Chapter 254: The Price of Blood

As time passed, the Blood Wolf Legion entered more and more battles, but the rebel army also continued to increase, and the two sides were inseparable, but the Jin Army was never able to break out of the encirclement.

The impact of the cavalry could not be reflected, which greatly reduced the combat power of the cavalry of the Jin State. Despite this, the Jin cavalry continued to charge outward.

With the increase of the rebel army, the total strength of the Song army gradually exceeded 300,000, and the increasing strength in the rear almost offset the casualties in the front, and the total combat effectiveness reached its peak.

And after the cavalry of the Jin Kingdom crossed the river with all the blood wolf legions, the strength was only reduced and could not be increased.

In this case, the Jin Guotie cavalry began to be irritable, and there was no longer a rule when the impact came, but fought alone, trying in vain to rely on the impact of the cavalry to break out of the encirclement.

Shameful and brave, Wan San and Wan Si brothers did not want to take their soldiers to encircle and suppress the Jin Army, they knew that their families could be saved, but they had absolutely no possibility of survival, in this case, it was better to shroud in horse leather and stain the battlefield with blood.

Wan San is on the left, Wan Si is on the right, the spirit of the two brothers who are not afraid of death infects the soldiers below, these people also know about the previous attempt to defect, and they also know that they have a stain on their bodies, and only by fighting bravely to kill the enemy can they wash away the stain. These 10,000 infantry showed unprecedented combat effectiveness, and this spirit of not being afraid of death infected the other Song troops, and everyone fought bravely to kill the enemy and hold their positions to the death. Let the Jin army's murderous charge always hold the position firmly.

Bloody, the Great Song army has not had such bloodiness for nearly a hundred years, Wan San and Wan Si brothers are covered with blood, and they look like two bloody people from a distance, but the two brothers seem to forget the pain, and keep leading the soldiers and the Jin army to tear together. will not be afraid of death, and the soldiers will be fearless in fighting to the death.

A lion leads a flock of sheep, as a result of which the sheep become lions. At this moment, the combat power of the Song army has reached its peak, and the soldiers have repelled the attacks of the Jin army again and again, losing their positions.

As time passed, night fell, and the bloody battle came to an end, and the whole battlefield was strewn with corpses and rivers of blood, and there were corpses lying everywhere, blood everywhere, and war horses that had lost their owners everywhere.

The war is coming to an end, after all, in the darkness of this kind of large-scale fighting, the rate of accidental casualties is high. For the attacking side, the Jin army, there is obviously no way to kill it in one go, and it is not necessarily a bad thing to stop fighting at night and rectify it. For the defending side, the Song is fighting at home and defending the country, and the longer the delay in this case, the more troops there are, and the balance of victory in the war will gradually tilt around.

On the fourth watch, the army that has always been strong appeared, although it is still the uniform of the righteous army, but it is not known how many times stronger than the previous righteous army, and it is much stronger than the forbidden army of the Great Song Dynasty. This team directly kicked off the prelude to the night battle, this is an army of 30,000, an army that is good at night fighting, they finally took advantage of the night to launch a lightning offensive against the Jin cavalry who were sleepy and lacking horses, under their leadership, the Song army was no longer defensive, but attacked with all its might.

Although it was in the dark night, it was obvious that the night had a greater impact on the cavalry, so that the combat power of the Jin Kingdom was greatly reduced, and it did not show the domineering spirit of the past.

attack, Zhang Shuye gave the final general attack order, he guessed which team it was, but this kind of thing can't be cheap and good, so he can only pretend to be confused and lead the army to attack, this battle is destined to go down in history, and Zhang Shuye will also become famous in a battle.

After a whole day of tearing and killing during the day, the Song army was already sleepy and tired, but under the leadership of this powerful 'righteous army', the Song army still killed the Jin army frantically.

Jin Jun never dreamed that the Song army would take the initiative to attack after tearing up a day during the day, and the attack at night was much more intense than the defensive intensity during the day.

The most powerful cavalry is the offense, and the defense is obviously the least accustomed thing for the Jin army, this time in front of the Song army's strong attack, the blood of the Jin army came up all of a sudden, and directly gave up the defense and the Song army to fight against the attack.

You come and go, and the two armies come together in the dark of the night. The entire battlefield was brightly lit and illuminated as day.

Not long after the bloody battle between the Song army and the Jin army began, the righteous army, which was so powerful that it was outrageous, quietly broke away from the battlefield. Regardless of the final battle situation, they ran towards Luoyang at a fast speed.

As soon as the brutal bloody battle was known, it was close to the end of the evening of the next day, the 100,000 Jin army was annihilated, Marshal Wan Yan Xian was also killed, and the battle of Mengjin shocked the world, and even the emperor of the Han Dynasty sent a reward to Zhang Shuye.

The killing of 100,000 Jin cavalry was indeed a great victory for the Song State, and it enhanced the confidence of the Song army and people to resist the invasion of the Jin army. It's just that in this battle, Zhang Shuye was bitter, the forbidden army, the box army and the righteous army invested before and after reached an unprecedented 400,000, and finally less than 100,000 were born, and most of them were still righteous soldiers, the casualties in this battle exceeded 300,000, which was a pain in the bones for the Great Song Dynasty, and the victorious side had to swallow bitter wine.

If there is no powerful 'righteous army' to help, perhaps, this battle will also be won, then in the end, I am afraid that these 100,000 troops will not be left, and even all of them will fall into it, basically the victory is only the result of the battle, after all, he killed the marshal of the Jin State and killed 100,000 Jin State cavalry. That's all, in fact, the Central Plains region was empty all of a sudden, and it was no longer possible to resist the Jin army's southward movement.

Is it a victory? No, although he was victorious, but due to heavy casualties, Song Gaozong Zhao Gou finally came into contact with Zhang Shuye's military power, but Miao Fu gained Zhao Gou's trust and served as the former commander of the forbidden army palace after returning to Beijing.

After the news of Wanyan Xian's death reached Huining Mansion, Wanyan Wu, the emperor of the Jin Kingdom, was so angry that he vomited a mouthful of blood and passed out, and it was already two days later when he woke up.

Wanyan Wu begged to buy the most shocked was the death of Wanyan Xianye, not the 100,000 cavalry were completely annihilated, but the judgment of the Son of Heaven of the Han Dynasty, sure enough, Wanyan Xian also died within the scheduled time, as if the Son of Heaven of the Han Dynasty had already calculated this day. What is this, it is simply a terrifying shock, Wanyan Wu begged to buy at this time, it seems that he has lost confidence in the destruction of the Song Dynasty. As for the match against Hanguo, hehe, he didn't dare to think about it anymore.

This is not a coincidence, this seems to be God's arrangement, people cannot go against the sky, Wanyan Wu begged to buy that the Jin State could not fight the Han State, it seems that after the destruction of the Great Song Dynasty, the south of the Yangtze River seems to be handed over to the Han State, and the Jin Army cannot confront the Han Army for at least ten years.

It was not only Wanyan Wu who was timid before the battle, but the entire upper echelons of the Jin Kingdom were shocked, in the cognition of these people, the Jin army was invincible, and Marshal Wanyan was also the god of war of the Jin Kingdom. This invasion of the Song Dynasty can be said to be carefully prepared, but I didn't expect that as soon as it came up, it was a loss of troops, 100,000 troops were wiped out, and all marshals were killed in battle. If it is an encounter with the Han army and the emperor of the Han Dynasty, this ending is not unacceptable. But what he encountered was the weak Song Jun and the unknown Zhang Shuye, which was difficult for the upper echelons of the Jin State to accept.

At this time, everyone began to question whether the emperor's decision to buy Wanyan Wu was correct, and whether it was appropriate to let Wanyan Zongqi take on the task of destroying the Song Dynasty.

The Taizu faction led by Wanyan Zonggan began to make trouble, Wanyan Xiyin, Wanyan Zonghan and other important ministers also added fuel to the fire, in this case, Wanyan Wu begging to buy was also a little powerless, but now the situation is complicated, and it is difficult for him to resist public opinion for a while, and finally choose a compromise within a certain range, but the appointment of Wanyan Zongqi to attack the main attack has not been withdrawn.

In the end, Wanyan Wu begged to buy the Jin army to divide the troops, Wanyan Xi did not change, Wanyan Zongqi, Wanyan Lou Room, Wanyan Yanmu and other famous generals participated in the war, strengthened the attack on the Song State, and at the same time appointed Wanyan Tart as the marshal of the capital, and the real attack on the capital of the Song State is still Wanyan Zongqi.

This division of troops, on the surface, weakened the power of Wanyan Zongqi, but in fact, it increased the success rate of the Jin State in its invasion of the Song Dynasty.

Wanyan Xi should not attack Xiangzhou, Wanyan Zonghan should attack Puzhou, Wanyan Lou Room attacked Fengqiu, Wanyan Yanmu chose Mengjin to cross the Yellow River again, but this time learned the lesson of the last time, and chose to cross the Yellow River from the ice and snow in December, when the river surface froze. At the same time, Wanyan Zongbi and Wanyan Yinshu have already taken Qingzhou and Yunzhou respectively, and are pressing Nanjing Yingtianfu.

In the face of the Jin army's attack on all sides, the sequelae of the Mengjin War appeared, although the Great Song Dynasty still had hundreds of thousands of troops, but it had to face the attack of the Jin army on several roads, and it was necessary to defend the capital. At this moment, Zhao Gou, the emperor of the Song Kingdom, is like an ant on a hot pot, and he is really powerless to fight again.

On the second day of the second month of the fourth year of Shenlong, the dragon raised its head, on this day, Wanyan Zongqi led a 100,000 Jurchen army plus 100,000 signed troops to approach Bianliang City, he did not immediately start the siege, but relied on the mobility of the cavalry, attacked everywhere, and wiped out the troops who came to Qinwang's rescue one by one, and accelerated the manufacture of large-scale siege equipment, which seemed to be bound to Bianliang City.

On the eighth day of the first month of March, on this day, Wanyan Lou took Fengqiu and quickly approached Bianliang City, while Wanyan Xi should not have taken Xiangzhou in early April, and Wanyan Zonghan took Puzhou in mid-April.

At this time, the situation of the Song State was precarious, as long as Yan Zongbi took Ying Tianfu, then he would soon complete the siege of the capital Bianliang.

Whether to fight or to make peace, this is the biggest question in front of the Emperor Zhao Gou of the Song State, the previous tough attitude with the battle of Mengjin with the wind, he began to shake the courage to fight to the death, I don't know where to go.

Qin Hui, at this time, Qin Hui led Wan Qiao, Zhu Shengfei, Huang Qianshan, Wang Boyan and other important ministers to implore Emperor Zhao Gou to go south and tour Hangzhou.

In the early years, before the first Jin army went south, Hangzhou built a palace, and Song Huizong did not live in it, nor did Song Qinzong live in it. By the time of Song Gaozong and Zhao Gou, it seemed that going to Hangzhou was a foregone conclusion.

If you go to Hangzhou, you can avoid the danger of destroying the country, but that indicates that the Song State is no longer an orthodox dynasty, but just a small court in a corner of peace, and the hearts of the people in the world will move closer to the Han Dynasty, which is obviously not the result that Zhao Zhi wants.

Negotiate peace, Zhao Gou wanted to know how to negotiate peace, so he called Qin Hui to find out if there was any possibility of peace.

Qin Hui is not a typical peacemaker, he is an escaper, and he is more inclined to go to Hangzhou, but the housekeeper wants to negotiate peace, and he can't directly refuse, so he said cautiously: "Your Majesty, Han Lie, the envoy of the Jin State, has not left the capital yet, so the minister will go to find out the tone and see how likely it is to negotiate peace." ”

"Han Lie hasn't left yet?"

"Yes, it's just that the minister doesn't know why he didn't leave."

At this time, Zhao Gou didn't have the heart to ask why the envoy of the Jin State didn't leave, he was more concerned about whether there was a possibility of peace.

Not only did Han Lie not go, but even Chai Jin did not go, and this envoy of the Han State was also in Bianliang City.

When Qin Hui came to visit Han Lie, Chai Jin was at the scene.

Originally, he was embarrassed to speak in front of outsiders, but Qin Hui found that Chai Jin showed no signs of leaving, and Han Lie didn't seem to be in a hurry, in this case, he knew that there seemed to be some conspiracy between Jin and Han, and the peace talks would not become a confidential matter, and there was little point in concealing it.

Han Lie seemed to see that Qin Hui had concerns, so he smiled and said, "If you think that the Song Kingdom can escape this catastrophe and survive, then let him go." If you think it's necessary to leave a way out for yourself, then it's better to let him stay. ”

"Excuse me, Mr. Han, does your stay in the capital have anything to do with the envoy of the Han Kingdom?"

"Of course, the world will be unified, we are Han people, how can we let the Jin army go south to dominate the world? Moreover, the marshal of the Jin State, Wan Yan Xian, also died, and the second prince of the Jin State, Wan Yan Zongwang, died, and the Jin State already showed signs of decline, while the Han State was thriving, and it was only a matter of time before the world was unified. ”

Han Lie did not doubt the unification of the world by the Han Dynasty at all, and when the Emperor Wanyan Wu Qimai of the Jin State did not think about changing the crown prince system, before the death of Wanyan Zongwang, perhaps the Jin State still had the possibility of unifying the world. But now that even Wan Yan Xian is dead, Jin Guo has lost the best opportunity to unify the world.

Qin Hui was a little unconvinced and said: "Why is the unification of the world not our Great Song Dynasty?" ”

"If it's Da Song, you don't have to come over." Chai Jin interjected, and he said coldly: "I am a royal nobleman of the previous dynasty, and the world was taken away by Zhao Kuangyin, and in the end I am not considered orthodox by you." Whoever can rule the world is orthodox. The Great Han is actively preparing for war and will declare war on the Jin State at any time. The only one who can carry the Jin Kingdom is our big man. ”。

"Not necessarily, in the Battle of Mengjin, our Song army annihilated 100,000 Jin State Iron Cavalry, and strangled Wan Yan Xianye, the marshal of Jin Guodu, I'm afraid that such a battle example, the emperor of your country has never experienced it."

Qin Hui was very proud when he mentioned the battle of Mengjin, after all, he was a civil servant, and he didn't know much about military affairs.