Pirate Song

After Huang Yan heard this, he quickly stopped. Although he was scolded by Gao Huaiyuan, the guy immediately broke down in tears and smiled, his mouth almost reaching his ears.

It’s no wonder that Huang Yan misunderstood that Gao Huaiyuan was about to die. At this moment, Gao Huaiyuan’s virtue was as good as that of someone who was about to die, because he didn’t even know how many enemy troops he killed while fighting at the pass, covering his whole body from head to toe.

It was all stained with blood, some of which was his own, but most of which were his enemies'. Even his face was covered in blood, and he was lying on the ground limply. Anyone who looked at him felt that he was not far from death.

Seeing that Gao Huaiyuan didn't look like he was about to die, Huang Yan felt relieved, so he let go of Gao Huaiyuan and threw him to the ground. He stood up and immediately shouted: "Zhou Hao! Zhou Hao, you bastard!"

Are you done? Hurry up and give me a shout! Zhou Jun, Fei Wenlong,...you *** all give me a shout!" He called out a series of names one after another, and his voice began to tremble again.

Gao Huaiyuan was thrown away by this guy and immediately fell to the ground again. His head hit the ground hard. He groaned in pain and cursed in a low voice: "You are a pig! You don't let go easily. You want to throw me to death."

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Xiang Yong, who was lying next to him, couldn't help it anymore and started laughing. After a while, everyone who was still alive around him started laughing.

At this time, someone in the crowd raised another hand and said, "I'm not dead!" Zhou Hao agreed at this time.

Following Zhou Hao's voice, one hand after another raised their hands and followed him to agree: "Second brother, I'm here!"

Huang Yan jumped around in the crowd like a rabbit. He checked one by one. When he saw a brother, he cheered. Only now did many people know the relationship between Huang Yan and these people. At the end of the day, Huang Yan was still

started to cry.

"Why are you asking me to report the news! Wuwu... Why can't I find a few more? Where have they gone? Tell me where they have gone?... This is unfair... Why don't you let me stay?

Get off!"

No one answered his voice, and everyone fell silent again, because they knew that some of the people who could not be found had died under the pass, and the remaining people had died on the wall of the car. At this moment

Together with those golden soldiers, they were reduced to ashes.

Although they repelled the Jin soldiers in this battle, everyone knew that the Daye County and Township barracks were basically disabled. No one counted how many people were left, but everyone also knew that there were probably not many left.

, so just because of the joy of victory, the sadness suddenly disappeared without a trace. Some people began to cry softly. Gradually, the laughter just now was replaced by crying. Finally, some people couldn't help but lie down.

He cried loudly on the ground.

This kind of cry was both a mourning for the dead brothers and a celebration of his lucky escape. Anyway, it contained many meanings, and even the corners of Gao Huaiyuan's eyes became moist.

At this time, a group of Song soldiers, covered in sweat, hurriedly followed an officer on horseback along the mountain road. The sound of footsteps covered the cries of everyone in the mountains.

The officer frowned and looked at the people lying here staggered on the ground. He was quite shocked and very surprised. To be honest, when he was ordered to lead his troops here, he really had no hope.

When they came to the young man named Huang Yan, he learned that there were less than 500 rural warriors here, and among them there were at most about 100 archers from the regular army. Huang Yan said that the Jin army numbered at least several thousand.

In his opinion, even if he rushes over, it will be in vain. These people are definitely dead!

And his mission should be to intercept the Jin soldiers' way in the mountains, block the Jin soldiers and drive them back. It would be good to prevent them from sneaking across Fenglindu, so he was very nervous along the way and ordered his soldiers to speed up.

He kept pace and was ready for battle at any time. Even he himself was not sure whether he could stop the Jin army.

But when he rushed over, he saw from a distance that the pass was still billowing with black smoke and the fire was still burning in the pass, but he did not hear the sound of fighting. He was greatly surprised.

There was a cry.

So he quickly quickened his pace and led his troops to rush over. When they arrived, he was shocked by the scene in front of him.

Because they saw that the entire pass was in a mess, with some bloody people lying staggering all over the place. It was certain that some of them were not dead yet and were crying loudly, but more of them were corpses arranged neatly.

The matter has long been silent.

And the young man who brought them here was sitting on the ground, holding the body of a young man and crying loudly. He was sure that these people were from his Song Dynasty, and they were not all dead yet. Because of the fire,

It blocked their sight and could not see where the Jin Army was, so they immediately asked loudly: "Who is leading the team here now? Please answer quickly. Where is the Jin Army?"

Gao Huaiyuan also saw this Song general, so he struggled to sit up and shouted: "The Jin soldiers have been repelled by us!"

The Song general glanced at Gao Huaiyuan, who was as bloody as a man, and couldn't see his face clearly. He only knew that he seemed to be young. He was doubtful and said in his heart: "Retreat? You repeat, what you are saying is that Jin Bing has been captured."

Did you fight back?"

Gao Huaiyuan didn't know his identity, so he nodded and said: "If I tell you, General, the Jin soldiers have been repelled by us!"

The Song general then turned over and dismounted, stopped the army behind him, waved his hand to his men to disperse and set up defenses immediately, to check the movements of the Jin army, then walked into the crowd and looked around.

No matter how embarrassed he looked at Gao Huaiyuan and others, he felt that they didn't look like soldiers at all. He really didn't believe Gao Huaiyuan's words, thinking that just by relying on these rabble, they could actually block thousands of gold troops here and even repel them.

They simply can’t imagine this! In other words, in the words of future generations, this is simply a fantasy!

But after he took a look, he began to feel awe in his heart. Although these people were staggering around and didn't look like soldiers at all, everyone was covered in blood. This can never be denied. They were indeed here with Jin Bing.

There was a very tragic and fierce battle, and it can be said that most of the people alive were basically injured.

The leather armor of the man who spoke was torn in many places, and it was almost like a piece of rag hanging on his body. Blood was oozing from many damaged places, which showed that he had suffered a lot of battle injuries. This was enough.

This shows that this person was brave enough and fought hand-to-hand with the enemy, which is why he was injured like this.

The rows of corpses of fallen warriors and soldiers on the ground also indicate that they were not killed by Jin soldiers when they escaped from battle. If that were the case, their corpses would not have been buried so neatly, and even each person's remains would have been buried.

After sorting it out, this shows that they abided by their duties and finally died here.

At the pass, where the wall of blazing fire was still burning, there were still many burned black remains of people. He couldn't tell whether they were the corpses of the Jin people or the Song people. What could be seen was that at the last moment, these bodies People set fire to the vehicles at the pass, blocking the Jin army's path.

What surprised him was that at the small pass, there were still several crude and ugly cannons erected. Two or three of them had fallen apart, and a large number of trees in the surrounding woods had been cut down. Unfortunately, many of them have disappeared, and they may have thrown them across the pass as rolling logs.

From these scenes alone, he could see that an extremely fierce battle had indeed taken place here, and it was these people who spent their blood to block the path of the Jin army, so he no longer dared to underestimate it. Look at these country warriors.

"Command the army medical officer to come immediately and treat the wounds of these warriors! Others, hurry up and help!" the officer continued the order.

So medical officers and a large number of Song troops rushed over and began to help take care of the wounded lying on the ground.

Gao Huaiyuan was also helped up and took off his armor. Only then did everyone see that even the clothes under his armor were stained with blood, so they quickly tore off his clothes and exposed his body. After that, several people took a breath and saw that Gao Huaiyuan had six or seven wounds, large and small, on his shoulders, arms, chest, lower abdomen, and thighs, and there were wounds everywhere, and they were all bloody and bloody. , it was very scary. Fortunately, Gao Huaiyuan's body muscles were extremely strong. Otherwise, I really don't know how he could have survived.

The Song Army officer also stood not far away from Gao Huaiyuan and looked at Gao Huaiyuan. He frowned and asked the medical officer to treat his wounds one by one and bandage them before letting him caress him. Find a cleaner place and give him a stone to sit on temporarily.

Then he began to ask Gao Huaiyuan about the process of the battle. Gao Huaiyuan was not polite and told the events of the two days one by one. Hearing this, the Song general nodded repeatedly and sighed.

"The Gaobao team is really brave, Liu admires it! I didn't expect that the Gaobao team, with only hundreds of local warriors, blocked the Jin army here, making it difficult to move forward. It is really admirable that the men under them are so brave!" The Song general sighed with emotion. .

Gao Huaiyuan also learned from the conversation that this man was the commander of the Xiong Sheng Army of the Jingnan garrison. This time he was ordered to lead the army to rescue them, so he quickly said politely: "General Liu is ridiculous. We are also from the Song Dynasty. Since We must serve our country, this is what we should do!"

Seeing that Gao Huaiyuan looked tired, Commander Liu asked him to take a rest first, and then began to lead his troops to clean up the battlefield. In any case, he still had to cross the pass to check where the Jin soldiers were.

So he sent people to use hook guns to hook down all the burning grain bags. It took him a long time to finally put out the fire, and he also pulled out a lot of bones from the fire. Only then did he realize that many people had been killed in the fire. It is estimated that the Jin army had no choice but to retreat after seeing the fire ignited. This shows how dangerous the situation was at that time.

After Gao Huaiyuan took a short rest, he struggled to stand up again and began to count the losses of his men. After such a count, he realized how serious his losses were.

After nearly 400 Xiangyong went through this battle, probably less than half were still alive. The 200 were still a little weaker, including the remaining dozen archers under Fan Dutou, and the 50 he brought out There are now only thirty-two young men left, and more than a dozen have died in the battle or are missing.

Almost all of the living people were injured, and more than 20 people, including Fei Wenlong, were seriously injured. It was still unknown whether they could survive.

Zhang Qing died heroically in this battle, and Fan Dutou was also killed on the wall of the car. In addition to Gu Laoer who died in the battle last night, almost all of them died in the battle except Guo Liang, who survived with injuries.

It was so big that Gao Huaiyuan couldn't help but almost burst into tears again.

By this time, most of the team of about 500 people had died here, and the Daye County Township Barracks had basically completely lost its combat effectiveness.

Among the 500 local warriors brought out this time, the one with the least losses among each team was the youth team of Wohu Village under him. Although the youth team was often used by Gao Huaiyuan as a commando team, it can be said that the youth team did a good job.

They are all the most dangerous jobs, but their daily rigorous training still allows them to suffer minimal losses on the battlefield. Even when they faced the Jin Army soldiers, they did not suffer any big losses. This was also in line with what he had prepared in advance.

The protection of the sandwich leather armor was inseparable, which greatly reduced their number of casualties. Only more than 30 of the 50 people were left, and the loss was less than 40%. Gao Huaiyuan finally felt at ease. If all their troops were exhausted,

If not, then my hard work in the past two years will be in vain!

After counting the number of people, Gao Huaiyuan compiled the list of fallen soldiers and reported it to Commander Liu. Commander Liu also looked solemn. As a leader, he knew that the Song army's combat effectiveness was not strong. On the battlefield, Commander Liu

Often after losing only 10% or 20% of the troops, the fighting spirit will be lost and they will often collapse. The elite troops will lose at most 30%, which means they have completely lost their combat effectiveness.

But this ordinary rural barracks held here for two full days. More than 60% of the people were killed, and almost everyone else was injured. How much courage does it take to persevere? So even if he

After hearing about the battle losses, the commander had to express his admiration. He looked back and asked himself whether he would be able to hold on if it were him. However, he also guessed that there was a 10% chance that he would not be able to hold on.

living!

When the Song army removed the obstacles blocking the pass, they could see clearly the situation under the pass, and they were once again hit by a huge impact. They saw the twisted corpses of Jin soldiers everywhere on the downhill road outside the pass.

There were also large piles of rolling logs and stones mixed in. Just the arrows shot from the pass almost covered the ground below, making it almost impossible to stand.

Only then did they understand that the reason why the Jin soldiers retreated was not simply because they were blocked, but because they had to retreat after paying a huge price in casualties. So they admired Gao Huaiyuan even more.

Come to the military camp of Zhixiang.

This battle can be said to be the greatest victory of the Song Army in recent times. The great contribution made these Song soldiers a little jealous, but they did not dare to take the credit. After all, they are also human beings. They know that the credit is due to the lives and blood of the rural barracks.

I can't take away the merits I gained in exchange for it even if I wanted to.

After confirming that the Jin soldiers had retreated, Commander Liu sent a scout team out of the pass to explore the Jin army's whereabouts. After asking about the time of the Jin army's retreat, he knew that it was already too late to pursue them, so he

They camped again for the night. They came all the way and were very tired. If they wanted to pursue them, they didn't have the strength anymore!

Two days later, Commander Liu led his army to escort Gao Huaiyuan and his party back to Xiangyang City. After the news spread, it immediately caused an uproar. The news that a small group of Daye County soldiers had repelled thousands of Jin troops immediately caused a panic.

The morale of the army was boosted, and the negative comments about the Song-Jin war were suddenly suppressed.

The people in the Daye County Township Barracks who returned to the military camp were immediately treated like heroes, and even alerted Mr. Zhao Fangzhao, the ambassador of Jinghu Road. After hearing the news, he immediately personally inquired about the matter and ordered the army to

The best medical officers in the army went to the barracks to treat the wounded among Gao Huaiyuan and his party, and also sent people to send them a large number of good medicines and condolences.

Originally, he wanted to summon Gao Huaiyuan in person, but he heard that Gao Huaiyuan was seriously injured and fell down after returning to the military camp, so he had to give up and planned to visit Gao Huaiyuan in person in the camp, but due to the war

Due to nervousness, he couldn't escape and ultimately failed to make the trip, but the name Gao Huaiyuan was firmly remembered in his heart.

Although Zhao Fang did not have time to visit Gao Huaiyuan, he still sent his officials to the camp to visit all the soldiers of this heroic camp. Gao Huaiyuan was rewarded by Zhao Fang with a thousand guan of money and 200 pieces of brocade, and he was awarded the title of Ninth Grade.

Baoyi Lang acted as the commander of the supply camp. After allowing him to recover from his injuries, he selected strong men from other township barracks and added them to the Daye County township barracks under his command. Moreover, this time he was given a quota of one thousand

People can choose their own subordinates.

But don't underestimate Baoyilang's ninth-grade sesame officer. It sounds really small. That's because some people made nonsense in later film and television works and novels. In fact, in the Song Dynasty military, many officers were commanders.

He is an official like an envoy, but he has no rank at all and can only be regarded as a casual official.

And Di Qing, the famous general of the Northern Song Dynasty, was a great man! At the beginning of Baoyuan Dynasty, Zhao Yuanhao rebelled and ordered guards to accompany him. Di Qing was the envoy of the third squadron, the palace attendant, and the commander of Yanzhou. This "palace envoy" was mentioned in the list of officials above.

At that time, Di Qing killed Xixia people in fear, but they only knew that Di Qing was the commander, but they did not know who the commander was, so they called Di Qing Di Angel. Later, he made meritorious service in the defense of Yanzhou and was named the third squad.

Only when he was straight did he officially become an official of the ninth rank.

And this time Gao Huaiyuan was able to award Baoyi Lang with his merits, and also awarded him the official position of the ninth rank at once, which was essentially an extraordinary appointment! What's more, Zhao Fang knew that he was still young and he was not a formal military member.

Although he is not qualified to be awarded an officer, the reason why he was awarded the title of Ninth Grade Hoyoshiro was not only to praise his military exploits this time, but the most important thing was to use this incident to boost morale and prepare for the next battle with the Jin Dynasty.

It’s just an army war!dd