The mighty force counterattacked on all fronts

Trapping several states to force the Yangtze River

Xin Qijian arrived in Beijing, and Han Yanxuan summoned him, wanting to hear suggestions on the next step of the Northern Expedition. He clearly knew his position, and this time he asked him to go out of the mountain, not to let him go to the speed room to participate in decision-making, command the entire battle, nor to arrange to lead troops to kill the enemy on a certain battlefield, but just to let him be a senator, come up with ideas, and make suggestions. At the beginning, the conditions were not mature, and he did not have the strength to win, and he hastily dispatched troops, but now he is in a dilemma, he is a man and not a god, and it is difficult to change the established situation. The arrow is on the string, there is no room for retreat, only to learn and fight, tenaciously cling, and do your best to know the destiny of heaven.

His suggestion was naturally lackluster and lacked new ideas: the Sichuan and Shaanxi sides took the initiative to attack to attract the main forces of the Jin side, and the two Huai and Beijing sides reorganized their arms to look for fighters.

The two Huai Xuanfu envoys sent a vice president to Beijing to convey an official document from Jin Henan to pacify the envoys: It is really hateful for the country to destroy the alliance without authorization and provoke war, but my Dajin Emperor is benevolent and benevolent, and he is still willing to repair the old friendship between the two countries for 70 years. The emperor of Ruoer knew his mistake, belittled the ministers of Yuanmou, increased the age of 50,000 coins, and rewarded the army with 5 million taels of silver. The terms of the Longxing Peace Conference may be followed.

That is to say, in this situation, Jin Guo is still willing to make peace, but Song must agree to apologize and replace the three conditions of compensation.

After getting this official document, Han Yanxuan couldn't help but be indignant. From the bottom of his heart, he is willing to negotiate peace, and he does not want to fight any more. However, the conditions put forward by the gold side are too harsh, and even unreasonable. At the beginning, my Great Song Dynasty was not at fault, you Jinbang barbarians broke into the Central Plains, plundered the Second Emperor, occupied a large area of my country, and let my country pay tribute every year, what is this not a bandit?! Now, our country is raising troops to the Northern Expedition to recover the land occupied by you, what is wrong? Why should we admit our mistakes and pay compensation, and let my old Han step down, what right do the barbarian clans have to interfere in the internal affairs of other countries! Don't agree, resolutely don't agree.

You come and go, and the footsteps of time have come to the late autumn season. The autumn is high and cool, the horses are fat and strong, and it is the golden time for the northern ethnic groups to hunt and go out. The Kingdom of Jin completed all the preparations before the Great War. Emperor Wanyan Jing issued a general attack order in the palace of Yanjing: launch a comprehensive counteroffensive against the Song State, beat Han Yanxuan, and be sure to completely defeat the Song army.

The commander-in-chief of the front, Deputy Marshal Zuo, Bu San, swaggered and walked to the front desk and waved forward. In more than three months, he mobilized all the current elite soldiers and fierce generals of the Jin Kingdom, and many soldiers had just returned from the distant northern grasslands, and they once again embarked on the journey of the southern expedition.

The strategic deployment of the Song army corresponded to the Northern Expedition of the Song army, focusing on the south of the Huai River, crossing the Huai River and advancing southward, reaching the north bank of the Yangtze River, stabbing Song in the abdomen from the front, while the western front was only a strategy, squeezing Sichuan and Shu from the northeast and west, posing a threat to the upper reaches of the Yangtze River.

War horses neighed, wolf smoke rose everywhere, and about 150,000 elite troops launched a massive counterattack on every battlefield on the border between the Jin and Song dynasties.

The southbound army was divided into nine routes, and sent troops from Shandong, Huaibei, Henan, and Shaanxi:

After Bu Sanhua issued the order, he did not give in, and stepped on the war horse with 30,000 soldiers and horses from Bianjing Province to the south from Yingzhou (now Fuyang, Anhui) and Shouzhou.

The commander of the Henan Road Army, Su Shi Lie Ziren, led a main force of 30,000 and set out from the vortex of Jingshan County, Huaibei (now Huaiyuan, Anhui).

Shangshu Zuo Cheng finished Yan Kuang with 25,000 soldiers out of Tang and Deng Prefectures. Originally, this person was not among the troops who led the troops, but after knowing that he was unwilling to be a man, he thought that Bu Sanhua led a large army to cross Huai, and the Song soldiers gathered in Xiangyang and Chuzhou (now southeast of Hanchuan County, Hubei) to observe the movements of Tang and Deng, and there were few defenders in Bianjing, and there was a danger of being pinned, so he asked to go into battle to help in the war. Wan Yanjing felt that the teacher's spirit was good and approved.

The Wuwei army commanded Hu Shahu to take 20,000 Shandong sailors out of Qingkou and take a boat (now southeast of Liangshan, Shandong) to the south along the canal.

The defense of Longzhou made Yan Xuan come out far away with 5,000 soldiers and horses (now Jinzhong, Shanxi).

The right prison army was filled with 10,000 troops in Guanzhong, and went out of Chencang, Longxian County (now Baoji, Shaanxi).

Shi Mo Zhongwen, the head of the soldiers and horses of Lintao Road, rode 5,000 on the right side of Long, and went out of Yanzhou (now Dingbian, Shaanxi).

The right capital supervisor Pu Chazhen Yiqi and 10,000 Longbing soldiers went out of Chengzhou (now Xihe area of Chengxian County, Gansu) and Jizhou (now Lixian County, Gansu).

Shu Han Road Xuanfu made Wan Yan Gang ride 10,000 with Han Fan and go out of Lintan, Taozhou (now Lintan, Gansu).

Let's focus on the respective performances of the Jin and Song armies on the battlefield.

Hu Shahu, the Jurchen name is Su Shi Lie Zhizhong. This person is brutal and domineering, and his career is bumpy. On October 19, after receiving the order, he led the army to quickly march. According to the plan, his task was to lead the troops by boat, enter the Huai River to Chuzhou and Sizhou, and go directly to Xuyi and Liuhe.

The army boarded the ship in the Surabaya section of Weishan County and traveled south, not far to Xuzhou, Surabaya from north to south in Xuzhou east and Huang and Huai cross, there are several miles of common river channel, and the confluence of Surabaya and Huai River is called Qingkou.

20,000 horses, 100 warships went straight to the entrance of the Huai River. The Song army also had a garrison here, and the two sides held each other here for two days. On the third day, the Jin army divided its troops into two routes, one bright and one dark. Hu Shahu led more than 2,000 people on several warships to fight with the Song sailors on the river, and for a time, the drums shook the sky, arrows rained, and both sides were killed and wounded.

While the sailors on the river were fighting fiercely, the deputy capital commander Yiragu led more than 4,000 cavalry to the south along the north bank of the river, found a narrow place, and built a pontoon bridge. Then cross the Huai River to the south bank, and then turn back, meet the sailors, and flank the Song soldiers. The soldiers on the shore and on the ship saw countless cavalry rushing towards them, and the sailors were pressing forward step by step, and they were weak and afraid of fighting again, and they were defeated and retreated on both land and water. Hu Shahu led his troops in pursuit, and ordered that regardless of surrender or not, they were all killed, and the Song army's nearly 2,000 defenders were annihilated, corpses were all over the field, and blood stained the Huai River, and the Jin army captured its warships and horses, conquered Huaiyin in only one day, and surrounded Chuzhou (now Huai'an, Jiangsu) that was close at hand.

After attacking Chuzhou, Hu Shahu's advance became more and more difficult, because he encountered a strong opponent, which is a later story.

The march of Bu San's army was a little later, and he reached the north bank of the Huai River from Caizhou, Henan, southward. The troops of Reitzin also arrived nearby. After the arrival of the 60,000 army, they did not rush to force the crossing, but sent dozens of water-aware scouts to survey the depth of the river. Three days later, the detective told him that the river near the beach was shallow and had little silt, so he could wade in vain.

The next day, the Henan unified army envoy Su Shi Lie Ziren led 5,000 soldiers and horses to Huayan in Xia Cai (now Fengtai, Anhui), and ordered the shooters to shoot at the Song soldiers on the south bank, and took out the posture of building a pontoon bridge to cross the river from here. Originally, there were not many soldiers stationed here by the Song army, but after seeing this, they quickly reported it. Immediately strengthen the defense, and transfer all the more than 5,000 main forces.

Seeing that the goal of attacking the east and the west was achieved, Bu Sanhua commanded the main force to cross the river from the Ba Dietan at night, and the next day, the Song army was still holding on to Huayan, and suddenly, countless Jin troops came from the left and right sides, and suddenly, panicked, and ran away.

On the third day, conquered Anfeng Army (now Shou County, Anhui) and Huoqiu County, and then divided the troops, the division went deep, and the troops were led to the east, after breaking Chuzhou (now Anhui), they pounced on Zhenzhou (now Yizheng, Jiangsu), and the Jin Army on the West Road also captured Luzhou and Hezhou one after another.

It is only a little more than a month, and it is only dozens of miles away from the Yangtze River.

Let's take a look at Yan Kuang's mid-lane army.

Wan Yan Kuang's army crossed the Huai River from Gwangju (present-day Xinyang, Henan). It is located in the upper reaches of the Huai River, the tributary of the north side is the slope water channel, the bay is shallow in water, the flow rate is slow, the flow is more than 100 kilometers, and it flows into the Huai River from northwest to southeast.

The water is shallow and long, and more than 20,000 elite cavalry are unstoppable, and they easily capture Gwangju. Commander Wan Yan Kuang sat in the White Tiger Grain, with Dutong Wugu Qingshou as the vanguard, and led 8,000 cavalry to attack? Zaoyang, pie? After taking control of Yan Jiangshan as the left flank, take it with 5,000 cavalry? Actinic, right-wing? All of them? Wugu Sun Wutun fought Shenmapo, and it didn't take three days to conquer them.

Conquer the country again? Suizhou, Song Suizhou's guard Lei Taicong saw that the offensive was fierce, and he knew that he was not an opponent at all, so he opened the city gate and fled; After that, Wugu Qingshou held the red bank accordingly and cut off the Xianghan road.

The overwhelming army went straight to the military town of Xiangyang, and the Dengcheng on the periphery of Xiangyang, ? The defenders of Fancheng were crushed at the first touch. The city of Xiangyang was soon besieged by the Jin army.