On the second watch, the camp of the Jin army suddenly burst into flames, and the rain of arrows was denser and more ferocious than when the first wave of sneak attacks came; A large number of soldiers of the Northwest Army came to cover up.

Judging from the quantity, it should be that all the defenders in the monk's original were dispatched.

Wanyan Wushu didn't expect that this Wu Jue would be so bold and dare to make such a crazy move on the first day of the fight, and he actually wanted to use a few thousand troops to eat the 100,000 army of Jin Bing.

Thousands of defenders gave up their natural danger and attacked 100,000 enemy troops with all their might, only a madman would do this!

In fact, Wu Jue is so crazy and so bold.

Of course, Wu Jue also has his reasons for doing this.

In the Battle of Fuping a year ago, the Jin soldiers only broke one-fifth of the defenders of the Song army, and they were able to overthrow the entire Song army's large array.

You must know that Fuping is a plain area, and it is still very convenient for armies to cooperate with each other.

And the terrain of the monk plain is narrow and long. Theoretically speaking, as long as Wu Jue can defeat the handful of golden soldiers at the forefront and force them to retreat, then the golden soldiers will be like dominoes, pressing faster and faster, rolling bigger and bigger, until they all fall.

Things developed even better than Wu Jue imagined, because there were many important people at the forefront of the Jin Bing, including Wanyan Wushu and those imperial relatives.

Their lives are so precious, how can they die in the barren mountains and mountains like Monk Yuan? So Wanyan Wushu gave an order that he would regret for the rest of his life - retreat.

There were few Song soldiers, the sky was dark, and most of the Jin soldiers behind did not know what was happening in front.

If Wanyan Wushu did not order a retreat, even if 100,000 Jin soldiers stood still and stretched their necks for the Song army to cut, they might not be able to cut many people in one night.

But the retreat was ordered. It is equivalent to admitting in public that he was defeated by the Song army, and he must retreat and flee as soon as possible.

In this way, the speed and momentum of the dominoes' fall far exceeded Wu Jue's plan

At this time, Wanyan Wushu still thought that he was just a temporary mistake, and this battle was far from over, after all, the troops of the Jin and Song sides were there, how many people could be lost in one night?

Just wait until dawn.

As soon as the morning dawned, it was naturally the time when the Song army collected its troops.

The idea of Wanyan Wushu was quickly shattered by a piece of news.

There was sudden news in front of him, Yang Congyi, the guard of the Shencha Pass who fled into the mountains at the beginning. Suddenly killed a horse pistol, and killed it at the fork of the god.

This Wu Jue, who killed a thousand knives, actually toppled two dominoes on such a narrow and long section.

Although Wanyan Wushu didn't know what dominoes were, he saw that there were countless golden soldiers trampling and colliding with each other. Fell down the mountain, life and death unknown

It was finally dawn. Wanyan Wushu thought that he could breathe a sigh of relief. It was found. Those Northwest Army actually followed closely and attacked at both ends of the Jin soldiers.

In the cold sun of early winter, Wanyan Wushu finally discovered the seriousness of the problem:

First: The mountain road is narrow, and there are only a few people in the head-to-head confrontation, and the Jin soldiers have tens of thousands of horses, but they cannot reflect the advantage of a large number of people.

Second: Jin Bing is agile and agile on horseback. Be invincible; Now on this mountainous terrain, it looks clumsy and slow, and it is not an opponent of the Northwest Army at all.

Third: Jin Bing was tired for a day and a night. was already extremely tired, and these Song soldiers in front of him were all in good spirits, obviously after a rotation and rest.

In other words, even in the daytime battle, the Jin soldiers were still defeated by the Song army and could only be beaten passively

In this way, two piles of dominoes collided back and forth on the narrow mountain road of more than 40 miles between Monk Yuan and Shenchakou, constantly sparks of passion.

The 100,000 gold soldiers led by Wanyan Wushu were unexpectedly pressed there by Wu Jue and couldn't move, and it took three days and three nights to launch countless dead attacks before rushing out from the fork of the gods.

Three days and three nights! It took three days and three nights to complete the Yan Wushu, consuming incalculable human lives, before taking advantage of Yang Congyi's small mistake and escaping.

These incomparably dark, long, and sad three days and three nights became another nightmare in the life of Wanyan Wushu.

Volume 110 of "Continuation of Capital and Governance Tongjian": Zong Bi built a floating beam in Baoji County, crossed Wei to attack the plain, and Yu and his brother Qin Feng's soldiers and horses were under the jurisdiction of Lei Zhong, the commander of the commanding officer, Lei Zhong, etc., selected strong bows and crossbows to fight, and shot repeatedly, the number was stationed, and the arrows were endless, and dense as rain. The Jin people were slightly off, and they were invited to attack with strange soldiers, cutting off their grain routes, and they were three days. That night, the big break, the capture of the leader and the armor of tens of thousands, Zong Bi in the middle of the arrow, only to be spared, to get his command

In these three days and three nights, how many people did Jin Bing die? This has become a historical unsolved case.

Some people say 30,000, some say 50,000, and there are different opinions.

What can be confirmed now is that there are only six people left in Wanyan Wushu's own personal battalion, and nearly 3,000 were captured, including more than 900 heavy armored cavalry and more than 20 senior generals.

As for how many losses the Jin soldiers had, the statement in the "Records of the Years Since the Establishment of Yan" is the most objective and fair: "Since the Jin army entered the Central Plains, its defeat has not been like this. ”

For this battle, "Golden History. The record in the Biography of Wanyan Zongbi is: and attack Wu Jue in the monk plain, the danger can not be advanced, but the retreat. Ambush the troops, fight and go. Thirty miles, about to the flat land, the Song army is in the mountain pass, Zong Bi is defeated, and the soldiers are not in battle.

According to the "History of Jin", the loss of the Jin soldiers this time should be more than half of the total number.

After this battle, the entire Southern Song Dynasty was jubilant.

Emperor Gaozong issued an order to reward the Northwest Army and bestowed the highest honor on Wu Jue at that time - the Jiedu Envoy.

Thirty-nine-year-old Wu Jue was named the envoy of the Zhenxi Military Festival, and he was the first general in the Southern Song Dynasty to establish a festival because of his military exploits

This is how the Battle of Monk Yuan ended.

The most immediate significance of this battle is twofold:

First, last year's Jin Bing's profits in the Battle of Fuping were wiped out.

During last year's Battle of Fuping, Zhang Jun overdrew five years of Sichuan's taxes as military expenses, most of which were hoarded in Fuping and later turned into trophies for the Jin soldiers.

In the Battle of Dasanguan, Yang Congyi first took advantage of the defeat of Wanyan to snatch back 300,000 grains from Fengxiang Mansion; Then there is the baggage of the 100,000-strong army of Wanyan Wushu. All fell into the hands of Wu Jue.

According to this calculation, the battle of Fuping of the Jin soldiers was fought in vain.

Second, the Southern Song Dynasty finally gained a firm foothold.

The victory in the First Battle of Dasanguan directly announced the security of Sichuan and southern Shaanxi, and also announced the failure of the Jin army's plan to enter Shu, and indirectly announced that the Southern Song Dynasty had finally begun to stabilize.

However, this is not the whole point of the Battle of Monk Yuan

Since Wanyan Aguda rebelled in Lailiushui, it took more than ten years to finally defeat the decaying Great Liao Dynasty and establish the Jin State.

The Jurchen army also began with two and a half thousand men. 100,000 cavalry in the first year of Jingkang.

And the establishment of 100,000 cavalry, which is equivalent to the military expenditure of one million infantry in the Song Dynasty, is already the limit of the financial capacity of the Jin State.

There is no doubt that the Jurchens are not a people who are good at production.

The Jurchens' source of funding was to feed the war by war, and to put it bluntly, they came by looting.

So. When the Jin State occupied the territory of the Liao State, the capital of the Liao State and the treasury of various state capitals. It has become the only source of financial revenue for the country.

But. Liao was a corrupt country, and the coffers of the state capitals were so empty that they could not afford the expenditure of the Jin State's increasingly large state apparatus.

Therefore, as soon as the Jin State captured Yanjing, he urgently reached out to the Song Dynasty to ask for money.

Some people may question, does Liao have no tax revenue?

Congratulations. You guessed it. The Khitans are also nomadic and have an extremely weak concept of taxation, in fact, for many years. The financial revenue of the Liao State basically relied on the annual coins paid by the Song Dynasty.

Because of this, during the period of Huizong of the Song Dynasty, the value of copper coins continued to depreciate, and it also caused many protests in the Liao State.

Therefore, from the winter of the first year of Jingkang, the Jin soldiers launched an attack on the Song Dynasty, seemingly stealing a lot of money and grain from the Song Dynasty, but in fact blocking a financial route.

Because according to the agreement of the Jin and Song dynasties, the Song dynasty agreed to transfer the annual coins originally handed over to the Liao State to the Dajin State.

So when the Jin State later occupied the entire Yellow River Valley, didn't the fiscal revenue increase greatly?

The answer is no.

Because at that time, the Song Dynasty had two main sources of tax revenue: one was the Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions; The second is Shudi, Sichuan.

At that time, the prosperity of Bianliang City in Kaifeng Mansion was unparalleled in the world. However, this prosperity mainly depends on the continuous supply of Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions.

As long as the Jin State could not occupy Jiangsu, Zhejiang or Sichuan, from an economic point of view, it was better to negotiate peace with the Song Dynasty and then obtain more annual income.

Therefore, when the Jin State and the Song Dynasty went to war for a few years, they found that they did not have enough money.

As a result, a very strange scene happened in Huanglong Mansion: because there was no money, the gold owner Wu Qimai secretly took money from the treasury to use it, but it was discovered and reported to Wanyan Stickyhan.

In the end, Wu begged to buy twenty canes in public, and it was done.

"Three Dynasties and Northern Alliances" Volume 165: On December 30 of the fourth year of Shaoxing, Zhao Zitong Yanyunlu was quoted as saying: The Jin State Treasury collected the wealth and goods, and the oath was only used by the troops. As a result, the lord of the country Wu begged for excessive personal use, and he sued Yu Muhan for the crime of violating the oath. So the ministers helped down the hall, the court staff was twenty finished, and the ministers returned to the palace

Not only did the Jin country have trouble financially, but there were also big problems with the number of soldiers in the army.

There are few Jurchen people, so the composition of the Jin soldiers is generally Jurchen as the main force, supplemented by Bohai people, Khitans, or Han people in Liao as cannon fodder.

In the first year of Shaoxing, five years after the Jin State launched its first war against the Song Dynasty, the Jin State suddenly found that its military resources were weak.

Although the Jin soldiers won one victory after another on the battlefield, they accumulated a lot of casualties among the Jurchens.

For example, the Battle of Taiyuan, the Battle of Chuzhou, the Battle of Huang Tiandang, the Battle of Shrinking Lake, etc., the casualties of the Jin soldiers were all measured in 10,000.

Therefore, after Yan Chang's defeat at Jintou Lake, Jin Bing found Liu Yu in Shandong to establish a puppet Qi regime, establish a buffer zone between him and the Southern Song Dynasty, and implement the rule of Han people by Han people.

This was done with only one purpose, to allow the Jin soldiers to concentrate all their forces on the northwest and to suppress the endless uprisings in the Song occupied areas.

To everyone's surprise, Wu Jue's big victory in Monk Yuan hit the Jin soldiers hard, making the problem of Jin Bing's attrition even more serious.

After this battle, the Jin and Song dynasties were basically in a stalemate stage, and the strategic offensive of the Jin State against the Song Dynasty had to be stopped...... (To be continued......)

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