Chapter 472: The End Has Come
The city of Tongzhou was full of panicked people, the Jurchen magnates who had been pushed here step by step from Liaodong, and the Jurchen nobles who fled to Tongzhou in the capital, all of them were as if the end had come, and all kinds of chaotic news about the violence of the Song army circulated among the crowd. Some people say that the Song people burned all the way, and some say that the Han'er had been killed outside the city, causing great panic to the remnants of the Jurchens, who were already frightened birds.
But Muhan couldn't control the situation anymore.
The defeat of Yinzhou made the Jurchens lose their last breath, and on the way from Yinzhou to Tongzhou, the once invincible Dajin Dynasty has actually disappeared.
Wu Qimai in Tongzhou City has already understood the ultimate fate. Although the tenacity in his bones made him choose to resist to the end, even if he died, he also had to die with dignity.
But even so, he was not interested in paying attention to the situation in Tongzhou City at this moment, and he had no way to pay attention to it. Before Sticky Han led the remnants of the army to flee back to Tongzhou, there were only three or four hundred guards left under his command, and it would be good to be able to maintain the stability of the City Lord's Mansion.
And he also knew very well that Tongzhou City could not be defended at all.
Not to mention whether the city defense here is strong, only to talk about the morale of this place, it will be vulnerable.
Don't look at the fact that after Mu Han fled back with his people, there were still more than 10,000 people from all departments in Tongzhou City, but those Han'er were not trustworthy at all. If it weren't for the fact that Guo Yaoshi had been cornered and would not have been able to turn back, he would have defected to the Song people like Wang Bolong, Yelu Yujian or the Bohai people.
Han Qinghe's loyal minister is one in a hundred.
Wu Qimai said hello to Han Qinghe, who had died in Liaoyang.
Yes, this man is long dead. The Dajin Kingdom has fallen to such a state now, how can loyal ministers and warriors not die?
To put it mildly, the people who can run to Tongzhou alive, as long as they are not Jurchens, they are all scum who are greedy for life and afraid of death.
Therefore, the city of Tongzhou has been completely out of control, robbery is rampant, and houses that have been broken into can be seen everywhere. The corpses that fell on the side of the road were left unattended, and thousands of people dragged their families out of the city and blindly headed north. Wu begged to buy it all.
Sticky Han doesn't care.
The two highest Jurchen leaders who have seen the final outcome are all making final preparations for the final battle.
In the city lord's mansion, Wanyan Wushu's eyes were red and swollen, and his face was like dead ashes when he sat alone in the hall.
In the recent Battle of Yinzhou City, he supervised the army to defend the west of the city, and after the Song army broke through the city wall, the army he led resolutely resisted.
In a brutal street battle, Wanyan Wushu led his troops to counterattack many times, and even went into battle in person, but all of them were blocked back by the vanguard soldiers and horses of the Song army who were killed in the city.
The latter did not have many firearms.
In the streets and alleys of Yinzhou City, the two armies encountered, and the fight was swords, guns, and armor, which was bloody, tenacious, and combative.
Wanyan Wushu witnessed the once invincible Jurchen soldiers being defeated by the Song army, which was not as numerous as the Song army, in the cold weapon battle.
He had witnessed the tragic collapse of the Jin army more than once on the battlefield, but Wushu was always a little unconvinced, always believing that the Han people won with firearms, and in real hand-to-hand combat, the Song army was no match for the Jurchen warriors at all.
But in this battle of Yinzhou, he is dead.
Even though the Wushu knows very well why the Jin soldiers can't fight the Song Army, there are many external factors in this, and the combat power of the Yinzhou Jin Soldiers is a lot worse than the combat power of the Jurchen elite at its peak, but if it can't be beaten, it can't be beaten. Facts don't need a reason!
Therefore, from that day on, Wanyan Wushu was also 'dead'.
In the Battle of Yinzhou, after the banner of Sticky Han disappeared in Yinzhou, there were only one or two thousand people left around Wanyan Wushu, and the Jurchens and Han'er were mixed, and there were very few Bohai people in the Jin army at that time. Its troops were surrounded by the Song legions, and they were about to be annihilated.
But God didn't want to see him die in Yinzhou, the Song army made a mess by himself, and at the last moment he opened a hole, and the personal soldiers who finished Yan Wushu dragged him out of Shengtian desperately.
But this is only a body without a soul.
The Battle of Yinzhou, the last hope of the Jurchens was ruined. In his own case, he had five or six thousand horses under his command, but when he escaped from the city, how many people were left with him?
Five or six hundred. Only one of the ten remains.
Wanyan Wushu fought very fiercely, and Sticky Han and other Jurchen high-level fighters fought very fiercely.
In the spirit that this battle cannot be won, the Jurchens will die and have no future. No matter how many people and horses escape from this battle, they will also collapse when they reach Tongzhou, and this saving head is not for Dajin to Wanyan Province. Therefore, Mu Han showed a lot of toughness in the battle to defend the city, and he transferred people to block the Song army that broke the city and entered the city at any cost, and his only remaining son, Wanyan Xianbao, lost his life in this battle.
Compared with the normal offensive and defensive battles, the Jin army paid more casualties in Yinzhou, and the consequence of this was that the sticky Han completely destroyed the last cohesion of the Jin army.
The five or six hundred men and horses who fled to Tongzhou with Wushu were completely dispersed soon after arriving in Tongzhou, and no soldiers were willing to obey the orders of the above.
I still hear it, do you think you've lived enough?
Not to mention the Han people in the inner and the smaller number of Bohai people, even the Jurchens, they also caused chaos, and one by one they robbed food and supplies in the city and fled to the north.
There are only a hundred and ten irons left in Wanyan Wushu now, and the rest of them are gone. At least in and out of the city, he was circling and looting, not still doing his bidding. And this is the true portrayal of the current Jin Army.
Of course, at this point, those who can continue to stay by Wanyan Wushu's side are all Wanyan Nuzhen's diehards. Just like the three or four hundred guards who were still guarding Wu Qimai in the City Lord's Mansion at this time, it was the same as the hundreds of guards under Sticky Han at this moment.
In addition to these people, the rest of the people are mostly fighting and fighting for things in Tongzhou City.
The Dajin Kingdom, with the Wanyan clan as the core, was originally a country that was rapidly expanded by a tribal alliance. The magnates at the core of the Wanyan clan completely control the high-level power, and use one victory after another to expand and consolidate their prestige.
Victory and strength are the foundation of the Dajin Kingdom and the lifeblood of the Dajin Kingdom.
When Ah Gu started the army, there were only 2,500 people, which was already the efforts of his father, grandfather and great-grandfather for several generations. The harsh natural environment of the Tongjiang River, the long period of wind and snow, the severe cold and the hard life certainly tempered the brutality and physique of the Jurchens, but also limited their population. However, by the time the Jin army overthrew the Khitan, raised troops to the south, crisscrossed the Central Plains, and drank the Yellow River, how many soldiers and horses did the Jin army have?
After deducting the Han Army, the Khitan Army, and the Bohai Navy, there are only 50,000 or 60,000 real Jurchen soldiers, where did so many real Jurchens come from?
There is only one answer, that is, these real Jurchens are not wild Jurchens, nor are they born Jurchens, but all mature Jurchens who live in the Liaodong region south of the Tongjiang River. It is the Changbai Mountain Department that was conquered by Aguta, the Hosu Pavilion Department that was flattened by the iron hooves of the Jin Army, and the Yidian Department, the Huibai Department, the Lu Maoduo Department, the Yalu River Department and so on living in the Liaodong region.
The number of these mature Jurchen tribes is far less than that of the so-called seventy-two Jurchen tribes, but the population of a single tribe can easily beat the Wanyan tribe and other Jurchen tribes in the Tongjiang Valley. They were the Jurchens who were directly ruled by the Liao, and they were also the natural allies and the best leading party when the Wanyan Jurchens went south to Liaodong.
Therefore, Ah Guda called the emperor's soldiers to go south to Liaodong, and it was a snowball-like move.
One by one, mature women and real people actively or passively united around the Dajin Kingdom with Wanyan as the core. When the Dajin Kingdom was going well, these people also showed no fear of death on the battlefield, and they also showed no fear, just like the birth of a female protén.
Because at that time, the interests of all Jurchens were the same, and everyone was the same regardless of whether they were born Jurchens, mature Jurchens, or wild Jurchens.
But now everything is different again.
Husband and wife are birds of the same forest, but when disaster comes, do they fly separately? What's more, the Jin State is just a state power with a very short history.
Its mythical meteoric rise is only due to the favor of the goddess of victory. The Wanyan clan relied on the land and wealth won by the war to maintain its self-expansion, and the foundation of the entire Jin country was the strength of the Jin army. And when the fundamental forces that support the country disappear, all that awaits it is to fall apart.
Whether it is the Jurchens, the Khitans, the Bohai people or the Liaodong Han'er, all of them are counted in it, and everyone's loyalty only lies in the invincibility of the Jin army. After stripping this away, no one cares about whether it is a 'big gold country' or a 'big gold country'. If it weren't for the Song people's very cruel attitude towards the Jurchens, after the Battle of Liaoyang, countless mature Jurchens would have surrendered long ago.
Now their last hope is gone. One by one, mature women would rather flee north into the deep mountains and old forests in a daze, and live the hard life of their ancestors again, rather than lose their lives for Wanyan's family in vain.
In the end, it seems that only those who are willing to die for the Yan clan are those who were born in the Yan clan.