Chapter 285 Picking up a strong general with a gun
Xifeng Manniu led the remnant of three hundred horses and ran to the woods two miles away to the left of the east city gate. Suddenly, he shot a barrage of arrows from the woods that covered the sky...
"ah?!"
"ah?!"
"ah……"
Xifeng Manniu had more than a hundred cavalrymen, but they were hit by arrows and fell from their horses...
"Wow!" He yelled angrily, and immediately shouted: "Form up and fire arrows to fight back."
At this point in the battle, there were only more than 200 Xixia troops left under Xifeng Manniu. Faced with the predicament of being trapped in a tight siege, they were extremely frightened. When they followed the general's order and fired arrows to fight back, their hands were
shake……
Xifeng Manniu cursed angrily: "The Song army is too cunning. They have laid so many ambushes on our way back."
The guard cavalry beside him was frightened and said: "General, if we had retreated to the right of the east city gate before, we might not have encountered the enemy's ambush!"
"Haha!" Xifeng Manniu sneered painfully and said:
"Looking at this battle, I expect that the Song army will also lay a large number of ambushes on the right."
In fact, just as the belated Xifeng Manniu expected, veteran general Guo Cheng also laid a 1,000-man Song army ambush on the right...
There is a saying in the art of war: "Surround the enemy ten times."
Now, Guo Cheng commanded the Song army of more than 5,000 people, and the Xixia army, which had only more than 200 horsemen, was trapped in a narrow encirclement of only a hundred paces in radius.
Guo Cheng shouted and ordered: "Translate the message and recruit them to surrender."
The ten translators used Dangxiang dialect and shouted together what Guo Cheng had given them to persuade them to surrender:
"The officials of the Great Song Dynasty will never surrender!"
"You Xixia soldiers, throw away your weapons, jump off your horses, kneel on the ground with your head in your hands, Paul will not die!"
"If you resist to the end, you will definitely die!"
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"Hahaha..." Xifeng Manniu looked up to the sky and smiled bitterly, shouting in not very fluent Chinese:
"The Song army is cunning! I am not convinced by the fine seal! If we fight on the battlefield, I think you and other generals in the Song army will not be able to defeat me!"
Yang Zaixing, who was beside Guo Cheng, asked for a battle: "I would like to challenge Na Zhejiang in a one-on-one challenge to command the commander Xi Feng Man Niu."
Veteran general Guo Cheng frowned and said: "The enemy is already in a urn, so why let the young general take risks?"
Yang Zaixing asked for battle again, saying: "That Xifeng Barbarian Bull is arrogant and arrogant. I will use my horsemanship to kill him with his majesty!"
Guo Cheng saw that Yang Zaixing was eager to challenge, and also wanted to see the martial arts of this top pick in the outfield martial arts examination who had not taken the infield test, so he nodded and agreed:
"Little General Yang, be careful when going into battle! The Xifeng Man Niu is known as one of the four great warriors of Xixia. If you can defeat the best, if you don't win, you will be defeated quickly. I asked the archers to shoot the Xifeng Man Niu with arrows."
Yang Zaixing happily clasped his fists on his horse and said, "Thank you, General Guo!"
"Drive!" Yang Zaixing rode his horse and drew his spear, leading more than 300 infantrymen to the front of Xifeng Manniu.
When Xifeng Manniu saw Yang Zaixing, he immediately recognized him as the fake Song Dynasty businessman who had sneaked into Zhejianghui City and swaggered through the city and the city with huge sums of money.
He cursed loudly in Chinese that was not very fluent: "Little man, are you a general of the Song army? You are pretending to be a daring merchant of the Song Dynasty, pretending that I am robbing you of your property, and triggering a war between the Song and Xia Dynasties. It is really abominable. You dare to go out to fight,
I will definitely kill you to satisfy the hatred in my heart!"
"Haha..." Yang Zaixing, who was still dressed as a Song Dynasty businessman, denied with a smile:
"I am not a general of the Song Army, I am just a son of a merchant family of the Song Dynasty who has been practicing martial arts since childhood. Today you robbed our caravan's property and suffered a great disaster. Now you are still here talking shamelessly and arrogantly. I will shoot you
!”
Of course, Yang Zaixing would admit in front of Xi Feng Man Niu and his defeated generals that he was the powerful executor of Zhao Guan's family's clever plan.
Yang Zaixing rode his horse and drew his gun to fight the fine seal bull...
Xifeng Manniu gritted his steel teeth so hard that he wished he could kill this fake Song Shang leader with his own hands.
The two fought together...
After three rounds, Xifeng Manniu's forehead was dripping with cold sweat, and he quickly fell to the lower front.
In the fourth round, Yang Zaixing feinted with a shot and stabbed Xifeng Manniu straight into the lower abdomen.
Xifeng Manniu immediately used his sword to counter Yang Zaixing's stabbing spear. Unexpectedly, Yang Zaixing did not wait for the knife to be placed on the barrel of the gun, but quickly changed his attack.
Using his left palm as a fulcrum, he pressed down the gun with his right hand. Due to the effect of the lever, the front end of the gun quickly lifted upwards...
"Pfft"!
The silver light was shining brightly, and the sharp tip of the spear quickly pierced the throat of Xifeng Manniu...
"Gulu", the Xifengman Niu wanted to cry out in pain, but it couldn't make a cry.
He stared at the young and handsome Song Shang in front of him with his eyes as wide as copper lings, which he had just not taken a liking to. Until the last second of his life, he did not know who was the person who stabbed him to death.
What is your name.
Xifeng Manniu thought about struggling again, and then blood spurted out from his throat. He felt weak all over and had difficulty breathing. The steel knife he was holding tightly in his hand seemed to weigh a thousand pounds.
With a "clang" sound, Xifeng Manniu's body gradually stiffened and he could no longer hold the handle of the knife. The steel knife fell to the ground with a clear and ear-splitting sound.
Xifeng Manniu's eyes gradually became distracted. At the last moment of his life, he saw the young fake Song Shang opposite him who was about to stab him in the throat with a spear. The corners of his mouth actually raised, revealing a slight smile that looked down upon him.
At this time, Yang Zaixing clenched the barrel of the gun with both hands, exerted force on both arms, and shouted:
"rise!"
"Huh!" The burly Xifeng Manniu was actually picked up by Yang Zaixing with a spear and hung in the air...
Xifeng Manniu's remnant soldiers were defeated, about 200 people were shocked, and there was an uproar...
Veteran general Guo Cheng and the soldiers in the first few rows of the Song Army's encirclement circle cheered loudly...
Guo Cheng immediately asked the translator to shout slogans of surrender.
Ten members of the Song army met as temporary translators in Xixia Dangxiang language, and once again shouted the prepared surrender sentences in unison:
"The officials of the Great Song Dynasty will never surrender!"
"You Xixia soldiers, throw away your weapons, jump off your horses, kneel on the ground with your head in your hands, Paul will not die!"
"If you resist to the end, you will definitely die!"
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"Danglanglang..."
"Dang rang rang..." There were more than a hundred Xixia cavalry behind them. Seeing that the defeat was determined, they were surrounded by the impenetrable Western Army of the Song Dynasty. They all dropped their weapons, scimitars and bows, and jumped off their horses.
He knelt on the ground with his head in his hands, terrified, crying, and shouted in Dangxiang dialect:
"I surrender, I surrender..."
"Song Jun must not kill me..."
Of course, most of the cavalrymen under Xifeng Manniu are outstanding disciples of the Xifeng clan, and many of them are related to Xifeng Manniu.
At this time, Xifeng Manniu had about fifty or sixty trusted cavalrymen. They saw that after Yang Zaixing's fake Song Dynasty Shang Ting spear stabbed Tiaoxifeng Manniu to death, he actually picked up their general, General Xifeng, in mid-air. They were deeply troubled.
humiliation.
In addition, they also know that, just as Xifeng Manniu said when he went to war, whoever deserts or surrenders, the Xifeng family, a big family in the party, will not let go of the deserters and the families of the Xia soldiers who surrendered to the Song Dynasty. Even the emperor of Xixia Kingdom Li Qianshun
They will never let their family go.
Therefore, although more than a hundred of the cavalrymen of the Xifeng Manniu Hands had already dismounted and knelt down to ask for surrender, there were still fifty or sixty cavalrymen shouting:
"Snatch the body of General Xi Feng, kill the fake Song merchant, and avenge the general! Kill him!"
They rode their horses and brandished their swords, and went straight to Yang Zaixing to kill him.
Yang Zaixing smiled contemptuously and said, "I don't dare to come and die."
He flicked his spear,
"Hoo"! The bloody and fleshy body of the fine-seal bull was thrown out.
With a "pop" sound, it fell on the ground in front of the Xixia cavalry horses...
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Guo Cheng saw that there were still enemies in the Xixia army who were stubbornly resisting, and immediately ordered:
"Shoot the arrow and kill!"
"Whoosh!"
"Whoosh!"
"Whoosh..."
The five hundred archers of the Song Army fired a volley of arrows at the Xixia cavalry who was trying to fight to the death...
Before the fifty or sixty Xixia cavalry could rush in front of Yang Zaixing, each of them was hit by several arrows and fell off their horses one after another...
Even behind them, there were about forty Xixia cavalry who couldn't decide whether to break through or return to Long. They were shot to death by random arrows.
The only survivors were the first batch of more than a hundred Xixia soldiers who decisively threw away their weapons, jumped off their horses, and knelt down with their heads in their hands.
Guo Cheng ordered the Xixia surrendered soldiers to be tied up and detained with the army until the Song army entered the city before they were dealt with...
Veteran general Guo Cheng ordered:
"Leave three hundred soldiers behind and quickly clean the battlefield. Enemy weapons and living horses are charged into the army. The enemy's dead corpses and dead horses are not cleaned for the time being. Wait until I lead the army to completely occupy Zhejianghui City and kill them all.
The remains of the army were buried, the dead bodies were buried, and the dead horses were distributed among the troops for food.”
"Follow orders"...
Guo Cheng took a look at the body of Man Niu, which had been sealed by the enemy general. It was lying on the grass with a lifeless expression. The scattered weapons and cloaks around him were all splattered with blood.
The war horse of Xifeng Manniu is very humane. It lowered its head and neighed sadly next to the body of its master, and kept pawing the ground with its hoofs...
Guo Chengji took notice and said, "Come here, Lord Zhejiang will seal the body of Man Niu and bring it into the city with the army."
"Follow orders"...
Veteran general Guo Cheng led his army and entered the city from the east gate of Zhejianghui...
At this time, the shops in the originally bustling streets of Zhejianghuihe City were closed, and most of the merchants from the Xia and Song Dynasties were frightened into hiding.
Prior to this, although the hundreds of defenders at the South City Gate, West City Gate, and North City Gate of Zhejianghui, as well as the five to six hundred soldiers staying in the barracks in the city, all heard the roaring sound outside the East City Gate,
However, based on their experience, they did not know that it was the Western Army of the Song Dynasty using the artillery newly developed by Zhao Guan's family to attack the city...
They were also very confused and sent detective horses to Zhejianghui's east city to find out what was going on...
However, when several party cavalry came to Dongcheng to explore their horses, they were all shot dead by the Song Dynasty warriors arranged by Wu Jie.
After Guo Cheng led his army into the east city gate, he immediately divided his troops into four groups:
Wu Jie led a thousand troops and captured the defenders of the west city of Zhejianghui...
Wu Lin led a thousand troops and captured the defenders of Zhejianghui North City...
Yang Zaixing led a thousand troops to capture the defenders of Zhejianghui South City...
Guo Cheng ordered that the five hundred generals who were cleaning the battlefield and guarding the East City Gate should be left behind to guard the East City Gate that had just been conquered. He would then send several groups of communication cavalry back to Weizhou in the Song Dynasty to mobilize a follow-up army of 55,000 troops.
Enter the Zhejiang Club.
Previously, Guo Cheng only led 5,000 troops to attack the city, in order to prevent the defenders stationed at Zhejianghui from discovering signs of military mobilization in the Song Dynasty, so as to induce the defenders at Zhejianghui to take the initiative to seize the large sums of money from the merchants of the Song Dynasty.
, find an excuse to send troops.
In actual combat, Guo Cheng, a veteran of the military for most of his life, finally saw that the gunpowder weapons newly developed by Zhao Guan's family were really powerful weapons on the battlefield, and could achieve twice the result with half the effort!
Finally, Guo Cheng led an army of 1,500 men to attack the Dangxiang military camp in the city...
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[PS: Yang Zaixing (1104-1140) in history was a famous general in the Southern Song Dynasty who fought against the Jin army. He was originally a general under Cao Cheng. He killed Yue Fei's younger brother Yue Fan on the battlefield. He later surrendered to Yue Fei and became a general under Yue Fei. He followed Yue Fei to fight against the Jin army. He once tried to
He single-handedly charged into battle and captured Jin Wushu, and even after the failure, he was still able to ride back alone. In the tenth year of Shaoxing (1140), Yang Zaixing met the Jin people at Xiaoshangqiao. Yang Zaixing was outnumbered, hit by numerous arrows, and died fighting.]