Chapter 282: The Clash of National Fortunes (5)
Wanyan was defeated.
The Jin State bandit army, which concentrated the forces of the three states of Fengxiang, Jiezhou and Chengzhou, was easily defeated by the thousands of Song troops in Dasanguan.
This is not all, Wu Jue took advantage of the defeat of the Jin soldiers, sent a general named Yang Congyi to raid Fengxiang, robbed the entire 300,000 grains in the grain depot of the Jin soldiers, and transported it back to the monk Yuan.
These two incidents shocked the high-level of the entire Jin country.
The entry from Shaanxi to Sichuan was the most important part of the overall strategy of the Jin state: first to seize Shaanxi with the decisive battle of Fuping, then to attack Sichuan from Shaanxi, and finally to the south along the Yangtze River, sweeping the southern dynasty of the Yangtze River, and then ruling the entire Han land.
These steps are interlocking, and none of them can be missing.
The failure of the Dasanguan not only left a small tail in the first step of seizing the entire territory of Shaanxi, but also seriously hindered the implementation of the next attack on Sichuan.
For Jin Guo, today's Dasanguan is like a thorn in the coffin, and it can't be solved if it is not solved
Since it must be fought, which general should be selected to carry out the mission?
Wan Yan Wuli is already a middle-level cadre with the highest position in Shaanxi Province, and the failure of Wan Yan Wuli means that the task of leading the army can only be selected from the top.
So who is the most suitable leader? Of course, it is the first record in the Jin country, known as the undefeated Wanyan Lou room.
The problem is that in the Battle of Fuping, which ended not long ago, this victorious general was actually beaten with a dull stick by a Han man's husband, and he was already sick to the battle, so he died that night and was left in the northwest.
Wanyan Lou followed Wanyan Agu to fight against Liao, and fought countless battles large and small. Not a single defeat. What a hero! In the end, it ended up so embarrassing. It's a miracle.
Wanyan Lou's room was gone, and the remaining burden naturally fell on the shoulders of the fourth prince Wanyan Wushu.
Wanyan Wushu's martial arts and strategy are top-notch, and it is suitable for him to take this position.
It's just that Wanyan Wushu lost a few games in a row at the end of the fourth year of Jianyan, will his mildew be carried into the new year? Or maybe he will wash away the decline and regain his might!
These questions will soon become clear
At this time, it was September of the first year of Shaoxing.
Wanyan Wushu set off with an army of 100,000 and a group of second generations of officials of the Jin Kingdom, in this second generation of officials. Including Wanyan Stickyhan's sons-in-law and nephews.
There's a problem here.
The number of troops sent by the Jin State at a time is usually capped at 100,000. For example, the total number of people besieging Kaifeng Mansion in the Jingkang Rebellion, and the number of participants in the Battle of Fuping at the end of last year, all of them were within 100,000
Can it be considered that the total number of troops in the Kingdom of Jin is only 100,000?
Don't think that this number is small.
According to the Song Dynasty's "General Essentials of the Martial Arts", the cost of raising a horse was more than the salary of five infantrymen. The Jin Kingdom was dominated by cavalry, and in order to facilitate long-distance travel, a cavalry used two or three war horses.
In this way, the military expenditure of 100,000 cavalry has exceeded the consumption of one million infantry. For an emerging country like Jinguo, this is a heavy burden.
According to this algorithm. The total number of 100,000 gold soldiers is reasonable.
In other words, Jin Guo practiced a policy of elite soldiers. The absolute number of armies is not much. Once it has suffered a heavy blow and the loss of troops is too large, the Jin State will immediately change its national strategy
In order to show his strategy to the younger generations, Wanyan Wushu came up with a clever plan:
He withdrew a large amount of baggage to the east of the Guanzhong Plain, and declared everywhere that he wanted to return to the north to visit relatives. Secretly, he quietly moved the main force in the direction of Baoji Dasanguan and secretly ambushed him.
Wanyan Wushu's idea was: Wanyan Weili had just been defeated and retreated, and his army was withdrawing, Wu Jue would definitely take the opportunity to go down the mountain and recover the lost territory in Shaanxi.
And as long as Wu Jue goes down the mountain, he will inevitably collide head-on with the main force of the Jin soldiers. When the time comes, with 100,000 pressing thousands, it's not just a matter of getting caught! The Great Scattered Pass will be self-defeating.
It should be said that Yan Wushu's idea is still very imaginative, but the problem is that the Wu Jue brothers did not cooperate at all, sitting at the monk Yuan and watching the excitement, they didn't move from beginning to end, and they didn't even give a single praise. wasted all the effort to complete the Yan Wushu.
In this way, after wasting half a month's time in vain, Wanyan Wushu had no choice but to regroup his forces and march towards Qinling with his baggage
In order to regain his name, Wanyan Wushu used his strength.
The 100,000-strong army first crossed the pontoon bridge in Weishui, then seized Yimen Town, and then broke directly into the Qinling Mountains without stopping.
This process took less than ten days.
After entering the mountain, the Jin soldiers were even more vigorous, and they actually forcibly marched thirty miles, demolished many defensive positions of the Song army, and came to the last forward position of the monk Yuan-Shencha.
Shencha is a natural dividing line.
From here, it was all rocky paths, and no matter how large the number of troops, they had to go up in a column. From a geographical point of view alone, it is definitely a place where no one can open it.
The general guarding the Shencha was Yang Congyi, who went to Fengxiang a few days ago and robbed 300,000 grains.
The terrain is dangerous, and Wanyan Wushu has prepared multiple sets of attack plans.
As a result, as soon as the Jurchens showed up, Yang Congyi immediately flashed.
All the Yongxing troops at the Shencha Pass, including Yang Congyi, ran into the mountains like a bunch of rabbits, and the joy of escaping was really enviable.
Regarding Yang Congyi's escape without a fight, Wanyan Wushu didn't pay attention to it at all. The Song army that fought bravely was difficult to find, and the Song army that fled in despair was more frequent.
Finally arrived at the monk's plain,
Wanyan Wushu only understood at this time why Wanyan had failed so badly before.
This is a fortified mountain city at all, and this mountain city is made of natural large stones and is impregnable; The mountain road below this mountain city is very steep and rugged, not only can it not be carried up the siege equipment, but even the soldiers have difficulty carrying weapons to climb up.
How can this battle be fought?
After all, Wanyan Wushu was not a complete face, and he quickly came up with a countermeasure.
First. Wanyan Wushu asked the soldiers to build a camp on the spot on the mountain. From the rear of the monk's original position, it was built all the way to the fork of the gods. It stretches for more than 40 miles, so that 100,000 golden soldiers have a place to rest nearby, and they don't have to go back and forth to climb the mountain every day, wasting their physical strength in vain.
Second, build a hill with stones in front of the monk's original and be on the same level as the monk's plain.
The idea of Wanyan Wushu was right.
Because the monk's terrain is high and steep, not to mention bows and arrows, even fist-sized stones can smash the golden soldiers to death; Opposite. The Jin army shot from the back and attacked, and even if it hit the target, it lost its lethality.
And with a platform with a height similar to that of Monk Yuan, Jin Bing can shoot bows and arrows at the defenders of Monk Yuan, as long as Jin Bing shoots all the defenders of Monk Yuan, the problem will be solved.
Wow! Wanyan Wushu looked at those Jin soldiers who were constantly busy, as if he saw that the Jin soldiers had occupied the Dasan Pass and invaded the land of Sichuan and Shu.
The beauties of Sichuan, I'm here after the Yan Wushu!!
The ideal is very plump, and the reality is very skinny.
When the golden soldiers climbed the stone hill that had been built with great difficulty. When attacking the Song army with bows and arrows, it was only then that the situation was far from the plan.
First of all, although the Jin soldiers have tried their best to make the stone mountain bigger. But at most there are more than 100 people at a time, which does not reflect the numerical advantage of Jin Bing at all.
Secondly, the bows and arrows of the Jin soldiers were inferior to those of the Song army. Because the Song army on the monk's original was equipped with a large number of divine arm bows.
No wonder after the Battle of Fuping, when the Jin soldiers cleaned the battlefield, they couldn't find a divine arm bow, and it turned out that all of them were moved to the Dasanguan by Wu Jue.
The biggest feature of the Divine Arm Bow is that it can "pierce heavy armor hundreds of steps away". Therefore, the heavy armor on the golden soldier almost did not play a protective role.
Nevertheless, on the afternoon of the first day, Wanyan Wushu launched three large attacks, throwing down thousands of corpses, and then retreated from the position and returned to the camp.
Wanyan Wushu was annoyed, and prepared to go back to the camp to rest for a night and fight again tomorrow.
However, Wu Jue did not agree at all with the timetable for the completion of the Yan Wushu. Because in Wu Jue's view, the fall of night is the beginning of the show
The Jin soldiers had just retreated, and the Song army actually chased them out of the monk's original place.
The Song general who led the troops to chase him out was called Yang Zheng. These Song soldiers, with their hands and feet, walked around the mountains, as agile as apes, and it was obvious that they had undergone some hard training.
Yang Zheng and the others caught the Jin army off guard, and immediately returned to the monk yuan after cutting down a piece. Wanyan Wushu was furious, and was hesitating whether to return to take revenge, when another bad news came from behind him.
The grain road in the direction of the fork was robbed, and it was done by Yang Congyi, who was hiding in the mountains
This Yang Congyi seems to have a very special habit of robbing grain, and every time he appears in the history books, he has various connections with robbing grain.
There was an accident in the front and rear, and Wanyan Wushu calmed down instead.
Because he knew in his heart that no matter how the Song army tossed, the strength balance was there, and the 100,000 troops were in his hands, no matter how he fought, he would definitely win. The most important thing now is to return to the camp to eat and sleep, and to recuperate your spirits
In the Qinling Mountains in October of the lunar calendar, the temperature is already very low, especially at night, the cold wind is howling, freezing to the bones. When the soldiers returned to the camp, their first reaction was to light a bonfire, boil water and cook rice and keep warm.
Soon, the fire in the Golden Camp was crowded with people.
Just as the Jin soldiers were preparing to eat, a rain of arrows suddenly shot from all around, and it turned out that Wu Jue had selected five hundred divine arm archers and quietly touched the side of the camp of the Golden Vultures.
In the face of the threat of death, it is estimated that few people will be able to eat in peace. There was no way, Wanyan Wushu had no choice but to order to go out to find the location of the Song army's archers.
The mountains and mountains, the night is vast, and the golden soldiers have found nothing.
After being disturbed for a long time, Jin Bing could only eat some dry food casually and sleep on the ground.
In this case, no one dares to light a fire again. If the Song army didn't retreat, wouldn't they be looking for their own death?
If it's cold, it's colder, it's better to sleep than not to sleep, and it's better to eat than not to eat! This is the idea of all the Jin soldiers, including Wanyan Wushu.
It's a pity that their idea was not agreed by Wu Jue...... (To be continued......)
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