The snow on the ground has reached up to the knees, but the heavy snow is still falling non-stop...
Even the Jin people who grew up in the Northeast have rarely seen such heavy snow. When it just started to snow, the Jin people hid in bed one by one and worked hard to sow seeds.
This is also the consensus of the top leaders of the Jin Kingdom. There are still too few Jurchens, and there are also many Khitans mixed among them. However, the Khitans have been sleeping with the Jurchens for more than a hundred years, and they can't figure out who the Khitans are. But before
It was the Khitans who slept with the Jurchens, but now it is the Jurchens who slept with the Khitans.
From a small tribe to today's Jin Kingdom with an area of 2,000 miles, the Jurchens could not take a fancy to the wild women of their own tribe, and they robbed many women one by one.
However, when they heard the rapid sound of horns coming from the direction of the palace, the Jurchen nobles kicked away the women around them, covered themselves in animal skins and ran towards the palace.
When Wanyan Aguda founded the country, the Kingdom of Jin was still very poor, so the palace was very shabby, not much better than the previous tribal villages.
Soon, the Jurchen nobles gathered in the palace, each one shouting what happened, but no one knew.
In the midst of the crowd's commotion, Wanyan Wu begged to buy it and sat on the tiger leather chair.
Wanyan Zongqian said: "What happened? The emperor called everyone here in such a hurry."
Wanyan Wu Qimai's face trembled as he said, "An urgent report has just been sent from Bei'an Prefecture. The Han people attacked Tiemenguan and killed Nianhan and his son who were patrolling there."
"What?"
"Send troops to the Central Plains to avenge Nianhan."
"Yes, we robbed all the Central Plains."
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When a group of savages heard that their robbery accomplices were dead, they howled immediately, but some of them wanted to avenge Nianhan, and more seemed to just want to go to the Central Plains to rob.
"Shut up, everyone."
Wanyan Wu's beggar was more irritable than Wanyan Aguda. Hearing the commotion in the hall, he shouted and shocked everyone. He pointed at Wanyan Xiyin and said: "Gushen, please tell me, who should be beaten?"
Still shouldn’t fight.”
Wanyan Xiyin, who created large Jurchen characters, is undoubtedly a rare talent among the Jurchens. Even if the other Jurchen savages asked them to draw ten patterns, eight of them would definitely look similar, let alone ask them to create characters.
Wanyan Xiyin thought for a while and said: "Hey, there is a severe drought this year. The food in the country can be eaten until next spring at most. We will run out of food before the autumn harvest. We don't have that much money to buy food from Liang Guo. Now they
After killing Nianhan, we will send troops to attack them. If we can reach the Central Plains, there will be plenty of food, gold and silver there. If we cannot defeat them, we must force them to pay us compensation."
This year there is drought north of the Yangtze River, especially in the Northeast.
Wanyan Wu Qimai heard this and nodded: "What you said makes sense."
Wanyan Gao said: "The Han people have firearms and spaceships, I'm afraid they will be difficult to deal with."
Wanyan Wu begged: "Nianhan has found a way to deal with them. Hai Dongqing can tear apart the Han people's spaceships, and Huo Lei can shoot them down with bows and arrows."
Wanyan Gao asked doubtfully: "It stands to reason that the Han people would not send troops at this season. How could they suddenly attack Tiemenguan?"
Wanyan Wu begged to say: "Nianhan took people to hunt and chased a tiger close to the Gubeikou of the Han people. The Han people were afraid that we would attack them, so they launched a spaceship to check. Unexpectedly, Nianhan's Haidongqing directly
He rushed forward and tore the spaceship apart in two blows. The spacecraft fell down and killed a Han man. The Han troops from Gubeikou ran out to capture Nianhan and Nianhan's Haidongqing, so Nianhan started fighting with them.
Han people came out
Duo, Xie Bao's concubine was killed by the Han in the fight. Nianhan led the soldiers and horses from Tiemenguan to attack Gubeikou, but was blocked by fire and thunder and could not get close to the city gate. Nianhan could not attack Gubeikou, so he had to withdraw from Tiemenguan.
The door is closed. No
Thinking about it, the Han people attacked Tiemenguan at night and blew up Nianhan with fire and thunder. Tiemenguan was also burned down. Only more than a hundred soldiers and horses from Tiemenguan escaped. The others were not killed. It is estimated that
He was also captured by the Han people."
"It turns out that the Han people's spaceships are just to scare people. If we had known this, we shouldn't have given them the Xijing Road last year."
"Just grab it back. Aren't there a lot more Han people in Xijing Road this year?"
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Wanyan Wu begged for help: "Should we send troops directly, or should we send envoys first to ask for money?"
Wanyan Xiyin, who was on good terms with Wanyan Zonghan, added: "The Han people still have to hand over the garrison at Gubeikou."
Wanyan Zongpan, the eldest son of Wanyan Wu who was begging for money, shouted: "If the Han people don't agree, they will be ready. We might as well send troops to attack them directly, and then wait until they can't be beaten."
A group of savages also started shouting.
Although these savages were given a lot of gold, silver and slaves, they also raised many women, wore gold and silver, and drank the good man wine every day, which was more expensive than oil in the Golden Kingdom. Now they are all so poor that they have to sell their women. I'm afraid
If they miss the opportunity to grab money, if Daliang gives them money directly, the money will definitely go directly into the treasury, and they won't be able to get the money without a war.
Wanyan Xiyin also said: "The Han people in the Central Plains are afraid of the cold. If they want to fight, they fight in winter. If the delay is long, their combat effectiveness will increase as the weather gets warmer."
Seeing that everyone agreed to fight, Wanyan Wu Qimai clapped his hands fiercely and said, "Then let's fight. Let's talk about where to send troops."
When it comes to sending out troops, most of the savages just keep silent. They only know how to rush forward with their knives. If there is no one to guide them, they can't even tell the direction, let alone where to fight and where to fight.
When it comes to leading troops to fight, of course we have to look at the current crown prince Wanyan Gao (Xie Ye). He was the marshal who led the troops to destroy the Liao Dynasty.
Wanyan Gao didn't need to look at the map. He thought for a while and said: "We can divide our troops into two groups, one going out of Yuguan (Shanhaiguan) and the other out of Gubeikou. The two groups will meet at Yanshan Mansion and wipe out all the Hebei troops in Daliang. If
The Liang army is very powerful. We can just conquer the original Nanjing Road of the Liao Kingdom. If it is not powerful, we can attack the Han capital from Hebei."
After seeing what Yan Gao said seemed to make sense, all the savages nodded in praise.
Wanyan Wu Qimai nodded and said: "Fifth brother said well, then we will divide our troops into two groups and attack Daliang. Wanyan Zongwang will be in Jinzhou and let him be the commander of the road to Yuguan. Gubeikou
Otherwise my fifth brother will have to make another hard trip on this journey. Daliang is not as good as the Liao Kingdom. I feel more at ease with you going."
Wanyan Gao also felt that he could not take it lightly and said: "Okay, then leave the whole route to Gubeikou to me. Whoever wants to follow me to Gubeikou."
Wanyan Zongpan immediately said: "Me."
Wanyan Zongpan is the eldest son of Wanyan Wu, and Wanyan Zongwang is the second son of Aguda. They are uncles and brothers. When he heard his father said that Zongwang would lead one group of soldiers, he wanted to lead another group of soldiers, but he didn't.
Thinking that his father asked his fifth uncle to lead the army.
He couldn't be the governor, and he didn't want to serve under Zong Wang, so he had no choice but to serve under Xie Ye.
Wanyan Xiyin, Wanyan Yanmu and others also rushed to shout out, Xieye's prestige was much higher than Zongwang.
Wanyan Gao saw that Wanyan Yu was the only one who didn't speak, and asked strangely: "Pu family slave, you don't want to go to war?"
Wanyan Yu said: "I think we still have to leave some people to guard against the Daliang grassland road. During the winter in the past, people from various grassland tribes often sent troops to rob the Liao Kingdom. Now that they have taken refuge in Daliang, they don't have to worry about food, and they didn't come to rob us. But
If we attack Daliang, I'm afraid Daliang will let them attack us."
Wanyan Gao clapped his hands and said, "What the slave Pu said is true, he almost forgot about them."
Wanyan Wu Qimai nodded and said: "Then let Pu's slave lead another group of people to Linhuang Mansion to guard against the grassland ministries."
The barbarians discussed for a while and decided that Wanyan Yu would lead 20,000 people to Linhuang Mansion, Wanyan Gao would lead 100,000 people to attack Gubeikou, and Wanyan Zongwang would lead 50,000 people to attack Yuguan.
When everyone came out of the palace, the savages rushed into the ice and snow one by one, and then the entire Jin Kingdom was in chaos.
Wanyan Zongwang received the order and quickly gathered 50,000 people, including 20,000 Jurchens, 20,000 Bohai people, and 10,000 Han people.
Wanyan Zongwang gathered his troops and headed straight for Yuguan.
The straight-line distance from Jinzhou to Yuguan is four hundred miles, and the Western Liaoning Corridor is almost a straight line, and it is a plain area about twenty miles wide.
Although there was snow everywhere, the Jin people had sledges to travel, and it took only six days for the army to reach Runzhou.
Runzhou is only thirty miles away from Yuguan and was the first city of the Jin Kingdom in the Hexi Corridor.
Although Wanyan Zongwang arrived quickly, 20,000 soldiers and horses had already been gathered at Yuguan.
After Bianjing received the news that Shi Jin had raided Tiemenguan, he ordered troops to assemble on Hebei Road and Caiyuan Road. In addition to Zhang Qing's troops who were originally stationed at Yuguan, Zhu Dian's 10,000 cavalry also arrived at Yuguan as reinforcements. Although they did not go there
Hebei increased its troops, but deployed a large number of fire mines for defense.
On November 23, Wanyan Zongwang led his troops to the outside of Yuguan and prepared to knock on the pass.
Zhang Qing was undoubtedly the commander-in-chief of Yuguan, and both Zhu Tong and Yue Fei were promoted to deputy generals. However, Zhu Tong commanded the cavalry as deputy generals, while Yue Fei was still under Zhang Qing.
The heavy snow that fell a few days ago has not completely melted, and it is still ice and snow outside the customs.
The Jin soldiers rested outside the pass for a day, and then came to Yuguan on the second day.
"Catapult."
Yue Fei's eyes were sharp and he was the first to see the siege equipment that the Jin man behind was pushing forward and carrying.
Soon, everyone saw that the Jin's siege equipment was actually a catapult, hundreds of them.
When Zhang Qing saw the catapults being pushed in, he felt his scalp was numb and said, "When did the barbarians from the Jin Kingdom learn how to make catapults?"
Zhu Tong said: "There are many Han people in the Jin Kingdom. I'm afraid they can build a lot of siege equipment."
Zhang Qing frowned and said: "The Jin people have made so many catapults. If they are allowed to come close, the soldiers will probably die a lot. Yue Fei, go and order a thousand cavalry. As soon as the city gate opens, you will lead your troops to fight out."
, we must destroy all the catapults of the Jin army."
"yes."
Yue Fei did not hesitate, received the order with clasped fists, and strode towards Guanxia.
Zhu Tong said: "General Zhang only has a thousand cavalry under his command, so why not deploy my cavalry?"
Zhang Qing smiled and said: "General Zhang has transferred your troops here because he wants to use your troops to pursue the Jin army in the Western Liaoning Corridor after defeating it. General Zhu, please be patient and watch Yue Fei's achievements. This Yue Fei once studied under Zhou Tong.
After all, he is still the junior brother of Lin Chong, Lu Junyi, and Wu Song."
Zhu Tong nodded and said: "Although Yue Fei is young, he has courage that no man can match. If we go by the times, I am afraid he will not lose to the three generals."
Zhang Qing said with a smile: "He won't be able to become the founding general, but he can still catch up with the expansion of the territory for Daliang. Now the founding generals have basically served as generals, so it depends on us to open up the territory and expand the territory."
Zhu Tong smiled and said: "General Zhang is also the founding general of the country. If he destroys the Jin Kingdom, he will inevitably lead the army. From now on, the task of opening up and expanding the territory will be left to us."
Hearing this, Zhang Qing couldn't help but feel a hint of pride.
Hu Yanzhuo, Luan Tingyu and others all followed the prince to the south, and then served as general soldiers in the south of the Yangtze River. The prince also asked him for his opinion at that time, but he did not like the humidity and heat in the south, so he and Hua Rong followed the prince's squad. This time they were wiped out
In the Kingdom of Jin, when building a new road, it is essential to give him a general soldier.
"It seems that you and the Emperor are old acquaintances. It's a pity that you were sent to Cangzhou by assassination and missed the founding of the Liang Dynasty. Otherwise, you would be the founding general today."
Zhu Tong smiled and said: "This is fate. If I didn't assassinate my wife back then, I might have been a person who went against the times and was beheaded by the prince. Now I can see the prosperous times of Daliang and be a deputy general. I am lucky.
Don’t dare to be too demanding.”
Zhang Qing chuckled and said, "It's always happy to be content with one's content. General Zhu has mastered the samadhi deeply."
While the two were talking and laughing, the Jin soldiers had already pushed the catapult a hundred feet outside the pass, and the Jin army was arrayed about two miles away, with only one Jin soldier guarding in front.
Zhang Qing saw that Yue Fei had also led his troops to the pass in the city, so he ordered the door to be opened.
As soon as the city gate opened a gap, Yue Fei took the lead and rushed out of the gate. The cavalry behind him also roared out like tigers descending the mountain.
Catapults are a matter of success or failure, and it was his fourth brother Wushu who was taught by Wanyan Zongwang.
Yue Fei and Wu Shu can be said to be eternal enemies, but this collision happened much earlier than in history.
Wu Shu was overjoyed to see Yue Fei come out of the pass. When Yue Fei rushed out of the range of the archers of the pass, he led his troops to meet him.
Yue Fei followed Chao Yong to the south of the Yangtze River, destroyed the Li Dynasty of Yue, and hunted down Yelu Yanxi. It can be said that he was fighting in the south and in the north, and he was considered a general. When he saw a Jin man opposite him who was younger than him, he didn't care.
In his eyes, when the horse was close, the steel spear in his hand stabbed Wu Shu like lightning.
Wu Shu uses a big axe. The Jin people are savage and strong. Most generals use heavy weapons, such as big axes and maces.
Yue Fei originally thought that one shot could knock the golden man off his horse, but Wu Shu unexpectedly struck the shaft of Yue Fei's gun with an axe.
Swords and guns clashed, sparks flew everywhere.
A huge force was transmitted from the steel spear to Yue Fei's body, and the momentum of the horse under his crotch was actually stagnated.
Yue Fei suffered a little loss, and then he looked squarely at Wu Shu, and the steel spear in his hand turned into cold stars all over the sky and sprinkled towards Wu Shu.
After closing Zhang Qing and Zhu Tong, they were surprised to see that Yue Fei was actually stopped by a young general from the Jin Kingdom. They sighed: "I didn't expect that someone from the Jin Kingdom could stop Yue Fei. The raid is impossible. Ming Jin, let Yue Fei come back."
Wushu also learned some martial arts. The Jurchens' martial arts are accumulated from fighting wild beasts for generations. They are very lethal, but not rigorous enough, and the wild beasts will not find flaws in them. But it is different when meeting Yue Fei, who was once his master.
From many martial arts masters, there are even great masters like Zhou Tong.
After just a few exchanges of blows, the young Wushu was forced into a panic. He couldn't use any strength. He could only howl like crazy and slash at Yue Fei desperately with the big ax in his hand. It was a completely life-and-death style of fighting.
Although Wu Shu was as powerful as a mad dog, Yue Fei knew that when Wu Shu was exhausted and his moves were slow, his life would be taken.
However, before Yue Fei could wait for the fighter plane, he closed the door and already received the gold medal.
"withdraw."
Yue Fei shouted loudly, forced Wu Shu to use, and shot a golden soldier next to him off his horse.
Yue Fei moved his horse through the battle group, and when he saw the soldiers who could not be evacuated, he stepped forward to help the battle, and soon he had all his soldiers break away from the battle group and withdraw to the pass.
Wu Shu pursued Yue Fei relentlessly, and when he caught up with Yue Fei, he shouted loudly and struck at Yue Fei with an axe.
Yue Fei heard the sound behind his head, twisted his body, and stabbed out the steel spear in his hand like a poisonous snake, hitting the handle of Wushu's ax exactly.
The big ax was immediately thrown back, and Wu Shu was also led to lie on the saddle.
Yue Fei was about to fire a shot to kill Wu Shu, but two of Wu Shu's soldiers had already rushed towards him, so he had to give up Wu Shu. With a sweep of the steel gun in his hand, blood started to pour from the necks of the two golden soldiers and they fell off their horses.
After this delay, Wu Shu's other soldiers also caught up.
Seeing no chance, Yue Fei also rode towards the pass.
"Fight in."
Wu Shu was not willing to give up, so he took the golden soldiers and wanted to take advantage of the opportunity to enter the pass.
Yue Fei heard the sound of horse hooves behind him, hung up his steel gun, picked up his bow and arrow, turned around and shot.
When Wu Shu heard the sound of the bowstring, he hurriedly dodged to the side. The sharp arrow flew past the animal skin on his body and shot a soldier behind him off his horse.
Seeing that Yue Fei dared to play with their bows and arrows, a group of Jin soldiers hung up their weapons and took out their bows and arrows.
"Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu"
When Wu Shu was about to take his bow and arrow, he heard a trumpet sound from the Chinese army, so he had to rein in his horse and watch Yue Fei run into the pass.
All the golden soldiers also reined in their horses and shouted angrily as they watched the door close.
Wu Shu turned his horse's head and ran to the front of the army formation behind him. He shouted dissatisfied to Wanyan Zongwang: "I was about to lead the troops to rush in, why did my second brother withdraw his troops?"
Wanyan Zongwang glared at Wu Shu and said: "Don't forget the lesson Nianhan learned when he attacked Gubeikou. Unless the city wall is blown down, even if the small door is open, we can't get in. Just close a few fire thunders."
It blew up everyone under the city gate to death."
This point was discussed by everyone in the Jin Kingdom. Wu Shu also knew about it before, but he just went into battle and fought for a while and forgot about it.
Wu Shu scratched his head in embarrassment, then rode up to the front to guard the catapult.
After closing the door, Zhang Qing watched Yue Fei return to the city and shouted: "Artillery attack."
At an order, the closed gunners ignited the cannons in the catapult pockets, and the well-trained gunners in front used their strength to throw the cannons out.
The artillery pieces drew different trajectories in the sky, roared down to the foot of the pass, and exploded with a bang.
The five-kilogram cannon exploded, and figures within a few feet were torn apart and overturned.
Just one attack destroyed dozens of Jin's catapults, and some artillery pieces were not calibrated and fell into the open space, causing snow to fly everywhere.
Wushu's horse was also frightened. It jumped a few times and then Wushu clamped the horse's belly tightly, unable to move.