Southern Song Dynasty counteroffensive

Wanyan Tusuhe and other generals were in charge of one side, and Wanyan Zongbi himself wore a white robe and rode a horse, leading 3,000 tooth soldiers to look for and supervise the whole army. Before the battle, he promised: whoever enters the city first, the children of this city will plunder with him...

It was a sunny day, cloudless, and the view was very good. Wanyan Zongbi was very satisfied with this, he clearly saw the city defense equipment on the head of Shunchang City, and almost smiled...

It's really hard for Liu Qi! What raw materials can be found in six or seven days? Even if there are deep mountains nearby, and you go to the old forest to cut big wood, you don't have time to transport it back and process it into war weapons. At this time, on the head of the city, there were some window frames, door panels and other things removed from the houses, which were put together and barely played the role of protective gear... It's a pity good boots! Besiege!

130,000 Jin soldiers attacked the city at the same time, it was really like a sea tide, the city was like an isolated island, and there were only 18,000 people in Shunchang City to defend, how to support this? Reality forced Liu Qi to go all out from the beginning, otherwise the first wave of offensive would not be able to survive! But this man just hid his strength, he always left the most elite 5,000 soldiers on the second line, saying that he would not send anything!

Now it's time to tell the secret of these 5,000 people. This is by no means Liu Qituo, it is really the eight-character army that claimed to be 20,000 when it set off from Lin'an, which was mixed with more than 3,000 forbidden troops, which was a subsidy and a restriction. It's nothing just like this, Liu Qi was born in a family of generals, and how to straighten out the inside of the army has been commonplace since he was a child. What's worse is the eight-character army known as 20,000, and more than half of the family members in it!

Now you know why so many women's families are involved in sharpening knives and feeding horses, right?

In the face of the obviously unbalanced Jin army, Liu Qi can only use a maximum of 5,000 mobile forces, and the rest of the residents, including their families, must be sent to the city wall to participate in the defense! God knows how bold it would take to do it. Because the god arm bow and other combat equipment are not used by anyone, it can be said that every soldier is crucial! In the same way, any point of Shunchang city defense is broken through, which will cause the entire city wall to get out of control!

In Liu Qi's plan, the winning trick is to wait. Wait until noon! At that time, there will be a turnaround! Before that? Let's boil!

The 130,000 Jin army besieged the east and west gates for a whole morning, and the city of Shunchang stood still. And there is a piece of armor on a certain position on the south wall of Shunchang, and Liu Qi walks over and touches it from time to time until it is hot in the sun...

There is only one sun, and the armor of the Han and Jurchen people is the same, and at this time, the armor in the city is hot, and the armor of the Jin army on the battlefield below will not be the same.

Liu Qi ordered: 5,000 people will go out of the city for a decisive battle!

Which city gate to go out of is the key, some people mention that yì is the west gate, and the main Jin army over there will be Han Chang. He is very sure of the eight-character army. But Liu Qi shook his head, even if he killed Han Chang, it was just a finger of the Jin Army! Let's go out of the south gate and kill Yan Zongbi!

On that day, Wanyan Zongbi, like every Jurchen soldier, was dizzy under the poisonous sun of the June summer, taking a sauna in the hot armor. When the gate of Shunchang City was opened, and 5,000 Song army infantry rushed towards him, he had no sense of crisis at all. Because beside him are the most elite cavalry in the Jin army - Tiefutu and Kidnapping Horses!

Futu is an iron pagoda in Buddhism. The Jin Army's Tiefutu cavalry, all of whom were heavily armoured. The collective charge of three or five collusions was an unstoppable torrent of steel at that time. Since the Jurchens started their army, the Song Liao has maintained a complete victory on the battlefield. At this time, there were 130,000 heavy soldiers, heavily guarded by Tiefutu. Jin Wushu couldn't find a reason for the slightest crisis...

Liu Qi's infantry approached, they were armed with big swords and long axes, and they looked like they were doing heavy work, but they wanted to defeat Tiefutu because of this? The cavalry of the Jin Army did not hold wicker poles in their hands. It could be closer. The Jurchens discovered that there were still things on the backs of the Song infantry, which looked like long bamboo tubes... What is it?

The two armies were about to meet, and one by one the bamboo tubes were opened. Thrown to the ground, only then did the Tiefutu realize that something was wrong, and the bamboo tubes were full of beans. Damn beans, according to the History of the Song Dynasty. Liu Qi's Biography records that the beans are cooked, and the war horses of the Jin army have been hungry all morning, and they can't wait to bow their heads to eat, and the horse's hooves are tripped with bamboo tubes, and suddenly the formation is scattered, trampling on each other, and it is a mess...

But personally, I don't think it's realistic, think about such a hot day, the armor is hot, so the iron-clad war horse is comfortable? Can they still scramble to get the beans? Where did you get such a good appetite? It's not so much that the beans overturned the Tiefutu, but I still prefer to think that it was the poisonous river water last night that overturned the Jin army...

The cavalry of the Jin army slipped and fell one by one, some were tripped by beans and bamboo tubes, some were cut by the big axes of the Bazi Army, and more were brought down by the leather chains that were linked to each other. Once the chaos spread, it could no longer be stopped, and the infantry of the Song army quickly broke through the Iron Floating Massacre and approached Jin Wushu's side!

At this moment, what is the pride of the powerful Jurchen clan, Wanyan Zongbi, doing? He should be furious, put away his sword and spear in a deafening roar, and pull his boots out of his stirrups... Since you can't kick down the Shunchang city wall with your boots, then use it to finish off Liu Qi's infantry! It's a pity: he's... Possessed by Song Taizong Zhao Guangyi! He turned around and ran!

There is no record that Jin Wushu was close to Liu Qi's soldiers, the swords, guns and weapons failed to approach him, and he was not even shot by an arrow like Zhao Guangyi, just like that, he actually began to flee! The soldiers around him were more elite than Zhao Guangyi's back then, the city he faced was 10,000 times worse than that of Youzhou City back then, and he still had 130,000 heavy soldiers that were not consumed, how could he escape first?

But that's what he did, and once he started running, he never stopped again, running all the way back to Kaifeng from Shunchang. The speed at which it was used was about the same as when it came...

This is really a difficult physical expenditure, Wanyan Zongbi is so tired that the words "qi disease" and "vomiting blood does not stop" are very clear and clear medical records, and His Royal Highness the Fourth Prince is so tired that he vomits blood. But why didn't you regroup and go back and fight again? If you are so angry at this Cheng dù, then go back and kill people to get angry! Liu Qi's infantry couldn't keep following him all the time, chasing him all the way into Kaifeng City, and he could turn back at any time.

The only thing he did on the road was to sleep in Taihe County, Yingzhou for two days, recover his body, and then continue to flee north. After escaping into Chenzhou City, he tied Wanyan Tusuhe and Han Chang to a big tree, and gave them a hard beating. The reason is that the Dragon and Tiger King has been nagging in his ear, saying that this southern invasion is too unsuccessful and should not come at all... This is so annoying!

But Han Chang was depressed: What's the matter with Guan Laozi? Smoke together for Mao's La, is there any reason for heaven?

After that, Wanyan Zongbi ordered Wanyan to guard the Guide Mansion, Han Chang to guard Xuzhou, and Zhai to guard Chenzhou, and he led an army of more than 100,000 to flee north again...

12th. The siege of Shunchang City was lifted. This is the end of the Battle of Shunchang! The Jin army fled back to Henan and retreated into Kaifeng City. Liu Qi's combat effectiveness is really terrifying! Wanyan Zongbi insisted that this was not the army of the Song Dynasty, but a "ghost soldier" borrowed from abroad, and since then, Liu Qi has left a huge shadow in the hearts of the Jurchens, until decades later, when the Jin Emperor Wanyan Liang invaded the country south, this sequelae has not been eliminated... Liu Qi, as the last member of the Western Song Army, until the last breath of his life, gave great pressure to the Jin State, and stopped Yan Liang's million-strong army on the north bank of the Yangtze River with the strength of one person!

And just when the battle of Shunchang was in full swing, Yue Fei had already begun to act! The Ezhou side moved quickly, and Yue Fei quickly gathered his forces and launched the fourth and last of Yue's army. The most glorious and at the same time the most helpless Northern Expedition! This is a huge threat, if the shock that Liu Qi gave to the Jin army is still within the digestible range, then Yue Fei's actions are enough to deter them and give up the initiative to attack...

This time Yue Fei sent troops, and it was Zhao Gou and Qin Hui who ordered him to do so in an official document. The reason why they are so supportive is not that these two people suddenly have a sound memory and find themselves from the Song Dynasty. Instead, the Sichuan-Shaanxi direction was in an emergency, forcing the Song Dynasty to go all out to take the initiative on the battlefield in the middle to relieve the pressure on that side...

At this time, the total strength of the Yuejia army was about 100,000. The whole army is divided into 12 armies, with a total of 22 commanders, 5 commanders, and 252 generals. Among them, there are 84 generals, deputy generals, and ready generals... Wang Gui was the commander of the Chinese army, and Zhang Xian was the commander of the former army, and he was Yue Fei's right and left hand. When Yue Fei is not in the army, he can take charge of military affairs. Xu Qing, Niu Gao, and Dong Xian are the main combat forces. Often on their own.

Almost the entire Yuejia army attacked, and when Han Shizhong and Zhang Jun were still assembled and on standby, the troops had been divided into two routes, respectively from the Xinyang army. Gwangju launched the Northern Expedition in two directions! Niu Gao marched to Jingxi Road and won the first battle on June 13.

On the 16th, Liu Guangshi's army crossed the Yangtze River. Garrison Huainan West Road and Zhou. On the same day, Guo Hao ordered Zheng Jianchong to lead the two armies of Yan Yan and Huanqing to defeat the Jin army in Lizhou and recover Lizhou. Wanyan Sali drank and Wu Lan and Yang Zheng fought against Weishui, and sighed that "those who are good at fighting are invincible, and this is difficult to fight", so they arranged to withdraw the army, and the withdrawal route was from Fengxiang Mansion to Jingyuan Road, and then to Pizhou on Huanqing Road. At this time, Guo Hao was in Sanshui County, Pizhou, Tian Sheng's generals Qu Ji and Qin Bi were in Qingxiling, and Hu Shijiang asked Wang Yan, the acting general of Yanyan Road, to urgently send troops to Qingxiling to cut off the retreat of the Jin army. When Qu Ji and Qin Bi could not resist the fierce offensive of the Jin army and abandoned one after another, on the 21st, Wang Yan defeated the Jin army at Qingxiling, and once again forced Wanyan to leave the drink and return to Fengxiang Mansion...

On the same day, Sun Xian, the commander of the Yuejia army, fought with the Jin army between Chenzhou and Caizhou on the Jingbei Road and was defeated.

At this time, the herald of the Lin'an court caught up with the troops. This time, the messenger was the staff of the three major generals, and it was Li Ruoxu who was in charge of the Yue family's army. The holy decree he brought was agitated and high-spirited, full of hatred for the Jin Kingdom and the desire for war, and even put forward requirements for the tactics themselves. Zhao Gou hoped that Yue Fei could complete the offensive in the summer, and not let the Jurchens wait until the autumn was cool...

It's a real morale boost! However, Li Ruoxu found Yue Fei in private and said that the emperor had another message... The message is very short, only 9 words "soldiers should not be moved lightly, it is advisable to be a class teacher" The meaning is very clear, that is, to warn Yue Fei not to go to the front line to make trouble, and to find an opportunity to withdraw is serious. And to be considerate of the emperor, the reason why he used the oracle is to keep it secret. Retreat in your own name, don't disgrace this emperor!

Yue Fei was silent... What should he do? No matter how much he wants to regain the lost territory and how much he wants to kill all the enemies, in his bones, he is a standard soldier who unconditionally obeys any orders of the imperial court, so at this time he is marching into the army? Or backwards?

In this situation, how chaotic it is, Yue Fei is fighting for his family, his country, and the Zhao family, but the Zhao emperor is tying his hands and feet to stop Yue Fei's efforts. And it's a subtle little trick to imply...

Li Ruoxu couldn't stand it anymore, and he relieved Yue Fei. He said, "I am the herald, and I am responsible for it." Go out according to the official decree! As for the rest, you don't know that "Yue Fei's Fourth Northern Expedition, which is famous, has made outstanding contributions, glorified future generations, and inspired the Chinese nation for nearly a thousand years, is how he was able to send troops!"

On the 25th, Han Shizhong sent the commander Wang Shengli to carry the Northern Expedition of Chengmin! Encountered the Jin army 20 miles south of the Huaiyang Army on Jingdong East Road. In a fierce battle, the Jin army drowned and died, and more than 200 ships were captured...

On the same day, Cao Cheng was ordered by Yang Zheng to set out from Huangyang County in Longzhou and attacked Tianxing County in Fengxiang Prefecture to win.

This month, there was a rebellion in Western Xia against Xiao Heda, the commander of the Xia Prefecture. The rebels besieged Xiping Mansion, the capital of Western Xia, and defeated the Xia army, threatening the security of the capital Xingqing Mansion...

On June 9, Wanyan Sa Liyu organized a retreat again, this time to Jingzhou on Jingyuan Road. As a result, Tian Sheng was killed by Tian Sheng on the Jingyuan Road, and the battle was fought from the time to the time of Shen, and the Jin army was defeated. However, after that, Wanyan Sali drank again with the help of the Han Chinese. On the 12th, a Song Dynasty general took the Jin army around Tian Sheng's back, and under the sudden attack, Tian Sheng's Jingyuan army collapsed due to shock, and only about 10,000 people of the right protector fought fiercely with the enemy, and finally collapsed... After this battle, Yan Sali won the drink, and he could shout "I didn't win Wu Jue, but I defeated the right guard" and something like that, but he was also consumed very badly, and returned to Fengxiang Mansion again to rest...

And Hu Shijiang also had to leave the river pool and retreat to the Immortal Pass. The battle of Shaanxi is basically over! The whole army of more than 10,000 right guards was killed in battle, protecting the rest of the personnel and materials and retreating to Shuchuan. Most of the strength was retained, and Shaanxi once again fell to the whole territory...

On the 14th, Hu Shijiang was promoted to a bachelor of Duanming Palace. The three major generals in Shu, Wu Lan, Yang Zheng, and Guo Hao were also given the title of envoy and promoted to the rank of Marquis of Duyu, the commander of the guard infantry army.

Zhang Jun's Huaixi Army, under the leadership of the commander Zhao Mi, set out from Luzhou and also began the Northern Expedition across the river! After 6 days of marching, we arrived at the city of Suzhou on Huainan East Road. Wang De, the former No. 1 general under Liu Guangshi and today's Zhang Jun's favorite general, fought and recovered Suzhou on the 14th. Ma Qin, the Jin man's retainer, was captured alive.

On the 17th, the Jin army attacked Fu Zhongxin's cottage in Huazhou, Yanyan Road, and was defeated by Fu Zhongxin, Lu Shimin, and Zhang Bao. (To be continued......)