"How can this be?"

Yang Feng looked at the battle report in his hand and said with some astonishment.

This is somewhat surprising.

After the 40,000 Jin army entered the mountains and forests, they quickly ate the horse meat they carried, or it could be said that the rest was rotten, after all, this was the height of summer, and basically eating it for three or four days was equivalent to suicide.

Then he did not hesitate to order the soldiers who were slightly injured or sick to be killed for food, and at the same time forbade those soldiers to go out hunting to ensure the maximum formation of their army, which was similar to the Eight Banners' fierce restraint, which was easy to do. Then they kept killing their companions and eating them inside, and they kept killing their own people to eat all the way, although some of them couldn't bear it and chose to run away and hide in the mountains and forests, but they knew that the only way to go home was the vast majority of the Jin army still moved forward silently.

40,000 people ate more than 7,000 of their own compatriots along the way.

I have to say that they are really ruthless.

Be ruthless to your enemies and be just as ruthless to your own countrymen.

These barbarians who grew up in the bitter cold of minus twenty or thirty degrees Celsius are simply neat, without the slightest moral tie, and they do not hesitate to cut down those old and weak women and children when they need to slaughter the city, and they never frown when they need to eat their relatives, friends and even brothers.

You must know that they are also the same as the Eight Banners, they basically intermarry with each other internally, a Mok is a nest of relatives, plus friends and neighbors who have lived together for generations and grew up together, but they will never hesitate when they need to be hacked to death and bloodletted for barbecue. In addition to those who chose to secretly flee the team and disperse into the mountains and forests to be wild men like their ancestors because they did not want to be other people's food, and those who died in accidents such as flash floods, and finally followed the people of Jamu, Da Luan, Jin Wushu and Chizhan Hui out of the mountains and forests, there were still 26,000 people in total, and the most important thing was that they always maintained their formation. Because they knew that Zezhou must be heavily guarded, and the city was strong and difficult to attack, the four of them, who could not afford to lose any battle, chose to bypass this fortified city through the edge of the mountain forest and go north to raid Lingchuan, which is easier to attack.

As long as they capture Lingchuan, they can get valuable supplies and even some war horses, and then they can restore most of their combat effectiveness.

And Lingchuan is also a junction.

They control Lingchuan and can freely choose whether to go east to Baicheng to Hebei, or continue to attack northward and advance to Taiyuan, in short, the rest is how they fight back, with their combat effectiveness will definitely not be wiped out, after all, the Shangdang area is not a closed environment like Zezhou, and the Song army is not like that, hundreds of thousands of people gathered into a huge group, and the tens of thousands of Song troops scattered around the country cannot form an encirclement and annihilation against them.

They are still confident in this.

They achieved the first half of their goal.

Because the entire Shangdang area from Zezhou to Longde Mansion was fortified and clear, even a small number of people in the mountainous areas were forcibly driven into the city, and at most there were cavalry patrols outside, so the march of the Jin army on the edge of the mountains was not discovered, and they almost quietly reached Lingchuan.

However......

They didn't succeed in the second half of the battle.

"This Zhao Buyou is a clan, right?"

Yang Feng said.

Still, he failed.

Because he ignored that there were still a large number of people gathered in the city by the strong walls and clear fields, there were 100,000 people in Lingchuan City at this time, and a large part of them were mountain people, and the fear of the Jin army breaking the city and turning it into food made almost everyone who could take up arms go to the city wall. Although the weapon is insufficient, it is nothing more than demolishing the house, which of those stones, bricks, and big wood can not kill people, standing on the city wall is to take a bamboo pole sharpened and poke downward, it can also poke people to death, as long as you are desperate What is not a weapon, a child can be blinded with a slingshot in the face!

In this way, Zhao Buyou guarded Lingchuan.

He and his subordinates 4,000 elite soldiers of the former Imperial Camp Division, plus men, women, and children from Lingchuan City, held out until the afternoon of the next day, and then the cavalry of Zezhou and Shangdang arrived.

Helplessly, she stopped her attack and lined up to meet her.

Just like the Song army's infantry faced their iron cavalry before, although the Jin army can also be said to have fought with all their might, they were already exhausted by the siege, and in the absence of weapons to effectively resist the cavalry, especially when there were not even many arrows, they still did not resist these Khitan cavalry who were originally their group.

There were less than 20,000 gold troops left and broke into the mountains and forests again.

In addition, Chi Zhanhui was killed by a ballista.

"Yes, it is not yet five suits with the official family."

Liu Xi said.

"There are also talents in the clan! After the battle of Youzhou, when the Zongze Department was reorganized, he was left with a position of commander, and the young and middle-aged men in Lingchuan who participated in the defense of the city were each rewarded with five pieces of money, women and the elderly were rewarded twice, and children were rewarded consistently, and the war dead, both men and women, were compensated for their military merits, and orphans with both parents or old people who had no one to support were sent to the Bianliang Residence and Nursing Home, and the second army was immediately transferred, and the cavalry army rushed to Weizhou. ”

Yang Feng said.

He is not short of money in his hands now.

However, the banknotes have not yet started, and Jiaozi's reputation has been bad before, but because he is killing the civil officials to the point that he is also copying his home and copying it heartily, so the Great Song Dynasty treasury is full.

As for the future, it will definitely be paper money.

But the premise is that he must have a sufficient amount of gold and silver as reserves, and copper has to be hoarded as much as possible to make cannons, but the gold and silver stocks in the Song Dynasty are very small, so Yang Feng has to have a headache for the currency problem, and if he can't do it, he can only play the national credit currency or the national teacher credit currency, but this will have to wait until the southern problem is solved.

"Is the national teacher worried that they will come back?"

Wu Ge said.

"Nonsense, they can get out of the mountains for hundreds of miles by eating their own people, why can't they also rely on eating their own people to get out of Baicheng Road? At this time, all the armies in Hebei have already gone north to Youzhou, and even if they kill this little bit of people in Hebei, they will still be bleeding. In addition, send a report to Liu Qi to tell him not to pursue, just block the west entrance of Bai Cheng Road, in case they are ambushed on the mountain road, it will be cheaper for them, let Bai Cheng Road remain in a state of no man's land, since Yan Mu escaped into Bai Cheng Dao, then they will stay inside and don't come out! ”

Yang Feng said with a sneer.

There is no suspense about the outcome of this Jin army, even if they can still rely on eating their own people to get out of Baicheng Road, they will also be killed, Liu Guangguo's second army will not take a few days to set off from Bianliang to Huixian, Li Yanxian's cavalry army can pass in one day, even if Yanmu takes the normal mountain road, it will take four days to walk from Lingchuan to Bobi, so long is enough for all the armies here to make all preparations and wait for them to come out. No matter how strong the combat effectiveness of these Jin infantry on the plain is, it is just to send food to Li Yanxian's cavalry, although the latter's cavalry army is not full, but it already has a cuirassier brigade and two light cavalry brigades, the light cavalry is actually a hussar, and it will be equipped with muskets in the future.

Cuirassiers are heavy cavalry.

But the cuirass against bows and arrows was noticeably lighter than that of the French cuirassiers.

In the future, the Song army will be firearmed, which will ensure that the simple infantry can crush the enemy, and the cavalry does not need to undertake the dangerous work of breaking the formation. The main task of the cavalry is to counter the cavalry, even if the firearms line infantry is very dangerous in the face of the cavalry group charge, and it must be protected by cavalry, and the spear cavalry of the cuirassier cavalry is to do this, they are enough to deal with the classical cavalry of the Jin State and Western Xia. In addition, there is the pursuit of infantry, which is the main job of the cavalry in the future, especially since most of the enemies in the future are nomads, and they are equipped with carbines to shoot against nomadic archers, and sabers and cavalry swords are also enough for them to fight against nomadic cavalry.

Even against mounted cavalry, it can be used to fight.

It's a big deal to run to occupy the favorable terrain and then dismount to learn the dragoons, is it possible that the armor of those mounted cavalry can still block bullets?

As for the mounted cavalry of the Song army......

Let's keep it for the honor guard!

"Master, Yanshan Road Telegraph!"

A staff officer suddenly walked in to report.

"Read!"

Facing the huge sand table, the national teacher who led more than a dozen staff officers, including Wu Ge, Liu Xi, Yang Yizhong, and Liu Zhengyan, to study the battle situation, said with a majestic face.

"Yanshan Road system makes Han Shizhong report, the enemy has abandoned the south of Sanggan, our army has recovered Zhuo, Yi Erzhou, the forward cavalry has reached the south bank of the Sanggan River, Gao Yao II has conquered Wuqing, Anci, Miaoyin, the vanguard has reached the city of Yanshan, the enemy of Yanshan is firmly defended, and no one fights!"

The staff officer said.

"This one is smart!"

Yang Feng said with a sneer.

This result is normal, if there are enough troops, the Jin army will definitely choose to face the battle, but as far as Yanshan or the Jin State Yanjing Xijin Mansion is left behind, it is not qualified to meet the battle at all, Yanjing is left behind Yan Zongfu is famous for his cool-headedness among the sons of Aguda, he will definitely not face the battle in the field, let alone disperse his troops to defend all places, he has a total of about 30,000 troops, and then disperse it is only convenient for the Song army to break through. The best choice is to retreat to Yanjing and then wait for Wanyan Wu Qimai in the north to gather reinforcements for him, and then, just like the battle of the Gaoliang River in that year, the Song army was defeated in one fell swoop, and a large number of casualties were killed and wounded in the pursuit, and even pursued into the territory of the Song Dynasty.

This is the most sensible choice.

In this era, as long as the attacked people do not surrender, it will take a long time to break through, and with the strength of the Jin army, the siege of Bianliang in history has also been fought for a month!

It's summer.

As long as Wanyan Zongfu can hold on to Yanjing for three months, it will be winter, just entering the season of autumn high horse fat, and such a long time is enough for Wanyan Wu to gather an army, at that time, 100,000 iron cavalry will surge down, and the Song army, which has been trapped for a long time, will be submerged in an instant, which can be said to be a perfect plan, but ......

He's got to be able to hold on!

In this era, it is very difficult to attack a city, it takes a long time and even a siege, but the current Song army is no longer in this era.

"A clever plan can't stop the cannon after all!"

The national teacher picked up the teacup next to him and said with emotion.