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Chapter 960 Jin Guo Fiasco

"Reported to the general, the permanent population of Shangjing City is over 100,000, and there are tens of thousands of refugees. Except for a few people hiding in the cellar to escape, most of them died in the massacre of the Jurchens. The bodies were finally cleared out, and there were many broken limbs that could not be human-shaped, so the accurate number of deaths could not be counted at all. Moreover, among these dead people, there were very few young women. According to the survivors, the Jurchens once arrested young women in the city. It is estimated that at least tens of thousands of young women were kidnapped by the Jin army, including the palace maids and concubines in the Liao Dynasty palace!" Xiao Dilie replied to Hu Yanqing in front of him with a gloomy face.

On the third day after he arrived in the capital, Hu Yanqing behind him finally arrived. However, like Xiao Dilie, he saw dead bodies all over the city. Xiao Dilie led his five thousand men to clean up for three days, and only a small part of the area was cleared out, and there were more corpses in the city.

"Beasts are worse than beasts!" Hu Yanqing couldn't help but gritted his teeth when he heard this. Although the capital of the Liao people was slaughtered, the Liao Kingdom had surrendered to the Song Dynasty before. Although the Song Dynasty had not taken over the place, the people here belonged to half of the Song Dynasty. However, now more than 100,000 people in the city have been slaughtered, and tens of thousands of women have been kidnapped. This can be called a great humiliation.

"General, the Jin army is cruel and unkind, and it is no different from a beast. I will ask our Song Dynasty to send troops to Huanglong Mansion to comfort the tens of thousands of souls in Shangjing!" Xiao Dilie said with a deep pain again. Although he had surrendered to the Song Dynasty, he was a Khitan after all. Shangjing, as the capital of the Liao Kingdom, is also the most concentrated place for the Khitans. Most of the city lives in Khitans, but now they have all become the dead souls under the sword of the Jurchens, which makes him inevitably feel sad.

"The Jin Kingdom must have to attack, but as for when to attack and how to fight this battle, it is not something we can decide. However, I have reported the matter from Shangjing to General Yang, and then report it to the court. I believe that the court will definitely not allow the Jurchens to be so arrogant at that time!" Hu Yanqing also said angrily at this time. Although he had killed many people in the past, they were all on the battlefield, and those who were killed were those who dared to resist the orders of the Song Dynasty, but like in front of him, they were all slaughtered, regardless of gender, age and young, and he would never be able to do such a thing.

Xiao Dilie also knew whether he wanted to advance to the Jin Kingdom was not the final decision. He just thought of the hundreds of thousands of people who died tragically in the capital. However, he still couldn't calm down. He roared to the sky with anger. He had a grudge against the Jurchens to kill his father, and now he witnessed the cruelty of the Jin army with his own eyes. It can be said that the national hatred and family hatred were mixed together, which made him wish he could lead his troops to destroy the Jin Kingdom immediately.

A few days later, Yang Huaiyu finally led the army to Shangjing. When they saw the paved corpses outside the city, all the soldiers in the middle army were extremely angry and asked Yang Huaiyu for battle. They must destroy the arrogant Jurchens, because all of them could feel that this was the Jurchens demonstrating to them, and the majesty of the Song Dynasty could not be challenged by anyone!

Yang Huaiyu's face was also gloomy. He could also feel the strong provocation of the Jurchens from these corpses, which made him very annoyed. Since joining the army, he has never been so provoked by others, but this also aroused his fighting spirit even more. From this moment on, he secretly swears in his heart that he will destroy the Jurchens in this life!

The massacre of Shangjing was soon sent to Tokyo, which made the Song Dynasty furious, especially when Zhao Xu was even more young and energetic. The Jurchens actually used this method to demonstrate to him, which made him even more furious. An imperial edict flew to the front line and ordered the Western and Central Army to advance together, attacking the Huanglong Mansion, which was occupied by the Jin Kingdom from two routes.

After receiving the imperial edict, Yang Huaiyu, who had a short rest, immediately fought in Huanglong Mansion. Before, it was an almost one-sided war when attacking the Liao Kingdom. The Liao Kingdom's army was drunk, but when facing the Song army, they often fled without fighting. Therefore, Yang Huaiyu's 150,000 troops did not suffer much loss. There were still a total of 140,000 people who maintained their full combat power. At this time, they were even more excited by the provocation of the Jurchens. Therefore, after receiving the order, the 140,000 troops immediately raised their strength and rushed to Huanglong Mansion with all their might.

At the same time, the Western Route Army, who also received the order to attack, also rushed to Huanglong Mansion southwest under the leadership of the ancient general of Guhe. For a time, the newly established Jin Kingdom faced the attack of the two great armies of the Song Dynasty. The number of each large army was far from the total number of their domestic troops, and the combat effectiveness of the Song army was not comparable to that of the Liao army, which immediately fell into a desperate situation.

However, Aguda is not so easy to admit defeat. He also knew that with his own strength, he would definitely not fight against the two Song troops at the same time. However, when he was weak, he was often encountered in this situation. Therefore, he had accumulated rich experience. First, he sent his younger brother Wu Qimai to lead thousands of troops to harass Yang Huaiyu's army, while he led the main army to meet the Western Army led by the ancient general, because he had heard of Yang Huaiyu's name for a long time and knew that the other party was very difficult to mess with. On the contrary, the old general Guhe's reputation was not so prominent in the Liao Kingdom, and the number of Western Army was small, with only 100,000 people. This was mainly because Guhe deployed part of the Western Army's forces behind the scenes to prevent the barbarians from rebelling on the Liao Kingdom and the grasslands in the west.

Aguda's tactic has always been very effective. He used a small amount of troops to restrain the enemy's army, and then concentrated his troops to destroy the other. He once used this method to defeat the encirclement of the 100,000 troops of the Liao Kingdom. At that time, his troops were less than 10,000. Now he has a total of 50,000 troops in his hands. So in his opinion, even if the combat effectiveness of the Song army is stronger than that of the Liao army, he may not have no hope of winning the battle.

However, this time Aguda made the wrong plan. The five thousand elite cavalry led by Wu Qimai went to restrain Yang Huaiyu's army, but the cavalry of the Song Dynasty was also very difficult to mess with. As soon as Wu Qimai appeared in front of the Song army, he was immediately chased by three Song cavalry, and each of them was above him. This made Wu Qimai run away in a panic and almost strangled by the three cavalry. In the end, he lost more than 3,000 troops when he escaped, and he failed to achieve the strategic goal of restraint.

Aguda also faced the old general Guhe. As soon as the two sides met in the southwest of Huanglong Mansion, before Aguda could exert the real power of his cavalry, he was knocked over by the Song army's several rounds of artillery fire. Speaking of which, it was the first time they faced the enemy head-on with the Song army. When they were in Liaoyang Mansion, they only besieged Hu Yanping's army. Strictly speaking, there was no head-on battle. Therefore, Aguda's combat power against the Song army was seriously insufficient, and the war horses were extremely afraid of the sound of artillery, which made them in chaos after being bombarded.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, the old and stronger ancient general immediately ordered his cavalry to charge. Their Western Army was originally the ace army of the Song Dynasty, especially the warriors in the northwest, and many grassland people, including many grassland people. The Western Regions and Tufan people joined the army. Therefore, the cavalry of the Western Army is stronger and more powerful than the Hebei Army. This time, the ancient general led nearly 30,000 cavalry alone, which is not much worse than the Jurchens. Therefore, when the 30,000 cavalry faced the already chaotic 50,000 cavalry in the Jin Dynasty, the victory was decided almost instantly, and the Jin army was killed by the Song Dynasty cavalry and was defeated.

Seeing this situation, Aguda immediately made a decision and immediately ordered to retreat. Fortunately, most of his cavalry were light cavalry wearing leather armor, unlike the Song Dynasty cavalry. Although this improved the protection and combat effectiveness of the cavalry, it would affect the degree of the cavalry. Therefore, Aguda led the cavalry to escape from the battlefield easily. However, when he counted the losses, he felt heartbroken and only one charge was found. His 50,000 troops lost nearly 10,000 people. The remaining people were still in shock. It seemed that it was difficult to have the courage to fight the Song army.

However, this defeat on the battlefield finally woke up Aguda, which made him understand the huge gap between him and the Song Dynasty. This also made him immediately change his tactics and decisively withdraw the army from Huanglong Mansion. At this time, Wu Qimai also led the remaining thousand cavalry to Huanglong Mansion. As a result, after the two brothers met, they naturally felt a little moved.

However, there is no time for Aguda and the others to sigh. Yang Huaiyu and Guhe's two armies were flying towards Huanglong Mansion. Now there are only two roads left in front of Aguda. The first is to defend the city wall with Huanglong Mansion. However, the Jurchens were originally mainly cavalry and were not very good at defending the city. In addition, Huanglong Mansion has been breached many times, and the city wall is a bit dilapidated. I am afraid that only a few rounds of volleys of the Song army can break the city wall. If they fight in the streets in the city at that time, it will be even more unfavorable for their cavalry to use their strategy.

Apart from defending the dead, the only thing left is to escape. The Jurchens were good at defeating them and fleeing. As long as they escaped into the deep mountains and forests, no matter how powerful the army was, they could do nothing to them. However, now it is different from before. Aguda had already established a country and proclaimed himself emperor, and he also captured a large number of people as the foundation of the Jin Dynasty. If they gave up the last territory of Huanglong Mansion, which fled into the mountains, then all these populations and resources would have to be given up, because they could not bring hundreds of thousands of people into the mountains.
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