Chapter 629: The King of the Counties
In the melee, the Jin army once again sacrificed the "Iron Floating Massacre" and wanted to rush the large array of the Chengyue Fei Army. But this time Yue Pengju came prepared, he definitely didn't have the firearms in Xu Wei's hands, but he had the strong crossbows and heavy infantry that he had replenished from He Guan. In this battle, he lined up his spears in more than ten rows to guard against the impact of the "Iron Floating Massacre", and used all the divine arm bows of more than 100 bodies, accompanied by sharp weapons such as crossbows.
When the "Iron Floating Massacre" pressed on, the strings of the Song army sounded like a thunderbolt, and the sharp arrows that roared out penetrated the thick armor of the Jin army, but these Beiyi were connecting people and horses together, although the knight died but did not fall, and the war horse continued to rush forward with the corpse. When Wan Jun's power inevitably collided with Rulin's spear, Yue Feijun's large array still inevitably knocked out a huge gap. Fortunately, his soldiers were not greedy for life and afraid of death, and under the wrapping of heavy armor, they blocked the thunderous blow with their flesh and blood!
After the impact of the Iron Float was neutralized, the soldiers swarmed up and struck off the golden knights' hoods with their guns, cut off their arms with broadswords, or slammed their chests with bones and axes! When the fight was at its most intense, the soldiers of Yue Feijun even pulled with their hands, desperately trying to drag down those knights who were attached to the horses!
As soon as General Jin saw the disaster of the "Iron Floating Massacre", he hurriedly released the left and right kidnappers. Although the Iron Floating Slaughter is terrifying, the real reliance of the Jin Army to fight the world is these lightly armed elite horses. Facing the horse army that the other party sighed more than once that could fight for a hundred rounds, Yue Fei, as the general of the Jinghu Xuanfu Division, personally led the cavalry on his back, and together with his eldest son Yue Yun, he went out of the battle!
In the bloody battle, Yue Fei was injured in many places, but he still fought to the death. The soldiers were inspired by him and all fought bravely! By the afternoon, the Jin army could not resist and began to retreat. The Song army pursued so closely that the Jin army could not even enter the city and fled one after another. Suizhou City was restored on the same day.
On the other hand, the Shenwu Rear Army is also progressing smoothly, and He Guan went into battle in armor at the age of seventy, but his majesty has not diminished. Led the main force of the Shenwu Rear Army all the way to Xiangyang, and the blocking troops sent by Wushu twice before and after were defeated, He Guan successfully entered Yicheng, and then took Zhonglu, morale was high, and actively prepared to attack Xiangyang City. At this time, He Guan received a letter from Zhi Yanzhi, telling him not to act rashly, and to wait and see what happened, so as to wait for the enemy.
He Guan scoffed, and during his stay in Yicheng, he sent another copy to Hangzhou, asking the imperial court to urge the king of Zhejun to act according to the deployment as soon as possible. However, at this time, Zhe Yanzhi was still in Shouzhou Lu'antong, and he had more than 70,000 elite horse infantry troops in his hands, and he was fully equipped with the strength to fight with the Jin army. But he has been slow to move and stand still, which makes people puzzled.
Therefore, when He Guan filed a complaint in Hangzhou, it was full of turbulence! The officials were full of firepower, attacking the king of Fenyang County only to protect themselves and delay the military aircraft. Several prime ministers were also quite displeased, and at this time, Zhi Zhonggu played the court to explain his behavior. It is said that the city defense of Xiangyang is strong, the materials are sufficient, and there will be no danger at all for a year and a half. Now that the Jin army is coming from afar, the edge is flourishing, Wanyan Zongbi is only afraid that he is looking forward to our continuous reinforcements, and he is just "encircling the point to send reinforcements", gradually consuming our military and financial resources.
What our army has to do now is to wait, until he is tired for a long time. Last time, Zong Bi attacked Xianghan and returned with a feather. The Shenwu Front Army and the Shenwu Rear Army made repeated gains around Tokyo, and Xu Taiwei of Shaanxi almost hit the city of Tokyo, and he also moved the people of Zhengzhou into the tiger cell with delay. Therefore, the Central Plains region is in decay, and it is impossible for the Jin army to rely on Henan to replenish, so Zong Bi can only transport grain from Hebei. In this way, the road is relatively long, and as long as the time is long, there will be disadvantages. At that time, he and He Taibao will raise troops to attack again, and great things can be accomplished. If the Western Army can be used again, the chances of victory will be even greater.
Just as the court was discussing his strategy, bad news came!
After He Guan won two battles and two victories, and entered Yicheng and Zhonglu, he led the main force of the Shenwu Rear Army to Xiangyang. Who knows, his two battles and two victories are just a trick to "lure the enemy" by Wushu, specifically to attract him to Xiangyang. When He Guan's army passed between Fulong Mountain and Lumen Mountain, Wushu was already waiting for him there. After a fierce battle, the Shenwu rear army was defeated, the troops lost three or four out of ten, and retreated all the way to Jingmen, where was the Wushu willing to let go, so the Jingmen army was lost again, and He Guan could only lead the army to retreat to Jiangling Mansion to curb the Jin army's offensive.
But in this way, Yue Fei became alone. As soon as Wushu put away the gun, the horse's head was adjusted, and he turned his troops to the east and attacked Yingzhou, trying to cut off Yue Pengju's back road!
The court was shocked! When Zhao Chen heard the news, his face turned pale and he couldn't speak for a while. He was a hundred times more confident in this battle, he not only wanted to win the defensive battle, but even planned that as long as the Jin army was defeated and retreated, the Song army would counterattack on all fronts and expel Beiyi across the Yellow River!
But now, the Shenwu rear army has suffered heavy losses, and although Xiangyang City is strong and has sufficient reserves, if it loses foreign aid, it will fall one day. And the Great Song Dynasty must not bear the consequences of losing Xianghan!
Public opinion in the DPRK and China was boiling, and they accused the king of Zhejun of supporting the army and self-respecting, and asked the emperor to issue a strict edict to reprimand him, urging him to march into the army quickly. In order to achieve this goal, Prime Minister Zhu Shengfei suggested that among the governors, select a capable minister to supervise. The candidate he recommended was the second prime minister Zhao Ding.
Zhao Ding is the representative of the main battle faction, and Li Gang and Xu Shao surrendered, and he was counted. Moreover, he has been a prime minister twice, and he is highly respected, and only he can suppress the contemporary king of Zhejun. Moreover, many of the pre-war strategies were presided over by Zhao Xiang, and he was the most suitable candidate. These are Zhu Shengfei's reasons.
And Zhao Ding also tried his best to refuse, because he knew that someone wanted to exclude him from the court again. As the prime minister, if I go out to supervise military affairs, how can I come back?
Zhao Ding recommended Xu Liang instead, Xu Liu is involved in politics, and his status is enough. And it is said that Xu Jiu has a very good relationship with the king of Zhejun, Xu Liu is Xu Jiu's cousin, I'm afraid it will be easier to talk.
Xu Liu is not a fool, no one wants to do this kind of thing, why should I go? But he recommended another candidate that no one could refute, that is, Zhishi's compromise at home. Lao Tzu went to persuade his son, it's always no problem, right?
So, as a representative of the imperial court, Zhe Keqiu went to Huaixi with Zhao Chen's handwritten edict. After all, Xiao Zhao's official family still didn't dare to speak too seriously, and in the edict, he just spoke bitterly, and took the trouble to tell the brothers of the Zhi family that this battle was very important, and the Shenwu rear army suffered heavy losses, if you don't save it, everything will be over. If you are loyal to the country, you must know what to do.