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Some personal soldiers had already come up and wanted to catch this messenger and go out to behead him. After hearing these words, Han Shizhong waved his hand quickly and stood up from his chair.

"The roads in Hebei are difficult and sparsely populated. There are military strongholds built to guard against the Khitans all over the place. Wouldn't it be impregnable with a little precaution? Guarding Hebei is a hundred times easier than ours guarding Youyan, not to mention, it is still dozens of times simpler. 20 Wan's imperial army plus the original Hebei soldiers and horses, there must be 30? It's only been a few days, and they have been beaten to the hinterland of Hebei?"

The messenger broke out in shock, and hurriedly said: "Han Shuai, this is an order from Shaozai himself. Han Shuai can send someone to check it."

Many of the generals in the tent looked unwilling to fight a decisive battle. The defense system of Tanzhou run by Han Shizhong was by no means a single military stronghold for the Jurchen Tartars to attack freely.In fact, they can support each other, and if one is attacked, the other will help.And the defending army is an elite and strong army that has been tempered for a long time and can fight tough battles.With the Jurchen Tartars' level of attack, there is no hope of breaking through the defense line here.

Not to mention the small lines of defense echoing each other, the three big defense lines of Yizhou Yanglin, Juyongguan's Zongze, and Tanzhou Han Shizhong also echoed each other, leaning on each other.As long as the stalemate continues, Jurchen's defeat will be a matter of time, but it is a bit unwilling to have a decisive battle at this time.

But now, the Jurchens have reached the hinterland of Hebei, and only a decisive battle can force them back.Only when the decisive battle is won, the Jurchen will flee back to the north of the Great Wall.Under such circumstances, most of the Jurchen who went south would return to Malay Youyan to fight the decisive battle they dreamed of.

Han Shizhong smiled, and said with his mouth curled up: "Send a message for me back, Shaozai wants to gather troops, Wanyan Zongwang also wants to gather troops, instead of waiting for everyone to gather for a decisive battle, why don't we take a step forward now and launch the battle ahead of time?" Attack. Wanyan Zonghan's troops will guarantee that none of them will cross the defense line of Tanzhou. I squeeze out another 5 or [-] people and send Huyantong to help the Shaozai. Zongze is barely defending Juyongguan, let him Gathering troops is simply killing him.

It's not that I, Han Shizhong, don't work hard for Shao Zai, but it's because I'm too impulsive to gamble on a desperate game. If the **** loses, it's all over.It was Shaozai who helped me quit the gambling, and this time Han Shizhong will have the courage to help him quit. "

When the generals heard this, they nodded one after another. Han Shizhong's refusal to gather all the soldiers and horses for a decisive battle was just in line with their wishes.Yang Lin was stimulated by the battle report this time, and he was thinking about how to bring back the pack of wolves who went south and save Cangmin in Hebei.In Han Shizhong's view, this is impulsiveness. Hebei soldiers and civilians are human lives, and our soldiers in Youyan are also human beings. Under Han Shizhong's slovenly appearance, he is a pure general. His vision of the battle situation is naturally different from Yang Lin's.

So what if the Jurchen went south to kill and set fire, the main force of the Jurchen was Youyan, and the center of gravity of the battle should always be Youyan.The number of Jurchen soldiers and horses is small, no matter how powerful they are, can they still hit Bianliang?As long as Yang Lin attacks and defeats Wanyan Zongwang who lacks the army that went south, the situation will be even more favorable.Taking a step back, even if you lose a small decisive battle of this scale, Youyan's situation will not be too high.

The messenger said in astonishment: "This is an order from Shao Zai himself, Han Shuai!"

Han Shizhong stepped forward, put his arms around his shoulders, and said with a smile: "After you go back, just tell Shao Zai that Han Shizhong is not an ungrateful villain. After the battle, if you want to kill him, you have to kill him with a word from Shao Zai. But war is war. You really can’t be too preoccupied, just say that Han Wu said something to him, kindness doesn’t lead soldiers!”

The messenger walked out of the big tent in a daze, and galloped back to Yizhou on a fast horse. This was a major event related to the battle situation.

In the big tent, all the generals surrounded Han Shizhong and started arguing with each other.

Han Shizhong's face was gloomy, he let out an angry shout, and then he calmed down.

"Han Shuai, don't kill him"

Han Shizhong's eyes flashed brightly, and he sneered and said, "After the incident, Shao Zai will know what Han Wu said, and every word is made of gold."

Chapter 437 A Small Decisive Battle Is a Decisive Battle

"For the sake of the people of Hebei and the safety of the Central Plains, we will follow Shaozai to the death and fight the enemy chief to the death!"

Inside Juyongguan, Zong Ze's words were sonorous and forceful, but only one or two relatives responded in the tent.

Juyongguan, the canyon where Guancheng is located, belongs to the mountain area of ​​the military capital of the remaining Taihang line.

It can be said that strangling this checkpoint is equivalent to strangling half of Youyan.It is also because of the Xiongguan Fortress, which is easy to defend and difficult to attack, that Zongze's troops are the fewest compared to the other two lines of defense.

Wanyan Aguda also saw this clearly, so he left Zongwang and Xiyin in Yizhou, and personally led the team to attack Juyongguan without starting.

The defenders of Juyongguan, with their backs at Xiongguan, fought inextricably with the Jurchen emperor who was famous all over the world and overthrew the Khitan.

Yang Lin asked them to gather their forces and fight the enemy chieftain decisively, in order to let everyone give up this hard-won stalemate.Those present were all Zhibing. Although the current battle is cruel and bloody, and every day is a desperate fight, the overall situation is biased towards the Song army.Yang Lin's rhetoric of a protracted war was deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and all the officers and men of You Yan believed in it, as long as they dragged on, they would be victorious.

This kind of united will was originally a good thing for Youyan Song Jun, and it was also created by Yang Lin with great difficulty.Now it has become an obstacle for him to fight to the death to save the Central Plains from the oppression of the bandit chief Hulu.

Zong Ze looked around the big tent, only to find that his subordinates didn't seem to buy it, and he couldn't help saying angrily: "As soldiers of the Great Song Dynasty, do we sit and watch the Central Plains being trampled under the horseshoes of the Jurchens? Why do we bow our heads when we mention the decisive battle? Can't you be timid before fighting?"

Zong Ze's commanding army is extremely dignified, all the generals under his tent were shocked when he got angry, Wang Yan, the commander of the former army, clasped his fists and said, "Why did the commander get angry, we are not timid to fight, we just give orders."

This sentence is soft and thorny, Zong Ze was strongly recommended and promoted by Yang Lin, and it has been three years since he came to Hejian Mansion in Hebei from the Department of Hebei.In three years, he recruited and trained this army under his command, and for the first time, he didn't feel like being ordered by his arm, but instead felt a little born.

After the generals also took orders, they scattered in dismay, without any energy that they should have before the war.

The situation that has been fought desperately is gradually tilting towards victory. At this time, it is a bit unwilling to give up all the arrangements and want to fight to decide the outcome.

Zong Ze sighed, looking at the mountains and rivers around Hebei on the sand table, his eyes were always firm, Shaozai's decision was correct, he must save the Central Plains.

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In Yizhou Mansion, listening to the messenger's words, Yang Lin lowered his head and remained silent.

The young generals around him were filled with righteous indignation, and Wu Lin even loudly said: "Han Shizhong doesn't follow the order, he will be executed for his crime!"

"Cut what?" Yang Lin glared at him, and sighed: "It stands to reason that he is a general at the frontier, in charge of the army of Youyan, and I am a civil servant who came here on business, but I am the one who should be judged according to the law."

"But" Wu Lin was about to speak, but was dragged back by his elder brother. He flicked his sleeves, shook his elder brother's hand away, and continued: "But Shao Zai, that Po Han Wu is you."

"Shut up!" Seeing how rude his younger brother was, Wu Jie hurriedly stopped him, "Han Shuai is a border general, in fact, you can insult him, so get out of here."

Wu Jie is unsmiling on weekdays, demanding himself to be as strict as others, except that he is more doting on his younger brother.Now that the always smiling elder brother got really angry, Wu Lin really didn't dare to talk back, and retreated unconvinced.

"Hey, help me quit gambling, what a Han Wu." Yang Lin helped his knees and stood up. Yang Lin, who hadn't slept for more than two hours in a few days, had all the exhaustion on his face.

The soldiers and horses in Yizhou gathered very quickly. Yang Lin said according to the sword: "Han Shizhong is right, each small decisive battle can still play a decisive role. Most of the generals and soldiers of Youyan are unwilling to give up. The situation, then start with me, pass the order down to beat the general's drum, and today I will fight Zong Wang'er for life and death."

On both sides of the valley of Taining Mountain, teams of cavalry formed formations. Wanyan Zong looked at the Song Army who was slowly coming from the vicinity of Yizhou City, and sneered again and again.

In fact, the so-called invincible Jurchen iron cavalry has not yet approached the city of Yizhou, and has never even touched the moat.

The military strongholds and fortifications along the way have become battlefields for repeated contention between the two sides. Now the Song army has finally stopped hiding in the strongholds and is going to take the initiative to attack. This is exactly what the Jurchens wanted. Going crazy.

Under Yang Lin's roaring order, he waved the flag and commanded hundreds of cavalry troops. Half of them dismounted and formed an arrow formation, facing west.For the remaining half, the horses retreated a little bit, and people were left to guard the vacant mounts, ready to counterattack at any time.

There was a lot of smoke and dust in the west, and the sound of horseshoes was thunderous. I don't know how many horsemen are picking up their horses and rushing towards this place desperately.

Yang Lin looked at the swirling smoke and dust, and ordered decisively: "Shoot Hu Qi from both sides! Let the former army stand still, and don't allow these tartars to press down!"

"It's Khitan soldiers." Wu Jie reminded from the side.

Yang Lin glanced at them and knew that their combat effectiveness was not good enough.These Tartars couldn't form an array, so they rushed towards the sand indiscriminately. It was a mess, so what's the use of being brutal and aggressive?

The frenzied Jurchen Tartars are just dogs who can't change their eating shit, and use cannon fodder to fight every battle. It's a pity that these Khitan cavalry are the slaves of the kingdom, and they have to be driven by their enemies, just like the legendary man who was eaten by a tiger and turned into a minion Generally poor.

The Khitan cavalry pouring down from the mountain rolled, jumped, and poured down like a mountain torrent. Although the arrows rained out rhythmically from the small formation formed by the soldiers of the Song Army, each round of arrows rained ten times. The rest are Khitan soldiers.But they had long been tamed by the Jurchens to be numb livestock-like slaves, and their charge did not stop at all, and they finally crossed the death zone blocked by the rain of arrows, and bumped into the Song army soldiers standing like a mountain.

The sound of weapons and armor colliding was loud, and the armored soldier standing in front to cover his own shooter arched his front foot and put his back foot on the ground, lowered his center of gravity, and mounted a shield in front of him.Immediately, they felt an unknown number of heavy bodies slamming into the riding shields in their hands!

Yang Lin carefully observed the battlefield. The huge collision caused the formation of soldiers in the front row to collapse immediately, and the Khitan soldiers who were hit first also fell to the ground dizzy.At this time is the time for the long sword to show its power, the long spear is inserted from behind the shield, and the number one Song infantry in the world stabs in a square formation.The Khitan vassal cavalry had no intention of stabbing each other with long blades in formation with the heavy armored infantry fighters on the opposite side.

The idea of ​​the Jurchens on the top of the mountain was to risk the lives of these vassal Khitan soldiers to break through the formation, and then the people behind rushed in to hack and kill.

Seeing that the solid formation laid down by Song's heavy armored infantry was knocked loose, the front row of both sides was completely overturned.The Khitan cavalry in the rear row pushed each other to rush in, but there was another row of soldiers and horses of Song Dynasty rolled up in front of them.It turned out that it was the sergeant who retreated after shooting the last round of arrows just now. They quickly threw their bows, drew their shields and raised their swords, and more than ten people lined up in a row.It is still the standard knife and shield infantry warrior's action to meet the enemy.

This set of smooth and smooth operations is a result of years of unimpeded drills, coupled with the accumulated experience in actual combat, which is very different from the guards of honor in Bianliang's Beijing camp.The sword and shield soldiers who came up lowered their center of gravity, lifted the shield with their left hand upwards to lift the enemy's blade, advanced, and stabbed out with a long knife!The knife flashed, and he used all his strength to stab three times quickly, but the array remained neat.Three thrusts and three stabs, neat and uniform, like a killing machine, more than ten bloody roads opened in front of them immediately!

The screams of the Khitan soldiers resounded through the mountains, the Khitans and Han vassals in the Zongwang camp were all terrified.The people in front were all dead, and it was their turn. The Jurchen watched coldly, showing a cruel grin of contempt from time to time, like a ghost.

Yang Lin's heart was agitated, and before he knew it, his strategy of training soldiers and raising generals by means of war had already paid off. From south to west and then to north, they fought around a huge territory. The most precious [-] forbidden troops at the founding of the country are not much different.

"Young master, this group of Tartars has never been beaten, and the final general asks for orders to rush to the camp and capture Yan Zongwang alive!"

You are too fucking excited, your brain is overheated, young people just can’t do it, although they are aggressive, they are easy to get confused, Yang Lin slapped his helmet and cursed: "Get out, you didn't see that this is just a Tartar Is it your son’s cannon fodder?”