Chapter 517: Yang Yanzhen Fengxiang

In August of the third year of Song Jiading, the two battlefields of Shaanxi and Xianghan started at the same time. Shaanxi was dominated by the Jin army, and Xianghan was led by the Korean army, and launched a fierce offensive at the beginning

Shaanxi fought against me, Han Chang led more than 100,000 Jin troops to attack Zhu Ji Pass, Chi Zhanhui led the elite cavalry to sweep the eastern counties of Fengxiang, and approached the capital to contain Zhang Xian. The rebel general Zhang Jun led 80,000 rebels, Han troops, and Jin soldiers out of the security army, and soon took the northern part of Qingyang and Huanzhou.

In the Xianghan Theater, Gao Xiaogong commanded 150,000 allied troops to set out from Tokyo, and soon captured Tangzhou, Dengzhou, Suizhou and other places, forming a flanking attack on Xiangzhou, where Xiangyang was located. No matter how bad the puppet Han is and how unbearable the South Korean army is, this time they chose the Xianghan region as the breakthrough point, mainly to come to Xiangyang, which is undoubtedly correct.

Xiangyang is a place that can at least rank among the top five strategic places in ancient China. Because in ancient times, the so-called "strategic place" was nothing more than a transportation fortress, rich in products, dangerous terrain, and a place that could lean on mountains and rivers. Xiangyang, very unlucky, accounted for all these factors.

It is connected to Sichuan and Shaanxi in the west, Wuyue in the east, and can attack the Central Plains when entering, and can cover Huguang when retreating. There are Dabie Mountains and Tongbai Mountains in the east of Xiangyang, the Huai River in the east, the Qinling Mountains in the west, and the Xichuan Mountains in the west.

If you want to avoid these natural mountains and head south or north, Xiangyang is the best choice. Because Xiangyang is located on the plain, it is just a big gap between Tongbai Mountain and Qinling, whoever occupies it has an advantage, and Xiangyang is located at the confluence of the Tang River and the Bai River, the two rivers flow into the Han River after the confluence, Xiangyang City is built on the confluence of these three rivers, there are rivers in front of it, there are Da Xian Mountain, Hutou Mountain, and many other small mountain ranges rely on, in the entire Xiangyang area, only Xiangyang City is the only point of attack.

Therefore, Gao Xiaogong took advantage of the unpreparedness of the Song army to first clear the surroundings of Xiangyang, and then concentrated his forces to attack Xiangyang City. It was Zhang Zhongxiong who was stationed in Xiangyang, and as soon as he learned the news of the South Korean army's southern attack, he expected that Xiangyang would inevitably be the target of the other side's key attack. He was worried that he did not have enough strength to hold on to the important town of Xiangyang. Therefore, he sent people to report urgently to He Guan, who was in Changsha, to ask for reinforcements.

But before Changsha could react, Gao Xiaogong's army had already approached the city. Prior to this, the city defense of Xiangyang has not been well valued and operated, after He Guan was appointed as the deputy envoy of Jinghu Xuanfu, he strengthened the defense of Xiangyang, Zhang Zhongxiong had 7,000 old troops in Xijing, and He Guan also assigned the Yue Fei Department of the former Tokyo Left-behind Division to him to command.

Gao Xiaogong transferred the Xiangyang City Tuantuan, cut off internal and external communications, and cut off the connection between Hangzhou Xingzai and the Sichuan-Shaanxi Xuanfu Division. Raise the artillery trucks, build all kinds of equipment, and prepare to take this important town.

Zhang Zhongxiong told the soldiers that if Xiangyang was lost, there would be a gap in the Yangtze River, which would directly threaten the Jiangnan region. To put it more seriously, if we lose Xiangyang, we will be completely passively beaten. He decided to live and die with the city, and the fierce attack of the Korean army was soon launched, and the soldiers and people of Xiangyang hated the enemy and defended desperately. After He Guan learned the news, he immediately gathered troops to prepare reinforcements, and asked for help from Hangzhou Xingzai and Zhiyan in Jiangxi.

By September, on the two battlefields of Shaanxi and Xianghan, although the Jin-Han coalition forces attacked fiercely, they failed to open up the situation. At this time, Xu Shao had already started to arrange, and he ordered Jiangxi Zheyan to enter the Lianghu region to help and be sure to keep Xianghan. He Guan was also promoted by the firing line, and Fuzheng was the Xuanfu envoy of Jinghu South Road, fully presiding over the military and political affairs of the region, and had the power of life and death. This is the first time since the Song Dynasty that a military minister has served as a Xuanfu important post, setting a precedent

As for Shaanxi, the imperial court is really beyond the reach of the whip. We can only hope that Xu Churen and Xu Wei will unite sincerely and lead the Western Army to defend the defense area and protect Shukou.

In early September, Liu Guangshi personally led the army to attack the enemy occupying Huanzhou, but it was ineffective. Xu Yuan led the Jingyuan army to the north, and it took only two days to take Liyuan Fort and completely annihilate the defending enemy. Seeing its great momentum, Zhang Jun did not dare to fight hard, and ordered the troops to hold on to Anjiang Village and Dashun City.

These two fortresses were built on the "plateau". The northern part of Shaanxi is the hilly and gully landform of the Loess Plateau, which refers to the huge high platform cut out by the impact of wind and rain, with many faces and steep faces, and a flat top. At the beginning, the Western Army built forts in these places, guarded the key roads, and relied on geographical advantages to defeat the party members many times. Jang Jun also wants to use the terrain to entertain and consume his old chief.

In the face of his rebellious generals, Xu Yuan was very angry, and after taking Liyuan Fort, he asked Xu Cheng to lead the army to attack Anjiang Village, and led the main force to attack Dashun City, claiming to capture Zhang Jun alive, and showing the public. Before Xu Cheng left, he advised him that Zhang Jun led a group of rabble, including the original Huanqing soldiers, Jingyuan soldiers, and Yan Yan soldiers, all of whom were brothers in the Western Army in the past, and surrendered to the Jurchens for various reasons. Now our side can take advantage of this and borrow Xu Yuan's prestige in Shaanxi to divide Zhang Jun's troops and stir up the enemy's military morale.

But Xu Yuan ignored these, he was strong and strong, and his morale was booming, so he didn't need to talk to Zhang Jun, a handful of birds. thinks that as long as his military flag is lit and the war drums are sounded, the other party's rabble will immediately fall and scatter.

In the beginning, it was. Zhang Jun sent out to block Xu Yuan's troops, and ran away when he saw Xu Dashuai's military flag. One of the former Jingyuan soldiers directly defected and returned. Xu Yuanzhi was full of anger, all the way to Dashun City, his fierce general, Yang Rong, a descendant of the Yang family in Linzhou, within one day, picked three Han army villages, and was shocked that the defenders of many small villages arranged in the south of Dashun City abandoned the village and retreated.

Xu Yuan was overjoyed and decided to attack. At this time, he only had more than 20,000 troops in his hands, and Zhang Jun was more than twice as many as him.

On the fourth day of September, Zhu Jiguan.

This newly built Xiongguan has some hideous faces, although the wall is still complete, but the wall is full of holes, the giant arrows fired by the eight bull crossbows are embedded in the wall, it is difficult to shake, and the barrier on the Zhu Ji platform next to it has suffered the fierce bombardment of the Jin army artillery. However, apart from the destruction of some of the women's wall buttresses, there were basically no major injuries.

After many days of attack, Zhu Jiguan is still strong. Close the military flag and still waive it in the wind.

At this time, the battlefield was exceptionally quiet, and the attacking Jin army had retreated to the camp. On the flat ground in front of the pass, thousands of South Korean soldiers were carrying corpses. They were completely exposed to the range of the defenders' bow and arrow firearms, but strangely enough, the defenders at the gate leaned on their crossbows and artillery, but none of them fired.

It turned out that after days of strong attacks, the Kim-Korean coalition army suffered heavy deaths, and the ground in front of the pass was full of corpses. **month, although it is autumn, but the climate is sometimes cold and sometimes hot, within two days, the corpse began to stink, and the smoke was unbearable for the soldiers on Zhu Jiguan. Wu Lan informed Han Chang, what is the crime of the soldier? How can you bear to see their corpses rot? You send someone to move it, as long as you don't carry weapons and don't behave abnormally, I'll keep you safe.

Han Chang agreed to send thousands of Han troops to collect the corpses. Watching the carloads of corpses being pulled back, the soldiers of the Kim and South Korea coalition forces were a little unbearable. After fighting for so many days, although the boss did not say it, it is estimated that more than 10,000 people were broken, and the tiger army was defeated so badly in Dunzhou, but I didn't expect them to have such strength. In the past few days, no one, whether they participated in the battle or not, was impressed by the fierce counterattack of the defenders. In particular, their tactics of using firearms and crossbow trucks are simply suffocating until now, not to mention breaking through the level, and there are very few people who can attack the pass......

"Commander, after a few days, the other party has suffered serious losses, will he retreat in the face of difficulties?" On the wall, a general asked Wu Luan, who was looking down on the enemy camp.

"It's hard to say," Wu Tangqing shook his head. "Han Chang is known for being good at offense and defense in the Jin army, he won't only have these two axes, he will definitely think of other ways, our army can't take it lightly."

"I would rather he retreat in the face of difficulties, if it continues to be consumed like this, the supply of troops and equipment of our army will become a problem." The general said worriedly.

After a few days of fighting, the casualties of the defenders were not large, but in order to carry out a dense and saturated counterattack, the consumption of equipment was somewhat alarming. The earth-shattering thunder is basically exhausted, and now the artillery group can only shoot stone shells, and more than half of the iron projectiles and gunpowder of the flying artillery have been consumed, and two cannons have been blown up. The arrows are enough to deal with a month, and I hope that before that, if the enemy does not retreat, General Manager Fengxiang Zhang will reinforce us.

Wu Lan didn't answer, his expression was solemn. If I were Han Chang, I would definitely send cavalry to bypass Qishan County to attack and harass Fengxiang Mansion, cut off the connection between Fucheng and Zhu Ji Pass, and maybe even detour back to Zhu Ji Pass to launch a surprise attack. Of course, Zhang Xian is not a vegetarian, the marshal transferred Li Chengwei 2,000 "Sudden Fire Rides" to him, with this elite in hand, if he still let Zhu Jiguan be stabbed in the back, then he will not have to do it in charge of the soldiers and horses of Fengxiang Mansion.

Fengxiang Mansion City

Although the war broke out and the whole city was under martial law, thanks to the operation of the past two years, the material reserves of Fengxiang Mansion were enough to deal with it, and the life of the military and civilians was not greatly affected. The streets are full of pedestrians, and the market is still selling all kinds of goods. If there is any change, it is that there are more soldiers on patrol.

In the festival hall of the governor's mansion, Zhang Xian's gathering department is discussing the battle situation. On a long table, the model of sand and stones very intuitively shows the geography of Fengxiang's mountains and rivers.

At this time, Zhang Xian, who was dressed in an official robe, was holding a small paper flag in his hand and was inserting it into the sand table one by one. Through the positions he marked, it was easy for the generals to see the posture of both the enemy and the enemy.

"Now the focus of the enemy's attack is mainly on Zhu Ji Pass, and their horse army has bypassed Qishan County and set up in the eastern suburbs of Fucheng, with the obvious intention of cutting off the connection between Fucheng and Wu Luan. What do you guys think? After Zhang Xian finished inserting it, he threw the paper flag, stared at the sand table and asked.

"There is no problem for Zhu Jiguan to hold out for a while, Fucheng does not need to rush reinforcements, with our pestle here, the enemy cavalry will not dare to intersperse in a roundabout." Someone said.

Zhang Xian glanced at him: "Then we won't do anything?" Wait? ”

"But the commander said that the task of our army is to hold the ......," the general argued.

Before he finished speaking, Zhang Xian raised his voice: "Da Shuai also said, the best defense is to attack, why do you remember a sentence?" ”

"Attack? Manager Zhang, now that there are less than 20,000 people in the city, there are not even 20,000 people, is it too risky to attack? The ministry general questioned.

"Yes, Governor, holding on to the Fucheng is the primary task of our army, and there is no room for losing the Fucheng, but the support of Zhuji Pass and Dasan Pass is located" all the generals advised.

Zhang Xian was silent, he admitted that the general's worries were not unreasonable, but I can't always let the enemy's horse army wander around under my nose and cut off my connection with Wu Lan, right? If he is allowed to continue like this, Wu Tangqing will not be able to hold on sooner or later.

While they were discussing, they suddenly heard a loud noise, which shocked the generals in the hall. Zhang Xian couldn't help but be angry, who didn't open his eyes, didn't he know that this was a major place? Looking for prestige, I saw several generals in military uniforms hurrying in, and everyone looked at it, and the one who walked in front with a horsewhip and wore a leather eye patch, showing only one eye, was not it......

"Humble Zhang Xian, lead Fengxiang generals to see Yang Dutong" Zhang Xian hurriedly stepped forward and hugged his fist.

It was not someone else who came, it was Qin Feng Jingluo to appease the Sidu system, Yang Yan. Yang Da nodded, lifted his helmet, threw it on the table with the whip, pulled the scarf again, took off his armor, and said, "Leave me alone, what do you discuss, continue to continue." Damn, it's September, and it's still fucking hot."

"The lowly post is discussing the battle situation, and if you don't want to be unified, please ask Yang Du to ......," Zhang Xian asked.

"You'll have to let me have some tea, right?" Yang Yan said loudly.

Someone immediately held a bowl of tea, he poured it like a whale sucking water, wiped his mouth, and then looked at the sand table: "How many days has Zhu Jiguan been fighting?" ”

"Today is ...... The eighth day. Zhang Xian replied.

"It's only been eight days? It's early, Wu Lan can bear it, don't worry. Yang Yan ripped open his shirt and said.

"However, the enemy's troops, mainly the horse army, set up the camp not far to the east of our city, and often haunted the suburbs, cutting off my connection with Wu Luan, and the intention of containment is obvious." Zhang Xian reported.

When Yang Yan heard this, he frowned, pointed to a small flag on the sand table and said, "But here? ”

"Exactly, according to the detective, this is not something that one or two thousand horsemen can say." Someone replied.

Yang Yan put down the tea bowl, stared at the sand table for a long time, and said to himself: "You have Ma Jun, I have it, and I also have ......."

Listening to him chanting for a while, and there was no clear instruction, Zhang Xian was a little anxious, and simply asked: "All of them are from Qinzhou, what is the indication of the marshal?" ”

"Didn't you ask knowingly? The Sprinkle family has come to Fengxiang, and the battle situation along the way is under my command. Dashuai is now worried about the whole of Shaanxi, so he doesn't care about Qin Feng's matter. Yang Yan smiled.

Zhang Xian smiled bitterly when he heard this: "No matter how worried about the whole Shaanxi, this Qin Feng is our foundation all the way." So, how many soldiers did they bring with them? ”

"Hey, Zhang Zongben, why do I sound so unpleasant about your kid? My surname Yang doesn't know how to fight? How many soldiers are still there? Not a single one of these men, what's the matter? Yang Yan is serious.

Zhang Xian knew that Yang Da was a bad person, and it was no good to raise the bar with him, so he apologized and said: "There is no such intention in the humble position."

"Hmph, it's not about you, what's the hurry? It's just been the start of the fight, and you're in a hurry to draw troops around? Calm to be calm, when it is really necessary to draw troops, doesn't the monk of Dasanguan still have Fourth Brother Xu Fifth Brother? Speaking of farther, there is still Yao Dashuai in Xizhou, so be in a hurry, take your time. Yang Yan said lightly.

Zhang Xian and the other generals said yes again and again, he looked at the sand table for a while, and he asked, "What were you discussing before?" How do I listen to someone who wants to act rashly? ”

"Oh, I put forward an idea, saying that I am replacing defense with offense, and I am discussing it with the generals." Zhang Xian replied.

When Yang Yan heard this, he raised his right hand and said: "Don't do this, when I came, I was told repeatedly that the first thing in this battle is to seek stability." Use Feng Xiang's defense system to maximize the consumption of enemy troops. Even if there is a fighter, you must be cautious, because this is a defensive operation, understand? ”

"Understood," the generals replied in unison.

Yang Yan nodded, glanced at the sand table again, and said, "However, it is not a matter that this Jin Army's partial division is always rooted in the nose. Fucheng and Zhu Ji Pass must be connected and cannot be separated. ”

Zhang Xian's eyes lit up, isn't this exactly what I think? Could it be that Yang Dutong also has this intention? Thinking of this, he said loudly: "Yes, all of them are in charge of their humble duties, and it is necessary to beat it." ”

"There's a bird for beating," Yang Yan snorted. "If you want to fight, you will punch it to the flesh, but you can't go any further, and defending the city is the top priority."

Zhang Xian nodded frequently and said, "Yes, that's exactly how it should be." Please sit in the capital city and humble your ......"

Just as he was asking for help, Yang Yan waved his hand and said, "Stop, this Yang Zaixing and Li Chengwei are here, when will it be your turn to attack?" You are the head of Fengxiang's soldiers and horses, or take care of the city. Besides, I can't do without you here. ”

Zhang Xian turned his head to look at the second general Yang and Li, and both of them hugged him with a smile on their faces. These two are the horse army generals in the Hu'er army, known as the two mountain axes under the command of the tiger marshal, leading the cavalry to fight, who else can there be?

Zhang Zongben stared at the two of them stupidly, and could only give up.

"If I'm not mistaken, you have six commanders of the Ma Army in Fengxiang Mansion, right?" Yang Yan asked suddenly. One command, that is, a battalion, five hundred people.

"Exactly, four of the battalions are stationed in Fucheng, and two battalions are stationed in Guanshang." Zhang Xian replied.

"Later, the Prime Minister transferred the 'Sudden Fire Cavalry' to you, that is to say, there are now 4,000 horse troops in Fucheng?" Yang Yan asked again.

After receiving an affirmative reply, he said without hesitation: "Li Chengwei, send someone to investigate, if nothing happens, go out of the city tomorrow to fight"

At this moment, the first general suddenly asked: "Dutong, what if the enemy army does not engage our army head-on?" ”

"That's no way, go back, can't chase." Yang Yan is colorful.

"As soon as our army retreats, the other party comes again, just to contain the city, what can I do? Zhu Jiguan's connection with Fucheng was cut off, reinforcements and special effects could not be sent, how long could Wu's control last? That will ask again.