Chapter 186: The Huazhou Incident
…… Xu Wei's doubts. Zhao Huan quickly gave an answer. And this answer. It is said that the generals of the Tuban did not expect.
The grain and grass were not burned by Xu Wei. Trapped in Huazhou, no matter who looks at it, it is already the end of the road, and it is a matter of time before the army is defeated. At first. Zhi Yanzhi and Yao Pingzhong and others led 110,000 horses to surround Huazhou. Afterward. The Sticky Han Kou River was in a hurry, and the imperial court ordered Xu Yuan to lead the army to rush to reinforcements, taking away tens of thousands of Changjie elites who were originally subordinate to Yao Pingzhong. Later, the Hujie Township Army was stationed in western Beijing, and nearly 10,000 troops were divided. At this point, the Song army in Huazhou was about 60,000 left, and it was all the two rivers and the division of Zongze.
Whether it is a strong or weak army, 60,000 people are surrounded outside the city, at least the appearance is still bluffing. Han Li didn't eat all the food in the city. even began to slaughter war horses to satisfy hunger, and morale can be said to have dropped to the extreme. What's more, there is also the fact that Han Qinghe, the commander of the Han army, and his father and son intended to open the city and surrender to the Song army. Therefore, they were trapped in the dangerous city and did not dare to act rashly.
In order to avoid the needless casualties of the Song army and exchange the smallest price for the greatest result, Zhe Yanzhi, who was in command of Huazhou, decided to besiege but not attack, and then detain the city after the Jin army was in chaos. And frankly speaking, the imperial court transferred the army of Huazhou one after another, and with the Hebei rotten army and the righteous army led by Zong Ze in his hands, it may not be so easy to defeat Xiazhou City.
However, Zhao Huan was anxious to remove the threat from Tokyo, and several times ordered him to use troops by the Privy Council. Fortunately, Yan is a Wenchen. Continuously play to the court and explain the reasons. Zhao Huan still trusts this young talent who he has picked up single-handedly, and has already adopted his opinion.
But who knew that later, Fan Zhixu led the Western Army of the Five Routes into King Qin, but suffered a big defeat before Huangguan. This made the Great Song Junchen panic. At this time, there was another Cangzhou Zhizhou Du Chong who followed Zong Ze to Beijing, and he was reprimanded by the demolition of his feet because of his fingers and feet in the army, so he hated him deeply. After returning to Beijing. After participating in a copy of Yan Zhi, impeaching him for not moving, in fact, has ulterior motives. He also said that he caught the wind shadow. Now that Tokyo's military forces have been hollowed out, Zhe Zhonggu has a heavy army and does not capture the city, which is a manifestation of dissent.
This hat is not lightly buttoned! Regardless of whether the matter is true or unnecessary, his recital is a stone that stirs up a thousand waves in the court. The officials who did not know what was going on played one after another, demanding that the military power of Zheyan be removed and that the matter be investigated.
Although Zhao Huan didn't believe that Zhi Yan had different intentions, he couldn't stand the advice of the ministers day and night. But if you accept the military power of Zheyan, who will be sent to replace it? Xu Shao recommended that Shaobao He Guan is in Beijing, and he is the most suitable candidate. Most of the ministers agreed, but Geng Nanzhong said to Zhao Huan at this time that if He Guan was sent to command the troops. Then now hundreds of thousands of troops on all sides of the capital are in the hands of military ministers. Didn't the officials forget the things of their ancestors? The so-called ancestral matter refers to the fact that Song Taizu originally led the army to go north to resist the Khitan, but when he walked to Chenqiaoyi, he put on a yellow robe and returned to Beijing to seize the throne.
The kings of the Zhao and Song dynasties were the most sensitive to this matter. Zhao Huan listened to Geng Nanzhong's words, so he didn't need to irrigate. However, the imperial court not only seriously lacked generals, but also had few civil servants who knew a little about military affairs. picked and chosen, there was no serious candidate, and at this time, Geng Nanzhong jumped out again and recommended Du Chong, the governor of Cangzhou, who had just returned to the dynasty. Zhao Huan thought that if I used Fan Zhixu to unify the Western Army of the Five Routes, he would give me a big defeat in Huangguan. I used Li Hui to lead the Xu brothers to garrison Gong County, but he abandoned the city and fled. Du Chong is also the same as them, just a Confucian student, it's not appropriate to use him, right?
Geng Nanzhong said that Du Chong was different from other civil servants who did not understand military affairs. When he was the governor of Cangzhou, the Jin people invaded the south, and many of the Han people in Yanyun fled south to Shun, and there were thousands of overseas Chinese living in Cangzhou alone. Du Chong was worried that they would become the internal response of the Jin people, so he ordered them to be killed. From this point of view, this person can not only write, but also "martial".
Actually, what kind of bullshit do you call this? The number of people who dare to kill, is it able to "martial arts"? Then Xu Wei still need to think hard about how to break the enemy? But Zhao Huan really couldn't pick out anyone when he came, and secondly, he also thought that Du Chong at least had the courage. Now that you are not trapped in the dangerous city, it is the end of the crossbow, so why be afraid? Feng walked into Du Chong as the "Longtu Pavilion Straight Bachelor" to replace Zhe Yanzhi and go to Huazhou. After Xu Shao learned the news. In the night ban, you can't say it bluntly. Even if you want to withdraw Zheyan, you can't use Du Chong, Cizhou Zhizhou Zong Rushuang is in Huazhou, why not use him?
Zhao Huan refused to appoint Zong Ze on the grounds of his old age. However, after all, the suggestion was put forward by Xu Shumi, and the Xu family has been working hard for the country for the past two years from old to young, especially Xu Wei's brothers, who have fought everywhere and made many meritorious contributions. In order to take care of Xu Shao's face, he ordered Du Chong to be the right and Zong Ze to be the deputy.
This is a good thing, Du Chong was originally reprimanded by Zheyan and rolled back to Tokyo in disgrace. Now he has changed, but he has become the commander of one aspect. After this guy arrived in Huazhou, he first put the "lock-up method" that Zheyan had painstakingly managed. It was scrapped, the antlers rejected the horses, and the fortifications were demolished. Then he ordered the armies of all walks of life to surround them on all sides and march in unison, intending to take the state in one fell swoop.
When he just acted, he still couldn't get rid of the horse meat in the city, and he was really shocked that Zhaoliu thought that the end would come when Du Chong blocked all his troops. The second prince smiled.
Can you not laugh? In the past, Zheyan was in charge, only besieging and not attacking, hiding his strength. Therefore, the imperial court twice transferred troops from Huazhou. The Jin army in the city knew nothing, thinking that there were still hundreds of thousands of troops outside. But Du Chong did this, and the separation would not appear soon, and the Song army had transferred troops! Furthermore, he judged that if it weren't for the change, it would be impossible for the Southern Dynasty to leave the soldiers from Huazhou. He is the prince of Dajin Kingdom, if he has to say that there is anyone more attractive than himself, it is the bird family slave.
Sticky Han is here. What am I afraid of?
Therefore the whole army was ordered. It is necessary to guard and wait for reinforcements. As long as Huazhou holds on, Sticky Han will come to the rescue as soon as he arrives in Tokyo. At that time, Sensei said that he would get out, and it would be possible to fight Tokyo again! Morale recovered slightly, and the Song army began to capture the city.
When Du Chong was in Cangzhou, he killed none of the surrendered Yanyun Han people, which shows that he was in a cruel mood. Now as a commander on the one hand, he doesn't care if there are still people in the city. Take thousands of robe cars to bombard the state day and night! Although Du Chong is a paper tiger, the siege equipment is not paper paste. A wild bombardment down, the Jin soldiers in the city are terrified, they are good at running poison conflicts, but they have never had the experience of defending the city. Moreover, the military rations are exhausted. The soldiers began to kill horses and eat, how difficult was it to raise morale?
On the third day of the beginning of the seizure of the city. The first victory can't wait. After the death of Han Qinghe's father and son, he no longer used the Han people to serve as the commander of the ten thousand soldiers, and appointed the Jin general Wanyan Mengshi to be in charge of the Han army.
This is the courage of the adaptation. Jing Cavalry Shooting, deeply hated the rebellion of Han Qinghe and his father and son. At that time, some people said that the rebellion between the father and son of the Han family was related to Guo Yaoshi, and he once suggested that the medicine master be beheaded to prevent the Han army from disagreeing. Now he is also in charge of the Han army. He often used excuses to insult the generals of the Han army and beat and scold the Han soldiers. In addition, the Song army began to attack the city. The cell car bombarded day and night. As soon as the commanders of the 10,000-strong team in Liaodong were combined, if they didn't wait to be killed by the Song army's robe car, there would be no good fruit to eat in the future, so it would be better to do the opposite. So he killed the colleagues of the father and son of the Han family, and led thousands of Han troops to storm the east gate of Huazhou at night, kill the guards, and surrender out of the city.
Meng Shi was furious when he heard the news. sent troops to chase after him, and he didn't stop until the Song army camp was not far away. The commanders of the Liaodong 10,000-strong team met Du Chong in person. They all bowed down and asked to surrender, and informed the situation in the city 1510, and expressed their willingness to be the pioneer and take the lead in the city.
After hearing this, the Du family looked up to the sky and laughed, and everyone thought he was happy. As a result, the laughter stopped. He ordered Yao Pingzhong. Execute all the Han troops who surrendered! For a while, Wen Wu was shocked and asked the reason urgently. Du Chong sneered and said that the Jurchens are from Qiuyi, how can they calculate me? These Han soldiers were ordered to come to surrender and seek an opportunity to be a Jurchen internal response, you don't know about me? Of course I'm going to get rid of this scourge sooner rather than later!
Listening to the words, the civil officials and military generals were dumbfounded!
Yao Pingzhong. Although he is "ambitious, brave and unscrupulous", he is a general, has fought for many years, and has made a lot of meritorious contributions. Persuade Du Chong, even if you suspect that they are fraudulently surrendering, disarm, and break up the supervision. There is no need to put them all to death. Du Chong didn't listen. After executing all the surrendered Han soldiers, they also piled up the corpses in front of Huazhou City to demonstrate, and submitted a letter to the city to dissuade them, saying, "I have seen through your plan to surrender." Fall early and avoid death! ”
I can't see that the commander of the Song army is such a straw bag, and he has the heart to fight. And said to the Jurchen soldiers, Khitan soldiers, and Xi soldiers under his command. If you see it, this is the end of surrendering to the enemy! If you want to stay alive, you have no choice but to fight to the death! The Jin army is up and down, and it is concentric!
A few days after the robe, Du Chong was anxious to break through the city, so he ordered all the troops to move forward. The armies of all tribes in the city know that they will die in battle, and they will die if they surrender. Hence the desperate fight back. Du Chong's hands are full of the remnants of the two rivers and defeated generals, not to mention comparing with the Western Army. Even Xu Wei's Hujie Township Army can beat them all over the ground looking for teeth. The Jin army counterattacked fiercely and fought for seven or eight days. Not a single soldier ever climbed the city. On the contrary, it is so that he can't see that the Song army besieging the city has low combat power, why, Xu Wei is no longer in Huazhou?
On the second day of the second month of February, the dragon raised his head, and after the confrontation and temptation, the second prince not only concluded that the Song army was divided into troops, and the commander was a straw bag, and the soldiers had no fighting spirit. It was even judged that the Song army was bent on holding the city and was defenseless. So at night, Yan Mengshi and other generals led the only remaining more than 3,700 cavalry to attack the vanguard, and personally led the army to follow and attack the Song camp.
Du Chong demolished all the horses, antlers, and fortifications set up by Zheyan, allowing the Jurchen cavalry to pass unimpeded. It's night. After the Song army, which had been tired for days, had already fallen asleep, he had fallen asleep soundly, and he did not expect that the Jin army would come to touch the camp. Under the panic. has no intention of fighting, rushing to run away and trampling on each other. As soon as Du Chong heard the wind, he didn't even dare to wear his official robe, rushed out of the tent, grabbed a war horse, and then wiped two handfuls of horse dung on his face, and fled in a hurry. Although Yao Ping, Zhong Zongze and others wanted to fight, the soldiers did not listen to the command and only cared about their lives. In desperation, he had no choice but to retreat to Tokyo.
Separation is not suppressed for a long time. Murderous intentions are flourishing, so willing to let them go? waved the army to cover the killing, all the way to the south, and the Song army ambushed corpses all over the field. Heavy losses" (to be continued)