The Battle of the Bareisha River 7

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In fact, it was not that the sentry came back late, but because the Song army was all cavalry, and the speed was too fast.

However, now Gao Jianming was not allowed to think too much, and hurriedly got on his horse again, regardless of the other soldiers, under the protection of Gao Jianxun, Ruan Chieftain and others, he quickly whipped his horse and continued to flee in the direction of Dali City. And the defeated army also got up from the ground one after another and ran with Gao Jianming.

At this time, the Song army was killed, the war horse galloped, the spear was stabbed, the sabre was slashed, and the soldiers of the Jiaozhi and Gao coalition forces died on the ground one after another, and before some people could get up, they were trampled to death by the iron cavalry of the Song army. In fact, there were nearly 20,000 defeated soldiers, and the Song army's pursuers were only more than 4,000 people, but at this time, the defeated army had no intention of resisting, and no one organized it, so as soon as they saw the Song army killed, they only cared about fleeing for their lives.

However, the Song army that pursued them was all cavalry, and at this time, they did not go around to the front of the defeated army to intercept it, but just chased after the defeated army closely, slashing and stabbing with knives and guns, and wantonly slashing and killing. At this time, the defeated army only hated their parents for giving birth to two less legs for themselves, and they only cared about desperately escaping, lest they be caught up by the Song army. Therefore, the Song army did not encounter any resistance at all. After the horses galloped past, the ground was full of the corpses of the soldiers of the Jiaozhi and Gao coalition forces.

And the Song army was not exactly chasing after the defeated army, Liu Fuwu divided the pursuing Song army into three teams, only the middle road was followed after the defeated army, and the left and right roads pursued from the side and rear of the defeated army, constantly impacting the defeated army. Sometimes, a small group of defeated troops will be separated from the large group of men and horses from the wakibe**, and then surrounded and eliminated.

In this way, the Song army was like a maggot attached to the bones, sticking to the back of the defeated army of Jiaozhi and Gao's coalition army, or chasing and killing, or dividing and annihilating, and sometimes they would deliberately stop and let the defeated army run on a certain road, and when they thought that the Song army had stopped the time of pursuit, they suddenly pursued it again, and slashed and killed, only to chase the defeated army in fear, and only cared about desperately escaping, but many people actually ran to death on the road. The pursuit stretched for dozens of miles along the dead corpses, swords, guns, and banners of the soldiers of the Jiaozhi and Gao coalition forces.

Fortunately, Gao Jianming, Gao Jianxun, Ruan Chieftain and other leaders of the Jiaozhi and Gao coalition forces all had horses, so they ran the fastest, so they were not caught up by the Song army, but they were all like frightened birds, and they didn't dare to stop for a moment. While running, I was still thinking in my heart: Could it be that the Song army can't be beaten with iron, and after chasing for so long, isn't it tired at all? Even if a person can stand it, is it so difficult that horses are all gods? Such an army is also too terrible.

This pursuit battle lasted for two days and one night, the defeated army of the Jiaozhi and Gao coalition forces was constantly pursued by the Song army, and the number became smaller and smaller, at the beginning, there were more than 20,000 defeated troops, but in the end there were less than 3,000 left. If it weren't for the reinforcements led by his son Gao Jineng and three hundred war elephants on the way, I am afraid that Gao Jianming would not be able to escape bad luck this time.

At this time, the Song army was also at the end of the crossbow, and Liu Fuwu did not dare to fight when he saw that reinforcements were coming, so he immediately ordered the withdrawal of the army. Gao Jineng wanted to lead his men and horses to chase after him, but he was immediately stopped by Gao Jianming, and the two joined forces and retreated to Dali City.

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The car stopped, Cheng Yuanzhou opened the curtain, stuck his head out of the window, looked at the sky, saw that the sky was gradually darkening, frowned, sighed, and said, "This is where you are, hurry up and find a place to stay."

A family member walked to the car window and said, "Master, there are still thirty miles from the nearest town, and there is no one in the radius, shall we rush to the town to stay, or will we just stay overnight in this wilderness?" ”

Cheng Yuanzhou looked around, the mountains were high and the forests were deep, there were lonely paths, except for his own group, there were no traces, and he couldn't help but feel a little hairy in his heart, and said: "In this wilderness, where can you go to sleep, it's better to catch up with another foot, and go to the town to rest and be safer, even if you go on the road later tomorrow." ”

The family said yes and went immediately. After a while, the car was moving again. Cheng Yuanzhou lowered the curtain, leaned against the wall of the car, and sighed heavily.

A month ago, Yang Yan went to Guangzhou to deliver a decree to dismiss Cheng Yuanzhou from his post and inspect the office. Zhao Ruyu, who succeeded the governor of Guangzhou, personally tried Cheng Yuanzhou. In fact, Cheng Yuanzhou has committed a lot of things in Guangzhou over the years, and it is only because the emperor is far away from the mountains in the past, and he has made dots up and down, so he has covered up the past. Now they are all turned over one by one, and many things are conclusive evidence, so it took a lot of effort to convict Cheng Yuanzhou of several crimes and submit them to the Lin'an Ministry of Officials. A few days later, the imperial court came down and ruled that Cheng Yuanzhou would be removed from his official position, reduced to the people, returned to his hometown for resettlement, and confiscated his family property.

Generally speaking, unless it is a major crime such as rebellion or collaborating with the enemy, the Great Song Dynasty rarely executes officials, and such a result is an extremely severe punishment in the Great Song Dynasty. Therefore, after the verdict was handed down to Guangzhou, Zhao Ruyu immediately ordered someone to seal Cheng Yuanzhou's family property, and sealed all the gifts he had bribed Yang Yan before, waiting for Yang Yan to come back to inspect and confiscate. However, Zhao Ruyu still showed mercy to his subordinates and left Cheng Yuanzhou 5,000 yuan to survive his life. However, this is only a drop in the bucket compared to his previous millions of furniture. And Cheng Yuanzhou had no choice but to dismiss his wife and concubine, buy some fine soft, and take more than a dozen personal family members to get up and go back to his hometown.

Thinking of these, Cheng Yuanzhou sat in the car and was angry and hateful, not only was his career hopeless now, but he had worked hard for most of his life, and the millions of properties he had saved had also come to naught. I can't wait to tear Yang Yan apart and chew it up immediately.

Not to mention that Yang Yan's family background is illustrious, not to mention that he is also a high-ranking official, and he is also a concubine of the court, and now he has pacified Manichaeism and made great contributions to the imperial court. And he is just a dismissed local official, although he has also beaten Long Dayuan and Zeng Mo and his gang before, but it is just a normal entertainment, and Zisi is not their party, and now they want money or power, they will never pay attention to themselves anymore. Thinking of this, Cheng Yuanzhou only felt a sadness in his heart, was it so difficult that he was really finished?

Cheng Yuanzhou was thinking about his thoughts, and suddenly he only heard a whistle, and then he heard a dense and intricate sound of footsteps, and someone shouted: "Stop." Immediately afterwards, I heard my family members shouting, "Ouch", "The king spares his life" and other voices.

Cheng Yuanzhou's heart "chuckled" suddenly, knowing that he had met a robber. At this time, as soon as the car door opened, a person shouted inside: "The surname is Cheng, come down for Lao Tzu." ”

Cheng Yuanzhou trembled out of the carriage, and before he could speak, he was immediately pulled by the collar and dragged down. At this time, it was completely dark, and I saw that torches were lit all around, and the light was very clear, and there were 100 people, all dressed in green clothes, covered with black scarves, each holding knives, guns and weapons, and surrounded his own group. At this time, his family members gathered in a circle, holding their heads in their hands and squatting on the ground.

The man pulled Cheng Yuanzhou in front of a person, Cheng Yuanzhou was so frightened that he couldn't stand steadily, knelt on the ground with a "plop", and said in a trembling voice: "The king spares his life, the king spares his life, I take out all the money and begging the king to spare my life." Then "bumper" the head.

I saw that the man grabbed Cheng Yuanzhou's placket, pulled him up, pulled down his masked black scarf with one hand, and said sharply: "Dog officer, do you also have today?" See if you still know my wife? ”

Cheng Yuanzhou only heard that although her tone was fierce, her voice was sharp, so that she looked like a woman, and after a closer look, it was really a young woman who was holding herself, although she raised her eyebrows, but she could also see that her appearance was quite beautiful, but Cheng Yuanzhou thought about it carefully, and really couldn't remember that she had seen this woman, so she trembled: "Female king, when have you offended the female king, please raise your noble hand......"

Before he finished speaking, he was immediately interrupted by the woman: "Dog officer, you have harmed too many people, so you can't remember." Aunt and grandmother will tell you, do you remember Meng Tai Mengyuan in Haifeng County? ”

Cheng Yuanzhou thought about it for a while, and finally remembered that Meng Tai was originally a businessman in Haifeng County, but when he was the magistrate of Haifeng County, he took a fancy to Meng Tai's family property and beheaded Meng Tai's family in prison on the charge of fornicating with pirates. Thinking of this mileage, Yuanzhou couldn't help but tremble all over.

The woman laughed wildly again, and said: "Dog officer, you finally remembered, let me tell you, aunt and I am Meng Tai's daughter Meng Lanjun, this day aunt and grandmother I have been waiting for more than ten years, the lives of our family of eighteen people, this account will be settled with you today." ”

When Cheng Yuanzhou heard this, he knew that he couldn't escape today. I was so scared that I even got my feces and urine out.

Meng Lanjun sneered: "Dog official, when you harmed my whole family, did you ever think that today, it would be too cheap to kill you with one knife, and today I will stab you eighteen times to avenge the eighteen lives of my family."

Cheng Yuanzhou listened, his eyes darkened, and he suddenly fainted.