Chapter 208 Sniper
It was already dark, and the people in Chang'an City were still rushing forward with their families and their families!
The road is difficult, especially after the night is dark, they cannot see the road ahead clearly! At this time, the army can only explore the road ahead and remind the back when encountering dangerous situations, while the people behind are carefully following the army!
More than 100,000 people have formed an extremely long team at this moment. Some people walk faster, while others walk very slowly!
Gradually, the terrain became steeper and the people were moving slower! Especially those old people and children, many of them were no longer able to continue moving forward! At this time, under the order of Zhao Chen, the defenders of Chang'an City had begun to help the elderly, children, and many soldiers carried the elderly and children, and some soldiers pushed the carts and put the weaker people on the carts and led the people forward!
"Everyone should hurry up! No one knows when the army of King Kang's traitors will catch up! We must send these people to Wugong County as soon as possible!" Zhao Chen said.
Yu Yunwen nodded.
"The terrain here is getting higher and higher. Have we arrived at Mount Zhongnan?" Zhao Chen asked suddenly.
"Yes, Your Majesty, we are now walking near the foot of Zhongnan Mountain!" Wang Shu said.
"Wang Shu, Yu Yunwen, I will leave these more than 100,000 people to you. Take them forward and don't let people pull them down! After arriving in Wugong County, you must arrange the defense of Wugong County! Also, you inform Fufeng County to let the soldiers of the Production and Construction Corps there advance eastward! King Kang's rebels have hundreds of thousands of troops, and we also have 400,000 young people! Even if our 400,000 young people cannot defeat them, it is enough to block them!" Zhao Chen said.
"Your Majesty, aren't you going to Wugong County with us?" Yu Yunwen said in surprise.
"I have other things to do!" Zhao Chen said.
"I don't know what's going on?" Yu Yunwen tentatively said.
"You will know what exactly is, in a few days!" Zhao Chen said with a faint smile.
At that moment, Wang Shu, Yu Yunwen led more than 100,000 Chang'an people toward Wugong County, while Zhao Chen took 5,000 soldiers from the Imperial Camp to stop in the Zhongnan Mountain area!
The cold wind was howling and heavy snow was everywhere. Zhao Chen and the soldiers of the Imperial Camp found a place to be leeward. They came down from the horse. Now the soldiers of the Imperial Camp were looking for firewood! After a while, everyone lit a bunch of bonfires!
They all carry enough food and grass, and some people have already started cooking!
Zhao Chen and Kang An were sitting next to the fire, and the two were roasting a deer, and gradually the aroma of the meat spread!
"Your Majesty, what are we doing here?" Kang An said strangely.
"Of course, we are waiting for the arrival of King Kang's traitors!" Zhao Chen said.
"Ah! What?" Kang An showed an incredible expression on his face!
"When King Kang's army arrives, we will give them a surprise! They have hundreds of thousands of troops, and we will use five thousand cavalry to snipe them! Do you have such courage?" Zhao Chen said.
"Your Majesty, our soldiers in the Imperial Camp naturally have such courage! For us, being able to fight for the country and sacrifice for the country is something we can't do! But, Your Majesty, your status is valuable and related to the country. You must not be with us! Using 5,000 people to snipe hundreds of thousands of troops is too dangerous! You should retreat to Wugong County immediately, or even to Fufeng County, Fengxiang Prefecture or Dasan Pass!" Kang An said anxiously.
"Don't worry! There will be no danger! King Kang's army has arrived, and they would never have thought that more than 5,000 of us dared to snipe them here! This time we attacked them unpreparedly and would only defeat the enemy!" Zhao Chen said.
"Your Majesty, the battlefield is dangerous, you cannot stay here!" Kang An said.
"The battlefield is dangerous, I naturally know that this is! But the soldiers are not afraid of danger. Why should I be the emperor be afraid of danger? Emperor Taizu has built a country with his martial arts. My descendants cannot be much worse than Emperor Taizu! Follow me in this battle, I will win!" Zhao Chen said.
When Zhao Chen was so persistent, Kang An could no longer persuade him. He could only secretly swear to follow Zhao Chen tightly on the battlefield and protect Zhao Chen's life!
"Send someone to check the nearby terrain immediately! Before King Kang's army arrives, we must understand everything around us clearly! Also, if we find a hidden place, we must be able to hide ourselves!" Zhao Chen said.
Kang An nodded and immediately executed Zhao Chen's orders, not to mention this.
Zhao Chen stood on the hillside and looked at the scenery in the distance! This is a painting-like country, and now he is the leader of this country! But the country in front of him is in danger! The reason why he stayed here was mainly to snipe King Kang's army and win time for Wang Shu, Yu Yunwen and others! Although Kang An was loyal and powerful, Kang An was not good at wisdom and was not as good as the emperor! In this case, Zhao Chen decided to stay by himself and choose the method of sniping the enemy according to the situation!
"It has been four years since Xuanwu, and I am fourteen years old! I thought everything would go well in the future. Under my leadership, the Song Dynasty would flourish, but I didn't expect such a thing to happen! My uncle, as a Han Chinese, actually joined forces with the Jurchens and gave me a sudden blow! But this is nothing, it is impossible to really hit me! They occupy Tongguan, Chang'an, and some places, and I will take them back in the future! Last year, millions of young people were recruited, of which 300,000 were included in the army, and 1.2 million were established for the production and construction corps. What I need now is time! As long as there is enough time, these young people will grow up sooner or later and become elites! That's when I really fight back! Jurchens, King Kang, let you be arrogant for a moment!" Zhao Chen said secretly.
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It was already the 14th day of the first lunar month, and heavy snow was still rising, without any sign of stopping!
It was getting late, and a cavalry appeared from a distance!
This cavalry is also dressed as the Song army. They come from the direction of Chang'an! Needless to say, they are the army under King Kang Zhao Gou!
The leader is extremely handsome. Who is not Liu Guangshi?
Liu Guangshi had a 100,000 army under his command, of which 80,000 were infantry and 20,000 were cavalry. At this moment, he was leading these 20,000 cavalry forward!
From a distance, you can see how big the gap between the Liu Guangshi cavalry and the Jurchen cavalry and the Yue Fei cavalry is. Their team is extremely scattered. Some are three or five people together, and some are on the road. Twenty thousand cavalry formed a team like a snake! The speed of these cavalry is extremely slow, but it is just a little faster than ordinary infantry. They are talking and laughing, and noisy sounds are constantly coming from the army! In the Jurchen cavalry and Yue Fei cavalry, this scene will never appear!
However, even though the team is so scattered, Liu Guangshi is still full of confidence. He feels that his cavalry is an invincible existence in the world!
"We haven't won such a victory in many years! We first conquered Tongguan, and then conquered Chang'an! It won't take long before the entire Guanshan area belongs to us!" Liu Guangshi said to a general behind him.
This time they used an army of 800,000 to conquer Tongguan, and there were heavy casualties and almost no victory! As for Chang'an, it was Zhao Chen who gave it to them! But in Liu Guangshi's opinion, these are all victories! Liu Guangshi was extremely excited and proud at this moment!
"The general is right. From the Jingkang Incident to the present, we have never won such a victory! However, Emperor Xuanwu is too cunning. After we conquered Chang'an, there was no civilian, no soldier, no food, weapons, etc. left behind! All we got was an empty city!" The general behind looked about the same age as Liu Guangshi, but he was far less handsome than Liu Guangshi! He was extremely tall, slender and ugly, and was Li Qiong, the general under Liu Guangshi!
In history, Liu Guangshi had two generals under his command, one was literary and the other was martial, and his literary name was Li Qiong and his martial name was Wang De! Li Qiong was outstanding in wisdom. After Liu Guangshi was depreciated in history, Li Qiong defected to the Jurchen people, known in history as the "Jurchen general"! But now, Li Qiong is still a subordinate of Liu Guangshi!
"He is not cunning, but afraid! Emperor Xuanwu is just an incompetent and timid person after all, and it is really not worthy of justice!" Liu Guangshi said with a smile.
"General, I think Emperor Xuanwu should not be underestimated! We have seen the power of Emperor Xuanwu's troops in Tongguan, so we cannot take it lightly!" Li Qiong said.
"Tongguan is different from other places. It is the gateway of Guanshan, and the soldiers there are naturally elite! However, except for Tongguan, there must be no such elite soldiers in other places! Speaking of which, most of the soldiers under Emperor Xuanwu were the Zhe Family Army of the year! I, Liu Guangshi, don't I know what the Zhe Family Army is? " Liu Guangshi said disdainfully.
Liu Guangshi was also from a family of military generals in the northwest. The Liu family army was second only to the Zhong family army at that time! When Liu Guangshi's father Liu Yanqing was alive, the Liu family army had to face the Zhe family army! Liu Guangshi has always looked down on the Zhe family army. He believed that all of Zhao Chen's subordinates were transformed from the Zhe family army, so now he looks down on the troops under Zhao Chen!
"What the general said makes sense!" Li Qiong thought for a while and said.
"Originally, Emperor Xuanwu had a general who was well-known in the world! However, Emperor Xuanwu was the most incompetent emperor in the world. He didn't know how to use this general!" Liu Guangshi said with a smile.
"I don't know who the general is talking about?" Li Qiong said.
"Of course it's Qu Duan! Qu Duan is a versatile talent in civil and military affairs, and everyone in the world knows it! When fighting against Xixia, Qu Duan made many military achievements, and my father admired him! Emperor Xuanwu was extremely confused and did not use Qu Duan, which is really ridiculous!" Liu Guangshidao.
"General, the terrain here is getting higher and higher, and we have reached the Zhongnan Mountain area. We should be more careful!" Li Qiong said.
"Be careful? What else is there to be careful about? We have already investigated. There is no large-scale army gathering around here! Moreover, we have received news that the imperial guards under Emperor Xuanwu have gone to the north and cannot return now! As for the Jingyuan Army, Huanqing Army has been in northern Shaanxi, and some are in Dasanguan, and the area around the Yuanlu. It is impossible for them to come here now! Now that Guan and Shaanxi are completely empty, we can gallop at will! Emperor Xuanwu, it’s not that I look down on him, because he really has no place to be worthy of me!" Liu Guangshi laughed.
"This..." Li Qiong was stunned for a moment, and had to admit that what Liu Guangshi said was correct!
"Besides, our 20,000 cavalry is just a vanguard, and behind it is the 70,000 infantry army of our Liu family army, which is only about twenty miles away! Later, there is an army of nearly 700,000 led by Lord Qin Hui! What's the point of worrying about with so many armies? We just need to keep moving forward, capture Emperor Xuanwu as fast as possible, and establish great achievements. This is the most important thing!" Liu Guangshidao.
Liu Guangshi kept urging his cavalry to go forward, but the quality of his cavalry was too poor! It was dark and the road was slippery, and many cavalry were unwilling to continue rushing, and countless cavalrymen complained!
Gradually, their team grew longer and longer, and more and more cavalrymen were falling behind! Liu Guangshi had no idea of sorting out the army, his Liu family army had always been like this! Since the death of his father Liu Yanqing, the Liu family army has been far inferior to that before!
Another hour passed, the sky was already dark, and at this time, an extremely long gentle slope appeared in front of it!
Chapter completed!