Ren Zhong hated the Liao people.

He was born in the frontier army, and his family was killed by the Liao people. He joined the frontier army alone. As a young man, he was cared for and loved by the captain at that time, and he regarded this captain as his only one.

Relatives.

But this relative died in the hands of the Liao people in a battle, leaving behind orphans and widows.

Ren Zhong took care of the orphan and widowed mother for three years. After three years of mourning, he married this woman.

But what happened next was far beyond his imagination.

First, the Guangxin Army they were in was defeated, the old general died, and those with low positions were dispersed and assigned to other armies.

It was for this reason that he came under An Ming's command and became a member of the border army again.

An Ming was a young man, but he had an eye for discerning people. An experienced and brave man like Ren Zhong was quickly promoted to the position of battalion general under his command.

But then, life dealt Ren Zhong a hard blow again.

Kou Bian, a native of Liao.

An Ming was killed by Yelumin.

Tianmen Village was destroyed.

However, Ren Zhan, who fought to the death with the Liao people at the Juma River, was completely destroyed after the arrival of Yelumin's troops.

Ren Zhong had to escape alone.

The Song Dynasty perished.

The states of Qi, Zhao and Jin appeared all at once.

First of all, Ren Zhong lived in Qi State.

In fact, he didn't care whether it was the Song State or the Qi State. It didn't matter. As a soldier, he had to work hard. As a farmer, he had to pay grain and taxes.

But he cares about one thing, that is, he will never be used as a dog to the Liao people.

But the Qi State was born to be the dog of the Liao people.

In the Qi State, Liao people are regarded as superiors. An ordinary Liao person can make Qi officials nod and bow.

Ren Zhong couldn't stay any longer.

He took his wife and children and fled.

First we went up to Shuibo Liangshan.

It was the home base of the defeated border troops in the past. Many border troops gathered together and raised the flag of justice for heaven.

However, Ren Zhong only stayed there for two months before he left again.

There is no such thing as doing justice for heaven, they are just a group of bandits who gathered together to rob Qi officials and Liao people, but most of all, they robbed ordinary businessmen and common people.

As long as there is wine and meat in their own bowl, they don't care about the life or death of others.

Ren Zhong couldn't live with them.

He fled again.

This time, he fled all the way to the area under the control of the New Song Dynasty in the south.

Under the banner of the Song Dynasty, we will always have to compete with the Liao people!

Fighting the Liao people may be the last obsession in Ren Zhong's heart.

My brother's child is already in his early ten years, considered an adult. After I also had a child, I married a capable woman who could survive as tenaciously as a cockroach without me.

So Ren Zhong defected to the army again.

Avenge your family, avenge your brothers.

The Liao people are hateful, but those former Song people who worked for the Liao people are even more hateful.

Yelumin is the eternal pain in Ren Zhong's heart.

Once upon a time, this man was the god in his heart.

From the day the statue collapsed, Ren Zhong has become a different person.

Camp General, this is his old position in the past, but for him, it is a new beginning.

Facing Qi's attack, which involved almost all the strength of the whole country, and the Liao army might be hidden inside, Gao Yingxiang's main strategy was to defend firmly.

Use the entire defensive chain of Dangshan, Xuzhou, and Xiapi to consume and destroy the opponent's vitality.

Due to long-term planning, the Eastern Expedition began to store arrows and various defensive materials from a very early time. This once caused a huge price increase for related materials on the market. There were many bold businessmen.

, and even had the audacity to go to Qi State's territory and Zhao State's territory to traffic in such materials.

I don’t know what tricks these businessmen used, but in short, they got these materials back, and there was no excessive reaction from the other side.

As for Gao Yingxiang, as long as you can get it, I dare to take it.

As for whether these businessmen have any collusion with each other, that is not his business. Naturally, it is up to departments such as the Imperial City Department and Zhiqiuyuan to deal with it.

Of course, just defending is not enough. We have to find ways to create trouble in Qi State. In this regard, agencies such as the Imperial City Department and Zhiqiuyuan took action early.

For example, the Shuibo Liangshan where Ren Zhong stayed in belonged to a relatively large bandit group. Naturally, the intelligence agency of the New Song Dynasty would not let it go. They sent people to persuade these people to take advantage of the emptiness in Qi State to go down the mountain and wreak havoc.

Get rich and have a good year.

There are still quite a lot of such bandit gangs in Qi State. If they all move together at this time, it will be enough for Liu Yu to have a headache.

And if the front line suffered huge losses again, it would be difficult to say whether he would still have the determination to attack.

As long as they survive this winter, when spring comes, no matter how much the Liao people behind Liu Yu want to continue fighting, Liu Yu will not do it.

After all, spring plowing is about to begin.

In this battle, Liu Yu mobilized almost the entire Qi army, which totaled nearly 100,000 men. However, the number of young and strong civilians who supplied these 100,000 men for the battle was several times that number.

The consumption every day is huge.

If we really miss the spring plowing and lose the harvest, how will Qi support it next?

"Although the focus is on defense, if there is no attack, morale will inevitably be low." Gao Yingxiang said to Li Yan stationed at Dangshan and Tian Bin of the Tianping Army guarding Xiapi, "I am ready to gather all the cavalry."

Tian Bin thought for a moment and said: "Is the general manager planning to let this cavalry insert into the enemy's rear to engage in guerrilla warfare?"

Gao Yingxiang laughed: "General Tian knows my heart well."

"But General Manager, Qi State has more soldiers than us, and to be honest, our cavalry is still somewhat inferior to theirs in terms of combat capability," Tian Bin said.

"Letting them pass is not about fighting, but about containment!" Gao Yingxiang said with a smile: "Whether they can annihilate the enemy is not an indicator of their assessment. Dragging away the enemy's cavalry is what I want. With my subordinate Si Si

, to lead away the enemy's horse, this is what I want."

Hearing what Gao Yingxiang said, the cavalry generals present couldn't help but feel a little angry, but this is a fact, and there is no way to argue. In the entire south, except for the Tianying Army currently marching in the central camp and the cavalry under Han Zuo's command in Jiangning, other

The cavalry unit is indeed somewhat unsatisfactory.

"This is a good idea." Li Yan said: "Our Yunnan horses are not as tall and fierce as Hebei horses, but they are more tolerant of bitter cold and less arrogant. If there is food, they will eat food. If there is no food, they will eat grass roots and leaves without falling off.

"Fat, you can still run vigorously. Those Hebei horses will lose weight if they don't eat food for a day. They run a hundred and eighty miles on the road every day. In less than three days, they will be exhausted."

Having said this, he glanced at the red-faced cavalry generals and said: "If you successfully get rid of them, you can't attack the place. You can even bite them if you find the right opportunity."

Hearing this, the cavalry generals became excited one by one.

"After you go out, you need to make your own decisions, look for opportunities, and take action if you can, but the prerequisite is to protect yourselves first. We will not do anything that kills one thousand enemies and damages eight hundred." Gao Yingxiang said.

"Yes!" All the generals obeyed the order solemnly.

"Gu Zheng!" Gao Yingxiang looked at another general.

"The end is here!"

"You are the logistics officer of the Central Division of the General Administration. How many of the imperial troops have arrived from the direction of Jiangning?" Gao Yingxiang asked.

"The first batch of 3,000 imperial troops and 5,000 Xiang troops have arrived. They are currently being placed in Xiao County. I have visited and found that the overall morale is relatively low. There are also rumors that they were sent as scapegoats. There are hidden dangers.

It's quite big. If you don't point it correctly, the camp will be blown up." Gu Zheng was a little worried.

"Those who can come here basically have no way." Gao Yingxiang said: "Those who have the way have already escaped through various connections. The wild-tempered ones have also become deserters. They are either still on the run, or they have already

After being caught and beaten, he was taken to the southwest Tuobian. Those who could get here were basically those with families, mouths and scruples. In fact, the chief assistant once said that if such people are well trained, they will become real

It’s up to you whether you can make a powerful army. I don’t need them to become a truly powerful army now, but I need them to be able to get a certain amount of supplements when the frontline troops suffer heavy losses!”

Li Yan chuckled: "Just a few sheep threw him into a group of hungry wolves. As time goes by, he will probably open his mouth and bite people. Lao Gu, you won't let us down. I hope that time

The additions to our army are sheep that can bite."

"Do you want a hungry dog?" Gu Zheng looked at Li Yan, who was not afraid of the height of the stage, and asked coldly.

"I can't get it!" Li Yan laughed.

Gao Yingxiang snorted and said: "It seems that you still haven't understood what the chief assistant meant. Why is it that the rest of the army is full of ordinary people who look very ordinary and cowardly, but the chief assistant is even happier?

Have you ever thought about it? Use your brain!"

Tian Bin looked at Li Yan and Gu Zheng, who were a little embarrassed, and said with a smile: "Actually, the reason is very simple. When we were in Guizhou, we only recruited soldiers from good families. We absolutely don't want any rangers. That's right.

Those who have passed through bandits and stole chickens and dogs, let alone enter the gate of the army. These people basically have only one way out on the Guizhou road, and they are captured and sent to farm."

"Why?" Tian Bin explained: "Discipline! The chief minister believes that the army's meticulous and even dogmatic observance of discipline is the source of its strength. Those knights and warriors who are brave and ruthless seem to be more powerful in combat, but individually

Their strength is nothing at all. These people are a double-edged sword, and more often than not, they have the opposite effect."

"That's it!" Gu Zheng thought thoughtfully.

"So the eight thousand people in Xiao County now are all good soldiers. It depends on how they are beaten! If they are beaten properly, they will be an integral part of the peerless good soldiers. If they are beaten and beaten, they will have no choice but to go.

We are now stationed in the fields." Tian Bin smiled and said: "A powerful general like Han Zong is rare in the world, but good soldiers like this are everywhere."

After the military meeting ended, six thousand cavalry were gathered in the entire eastern camp and divided into two attack groups, one led by He Jun and the other led by Han Chong.

In Dangshan, Li Yan commanded 5,000 troops to defend, and Xiapi and Tianpi led 5,000 Tianping troops to guard. In Xuzhou, the main battlefield, Gao Yingxiang personally led 20,000 troops to take charge. At the same time, Xiao County, Suqian and other places behind him also

A varying number of troops are stationed to maintain a certain level of security.

Just opened in December, the Central Plains, which had been dormant for half a year, once again sounded the sound of fighting and iron horses.

The first person to be attacked was Li Yan who was guarding Dangshan Mountain.

At this moment, the Zhao army from Shangqiu and Songcheng, under the command of Zhao State Prime Minister Xiao Bo, stormed Xiayi. Whether the Qi army captured Dangcheng here or the Zhao army captured it first

Xiayi, another place, will be attacked by Qi and Zhao armies.

The fall of these two places would open a huge hole in the defense line, and Xuzhou would soon be in danger.

Fifty steps below the city, there are many military formations of the Song Army. Three battle camps of 1,500 people are deployed under the city, echoing the garrison on the city.

"The Indestructible King of the Great Village"

Even if he is defending, Li Yan does not want to retreat into the city. He wants to give his opponents a disastrous attack when they first arrive, letting them know the price they need to pay if they want to attack Dangshan.

In the biting cold wind, Ren Zhong showed his chest and back, and the scars all over his body were shocking.

He held a shield in one hand and a knife in the other, and shouted sternly: "Brothers, behind you, there is your new home, your family, your houses, and your fields. Now, the Liao people and their dogs are here again."

Here they are, they just don’t want us to live a good and peaceful life. Since they don’t want us to have an easy life, then they don’t want to have an easy life either, it’s just a shame.”

Five hundred strong men below shouted in unison.

The sword struck the shield, and Ren Zhong shouted again: "Brother, the number of battles I have fought are not a hundred, but also eighty. Here, I would like to say one more thing to my brothers, those who are afraid of death often die first, and those who are not afraid of death can live until the end of the century.

Finally, when the war drum sounds, there is no retreat. When we fight against the enemy, we are invincible!"

"When the war drums sound, there is no retreat. If we fight against the enemy, we are invincible!" The five hundred soldiers slapped their shields with their swords in unison, echoing the howling cold wind.

In the distance, the sound of war drums was loud on the Qi army's position, and on the city wall, the war drums were also ringing.

The cavalry roared in.

On the city wall, crossbows and trebuchets began to fire. Crossbows as thick as a child's arm traversed the entire battlefield, and the stones falling from the sky gave people a feeling of doomsday.

Some cavalry fell from their horses, but more cavalry flexibly avoided these attacks from afar and still launched an attack on the infantry phalanx on the other side.

The two phalanxes in front of the word "Poupin" suddenly split open, revealing the repeating crossbows inside.

The range is half that of the crossbow, but it can fire six at a time.

There are about twenty units hidden in each battle camp.

Forty repeating crossbow machines fired two hundred and forty repeating crossbows in an instant. This was something the opponent's cavalry did not expect at all. Those who were rushing forward were shot to the ground by both men and horses.

For those who were lucky enough to escape, they only had one way out, which was to rush towards the gap in the middle of the inverted glyph.

Ren Zhong's five hundred people are exactly the last one in the inverted glyph.
Chapter completed!