Prince of Song Dynasty

Chapter 1104

Four of the ten soldiers from the special brigade brought by Hungry Wolf died, and now including him and six others, there are currently 3000 people in the cottage who have undergone basic training by them, and the other nearly 2 people belong to these [-] soldiers family.Unlike Violent Bear who cooperates with Jianghu gangs, Hungry Wolf brings ten special brigade fighters brought by him, gathers tens of thousands of refugees, flees and trains at the same time, tempers and grows through fighting again and again, the process is very dangerous and hard.If it weren't for the secret information provided by the Ministry of Security, he would have been encircled and suppressed by the Song army several times and died in battle.

The Qinling Mountains range is extremely wide, and there are many villages living in it, some of which have little contact with the outside world, and have even lived a life like a paradise.Most of these villages were in troubled times in history. In order to avoid military disasters and enemies, the whole family, the whole clan or the whole village migrated to the mountains as a whole, settled down, and multiplied from generation to generation, and finally formed natural villages here.

The valley selected by the Ministry of Security for Hungry Wolf is a small village, but it has moved out of the mountain at some point. From the perspective of terrain, it is far more hidden than other villages. If you go to the end of the valley, you will find ten villages. Several springs, large and small, flowed out from the crevices of the rocks, converging into a large waterfall, falling into the mountain stream, and finally converging into a small river in the valley.

Dozens of strong thatched huts stand beside the creek.The valley is full of busy people building houses.The six soldiers of the special brigade who are still alive each have 500 people under their command. According to Ye Chen, as long as these six people can persist until they survive and the number of troops will not decrease, they are already considered company commanders.In addition, because it is relatively close to Xiangfu Kingdom, some supplies, food, armor, and craftsmen have all been sent to the mountains and have begun to play a role.

There are more than 3000 households in the valley now driven by these craftsmen. In just half a month, on the basis of the original small village, a valley of soldiers and villages has begun to take shape.

The hungry wolf is going to build a wooden bridge over the small river.In this way, tens of thousands of people live on the east side of the small river, and the wide land on the west side of the small river can be transformed into fertile fields. Weeds and shrubs on the south side of the small river are set on fire every night and extinguished before dawn.

After ten days of burning, a thick layer of ashes has accumulated on the land south of the small river. As long as these ashes are buried in the soil, after the new year, when the spring begins, the living land there will become mature and grow. Here's the first crop of crops.Among the craftsmen sent by Xiangfu, two are responsible for the construction of water conservancy, including pedal waterwheels and wind-powered waterwheels. When the time comes, the water in the small river will be brought up, and these fields will be paddy fields.

According to the imperial court's plan, from the date of sending out troops, if there are no accidents, it will take two to three years at the earliest, and five to eight years at the slowest to unify the world.For such a long time, except for the first year, the domestic imperial court will arrange some food and grass support, but later it needs to be self-reliant and have enough food and clothing.

"Boss, the people from the Ministry of Security are here again." A special soldier led a man dressed as a businessman up the mountain and said to the hungry wolf.

The official from the Ministry of Security who came was clearly of high grade, Hungry Wolf took the initiative to salute him, the other party nodded politely, and said: "In a month at most, the Song Kingdom will send someone to recruit security, His Majesty's will is to let you and After the Song Dynasty bargained and strived for the greatest benefits, they chose to recruit security under the condition of guaranteeing the military power in their hands, and then in the Song Dynasty system, they will expand their strength openly and wait for great use."

Hungry Wolf said: "I understand how to do it."

At about the same time, in Sichuan and Sichuan, in the Central Plains, on Hebei West Road, and in a certain place on Hedong Road that was selected as a base area behind the enemy, things similar to the bases established by Hungry Wolves and Violent Bears took place. When it comes to Ye Chen, either the same or a different will.

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In Xiangfu Kingdom, it is destined for three years, late autumn.

When the north wind began to blow and the coldness gradually pervaded, it was just over twenty years after the founding of the People's Republic of China. After the Great Song Dynasty, which had reached its peak, lost the south of the Yangtze River, the half of the territory north of the Yellow River was first plundered by bandits, and then followed by the Khitans. The southward movement of iron cavalry, huge chaos is brewing.To the north of the Yellow River, although most of the prefectures and counties have not been trampled by Khitan cavalry, the basic order has begun to show signs of collapse.

The [-] troops on the west road led by Shi Fat, the privy envoy of the Liao Kingdom, destroyed all the way, broke through the stronghold and plundered the land, and approached the Zhending Mansion, the main resident of the northern camp of the Song Dynasty.

Considering that the imperial treasury was exhausted and food and grass could not be delivered in a short period of time, Zhao Zan was forced to change his strategy of defending the city and gathered an army of [-] to take the initiative to attack and fight the Liao army in the wilderness.In this battle, the strength of the troops is equal, and both sides are elite.

From the beginning of the battle, it was extremely fierce, and the fighting continued from morning to afternoon, and it was not over yet.

The sky was already dark, but the flames continued to burn, blood lines spread, and the entire wilderness ground was dyed crimson red, and arrows with flames kept slashing across the sky.In the dark sky, the corpses stretched out. A soldier with a weapon stood up unsteadily from the pool of blood. Looking around, the cavalry of the Liao Kingdom was like another torrent parallel to the Yangtze River, roaring and killing. However, behind him, the sound had already spread, and Song Guorulin's spear array came from behind him to meet the cavalry.

If someone can stand at a high altitude and look down, they will find that [-] miles northwest of Zhending Mansion, there are countless dog-tooth fights, the flames burn the sparse woods and dry weeds, howling in the wind, holding torches, The team of mobilized soldiers spread across the low mountains like a long dragon, giving people an indescribable deterrent force, and the huge banner was still waving in the wind in the dark.

Shi Fat is a famous general of the Liao Kingdom, from the official to the privy envoy, although he was defeated by Ye Chen in the Xiangfu Kingdom and the then Nanyuan King two years ago, and returned to the Liao Kingdom after a narrow escape.However, Ye Chen's fierce reputation did not affect Shi Fat's reputation in the Liao Kingdom. On the contrary, in the past two years, with the strong support of Empress Dowager Xiao, the Liao Kingdom has rebelled dozens of times, large and small, all caused by Shi Fatty. Even though he was not a member of the Xiao clan, he dispatched troops to settle down, but he had faintly overwhelmed the kings of the South Court and the North Court, and became the No. 1 in the Liao Army.

Although Zhao Zan is also a famous general in the Song Dynasty, he is still inferior to Li Jixun, Cao Bin, and Dang Jin, and his reputation mainly comes from the battle to conquer the Southern Han and Southern Tang. Little-known characters.But Shi Fat didn't expect that such a Song general who had heard a little about him would kill him evenly.

Noisy voices surrounded the surroundings. On the mountain, Zhao Zan was wearing a cloak and riding his horse, staring intently at the situation of the entire battlefield. Occasionally, he would issue an order to send out a reserve team, or to move the army formation. Respond to changes on the battlefield.

In this battle, the number of troops on both sides was equal, and the two sides added up to nearly 20 people.

In later modern times, 2000 people can fill an entire playground, and the number of people has increased by fifty times, and the mountains and wilderness are densely packed with people.See clearly the form of the entire battlefield in the chaos, identify the affiliation of each army, even predict the evolution of the battlefield beyond the field of vision, and so on!These are the basic qualities of a real star.

Although Zhao Zan's qualifications in the Song Dynasty are inferior to Li Jixun, Cao Bin, and Dangjin, anyone who participated in the battles when the Song Dynasty took back the Southern Han four years ago and attacked the Southern Tang three years ago will know Zhao Zan's identity. Ability, he is a well-deserved star.Shi Fatty only knew about Cao Bin and Li Jixun, and although he had heard about Zhao Zan's deeds, he didn't take it seriously at first.However, as soon as the battle started today, Shi Fat realized how powerful and difficult Zhao Zan is.

From the beginning of the battle at noon of this day, Zhao Zan had mobilized the strength that his army could exert to the extreme. When the front lines of the two sides spread out, there was a front line that was several miles long. During the battle, the battle continued all the way. At this time, the distance between the two sides was more than 2 miles, and nearly [-] people left their blood and lives on the wilderness of Hebei. So far, the outcome is hard to see. clear.

Zhao Zan's whole body trembled slightly under the expression that others could not detect, and the solemnity and tension in his heart far exceeded what he showed on the surface.He knew very well that although the Great Song had no shortage of troops, or even elite soldiers, the morale of the troops was at its lowest since the founding of the country, not to mention that the imperial court could not provide enough food for the troops to fight.Therefore, from the very beginning, he knew what the final victory or defeat of the war he was commanding in front of him meant. To some extent, if this war was won, the morale of the national army would be united.And if it is defeated, the morale of the army, which is not high at all, will collapse immediately.As far as the army is concerned, no matter how powerful a person is in the past, or how good a general is at fighting, if the army's morale has been shaken and there is no morale, there is no way to fight this battle.

Of course, Zhao Zan knew that the impact on the morale of the army was related to the rogue bandits that had spread throughout the north in the past few months, and more deeply, it was related to the imperial court's treatment of the victims in the Northwest Three Routes.The imperial court never thought that almost all the family members and relatives of soldiers were farmers. When the family members and relatives of soldiers with the same status as themselves were hit by disasters, the imperial court and the government not only refused to treat them, but also drove them to the enemy country in a chilling manner. There have been irreparable cracks in the military spirit.

The reason why the [-] elite soldiers of the Northern Camp under the command of Zhao Zan were able to maintain their morale was mainly due to Zhao Zan’s efforts to maintain the morale, but it was also because most of the soldiers in the Northern Camp lived in two roads in Hebei Province. The reason is that it has little impact.

(End of this chapter)