Chapter 219: Breaking through to the north
In November 1677, the army of the two roads of the Jin State approached the capital, and at that time, the division of the king of Qin from all directions did not arrive, and the whole division of Beijing was shocked, and those who fled to Jiangnan and Dengzhou were connected to the road.
Sun Fu, the secretary of the Great Song Dynasty Military Department, read "Sentimental Poems" one day, which was a popular poem at that time that was said to be able to prophecy (a bit like pushing back pictures, baking cake songs), seeing that there were "Guo Jing Yang Shi Liu Wuji" words, from which to get inspiration, searched the whole city, found a citizen named Liu Wuji in Bianliang Fang, and found a soldier named Guo Jing from the Si Longwei camp in front of the palace, just heard the good people say that this Guo Jing is good at the art of Liujia, Sun Fu was overjoyed, played the imperial court entrusted with a heavy task, hoping to borrow him to capture Zong Han and Zong Wang. Not only Zhao Huan believed in this matter, but most of the citizens in Bianliang City also believed it.
Wen Tiaoyu in the Qilin Building asked the maid Cui'er: "Is there really a Liujia divine law in the world?" ”
Cui'er said: "I haven't heard of this, but when I was in Liaokou and Jinmen, I often heard people talk about our seven generals, saying that he can call the wind and rain, scatter beans into soldiers, cut off people's life and death, and prolong people's lives." ”
Wen Tiaoyu shook his head and said, "How can there be such a thing!" I've never heard him say that. ”
Soon I heard that people outside were coaxing Guo Jing to choose people born in such and such a year, month, and hour, and it turned out that this Liujia method would use 7,777 people, and Guo Jing mobilized these people regardless of their origin and talent, but they were counted as birthdays. After the personnel were assembled, Guo Jing talked and laughed freely every day, and he also had the style of a superior person just by looking at his appearance, saying that as long as he chose the day to send troops, his backhand would lead to peace, and he would definitely drive the Jin people straight to Yinshan. Prime Minister He Li and Sun Fu, the secretary of the Ministry of War, are convinced and rely on them deeply.
Cao Guangbi sighed after hearing the news: "Crazy, crazy!" The whole city is crazy! ”
He ordered Lin Yi to arrange all the people in the Han Department who could not fight to sneak out of the city, and Lin Yi personally came to invite Wen Tiaoyu, but Wen Tiaoyu refused to leave.
Lin Yi said: "If you wait for the Jin people to besiege the city, even me and the second general will not be able to protect ourselves." If you don't go, you're in danger of losing your life. ”
Wen Tiaoyu said that he didn't want to leave, and he refused to let Lin Yi inform Cao Guangbi, but asked Lin Yi to take Cui'er away, and Cui'er hurriedly said: "If Miss doesn't leave, I won't leave either!" ”
Lin Yi was helpless, so he had to say: "No matter what the battle situation outside is, Zhou Xiaochang will stay in the city." This Qilin Building has an underground secret room, in case something happens, you can hide underground with Zhou Xiaochang. There is food and water hidden in the secret room, and hiding in it may be possible to avoid this fate. ”
Wen Tiaoyu thanked Lin Yi, and said, "The slave family is thin, please don't worry about me anymore." Now that the state affairs are in turmoil, the prince must have more important things to do. ”
Lin Yi instructed Zhou Xiaochang to go again, and then left.
When there was a disturbance in Bianliang City, King Kang Zhao Gou was going to the Jin army as a hostage, he was blocked by Zong Ze, the warden of Cizhou, and Zong Wang's rangers forced to the city of Cizhou, and found Zhao Gou's whereabouts with the intention of capturing him alive. Zhao Gou was shocked, fortunately the attendant eunuch Kang Lu recognized a businessman named Ouyang Yuan, this businessman provided information on a secret road, Zhao Gou stole it overnight, and fled to Xiangzhou from this secret trade route without the military and civilians of Cizhou. Since then, Wang Boyan and this businessman named Ouyang Yuan have been appreciated by Zhao Gou at the same time.
As Yang Yingqi expected, Zongwang did not first level Hebei Prefecture and then cross the river, but bypassed Jiancheng as he did the first time, and went all the way south to Bianliang, at this time there were only 70,000 soldiers and horses near the Great Song Jing Division, and Zhang Shuye, the governor of the South Province, came to help, but it was only more than 12,000 people. Soon Zong Han led the troops to join the army, so the Jin army outside the city not only had individual combat effectiveness, but also the number of soldiers was more than the defenders in the city.
On the second day of the 11th month of the leap month in 1677, the Jin army began to attack the city. The Jin army came from afar, and the siege equipment was not prepared in a hurry, but there were hundreds of catapults waiting for Zong Han outside Kaifeng Mansion! It turned out that the officials of the military department passed the buck to each other, and when the Jin soldiers arrived in the city, they did not include these catapults in the city. For this gift, where will Zongwang Zonghan be polite? Use it as you go.
Although Bianliang is not a natural danger, it is a famous city in the world after all, and it has not been captured in an emergency. On the same day, the Jin army rushed to attack the Tongjin Gate with catapults, Cao Guangbi and hundreds of dead soldiers rushed out from the flank from the dead corner on the east side of the Tongjin Gate, and burned many siege artillery vehicles. However, after all, the strength of the Song army was inferior to that of the Jin soldiers, and their morale was low, so the more they fought, the more unfavorable the situation became.
This time, the Jin people attacked and surrendered; The Song court sued for peace and defended the war.
Previously, because Song Gou heard that Zhao Gou had not arrived in Jinying, he ordered him to join the Hebei soldiers and horses, and soon named Zhao Gou as the generalissimo of the world's soldiers and horses. Chen Yu is the marshal, Zong Ze, Wang Boyan is the deputy marshal, the business is more than a month, the soldiers and horses are 10,000 people, divided into five armies to cross the river to the south, the Xinde Mansion guards led 3,000 people to the meeting, Zhang Jun, Miao Fu, Yang Yizhong, Tian Shizhong are all under the command, Zhao Goubing is a little more powerful. Zong Ze persuaded Zhao Gou to quickly lead his troops to aid Bianliang, where did Zhao Gou dare to go? Wang Boyan saw through Zhao Gou's thoughts, and it was not in his interests to go to Beijing to help, so he suggested that Zong Ze should go first as the striker. After Zong Ze left, Wang Boyan immediately persuaded Zhao Gou to go to Yingtianfu in Nanjing, called recruiting soldiers, but in fact, to avoid trouble. This suggestion was in Zhao Gou's arms, so he bypassed the battlefield and fled to the south via Dongping.
King Qin's army did not arrive for a long time, and the more the Bianliang defenders fought, the more desperate they became. However, this year, there was a rare cold weather, the Song people were not as hardy as the Jin people, and the more they fought, the more uncomfortable they became, and even many soldiers froze to death directly on the city wall for the wind and snow.
Prime Minister He Li saw that the troops were unfavorable, so he urged the archmage, great warcist, and great savior General Guo Jing to go to battle. How dare Guo Jing fight? just kept prevaricating: "My divine weapon will not be used until the most critical moment!" ”
He Li said: "Now is the most critical juncture!" ”
It was a day of heavy wind and heavy snow, and Guo Jing, the Shinto general who had pinned Bianliang's last hope, was finally going to fight. Before going to war, Guo Jing ordered all the soldiers defending the city to go down to the city, and they were not allowed to peek, so as not to spoil the heavenly opportunity. Then he opened the Xuanhua Gate of the southern city wall of Bianliang and went out of the city to attack the Jin army. The Jin people didn't care about these gods, and advanced in four ways, and Guo Jing's divine soldiers collapsed without a fight. Guo Jing saw that it was not good, and said to the officials who were monitoring him: "I have to go down and do it myself, so I can make it." So he went down to the city and led the remnants to flee.
The Great Song soldiers want to deal with the aftermath, where is the time? The Jin soldiers had already taken advantage of the situation to enter the city, and the Song army was in chaos, trampling on each other, and there were countless people beside the corpse road. The southern wall of Bianliang was lost. When the other defenders heard that the southern wall was lost, they abandoned the wall and fled, and soon all four walls were occupied by the Jin army.
When Cao Guangbi heard that the imperial court was using Guo Jing to go out of the city to defend against the enemy, he already knew that things were going to be bad, so as soon as he heard that Guo Jing was out of the city, he ordered his subordinates to stop. Because he has been fighting bravely for more than half a month, everyone has seen it, so the commander Yao Youzhong asked for an order to increase his troops, and equipped Cao Guangbi with 2,000 more archers and 500 war horses.
After the southern city wall was breached, Cao Guangbi knew that there was no room for recovery from the fall of Bianliang, so he led the crowd straight into the palace and asked Zhao Huan to submit to the remnants of Bianliang's soldiers and horses to support the breakthrough.
Zhao Huan was already taken aback when he heard that Cao Guangbi led troops into the palace, and then heard that he was going to support himself to break through, and the first thing that came to mind was that he was afraid that he would hold him hostage. After all, it is dangerous and uncertain to go out of the city in the midst of war, and Zhao Huan can't be convinced of Cao Guangbi, where is he willing to go? Several ministers around him also had a similar attitude, believing that if they surrendered to the Jin soldiers, they might not be killed, and it was relatively safer than risking a breakthrough.
Cao Guangbi saw the signs, and it was not easy to force the invitation, and frankly admitted that he was jealous of Zong Han and Zong Wang, and if he stayed in Bianliang, he would be retaliated, and now he would break through and cross the river to attack the back road of the Jin people, and the emperor refused to do it, so this time he came to say goodbye. He also asked Zhao Huan's royal pen to allow him to recruit volunteers in the Song Realm and run a militia group to fight against gold and drive Hu, but Zhao Huan didn't believe that he could do anything big, so he promised him in panic.
At this time, the Jin army had divided its troops to occupy the eastern, southern, and northern three walls, Cao Guangbi did not dare to stay, and went out of the palace gate to see a lot of civil and military generals gathered outside the door, raised his hand and said: "Cao Guangbi has given the imperial pen, and will break through to Hebei to recruit volunteers to resist Jin." Brave man, come with me! ”
For a time, the respondents gathered, together with the original 5,000 men and horses, a total of more than 10,000 people, and under the leadership of Cao Guangbi, they seized the gate from the southwest direction where the Jin army was relatively weakly garrisoned. The city area of Bianliang was huge, and it was difficult for Zonghan Zongwang's coalition army to besiege it, so they could only arrange heavy troops at fixed points, and use light cavalry to attack and kill those who broke through. At this time, Cao Guangbi opened the way with cavalry, and the light cavalry of the Jin army squad did not dare to approach.
Wanyan Xiyin, who was in charge of the western garrison, saw such a large group of people fleeing, worried that Emperor Song was among them, and led light soldiers to chase him. Cao Guangbi asked Deng Su to lead the rest of the army and civilians to retreat to the southeast in a roundabout way, and he led 3,000 people to ambush and break off. Wanyan Xiyin came too quickly, and accidentally fell into Cao Guangbi's ambush, causing him to lose his armor, and he himself was almost captured alive by Cao Guangbi. At this time, Zong Han already knew that Emperor Song was still in the city, and he didn't know that the person who took it was led by Cao Guangbi, so he ordered Wanyan Xiyin not to chase after him, so as not to fall into the trap of luring the enemy.
This group of men and horses walked out of dozens of miles and turned eastward, on the bank of the Guangji River, there were already forest wings to meet, settled in a village, there is a warehouse in the Han Department, in addition to the armor money and grain, there are a number of cattle and horses. Cao Guangbi and others rested here, and convened the leaders of the various armies and the officials who had escaped to discuss the way to go.
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