Chapter 58: Crossing the River
On this day, the Jin army attacked Xianfeng Gate, Jinhui Gate, Kaiyuan Gate, Shuntian Gate, and Shuntian Gate. The most urgent thing was to attack Kaiyuan Gate. Liu Yanqing's command, regardless of good or bad, Liu Guangguo, Xin Qizong, Xindao Gate, and Xinkang Gate, were almost all dispatched. After there was no major battle in Shuntian Gate, Xinkang Sect was also transferred to Kaiyuan Gate to supervise the battle. The battle situation between the two sides was unprecedentedly fierce, from the morning to the battle between Mao and Shen and You. The attacking Jin army suffered heavy losses, with thousands of soldiers and more than a dozen Jinhuan generals, and countless injured. The Song Dynasty also suffered considerable losses. Some hedgehogs gathered countless arrows on the city tower, and many officers and soldiers were injured.
The Jin soldiers on the east and north sides did not attack smoothly, and they had not crossed the Song soldiers' trenches. The winner of this day's battle undoubtedly belonged to the defender.
When today's war ended, all the generals under Wanyan Nianhan were very upset.
"I have already killed the city of Bianliang, but the Song army in the south has ruined a good thing."
"The Song army in the south is quite powerful. I saw that monk when I was on the north bank of the Yellow River."
"If the Song army in the south were harassed so much, it would be difficult to fight Bianliang."
But it was Nianhan who threw a teacup on the ground: "Bianliang is a broken house, and if you kick it hard, it will collapse."
After venting his anger, Nianhan thought carefully, "The Song army in the south was divided into a bump by the Cai River on the west bank of the Cai River. Tomorrow, the heavy troops will be besieged, and the Song army west of the Cai River will be eaten."
At this time, Yalanhe Sigong stood up and said, "Major, I have seen wars with the Song army in the south several times. Is this trench and earthen building difficult to deal with, or be careful."
The Pu family slave jumped out: "That's because you don't know the method of war. In my opinion, the Song army on the west bank of the Cai River is like a steamed bun between the upper and lower teeth. You just need to bite it hard, hehe..."
Nian Hanzan said: "Tomorrow, Pu Jianu will lead the headquarters to attack the Song army from the south, and Olu will attack the Song army from the west. Gu Nan crossed the Cai River and attacked the Song army on the east bank of Cai River, so that the Song army on the west bank will not get reinforcements."
The next morning, the three of them led their troops to march south. Meng'an from Olu recently arrived at the west side of Shenwu's Southern Army, stood in the formation, and waited for the other two Meng'an to arrive.
The Meng'an of the Pu family slave arrived at the southwest corner of the Shenwu Southern Army's trench, and began to spread eastward and all the way to the Cai River. Gu Nan crossed the Cai River and also attacked the Song army from the south.
When Gu Nan's troops just started crossing the river, they were blocked by the Song army on the east bank of Cai Henei. Eight-niu crossbows, bed crossbows, divine arm bows, step bows, and various crossbows fired at the river surface. Most of the Meng'an directly affiliated with Gu Nan were born Jurchens, who did not know the nature of the water, and were wearing heavy armor. They were shot in the river and lost their lives.
The Jin soldiers did not expect that the Song army in the south was different from the others. They were not lying in trenches and waiting for the Jin soldiers to attack, but would take the initiative to attack. The Pu family slaves no longer waited for Gu Nan to restrain the Song army on the east bank of Cai River, and began to attack the Song army on the west bank of Cai River from the south, while Olu attacked from the west.
The layout of the moats on the west bank of the Cai River by the Shenwu Southern Army was like an irregular quadrilateral: the north side was against the Bianliang city wall and Anhuimen, the east side was the Cai River, the south side was the Meng'an of Pujianu, and the west side was the Meng'an of Olu. Hu Yangeng placed a total of five commanders in the trench on the west bank of the Cai River, two defended the west side, and two defended the south side, and Shi Jin's command was responsible for mobile support.
The attacks of Olu and Pu family vultures began, and the rain of arrows of the Song army also began. Unlike most of the invaded countries in ancient and modern times, China and abroad, the Song Dynasty was neither short of money nor equipment. The Song Dynasty only lacked the will to fight to the end and preparations for the battle. In this time and space of Hu Yangeng, Zhang Shuye was finally in charge of the overall situation, and Wang Bing could make effective preparations convincingly. The arrow clusters of weapons, armor and weapons worth 300,000 in the treasury were brought out for equipment by the Song army. In other time and space, these weapons were eventually moved away intact by the Jin soldiers. Moreover, Hu Yangeng's troops also had 600,000 in armor and food and food cut in Zezhou.
As a result, the arrows faced by the Jin soldiers seemed to be endless. The Song army set up a stack of formations between the trenches, and each Song soldier placed his weapons at his feet and acted as a shooting hand. Before the Jin soldiers could approach the trenches, 10% of their troops were cut off.
On the city wall of Guangli Shuimen, Hu Yangeng was shocked when he saw the banner of Olu and Pu Jianu who were attacking the protruding part of the west bank of the Cai River. These two were both powerful generals of the Jin Kingdom who left their names in history. Their direct subordinates should be the best-ranked Meng'an, that is, the number of people exceeds two thousand, or even nearly three thousand. The protruding part of the west bank of the Cai River directly faced more than five thousand Jin soldiers, which was not considered the Gu Nan's troops who were preparing to cross the river.
Hu Yangeng sent someone to ask Wang Bing for help. Without saying a word, Wang Bing immediately dispatched five commanders of an army and handed them over to Hu Yangeng to reinforce the southwest corner.
But these five new commanders were mostly rural archers in the capital, and they had never seen a large formation. Hu Yangeng first sent 500 people to the door and supplemented them into the protruding department, and added 100 people to each of the five commanders in the protruding department. He led by experienced veterans, these rural archers would not easily collapse suddenly.
The Song army was either in the trench or in the fortress. The Pu family slaves first used their grassland tribes to approach and fired arrows. Most of the arrows were shot on the walls of the trench, only injured a few people. The approaching grassland tribes were shot down by the Song army.
The Pu family slave called three Khitans, Li Fuhuan, Sun Guozhe, and Ye Motie. They all surrendered to the Liao Dynasty cavalry generals of the Jin Dynasty and were brought under the command by the Pu family slaves. The Pu family slave said, "Each of them will lead their headquarters and attack for me."
All three of them brought a hundred iron kites. The iron kites were originally the personal guards of these three surrendered Khitan generals and the root of their turbulent times. Now they were used by the Pu family slaves to fill the trenches. However, under the accumulation of power of the Jin people, these three people dared not refuse to follow. So, Li Fuhuai's first formation, Sun Guo killed the second formation, and Ye Mo posted the third formation.
The tactics of the personal soldiers of these three people are as their chief general. Li Shihua was the most reckless. He charged forward with a hundred iron kites with the rain of the Song soldiers. Nearly a hundred cavalry did not hesitate, and all of them rushed into the first trench of the Song people. They fell to pieces and were chopped and killed by the Song army in the trench.
Seeing that the situation was not good in the second formation of Sun Guozhan, he came near the trench and jumped up and wanted to jump over the trench. Unexpectedly, a long spear was extended from the trench, stabbing the horse's belly, and then shot arrows upwards, hitting the belly of the war horse. After these riders fell on the first trench, the Song army in the second trench ran forward and took their lives.
Ye Motie was the most careful. He looked at the approaching Song Bing's trench and slowed down. Unexpectedly, the hundred riders were pulled down one after another. The riders fell on the ground with armor and had no strength to get up, and they were also sent to the Hall of Yan by Song Bing.
The Pu family's slave could beat these three hundred iron kites of Liao Kingdom. He thought he had a treasure, but he would be reimbursed here today. The Pu family's slave was upset and also called luck: "Fortunately, my Jurchen guards didn't let the battle, otherwise, the loss would be the tribe members."
Seeing that the Song army's trench was ready, thinking of the bold words he made in front of the prime minister yesterday, the Pu family slaves couldn't help but become irritated. However, can't they break through the trench formation?
The attacking protruding units in the west are also average. They both rushed as fiercely as the Jin soldiers, and adopted some of the Liao soldiers' practices, first using cavalry and archers to disturb the enemy, find flaws, and then break through heavily. However, these methods failed in front of the trench and trenches.
At noon, Wang Zongbi, commander of the front office of the palace, and Cao Sheng, the deputy commander of the guards, was summoned to the palace. When he arrived at Ruisi Hall, he saw Zhang Shuye, the Privy Council, and was furious. The two bowed to Zhang Shuye. Zhang Shuye returned the gifts and left with his sleeves.
Wang Zongqian and Cao Sheng entered Ruisi Hall and met Prime Minister He Li, Secretary of the Secretariat Wang Xiaodi, General Secretary of the Secretariat Sun Fu, Secretary of the Secretariat Li Hui, Secretary of the Secretariat Sun Qi, Secretary of the Ministry of Personnel Wang Shiyong and others were all there, and they already knew what was going on.
Zhao Huan said: "In the past three days, the Jin people have been severely defeated. Zhang Shumi once advised me that only by fighting can we be able to reconcile. Now our army can fight, which is a great opportunity to seek peace." The Jin soldiers have been attacking the city for three days. Except for the city walls on the west, the east, south and north, the Jin soldiers on the west side could not attack the trenches. Moreover, because the trenches expanded the circumference of Bianliang, the Jin soldiers only surrounded the east, north, west, and south in a short time. Bianliang seemed to have become safer, and Zhao Huan's "war and reconcile" intention became active again.
He summoned the prime ministers here to discuss the plan of "forcing peace through war". Zhang Shuye tried his best to persuade him, but Zhao Huan refused to listen, and he also summoned Jie Qian, Zhe Yanzhi and others who were in charge of the army to discuss. Zhang Shuye refused to pass the order and sued him in anger. Zhao Huan had to summon two relatives, Wang Zongyi, and Cao Sheng, the prince-in-law.
Cao Sheng was originally a person who had no idea. Wang Zongyi had a certain plan: to gain the greatest benefit by using his uncle's status.
When the Jin soldiers first surrounded Kaifeng, Wang Zongqiu strongly advocated peace talks and wrote to Zhao Huan: The Supreme Emperor rewarded all kinds of singers such as Li Shishi over the years, and the total accumulated was not less than half of the inner palace, and several ornaments were rare treasures in the world. The Emperor's favorite singer Zhao Yuannu, the scholar Yuan Lu, Wu Zhen and others also accumulated millions of furniture. It is worth a search of the house that was rushing to confiscate all the gold and silk and handing them over to the Ministry of Revenue to send Jin people. The Jin soldiers could retreat without fighting. No matter how peaceful the country was, the official family could win a favorable and polite, and even the reputation of "The Gu of the Oufu" was a great success for thousands of years. During this round of house searches, Wang Zongqiu not only gained his personal pockets, but also captured Zhao Yuannu who had looked down on him in his mansion and ravaged him in every possible way.
It was such a palace commander who heard Zhao Huan say he wanted to discuss peace again and immediately agreed loudly: Using gold and silk to get the Jin people to retreat and save the lives of the soldiers is really a great good policy.
Seeing the uncle's statement, the other ministers in Ruisi Palace followed up immediately. The question now became: Are the Jin people willing to make peace?
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