Destroy Jin and conquer Song, and carry the Northern Expedition through to the end

Chapter 237: The Sword-Waisted Thief

Wen Dunhunyu felt as if he was dreaming.

A nightmare from which one cannot wake up.

It was obvious that the troops he led were elite, and the enemy was a peasant army that should have collapsed at the first touch. It was obvious that his decision-making was correct from beginning to end, so why did the entire army collapse?

At what point did he go wrong?
Was it from the time when we decided to advance alone without defeating the Tianping Army?

No, fighting the Tianping Army to the death was meaningless at that time. Even if the Tianping Army was destroyed, it would be impossible to advance and attack the Zhongyi Army from the flank. Wen Dun Hunyu could only retreat or advance, without any other choice.

Was it a time earlier when we decided to have a major battle with the Tianping Army instead of taking a detour?

No, the Tianping Army is a bandit army, and based on the experience in Shandong over the years, bandit armies are all trash. If Wen Dunhunyu doesn't dare to touch them, he shouldn't lead the troops and should go home to hug his children!

Was that earlier, when the decision was made to use a small force to attack the loyal army from the flank?

No, as long as the Wuxing Army has to bypass that fatal hilly area and attack the Zhongyi Army from the side and rear, there must be a detachment to go around the rear.

So when did the mistake happen?

In a daze, Wen Dun Hunyu saw a wave of light in front of him, and he had already arrived at the bank of Yishui River along with the panicked fleeing soldiers.

After seeing this piece of water color, Wendun Hunyu finally came back to his senses. However, he had no intention of reorganizing his troops, but immediately remembered something.

Dongping Prefecture has many lakes, and the famous Liangshan Marsh is located in Dongping Prefecture. At that time, the Wuxing Army was stationed next to a small river. When the order from the Privy Council was received, the generals of the Wuxing Army were training by the river.

Originally, they thought they were going to be mobilized to fight the Khitan Saba to the death, or to attack the Song State as the vanguard of the entire army, so the generals of the Wuxing Army were very nervous.

However, after hearing that they were coming to attack the Shandong bandit army, all the generals breathed a sigh of relief. In the military meeting, although they were a little cautious because of Pushandharma's defeat, they were more cautious because of the deadline of September 10th.

As for whether we can easily defeat this group of thieves who call themselves the Loyal Army, is there any doubt?

Now that I think about it, the root of today’s trouble was planted at that time.

Afterwards, the vanguard advance of the Wuxing Army's First Meng'an, the reckless advance of Tu Danzhang, and the annihilation of the six Moukes were all due to underestimating this group of bandits.

After that, things got out of control.

If Tu Danzhang had not died, the First Meng'an would not have suffered so many casualties, and the remaining troops would not have been executed and disciplined by the military court, thus losing their combat effectiveness for a while.

Then this time the first and second Meng'an will be responsible for the flanking operation. The first Meng'an is much stronger than the seventh Meng'an in terms of both human and animal strength. With the combat power of two top thousand-man teams, it is possible that the Tianping Army will be defeated in one fell swoop that day and Ju County will be recaptured.

As the saying goes, one wrong step leads to another. Because they underestimated the enemy at the beginning, they were taken advantage of. And as their misjudgments continued, the entire army continued to make mistakes, finally completely defeated. Two thousand men were trapped in a desperate situation, unable to survive.

Wrong! Wrong! All the officials in the court and the generals of the Wuxing Army are wrong! Whether it is the Zhongyi Army or the Tianping Army, they are not ordinary bandits!

They are elite troops, elite troops who can capture cities and seize territories, and elite troops who can win a decisive battle in the field with the regular army of the Jin Kingdom!
Although he had clarified all the causes and effects, Wendun Hunyu did not feel happy at all. On the contrary, he fell into great panic again.

In this case, isn't it not just the Second Meng'an who is beyond saving, but even the entire Wuxing Army is in danger?

"General!"

"General!"

The anxious calls of the personal guards brought Wen Dunhunyu back to his senses.

"General, what should we do now?"

Wen Dunhunyu stood up from the stirrups and looked around, but found in despair that the reason the Jin army stopped fleeing was because the Zhongyi Army and the Tianping Army had surrounded them from three sides, blocking more than a thousand Jin soldiers on the river bank of Yishui.

At this point, some Jin troops were aroused to ferocity and fought hard against the loyal army who were besieging them. However, without the command of their officers, these stragglers were quickly killed on the spot. After the largest formation of a hundred men was defeated, the Jin army could no longer organize any resistance and retreated in disorder.

Some officers were still trying to organize a counterattack, but as they were surrounded on three sides and their own troops were scattered, they could only be forced deeper into the mudflats step by step.

The Yishui River hadn't been repaired or desilted in who knows how many years. The conditions were better near the official road, but the closer to the center of the river, the more silt accumulated, making it difficult to move forward. The Jin army had no choice but to abandon their horses, which were stuck in the mud, remove their armor that hindered their movement, and discard their long weapons that were in the way, and flee in a panic, almost unarmed.

Wen Dunhun reined in his horse on a hard surface, looked around, and laughed bitterly: "You all should flee. If you are familiar with water, escape from the river. If you are brave enough, charge out from the front. Don't worry about me anymore."

The guards looked at each other and wanted to persuade them again, but they saw that the pursuing army stopped and stood outside the muddy beach.

The armored cavalry of the Loyalty Army and the Tianping Army dismounted and formed a battle array. Among the Loyalty Army infantrymen who had rushed over, dozens of them broke through the crowd and shouted loudly: "Those who abandon their troops will not be killed! Those who surrender will be spared! Those who refuse to surrender will be killed!"

"Those who don't surrender will be killed!"

"Those who don't surrender will be killed!"

I don’t know if it’s because of the deep hatred among the rebels, but everyone almost simultaneously ignored the first two sentences and focused on shouting out the last sentence.

The Jin army was blocked on the mudflat and was all terrified. Many of them began to look back at their generals, hoping to get instructions.

However, before Wen Dunhunyu could react, the Loyal Army could no longer hold back.

"You're a bunch of little slaves, and you dare to act like that in front of me! Crossbowmen, come here! No, all the archers, come here! Shoot these bastards to death!"

Zhang Chou's face was ferocious and he called out loudly.

Soon, more than 200 archers gathered together, raised their crossbows, and began to shoot at the Jin army.

The Jin soldiers who took off their armor were also mortal bodies. They crowded together and fell down in unison like wheat fields in a strong wind under the shooting of strong bows and crossbows.

"Fuck him! That Yizhou bastard wants to take all the credit!" Zhang Xiaoyi had ordered over a hundred of his personal guards to remove their skirts and shoulder pads for the battle on the mudflats, leaving them in just their crotch armor. But seeing someone already fighting, the bastard couldn't hold back and tore off his top half, revealing a torso covered in floral tattoos.

Zhang Xiaoyi's snow-white tendon muscles trembled as he raised his long sword and shouted, "Kill all these slave dogs!"

After saying that, this guy rushed forward and killed directly.

As if it was some kind of signal, the surrounding rebels rushed forward, as if the previous surrender was just a formality.

The Jin army had lost its courage and was surrounded on all sides by brave generals. For a time, the morale of the army was in chaos. Many soldiers did not even care whether they could swim or not and jumped directly into the river beside them.

There are very few who turn around and fight.

The Wuxing Army, like many peasant armies they had defeated before, was in a panic and had no choice but to flee.

Wen Dun Hun Yu sighed to the sky, drew out his wrist-cutting knife, and just as he was about to slit his own throat, he said to his guards, "Hurry up and run away. If you can get back to Wuxing Army, tell the commander-in-chief that I, Wen Dun Hun Yu, have let him down."

Even as he was speaking, a bloody machete flew over horizontally and hit Wen Dunhunyu in the chest and abdomen, knocking him off his horse.

Wen Dunhunyu's personal guards did not come to his rescue immediately, but scattered and killed them, but were killed on the spot by the swarming rebel army.

When Wen Dunhunyu fell off his horse, his head hit the ground first and his neck seemed to be broken. He lay on the ground unable to move or speak. Out of the corner of his eye, he saw a shirtless strong man walking towards him.

"Want to commit suicide?! You want to be respectable now? How can Ye Ye let you off easily?"

"Brother Xiaoyi, this guy is breathing out but not breathing in!" a soldier shouted.

Zhang Xiaoyi cursed loudly, "What bad luck!"

"Don't let this guy get away with it! Strip him naked! Bring your spears and mutilate his body! Don't mess up his face!"

"Respect!"

"it is good!"

Amid the cheers of the soldiers, two thousand men from the Second Meng'an and the Seventh Meng'an of the Wuxing Army were surrounded and killed by the Zhongyi Army and the Tianping Army on the banks of the Yishui River.

(End of this chapter)