Chapter 105: February Letter
In the Battle of Fuping, Jin Wushu fell into a heavy siege, and his left eye was injured by the crossbow arrow of the Song army. This is a fierce general like Xu Zhu of the Three Kingdoms.
Seeing Han Chang's guns and sticks as if he had entered a no-man's land, the Song army formed a group to attack Han, and Han Chang's personal soldiers also squeezed up when they saw Han being besieged, and the entire west was in chaos.
If Jin Wushu hadn't been hurt by Yan Ying's eyes, he would not have made such a situation where the generalissimo himself went into battle.
In the past, when Jin Wushu was still an intermediate general, he often did this kind of thing by force, and after saying it a few times, his uncle Sosuke changed a lot of bad things. But today, on a whim, he has done his old job again, putting aside the functions of this marshal.
The men under him saw the marshal personally go into battle, and they all fought bravely.
Although the Song army fought bravely and hard, it was unable to resist the strong attack of the Jin army in the end, and could only retreat to the second ping. The Jin army was so strong that the Song army was a little afraid, and the generals asked Wu Lan to withdraw and kill Jinping, avoid the edge of the Jin army, and then look for dangerous defenses.
Wu Lan flatly refused and said: "Wanting to retreat just after the battle is a manifestation of self-defeat without a fight, please dare to retreat again." After speaking, he picked up the big knife and slashed at the stone tablet, and the stone tablet was cut in two.
At this time, the general Yang Zheng proposed:
"General, although we look heroic in this fight, we have few people and many Jin soldiers, and it is not cost-effective for us to consume one to one, I think it is better to give up the initiative, retreat to the back of the horse, and use strong bows and crossbows to suppress the offensive of the Jin army?"
Wu Lan listened to Yang Zheng's suggestion, and felt that he was also in charge of the exchange just now, so he nodded and rearranged the defense.
Jin Wushu saw that the Song army had changed its tactics, and did not fight to the death with your short soldiers, so he tentatively attacked, seeing that the casualties of the soldiers who rushed up like this were large, and it was not too early, and Han Chang was shot by the Song army again this time, so he Ming Jin withdrew his troops and retreated.
When I arrived at the camp, I just sat down, but a guard came to report that the entire territory of Xihe had fallen into the hands of Western Xia. Jin Wushu was taken aback and hurriedly asked:
"Where's the guy!"
The guards said they were resting in the camp.
"Recruit him quickly, Ben Shuai has something to ask."
The person who came was a Jin Bing Colonel.
"Who are you, where did this news come from, disturb the hearts of our army, and quickly recruit from the truth."
"Marshal Qiyu, the villain is a junior colonel under Brother Hali in Yuzhong, Brother Hali has lost his sincerity to Western Xia, and the Lanzhou guard general Ha Lisu has also been captured, not only Lanzhou, Yuzhong, and Hezhou have fallen, but even Tai'an, Tianshui, and Maijishan are all occupied by Western Xia."
"What about the others, why are you the only one coming back?"
"Marshal, the others have been killed or captured, and I know that this matter is serious, and I escaped by risking my life on the way to the mine."
"Who is the lord of Western Xia?"
"It's the concubine of the princess of Western Xia"
"How many troops were used?"
"I heard that it was 5,000 people, but I don't know the specifics." Five thousand people can sweep away my river? Jin Wushu was very skeptical, but it was good that this little school could know so much.
"Who else do you have to tell about this?"
"I didn't tell anyone, but I told the marshal."
"Bold, you spy, you dare to disturb the hearts of our army during the battle in front of the marshal's formation, pull it out and cut it!"
"Marshal, what I said is true, Marshal spare his life, Marshal... The guards of the middle tent had already pulled him out.
Whether it's false or real, I should have checked. Xixia is also bold, and he dares to occupy my Xihe. But I finally fought here from the monk Yuan, and my subordinates suffered more than 10,000 casualties, and when I was about to win, how could I give up halfway. Killing you may be unjust, and I have no choice but to kill you.
"Captain in front of the tent!"
"Not in!"
"You take a small team of people to check the situation in Xihe, the sooner the better!"
"Order!"
It is said that it has been a few days since Wu Jue sent a letter asking for help, but now there is no news, and Wu Jue is very unsure.
Wu Jue and Yue Fei were Wang Yan's subordinates, and Wang Yan led 7,000 people to cross the river to resist Jin when he was in Jingkang, and was supported by the righteous armies from all sides, and as the leader of the "eight-character army" of the righteous army, the army grew to more than 100,000, but the imperial court tabooed his large number of troops, so he handed over his military power to Hangzhou to report on his work. Zhang Jun served as the Xuanfu envoy of Sichuan, Shaanxi, Beijing, and Hu, and when planning the Battle of Dingping, he promoted Wang Yan to the commander of the former army, and then led the troops to fight. However, when Zhang Jun was about to fight a decisive battle with the Jin army in Fuping and Yan'an, Wang Yan said to Zhang Junjin, saying: "In Shaanxi, the generals are divided into five roads, and the feelings between the top and bottom are not reached, and the cavalry of the Jin army is suitable for fighting on the plains, and we can't resist it, so it is better to use the terrain and natural dangers to resist the battle." If such a decisive battle is lost, it will lead to the loss of the five roads, and the consequences will be very serious. However, at this time, Zhang Jun could no longer listen to any advice, and this sentence caused him to leave the military circle again, and was transferred by Zhang Jun to Jinzhou (now Ankang) as a governor.
At the beginning of last year (the third year of Shaoxing, 1133 AD), when Sa Liyu attacked Guanzhong, Wang Yan was the prefect of Jinzhou, but he did not have many soldiers in his hands, and was attacked by the Jin army. In the second month after Sa Liyu retreated, Wang Yan wanted to recover his own Jinzhou, collected some remnants of the defeated generals, and borrowed some soldiers and horses from Wu Jue, but Wu Jue had been promoted to the Jiedu envoy of the Zhenxi Army because of the victory of the monk Yuan, and the official was older than Wang Yan and did not lend troops to Wang Yan. Wang Yan had no choice but to lead two or three thousand people to fight with Liu Yu's subordinate Zhou Gui, defeat and recover Jinzhou.
Wang Yan now has thousands of soldiers under his command, but it is only enough to defend this Raofengguan Jinzhou. And the lesson of the last city break, the pass is vivid, without soldiers, nothing can be done in this society, and this Jinzhou and Rao Fengguan are also military powerhouses, so naturally there are a certain number of troops to guard. Therefore, he did not agree to Wu's request to borrow troops for help. But this refusal, a year later, he was retaliated against, which is a later story.
Guan Shigu, the guard general in Chengxian County in the west, was the head of the Song Army's Xihe Road Mabu Army, with more than 15,000 people under his command. After this golden vulture captured Tieshan, he sent Liu Yu's Sichuan Zhaofu envoy Liu Kui with 15,000 people, from Gudao County (now Liangdang) to Chengxian to attack, Guan Shigu blocked Liu Kui in Zuo Yaoling, but Guan Shigu beat the small soldiers and young generals, for example, in 1131 Guan Shigu and Wang Yan defeated thousands of cavalry led by Guo Zhen of the puppet Qi, captured Guo Zhen alive, and recovered Qinzhou. But it is not known whether this battle was commanded by Wang Yan or Guan Gushi. Anyway, in this battle, against Liu Kui, the two had about the same strength, but Guan Gushi was defeated, and he was also caught by Liu Kui, so he surrendered to Liu Kui.
After Guan Gushi surrendered, Liu Kui sent him to persuade his lieutenant general to surrender in Xin, for this kind of traitor in the Great Song Dynasty, Yu Xin ignored him, it would be good not to kill him, Yu Xin saw that Guan Gushi surrendered to Liu Qi, and Chengxian had no value of guarding, so he and several generals under his command defected to Wu Jue with nearly 10,000 defeated soldiers.
Wu Jue had just received a letter from Wang Yan to him, in which he said how important Rao Fengguan and Jinzhou were, and that he had few troops to send, and he was angry when he suddenly heard that Yu Xin had brought someone to come and defect, and he was greatly excited, and the frustration just now was swept away. One day later, Liu Qi, who was in the Sword Pavilion, also brought 3,000 soldiers to support, and Wu Jue's heart was full of confidence in victory.