Chapter 398 One night the east wind blows fishy mutton
As the queen, Yin Keshu had no intention of going back alive this time, and of course he couldn't leave.
The weapon the Tatar held in his hand was a pair of hammers, which he swung left and right, causing wood chips to fly from the Song army's shield.
As a brave general under Zong Han, Yin Keshu knew that it was Lou Shi who took the rear last time. If he evaded every time, he would become the Jurchen's laughing stock and be despised by others.
After the war against Liao began, he was often compared with Lou Shi, who was also fighting for the upper hand, but Lou Shi was superior to him in every aspect.
No matter why the Jurchens withdrew their troops, Yao Pingzhong would definitely not let them go. The Song army beat the war drums and the trumpets sounded desolate and majestic. In the Zhuolu Mountain under the night, the place where the military leader Chi You suffered a defeat, the most powerful soldier in the world was chasing him.
The Jurchen soldiers and horses of the armed forces.
Yin Keshu watched as a Song soldier rushed towards him with his sword, and smashed his face with just one blow. The thorns on the hammer were deeply embedded in his skull. In the gap, another Song soldier slashed his leg with a knife.
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Yin Keshu screamed, and his arm lifting the hammer was slightly delayed. In this short moment, he suffered many wounds on his body, and a spear pierced his lower abdomen. Yin Keshu felt that his intestines were leaking out from his armor.
Two fists are no match for four hands. Even if Yin Keshu is extremely brave, he cannot stop the seemingly endless Song army on the mountain. The few troops under his command are almost completely taken care of here.
At this moment, among the Jurchens, there are more than 200 Muke who can fight with the army and horses, and as few as more than a hundred. Yin Keshu's subordinates only have a dozen Moukes, all of whom have accumulated Yin Keshu's first-level battle achievements.
If there were no other changes, more than ten years later, this man would be the main force of Jurchen Zonghan's faction. He had been entrenched in Shanxi and Shaanxi for many years, and his power was overwhelming.
But now, everything is a dream. I don't know which Song general shouted "Kill him". The spears of two soldiers pierced his ribs along the gaps in the breastplate, and a long knife stained with blood was
Cut off the head.
In the distance, more than 300 Jurchen archers were shooting bows and arrows in a hidden place in the mountains. By the light of the fire, they could kill almost every Song army they saw.
Yin Keshu died, but his men had blocked him for enough time. Zong Han took the body Wu Qi bought and escaped from the valley.
After walking a few steps, there was a quiet mountain village. Zong Han pointed to the distance and said: "Go to this village and find some food and water to drink. Get in position. No matter who ambushes us, we will be there when we leave the valley."
I want to compete with him."
He was talking about looking for something, which was a bad luck for this small village.
Behind him, dozens of Jurchen cavalry came out with reins in hand and ran toward the village.
Halfway through, a hail of arrows struck the group of Tatars in the dark, and only a few managed to escape back to their main formation thanks to their thick leather armor.
Wanyan Lou's room shouted: "No, Zong Han, there is an ambush here too!"
In the darkness, no one knew how many people were shooting arrows out of the village. The Jurchens relied on the strength and direction of the shots to roughly determine where the enemy troops were, so they hid behind the oars and shields and continued shooting.
Under the cover of night, the sound of strings was heard. The soldiers and horses on Yang Lin's side were not veterans, but new soldiers recruited in the past three years.
Few of them were proficient in bow skills. Fortunately, the Song Dynasty had a lot of crossbows. Crossbows could shoot powerful arrows without much effort.
When archers and crossbowmen competed against each other, it was difficult to say which side had an unwavering advantage.
In terms of strength, the crossbow is naturally stronger than the bow. But in terms of shooting speed, the bow and arrow are more than ten times faster. In a war, the winner is rarely determined by shooting with crossbows alone.
In tonight's battle, not only in terms of the number of archers, the Jurchens far outnumbered them. A few Mou Ke combined had more than a hundred archers. Coupled with the advantage of the shooting speed of bows and arrows, the Song army's small soldiers could fire a crossbow, and the Jurchen army and horses could still return it.
Ten arrows were shot out. Moreover, the Jurchen archers were protected by side oars and shields. Even if the crossbow arrows were powerful, they could not kill the opponent stably.
But the advantage of the Song army was that they hid in the dark, relying on the large rocks and trees around the entrance of the village to cover their bodies and shoot at random.
Zong Han said with a gloomy face: "The time Yin Keshu gave us with his life cannot be wasted in this place. If we don't move away, the enemy troops behind us will come after us."
Lou Shi nodded and turned back to the rear army. After a while, a burst of shouts and shouts suddenly came from the battlefield. In the Jurchen army formation, a team of infantry warriors was organized. At this time, they were passing through the archer array, top
Wearing a wooden shield, we approach the ancient mountain village road.
Han Shizhong, who always had a high self-esteem and doubted the Jurchens' bravery, couldn't help but be speechless. After fighting from dusk to now, and then escaping for such a long time, they could still charge into the battle. Even if these people were to change species immediately and become animals
, are more than enough.
The Song army was only chasing on the road, but had not experienced the fighting in the valley. Han Shizhong gathered his troops to defend to the death.
Most of this group of heavily formed Jurchen infantry are Liao soldiers who surrendered near Shangjing Mansion. The reason why they are so large is because there are Jurchen swords behind them. Now these servants are almost exhausted. Zong Han
He narrowed his eyes, hugged Wu Qimai's body, and shouted: "Get in formation and rush over."
The Jurchen elite knights protected all the nobles in the middle. They did not fight back despite the rain of arrows and rushed directly into the formation. Until now, they still don't know what kind of enemy army they are, and their fear often comes from the unknown.
The biggest defeat they encountered after dispatching troops has already made the once invincible Jurchens feel a little relieved. They had two chances tonight. One was when they were in the valley, they really rushed to the hillside, and the main force of the army fought bloody battle with Yao Pingzhong on the same spot.
There may not be a chance.
Unfortunately, at that time, Wu Qimai, who had been tricked, his blood and energy surged, speeding up the circulation of toxins, and he finally died suddenly.
The second is that Yin Keshu bought them time. At this time, if Zong Han had set up a battle formation and lit torches to fight the Song army on the ancient road, the hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses might not be able to stop the Jurchens. After all, these Song armies were fighting
Both formation experience and fighting experience are far inferior to those of Jurchen.
However, Zong Han's ignorance of the enemy caused him to lose the courage to command with concentration, and instead chose to break out and escape.
Soon, the stalemate between the two armies turned into a pursuit. Zong Han led a few warriors, hugged Wu Qimai's body, and under the cover of his own soldiers, fled under the cover of the night, leaving the army behind.
The consequences for the Jurchen soldiers and horses are disastrous. There is no way to prevent effective resistance, they can only fight on their own. The so-called rabble is the current situation.
For one night, both sides were exhausted from fighting, and the sun slowly rose, shining on the land after the chaotic battle.
The misty morning mist wetted my eyebrows, and there was a strong chill on the armor. I glanced over and saw that there were corpses everywhere.
Overnight, the Jurchen army and the servant army totaling more than 100,000 people in the southern expedition were almost wiped out. Only less than a thousand fine cavalry escaped. The Jurchens paid a heavy price for their greed and arrogance.
He also successfully changed his number one enemy from Khitan to Song Dynasty.
Zongze also successfully defeated a small group of Jurchen troops who were escorting the equipment. They completely wiped out the Jurchen troops and brought back less than one-tenth of the equipment. The entire Xijing Road was littered with corpses and blood.
Yang Lin and Yao Pingzhong met together, waiting for the arrival of a new war, an unprecedented battle initiated by themselves.