Chapter 296: Dilemma

The fierce artillery fire at the head of Xijing destroyed the Jin army's attempt to seize the city, and the Goryeo rout finally felt safe at the moment when the city gate was closed, and Jin Fushi also breathed a sigh of relief, and the dead bodies outside the city made him not happy at all. In this battle, the Goryeo army suffered more than 20,000 casualties, not to mention that its vitality was greatly damaged, but it was also severely damaged, and its morale was extremely low.

But what made Jin Fushi even more indignant was that the Goryeo prince Wang Wei, who had agreed to attack the camp of the Jin army, never appeared, but he fought stupidly all day, almost provoked a mutiny, and if it wasn't for the help of the Song army, even the city would have been lost, which was simply a child's play on state affairs and a monkey. But at this point, he could only swallow the bitter fruit, report to Kaijing to plead guilty, and at the same time appease the army and civilians, treat the wounded, and hand over the defense of Xijing City to the Song army.

In fact, Jin Fushi really wronged the crown prince of the people, and the people didn't come, but they came as promised, but they were driven back before they arrived.

The hunter knows that the road should be quietly approached, and the prince of Goryeo is afraid that he does not know that the prince led the troops to recruit in person, and a few days before the secret transfer of troops into the city on the side of Xijing, a pledge meeting was held in Bochuan. The scene was quite grand, not only in advance in front of the city to build a point of the general's platform, set up a color gate, but also invited friends from all over the world to participate in the ceremony, he to the surviving official eunuchs and wealthy families, gentry and celebrities in the nearby states and counties have sent invitations signed by himself, even the tiger general commander stationed in Bochuan commanded the officers above each received a visit ticket.

Thinking that the winter was bright late, the people below were afraid that the prince would not wake up, so they thoughtfully changed the time of the order to the hour by one hour, but the prince was still late. I'm sorry to let everyone freeze for an hour. At that time, the crown prince ascended to the platform of the generals in the sound of cannons and drums, read out the holy decree, and after the generals assigned the tasks, they were followed by the slaughter of animals and the flag, the reading of the inscription on the gold, and a grand military parade was held, and all 40,000 Goryeo troops appeared on the stage to accept the prince's review.

After the 40,000-foot cavalry walked by, this is not the end, there is still a program behind, and the local monks and laymen from all walks of life sent beautiful blessings to the prince, and of course, there are also indispensable things to reward the army. After the prince finished his speech of thanks, he boarded the ornately decorated special car. The red Luo umbrella was raised on the left and right, holding the handsome flag and the letter, and the car was surrounded by flags, and then the cannon was set out. The prince waved goodbye to his father and set out on the journey amid the cheers of the soldiers and civilians!

I was already late. I had a farewell ceremony for half a day. It was already past noon when I went out, and I barely walked ten miles, and I could still see the head of Bochuan City in the distance. The prince said that he was hungry, and the generals below had no choice but to order him to rest and make food. There are rules for the prince to eat, serve a few dishes, drink soup first or eat first, and someone must play music according to the ceremony, because it is exempt from singing and dancing when he is out on the expedition. When this meal is over, it will be dark, and it is time to prepare dinner, the prince understands the hard work below, and orders to camp on the spot, set up a big red tent and prepare to sleep well tomorrow.

Wang Wei still knew that he was going to fight, and he didn't sleep lazy the next day and set off on time, but the prince regarded the march as a parade, and the guard of honor spread out and walked noisily, with his meaning, this is to inform the world that the prince will be able to win the expedition, boost morale at the same time, but also make the people feel at ease, and it is not bad to walk for a day, and they rushed to the camp in Anzhou, thirty miles away, that day.

In the next two days, the army arrived safely in Pingyuan County, and there was another day's journey to Xijing City. But who knew that the sky was not beautiful, and it snowed heavily at night, how could the prince's car walk on the snow, so the local state government mobilized the military and civilians to clean the road for the prince, and opened up a road to Xijing City for a busy day, and the prince happily went on the road the next day......

Wang Wei tossed so much, and the Jurchens were not deaf and blind, so they issued a battle warning to them. I was really confused at first, and I was afraid that I would be attacked from both sides; He was also worried that the prince was a suspicious soldier on this road, so as to attract his attention, once he led the troops to meet the enemy, Xijing City took the opportunity to insert a knife in his back. But with the return of the spies, he figured out that Bochuan's Song army had not moved, and all the troops were coming, so he decided to destroy the enemy all the way first, break the enemy's attempt to flank him, and then return to the army to meet the Xijing army with all his might.

Wushu personally led 20,000 soldiers out of the camp under the cover of the snowy night, and ambushed on the road to Xijing, at first he was worried that the Goryeo army would change the road halfway, but when Wushu found that the road was cleaned and clean, he was relieved, this kid must have taken this road.

When I saw Wang Wei leading the army swaggering on the road, even the Jin army scouts were secretly happy, I had never seen such a stupid bird, the army marched without sending scouts, not sending sharp soldiers, everyone rolled into a ball and advanced, really thinking of themselves as the Song army. In fact, where did he know that the generals in the army were all overwhelmed by the crown prince, and where did they still have the leisure to take care of these small things, so that the Goryeo army did not know when they plunged into the ambush circle arranged by the Jurchens. The horn sounded, and countless golden troops slaughtered from both sides of the road, Wang Xiao was dumbfounded, and everyone was dumbfounded.

The Goryeo army, which was suddenly attacked, was in a mess, and the Wushu led the charge forward, and only one charge routed the front army of the Goryeo army, and went straight to the Chinese army where Wang Wei was. At this time, everyone also understood that the prince was lost, and none of them could survive, so they desperately resisted and covered Wang Wei to break through. And at this time, his small universe also broke out, and under the protection of the pro-army, he killed a bloody way from his own army, and fled the way he came!

And Wushu quickly relived the feat of the Jurchens who pursued the Liao Emperor Yelu Yanxi for thousands of miles, they chased the defeated Goryeo army all the way to cover and kill, Wang Wei fled to where the Jurchens chased him, and the states and counties behind his ass were captured by the Jin army one after another. It was already the middle of the night when he fled to Huizhou, and Wang Wei felt that it was not safe enough, so he rode through the city and fled to Bochuan. At this time, who wants to say that the prince is too lazy and doesn't like to ride horses, it is estimated that any Korean soldier will be anxious with him, because everyone has seen that the prince rode a horse for 200 miles day and night, and walked the road of five days when they came, can such a diligent person say that he is lazy?

Wushu was worried that the backyard would be attacked, and the pursuit stopped in Huizhou, this battle was not only easy to win, but also very fruitful, killing 10,000 soldiers under the Goryeo command, capturing more than 5,000 people, seizing the prince's honor guard seal, 100,000 stones of grain and grass, and tens of thousands of taels of gold and silver, but he didn't know that this was what Wang Wei was going to use to reward the meritorious people, but he didn't expect to feed the wolf, which was faster than the Jin army going around to attack the grass valley, and it was also happy.

Wang Wei, who retreated to Bochuan, couldn't be high-profile anymore, and he didn't go out every day, and of course he didn't tell Jin Fushi, who was still in Xijing City, about such a humiliating thing. The battlefield battles he directed and staged not only lost a large amount of baggage, but also suffered heavy losses in soldiers, and the defeated soldiers were less than 10,000 people one after another, which caused an unfillable gap in the already empty defense line, and made the original plan of the Song-Gao coalition army to encircle the Jin army in Xijing come to naught......

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At the end of the year, it was a quiet day, but Zhao Ta, who became the emperor, was busy, and he went out of the palace to kowtow for three days, worship the ancestors, sacrifice heaven and earth, and have to go to see the gods. He is very annoyed by these things, every time he goes out, he is a teacher and a crowd, and tens of thousands of people are hugged by the honor guards, not to mention disturbing the people, and wasting silver, and he always has to give money and gifts to these people according to the rules. But the 'ancients' are the most respectful and fearful of the sky, the Great Song Dynasty preached benevolence and filial piety to rule the world, and he was still dressed in the coat of Zhang Shenxian, and he had to do it, otherwise someone would go on the fold to advise, and he would have to make a review, which would be more troublesome.

But after being the emperor for a few years, Zhao Ta found that the concubines and princesses in the palace liked these things very much, and even he gradually fell in love with it, not for anything else, just because only at this time can everyone go out of the palace in a grand manner, breathe the free air outside, and look at the world outside the palace. Especially every year to go to the imperial tomb to worship their ancestors, it is simply their festival, in the capital for a year in the Tianhuang nobles can step out of the circle of Bianjing City, look at the world outside the capital.

After the Qin Tianjian selected the date, the emperor drove out of the city, and the guards were almost all dispatched to escort along the way, and the palace was forbidden to stay in the palace, plus the honor guard, the accompanying officials, servants, princes, and princes, and the whole convoy was like an army of tens of thousands of people.

"Why doesn't the second master like it?" Zhu Shuzhen was unwell, and Zhao Xin accompanied him to serve the ancestors this time, looking at the emperor in a daze in the car, Zhao Xin asked.

"The Koreans directed and acted in a big defeat, and they messed up the good things, and Zhao Yong was also helpless!" Zhao Ta said with a sigh.

"Oh, it turned out to be for the war in Goryeo, so what's going on now?" Zhao Xin took a pillow and tucked it behind the emperor to make him lie more comfortable.

"The Goryeo army lost more than 50,000 soldiers, and it can't be replenished for a while, and now the sea is frozen, we can't increase the troops, if the original plan is not enough, and the Jin army has won two battles in a row, Wushu actually gave birth to the idea of continuing to go south, and now the Jin country is gathering troops on a large scale, and there are signs of increasing troops to Goryeo. Although our army controlled Bao and Yuanzhou and choked the main roads, as soon as winter came, the rivers were frozen and feasible, and the Goryeo army defending the Great Wall of thousands of miles only had more than 10,000 people, how could such a long defense line be held! Zhao Ta said angrily, obviously very dissatisfied with the two of Gao Li's self-defeating masters.

"Second Master, then what idea do you have to turn the tide of the battle?" Zhao Xin asked.

"Zhao Yong has a preliminary idea, but what would you do if it were?" Zhao Ta sold a pass and asked rhetorically.

"If the defense is too passive, and the encirclement force is insufficient, then there will only be war, and it is difficult for our army to concentrate in three places?" Zhao Xin frowned and analyzed, "Yes, let them move, and if they move, they will have a chance to ......" (to be continued......)