Chapter 16 The Battle of Jinyang (I)

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The weather became warmer in early summer. Guo Shao and others were worried that the bodies were rotten and plague broke out in the town. They wanted to bury the dead in the back mountain as soon as possible, but the town general Li Desheng made every effort to obstruct it.

He found someone to cut off the heads of the Khitan soldiers and loaded them with the truck, and rushed to Luzhou to ask for merit.

An official from Luzhou came soon and brought six pigs and sheep and two sacks of copper coins to Wuqi Town to reward the army and reward the generals.At this time, Guo Shao finally understood why Khitan soldiers appeared here.

The news first came from the surrendered Liaozhou officials.

After the Battle of Gaoping, the Khitan army retreated, or they did not expect that the Zhou army would immediately take advantage of the victory to attack Jinyang (Taiyuan). A group of people stayed in Liaozhou, southeast of Jinyang, and did not have time to leave.

Its troops were not large, the real Khitan cavalry had only one or two hundred cavalry, and there were also a thousand infantrymen from foreign tribes.

When they learned that the Zhou army was heading north, they could no longer walk... The line from Jinyang to Taihang Mountain in the north was controlled by the Zhou army, and the east of the Taihang Mountains was also the towns in Hebei under the Zhou Dynasty.

The retreat of this Khitan soldier was blocked, and then it became even worse.

At that time, the Zhou emperor ordered four armies to attack the periphery of Jinyang to support the main force in the battle.

Among them, the right wing was Kang Yanzhuo, the defensive commander of Laizhou, and the troops attacked Liaozhou.

The officials in Liaozhou sent people to surrender day and night.

The Khitan soldiers were preparing to break through, but soon received a secret order from the north, strictly ordering them to go south from Liaozhou to raid the Zhou Dynasty's grain road.

There were encirclements on all sides and instead of retreating, it was obvious that this army had become an abandoned son, and the upper class of the Khitan just hoped that they would play a role in the end.

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The Zhou army's logistics supply was indeed a huge problem. It is said that Hedong is close to the left prefectures, including Xi, Ci, Jiang, Ze, Jin, Lu, Xing, Zhao, Zhen, Ding and other countless prefectures and counties, have been asked to immediately recruit people's transportation of grain before the public.

The right servant Li Gu temporarily replaced Fu Yanqing, sentenced Taiyuan to conduct affairs, and used all his skills to adjust the food.

Not long after, there were endless convoys of grain transport vehicles on the road near Luzhou, like a long dragon, with no head in front and no tail in the back.

Guo Shao discussed with the soldiers and decided to follow the army escorted the food and grass to Jinyang north and return to Xiaodi army.

So Guo Shao led the imperial guards to walk north, and except for the three brothers and the civil servant Zuo You, twenty wounded soldiers were recovered.

Originally, there were 40 or 50 injuring soldiers placed in Wuqi Town, but some were disabled, some were seriously injured but some were not healed, and seven or eight were killed in Wuqi Town.

It's another long-distance hike.

Guo Shao came out of Tokyo, and he had walked many ways, but his boots had been broken.

Halfway through the way, Li Gu met the men of Li Gu who were patrolling the food road. When Li Gu heard about Guo Shao's achievements, he praised him and ordered the generals to provide supplies along the way and rewarded more than 20 more horses.

After getting the war horse, Guo Shao and others transformed into cavalry units.

In mid-May, Guo Shao's team had just arrived in Jinyang and was immediately stunned by the scene he saw.

The sky above the standing Jinyang City was filled with smoke, and the sound of killing was shaking the sky. There were countless large groups of troops surrounding them and attacking from all sides.

I saw people crawling everywhere on the high city wall. Looking at this formation, the Zhou army was using the most conventional siege tactic: Ant Support.

A large number of ants rush up to attack, and the main tool is the cloud ladder.

Countless rockets were flying in the air, and the whole city was like a fireworks bombardment, and the rockets were like splashing dense Mars.

Fires flashed above and below the city, and black smoke rose everywhere.

The ladder was full of people, and rolling wood and stones fell one after another, and people kept falling from the air. What they couldn't bear to look at was that the city was pouring oil from time to time and was filled with fire. The soldiers who were burning on their bodies rolled around under the city walls, and the armor that caught fire would not be taken off for a while.

A group of people pushed cowhides to approach the city gate. There were stone caves on both sides of the city gate, which were specially poured oil. After a while, the car rushed into a pile of firewood.

The Zhou army went on one after another, and there were constant casualties.

The battlefield looks extremely tragic.

...Guo Shao and others were stunned, until they saw a group of civilians carrying wounded soldiers screaming and moaning towards them, they quickly led the horse away to make way.

With thousands of troops fighting like this, where can I find Zhang Yongde?

When the group of civilians passed, they soon saw a large group of Zhou cavalry marching towards this side. There was a word "天" on the current flag, but I don't know which army it was.

This cavalry ignored Guo Shao and others at first because they were also dressed in Zhou's armor and were obviously friendly.But some people still find it strange, why are there more than 20 people standing here to watch the show?

A general in front left the road, pulled his horse on the side of the road, and pointed at Guo Shao with a horse whip: Whose army are you?

Guo Shao replied: The Xiaodi Army infantry commanded the people under Wang Degong.

The infantry squad has so many war horses?The general asked.

Guo Shao hurriedly said: These horses were rewarded by Mr. Li, the right servant of the Taiyuan Prefecture.We came from Luzhou and met Li Pushe on the way.Li Pushe heard about the deeds of us and others beheading Zhang Yuanhui and defeating more than a hundred Khitan cavalrymen. He commended the last general and presented them with war horses...

Your name is Guo Shao?The general asked hurriedly.

It is the last general.

At this moment, the general in front of the horse soldiers turned around and took a look, and immediately turned his war horse and walked towards him.

The general's face was thick, his skin was yellow and rough, and he was very burly; the general was also looking at Guo Shao up and down.

The general asked: Are you really Guo Shao?

Guo Shao calmly replied: We all have military status; in addition, there is a general named Zhao Kuangyin among the imperial guards who met the last general in Gaoping and commended him in person.The last general dare not deceive.

Someone whispered: Zhao Kuangyin, the Duke of the Sanyuandu, does this person really exist.

Ha ha!The general suddenly laughed, "You would have saved money if you said it was Guo Shao!"

Have you ever seen the last general?

The general said: I have never seen it, I have heard of it.If you shoot Zhang Yuanhui with one arrow, you will become famous by stepping on his body.He looked at Guo Shao carefully and said, "The small army infantry has been completely defeated in Gaoping, who are you looking for?"I think this is how you can help King Wei first. After the fight, I will take you to the official family and ask the official family to give you another official... Ha!By the way, I will be the envoy of Xuanhui South Court and the chief supervisor of the former army of Hedong Zhanying.

I have long admired the general's name!Guo Shao hurriedly bowed.

In my heart, he had been in the army of the Five Dynasties for several years, but he still did not fully understand the various official positions above, and was only familiar with the positions of generals and schools at the bottom.

However, when Xiang Xun's official title is so domineering, he must have a good position.

Xiang Xun said: Are you willing to go with me?King Fu Yanqing of Wei blocked the Liao army in Xinzhou, and his troops were not strong enough to send people to seek help. I was ordered by the officials to reinforce Xinkou.

Guo Shao readily clasped his fists and said: I am willing to go there.

When that was the case, he had no time to ask for opinions from his brothers and subordinates, so he agreed first.

Everyone should also understand this decision: I have come here, I must fight... Is there any more tragic job than climbing the wall in Jinyang City over there?

Look at the wounded soldiers who were carried back were all roasted with tinea oil.

So everyone joined Xiang Xun's army with Guo Shao.