Troubled Times: Start with 800 Dead Soldiers

At this point, Duan Pengju, even Sun Houhou, can't escape.

The cavalry commanded by Lin Chong successively surrounded the left and right sides of Kuanggou Village and were surrounded and annihilated by heavy troops within two hours.

Lin Chong on the side said: "Get out of the way and let me come."

Among thousands of troops, Lin Chong felt as if he was in a deserted place, with three strikes, five strikes, and two strikes. He killed many Song soldiers who resisted.

Lin Chong is a capable person, and a very capable person.

The trapped beast still fighting, Yun Tianbiao's gun was very straight and hard at the moment, and he was fighting with Lin Chong who rushed in, almost evenly matched.

Now that things have happened, these two people are really good match and will meet good talents.

In fact, it is rare to see high-ranking generals fighting among ordinary soldiers.

At critical moments, the qualities that a military general should possess are shown.

It is no exaggeration to say that these cavalrymen of Duan Pengju are the elite of the Central Forbidden Army of the Song Dynasty. Compared with other Forbidden Army, it is not an exaggeration to say that they can equal ten.

However, these elite cavalry faced the overwhelming strength and high fighting momentum of Lin Chong's cavalry brigade, and Duan Pengju's remaining soldiers were wiped out like a whirlwind.

The battle with Su Xia's guard brigade in Kucroggou just now had already given him a blow. Since they had been fighting hard for two hours, the soldiers' physical strength was completely exhausted, so they were unable to fight at all.

Like ashes, hundreds of soldiers were quickly wiped out.

Seeing that all his soldiers were lost, escape was no longer possible.

Su Xia stepped forward: "General Duan, surrender."

However, at this moment, Duan Pengju, who was covered in blood and had just fought with Lin Chong for dozens of rounds with no outcome, shook his head helplessly.

His status and prestige among these 800 people was extremely high, which was also an important reason why he was able to serve as the governor of the Imperial Army of the Song Dynasty. Seeing that he was already exhausted, he had no way to deal with it.

After fighting Lin Chong for dozens of rounds, the exhausted Duan Pengju let out a sneer and a sigh of helplessness.

Su Xia added: "You surrender, and I will guarantee your personal safety."

Duan Pengju just shook his head. As a soldier, he had actually done his duty up to this point in the battle. It could even be said that he had completed the task beyond the scope of his authority.

He looked up at the sky and saw more and more soldiers of the Su Xia Protectorate Army marching forward, and suddenly threw the Izumi Dragon Iron Spear in their hands to the ground with a "bang".

Then, he suddenly pulled out his sword and swung it towards his neck!

Three feet of blood!

Duan Pengju committed suicide!

He fell heavily to the ground, and the horse neighed and then galloped away.

Su Xia asked the soldiers to make way for the war horse to run freely.

This good general of the Song Dynasty led eight hundred elite troops alone in an attempt to surprise Su Xia, Qingzhou and Dengzhou, but in the end he still couldn't escape death.

Since then, the two battles to encircle and suppress the Suxia National Guard Army ended in the Song Dynasty's defeat.

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In Dengzhou Mansion, Su Xia was sitting in the yamen of Dengzhou Mansion, where Zongze had already greeted them.

As soon as they met, Zongze raised his hand and asked: "Sir, how are you doing?"

(Zongze (January 1060, 1 - July 20, 1128), courtesy name Rulin, Han nationality. As mentioned in the previous article, after Su Xia launched an army, he served as the chief executive of Dengzhou Guard)

"Duan Pengju committed suicide. His advancing team was also wiped out. Let's not talk about this anymore. Didn't we attract some strange plants from foreign lands before? Get them quickly."

The weird plant Su Xia mentioned was pepper.

In ancient China, there were actually no chili peppers.

However, the origin of pepper is in Peru and Mexico in the Americas. It was not until the Qing Dynasty that it was planted on a large scale in our country.

Such a small amount of chili was found on the ship when it was purchased from foreign countries. It was not much, and it was originally supposed to be destroyed according to Zongze's opinion.

But before Su Xia went to Qingzhou, she accidentally saw this pepper. She was very happy and told Zongze to take good care of the pepper and continue to cultivate it.

No, when I came back, I was anxious to look at my little chili pepper.

It was freezing cold, and there were not many peppers left. In order to grow peppers well, Zongze specially approved a room to grow peppers as a modern greenhouse. Although the peppers produced are not fruitful, they are at least There are also a few.

Su Xia picked off the peppers with some excitement and broke into the kitchen alone. This made Zongze, Xiong Hui and others look at each other, wondering what Su Xia had done.

In fact, Su Xia's cooking skills are not very good, but after returning from time travel, this is the first time he has eaten fried pork with chili pepper.

Su Xia personally went to the kitchen to prepare the dishes and brought them out, but Wu Song, Zongze and others ignored them: "Sir, you, do you really want to eat this?"

"Let me tell you, this thing is a good thing."

"Good stuff? Why haven't we seen it before?"

Su Xia was happy: "The scientific name of this thing is chili pepper. It can dispel colds when eaten. I say you guys don't sit around stupidly. Come on, come on, come and try it. Come and try this."

After Su Xia finished speaking, she held the plate of dishes she had cooked for everyone to try.

To put it bluntly, there was nothing to be done about it. These people all found it extremely spicy after just a sip. They were all desperately looking for water to drink, which made Su Xia smile from ear to ear.

Especially when I saw a strong man like Wu Song, his face turned red and his neck thickened after taking a bite of chili pepper, and tears flowed down his face. He looked like a grasshopper, jumping up and down in the room. Made Su Xia laugh.

But Zongze asked in confusion: "Sir, why does it feel like my mouth is on fire after eating this food? It's so hot that my tongue feels like needles pricking it, and it starts to taste bitter.

"The spiciness in peppers is a special feeling besides the four basic tastes. Unlike peppers, the peppers we eat are quite spicy. We will plant more of these things in the future. The spiciness of peppers is because they mainly contain It is a variety of capsaicin. Capsaicin directly stimulates the oral mucosa, which in turn causes the burning pain. If you eat chili peppers regularly, you will gradually adapt to the spiciness and even fall in love with eating chili peppers. "

The group of people listened to Su Xia's words as if they were reading from heaven.

Su Xia smiled and said, "Don't you understand what I said?"

"Yes, sir, we don't understand what you said."

"Don't you think it's spicy? Let me tell you, drinking milk can relieve this spicy feeling."

At this point in writing, some people have questions, was there milk in ancient times? Drink milk?

In fact, people drank milk in ancient times, but it was not very popular among the Han people. Mr. Sima Qian's "Historical Records: Biography of the Xiongnu" has this record: "The custom of the Xiongnu is that people eat the flesh of animals and drink their juices to coat their skins; Eat grass and drink water, and move at any time."