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Chapter 744 Offense and Defense

Meng Zhuze is a well-known Daze in the Central Plains. It is written in "Yugong" that he guides Heze and is called by Meng Zhu. "Erya" lists Meng Zhuze as one of the top ten places in the world, along with Onoze, Daluze, Yunmengze and other names.

However, such a big lake has been silted up continuously for hundreds of years, and has been reclaimed by the ancestors. It has shrunk into many small lakes and small lakes along the Guangji River between Juye and Dingtao counties. It is not as good as Liangshanbo in Jeju in the northeast.

When the Kingdom of Jin entered the Central Plains and the Emperor of the Song Dynasty crossed to the south, the Yellow River burst and flowed for 40 years in the north of Nanjing Road, causing a huge change in the landscape.The old lakes were silted up one after another, and new lakes were created.A few miles to the north of Guide Mansion, there is a lake area between the former site of Sanbaili Dike and Qigou. Although it is still called Meng Zhuze, it has nothing to do with the original vast lake.

At this time, in Meng Zhuze, one could vaguely hear the sound of thumping coming from the direction of Guide Mansion in the south. It was the Jin army who suddenly moved into action, urging the ministries to approach the city with the sound of drums.

It was probably disturbed by the sound of drums, and flocks of wild ducks flew up in the lake.Not long after the wild duck flew high, a large piece of reed was suddenly brought down with the door panels prepared in advance. Hundreds of door panels followed one after another, crossing the mud flat on the edge of the lake, forming five parallel roads.

On the road, thousands of soldiers advanced silently.

When Yin Chang was lured out of Binzhou by Guo Ning, he once thought that he would spend the rest of his life as a civil servant in vain.Unexpectedly, Guo Ning was not like this. Instead, he awarded Yin Changxing the post of Jiedu Envoy of the German Army, asking him to firmly control Jinan, block Damingfu Road to the west, and win over the rest of the Red Coat Army in Dongping Prefecture to the south.

Yin Chang accomplished this task very well, and Guo Ning never regarded Yin Chang as an outsider. The equipment, rewards, land grants, etc. of his soldiers and horses were all exactly the same as those of the Dinghai headquarters. There is also a little preferential treatment for the promotion quota in the military competition.

After two years, Yin Chang's Xingde Army has truly become a member of the Ding Navy system.

But Yin Chang and his cronies are always worried.

Because the Jinan Xingde Army was originally the only army under Zhou Guogong with an independent military title, and Yin Chang's official worship as Jiedushi was second only to Guo Ning himself in terms of official status.

However, with the rapid expansion of the Ding Navy, the number of important generals who have obtained or are about to obtain the status of Jiedushi exceeds ten people. Not far away.

This is too fast.

If things go on like this, when Zhou Guogong ascended the throne and founded the country, where can I, Yin, be ranked among the military officials?Twenty, thirty, or forty, fifty?How does this work?

Yin Chang wished he could shout loudly, please stop for a while, Mr. Zhou, wait for your loyal subordinates, and give us a chance to make meritorious deeds!
Fortunately, his expectations came to fruition not long ago. Ding Haijun was going to attack the Kaifeng court, and Yin Chang's troops were an extremely important part of it.

According to the military plan issued by the Central Capital, Yin Chang's troops will start from Jinan and march five hundred miles long distance. On the way, they will even blackmail the former Red Coat Army troops that surrounded Dongping Mansion, and then win over the water bandits from Liangshanpo, and pass through the Red Coat Army and Kaifeng. Jezhou, where the imperial power was mixed, arrived at Weishan, Pei County, at the junction of Tengzhou, Pizhou, and Xuzhou, and joined the main force led by Guo Ning.

This task is not easy to do.

Not to mention the hot weather in summer, long-distance marches and raids, exhaustion and disease troubles along the way; not to mention the difficulty of continuously engulfing friendly and guest troops, kneading thousands of people with the headquarters, and reorganizing the organization while marching.

The army along the way inevitably caused the Jin army's garrison troops on the border to be vigilant.Therefore, sometimes it is necessary to travel at night and stay at night to keep secrets, sometimes it is necessary to send more scouts to capture the enemy's secret work, and sometimes it is necessary to besiege a certain camp and slaughter all to prevent the news from leaking.

It takes a lot of effort to command the subordinates to do any of these things; it is even more exhausting to do everything, and not to neglect each one.

Fortunately, Yin Chang did it.

When he arrived at Weishan, he received an urgent order from the Duke of Zhou that day, ordering him to lead his troops to continue marching across the fork of the Yellow River, and go straight to Guide Mansion.The subordinates belonging to Fang Guosan and Zhan Hui in the army wailed and wailed after hearing this, and the Liang Shanshui thief even boarded the ship and left directly.

But Yin Chang instead saw the hope of making great contributions, and saw his own opportunity to truly become Zhou Guogong's arm.He tried his best to boost morale and inspire the blood of the soldiers, and even took out his own money to reward the soldiers who made great achievements in opening roads and bridges during the march.

When crossing the fork of the Yellow River, just as the river was swollen, the huge waves roared and rushed, and four or five boats carrying people across the river were overturned in succession, and the soldiers were inevitably frustrated.

Yin Chang personally led soldiers to patrol the boarding places, found those who were hesitant, timid, and uttered words that could shake the morale of the army, and immediately beheaded them. More than 40 people were killed in a row. In another day, they will be stationed in Meng Zhuzeli.

Over the past hundred years, the Yellow River has stopped flowing in this area four times, turning the vast plain into mud flats, and reducing the roads from Xuzhou to Guidefu and even Kaifeng to a few fixed roads.Everyone believed that as long as the key pass was occupied, it would be enough to stop the army's movement.

Only in the eyes of Ding Haijun, his side can have more choices.

This marching route was the result of repeated surveys by Xu Ting's spies over the past two years.To this end, the Department of Records has invested so much resources that it has almost neglected Zhongdu.

Yin Chang's troops arrived at Guide Mansion along this route, which was completely beyond the expectations of the Jin army.

The price paid was that there were as many as a hundred ships stranded along the way, and more than half of the army's luggage was trapped in the mud and could not continue to move.The total number of soldiers who were exhausted and sick and left the team along the way was as high as more than 200, and more than [-] of them died directly from the heat.

Guo Ning told Peng Yibin about the arrival of Yin Chang's troops in Guide Mansion, and it was simple to say.In fact, how could he not know the difficulty?

It is nothing more than raising soldiers for a thousand days and using them for a while, it is nothing more than being kind and not controlling soldiers!In the final analysis, the army is a tool to kill Yingye, and the tool must be worn out.
Besides...

How is the difficulty of marching compared to the danger of gaining a city by driving with light cavalry?
How does the loss of soldiers compare to the gain of taking Guide Mansion?
Now that this game is won, there are almost no available soldiers around Kaifeng Mansion.It can be said that the entire Kaifeng court has become the possession of Ding Haijun.In order to realize this whole grand plan without flaws, Zhou Guogong Guo Ning himself went to Guide Mansion in person!

What else is there to say?

This time, Guo Ning must win a big victory, and Yin Chang also needs a big victory.

Only a victory of sufficient weight can let Zhou Guogong see the bravery of the Jinan Xingde Army, and tell everyone in the Ding Navy that there must be heroes who can fight in the Jinan Xingde Army!

Looking at it at this time, Yin Chang's already thin face became even thinner due to the long-distance running, and his eye sockets were deeply sunken.His gray beard was also disheveled, and he didn't bother to wipe it off when it was stained with muddy water, but because of his extremely high spirits, his eyes were as bright as if they were about to shine.

He has been in the army for 20 years and has been a private salt dealer for 20 years. To be able to survive so many years of experience and continue to grow his own power, Yin Chang is by no means an ordinary person. Easily impressed.

But now, he is extremely excited, he has never known his own value like now.He was delighted to find that in the chess game that determines the general trend of the world, Binzhou Yinchang and the army he built are powerful players!This chess piece is ready, it can be famous in history!
Yin Chang exhaled deeply, held a long knife in his hand, and pointed forward.

Around him, the soldiers were silent and quickened their pace.

These soldiers are old and young, because of the good treatment and strict training in the past two years, everyone is very strong, wearing armor, like a beast.

Thanks to the repeated encouragement from the generals, their morale was very high.As for physical strength, most of the soldiers were naturally extremely exhausted, but due to the fact that there was a fleet of ships accompanying them, it was no problem to gather a group of elites who had been traveling by boat from the beginning to the end, with plenty of physical strength.

Five teams of elite soldiers attacked at the same time, and the five brave generals leading the team, three of them were Yin Chang's old troops when he was a private salt tycoon. There are two Jiang Jin in the banner, Guo Zheng and Xu Wende, who were recruited by Yin Chang after he left Jinan.

These five people were all athletes who had been summoned by Guo Ning.The five generals led their troops to protrude, like five long dragons soaring, and like five iron streams rushing, their murderous aura soared into the sky, which immediately disturbed the inside and outside of the city of Guide Mansion, causing the Jin army's troops who were lining up to attack the city to fall into chaos!

"Is there an enemy ambush in the north of the city?"

"How could there be an ambush? How could they come from the north of the city?"

"It's just behind the embankment? Isn't that only two miles away from us? Why don't you check carefully? It's hard!"

"We have few cavalry, since we have to go to the east to scout hundreds of miles, how can there be any manpower to go north? Hurry up and inform the three captains, the enemy soldiers are divided into groups, and the overwhelming force is overwhelming, and the number is unknown!"

"All ministries go north! Go north! It's time for battle!"

"What? Half a quarter? We're going to fight in half a quarter? How to fight? My army has just spread out here, and the sixth company battalion is all facing the city. The soldiers have also changed into short soldiers suitable for climbing the city and fighting in the streets... You tell me how to fight? What should I fight with?"

"Where are the crossbowmen? The crossbowmen quickly gather to the north, and line up to release arrows!"

Outside Guide Mansion, the army that was gradually approaching the city was in a mess, and in the main army of the Chinese army, the officers, soldiers, and followers were also in a mess.Most people were at a loss, not knowing what to do, but those with better hearing could already hear the sounds of fighting and arrows piercing the air.

"The crossbowmen are too late!"

"Protect the Captain!"

"End formation! Form formation!"

"Go south! Hurry back to the camp and stick to it!"

"There are already ambush soldiers going south! All the soldiers follow me and retreat westward!"

Noisy shouts and various conflicting orders echoed one after another beside Wanyan Bi's ears.Wanyan Bi was riding on the horse, precariously on the verge of falling.

A moment ago, he was inspired by his side's chance to turn things around, but now he is as cold as falling into an ice cave.

He understood everything, not only strategic deceit, but also tactical advantage and avoidance of weaknesses were all within Ding Hai's plan.

Dinghai put so much effort in order to create an empty situation from Xuzhou to Guide Mansion and then to Kaifeng Mansion, but in the north, the imperial court could summon the generals from Hedong and Hebei to go south, and in the south, there were also ten soldiers who were entangled with the Song army. The soldiers of the third captain can return to help.Therefore, this empty situation will not be maintained for a long time, and the time for the Ding Navy to display freely is not long.

Therefore, in terms of tactics, the Ding Navy also continuously used tricks to induce the court soldiers and horses to fight in the field and make a quick decision.

They are in Xuzhou, but they have fallen into the city but kept it secret.So taking advantage of Wanyan Bi's anxiety to defend Xuzhou, he completed a beautiful ambush attack and wiped out all the elite of Wanyan Bi's men.

After earning the city with a small number of elites in Guide Mansion, they stayed there in leisure time, pretending to be waiting for the arrival of follow-up troops.So once again, Wan Yanbi used Wanyan Bi's anxiety to take back the Guide Mansion, and achieved an ambush for the second time.

What will be the result of this fight?

Wanyan Bi didn't dare to think about it at all.

At this moment, he only thought of how humiliating it was for him, as a veteran general, to be played in the palm of his hand twice in a row; How stupid it is to let one's own side lose troops and generals, and be an accomplice with an open door!

Wanyan Bi was a brave general who dared to fight the Mongols, but at this time, he only felt that his family was weak inside, unable to raise his strength, and didn't know what to do.The only two remaining by his side led his horse and fled backwards.

Before the horse's head turned, Wanyan Wuli was trying his best to gather troops.Wanyan Bi was about to urge his horse to get closer to him, but Wanyan Wuli had already been thrown a flower gun from somewhere, it went through his body, his whole body was nailed to the ground, unable to struggle.

At this moment, earth-shattering trumpet guns rang out in the city, and a fine horseman rushed out.

The fight between the two sides lasted for about half an hour. The Jin army was suddenly ambushed by a strong enemy and was at a loss.Thousands fled on the spot, thousands descended, and thousands were killed.

It was only the seventh day that Ding Haijun suddenly raised troops.Within seven days, Xuzhou, Caozhou, Shanzhou, and Guide Mansion succeeded successively; the three captains arranged by the Kaifeng court in this direction, with a total of [-] soldiers and horses, were wiped out.

The Kaifeng court concealed half of the Kingdom of Jin, and it was obviously able to confront the Central Capital in the north, suppress the State of Song in the south, and plunder money and food.

But suddenly, the situation changed suddenly.The Kaifeng court has nothing to defend in the north, and the offensive in the south is meaningless. Their capital, Kaifeng, has been threatened by the Ding Navy's troops and is in danger!

When the news came out, the world shook.

(End of this chapter)