Chapter 228: Marching Zhongtiao Mountain and fighting on the shore of Salt Lake. Commander!

"Master, you can go to Hedong County tonight according to this method."

Outside Puban Town, Jiezhou Prefecture, Alu Bu immediately stood up in the mound. Listening to the scouts' reports, he frowned and looked at the Han army brigade slowly passing through. At this moment, the spring rain was in full swing, and the ditches on the southern branch of Taihang Mountain were flowing across the Zhongtiao Mountain. He led his troops to pass Fenglingdu, and the rain became heavier. Several water droplets dripped down three small braids, but refused to wipe them.

Whether it is the northern desert or the Mongolian grassland, it is a paradise for Jurchen men to ride horses and use their martial arts. It is not as muddy as it is now, and the mountain roads are slippery? If it weren't for the hay on their horses' hooves, they would have fallen into a dilemma. The Jurchen cavalry brigade was quite easy to walk with the power of animals, but there was no luck in the food, grass and supplies held by the Han army. In front of them were dozens of grain trucks, which were slowly advancing step by step amid the shouts of the Han army soldiers. It took only ten miles to walk after noon. When can you walk to Jiezhou with such a way of walking?

Originally, Alu Bu was not very anxious. He expected that no matter how far Yue Lei crossed the east side of the river, it would take more time to fight Jiezhou. However, the difficulty of marching in spring was beyond Alu Bu's expectations. After more than ten days, both men and horses were exhausted, so he rushed to Jiezhou. In fact, it was also a big blame for Alu Bu's overly heavy-handedness. If he had advanced with his elite cavalry, he would have arrived in Jiezhou five days ago. However, this time, the "thief power" was reported everywhere, which made Alu Bu use it and planned to fight to the death with Yue Lei's main force in Jiezhou.

But what made Alu Bu feel uneasy was that since he passed by Henan Prefecture, the Hedong Prefectures, except Jiezhou, and other prefectures and counties have never sent any rush reports!

Jiezhou is still in the hands of the Jin army, where are the other prefectures and counties?

Zezhou and Luzhou have been doing some tricks and watching them all, but there is no movement. This has made Alu feel much more relieved, and there is also a thought that is temporarily inconvenient to announce it: "After pacifying Hedong and accumulating troops, we will take Ze and Luzhou with a victorious army!"

This statement was always in Alu's mind ten days ago, but it has long been abandoned in Java. With the disadvantage of Hedong, if it wants to pacify successfully, it is afraid that it will not be done for many years. If the army had fought for several months, it would have become exhausted and remnants. It is still unknown whether the ground in Hedong could be completely stable at that time. How dare you talk about Ze and Luzhou?

One Yang Zaixing is enough to make the Hebei Jin army afraid of 100,000 strong soldiers, not to mention that the soldiers and horses in the two states are not vegetarians!

It was just now. As Alu Bu expected, a scout of Jiezhou Army rushed to the front of the army. He didn't even have time to get off the horse. He even had white foam on his crotch. He bowed on the horse's back and said, "Master General, the Yue family's vanguard army has arrived in Yishi, which is only fifty miles away!"

Alu rapped his forehead and shouted, "Come on the map!"

The scout squeezed in front of him and pointed at the map under the umbrella where Yishi County is located: "This is it!"

Alubu asked in a deep voice: "How many soldiers or horses are there?"

The scout hesitated for a moment and said, "The villain dares not push too close. All he saw were iron armored cavalry, about four or five thousand cavalry!"

Alu was in a dilemma for a moment: if he led his troops to attack, he would not understand the reality of Yue Lei. If he ignored it, Yue Lei would have to arrive in Jiezhou before he could!

"The Han army is coming slowly, and the cavalry is all set off, and we will go to Jiezhou first!"

In the spring rain, Alubu's army was divided into two sections, and more than 20,000 cavalrymen were all vanguards, hurriedly left the rear team, and rushed straight to Jiezhou with a quick horse.

Two hours later, Alu caught up with the vanguard, but did not enter Jiezhou, so he had to complain: Haohao Salt Lake on the right side of the front, and under the "Yue"-shaped flag on the slope on the left side were neatly arranged iron armored cavalry, standing on the hillside darkly. At a glance, you can tell that it must be more than ten thousand cavalry and occupy the advantageous areas of the slope, waiting for work. When fighting, his own soldiers were not as good as the armor, so how dare he rush up?

On the slope, Yue Lei was also exhausted and panting. The rain fell along the iron armor, and water dripped everywhere on the horse's hair. This day, the marching was so fierce that he was under Yang Zaixing's order, and tried his best to block Alu Bu Bu outside Jiezhou City. Twenty miles ahead was Jiezhou City. Fortunately, he met Alu Bu Bu Bu's vanguard here!

But his family knew his own affairs, and Yue Lei's troops rushed over from Jingwei. Although he had changed horses in Pingyang Prefecture and Niu Gao's troops, he was always exhausted. At present, Alu Bu's troops seemed extremely rough, but the Jurchen cavalry was not powerful in clay sculptures and wood carvings, and the number was more than 20,000. If the troops of his family continued to attack, or could achieve temporary gains, they would probably fall into a hard battle to get out. At that time, it would still be impossible to stop Alu Bu from entering the city. What's the benefit?

At the moment, the two armies were more than a thousand steps apart in the rain, and they did not dare to advance easily, so they had to confront each other silently.

"Enter the camp!" Alu Bu hesitated for a while, and was really unsure of defeating the Yue family army in front of him. Seeing that it was getting late, he had to grit his teeth: "Since you can't enter Jiezhou, you can have a decisive battle here!"

Yue Lei did not dare to be careless, and thousands of cavalrymen stepped off their horses and stood up their fences. After nightfall, torches from afar came like dragons, but Niu Gao personally led more than 10,000 cavalrymen to arrive. The Yue family's military camp was cheering, and Alu, who had set up a camp three miles away, came out of the camp, but he was as big as a fight when he saw this.

The next day, the Han army in Alu Bu's army also rushed to the camp, but the way to Jiezhou was blocked by the Yue family's military camp. Seeing this battle, they could only be on the edge of the salt lake. After the Si hour, the cavalry of both sides patroled the salt lake, but they were far away, avoiding each other and unwilling to fight easily. The Jin army did not know the facts of the opponent, but the Yue family's army still had some waiting. The people in Jiezhou were panicked, and the Jin people and the troops could not rest assured. The Song people in the city did not dare to act rashly, for fear of causing trouble.

On April 17, Alubu finally roughly understood the strength of the Yue family army. He only had about 25,000 cavalry in the battalion, and there was no infantry. He only had food and grass for a few days. He was willing to wait. He immediately wrote a book to Yue Lei: "At noon tomorrow, we will fight to the side of the Salt Lake. If we want to surrender, we can only leave the camp before Shenshi tonight and be bound!"

Yue Lei and Niu Gao received the letter, laughed at each other, and then wrote: "Wash your head, I will come to pick it up tomorrow!"

At night, Alu Bufang looked forward to Yue Lei's surrender, but heard the sound of horse hooves outside the camp. Several teams of scouts returned to the camp almost at the same time. Alu Bu thought that Yue Camp was coming, but they saw his own soldiers and horses. He was unhappy, but he heard the report from the visitor: "Master, it's not good! Yue's army has come again to reinforcements, and has passed Yishi County and is coming here!"

"How many soldiers have come?"

"The Grand Marshal, I can't see clearly from a distance. There are about thousands of cavalry as the front drive, and there are more than 10,000 infantry brigades behind them, and countless food and supplies!"

Alubu suddenly lost his grimness: I thought I would win this battle two days ago, so I had to investigate everywhere that the Yue family's troops did not have any ambush, only more than 20,000 cavalry in the camp in front of me. Relying on his own cavalry and more than 10,000 Han troops as a supplement, it was impossible to defeat him. Then he made an appointment to fight Tomorrow. Unexpectedly, Yue Lei had still left his strength to use. Only then did he know why Yue Lei repeatedly delayed and refused to take the initiative to attack his camp, and he had such confidence in the appointment to fight Tomorrow!

"The cavalry will follow my commander to attack, but we will meet these reinforcements!" Alubu gritted his teeth and understood that he should not wait for this Yue family army to participate in tomorrow's decisive battle. If this Yue family army can be dealt with tonight, it will be better. If it is delayed until tomorrow, there will be more variables.

"Master! It's late at night, the road is difficult to move forward. Although the Yue family's army is walking very slowly, if the army goes forward, I'm afraid it will suffer some losses. Tomorrow--" The generals in the tent were hesitant when they heard this.

If it were on the prairie, these Jurchen cavalry would naturally swing and do their best and would never be willing to live in the back of the people. However, the spring rain was tight and the road was muddy and slippery. Under the night battle of the army, no one had the confidence.

Alu Bu Bu said, stunned for a moment, and then became angry: "Don't go without this, I personally led 5,000 cavalry and sweared to kill all the thieves before returning!"

He didn't listen to anyone's advice at the moment, got on his horse and went out of the camp, leading five thousand elite cavalry to Yishi County.

A few miles away from the opposite side, when the Yue family's military camp saw such a big move, he did not dare to take it lightly. He urgently reported to the commander's tent, Yue Lei and Niu Gao. Yue Lei was overjoyed: "Uncle Yang must have arrived in person, Uncle Niu will guard the base camp. My nephew will go to welcome Uncle Yang!"

Niu Gao grabbed it: "My nephew - who is the head coach now? Lao Niu is just your general under the tent. How can the head coach be good at leaving the camp? And be in charge of the camp, Lao Niu will then pick up Yang Tieqiu!" Yue Lei was not inconvenient to argue at the moment, so he had to let Niu Gao lead 5,000 cavalry out of the camp, for fear that the Jin army would block the reinforcements.

Less than an hour and a half after Alu Buhan left the camp, he met the reinforcements of Yue's army on the road. The terrain was flat and the cavalry was fighting. Jackie Chan stopped from afar. At this time, Chunyu had already stopped, but the ground was slippery. Alu Bu almost fell off his horse for a few years and had to move forward slowly. Seeing that the other party was only two or three miles away, he stopped early and waited for the fight.

"Who is coming from the opposite side? Deputy General Dajin is here, so he won't get off the horse and be tied up?"

Although the Yue Family Army infantry brigade stopped, the forward-drive cavalry was coming up step by step. As a last resort, Alubu had to call his subordinate Mouke to come forward and call the battle. However, he saw that the other party had not heard of it, and he was getting closer and closer. He was crying and said, "Don't worry about him, just kill him! Slaughter all these bandits! Kill-"

The Jin army agreed loudly, with the sound of killing sounds and the sound of horse hooves rushing straight to the Yue family cavalry. The general led by the Yue family army did not answer, shouted loudly, and urged the horse to pounce on him. Thousands of horses behind him were followed like shadows, without hearing the sound of people, and only felt a mountain-like murderous aura in the dark night was coming to the face, and spring water splashed everywhere on the ground, and although it was in the mud, there was still a thunderous momentum.

Before the war, both sides were good at riding and shooting, and the arrows were fired like rain. After a rapid shooting, the heights were immediately seen: there were many good riders in the Jin army, and their hit rate was naturally more than 20%, but screams came, most of the Jin army fell off the horse! It turned out that the output and quality of fine iron in Jincheng were the highest today. The main force of the Yue Family cavalry was wrapped in iron armor. Although it was not as tight as the main generals such as Yang Zaixing and others, few of these arrows that were completely inaccurate in the night could directly hurt the Yue Family cavalry.

The distance was fleeting, and who would dare to hold a torch at this time? In addition to the infantry that stopped the Yue family army and the lights were brightly lit on both sides, the cavalry that rushed forward had long abandoned the torch in their hands, and both sides wrung together in the dark. After the spring rain, the little moonlight of the clouds and the glimmer of the torch in the Yue family army could only barely distinguish the enemy and us. The Yue family army was neatly armored, providing the only reference for both sides. The sound of gold and iron fighting was loud, and I didn't know how many casualties were killed or injured.

Suddenly, both sides in the fight slowly started to move and separated slowly, because a cavalry brigade held up a torch to the battlefield in the distance. Is this the enemy or friend?

When Alu Buhan left the camp in anger, how could he have thought about this festival? At that time, he only ordered the generals not to follow him, but at this moment, he was looking forward to his own troops to help.

"Master, it's not good! It's the Yue family army!" The soldiers beside them saw the Yue-word banner reflected by the torches early, and hurriedly reminded Alu to make a reply.

Now there are enemies in front and behind, how can we fight this battle? Without any effort, everyone reminded him that Alubu was the first to run around the Yue family army that came to help and fled to his own camp. Yang Zaixing was indeed the commander of the Yue family army who had just fought. Seeing the Jin people fleeing, he did not dare to order pursuit. Just kidding, the terrain is not familiar with the night road, and how can he dare to abandon the infantry brigade behind him and pursue the enemy by himself?

"What a pity!" After Niu Gao met, he felt very regretful: "The second young master Yue only asked our old Niu to pick up Yang Tieqiu, but he would have such a good killing! If he knew that Alu had come, what would Lao Niu wait for tomorrow's decisive battle?"

Yang Zaixing laughed: "Just in the dark night, if the old cow had not raised the banner, I was afraid that we would be stunned by the killing and would have to fight with the deputy commander. Where can I tell where Alu is? Maybe, let Alu live for a few more hours, and it would not be too late to kill tomorrow!"

Not to mention that Alu Bu returned to the camp by chance, after a brief look at it, hundreds of cavalry had been lost, and he was unhappy. When he was about to enter the camp, he saw his own troops coming out to greet him. He turned the hilt of the knife and knocked a member of Meng An Bojin down. Then he entered the camp in disappointment. The soldiers knew that Alu Bu was on the verge of bad luck, so how could he dare to come over and ask?

At noon the next day, the two armies set up their own formations. Alu led the cavalry to line up in front of the formation and prepared to attack. However, the Yue family army was in the infantry, and the cavalry was prepared behind the formation and on both sides. At this time, the weather was beautiful, and spring rain lasted for several days, but the clouds scattered in the sky, the sunrise, and the blue waves of the salt lake rippled, reflecting the green mountains in the distance, and the water birds gathered on the shore. However, nearly 80,000 troops and horses confronted each other, and the solemn aura frightened the flying birds far away.

Yue's name is under the banner of Yue, Yue Lei is in the middle of the commander. After more than two months of hard fighting, Yue Lei has become accustomed to the feeling of commanding the army. However, he has never commanded such a large-scale battle and is still a little worried. But what makes him feel most uneasy is the invincible brave general Yang Zaixing who has experienced many battles beside him. When he left the camp, Yue Lei repeatedly asked for the position of the commander's flag in Yang Zaixing. Yang Zaixing said seriously: "Today's opponent is exactly one of the defenders of Kaifeng Prefecture that day. Alubu had fought with Liu Qi and your father. You should not underestimate it. The success or failure of this battle, the spirit of Yue in the sky must also be paid attention to. The nephew should take care of it and not refuse at the last minute!"
Chapter completed!