Chapter 92: Retreat and Return

In this battle, Wanyan Lou didn't want to fight for a long time, and the big victory was just the annihilation of thousands of Song troops, the results were very small, and the oil and water were not big; And dragging it out like this, it may take a year and a half, and it may not be able to deal with this Song army.

It's just that he has always lacked a suitable reason to withdraw from the army.

The reason is very important, and if you quit the army without a suitable reason, you will be called cowardly and cowardly by the soldiers, and you will be despised by the clansmen, and you will not be able to raise your head in that life.

While he was pondering the reason for retiring from the army, the reason came. Hai Dongqing in the sky sent a letter, the content was very simple, the Song army rescued Taiyuan again, and the soldiers and horses of the six routes were dispatched together, with a total of 300,000 people. After seeing this news, Wan Yan Lou Room breathed a sigh of relief, and there was a reason to withdraw from the army.

The Song State was really too rich, and there were more than 200,000 Song troops who surrendered in Hebei and other places, and later the east and west roads went south to attack the Song State. The Eastern Route Army, led by the second prince, first defeated the 200,000 forbidden army outside the city, and then defeated Yao Pingzhong's 200,000 army. Now, our West Route Army is even under the city of Taiyuan, defeating Yao Gu, Zhang Jing and others, and the Song army annihilated is also more than 200,000. The dead and wounded have been several hundred thousand in a row, which means that since the beginning of the war, the Song State has lost at least more than 800,000 troops. There are more than 800,000, and the total number of men, women, and children of the Jurchen is not 800,000. But the loss of 800,000 is just a break for the Song State, as long as they are willing, they can organize an army of more than 200,000 tomorrow!

The population of the Song Kingdom is really too much, and the killing hands are soft, but there are still so many!

Killing will not make people happy, killing is more for survival, when I fought with the Liao army, I kept killing, just because Liao and Jin are not separated, and the two can only survive one. In order to live, to fight for living space, and to kill. But now that the Song Kingdom has been conquered, Wanyan Lou is confused.

After a short period of pervasiveness, Wanyan Lou Room's heart became more and more determined.

The army, either with a sword, is the army. It must go through a period of tempering, baptism for a period of time, and have a certain combat effectiveness, that it is an army. Blindly gathering the number of people and forming an army is destined to be a chicken, tile and dog, don't look at the 300,000 people, only tens of thousands of soldiers and horses can be defeated.

The Song State has too many people and a very thick foundation, but there are moments when the army is exhausted.

Some time ago, the Jin army had just defeated the most elite Shaanxi army of the Song Dynasty, and the 200,000 Shaanxi army was wiped out; But the Song people were still unwilling, and now they have rescued Taiyuan again.

The second rescue can be described as violent, stationed in Qinxian County's Jie Qian's Department, stationed in Liaozhou's Liu Han Department, stationed in Wenshui's Zhe Keqiu, Zhang Sizheng Department, stationed in the North and South Pass Fan Qiong's Department, planning to divide the superior forces of the army, a total of 300,000 troops, to encircle and annihilate Yinshuke.

And the Song army rescued this time is also the last elite of the Song Kingdom, once this Song army is completely wiped out, from Hebei and Hedong in the north to Jiangnan, Quanzhou and other places in the south, all of them are undefended areas, as long as they are willing, as long as they are within the reach of the iron horse, they are the lambs harvested by the Jin army!

After this battle, there was no regular army in the Song Kingdom, and all that remained were those righteous troops like chickens and dogs!

This may be the last battle, and after this battle, the Song State will become a vassal of my Dajin;

After this war, the backbone of the Han people will be broken, and all the mountains and rivers will be pastures;

After this battle, the Han people will tremble under the iron horses of the Jurchens;

After this war, an infinitely better kingdom will emerge.

As long as most of the Song army perished, no matter how much the Bazi Army could fight, it would be a single tree, and it would be difficult to support the collapsed edifice of the Song Kingdom!

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In the tent, the clerk read out the contents of the letter.

The generals were full of unwillingness, but in the end they agreed and reached an agreement to withdraw from the army. So this time, the action of encircling and suppressing the eight-character army began hastily and ended hastily.

In this battle, the losses of the Bazi Army were not too large, and the casualties were only a few hundred; However, the Jin army suffered huge losses, with non-combat attrition reaching thousands, and another 2,000 losses in battle, and it was originally more than 10,000 people when it went out, but when it retreated, it was demoralized and looked a little sluggish.

The Jin army slowly retreated, and the eight-character army also began to pursue, the enemy was tired and I fought, and at the moment when the enemy's morale was low, it attacked decisively.

And when pursuing, it is still shameless. It was never a face-to-face battle with gongs and drums, but a constant trap, a constant cold arrow, constant harassment, and constant hindrance of the retreat of the Jin army. He also continued to insult Jin Jun with various words, saying that Jin Jun was a coward and had no power to fight again, so he could only run away and so on.

Along the way, the fights and troubles do not hurt the muscles and bones, but they just toss people, make people angry, and make people crazy.

In short, in the end, in addition to Wanyan Lou's room to stay calm, many soldiers are crazy, not because of how strong this army is, but because this army is particularly hateful, shameless, like a fly, buzzing constantly, making people upset, but they want to shoot to death but can't.

In the end, Wanyan Lou still led an army of 10,000 to evacuate, and the road was a little embarrassed.

Wanyan Lou Room said hatefully: "If you can run, the emperor can't run the temple, and the eight-character army can move and fight at will, but Bianliang City can't run, and when I break through Bianliang, I will naturally want you to look good at that time!" ”

And at this moment, looking at the Jin army, who had already entered the wide flat land and got rid of the unfavorable mountainous terrain, a trace of worry flashed in Zhao Pu's eyes: "I know how to advance and retreat, I know how to advance and retreat, and the famous generals of the ancient times are nothing more than that." I remember you! ”

In this battle, he won half a hand.

But Zhao Pu did not have a trace of worry, from this continuous battle, he clearly saw the combat effectiveness of the Jin army.

This battle itself is an unequal battle. Wanyan Lou Room rashly dispatched troops, and the terrain here was extremely vague, and the terrain understanding was only limited to the map, and without Hai Dongqing's exploration, it was difficult for the scouts to effectively explore, so it could be said that they were both deaf and blind.

However, Zhao Pu has taken advantage of the time, place and people, and is extremely familiar with the terrain here, without logistical burden, no need to cover the people, no need to defend the city, and no need to fight in the field on the plain, all that needs to be done is to make a decisive move at the most favorable time.

It is reasonable to win this battle.

It's just that the battle in the future will not be so easy.

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This time, the collision between Zhao Pu and Wanyan Lou's soldiers and horses was just an insignificant spark in the collision of soldiers and horses between Song and Jin.

This time, in the battle of the wild pine forest, Zhao Pu was only more than 6,000 soldiers and horses; Wanyan Lou's room is only more than 10,000 people. For the Song-Jin War, where hundreds of thousands of troops collided and fought endlessly, it was just an insignificant spark, powerless to change the overall situation, and powerless to reverse the big historical trend.

At this moment, the second attack on the Song Dynasty of the Jin Kingdom has already begun.

Different from the first attack on the Song Dynasty, during the first attack on the Song Dynasty, the Jurchen nobles were still in awe of this heavenly kingdom, and the soldiers and horses of the two routes went south, just to fight the grass valley, collect some gold and silver, plunder some grain, and relieve the tense financial problems of the Jin Kingdom. Jin Taizong never thought of destroying the Song Dynasty, and the marshals of the Eastern and Western armies did not think about destroying the Song Dynasty.

This also led to the emergence of strange phenomena in the Jin army of the Song Dynasty on both sides, each fighting for itself, you fight yours, I fight mine. At the moment when Wanyan was intimidating Bianliang, Wanyan Sticky Han was still fighting hard under Taiyuan City; When Wanyan did not leave the army, Wanyan Sticky Han wanted to go south to the Yellow River and join forces in Bianliang.

In short, the first attack on the Song Dynasty seemed to have won a great victory, forcing the Song Dynasty to sign harsh and humiliating unequal treaties, but in fact it was extremely poor in cooperating with the war.

The first attack on the Song Dynasty, the Song army was fragile, constantly stimulating the ambitions of the Jurchen nobles, so the second attack on the Song Dynasty began.

Compared with the first time, this time the cooperation between the Eastern and Western Route Armies was much more tacit, and Wanyan Sticky Han did not play a small temper anymore, and began to obey the overall situation of the Great Song Dynasty. And Wanyan did not leave from Hebei again, moving forward quickly, crossing obstacles, and slowly approaching Bianliang.

At this moment, the battle to attack Taiyuan has intensified, and Taiyuan is also running out of materials, empty of grain and grass, and it can't last long. The second battle to rescue Taiyuan broke out, and the momentum was very great, but it was very tragic.

Yinshuke, who has been on the expedition for nearly a year, faced with the loose Song army commander Ruoding, first concentrated the main force to defeat Liu, and then successively defeated the Xie Qian's department in the north and south passes, Zhang Sizheng's department in Wenshui, and the Zhe Keqiu department in Zixiashan, after the Song army was broken and lost tens of thousands of people, the second rescue of Taiyuan was declared a failure.

The Song army that rescued Taiyuan for the second time was defeated too quickly, and many Song troops often fled without a fight, and Yinshu only needed to pursue it behind.

As soon as Yan Lou returned to the army, he heard the battle report of the defeat of the Song army, and there was no new term to be found in the battle report except for the defeat.

The speed of the defeat of the Song army was too fast, and Wanyan Lou Room stepped up the speed of the journey, but still did not catch up with the battle, but only caught up with the end of the battle.

And at this moment, Taiyuan City finally couldn't hold on.

In the heavy encirclement of Zhongnan Gu Wangshi, the Taiyuan defenders who looked through the autumn water did not expect their own reinforcements, but the troops came to the city but the comeback of Zonghan's army, and the Song army reinforcements failed again and again. Taiyuan at this time is no longer Taiyuan in the Tang Dynasty. The ancient Taiyuan has been burned down by Taizong of the Song Dynasty, and today's Taiyuan is only the Taiyuan rebuilt by Pan Mei. It is just a small city whose political and strategic position is not important, and the material reserves are extremely limited, the military and civilians of Taiyuan have been struggling to support themselves in a strict blockade for more than eight months, and the grain stocks are basically exhausted, and the soldiers first slaughter cattle, horses, mules and other livestock, and then have to cook bows, crossbows, leather armor to satisfy hunger, while the people in the city can only use chaff and hay to feed their stomachs, and there is even a tragedy of cannibalism.

In order to seize Taiyuan, the Jin army summed up the combat experience when capturing the five capitals of the Liao State, and in addition to the "locking the city law" that had already been implemented and was effective, it also formulated a set of extremely advanced offensive tactics at that time. The Jin army brought 30 cannons, which were able to throw more cannon stones into the city, and the enemy towers used for defense at the head of the city were repeatedly hit and destroyed.

When the Northern Song Dynasty captured Jinyang, they had built bunkers outside the city called "cave houses" for protection, and the Jin army built 50 large mobile cave houses with wheels in the lower part, which served like modern armored transport vehicles, and the Jin army tried to use them to transport civil engineering to fill in the moats. During the siege of the city, the Jin army made a set of cave houses and ladders in one of the goose carts for defense and attack, this goose-shaped equipment under the wheels, crowned with iron, can effectively protect the soldiers to attack the city.

For the cannon, set up a fence wall in front of the enemy building, and the roof of the building was covered with chaff cloth bags, so that even if the enemy tower was hit, there would be no major damage and could be repaired quickly. For the filling of the trenches, the Song army dug tunnels to the moats, and when the Jin army filled them with firewood, they set fire to make their previous efforts undone. For the goose cart, the Song army set up a goose-shaped jumping tower at the head of the city, from which a boulder tied with a rope net was put on the top of the goose cart to make its center of gravity rise, and then the goose cart was pulled down with a hook and rope.

Cannibalism means that the defense of this lonely city has been supported to the limit, under the onslaught of the Jin Dynasty's new force for half a month, the heroic and tenacious Taiyuan City fell on the third day of September after holding on for more than 250 days. Although the general trend has gone, Wang Yu still led the hungry and tired soldiers to insist on street fighting, carrying the Song Taizong imperial appearance enshrined in the Taiyuan ancestral temple to break out of the city, the Jin soldiers chased with all their might, and Wang Yu, who was shot dozens of times, committed suicide by throwing himself into the Fen River. After Jin Bing obtained Wang Yu's body, Zong Han scolded and ordered his soldiers to ride their horses into meat paste to vent their anger. After the city was broken, more than 30 local officials in Taiyuan were martyred, and the Jin soldiers slaughtered the city in retaliation, and the people of Taiyuan who survived the starvation were almost slaughtered.

Another hero of the Taiyuan Defense War, Zhang Xiaochun, the prefect of Taiyuan, was captured and taken to the clouds.

Taiyuan has finally fallen, and Wanyan Sticky Han has finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Next, after a short rest, you only need to learn from Bianliang, and your merits will be complete.

PS: The change of Jingkang, this history is too vague. In different versions, there are different descriptions, and the records are also different, what a cheat!

This chapter update is late, please forgive me