The Song Dynasty on the Sand Table

Chapter 415 Intercepting from Two Directions

Yi Zhangqing led the cuirassier corps and launched an attack at top speed.

She had just run out of the barracks when she saw two fast horses chasing after her. Turning around, she saw that it was Yue Wenxuan and Niu Gao.

Neither of them brought any subordinates with them; they were just two lone generals.

Yi Zhangqing was greatly surprised: "Young Master Yue, General Niu, what brings you two here?"

Niu Gao: "I've come here to learn what cuirassiers actually do."

Yue Wenxuan: "Let's watch the show."

Neither of them were lying; Niu Gao was genuinely very interested in cuirassiers and wanted to observe and learn how the cavalry of the Northern Song Dynasty fought.

Yue Wenxuan wasn't lying; he really was there to watch the spectacle.

As a modern person, his understanding of cuirassiers came entirely from written records, and he really wanted to see for himself how they actually fought.

Being watched by the top leader, Yi Zhangqing felt immense pressure, but there was no time for idle chatter. The entire army spurred their horses and galloped away, not daring to waste a single moment.

The Shandong horses, bred scientifically, are all robust and strong. They are not only fast but also have great endurance. In terms of warhorse quality, the Northern Song Dynasty was no less than the Jin Dynasty.

However, the quality of the cavalry was still somewhat lacking.

The Han Chinese are not a people who grew up on horseback, and their cavalry skills are always a little inferior to those of the northern ethnic minorities.

There was no other way; if the technology wasn't good enough, firearms would have to do the work.

Niu Gao suddenly remembered something and asked, "I remember some warhorses didn't undergo desensitization training. General Yizhangqing, you didn't bring them out, did you?"

Yi Zhangqing laughed and said, "Of course not! The horses and cavalry that are not properly trained are all left in the barracks to avoid being brought out to their deaths. The Jin soldiers will not show any mercy. So, although I claim to have a thousand cavalry here, there are actually only a little over eight hundred."

Niu Gao: "The intelligence says that the Jin army has sent out two squads of cavalry, each with a thousand men. Can we only intercept one squad?"

Yi Zhangqing nodded: "We can only intercept one team. Young Master Yue told me not to worry about the other team, saying he has his own way of handling it."

Niu Gao was greatly surprised and turned to look at Yue Wenxuan.

Yue Wenxuan shrugged and smiled mysteriously: "General Niu, don't worry, I've sent a secret force to deal with the other team."

A mysterious force?

Niu Gao suddenly remembered the "nameless" man who had arm wrestled with him. That man must be a bodyguard kept by Young Master Yue's family. Bodyguards don't need names; they are just shadows of their masters for their entire lives.

Niu Gao immediately gave him an "I understand" look: "So that's how it is!"

at the same time……

The mysterious force dispatched by Yue Wenxuan is also in action.

As the territory of the Northern Song army grew larger and larger, Yue Wenxuan's "command ability" also increased, and now he can put more and more plastic figures into the sand table.

After using about half of the leadership power to put into "production-type plastic dolls", there is still enough leadership power to put into a large number of combat-type plastic dolls.

This time, the enemy they had to deal with was the cavalry of the Thousand Gold Kingdom.

These rangers were actually lightly armed cavalry, unarmored, and known for their speed, looting and running away wherever they could.

To deal with them, we can't use heavy cavalry; we can't catch up! We can only use faster light cavalry. And the best light cavalry that Yue Wenxuan could think of was none other than the Mongols. Besides, the Mongols also have an "attack bonus" against the Jin Dynasty; when facing Jin soldiers, their attack power will increase by at least 32%.

Therefore, the troops he deployed in the sand table consisted of eight hundred Mongol light cavalry, plus an outstanding commander: Genghis Khan.

Genghis Khan was born in 1162 AD, while it is only early 1133 AD now. The real Genghis Khan had not yet been born, so there would be no conflict in putting him in a plastic figure.

At this moment, Genghis Khan was leading eight hundred light cavalry, galloping towards another Jin army route.

As he ran, his eyes swept over the surrounding farmland...

"The Jin people are really boring. Such good land is left to lie fallow. Why not plant it all with pasture and turn it into our Mongol pasture?"

His Mongol light cavalry roared, "Great Khan! Great Khan!"

“Go, kill all the Jin people! If I lead my men to escape during the battle, you may cut off my legs; if I pocket the spoils of war after victory, you may cut off my fingers.”

"Great Khan! Great Khan!"

The Mongol cavalry swept forward like a whirlwind...
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At this time, Gong Erniangzi's army was stationed in Taikang County...

Meanwhile, the Jin cavalry bypassed Taikang and headed straight for Qiao County in Haozhou to the southeast.

The Jin cavalry were very skilled at this kind of flanking maneuver!
Back then, the veteran general Zong Ze of the Southern Song Dynasty was stationed in Cizhou (Hebei). The Jin army could not conquer Cizhou and could not deal with Zong Ze, so they completely ignored Cizhou. Large groups of cavalry bypassed the city and went straight into the heart of the Central Plains, leaving the Song Dynasty riddled with holes. Zong Ze could only worry helplessly in Cizhou.

This time, the Jin army used the same strategy.

So what if your Northern Song Dynasty has powerful firearms? As long as your main force escapes, I'll raid your home. Hey, I won't fight you head-on; I'll just burn your houses and destroy your farmland. Let's see what you do then.

One of the thousand-strong teams quickly approached the border between Haozhou and Taikang County.

"We'll soon enter the territory of Qiao County in Haozhou." Meng An, who was leading the team, laughed loudly. "I heard that after the Northern Song Dynasty captured Qiao County, they have been farming like crazy. All the Han people know how to do is farm. When we storm into Qiao County, we'll trample on the farmland and burn down the villages we see. We'll make a complete mess of them."

The Golden Cavalry: "Roar!"

"We must let them know that if they provoke our Jin Kingdom, they will only face death."

"Ow!"

Just as they were shouting happily, the scout ahead suddenly came running up, looking disheveled, and shouted urgently: "There is a strange fortress ahead, which looks like it is built of gray stone. There are all kinds of debris on both sides of the fortress that are blocking the river at both ends, making it difficult for us to cross."

Meng An: "???"

Historically, the areas where two large regions meet have always been mountainous or have many rivers.

Mountains and rivers often serve as "boundaries" between regions.

The border between Taikang County and Haozhou is no exception. There is a river called Woshui here, which has a large number of tributaries that extend outwards, forming a very complex water network.

When the Jin scouts ran over, all they saw was a fortress between two small rivers, surrounded by piles of all sorts of garbage...

Meng An really didn't believe it; how could such a thing happen?

He quickly spurred his horse forward, and soon he saw it: a gray fortress stood in a key position between two small rivers. On both sides of the fortress were a large number of barricades, large stones, broken carriages, broken furniture, and broken statues. As far as the eye could see, there was a huge area. Only one proper road passed through the garbage, but it had to go through the fortress.

It's obvious even to a fool that this was built to defend against the Jin cavalry. If warhorses were to run at high speed through this junk, their hooves would easily be injured, forcing the Jin forces to capture the fortress.

(End of this chapter)