For Song Ting, the past few months have been really hard to describe.
When the news came that Wanyan Lou's family had been beheaded by the formation and the siege of Taiyuan Mansion had been resolved, there was an uproar inside and outside Bianliang City.
Even an imperial edict was issued to confer Li Yunze the title of Xuanfu Envoy to Hebei and Hedong, and to appoint him as the Deputy Marshal of the Army and Horses in Hebei and Hedong.
Unfortunately, the good times did not last long, and the big turnaround came just a few days later.
Li Yunze actually lost Taiyuan Mansion and gave up on his own initiative.
Suddenly, the people who had been praising him as a wise king a few days ago immediately raised their hands and wiped their faces, put on a sad and angry look that showed concern for the country and the people, and started to impeach him crazily.
Zhao Huan, who could not bear the pressure and was very angry himself, immediately sent out the Imperial Banzhi and the Imperial Guards from the Ministry of Internal Affairs to 'invite' Li Yunze to return to Bianliang City with the imperial edict.
Then, they were gone never to return.
Not only has he never returned, there is not even any news about him. I don’t know if he was buried by the mountain kings or chopped down by the Jinmen.
Song Ting, who waited and waited but couldn't wait, once again sent out the Imperial Guards and the Imperial Guards to 'invite' Li Yunze to come back.
But it's still gone forever.
After this kind of thing happened twice in a row, the smart people had already noticed something.
Isn't this the version of the prince who will not accept the fate of the foreign king?
While everyone was still discussing how to respond, the Jin army moved south again.
Moreover, the two armies from the east and west marched south together, which was even more terrifying than a few months ago.
There was nothing to say, so he once again sent the Imperial Banzhi and the Ministry of Internal Affairs to set out with the imperial edict and cross the rugged Taihang Mountains to confer Li Yunze the title of Grand Marshal of the Army of Hedong and Hebei, and asked him to quickly lead troops to help.
Even at this time, even if the Jin people went back on their word and deceived them again and again to go south, the Song court was still dominated by the peace-seeking faction.
It’s hard to believe, but it’s true, and it’s really a big deal.
After learning that the Jin army was moving south again, Zhao Ji immediately wanted to escape again.
Unfortunately, this time there was no escort from the Shengjie Army led by Tong Guan, and only Gao Qiu's useless imperial army was able to stop them before they even left Bianliang City.
Li Gang should have been denounced in history.
But because Zhao Ji suddenly returned and competed fiercely with Zhao Huan, Li Gang, who held military power, was temporarily tolerated by Geng Nanzhong and others.
Even among Zhao Huan's faction, their internal fighting is extremely fierce.
Of course, it is also a traditional basic exercise for big cowards.
While the Song Dynasty was once again having peace talks with the Jin army, it also summoned Chen Hengbo, Wang Boyan, Geng Nanzhong, Zongze, etc. to recruit troops from various places to return to Bianliang City as soon as possible.
"Your Majesty, those blocking the eastern section of Jingxing are led by Wanyan Talan, the commander of the six tribes. His tribe leads a total of twenty-five men and has a total force of about 20,000 troops."
Yue Fei then reported, "Talan set up over a hundred fortresses from outside Niangzi Pass to Zhending Mansion, completely replicating our army's previous tactics in the Pingding Army."
When Li Yunze was pacifying the Ding army, he relied on the terrain of the mountain village, which made Nianhan sick.
Ta Laan also followed the same example. According to the terrain of Jingxing, he allocated his troops and horses to hundreds of camps in a long snake formation.
If Li Yunze wants to break out of Jingxing, he should just eat it slowly like Nianhan before.
"This matter is simple." Li Yunze nodded and said, "I will provide your troops with sharp weapons to break the stronghold. I just want to ask, can your Yongxing Army defeat Wanyan Talan's troops?"
After retreating into the Taihang Mountains, Li Yunze will certainly not be idle.
After collecting the broken troops in various places, they reorganized and trained to replenish the army.
For example, the Yongxing Army under Yue Fei's care, after replenishing a large number of remnants of the Western Army and undergoing rigorous training during this period, its strength has expanded to more than 20,000 men, and its combat effectiveness is also unprecedented.
Yue Fei saluted solemnly, "My lord, your ministers and the officers and men of the Yongxing Army must defeat Talan and open up the Jingxing Passage."
"good."
Li Yunze slapped the armrest of the chair, "Let's get started."
He indeed provided Yue Fei's troops with secret weapons, boxes and boxes of C4.
This thing was equipped with a detonator, hidden in the siege vehicle, and pushed hard to the Jin army's stronghold.
Or you can simply use a trebuchet to throw it over directly.
In this era, military-grade gunpowder actually existed.
For example, in the legend, after China invented gunpowder, it was only used to make fireworks and so on. Those were all liars who paid the IQ tax.
In fact, the Song army had already begun to use gunpowder, but it was mainly used to support combustion.
After all, the purity of gunpowder in this era is really hard to describe.
The C4 provided by Li Yunze is different. After this thing detonates, even half of the village can be destroyed.
The defenders inside were bleeding from their mouths and noses, and their bones were broken.
When Yue Fei commanded the Yongxing Army to rush into the walled city, they easily captured it without much fighting.
After all, the loud noise of the thunderbolt, the terrifying power of the explosion, and the smoke and fire rising into the sky brought great psychological pressure to the defenders.
On the first day of the attack from Niangzi Pass, Yue Fei's troops were not yet proficient in using it, so they 'only' managed to break through twelve camps.
On the second day, the Yongxing army, whose morale had soared and became more skilled in operations, under the command of Yue Fei, broke through twenty-seven camps in one go.
It was not until the third day that Wanyan Talan, who was stationed in Zhending Mansion, received the Pegasus Express.
"How can it be?"
Looking at the messenger in front of him, he stood up lazily and slapped him in the face, "Do you know what you are talking about?"
"Du Tong." The messenger pointed to the sky and swore, "The people of Song Dynasty really know the Tao and the Dharma. Under a bolt from the blue, no matter how strong a camp is, it will be blown into ruins. All the soldiers in the army have seen it with their own eyes."
Wanyan Tarlan didn't want to believe this kind of thing from the bottom of his heart, because it was too ridiculous.
But messengers one after another all swore to express this position, and the same was true in the letters written by the son-in-law Pucha Hubalu who was commanding the battle on the front line.
This made him feel ridiculous but also had to believe it.
But he was still dissatisfied, so he simply set out from Zhending Mansion with his direct subordinate Meng An, rushed into Jingxing and went straight to the front line.
‘Boom~~~’
When Ta Lan saw with his own eyes that a small walled city in the distance was blown away by a bolt from the blue, he almost fell off his horse.
"It's actually true." Ta Lai, whose body was shaking constantly, looked at the sergeants under Yue Fei's command in the distance in shock, shouting and rushing into the camp, "It turns out that there is really a way."
The son-in-law Pucha Balu on the side persuaded the capital, "Du Tong, we can't defend it at all. After the bolt from the blue, most of the soldiers still alive in the camp were staggering as if they were drunk. Let alone resisting the siege, they even ran away.
No one can escape."
"retreat!"
Wanyan Talan finally came to his senses and immediately issued an order: "We can no longer throw away the lives of the warriors so easily. Abandon all camps and retreat out of Jingxing."
Pucha Falcon Balu also agreed to retreat. After all, under the current situation, no matter how many warriors were filled in the camp, it would be for nothing, and there were even cases of people refusing to defend the camp.
However, he immediately asked, "Capital, should we retreat directly, or should we fight at the exit?"
Since defending the city has become a matter of seeking death, we have no choice but to restore the tradition of the Jin Army and engage in field warfare.
As for the location, of course the exit from Jingxing is the most suitable.
Wanyan Talan looked at her son-in-law with approval. He was indeed the heir to the mantle, and he definitely had the ability.
"This capital has been ordered to blockade Jingxing, how can we retreat without a fight?" He looked at the flag of the Song Army that had been raised in the walled city in the distance. "We must fight for it no matter what, but we must send a messenger immediately."
Go and tell the Second Prince and the others clearly."
There was definitely a fight, so if Li Yunze was released into Hebei without a fight, he would have no way to explain to the second prince, the lord of the country, and the others.
But the matter still needs to be explained clearly to the higher-ups. It’s not that our army doesn’t work hard, but the Song army has its own way.
In another three days, the Song army, which quickly advanced, had already rushed out of Jingxing.
At this time, all the men in Wanyan Talan's hands were dissatisfied. When many camps were breached before, thousands of them had been lost.
And because they had never fought against Li Yunze's troops in a real field battle before, even though there were only more than 10,000 riders left at this time, they still dared to take the initiative to charge.
At the exit of Jingxing, a flowing river flows by.
It is now the end of October in the first year of Jingkang. The river is in the dry season and is not that fast.
The Jin army had previously destroyed all the bridges within dozens of miles, forcing the Song army to forcefully cross the river.
The Song army was naturally unambiguous. They cut down trees to build rafts, and then connected the rafts to build multiple floating bridges.
Then Yue Fei's troops directly began to forcibly cross the river.
At the beginning, the Jin army, which was waiting in formation five or six miles away, looked cold and motionless.
After Yue Fei's men crossed the river and crossed ten thousand people, Wanyan Talan felt that it was almost done, so he finally sent Pucha Falcon Balu with fifteen men and nearly ten thousand cavalry to attack halfway across the river.
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In the past, Wanyan Talan would have waited until all Yue Fei's troops had crossed the river before launching an attack.
Because in that case, the results will be more abundant.
But because of the shock of the previous battle at Jingxing, and the impact of the death of the first general Wanyan Loushi at the hands of the Song army on the opposite side, he decided to only eat these 10,000 Song troops.
If 10,000 cavalry attack 10,000 infantry, it is better to attack the enemy halfway across the favorable terrain. This is definitely a win.
Pucha Falcon Balu led tens of thousands of cavalry, rushing towards the ferry like a mighty wave.
Yue Fei was calm and unafraid here, and quickly assigned various generals to form formations and equip them with various weapons.
The Song army on the periphery set up five-meter-long anti-horse guns, densely packed together like giant hedgehogs.
On the inner layer are thousands of armored warriors with heavy shields. They gather their shields together to form an extremely strong shield array.
Further inside, there are soldiers holding hammers and giant axes. They are the main force fighting against the Jin army.
The last ones approaching the river were the crossbowmen.
Various types of crossbows are arranged in layers according to their range to provide long-range support.
Li Yunze on the other side of the river calmly looked at the rain of arrows on both sides, and then the most tragic thing happened, the Jin Army forcibly launched a hard-hitting attack!
Seeing the rows of golden soldiers bumping into horse-guns, then hitting the shield wall, and then fighting with the soldiers armed with giant axes and heavy hammers, Li Yunze turned to give instructions to Zhai Cong beside him.
"Okay, send a signal to Han Liangchen."
Zhai Cong nodded vigorously, immediately took out the fireworks, lit them and shot straight into the sky!
After the fireworks exploded, Han Shizhong's cavalry, who had forcibly crossed the river on the upper reaches of Mianman River, rushed down along the river bank in a mighty manner.