"Shut up! Are you stupid, do you think Song Jun is as stupid as you? Do you know who the commander of the Song army is? ”

The commander of the Jin army was distraught and shouted to stop the noise in the camp.

"This time, the commander of the Song army to the north was Yang Congyi, the privy envoy of the Song court. Do you know who he is? Do you know what battles he fought? Do you know that Luo Cong, who has been stationed in Hejian Mansion all the year round, is his cronie? Do you know who Yao Chang, the commander of the Chaobai River camp in the north, is? Do you know who he is? ”

The commander of the Jin army asked several questions, and the generals were silent for a moment.

"You don't know, you don't know anything!" The commander of the Jin army scolded sharply.

A deep gaze swept over everyone, and then said: "Yang Congyi didn't have many achievements when he was young, and he didn't have much reputation in the entire Song Dynasty, but he was such a person, when Wan Yan Liang's army went south to the Yangtze River, he suddenly rose to prominence, won several games in a row, and successively destroyed the army of crossing the river under the command of Wan Yan Liang in Hezhou and Yangzhou, so that Wan Yan Liang's idea of crossing the river to the south was completely shattered. Yang Congyi pursued the army all the way behind, from Yangzhou on the Yangtze River to Bozhou and Suzhou north of the Huai River, and in just three months, he was promoted from a small commander of the first army to a commander of an army of more than 40,000 people. Two years later, when the Northern Expedition of the Song Dynasty failed, he attacked Xingren Mansion with surprise soldiers, and annihilated the 50,000 troops sent by Wan Yan Liang to Jeju to defeat the Northern Expedition of the Song Dynasty in one fell swoop. ”

In this way, Yang Congyi went from a little-known small commander to command nearly 200,000 troops of the Song Dynasty in three years, from the Daimyo's Mansion to Jinan Mansion, Yidu Mansion, and even the entire Shandong Province. Yang Congyi has been walking back and forth between Bianjing City and Jinan Mansion all these years, just preparing to take Yanjing, for the army personally commanded by such a person, do you dare to say that there are only 5,000 people on the other side? Just to stop us, so that the army in the Chaobai River camp can retreat? Ignorant! ”

After the commander of the Jin army said this, he saw that the expressions on the faces of the generals finally changed somewhat, and then he said: "Who is Yao Chang, the commander of the Chaobai River battalion, I might as well tell you about his origin and my relationship with him today." ”

As soon as these words came out, the generals immediately raised their eyebrows, became interested, and couldn't help but guess what the marshal would have to do with the commander of the Chaobaihe battalion of the Song army.

Before they could begin to use their imagination, the commander of the Jin army directly threw out the secret, only to hear him say: "I am not afraid to tell you that I was once his defeated general. ”

When the generals heard this, they were in an uproar.

The commander of the Jin army, regardless of their whispers and the surprised expressions on their faces, continued: "More than ten years ago, in the second year after the failure of Wanyan Liang's army to go south to the Yangtze River, the civil unrest in various parts of the Jin country still did not subside, and I was in Shangdong at that time. Before Wanyan Liang's army went south, there were countless rebellious people all over Shandong, they either occupied the mountain as the king, confronted the imperial court, or attacked the county seat, and robbed the granary and treasury. I remember that in the autumn and winter of the year when Wanyan Liangshuai's army went south, the civil unrest in Shandong was even worse, and hundreds of thousands of people gathered along the way, plundered all the way from north to south to Haizhou, and after conquering Haizhou City, they lived there. Due to the huge momentum of the rebels on that road, Yidu stayed behind and sent me to command 30,000 troops, go south to exterminate the rebels, and fought with them for more than a month, and then killed the leader of the rebels on that road, and as soon as the leader died, 100,000 rebels fled into the mountains. Although the rebels were scattered, they were still chaotic people, and it was possible to gather people to cause chaos, so I was ordered to garrison Yizhou and guard the mountain pass. Soon after, I met an even more powerful rebel, Yao Chang! ”

Speaking of Yao Chang, the commander of the Jin army still couldn't hide the pain in his heart, if it weren't for Yao Chang, he wouldn't be what he is now, and the Dajin Kingdom would not be shattered.

After a slight pause and sorting out his thoughts, he continued: "In the autumn and winter of the second year after Yan Liang's failure to go south, a group of chaotic people emerged in Shandong, taking advantage of Yan Liang to gather troops from all over the country in Hejian Mansion and Zhending Mansion, preparing to attack Yanjing and Liaoyang Mansion, and the army in Shandong was empty, first captured Yidu Mansion, the capital of Shandong, in one fell swoop, and then recruited troops and horses to absorb and collect the rebels from all walks of life, and gathered 20,000 or 30,000 people in just half a month. Later, they quickly captured the nearby prefectures and counties based on Yidu Prefecture, and later abandoned Dengzhou, Weizhou, Mizhou and other places, and went directly south to Yizhou to besiege Yizhou City, because they knew that if they took Yizhou, they finally took most of Shandong. They went all the way south, all the way to collect the rebels from all over the country, and when they arrived at the city of Yizhou more than a month later, the number of rebels led by Yao Chang had reached 70,000, and the Yizhou garrison was less than 30,000. In addition to having twice as many troops as me, he also brought his relatives and elders who raised me since childhood, so I lost the battle of Yizhou and retreated with only more than 10,000 elites. Later, in Jeju, Tai'an, Jinan and other places, I fought many times with the rebels led by him, and each had its own victory and defeat, but in the end, the general trend of Shandong had gone, and I could only lead my subordinates to the north. ”

"Regarding Yao Chang's true identity, I also found out after many years, he is not a rebel in Shandong at all, he and Luo Cong were the Song army at the beginning, or the generals who commanded thousands of troops, they were secretly sent to Shandong by Yang Congyi, just to cooperate with the Song army to seek Bianjing. Yao Chang and Luo Cong have been in Shandong since then, one in Jinan Mansion and the other in Yidu Mansion. And Yang Congyi's intention to put them in these two places is also obvious, that is, they want to go north to Yanjing one day! This time, the three of them went north together, and the plan was very big. If the Song army on the other side chiseled the ice just to cover the smooth retreat of the Chaobaihe camp, you think of Yang Congyi and Yao Chang too simply. ”

The commander of the Jin Army is none other than Wan Yan Xizheng, the official Yizhou guard general who Yao Chang took the Yidu Mansion to stay behind and threaten Yan Huhe.

After Yan Xizheng finished speaking, he finally took a breath, and his gaze swept over the generals again.

The commander of the Jin army stopped talking, and the camp suddenly fell silent, as if everyone was thinking about some problems, as for what they were thinking, they didn't say it themselves, no one knew.

After a moment of silence, the general couldn't help but ask, "Marshal, since the Song army may have other intentions, what should we do?" Do you want to find a way to cross the river, or do you want to retreat south for now? ”

Wan Yan Xizheng didn't give him an answer right away, because he didn't have an answer either.

If the intentions of the Song army cannot be clarified, any action may be useless, and there is no benefit except to drag down the soldiers of the army.

To find out Song Jun's intentions, it will take time.

Whether Yang Congyi has returned to Hejian Mansion from Jinan Mansion, whether he has brought other troops, what changes have occurred in the Chaobaihe camp, and what changes have occurred in Pingzhou City, these must be clear, so as to reasonably speculate on the battle situation and make the most correct judgment.

I was bent on taking advantage of the cold weather and the canal to freeze and capture the transportation camp in one fell swoop, but I ignored that the Chaobai River camp sent 5,000 troops to cross the river to the west.

But a mistake is a mistake, and there is no chance of reversing it.

In the final analysis, this was his mistake as the commander of the first army, after all, he had reported to him the movements of the Song army in the Chaobaihe camp, but he did not ask questions, let alone pay attention to it, which led to the current situation.

Although he was also praying in his heart that the Song army on the other side would cut the ice and prevent them from returning to the west bank, in order to cover the retreat of the Chaobaihe camp, his conjecture was difficult to hold.

If the Chaobai River camp wants to retreat, there is no need to risk crossing the Chaobai River to the west bank, and there is no need to cut the ice and build a snow wall in the middle of the night against the biting cold wind, wouldn't it be better to retreat directly from the east bank of the Chaobai River? The Jin army could cross the canal, but it couldn't cross the Chaobai River, which was not very frozen.

Taking a step back, even if the Chaobai River Song Army is greedy for tens of thousands of war horses in the Jin Army's camp, then they can completely break the camp, grab the war horses and leave, there is no need to spend that time breaking the ice and building a wall, you must know that the canal is dozens of miles long, even if it cuts off three or five miles of ice, there are still dozens of miles, how can it be possible to stop the Jin army from crossing the river?

Unless they use a large army to cut off all the ice on the entire canal, they can really prevent the Jin army from crossing the river and returning to the west bank.

But is it possible?

How can the forty or fifty-mile-long canal and the three- or four-inch thick ice be cut off in a short period of time, and how can we ensure that it will not freeze again?

Even if the Song army really made great efforts to cut off all the ice for forty or fifty miles, and could rely on the soldiers to hold on to it for a moment during the day to ensure that the ice would not refreeze, what about the night? Could they have been stationed by the river for twelve hours, day and night?

Some things are impossible, such as guarding the canal water from freezing in the middle of the night, in the cold wind and snow.

In the face of many possibilities and impossibilities, Wan Yan Xizheng's brain is also in chaos, with only limited information, he can't figure it out at all, let alone point out the direction to the officers and soldiers of the whole army.

But there is one thing he knows, and he has repeatedly warned himself that they can't afford to lose this battle, otherwise Yanjing City will be the fat meat in Song Jun's mouth.

The generals were waiting for their generalissimo to give them an answer and tell them what to do.

And Wan Yan Xizheng, as the marshal of the army, couldn't give a definite answer right away, and it was difficult to even give them an answer that wasn't right.

After all, this is war, not child's play, and not doing the right thing is itself a mistake here.

Just when the camp fell silent and it was difficult to break the deadlock, a scout entered in the wind and snow, breaking the silence between the people.

"What did you find?" Seeing the scout enter the camp, Wan Yanxi was quickly asking.

"Returning to the big marshal, the small one explored more than ten miles to the north, and the Song army was stationed on the other side of the canal, and there were ice walls along the coast." The scout replied.