Chapter 1005: Conquering the South City
Li Tengjiao was beaten to the point of dying, and Zhang Nu ordered to stop; Yelu Baqing directly pulled Wanyan Sheji onto the war horse and said loudly: "Sheji, we haven't seen each other for a few years, go to the city to find a wine shop to drink." ”
Wan Yan She's few words of suffering, his heart was not good, but he was restrained by Yelu Baqing, he couldn't open his mouth and couldn't resist, and he was taken away by Wan Yan Sheji aggrievedly; Not long after the departure of this Jin army, the fireworks of ten Jin armies burst out on the plain, and they were particularly dazzling in the sky in broad daylight, guarding the southern city of Puyang was Cao Rong, the soldier and horse supervisor of Kaide Mansion, Cao Rong heard that a 500-strong Jin army cavalry was indiscriminately putting signals, and was coming towards the southern city, which was a big headache.
Jin Jun is now the master of all evil in Liu Yu's territory, and he can't control these people, nominally he is in charge of an army of 10,000, which can be regarded as a commander of 10,000 people, but a commander of the Jin army dares to quarrel with him, and a centurion dares to slap himself. Nancheng is specially designed for pontoon bridges, but from the beginning of the Great Song Dynasty, because of the long years, taking care of the people on the dock, Nancheng gradually became a city, the army that should have been stationed in the city instead set up outside the walled city, the city wine shops, inns, grain stores, department stores, everything, the Jin army must have come to eat and drink.
After seeing Yan Sheji's face is not good, the other party is all Jin Jun, but when the Jin army enters the city, he routinely asks two sentences; who knows that after the five hundred horsemen entered the city, they occupied the city gate and set it on fire, and at the same time, a large number of Song troops appeared in the sight of the defenders, and the Song army had already killed the Dazhai outside the southern city to hoard grain and grass. When Cao Rong received the news, he knew that it was not good, and after sending a thousand people to fight for the city gate failed, Cao Rong sent a signal asking Shuizhai to come to reinforcements immediately.
Li Tengjiao had just come to his senses in the water village, and when he learned that he immediately asked all his subordinates to go to reinforcements, Li Tengjiao's water army could not exert its power in the land battle at all, and the five thousand water army was killed by Yang Jin with the infantry army;
The battle of the outer village of the southern city was still going on, but Cao Rong's big village of hoarding grain and grass was first broken by Wang Yan, 4,000 Jin cavalry and 20,000 infantry troops rushed from the north bank of the Yellow River to reinforce, Wang Yan sent 2,000 crossbowmen to take boats to launch rockets at the pontoon bridge, so that the entire pontoon bridge turned into a sea of fire, the 20,000 infantry troops of the Jin State were shot and burned to death on the bridge, more than 6,000 people were burned to death, Li Cheng could only collect troops; the cavalry of the Jin army rushed to the south bank, and was killed by Xu Wen, Yang Zhongwu's heavy armored infantry army was broken, more than 3,000 people were killed in the battle, and the remaining 600 people were about to flee to the north bank, only to find that the pontoon bridge had been burned everywhere, and there was no way to retreat, and more than 600 golden cavalry could only surrender with the 2,000 infantry troops on the pontoon bridge.
At dusk, the reinforcements of Linpu and Juancheng counties were all annihilated successively, and Nancheng lost its value of attracting reinforcements, Wang Yancai ordered a general attack, and the defenders surrendered one after another, and the defender Cao Rong was stabbed to death by Wang Yan's general Fu Xuan when he broke through. Li Cheng, who was in Puyang, learned that the Dingbei Army had extinguished the fire on the pontoon bridge before he figured out that the Dingbei Army did not plan to kill north of the Yellow River, and it was only a matter of time before the southern city of Kaide Mansion was broken and the subordinate counties were captured.
On the first day, the Dingbei army captured the southern city of Puyang and Linpu County, and on the second day, the Dingbei army did not attack the northern city north of the Yellow River, but recovered Juancheng County and Lize County under Kaide Prefecture, and then continued to fight to the east. The Jin army lost more than 30,000 troops in one day in Puyang, and the south bank of Kaide Province all fell, and Li Yan, the governor of Caozhou, saw that the Dingbei army surrendered without a fight, and then the three counties of Nanhua, Chengshi and Wanting in Caozhou were captured by the Dingbei army in five days.
Just when both the Song and Jin sides were nervously speculating, Yang Zhi announced the end of the war, and in ten days, the Dingbei Army recovered half of Kaide Mansion and a complete Caozhou, destroyed 40,000 enemies, captured 16,000 people, captured more than 2,000 horses, and 300 ships, which can be described as fruitful. Yang Zhi's collection of troops is a reason for the lack of food, even if there is a bumper harvest in various parts of Gyeonggi Road, it is only enough for the local people to eat, and the 100,000 army and more than 10 counties in Kaidefu, Huazhou, Gongzhou, Caozhou and other places still need to transfer grain from Jiangnan, and Yang Zhi cannot wait for the shortage of grain to consider this problem.
In order to prevent a large-scale counterattack by the Jin army, Yang Zhi decided to personally command the army to meet on the front line of the Yellow River, and arranged for Li Guang to pacify the recovered areas and take care of the people's livelihood. As for Yang Zhi not continuing to go north, no one blames Yang Zhi, it is not easy for Yang Zhi to insist on solving the material by himself, and King Kang Zhao Gou is talking about peace every day, how to negotiate peace if he keeps fighting.
Qian Gai, who came to announce the decree, said very euphemistically about the peace, and when he heard that Yang Zhi was going to Taiyuan and Zhao Kai, the king of Yun, he secretly put his mind at ease. Yang Zhi has a dispensable mentality towards Yihe, he is not Yue Fei, and he does not plan to kill Huanglong Mansion to rescue Song Qinzong; he is not Zhao Kai, the king of Yun, and there is no such thing as recovering Zhongshan Mansion and other places that will not recognize his ancestors and return to his ancestors, so the peace talks will not affect Yang Zhi's emotions, as long as Song Huizong and Zhao Kai are happy, but they can't let Jin people settle down in Hebei so easily.
"Jin Ren has suffered such a big loss now, are you willing to give up?" Wang Yan learned that Yang Zhi was going to return to Bianliang, and asked with some puzzlement: "They have suffered such a big loss, and if they don't find a way back, I'm afraid that Wu Begging won't agree." ”
Wang Yan is still a little worse in the overall situation, he didn't see clearly that Song and Jin now have the need to negotiate peace, Yang Zhi laughed: "The Jin people will definitely stop, this is the first time in the past two years that the Jin army has been regained by the Great Song Dynasty in the Central Plains, the main battle lord and the two factions will use this situation to promote their own views, before the opinions of the imperial court are unified, only some generals can send troops, just like our Dingbei Army, there will be no full-scale war." ”
Wang Yan shook his head regretfully: "It's a good thing for us Da Song. ”
Yang Zhi was a little melancholy: "It's a good thing and a bad thing, whether it's a full-scale war or peace negotiation in the future, it's not our will." ”
"Why is that?" Wang Yan was puzzled, and Yang Zhi explained: "The pressure on Li Gang for an all-out war is too great, after all, on the Xuzhou side, the Jin army has already crossed the Yellow River, and we can't get a steady supply of soldiers, and life will not be easy." If you negotiate peace, what conditions do you think the Jin people will propose, Zhao Gou is very smart, he wants to preside over the peace talks, that is, he wants to use the Jin people's mouth to say what he can't say. ”