Fenghou

Chapter 614 Counterattack
At the fourth watch, the soldiers lifted Wanyan Yinkeshu up a low hill. He was covered with a thick military blanket, and he looked deeply at the west. No one knew what he was thinking?
"Marshal Du, it's cold at night, let's go back!" Wanyan Huonu advised from the side.

"Woman, we have really encountered a strong enemy this time." Wanyan Yinkeshu's voice revealed a trace of desolation.

"Why did Marshal Du say that?"

Wanyan Yinkeshu smiled wryly and said: "Some things can only be understood but cannot be expressed in words. Although Chen Qing and I are separated by tens of miles, we are fighting across the air. After his army passed the canyon, they stopped. Stopped, obviously he knew what I was going to do next? And our army also stopped at the same time, because I also knew what the army was going to face? No wonder such a shrewd person as Wan Yanchang was defeated by him repeatedly. It would be a great fortune for the Kingdom of Jin to stop in Sichuan and Shaanxi!"

Speaking of this, Wanyan Yinkeshu looked back at Wanyan Huonu, and asked lightly, "Do you know what I'm talking about?"

Wanyan Huonu shook her head blankly, and Wanyan Yinkeshu shook her head, "He knew we were going to counterattack, so he stopped in the canyon, or used the terrain of the canyon to weaken our cavalry advantage. , This is the most formidable opponent I have fought in the battlefield for [-] years, not one of them, your father died under his hands, and now it seems that it is not unjust, I am afraid I will die at his hands too."

When Wanyan Huonu heard that the Song army was going to use the valley to fight against the Jin soldiers, she was frightened for a while, and a trace of fear arose in her heart.

"Then can we not counterattack?"

Wanyan Yinkeshu sighed slightly, "Now we only have three ways to go, one is to enter Wuren Road and forcefully fight back to the mouth of the Yellow River; the second is to return to Yichuan County and then take the northwest official road of Luojiao County; Just turn around and go back to break through, I might as well tell you the truth, the first two roads are what Chen Qing wants us to take, and he will definitely block us halfway, how do you think we should choose?"

Wanyan Huonu pondered for a moment and said: "Actually, I feel that the third option can be chosen again."

"How to choose?"

"I can choose to fight them to the death on the northwest official road. It doesn't have to be Chen Qing, but it can also be the intercepting army in Luojiao County. As long as we break through their interception, we can retreat northward from Luoshui Road."

Wanyan Yinkeshu said in a low voice for a while: "If we can defeat Chen Qing now, we still have a chance to enter Guanzhong."

Breaking through the official road in the northwest is struggling to survive, but breaking through the official road in the canyon is not willing to fail. After eating horse meat, Wanyan Yinke's attitude is not clear?

Perhaps it is more difficult to break through the canyon, but will it be easy to break through the northwest official road?

Only then did Wanyan Huonu understand what Marshal Du was thinking, it turned out that he was still unwilling to fail!
Wanyan Huonu was really a little afraid in her heart, but since Marshal Du had already stated his position, he had to go out at this step.

He gritted his teeth and said decisively: "Then use the Khitan army and Xi army to counterattack the Song army. If it doesn't work, we'd better follow the Northwest official route."

Wanyan Huonu nodded, "This is our last hope to enter the pass, I will never be reconciled if I don't try it!"

It was just dawn, and the rumble of war drums in the Jinbing camp was beating, and the [-] troops lined up quickly. They ate a meal of horse meat last night, and there was a little bit of fat in their stomachs, and their morale was a little bit better, but there was a fundamental problem. If it is not resolved, they will not be able to restore the high morale when they went out.

Entrusted by the head coach Wanyan Yinkeshu, Wanyan's living girl is going to use the method of looking for plums to quench thirst to boost morale.

He shouted loudly in front of the army: "Our Jurchen iron cavalry has never been defeated. How can we be defeated by the little Song army? Impossible!"

He directed the direction with his hand, and his voice was like a bell, "The Guanzhong Plain is three hundred miles away. As long as we defeat the Song army, enter the Guanzhong Plain, enter Jingzhao, and have a one-month holiday, all wealth will be robbed by everyone. Let everyone enjoy it, this is the promise of Marshal Du, we must defeat the Song army, we will win!"

The three armies were infected, and they saw the hope of making a fortune again. They couldn't help being excited, and they raised their arms and shouted, "We must win! We must win!"

Wanyan Huonu waved her sword, "Let's go!"

The morale was revived, hope was reborn in each soldier's heart, and the morale began to boost. The army urged Ma Hao to kill in the direction of the canyon.

Chen Qing's army was ready in the canyon. Three thousand logs were divided into two lines of defense, the river and the official road were blocked, hundreds of barrels of kerosene were sprinkled, and a large amount of poisonous caltrops were sprinkled in front. There is a channel that allows the soldiers in front to retreat back, but when the fire is on, this channel will also be blocked by giant trees and engulfed by the fire.

Chen Qing deployed [-] god-armed crossbowmen in front of the first line of defense. This is already the ultimate. At the same time, he deployed [-] god-armed crossbowmen in front of the second defense line. Once the soldiers in front retreated, it would be [-] crossbowmen. Hands, three shots are enough to defeat the enemy's surprise attack.

What's more, there will be fragments of powder barrels and poisonous nails on the top of the head. As for the [-] bed crossbows, Chen Qing thought twice and decided to deploy [-] in the valley, and only about [-] on the top of the mountain. The shooting crossbow array is used to deal with the cavalry's cavalry shooting. Although bed crossbows are also needed on the top of the mountain, but the mountain road is narrow, it is really not enough to deploy a few.

At the same time, the deployment was completed on the top of the mountain. Gao Ding did not block the narrow place with giant trees. He didn't need it. He would use another strategy to defend the mountain path.

Gao Ding has deployed fifty bed crossbows, which is the ultimate deployment, and only ten bed crossbows can be placed side by side at the widest point, and then they can shoot arrows in rotation.

This time Gao Ding wanted to atone for his crimes, unless he died in battle, Jin Bing would never want to go one step further.

At noon, the main force of the mighty Jin soldiers finally reached the outside of the canyon.

Wanyan Yinkeshu personally deployed and attacked in two groups. Wanyan Huonu led [-] Xi tribe infantry and [-] Khitan cavalry to attack the canyon. Attack the abandoned official road on the mountain.

Of course, they were just vanguards. Wanyan Yinkeshu deployed another [-] cavalry to support them. Once the forward broke through the blockade, the cavalry would attack aggressively.

The Song army's blockade was about five miles away from the west entrance of the canyon. This is also the narrowest part of the entire canyon. Six thousand Song army crossbowmen are already in full swing.

A Song army scout galloped westward on the official road, bringing the latest information about the Jurchen army. At this moment, a Jurchen sentry cavalry appeared on the opposite side, and they also galloped eastward on the official road. getting closer.

A miraculous scene happened. The two scouts passed by each other. At the moment of the staggering, the two scouts were only one foot apart, but neither drew their swords to fight each other. Perhaps their respective intelligence was more important, and they passed by. .

Not long after, the scouts of the Song army rushed to the front of the Song army, clasped their fists to the chief commander Liu Cui and said, "Report to the commander. The enemy army has already launched, and thousands of soldiers of the Xi nationality are rushing here in line with their big shields."

Sure enough, it was the Xiren infantry who took the lead in attacking, using their Xi shields to break through the blockade of the Song army.

At the same time, Wanyan Huonu also received a report from the sentinel cavalry. The Song army deployed two blockade lines with giant trees. If they wanted to rush over, they had to move the giant trees away.

Of course Wanyan Huonu knew that it wasn't just a giant tree, the Song army would definitely set it on fire, forming two blockade lines of fire, he had already experienced it yesterday.

"Order the soldiers of the Xi clan to carry two thousand bags of soil, put out the fire, and move the giant logs away."

Their giant log fire formation yesterday was extinguished with mud, and then the giant log was dragged away with iron hooks.

Five thousand soldiers of the Xi tribe once again played the role of fire extinguishing vanguards. Two thousand soldiers held large shields, five hundred soldiers held iron hooks, and the remaining soldiers carried dirt bags.

Five thousand soldiers of the Xi nationality lined up and walked slowly towards the burning first blockade log.

"They are coming!" Song soldiers shouted.

Liu Cui has rich experience. He found that only the soldiers in the front were holding large shields, forming ten rows of shield walls, but the soldiers of the Xi clan behind them had no shields.

"The messenger's arm is angled upwards, throwing the enemy behind!"

(End of this chapter)