However, it was said that in the tent of the Jin army marshal, the commander of the Jin army on the south road, Mu Han, heard that the Song army sentry cavalry was found on the south bank of the Haihe River, and was surprised.

Earlier, when the Jin army raised troops to attack Liao, it had already sent envoys south to contact the Song court and attack Liao together, although the Song court was interested in joining Jin to attack Liao, but they had no choice but to have a fire in their backyard, and Fang La's righteous army was gaining momentum in the south of the Yangtze River, so they could only turn around and attack Fang La.

In history, the Song army attacked Fang La, it only took more than half a year to quell the rebellion, and then Tong Guan led the counterinsurgency army directly to the north, and the alliance Jin army invaded Liao, but Rao was the Liao army was beaten to death by the Jin army, but the broken Liao army still repeatedly defeated the Song army, which made the Jin army stunned, is this the legendary pig teammate?

Yes, at the beginning, the Jin army still had respect for the so-called Central Plains Dynasty, but after the Song Dynasty invaded Liao, the Jin army saw the weakness of the Central Plains Dynasty, which led to the destruction of the Liao State later, and the Jin army quickly tore up the covenant and raised troops to the south to attack the Song Dynasty.

But this trip because of Sanniang, the Song army in the battle of Runzhou, because the grain and grass were burned down, and later because the White Lotus Sect was ordered to spread the Song army deployed to the Fangla Yi army, the Song army brigade of Tong Guan has been dragged in the south of the Yangtze River, so naturally there is no Lianjin to attack Liao. After all, the Song Dynasty is the largest country at the moment, and the population, money and food are very rich, if the Song army comes to help the Liao State, the Jin army also needs to be cautious.

When Mu Han was frowning and groaning, one person was transferred out of the tent, but it was the fourth prince Jin Wushu, that is, Wanyan Zongbi, who was currently marching ten thousand households of the Jin army on the South Road, and saw him come out of class, and said loudly: "Why did the marshal hear that the Song army sentry was coming, so he was so worried? ”

Sticky Han hesitated: "I heard that there are thousands of Song people in the Central Plains, which are thousands of times that of my Jurchens, and the Central Plains is a rich place, and the grain and grass equipment are inexhaustible. ”

Jin Wushu said: "The marshal doesn't have to worry, in the early years, I went deep into the Song Realm and contacted Hebei Tianhu to help, but later it failed, just because of the thief mother-in-law of Liangshan Bo Yizhang Qing from it." Although the last plan failed, in my view, within the Song army in the Central Plains, except for the Liangshan Bo military horses, the rest of the Song army are like chickens and dogs. ”

Sticky Han muttered: "That Liangshan female thief is a big name, I have also heard, legend has it that the Song army of Zhulu besieged Liangshan, and was repeatedly defeated by her, and finally the emperor of the Song Dynasty had to be forced to send a decree to Zhao'an, allowing her to open a feudal town on Shandong Road. Couldn't the rest of the Song army fight? ”

Jin Wushu laughed and said: "Back then, Tianhu in Hebei, Liangshan in Shandong, and now in Jiangnan, these are all Song State counter-rebel troops, it is these chaotic armies, the Song State army and horses are suppressed, and they still lose troops and generals, so they can't even deal with a group of rivers and lakes, how can they stop my Dajin elite?" After a pause, Jin Wushu hesitated for a moment and said, "But if it is against the original Liangshan military horses on Shangshan East Road, you still have to be careful." In Tian Hu's place, I fought against them, and their combat power is really strong. ”

Sticky Han patted his head and said: "When I heard this news at first glance, I was shocked for a while, and I forgot an important thing. All the generals in the tent asked, "What is the matter?" Sticky Han got up and came to the map, pointed to Yanjing and said: "The location of this Song army is extremely strange, if the Song army comes to aid the Liao State, whether it is from Hejian Mansion or from Zhending Mansion, it will not appear in the south of the mouth of the Gu River (that is, the Haihe River, known as the Gu River in ancient times), and the Song army has always lacked horses, and the Song cavalry encountered by our sentry cavalry is very elite, but I am afraid that it is not the Song army from Hejian Mansion." ”

Speaking of this, Jin Wushu also came to his senses, frowned and pondered, and muttered: "Yes, there is no reason for the Song army to leave the North Canal and the West Road on the road, but to go to the place south of the Gu River where there are many river bays, tidal flats, and swamps." ”

Mu Han is the commander of the first army, and immediately said in a deep voice: "Don't speculate first, now there is not much news, it is difficult to decide, so we can only send more sentry cavalry troops to investigate, this time send more people and horses over, we must find out the intention of this Song army and the strength of the army!" ”

Jin Wushu volunteered: "Marshal, I am willing to lead a thousand cavalry troops to investigate!" Sticky Han said: "Okay, remember that this is to investigate the Song army's intentions, and you don't have to fight hard!" "The golden vulture responded, and after wearing it neatly, he took all the military horses, and led a thousand elite light cavalry to the Gu River.

However, it was said that Sanniang did not land on the Liqing boat, and after Lin Chong and others got the news of the encounter with the Jurchen cavalry in the camp on the shore, they sent someone to spread it to the ship. After Gongsun Sheng read the news, he frowned and said: "I don't want this Jurchen to be really careful, so I even sent sentry horses to sentry to the south bank of the Gu River, where there are many swamps and tidal flats, and it is difficult for the army to march. ”

Sanniang said coldly: "I heard that the commander of the Jin army besieging Yanjing this time is Mu Han, this is my great enemy, this thief is bold and careful, and the use of soldiers is second to none among the Jurchens, so he will naturally send scouts on all sides." ”

Seeing Sanniang's gritted teeth, Gongsun Sheng hurriedly persuaded: "Lord, the main strategy for us to come this time is to pick up the Zheng Ying brothers and others, not to come here to fight to the death with the Jurchens. ”

Sanniang gritted her teeth and said: "I know this, if you can't bear it, you will make a big plan, this time our army came across the sea, when the battle is quickly resolved, I will not joke with the lives of 20,000 military horses." After a pause, Sanniang continued: "If it happens, I guess Sticky Han will also be surprised how the Song army appeared here, and he will definitely send military horses to investigate, send an order to Lin Chong, teach him to lead the army and horses, and first give me a heavy blow to the Jin army that came to meet me!" ”

Gongsun Sheng was taken aback and said: "At this moment, my Great Song Dynasty has not yet started a war with the Jin State, and the previous encounter can be said to be a misunderstanding, but if his army comes, we will fight again, I am afraid that the two countries will go to war." ”

Sanniang sneered: "The Jurchens are cheap bones, bullying the soft and afraid of the hard, if you talk to him with good words, I am afraid that he will still think that you are weak and easy to bully." Therefore, as soon as we came up, we first attacked his front military horse, and taught him not to know the reality of our army, even if we want to discuss with him, let go of a road, and let us pick up people from Yanjing City, we must fight first! ”

Gongsun Sheng understood, twisted his beard and smiled: "It turns out that the lord is so thoughtful, okay, let's talk first!" When the plan was agreed, he sent a herald to sail ashore to give Lin Chong an order, teaching him to divide a part of the cavalry to go forward and prepare to meet the Jin army on the outskirts of the camp and on the south bank of the Haihe River, and be sure to find a place to attack hard.

After getting the military order, Lin Chong did not dare to slack off, and immediately promoted to general, Qin Ming, Zhang Qing, Dong Ping, Hua Rong, who commanded the queen's dragoons and elite hussars, Yang Tinghe, Fei Song, Han Bai, Han Song, who commanded the infantry barbarians, Yang Zhi, Wang Xiaohu, Ding Desun, Gong Wang, left-wing generals, Liu Tang, Zheng Tianshou, Li Zhong, Zhou Tong, Chinese army generals Mu Hong, Xu Ning, Zhu Tong, Lei Heng, guards and escort generals Lu Fang, Guo Sheng, firearms battalion generals Ling Zhen, Bian Xiang, Ye Qing, Tang Bin, rear army generals Li Ying, Ma Lin, Ou Peng, and all of them gathered together in the tent.

When Lin Chong saw that the generals had arrived, he told the news of the encounter with the Jin army, and also said Sanniang's military order. After finishing speaking, Hua Rong came out of the class and said: "After the recent investigation, there is a plain grassland on the south bank of the Haihe River, the left side is the place where several rivers intersect, there are many swamps, and the right side is mostly reeds. It's just that I don't know how many people the Jurchens will come. ”

Dong Ping said: "This battle of the sentinel encounter, there are not many Jurchen sentinels, only more than 20 people, I smell the Jurchen military system, it is a small sentry horse, I guess the Jurchen Jin army does not know the intention of our army, will only send military horses to investigate the movement of our army, at least send more than 1,000 cavalry to investigate, but it will not exceed 3,000, just because he wants to besiege Yanjing, will not move the army lightly." ”

Lin Chong bowed his head and said: "I also think that they will send about 3,000 cavalry troops to come, in this case, the generals will listen to my orders!" The generals agreed together, and Lin Chong shouted: "Send the forward cavalry general Hua Rong, lead three hundred hussars to the south bank of the Gu River to explore the battle, if you meet the Jin army, lead it across the south bank of the Gu River!" ”

Hua Rong received the order loudly, received the order flag, and Lin Chong continued: "Send Qin Ming and Dong Ping, the generals of the forward cavalry, and lead a thousand hussars to respond to the rear, the Jurchen military horses must be light cavalry military horses, so there is no need to use heavy cavalry!" ”

Qin Ming and Dong Ping received orders loudly, and Zhang Qing led the rest of the cavalry to wait in the camp. Lin Chong said again: "Yang Tinghe of the Infantry Army and Liu Tang of the Right Wing, commanding five hundred barbarian soldiers and one thousand elite divine arm archers, are ambushed in the reeds, ready to ambush the Jurchen cavalry!" Yang Tinghe and Liu Tang also led the order loudly.

Lin Chong finally said: "The rest of the generals are all ready in the camp!" Lu Fang, Guo Sheng and I led a thousand cavalry troops to line up outside the camp and wait for news! The generals received their orders together, and then they went their separate ways to go.

But it was said that it was prepared overnight, and after dawn the next day, all the armies were full, and Hua Rong was neatly clothed, so he led three hundred elite hussars forward, and the rest of the military horses followed. Liangshan Song army on the Haihe River has already set up a few pontoon bridges, in fact, there is no need to build any pontoon bridges, it is already the middle of winter, the Haihe River is frozen porcelain, you can ride horses, but Sanniang seeks stability, only afraid that the weather will change suddenly, if it is warm, the ice on the Haihe River will become thinner, and if you are caught off guard, the war horse or sergeant will have an accident when walking, so it is still ordered to Lin Chong's brigade to build three pontoon bridges on the Haihe River, all on the ice, just in case. In the future, if someone comes out, he will also have to cross the sea and withdraw to the south of the river to get on the ship.

Hua Rong played the banner, wrote to the vanguard tiger general of the former army of the Eastern Road of the Great Song Dynasty, led three hundred hussars to the north bank of the Haihe River, and lined up at the head of the three pontoon bridges.

When he was young, he saw several sentry horses returning, and they all said: "More than a thousand Jurchen golden girls came to the northeast, and when they saw us, they released arrows, and when we saw that the enemy was strong, we retreated first!" Hearing this, Hua Rong shouted: "All the armaments are fighting! "At that moment, the three hundred cavalry troops are on their horses, prepare their horses, bows and swords, and just wait to meet the enemy! (To be continued.) )