The key figures in the Battle of Duli were actually Zhang Rong's navy.

Interestingly, in official history, it was Zhang Rong who defeated Wan Yanchang.

That was the situation when Wan Yanchang followed Jin Wushu to the south and prepared to capture Zhao Gou alive.

Zhang Rong defeated Wan Yanchang in the battle at Shuotou Lake and made Wan Yanchang doubt his life. From then on, he changed from a war faction to a complete peace advocate in the Jin Dynasty.

At this time, the Jin army's goose chariot had already moved towards the top of the city.

The two sides started a fierce battle at the top of the city.

The morale of the Song army was high, especially when they saw the King of Qi wearing armor and fighting at the top of the city, which made them even more brave.

One by one, the Jin Army soldiers were thrown from the top of the city.

Wan Yanchang saw that many people had climbed up to the top of the city and quickly ordered to send more people.

It was already noon.

Just when Wan Yanchang was one step away from capturing the city, news came that the seaside defense line had collapsed.

"Report! General, the coastal defense has been breached by the Song Army!"

"What! What did you say!"

"General, the coastal defense has been breached by the Song Army!"

Wan Yanchang's expression changed drastically, and he quickly climbed to the high platform and looked towards the shore. He saw a mass of defeated soldiers rushing towards this side.

There were more Song troops behind, and like waves, they entered the main battlefield of Dongcheng.

"Something is going wrong!" Wan Yanchang's face instantly turned pale as paper, and he jumped up in anger, "Quick! Bi Lan! You lead two thousand cavalry to intercept the Song army..."

Wan Yanchang shouted loudly.

But then he regretted it because it was too late.

The Song army had already rushed into the main battlefield and began to strangle the Jin army that was attacking the city.

If the cavalry is used to charge at this time, it will have no effect on saving the battlefield. It will only make the battlefield more chaotic and sacrifice these elite cavalry in vain.

"Ming Jin retreats his troops! Hurry!"

Wan Yanchang came down from the high platform, ordered Ming Jin to withdraw his troops, and immediately asked his personal guards to prepare to evacuate.

As Wan Yanchang expected, the Jin army's siege force fell into chaos.

When Zhao Chen saw it, he immediately got off the tower and shouted: "The Jin army is in chaos, open the city gate and fight out!"

The officer was stunned for a moment. Although Zhao Chen was the king of Qi, he had no power to command the army.

Logically speaking, no one should listen to him, but those officers got along well with him, and they even subconsciously ordered the city gate to be opened.

As soon as the city gate opened, the Song army rushed out like a torrent.

He swung his big axe, iron bone sword, and mace and blasted the hammer at the Jin army.

The beating lasted until the afternoon and then slowly subsided.

There were corpses of Jin soldiers everywhere outside the city, and some Jin soldiers panicked and jumped into the unfilled moat and drowned.

The Battle of Duli City put the Jin Army into a great passive position.

Wan Yanchang retreated for more than twenty miles and laid down several military defenses before stopping.

That night, Wan Yanchang started to think again.

A failure is nothing, after all, the Song army did not know how many people from the Jin army came.

Wanyan Changda can bluff and recover before continuing to attack the city.

He saw that the east gate of Duli City was not very high, and the Song army did not use firearms, which showed that the armament of this Song army was not complete.

But, he didn't have time.

The next day, Wan Yanchang counted the remaining people.

There are still 15,000 troops left.

Five thousand men and horses were lost yesterday.

Although there are still 15,000 people, most of these 15,000 people are engaged in logistics, and their combat effectiveness is far inferior to that of the regular army.

Almost all of the 5,000 men and horses lost yesterday were elites.

This statistical result shook Wan Yanchang's determination to continue the attack.

He started to use his brain again.

But this time, instead of using his brains to defeat the Song army, he was trying to find reasons for himself to prevaricate Wanyan Zongfu and explain to the court.

Wan Yanchang quickly thought of the reason: the intelligence was wrong, the Song army really had 200,000 troops in Liaodong!

On April 11, Zongfu, who was outside Fuzhou City, received a battle report from Duli City.

This time Wanyan Zongfu actually learned the lesson wisely. He sent someone beside Wanyanchang and told him to send back the battle report at any time.

When Zongfu learned that Wan Yanchang had failed in the first battle, his heart sank.

His intuition told him that Duli City was a tough city.

Zongsuke, who was already in poor health, coughed violently.

On this day, Zongfu decided to break camp, leave Fuzhou, go south to support Wanyanchang, and attack Duli together.

But in fact, his real purpose was to lure out the Song army in Fuzhou.

He would set up an ambush among the mountain passes going south, and surround the points for reinforcements according to his original plan.

The key reason for encircling a point for reinforcements is that the opponent's army has no military formations on the way and is easily ambushed while moving. Once ambushed, it will be easily defeated.

The Jurchens have powerful cavalry, and they are very good at encirclement and reinforcements.

There are many mountains in this area, and they are all hills, making it easy for ambushes and sneak attacks.

On April 12, Wanyanchang received the news that Wanyan Zongfu went south to fight with him.

On April 13, the Song Army detected that the Jin Army outside Fuzhou City had all evacuated and headed south.

When Hu Yantong heard the news, he became excited again: "Han Shuai, please give me 3,000 troops, and I will be willing to fight as a forward!"

"No! No!"

"Why?"

"The gold thief obviously wants to surround the area for reinforcements." Han Shizhong, who has always liked to play sneak attacks, saw through Zong Fu's purpose at a glance.

"Then we are just going to watch the golden thieves all go south and besiege the capital?"

"It is not easy to capture the capital. I will give you three thousand men to quickly go to the nearby route and set up an ambush on the only way to retreat north. Without my order, you are absolutely not allowed to go south privately to pursue the Jin army!"

"yes!"

On April 14, Zongfu and Wanyanchang joined forces.

Zong Fu patiently suppressed his anger and asked Wan Yanchang about the entire process of siege.

Wan Yanchang finally said: "There are really 100,000 Song troops in Duli City, and there must be 100,000 Song troops in Fuzhou!"

"Are you saying that there are really 200,000 Song troops who landed in Liaodong this time?"

"Absolutely! I guarantee it with my character!" Wan Yanchang said swornly, "The city of Duli is not that easy to attack, Song Dog is very cunning, and there is a navy to cover it!"

After Zongfu learned the truth, his mood became even more gloomy, and he began to cough violently again.

Wan Yanchang said: "Why don't we go to Fuzhou and the Song army from Duli City will come to support us, and we can surround the area and provide reinforcements?"

"No, no, we don't have that much time." Zongfu's face turned a little pale, and the people below brought him medicine.

If it weren't for physical reasons, he wouldn't have been transferred to Liaoyang, let alone Wan Yanchang leading troops to come for support.

"Right now, we can only focus on the overall situation. I will quickly send someone to inform Zong Wang and ask Zong Wang to send troops to come back for reinforcements."

"What about us now?"

"I originally wanted to join forces with you to attack Duli, but now it seems that the Song army is more prepared than we thought. Now we can only retreat to Gaizhou, and wait for Zongwang to send people back to help, and then plan to restore the state.

"

A few days later, the scouts reported that the Jin army showed signs of retreat.

Han Shizhong immediately wrote a letter and sent people to rush to the capital.

The content is very simple. Let Zhang Rong quickly sail north by ship, land in Gaizhou, pretend to attack, and evacuate at any time to disrupt the Jin army's vision and cause intelligence confusion to the Jin army.

In April of the sixth year of Jingkang, after the Battle of Duli City, Zhao Ning's Liaodong strategy initially achieved victory.

From then on, the Jin State had to station heavy troops in the Gaizhou area to prevent the Song army from going north.
Chapter completed!