Song Dynasty

Chapter 94

At this moment, Ma's family crossed to the ferry and stayed behind in the Sizhong Army's camp, under Chen Cui's department.

The soldiers of the Sizhou battalion and the Liao people at the upper ferry crossed the Chinese army that was staying behind Si Xingyuan, and the blood was soaring, but the fighting over there was covered by the noise of the sky, so no one would know about it.

The former army bombed the camp, and when they heard the commotion over there, more than [-] Chinese soldiers inevitably followed the camp.

After all, the two camps are not far apart, so they will naturally be affected.

In the chaos, the soldiers who were sleeping in the tent rushed out naked and armed with weapons, hacking and killing each other.

In a blink of an eye, there were screams everywhere in the camp, and fire broke out in the sky.

No matter how the officers tried to maintain it, it was of no use. Those mid- and lower-level officers who hurried out to restrain the troops never came back. God knows whether they were killed by the rebels or threatened by the crowd.

Standing on the watchtower at the Yuanmen, Chen Kui, the envoy of the Central Army Commanding the Imperial Battalion, the Sixth Army Commander, and the Huainan Appealing Envoy, had a sweet throat, and spat out a mouthful of hot blood with a "wow".

It's over, the Chinese army is over.

After spitting out this mouthful of blood, Chen Que's face was like gold paper, and when his body turned sideways, he was about to collapse on the ground.

Next to him, several generals of the Chinese army shouted at the same time and stretched out their hands to support him: "Commander."

"Military envoy."

"Father."

Anything to shout.

His son Chen Zhongmin hugged his father and cried: "Father, this is not the first time I have met the army Yingxiao, why are you doing this?"

Yes, my father was originally a veteran of the Western Army, and he used to serve in the Yanyan Army.After Jingkang entered the defense of Gyeonggi, he moved thousands of miles away, and the elite Western Army in the army also lost their spirit in this failure after failure, and the number of staff was greatly reduced.After fleeing from Kaifeng to Jiankang, the morale of the troops has been exhausted, and there will be two camp screams like this from time to time.

However, when a large army is stationed, they cannot all gather together, and need to be dispersed into several parts of thousands of people.The advantage of this is that it is convenient to replenish supplies on the spot, and it can prevent plagues in the army when there are too many people.

Only in time of war, the army is assembled in one place.

If a large group of troops bombed the camp, they would bomb the camp, and it didn't matter.

"Father, don't be sad. When the soldiers calm down at dawn, order will naturally be restored."

"Yes, yes, the major general is right." All the generals comforted each other.

Chen Sui's eyes were full of tears. He pointed to the camp that was burnt by the wind and murmured: "It's over, it's over, the supplies, weapons, food and fodder have been burned, so what can we do if we gather all the routs tomorrow? If Jurchen crosses the river to attack, how can we resist?"

Hearing this, everyone felt sad.

The backbone of the left-behind division army is the Western Army, which uses the formation of the Western Army of the Great Song Dynasty, and uses the same tactics.

When the Song Dynasty was founded, because the horse farms in the sixteen prefectures of Yanyun were occupied by the Khitans, there was always a shortage of horses in the army.When Tong Guanfa had all the soldiers available for the whole country to attack Youyan in the north, the light cavalry of the Shengjie Army and the heavy armored cavalry of the White Pillar Army in Wang Jin's hands could not exceed [-] people.

Since the establishment of the army, the Western Army has fought fiercely with the Dangxiang people in Hengshan for a hundred years. After suffering enough losses from having no horses, they also practiced a whole set of tactics of defeating cavalry with steps.It's just that in wartime, the god-armed bow and archers shoot the ground, and the infantry in infantry armor advances slowly.

Relying on this method, the Western Army also won many victories on the battlefield.It's just that the enemy could retreat calmly on horseback after being defeated by the infantry, but the Song army was unable to pursue and expand the results of the battle.

It is precisely because the Song Army fought in battle and then fought back, relying on advanced weapons and equipment, which consumes a lot of materials.Take the Northern Expedition as an example. Hundreds of thousands of troops and civilians marched around, people ate horses and chewed horses, and every day was an astronomical sum. The logistics transportation line stretched from Yanjing City to the Yellow River.

In wartime, one hundred thousand sets of armor, hundreds of millions of arrows, clothes and quilts for soldiers, monthly military pay, money for marching out, rewards for boosting morale during wartime, pensions for soldiers killed in battle after war, and resettlement for wounded soldiers. It is asking for money.

Front-line fighters in the army often mock themselves as "smart men on the battlefield", meaning that their lives are worth only a penny.In fact, when Song Dynasty sent soldiers to fight, the rewards were not unreasonable.The more tragic the war, the more so.

The soldiers went to battle with their heads up, because they wanted to see real money.Without money, nothing can be done at all.

In this way, during the Northern Expedition, the country exhausted the accumulation of the past 20 years, and even found out the old money that had rotted and condensed into a single piece of money that had been in Shenzong's inventory, and the treasury was so empty that it could run.

When Kang Wang succeeded to the throne, the reason why the officials were defeated again and again and directly transferred to the south of the Yangtze River was because the Jurchen was too fierce, but also had a lot to do with the country's poverty.

Back then, when Zong Ze Zong Rulin was in Kaifeng, his main job was to find money.

This time, the left-behind division withdrew to Jiankang. Along the way, because the troops were too poor, more than half of the troops scattered.

After crossing the river, relying on the wealth of the provinces in the south of the Yangtze River and Jiangning, the army was replenished and morale was restored.

But in today's chaos, a fire broke out in the camp, and it is unknown how many supplies were burned.

Even if the quiet soldiers were collected early tomorrow morning, so what?

Tens of thousands of troops stationed together are simply money-eating monsters, and the money spent every day is like running water.Confronting Jurchen across the river, I don't know how long this battle will last, Jiankang Mansion is already unable to afford it.

Everyone is a person with veterans, how can they not understand this truth.

For a moment, the entire observatory fell into silence.

After a long time, Chen Zhongmin wiped his eyes: "Daddy, the situation is out of control, we can only wait for the soldiers to calm down slowly. Don't worry too much, old man. Most of my troops are from Bianliang, and there is nowhere to go after crossing the river." , I will come back at dawn. As for the lost supplies, let Du Xiang think of a way to see if he can squeeze some more out of the place."

"That's right, that's right, Du Xiang is responsible for everything, he will think of a way." Everyone comforted Chen Que in a hurry.

Du Chong was a brutal and incompetent man, and everyone was filled with resentment when the battle ended like this.However, this person has one advantage, that is, he is domineering, especially after he became the right minister, in order to enrich the military resources, he also sucked the bones of the local government, and tried his best to expropriate and extort.

With him here and the affluent Jiangnan area, everyone will not go hungry.

Hearing this, Chen Kui smiled wryly: "I am from the old Yanyan Army. Last time Du Xiang beheaded General Ma Gao, I already made him dissatisfied because of my words of pleading. How has the left-behind division treated me in the past month? Wait, everyone is clear. We say it is the Chinese army, but Du Xiang has always set up the Xingyuan at Qi Fang's place and never comes to us."

"I'm not sad because of the roar of our barracks, and I don't care about the loss of supplies. The old man is just sad. How did our Western Army become like this?" At this point, tears flickered in Chen Cui's eyes: "In the past, the old and the small When Xianggong was there, the army did not bomb the battalion. Let’s take Liu Yanqing and Wang Ting as examples. Once the army bombed the battalion, they only need to send people to suppress it, and it will be suppressed in a short time. But now it is midnight , The army still can’t be restrained. How did my Great Song Dynasty’s Western Army become like this? Is it because one failure after another has made everyone disheartened? If so, what will happen to our Great Song Dynasty in the future?”

Everyone lowered their heads.

Chen Zhongmin has served in the army with his father since he was a child. Looking back now, how mighty and majestic the Western Army was at that time. Now, where are those passionate men?
Ying Xiao was out of control, and everyone was helpless.A breath of depression was held in his chest, as if he was about to explode.

A puff of smoke hit, and there was a violent coughing sound from the observation deck.Chen Zhongmin couldn't bear it anymore, and hurriedly poked his head to the north, trying to breathe in the cold wind from the river.

Earlier, he led his men to run in the camp for half a day to maintain military discipline, and he was already so tired that his whole body was limp, and his physical strength was on the verge of exhaustion.

In the distance, the river water was reflected red by the flames, undulating slightly, like Zhu Sixia.The snow is still falling, and half an hour later, the sky will be dimly opened.The sky in the southeast is not like that of Shaanxi, it dawns early, I hope the chaotic soldiers can calm down by then.

Suddenly, Chen Zhongmin saw a bit of black slowly moving in the red waves.

At first, Chen Zhongmin thought it was a hallucination caused by being too tired.He rubbed his eyes subconsciously, and when he looked again, he saw that the entire eyelids had been occupied by warships.

"This is……"

He grabbed the railing of the watchtower fiercely and stretched out with all his strength.

There were almost twenty large ships, and in the light of the fire, the ships were crowded with dark figures, among which were a large number of war horses.The people on board were all wearing armor, and the weapons in their hands almost lit up the sky.

Cavalry, many cavalry came across the river.

Jurchen, Jurchen elite cavalry!
Not only him, everyone on the watchtower found the enemy, and in an instant, everyone was ashamed.Not to mention that the troops are now in complete disarray and cannot organize effective resistance at all.Even in peacetime, when troops fight in formations, how can the low morale and loose military discipline of the Chinese army withstand the onslaught of the golden cavalry?
Lost, completely lost.Today, not only is the army left behind in the division finished, but I am afraid that Jiankang will not be able to defend it.

No one spoke, as if they were stunned by the sudden scene.

It's getting closer, it's getting closer, the big ship of the Jin Army saw the burning camp, and there was no need to hide. At the same time, it shouted and paddled the oars quickly.

It has been a long time since Majiadu got to the ferry, and the sediment at the ferry has been silted up for many years, forming a large shoal.

There was a series of "boom boom", and the ships ran aground one after another.Under the action of huge inertia, the Jurchens standing on the bow of the boat fell into the water one after another, standing in the waist-deep water and screaming.

There was loud unbridled laughter on board.

Then, with a few bangs, the diving board was directly thrown into the water. With a long hiss, the Jurchens got on their horses and rushed into the water just like that, brandishing heavy weapons such as flails, big sticks, axes, and hammers, like a raging wave facing the shore. The Chinese army battalion rushed forward.

It is impossible to count how many of them there are, and the blackness piled up, blocking the firelight projected onto the river.

It was dark all around.

At the beginning, the Jurchens did not have any formations. They formed formations while running, and gradually formed a four-column parallel formation, moving like a wall.

The river roared and surged.

The sound of horseshoes sounded, and the whole ground was slightly heaved by the shock. The watchtower couldn't help shaking, and it was already unstable.

Finally, someone yelled sadly: "Enemy attack, enemy attack!"

"Jurchen Tartars!"

Gongs and drums resounded, and scattered arrows rained down on the Jurchen cavalry.

A cavalry fell to the ground, and was trampled by angry horseshoes, making a crisp fracture sound.Strange to say, the cavalryman who was hit by the arrow refused to snort until he died, which shows the ferocity of the Jurchens.

(End of this chapter)