up at Wang Yan, only to see that this person was not as gentle and elegant as usual, but was indescribably aggressive. Tong Guan was sure that he If he really left on this boat, the words "Abandoning the river is like abandoning scumbags, abandoning the army is like abandoning grass" just now will definitely appear in the Shangzuo of Jinyan Mansion.He looked into the distance with some guilty conscience, and there were more and more cavalry from the Liao Kingdom. There were only a few hundred just now, and now there are vaguely two or three thousand.

"The 'Rebellion' army is unstoppable," Tong Guan said slowly, "The Liao cavalry blocked the way to Hejian City."

As soon as he finished speaking, Han Shizhong bowed and said: "As long as the commander gives an order, the general is willing to defeat the Liao soldiers!" He also led the army to fight fiercely with the Liao cavalry several times this night. The maximum number of troops is only a few thousand, and it is not as powerful as imagined.If Tong Guan really fled from the sea, he would be punished by the court, and he himself would not be much better. If he returned to Hejian, tried his best to support him, and then made some meritorious service, the situation would be different.That's why Han Shizhong ignored Tong Guan's hesitation and took the initiative to invite Ying.

Wang Yan glanced at Han Shizhong, then looked around at Tong Guan's generals Xin Xingzong, Bi Sheng, and Feng Mei. The generals looked at each other a few times, then bent down and said: "The last general is willing to protect the general and defeat the Liao army!" "Commander!" Wang Yan said in a deep voice, "The situation is changing rapidly, so raise the commander's flag quickly, to reassure the army, order the generals to rectify the 'chaos' soldiers, and return to Hejian immediately." After finishing speaking, he did not wait for Tong Guan Agreed, turned around and sternly shouted at the banner officer who was deployed in the Yamen: "What are you doing in a daze, raise the handsome flag!" The banner officer hesitated, looked at Tong Guan, Tong Guan pondered for a moment, and finally clicked Nodding, he has also experienced many major events, so he is willing to go all out.

While Zhao Xingde and the soldiers were pushing and shoving, they suddenly heard a few exclamations from the front, and then, the chaotic soldiers stopped pushing and shoving one after another, "It is the general flag of the deployment of the adults!" The commander-in-chief has not left, but is raising the flag to gather generals to fight the Liao people to the death!" At this time, several generals in full armor stepped down from a sea ship moored on the shore, and rode on the horsemen led by their own soldiers. Horses, and Han Shizhong, the commander of the Zhenbei Second Army, who is known to many soldiers, held a long knife in his hand, and summoned more than 2000 horsemen from the Zhenbei Second Army who were still capable of fighting, and separated from the "rebellious" army. , and walked slowly towards the direction where the Khitan cavalry gathered.

"Do you have the guts!" Han Shizhong shouted loudly as he rode his horse forward, "Follow me to kill the Khitan people!" The momentum is quite strong.

The soldiers of the Hebei camp crowded on the pier stared at them with awe and admiration. It was this cavalry who turned around and charged several times, forcing the Khitan forwards to retreat.These cavalry and horses were already exhausted, some of the Khitan's arrowheads were still stuck between the gaps in their armor, and they were still following the general, ready to confront the Khitans again.Some fierce soldiers responded: "I am willing to fight with General Han!" Someone pulled the second army of Zhenbei and asked: "If you defeat the Khitan soldiers, can you go to General Han's camp?"

"Of course!" Han Shizhong heard this, turned around, stared at the soldier and said, "What's your name?"

The soldier was a little nervous, he stammered and said: "General Qi, Gao Ze, from the Xuanwei Army."

Han Shizhong nodded, and said in a deep voice, "I'll accept anyone who fights." He glanced at Tong Guan's handsome flag, lowered his head and said to Gao Ze, "Come look for me after you enter Hejian City."

Gao Ze was overjoyed and said: "Thank you, General!" He threw away all the armor and other heavy things when he ran, and he still had a pair of bows and arrows in his hand, so he followed behind the cavalry of the Northern Army in Han Shizhong's town. There are still soldiers like him Quite a few, when Han Shizhong's Zhenbei Second Army came out, there were already more than 3000 cavalry, and nearly 4000 infantry behind.

Zhao Xingde stood in the crowd and watched from a distance, his heart was full of envy and admiration, "A man should be like this!" This sentence came to mind.But he not only lost his armor long ago, he didn't even know where to throw his bow, arrow and long spear, he hesitated for a moment, but he didn't squeeze past.I saw that Han Shizhong restrained all the troops to come to the front of the formation, and he did not rush too much, but stopped between the Khitan cavalry and the Song army's formation. It turned out that the commander of the northern army's capital, the commander rode his horse behind those who followed The soldiers ran around, as if they were simply grouping them.In the end, the archers were formed into one team, the spearmen and sword and shield players were formed into another team, and the cavalry was lined up on both sides of the infantry formation, and then slowly approached the Khitans again.

At the same time, the rest of the generals also rode around in the "chaotic" army, and the personal soldiers went around and divided the "chaotic" soldiers crowded on the pier into three divisions according to the area. Then the stragglers were stuffed under these officers to form their own troops. Of course, these generals also took the opportunity to promote many cronies.

Zhao Xingde reported the identity of the staff of the capital deployment, and finally broke away from the chaotic crowd, leading him to wait under the big boat where Tong Guan was.Although he was still not out of danger, even the boat hadn't even boarded, but there were no random arrows flying around, Khitan cavalry chasing, soldiers pushing and shoving, Zhao Xingde was disheveled and his clothes were soaked in sweat, a burst of cool river The wind has a fishy smell, which makes people feel refreshed.

"My lord, let the last general go to the battle!" Guo Baoyi turned his head and said to Yelu Dashi Bing. He commanded more than 500 cavalry soldiers. Strong arrows are also difficult to penetrate. If the whole army strikes bravely, it may be able to break through the center and disrupt the formation of the Song people.

There was no joy or anger on Yelu Dashi's face. Although the [-] Tielin Army completely defeated the Hebei Camp of the Song Army, after a night of fierce fighting, the casualties may be tens of thousands.It's a pity that the follow-up Liao brigade marched too slowly because of the drag of the iron barrel cannon.Just leaving the Han Army of the Firearms Battalion behind is not reassuring.If there were another [-] iron cavalry in hand at this moment, not to mention the tens of thousands of Song soldiers gathered at the pier, even those who fled desperately towards the Daming Mansion would not survive much.

Straight ahead, the formation of the Song army under Han Shizhong was slowly approaching, and the infantry archers began to shoot arrows one after another under the command of the officer. The shooting range of the Song Guobu bow far exceeded Khitan cavalry, if the cavalry of the Liao Kingdom did not want to charge forward, they had no choice but to retreat.If you want to rush into the formation, you have to fight the swordsmen, shields, and spearmen who are waiting for you, and you have to withstand the side attack of Han Shizhong's cavalry on the two wings.

"Back!" Yelu Dashi raised his hand to stop Guo Baoyi. Thousands of Liao cavalry retreated more than a hundred steps slowly, but still kept a distance from the Song army.Seeing this, Han Shizhong frowned. His infantry formation was not tight enough, and he could only rely on the tens of thousands of Song troops who were still being reorganized to be able to withstand the Liao people's charge with confidence. It may be defeated by the cavalry of the Liao people in one fell swoop.

Before he issued a general order, thousands of soldiers stood still.It wasn't until the tens of thousands of troops in the rear were rectified, and the army slowly approached, that the Liao cavalry retreated hundreds of steps.

The two armies stood in a stalemate on guard for a while, and the Song army began to move. Suddenly, the Liao army roared in unison, galloped their horses around in a circle, bypassed Han Shizhong's front formation, and rushed towards the loose infantry formation at the rear. Han Shizhong hurriedly mobilized his cavalry to intercept At that time, the Song army in the large formation also hurriedly stopped and formed, and the Liao cavalry fired a round of arrows from a distance, and then rode away again.Because Han Shizhong wanted to protect the main force of the headquarters, he couldn't keep chasing after him, so he just drove away these disturbances.

So again and again, although the number of Liao cavalry was small, they continued to harass the Song army. When Han Shizhong led the cavalry to drive them away, they immediately fled away. It kept hindering the speed of Song Jun's advance.

It wasn't until the Song Army entered Hejian City that more than half an hour passed before the Liao Kingdom's brigade of cavalry reinforcements arrived.Tong Guan, Wang Yan and others saw the dust raised by the overwhelming cavalry from the top of the city tower, and they all felt lucky in their hearts.