Time: In the first year of Maode, on the morning of October 13th, that is, early seven o'clock.
In later generations, every time junior high school, high school, or even college students take a history exam, they will often touch on one exam point.
The decisive battle between the new army of the Song Dynasty and the Jin people's attack on the Song army began in such a gray and extremely depressing weather.
Amidst the thundering sound of "dong, dong, dong~", the new army of the Song Dynasty has been passively defensive since the beginning of such a war.
For the first and only time, the entire army began to take the initiative to attack.
Except for the more than two thousand civilians brought by the warehouse manager, who were busy setting up Congreve rockets, the ultimate killer weapon, almost all the personnel of the New Army camp came out.
After constant consumption and supplements from Kaifeng City.
After counting the civilians, there were originally more than 80,000 people in the camp; now, the total number of personnel that can be mobilized is less than 60,000.
Among them were 46,732 infantry, 8,620 artillery, and 711 cavalry. They marched neatly and began to walk out of the camp one by one in company units.
By now, everyone has understood what the next battle means and what the outcome represents.
This is exactly the case, whether it is for the sake of talking about the Song Dynasty, which is a bit arrogant and nihilistic, or the slightly more down-to-earth Xianggong Hu and others.
Or maybe it's just for the sake of his wife and children, and his simple wish to survive.
While everyone took their steps firmly, they couldn't help but have a lot of thoughts in their hearts...
"Brothers! Before the war starts, pay attention to your steps and take a few bites of the dry food distributed to you.
It's okay, don't worry about the superiors blaming you, no matter what happens, I, Lao Hou, will take care of everything for you."
With the soldiers under his command, he walked out of the camp where countless blood, tears, and laughter had been left behind these days.
In Hou San's mouth, as a company commander, he began to shout loudly at the top of his voice.
That's right! Hou San is now the company commander of the First Division of the New Infantry Army of the Song Dynasty and the 3rd Company of the 4th Battalion of the 001st Regiment. By the way, there is also a bracket with the word "Agent" written inside.
To be more specific, it was during the battle that lasted less than half a month.
As the officers above him continued to die in battle, or were seriously injured.
Hou San, who was initially just a squad leader, was continuously promoted by the front line and served as deputy platoon leader, platoon leader, deputy company commander and other positions, and finally became the current acting company commander.
Good guy! I level up almost every three days.
The promotion from platoon leader to deputy company commander only took one day.
And after today's battle, as long as this guy can survive smoothly, he doesn't know what level he can be promoted to.
But at this moment, what this guy is thinking about is not his future, or even whether he can survive.
It's just that for his subordinates, this one has been supplemented several times before and after.
After including the cooks in the cooking squad, some documents from the company headquarters, and the order soldiers, there are still only 103 people in the Second Company.
Whether there are a total of 51 familiar old brothers, or 52, or some new brothers who were added yesterday, now we can seize the time to eat a few bites.
Because this grassroots officer, who has grown up rapidly in the flames of war and death, knows one thing very clearly in his heart:
After today's battle, I don't know how many of the 103 brothers in the second company will survive.
But there was nothing he could do about other things. The only thing he could do was to take advantage of the limited opportunities to prevent his brothers from starving to death.
So amidst his shouts, the soldiers carried their muskets behind their backs one after another.
From a satchel on his waist, he fished out some dry biscuits with minced horse meat and stuffed them into his mouth.
During such a process, most of the company's personnel were fine, eating silently as they advanced, with the indifference of hard-blooded veterans.
But Hou San clearly saw this situation, that is, among the 11 additional civilians who came in last night.
There is a guy who claims to be seventeen years old, but he is not even as tall as a musket with a bayonet mounted on it, so I don’t know if he is even fifteen years old.
While chewing the pancake, Hou San felt soft with tears as he said, "Bata, Bata~".
He couldn't help but think that if his younger brother had not died of illness, he would have been at such an age to marry a wife.
"If you have the chance, try to take care of this little brother so that he can survive."
In Hou San's mind, he thought...
And the various situations that occurred between Erlian and Hou San were just a scene of many situations that occurred in the new army of the Song Dynasty in the period before the war started.
You must know that there are as many as two to three hundred such companies in the entire New Army.
These ranged from more than 130 people to as few as 70 or 80 companies.
Perhaps in the early stages of the battle, large units will start to coordinate the advancement and fighting; but as the war continues to advance and various changes occur, these companies are destined to fight independently.
No one can tell which companies will suffer heavy losses, or even the entire army will be destroyed.
However, Hu Biao still had considerable confidence in the final victory of the battle.
Because once the entire battlefield turns into a chaotic situation, what will be fought will be the command ability of the grassroots officers and the determination of the soldiers to fight to the death between the two sides.
Regarding the above, he believed that the new army under his command was definitely stronger than the Jin soldiers standing on the hilltops.
The only thing he is worried about now is that the Jin side, relying on the high mobility of the cavalry, decisively abandoned the camp and did not fight with them, but just cruised around.
After it rained for a while and they were all wet, they started to attack.
Fortunately, the most worrying scene did not happen in the end.
Perhaps in the occasional drizzle, Wanyan Zonghan and other Jin soldiers thought that the Song people in front of them were dead; or maybe they took into account some considerations regarding their own morale.
In short, the Song army just started to leave the camp for a while, and soon there were loud horn sounds in the extended camp of the Jin soldiers.
There is quite a bit of tit-for-tat contrast with the sound of war drums here.
Then at the sound of such horns, the Jin army also came out in full force and began to gather towards this side.
It was precisely for this reason that Hu Biao did not choose to let the warehouse manager greet the ‘Congreve rocket’ that had been erected in a hurry.
The effect will be better if you wait for a while...
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Indeed! When every drop of autumn rain fell on his face, the last hesitation in Wanyan Zongwang, the second prince of the Jin Kingdom, disappeared.
Now wearing a handsome golden helmet, he suddenly roared:
"If the order is passed, everyone in the army will go out to fight. Today is the day when the new army of the Song Dynasty will be completely destroyed, and it will also be the beginning of the great Jin Dynasty sweeping the world from now on.
Whoever captures Hu Yitong alive in this battle will be rewarded with thousands of princes, gold, silver, cattle, horses, slaves, etc. worth one hundred thousand guan.
Those who capture Hu Biao's closest associates alive will be rewarded with a thousand households, gold, silver, cattle, horses, slaves, etc. worth thirty thousand guan; if they bring their heads to see me, the reward will be halved.
After a great victory, and after entering the city of Kaifeng, if you do not seal the sword for three days, the whole army will be rewarded."
So under such an order, as Hu Biao could see, there was a scene where the whole Jin army began to almost come out in full force with the sound of trumpets.
However, Hu Biao, who was holding a six-power monocular telescope at that time, could not clearly see the fanatical expressions on the faces of all the golden soldiers because of the heavy reward and the confidence of victory.
What he could see was that among the flags of the Jin commanders, Wanyan Zonghan's flag could still be seen yesterday afternoon, but it disappeared again this morning.
After vaguely thinking of something, he suddenly felt nervous.
He quickly ordered to a messenger next to him: "Quick! Go find the Er Pang Brigadier of the Second Independent Artillery Brigade and ask him to use Er Hei to investigate where Wanyan Zonghan has gone."
After hearing this, the messenger immediately galloped away...
