Wang Shu limped over, not caring about the pain in his body, and said breathlessly: "Xuanxiang, there are rumors of madness in and out of the city!" ”

Seeing that Judge Wang was behaving abnormally today, the staff of the adjutant officer all gathered around, and they were all confused when they heard this, what was going crazy? Could it be that the homeless people are so hungry that they are panicking, and what rumors are spreading that the Jin army is approaching Chang'an City? Li Gang put down his pen and frowned: "What are you passing on?" ”

Wang Shu's throat was so dry that he was smoking, someone next to him handed him a cup of tea, he opened the lid and drank the end of the tea leaves, and then said: "It is said that the people who escaped from Dingrong have spread the news that the Taiwei and the Xu family brothers have started a decisive battle with the Jin army!" ”

As soon as these words came out, the whole house was in an uproar! Previously, the two divisions had given orders to the seed master several times, urging him to start a war with the Jinren. But he has been using various reasons to prevaricate, why is he suddenly willing to fight again? I am afraid that it is mostly because the Jin army took the initiative to attack. However, it is not important why the war started, what is important is whether to win or lose?

Li Gang was also surprised, Dingrong was only two hundred miles from Chang'an, and what the common people spread was not necessarily a rumor. The troops in the hands of the division and the Xu brothers can be said to have gathered the elite of the three Jingluo pacification divisions, and if they are defeated, Jingzhao will be rested and Shaanxi will be rested. When he was in doubt, he heard Wang Shu say: "There is also news, yesterday at noon, an army crossed Weishui from the area east of Weinan and west of Zheng County, and marched to Dingrong. It is said that it is, Jurchens! ”

"Huh? This, this, whose troops are this? An official asked in a voiceless voice.

"After Qu Duan repelled the invading enemy in Yaozhou, the Jin army retreated to Huazhou, maybe ......" This person said this, and he didn't dare to say any more.

There was silence in the hall for a moment, and the officials looked at each other, finding their colleagues as frightened as they were. It's a bad thing, the Jurchens are engaging in a two-sided attack! Can the Taiwei and the Xu family brothers stop it? In case they are terminated, Chang'an will be the target of the Jin Army's next key attack!

"Xuanfu Xianggong! The situation is urgent, and both divisions have hurried to come up with contingency measures, and if it is too late, there will be trouble! Wang Shu said in a deep voice.

As soon as he took the lead, the officials exploded, and they all said that they should immediately prepare for contingencies, otherwise Chang'an would be in chaos! And this place is the center of Shaanxi, and the whole Shaanxi is in chaos! How could Li Gang not know this? But Qu Duan took the troops to Ningzhou, more than 500 miles away from the Dingrong battlefield, and there are only a few thousand troops in Chang'an City now, if the Jin army comes, how can they respond? This is not comparable to Taiyuan, and the scale of Chang'an City is absolutely impossible to hold by thousands of people. But if you give up Chang'an, not to mention what kind of bad impact it has on Shaanxi, you will not be able to escape accountability!

"Silence!" The chaotic officials quieted down with Li Xuanfu's shout. I saw that the haggard face of the supreme military and political chief of Shaanxi was like frost, and he stared at the officials speechless for a long time.

"The front-line battle report has not yet been returned, why are you panicking? Among the divisions is the general of the Western Army, and the brothers of the Xu family are also behind the generals, and tens of thousands of troops are stationed in Dingrong, is it not a decoration? Li Gang reprimanded loudly.

The officials were silent, but they all thought in their hearts that the Jin people only dispatched partial divisions, and they successively took a large area of the city and defeated the main force of the Yan Yan Jingluo Pacification Division, so the Jurchen elite led by Yan Lousu was returned? I'm afraid it's not his opponent among the seed masters! You should evacuate Jingzhao Mansion now, I'm afraid it's too late!

"Xuanxiang, the top priority is to quickly impose martial law in the whole city, close the city gate and prohibit entry and exit, so as not to spread the news and cause panic in Chang'an! When the Jin army doesn't come, we ourselves will be in chaos! Wang Shu reminded anxiously.

Li Gang turned around and paced to the side of the case, his thin body shook, and he was busy supporting the public case party without falling. After a moment, he sighed dejectedly: "The matter has come to this, and it can only be like this, go ahead, please He Shaobao do the same." ”

Wang Shu answered, turned his head and walked out, just walked to the door, bumped into a full cup with the visitor, and sat on the ground with a butt, which was the third time that this Shaanxi dignitary fell. When I looked up, I was about to look for it, but He Shaobao came by himself! Just as he was about to speak, He Guan bypassed him and said loudly: "Li Xuanfu! Exultation! ”

Li Gang turned around suddenly, only to see He Guan's face happy, striding towards him, holding a sign in his hand! Everyone in the hall probably recognizes this as a silver medal used to convey emergency military information!

"Joy, where does the joy come from?" Li Gang asked in a lost voice.

He Guan flashed the silver medal in his hand, and said overjoyed: "I just received the silver medal of the seed lieutenant and the horse is urgent." Yesterday, the official army defeated the main force of Lousu in one fell swoop in the south of Weishui and the north of Dingrong! ”

The needle drop could be heard at the scene, and everyone, including Li Gang, was stunned. Some people are basically in a state of trance, suspecting that they are having auditory hallucinations. What the? Defeat Lou Su's main force in one fell swoop? Did I hear it wrong? Or did He Shaobao say it wrong?

Li Gang didn't seem to believe it either, he didn't look at the silver medal at all, but stared at He Guan's weathered face, and after confirming that the other party was not joking, he won the silver medal with his hand, and almost put his face on to look at it. This is indeed a battle report sent in the name of the deputy envoy of the Shaanxi Sixth Road System. According to the report, starting yesterday morning, the main force led by Lou Su fought a decisive battle, and both armies were determined to win and fight to the death. After noon, reinforcements from the Jin army arrived, and the situation was critical for a while. However, the two prefectures of Ci, Jiang, Ze, Pingyang, and Zhaode summoned Xu Wei and Linfu to pacify the envoy through Lu Jingluo, and the envoy Zhi Keqiu led the army to arrive in time. The morale of several Western armies was greatly boosted, and the main force of the Jin Army under the command of Lou Su was defeated in one fell swoop! The Jurchen defeated the division and has gone to Tongguan!

Looking at the battle report, Li Gang did not have the slightest expression on his face, and after handing over the silver medal to Wang Shu for circulation, he left a cadre and others and slowly walked out of the second hall. He Guan was surprised for a while, I rushed to give you a breath, and you didn't say anything at all? Hurriedly chased out and called: "Xuan Xiang? Xuanxiang? ”

Li Gang didn't say a word, passed through the corridor outside the hall, and went to the backyard. When he came to the courtyard, the Shaanxi official stopped and stood in the garden in a daze. Since Li Zhi attacked the southeast border of Hedong, Li Gang has worked day and night, exhausting himself. As the situation deteriorated step by step, the minister, who was known for his loyalty, was anxious, especially recently! Now, when the good news came, he didn't know what to do with himself for a while. With his hands behind his back and his back facing the sky, Li Gang burst into tears and sighed: "Ziang will never live up to me!" ”

In the second year of Song Longxing and the eighth year of Jin Tianhui, this Dingrong battle ended with the defeat of the Jin army and the victory of the Song army. In this battle, under the unified command of the division, the Sanlu Western Army defeated the Jurchen strong enemy at the cost of more than 30,000 casualties! After Lou Su retreated into Tongguan, he counted the soldiers and horses, and less than half of the 100,000 troops entered Tongguan. More than 50,000 people were killed and missing, more than 6,000 horses were damaged, and no ordnance and materials were counted. After entering Guanzhong, the plundered money and grain were lost...... This is nothing, nearly 100 officers of the Jin Army's Meng'an Mouke level were killed, the Dragon and Tiger King Wanyan was killed by Yang Zaixing, Yelu Ma Wu was hit in the back by Zhe Yanye and was seriously injured, and the rest of the senior generals were able to withdraw from the battlefield with their whole body, only a very few.

This battle can be said to be an unprecedented defeat since the Jurchen army invaded the south! After Yan Lousu retreated into Tongguan, he cried loudly in front of the generals of the Jin Army! (Li Gang, the supreme commander of the Western Army, is also crying?) He himself reviewed and said that the defeat of Dingrong was not because of how powerful the brothers of the Xu family were in the division and how fierce the Western Army was. The reason why the Jin army was defeated was entirely because it should not have chased across the Wei River, leaving the 100,000-strong army in a situation where it could not be used. For this, he bears the main responsibility.

Although Lou Su took responsibility for himself, his "review" was inevitably biased. The terrain of the battlefield was certainly one of the reasons for the defeat of the Jin army, but fundamentally speaking, his biggest mistake was the strategic move of the first place to prevent the fourth prince Wushu from seizing the opportunity, putting down Hedong and leading the army straight to Guanzhong.

Strategic mistakes cannot be made up for by any tactics. Although the Jin army had 140,000 people, Xu Wei had a large number of rebel troops to mobilize in addition to the western army of the recruiting division. Although Li Zhi occupied the northeastern part of Hedong, Linzhou, Fuzhou, and Fengzhou, which were in the northwesternmost corner of Hedong, were still under the control of the Zhejia army, leaving hidden dangers for the Jin army to plan Hedong.

The attack on Pingyang was frustrated, and Lou Su was angry, did not listen to the advice of Ma Wu and others, and insisted on fighting to the death with the defenders of Pingyang. Not to mention the loss of troops, it also greatly damaged the morale of the Jin army. As soon as he heard that the Eastern Route Army was advancing rapidly, he immediately sent Yinshu Ke to besiege the city and wave his army south.

After entering Guanzhong, although he seized the pontoon bridge controlled by Hezhongfu and took Shaanzhou to hold Tongguan, he did not send elite troops to defend Fenglingdu because he had already burned the boat, giving Zijin Tiger the opportunity to cross the river.

These major mistakes ruined the strategic attempt of the Western Route Army to seize the whole of Shaanxi, and also left the lives of tens of thousands of soldiers of the Jin Army in Shaanxi.

On the other hand, Shaanxi is not necessarily doing better than Jinguo. Although Xu Wei is in the way of Hedong, he gives Shaanxi Sixth Road time to prepare for the war. However, Li Gang and He Guan were limited by the complicated situation of the Western Army and could not command the army with ease. To put it more broadly, Shaanxi Xuanfu set up two divisions and only did three things in the pre-war war.

First, Li Gang accepted Xu Wei's conditions, let Xu Yuan, the marshal of Jingyuan, lead the army into Shaanxi, and let Xu Sheng temporarily take over the authority of the commander of Shaanxi, which created conditions for the later battle of Dingrong.

Second, taking advantage of Xu Wei's containment of the Jin army in Hedong, the two divisions gathered a patchwork of troops in Yaozhou, laying the groundwork for the preservation of Chang'an.

Third, during the Tongzhou Campaign, he sent the veteran general to lead the army to help the Xu brothers, which was the right person.

Therefore, war is both inevitable and accidental. Although victory or defeat depends on the financial, material, and combat resources of the warring parties, this is not absolute. When there is not much difference in strength between the two sides, the elusive and unpredictable contingency can sometimes become the key to determining the victory or defeat of a war.

In March of the second year of Longxing, when the wolf smoke in Shaanxi had subsided, the Central Plains battlefield was still not optimistic. The fourth prince of the Dajin Kingdom chased and killed Zhao Huan, the son of the Great Song Dynasty, and chased him until Yangzhou before returning. Along the way, the Jin army plundered large areas and seized countless money and materials.

At this time, the Jin army besieging Tokyo could not be attacked for a long time, and Yin Xu Shao, who stayed in Tokyo and Kaifeng Prefecture, launched the army and the people to persist in the war of resistance, and promoted a group of generals such as Han Shizhong, Yue Fei, and Wang Gui. The people of the Tokyo army were united in their hatred of the enemy, and repelled dozens of rampant attacks by the Jin army one after another. After returning to the Central Plains, Wushu was deeply angered by Tokyo's stubborn resistance, so he gathered the elite and personally commanded it in an attempt to break the imperial capital of the Great Song Dynasty in one fell swoop.

Gao Shiyou, who was entrenched in Hebei, took advantage of the fall of the Jin army to Shandong, and appointed Liu Yu, a judge of the Song court, as the prefect of Jinan and the head of the soldiers and horses of Jingdong Road. Tens of thousands of soldiers and horses were driven from the nest in Hebei, led by his brother Gao Xiaogong, to seize territory and create momentum for his claim to be emperor. Soon, however, the rebel armies in the Daimyo area, who had not followed Zhang's retreat into Tokyo, rose up one after another, attacked and harassed Gao Xiaogong, and threatened the rear of the Jin army. Wushu was unmoved, and only sent a general, leading thousands of soldiers and horses to assist Gao Xiaogong in suppressing the rebels, and he still commanded the main force to attack Tokyo.

However, the warriors of the Dajin Kingdom did not suddenly have their divine power because of the blessing of the fourth prince, and for more than ten consecutive days, Tokyo still stands. Seeing that the strong attack could not be effective for a while, Wushu came up with a move. After the war, he ordered a large number of soldiers to submit letters to the city, saying, "The capital of your country is broken in an instant, so I gather troops and do not fight, but I think of you and other loyal and brave." I think that the young emperors of your country have fled to Jianghuai, but you can stick to the city, and you are very admired. I wanted to withdraw from the army, but the generals and soldiers were all resentful, and they were not ordered to enter the Southern Dynasty because they had nothing to gain. Therefore, Tokyo Yuji only needs to take out 1 million gold, 5 million silver, and 200,000 silk horses each, and I will quit and return to the north. If I don't agree, within half a month, I will break Tokyo, even if the chicken dog is not immune! ”

Xu Shao got this document, and it was dirty to wipe his buttocks, and if the Jurchens could believe it, they could eat the shit! Now in March, it is the season of spring flowers, Hebei and Shandong have fallen, Wushu has no concerns, will he take the initiative to negotiate peace? No one would believe it.

Don't say it, there are really people who believe it. Many vicious battles were fought, and although the Jurchens were blocked, the soldiers and civilians in Tokyo also suffered a lot of losses. Especially after the vulture returned to Tokyo with the main force, the situation deteriorated day by day. At this time, the Jin army offered to withdraw from the army after giving money, and some self-righteous people thought that the Jin people were Di Yi's generation, and the people who came from afar were just Jin Silk women. Give him this money! Not only do the people in the city think so, but also the officials in the left-behind department think so!

Xu Shao was aware of the attempt of the vultures, the peace negotiation was fake, the asking for money was fake, and it was true to slow down my morale and people's hearts! After weighing and discussing, he took advantage of the Jin army's strike to overhaul the war preparations, and on the other hand, he made a mistake with the vultures. It is said that the official family toured south and took away countless amounts of silver, and now the city of Tokyo can't take out such a large amount for a while.

I don't know if it was deliberately humiliated, or if the person who wrote it below was intentional, Wushu said in the book. If they have no money, they will pay their debts with women. Didn't your emperor run away? What else is left of the Emperor County Lord? Even if it's the daughter of the clan, one is worth three thousand! The official women are worth 2,000, the women of large families are worth 1,000, and the rest of the beautiful faces can be worth 500!