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Chapter 149 Broken Claw
The blood dyed a large area of ​​land between the two armies' formations red, which was very shocking.

Especially those Jin soldiers who were guarding Zhang Bangchang and other Song ministers were pinned to the ground and beheaded by the Song people who they despised, which greatly stimulated the Jin soldiers in the opposite military formation.

"It is advisable to hang your head among the barbarians' mansions on the street to show that they are thousands of miles away. Anyone who openly offends the powerful Han will be killed no matter how far away!!!" Sun Zheng shouted loudly.

This sentence is said in a letter written by Chen Tang, a famous general of the Western Han Dynasty, to Emperor Han Yuan.

It means: The severed heads should be hung in Jijie Street (the name of Chang'an Street in the Han Dynasty, when all the embassy buildings of the vassal countries were concentrated in this street) where the barbarians lived, to let them understand that those who dare to invade the powerful Han Empire, no matter how far away, , we must also kill them.

Although it is not the Han Dynasty now, the Song Dynasty is still a political power controlled by Han people, and the word "Han" can also refer to the Han nationality and Han people.

Sun Zheng shouted these words, which were not very lethal to the Jin people of the Jurchen tribe, but extremely insulting.

"Anyone who openly offends a strong man will be punished no matter how far away he is!" Others also shouted!

As the general marshal standing at the top of the Jin Kingdom's power pyramid, Wanyan Zonghan naturally understood the meaning of this sentence.Seeing how arrogant the Chen family army was, they finally couldn't help it. Thousands of heavily armored infantrymen with spears rushed forward, and more than 1000 miscellaneous cavalrymen riding various horses also rushed up from the west side.

"Retreat!" Sun Zheng led his men to retreat directly and gathered into the large army.

Immediately afterwards, Chen Xun also ordered the entire army to retreat.

Under the attention of the Jin army, the dragoons, each with their own horse, retreated towards the north in a swaggering manner.

The Chen family's horse battalion and musketry battalion faced the Jin Army's thousand cavalry.

When the cavalry on both sides were a hundred steps apart, the commander of the Chen family's horse camp, who was rushing at the front, mobilized the dock. The thousand-horse camp and the musket camp rushed past the Jin army's soldiers.

When they were the closest, the musketry battalion soldiers on horseback raised their spears.

Boom!Boom! …

Intense musket shooting sounded, and some of the Jin Army cavalry were shot and fell from their horses immediately.

However, due to shooting in motion, most of the ammunition flew into the sky under the recoil, and the hit rate was not high.

But this kind of riding and shooting skills has always been the exclusive skill of the famous grassland tribes. Today, the Song people showed it off a hundred steps away, which shocked the Jin people quite strongly.

"The horse army is more suitable for short-barreled muskets." Chen Xun, who retreated behind the army, commented upon seeing this scene.

When I turned back to watch the battle just now, I saw two or three musketeers being knocked off their horses by the recoil and being rescued by the cavalry soldiers following them. They didn't know whether they were alive or dead.

Chen Xun felt very sorry. If he had been given another ten years to farm the law station, he would have been able to develop more advanced firearms. By then, the Chen family's army would have been more powerful and had a greater advantage against the enemy.

But God doesn't fulfill people's wishes.First, Chenjiazhuang was targeted by Wang Si, then two waves of officers and soldiers encircled and suppressed it, and then caught up with the major event of the Jin people destroying the Northern Song Dynasty. Step by step, the Chenjiazhuang army was forced to the situation it is in today.

Perhaps the development speed is much higher than his original plan of concentrating on farming, but it is a pity that many Chen Jiajun soldiers died.

If Chen Jiajun's weapons were a little more advanced, they might not have to die.

Seeing the Jin Army cavalry being driven back, Chen Xun put away his thoughts and turned around to follow the large army.

Starting today, the five thousand dragon cavalry heading north will officially enter a high-intensity combat mode, and they will not allow themselves to be hurt.

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March [-]th. "The city located in the west and upstream of the fork of the Yellow River is Fengqiu City. The Jin people sent an additional [-] troops there yesterday to ensure that this rear city will not be occupied by us." Pei Ren finally reunited with Chen Xun after going north.

Chen Xun had been to Fengqiu in his previous life and clearly remembered that Fengqiu was located on the north bank of the Yellow River, but now Fengqiu is located on the south side of the Yellow River, nearly a hundred miles away from Li Gudu where he had crossed the river before.

The Yellow River changes its course too frequently.

"Ahead is the fork of the Yellow River. The water volume is much smaller than the main Yellow River, but it cannot be passed directly by horseback." Pei Ren introduced.

Of course Chen Xun knew that he had crossed this branch to go to the north of Kaifeng City before, which was a waste of effort.

The Yellow River branches off in the northwest of Kaifeng, starting from the upper reaches of Xinxiang County, passing through Fengqiu to the southeast, to Xiangyi, Sui Prefecture, then east to Ningling of Yingtian Prefecture, passing through Songcheng in Nanjing, and passing slightly northeast Yucheng merges into the main channel of the Yellow River.

This fork was newly formed after the Yellow River changed its course. The depth of the water in the entire river is completely unfamiliar, so you can't drive the lucky boat recklessly, as it is easy to run aground, and you can only barely pass some medium-sized sand boats.

Chen Xun led his army here today with the intention of receiving a wave of supplies and handing over the gold and silver treasures snatched from the Jin soldiers to Ke Lei to transport back to Xuzhou.

"Captain, more and more people in Kaifeng want to follow us recently. If we hadn't had horses and fast speed, there would have been many hungry people behind us." Sun Zhengzheng looked sad.

In the past few days, dragoons have been cleaning up around Kaifeng.As long as the Jin army comes out to clear the grass and valleys, the troops are small and they are sure to eat, they will be eaten by the dragon cavalry led by Chen Xun.

Kaifeng Mansion currently has more than [-] intelligence personnel of all levels gathered together, and with the addition of Snow Pigeon Communication, it can basically be said that Jin Bing is being fooled around.

After retaining enough food for the dragoons, Chen Xun would choose to distribute most of the food to the local people, while keeping all the gold and silver for his own use.

After these days of fighting, the entire dragoon's mounted combat capabilities have become stronger and stronger. Except for the horse barracks, nearly [-]% of the soldiers can already wield swords on horses.

People have to sigh, as expected, the training effect on the battlefield is the best.Between life and death, the proficiency of various combat skills increases very quickly.

"Set up several reception points on the forks of the Yellow River and let Ke Lei send ships to pick up people. As long as the people are willing to follow us, they will be transported by ship to the lower reaches of the Yellow River for resettlement." Chen Xun said.

During the previous cleaning operations, Chen Xun did not persuade the people who were affected by the war to leave their hometowns and take refuge because he felt that it was the invaders, the Jin people, who should escape, not the Han people, the original owners of Kaifeng Mansion.

Over the past few days, Chen Xun had to change his mind, because the population in Kaifeng Prefecture was too dense, far exceeding the support capacity of this land.

In the past, because it was the capital of the Song Dynasty and was supported by a country, the city could still be maintained.

Now experiencing war, large areas of Hebei are struggling to protect themselves, and supplies from Henan and Jiangnan cannot be transported. More than 100 million Kaifeng citizens have no support and have no choice but to die.

When you come to this world, you may not be able to do other noble things, but you can do your best to stop the Jin people from ravaging the Han people and save some Han people from starving to death.

Besides, I have to pay for it.

Most of the trophies captured by the Jin people came from the people of the Song Dynasty in Kaifeng Prefecture and Hebei. Those who captured Chen Xun would not return them to them, and regarded them as protection fees from them.

It is the duty to take people's money and eliminate disasters for others.

"Can we afford to feed so many hungry people?" Lai Qingyun asked worriedly.

(End of this chapter)