Chapter 26 Torture of Conscience
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Forty miles southwest of the capital, Lechang Town.
The town has become ruins, with walls collapsed and houses burned, and the air is filled with a pungent smell of burnt and corpse stinking. A group of ragged people are busy, digging out corpses from the rubble and carrying them to the woods outside the town to bury them.
Suddenly, the ground began to shake, and people looked around in horror. A stream of smoke and dust surged out from the west horizon, followed by a rumbling sound soaring into the sky from the surging smoke and dust.
The birds in the forest were frightened, and flew out in groups of them, hovering in the air like headless flies.
"The golden dog is here." Someone was scared and shouted, ran away with his head in his arms. More people ran into the woods, but a group of people did not move. They looked stiff and stared blankly at the army rushing out of the smoke and dust. As if they were scared, they stood in the field, standing on the side of the road, waiting for the moment when their souls returned to the sky.
The war horses are galloping, the wind is galloping, and the colorful flags are dancing wildly in the wind.
"That is our army, the Tiger Lie Army..." The man stopped and shouted excitedly, "The Tiger Lie Army is here, the Tiger King is here..."
"Tiger and Fiery Army, Fiery Army..." Someone cheered, danced and turned around and ran towards the speeding army.
"The Tiger King is here..."
It was a hoarse shout from the bottom of my heart, it was a cry of seeing hope in despair, it was a cry of seeing the sun in the dark, the shouts echoed in the air... Soon, the people hiding in the woods rushed out, they ran, shouted, and cried...
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Yue Fei raised his right hand high, and the trumpet sounded, and the speeding horse slowly slowed down and the army slowly stopped.
Along the way, they saw this scene. The burning land, the rotten corpses in cities, towns and towns, and the desperate people... They saw too much, too much, Zhending, Zhongshan, Hejian to Tuohe, Huluhe. Wherever the Jin army went, they burned, killed, plundered, and owed a blood debt.
The people surrounded him and hugged the lie soldiers and kowtowed on the ground. Everyone was crying and venting their pain and anger in their hearts. "Tiger King. Take revenge. Take revenge..."
Yue Fei ordered a rest on the spot. This place is only forty miles away from Xindu City, and you must first find out the enemy's situation.
The scouts ran away. Yue Fei and several generals walked among the people to comfort them. Facing their eyes with tears, Yue Fei was in great pain. He didn't know what to say. There was a time when he swears that these people could protect them. But in the end he could not fulfill his promise. Later, he changed his mind and asked the people to evacuate. The evacuation to the south as much as possible was even worse. He could survive anywhere with money and power. But these people with nothing could not open their hometowns and leave the land. They could not survive at all. The only thing waiting for them was death.
The facts are cruel and very cruel. If these people want to survive, they can only stay in their hometown and guard that little bit of land. Although they may be killed by the golden dog, when the golden dog occupy this land, the golden dog needs them to cultivate land and produce grain, and they can survive. In troubled times, killing people is like slaughtering dogs, and life is like grass. These poor people are like duckweed in the torrent, drifting with the flow and fending off themselves.
Yue Fei's eyes were filled with tears, and he waved his fists, telling the people around him that we would defeat the golden dog, that we would drive the golden dog back to the desert, that we would protect you... He repeated these lies over and over again, enduring the torture of his conscience again and again, his heart was bleeding, and his tears were flowing constantly. He silently told himself that in this life, I must fulfill my promise, even if I am broken into pieces.
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Under Xindu City, the Song and Jin armies were fighting fiercely.
The Jin army had an advantage in terms of military strength, especially after Zong Bi threw Sanqian Meng'an Mouke into the battlefield, the counterattack momentum of the Song army was completely curbed, and they could only defend the battle formation and fight the Jin army to the death.
Three thousand Meng'an Mouke, and Three thousand elite horses who were raising their strength attacked the right wing of the Song army with a blow, and immediately defeated the exhausted Zhe family horse army in a mess. Zhe Ketong's attack on the right wing of the battlefield had an important purpose, that is, tore open the Jin army's battle formation and open the passage to the city, so that even if the Jin army reinforcements arrived, the Zhe family army could retreat into the city and hold on to the city, but the intention of this attack failed.
The reinforcements of the Jin army arrived, and Wuta and Yelu Chou led their troops to the city of Xindu.
Zongfu led them to observe the battlefield carefully on a slightly higher slope.
"This army is the most famous Zhe family army in the northwest." Zong Fu smiled, "They are indeed very powerful. They fought a war yesterday afternoon, and today they have fought until now..." He looked up at the sun in the sky, "It has been about four hours today. Not only did they not retreat, but they fought more and more fiercely, and they were stanced to die with us."
"Are we losing a lot?" Uta asked.
"It is estimated that seven or eight thousand people died here." Zong Fu looked at the monk Yelu Chou, "Under our training, the Han army of the Khitans fought very bravely, completely different from the past. Although they suffered a lot in this battle, they have not been in decline and are still in a tide of offensives."
Monk Yelu Chou dared not look at Zong Fu and lowered his head. Zong Fu's words were actually ridiculed by Monk Chou.
When the Liao army and the Jin army fought, they lost one battle, and thousands of soldiers were captured, and these people
The real man immediately changed his hands, extremely sharp, and turned his head to make the flowers flow. Now that he arrived at the battlefield in Hebei, this group of soldiers killed the most elite Northwest Army of the Song army into blood.
"What about the other party's losses?" Uta asked afterwards.
"Absolutely." Zong Fu said, "The horse army of the Zhe family army is very good. In addition, their crossbowmen are very powerful. The dense array of arrows often makes us breathless."
"It's not that their crossbowmen are powerful, but that their divine arm bows are powerful." Uta sneered, "After this battle, we can seize at least thousands of divine arm bows. In the future, the two armies will not suffer any losses in the arrow formation."
"I'm afraid it's difficult." Zong Fu said, "Last time we wiped out the Zong Division and his Zong family army. We thought we could seize thousands of divine arm bows, but those great Song people destroyed all the divine arm bows before they died, which made us happy."
At this time, Zong Bi Feima Lai was good at hearing Zong Fu and Wuta talk about the Divine Arm Bow, and immediately scoffed, "The advantage of the Song people is that the cooperation between the crossbow and the infantry battle formations is indeed a great threat to us. The encirclement and annihilation family army suffered a loss a few days ago. Our advantage lies in the horse army. As long as we give full play to the advantages of the horse army to the extreme, we can fight in every battle."
"What good is the vice-president?" Wu asked with a smile.
"Do you know Tie Yaozi of Dangxiang people?" Zong Bi pretended to be mysterious.
Zongfu and Wuta looked at each other and shook their heads. Zong Bi looked at Monk Yelu Chou. Monk Yelu Chou had heard of it, so he explained to Zongfu and Wuta: "The emperor of the Dangxiang people had a guard with three hundred cavalry, all with heavy armor and invulnerable swords and guns, and was known as the Iron Son."
Both the people and horses were heavily armored? Zong Fu laughed, "Iron Man, although the iron horse is invulnerable, the loss of flexibility is not to give full play to the advantages of the horse army, but to trap the horse army's legs and feet, which is not advisable."
"It's good to charge the formation." Wuta disagreed with Zongfu's method. "Once the infantry army is in line, our horse army will not dare to attack head-on. If there is an iron man and an iron horse, and the front-on-on-front rush, it will inevitably be invincible."
"This method works the first time, but it won't work the second time." Zong Fu looked disdainful. "The infantry can set up horse-rejecting, fences, trenches in front of the formation. If it really doesn't work, you can put iron in first and then trap it with a tripping rope... In short, things like Tie Yaozi completely limit the performance of the horse army, and it's not useful."
Several people were chatting, and the situation on the battlefield suddenly changed. In the distance, the Song army's war drums were like thunder, and the two armies of horse and infantry were like surging waves, and they launched a counterattack at the same time.
"The Song army is going to withdraw." Zong Fu's expression changed slightly and he said coldly, "It seems that they know that our reinforcements have arrived."
"Is it too late to retreat now?" Zong Bi looked up at the sky and smiled proudly, "The time is up, you can launch a fatal blow."
"Attack." Zongfu raised his horse whip and waved at Zongbi, Wuta and Yelu Chou monks twice, "Each of them returns to their own formation and attack.
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Zongbi, Wuta and Yelu Chou bowed to take the order and beat the horse and left like flying.
The flag was raised, the Jin army's war drums sounded, shocking the world, and the decisive battle began.
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In Xindu City, the sound of war drums was deafening, and thousands of soldiers and civilians stood on the city wall, waving flags and shouting for the Zhe family army, but everyone's faces were full of despair, because the reinforcements of the Jin army arrived and were rushing to the two wings of the battlefield. The Zhe family army was no match at all and was about to be surrounded unless a miracle happened.
Han Shizhong suddenly shouted at Qian Dinggong: "Open the city gate and release the suspension bridge..."
Qian Dinggong was holding the city wall with both hands and was looking at the battlefield nervously when he suddenly heard Han Shizhong's roar and couldn't help but chill. His body couldn't help but tremble, and his eyes were even more staring at Han Shizhong, stunned.
Han Shizhong ignored him and turned around and left.
Qian Dinggong was almost suffocated, and he took a few strong breaths, then rushed up and grabbed Han Shizhong, "What are you going to do?"
"Out of the city." Han Shizhong's face was as cold as frost, and his eyes were even more murderous. "Tear a hole from the left wing of the Jin army and let the Zhe family retreat into the city."
"Tear a hole?" Qian Dinggong shouted excitedly, "Are you crazy? The reinforcements of the Jin army arrived and were surrounding the Zhe family army from the left and right wings. What did you use to tear a hole?"
"I have three hundred courageous courage." Han Shizhong's eyes were red and he roared angrily, "I will cut off the left arm of the golden dog with three hundred lives."
"No, no, absolutely not." Qian Dinggong shouted at the top of his throat, "You are going to die. Sanbai Dangong died, what should I do if Xinducheng is? Xinducheng doesn't want it?" Qian Dinggong pointed at the people on the city wall, pointed at the people gathered on the street, and shouted desperately, "Look, look at it yourself, these people are counting on us, you can't leave the city."
"The entire Zhe family army was wiped out, can we still defend Xindu City?" Han Shizhong pushed Qian Dinggong away and said coldly, "Open the city gate for me and open it immediately."
Chapter completed!