bookpower Chapter 129
Chapter 129
Chapter 129: Bianliang! Bianliang!.
In the winter and December of the sixth year of Xuanhe, on both sides of the Yellow River, the wind and snow were fierce!
This year’s wind and snow are exceptionally heavy and cold than in previous years. The ice on the Yellow River is several feet thick!
That is, more than a meter thick!
Such a thick ice surface is enough to allow thousands of horses to step on!
Later generations also often reported that every year when the Yellow River opened, the ice surface upstream broke, and blocks of ice weighing hundreds or even thousands of kilograms roared down, like icebergs.
At that time, the climate was already warmer, and the Yellow River was still so thick with ice in winter.
In the past few years of the Northern Song Dynasty Xuanhe and Jingkang, it has entered a solar term similar to the Xiaoice River, which will only be colder in winter and thicker in the Yellow River!
In fact, every time a foreign race goes south and can break into the hinterland of the Central Plains, it is almost always when the climate enters the Xiaoice River period, and the northern cold makes it difficult for nomads to survive.
Whenever this happens, the nomads will break out with powerful combat power in order to survive and invade the Central Plains! In the late Ming Dynasty Xiaoice the River era, the rise of Houjin had this factor.
Today’s Liao State and the late Northern Song Dynasty, the rise of the cheap ancestor Jin State of Later Jin is also for this reason!
In the wind and snow at the end of the sixth year of Xuanhe, Chai Hao also led the Youzhou iron horse who rushed thousands of miles to the north bank of the Yellow River. It’s less than a hundred miles away from Bianliang!
But this hundred miles is bound to be a little difficult.
Because there is not only wind and snow blocking ahead, but also more than 100,000 gold troops! Among them, 100,000 are iron horses who have experienced a hundred battles and annihilation!
And Chai Hao’s side, there were 3,000 feather Lin Army, 7,000 Tianyu Army’s Youzhou Iron Horse 10,000 horses, Yue Fei, Gao Bao and other 133 newly formed warrior cavalry 1,000 cavalry.
The Hujie army led by Lu Zhishen had 2,000 infantrymen.
Originally, there were 5,000 people, and the remaining 3,000 people were all divided by Chai Hao all the way south to recover those prefectures and counties, and led the local people to defend the city and maintain order.
In addition, there were thousands of elite people in the defeated forbidden army gathered along the way, and 100,000 people of Hebei rebels who came to honor Chai Hao as the leader of the rebel army!
Of course, these 100,000-strong Hebei rebels had a complex composition, including a defeated forbidden army, a fleeing army of officials, reckless rivers and lakes, peasants who had lost their hometowns and relatives, and some small bandits who were originally entrenched in the mountains.
Well, to put it bluntly, it’s a bunch of rabble.
Most of them did not have armor, and some did not even have weapons, but only some dung forks, hoes, shovels and other agricultural tools. There were even those with a wooden stick kitchen knife.
It’s good that the strong momentum is good, taking these 100,000 rebels to fight with the 100,000 iron horses of the Jin army is no different from sending them to death!
Although these 100,000 rebels, there are some blood brave people, and people with high martial arts are also full of blood and hatred for the golden dog. But after all, their composition is too complicated, and they do not understand the coordination of military formations, battlefield orders, and changes in battles.
Even though there are a few people with outstanding combat strength, a whole army of 100,000 people is like a large ball of soft cotton, unable to gather strength, and it is flattened with one blow!
Unless it takes a long time to integrate them, unify the practice of military formations, orders, battle formations and killing methods, and after some actual combat feeding, it will be difficult to stop a charge of 100,000 gold army iron horses!
Not to mention 100,000, even 10,000 Jurchen iron horses can crush these 100,000 people.
But if you want to integrate the real training of 100,000 people, it will take at least a year and a half! To become a crack soldier, it takes years of hard work.
But the current situation, of course, will not give Chai Hao so much time.
But they couldn’t resist the enthusiasm of these rebels, so they had to take them with them. If nothing else, when you are not fighting, it is good to be strong.
What’s more, this is also an opportunity for Chai Hao to quickly control some elites among these 100,000 people. Now they are a group of rabble, and they will not be 100,000 warriors in the future!
“Cross the river!”
Looking at the opposite bank in the wind and snow, Chai clenched the somewhat cold Azure Dragon Sun Spear in his hand, and with an order, with 145,000 elite horsemen as the vanguard, and 100,000 Hebei rebels as the two wings and rear teams, he began to step on the ice and cross the river!
They came from the direction of Hebei Road, so they crossed the river due north of Bianliang.
The main force of the Jin army came all the way from the direction of Taiyuan, and although they plundered half of Hebei, their main force never set foot in Hebei, but came from Jingxi Road, that is, the northwest of Bianliang, and also crossed the river from here.
The two armies, crossing the river in different directions, but the goal is the same, both are Bianliang! And the Jin army actually crossed the river earlier.
Especially after Yan Zongwang heard that Chai Hao also led his army to the south and destroyed the few remaining troops left by the Jin army on Hebei Road, he directly ordered to collect the soldiers and horses and advance towards Bianliang at full speed!
As long as he arrives and takes Bianliang one step ahead of Chai Hao, the Song Kingdom will perish! And the Jin army can also obtain countless grain and wealth endowments, gain the prestige of destroying the country, and even support a Song traitor to be the emperor to order the Song people, and slowly collect firewood Hao with the Jin army!
Chai Hao, on the other hand, wanted to rush to Bianliang first, for the sake of the people around Bianliang who had not yet had time to evacuate.
Only when Chai Hao appeared outside Bianliang City, the Jin army did not dare to scatter soldiers and horses and rob and slaughter the people of the Great Song! At this time, Bianliang was one hundred and fifty miles northwest.
After Yan Zongwang and Yan Zonghan, they commanded 100,000 Jin Guo Iron Horses and 10,000 servant army infantry, and they were marching in a hurry in the wind and snow. From Yunzhou to the south, there were originally 180,000 foot horses, of which in Taiyuan, 50,000 servants were left to besiege Taiyuan.
All the way to capture the cities of Hedong, Jingxi, and Hebei, dispatched soldiers and horses to garrison and loot, and distributed more than 10,000 people. The siege of Xiangzhou, where Zongze was stationed, also left 10,000 people.
So at the moment there are still 100,000 horses, 10,000 infantry troops.
Among them, more than 70,000 horses are Jurchen elite horses, and more than 20,000 rides are the elite of the Bohai servant army and the Liao servant army!
These 100,000 iron horses are the completion of Yan Zongwang and Yan Zonghan, laying down the Bianliang and destroying the confidence of the Song Kingdom!
“Boys!”
Hurry up!
Faster!
Take Bianliang first, the wealth accumulated in one hundred and fifty years of the Song Kingdom, countless Song beauty women, even the princess Di Ji of the Song State Dog Emperor, are all ours!
“We can eat and drink in the warm Bianliang City, enjoy the perfect person, and then warmly destroy the Chai Hao who does not know whether he is dead or alive!”
At the front of the Jin Guotie Horse, Yan Zongwang and Yan Zonghan, while smiling viciously, encouraged the Jin Guoerlang under their command to march quickly.
Just like Wangmei quenched his thirst, listening to the description of the two marshals, those tiger-wolf-like greedy and brutal Jin troops drooled one after another, and Ulaula’s cheers accelerated the speed of the march… And in this stormy snow, not only the two armies of Chai Hao and Jin Jun marched.
In the direction of Tongguan to the west of Bianliang, several elite western armies from Shaanxi almost poured out and went from Tongguan to rescue Bianliang.
The seventy-five-year-old veteran of the Western Army was coughing violently on his horse, while dragging his sick body and urging: “Soldiers! Hurry up! ”
The Great Song is in danger, all in my body!
“The generals of our Western Army have received the grace of the country, just when they die to repay the service!”
In fact, the speed of the Western Army was already very fast, and the main force of the Western Army was in Chutong Pass, and the pioneer Yang Keshi had already led the 5,000-step horse cobbled together by the Western Army and rode to Luoyang.
And east of Bianliang, the commander of the Qin Wang army in the south road, Jeju Taishou Zhang Shuye, also took 30,000 or 40,000 soldiers and horses, against the northwest wind and marched hard.
Of his 30,000 or 40,000 soldiers and horses, half of them were the elites of the forbidden army of Jingdong Prefecture selected by Zhang Shuye, and half were the righteous elites he recruited.
As for those box soldiers and soil soldiers, Zhang Shuye did not bring any of them, because he knew that at such times, only elite soldiers were useful.
There are more rabble and horses, which is not conducive to a quick march, and it is prone to problems.
As for how Zhang Shuye recruited 20,000 righteous braves from the Jingdong people so quickly?
From these 20,000 righteous bravery, one person is Liangshan Chaijin!
You can see the clue!
If someone can stand above the nine heavens and look down, they will find that on the white earth at this moment, the armies of all parties marching in the southeast, southwest, and northwest are like long dragons, all converging in one direction.