Chapter 201: Clearance
Wushu received an urgent report from Yanjing and immediately withdrew his troops and returned, Pingzhou has been lost, Yanjing has been lost again, the Jin Kingdom will have no place to stand in the Central Plains, and the Southern Dynasty has this barrier, Muma Henan will become empty talk, and let himself have no foundation for his life, so he learned that the rear army was surrounded, he also did not send troops to rescue him, he just wanted to return to the pass quickly to relieve the siege of Yanjing, and the troops recaptured Youyan, and a few days later, the army finally stepped into the Juyong Pass.
Because he did not receive news from Yanjing for many days, Wushu summoned the guards to inquire, and he did not know much about the situation, only learned from the fleeing people that the Song army had begun to besiege and attack Yanjing City, but did not know how the battle situation was, according to common sense analysis Yanjing City was high and deep, hoarded a large number of grain and grass, and there were tens of thousands of soldiers and horses in the city, and there should be no problem in holding on to the moon. Wushu also felt the same way, and before leaving, he dispatched some soldiers and horses to guard the pass, leaving 10,000 people to guard the pass, and hurried to Yanjing after resting for one night.
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"Dutou, we've been here for five days, why hasn't the Jin army come here yet?" There was a whisper in a forest near Guangou, and it looked like the outfit was a scout of the Song army.
"That's right, now there may be a fight in Yanjing City, but we were sent to this mountain to drink the northwest wind, and we can't even make up the excitement!" Another soldier also immediately complained that now is the time to be cold, and under their noses is the ditch heavily guarded by the Jin army, where they dare to make a fire to cook, they can only eat jerky, eat dry food, drink cold water, and sleep in grass nests, not to mention the hardships.
"Where is there so much nonsense, Yanjing City has concentrated our 100,000 troops, which one is a well-known force, and it is our turn to be in the limelight. But here is different, the emperor appointed our brigade to capture Juyong Pass. This is a trip that can afford us! Du Tou gave two soldiers a slap and reprimanded.
"Then why don't you fight? But every day let us hide here to watch the movement of the Jin army, I don't know what to wait for? A soldier muttered as he lifted his disguised hat from the crooked head.
"Yanjing's side has already started fighting. When the army of vultures passes through here, it's time for us to do it! Dutou said.
"Dutou, you are talking nonsense, now you should take advantage of the arrival of the enemy's army to take the lead and block them outside the pass, when the reinforcements arrive, aren't we suffering from the enemy on our backs?"
"The recruits know a fart, this is called besieging the city for reinforcements, the siege is to transfer the enemy back and destroy them together, otherwise what is the point of occupying only one city, only to wipe out all their troops. Yanjing can occupy stability. Dutou said.
"How many days have passed, why haven't you come yet, the plan must have failed!"
"Nonsense, the emperor has no last resort, saying that they will come, and they will definitely come!" Du Tou said with some annoyance.
"That's... Then the emperor is not at fault? A soldier said disapprovingly.
"No, when Lao Tzu followed the emperor to Hedong, there were only four commanders, and our command was just a capital like me. But the emperor relied on this little man to drive the party members all the way to Hexi, and later beat the Jurchens and drove them out of the Central Plains. Dutou said.
"Dutou, can you see the emperor every day at that time?" It's really angry to look at Dutou. A soldier hurriedly asked, everyone knows that Lu Dao once fought side by side with the emperor is the most worthy thing to show off, and whenever he is angry, only one mention will definitely disappear.
"Of course. At that time, the emperor trained with us every day and ate the same meals. Live in the same house, and rush ahead in battle. Everyone is convinced! Du Tou's face softened when he heard this, and he said nostalgically.
"Dutou, the emperor is really right, the Jin Army Brigade is here!" Suddenly, a soldier pointed to the distance and said, everyone looked over there, and saw the smoke and dust rising high, which can only occur when a large cavalry marches...
Chang Chao of the Wolf First Brigade was summoned to Pingzhou by the emperor before the war, and ordered him to lead his troops to secretly enter the Jundu Mountain, and the task given to them was to wait for the Wushu Department to enter the Juyong Pass and cooperate with the West Route Army to seize the pass through the south entrance, cut off its contact with the outside world, and annihilate the Wushu Department in the pass. Chang Chao made a difficulty, this Juyong Guanxi Road Army didn't defeat tens of thousands of people, but let himself take it with a brigade, and the emperor looked down on himself too much, and gave himself such a big problem...
Juyongguan is built in the canyon between the Jundu Mountain and the West Mountain, the situation is dangerous, the military capital of the military capital that guards one of the eight paths of Taihang, is known as the key of Yanyun, it is the northwest gateway of Yanjing, and it is the place where soldiers must fight since ancient times. Juyong is close to the natural risk, divided into north and south two gates. The north gate is called the north entrance, that is, Juyong Pass; The south gate is called the south exit. The two passes are forty miles apart, and the two mountains are sandwiched between them, the mountain is majestic, and there is a deep stream in it, which is called the absolute danger. There is a valley in the middle, commonly known as 'Guangou'. The clear stream here lingers, the green peaks overlap, the flowers and trees are lush, the mountain birds contend, the scenery is beautiful, there is the name of Juyong stacked green, and it is listed as one of the eight views of Yanjing.
After the Song army captured Fengshengzhou, the two countries often clashed outside the pass, and the Jin army strengthened the garrison of Juyong Pass, stationed heavy troops, cast iron as a gate at the pass, laid defensive measures outside the pass, and renovated the wall, so as to avoid the recurrence of the tragedy of the Liao army being stoned to death by the collapsed wall. Now that the Song army raided Yanjing and Yuguan was lost, it became the only way to communicate with the outside of the pass, so the vigilance was strengthened.
But before Chang Chao could open his mouth to complain, the emperor had already thought of speaking first. In his previous life, Zhao Tan had been to the area of Juyong Pass during a training, and remembered that the commander of the team said that the Japanese army that invaded China was blocked by the Chinese army defending the Great Wall and could not continue to advance north. With a mixed infantry company, he secretly climbed over the Great Wall from a ravine northwest of the town, and took control of Juyong Pass by copying the back road of the Chinese army to the north, resulting in the rout of the Chinese army.
At this time, the history has been pushed forward for 800 years, the vicissitudes of life have changed several times, and the Great Wall seen in the previous life was mostly rebuilt in the Ming Dynasty, but the topography will not change greatly, otherwise the ditch will not be left to the later generations, then this clue should be useful, Zhao Ta's memory of the previous life roughly explains the orientation and terrain characteristics, so that they have to look carefully, maybe they can still be used.
Chang Chao, who was instructed by the emperor, was very happy, and immediately led the team to secretly drive into Jundu Mountain, but the locals didn't know that there was such a ditch as the emperor said, so they could only spread the net to find it, and they really found it three days later. It turns out that this ditch is the main passage leading to the Great Wall in the past, but after the Juyongguan road is repaired, it is gradually deserted, it has long been abandoned, and the ditch is tortuous and circuitous, the direction is difficult to distinguish, some sections are barren and grass cover the face, there is simply no way to follow, if it is not for the emperor's prompt, no one can think that there is an ancient road here.
This ditch is in the opposite direction for Guancheng, and the distance is also far, the locals have forgotten it, and the Jin army will not know the road, so such a big ditch is not fortified, and even the observation post is not released. So a strange army lurked beside the Jin army, waiting for the appearance of the fighters, but the Jin army did not notice it at all. Now that the Vultures have crossed the border, the First Brigade has begun to move.
Juyong Pass used to be an independent pass, until the Northern Wei Dynasty to rest the Great Wall will be connected to the Great Wall defense system, if you pass the pass must first pass this pass. The Jin army stationed soldiers along the Great Wall, and the distribution of troops in peacetime was that each enemy station set up a station commander, and the 60 soldiers were divided into two teams, and 30 people guarded the platform; Thirty men guarded the battlements of the Great Wall. There is also a group leader for every group of 5 people. According to the steepness of the terrain, according to the arrangement of the battlements, the battlements at the gentle slope are generally equipped with four to five soldiers, the steeper ones are equipped with two to three soldiers, and the steepest places are equipped with only one soldier, which is doubled in wartime.
Juyong Pass is about no city, and the soldiers are hoarded in the ditch, which is the most tightly guarded place, and the Wolf Brigade is formed for mountain warfare, and the soldiers also choose the residents who live in the mountains, and only they can complete this kind of task. Now the Song army used the trail to avoid the most heavily defended places, and used the dark night to quietly march towards the Great Wall hovering over the top of the mountain. The howling cold wind drowned out the footsteps of the march, and the steep peaks and steep cliffs did not bother them much.
After approaching the Great Wall, Chang Chao chose a section of the city wall near the Nankou mountain as a breakthrough, the slightly gentle slope is convenient for the deployment of troops, and the top of the mountain is convenient for attack even if it is defensive. And it was between two passes, and there were few troops, and even if they found that it would take some time to rush in for reinforcements. When the sky was light, a group of commandos quietly approached the city wall, and at this time, when the vigilance of people was at its worst, they used explosives to blow a gap several feet long on the outside of the wall.
The sound of a huge explosion spread far away in the open mountains, and the soldiers of the Jin Army thought that there was another earthquake under the shaking of the ground, causing a panic, but when they came to their senses, they found that the Song army had crossed the Great Wall and rushed down from the top of the mountain like an avalanche.
"Song Jun has broken the pass!" The sky is not yet dawn, the Jin army does not know how many Song troops have come to Ludao, in their subconscious, the marshal has just led the army out of the pass, the Song army cannot come from the south, the biggest possibility is to conquer the north mouth Juyong Pass, so they shouted and shouted.
'Bang, Bang...''Boom, Boom...' Chang Chaozhi Although the Dao Wushu led the army away, there were still a lot of Jin troops guarding the pass, and the Jin army that occupied the territory after two fights was still a big threat to their more than 2,000 people, so they created a momentum to win in the chaos, they released their guns while impacting, and threw the grenades into the enemy group below the mountain as if they didn't need money.
"Yanjing City is lost, the deputy marshal is killed in battle, and the army is annihilated, flee quickly!" Chang Chao was not too confused, and specially arranged a group of people to shout loudly in Jurchen language and spread rumors. In the chaos, where did the soldiers of the Jin Army have time to verify the authenticity, the soldiers guarding the pass opened the gate and fled out, and the Jin army in the north did not know why, seeing that someone fled and thought that the south entrance was breached, they fled to Juyong Pass, and for a time the Jin army collapsed, and even the guards were coerced out of Juyong Pass... (To be continued......)