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Chapter 71 Fast as electricity, gallop as wind

At this time, Wu Lin and others received the news and had already seen it. When they saw that it was Liu Weifu here, they were barely shot by Zhao Huan. Everyone laughed when they heard it. Liu Weifu was solemn and self-controlled. After laughing for a moment, he curled his smile and said to Zhao Huan solemnly: "Your Majesty is determined to fight in person, it is really a heroic death. It is already late winter. The enemy's war horses have been exhausted for a long time and have been exhausted and thin, so they have no intention of luring the enemy into the ambush our royal army to pursue the army. In front of Guozhou City, right?

The village was just a defeated general of Han Chang and Wang Bolong. One of them was defeated by Yichuan and fled to Hebei Road without asking for his own order. He was blamed by the financial owner. He had no choice but to serve Tongguan again. The other was defeated by Chang'an City. His main force was less than 2,000, and he was in a mess. If Wanyan Zongbi had not served Han Chang's father and son for two generations, and had saved his life in Fuping, Han Chang had been beheaded in front of the formation. Even so, he had made meritorious service with his crime and ordered him to defend Guozhou to the death. If there was any mistake, he would definitely be engaged in military law."

Zhao Huan smiled and said to everyone: "Look, the Han father and son served the barbarians for two generations, first Liao and then Jin, were loyal. Many of his confidants were from the Han family. They worked hard for the Liao and Jin, and countless of their children died on the battlefield. Whether it was the Jin people or the Liao people, they were excluded because they were aliens. When Han Chang was in the Fuping War, I personally saw his bravery, and he opened three stone bows, and the arrows were shot and eaten with his eyes. It was not Xia Hou..."

"Cough..." Zhao Huan coughed a few times, covering his head. He spoke quickly just now and almost said that it was not Xia Houdun that he could not compare with Han Chang. In fact, the Romance of the Three Kingdoms was written in the Ming Dynasty. Xia Houdun ate Qiqing and Cao Cao's whispers to change his beard and robe and escaped. The prototypes were Han Chang and Wanyan Zongbi.

Seeing that everyone didn't care, Zhao Huan finally said with peace of mind: "Well, since Guozhou and others are abandoned by these Jin people, they just hope to use Han army miscellaneous soldiers to hold us back. Since that's the case, we will first conquer Guozhou and then capture Luoyang by camera."

"Yes, I'm willing to die!"

The emperor was wearing armor and stood among the soldiers to arrange wars. Such a scene was no longer seen in front of the soldiers of the three armies below the beginning of the Song Dynasty. Zhao Huan was not only in the army, but also had repeatedly defeated the enemy. He was able to dispatch the law and was skillful in riding and shooting. The shame of the second year of Jingkang was washed away by him. The situation where Jin Qiang and Song Wu were beaten everywhere had also changed greatly. Therefore, in the eyes of the generals and ordinary Song soldiers, Zhao Huan had long had an invincible image. Everyone was not surprised by his personal expedition, and they obeyed his dispatch, which was why.

The matter was settled now, and Liu Weifu's more than a thousand cavalry still went to the provocation near Guozhou. Zhao Huan led his troops to rest for a while and then immediately caught up.

Shortly after Liu Weifu left, Zhao Huan saw that the sky was dim and his horse power also recovered. This time, he ordered Wu Lin to go first. After a moment of more than 10,000 cavalry, Zhao Huanfang got on the horse again. Under the escort of Niu Gao and 300 Mongolian cavalry, he began to march towards Guozhou.

At this time, it was the western boundary of the capital, and it had already left the valley and entered the plain. Looking at the morning light, there were black plains everywhere, and village houses were vaguely visible. As the sun gradually rose, the smoke of cooking gradually rose, and many people got up to cook. The fragrance of the rice drifted along the cold wind of winter. The cavalry on the horses were hungry and greedy.

When they arrived not far from Guozhou City, many people had already gotten up early to go out to do business. When they saw the Song cavalry running on the roadside, they were stunned at first, and then there was thunderous joy.

Zhao Huan tightly wore a helmet and dressed in the armor of ordinary cavalry, mixed in the cavalry formation. No one knew that he was the emperor of the Song Dynasty today. If not, he would be afraid that the response would be even more intense.

I saw many people running around and telling each other that many people were rushing to cook or boiling hot water along the road, thinking of giving it to these Great Song cavalry, but the cavalry was moving too fast. When they arrived at the roadside with the hot water, they could only see a wisp of smoke floating in the sky, and there was no trace of the cavalry again.

"On the day when the king's army settled in the Central Plains, we must not forget to tell my husband about his family sacrifice."

Zhao Huan rode his horse forward. The road was flat, and the horse was running one by one. It was very comfortable to mount, but his heart was very heavy, and he was shocked by the situation just now.

Since Emperor Taizong of Song attacked Youyan, the Han people there had been food and drinks to serve the king's army. Emperor Taizong failed and hundreds of thousands of people followed the Song army back to the mainland. Those who could not return were crying and burst into tears, which was extremely painful.

At the beginning of the Southern Song Dynasty, this situation occurred frequently in various places. No matter where, as long as the Song army arrived, the local people would definitely do their best to help each other, but unfortunately they were disappointed many times.

Only by seeing this situation of longing for the king's joy with one's own eyes can we understand the pain of the Song people in Lu You's poems that cannot restore their hometown.

When the sun was a little hot, the small city wall of Guozhou City had already appeared in front of Zhao Huan. He turned to look at the sky. It was about eight or nine o'clock in the morning. He rushed closer. He saw that there were chaos under Guozhou City. Thousands of soldiers were marching under the blue-gray city wall. The generals in front of the city were running left and right in front of the formation, boosting morale. However, there were only a few Han troops in this city, mixed with many defeated Khitan soldiers. The morale was already very low. The red cavalry of the Song army was like a raging wave, surrounding the small city of Guozhou, and they would launch an attack at any time because the city pool was

It was too small to be able to defend the city, so the guards went out of the city and used the cover of archers on the city gate to defend under the city gate. It was originally the correct strategy, but the number of defenders was too small and the morale was too low. Although many generals shouted something loudly and were desperately motivating their subordinates, they saw that most of the Han troops were lowered and their heads were still scattered. Many of them were defecated, their armor was not in order, and some people were yawning, but their eyes were on the roads around the city. When the war was unfavorable, they did not flee back to the city, but fled in panic, so as not to be made into dumplings by the Song army.

After Zhao Huan arrived, Liu Weifu rushed over and said to Zhao Huan: "Your Majesty, not long after I arrived at the city, I sent a small group of cavalry to drive it away, but was defeated by my troops. When most General Wu arrived, the enemy realized that something was wrong and began to go out of the city to line up to fight. Please retreat a little, and when you take Guozhou, your Majesty will enter the city again."

"No need!" Zhao Huan refused flatly. Seeing that the Jin soldiers lined up in the city were fighting the big banner of "Han", he ordered to Wu Lin and others who were rushing over: "Han Chang really doesn't know how to live or die. Wu Lin, you will attack him with your troops."

"Yes, I'll go right away."

More than 10,000 cavalry were divided into five square formations, each with about two thousand people. After Wu Lin passed the order, more than 2,000 cavalrymen at the forefront first held guns and spears, and some were using strange weapons such as maces coming from the north and ready to attack at any time.

"Listen to my general order, the front army assaulted."

With Wu Lin's order, the red flag waved decisively in the air. The cavalry team, which was originally as vast as abyss, rushed forward like a flood. The spear and spear flashed with cold light in the air, and the dull sound of horse hooves seemed to stomp the ground. More than two thousand cavalrymen rushed forward desperately and rushed towards the enemy formation.

"kill!"

The Jin soldiers on the opposite side also set up their formations. The infantry raised their spears, and the archers on the top of the city were setting their bows and arrows to support the city. A small number of cavalry rushed to the formation on both sides of the infantry formation. Because there were too many cavalrymen on the other side, the small group of cavalry did not dare to fight, so they had to retreat to the rear of the infantry formation first, and when they were not supported in the front, they would go forward and fight.

"Shoot, shoot arrow!"

The one guarding the city was Wang Bolong, the Wanhu, who had originally guarded Hedong. Seeing the Song cavalry rushed towards him like the raging waves of the Yellow River, he had long changed his face. He had a lot of experience in fighting and knew that the five or six thousand Han soldiers under the city could not stop the enemy at all, and even the first wave of two thousand cavalry could not stop it. The Song general on the opposite side was obviously still ordering, and the Song cavalry in the second echelon was slowly increasing its strength and began to move forward to support the front team, which made him feel even more jealous.

Guozhou is small, and the low walls are impossible to stop the enemy. Therefore, when Han Chang saw the main force of the Song cavalry arrived, he took the initiative to go out to supervise the battle, only allowing Wang Bolong to supervise the battle at the top of the city. Even so, this Han general, who had always been weak and selfish, was still frightened and could not calm down.

The range of the Jin soldiers' bows and arrows was far less than that of the Song army's composite bow. Although the Song cavalry rushed faster, most of them had not yet entered the range. However, Wang Bolong was panicked and ordered the arrows to be fired repeatedly. The archers at the city were originally panicked. Although they knew that the range was not enough, they had already pulled the bows and arrows as if they were full of the moon. The main general ordered the order. The panicked archer hurriedly let go of his fingers holding the tail of the arrow, and there was a crackling sound. The locust-like feather arrows flew towards the Song army cavalry formation that was cycling.

Due to insufficient range, only a small number of feather arrows shot into the formation. A small number of cavalry rushing to the front fell to the ground. After making a few muffled sounds, they were soon stepped on by the war horses following behind and turned into meat mud. With blood splashed everywhere, the cavalry had already rushed to the front of the Jin soldiers' gun and spear formation under the city.

"Bang..."

Countless iron spears of spears were broken by powerful impact. Some of the cavalry that hit the head were pierced by spears and spears, or simply knocked into the air, then fell into the gun array, hanging on the tip of the spear.

Such a gun array naturally defeats the cavalry's attack. However, when dealing with the cavalry's impact of more than a thousand people, the size of the gun array must be at least ten levels. In a hurry, the Jin soldiers were short of manpower, and the second was the formation loose and chaotic. After the gun array in the first few layers was broken by the cavalry, the infantry behind had long been frightened to the point of facing the cavalry with a cavalry with a big sword on the horse, and although the superior tried his best to supervise the battle, he still could not stop the infantry's retreat.
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