Guide to traveling through the Northern Song Dynasty

Yue Fei's commonly used combat weapons include five types of weapons: bow, spear, spear, mace, and knife.

According to historical records, Yue Fei used to use the Zhangba Iron Spear, which is actually a kind of horse spear. It can also be called Zhangba Snake Spear in a dramatic way. It is very similar to the four-meter long spear of Hezha Mengan - the names of spear, spear and spear have long been Mix it up.

This was a camp hijacking mission, and the weather was foggy, so it was not suitable to use a four-meter spear. Yue Fei only brought a bow, spear, and knife.

This is a spear that is neither long nor short and can be held in one hand, leaving the other hand free to hold the bow.

In the heavy fog, visibility was really low.

The two hundred Khitan cavalry who went out to conduct reconnaissance, because they could not figure out how many Ming troops had arrived and did not dare to let the friendly troops open the village gate without authorization, shot an arrow deep into the fog and then galloped away around the wall of the village. .

Faintly seeing the wooden fence of the camp, Yue Fei ran along the wooden fence on horseback. When he found the gate of the camp, he jumped off his horse and shot an arrow at a figure inside.

The cavalry under his command also followed suit.

The Khitan soldiers guarding the gate of the village, as well as the archers from the nearby arrow tower (actually a small earth platform), also fired arrows at them based on their feelings.

The fog was so thick that neither the enemy nor we could see clearly.

All the soldiers dismounted and stabbed at the gate of the stronghold with spears. Yue Fei identified the enemy's position based on their screams and kept drawing his bow to shoot armor-piercing arrows. One after another, figures fell down after being struck by the arrows.

"Bang bang bang!"

Under the cover of his teammates, general Xu Qing led his troops to use an ax to split the pivot of the village gate. Then several people worked together to hit it, and the gate with the broken pivot fell down.

Yue Fei got on his horse, led the troops in, and continued to shoot arrows at the moving figures in the fog.

Wang Gui is responsible for leading the troops to attack the nearby enemy troops. The Khitan troops here are no longer organized and are mostly running in the direction of the trumpet blowing assembly.

"kill!"

The crowd continued to shout, and the shouts of killing resounded through the fog, and the scattered enemy troops did not dare to stop them.

If they saw something flammable on the way, they would throw an oil can and ignite it with a fire stick. Then he took out the torch, lit the torch he brought, and then continued to mount his horse and rush forward.

Not long after entering the camp, hundreds of cavalrymen under Yue Fei's command had dispersed into several groups. They each found their targets and blew their trumpets to communicate.

Xu Qing was the first to discover the siege equipment, but as soon as he threw an oil can, he heard many footsteps approaching, followed by a hail of arrows.

"Blow the trumpet, blow the trumpet, the main force of the Jin soldiers and the siege equipment are here!" Xu Qing shouted while shooting arrows, and led his troops to retreat temporarily.

Soon, Yue Fei and Wang Gui came to join them.

Yue Fei asked about the situation and immediately made a decision: "It's so thick that I can't see anything, and I don't know how many enemy troops there are. Avoid this place and rush in!"

Hundreds of horsemen soon left and spread out to draw fire.

The mist wetted the camp tent, and it was difficult to ignite it without kerosene, but they didn't have much kerosene left, and it had been used to ignite many facilities along the way.

"kill!"

The cry of killing came from the other direction, but it was Li Shifu who also led troops to attack.

Li Shifu had great luck. He followed the wooden fence around to the southwest gate of the village. As soon as they got close, they encountered a large number of Han soldiers from Hebei who rushed out. They did not go out to fight, but fled to Zhaozhou to join the Ming Dynasty.

"I am General Li Shifu of the Ming Dynasty. Get out of my way quickly!"

Li Shifu didn't know that these Han troops wanted to surrender to the Ming Dynasty, so he rushed over and picked one of them away with a gun, scaring the Han troops into fleeing.

Suddenly a large group of troops came over. Li Shifu was about to fight when he heard someone shouting: "I am Meng Bangjie, the puppet Han general of the Han Dynasty. I am leading the army to return to justice. General, follow me!"

In this chaotic situation, Li Shifu did not doubt that he was there, and said without even seeing anyone clearly: "Good men, let's kill the enemy together!"

Meng Bangjie shouted: "Where the siege equipment is, the gold thieves have gathered a heavy army. Don't hit them again. But go straight north, intercept the craftsmen who are fleeing there, and drive them to Zhaozhou to join the Ming Dynasty."

"How many troops do you have?" Li Shifu asked.

Meng Bangjie said: "I originally had a thousand Han troops under my command to assist the Khitan soldiers in stationing here. When the general came to kill him, most of his soldiers fled, leaving only these dozens of confidants. I originally planned to defect before the battle..."

"Don't say too much and quickly lead the way!" Li Shifu urged.

Historically, Meng Bangjie was a civil servant of the Puppet Qi Dynasty. When he returned to Yue Fei, he had already become the prefect of Henan. (During the Northern Expedition, Yue Fei handed over half of Henan to Meng Bangjie. He was by no means a general in the ordinary sense.)

This man was a versatile man in both civil and military affairs and was a wealthy man from Hebei province. He was appointed as a general by the puppet court and ordered to recruit local soldiers to fight with the Jin people.

Meng Bangjie was already thinking about defecting before he came to the front line. This time he seized the opportunity to defect.

Under the leadership of Meng Bangjie, Li Shifu quickly arrived at the north of the camp, drove the craftsmen and civilians to the west, and asked all the soldiers to shout: "Go to Zhaozhou quickly and surrender to receive the reward! Go to Zhaozhou quickly and surrender to receive the reward..." …”

If you want to continue going north, kill them on sight.

After a chase on horseback, a large number of craftsmen and civilians changed direction and fled westward to the bank of Mishui River. They followed the river bank to Zhaozhou City and defected to the Ming Dynasty.

"Rumble..."

The sound of horse hoofbeats was heard from further north, and Meng Bangjie exclaimed: "It's the Jin people's cavalry coming!"

"Blow the trumpet and withdraw!"

Li Shifu immediately ordered. Although the siege equipment was not destroyed this time, many Han troops, civilians and craftsmen in Hebei were killed and dispersed.

On the way to withdraw, Li Shifu heard the sound of fighting in the southeast, and said to Meng Bangjie: "Your soldiers have no horses, so rush to Zhaozhou. I will lead the troops to assist General Yue!"

"General, take care!"

Meng Bangjie bowed his hands in greeting, and then shouted: "My sons, come with me to join the heaven, and don't be a dog to that golden man again!"

"Vote to heaven!"

"Not a dog!"

The dozens of men who had been following Meng Bangjie immediately roared with excitement, completely different from their previous state of lying flat.

They ran all the way south, and when they encountered scattered Han people along the way, they shouted and persuaded them to join the army. By the time they fled outside Zhaozhou City, hundreds of people had gathered around Meng Bangjie.

Xiao Zhonggong originally gathered his troops in the heavy fog to defend the siege equipment with all his strength.

Unexpectedly, neither Yue Fei nor Li Shifu came to kill him. Xiao Zhonggong did not want to wait and took the initiative to lead his troops towards the nearest Yue Fei troops. He wanted to entangle Yue Fei and wait for reinforcements to arrive before surrounding him and annihilating him.

Being in the camp, it was also foggy, making it difficult for the Khitan soldiers and Xiren soldiers to form a large formation. Xiao Zhonggong divided his elite troops into four teams and rushed to the passages in different directions to intercept Yue Fei.

Yue Fei also faintly heard the sound of horse hooves in the north, and discovered that Xiao Zhonggong had sent troops to intercept them. He immediately ignored them and blew the trumpet to gather troops while rushing south to kill.

Several arrows were fired in the mist, and Yue Fei was also hit by two arrows. Holding a bow in his left hand and a spear in his right hand, he rode into the enemy army.

Under the continuous thrusts and sweeps, the momentum was like that of a tiger descending the mountain, and the golden soldiers who were attacking Yue Fei retreated one after another.

The Jin soldiers further behind couldn't see clearly what was going on in the heavy fog. They could only feel that Yue Fei's troops were coming with overwhelming force, so they subconsciously retreated to both sides.

Wang Gui and Xu Qing followed Yue Fei, shooting arrows continuously to help him kill the nearby enemies.

Hundreds of cavalrymen were like sharp arrows, and Yue Fei, Wang Gui, and Xu Qing were the arrowheads, and all the enemies they encountered were pierced by them.

"Formation, formation!"

"Raise your guns and form a formation!"

"Block this place so they can't escape!"

Further ahead, Xiao Zhonggong led his soldiers and shouted.

Yue Fei hung up his spear and took out three arrows, pointed them at the place where the sound came from, and shot fiercely into the fog, while the horse under his crotch kept running forward.

An arrow shot out, and another, and another.

The first arrow hit Xiao Zhonggong's chest, but it didn't penetrate deep into his flesh because he was wearing armor. The second and third arrows were avoided because Xiao Zhonggong had already dismounted in embarrassment.

"General Yue, I'm here to help you!"

From the other direction, Li Shifu led troops.

It is said that before Xin Qiji returned to the Song Dynasty, he led 30 people into an enemy camp of 50,000 people, and even chopped off the heads of the traitors and escaped calmly.

Li Shifu also made similar moves. He was transferred to assist in the attack on Song Dynasty. He used a strategy to get close to Marshal Sali Ho of the Jin Kingdom and directly captured Sali Ho in the midst of thousands of troops. Countless Jin soldiers chased him wildly. Li Shifu felt that it was difficult to escape, so he threw Salihe off the cliff.

Jin Bing hurriedly went down the mountain to rescue people, and Li Shifu successfully escaped.

Of course, the cost of doing so was also high, and Li Shifu's family was killed by the Jin soldiers.

At this moment, Li Shifu was wielding two swords. This style of riding and fighting with two swords was rare.

"History of the Song Dynasty" says that when he rebelled against Xia and defected to the Song Dynasty, tens of thousands of soldiers from Xixia came to stop him. Li Shifu wielded his two swords like this and led his 800 old troops to fight against the Iron Kites. His performance was probably a bit boastful - he killed and trampled tens of thousands of Xixia soldiers and captured 40,000 horses.

Li Shifu rushed into the enemy army with two swords in hand. The Khitan soldiers were originally intercepting Yue Fei, but when they heard the sound of horse hooves, they hurriedly turned around to resist.

Li Shifu took the lead, slashing and slashing from left to right.

Although his old troops just received war horses today, most of them can ride horses. Although his riding skills are only average, it is enough to deal with the panicked infantry.

Xiao Zhonggong stood up in shock and was about to command the troops when he was suddenly attacked by Li Shifu from the side. He suddenly didn't know which side to deal with.

He hurriedly gave orders to his generals. Li Shifu's side was about to be killed, and the Khitan soldiers were caught off guard.

Taking advantage of the enemy's panic, Yue Fei took the opportunity to lead his troops in.

Xiao Zhonggong raised his gun to meet him, and his own soldiers also rushed forward to kill him.

With the assistance of Wang Gui and Xu Qing, Yue Fei quickly broke through the enemy troops in front and was finally able to clearly see Xiao Zhonggong's outline in the heavy fog.

The two were on horseback, facing each other. Yue Fei used his spear to deflect the enemy's spear. When he crossed the horse, he stabbed out diagonally, and suddenly stabbed Xiao Zhonggong in the throat.

While galloping, in the mist, the tip of the spear really hit the throat.

Xiao Zhonggong was shrouded in fear, clutching his throat when he fell, blood gurgling from his fingers.

"The enemy general is dead, kill him!"

Yue Fei led his troops through the formation, but Xiao Zhonggong's soldiers were frightened and moved away.

Li Shifu also came from the side to join them. When he learned that the enemy general was dead, he smiled and praised: "General Yue is good at martial arts!"

Yue Fei said: "Thank you Brother Li for your help."

When a large group of Jin cavalry came after them, Yue Fei and Li Shifu had already rushed back to the city.

When they entered the city to count the number of people, Li Shifu lost more than 60 people and Yue Fei lost more than 20 people.

Not all of them were necessarily killed in action, they might have been lost in the heavy fog.

It was almost noon when the fog completely dissipated.

Wanyan Zongwang looked at Xiao Zhonggong's body and then at Zhaozhou City in the distance. He was a little confused about where the main force of the Ming army was.

Are all the Ming armies so fierce?

Why was the Song army defeated in one attack?

They are both Han Chinese, so the difference is huge.