Some soldiers had already rushed down to the city to report the military situation to the main general Li Yanqing.

Not long after, Li Yanqing and a group of generals walked up to the city one after another and looked into the distance.

"Dutong, how could Jin Bing kill from the direction of Jiexiu County?" Wang Gui asked a little puzzled.

Li Yanqing smiled slightly and asked, "In which winter, why did you cross the Yellow River in Mengjin?" ”

Wang Gui scratched his head, "It seems that the heavy snow in winter has sealed Jingcheng and Fuyang, and Taihang Mountain can't get by...... Ha! I understood that the Jin soldiers couldn't cross the Taihang Mountain, so they had to take a long detour from the north and south of Jin. ”

Li Yanqing smiled and said: "This army is Wanyanchang's army, and when it comes back from Luoyang, there should be 20,000 Jurchen cavalry, 20,000 Khitan troops and 10,000 Han troops. ”

Liu Jian hesitated and asked, "Dutong said that they would attack Nancheng tonight, is this news reliable?" ”

"It should be reliable, just see if Yan Chang swallows this bait."

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The Jin soldiers set up a large camp ten miles away from the southern city, and Wan Yanchang led more than 1,000 cavalry to check the situation in Taiyuan City.

But Wan Yanchang frowned, this kind of ice shell would bring him huge resistance to attacking the city with the Heaven-Shaking Thunder, and it would seriously hinder his siege plan.

At this time, Wanfu Chang Yan said: "Why don't you let the Han soldiers try to attack the city and see how the defense of the city head is?" ”

Wan Yanchang said: "Forcibly attacking the city is just a strategy, it is best to use strategy to capture the city, otherwise the advantages of our cavalry will not be brought into play." ”

Another commander of ten thousand people, Ah Hu, also said: "I don't know what the situation is in Taiyuan Cangcheng? There's a lot of grain and grass over there, should we send someone to take a look? ”

"You don't have to look at this, the Song army has captured Taiyuan for eight days, eight days is enough time for them to transport things back to the city, and now we are not short of supplies, I just think about how to take the city, Marshal Du asked us to recapture Taiyuan at all costs, I am afraid that we will pay a huge price, but we can't take the city, and we will be laughed at!"

As he was talking, there was a hurried sound of horses' hooves behind him, and a pro-soldier reported, "Deputy Marshal Qiyu, Jiexiu County sent a pigeon letter!" ”

Wan Yanchang hurriedly said: "Show me the pigeon letter!" ”

"This pigeon letter must have been sent to Jiexiu County from Taiyuan City yesterday, and it must be news."

Wan Yan Chang also knew that there was a special Jin soldier in Taiyuan City, disguised as ordinary people to hide in the city, after the Song army broke the city, this team must not have been exposed, before in Jiangzhou, they also sent themselves intelligence, Wan Yan Chang looked forward to this army to be able to cooperate with the outside and cooperate with him to capture Taiyuan City.

Wan Yanchang took the letter and read it hurriedly, and the final date of payment was indeed yesterday, and he smiled at the two captains: "The ambush soldiers in the city have asked us to sneak attack the southern city at the third watch tonight, and they will open the city gate and take the fire as a letter!" ”

"I'm afraid that the Song army is ready, and it won't be so easy to capture the city at night!"

Wan Yanchang said coldly: "Everything has risks, you can't stop doing it because there is a risk, whether it is easy to take the city or not, you have to try it to know, if we can take Taiyuan tonight, the next time I see Marshal Du, my waist will be able to straighten a little." ”

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That night, Wan Yanchang led 10,000 Khitan infantry and 10,000 Jurchen cavalry to ambush three miles away from the southern city of Taiyuan, at this time it was almost the third watch, the night was extremely cold, the outside was a snowy field, two thousand Jurchen cavalry gathered behind a house, using the cover of the house to watch the south city gate.

This cavalry of 2,000 men was a surprise army, and once the city gates were opened, they would enter the city as quickly as possible, creating conditions for the invasion of the larger army behind.

The city was quiet, with soldiers patrolling back and forth.

At this moment, there was a sudden shout of killing from the top of the city, as well as the sound of swords clashing, and the screams were terrible, and they spread far away in the night.

Wan Yanchang suddenly straightened his body, his eyes stared intently at the city, his heart was pounding with nervousness, he pressed one hand on the hilt of the sword, and his knuckles turned white.

Soon, the screams gradually died down, and a fire appeared at the head of the city, the gates began to creak open, and the drawbridge was slowly lowered.

The ambush in the city has been successful, Wan Yanchang no longer hesitated, pulled out his sword and shouted: "Attack!" ”

Two thousand cavalry suddenly rushed to the city gate like a stream of iron, and behind the two thousand cavalry were ten thousand Khitan infantry, who ran wildly with spears and knives in hand, and they were the main force to capture the city.

Two miles away in a blink of an eye, two thousand cavalry have rushed into the city like arrows, 10,000 infantry also rushed to a hundred steps away, at this time, Wan Yanchang suddenly found that something was wrong, although the city was lit on the fire, but there was no ambush in the city, and there were no reinforcements from other cities to rush to this side, and the city was terrifyingly quiet.

When Yan Chang realized that something was wrong, there was a sudden sound of bangs on the city, and the ambush soldiers on the city stood up, and the arrows shot towards the rushing Jin soldiers like a storm, and the Jin soldiers were caught off guard, and a large number of them were shot down, and the screams could be heard everywhere.

At the same time, the drawbridge began to be raised, the gates creaked shut, and the cave burst into flames, swept towards the cavalry-packed urn.

The arrows on both sides of the urn city are like a torrential rain, shooting at the cavalry below, the flames are in the air, ruthlessly devouring the terrified cavalry, but the cavalry has not been able to retreat, the city hole blocked by fire and arrow rain, the urn city in the south is very large, enough to accommodate three thousand people, but the two thousand cavalry are still a little too crowded in it, at this time the entire urn city is engulfed in flames, the urn city is like hell, a ghost cries wolf howl, the terrible cry, screams make many Song soldiers involuntarily cover their ears, dare not look again.

Five thousand crossbowmen held the crossbow of the god arm and fired arrows at the infantry outside the city, more than 3,000 infantry who ran in front were all shot, and the infantry behind turned around and ran for their lives, Wan Yanchang in the distance was stunned, he opened his mouth wide, and he couldn't close it for a long time, watching the gate of the south city close again and the drawbridge was pulled up again.

This sneak attack on the Jin soldiers fell into the trap laid by Li Yanqing, and they lost 2,000 cavalry and 3,000 steps, which was like a fierce head-on blow, and the morale of the Jin soldiers was low.

Especially Wan Yan Chang, his proud heart was hit hard, and it also affected his prestige in the army to a certain extent, this sneak attack, so that Wan Yan Chang no longer dared to despise the Song army, and also disrupted his plan, for a while, he did not dare to easily launch a siege war.

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Although the Jin soldiers invaded the Song Dynasty at the beginning of the general practice of warfare and relied on plunder to implement supplies, but with the Jin soldiers several times after the defeat in the siege war, the commander of the Southern Expedition, Wan Yan Xian, also realized the importance of grain and grass supply, and he began to establish the grain and grass supply system of the Jin soldiers.

Although the essence is still to plunder the people's grain, it has changed from the individual plundering of the Jin soldiers to the planned plundering of the government of the war territory, and the government of the occupied area will then recruit people and carts to transport grain and grass to the Jin soldiers on the front line.

On the narrow official road in the Mouse Bird Valley, a grain convoy composed of thousands of carts was marching northward, and the snow had already been crushed by the carts, and the night was frozen again, making the road particularly bumpy and difficult to transport.

In the middle of the procession, a cart pulled by two donkeys was struggling to move forward, the hay on the cart was piled up like a hill, and two people sat below, an old man and a young man, the young man was wearing a short shirt and cloth, and his eyebrows and eyes were a little delicate, and although his stature was not high, he still looked very powerful and flexible.

"Young man, you used to be a soldier!" The old man asked with a smile.

The young man was Yan Qing, as the leader of the intelligence scouts, he was ordered to collect the logistics of the Jin soldiers, and the forage cart he rode in was from Hongdong County, Jinju, and transported to Jiexiu County.

Yan Qing was secretly surprised in his heart, he didn't expect the old man to actually see his identity as a soldier, he asked with a smile: "How can the old man see it?" ”

"Your tiger's mouth is covered with calluses, this is the trace of martial arts, your walking posture is different from ordinary people, you know that you have been trained at a glance."

Yan Qing smiled, "I have participated in the Bow and Arrow Club in my hometown, and basically all of us have trained. ”

"You're from the Daimyo's Mansion!"

"Can you hear that, uncle?"

The old man nodded, "I've been to the Daimyo's Mansion, and I can hear the accent of the little brother." ”

Yan Qing sighed, "The Daimyo's Mansion has been occupied by the Jin soldiers the year before last, we fled to Hedong, but I didn't expect that Hedong was also occupied by the Jin soldiers, this army is in chaos, when will it be the head!" ”

The old man smiled bitterly and shook his head, "There is no way, I can only endure, be a little more obedient, and barely survive!" ”

The Han soldier came over and yelled, "What are you talking about? ”

The old man hurriedly laughed and said, "We are worried about whether the big car can hold on to Jiexiu County, this road is too difficult to walk." ”

"If it's hard to go, you have to go, if you want to live, shut up for me, don't talk nonsense!"

"Master Jun, the villain understands."

The soldier snorted heavily and left, and the old man spat heavily at his back, "What a dog leg who betrayed his ancestors!" ”

Yan Qing glanced back, several of his subordinates were also on several other carts, this time he led ten of his subordinates from Jinju to mix in the grain transport team, their task was not to burn the grain and grass, but to find out how much grain the Jin soldiers had transported this time, how long the 50,000 army could last.