Han Shizhong shook his head: "That's true, but it would have been better if we had given these rebels more armor!"
The rebels were going to hide in the mountains, so it was useless to give them armor... You didn't know? And it wasn't you who gave the order just now? Was the order wrong?
What kind of Buddha are you pretending to be now?!
Jie Yuan wanted to refute this, but he glanced at Han Shizhong who was eating steamed buns with his head down, and then glanced at the east where there was constant movement. In the end, he remained silent and just continued to chew slowly, drinking his mutton soup and eating his steamed buns.
In this way, the two led the Cui Pian Army to eat slowly for about a quarter of an hour, and the heavily armored Jin army had already reached the front of the fence, which meant that the trench outside had been partially filled and the stone fortress had been breached. Gu Jishan's rebel army was forced to retreat to the last line of defense.
Zhang Heng, who was wearing a helmet that was obviously a bit too big, ran over nervously. Han Shizhong had already recovered his normal expression, but he handed the empty bowl to him and said, "This mutton soup is really good. Commander Zhang, please give me another bowl."
Zhang Heng took it with his bloodstained hands in a daze, then came to his senses and nodded heavily: "Yes!"
Then, he turned around and walked away.
As soon as the person left, Han Shizhong immediately looked sideways at Jie Yuan.
Xie Shanliang understood and gave orders to the officers beside him without standing up. After the officers passed the order down layer by layer, the Cui Pian army began to put on armor on the spot and prepare bows, crossbows, arrows and other items.
After a while, Zhang Heng came over with a bowl of mutton soup in both hands, and Han Shizhong took the hot soup without saying a word, took a pancake from the basket beside him, tore it open and soaked it in the soup as before... The Beiwei soldiers who started eating also followed suit.
Seeing that the other party didn't say anything, Zhang Heng saw that the soldiers below Jie Yuan began to put on armor, but he also hurried back to the front line without saying a word.
Another half a quarter of an hour later, seeing more and more Jin troops approaching the fence and starting to try to destroy it, the Cui Pian army was also fully prepared.
Han Shizhong looked at Jie Yuan again, and finally issued a new military order: "Don't put on the armor yet."
Jie Yuan understood, nodded and left.
It was a slightly cold morning in early winter. The water vapor generated by the large-scale cooking of mutton soup diffused into the sky and formed mist. Under the mist, with the departure of Jie Yuan, three thousand well-armored soldiers, led by officers from various departments, stood up one after another. Then, according to the combat sequence, they rushed forward with nearly a thousand powerful crossbows and multiple crossbow arrow tubes, in addition to some spearmen and sword and shield men.
This army may not be the most elite one among the 300,000 imperial troops, but it can be regarded as one of the most elite troops of the Song army anyway.
"I realized long ago that these people should be the rebels in Gu Ji Mountain."
At the same time, Wanyan Salihe, who was supervising the battle from far behind, held the reins of his warhorse with both hands, with a look of disdain on his face. "What's the use of a leather armor? If you don't hide in the mountains, how dare you block my army and use Han Shizhong to scare me? The front is about to collapse, and you are still boiling water in the back?"
Several Meng'an and Mouke echoed him.
This one said that because there were too many wounded, they had to boil water to remove the arrows.
That said, this was a plan for adding more stoves written in the military books of the Song Dynasty. It was planned originally to pretend that there was a large army having a meal in the back.
However, more people just disdain it.
In fact, there was no choice but to do so, because everyone understood what Salihe said... When the Jurchens first gained control of the two rivers, they had no idea how to rule. In Hebei, the Eastern Army simply divided the Meng'an and Mouke into local fiefs, and the Meng'an and Mouke had the power to govern, so almost instantly Hebei seemed to have regressed to the slave age, causing a large number of Hebei people, regardless of their class status, to abandon their homes and jobs, and either go to the Taihang Mountains or flee through Henan.
It also forced the then Jin Dynasty ruler Wanyan Wuqimai to hastily issue an edict to forcibly stop this historical reversal.
Here in Hedong, the Western Army had better military discipline, and it was rare for the Eastern Army to use Han people as bargaining chips. However, Nianhan was a strict person... In his time, there were orders for merchants not to walk more than 30 miles a day, and there were hair-shaving orders. Anyone who stole a penny, or even picked up a penny on the road, would be put to death.
All kinds of bizarre temporary laws were basically stricter than military laws. However, the Han people from Yanyun who were assigned to serve as officials generally had a hatred towards the Han people in Song Dynasty. They often used chicken feathers as a token of authority to abuse the people.
Under such circumstances, not only the common people, but even the powerful landlords could not bear it.
The so-called harsh laws in Hedong, the feudal system and slavery in Hebei, and the forced migration of population from northern Hebei and northeastern Hedong to the areas outside the Great Wall, these three things directly led to the outbreak of the Taihang Rebellion at that time, and also made it impossible for the Jin army to effectively rule the two river regions for many years.
Of course, this does not mean that they need to engage in any political reflection, but rather that the Jin army and these rebel armies are old acquaintances. As soon as they see the equipment of these troops and hear the accents of their orders and shouts, they immediately know their origins.
That's why I feel disdainful.
However, a Khitan Mouke could not help but express his doubts: "It should be true that they are the rebels in Guji Mountain, but don't they know that they can only move in the mountains with their leather armor? How dare they block the way? Are they really not afraid of death?"
Salihe sneered even more: "You come to ask me, who should I ask? Maybe you were forced by the high officials of the Song Dynasty!"
"That's exactly what I meant." The Khitan Mouke actually nodded.
Salihe was slightly stunned, then thought for a moment and became serious: "Tai Shi Nu, you mean that these rebels in Gu Ji Mountain may not be willing to come here... Either there are Song soldiers behind them who want to escape, and they use official titles to control these rebel leaders and force them to block the attack, or someone is bluffing them, saying that there will be reinforcements?"
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