Chapter 34: Zong Han's Troubles
Wanyan Zonghan very much wanted to find a big shaman to show him his fortune, to see why he repeatedly attacked the Song Dynasty, and he would meet difficult opponents.
In the first attack on the Song Dynasty, Zong Han led the most elite 100,000 iron cavalry, from Yanyun to the south, all the way like a bamboo, even down dozens of cities, unstoppable. Unexpectedly, he met the most difficult opponent under Taiyuan City. An iron-clad guard Zhang Xiaochun, a general Wang Yu who swears to the death. Under the leadership of Zhang Xiaochun and Wang Yu, more than 10,000 militia groups relied on Taiyuan Jiancheng to block Zong Han for seven months. Wanyan Zongwang only led 20,000 Jurchen iron cavalry, but he attacked the Yellow River all the way, and killed the city of Bianliang without encountering any resistance, forcing Song Huizong and Song Qinzong to sign an alliance under the city.
In the second attack on the Song Dynasty, Zong Han defeated Taiyuan, and was about to kill Bianliang in a storm, but was blocked by a small pacification army. After attacking for more than a month, it was possible to use the sea of people offensive to defeat the city of Pingding. But at this time, the army of Wanyan Zongwang was already waiting impatiently under Bianliang City.
It can be said that the two attacks on the Song Dynasty not only did not bring any honor to Wanyan Zonghan, but brought a stain to his brilliant military career. And Wanyan Zongwang has become the new god of war in the minds of the Jurchens.
But Wanyan Zonghan felt extremely aggrieved. He believed that even if Zong Wang met Zhang Xiaochun and Wang Yu, who were dying, it would take him a year. When encountering the whole army's jade jade Pingding army, Zong Wang will also stop the city. Oh, there's no whole army of jade shatters. There was a ten-master named Yue Fei who led several brothers to fight his way out of the siege, and now he has become a big trouble for the Jurchens.
But Zong Wang's luck was extremely good, and all he met was greedy for life and afraid of death. As soon as the army arrived at the city, and before it even reached the city, the generals defending the city had already opened the door and surrendered. The only Zhongshan Mansion that does not surrender is not in a strategic route. Zong Wang couldn't beat it down for a while, so he directly bypassed Zhongshan Mansion and went south.
But he always encounters the most difficult bones on the most critical strategic routes. A detour is simply impossible.
But war is like this, and heroes have always been judged by success or failure. Jurchen talentsNo matter how talented Zong Wang's opponent is, and how strong Zong Han's opponent is, they only look at the final result. The result was the battle to destroy the Song Dynasty, and the first merit was the eldest prince Wanyan Zongwang.
Because of the unsatisfactory performance of the battle to destroy the Song Dynasty, after Jin Taizong succeeded to the throne, he decisively handed over the power of soldiers and horses to Wanyan Zongwang. And the famous Zong Hanbo is extremely strong, but he has become Zong Wang's deputy.
This time, the three-way army went south again to destroy the Song Dynasty, and Zong Han could be said to be holding back his strength. Whoever wants to succeed in the division will first fold the most powerful Wanyan Yinshu among the five tiger generals. The army went south from Yanyun all the way, and the grass robbers of Taihang Mountain attacked from time to time, and I don't know how many grass robbers were defeated along the way, but there were more grass robbers who stopped in front of the army. finally killed Jeju, Mengzhou, thinking that Taihang Caokou would not dare to go out again, but he met the two most difficult Caokou, Niu Gao and Wang Yan.
Wang Yan led a righteous army of 70,000 and directly blocked the southern line of Mengzhou. When Zong Han first arrived, he didn't know how powerful Wang Yan was, so he sent two thousand-man teams to attack. As a result, the two commanders were neatly cut into four pieces by a fierce man named Fu Qing, and most of the 2,000 men and horses were killed and wounded, and they returned in a miserable defeat.
Zong Han was furious and personally led a large army to attack Wang Yan's camp. After attacking for two days in a row, when he was about to break through the camp and enter, he killed an even more fierce Niu Gao from Jeju.
The number of Niu Gao's army and horses was small, but 15,000, including 3,000 cavalry. But the equipment of this grass army was obviously better than Wang Yan's army, whether it was cavalry or infantry, everyone had a battle armor.
Niu Gao's attack was sharper than Wang Yan's, and in one day, he defeated the Han army's Wanhu Liuheer division in the west of Jiyuan. Liu Heer was beheaded on the spot by Jiao Wentong, who was riding a bull.
Zong Han had no choice but to temporarily leave Wang Yan and return to attack Niu Gao. As soon as Zong Han's army arrived, Niu Gao took the boat of the Liangshan thief Zhang Heng, crossed the Jishui, led the army to Mengzhou, and joined forces with Wang Yan, and was stuck on Zong Han's march road.
Zong Han waved his army and fought for more than 20 days, and the servant army as cannon fodder lost more than 40,000, but he still couldn't advance an inch. The strong combat effectiveness of the Niu Gao army just made up for the slightly inferior Wang Yanbu, and the two armies combined had nearly 100,000 troops. In addition, both of them are wise and brave, although Zong Han has been fighting for half his life, he has no way to take the two.
What made Zong Han even more depressed was that not only his army could not advance an inch. Wanyan Ba Lisu, who attacked Huazhou, and Sairi, who attacked Kaide Province, were all under Jiancheng. Wanyan pulled out of the speed and Pucha Shijianu to join forces, although they could not attack Huazhou, but they were pressing Huazhou to fight. However, Sairi, who attacked Kaedehu, sent information a few days ago, saying that the defenders of Kaedeokfu were extremely strong and the battle situation was in a stalemate. If Zong Han can't send reinforcements to Kaithu, Sairi can only choose to withdraw. Zong Han understood that since Saili had asked for reinforcements, it must have been the defenders of Kaide Mansion who had the upper hand.
Zong Han was extremely depressed in his heart. Why did the heroes and heroes of the Song people stop in front of their own army? This Niu Gao, this Wang Yan, this Liu Yan, and the monk Zhihun who sits in Kaide Mansion, among these people, except for Wang Yan, who is famous, everyone else is unknown. But why are they all so capable of fighting? Especially this big man named Niu Gao, his image is reckless, but when it comes to the ability to fight, he is definitely not weaker than the famous generals of the ancients.
But the event that culminated in Zong Han's depression was the defeat of the sandy south bank. Zong Han could never have imagined that 10,000 Jurchen iron cavalry, plus 30,000 Han'er troops crossing the river, would be wiped out in less than a month, and only more than 200 fast gold soldiers were left to flee back to the Mengzhou camp.
Now on the south bank of the Yellow River, a huge Jingguan is piled up with the heads of Jurchen people, which seems to be mocking Zong Han, who uses soldiers like gods.
Upon hearing the news of Sha Gu's defeat, Zong Han immediately calculated Yue Fei's next move. He thought that Yue Fei would definitely cross the river and go north.
But the most painful thing in this world is that he clearly knew Yue Fei's next move, but he didn't have the slightest way to stop it. If it was other Song troops who came, Zong Han would not hesitate to send an army of 10,000 households to stop it. But since it was Yue Fei who came, Zong Han would definitely not send other Jin soldiers to send him to death.
At this time, Zong Han regretted it in his heart. He thought that he had paid enough attention to Yue Fei, but at present, it seemed that this attention was far from enough. Since the more than 400 Jin soldiers of the Shagu Mass Department avoided Ji Qian's pursuit and fled to the Mengzhou camp, Zong Han began to regret dividing his troops to cross the river.
If it is said that Yelu Ma Wu and Yinshu can die at the expense of the enemy, then the death of Sha Guzhi really proves a fact that is extremely cruel to the Jin soldiers. The combat power of the cavalry division of the Protector Army is now comparable to that of the Jurchen Iron Cavalry.
The Jurchens are less than 10,000, and they are invincible. Sha Guzhi led 10,000 Jurchen iron cavalry to attack, but was beaten and annihilated. When such news reached the Jin Ying, it really surprised all the Jin generals.
Since Yue Fei can't be prevented from crossing the river, it is also a good strategy to defeat Niu Gao and Wang Yan before Yue Fei comes to Mengzhou. As long as he could defeat the tens of thousands of troops holding the southern line of Mengzhou, Yue Fei's protector army would only be a lone army when he came to the north bank of the Yellow River.
Therefore, since the defeated army returned to the camp, Zong Han's attack on the righteous army began to be extremely fierce. At the beginning, he only sent the servant army as cannon fodder, and the Jurchen Tie Jian carried steel knives and bows and arrows to supervise the battle in the rear. Now the Jurchen athletes who are not good at tackling tough problems have also been sent to the front line.
The Jurchen athletes lived up to expectations, and after several days of fighting, they even took down three camps of the righteous army. But Niu Gao Wang Yan arranged a total of five camps. Just when Zong Han was about to make persistent efforts, Deputy Marshal Wanyan Xiyin shouted to stop the attack.
Wanyan Xiyin and Wanyan Zonghan can be said to have the same fate. As a great talent who single-handedly created the Jurchen language, the establishment of the Jin State was greatly credited by Wanyan Xiyin. When Wanyan Aguda was alive, Wanyan Xiyin was the prime minister of the DPRK and China.
It's a pity that Wanyan Agu was killed, but Wanyan Wu Qimai, who succeeded to the throne, didn't like this prime minister who was good at literature and not good at martial arts, and sent Wanyan Xiyin to the Yanjing army with a holy decree.
And Wanyan Zongwang, who understood the meaning of Wanyan Wu's begging, also directly sent Wanyan Xiyin to Wanyan Zonghan as a deputy. As the right-hand man of Wanyan Aguda, although Wanyan Zonghan and Wanyan Xiyin, who lost power, have the same fate, they do not pity each other.
Wanyan Zonghan looked down on Wanyan Xiyin, who was polite and polite, and thought that Wanyan Xiyin was a Song man wearing Jurchen skin. And Wanyan Xiyin Tong looked down on Wanyan Zonghan, he thought that Zonghan was now dying of old age, and he no longer had the sharpness and domineering to break through the Bohai Sea and destroy the Liao State.
Wanyan Xiyin resolutely believed that his mission in the Central Route Army was to prevent the decrepit Wanyan Zonghan from making the mistake of cowardly the enemy again. In fact, sending Sha Gu to cross the river to the south is the result of Wanyan Xiyin's advocacy.
Seeing that the Sha Gu Zhi army was completely annihilated, Wanyan Xiyin, who should be the first to take responsibility, not only refused to take responsibility, but instead accused Zong Han's army of staying in Mengzhou for too long, which had caused the Sha Gu Zhi to be alone.
The reason why the attack on the camp of the rebel army was stopped, Wanyan Xiyin was not distressed by the Jurchen warriors. Although the attack in the past few days, the Jurchen warriors have lost more than 4,000. In the eyes of these royal children, all the Jurchens are the eagle dogs of their Wanyan family, and they don't have to feel distressed no matter how much they die. The reason why he stopped the attack was that he was afraid of scaring Yue Fei away.
Wanyan Xiyin touched the short beard under his chin and put on a scheming expression. Facing Zong Han and the others who were about to make a fortune, Wanyan Xiyin said slowly, "Generals, don't you see that this is Changshengtian sending Yue Fei'er to death?" Since you all think that Yue Fei is a big problem for my Dajin Kingdom, now the best opportunity to eliminate Yue Fei is close at hand. ”
After looking at Yan Xiyin's deep face, Zong Han couldn't wait to punch it. It was this fight that killed Sha Guzhi, and now not only is he not ashamed, but he has come to show off his nonsense and heresy.
Jin 13 saw that Zong Han was about to make a fortune, and hurriedly said, "The prime minister is a great man of humanity, and he naturally has a strange plan. How to eliminate Yue Fei in the end, please ask the Prime Minister to tell me carefully. ”
Wanyan Xiyin glanced at Jin Thirteen and said with a smile, "Old Thirteen, you have settled in the Central Plains for more than ten years, and now you are proficient in the culture of Jin and Han. It can also be regarded as a great talent in my Dajin country. I'd like to ask you to start by saying why I'm calling for a halt to the attack. ”
Jin Shisan has long understood Wanyan Xiyin's conceited talent, and of course he will not snatch the opportunity to perform in Wanyan Xiyin. So he said very modestly, "In front of the prime minister, how dare I show ugliness?" Let's ask the Prime Minister to give us some clarification. ”