Chapter 53: The Battle of Monk Yuan
At this moment, on the main position of the monk's original, although it is already dark and snowy, it is a busy scene here!
The soldiers were building defenses, countless sands and boulders were placed at the front of the position, and countless arrows and weapons were transported to the front!
Wu Jie was standing in front of him, looking at the terrain around him! Although it was night, his eyes seemed to be able to glow, and everything around him could be seen clearly! His martial arts are strong, and he has long been a master of the innate realm! Not only him, but his brother Wu Lan is also a master of the innate realm! This is one of the reasons why he is full of confidence! In this world, masters of the innate realm are too rare, and it is impossible not to be confident with such skills!
Of course, it was not only his martial arts that gave him confidence, but also his strategy!
He joined the Western Army more than ten years ago, when he fought with the Western Xia people, and also fought with Fang La! Repeated wars, he has repeatedly performed miraculous feats! It's just that he is from a humble background like Han Shizhong, Zhang Jun and others, so he is only a deputy general until now! Han Shizhong and Zhang Jun are already widely known, but he and Wu Lu are still unknown, so he always holds a breath in his heart!
"Big brother, can we really keep the monk's plain?" Wu Lin came behind Wu Jie and said.
"Don't worry, there's nothing wrong with that! You have also seen the terrain of this monk plain, easy to defend and difficult to attack! As long as we hold this place, it will be absolutely impossible for the Jurchens to go south! Wu Jiedao.
"We only have more than 5,000 brothers, and the Jurchens have an army of 10,000 people, and less wins more, big brother, do you have such confidence?" Wu Lan said again.
"Trust me! Not only will we be able to hold this place, but we will also be able to achieve victory and defeat the Golden Soldiers! Now, it's time for our brothers to become famous! Wu Jie laughed.
His voice was full of confidence, and under the infection of his voice, Wu Lan's mood also calmed down all of a sudden, and he nodded, showing his trust in his brother!
"How's the arrow ready?" Wu Jie said again.
"There are 50,000 arrows, enough for us in this battle!" Wu said.
"Excellent! 50,000 sticks, that's enough! For these 50,000 arrows, as well as the 5,000 Divine Arm Bow, we paid a great price! All the gold and silver we have accumulated over the past ten years have been used up, and all of them have been used to buy these bows and arrows! Wu Jie nodded and said.
"Qu Duan is a slight envoy of Jingyuan Road, we are also his subordinates in name, we want to use bows and crossbows, in order to defend His Highness and repel the golden soldiers, Qu Duan even asked us for so much gold and silver, it's really damned!" Wu Lan scolded bitterly.
"Now the situation of my Great Song Dynasty is like this, the army is the general's personal one, and those ordnance are also the general's personal one! We are only nominally Quduan's subordinates, but in fact, the two of us are like duckweed without roots, with nowhere to go but to recruit new troops from Sichuan, and even the military salary is prepared by ourselves, and it is normal for Quduan to squeeze us! Wu Jie sighed softly and said.
"Da Song has become like this, no wonder he will be defeated by the Jurchens! If all the armies are owned by the imperial court and under the unified command of the imperial court, won't our million-strong army of the Great Song Dynasty still be able to stop the Jurchens? Wu Lan said hatefully.
"Not really! In addition to the army, the court itself is also full of traitors, and His Majesty and the Emperor are not wise lords, so it is inevitable that we can't stop the Jurchens! Wu Jie shook his head and said.
"Big brother, you say, can our Great Song Dynasty recover the Central Plains?" Wu Lan said again.
"I saw His Royal Highness the Crown Prince a few days ago, and he was very calm! If His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is a generation of British lords, the civil and military officials of the imperial court can obey the orders of the prince and unite as one, the civil officials are not greedy for money, and the military generals are not afraid of death, then there is still hope to recover the Central Plains! Wu Jiedao.
"Civil officials are not greedy for money, and military generals are not afraid of death, how is this possible?" Wu Lan smiled bitterly.
"No matter what, I will definitely win this battle of Monk Yuan! I want to tell the people of the world that in addition to Han Shizhong, Zhang Jun and others in the Western Army, there are also my Wu brothers! With us here, this Sichuan and Shaanxi are as solid as a rock, and the Jurchens don't want to defeat Sichuan and Shaanxi! Wu Jie clenched his fist and said hard!
Wu Lin nodded, and the two brothers looked at each other, and they both let out laughter!
"Tomorrow's battle, we have to look at Yang Congyi's first!" Wu Jie looked ahead and said secretly.
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At this moment, hundreds of miles away in the north, Wanyan Wushu had already led the army to the vicinity of the Qinling Mountains!
The number of the Jurchen army has increased much more than a few days ago, and in addition to Wanyan Wushu, the Jurchens' victorious general Wanyan Lou Room has also arrived! The number of the Jurchen army has reached 40,000!
The night was dark, and Wanyan Wushu and Wanyan Lou were discussing the war in a tent!
In front of them was a simple map of Sichuan and Shaanxi, although this map was simple, but the important places were drawn on it, and it was carefully marked in Jurchen language!
"This is the Shencha, and the monk Yuan is in front of it, these are nothing! After passing the monk plain, it is the Great Scattered Pass, which is the southwest barrier of Guanzhong, where the war between Cao Cao and Zhang Lu took place, and Han Xinming's plank road and dark Chen Cang also happened here! The Zhejia army must have fled here, and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince of the Great Song Dynasty must have fled here! Therefore, our goal in this battle is this great dispersion! Wan Yan Lou said.
Since ancient times, the Great Scattered Pass is a place where soldiers must fight, but the monk Yuan before the Great Scattered Pass was not very valued, until the history of Wu Jie's great victory over the Jin soldiers, this monk was included in the same important strategic place as the Great Scattered Pass!
"Who drew this map? Who told you about this great dispersal pass? Wanyan Wushu said in surprise.
"This is painted by the generalissimo's military advisor Xiaoyaozi Dao Chang, and the importance of this Great Scattered Pass is naturally what he told me!" Wan Yan Lou said.
"Xiaoyaozi, it turned out to be him!" Wanyan Wushu nodded.
Because of his repeated surprises, Xiaoyaozi has become famous, and Wanyan Wushu, the fourth prince of the Jin Kingdom, has heard of Xiaoyaozi's name!
"The attack on Dasanguan is different from other places, we can no longer march in a hurry! First, our Jurchen sons and daughters are really tired from last year's battle to the present, and such a rapid march is occasionally okay, but it is not possible to keep doing this! Second, he knows the importance of the Great Scattered Pass, and he understands that losing the Great Scattered Pass is equivalent to losing the Great Scattered Pass, so he will never leave the Great Scattered Pass! There are 100,000 Song troops there, and we can't conquer them if we march there in a hurry! We need to concentrate all our forces and mobilize all the armies under the Great Scattered Pass, so that we can overcome the Great Scattered Pass! It's not as good as Yao Gu, he's still much stronger than Yao Gu! Wan Yan Lou said.
"I naturally understand this truth! Hu Liyan, let's let the soldiers set up camp here first, and then go to Dasanguan after a short rest! In addition, we have to bring more siege weapons, without siege weapons, it is not easy to lay the pass! "Wanyan Wushu said.
Wan Yan Lou nodded his head.
"By the way, have we kept up with the weight of grain and grass? If you don't have food and grass, you can't do it! "After finishing the Yan Wushu, he said.
"Don't worry, the grain and grass are behind, and it will follow soon!" Wan Yan Lou said.
After ten years of development, the Jurchen war mode is very different from before! In the past, when there was a small-scale war, they could run long distances without the trouble of grain and grass, but now when a large army is fighting, the problem of grain and grass must be considered! Historically, the only people who didn't have to think about the weight of grain and grass were the Mongols, who rode their war horses all the way with beef jerky, and most of their war horses were mares, and mare's milk could replenish energy, so they could go all the way! Although the Jurchens are also northern barbarians, unlike the Mongols, the Mongols are a horse people, they are a people in the deep mountains and old forests, so they are inferior to the Mongols in this regard!
After Yan Wushu settled everything down, he was relieved!
It's just that in the night, he can't sleep! As the fourth prince of Dajin, this is the first time he has commanded such a large-scale war! He couldn't help but come to the outside of the camp tent and stand on the high slope to observe the arrangement of the camp tent!
The camp tent is arranged in a zigzag shape, also known as Lianzhu Village, stretching for more than 20 miles!
Jin Wushu likes to use Lianzhu Village all his life, and in history he has repeatedly laid down Lianzhu Village, and he is also arranged like this at this moment!
"This battalion commander stretches for so long, it can be seen that I have a lot of golden soldiers! Hey, a mere Song prince must be in my pocket! The prince of the Great Song Dynasty still has the heirloom jade seal of the Central Plains in his hand, and I definitely want to get this thing! Jin Wushu thought excitedly!
After a long while, the Golden Vulture returned to his tent and rested in it!
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Early the next morning, Jin Wushu did not immediately enter the army, he first sent people to investigate the environment ahead, and only at noon did the whole army rise and advance in the direction of Dasanguan!
An hour later, they came to the location of Shencha, where they encountered more than 1,000 Song troops under Yang Congyi, but Yang Congyi's troops retreated back as soon as they saw them! Behind them was a big mountain, and they retreated into the big mountain, and the Jurchens were not familiar with the terrain and couldn't catch up!
"Song Jun is still so cowardly! I'm more confident in overcoming the Great Scatter! Jin Wushu laughed.
At that moment, he ordered the whole army to move forward quickly, but the road ahead was unusually difficult! Here, the cavalry did not work at all, and all the soldiers had to dismount and lead the horses forward!
Seeing these scenes, Jin Wushu couldn't help frowning, and Wanyan Lou couldn't help frowning!
Although they had already sent people to investigate the terrain in the area of Dasanguan, they knew that the terrain here was complicated and the roads were difficult, but they didn't expect the roads to be so difficult!
No wonder the Song army wanted to retreat to the Great Scattered Pass, it was because the terrain in front of the Great Scattered Pass was too complicated!
"Fourth prince, should we think about it again, explore the environment in front of us again, and then move forward?" Wan Yan Lou said.
"No, you don't! We have an army of 40,000, as long as we pass through the monk Yuan in front, we will reach the Dasan Pass! As far as I can see, the road before the monk was extremely difficult, and after passing the monk plain, the road will become smooth! The monk originally had a group of Song army guards, but it was said that there were only a few thousand, which was insignificant! Jin Wushu said categorically.
At that moment, he ordered the soldiers to continue to move forward, and the Jurchen soldiers could only line up along the rocky path, and in the afternoon, the army finally came to the monk's original main position!