Chapter 348 Scarlet Sunset Red

"All the divisions cleaned up the battlefield and all retreated to the west after a quarter of an hour!"

"Whoa!"

A quarter of an hour is enough, because there are not many casualties among the Tongzhou soldiers in this battle, the only thing to do is to find some good things on the Liao soldiers, and if you see that you are not dead, you can also make up for it.

Night, the arrival of habit, the sunset has disappeared, and in the dark twilight, a large army slowly drives westward on the vast grassland.

The quiet Gansang River is still so beautiful, the stars in the sky are shining, reflected in the water, a team of more than 500 people swept over, those people took off the clothes of the Liao soldiers, and then worked hard, each found a place to lie on the ground.

No one can forget the battle of the Gansang River, but what will happen tomorrow?

Sukesha set out at the end of the day, hurrying all the way, and finally reached the shallow meadow thirty miles south of the Gansang River after nightfall. The shallow meadow was originally a small village, but later there was a plague here, and the people died and fled, and the shallow meadow was deserted, although it has gone through a hundred years, the shallow meadow still retains some low walls. It was no longer appropriate to march at night, so Suksa had the army stationed in the shallow meadows and sent scouts to investigate. At this time, Su Kesha had an inexplicable panic in her heart, according to the normal situation, Bu She should have caught up with the Han people, but why has there been no news back yet?

At three o'clock, the Liao soldiers buried the pot to cook, and in the smoke curling, several secret sentinels in charge of the periphery tensed, because just in front, two figures staggered and ran, and the two saw the fire, opened their arms and shouted hoarsely, "Help"

The voice fell. The two men fell to the ground with a puff. The Liao soldiers in charge of the vigilance listened to what the two of them said just now, all of which were authentic Khitan dialects. Only then did they put away their vigilance, and one person slowly approached, and under the light of the torches, they saw that the two were wearing the soft armor of the Liao soldiers, but the soft armor was full of cuts and holes. One Liao soldier was covered in blood, crouched down to probe his nose, already dead, and the other was still breathing. In an anxious state, he beckoned his companions and dragged the wounded to the village.

Su Kesha was holding a bowl of porridge and rice in his hand, and he had just drunk not much, when a personal soldier hurriedly came, and the personal soldier had followed him for many years, and he had seen a lot of scenes, but now his face was extremely pale and he looked very frightened.

"General Su had an accident, and General Bu was blocked by the Han at the west end of the Gansang River, and the whole army was annihilated"

Choking. The porcelain bowl fell on the stone steps and shattered in an instant. Bu She's entire army was wiped out, how could this be possible? There are more than 3,000 Xijing elites under Bu She's command, even if he faces tens of thousands of Song soldiers, as long as he wants to escape, can he still escape? Unless the Han people have cavalry to help, but on this hundred miles of grassland, where can a large force of cavalry be hidden?

"Nonsense, the Han people are heavenly soldiers and generals, how can they all annihilate the generals, where did you get the news?"

"General Su, the little one doesn't dare to talk nonsense, just now there are two of them under General Bu who fled for their lives, one of them arrived at the entrance of the village, because he was too seriously injured, he didn't hold on, and now the other is lying under the big elm tree at the entrance of the village."

Hearing this, Su Kesha didn't think much about it, got up and hurriedly walked towards the entrance of the village with his own soldiers, and when he came, there were many people surrounded under the big elm tree, and the witch doctor who accompanied the army was also squatting and busy. Glancing at the injured person, Su Kesha frowned, and couldn't help but gasp in her heart, there were no knife wounds all over her body, and there were several guns, what did this soldier go through?

Under the treatment of the witch doctor, the wounded soldier woke up slowly, and after he opened his eyes, he looked at the dark night sky a little sluggishly, and muttered something in his mouth, "Don't cut me with a knife"

The wounded soldier was obviously mentally aware, as if he was insane, and Suksa called the witch doctor over and asked urgently, "What's going on?" ”

"Back to General Su, this brother was too seriously injured, he fainted just after saying something, and when he woke up again, he would be like this"

Su Kesha clenched her fists, turned to her own soldiers and shouted, "Order, order a team of 1,000 people to go to the Gansang River with Ben General"

The horse's hooves rose, a Liao soldier hurriedly rushed towards the west end of the Gansang River, the closer to the Gansang River, the lower Su Kesha's heart became, the road was full of corpses of the Great Liao warriors, looking at their deaths, it was obvious that they were chased and hacked to death on the way to escape, the further north, the more corpses, when they reached the two miles of the Gansang River, the strong smell of blood went straight into the nose. After two hours, the smell of blood still did not dissipate, which shows how tragic this battle was.

Walking step by step, standing under the night sky full of corpses, Su Kesha had a fear growing in her heart, perhaps, Da Liao was facing a demon, and the sky in the northwest was about to change color.

Soon, the Liao soldiers found the bodies of Bu She and Shi Ke, looking at these two corpses, Su Kesha's mood couldn't calm down for a long time. Why is this happening? Is it really the Tongzhou soldiers under the command of King Jinling that Bu She is pursuing?

No matter what, Su Kesha could no longer do what he thought, and the only thing he could do now was to collect the body and transport it back to Wuzhou, so that the Great Liao warriors could have a place to bury. There has always been a tradition in Xijing that if it is not necessary, the dead should be transported back to their hometown for burial after the war. It is also this rule that the soldiers and horses under the command of Yelu Dashi move forward bravely and are not afraid of death. Because Yelu Dashi loves soldiers like sons, his subordinates also act according to orders.

April 23 of the third year of Xuanhe, destined to be a special day, this day the three thousand four hundred elites of the Great Liao encountered the Song soldiers in the Gansang River, under the first battle, the Liao soldiers were annihilated, only a dozen people fled back to the mere dozen people, and the main general Bu She, the deputy general Shi Ke also died in the battle of the Gansang River.

The inexplicable defeat of the Gansang River also cast a dark cloud over the entire Xijing war, and Yerusha felt that there was a pair of eyes secretly staring at Da Liao, but Da Liao didn't know how to deal with it.

Zhao Yougong, the king of Jinling, this man who has just turned twenty years old, is that him? If it's really him, then that

Yelusha didn't dare to think about it anymore, if the battle of the Gansang River was really fought by Zhao Yougong's troops, wouldn't it mean that everything in the past was fake. Zhao Yougong, how cunning does he have to be to play all the Great Song and Great Liao and even Western Xia between applause? If the conjecture is true, then Zhao Yougong wants more than just the victory of the Gansang River. Maybe it's Wuzhou. Maybe the whole of Xijing.

"Someone came" called for personal guards. Yelusha handed over a handwritten letter, frowned, and said sternly, "Quickly go to the direction of Heyin and hand over this letter to the marshal." ”

"Huh?"

On April 23, when Bu She pursued Zhao Yougong, the battle in Heyin City was also in full swing, compared with the siege battle the day before. The street battles in the city were even more tragic, with hidden arrows, tunnels, and traps, and every time they advanced a few zhang, the Great Song Dynasty had to pay the price of a few or even a dozen people. From the beginning of the hour to the noon, the 40,000-strong army advanced only two-thirds, and the further north it went, the fiercer the resistance of the Liao soldiers became. At noon, Song Bing took a short rest and ate something, but Zhang Jun had no appetite at all. At this time, even he admired Xiao Tiechi a little. This Khitan can really fight, only less than 10,000 people, and it has been holding out in this small Heyin City for nearly ten hours. We must hurry up, because once Xiao Dachi is eliminated, we must organize the defense of Heyin City.

Zhang Jun is not happy, Xiao Tiechi is not much better, at this time he is covered with black and gray, with a white cloth wrapped around his head, just before, a stray arrow flew in, fortunately there is a helmet to protect him. There are still two hours, but these two hours are not easy to survive, the corporals under their hands suffered heavy casualties, the Song soldiers are much more fierce than before this time, it seems that everyone is not afraid of death, desperately attacking the city, although the Daliao warriors are heroic, but after all, there are few people, a few hours down, more than 8,000 warriors only survived more than 2,000 people, of course, the Han people also paid the price of nearly 10,000 people. There are more than 2,000 people left in their hands, most of them are wounded, and even more than 1,200 can really fight with the wounded, and these people alone have to face the siege of more than 30,000 people in the Great Song Dynasty, and they have to hold on until the time of unitary. It's difficult, it's really too difficult, but Xiao Tiechi knows that he can't retreat, if he withdraws from Heyin, then the plan of the commander to annihilate the Song soldiers will be in vain. Now it's just trying my best to drag it, I hope the big handsome can come quickly.

At three o'clock in the afternoon, the Song soldiers, who had rested for less than a quarter of an hour, launched a fierce attack on the northern city of Heyin again, this time Zhang Jun listened to Cheng Fang's construction, and ordered Ma Jiaoxiao and Zhou Chunzheng to order 10,000 people to cooperate with the attack on both sides outside the north city wall, and Qian Lin and Qiao Huanfeng led the troops to move closer to the east and west sides of the city, it can be said that Zhang Jun poured out of the nest this time. Song soldiers poured in from all directions, Xiao Tiechi immediately felt the huge pressure, there were only more than 1,000 soldiers to fight, in the face of these surging Han people scattered around, it was tantamount to holding arms to block the car, after deep thought, Xiao Tiechi made a surprising decision, he asked everyone to withdraw from the city, all concentrated on the north city wall and the north city gate. Xiao Tiechi is really helpless to do this, he is now gambling, betting that he can hold on for two hours, and betting that the big marshal can come before the North City Gate is breached. Concentrate all the remnants of the army on the northern city wall, although all the forces are tightened, but also everyone is under the sight of the Song soldiers, if the reinforcements cannot arrive in time, these people will have nowhere to escape.

On the north city wall, Xiao took off his armor, revealing a strong and powerful upper body, a long knife on the ground, looking at the smoke-billowing Heyin City, and then looking at those scarred soldiers, his eyes showed a bit of determination, "Brothers are terrible? ”

"Don't be afraid, slaughter this group of Han dogs" Many soldiers roared with bare eyes, and there was nothing to fear when the battle reached this point.

The Liao soldiers on the north city wall gathered together, Zhang Jun took off his red tasseled helmet, pulled out his sword and stood in front of the generals, and shouted angrily, "In today's battle, I will not return to Heyin, who can take Xiao with a red dog's head, the official will be promoted to three levels, and the gold will be a thousand taels!" ”

Five commanders, seven knots made the hand yell, each leader personally went into battle, the battle reached this point, whoever retreated would die, and the official was promoted to three levels, and the reward of a thousand taels of gold was also really moving. There must be brave men under the heavy reward, this time the Song soldiers are more brave, every step is a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood, Shen two moments, the Song soldiers finally attacked the north city wall, and Xiao Tiechi only had more than 500 people left in his hands, he concentrated these people in the middle of the north city wall, the purpose is to defend the city wall and the north gate in this area.

In Zaolin Village, south of Heyin City, at the end of April 23, 10,000 cavalry from Huairen, more than 10,000 cavalry from the Cheetah Battalion in Wuzhou City, and more than 20,000 elite soldiers from Yingzhou under Xiao Gan, totaling more than 40,000 Liao soldiers, were all concentrated in Zaolin Village. At this point, the back road of the Northern Song Expedition to Heyin has been blocked by the Liao soldiers, spread out the map, Yelu Dashi eyes showed his essence, and said in a deep voice, "Now that Xiao Daichi has nailed all the Song soldiers to Heyin City, whether this battle can go to Xijing in one battle depends on you." ”

"Don't worry, Dashuai, we will go all out and not let Song Bing escape alone."

Yelu Dashi nodded slightly, the corners of his mouth turned up, revealing a few sneers, "The whole army is set off, the Cheetah Battalion is the vanguard, and we will rush to Heyin with all our might, and we must save General Xiao Dachi's life!" ”

"Whoa!" Han Dexiang stroked his chest with one hand, turned over on his horse, and gave an order, the cheetah battalion, which had been resting for a long time, jumped north, and tens of thousands of cavalry galloped, and the momentum shook the world. Han Dexiang knew the burden on his body, he had to save Xiao Dachi's life, for Da Liao, Xiao Dachi was a hero, if he hadn't been nailed to Heyin, Da Liao's tens of thousands of soldiers and horses would have detoured to the south of Heyin, and the plan to outflank the back road would not have succeeded.

The war clouds are thick, under the same sky, life and death, on this vast meadow, the breeze rises, the drums and horns are ringing, and the blood-colored sunset is red (to be continued......