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Chapter 569: A lonely man outside the sky, a moment of light and fire (Part 2)

At the moment when the change quietly appeared, in the Jin army's main formation opposite, Wanyan Zongwang and his uncle Wanyan Jiemu were talking about Guo Yaoshi. They were also a little surprised that the Wu Dynasty could recruit such famous generals and strong enemies.

"Before, due to Zhang Jue's incident, the army came to Yanjing City. I heard that Guo Yaoshi advocated defending the city." Wanyan Jiemu turned his head on the war horse, "It's a pity that it was left unresolved later. If he could fight once at that time, he would have a clear idea this time."

"That's okay, uncle, what I'm looking for is to fight against the heroes of the world. This time he can surprise me...uh..." Wanyan Zongwang was talking heroically and suddenly frowned. In the darkness, he looked at one side of the battle formation and raised his whip, "What is that...what are they making?"

Wanyan Jiemu also squinted her eyes and looked at it for a while: "Retreat? Or reorganize the attack?"

"I'm going to order the generals to advance in the northeast to slow down and concentrate on the horse army in Maji Meng'an. Do not advance recklessly, and strictly prevent fraud! Quick!"

With Zong Wang's order, the command troops rushed down and the rockets rose to the night sky. The entire Jin army's main formation operated even more noisy in the tense atmosphere.

On the other side, Guo Yaoshi looked at the situation on the flank and suddenly subconsciously rode his horse and ran a few steps, then stopped: "What's going on! Why retreat!"

"It's Zhang Shuai, Liu Shuai's subordinate..."

"I know it's them. They have been fighting Qiufeng on the side, only making small feints. Why should they withdraw! Pass my order and let them move forward-"

This sudden strange situation caught Guo Yaoshi off guard. He couldn't even understand why Zhang Linghui and Liu Shunren, the two brothers who had become swearing up, did such a thing. The battlefield was huge. It was night again. When we saw the changes clearly, the two armies on the northeast flank had retreated and retreated from a big trough. The Jin people seemed to be shocked. Their team gathered in front of the retreating troops, silent in surprise. The whole process lasted about half a stick of incense, and countless commands and wills rushed through the chaotic battlefield.

The Jurchens blew the horn.

Then, the cavalry rushed down as the retreating army!

The defeat like a tide began to appear on the battlefield. The cavalry under Guo Yaoshi interspered from the flanks, trying to block the attack of the Jurchens. However, the collapse had already formed. The original formation of the ever-winning army rushed towards this side. At the same time, it issued an order to try to distance his team from Zhang Linghui and Liu Shunren and reorganize tight defenses, but it was still too late. The defeated army and the troops directly under him had formed a situation where you have me and I have you. A cliff collapsed and gradually turned into the collapse of half a mountain.

Countless corpses descended along the Chaobai River, and firelight flowed through the night sky. What remains was the continuous army and the continuous fighting. On the opposite side, the Jin army, who had been fighting for a day, resumed its raging offensive again and crushed the half of the Changsheng Army, who had not yet collapsed. Guo Yaoshi subconsciously grabbed the chaotic formation and led the army to defeat Yanjing City. After a few years, the scene of being crushed and defeated by Xiao Gan under Yanjing City seemed to be back in front of him. At this time, the first thing he betrayed him was the brothers around him...

Late at night, countless defeated soldiers rushed into the gate of Yanjing City. The prefect Cai Jing stood on the gate and watched the scene. His whole body became cold. As the direct army led by Guo Yaoshi in the rear entered the gate, the Jurchens came like a tide and rushed towards the city.

After the city gate was closed, Cai Jing ran down and found Guo Yaoshi in the chaotic military formation. He was wearing a cloak, holding a steel knife, half of his body was covered with blood, and his eyes were covered with blood, like a tiger who wanted to choose someone to eat. Cai Jing did not dare to hold people accountable and said, "It's good for the general to come back, and as long as the general is here, we can defend Yanjing..."

Pharmacist Guo had already got off the horse and turned his head to look at him: "Don't you ask why I lost?"

"No matter why you lose, as long as you can learn from your lesson..."

"But I really want to know why I lost!" Guo Yaoshi shouted, "Follow me! Let's ask!"

He turned around suddenly and led his followers to the inner city. The other soldiers and generals had already begun to consciously guard the city wall. The attack of the Jurchens outside the city stopped. Cai Jing followed Guo Yaoshi forward, and his heart was up and down. Soon, he arrived at the school camp on the side of the city. This was the camp where Zhang Linghui and others were stationed. The guards in the camp were obviously wary, and someone came up to try to stop them. However, Guo Yaoshi ignored them at all. The people around him had already rushed up to subdue the other party. After a while, the team pressed in like a tide.

On the school ground in the center of the camp, two generals Zhang Linghui and Liu Shunren were obviously waiting for his arrival. The soldiers on both sides confronted each other. Guo Yaoshi walked straight towards the other two. Zhang Linghui wanted to say hello. Guo Yaoshi had already punched him in the face with a sudden punch. Liu Shunren then rushed over and tried to persuade him to fight. Guo Yaoshi punched him in the lower abdomen, and another punch hit him from the back, knocking him to the ground. Zhang Linghui was beaten back a few steps at this time, raised his head and wanted to speak again. Guo Yaoshi walked in front of him and kicked him away.

The surroundings were tense, but under the pressure of Guo Yaoshi, no one dared to take action.

"You escaped at the last moment and betrayed your brothers." Guo Yaoshi walked back to his own people and pulled out a steel knife from the waist of the servant, "I will kill you today, do you have something to say?"

Cai Jing then roughly understood what had happened.

Zhang Linghui got up from the ground: "I have something to say." Then he pointed at Cai Jing, "But with him here, what should I say?"

Pharmacist Guo pointed at Cai Jing and roared out: "Speak in front of him!"

Zhang Linghui gritted his teeth: "Okay, you are the eldest brother. If you want me to say it, I will say. The people of Wuchao are not worth it! They just can't help the mud on the wall! We can't defend it!"

"Who said I can't hold on!" Guo Yaoshi shouted, "I will defeat Wanyan Zongwang today!"

"Brother, you can only defeat Wanyan Zongwang! There is Wanyan Chang's army to the west, and there are more in the rear! What about you, brother? You only have the always-winning army! How many can you defend? The people of the Wu Dynasty are not trustworthy. Brother, you forgot the great defeat here last time? You forgot how Zhang Jue died? They only know how to greedy for power and make money. There are no men in the Wu Dynasty!"

Yaoshi Guo looked at him and shook his head: "But this time... you made me defeat..."

Zhang Linghui said: "But if you win, if you fight too badly, what if you kill Wanyan Zongwang? Brother, we only have so many people, brothers don't want to be enemies with the Jurchens..."

"Is it your brother, or is it the only one you are a coward?" Guo Pharmacist waved his hand and looked at all the soldiers around him.

Liu Shunren came from the side: "Brother, this is my idea..."

"Then there are two cowards among my brothers." Guo Yaoshi took a breath, "You are in a hurry to retreat. You are afraid that there will be no chance to surrender. You are in a hurry to be slaves. You say that there is no man in the Wu Dynasty, how can you be considered a man? You were not like this in the past... I don't like the Wu Dynasty. I don't like Zhang Jue's affairs. But how can I be like you..."

Pharmacist Guo's voice gradually faded. Cai Jing was frightened when he heard it aside. After a long time, he saw Pharmacist Guo's shoulders trembling: "Hahahaha...hahahaha..." and when he raised his head, his tall figure seemed to collapse, and his eyes and laughter were full of sadness.

Cai Jing walked over and said, "A few generals, as long as they work together, Yanjing can still be defended. As long as they defend Yanjing, there will be reinforcements in the south..." Before he finished speaking, he stopped because Guo Yaoshi turned his head and his eyes were fixed on him.

He looked at Cai Jing for a while and sighed in a low voice: "Mr. Cai, do you know that you are a Wu Chao people, like an epidemic..." After saying this, his figure suddenly burst. Zhang Linghui saw him sighing, thinking that something had a turnaround, so he approached. At this moment, Guo Yaoshi kicked him in the heart again, kicking him backwards, kneeling on the ground and slid a lot, and blood was spewing out of his mouth.

"Do you know how many brothers you made me die unjustly-"

Pharmacist Guo's voice resounded throughout the camp. Seeing Zhang Linghui being kicked away, Liu Shunren took two steps back, while Pharmacist Guo just waved his knife and cut off a large corner of his clothes from his body and threw it into the sky.

"I will surrender, but from now on, we will be ruthless and will no longer be brothers."

Countless soldiers around watched this scene.

Cai Jing rushed up: "General Guo, you can't do this..."

Pharmacist Guo reached out and grabbed his shoulder, turned his head and said, "What else can you do now? Lord Cai, please surrender."

"No, General Guo, you once said that as long as you control the city..."

Before he finished speaking, Guo Yaoshi punched him in the face, knocked him out and landed at the feet of the generals.

"I gave you so much money, you just need to nod..."

He murmured out of his mouth, touched his mouth, and finally glanced at Zhang Linghui and Liu Shunren in the camp, looked at the many soldiers and generals in front of him, and then turned around and walked outside. The wind whimpered, and the huge city under the night sky, the people of the Wu Dynasty had been operating here for two years, and paid countless silver. Now the city is towering and solid, like a female giant beast. To the east of the city, the Jurchens began to camp. Tomorrow, they will start making siege equipment and make psychological preparations for long-term attacks.

A person's ambition, on such a night, cut through the sky and quietly passed away.

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The capital was in chaos and noisy. In the study, all the information Ning Yi brought, along with many documents obtained from the Ministry of Revenue, were summarized and classified here. Yao Zunian, Ji Kun, Wen Renbuer and others were doing various work here.

"The edict to confer Guo Yaoshi as King Yan is probably going to be issued..." Ning Yi looked at the document in his hand, drinking tea while talking casually.

"The Lord is scared." Putting a file on the shelf next to him, Yao Zunian whispered, "As soon as the news of the Jurchens heading south came, everyone knew that it was not good, but at this time he was crowned the king... and he was anxious to seek medical treatment."

Ji Kun said: "From the side, Your Majesty seems to be very clear about the situation in the whole situation."

"Yes, I see more clearly than us..." Ning Yi frowned.

While speaking, Qin Siyuan came in from outside the door. He looked at the pile of things on Ning Yi's table: "Is this what Li Heng said before?"

Ning Yi took a look and nodded: "Well, the terrain of the Ministry of Revenue, household registration information, and the survey of the north by Zhuji, all the forest terrain that is not conducive to the advancement of cavalry, as well as the preliminary plans for the transfer of surrounding villages and rural areas... But now it seems that it should be useless."

At the beginning of the news of the Jurchen invasion of the south, there were a lot of predictions and deductions in the prime minister's mansion, and one of the deductions was the most radical. Judging from the strength of the Jurchens against the Liao people and the Liao people against the Wu Dynasty's army, if the Jurchens used their cavalry advantages to advance southwards, when he broke through Yanjing and Yanmen Pass, he would not take important towns and only rob the countryside, the Wu Dynasty's army would be powerless to do anything about their advancement. In the end, the only battle and decisive place would be Bianliang City.

This inference can only be explained internally. No one dares to take it to the Golden Palace. Because the other party has just started going south. We are saying: "Give up the entire north of the Yellow River, they may have no meaning at all." This is unreasonable anywhere, but if we really want to say how much obstacles the hundreds of thousands of troops north of the Yellow River can cause to the Jurchens. Everyone seems to have no confidence in their hearts.

This is something beyond reason and tactics. But in reality, the victory of the Jurchens against the Liao people again and again seems to be evidence of this "unrealistic".

Under the premise that "north of the Yellow River is not very meaningful" and "the only strategic goal of the Jin people is Bianliang", Ning Yi asked Zhuji to do a lot of work. The most important thing was to survey the terrain of the population living in the north of the Yellow River, and to all places that were not conducive to horse warfare to adapt to the needs of migrating people, food, and clearing the fields. He even made a large transfer based on many information from the Ministry of Revenue, strengthening the fields within a range of thousands of miles, and stifling the enemy's logistics plan. But of course, all this is meaningless now, because no one will play with him like this. Because no one understands that there may be a "shame of Jingkang" in the future.

Of course, his plan is only a preliminary concept at present, and what he did is not perfect. A few days ago, everyone discussed it together that they were both smart people and could only discuss it as a dream proposal of a brainstorm: the other party's strength lies in the fact that the attack of pure cavalry may not require logistics support. The problem here is that in a place that has been in operation for more than two hundred years, let alone the possibility of the loss alone may be greater than losing this war.

"Maybe it's useful now." Qin Siyuan, who walked into the room, sighed and handed the information sent to everyone. Then everyone was silent. Wen Renbuer said: "Your Majesty..." and then he didn't say it vigilantly. After reading the things, Ning Yi sat back on the chair. Even though he had been mentally prepared, he couldn't help but feel whispered in his heart: "What a joke..."

The information is roughly summarized into three items:

After resisting Wanyan Zongwang for a few hours, Guo Yaoshi was defeated like a mountain and then surrendered to the Jin Kingdom. The Wu Dynasty spent a lot of money to redeem it, and then used the entire Yanyun as nutrient to manage the Yanjing city for more than two years. In one night, Wanyan Zongwang had no danger to defend on the road southward. At this time, the Jurchen Eastern Route Army was probably running to the three towns in Hebei.

On the west road, tens of thousands of soldiers under Yanmen Pass were scattered by the army led by Wanyan Zonghan and Wanyan Xiyin. They did not spend too much time conquering the pass. In addition to the Wusheng army guarding this place, there was also the Yisheng army that had gathered many Liao people in the past two years. Faced with the Jurchens who had destroyed their entire country, these Yisheng army did not show hatred and combat effectiveness. They all turned against each other and opened the door to offer the city. Then, between Yanmen Pass and Taiyuan, between Taiyuan and Bianliang, it was almost flat.

Whether it is a strong pass or a strong city, like ancient mottos, in the end, none of them were broken from the outside. In order to prevent the Jurchens from going south, the court once made a strategy to recruit the remnants of the Liao Kingdom, and it was almost completely failed.

Article 3: Tong Guan left Taiyuan and was on his way back to Beijing, passing by the imperial edict that went north to grant him the title of Privy Councilor who fully controlled the war in the north.

Although he understood that the Jurchens of this era were like cheating, Ning Yi never thought that everything would be so fast. In just ten days, the entire northern defense line of Yanmen Pass fell, and the Jurchens drove down like a torrent.

"Next, the south of Yanmen Pass is our own place after all. Hundreds of thousands of troops are stationed in various places. No matter how fast they are, they will not be faster than the previous marches. We still have time. Liheng, try to organize the information you have at your disposal. At that time, cooperate with the interception in the north and slow down the logistics of the Jurchens. As long as the emperor nods, all the officials of the Ministry of Revenue in the north will obey your arrangements. At the same time, you will also ask the people from Zhuji to join in and help, move people into the mountains, take away food, concentrate bait, and cooperate with the nearby northern troops to fight."

Ning Yi's eyes were complicated, and Yao Zunian said, "Prince, it's too much to be able to clear the world at this time." Most of the people could understand this matter, even if they knew that the Jurchens were powerful, even if the front line of the Northern Defense had completely fallen, there were still hundreds of thousands of troops behind them. After only ten days of war, it was proposed to clear the northern land and make the people lose their homes. The biggest thing was that there was no political risk that they could not bear. Maybe who would really block the Jurchens from the front line of Taiyuan and defeat them? Hundreds of thousands of people, there was no reason to assert that their defeat was.

"There's nothing." Qin Siyuan shook his head, "Fortunately, the emperor has a clear idea. I will not mention it in the court for the time being. I will enter the palace later and tell the emperor in private that I will be approved."

Ning Yi nodded: "Try to move from north to south as much as possible."

Ji Kun also said: "Let's expand the whole thing. It may be a good thing for Duke Chu to return to Beijing. He doesn't want to stay in Taiyuan, so we find reasons for Duke Chu. The core of this battle will definitely fall in the capital, so Duke Guo returned to Beijing early to take charge. Now it sounds a little alarmist, but Duke Guo will most likely receive goods. Let's push him to the forefront."

Wen Renbuer laughed, and on the other side, Ning Yi packed up his things: "If you are allowed, I'm going north."

Yao Zunian frowned: "Isn't it enough for Liheng to be in charge of the capital?"

"The fastest intelligence feedback can be achieved with the highest efficiency. Anyway, after receiving it, I don't have the energy to deal with other things, so I'll just get the nearest place to check it out. Don't worry, if there is danger, I will run away immediately."

"Then I'll go north with you." Wen Renbuer smiled, "You will run away immediately anyway."

Qin Siyuan looked at everyone and smiled: "I'm going to enter the palace. I'll settle the matter in the past two days."

The old man turned around and left the room, Ning Yi also smiled: "I'll go back and settle down first." He said goodbye to everyone.

The war had just begun. As the Right Prime Minister's Office, who was responsible for logistics, was still responsible for many trivial and complicated tasks. But at this time, the sense of urgency was finally suppressed and people had to prepare to move. And in the more than ten days since the war began, residents in many places north of the Yellow River began to leave their homes with their families and their relatives under the deterrence of the war. This was the first group with more informed information during the entire migration. Countless armies were quickly moving towards the front line and the pass.

War is a matter for soldiers, and ordinary people have to walk away or bear it silently in silence. And in this atmosphere, some people are extremely special, at this time, holding different weapons, including knives or guns, wearing bright or worn clothes, riding horses, boats or cars, heading towards the front line of the battle that indicates death... (To be continued, please search for astronomy, novels are better and faster!
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