Chapter 785: The Battle of Xuzhou

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In March of the first year of Xinglong in the Zhongyuan Dynasty, the Song army marched into Shandong with the aftermath of victory. The Shenwu Left Army was adapted from the Huaixi Army, and the Huaixi Army was separated from Zhao Dian's Shenwu Army. When the Wushu hit the Yangtze River, Zhao Diantong led the troops to defend Yangzhou, and no matter how the Wushu attacked, he couldn't shake it.

Therefore, as soon as the battle began, the Shenwu Left Army fought very smoothly. Even if there was no fight at all, many states and counties looked down on the wind, and before the arrival of the Shenwu Left Army, the officials sent by the Jin State had already changed their banners and waited for the king's division. In fact, many of these people were former Great Song officials, and this time they wiped their faces and changed from Jin Chen back to Song Chen, which is not difficult.

The real battle was the attack on Xuzhou. Xuzhou is known as "the key to the north, M-N households in the south" to be an important place for the soldiers, and taking Xuzhou is equivalent to opening the big M-N to recover Shandong, so Liu Guangguo and Liu Guangyuan The two brothers attached great importance to it, and after not making much effort to clear the periphery, they learned that the Xuzhou Zhizhou sent by the Jin State was originally Song Chen, so they started to surrender. Liu Guangguo, with the respect of the national governor and the captain, personally wrote a letter to the governor of Xuzhou, moving with affection, knowing with reason, showing it with strength, hoping that the other party would abandon the darkness and turn to the light, and M-Tu would know how to return.

Therefore, it is said that the same rice raises a hundred kinds of people, tens of thousands of strong soldiers here are in the city, and they are former ministers of the Song Dynasty, so it is said that there is no psychological obstacle to anti-water. But Na Zhizhou sternly refused, and the words were very interesting, and the explanation was popular, that is, "I have been wrong once, and I can't be wrong a second time", Liu Guangguo looked at it and was depressed. Pack up your fantasies and get ready for war.

To say that Liu Guangguo was in a hurry and sent troops ahead of schedule, it was out of the mentality of "striving for merit". But in this way, it really has an unexpected effect. Because at this time, Yelu Ma Wu had not completely rectified the defense of Shandong, and the Liu brothers came to catch Ma Wu off guard.

At that time, the defenders of Xuzhou only had 6,000 people, and it was very difficult to block the onslaught of the Huaixi army. However, Ma Wu sent him a capable general, a native of Yunzhou, surnamed Sun Minghe. The name is very mild, but this man is very fierce, he can shoot a hard bow of two hundred and fifty stones in both hands, he has no arrows, and he is good at using a spear, and it is said that he can stab a bird on the back of a galloping horse. It is unknown whether it is true or not, but Sun He has been fighting from Ma Wu for a long time, and he has made great achievements. Back then, Xu Jiu was defeated in Dunzhou, and it was this Sun He who led the troops to ambush.

Even if the governor of Xuzhou wants to surrender, with Sun He, does he dare? In the face of the menacing Song army, Sun He was anxious, reporting to Yelu Ma Wu on the one hand, and arranging city defenses on the other. He found that although the Song army was not well-prepared, it seemed to be underprepared, and there was a lack of large-scale siege equipment. Estimating that the intensity of the battle in the early stage should not be large, he said to the soldiers defending the city, the Song army must seek a quick victory when it first comes, and we should stick to sharpening its vigor and wait for the enemy to be tired before we can plan it.

Based on this idea, Sun He moved out of Xuzhou's house, and placed more strong bows and crossbows in the city, to give the Shenwu Left Army a head to drink. After hastily preparing for this, Liu Guangguo ordered the siege of the city. Because of the advance of the troops, the large equipment was thrown behind, so the Song army could only temporarily use simple equipment to forcibly detain Xuzhou City.

The Jin Army's defense was very tenacious, and the soldiers of the Shenwu Left Army braved the rain of arrows to rush several rounds without protection, and suffered serious casualties. After several siege setbacks, Liu Guangguo was born in M-N, and he knew that if he continued to fight like this, it would be like adding oil. So he categorically ordered the attack to be stopped, urging the equipment to be delivered quickly.

There are also many generals in the Shenwu Left Army who have gone to the Western Army to observe and study, and have seen the Weiyuan artillery, but Sichuan and Shaanxi are far away in the west, and the Weiyuan artillery has not yet had time to spread to the south. The southern armies are still using the old-fashioned multi-pronged artillery trucks, which lack the support of firearms. However, it was enough for the Jin army to deal with Shandong.

For many reasons, the main force of the Jin Army would not cross the Yellow River. In the Jin army sequence, the NV real soldiers and the Bohai soldiers will not cross the Yellow River, they are mainly stationed in Yanyun, Hedong, and Hebei, and the defense south of the Yellow River mostly relies on the Khitan soldiers, Xi soldiers, and Han signing troops. This kind of unit belongs to the "second echelon" of the Jin army, which is not the main force, and its combat effectiveness and will to fight cannot be compared with the NV Zhen Jīng Rui. This is why after the news of the imperial court's heavy reward for the commanders of the southern armies reached Sichuan and Shaanxi, many generals of the Western Army did not think much of it, because they always fought the Jin army. The few examples of the signing of the army are all devastating.

When the Song army stopped attacking and waited for equipment, Sun He judged that the enemy's attack on the city had been frustrated and morale had been hit, and he must be waiting for reinforcements to stop the attack, so he should take this opportunity to try it. So on the night of March 11, he selected 2,000 soldiers and led them out of the city by himself. I don't know whether it is light or careless, or the strength is insufficient, the Shenwu Left Army is in Xuzhou City, and after the attack is not smooth, there is no siege, and there is not even the necessary antlers, horse rejection, traps and other obstacles. The 2,000 dead soldiers led by Sun He were able to successfully cross the area between the city and the Song camp, and raided Liu Guangyuan's subordinate department.

Because of the surprise, the Song army of the department was beaten dizzy, and many people didn't understand what was going on, and their heads were cut off by Jin Bing. But Liu Guangyuan also reacted quickly, as soon as he learned of the Jin Army's mō battalion, he immediately ordered the whole army to make noise, and the officers and men of the Shenwu Left Army shouted loudly It doesn't matter what they are, the key is to be loud

The Shenwu Left Army is not a general person in the end, and after a short panic, it stabilized the morale of the army and began to counterattack. After Liu Guangguo received the news, he did not move his troops and strictly ordered all his troops not to leave without permission. Because what I was most afraid of when I was attacked was that the soldiers would defeat Lu-N, this black light was blind, the truth and fiction were unknown, and once Lu-N got up, he couldn't clean it up.

As it turned out, he made the right decision. It didn't take long for the Jin army to be suppressed by Liu Guangyuan, and when Sun He saw this, he knew that he couldn't succeed, and he didn't dare to fight, so he ordered a retreat. This battle did not last long, and the losses of the Song army were not large, and after the fact, more than 300 people were lost. But the result of the matter made both the generals very annoyed.

Sun He was annoyed that the Mō camp did not have the desired effect, and the Shenwu Left Army was beyond his expectations. The Liu brothers were annoyed that although the losses were not large, they saved face and demoralized, and the most important thing was that in the H-N battle, Liu Guangguo and Liu Guangyuan's nephews were seriously injured and died at dawn. After the victory of the Northern Expedition, the Shenwu Left Army was full of ambition, and the superiors repeatedly declared that the Shandong Jin Army was nothing more than a rabble, and they were ready to be captured. Now being attacked by a sneak attack, it's like a strong man out of m-n, and a child reaches out for a big mouth, do you still mean h-n?

In anger, Liu Guangguo ordered that the city of Xuzhou should be broken and would not accept surrender