Chapter Twenty-Four: Night Attack on Jinying and Trapping Iron Bull Dingguo Attack the Lord of War to the South
Coming to the city downstairs, Liu Tang turned back to the military camp in the city, only to see Li Kui pouring strong wine alone in the camp, and persuaded a few words at the moment, but when he got to the back, he was also choked, so he had to raise the wine jar and drink with Li Kui, and said in his mouth: "Get drunk, just treat it as if you haven't seen anything, this hatred is in your heart, and you will definitely teach Jin Ren to come back thousands of times in the future!" At that moment, Li Kui just heyed, first pressed the anger in his heart, and remained silent.
Liu Tang was unconsciously drunk, but when he woke up, it was already night, and when he was not awake, he saw several generals enter the tent and report urgently: "A few subordinates can't stop it, General Li led 500 troops and horses to open the city and attack the camp of the Jin army at night!" Liu Tang was shocked when he heard this, and half of the wine was sober, so he hurriedly got up and shouted: "Immediately give me a drum to gather troops, order three thousand horse troops, and follow me out of the city to respond!" ”
Liu Tang hurriedly lit up an army of 3,000 horses, and when Wang Yu heard the news, he brought an army of more than 1,000 horses to come, and the two generals opened the east gate together and went out of the city. Li Kui led 500 military horses to open the east gate to attack the Jin army at night an hour ago, and the two generals had to go out of the city through the east gate and then catch up.
Liu Tang and Wang Yu led the army to catch up, only to see that the Jin camp was in chaos, after rushing in, fighting for half an hour, only to see more than ten of their own military horses, save them and ask, only to know that Li Kui led the army to attack at night, at first it was still very smooth, the Jin army was defenseless, and was killed by Li Kui all the way in, intending to kill through the outer camp, and rushed to the Jin army camp to rescue the people who were taken captive. But after the Jin army came to their senses, they gathered a lot of soldiers and horses to intercept it, Li Kui's army and horses were not much and were rushed into several sections, there were more than 50 people when these dozen military horses were surrounded, and only more than 10 people were left after a long battle, Li Kui and others should still be in the depths of the Jin camp, but they don't know life and death.
Liu Tang and Wang Yu were furious, and rushed to lead the army to kill the past, saving more than 100 Li Kui's troops and horses along the way, but there were more and more Jin troops, and Wang Yu shouted: "General Liu must not go deeper, and lead the army to kill back, otherwise we will also be trapped here." Liu Tang shouted angrily: "General Wang, how can our brothers and sisters abandon us?" You lead the army back, and I move forward, whether I live or die, and the iron bull is in one place! ”
Wang Yu had no choice but to lead the army to follow closely, and after rushing to kill more than 100 steps, there were too many Jin troops, and after more than 50 people were rescued, more than 10 people cried out: "General Li was covered by the fishing nets of the Jin army and captured him alive, and there were countless soldiers and horses of the Jin army over there, and it was difficult to rescue." Liu Tang was furious and wanted to kill him, but Wang Yu stopped him, and finally Wang Yu pulled Liu Tang to come, and the two led the army out of the siege before returning to the city. The Jin army was afraid of ambushing in the night, but it did not catch up.
When it was dawn, Wang Yu sent people out of the city to investigate, and saw that there was no Li Kui's first order outside the Jinying Yuanmen, and he expected that Li Kui had not been killed, so he was a little relieved. Liu Tang fought all night, and because of the fall of Li Kui, after returning to the city, he fainted in a hurry, and only woke up after dawn. After waking up, Wang Yu told the situation, and Liu Tang complained bitterly: "I lost Brother Li Kui, how to explain to the lord of the domain." Wang Yu was relieved: "Why don't you send an envoy out of the city and exchange gold and silver for General Li." ”
While the two were still discussing, Zhang Xiaochun arrived and took a letter and said: "Only when the Jin army came on a single horse and shot a letter to the city. Liu Tang and Wang Yu hurriedly read it, it turned out that this letter was written by the Jin army supervisor Yelu Yujian, Yelu Yujian was the uncle of the King of Jin of Liao, when the King of Jin of Liao State called the emperor to guard Yanjing, he received the grace of Sanniang, after the King of Jin lowered Jin, Yelu Yujian also heard more from the King of Jin about Liangshan's righteous act of rescuing the people of Yanjing, and was also grateful to the Song Army of Liangshan. Last night, when the Jin army captured Li Kui, the Jin generals wanted to kill Li Kui, but they were stopped by Yelu Yujian and said: "This person is the first Liangshan general to be captured alive, how can we be good at it?" When you send someone to escort it to the marshal, you can dispose of it. So he saved Li Kui's life, just because Yan Zonghan, the commander of the Jinguo West Route Army, had already led the troops through Taiyuan and went to Kaifeng, so he sent Li Kui south with all the golden generals. Yelu Yu saw this and sent his cronies to the city to inform the city of the news, which could be regarded as returning the favor of Liangshan Song Jun, and this was all he could do.
After getting the news, Liu Tang felt a little relieved, and hurriedly ordered people to fly pigeons to pass the book, on the one hand, he informed Lin Chong, and on the other hand, he informed Jeju on Shandong Road, only guarding Taiyuan City with peace of mind, waiting for two military orders.
Not to mention Wang Yu and Liu Tang guarding Taiyuan, but it is said that the Jin army has 30,000 military horses in the Yan Lou room, and they have driven all the way south, and the Song army in various states and counties is difficult to resist, and it is not surprising that the Song army's combat strength was extremely poor at that time, and even Tian Hu's group of thieves and military horses they couldn't stop it, not to mention the Jin army's elite military horses like wolves and tigers?
So the Jin army under the Yan Lou room quickly went south, and the prefectures and counties that were passed either Kaicheng surrendered, or were quickly captured by the Jin army, and it only took more than 20 days for the Jin army to cross the Yellow River south and attack Luoyang. The Song army did not make a decent resistance in Luoyang, and after three days of attack, the Jin people captured Luoyang, and then attacked Tongguan, which was broken in one day. After the Jin army broke through Tongguan, they locked Tongguan, so that it was difficult for the elite Western Army of the Song army west of Tongguan to come to the east.
After receiving the news that the military horses of Wanyan Lou's room had occupied Tongguan, Wanyan Zonghan was overjoyed and urged the military horses to move south quickly. And the 140,000 troops and horses of the East Route Army Wanyan Zongwang also drove south, but when they met the veteran Zong Ze, they were slightly delayed.
Zongze town guarded Cizhou, and after the Cizhou was ravaged by the Jin soldiers, the people fled and the warehouses were empty. After Zong Ze arrived, he repaired the city wall, dredged the God's Pond, repaired the equipment, recruited volunteers, and began to plan to hold on. He said: "The five prefectures of Xing, Luo, Ci, Vietnam, and Xiang each have 20,000 elite soldiers, and if the enemy attacks one county, the other four counties will come to the rescue, so that the strength of one county will always maintain 100,000 troops." Qinzong also wanted people to be able to resist the Jin army in the north, so he appointed Zong Ze as the head of the Hebei Volunteer Army.
The Jin army's East Road army went south to attack the Song Dynasty, and Zong Wang led the army to besiege Zhending Mansion, the northern gateway, in September, and Qin Zong ordered Zong Ze to lead his troops to the rescue. But the Jin army was not only menacing this time, but also had a lot of military horses, and Zong Ze's department was still halfway there, so he received the news of the fall of Zhending Mansion. Zhending Mansion failed to wait for reinforcements, so Zong Ze had to collect his troops and return to the division to defend Cizhou.
After the fall of Zhending, Zongwang's 140,000 troops went south by separate routes and sent 20,000 cavalry to attack Cizhou. Zong Ze put on armor to drill Gordon City to command the battle of Dengcheng to command the battle head fight, ordered the soldiers to shoot it with a crossbow with a divine arm, and after smashing the offensive of the Jin soldiers, he opened the city gate, took advantage of the situation to pursue the army, killed hundreds of enemies, and captured a large amount of loot. This was the first time that the Song army defeated the Jin soldiers, which greatly boosted the fighting spirit of the Song army in all parts of Heshuo. After Zong Wang got the news, he sent an additional 20,000 troops to attack Cizhou, Zong Ze led his troops to defend the palace, and the two armies formed a confrontation situation, but Zong Wang's main force bypassed Cizhou and continued to go south.
The Jin State invaded the Song Dynasty in a big way, claiming to have sent 500,000 troops, and a series of war reports soon reached the Jeju capital. After reading the battle report, Sanniang sighed in her heart: "I didn't expect that this toss did not change history, but the Jin army came twice as many soldiers and horses." "In history, the second time the Jin State invaded the Song Dynasty, a total of 150,000 troops and horses were dispatched from the east and west, but I didn't expect that just because the Jin army lost two battles to the Liangshan Song army on the last trip, there were so many soldiers and horses on this trip.
After Sanniang read Guo Yaoshi's secret report again, she smiled bitterly and said: "300,000 Jin Army, known as 500,000, this Jin State will not be long in the future, it is to call on the soldiers and horses of the former Liao State to put together everything in the east, and there are so many soldiers and horses. ”
Sanniang's guess was good, just because of the last attack on the Song Dynasty, on the bank of the Yellow River, the East Route Army suffered a big loss from Sanniang, losing more than 10,000 military horses, and the West Route Army ate the defeat of the Liangshan Song Army in Taiyuan.
From ancient times to the present, whenever a new country is established, there must be a foreign war of the country, starting from the Qin Dynasty. The battle of the Qin Dynasty was against the Xiongnu, Meng Tian defeated the Xiongnu, and the Qin Dynasty was completely determined. The Han Dynasty was also the same, until Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty defeated the Xiongnu, it was considered to have established the status of a great power. The Tang Dynasty fought the Turks, the later Ming Dynasty fought Mongolia, the Qing Dynasty even defeated Xinjiang, and even the Republic had the Korean War, which was a battle to determine the country, which could be regarded as laying the foundation for the stability of a great country.
The dynasties that did not achieve victory in the battle of Dingguo were all spent in storms without exception. For example, the Jin Dynasty, the war against the northern tribe was not a complete victory, and the same was true for the Song Dynasty, the failure of the battle against the Liao State directly affected the Northern Song Dynasty and the Southern Song Dynasty for hundreds of years.
The current Jin State is the same, the Jin State has just eliminated the Liao State and established the country, but after all, the foundation is thin, and it urgently needs a battle to determine the country, and the Song Dynasty in the south is constantly harassed, from the Yunzhong incident to the Song State constantly tearing up the peace discussion, the Jin State must destroy the Song Dynasty, otherwise his rule in the north will not be stable. Later, it turned out that after the Jin State drove the Song State across the Yellow River, the Jin State completely laid the foundation of a great power until it was destroyed by the Mongols. Therefore, this trip to the Jin State sent all the soldiers and horses that could be sent, except for the soldiers and horses in the west who were still encircling and suppressing Yelu Dashi and the north to suppress the old Liao State, the Jin State sent all its mobile troops to participate in the war.
Jin Guo came with all her might, Sanniang was not only afraid, but a little excited, if she could eat all the Jin army, then when the north was pacified in the future, it would definitely be smoother. But before that, Jin Jun had to help her do one thing first, that is, to destroy Zhao Song.
Judging from the military report, the Jin army was really as she expected, like a fierce tiger, and came straight to Bianjing. In Sanniang's plan, she needs the Jin Army to wipe out all the Zhao and Song royal families, and she needs to find a suitable candidate to make the transition, and before she achieves an absolute advantage, she will continue to hold high the banner of the Great Song Dynasty and call on the whole country to fight against the Jin Army, and this candidate also needs to be a puppet in her hands.
In the letters from Gao Yu and Wen Huanzhang, they both recommended a person. Sanniang laughed playfully, looking at the same name on the letter between the two, Sanniang said lightly: "King Kang Zhao Gou? Is he an obedient marionette? ”