Liu Qi, the newly appointed deputy left-behind guard in Tokyo, led a 20,000-character army from Lin'an, loaded with 900 ships, crossed the Yangtze River by water, and marched in the direction of Kaifeng Prefecture.

Attentive readers may ask questions, 20,000 people are carried by 900 official ships, and each official ship only carries an average of less than 23 people, even if you add baggage and various equipment, it is too little, no matter how you look at it, it can't accompany the powerful shipbuilding technology of my Great Song Dynasty!

According to the military system of the Song Dynasty at that time, the army carried its families, and the military camp and family area were next to each other, so when the Huaixi mutiny, the army and more than 100,000 military dependents surrendered to the enemy together.

And this time, the 20,000 soldiers of the Bazi Army under Liu Qi's command, plus nearly 50,000 military dependents accompanying him, had to use as many as 900 ships

When the eight-character army entered the Huai River valley and approached a small city called Shunchang, Liu Qi received information from Yue's army, saying that Kaifeng Mansion had fallen, and the main force of the Jin soldiers led by Wanyan Muhan continued to move south, and it was almost to Shunchang City, as for the time, there were about seven days.

Although his troops were held back by the imperial court, Yue Fei did not relax his observation of the entire battlefield at all, and Yue Fei tried his best to help the troops who had a relationship with him, which had a relationship with him.

Liu Qi was taken aback when he received the information, and hurriedly convened the generals to discuss countermeasures.

Shunchang, that is, Fuyang City, Anhui Province.

Baidu says that it is located in the northwest of Anhui Province, and has jurisdiction over the three districts of Yingzhou, Yingquan and Yingdong, and the four counties of Linquan, Taihe, Funan and Yingshang, as well as the county-level Jieshou City directly under the provincial government. The registered population is more than 10 million, and the permanent population is more than 7 million. With an area of more than 9,000 square kilometers, it is the most populous city in Anhui Province. It is also one of the largest prefecture-level cities in the country.

Fuyang has excellent transportation. It is one of the three major hubs in Anhui. The railway, highway, aviation and water transportation in the city are developed, which is in the forefront of Anhui. Fuyang has a developed economy and commerce. The retail value of goods is second only to Hefei, the provincial capital, and the second in Anhui. The GDP is the fifth in Anhui, and the development potential is huge.

Shunchang Mansion sounds very strong, but it was only a small county town back then. The small walls of the city are short of weapons and short manpower, and after more than ten years of military washing, they are now even more dilapidated.

Now the multiple-choice question in front of Liu Qi is, whether he will enter the city or not.

Entering the city means fighting to the death with the Jin soldiers and resisting to the end; If you don't enter the city, it shows that Liu Qi is unwilling to go head-to-head with Wanyan Wushu and avoid its edge.

Of course, avoiding the edge is polite words, and to put it bluntly, it is running away.

Then again, in the current situation, it is rational not to advance. At this time, Liu Qi's strength was about 20,000, compared with more than 100,000 heavy soldiers under the command of Wanyan Wushu. It's really too disparity, it's tantamount to using a mantis arm as a car.

Therefore, a considerable number of generals believed that they should retreat to Jiangnan along the waterway.

After listening to the opinions of the generals, Liu Qi was furious and shouted: "I went to official Tokyo, although Tokyo is lost today, fortunately the whole army is still there, and there is a city to defend, so I have no choice but to abandon it!" I have made up my mind, and those who dare to speak up will be killed! ”

The commander Xu Qing also said angrily: "The captain was ordered to guard Bianjing, and the sergeants came to help the old and the young, although it is easy to avoid the enemy today, it is unbearable to abandon his parents and wives, and if he wants to go with him, the enemy will attack on the wings, how can he escape?" It's better to fight each other and survive in death! ”

The good sentence "survive in death" is the blood of a soldier and the duty of a soldier.

Liu Qi's choice was to enter Shunchang and stop the Jin army here. And this day is May 18 in the tenth year of Shaoxing in the Southern Song Dynasty.

After entering the city, Liu Qi really felt what it meant to be two heavens of ice and fire.

Speaking of ice, every soldier of the Bazi Army is a little hairy: Shunchang City is in disrepair, there is no city defense system at all, and it is a miracle to survive in the Huaihe River area.

Speaking of fire, the prefect of Shunchang City, Chen Gui, is definitely a hot-blooded man, he helped the Bazi Army without reservation, in addition to sending people to immediately build the city defense, he gave Liu Qi an absolutely unexpected surprise - "There are tens of thousands of rice"

Great, this can at least support the consumption of the eight-character army for a long time.

The situation was precipitous, in order to let the whole army understand his determination, Liu Qi ordered all the ships to be scuttled to show that he would never retreat, and placed his family members in the monastery, piled up firewood on all sides, and said: "If there is any disadvantage, my family will be burned, and the enemy will not be dishonored!" ”

If I lose the enemy, my family will die first. What a spirit!

Encouraged by this, the soldiers were also full of momentum, the men prepared for battle, the women sharpened their swords, and shouted one after another: "Today should make meritorious service to the country's thieves!" ”。

In addition, Liu Qi moved thousands of residents outside the city into the city, and burned all their residences to avoid being used by the Jin army, and then climbed to the city every day, personally deployed war preparations, after six days and nights of intense preparations, Shunchang's city defense has been quite large-scale, and quickly turned into a temporary fortress,

It was at this time that the forward troops of the Jin army arrived.

Yue Jiajun's intelligence is really accurate, and there is no error in a day

On May 25, the tenth year of Shaoxing, the forward troops of the Jin army finally approached the mouth of the white vortex, which was only thirty miles away from Shunchang City.

The vanguard officer of the Jin soldiers is Han Chang, the most trusted general of Wanyan Wushu, the bull who was blinded by Liu Qi in one eye in the Battle of Fuping, and can still protect Wanyan Wushu from breaking out of the encirclement.

There is no information to show that Han Chang knew that Liu Qi was guarding the city of Shunchang, and he just followed the general common sense to relieve the fatigue of the long-distance march before attacking the city, and planned to set up camp at Baiwukou and repair it a little.

It's hard to say what's wrong with Han Chang's arrangement, if nothing happens to him.

That night, Liu Qi sent a thousand elite cavalry to raid the Jin camp. Han Chang was taken by surprise, and the camp of more than 10,000 people was actually broken through and forced to retreat overnight.

The first battle was successful, and the Jin army vanguard was repulsed without even seeing the gate of Shunchang City.

However, this was only the beginning of the war.

Only three days later, the Jin army's reinforcements came up very quickly.

The general who led the army this time has a prominent reputation, which is called Wanyan Sudden Speed.

According to Baidu's description, he is a member of the Jin State clan. The Song people are called the "Dragon and Tiger King". Brave and good at fighting. When you are in battle, you will be trapped in battle. Kill the flag, the champion of merit. At the beginning, from Wanyan Zonghan and Wanyan Yinshu, he could attack Taiyuan, break the Song reinforcements, and attack and kill the famous Song generals and breeders in Xiongling. In the battle of Bianjing, 500 elite cavalry rushed to Heyang, broke the Song army, and then took the Yellow River Jin.

Oh, it turns out that he is the legendary Dragon and Tiger King.

This Dragon and Tiger King is really powerful. He gathered Han Chang's rout. The combined forces of the two armies reached more than 30,000 people, and they fought steadily step by step, without giving Liu Qi any chance, and finally arrived at the city of Shunchang smoothly.

More than 30,000 elite gold soldiers attacked Shunchang, what kind of concept is this.

Let's turn our attention to the year 1127 A.D., that is, April of the second year of Jingkang.

At that time, Wanyan Sticky Han and Wanyan Wushu were surrounded by the east and west armies, and only 50,000 gold soldiers were used to break through the city of Bianliang City, Kaifeng Prefecture, which had thick walls, complete armaments, and more than 100,000 defenders.

And now. More than 30,000 gold soldiers came to attack the city, the low walls were thin, and the city defense equipment was lacking. And there are only 20,000 defenders in the Shunchang field, how do you make the battle-hardened Dragon and Tiger King feel?

Although it was said that after hundreds of miles of rapid marching, neither he nor Han Chang had any large and heavy siege equipment at hand, but against this dilapidated city, would there be any other results besides victory?

To be honest, the Dragon and Tiger King no longer thinks about being able to capture Shunchang City, and his old man is thinking about how to continue to go south after attacking Shunchang City.

But the development of things greatly exceeded the expectations of the Dragon and Tiger King.

When the Jin soldiers approached Shunchang City, the sound of golden drums and horns on both sides sounded almost at the same time, and the arrows of the Song and Jin armies rained down, shooting at each other above and below the city, starting the first step of the hot weapon war.

As a result, Jin Bing lost a mess in this round.

It is obvious that this round of Dragon and Tiger King is too careless.

How could he ask his subordinates to compete with the Song army in archery? The bows and arrows of the Song army were originally stronger than those of the Jin State, and with the advantage of height, it was no wonder that the Jin soldiers did not lose.

The Dragon and Tiger King came to his senses in time and ordered a retreat, retreating to a safe distance before regrouping.

Judging from the Jin soldiers' previous combat experience, there is nothing wrong with the decision of the Dragon and Tiger King, could it be said that those weak and timid Song troops will rush out of the city to fight hand-to-hand?

But they were wrong, very wrong, because Liu Qi's cards did not take into account the general card theory.

At this moment, the Song army in Shunchang City suddenly rushed out and chased Jin Bing's buttocks.

Although all the people who went out of the city were infantry, although the number was small, only 5,000 people, these Song troops made the Jin soldiers feel very embarrassed.

30,000 against 5,000, cavalry against infantry, it stands to reason that it is not difficult for the Jin soldiers to defeat this part of the Song soldiers.

But at present, the horn of withdrawal is sounding in the army, and the military order is like a mountain, and it has to be obeyed.

In this confused, inexplicable, and chaotic situation, the cavalry of the Jin State was killed by the Song army in thousands, and the whole army was once again defeated.

Jin Bing was really repelled by the Bazi Army this time, and retreated to Dongli Village, which was more than 20 miles away from Shunchang City and on the bank of Yingshui.

The randomness and variability of the battle during the Cold Weapon period were fully demonstrated in this campaign

The defeat of the Jin soldiers did not stop there.

King Long Hu and Han Chang commanded the Jin soldiers to stop at Dongli Village. And on the same night, there was a sudden torrential rain in Dongli Village, and in the midst of lightning and thunder, more than 500 elite soldiers of the Bazi Army came to rob the camp, led by Liu Qi's beloved general Yan Chong.

As expected, there was chaos in the Jin barracks - those killed by the Song army, those who killed each other in the dark, those who were kicked to death by frightened war horses, and so on.

In desperation, the Jin soldiers were forced to retreat fifteen miles back again to camp to avoid the edge of the Bazi Army.

It is indeed difficult for the Jurchens, who grew up in the north, to understand the heavy rains in the south.

On the night of the next day, the weather was still like this, and Liu Qi once again sent a hundred warriors to attack the Jin camp. And this time, Liu Qi issued these warriors with a new weapon - a bamboo whistle.

These hundred warriors quietly approached the golden camp, secretly ambushed, and every time the thunder and lightning flashed, they would kill together, and the lightning stopped, and the warriors hid and did not move.

It is estimated that the Jin soldiers at that time lost several games in a row, and even the basic lighting supplies such as torches were lost, so it was never possible to know how many men and horses the Song army came; After several rounds of attacks by the Song army, the Jin army, which did not know the truth and truth, finally became chaotic and began to kill each other.

The 100 warriors of the Song army took the opportunity to blow the bamboo whistle and withdraw safely after gathering, but the civil strife in the Jin camp did not stop all night, and by dawn, the corpses in the Jin army camp had piled up.

At this time, the morale of the Jin army was exhausted and they were unable to fight again, so they had to retreat for another thirty miles, and hurriedly sent people back to Kaifeng to ask Wanyan Wushu for help...... (To be continued......)

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