The Song Dynasty has been deliberate for 16 years, only to know that it is the Water Margin

Chapter 258
The next day, Song Jun bypassed the camp again and went to harass the east and west cities of Luzhou.

This time Song Jun seemed to be a little carried away, and when he left later, the thief army saw his tail.

Another day, the bandit army reacted quickly. As soon as the Song army circled to the east city, they rushed over. Although they didn't really catch up, they also shot a few arrows in the direction where the opponent fled.

At night, Duan Er was discussing matters in the camp. He looked at the generals and said, "I see that the Song army is a bit forgetful and is no longer as cautious as before. Do you generals have a plan to break it? To avoid future troubles!"

Zhang Shou suggested: "Marshal, I think it's better to plant an ambush army outside the city and inside the city. When the Song army comes to harass again, the two ambush troops will surely destroy each other."

Duan Erdao: "It's easy to bury the army in the city, but the east and west outside the city are all empty, and there is no dense forest to cover them, how to ambush?"

Zhao Tong said from the side: "Marshal, it is not necessary to ambush outside the city, as long as people are prepared here, and before the scouts report, they will kill them immediately if there is any movement.

Duan Er thought for a while, then stretched out his hand to slap the handsome case: "What the two generals said is absolutely true, so we will act according to this law. Only by destroying these bandit troops will the hatred in my heart be relieved!"

Fang Han said at this time: "If you really chased him all the way, would you be ambushed by the Song Army instead?"

Duan Er was stunned, thought for a moment and said: "There are few mountains and no forests around Luzhou City, where can the Song army lie in ambush?"

Fang Han thought for a while, and laughed at himself: "But I was thinking too much. This Zhao Tun boy is good at ambush warfare, and rarely confronts him head-on. When I think of chasing and killing, I think of ambush."

Duan Er shook his head and said with a smile: "Private Fang, don't worry. If you want to ambush, you have to rely on the right location and the right time. There are few places to ambush around Luzhou, and it's blue sky and daylight. Even if Zhao Tun is good at this, there is absolutely nothing he can do!"

After speaking, he immediately ordered to mobilize the cavalry in the battalion. The Song army is cavalry, and they can only use cavalry if they want to catch up with the Song army.

There were more than ten thousand cavalry in the camp in the north of the city, Duan Er directly divided into four teams, only to wait for two teams to ambush in the east and west city gates in the morning, and two teams outside to be ready at any time.

In the early morning of the next day, as expected, the Song soldiers continued to harass, and the bandits acted according to plan. One rushed out of the city gate, and another rushed past the northern camp. .

The two Song armies each only have more than a thousand people, but there are more than 5000 cavalry behind them. These bandit soldiers have been tossed by the Song army for a few days. At this moment, they are gnashing their teeth and chasing after them. Song Bing is good at killing.

Duan Er sat in the tent and listened to Tan Ma's report on the situation on both sides, he couldn't help laughing: "These two cavalry soldiers of the Song Army have been wiped out this time, I don't think that Zhao Tun will dare to send people to harass him again."

All the generals agreed after hearing the words, all showing a relaxed expression.

But at this moment, a panicked voice suddenly came from outside the tent: "Marshal, there is an urgent military situation!"

Duan Er looked at the tent door and frowned: "Come in and talk."

Hearing that a small soldier came in outside, he looked like he was wearing a horse, he knelt down on one knee, and said in a hurried voice: "Marshal, five miles to the north, we found the Song army, and they are rushing towards the camp!"

Duan Er was taken aback for a moment, and stood up with a "huh": "Five miles away? Why did you come to report!"

Xiao Bing said bitterly: "Marshal, the young one is the scout from these five miles, and the ones farther away can't be detected. It is estimated that the comrades in front were all killed by the Song army. The small one also came back to report when he discovered the enemy's situation. I guess, I guess..."

"What do you think?" Duan Er said angrily.

"The little one rode a fast horse and ran all the way back, but the Song army is also in front of the cavalry, and it is estimated that they will arrive soon." The little soldier said tremblingly.

"Cavalry?" Duan Er's expression suddenly changed when he heard this: "You mean cavalry?"

Xiao Bing didn't dare to speak at the moment, he just nodded tremblingly.

"Ah!" At this moment, Duan Er's face turned pale, his mouth was opened, and he was speechless.

Fang Han's expression on the side also changed drastically, and he said: "The big thing is not good, this Zhao Tun boy repeatedly harassed the city, not thinking of ambushing our army at all, but, but... Teasing the tiger away from the mountain!"

Even though the generals below were born in the green forest, they never read, and they didn't even know a few words, but they all knew the meaning of "tuning the tiger away from the mountain".

Although this is one of Tan Gong's tricks, it is an allusion that everyone is familiar with.

"Prepare, prepare, prepare for battle!" Fang Han looked at Duan Er who was in a daze after the handsome case, stomped his feet fiercely, and shouted at the generals.

At this time, the sound of horseshoes could be heard from far outside, and the generals ran out anxiously. The Song Army still had cavalry, but they had nothing left.

In such an open place, there were no cavalry and no complicated fortifications. Once the battle situation opened up, they had no choice but to escape.

After leaving the village, I saw people screaming and smoke billowing not far ahead. The Song army had already reached the edge of the fortifications of the camp and was building various trenches to destroy the traps and horse pits.

"Let the arrows, let the arrows!" Fang Han shouted, it is impossible to take the initiative to attack now, I just hope to delay for a while, and wait for the cavalry who went to chase the Song Army to come back.

At this time, the generals had already found their own war horses, mounted them, scattered them everywhere, and commanded the soldiers in the camp to shoot arrows outside.

The Song army also had arrows flying like flying arrows. The road bridge soldiers in front held their shields to block the arrows while continuing to build trenches.

But the camp in the north of Luzhou City is too long. Even if there are arrows inside, the Song army is attacking fiercely outside. There are shields and wooden carts blocking the front. It only takes a moment for the Song army to attack the weak point. .

At this time, someone in the Song army shouted: "Brothers, go in, the bandit army has no cavalry, and if you enter the camp, it will be our world!"

Someone shouted again: "The commander-in-chief ordered that if you kill one bandit, you will be rewarded with a penny, and if you kill ten bandits, you will be rewarded with five taels of silver!"

The soldiers of the Song Army were immediately red-eyed when they heard the words. This is no longer the time when one tael of silver can be exchanged for one tael of silver. One tael of silver can almost be exchanged for three or four taels of silver. Pay more.

At this time, someone shouted loudly: "The commander-in-chief also ordered that these bandits have all the gold and silver they have plundered, and if they kill them, they will all belong to them, and they don't need to hand them over!"

This time Song Jun is not just red-eyed, his eyeballs are about to pop out. These old soldiers in Gyeonggi, although their guns and courage are not very good, and even many fighters have never even been in the field, but they listen to books on weekdays. Everyone knows that when a war starts, where is the best place to get money.

The battle against rebellion and rebellion is the fattest, and the bandit army is full of oil and water, especially Wang Qing, who has almost conquered all the way, and will almost raid the big bandit army in other prefectures and counties except Luzhou. At most, it is not comparable to the ordinary king of the mountain.

At this time, I saw a young general in the Song army rushing out first, with a silver helmet and silver armor, a Suluo battle robe, a white dragon horse under his crotch, and a gentian silver spear in his hand. It was Zhang Xian, the ninth commander of the Dragon Guard Army.

Zhang Xian brandished his silver spear, shot down feathered arrows non-stop, and came to the front of the wooden fence. Then, with a flick of the spear, the hardwood fence flew away, and a gap appeared in the barracks of the bandits.

The cavalry of the Song army rushed forward one after another. Although there were feather arrows flying in the camp of the bandit soldiers, but the distance was too close, and the power was weakened a lot. The cavalry of the Song army rushed into the camp with a charge.

With the opening of the gap here, several places in Luzhou Beidaying were broken through, and there was chaos in the camp for a while.

Zhao Tun was riding a horse to watch the battle ahead, no one paid attention to what he was doing at this moment, those generals were running around like headless chickens, under the pressure of the Song army cavalry, they were already at a loss.

He quietly turned the horse's head and went back to the tent of the Chinese army, looked in through the gap in the cowhide curtain, and saw Duan Er still sitting behind the commander's desk.

He thought for a while, and suddenly shouted: "Marshal, the enemy soldiers are unstoppable, and this place is in danger, so hurry back to the city!"

Duan Er was startled by his shouting in the tent and shivered violently. Originally, he failed to use troops and didn't know what to do. Only now did he realize that the Song army had already entered the camp.

Duan Er hurriedly got up and ran out of the tent. Looking from afar, he saw that the front was full of blood and flesh, and the bandits under him were retreating steadily. At this moment, several generals were directly picked to death by the generals of the Song Army.

Duan Er suddenly panicked. Although he was a rascal who was not afraid of death before he rebelled against Wang Qing, he cherished his own life more and more after he rebelled and became an official. Before Wang Qing's army won most of the battles, he had never seen him a few times. The scene in front of me.

"General Li..." Duan Er looked at Zhao Tun and opened his mouth.

"Marshal, hurry back to the city, if you don't leave, I'm afraid it will be too late!" Zhao Tang shouted in a hoarse voice with an anxious expression on his face.

"Back to the city?" Duan Er hurriedly nodded when he heard the words: "Okay, this commander will go back to the city now!"

Zhao Tang went to pull a war horse beside the big tent, handed the reins to Duan Er, and said, "Marshal, go!"

After Duan Er got on his horse, he looked farther and saw the Song army rushing towards him like a tide in the distance. Order, go back to the city, go back to the city!"

Zhao Tang watched Duan Er gallop towards the city gate on horseback, smiled slightly, and then yelled at the front: "Marshal's military order, retreat back to the city!"

Afterwards, he hit the yellow horse's ass with an iron gun, and the yellow horse kicked and chased in the direction of Duan Er like a joy...

It didn't take too long for a big battle, and it was declared over before even half an hour, and the Song army won a complete victory.

Before the northern city of Luzhou, the original camp had long since been shattered, with blood stains everywhere, and the corpses of bandit soldiers were scattered everywhere. Many soldiers of the Song Army were groping around on the corpses, looking for something.

Behind Shuaizi's banner, Zong Ze's face was solemn, and he said after a little thought: "The two generals, King Lu, quickly lead people to meet the two cavalry, and be careful not to make mistakes on the way."

King Lu Junyi ordered the two to take orders, and each took a sentry to divide things up and went to meet the two cavalry that harassed Luzhou.

Zong Ze originally planned to follow the discounted strategy to send two cavalry to harass Luzhou, and then lure the bandit army to follow up and set up an ambush again, but later sent scouts to check the east and west terrain of Luzhou, and found that there was no place to ambush, so he thought again This plan of diverting the tiger away from the mountain did not expect to succeed in one fell swoop.

Zong Ze said again at this time: "Send down the order to clean up the battlefield and retreat three miles to dig fortifications."

Cleaning up the battlefield is an inevitable thing, and it is usually done by the victor. There are too many corpses of the bandit army, and it is impossible to bury them, so they gather in one place, sprinkle with kerosene, and burn them with a big fire.

At this time, Luzhou City was already cooking a pot of porridge, and the camp in the north of the city was defeated. Only some of the remnants ran back to the city with the retreating generals, and the number was only more than [-].

Originally, there were [-] soldiers in the camp in the north of the city, of which [-] cavalrymen were separated to chase the Song army, and there were only [-] soldiers left.

After a big defeat, the people in Luzhou City panicked, Wang Qing was furious in the court hall, and Duan Er lay on the ground trembling, not daring to say a word.

"Trash!" Wang Qing pointed at Duan Er and yelled: "You bastard, you can still suffer such a defeat with your back on the city. Could it be that your brains are eaten by dogs? Where are those cavalrymen, those lonely cavalrymen?"

Duan Er muttered, "Du, you all went after the two harassing Song troops..."

"I'm just asking now, how are those cavalrymen now?" Wang Qing was so angry that he reached out and grabbed the inkstone on the table, and hit it hard, right in the middle of his forehead, making him "ouch" and donating blood Immediately flowed down the forehead.

Duan Er groaned in his heart, how could he know how the cavalry was doing now, but with so many cavalry, there shouldn't be any major accidents, even if there was a Song army ambushing them, at worst, they could still run away.

"I...I don't know." Duan Er hastily kowtowed, the blood on his head was stained all over the ground: "Maybe, maybe you are rushing back?"

"Come on, take Duan Er to the prison!" Wang Qing was so angry that his seven orifices were filled with smoke, that was [-] cavalry, how many cavalry did he have in total?This is the capital accumulated from the First World War. At this moment, Duan Er threw it out of the city regardless of his care.

"Prime Minister!" Wang Qing turned to look at Li Zhu: "What should I do now? Should I send a message to other states to send troops to help?"

Li Zhu shook his head and sighed: "Your Majesty, each of the other prefectures has only a few thousand infantry, even if all of them are sent, what is the use? Right now, we only hope that the [-] cavalry outside the city will come back sooner. "

Wang Qing frowned: "Now there are only more than 1000 cavalry left in the city, and the infantry can't go to meet them..."

Li Zhu said: "After the Song army's victory in front of the city, they will definitely send people to chase and kill those cavalry. However, the Song army's combat power is weak, and these cavalry may not be able to run back by themselves."

Wang Qing was startled when he heard the words: "Prime Minister, is there really no other way to meet him?"

Li Zhu shook his head and said: "There is no way. Although the cavalry of the Song army surpassed our army, it is absolutely impossible to send them all. They still have to use cavalry to suppress Luzhou so that they can set up camp. Our army has [-] cavalry, and they will send this number at most. Going to hunt them down, as long as our cavalry don't love to fight, at least half of them will run back without any problem."

"Half?" Wang Qing's eyes widened. "Prime Minister, the other party can send up to [-] troops, and our army is also [-]. How could it be possible that only half of them came back?"

Li Zhu glanced at him and said, "Your Majesty, now that the Song army is approaching the city, even if all the ten thousand cavalry come back, does your majesty think that the Song army will allow them to enter the city safely?"

Wang Qing stared straight at the words, sat on the chair and opened his mouth, but he didn't speak for a long time.

(End of this chapter)