The defeat of Wanyan Wushu gave Jin Bing a lot of pressure.

Morale setbacks are inevitable, and Jin Bing has a very big hidden danger, insufficient supplies.

Wanyan Lou Room has been in Shaanxi for several years, and his 30,000 gold soldiers have been able to obtain supplies locally, but they can only meet the needs of the soldiers in Wanyan Lou Room.

The tens of thousands of cavalry led by Wanyan Wushu and Wanyan Zongfu traveled a long distance, and the supplies they brought were extremely limited, and if they could not defeat the Song army in a short period of time, the fate of the Jin soldiers would be worrying.

In this case, the gold lord Wanyan Wu begged to force Wanyan Lou to fight with illness, and merged all the forces of Wan Yan Zongfu's subordinates under Wan Yan Lou to make the strongest blow

The formation of the Song army in Fuping is called the Five Elements Array.

The name is very frightening, but the content is actually very shallow: it is surrounded by the five main northwest armies of Yongxing, Jingyuan, Yanyan, Huanqing, and Qin Feng, protecting the central base camp and tens of thousands of logistics people.

It took an hour of effort, and after Yan Lou ran around the Song army on horseback, he put the direction of attack on the defensive position of the Huanqing army.

It's not that the defensive formation of the Huanqing Army is bad, nor is it that the terrain on the side of the Huanqing Army is good, it's just that Wanyan Lou has been in the northwest for many years, and he has a deep understanding of the various units of the Northwest Army, and knows that the combat effectiveness of the Huanqing Army is slightly lower than that of several other Northwest Army.

The Jin soldiers attacked in a big way.

Except for the remnants of the Yan Wushu army as a reserve, Jin Guo put all his forces in the defensive area of the Huanqing army. In other words, the Song soldiers were using one-fifth of their strength to resist the attack of two-thirds of the Jin soldiers.

Thankfully. The resistance of the Huanqing army was extremely tenacious. Fight from mid-day to dusk. The Jin soldiers launched six charges one after another. None of them were able to break through the defenses of the Huanqing Army

At this time, our Lord Zhang Jun did not come to the front line in person, but waited for the news of the battle in Pizhou, two hundred miles away from Fuping.

As a civilian official, he is beyond reproach for doing so. The problem was that two of his newly appointed important cadres of the Northwest Army went wrong at a critical moment.

The first is Liu Xi. As the commander of the Northwest Army, he actually watched the Jin soldiers make various movements without making any reaction, leaving the troops of the Northwest Army to work separately.

The second is Zhao Zhe. The chief general of this Huanqing Army. Actually played missing when the Jin soldiers attacked.

Yes, Zhao Zhe, the chief general of the Huanqing Army, was actually missing, and no generals and soldiers could find him. I don't know who to report changes in the military situation, and no one has any idea about all kinds of things

On the position of the Huanqing Army, there was chaos.

Liu Xi, the generalissimo of the Song army, also showed a magical side, he didn't seem to know what was happening, and he didn't give any orders from beginning to end, let alone temporarily send a general to help command the Huanqing army, or send a team to reinforce it.

And so, at nightfall. The Huanqing army finally couldn't support it, and they were pressed to their own base by the Jin army. Impulsive allies in the rear caused the rout of the entire Northwest Army

The wars of the cold weapon era are completely different from modern wars, and one of the biggest characteristics is that the transmission of information is very inconvenient, and rumors and misinformation occur from time to time.

Especially in large-scale battles with more than 100,000 people, due to the limitations of the terrain, the number of people who actually fight in the front may only account for a small part; Often, the battle was lost, and there were many soldiers who did not even see the enemy.

Obviously, the Battle of Fuping is one example of this.

The Jin soldiers only overthrew a corner of the position of the Northwest Army, and then the entire barracks of the Northwest Army were overturned, trampled on each other, and were in chaos. Even the soldiers and the people retreated to the southwest.

It took only one day for the Jin soldiers to defeat the Northwest Army

Later generations have a lot of comments on the Battle of Fuping, including the terrain theory, the class theory, the strategy theory, and so on, in fact, the Song army in the Battle of Fuping is fully capable of competing with the Jin soldiers, and even winning the battle, the only thing lacking is just a passing marshal.

Just like the Kaifeng Mansion Bianliang City back then, when Zong Ze was guarding, it was as stable as Mount Tai; Once replaced with Du Chong, it quickly changed hands to others.

It is reasonable to assume that if the Song army was replaced by Han Shizhong or Yue Fei as the commander in the Battle of Fuping, what would be the outcome?

Or instead of Han Shizhong and Yue Fei, what about promoting Wu Jue, the chief general of the Yongxing Army, to generalissimo?

In the later battle of Dasanguan, Wu Jue answered the second hypothesis with practical actions

Song Jun was defeated, and the next must-have program was naturally a collective escape competition.

All the soldiers who were unwilling to surrender, including Zhang Jun, fled together to Xingzhou, which was on the edge of Sichuan, before they stopped and became a heavy town.

However, when Zhang Jun counted the number of people, he found that there were more than 100,000 people.

In other words, in the Battle of Fuping, the Song army was defeated. However, the loss was only five years of taxes borrowed by Zhang Jun from issuing public bonds in Sichuan, and the actual loss of troops was not large.

Volume 108 of "Continuation of Capital and Governance Tongjian": Xuanfu made the envoy stay in Shukou, but each department came to the meeting, where hundreds of thousands of people, the army was revived.

The victory of the Jin soldiers in the Battle of Fuping was, of course, a great situation, not only seized a huge amount of grain and money, but also surrendered a part of the Song army, including the brothers Zhang Zhongyan and Zhang Zhongfu of the Jingyuan army.

Only one more place was needed, and the Jin soldiers were able to completely conquer the northwest region, then invade Shu, and finally go down to the south of the Yangtze River to completely eliminate the Southern Song Dynasty.

The situation of the Song Dynasty in the northwest region had reached a critical moment

Dasanguan, located in the southern suburbs of Baoji, Shaanxi Province, is located at the northern foot of the Qinling Mountains, and is named after the Dasanling.

Here is connected to the tributaries of the Wei River in the north, and the upper source of the Jialing River in the south, when the mountains and rivers meet, the hub between the southwest and the northwest will be guarded. Its earliest name was Kuo Valley.

Looking through the history books, there are many famous battles that took place here: for example, when Chu and Han were fighting, Han Xinming repaired the plank road, and secretly crossed Chencang through here. During the Three Kingdoms, Cao Cao marched westward, and Zhang Lu also entered Sichuan from here. Wait a minute.

So to speak. As long as the Jin soldiers took the Dasanguan, the entire northwest region, including Shaanxi and Sichuan, would fall under the control of the Jin State

Who is the keeper of the Great Scattered Pass? The chief general of the Yongxing Army, Wu Jue.

After the defeat of Fuping that day, Wu Jue did not flee with the current, but led thousands of Yongxing soldiers to break through Fengxiang, which was occupied by the Jin army, and went straight south along Longshan Mountain, preemptively occupying Dasanguan.

Wu Jue did this. It shows his extremely unique strategic vision and the demeanor of a famous general.

Not everyone can understand Wu Jue's approach, so his subordinates persuaded Wu Jue to go directly into Sichuan, retreat to Hanzhong, and put it at the throat of Shuchuan, wouldn't that be more conducive to defense?

Wu Jue's reply was resounding: "As long as the Dasan Pass is protected, the enemy will advance southward inch by inch." ”

Volume 108 of "Continuation of Capital and Governance Tongjian": Or Wu Jue: "It is advisable to move to Tun Hanzhong to protect Bashu." Jue said: "The enemy will not break me, dare to advance lightly!" I have a strong wall and heavy troops, looking down at Yongdian, and the enemy is afraid that I will take advantage of the false attack behind it, and this is a good strategy to protect Shu. ”

It is necessary to guard the Great Scattered Pass. It is not enough to have soldiers, there must be enough food.

How to fix it?

Rely on character.

Wu Jue has long protected the local population. The locals were grateful for his kindness, ignored the prohibition of the Jin soldiers, and secretly transported the grain to Dasanguan; And Wu Jue is also considerate of the people and buys at a high price.

This situation lasted for several years until Wu Jue completed the task.

Volume 108 of "Renewal of Capital and Governance": Shi Yu is in the original, the military food is not continued, the people of Fengxiang feel their bequest, and they lose it at night; Jue also took pity on his far-sightedness, and rewarded him with silver silk, and the people were happy. The enemy was angry, sent troops to ambush Weinan, invited and killed, and ordered the guards to sit together, the offenders were all killed, and the people risked the ban to lose, and then stopped

Carrying the momentum of the Battle of Fuping, the Jin soldiers began to attack Dasanguan.

At this time, the gold lord Wu Qimai had already returned to the Huanglong Mansion in the Northeast with a group of ministers and some of the spoils.

Before leaving, Wu Qimai sent his nephew Wanyan to lead the army, take Ulu and two generals, and send troops to disperse together.

Wanyan Wuli is the guard of Fengxiang Mansion, and Ulu and Zhehe are the guards of Jiezhou and Chengzhou respectively.

This time, the Jin soldiers concentrated the forces of the three states to attack the Dasanguan, which only had a few thousand defenders, and according to Wu Qimai's understanding, there was no reason to be unsuccessful at all

There are two routes to attack Dasanguan: one is to attack Dasanguan directly along the mountain road in the south; The other is from the eastern part of the Great Scattered Mountains, as long as you pass through a pass called Monk Yuan, you can easily enter the Great San.

That is to say, Dasanguan and Monk Yuan are two key points of contention between offense and defense

History has repeatedly told us that as long as the Jin soldiers left their horses to fight the Song army, whether on the water or in the mountains, there was usually no good fruit to eat.

This time was no exception.

Ulu and Zhehe led the cavalry up to the middle of the mountain, only to find that the mountain road near the monk plain was rugged and winding, and the horses could not advance.

Helplessly, the brave knights of the Jin Kingdom could only dismount and walk and climb up the mountain step by step; After several hard climbs to the pass, I was greeted by bursts of arrows like a torrential rain, as well as rolling wood and stones.

There is no way to fight this kind of battle.

Seeing the defeat of Ulu and Zhihe, Wan Yan led the soldiers of his headquarters to attack Dasanguan

The idea that Wan Yan did not stand up was: the main general of the Great Scattered Pass was only Wu Jue, and if the troops were divided into two places and attacked at the same time, Wu Jue could not take care of both the beginning and the end, and he would definitely be defeated.

It's hard to say that there is anything wrong with Yan Wuli's idea. If I had to say it, it would be that his intelligence collection was not exhaustive enough.

Because he forgot one thing, Wu Jue also has a biological brother named Wu Luan.

Volume 108 of "Continuation of Capital and Governance Tongjian": On this day, the second will come in advance with a strong horse, Chen is in the north of the Yuanyuan, and he is victorious in all four battles. The road in the valley was narrow and rocky, and the horses could not walk, so the enemy abandoned the horses and were defeated. Three days later, he did not set up a self-attack arrow pass, and he sent a farewell to attack it, and the two armies could not be combined. On another five days, the enemy moved to Huangniuling, and there would be heavy wind, rain and hail, and the wing sun would lead away...... (To be continued......)

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