Chapter 416: Two Heavens
The head of Taihang Mountain begins in Hanoi, north to Youzhou, where there are eight mountains, it is said that all the mountains are interrupted. Flying Fox, located between Zhending Mansion on Hebei West Road and Ulzhou on Zhongdu Road, has been a battleground for soldiers since ancient times. After Sun Kui's Houjin army and Kou Wen Buhua fought and lost successive battles, the remaining more than 200,000 Houjin troops had no choice but to choose to live in the flying fox in the deep mountains and dense forests.
At this moment, inside the Flying Fox Clan, a big battle has just ended outside the Flying Fox Clan.
In the steep and long canyon, the land for several miles was covered with countless entangled stump corpses, broken flags, weapons, lit grain and grass baggage, and pools of dark red blood soaked in the snow, dazzling and eye-catching, and the wounded soldiers who died but did not die were howling miserably in the snow.
A column of Mongolian soldiers with spears and knives in the valley searching, if it is the wounded Mongolian soldiers will be carried down for treatment, not Mongolian soldiers are to make up for a knife, and those with a cruel temperament will play for a moment to torture the Houjin soldiers to death. The smell of blood filled the icy air, making people smell sick.
It was only a few miles away from the Flying Fox, and the company camp that was completely invisible in the darkness stretched to the end of the sky, and it seemed that there was no edge in sight.
It was a camp with no mouth.
Since the beginning of the rebellion of the Jin army after hurriedly returning to the north in early October to clear the rebellion, in addition to the original soldiers and horses brought back from Xiangyang City, Kouwen Buhua successively transferred a total of 200,000 Mongolian troops originally stationed in the land of Hejian Province, Ulzhou, Datong Province, Taiyuan Province, Xingzhou and other places that were originally stationed in the land of Wufu, and surrounded Sun Kuihou's Jin army in Zhending Mansion from all directions. If you add the nearly 200,000 soldiers who returned to the north of the division before, the number of Mongol troops gathered around Zhending Mansion has almost reached nearly 500,000. 500,000 people, almost occupying nearly sixty percent of the troops available to the Southern Song Dynasty.
Nowadays, in the north of the Yellow River, except for a few dozen important towns and big cities with heavy garrisons, most of the rest are vacuum.
Fortunately, after nearly two months of encirclement and suppression, Kouwen Buhua relied on the absolute superiority of troops, and forced Sun Kui's nearly 300,000 miscellaneous troops out of the territory of Zhending Mansion step by step, and successfully recovered Zhending Mansion. Sun Kui and others had no choice but to hide in the Taihang Mountain and rely on the terrain to entangle with Kou Wen Buhua, but with the increasing encirclement of the Mouth Wen Buhua Six Road Army, leaving less and less space for Sun Kui's Houjin Army's activities, to this day, Sun Kui only has more than 100,000 Houjin Army, and the space for tossing and turning is also shrinking day by day, and now he can only shrink in the dense forest within hundreds of miles around the Flying Fox, relying on the sinister terrain of the Flying Fox and the mouth Wen Buhua.
It can be expected that if nothing else, Sun Kuihou's Jin army will face the encirclement of the Kouwen Buhua Sixth Route Army, and it will only be a matter of time before it is defeated. And at this time, in the plan of not spending money, he would definitely not allow the rebellion of the Houjin army in Zhending Mansion to continue to drag on until after the beginning of spring.
Although Ogedei, far away in the depths of the steppe, in the upper capital of the Mongolian state, did not clearly set a time for Kouwen to spend time to clear it, but Kouwen did not spend very clearly, and it was impossible for Ogedai Khan to give him too much time to let the rebellion in Jindi continue. After all, the Mongols were now marching westward into Europe and Central Asia, and it would have been impossible to supply such a huge war supply if they had relied solely on the barren steppe tribes. The Mongols needed a large amount of looted supplies from the rich Central Plains to supply this huge war machine.
Similarly, it is also clear that if he hadn't been able to transport all kinds of grain, gold and silver, ordnance and armor from Jindi to Dadu on time, I am afraid that he would have been escorted back to Dadu at this moment.
As for Sun Kui and others, the mouth temperature has also changed from the initial surrender to killing. Among them, the princess of the Jin Kingdom, who recently appeared in the Houjin Army, has become a must-kill person who is not good-mouthed. If it weren't for the appearance of the princess of the dead country in the Houjin army, it would have been impossible for the Houjin army to persist until now just by relying on Sun Kui's mud legs born in the green forest.
Therefore, to this day, Kou Wen Buhua has long given up the idea of recruiting the main leader of the rebellious Houjin army.
In the middle of the company camp, the huge yurt is not only a handsome tent with a warm mouth, but also his palace. At this moment, the palace was as warm as spring, and the mouth of the brocade robe was quietly listening to the military secretary below reporting the figures of today's beheadings and losses in the First World War, as well as military intelligence reports from all over Jindi. For more than two months, such debriefings were staged almost every day.
"Report, Caizhou urgent!"
A hurried chant sounded outside the tent, making Wen Buhua's heart feel a little ominous.
Quietly read Shi Tianze's handwritten letter, and his mouth was warm and silent, and he was silent alone for a long time. Then he began to write hard in front of the bronze case. After a letter was written, Kou Wen Buhua frowned and pondered for a long time, and then began to write four consecutive letters, and then Kou Wen Buhua stopped the wolf in his hand and said in a deep voice: "Immediately send this letter to Shangdu with an urgent report of 800 li. In addition, these three letters were also sent to Zhongshu Ling and the left and right prime ministers in the form of 800 miles of urgent reports. In addition, there were 60 people with Mei Ji, and 10,000 taels of gold were sent to the prime minister's mansion on the left and right. One hundred and twenty people were sent to the big ear and the second, third, and fourth ear houses, and each house sent another hundred pieces of jewelry and jade; Eighty people were prepared for Meiji, and a thousand taels of gold were sent to most of the capitals to the four cowardly Xue. This last letter was sent to Nado in Haizhou for 800 miles. The herald ordered the battalion to be immediately withdrawn and the whole army to retreat for 30 ...... Not eighty miles, order the commanders of all departments to come to discuss the matter immediately! ”
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At the same time, in a natural pit in the Flying Fox Mountain, a discussion involving more than 100,000 remnants of the army was also going on at the same time. Compared with the palace tent with a warm mouth and no luxury, the pit is a gloomy and bleak scene at the moment.
Wanyan Hongye sat in the middle and the top of the body in a military uniform, and who was Sun Kui sitting on the first stone bench on her left hand? After the rest of the cadres, the main generals of the Jin army and civilian officials lived on the left and right sides. And standing behind Wan Yan Hongye, who was also wearing a suit of armor, it was Jia Nidao who guarded the wooden handle beside him.
Piles of firewood were lit everywhere in the wide cave, and the pungent smoke lingered on the tip of everyone's nose, and from time to time someone coughed in a low voice. But there was only a cough, and other than that, there was no sound in the huge cavern.
Wanyan Hongye, who was sitting on the top, frowned slightly unconsciously when he saw this situation.
Although it is said that it has only been more than a month since he returned to the Houjin Army, compared with when he was still imprisoned in Lin'an City, Wanyan Hongye who is wearing armor and holding his hair high at this moment is a little more heroic. For more than a month, she spent almost every day in the fight and pursuit, and she was much thinner than usual, but her colleagues were a little less delicate and a little more murderous.
"What are the casualties of our troops today?"
"Your Royal Highness the Princess, our army suffered more than 5,000 casualties in today's battle."
The old man who sat in the first position on Wanyan Hongye's right hand stood up and answered, this old man with a gray beard was also the only one in the cave who did not wear armor.
Speaking is the twenty-six surnames of the Jin State is still the only remaining Pei Manzongbi, and he is also the teacher of Wanyan Hongye back then, after the fall of the Jin Kingdom, Pei Man's clan under the leadership of Pei Manzongbi hid in the dense forest of Taihang Mountain, in addition to Pei Man's clan, there are several remnants of the Jurchen twenty-six surnames such as Pucha clan, Fusan clan, Na lazy clan, Hesheri and so on, they are hiding from the Mongolian search, while hoarding grain and grass to recruit troops and horses in order to make the Jin Kingdom rise again The day is precisely because of his existence, After Sun Kuicai brought the news of Yan Hongye, he gathered an army of more than 300,000 in just over a month.
Now it is Pei Manzongbi who is also the Shangshu Ling in the Later Jin Army, and his status in the Later Jin Army is second only to Wanyan Hongye.
At the beginning, when the mouth temperature was not surrendered, if it were not for Pei Manzongbi's insistence, and the United Pucha clan, the Fusan clan, the Nalazy clan, Hesheri and other clans controlled a lot of troops, Sun Kui might not have been able to wait for the day when Yan Hongye came back, and he would have pulled his soldiers to lower the mouth temperature.
However, fortunately, Yan Hongye came back in time, if he came back ten days and a half at night, he would not need to use a single soldier at that time, I am afraid that there will be a civil strife in the Houjin army.
"Teacher, how long can my army's food and grass last?"
Wanyan Hongye was able to gain a firm foothold in the Houjin Army so quickly, and it was completely inseparable from Pei Manzongbi's support. Therefore, no matter how his identity changes, even if Pei Manzongbi has corrected him many times, Wanyan Hongye still insists on honoring him as a teacher.
"Back to Her Royal Highness the Princess, in addition to the grain and grass under the account of General Sun Da, the rest of the grain and grass can still last for more than a month, and now the old minister has ordered the departments to go hunting in the mountains and forests, and reserve more game, now there are more than 50,000 catties, and at the same time, the old minister also ordered the accounts to cut down and reclaim the wilderness in the dense forest, the wood can be used as weapons and arrows, and the reclaimed wasteland can be sown until the beginning of spring, as long as we can hold the flying fox and persist until next year's summer grain harvest, we don't have to worry about the grain."
"Boss, how much time is there until next year's summer grain harvest? Now the grain and grass under your account can last for more than 30 days, but the grain stored by more than 100,000 troops in our department is now only enough for more than ten days. How do you make us last until seven months later? Sun Kui withdrew his eyes that had been looking at Wanyan Hongye, and stared at Pei Manzong and said compassionately.
"General Sun has more than 100,000 troops under his account, and there are wild beasts all over the forest, just hunt."
"Boss, I let my army go hunting and find food, who will lead the Mongol army to resist? Could it be that the boss wants Her Royal Highness the princess to go into battle in person? Besides, after the beginning of spring, when the weather warms up, how can the hunting prey be stored until next summer? ”
"There are many natural stone caves in the mountains, and the four seasons in the cave are like spring, as long as the general dries and stores the prey and keeps it dry, why can't it be stored? Could it be that the general has lived in the green forest all these years and has eaten the last meal without the next meal? Don't even understand such simple truths? Pei Manzongbi didn't look down on Sun Kui, not to mention that after learning that Sun Kui had been coveting Yan Hongye, he was even more eager to kill Sun Kui as soon as possible.