On the 28th day of the first lunar month, the weather was already very warm. Even in the areas north and south of the Yellow River, which were in the midst of war, people began to venture out to cultivate the fields.
What else? In the current situation of war between the North and the South, not only the poor families, but also the wealthy families with some money at home can't bear it.
If rice from the south cannot be imported in the future, won’t the whole family starve to death?
However, for the 5,000 Jin troops in Jeju City, Jeju Prefecture, the sudden dense appearance of Han people in the fields outside the city undoubtedly became a new kind of fun for them when they were extremely bored here... It may be because the Jin Dynasty, which leapt from a tribal alliance to an imperial era, had a great slave society color. Of course, it may also be because the army was away, and the natural and unrestrained animal nature was there... In short, in the past ten days or so, the Jin army’s favorite thing to do was to shoot and kill Han people in the fields around Jeju City for fun.
This is just like around the New Year, when the local Han people would go to Liangshan Lake to catch wild ducks in order to fill their stomachs.
However, unlike ducks which can swim into the depths of the water when frightened, the common people cannot abandon their fields... The timing was right. Today, Aunt Wang next door died on the ridge of the field. The whole village was frightened and no one was able to cultivate the land. So the next day, they had to try again carefully, and it was their own father's turn to die in the field. The day after that, they wiped their tears and went again, but their wife was kidnapped again. At this time, they could only go to Liangshanpo with a few friends to ask Chief Zhang for a meal. As a result, the villagers who stayed behind had to try to farm the fields carefully.
The Jin people's fun continued.
However, in the past two days, for the Jin people in Jeju City, this kind of fun has suddenly become extremely dangerous... The reason is simple and direct. Starting from the 26th of the first lunar month, many small groups of Song cavalry units with unknown numbers have appeared around Jeju City. They are so powerful that groups of Jin soldiers are easily solved in one encounter. If one or two of the seven or eight people can escape, they must be the best equestrians in the army.
As of yesterday afternoon, a Jin army of fifty men, half a Mouke, went out of the city for patrol. In broad daylight, they were surrounded by two or three hundred Song cavalrymen... The Jin soldiers wanted to fight at first, but unexpectedly, the martial arts of the grassroots officers in this Song army were far beyond imagination, and the role of a few exceptionally brave officers in small-scale combat was unquestionable.
In the end, only eighteen people returned out of the fifty, and all of them had their noses and ears cut off.
As a result, according to the Jin Dynasty military law, 22 people were beheaded that night... Because the head of the Mouke, that is, the centurion of the hundred-man team, was hung on the neck of a warhorse that knew how to find its way and sent back to the city. Therefore, according to the Jin Dynasty military law, several centurions who did not go out "hunting" were also beheaded in public.
But compared to all these, the most devastating thing was that the leader of this army of 5,000 people, Wanyan Seri, a young nobleman from the Wanyan tribe, who was the first to command a thousand households in this southern expedition, actually issued a public order that, except for a small team of scouts, no one was allowed to easily go out three miles outside Jeju City to provoke trouble, and anyone who violated the order would be beheaded!
Moreover, the military law of the Jin Dynasty was extremely strict, and Wanyan Seri was only slightly younger, and he liked to read books written by southerners. However, this did not stop him from joining the army at a young age, and his experience during the conquests of the Liao and Song dynasties was enough to convince the people.
So even though the Jin army was in turmoil, no one dared to question it easily.
However, that was all… You must know that at this moment, it was less than a year since the Jin Dynasty destroyed the Northern Song Dynasty. On the surface, the fundamental purpose of this second southern expedition was to completely digest and annex Hebei, and there was no suspicion of frustration in essence:
Li Yanxian's recovery of Shanzhou was only the strength of one state and a local battlefield. Moreover, the more than 100,000 remnants of the Western Army were the main force of the Song Army. The Jin Kingdom's Western Army inevitably felt that it had not exerted its full strength.
The Tokyo Residents were blocking the way in Huazhou, and it was more or less a stalemate. Moreover, the Third Prince Erliduo led the Yanjing Central Army to sweep Hebei, and never intended to cross the river to confront the Tokyo Residents directly.
And the southward march of the Fourth Prince Wanyan Wushu further proved the strength of the Jin army... He easily completed the assigned mission, and with 20,000 troops he pursued the enemy from the south and north, easily locking onto the Emperor of the Song Dynasty.
So at this moment, almost all the Jin soldiers felt that an army of 5,000 was enough to dominate the Central Plains. Then, how could the Jeju defenders, who had never been frustrated and were in high spirits, tolerate such provocation?
It’s just the word military law!
"General, there are Song troops provoking us from the north of the city!"
On the morning of the 28th day of the first lunar month, Meng'an, who was stationed in the northern part of Jeju City and Databuye, who was born in Bohai, was wiping the body of his warhorse with his bare chest in the courtyard where he was stationed, when he suddenly heard an absurd message.
In fact, this Meng An was stunned for three or five breaths before he suddenly led his horse out without saying a word, and then he jumped on the horse with his bare chest in front of the gate and headed north of the city. When Da Tabuye climbed up the city and looked down, the absurdity was even more indescribable.
Because at this time there were only seven riders under the city!
Two riders were in front, one on the left and one on the right, each holding a vertical flag. On each flag, ink was temporarily dipped in paper with glue. The right flag read: Breaking the Jeju Castle;
The left side is called: Capture Wan Yanli alive.
And there was another rider behind him, but he was holding a serious flag, which read: Yue, the commander of the Tokyo garrison of the Great Song Dynasty. Further behind him were three raiding knights, no need to say more.
In addition to this, there was a general in the center, standing in front of the raised flag, wearing a complete set of armor, with a bow and a spear on his back, sitting upright on a big horse, standing still!
Databuye was an experienced soldier after all. After understanding the meaning of the handwriting, although he was so angry that he laughed, he was not in a hurry to leave the city. Instead, he asked someone to help him put on his armor while gazing into the distance... He instinctively set his eyes on the huge lake just over ten miles to the north. The banks there were a mixture of green and yellow and overgrown with reeds, but he soon shook his head. Finally, he fixed his eyes on a forest between the lake and Jeju City, but shook his head again.
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