Chapter 459: Out of Yuguan
Some internal things could not delay the footsteps of Zhao Song's army for half a day. When March came, an army of 200,000 foot cavalry marched out of Yuguan and rushed towards the Jinxi Corridor.
This was a hard-fought collision between Song and Jin.
The Jurchens had already deployed heavy troops in Runzhou, Qianzhou and other places, because they knew very well how heavy the grievances between themselves and Zhao Song were.
Previously, in Yanyun, in Hebei, under Bianliang City, the injuries and shame they left for the Song people, Zhao Song was not the legendary seven-second goldfish, how could they forget it in a blink of an eye?
The party members in the northwest have already hit the streets, and the Khitan has been destroyed by them again, so the enemies around Zhao Song are not the only ones left with their Jurchens. How can the side of the couch allow others to snore, this is a sentence left by the ancestor of Zhao and Song, and then the Song people's soldiers will inevitably be the turn of the Jurchen.
Because now the Song talent is strong.
The strong cannot be humiliated, this is the true meaning of universality.
And Daikin was the one who insulted Zhao Song the most a few years ago.
In order to resist the threat from the south, in the past few years, the Jurchens secretly did not know how much energy they had spent, how much effort they had wasted, how many formulas of medicinal powder they had obtained from Zhao Song, and how many experiments they had conducted, but the results were all far worse than the firearms of the Song people.
Although Daikin never gave up studying firearms, the high-ranking figures among them all knew that it was impossible to catch up with Zhao Song in terms of firearms in a short period of time.
This is called the Jurchens in the upcoming Song-Jin War, and they are congenitally at a disadvantage. It also reminded the Jurchen nobles of the Battle of the Central Plains during the Jingkang period and the Battle of Yanyun after the young queen.
Unwilling to repeat the mistakes of the past, as early as when they withdrew from Yuguan, they mobilized laborers to strengthen Runzhou, Qianzhou and Jinzhou at the northern end of the corridor, thickened and heightened the city wall, built the urn city, and built the inner city fort......
The few cities that were built by the Jin people were not a joke, because this was directly related to their life and death.
Whether the Dajin Kingdom can really gain a foothold in the Bohai Homeland in Liaodong depends on whether they can block Zhao Song in the Liaoxi Corridor this time, or even whether they can beat it back to the Central Plains.
And now, the torrent of the Song army, which is like a raging wind and waves, has been devastated.
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Yang Zaixing slightly raised his horse's head and looked at the Jurchen cavalry in front of him, his face grim.
The opponent is not a waste, these Jurchen savages who crawled out of the white mountains and black waters, all of them are very brave. Although Yang Zaixing has never really fought with the Jurchens, his father Yang Bangyi is just a sesame petty official, and he is also an official eunuch, and the news is still very well-informed.
The Jurchens were physically strong, loved to use heavy weapons such as iron bones and maces, and had strict military discipline, and everyone was not afraid of death. When the army went south to the Central Plains, the hundreds of thousands of troops deployed by the imperial court in Hebei and the Central Plains were as straight as paper paste and vulnerable.
The combat effectiveness is even better than that of the party members.
This is the 'merit' of the Jurchens with their fists.
But for Yang Zaixing, for the cavalry of the Song army, defeating or even crushing the Jurchen horse army in the field battle was a major premise of the Jin War.
Failing to do this, the Song army would likely be bogged down in the northeast battlefield.
In the huge northeast, if the Jurchen cavalry can continue to shake their majesty, then the headache of the Song army will be extended indefinitely.
"Beep beep, beep beep ......"
The sound of the horn blowing spread throughout the entire ranks, and the five hundred cavalry behind Yang Zaixing began to straighten out the ranks, and they lined up in ten long columns at the fastest speed, with fifty horsemen in each row.
The sun shines, spears and sabers shine in the sun.
Yang Zaixing came ten steps in front of the formation, looking at the Jurchen cavalry lined up on the opposite side, his eyes were calm. The Jurchen cavalry on the opposite side was far less neat than the Song army's formation, after all, they were specially trained.
Zhao Gou did not put the rules of modern cavalry on the head of the Song army, because he knew very little about that thing, and the only requirement was that when the horse army was hedging, it was stipulated that the cavalry group must be as dense as possible.
Perhaps, because of this requirement, the training of the latter is already changing to modern cavalry. Zhao Gou doesn't care about this. He just needs to fight!
Yang Zaixing raised the iron spear in his hand, a battalion flag behind him was "whirring ~", looking at the array of Jurchens opposite, his brows furrowed, and he ordered: "All of them, prepare-"
This was the first time he had met the Jurchens. Compared with the battles with the party members in the northwest desert, he is still a little uncertain about the Jurchens, and he is still very vigilant.
Because the Song army had no psychological disadvantage to the party, by the time Yang Zaixing went into battle, the Western Xia Kingdom had already declared its demise, and only a remnant was still in the desert next door. Then Song Jun is a proper psychological advantage.
But the current Jurchens are different.
Although the army under Wang Yuan's supervision has surrounded Runzhou, it will take a long time to take Runzhou.
Because there are more than 20,000 gold soldiers in this city, not only the outer city walls are extremely thick, but also the inner city and fortresses in the city.
The Song army was able to overturn the city wall with medicinal powder, but what about after breaking the outer city? With a city full of barricades and castles, how easy is it to take?
The entire Runzhou, as well as the later Qianzhou, and Jinzhou in the north, have been fortified by the Jin people in a few years.
The Song army didn't fight against Runzhou at all, no matter how fierce it was to ride out of Yuguan with 200,000 steps. In fact, after Wang Yuan led the army to the city of Runzhou, the first thing he did was to establish a blockade line, rather than 'bombing indiscriminately' the city of Runzhou.
Just like the lock-up method used by the Jin people when they dealt with Taiyuan City, now the Song army also uses its own way to govern its people.
As long as the fortifications are completed, the Song army only needs to keep 10,000 or 20,000 soldiers under the city, which is enough to make the Jin people in the city helpless. This is the same as when the Jin people only watched Taiyuan City with a small number of soldiers, and then continued to the south with a large number of troops.
When your strength is not enough, the method of locking the city to deal with the defenders of the fortified city is completely trapped in the city for a long time and defeating the army. It's like the siege of Heishui Camp during the Qianlong period. But if your strength is strong enough, then the lock-up method is a good way for you to quickly get rid of such hard bones as Runzhou.
The Song army had 200,000 cavalry, and even if a considerable part of the army was dispersed in Runzhou, Qianzhou, Jinzhou and other places, it would still be possible to use the remaining 100,000 people to continue to attack Huanglong. It can even continue to deploy troops and horses from the Central Plains to reinforce it......
Although the lock-up law made both Song and Jin 'suffer heavy losses', compared to Zhao and Songlai, who did not have the threat from the west, the Jurchens' forces were obviously very limited.
Not to mention that in the sequence of the Jin army, the real Jurchens only accounted for some of them, and there were a large number of Bohai people and Liaodong Han'er. When the golden people are like a bamboo, the strong will naturally get the attachment of the weak. But what about when the Jurchens got worse and worse? Will those Bohai people and Liaodong Han'er still obediently serve them and die?
The consequences of doing this did not hinder Zhao Song's plan to destroy gold at all.
As for how to solve the problem in Runzhou and other places, how much effort can they waste if they don't surrender and keep surrounding them? The Jurchen Jin Kingdom is dead, and they still have to resist with iron hearts, so let them die.
"Kill—" Yang Zaixing shouted.