The marching route of the advance battalion is as follows: starting from Liangshanbo, entering Jishui from Dongping Lake, passing through Dong'a, Pingyin, Changqing to Jinan, the whole journey is about 200 miles. Because it is going down the river, and the northwest wind is strong at this season

Yes, it's expected to arrive in less than two days.

At this time, the spring equinox has not yet arrived, the ice and snow have begun to disappear, and there are few boats sailing on the river. This makes this long fleet of boats that stretches for several miles particularly eye-catching. Although the advance battalion did not intend to avoid people's attention, due to the large-scale movement of the Jin army

Invading the invaders, soldiers from various counties and towns along the way

They all kept shrinking and returning to defense. Except for the prefecture, county, and county roads, the rest of the cities, countryside, and river villages all gave up. It was completely a posture of "the golden captives are coming, let everyone settle down with their destiny." This also allowed the advance battalion to go all the way.

Go straight down the stream without any obstruction.

The two ships of Tianbo Camp are both flat-bottomed boats, with a hull eight feet long, a load of two thousand stones, a main mast four feet high, and a total of thirty sails. In the wind, the speed of the ship is no less than that of a horse on the shore.

The ship is two stories high, with three cabins on each floor and four cabins in the middle cabin.

The halls are used for living, reception, and military meetings respectively. The bottom cabin is filled with rice to serve as ballast. There are two bed crossbows at the bow and stern of the ship, and ten racket poles are installed on both sides of the ship. The bed crossbows are used for long-range attacks.

The racket stick is hit closely, and it can be called a water castle with both offense and defense.

The forty warships are equivalent to a smaller version of a single ship. They are slightly inferior to a single ship in terms of equipment, but are more flexible and maneuverable. The grain transport ships are modified from fishing boats, and each ship carries 20 grains.

Twenty ships carry 400 shi of food, plus two ships with ballast of 100 shi, for a total of 500 shi of military rations. This is enough for an advance camp of 1,000 people for a month.

Jinan must be captured within a month! This is Zhang Rong's determination.

In fact, even if Di Lie had not assigned this mission, Zhang Rong would have started taking action in two months at most, after the water rose in summer.

According to Di Lie's original plan to send Zhang Rong back to Liangshan to develop the navy, the original intention was for Zhang Rong to organize and train a water camp, then go to sea along Bozhou, Dezhou and Binzhou, first occupy an island as a stronghold, and then go north to occupy Nigu Village.

It became a nail wedged into the belly of the Jin Army.

The eastward march to seize Jinan coincides with the original strategic idea. It is more advantageous to use Jinan as the rear stronghold and then follow the Jishui River to the sea. Because Jingdong East Road is sparsely populated and there are not many towns along the Jishui River.

The section of Zhuhe Beidong Road where the Yellow River meets the sea is densely populated with counties and towns, and the densely populated situation is completely different. On the east coast of Jinan, there are only two counties, Bohai City and Jiyang and Putai in Binzhou, which can be said to be extremely advantageous in terms of transportation safety and security.

And this is actually the digression behind why Di Lie sent Guan Zhongyong to carry out this mission: Jinan, an important seaport, must be captured. As for Guan Sheng, it is just an introduction. Hunt rabbits, save people, and kill thieves.

To capture the city, one guy did it all.

Zhang Rong, Long Xu and other Tianbo camp leaders had a deep understanding of Di Lie's strategic vision after reading Di Lie's personal secret letter. Therefore, this battle in Jinan can only succeed, not fail.

The mighty war fleet traveled for two days, and not far ahead was Pingyin County. In order to ensure that the waterway between Liangshan and Jinan was unobstructed, Pingyin County also had to be captured. However, this place is less than 60 miles away from Jinan.

, in order to avoid alarming the Song army in Jinan and having to divide the troops to garrison after capturing Pingyin, Zhang Rong rejected Liang Ashui's suggestion to capture Pingyin along the way.

At this time, Zhang Rong and others who were standing at the bow of the ship suddenly saw a few people coming out of the hills on the south bank, running from a distance, waving red scarves in their hands, and sending a specific signal to the fleet. Soldiers soon reported back.

It was the hard-hitting detective sent out a few days ago who had the results of the investigation and was coming to report.

Zhang Rong immediately passed on to let them board the boat. So a small boat was put down on the seat, and the sailor shook it to the shore and picked up the people on the boat.

The tips brought two messages: one was an unexpected information about the Jin Army and the Song Jun; the other was unexpected.

In the case of the banner and soldier's costumes played by the other party, it seems to be the official and soldiers. It is just strange that the place is close to Jinan, and from time to time, the Jinjun whistle rides out. How can there be a Song soldier in the left?

Malaysia? And dare to go out of the city? Did you come to your own?

"Passing the order, the warning of the entire camp, before and after the warships, the food ship transported in the middle, and see the banner of the boat."

As Zhang Rong ordered, the banner of the boat boarded the top of the two -storey top, waving various triangular flags in the hand, and constantly making various signals. The upstream fleet passed the signal in turn and slowly slowed down.

Another reconnaissance boat was put down on the boat. Two hard explorations had just been climbing down the net rope, but there were two steps first, and jumped to Xiaozhou -actually commanded Zhang Rong and Dutou Liang Ashui.

Guan Zhongyong was surprised, and screamed from the ship's side probe: "Explore the enemy's situation, have his own shoots, why do you have to command to go out in person?"

Zhang Rong did not answer, but waved to Guan Zhongyong, and then four people, shook themselves skillfully.

On the boat, Jia Hu explained for Zhang Rong's unexpected actions: "In the teaching camp that day, the head instructor repeatedly emphasized that the leader of the first camp, the general of the first army, before the war, must come in person before the war.

The battlefield, survey the terrain, understand the enemy's situation, and clear the enemy and me. Only the commander himself can know that he can really do everything. "

Guan Zhongyong sighed: "At the time of the first training of the teaching camp, Guan Mou was training the heavy armored soldiers, so that he missed the opportunity of listening to the city master, but sorry! After the mission was completed, Guan Mou would return to heaven.

Shucheng, apply for teaching camp learning. "

The Jishui River has a wide surface, the river is straight, and the rain has a lot of rain recently, and the water level has soared. One Ye Qingzhou was under the destroyed by the four good men on the water.

See a man and horse along the river bank.

As the tip said, the flag of the flag of the flag, the flag, the golden drum flag, and the soldiers of the soldiers, and the soldiers of the soldiers are really like the length of the queue.

Fourth, about five hundred, this is equivalent to the people of the first army. The entire Pingyin County can never make up such an army. Could it be from Jinan?

Zhang Rong's face is solemn, saying the left and right: "Lean up and see who is the leader."

At this time, Liang Ashui suddenly raised his hand and pointed: "The officers and soldiers are listed! Strangely, they turned out to be backwater. Obviously it was not rushing to us, the goal was ..."

At this time, it can be seen that the Song Army recruited the flag under the sound of the rumbling and the army, as if a panic of a fly. From the perspective of the array of the soldiers of the soldiers.

"Round Formation". This is a simple and satisfactory defense formation, that is, the entire army adopts ring -shaped defense, golden drum flag, heavy grain and the main will be deployed in the center.

. But it is such a simple and commonly used constant array.

But who is the enemy? Where is it?

Zhang Rong, Liang Ashui and two Tianbo Camp soldiers were wondering. From their direction, there was no large -stock smoke, nor did they have a banner, and there was no flag. Is it ...

"Seeing it, it's Jin Lu!" This time it was not only Liang Ashui, but even the two soldiers called out.

A few miles away from the Song Jun array. First of all, there were a few small black spots, and the black dots were getting closer and closer. The good eye power can already see that several cavalry can be seen clearly.

There are as many as ten riders. As these cavalry keeps approaching, it is clearly seen that most of these cavalry are wearing black armor, and the two of them are left -handed.

The ring hanging rings hanging, flashing and flashing ...

From the perspective of the number and equipment of these golden riders, it should be the Golden Army's riding whistle. Soon after the appearance of this whistle, there was another whistle on the left side, which was also a cavalry;

After a while, five rides appeared on the right side, and there were no rest since then.

These fifteen Jinjun whistle riders did not gather together, but scattered the queue to form a fan surface, plus a double horse.

The potential. The fifteen whistle rides into two columns. The nine people in the front are covered with the blade, and the horse controls slowly; the six people in the back have no armor with a bow. The bow string is half, the arrow is on the string, and the figure is looming behind the armored cavalry.

Liang Ashui breathed a sigh of relief, turned his head to Zhang Rong: "Big head ... uh, command, just fifteen golden dogs, at most to disturb the Song army. Unfortunately, this Song army does not seem to be many cavalry,

Otherwise, a backbone, this group of golden dogs are afraid of running ... "

The sound of Liang Ashui just fell, and there was a sound of thunder -like sounds in his ears, as if a thousand people shouted in unison.

Liang Ashui turned around, and the scene in front of him made the man who had seen several battles dazzling, and he couldn't lift his mouth for a long time.

I saw the fifteen Jinjun whistle riding, when the Song Army was slowly approaching the formation of the formation. The front nine soldiers suddenly urged Ma Yue, and they waved their great axes, bones, and other weapons.

The scream of the ground rushed to the Song Jun; followed by the no -armored bow riding, and began to pull the bow and put the arrow.

The Song Jun first moved a restlessness. As the six arrows shot into the array from all directions, the tragedy was frequent, and the blood light appeared, and the Song Jun immediately chaos.

When the army's heart is stabilized, and when the foot is pressed, the generals do not want the generals to go away. This time, it will be messy.

Thousands of soldiers shouted in unison, scattered, and golden drums, the weapon was thrown up, and the wolf rushed along the river bank. Even a considerable number of scholars panicked and picked up into the river water.

Without a moment and a half, it was frozen with white lips, such as Shi Shenjiang.

At this time, many defeat soldiers saw the leaves on the river on the river, gathered together to call the river bank loudly, or threatened with the wealth, or threatened the threat.

Fifteen PKs and Two Thousands! The absurd and real scene of the south bank of Jishui outside the city of Pingyin City completely thundered Zhang Rong and Liang Ashui and others.

After a long while, Liang Ashui murmured: "These are really soldiers? Will it be that some people can find some people put on military uniforms and pretend to be in charge?"

Zhang Rongqi glanced at him, smiled bitterly and shook his head: "What is the difference between the Xiang army and the common people?"

The Xiang Army of the Song Dynasty was a local army, called the Standing Army. It was actually a handyman for state capitals and some central agencies. Its main tasks were to build cities, make weapons, build roads and bridges, transport grain and reclaim wasteland, and guard and escort officials. Generally,

No training or combat missions. If a small group appears in the local area

If there are bandits, archers will be sent to suppress them; if the bandit force is large, the local officials will report to the court, and the imperial court will send the imperial army to clear them out. Basically, from the beginning to the end, the Xiang army has nothing to do. At most, they are engaged in transportation while the imperial army suppresses bandits.

Auxiliary work such as providing military supplies and setting up camp.

This is also a manifestation of the Song Dynasty's national policy of "strengthening the trunk and weakening the branches". The so-called million-strong army in the late Northern Song Dynasty was mostly "militiamen" who were both soldiers and people. How could they be invincible against the Jurchen cavalry who had survived hundreds of battles?

reason?

After the fall of the Northern Song Dynasty, the state capitals all over the country fell into a state of anarchy for a while. The states and counties that did not fall began to realize the importance of guns, so they trained their local Xiang troops one after another and used them as the main force to fight against the Jin Dynasty. It was just a support

For a long time, the army is laxly equipped, but it may be short-term.

Can combat effectiveness be trained within a short period of time? Not to mention that it also involves complex factors such as the system, money, food, ordnance, the level of training officers, and the quality of the troops. Therefore, these "militiamen" who are more like civilians than soldiers,

With such a shocking performance, it is not surprising.

At this time, two Tianbo Camp soldiers asked for instructions: "Do you want help for those soldiers who fell into the water?"

Zhang Rong glanced at the flapping heads on the river and shook his head: "In this weather, it's useless to save them. And with a small boat like ours, how many people can be saved? When our war fleet arrives, I'm afraid only

We can retrieve the corpse...that’s all, it’s breathtaking to watch, so go back.”

Although I don’t know if these Song troops came for the advance battalion fleet, and the officers and soldiers were enemies rather than friends of Tianbo Camp, I still felt uncomfortable seeing the officers and soldiers so incompetent, with thousands of people defeated by a dozen.

Liang Ashui was still unhappy: "Let the fourth capital that I teased come here... No, I only need to mobilize one of the teams, twenty musketeers, and thirty swordsmen, and I can kill these arrogant Jurchen dogs!"

Zhang Rong hesitated for a moment, and was considering whether to accept Liang Ashui's proposal and give the Jin soldiers a hard blow against their arrogance, when he saw that the Song army on the other side of the river had changed again.

The generals of the Song Army ran away first, then the sergeants dispersed, and the whole army collapsed. According to common sense, the leader of the Song Army should have taken the lead and galloped far and wide. But at this time, a surprising and inexplicable scene appeared - the army in the pole
To be continued...