The artillery carriage was destroyed by a direct hit, and the ten soldiers were constantly wounded. The generals were secretly surprised. Wanyan live women's singles ride out of battle. Ran all the way to the back of the gun carriage position and looked up. The ears were filled with the screams of the soldiers, the shouts and the muffled sound of the stone bullets falling to the ground. The Jurchen teenager did not back down in the slightest. After staring intently at the head of Pingyang City for a long time, he hit the horse back.

"Marshal! Judging from the position where the stone bullets of the Southern Army were raised. The other side may have erected the gun carriage under the interior wall". Wanyan shrugged her mount and reported loudly.

Concubine Wanyan watched the progress of the war expressionlessly, and did not make a statement for a while. Yelu Mawu, who was beside him, stared at the head of the city for a while, and said sideways: "Marshal, I am afraid that there are experts in Pingyang City who defend the city. "The artillery carriage is set up under the inner wall, which is at the dead end of the attack, and our artillery carriage will not hurt it. If you continue to fight like this, you will always be suppressed by the Song army! Tactics must be adjusted as soon as possible!

The exchange of fire from the artillery trucks continued, and the commissioner stared at the city, and suddenly laughed. The generals of all the ethnic groups around looked at each other, and were pressed and beaten by the southern army, and the marshal could still laugh? At this time, I heard the coach say: "Wait for careful observation, guess how many artillery trucks are in this Pingyang West City?" ”

Hearing this, Yelu Ma Wu looked again, judging by the rhythm of the opponent's shelling and the number of stone bullets. It should be,,More than 10 seats! Yes, that's the number at most! Fang was disturbed by this unprecedented tactic, and now when he took a closer look, he realized that the Song army's artillery bombardment was not intensive, which showed that they had limited equipment!

"Temporary truce! Let the gun carriage take down! After the concubine said this, she immediately ordered the main generals to gather in the western suburbs of Pingyang, and after a short time, the generals heard cheers from the head of Pingyang City before they arrived. From a distance, the Song army at the head of the city waved weapons to celebrate the first victory. Hmph, and let your mind for a while, there is a time for you to cry!

After a while, the main generals of the various armies gathered, and since the Jin army started to attack Liao, although it has relied on the advantages of cavalry to dominate the world, it has not fought a lot of battles. He has accumulated a lot of experience in buckling cities. Even if he was restrained by the new tactics of the Song army for a while, he did not panic.

Concubine Su dismounted, led a group of generals to move forward dozens of steps, pointed to the head of the city, and said: "The southern army will raise the artillery carriage above the inner wall to avoid the attack. If it is not bad, there must be someone at the head of the city who will act as the eyes and ears of the gun carriage. How to crack it, do you have an idea? ”

The generals were silent for a while, and it was the first time they had encountered such a thing after so many years of fighting. Once upon a time. The enemy often set up artillery wagons at the head of the city, which made them vulnerable to attack and difficult to transport stone shells. But now it's in the dead end of the attack, but it's not easy to fight back. Moreover, once you arrive in the territory of Binh Duong City. They are now within a radius of more than ten miles, and the slightly larger stones cannot be found, obviously the Song army has already cleared it, which is a big problem for the Jin army that relies on the artillery car group.

"It's better to use all kinds of equipment to go into battle at the same time as the shelling! Our army is more than 100,000 people. Even if the casualties are larger, can't you still take this Pingyang City? The person who said this was the perfect face of the "Dragon and Tiger King" who was called the "Dragon and Tiger King" by the Hedong Righteous Army.

When he finished speaking, the living girl categorically vetoed: "No! Since the other side has prepared artillery trucks to strike at the positions of our army's artillery vehicles, there must also be equipment to attack the siege troops. Rush to attack. It will only increase unnecessary casualties. ”

"Not bad. Our army will seek victory when it comes from afar. If you don't know for sure, you can't move lightly. In case of a prolonged stalemate, it will not be good for me. This time, the minister of state repeatedly warned that the Song Dynasty would be destroyed in one move. Our West Route Army has 130,000 troops, nearly twice as many as the East Road. If the fourth prince who is in command of the expedition is allowed to take the lead, how can I save face? How do you explain it in front of the Prime Minister? Jeruma said.

Suddenly! The army exclaimed! Before everyone could react, they heard a loud noise! Looking for prestige, they saw a big rock falling more than twenty paces away from them!

The generals looked at each other and were shocked! It is true that the well-armed Southern Army is not blown, and it is not three hundred and fifty steps from the head of the city? It can throw a boulder weighing more than 100 catties so far! Could it be a gun carriage with thirteen pins? At that moment, all the generals persuaded the committee to return to the camp to discuss, but they heard the marshal hum: "Although the southerners are well-armed, they have no fighting spirit, how can this commander be afraid of him?" After finishing speaking, he spat at the stone bullet, which was completely inappropriate.

After a while, no one could come up with a feasible solution. Jeruba suggested that the offensive be postponed. Big cannon trucks, win by quantity. Thousands of artillery trucks were to be erected and concentrated on the west of Pingyang City to storm on. It didn't take a few days to pile up the stone bullets to the height of the wall, and then a large-scale infantry army was used to capture the city, and it was a success!

But this tactic was refuted by the beautiful living girl. The scarcity of stone bullets directly restricts the swing of large-scale artillery car groups, if a large number of troops are sent to collect stone bullets, how long will it be delayed? Pingyang was the first obstacle since the expedition of our Western Route Army. If it is blocked here for a long time, how can we attack Shaanxi? He suggested digging tunnels, digging them all the way under the foundations of the city walls, and then attacking them when they collapsed.

"Living female Dutong, you look back at the fortifications in Binh Duong, what is this? Three walls! And probably two trenches! With this kind of defensive system, the siege operation in the near future cannot be carried out at all. Don't even think about digging a tunnel. Jerumawu unceremoniously dismissed the suggestion. Then he said to his father: "Marshal, just because of this less than half a day's battle, our army should give up the idea of victory. Big. Win by volume. Besides. There is no other way to Xi is now presiding over the Hedong Army. But the purple tiger Xu Wei

"Why should Ma Wu have the ambition of the Southern Army? What about Xu Wei? He barely beat the second prince, and our Western Route Army doesn't have to take him seriously. The name of the person who said this was Yan Yinshuke, and when he was sticking to Han's siege of Taiyuan, he left him to besiege the city, and was defeated by the planter and returned. It is worth mentioning. His younger brother Wanyan Bali died in an ambush in Tokyo, a rare high-ranking general killed since the attack on the Song Dynasty.

Yelu Ma Wu stared at him and sneered, "Then you come up with a feasible tactic?"

Wanyan Yinshu was speechless for a while, and when he saw this situation, he thought secretly, Xu Wei reorganized the defense of Hedong in a short period of time, and he really underestimated him. I have no choice, I'm afraid I can only use the strategy of Ma Wu to win by quantity. With this thought, he stared at the city in front of him again. I can't help but hate it. This broken city just blocked the Hedong Corridor, and if it was not broken, the land where the army would go to Guanzhong would be full of variables. Guy Binh Duong is located at the entrance to a narrow corridor between Luliang Mountain and Tae Yue Mountain, and walks into the Linfeng Basin. A must-pass place in the Yuncheng Basin. If you go straight to Pingyang, you may be blocked in this corridor, which will be very bad.

If it turns to attack Arm, and Xu Wei sits there again, I am afraid that it will be more difficult and troublesome to fight than here. No wonder before the death of the second prince. is still angry about the defeat at the hands of Xu Wei, and his original prophecy of "If the tiger grows up, it will be devoured by me" seems to be a sign of coming true.

In the following days, apart from uninterrupted harassment, the Jin army did not make any large-scale seizures of the city. Xu Wei ordered the whole army, don't be careless, even if you sleep, keep your eyes open for me! At this time, I am afraid he did not know that he had a force of more than 30,000 people. Blocked the 130,000 army of the Jin Army!

And what he won't know is that this time the Jin army is still attacking the Song Dynasty in two ways, but the commander of the Eastern Route Army has been replaced by a Jurchen commander he is very familiar with, and even later generations of Chinese are very familiar with it, Yan Wushu! Wei Su led the Western Route Army to attack Hedong Shaanxi. Wushu led the Eastern Route Army to attack the Daimyo, intending to pass through Shandong and re-enter Tokyo.

In November of the first year of Longxing, the Great Song Dynasty once again fell into a national panic. The two armies of the Jin State attacked, and the Great Song Dynasty "betrayed the alliance." "Under the pretext of tearing up the Jingkang Peace Conference, he clamored to collect Shaanxi and break Tokyo. Win the Central Plains in one fell swoop! At the end of October, Wushu led a large army from Cangzhou to attack Jinan, and the marshal Xu Wei saw that the enemy was strong. The strong wall clears the wilderness, and gathers heavy troops to defend Dongping and Jinan.

Although the topography of Shandong is complex, the east and west parts of Shandong are plain areas, and only the central and southern Jinan area is mountainous and hilly. Wushu led the army to Jinan City, and the guard Guan Sheng moved the soldiers and civilians of the city. Resisting day and night, the Jin army stormed for more than ten days, and let Guan Sheng lead the army out of the city to rob for a while. This made the fourth prince of the Dajin Kingdom very annoyed, and he vowed not to repeat the mistake of the second brother, concentrated his forces to attack, and sent people to surrender to the city, promising to be a high-ranking official. Guan Sheng ignored it, but it led to another famous traitor in history. Jinan Prefect, Liu Yu.

Before Liu Yu became the governor of Jinan Mansion, he was a criminal officer in Hebei, and as soon as the army came, he abandoned the official and absconded. Later, he met his father died, according to the system of Ding worry, after the end, the second minister He Li pushed him to Jinan as the prefect. At that time, Jinan was full of thieves and wilderness, and it was simply a barren land. Liu Yu procrastinated again and again, did not go to work, and moved around to think of Jiangnan as a herd. His picky behavior angered He Li, who recommended him, and threw him a word. Go or roll.

Liu Yu delayed for a long time, and later learned that Xu Zhang was suppressing thieves in Shandong. The record is brilliant, so I went to the post with dissatisfaction.

Now that Jinan is besieged again, the Jin army is menacing, Liu Yu will discuss with his sons, nephews, brothers, and adjutants, and decide to reduce the gold. Anyway, the imperial court doesn't want to see us, is it necessary for me to serve Tokyo? But if you want to surrender, others have nothing to say, Guan Sheng, the head of the soldiers and horses, will never agree, and the people in the city will also oppose it.

At the beginning of November, Liu Yu first ordered Guan Sheng not to go out of the city to fight again, but Guan Sheng turned a deaf ear and still several times; After a bloody battle with the Jin army, after thwarting the enemy's fierce flames. In the name of rewarding, please Guan Sheng into the house. More than 100 ambushes killed! Before Guan Sheng died, he shouted, "I am the old general of Taishi Xu, and I will defend the city to the death." What a sin! "It's a pity that this Shandong Xiao general did not die on the battlefield, but died at the hands of traitors.

Although Guan Sheng died, the people of Jinan did not give in, organized themselves, and went to the city with the soldiers to defend against the enemy. Liu Yu was so mad that he ordered the army to suppress the people who refused to surrender! After the vultures entered the city. I was surprised to see a river of blood and corpses strewn all over the market. At that time, there was a pawn who had his right leg cut off, lying on the ground and scolding Liu Yu more than once. Holding the knife in his hand is still in a fighting form. Seeing that he was so brave, Wushu asked. Your vassals have surrendered. What are you still scolding? This soldier said, I take the money and food of the court, and I should die hard! Wushu sighed, and said to the general next to him that Liu Yu was not even as good as this pawn. But the general replied, without people like him, how can our army benefit?

The fall of Jinan Province shook the Central Plains. Xu Hong was stationed in Dongping Mansion, and when he saw the fall of Jinan, he knew that Dongping would not be able to be protected. This place is a flat river, there is no danger to defend, the Jin army doesn't have to pay attention to you at all, and the troops can go straight to Gyeonggi. At the time of joy, the Hebei Zhaofu Division sent a brave general, surnamed Yue's name Feizi Pengju, to lead 7,000 troops to help. And brought a message from the appeasement envoy Zhang Suo, saying that the Shandong daimyo were each other's lips and teeth. All of them are the barriers of Tokyo, if there is a mistake, the emperor is in danger, and he should fight to the death

In early November, the Wushu that broke Jinan led thousands of Hebei troops to approach Dongping. Xu Hong sent Yue Fei to attack, only with two hundred horsemen through the enemy formation, resulting in a great rout of the signing army, the soldiers all exclaimed, there is a big and small Song general, extremely tough, invincible! The vultures were furious when they heard the news! The army of tigers and wolves is coming.

Yunzhou, the seat of Dongping Mansion, was damaged very seriously because of the thieves and robbers in Shandong for many years, and several military disasters. During the period when Xu Zhang was in charge of Shandong's military affairs, he was busy suppressing thieves and resisting the Gao army, and he was limited by conditions and was unable to repair. If you hold the city, in case the city is broken. Suffer from it. Xu Hong judged the situation and decided to fight the Jin army head-on. To this end, he gathered all the horsemen of about 6,000 horsemen. Except for leaving two thousand to command, all the others were handed over to Yue Fei.

On the eighth day of the first month of November, Wanyan Saili, the king of Gaitian, led more than 2,000 elite cavalry to attack Qili Pavilion in the northeast corner of Yunzhou. Yue Fei led the horse army out of the city, and ordered the general Wang Gui to lead a hundred horsemen to reconnoitre, but did not reach the Qili Pavilion and encountered the Jin army, Wang Gui cut down the leader of the Jin general. Now the other party's earlobe gold ring, when it is a Jurchen

Will.

In the afternoon of the same day, Wanyan Saili arrived, and Yue Fei charged on the front line, fighting to the death with the enemy. He broke into the formation more than ten times before and after, and suffered seven or eight wounds. The Jurchens have always regarded the cavalry of the Song army as a grass mark, but this time Yue Fei was caught off guard and retreated dozens of miles.

The vultures who came with the main force should be resentful. Drive the army to overwhelm the territory. Yue Fei discussed with Wang Gui and other generals that this was the barrier of the Daimyo Tokyo, and if we took a step back, it would have an immeasurable impact on the country and the army. So he took advantage of the fact that the vultures were not firmly established. Wave the army and attack! In this battle, Yue Fei's subordinates killed people as blood people, horses as blood horses, and the robes were thorough. Knife roll gun folding. Wushu saw a "Yue" flag running back and forth in the Chinese army, and ordered to be completely annihilated! Before evening, Xu Hong was worried that Yue Fei would be lost, so he personally led the elite to come to reinforcements. The Jin army was somewhat afraid of Yue Fei's lifeless style of play, and saw that the main force of the Song army came to help, so he led the army to retreat temporarily.

The front-line soldiers fought bravely to kill the enemy and repeatedly frustrated the enemy's arrogance. On the Hedong battlefield, Xu Wei tried his best to block the 130,000 Jin army, and on the Shandong battlefield, Xu Hong and Yue Fei forced Wushu to temporarily retreat. It should be said that in the face of the invasion of a strong enemy this time, the Song army has completely lost the situation of collapse as in the Xuanhe Jingkang period, and the serious imbalance in the strength of the two has gradually changed.

This change greatly inspired some ministers who advocated a resolute war of resistance. In particular, it is represented by Li Gang, the envoy of Ranxi Xuanfu. After learning the news that the Jin Army's western route troops were blocking Pingyang, he was very excited. deliberately put forward the battlefield in the east of the river in accordance with Xu Weimakuo's original proposal, anyway, it is a broken jar, and it is not a pity to fall!

Chang'an City, Shaanxi Xuanfu Division.

Li Gang, who held the power of the military and political classes, paced back and forth in the side hall, looking a little anxious. Xu Ziang is good, not only did he control the situation as soon as he arrived in Hedong, but now he also blocked the army of the Jin State, and he did not support him in vain. But according to Xu Wei, the Jin army is here, and it is definitely not just a battle of revenge. It's intended to destroy the Song Dynasty! This also means that the battle of life and death between Song and Jin was fought because of the attack of the three-way western army on Hedong!

Originally, in the original regulations, it was planned to spend three to five years to prepare, accumulate money, food, ordnance, and train and rectify soldiers and horses, but now it seems that it is obviously impossible. However, the soldiers will come to block. Let not be afraid of the waters that cover the earth. Shaanxi Sixth Road, hundreds of thousands of soldiers who can fight, more than 50,000 strong soldiers gathered within half a month! The Jurchens can't even pass Xu Jiu's level, and they want to annex Shaanxi? Dream!

But having said that, you can't let Xu Wei fight alone in Hedong, right? This kid is not easy, he is young, he has turned the tide several times and made great achievements. For this kind of junior, we should try our best to love and cultivate. When Xu Wei set out on the expedition, he put forward three conditions. The first is that Shaanxi should do its best to meet all the money, food and equipment he needs. I responded at the time, and later I did it completely. Facts have proved that these money, food and equipment have not been wasted, and Xu Wei's name of Zijin Tiger is not blown out!

And the second condition, I also intend to fulfill in the near future. Hey, why haven't you come yet?

Who are you waiting for? Today, he invited He Guan, the envoy of the Shaanxi Sixth Road System, and the deputy envoy to Xuanfu Yamen to discuss the anti-gold plan! He knew very well that although he had the power of the army, he was at a critical juncture. It is even possible to veto the decision of the envoy. But after all, he is a person who reads the Four Books and Five Classics, and he has never seen the art of war of Zhuzi, let alone led a day of soldiers. In the event of war, you still need to rely on the military ministers.

Li walked for a while, sat down again, and saw that the two of them still hadn't arrived, and even opened up outside the hall, he couldn't hide his excitement. At that time, some people tried their best to squeeze him out of the core of power in Tokyo and delegate him to Shaanxi to appease the party.

From then on, the chances of returning to the center are basically negligible. At the time, he was also discouraged. But Xu Wei's words inadvertently woke him up. What is Shaanxi? The strategic location of the entire Great Song Dynasty! A place where the strong army gathers! The so-called heroic land, the wind and clouds, nothing more than this! In Shaanxi, or more than in Tokyo.

In the past few years, he has worked hard to operate, especially in the civil and economic aspects, and has accumulated a large amount of money, food, and ordnance, and the Sixth Route Western Army has also recovered from the losses of the two battles of King Qin. Now, since the Jurchens are here! So, let's fight to the death!