Became a feudal lord in the late Northern Song Dynasty

Chapter 280 Three punches
The Song army was defeated like a mountain.

Even though there were still a few generals trying desperately to gather their manpower at this time to block the rout and the attacking Han army, they were weak and were quickly dispersed by the rebel army.

A Han army black-armored cavalry rode into the camp. With extremely high equestrian skills, he held the reins with one hand, leaned over and used the other hand to lift up a Han army flag lying in the mud. The muddy tassels were scattered around him. On his body, cold water dropped on his shoulders and penetrated the armor and lining. It was unclear whether it was mud or blood.

But the black-armored cavalry held the flag and looked in all directions. All he could see were his comrades wearing the same armor, so he shouted happily: "The Han army is so powerful!"

Inside the deepest camp gate, the last few hundred Song troops kept retreating in panic, gathered around the commander's tent, and drew their swords at the Han troops who were surrounding them from all directions.

"Your Majesty has a decree, surrender and avoid death!"

Groups of Han troops were rapidly approaching in formation. Looking at the Han troops gathering around him like a black tide, Yao Gu trembled his lips, and two lines of tears flowed from his eyes.

Not because of fear.

"More than a hundred thousand men"

He roared, tears falling uncontrollably. He looked at the few remaining soldiers around him, and felt sad for a moment.

"Your Majesty, Yao Gu, pays homage to the Emperor of the Han Dynasty. May your Majesty live forever!"

The other party's experience in the past five or six years is like a meteor leaving the brightest flame tail when it streaks across the sky. Although many things cannot be copied, they will be sung over and over again by future generations.

"Everyone, throw away the knives."

And he is a real "old man".

"you"

It’s hard to imagine that the King of Han. No, the other party has already used Longhu, and he is probably going to be the emperor now, right?
There are many emperors in their early thirties in history, but there are only a few emperors in history who started their country at the age of thirty.

Li Heda was like this before. After all, too many people died, so it wouldn't matter if some more died.

All his hard work has been dedicated to the Song Dynasty. Even if the Western Army that he personally trained was annihilated by the imperial court's eastward expeditions and westward transfers, Yao Gu has been repeatedly emphasizing to those generals.

As an emperor, he is still in his prime, and some of his generals are younger than him. They can maintain their strong energy for at least several decades, and continue to support their domestic ambitions to expand abroad for at least three generations!

If you start calling yourself Han people, then it doesn’t make sense that you can’t even understand Chinese, right?

Liu Ling rode his horse forward and took a step forward.
Immediately, the surrounding Han troops advanced a few steps forward. Liu Ling raised his hand and waved, stopping the surrounding soldiers, and said with a smile: "I have heard about the name of Duke Yao for a long time. Yao Pingzhong is now a guest in the lonely army. I heard that he is Duke Yao." My adopted son, why don’t you just surrender, and both father and son can serve as great men, and together we can promote our greatness?”

Sure enough, not a moment later, a school captain rode out of the battle and shouted in slightly accented Chinese: "We have sent someone to report to your majesty. Your Excellency, wait a moment. In addition, immediately ask all the Song soldiers to surrender and surrender." Save yourself from death!”

People who have led troops in war for a long time have always been accustomed to seeing life and death, and they have an extreme disregard for human life.

Even though the other party still claimed to be an orphan, Yao Gu knelt down to him without hesitation at this time and said in a sincere voice: "The hundreds of people around you all have parents, wives and children to support at home. Your Majesty's name is kind. Spread all over the world, today’s battle will bring the world back to its heart, and I will be bold.”

As the crowd became noisy, Yao Gu raised his head, and a Jinwu dragon banner appeared in his eyes.

This Liu-character flag has gone from being shabby in Zhuozhou to being solemn in Yanjing, and now it has become a dragon flag with a black surface and a gold edge. How many stories has it contained in the past few years?

"Long live my emperor! Long live! Long live!"

When Yao Gu was young, he was stationed in the western border area. At that time, he was just a squad leader. He once saw some tribes scattered on the border between the Song Dynasty and Xixia. These tribes were located in the two areas and did not belong to the Song Dynasty or Xixia. It seems free, but
When the Song army attacked north, they would include these tribes in the attack and regard them as military exploits.

If you are a conscientious person, at least the country has given you the salary and honor for most of your life. Even if you are a Qiu Ba, a commoner, or a refugee, although the court usually levies heavy taxes, at least it will be taxed every time there is a disaster. People will be sent down to provide disaster relief.

The old general ordered in frustration. He threw away his saber, slowly unbuttoned his armor, and looked at the dense crowd of Han soldiers and soldiers around him, as well as the countless corpses of Song soldiers under their feet. Even if he felt hatred in his heart now, he would not Know who you are sending it to.

Country, country, without country, how can we have home?

The sadness in his heart at this moment was indescribable, but seeing that there were still hundreds of his subordinates and comrades around him, he had to think of a way to survive for them after roaring in grief.

"Long live my emperor! Long live! Long live!"

Moreover, he was only in his early thirties, and it seemed that he had gradually moved away from his youthful and strong years, but for an ordinary general of the Song Dynasty, thirty years old was still at the beginning of his qualifications.

Liu Ling stood up, looked down at Duke Yao, and said: "The Song soldiers present died together, and the orphans will bury them together with Duke Yao, so they go and return together."

He shouted to the Han troops, using the official dialect of the Song Dynasty, which is also Chinese.

Suddenly there was a sound like a mountain roar and a tsunami. Amidst the cheers of the soldiers, a man in black armor rode out on a white horse. His temples were already a bit gray, but his eyebrows were as sharp as ever. He rode the horse slowly.

History books will cherish and give him a whole chapter of his history.

But after the intensity of the war subsided, these generals who usually sat on mountains of corpses and seas of blood cherished their lives.

Excluding the times when he was being held back by Tan Zhen on weekdays, Yao Gu was still energetic even though he was old, and he did his best to do things on weekdays. However, after being busy for more than half a year, he went from being high-spirited when he started the army to Now with hundreds of remaining troops, he was surrounded by the Han army.

He is too old to look good, just like the Song Dynasty today, he has already reached the point of death.

When the Xia people went south to harvest grass and valleys, they would kill or kidnap the people of these tribes and take them back as slaves.

Yao Gu stared at him with deep envy in his eyes.

"It's all gone, it's all gone!"

We are the generals of the Song Dynasty!
In life, he is a minister of Song Dynasty, and in death, he is a ghost of Song Dynasty.

Liu Ling didn't wait for him to answer, then raised his hand to signal. Standing next to him, Qu Duan stared at the old Shangguan and shouted without hesitation: "Surrender!"

Yao Gu was wearing a solid suit of armor and no hood. His long gray hair was scattered on his shoulders, his face was covered with dust, and he was extremely embarrassed.

"If Mr. Yao surrenders, everyone will be spared death. If Mr. Yao does not surrender, everyone will be spared death."

In contrast, the young generals of the Song Dynasty followed Tong Guan in the northern expedition to Yan and were almost destroyed. So when the Han army went south from the Yongxing Army Road, almost all the people employed by the court were old people.

"Please answer your question, commander-in-chief of your army!"

Li Heda was even helping those thousands of Xia soldiers cover up their past attempts to incite Ying Xiao, even though these people would most likely kill him when Ying Xiao was attacked.

The war drums sounded again, and tens of thousands of soldiers around him, as well as the crowd from inside to outside, began to roar at his signal.

"drop!"

"drop!"

"How can the Han army be defeated?"

Yue Fei rode his horse to stop on the hillside. Even though it was several miles away from the battlefield, he could clearly hear the roar coming from the center of the battlefield.

He suddenly remembered something, with a cold look on his face, and turned to look at the person huddled next to him. Tan Zhen was covered in mud and looked extremely miserable. He was squatting on the ground, munching on dry food.

The 90,000 Song army was completely wiped out.

he,
Instead, he escaped.

"Commander Tan, how should we act now?" Yue Fei asked.

Tan Zhen's movement of swallowing food immediately stopped. He took a few more bites of dry food and slurped down the food with the water in the water bag. The deputy general next to him hated this man to the extreme and sneered:

"When the Marshal was in the army, he wanted to eat better than here, so he sent away hundreds of thousands of troops. I think Marshal Tan is not suitable for using his brain. Marshal Yue should hurry up and send him back to the palace. , be a servant who serves people!”

"Bastard, bastard!"

Tan Zhen swallowed a mouthful of dry food with difficulty and cursed vaguely: "When I was in the camp, all the generals acted arbitrarily and did not obey orders. The Yan thieves were able to invade the camp only because Du Chong opened the door." Camp gate!

Yue Fei, if you bring us back to the capital alive, the officials will reward you. How long can you follow King Kang? Let me tell you that the court has long made up its mind to kill the Hebei bandit army. You can save our family now. Thank you, we won’t.”

"enough."

Yue Fei spoke, interrupting Tan Zhen's rambling words. He looked at Tan Zhen and asked: "How many troops are left in the commander's headquarters?"

"Nothing left."

Yue Fei took a deep breath and continued to ask: "So, in the future, I heard that there were four groups of soldiers and horses surrounding the Yan bandits. May I ask how many of the other three groups of soldiers and horses are left, and where are they?"

Tan Zhen pursed his lips and shook his head in front of Yue Fei.

"It's all gone."

Yue Fei suddenly felt ridiculous. He turned over and dismounted, grabbed Tan Zhen by the collar, and could no longer hold back his tone.

"Three armies, plus the commander's headquarters of 90,000 troops, more than 100,000 or 200,000 people, are all gone?"

"No more."

Yue Fei let go of his hand and felt extremely confused.

After the Han army defeated Tan Zhen, they once again took control of the entire Yan'an Prefecture. There were Han army sentries patrolling everywhere. Yue Fei's few soldiers and horses were immediately swallowed when they entered, so that he found out outside a small city. After the main force of the Han army moved, they did not dare to attack rashly.

Firstly, he was not familiar with the place, secondly, it was almost like fighting away from home, and thirdly, as a member of the Hebei Forbidden Army, it was even easier for the Hedong area to be hostile and obstructive.

It's ridiculous, even now when the country is in crisis, they are still thinking about their family background!

But the question is, after Tan Zhen comes out with these answers, it seems that the biggest official east of Yongxing Military Road, and even in the Hedong area, is himself?
Of course, those officials such as Zhizhou were of higher rank than him, but Yue Fei still had thousands of soldiers and horses in his hands, so he could march sideways in the east of the river.

Oh, the Yan thief Han Shizhong recently led his army to capture Taiyuan Mansion, so that at this time, it would be extremely easy for Yue Fei to seize the total power of Hedong.

"Yue Fei, you must understand my difficulties."

Tan Zhen finally had the courage to say: "The battle is defeated. There will be a chance to come back again in the future, but we have to go back and tell the court what happened here, right?"

"Officials also have difficulties, he..."

Yue Fei shook his head and asked, "Where are the hundreds of thousands of soldiers?"

"what?"

Yue Fei once again grabbed Tan Zhen by the collar and asked word for word: "More than a hundred thousand soldiers, the whole army was wiped out. What is their difficulty? They are dead!"

"There is no resurrection after death!"

Tan Zhen saw that Yue Fei and the surrounding generals looked ugly, and quickly added: "After I return, I will definitely ask the court for compensation for them. These soldiers who died fighting for the Song Dynasty are all good men, good men!

Don't worry, the Song Dynasty will not treat them badly. I can personally distribute the money and food when the time comes."

Yue Fei's hand softened, and Tan Zhen immediately staggered back a step, almost falling. A trace of malice flashed in his eyes, and he had to put on a smile on his face, saying: "Yue Fei, Yue Dutong, Marshal Yue, this Marshal Now I can help you control the military affairs in Hedong, and let all the troops in Hedong come over. Then you will be the generalissimo, and you can bring so many soldiers and Yan thieves."

"Gone."

Yue Fei replied numbly: "When the end comes, Taiyuan Mansion will have been captured."

The fall of Taiyuan Prefecture meant that hundreds of miles of surrounding land were directly under the indirect control of the Han army. The Han commander named Han launched a fierce offensive. After the fall of Taiyuan Prefecture, many cities in the east of the river opened their gates and surrendered.

When these cities surrendered, they naturally surrendered with the local defenders and people. Immediately, Han Shizhong temporarily organized a large number of military camps with Song origins, and promoted a group of "Leading Party" and "Second Devils" among the Song people. ".

Yue Fei is not bad at thinking, he knows the consequences of what the other party does.

"Is there any place up and down the river east where I can listen to your restraint," he said slowly. At this moment, he was listening to the excited roar of the Han army in the distance, and then thinking about the soldiers of the Song Dynasty who died in the battle.
Yue Fei finally looked at Tan Zhen in front of him.

An old castrated dog, a coward and a waste, pushed his hundreds of thousands of troops into the pit of fire one by one. Then at the last moment, he gave up the chance to live and die with those soldiers and abandoned the camp and fled.

Ah, he looks so ugly.

Yue Fei suddenly raised his fist and punched Tan Zhen in the eye. The latter screamed and was about to resist subconsciously when Yue Fei punched him so hard that Tan Zhen lay on the ground involuntarily with stars in his eyes.

"God damn you."

Yue Fei felt a little wet in his eyes. He didn't know whether it was for the soldiers who died in the battle or some other emotion.

He cursed angrily and punched Tan Zhen in the face.

Immediately, Tan Zhen closed his eyes and lost his breath. Several angry generals nearby were startled and hurriedly came to stop him, and then went to check on Tan Zhen's condition.

After a while, a general stood up cursing.

"This thief is very lucky. He will bring disaster to the world for thousands of years!"

Yue Fei pushed away the general's support and took a breath, feeling empty in his heart.

A general looked at him and asked, "Commander, where should we go next?"

They followed Yue Fei all the way here, but in the end they still failed to intervene in the battlefield.

Yue Fei thought for a moment, stared at the unconscious Tan Zhen on the ground, gritted his teeth and said, "First go to Hedong to collect defeated soldiers, and then make other comments."

(End of this chapter)