Chapter 767: Ming Fu

After the Jin army gained a firm foothold in the Hedgehog River camp and the Haizi Village camp, they discovered that the Song army on these two roads retreated all the way back to Zhuozhou and did not come out, and retreated all the way back to Gu'an to seal the city and hold on, and there was no plan and preparation to counterattack and recapture the lost camp.

As a result, the two choices were placed in front of the Yanjing Garrison and the Jin Army Commander.

The first is to continue to pursue the retreating Song army on both routes, recapture Zhuozhou and Gu'an, and drive the Song army back to Hejian Province.

The second is to ignore the defeat and retreat of the Song army in Zhuozhou and Gu'an for the time being, and concentrate superior forces to attack the Third Route Song Army in the eastern transportation camp.

If the transportation camp can be captured, then the last Song army, the Chaobai River camp in the northeast and west of Yanjing, will definitely retreat without a fight, the siege of Yanjing will be lifted immediately, and the war launched by the Song army will soon end.

Although the Jin army had an advantage in cavalry movement compared with the Song army, it had no advantage in the overall number of troops, and the forces were too scattered, and it was not a wise choice to drive the Song army in the direction of Zhuozhou and Gu'an from a long distance, and to let the Song army in the east and northeast stay within fifty miles of Yanjing City.

Moreover, since the Song army of the two roads chose to retreat, it means that the other side has lost the courage to fight north, and with the arrival of the cold winter, it is impossible for them to go out of the city again and go north to seize the camp of Hedgehog River and Haizi Village.

In this way, it is the best choice for the Jin army to concentrate its forces to attack the Song army's transportation camp or the Chaobai River camp.

Once the general direction was determined, the next step was to choose which battalion to attack.

When choosing the target of attack, the Jin army, which had already begun to fanatize from top to bottom, tried in vain to cut off the retreat of the Song army, so as not to let the Song army escape from the Chaobai River and Chaobai River, so that they could finally eat all the Song troops in the Chaobai River camp in one fell swoop, so the next attack target was aimed at the Tongyun camp.

The Jin army set a goal, the Song army of the transportation camp can escape partially, but the Chaobaihe camp must stay intact, and not a single Song soldier should not want to escape, not only that, but the Song army of Pingzhou and Laizhou should not want to go south easily.

Through the battle of the Hedgehog River and the subsequent hurried retreat of the Song army in the camp of Haizi Village, the commanders of the Jin army in Yanjing and Yanjing basically figured out the true combat effectiveness of the Song army, and they were full of confidence, believing that the Jin army had absolute strength, not only to defeat the war launched by the Song army, but also to establish power through this battle, kill 100,000 people of the Song army, and completely smash the Song army's delusion of the north.

After determining the direction of attack and selecting the target of attack, in order to avoid long nights and dreams, the Song army fled when they heard the news, and the commander of the Jin army ordered to immediately attack the Song army's transportation camp.

On November 12, on the day that Yang Congyi led the Jingwu Forbidden Army to Gu'an County, Yanjing stayed behind and ordered an offensive against the Song army's transportation camp.

On December 13, the Jin army gathered 50,000 troops and rushed in the direction of the general transportation camp, in an attempt to break through the large camp in one fell swoop and defeat the Song army.

The Song army stationed in the transportation camp was the soldiers of Guanzhong and Xingrenfu, and the capital was under the command of Ming Fu, who made great contributions in the battle of Guanzhong.

The Ming Dynasty began to organize the selection camp organized by Yang Congyi that year.

Twenty years ago, although the selection of generals in the camp was anticlimactic and did not meet the expectations of Yang Congyi and the former division of the palace, the three young generals who performed outstanding in the selection camp still reported to the imperial court and were reused, and one of the three was Ming Fu.

After receiving the imperial court's reward and commendation, the twenty-five-year-old Ming Fu, who was originally only a deputy general, was promoted to the same system, and was awarded the cabinet door only to wait, becoming an excellent reserve general that the imperial court focused on cultivating.

In the following years, Ming Fu served in the Zhenwu Forbidden Army, and five years later he was promoted to the commander and commanded the first army.

In the thirty-first year of Shaoxing, in the battle of the Great Song Dynasty against Yan Liang's southern invasion, although Ming Fu's army was defeated again and again, he dared to fight, was good at fighting, and repeatedly built attacks.

After that, the Great Song army fully retreated to the south bank of the Yangtze River, and Ming Fu led his troops to retreat with the army, but in the battle to defend the Yangtze River, almost all the limelight was occupied by Yu Yunwen, Jingwu Army and Yang Congyi, and Ming Fu's infantry army had no chance to make contributions on the Yangtze River.

In the same year, Wanyanliang's army was divided, and there was no need to invade the south, so he hurriedly retreated to the north, and the Song troops stationed on the south bank of the Yangtze River crossed the river to pursue, and Mingfu also got the opportunity.

But he did not go north from Yangzhou, but took advantage of Chuzhou, entered Huaixi, and joined the armies all the way to recover many cities in Luzhou, Shouchun and other places, and even joined forces with Yang Congyi's troops in the north and south of the Huai River to attack the fleeing Jin army, won a complete victory, annihilated countless enemies, and then took Yingzhou, Chenzhou, Caizhou and other places.

In short, in the battle of chasing and defeating the retreating Jin army, the Ming Fu Department showed its skills, where there was a battlefield, where there was a Jin army, he led the army to where, as for whether the superiors or friendly troops would mention them when reporting the results of the battle, and also give them military merits, he had no intention of taking care of it, only the battle in his eyes, only the defeat of the enemy army.

In the spring of the 32nd year of Shaoxing, after the Song and Jin Dynasty made peace, because Ming Fu had been fighting in Huaixi, Caizhou, and Ruzhou, the imperial court assigned his station to Caizhou and was under the jurisdiction of Wu Gong.

Later, Zhao Gou Zen throne, the new emperor Zhao Yan ascended the throne to launch the Northern Expedition, and Ming Fu participated in the Northern Expedition under the leadership of Wu Gong, and also established many meritorious deeds, and his official position was also greatly improved.

In the Lin'an Change, because Wu Gong chose neutrality, after Zhao Yan moved the capital to Bianjing, he intended to weaken Wu Gong's power in Xiangyang and Nanyang, and even contain Wu Yuan, who was very famous in Sichuan and Shu, Zhao Yan accepted Yang Congyi's suggestion and transferred the Ming Fu Department to Ankang County to garrison.

Nearly ten years later, Ming Fu recruited troops and trained troops in Ankang County, accumulated strength, and waited for the imperial court to issue an edict from the Northern Expedition.

After years of waiting, Ming Fu finally waited for the news that the imperial court was going to go on a northern expedition, and at the same time sent a letter from Yang Congyi, the privy deputy envoy, on the arrangements for the Northern Expedition.

Soon after, Ming Fu, under the command of Yu Yunwen, the commander of Sichuan and Shu, led his army from Ankang County before the official start of the Northern Expedition, and marched west along the path between the mountains of the Han River to Xingyuan Mansion.

Later, he showed his skills in the Battle of Guanzhong in the Northern Expedition, and together with various armies, he captured Fengxiang Mansion, Yaozhou, Jingzhao Mansion and other places, and then won the Northern Expedition Meritorious Service and was awarded the post of observer.

After the recovery of Guanzhong, the Ming Fu Department was also assigned a lot of surrendered troops, and then he was stationed in Huazhou, trained the army, and waited for the opportunity to continue fighting, because the privy envoy Yang Congyi told him that he was still needed for the Northern Expedition to recover the sixteen states of Yanyun.

Sure enough, a few years later, Ming Fu, who was in Huazhou, received an order from the imperial court, ordering him to transfer the army to Xingren Mansion.

At this time, although the imperial court had not yet explicitly stated that it was going to go north to Yanjing, Ming Fu had already clearly realized that the imperial court was about to start the Northern Expedition, and if he wanted to go further, he could not but participate in this Northern Expedition, and he would make meritorious contributions again.

The recovery of Yanyun, this is the founding of the Great Song Dynasty for two hundred years, several generations of monarchs and ministers have not succeeded, once successful, it will be able to go down in history, Ming Fu will definitely not waste this opportunity.

Therefore, after his army arrived in Xingren Mansion, it did not belong to training, but repeatedly increased the intensity of training, thinking that Ming Fu knew that the Jin army in the Yanjing area was different from the Jin army in Guanzhong, and the combat effectiveness of the Jin army in the two places was also high and low, and they were bound to be more difficult to defeat.

At the end of August, after Ming Fu led his army north with Yang Congyi, he went all the way north, and soon crossed the territory of the Song army in Hejian Province, entered the Yanjing area controlled by the Jin army, and swept away the Jin army west of Pingzhou and a hundred miles east of Yanjing City, so that Pingzhou had no worries.

It was with the efforts of the Ming Fu Department that the pressure on the defenders of Pingzhou was greatly reduced, and a part of the troops could be drawn out to support Laizhou, first working together to kill the enemy coming from the direction of Jinzhou, repelling the enemy army, strengthening and repairing the city defense, and then mobilizing troops to besiege Yanjing City from the direction of Shunyi.

From the southwest of Yanjing City to the south, east, and northeast, the four routes of the army advanced together, compressing the range of activities of the Jin army in the entire Yanjing area to 50 miles outside Yanjing City.

Originally, everything went well, but when the follow-up army of 50,000 or 60,000 arrived, the 200,000 army could compress the encirclement into 20 or even 10 miles in one go, and then the Jin army could only be trapped in Yanjing City.

But just when the armies were waiting for the follow-up army to arrive and seize Yanjing City in one fell swoop, Yang Congyi, the commander of the Northern Expeditionary Army, left the front-line marshal camp and was recalled to Jinan City to face the saint.

Coincidentally, five days after Yang Congyi, the commander of the Northern Expedition, left the front-line commander's camp, the Jin army suddenly concentrated its forces to attack the Song army's Hedgehog River camp deployed in the southwest of Yanjing, and defeated the camp in a short time.

Ming Fu learned that the Jin army had defeated the Hedgehog River camp, so he immediately sent someone to get in touch with Liu Yan, the commander of the Haizi Village camp, hoping that the other party would not be worried because he was too late to rescue the Hedgehog River camp, and at the same time told Liu Yan that even if the three battalions assisted in defense, they could still trap Yanjing.

However, the news from the camp in Haizi Village two days later disappointed Ming Fu, because Liu Yan led the whole battalion to evacuate ahead of schedule, and because the evacuation was in a hurry, a large amount of supplies were left in the camp.

Knowing that Liu Yan had evacuated and that the Jin army had not yet appeared near the camp in Haizi Village, Ming Fu wanted to send someone to chase and question Liu Yan, but after thinking about it, he finally gave up.

In order not to cause excessive losses to the Northern Expeditionary Army, Ming Fu immediately decided to send an army from the transportation camp to the Haizi Village camp, take over the defense of the camp, and quickly transfer the most important military supplies back to the transportation camp.

Because Liu Yan led his troops to leave in too much hurry, there were too many materials left behind by the Haizi Village battalion, and it took three days for the troops sent by the transportation battalion to transport back the most important ordnance materials, while there was not so much time to carry grain, grass, and ordinary ordnance bows and crossbows.

Even so, the transportation camp still raced against time, and did its best to transport the available materials out of the Haizi Village camp, in their opinion, it was a little bit to recapture.

The Ming Fu Department was stationed in Ankang County all the year round, where the mountains were surrounded and there was a great shortage of ordnance and materials, so any available materials were very precious to them, and they could pick up a little bit because they were really poor!