Volume 9 Saving the Sky Chapter 796 [Volley]
When he learned that the Jin army broke his wrist with a strong man, and immediately abandoned silk, grain, grass, cattle and sheep and other things after crossing the Yellow River, everyone in Huang Jie's army was surprised except for himself. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
As for why Huang Jie was so sure, it was not that he had seen such a situation from his strange dreams, but that he had already expected such a possibility based on the newly obtained news.
Since Song Jin made the "Shengping Covenant" on March 15, Huang Jie's plan to "invite the king into the urn" formulated in the "Bianliang Codex" has also been declared bankrupt.
In view of this, in view of the fact that the plan could not catch up with the changes, Huang Jie had to respond to the pressure and come up with a backup plan: transfer the 4,000 Huangzhou Wei and the 1,000 mixed companies that had been in place to the north, and set up an ambush and interception on the way back with the Jin army.
Naturally, this is the annihilation that cannot be achieved, so you can only volley!
In fact, in Huang Jie's plan at the beginning, the situation did not run according to such a trajectory. According to Huang Jie's original idea, the first time the Jin State attacked the Song Dynasty should have been a process of fast in and out, and he deduced according to what he saw in his dream, after the Jin army came, Zhao Huan should have sued for peace with the Jin people in less than two days, and then the Jin army withdrew its troops. When the second Jin army comes to attack, Huang Jie will use 5,000 Huangzhou guards to fight a decisive battle.
However, this time the Jin Kingdom attacked, and Zong Wang's Eastern Route Army also came to Tokyo as quickly as Huang Jieqi had seen in his dream, but Zong Han's Western Route Army changed for some reason. Originally, as Huang Jie saw in his strange dream, Zong Han's troops should have been pinned down in Taiyuan, so that they could not go south smoothly, which made Zong Wang, who was besieging Bianliang, Tokyo, alone, but now it was Zong Han's Western Route Army that suddenly exploded for some reason, not only conquered Taiyuan in one fell swoop, but also slaughtered the city, and then successively conquered Longde Mansion, so that the Jin army could echo the east and west.
Secondly, according to the original historical trajectory of Qimeng, the result of the first siege of Tokyo in which the Jin army asked for money and retreated had a great relationship with Zong Han's inability to go south and Zong Wang's lone army. But even if Huang Jie secretly built the workshop wall, formulated the Bianliang Codex, and made all kinds of preparations, but now it is because of the frequent reports of Zong Han's Western Route Army, which makes Zong Wang fearless, but invisibly cancels out the advantages and disadvantages.
And Zhao Heng, the biggest number of successes and failures, also played a normal role, and at the most critical moment, he also followed the trajectory of history and played his true colors, contributing to the established historical event of the Song-Jin Peace Talks.
Let's talk about Huang Jie himself, according to his original plan, during the first siege of Tokyo, he was not ready to come forward, but who knew that the group of second goods who ran to Zong Wang's hope for peace had to use Huang Jie's thousands of miles to abduct Wulu to return to the Song Dynasty to stimulate Zong Wang, which in turn triggered Zong Wang's anger, first killed the envoy to detain the prime minister, and then asked Zhao Huan for Zhao Fujin as a hostage, and then Zhao Huan did a special whimsical plan to send a cottage Zhao Fujin to Zong Wang, which also touched Huang Jie's reverse scales. made him have to overturn the original plan and go north in advance.
However, what people didn't expect was that at the most critical moment, Zhao Huan didn't open the door to let him enter the city.
Although Huang Jie later figured out that the repeated changes in the hexagram that day were really Li Gang's personal doing, it was clear that Zhao Huan was in the city at the time, but he didn't want Huang Jie to enter the city at all, and he didn't know whether it was an unintentional or intentional gaffe that made Huang Jie turn around and leave, and the size had to be regarded as a variable.
And now Zongwang has succeeded in blackmail as in the dream, taking the compensation of the Great Song Dynasty and returning to the north, and because of variables, he has made a rapid hurricane to abandon miscellaneous things, which is also reasonable.
However, just as Huang Jie often heard in his dreams, "If you have money, you can't buy it, you know it early", how can everything be as expected, and Huang Jie has already made plans for such possible variables.
At the same time as it was reported on March 15 that Song Jin had finalized the "Shengping Covenant" on the Shengping Tower, Huang Jie also made the decision to wave his army north to intercept. After agreeing with the Seed Master and Zhe Keshi, without waiting for the 8,000 Xiang troops of the Seed Division, he mixed his 4,000 Huangzhou Guards and 1,000 mixed companies into an army, and then the 5,000 soldiers and horses quickly moved eastward with the help of the 16th Expedition, and turned north through the Xingren Mansion, and on March 28, they also came to the left side of the Daimyo's Mansion.
At this time, the outpost sent back the news that the Daimyo's Mansion was besieged by Zonghan's department, and Huang Jie also learned what Zong Han, who had broken through Taiyuan and Longde Mansions, but had been cruising on the north bank of the Yellow River, but had nothing to do with Zongwang's master.
Immediately, Huang Jie also decided to set the battlefield on the north side of the Huangzhou Wei to intercept Zongwang and Zonghan armies in Linqing, which was only fifty miles north of the Daimyo's Mansion.
I want to say one more thing here, although the number of the two armies is several times more than Huang Jie's 5,000 Huangzhou Guard, but because it is almost an all-infantry unit, it is naturally inferior to Huangzhou Wei in terms of marching speed, and in recent days, the two armies have continued to intercept the reinforcements rushing to Tokyo Qinwang, and their own strength has increased geometrically at the same time, the combat power and action are also greatly reduced, that is, Huang Jie's 5,000 Huangzhou Guards arrived in Linqing here on the second day of the first month of April, and the troops of the two are still circling. At that time, the troops in the seed division had already arrived in Shen County, east of the Daimyo's Mansion, and Zhe Keshi's troops were still in Handan, west of the Daimyo's Mansion.
Linqing here, although there is no mountain, geographical advantage, but there is water conservancy.
From the southwest to the northeast, there is the Yuhe River (Yongji Canal), from the southeast to the northwest there is the ancient canal (the predecessor of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal), and the Daimyo Mansion to the north, either around the west around Zhouzhou, or east around Bozhou, otherwise it is necessary to go straight from Linqing to the north of the Qing River, and Linqing is located in the plain area between the two rivers, there is no mountain to borrow, no strong city to defend, plus the super mobile attribute of the Jin army, this place has no geographical advantage for the Song army dominated by foot soldiers in the traditional sense, and it is by no means a good battlefield for sniping cavalry with foot soldiers. Therefore, Huang Jie expected that Dingzong Wang would inevitably return north through this place.
This time, Huang Jie was not going to make any tricks, first hid the 120 heavily armored chariots brought by the north this time in Zongcheng, which was not far from Linqing, and waited for the outpost to find out on April 9 that the Zongwang Department was rapidly fleeing north and the Zonghan Department besieging the Daimyo's Mansion, and quickly galloped northward, Huang Jie also attacked and waved his army overnight, and lined up 120 heavy armored chariots on a shallow flat depression between the two rivers in Linqing County, blocking all the roads.
After that, if you want to go north from here, you will either have to break through the car formation, or you can only swim through the canal.