Chapter 132: Brotherly Meeting
Under such an emotion, as if they were infected with the plague, the golden soldiers in Weng City dropped their weapons one after another, knelt in a pool of blood, and knelt between the corpses of their comrades, and many people wept silently.
Aru wanted to kill himself with a knife in order to thank the servant Sanan Anzhen for his kindness, but he was knocked down by several of his own soldiers and snatched his waist knife.
"Don't, general, stay in the green mountains and don't be afraid of no firewood! It's still down! ……”
The battle of Wengcheng came to an end, but the battle of Huangzhou City was not over, and the Jin soldiers outside the city were not allowed to enter the city, so they began to launch a new round of siege warfare under the command of Fusan Anzhen, in order to save the soldiers who were trapped in the city before it was dark, so that in fact, the situation of the Song army did not improve a little, and the battle became more intense.
But after the soldiers and civilians in the city were inspired by such a great victory, their morale was unprecedentedly high, and no one needed to dispatch them, as long as they could still use weapons, they all poured onto the city wall, and spontaneously joined the ranks of the resistance to the Jin soldiers, and even women and children also climbed the city wall to help the defenders to resist the enemy together, and the strength of the Song army not only did not decrease, but it was greatly improved, and the Jin soldiers were killed in the city.
After listening to the shouts and killings in the city, although she didn't want to admit it, she also knew that the soldiers of the Jin Army who entered the city were all finished, how did the Song army do this? Fusan Anzhen couldn't figure out why, in such a short period of time, how did the Song people build an urn city in the city, and at this time, more than 2,000 of his elite soldiers were folded in, and this loss really made him feel distressed to the extreme.
"Give me to continue the siege, I will kill this Song general who is defending the city!" Fusan Anzhen had never been so angry, he had forgotten the time at this time, forgot his principle of treating prisoners leniently, he just wanted to take down this Huangzhou city as soon as possible, and avenge the fallen soldiers under his command.
Although the sky has gradually darkened, but the war has not stopped at all, the rockets and fireballs launched by both sides shuttle back and forth in the night sky, and the raging fire inside and outside the city of Huangzhou will illuminate the night sky, and the firelight will decorate the night sky with extraordinary enchantment, but it exudes the breath of death.
The Jin soldiers were the same as the Song army at this time, they were already exhausted, but the general order was so, and they had no choice but to continue to attack the city, but at this time, the strength of the siege was no longer as cold as at the beginning, and the heavy casualties made them no longer believe that they could take this Huangzhou City, everything was carried out in a mechanical way, and the two sides attacked and defended, and there was a draw.
"Marshal Qiyu, ten miles to the west, there is a Song army, which is hurrying towards Huangzhou City, and the soldiers and horses on the flank have already engaged in battle, please decide!" A scout Pegasus came to the banner of the Chinese army and reported loudly to the servant San'an.
Fusan Anzhen held the horse whip in his hand, suddenly his hand tightened, and the green tendons burst out in his hand, he knew that he was also defeated today, defeated in the hands of a small Huangzhou city guard, and his face was blue and he didn't speak for a long time.
"Handsome! We can't attack any more, our army is now sleepy and tired, and if we continue to fight like this, it's just a battle of will! Once a large number of Song troops arrive and cut off our retreat, our army will definitely fall into a desperate situation! Withdraw! A lieutenant came over and hurriedly persuaded the servant Sananzhen.
Fusan Anzhen understands the current situation better than anyone else at this time, he knows that it is time to collect the troops, continue to attack, even if he defeats Huangzhou City, he can no longer gain a foothold here, now the Song army in Huaidong and Huaixi is rushing here, with the strength of the Song army, his strength at this time is by no means the opponent of the Song army, if he is delayed here, he will not be allowed to gather under the Song army, it is likely to cut off the road to Macheng here, and if he wants to retreat again, it may be too late.
After all, he was still a famous general, and he didn't act rashly at this time, although he was reluctant, he still waved his hand gloomily: "Mingjin retreats!" Retreat to Macheng overnight! Give up the siege! ”
There was a rapid sound of gold in the night sky, and the Jin soldiers who were besieging the city heard this sound of gold, as if they heard the sound of heaven, and they didn't want to stay here for a while, so they immediately stopped all siege operations like a low tide, and retreated towards the Jin army camp outside the city.
Many Song soldiers and civilians defending the city, when they saw the Jin soldiers retreating like a tide, they didn't even have the strength to laugh, they sat on the head of the city, gasping for breath, many people were like a dream, they couldn't believe their eyes, did this battle really end like this? It won't be that the golden soldiers will go down and assemble again, ready to launch a bigger offensive!
"We won! The golden soldiers have retreated! I don't know who took the lead in shouting, and gradually more people shouted together, and the joy of victory immediately made the soldiers and civilians in the city ecstatic, and suddenly the cheers resounded into a piece, echoing in Huangzhou City for a long time.
Gao Huaiyuan couldn't help but sit on the ground, he knew that he had created another miracle today, but he was a little puzzled, did he do this, did it affect the development of history, if there was no him this time, would there be people like him in history, and resist the attack of Jin Bing here, but unfortunately he didn't know this history, and he didn't have an answer.
After the ecstasy, many people suddenly hugged their heads and cried, because after this day, too many people who lived together all day were no longer people at this time, they paid for Huangzhou City, they paid for their lives, and the defenders who could survive, only forty percent before the war was left, including a large number of ordinary people, although Huangzhou City won the final victory of the battle to defend the city, but the price paid was also very heavy, the people in the city after the initial ecstasy, There was a lot of sorrow again.
After the Jin soldiers collected the troops, they did not slack off for a moment, immediately pulled out the camp and set up the village, under the leadership of Fusan Anzhen, slowly retreated in the direction of Macheng, now he has no time to entangle with the Song army here, although he has gained a lot in this battle, but he knows that the purpose of this expedition is just to beat the Song people, so that they dare not use troops against the Jin State again, the Jin State wants to destroy the Song State at this time, it can be said that it is already a fool's dream, the main problems they face, It was the first to deal with the Mongol army that attacked like a tide in the north, and the uprising of the Shandong Red Jacket Army like a spark.
Strategically speaking, Fusan Anzhen has achieved the initial purpose of sending troops, and the only regret is that he failed to take this small Huangzhou city, and he paid a heavy price, casting a shadow on his brilliant achievements, which has also become a heart disease of Susan Anzhen, but he has no choice but to choose to retreat.
Looking at the Jin soldiers who were pulling out the camp outside the city, Gao Huaiyuan also had a feeling of powerlessness, at this time if he had the strength, he should have led the army out of the city to pursue the Jin soldiers, and the Jin army should be attacked inside and outside, and he would definitely be able to obtain greater results, but unfortunately now he has no strength at hand, after a day of fierce fighting, the soldiers and civilians of Huangzhou City have lost more than half, even if they are still alive, many of them are injured, even if they are not injured, they are so tired that they don't even bother to move their little fingers again.
He could only watch the Jin soldiers begin to withdraw in an orderly manner after they were retracted, but there was no way to do it.
It is this kind of bearing that is commendable, and he quickly accepted the reality of this failure, reorganized the soldiers and horses, immediately adjusted his subordinates, and arranged the soldiers and horses of the palace, and began to withdraw the troops.
However, in order to speed up the withdrawal of troops, he had to order his subordinates to abandon the corpses of the soldiers who died under the city of Huangzhou, only brought some injuries and illnesses that were snatched back, and accelerated the speed of retreat.
Although the Jin soldiers retreated, the soldiers and civilians of Huangzhou City did not dare to slack off, and still stuck to the head of the city, not daring to rest, so they waited until the day was getting brighter, and a group of soldiers and horses appeared outside the city, and quickly came to the city gate.
The exhausted defenders once again grabbed their bows and arrows and took a defensive stance.
"Quickly inform Lord Jiang and Lord Gao, and say that the Zaoyang Zhongshun Army has come to help, please open the city gate quickly to meet our army!" One of the men galloped out of the army outside the city and shouted loudly to the defenders at the head of the city.
Everyone in the city breathed a long sigh of relief, and once again collapsed on the ground.
It wasn't until after dawn that the north gate of Huangzhou City was opened, not that the people inside were still worried about anything, and they didn't dare to open the city to welcome the incoming army, but because these days, in order to resist the siege of the Jin soldiers, they had already blocked the gates with various materials, and there was no way to open the door for a while, but Gao Huaiyuan first passed through the gap that was blown open by the Jin soldiers, and went out of the city to catch the Song army that came to help.
At this time, Gao Huaiyuan was hugging several people, wet his robe with tears, because he saw his brother who had not seen him for a long time, and it was his brother Huang Yan who led the army to Huangzhou City first, accompanied by several teenagers who went out from Crouching Tiger Village, and at this time, these people were basically already in the Zhongshun Army formed by Meng Zongzheng in Zaoyang, and became officers at all levels.
At this time, Huang Yan was already the commander of the former military camp of the Zhongshun Army because of his merits, and the general who led his battalion was Gao Huaiyuan's friend Meng Hui, at this time Meng Heng did not go to Huangzhou City first, but led the army to chase the Jin army that retreated to Macheng, and only temporarily sent Huang Yan to Huangzhou City to help.
After Huang Yan saw Gao Huaiyuan, he could barely restrain himself, and almost cried loudly, his eyes were a few red, and then he stepped forward and knelt down on one knee and shouted: "Big brother!" The little brother's reinforcements are late, I hope the eldest brother will forgive his sins! ”
Those loyal soldiers who followed Huang Yan to aid Huangzhou saw that their commander was so polite to this blood-covered Song general, so they were very cautious and bowed to Gao Huaiyuan to greet him.
"The little one is the young master!" At this time, several young officers stood in front of Gao Huaiyuan, and shouted to Gao Huaiyuan with tears in their eyes.
"Brothers, please get up quickly, it's good to come, it's good to come! See you again at last! Gao Huaiyuan couldn't help but feel some uncontrollable excitement in the aftermath of such a catastrophe, and helped these brothers up with a trembling voice.
Huang Yan saw that this was not the place to speak, so he temporarily camped outside the city, invited Gao Huaiyuan into his tent to speak, and after a few people sat down, Gao Huaiyuan explained the situation of the battle of Huangzhou to them.
The danger of this battle made Huang Yan and the others smack their tongues after hearing it, and after they arrived in Huangzhou City, they saw the corpses all over here, as well as the devastated city walls of Huangzhou City, they didn't need to ask to know that there was a tragic battle here, but what they didn't expect was that this offensive and defensive battle was so tragic that they couldn't imagine it.
And Huang Yan also told Gao Huaiyuan about their situation, it turned out that after Anzhen sent troops, the Song army was shocked, and the Song army everywhere received orders from Zhao Fang and began to take action, Zaoyang Suizhou is the garrison of the Zhongshun Army, after Meng Zongzheng received the order, he immediately mobilized the soldiers and horses of the Zhongshun Army that had become an army, out of Zaoyang, and went to Huangzhou to help in the war; Hu Zaixing led the army into Sanjiahe and attacked Tangzhou controlled by the Jin State, and the Song and Jin countries started a tug-of-war, with the battle lines staggered and the fighting extremely fierce.
At this time, although Meng Hui had been awarded the lieutenant of Guanghua County for his merits, he had not yet taken up his post, so he was ordered to lead the troops to the battle.
After their eight thousand loyal Shun army out of Zaoyang, they met the Jin army in Suizhou to intercept, the two armies had a fierce battle in Suizhou, stalemate for several days, and finally Meng Heng led the army to repel the Jin army's blocking army, and then continued to send troops to Huangzhou, but in the area of Dawu Mountain, was ambushed by the Jin army, as a last resort, and in the area of Dawu Mountain and the Jin soldiers fought, both sides had their own losses, and sent troops to the flank of the Jin army, under the attack of the two sides, that is, the Jin soldiers, to continue to advance.
In this way, a lot of time was delayed, I thought that this time Huangzhou may have fallen into the hands of the Jin army, only a few days ago I received the news, saying that Gao Huaiyuan actually commanded the Song army in Huangzhou City, so they immediately increased their confidence, and marched towards Huangzhou non-stop, and the Jin army divided troops to attack the soldiers and horses of the Hanyang army, and fought and advanced, defeated the Jin soldiers several times, and arrived in Huangzhou last night.
After the Jin army learned of the arrival of their soldiers and horses, they evacuated Huangzhou City, and Meng Hui divided his troops to lead the army to pursue the Jin army, so he sent Huang Yan to Huangzhou City to help, only to see Gao Huaiyuan.
After the Jin soldiers retreated, Zhou Hao also reorganized the soldiers and horses stationed in the east of the city, handed it over to Dong Qiang to be responsible for leading, and took some brothers from Crouching Tiger Village out of Huangzhou City and rushed to Huang Yan's army outside the city.
This time it was lively, and a group of guys fought together after ecstasy, and suddenly forgot the tension when their lives were hanging by a thread yesterday, so that the soldiers who came with the army did not know what was going on, thinking that their officials were crazy, and the second monk was puzzled.
After Huang Yan's soldiers and horses arrived in Huangzhou, the danger of Huangzhou was completely lifted, and there was no need to worry about it, and the defenders who were extremely tired withdrew from the city wall to rest, and many people fell asleep on the streets, snoring loudly, so that the soldiers of Huang Yan's army who entered Huangzhou City all realized their hardships, so they took the initiative to take over the defense of Huangzhou, and began to clean up the battlefield under the command of Huang Yan.
After a busy day, Huangzhou City was able to restore normal order, and the defenders and civilians who had been rested also helped to clean up again.
In this way, it has been busy for two or three days before the battlefield of Huangzhou City was cleaned up, after counting the losses, Gao Huaiyuan had to lament and understand what it means to be a general success, this battle Huangzhou City lost the lives of more than 3,000 soldiers and civilians, accounting for almost sixty percent of all the defenders, not to mention the annihilation of the whole army, it is almost the same, not including the number of wounded.
However, the achievements are also remarkable, they captured nearly 1,000 Jin soldiers, killed thousands of Jin soldiers, and almost wiped out many of the Jin soldiers' troops in formation, just the corpses of the Jin soldiers who were cleaned up, there are more than 4,000 bodies, which does not include the number of soldiers killed in the first few days of the Jin soldiers and the corpses of the Jin Army that were snatched, not to mention the wounded of the Jin Army, and the return ratio basically reached 1 to 2.
For the Song army of Huangzhou City, which was completely composed of miscellaneous armies, this result can be said to be enough to shine in the world, and this battle was later known as the Huangzhou Bloody War, which left a strong mark in the history of the Southern Song Dynasty to resist the attack of foreign tribes in the north.
On the surface, this battle was just an ordinary urban offensive and defensive battle, but in the entire truncated battle between the Song and Jin countries, it played a great role, first of all, this battle protected the city of Huangzhou on the north bank of the Yangtze River, so that the Jin soldiers could not take the bridgehead to cross the river to the south, so that the Jin army's attack after sending troops was frustrated, and secondly, the Jin army completely realized the determination of the Song people to resist the Jin army, so that the flower hat army of Anzhen paid a heavy price, so that since the Jin State launched a war to expand the territory of the Song State in the tenth year of Jiading, The Jin State completely lost the courage to go south, and had to begin to shrink the front, taking a defensive position, so that the balance of victory in the Song and Jin battles began to tilt towards the Southern Song Dynasty, and then there was this battle of Huangzhou, which greatly boosted the morale of the Southern Song Dynasty soldiers and civilians. It is undoubtedly equivalent to giving them a sedative, and most of the Song people began to ignore the Jin army, and under the inspiration of this morale, the subsequent counteroffensive that began greatly increased the morale of the Song army, and also laid a good foundation for the development of Gao Huaiyuan in the future.