Became a feudal lord in the late Northern Song Dynasty

Chapter 291 Expansion
The Yellow River is full of turbid and turbulent waves, with waves coming from the front and waves coming from the back, but what matters is the present.

The two Song armies, led by their respective coaches, began to charge towards each other.

Liu Guangshi's troops were composed of imperial imperial troops, Xiang troops, thieves, refugees, etc. When he was besieged in the isolated city in Hebei, Wang Zhen and Yang Weizhong suggested that he greatly expand the army's strength, so Liu Guangshi basically did not choose to expand the army.

He wants it if he is a man, can breathe, can hold weapons.

He needs those rotten fish and shrimps to help him gather the number of people, and the latter also needs him, the "son of a general", to put on a facade.

When Liu Guangshi led his army to attach himself to King Kang, the former found that King Kang still needed him to seize power. King Kang found that the combat effectiveness of Liu Guangshi's army was worrying, and the only thing he could use was military strength.

Immediately, the entire army crossed the river and headed south. Zhao Gou only provided Liu Guangshi with part of the money and food, but did not provide him with additional troops.

When attacking the city, Liu Guangshi sent all the elite of his own army, that is, the Imperial Imperial Guards that he had first brought to Dezhou, Hebei Province, to attack the city. Now the ones used to deal with Liu Qi were real miscellaneous troops.

The soldiers and horses organized by Liu Qi were almost all temporarily recruited men. They were seriously lacking in weapons, armor and equipment. Many of them held a simple spear in their hands and barely formed a formation, but the encouragement Theirs is the money Liu Qi promised.

If you kill a bandit, you will be rewarded with five swords!

The equipment of the Hebei cavalry was obviously much better than that of him and the surrounding cavalry, and the number of them alone was at least ten times that of his own.

After Liu Qi became a general, Li Gang became an official of the imperial court. Shouldn't the words of these two be counted as unreasonable?
On the battlefield, the number of people on both sides has exceeded a thousand. Looking around, thousands of people have occupied the entire battlefield in a chaotic manner, and they will collide with each other in a moment.

"This battle is not for the court behind us, but for ourselves!"

But soon, he discovered some strange details.

In fact, there was nothing he could do. After all, the sentinel reported that the Hebei Army had already captured the city of Suanzao City. If he didn't take action at this time, he would have no choice but to sit back and watch Suanzao fall.

"Send the order, break camp and fight!"

"Hold steady and keep charging!"

Apart from food, Li Gang's army had almost no other equipment. The armor worn by these dozen cavalrymen was barely made up by Liu Qi in the middle of the army, but there was definitely no horse armor.

"rush!"

"The whole army is with me. Charge!"

In an instant, the two armies began to clash again.

Liu Qi silently sheathed his sword, and then untied the horse strap that was always on his back. He looked at the dozen cavalrymen and the two to three hundred people around him, and shouted: "Everyone, believe me Liu Qi, follow me." We have come all the way here, and I have to tell you, no matter how many people are on the other side, we are already going to win!”

Liu Guangshi did not hesitate and put all the troops in his hands on the battlefield. The jujube was about to fall into his hands. Liu Guangshi even sent someone to pass the order on the city wall at this time, preparing to withdraw some of his troops first and use all his strength. Facing the imperial army that suddenly appeared on the battlefield in the south.

Liu Qi rode his horse to stand in front of the Chinese army, but he didn't wait long at all. He could only lead the Chinese army to press forward, directly passing over the lower-level officers who were already in chaos and at a loss to give orders.

The front line of the government army was lucky enough to have the upper hand in the first round of fighting, but before he could take a breath, the reorganized Hebei Army on the opposite side came to kill again, and soon after, his own middle army and rear group also came forward.

Liu Guangshi spread his arms and asked his soldiers to help him put on his armor. Then he strode out of the tent and got on his horse. Behind him, more than a hundred cavalry came out of the camp and gathered around him.

Although the two to three hundred people around him dared to fight, if they were directly scattered by so many cavalry, then the battle would be over.

Liu Qi shouted loudly, and he drew his sword and hacked to death a Hebei soldier who rushed to his horse. Behind him, more than a dozen cavalry figures appeared, all wearing armor.

Fortunately, in addition to the Hebei Army's front army's formation having been completely torn apart, the soldiers and horses on both wings have not surrounded them. At this moment, the door is wide open, exposing numerous weaknesses.

The young general waved his sword on his horse, and behind him, a cavalryman holding a flag followed him.

Liu Qi and Ma Shan pointed forward and shouted: "Drive these Hebei thieves back to the Yellow River to feed the fish. If we win this battle, everyone will be promoted and rich!"

The Hebei Army began to throw out a loose rain of arrows. The imperial officers and soldiers were all unprotected and were immediately shot down.

However, Liu Qi only prepared so much in a hurry, and then he could only fight hand to hand.

"Hey, aren't the Imperial Imperial Army finished? Why is there such a powerful force here!"

But just now the former army sent someone to report that the former army already had a military formation, which was forcibly defeated by the officers and soldiers on the opposite side.

"Don't retreat. If you fight to the death and refuse to retreat, you will be rewarded with ten sticks!"

The next moment, under Liu Qi's loud orders, more than a hundred short spears fell out of their hands and plunged into the front ranks of the Hebei Army, causing a commotion immediately.

These soldiers were trapped in the middle of the battlefield and fell directly into the most brutal area of ​​​​the fighting. Countless lives were lost in an instant.

In his opinion, the cavalry he had carefully accumulated were slightly insufficient in quantity, but in actual confrontation with the enemy, they were enough to compete with the Han cavalry in the north!

There were a total of one hundred and fifty cavalry, all of them armored cavalry. Liu Guangshi dealt with other soldiers and horses casually, but he devoted all his efforts to these one hundred and fifty cavalry.

How can it be? !
This cannot be delayed any longer.

In fact, the front line of the Hebei Army was already in chaos at this time. If a third round of short spears were thrown, many people would be defeated on the spot.

The two or three hundred people who came with him at the beginning were standing next to him. Fortunately, he immediately led these people to stabilize their positions. Both sides were approaching each other quickly. When they were about thirty or forty steps away, the two people in the front row The platoon of spearmen suddenly dispersed, and more than a hundred specially selected men came out, all holding sharpened short spears in their hands.

A large number of defeated soldiers had appeared in the front army, and they were constantly attacking the rear army formation. Liu Guangshi ordered that ten defeated soldiers be killed in public, and then he loudly issued an order: "Anyone who dares to attack the formation will be killed without mercy. Follow my commander's banner." Those who move forward, those who retreat, die!”

Liu Guangshi stood up in shock after hearing the battle report. Although he knew what kind of miscellaneous army he sent to stop the enemy, after all, he had not experienced the test of actual war. In his opinion, this time there were more than 3,000 people. Fighting two thousand people, there is a difference of more than a thousand troops between the two sides, how could they not be able to defeat them?

Immediately, the officers and soldiers threw a second round of short spears, and then stopped throwing.

"Kill! Behead a bandit army and reward five swords!"

"Why are these Hebei soldiers so weak?"

Liu Qi shouted loudly, and when he saw it, he couldn't help but take a breath of cold air, because the armies of both sides were already mixed together, desperately pushing and slashing each other, which meant that he had lost control of the entire battlefield. At this moment, he only had The two to three hundred people around him still obeyed his orders.

"Kill the thieves and make meritorious deeds, and everyone will get rich!"

Liu Qi roared one last time. His Chinese army had begun to face the Hebei army's attack, and a hundred steps away, he even saw a Hebei cavalry charge.

Liu Qi pulled up the reins, and the crowd in front of him began to rush forward. The formation was scattered, but the battlefield had become a complete mess.

The situation between the two sides is not a regular military confrontation, but more like two gangs of bandits and bandits fighting each other. Looking at the entire battlefield, both sides are constantly pushing their soldiers upward, and then the soldiers continue to collapse.

This weird situation is happening all over the battlefield.

No matter how greedy people are for money, when they see the bloody battlefield, they still have the courage to stand still or even rush to fight. After all, they are only a few. If the enemy army only had 3,000 people at the beginning, then Liu Qi would have won almost the entire victory. However, Liu Guangshi's army had no other advantages except that it had more troops. When he joined the battlefield with subsequent troops, Liu Qi's side would not be able to win. The officers and soldiers quickly fell into a total collapse.

Liu Qi did not let Li Gang sit in the central army, but asked him to lead a small group of people to wait outside the battlefield. If the battle was defeated, Li Gang would have to go back and report the news.

There are almost no enemies to kill.

Looking around, Liu Qi saw that the banners of the Hebei Army were all in front of him. He silently tightened his grip on his horse and started the final charge with the cavalry around him.

"Report, the enemy troops have been completely routed!"

"Win, win!"

Facts have proved that having more people is an advantage. At least during the civil war between the Song people, this advantage could easily bring victory to one side.

After hearing this, Liu Guangshi smiled immediately.

But within a moment, he saw his own flags not far away falling down continuously, and then the soldiers gathered in front of him suddenly dispersed to both sides, revealing a road, and a young general covered in blood rushed out with a leaping horse. The crowd rushed toward Liu Guangshi, who was standing under the banner.

"Rebels will die!"

Seeing the shock on the opponent's face, Liu Qi immediately urged the war horse again, but the war horse was exhausted and finally fell to the ground. Liu Qi was caught off guard and rolled to the ground with a muffled groan.

Fortunately, he reacted quickly. He rolled around on the ground and then stood up. He held a spear in his left hand and drew a knife in his right hand, pointing at the Hebei soldiers who had surrounded him.

Liu Guangshi was shocked and angry, and shouted: "Kill him!"

"Report!"

The shouts of the messenger exploded in his ears, and the soldier screamed: "Commander, horses, horse troops, so many horse troops!"

When Liu Guangshi and Liu Qi finally decided the winner, the sunlight on the horizon to the west of the battlefield was almost dimmed by the flood of banners.

The ground began to tremble, and the sound of countless horse hooves rushing was like thunder, forming an inexplicable rhythm that trampled on everyone's hearts.

Hundreds of black-armored cavalry appeared in their sights. Even from such a long distance, no matter how stupid they were, they could tell that this was an absolutely elite cavalry, at least from the perspective of armor and equipment. Such.

In the large banner of the Chinese army, a banner with the word "Yue" was fluttering in the wind. The deputy general rode back to the Chinese army and said: "The imperial officers and troops have been completely defeated."

Immediately, there was a small cheer in the Chinese army, and the generals whispered to each other. After all, from their point of view, they were still from Hebei.

"Brother, with your three thousand cavalry in hand, the new official will not be able to appoint you as a big official. Brothers, the commander-in-chief may be able to become a king!"

A general shouted excitedly.

"Civil unrest."

Yue Fei sighed. If some people still can't see clearly the current situation, how could Yue Fei, who had directly received a large amount of armor and equipment from the Yan people, not be clear about it.

The Yan people just wanted the blood of the Song people to flow cleanly, and then they would reap the benefits.

As for Zhao Gou, he actually knew it, but he had to do this.

Either he invaded Bianjing and forced his father to abdicate; or he was completely defeated, and in the end it was just a choice between poisonous wine or Bai Ling. Anyway, being recalled to Bianjing would not end well.

"Everyone."

Yue Fei opened his mouth, and as soon as he spoke, several generals with excited expressions on their faces immediately shut their mouths.

"What we are fighting now is a war in our country of the Song Dynasty, and those who died are our people in the country of the Song Dynasty. Thousands will die here today, and thousands will die there tomorrow. If the Yan people from the north go south again at this time, we still have soldiers. To deal with them?"

Yue Fei hesitated. Although his family members were in Hebei and were given preferential treatment, they were actually hostages. He should have directly intervened on the battlefield when he arrived and helped Liu Guangshi attack the imperial officers and soldiers under Liu Qi, but he felt that, This war should never have broken out.

If there was a civil uprising or a military rebellion in front of him, Yue Fei would certainly be able to convince himself to suppress it, but now, he himself was counted as a "rebel". In front of him, both his interests and his comrades were all asking him to directly destroy them. This official army.

"I"

Fortunately, at this time, someone reported: "The troops on the opposite side sent people to question them. They claimed that their commander was Liu Guangshi and asked our army to help clean up the battlefield."

"understood."

Yue Fei nodded, took a deep breath, and suppressed his distracting thoughts.

"Join forces with them."

Yue Fei walked in the camp, Liu Guangshi followed him, his attitude was obviously somewhat flattering.

Liu Guangshi has been in the army for a long time and knows clearly that whoever has the strongest troops and horses is the boss now.

Even if you can't get dozens or hundreds of cavalry from Yue Fei, as long as you can get him to help you, it will be great.

Immediately, Liu Guangshi began to order people to hold a banquet. At the same time, he brought dozens of young camp prostitutes from the back camp and asked them to dance and have fun.

Yue Fei was sitting in the handsome tent, watching this scene, becoming more and more upset. Liu Guangshi and several generals beside him kept praising him like a few noisy flies.

He was still thinking about the tragic scene on the battlefield just now, with corpses everywhere. In a daze, it reminded him of the same scene when the Northern Expedition army collapsed.

No. It's different. Those soldiers died fighting to open up new territories, but today's Song people only died for some ridiculous reasons, which can be described as aggrieved.

The curtain was raised, and a young general staggered into the commander's tent under the push of the soldiers. Liu Guangshi sat up slightly. He was deeply impressed by this man. After all, if this man's war horse hadn't failed to bear down at the critical moment, If you use it, your big head will be taken off by the other party.

Thinking of this, he had already decided this man's fate, but he still sneered and asked, "Who are you?"

The young general raised his head, his face covered with blood and dust. He looked around at the people sitting in front of him and said loudly:

"Great Song Dynasty, Liu Qi!"

"Ha" Liu Guangshi sneered, leaned back on the camp prostitute, and said casually: "Since you are defeated, it is of no use, just push him out and kill him."

Liu Qi spat at him and was immediately pushed to the ground by several soldiers, punched and kicked.

"stop!"

Yue Fei couldn't stand it anymore, so he stood up and dismissed the soldiers, saying: "Since he is of no use to Marshal Liu, give it to me."

(End of this chapter)