Chapter 511: The Three Armies Meet
In the night, hundreds of miles southeast of Fengzhou, Yue Fei was leading 100,000 cavalry to gallop forward.
The snow fell so heavily that all the soldiers turned white. The weather was cold, but none of the soldiers complained in their hearts. In the past, when they were in Datong, the winter was also unusually cold, and they didn't know how many times they trained in the bitter cold.
"Thirty miles ahead is Longhua Prefecture! After defeating Longhuazhou, let's conquer Yongzhou again, and then we can go to Fengzhou! On the surface, we have gone so far away, but we can go unnoticed. Yue Fei rode on the horse and said with a smile.
Dong Xian followed beside him and nodded.
They walked for another half an hour, and they were getting closer and closer to Longhua Prefecture, and the sky was slightly brighter.
At this moment, more than a dozen cavalry in front of him came towards here.
These dozen or so cavalrymen were all dressed as Jurchens, and when they saw the Song army, their speed gradually slowed down, and all the Jurchens had frightened expressions on their faces.
The soldiers of the Song army were already heading towards the front at this moment, ready to attack at any time.
"Don't shoot the bow! We don't have weapons, we're here to see your generals! A Jurchen on the opposite side raised a white flag, and the rest of the Jurchens also raised their hands to show that they had no weapons, and a middle-aged Jurchen actually shouted loudly in Chinese.
The Song army surrounded them, and they ordered these Jurchens to dismount, and after carefully examining the bodies of these Jurchens, they confirmed that these Jurchens were indeed unarmed, and then they took these Jurchens to meet Yue Fei.
"I am Yue Fei, the head of the soldiers and horses of the Datong Military Region of the Great Song Dynasty, who are you?" Yue Fei looked at the middle-aged Jurchen who was kneeling on the ground and said in surprise.
"The villain is Wan Yanda, the defender of Longhua Prefecture, and when he heard that your army is coming, the villain is willing to surrender the city!" The middle-aged Jurchen said hurriedly.
"Oh!" Yue Fei only nodded lightly when he heard this.
"I hope the general will spare the lives of our people in the city." This Jurchen is humane.
"Whoever surrenders in Kaesong, we will naturally not kill! We're going to Longhua Prefecture now, and we'll go in and have a look later. Yue Fei said.
"Yes, villain obeys." The Jurchen still had a frightened expression on his face and said.
At that moment, the army continued to move in the direction of Longhua Prefecture, and after the sky was full of light, they came to Longhua Prefecture.
Yue Fei sent an army of more than 1,000 people into the city to check, and after confirming that the defenders of Longhua Prefecture had no conspiracy, he led the soldiers to rest here for a while.
At noon, the army continued to set out.
"Brother Yue, let's come all the way around and pass through several states and counties! These Jurchen and Khitan generals, including Gaozhou, Wu'an, Shengzhou, and Longhua Prefecture, surrendered one after another, and none of them resisted, which was really unexpected! Dong Xiandao.
"The country is dying, and no one wants to be buried with this country! When we didn't enter the grassland at the earliest, the Jurchens still had fantasies, but we went all the way north, conquering all the battles and being invincible, 100,000 soldiers and horses in Zhongjing were besieged by us, and Liaodong was in chaos, and the Jurchens and Khitans also felt that the country was crumbling, so they naturally would not resist! Yue Fei said.
"I wonder if the Mongols are trapped?" Dong Xiandao.
"It shouldn't be a problem." Yue Fei said with a smile.
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On this day, the Mongols were still attacking Luer Gorge.
In the morning, the Mongols sent men to attack the high ground above the gorge and the checkpoint on the other.
However, on this day, the defense of the level seems to have strengthened a lot, and the number of defensive weapons on the level seems to be more and more powerful.
In the morning, the Mongols retreated from the gorge again.
In the afternoon, the two of them, Hebul Khan and Kuerzha Husi, personally led the Mongolian elite to rush to the front, trying to attack the checkpoint.
On two occasions, Hebul Khan even led the warriors of the tribe to attack the city wall, but the Song army on the city wall was unusually tenacious! By this time, the Song army had no longer retreated, and they had already brought out their true combat effectiveness! Hebul Khan had only fought on the city walls for less than half an hour before he was driven down again!
When the color darkened, Hebul Khan and Zha Husi led the people to retreat from above.
"I didn't expect it to be so difficult to attack here, and the infantry of the Song army is so strong." The clansmen had already begun to rest, and suddenly Zha Husi looked into the distance, a little worried.
"The combat effectiveness of the Song army shouldn't be so strong, it's a little weird." Hebul Khan Road.
"Hebule, there are millions of troops like the Song Dynasty, can we really defeat them?" Suddenly, he thought about it.
"The Song people are good at defending the city, and they are famous all over the world! Although it is only a small level in front of us, the Song army has powerful weapons to defend the city, so it is difficult for us to defeat it! However, they didn't dare to take the initiative to attack us! Let's think about it again, we must lay down here! Hebul Khan said.
Suddenly, there was still a look of hesitation on his face.
"Anyway, there are no other Song troops in the Fengzhou area, only Luerxia has enemies! Kagoxia is all infantry, and we can't fight our cavalry on the plains, so we don't have to worry, just destroy these enemies! It's really not good, let's go back to the capital! We've only been here for a few days, and we haven't tried it seriously, so how do we know if we can't beat here? We're going to give it a try! Hebul Khan said.
"Okay!" Suddenly, Zagoth finally nodded.
The night weather was cold, and the Mongols did not even have tents, so they hid in sheltered from the wind, and a group of people sat together and closed their eyes to rest. For the Han Chinese, this was an extremely difficult sleeping environment, but for the ancient Mongols, it was nothing at all. In the past, in the grasslands further north, the winters were much colder than here, and the snow there was so great that it could reach half of a person's body. Now that the area around Shangjing and Zhongjing has just entered winter, and the snow has just begun to fall, they can endure it.
On October 11, the Mongols were still attacking Luer Gorge, but they still couldn't take it.
On this day, Yue Fei still led the army forward, he had already passed through Yongzhou, and the defenders of Yongzhou surrendered without a fight.
After arriving in Yongzhou, Yue Fei's army never rested, but marched forward day and night.
On 12 October, the Mongols sent men to mobilize siege weapons from the city of Toyoshu, but it took more than a day for those weapons to be transported, so the Mongols did not attack again on this day.
In the middle of the night on October 12, Yue Fei's army finally arrived more than 100 miles west of Fengzhou. There are secret agents of the Song Army here, and Yue Fei already knows what the current battle situation is.
On 13 October, a small amount of siege weapons arrived in the Mongol camp from Toyoshu, and the Mongols prepared to attack Kagoxia again.
In the early morning of this day, several Yellow Dragon Flags appeared at the location of the Luer Gorge checkpoint, and there were also Yellow Dragon Flags fluttering in the mountains where Luer Gorge is located.
In just one hour, the Mongols retreated from the gorge.
The boy was still ordered to attack the high ground above the canyon, and he had retreated.
"What's going on?" When Hebul Khan saw the child, he noticed that he had a frightened expression on his face, and said with some surprise.
"Great Khan, there is a Song army on the mountain!" I said.
"There is a Song army on the mountain?" Hebul Khan said with some surprise.
"Yes, there are Song troops coming forward from the path, and we were driven out by them!" I said.
"Are there many Song troops on the mountain?" Hebul Khan asked hurriedly.
"That's a lot! Song Jun appeared on several small roads, I don't know what is going on, is Song Jun going to fight back? "I said.
"It seems that the Song army has reinforcements arriving!" Hebul Khan Road.
"What are we doing now?" I said.
"Observe again! Let's see how many Song reinforcements have arrived! Hebul Khan said.
Now the Mongols no longer continue to attack the city, but observe the form in front of them!
In the afternoon, Hebul Khan got the news that a large number of Song cavalry had arrived in the west, and Hebul Khan was taken aback again!
When it was almost dark, Hebul Khan learned that there were also Song cavalry in the east!
Suddenly, Zahusi had also received the news at this moment, and he hurriedly came to Hebul Khan's side and said, "Hebule, we seem to be surrounded by the Song army, now we have to get out of here quickly!" ”
Hebul Khan hesitated for a moment, then finally nodded and said, "Okay!" Let's get out of here for now! It seems that the Han people came in a detour, they are really cunning! ”
That night, more than 100,000 Mongols left the Kagoxia area and headed north!
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Zhongjing City, which is still surrounded by more than 200,000 Song legions!
Among the more than 200,000 Song troops, 100,000 of them were the regular troops of the Liaodong Military Region originally stationed at Shanhaiguan, and the rest were all militiamen!
These days, the siege war is still going on, and the Jurchens in the capital are already difficult to resist.
In the big tent of the General Staff Headquarters, Zhao Chen, Qu Duan, and Liu Qi were listening to the officers' reports on the war situation in various places.
"Your Majesty, General Yue Fei went all the way north, and everywhere he passed, the Jurchen and Khitan guards in Gaozhou, Wu'an Prefecture, Jiansheng Prefecture and other places surrendered one after another, and they didn't encounter a single incident of resistance! General Li Xianzhong has already crossed to the area of Fengzhou in advance! In addition, the latest information, the Mongols are still in the area of Luer Gorge, trying to take down the Luer Gorge to the south, they still have not found our army's intentions, General Han Shizhong has led 150,000 infantry to the north, according to the itinerary, they will arrive at the Luer Gorge today! The Mongols are already surrounded by our army! ”
"Regarding the combat strength of the Mongols, we got a report half an hour ago that the cavalry of Yue Yun and Liang Hao, and the 40,000 infantry of Yang Zhengbu have all fought with the Mongols, their individual combat strength is good, and the overall combat strength of the army is below that of the Jurchens! Here's the detailed report! ”
"As early as this afternoon, and as late as tomorrow morning, the three armies will launch a joint encirclement and suppression of the Mongol army."
Kang An reported the information from various places to Zhao Chen, Qu Duan, Liu Qi and others.
"Very good, General Qu, it's time to finally conquer Zhongjing! There's not much use left for keeping Nakyo now! Zhao Chen said.
Qu Duan nodded.
"Liu Qi, give the order for a full-scale siege of the city!" Zhao Chen said.
A quarter of an hour later, the Song army's more than 200,000 troops were dispatched to launch a fierce attack on Zhongjing again! This time, Liu Qi, Yang Yizhong, Fu Xuan, Wang Yan and other important generals in the army personally led the army to participate in the siege!
In the night, Zhao Chen also rode the jade lion horse to the battlefield to supervise the battle.