Shanxi has a large number of Hedi towns and villages, because the naturally formed villages and towns are often located in the flat and low-lying areas of the river valley.

Hedi Town, in the north of the Pingding Army, has been called Qinglong Town and Qingzhen in successive dynasties.

After Yan Lou led the troops here, he suddenly stopped, because the terrain ahead was too dangerous.

As if a hunter's innate instinct, Wan Yan Lou looked at the northern foothills of Fang Mountain, looking at the narrow river valley passage between the mountains, and his first reaction was that he would get into the hunter's cage if he went any further.

There are also many Fangshan in Shanxi, and Fangshan here is Liu Beishan in later generations.

A Jin man of about 30 years old drew a map on the spot while lying on the ground: "There is a square mountain in the southwest, if the Ming army sets up a village in Fangshan, it can observe and deter all the surrounding hills and flats." Fangshan extends to the northeast, and there is a river at the bottom of the mountain, which is the river in front of us. The confluence of this river with another is the valley mouth passage in front of us. Another river flows southeast and follows another mountain......"

To put it more intuitively, the remaining veins of the two mountains both extend diagonally to the north, forming a very regular figure-of-eight.

At the top of the figure is the valley passage, and within the figure is the open hills and flat land.

The tail of the eight characters is the square mountain that controls the entire battlefield.

The figure-of-eight mountains are not steep, and there are some passages that can be traversed, and in some places the infantry can even run in large groups, but the cavalry will be seriously hindered.

This is a natural battlefield and a natural cage. As long as Wan Yan Lou dares to come in, needless to say that he has won the battle, once he is defeated, he may be wiped out.

Wanyan Lou asked, "Can you go around to the southeast?" ”

The Jin man who drew the map said, "You can get around, there is a village and town called Juchengdu (Giant Town)." It was a walled city a long time ago, and after the Song State set up the Pingding Army and Chengtian Village, the city wall that rejected the city collapsed and was abandoned. ”

That is, along the outside of the eight-character one, down the river valley, you can reach the end of the eight-character one.

There is also the mouth of a river valley, which can go around the interior of the Bazi to the west, and belong to the northern passage of Jingcheng to the east.

Wan Yan Lou said: "Set up camp here and send light horses to the southeast to investigate." ”

The Jin man who drew the map out of thin air was called Wendu Sizhong, and when the Jin Kingdom was first established, the secrets of the army were dictated, and Wendu Sizhong was the best among the heralds.

It's a humanoid memory!

When this person was a teenager, he served as the herald of Aguta, and then followed Wanyan Zonghan. Later, he was valued by the Golden Vulture Weapon, and even canonized Liu Yu as a puppet emperor, and this guy was responsible for passing the order. By the time Wan Yan Liang became the emperor, this person was even more powerful, above the prime minister of the Jin State, and was snubbed because of his opposition to Wan Yan Liang's southern expedition.

The light horseman who was sent out to explore the road by Wanyan Lou Room traveled quickly southeast along the river valley, and ran for more than ten miles before encountering an ambush.

The arrows rained down on the mountains on both sides, and they climbed the mountain with arrows, and more than 20 dead and wounded people finally climbed up, but the archers who were lying in ambush there all fled.

These Jin light horsemen returned to the valley and continued to ride forward, but did not go far to be attacked again.

More than 50 people were killed and wounded before and after, and the Jin Guo light cavalry did not dare to enter again, so they ran back to report the situation.

The situation has been laid out, the Ming army has a trap within the eight characters, and only the Jin soldiers are allowed to enter from the top of the eight characters.

Wan Yan Lou had never been to this area in person, and asked, "What is the terrain along the way from the southeast detour?" ”

Wendu Sizhong replied: "It is all river valleys, and it is difficult for the cavalry to fight. ”

"In other words, the passage in front of us is the most open and conducive to cavalry combat?" Wan Yan Lou asked.

Wen Du Sizhong nodded: "That's true." ”

Wanyan said: "Why should my father be afraid? No matter what kind of ambush he has, we have more than 10,000 elites, riding horses and archery all the way to the past! ”

Wanyan Huonu is the eldest son of Wanyan Lou's room, and at the age of seventeen, she fought with Ah Gu. Every time it is to win more with less, so far there has been no defeat, in the history of the planter to save Taiyuan, was defeated by this person to the annihilation.

Since the day of the army's battle, all the women who have been fighting have been tough battles, with 300 to 2,000, 1,000 to 8,000, and 1,000 to 20,000.

With such a combat experience, she is less than thirty years old, and she is extremely confident, and she believes that there is no enemy in the world that she cannot defeat.

Wanyan Lou has the Iron Floating Slaughter (Hezha Meng'an) in his hand, and Wanyan Living Girl is the fierce general who leads the Iron Floating Slaughter, and later inherited all the Iron Floating Slaughter of the Western Route Army of the Jin Kingdom!

"It's better to be careful." Wanyan Po Lu Huo said.

Boluhuo was also a fierce general, who was migrated to Taizhou by the Ju tribe to rule over the vast grasslands there. Including the Hulunbuir steppe further north, it was also nominally ruled by the Bolu fire. This time, he not only brought the Jurchen cavalry, but also brought a lot of cavalry of the steppe tribes.

Wanyan Huonu sneered: "Your guts are so small? ”

Bo Lu Huo was extremely displeased, after all, his qualifications were older, and he was a serious Jin State clan. His ancestors were cousins with Aguta's father. His nephew was also adopted as a righteous son by Aguta.

What is a living girl? The bloodline of the clan is negligible!

In the same way, Wanyan Huonu did not take Bolu Huo in his eyes, and his battle function threw Bolu Huo out of the eight streets.

Moreover, Bo Lu Huo is obviously a person who completes Yan Zonghan, but he is in close contact with his ancestors. Bo Luhuo's current identity can even be said to be one of the prison troops sent by the Jin Imperial Court!

As he was about to retort, the rope next to him winked at him, signaling him not to argue again.

Both of them are prison soldiers, and they are not welcomed in Shanxi.

The Jurchen name of this Wanyan Rope Fruit has the same name and surname as Wanyan Zongjun, the son of Aguta, but it is not the same person.

Like Boluhuo, his territory is in the border zone between the Jin Imperial Court and Wanyan Zonghan. belongs to the buffer of the two major forces, and it is impossible to tell which faction it is, who is not only the supervisor sent by the Jin Imperial Court, but also the general under the command of Wanyan Zonghan.

There was a clan next to him called Yan Saili, and the audience was about to quarrel when he stood next to him.

Although he has been fighting for many years, he has always been a small transparent and has not made much achievements. Later, he captured Zhao Gou's biological mother, wife and two younger sisters, and also became the prime minister of Jin Guozuo, which was famous in the Southern Song Dynasty and was called "the king of heaven". (Legend has it that Zhao Gou's own mother was this person's concubine.) ）

After arguing for a while, there was still a war after all, so the generals began to talk about the war again.

Most of the high-ranking generals of the Jin Kingdom suggested continuing to march and sending more light cavalry to conduct reconnaissance.

Wanyan Lou said: "The Ming Kingdom is different from the Liao State and the Song Kingdom, two years ago, Prince Zhu ate a thousand Hezha Meng'an, and I heard that it was relying on some kind of firecracker artillery. Xia Guo also explained that the army's firearms are powerful, they suffered a big defeat last year, and they may have ambushed firearms in front of them. Han Chang, you Han craftsmen are very powerful, can you tell me how to deal with firearms? ”

Han Chang belonged to the Han people of the Liao Kingdom, and he lowered his gold with his father, and it was rumored that he could open a three-stone strong bow. At present, he is still mixed with Yan Zonghan, and later came under the command of Jin Wushu, and he must be a striker for Jin Wushu in every battle.

Han Chang said: "Marshal (Wanyan Zonghan) also asked about this matter, but the last general has never seen the Ming army's firearms. I only know from the mouths of others that there are two kinds of firearms: firearms and artillery. All of them are made of iron pipes, ignited and sprayed out, and their power can be crushed gold stone. The marshal was suspicious of this, believing that it was the Eastern Route Army and the Xia people who were alarmist. ”

Wanyan Lou shook his head: "If only one party says this, it may be an exaggeration." Both the Eastern Route Army and the Xia people said so, and those firearms must be superior. In our past this time, the scouts must be careful and explore all parts of the battlefield so that they cannot be ambushed by firearms. ”

The next day, Wanyan Lou's room took a large number of light horses as the precursor and drilled into the pocket array laid out by Zhang Guangdao.

And he is cautious and extremely slow.

……

Shouyang County.

The tunnel dug by Wanyan Zonghan was destroyed by the irrigation of Guo Yaoshi.

Although Guo Yaoshi did not have muskets and artillery in his hands, he had a lot of rockets, which could concentrate on burning large siege equipment.

In addition, Shouyang County is surrounded by mountains and backed by a natural river that does not lack water.

The most suitable for Yan Zonghan to attack the city is the flat land of the river valley more than three miles wide on the west side, and Guo Yaoshi personally led the troops to defend here. It is also possible to siege the city in the north, but it is not convenient to advance with large siege equipment.

The eastern part of the city was narrower and had to be circumvented over a mountain range, where there were not many siege troops.

Further east, there is a river valley leading to Zhang Guangdao's army, which is cut off by the Ming army's walled fort that is easy to defend and difficult to attack.

Wanyan Zonghan has now become impatient, and because he can't attack for a long time, the morale of the Shanxi puppet Han army is low, and they are in the way as siege cannon fodder. These cannon fodder can indeed fatigue the defenders and consume the materials for defending the city, but every time they retreat, they will affect the morale of their allies.

The Bohai soldiers and the old Liao and Han soldiers also didn't want to fight, and they fought bravely at the beginning, and they didn't want to die until now.

The hard army of the Jurchens was sent to attack several times, and attacked the city seven times before and after, but they could not gain a firm foothold at all, and they were all killed back by the elite of Guo Yaoshi.

Both the offensive and defensive sides suffered heavy casualties.

Nighttime.

There was a noise in the east, and Wanyan Zonghan quickly restrained the troops and personally climbed the mountain to check the situation.

After a while, remnants of the soldiers fled back.

A Jurchen general panted and said, "Marshal, the Eastern Battalion has been attacked by night!" ”

Wanyan Zonghan asked: "Didn't you let you guard the camp?" ”

The Jurchen general explained: "The enemy did not attack from the west (Guo Yaoshi), nor from the east (Zhang Guangdao's reinforcements), but suddenly came out from the mountains in the south!" ”

However, Zhang Guangdao sent Zhai Xing and Zhai Jin brothers to return by ship with 6,000 elite soldiers.

They found out that the eastern camp of the Jin soldiers was prepared, and spent another three days crossing the mountains and mountains to go around the southern mountains, and carried out a night attack on the eastern camp of the golden soldiers, which had only a few thousand troops.

Not only the credit of the Zhai brothers, but also Pharmacist Guo took the risk of sending troops.

"Father, the fire broke out in the golden camp in the east of the city, but it burned from the south side of the camp."

"Quickly move troops out of the city, reinforcements must be coming!"

"Will there be fraud?"

"If there is fraud, you have to go!"

Guo Yaoshi personally led 800 warriors from the east city of Shouyang County to cooperate with the Zhai brothers to carry out a joint attack.

Most of the gold soldiers in the battalion didn't have time to put on their armor.

The elite of the Zhai brothers, as well as the rotating troops of Guo Yaoshi, are all in complete armor. In this situation, coupled with the night attack from both sides, the eastern battalion that killed the Jin soldiers was defeated and fled.

The rout fled into the mountains in the northeast, and Wanyan Zonghan sent people to respond, and the Ming army did not pursue when they saw that it was good.

In this battle, more than 1,000 Jin soldiers were killed, hundreds of prisoners were captured, more than 6,000 were defeated, and the enemy camp was pulled out to open the way for reinforcements to enter the city.

"Two Zhai brothers, you're finally here!" Pharmacist Guo took Zhai Xing's hand and wanted to cry.

Zhai Xing said: "The pacification of the military city has been captured by our army. General Guo can hold on to Shouyang, which is really a great contribution! ”

Pharmacist Guo sighed: "It's good for you to come back." My old brothers from Liaodong have all been wounded, and more than 600 people have died in battle. The rest of the soldiers and civilians also suffered more than 4,000 casualties, and it is estimated that they will not be able to hold it for a few more days. But the Jin people are not pleased, they have more casualties! ”

More reinforcements, coming from the direction of the river valley, entered Shouyang City on the afternoon of the second day.

Six thousand elites were replenished, and most of the original defenders were replaced to rest, and Shouyang City was already impregnable.

Wanyan Zonghan tried to organize an attack, but quickly dispelled the idea of taking Shouyang. He ordered the army to retreat, and he swaggered back, trying to lure the defenders out of the city in pursuit.

But Guo Yaoshi, Zhai Xing, and Zhai Rang ignored it, and just guarded the city.

In desperation, Wanyan Zonghan could only say: "The whole army is advancing eastward and joining up with Wanyan (Wanyan Lou Room)!" ”

(End of chapter)