Wuren Road Crossing is about five miles away from Yichuan County. If it were a plain, you could see it at a glance from the top of the city. However, Yichuan County is not a plain. It is surrounded by rolling hills and deep loess. Wuren Road Crossing is surrounded by several low loess hills.
The hills cover it and the city cannot be seen.
At two o'clock, 10,000 Song troops appeared. Their work was divided in an orderly manner. Three armies advanced layer by layer. 5,000 infantry assaulted and 5,000 cavalry surrounded them. Tang Qian led a thousand scout cavalry to blockade the perimeter and strictly check for any leakage.
The fish escapes.
More than 200 large tents were set up in the open space at Wuren Pass. Except for the hundreds of soldiers on duty patrolling the checkpoints inside, the rest of the soldiers were sleeping.
Tang Qian waved his hand, and Lieutenant General Liu Rui led five hundred cavalry towards the valley entrance at a low speed. Their mission was to kill all the sentries on duty and prevent them from sending signals to the county town with gunpowder arrows.
At the same time, five thousand infantrymen shouted and charged into the military camp from all directions...
Tang Qian was about two miles away from the military camp. He could faintly hear the shouts of killing coming from the military camp. The sound was very small. It should not be heard from the county town five miles away, but he should be able to feel the movement.
Tang Qian stared at the dark city wall in the distance. It was very quiet at the top of the city. The defenders on the top of the city should also be sleeping soundly. But at this moment, three gunpowder arrows suddenly shot out from the top of the city and flew straight into the sky.
Tang Qian's heart tightened, what is going on?
After a moment, gunpowder arrows were also shot from the other side of the crossing, but there were four of them. The four gunpowder arrows glowed brightly in the air.
Just like a question and answer, the city fell silent. At this time, a cavalryman rushed over and reported with clasped fists: "Commander, all the enemy troops at the checkpoint have been wiped out!"
Tang Qian nodded and asked, "What happened to the gunpowder arrow just now?"
"There was a sign erected over the checkpoint that read, 'Three arrows were fired from the city, and we responded with four arrows.' General Liu was so anxious that he fired four gunpowder arrows."
Tang Qian praised approvingly: "Your general is really quick-witted!"
The fierce battle ended in just over half an hour. All the enemy troops on the periphery were annihilated, and basically no prisoners of war were left. Only the sentries inside Wuren Road were unable to be taken care of. Currently, they can only block Wuren Road and prevent the sentries inside from coming out.
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The next step was to seize the county seat. They were still divided into four groups. Tang Qian led 300 elite scouts to seize the north city. Liu Qiong led the main force to charge in from the north city. Lieutenant General Li Wen led 3,000 cavalry to block the outside of the south city. The scout deputy general
Liu Rui led hundreds of scouts to intercept and kill the scattered soldiers who escaped.
It was very quiet on the North City. There were basically no patrolling soldiers. The soldiers put up planks on the moat. Three hundred black figures were running quickly. They put the nooses on the battlements accurately one by one, and headed towards the city like apes.
Climb up.
On the top of the city, two Jurchen soldiers were chatting against the pillars of the city tower. The other Jurchen soldiers were wrapped in blankets and sleeping soundly against the wall.
Of course, countless black shadows suddenly appeared on the top of the city, and the two Jurchen soldiers were stunned. The shadows flicked their hands, and a few cold lights shot out, and the two Jurchen soldiers fell down, clutching their throats.
Three hundred scouts went on a killing spree, raising their swords and beheading all the sleeping Jurchen soldiers. Their heads rolled to the ground.
The suspension bridge began to be lowered, and the iron bolts of the city gate were also pulled up. Dozens of scouts ran down to the city and opened the city gate. Liu Qiong, who had been waiting outside the city for a long time, led 6,000 cavalry into the city and directly entered the Jurchen.
Inside the army barracks...
The Jurchen soldiers had no time to put on their armor and were even barefoot. They pulled out their knives and rushed out of the tent to join the battle. However, what rushed towards them was the Song army's crossbow shooting, slashing with swords and stabbing with spears, one by one.
The Jurchen soldiers screamed and fell to the ground. Many Jurchen soldiers struggled to get up after being shot by arrows, but their heads were chopped off with a knife.
Cries, screams and howls before death were heard one after another in the military camp, but the Song army showed no mercy and killed them all. Gradually, the military camp became quiet.
The south city gate opened, and the hundreds of Jurchen soldiers on duty in the city tried to rush out of the city to break out, but they were shot with crossbows by the three thousand soldiers ambushing outside, just like the autumn wind sweeping away fallen leaves. After one round of arrows, no one was still standing.
Several people.
Even if individual Jin soldiers used ropes to escape from the city wall, they would not be able to escape the Song army's scouts.
This was a fatal order issued by Chen Qing. No one was allowed to escape, and no one was allowed to rush back to report to Wanyan Yinkeshu.
Valley bismuth
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Twenty thousand Jurchen cavalry galloped all the way. They bypassed Luojiao County and headed south. They passed through the central county in the middle of the night and continued to run south.
At noon the next day, 20,000 Jurchen cavalry arrived at the bifurcation of the road. To the southwest was Tongguan Road, and to the southeast was Tongzhou Road. Wanyan Helisa was very familiar with this place. Maybe he was relatively fat.
The reason is that he doesn't like Tongguan Road. There is a very narrow passage in the Shenchuan Grand Canyon in the north, which is very uncomfortable for a fat man like him. He prefers to take Tongzhou Road.
There used to be a Jinsuo Pass in the far south, but since the Song army completely blew up Jinsuo Pass last year, there has been no obstacle to entering Tongzhou.
"Go to Tongzhou!"
Wanyan shouted at Lisa, and the cavalry continued to gallop toward the southeast.
The disadvantage of taking the Tongzhou Highway is that most of the rivers are very narrow, especially the dozens of miles of road, with cliffs on both sides. The cavalry runs in the shallow water on both sides of the river. Especially now that it is spring, the water is very fast and cold.
The river is winding and winding, and it takes more than a hundred miles to reach Jinsuoguan, which takes at least a day. Fortunately, the Jurchens have grown up on horseback and can stay on horseback for days and nights.
One day is nothing to them.
But the Jurchen cavalry did not know that not long after they went south, a Song army of more than 10,000 people appeared from Tongguandao. They followed the Jurchen cavalry more than ten miles away silently.
On the afternoon of the next day, 20,000 Jurchen cavalry arrived at Jinsuo Pass. The scene in front of them shocked everyone. A majestic pass appeared in front of them, and the pass was filled with black soldiers of the Song Army.
More than a dozen captains looked at Wanyan Helisa with dissatisfaction. Didn't he say that Jinsuoguan was destroyed? It is here now, and it doesn't look like it was destroyed at all.
Wanyan Helisa was stunned and murmured in a low voice: "Impossible! Absolutely impossible! It has obviously been blown up, there is no way you could lie to me."
Wanyan Helisa's 20,000 men were not deployed by him, but were temporarily assigned to provide for him. The public did not have a good impression of this marshal who suffered repeated defeats, let alone respect.
A captain said bluntly: "General Helisa just heard that it was destroyed! He didn't come to check it out personally."
This general was right. Wanyan Helisa had indeed only heard that he was still in Fengxiang when Jinsuoguan was blown up! He only received the Flying Eagle message from Pujing Pass afterwards.
But this issue is no longer important now. Whether it is fake news or whether the Song Army was rebuilt is really not important anymore.
The important thing is, what should they do now? The reality is before them, they did not carry a siege ladder, and even if the soldiers took a human ladder, they would not be able to reach the top of the city.
After staying for a full quarter of an hour, Wanyan drank from Lisha and sighed, "The responsibility lies with me. I will go to Marshal Du to apologize later. Now everyone goes back and takes the Tongguan Road instead."
The 20,000 soldiers were complaining, but they had no choice but to turn around and walk back. Their morale and energy were gone. Many soldiers even dozed off while walking. The team moved very slowly. Wanyan and Lisa knew that they were in the wrong, but they did not dare to Urging, they unknowingly entered the narrowest section of the river. The river was only a few feet wide, with cliffs on both sides. This steep section of the river was about forty miles long, and it was also the most difficult road to walk.
However, compared with when we came here, it didn't seem that difficult to walk. The water level was a little lower. No one paid attention to this abnormal situation. It is normal for the water level to be different in the morning and evening.
At the fifth watch, they had walked more than thirty miles, and the water level was getting lower and lower. There was no water on both sides, and even the water in the middle of the river could only cover the horses' hooves. Finally, Wanyan Helisha's attention was attracted.
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[Maybe I caught a cold while looking at my phone at night and my arm muscles ached. Rong Laogao asked for one update today to relax his arms. Two updates today and three updates tomorrow.]