Chapter 238: Looking Back
With a cup of tea, the distance between the Song army and the Chinese army has been reduced to two hundred meters.
At this time, the drums of war had already beaten three ways.
The two sides are close to the range of ten meters......
At the same time, the 80,000 Song soldiers who disappeared in the Northwest Army came to Taiyuan City unknowingly.
The commander of the Northern Expedition sent by Chen Xinghan had an extremely loud name.
Even in the long history of China, that person also has a place among the generals that cannot be ignored.
He is Wu Jue.
At this moment, there are only 20,000 defenders in the important town of Taiyuan.
And 10,000 of them are still the grain and grass soldiers left behind by Sticky Han, as well as the old, weak, sick and disabled.
There were less than 3,000 soldiers who could actually defend the city.
Three thousand against eighty thousand.
It's like a grandson meeting a grandfather.
It's really a hand-holding pinch.
In fact, Wu Jue is ready to fight a tough battle.
He made a precise distribution of 80,000 troops, and 30,000 attacked the city.
50,000 people will make up at any time.
In order to take Taiyuan, Wu Jue also let go.
He took his son as a pioneer.
He knew very well that the Taiyuan military town was of great significance to the revival of the Great Song Dynasty.
If at this moment, Taiyuan can return to the embrace of the Great Song Dynasty.
That means that the territory of King Jin Guonan is essentially gone.
And the high-ranking and powerful Southern King Sticky Han also lost his lair.
The most important thing is that once Sticky Han is defeated, he will not be able to return the way he came.
You can only go around to Wanyan Zongfu's marching route and pass through Bianliang City to return to Hebei.
Then look for an opportunity to return to the north from the Hebei side.
However, at this stage, the Hebei military town is solid under the leadership of Zong Ze.
Moreover, Wanyanfu's 150,000 army was dragged by Chen Xinghan on the battlefield in the northwest.
A duel of three or four hundred thousand people on both sides.
It takes at least two to three days to decide the winner.
Even if he wins a miserable victory, he definitely doesn't have the energy to stick to the strength and resources.
So when the time comes, it seems that the road of sticky Han can only follow last year's example.
besieged Bianliang City, and then couldn't beat it, and then led the army to retreat.
Sticky's defeat is a foregone conclusion.
But whether he can retreat to the north unharmed again depends on Zhao Shuo's benevolence.
At that time, Sticky Han will have to go through a baptism of Zhao Shuo's iron bucket encirclement......
At this time, Wan Yan Gao, although he was in the Five Kingdoms City.
But every day he had to review the military briefings sent back from the front.
When he found out that the five armies of the Jin Kingdom had all encountered evenly matched opponents.
Moreover, the war potential of the Song Dynasty has been fully unleashed.
This big man who leaned towards the government and the opposition within the Jin Kingdom also fell into deep thought.
If Wanyan Fu's army was wiped out in the northwest of the Song Dynasty this time.
Then he would lose an arm of the humerus.
You must know that he was able to fight against Wanyan Wu Qimai because he had backbones like Mu Han and Wanyan Fu under his command.
Known as the twin gods of war in the Kingdom of Jin.
Once one of the two loses, the factions in the Five Kingdoms City that advocate peace with the Great Song Dynasty will take this opportunity to rise up and create public opinion.
At this time, as the next emperor of the Jin State in the legal sense, Wan Yan Gao had to consider whether his path to the throne was unstable.
Therefore, Wan Yan Gao found his most trusted messenger in the Five Kingdoms City.
Deliver secret orders to the Sticky Han, Golden Vulture and Sosuke who are fighting on the front line.
The strategic goal of this great golden country is also extremely tricky.
He saw at a glance that the killer feature of the Great Song Dynasty this time was the 500,000 army displayed in the northwest region.
Among them, 200,000 are fighting with Wan Yan Fu.
What about the remaining 300,000 who haven't moved, what about them?
If it is not remedied in time, Wanyanfu risks being wiped out and captured or beheaded.
Once the commander of one of the five route armies was killed by the Song army, it would bring ruin to the city of the Five Kingdoms.
In particular, the morale of the entire Jin army was shattered and collapsed.
The top priority was to quickly mobilize all the forces and confront the Northwest Army of the Song Dynasty.
With the secret order issued.
Wan Yan Gao was still a little uneasy.
Because he seems to have made this decision too late.
Seize the northwest of the Song Dynasty!
For a long time, the Jin army's combat idea against the Song Dynasty should be to seize the northwest of the Song Dynasty.
As long as the Song Dynasty is lost in the northwest.
It has completely lost the important town of replenishing troops.
With the land of Shaanxi, the land of Bashu can be annexed at the same time.
And there is one of the most important factors, that is, after the Song Dynasty's Northwest Army was exhausted.
The Western Xia next door will inevitably be unable to hold back his ambitions.
It's a good alliance between the Jin Kingdom and the Western Xia......
However, in this case, it is a dream after all!
What the entire Jin Ting never expected was that Chen Xinghan, the commander of the Northwest Army of the Song Dynasty, actually integrated the Northwest Army, which had fallen apart before, into a monolith.
He also dispatched a general with a distinct personality to be responsible for one defense and two attacks.
In the final analysis, Chen Xinghan benefited from Zhao Shuo's trust and support for him, and he was not afraid at all.
To be precise, he was not afraid to lose the battle.
Because he sits in the transformed northwest region, even if he loses the battle, he can also quickly recruit soldiers in the territory!
So, even within the last month.
The Northwest Army, where Chen Xinghan was stationed, suffered several thousand casualties almost every day.
After the battle with Yan Fu, he reported 40,000 casualties to the imperial court on the first day.
The soldiers on the front line fell at such a terrible pace.
When the military report reached Bianliang City, it immediately caused panic among the courtiers.
But all the ministers of the court didn't know that this was the mission assigned by Emperor Zhao of Bianliangchang to Chen Xinghan.
It can be said that all the situations in the Northwest Economic Strategy are actually within the controllable scope of Zhao Shuo's planning.
On the other side, when Wan Yan Gao of Wuguo City learned that someone was attacking Taiyuan Military Town, he quickly mobilized his own pro-army to support.
He has a very high level of self-confidence in this regard.
He felt that it was impossible for a mere Western and Northern Song Dynasty general Wu Jue to capture Taiyuan.
Because there are 20,000 defenders in Taiyuan City.
Stick to it for three to five days.
In addition, Taiyuan is now the territory of the Jin Kingdom, so the Jin army is also extremely fast to integrate into combat effectiveness.
But what about the actual situation?
Wu Jue's army regained this important military town that had been lost for more than a year in just two hours.
In addition, the people of the Song Dynasty, who lived under the rule of the Jin people, heard that the army of the imperial court had been killed.
They were about to get rid of the control of the gold thieves, and one by one they did not sleep in the middle of the night, picking up farm tools and swords to take advantage of the situation to resist the stubborn Jin army.
At this moment, Mu Han had no idea that his nest had been terminated.
And he is pouting and sending troops to attack Xiangyang.
At this moment, the heralds from the periphery of the Jin army who were spying on the military intelligence ran in.
"Marshal, a military report from the palace!"
When Mu Han heard that the palace was not his old nest, Taiyuan.
What to do at this time?
Could it be that the Song army really went on a northern expedition?
If the Song army in Luzhou City really went to the Northern Expedition, this matter would be much simpler.