Chapter 356: No longer the courage of the past

Since the Jingkang Revolution, the Jin State and the Song Dynasty have been at war for more than ten years.

During this long and painful period, the Jin and Song wars were fought in countless battles, large and small, and the forms of wars were also diverse.

Encounters, ambushes, plain sieges, mountain battles, naval battles, and so on.

However, if only in terms of the fairness of the war, the first place must be Yue Fei's Fourth Northern Expedition to the Central Plains, which took place in the tenth year of Shaoxing.

Whether it is the Jin soldiers or the Yuejia army, whether it is offensive or defensive, the location of the war all takes place in the suburbs outside the city, and no side will defend according to the danger and take advantage of the other party.

It is easier to understand that Jin Bing did this, because they have always regarded themselves as a people on horseback, and no matter how big or small, they must be solved on horseback.

But what about the Yue Jiajun, why did he adopt the same tactics as Jin Bing?

This is Yue Fei's self-confidence.

After years of brutal battles and arduous training, Yue Fei believed that whether it was from combat effectiveness or on-the-spot command and dispatch, the Yuejia army he brought out had won many victories over the Jin soldiers, and even if they met in the suburbs, the Yuejia army could also defeat the Jin soldiers; Moreover, defeating Jin Bing in the way that Jin Bing is best at can hit the morale of the Jurchens even more.

Based on this self-confidence, Yue Fei delegated authority to his generals and allowed them to fight the Jin soldiers in the field.

Therefore, this is the story of Dong Xian and Yao Zheng going out of the city to meet the enemy.

It's just that Dong Xian and Yao Zheng are a little awkward against Yan Wushu and Han Chang.

The reason is that Wanyan Wushu and Han Chang faced off against Dong Xianjia Yao Zheng, and the Kidnapper Horse Cavalry Regiment of the Jin State faced the Upper Yi Army and the Tabai Army. No matter what time it is. From what point of view. These are two opponents of unequal amounts.

As a generation of famous generals, the opponents of Wanyan Wushu should be Yue Fei, Han Shizhong, or Wu Jue in any case.

And this time, Wanyan Wushu actually depreciated his own value and personally led the team to attack Yue Fei's subordinates, isn't it ridiculous

However, with such a lineup, after an hour of fierce fighting, it was Jin Bing who fled. And the one who took the lead in escaping turned out to be their boss, His Royal Highness the Fourth Prince, Wanyan Wushu.

In this battle, the most courageous on the field was, of course, Dong Xian, the commander of the White Army.

He took the lead, first picked off several generals of the Jin soldiers one after another, and then stabbed Han Chang's left arm with a flying knife, and then scared off Yan Wushu one by one, and killed a few back and forth in the Jin Soldier array, and so on.

Of course, this is not the first time Dong Xian has performed like this.

In Shaoxing for three years, he Dong Xian once stopped Li Cheng's 100,000 army on the nameless bridge alone. Let Li Cheng's 100,000 army be in a dilemma.

And this time, the injured one changed from Li Cheng to Wanyan Wushu.

Compared with the bravery of Dong Xian and Yue Jiajun. Jin Bing's performance was much inferior.

In the contest between the two sides, Jin Bing not only lost to Yue Jiajun in terms of strength, physical reaction, and even the riding skills that Jin Bing was most proud of.

Why is this happening?

This question made Wanyan Wushu feel very confused and incomprehensible.

You must know that the cavalry brought out by Wanyan Wushu this time are all Jurchens, not those cowardly and cowardly former pseudo-Qi soldiers, many of whom are experienced in a hundred battles, how can there be such a big gap?

This question is not only incomprehensible to Wanyan Wushu, but also troubles Emperor Kangxi hundreds of years later.

After hundreds of years of hibernation, the descendants of Wanyan Wushu entered the customs again in the first year of Shunzhi in the Qing Dynasty, that is, in 1644 AD.

Only more than ten years have passed, and in the early stage of the Kangxi Emperor, the strength of the Eight Banners has dropped to a miserable level, so that the Kangxi Emperor has to rely on the green battalion composed of Han people.

In the Yongzheng period, the strict Yongzheng Emperor thought that this was because the life of the banner people was too comfortable, so he issued and organized the "Beijing Flag Reclamation" movement at that time

Simply analyzed, those fierce and cruel Jurchens, after robbing the countless gold and silver treasures and young beauties of the Liao State and the Song Dynasty, have been living comfortably and comfortably for more than ten or twenty years.

Even if they are as strong as the Jurchens, under the moisture of wine, under the baking of warm pillows on high beds, and under the care of the old man of time, they are no longer as brave as they used to be.

No wonder the ancients said that time is like a knife urging people to grow old, and the warriors of the past are no longer there.

When Yan Wushu fled back to Kaifeng Mansion, he meditated for a day and a night before he understood the reason, and in desperation, Wan Yan Wushu had no choice but to sigh and say: "Today's Song army is like the Jin soldiers of the year; And the current Jin soldiers are almost the same as the Song army back then. ”

"Blessings are incomparable, and disasters are not singular."

This is a Han idiom that suddenly appeared in his mind when he finished reading the two expedited war reports after Yan Wushu.

These two war reports, one is to report on the fall of the two important military towns of Zhengzhou and Luoyang, and the other is to report on the progress of Yuejia's army north of the Yellow River.

Both of these places are crucial for the completion of the vultures.

The fall of Zhengzhou and Luoyang allowed Yue Fei to divide the two battlefields of the Central Plains and the Northwest into two at once, so that Wanyan Wushu and Wanyan Sali, who were still in Shaanxi, could only go their separate ways and could not echo each other.

And the north bank of the Yellow River made Wanyan Wushu even more chilling, because that was the back road for him to withdraw his troops.

At this moment, if the Yuejia army divides its troops and marches westward and attacks with General Hu Shijiang's northwest army on the left and right, he will immediately fall into a desperate situation; On the other hand, if the Yue family's army attacked eastward, it would be his turn to finish his Yan Wushu and fall into a heavy encirclement.

For Wanyan Wushu, this battle is getting more and more difficult.

What happened on the north bank of the Yellow River that could make it difficult for Wanyan Wushu to sleep?

On the first day of the seventh month of the 10th year of Shaoxing, that is, the day of the diplomatic battle between Wang Gui and Li Cheng in Luoyang City, a Yuejia army disguised itself as civilians and quietly lurked to the south bank of the Yellow River at the northwest corner of Jingbei Road that night, and crossed the Yellow River in the early morning.

This time, there were two leaders of the army, one named Liang Xing and the other Dong Rong.

In fact, they had been preparing for this operation for five or six years, and Yue Fei had named this operation at that time. It's called "Connecting the River".

The Heshuo area is Yue Fei's hometown. It was also the key prevention area of Jin Guo in the Central Plains at that time.

The so-called "Connecting the River". It is to organize all kinds of bandits in the Heshuo area, let them accept the rewards of the imperial court, and join the camp against the Jin soldiers.

The people in this area are strong and advocate martial arts, and it has always been a place where many strong men gathered, and if they could be organized to make the Jurchens suffer from internal and external enemies, it would be of great help to the victory of the Northern Expedition.

This plan actually originated from the old Shuai Zongze's practice of driving (gold) thieves with (strong) thieves.

Back then, Zong Ze responded to the call in Kaifeng Mansion. At the peak of his time, he was able to gather an army of millions, although he was later destroyed by Du Chong, but what Zong Ze did had been deeply seared into Yue Fei's mind.

In the face of these rebels, Yue Fei gave them a name - the Loyal Righteous Army.

After Liang Xing defected to Yue Fei in Shaoxing for six years, he has been going back and forth between the Taihang Mountains and Ezhou. Although there were failures during this period, such as the siege of the Jin general Xu Wen in the eighth year of Shaoxing, the situation was fundamentally improved with the assistance of the financial, material and human resources of the Yue family's army.

Nowadays, the Lianghe area is almost everywhere with the beacon flames of the uprising and the righteous banner of resistance to Jin

On the second day of the seventh month. Liang Xing and others joined up with Heshuo's loyal army, and they first cleared the Jin defenders on the north bank of the Yellow River. Immediately after that, he advanced to Yuanqu County, the first target of Jiangzhou.

Don't underestimate a county town, in this area, there are at least 15,000 Jin army gathered, and the leader's name is very classic, called "Gao Taiwei".

This is not a joke, nor is it an oversight. In the war reports at that time, there were many names such as Gao Taiwei and General Zhai. These people confronted the Yue family army in the war, and they died or fled, and there is no way to know their exact names.

The reason for this is that there are not many people in the loyal army who know words, and secondly, even if they know words, they don't know the Jurchen language very well, and when they want to report their military merits, they can only fill in their names randomly

The battle began, and Liang Xing was amazed by the strength displayed by the loyal and righteous army.

This is also understandable. Their predecessors were all heroes who roared in the mountains and forests, robbed homes and houses, and they were able to maintain their vigorous vitality under the suppression of the Jin Army for more than ten years, and their quality can be imagined.

When the loyal and righteous army arrived in Yuanqu County, the Jin army inside was very vigilant and had time to close the city gate, but the next moment things were chaotic, and the righteous army outside was still climbing the city wall, and the residents of the city helped open the city gate!

This is the national anti-gold, and it is also the effect that Yue Fei has hoped to see for many years!

A typical internal and external attack, in a short period of time, the Jin army in Yuanqu County was all dead.

At this time, Gao Taiwei, who was stationed outside the city, brought people to the rescue.

The first time 5,000 people came, Liang Xing and others went out to fight, from Chen Shi to noon, Gao Taiwei fled, Liang Xing chased out more than ten miles, and captured more than 80 prisoners back.

Gao Taiwei was furious and brought more than 10,000 people to take revenge for the second time.

This time, it was never killed from time to time, and two or three tenths of the 10,000 people remained, and the result was still to flee.

And the ending of Gao Taiwei is the same as the manga independence of Zhengzhou, disappearing in the vast river of history.

In this way, the loyal militia grew rapidly on the north bank of the Yellow River, attacked in all directions, and firmly gained a foothold. Until the end of Yue Fei's Northern Expedition, the Jin soldiers still had no way to take them.

At this time, from the perspective of the overall situation, Yue Fei continued to make great strides and leaps, like airdrop tactics in modern warfare, first Zhengzhou, Luoyang, and then various areas on the north bank of the Yellow River, blossoming in many points and in depth in the enemy-occupied area, causing chaos inside and outside the Jin soldiers.

The current situation is unprecedentedly good.

As long as he maintains the current state and cooperates with the Yue family's army in a battle far beyond the Jin soldiers, a complete rout will be the inevitable outcome of his complete Yan Wushu.

If he was unlucky, he would not even be able to escape, because the retreat route on the north bank of the Yellow River had been cut off by the Loyal Army.

In this way, Yue Fei's long-cherished wish for many years can really be fulfilled - "so that the captives will not look back!" ”

However, at this critical moment, the rear of the Yue family's army suddenly became empty...... (To be continued......)

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