Great Song Pirate

Chapter 674
Xu Yi was in the middle of the Chinese army, sitting astride a horse, wearing a golden helmet and armor, majestic and majestic, the whole army secretly applauded him, thinking what a heroic and valiant lord!

Watching the army striding forward on the road leading to Dading Mansion, Xu Yi continued to encourage these exhausted generals: "Everyone has worked hard! This king knows that everyone has been exhausted from fighting these days, but Now is not the time to rest, the Jin Army from Dading Mansion will arrive soon, we must rush to Dading Mansion today, otherwise, once Wanyan Zongfu takes Jinzhou City, we will have no way out! Let's work harder, everyone, after breaking the Dading Mansion, I want you to take a good rest!"

After hearing Xu Yi's words, all the generals in the army nodded and agreed: "My lord, don't worry! As long as you don't die from the low work, you must rush to Dading Mansion tonight!"

Under the urging and encouragement of the generals, the exhausted soldiers once again mustered up their courage and rushed forward.

After coming out of Laizhou, along the way, Xu Yi and Li Bo led the army to rush around, and whenever they encountered towns, they bypassed them directly, and did not disturb them. The Golden Rangers near them exhausted the newly recruited auxiliary soldiers, but looking at the soldiers of the Fubo Army who gritted their teeth, these auxiliary soldiers also knew that they had been tied to the chariots of the Fubo Army , can only follow them and move forward together.

Fortunately, a group of mules and horses were obtained along the way, otherwise, just carrying these heavy supplies and armor would be enough to exhaust them to death.

This time the rapid march was a decision made by Xu Yi and the generals after discussing together, because after they captured the state, their goal had already been achieved!The reason why they turned around and killed Xiang Laizhou after capturing Jinzhou a few days ago, instead of directly choosing to go to Dading Mansion, is because Xu Yi wanted to create an illusion for the Jin people, making the Jin people or Zongwang mistakenly think that He wants to follow the sea, go all the way south, clear the road, and meet the Song army who is on the northern expedition, so that Zongwang and Zongfu of Dading Mansion can't figure out the movement of his army, and then suddenly leave Laizhou and go straight to Dading Going to Dingfu is to give Jin Guo another surprise and catch Zongfu by surprise.

And judging from the news sent back from all sides, their goal has been achieved. Zongwang on the side of Yanshan Mansion stood still, but the scouts from Dading Mansion reported that Zongfu had led an army of [-] guarding Dading Mansion. After leaving Dading Mansion, they headed towards Jinzhou. The road they took happened to be staggered with Zongfu's army. Otherwise, if they started from Jinzhou and went directly to Dading Mansion, they would definitely meet Zongfu's army. At that time, he will have to fight a field battle with Zongfu's Jin army who is good at field combat. Although he is confident that he may not lose to Zongfu, the loss of the third division will not be too small. He still dare not let go and fight The golden man fights the crowd tactics, and he only has [-] usable soldiers and horses on the Zhongjing Road right now. If they run out, it will be difficult to continue to operate in the Zhongjing Road!At that time, don't even lose the strength to run back to the sea, all your hard work will be tantamount to an end!
Therefore, Xu Yi and Li Bo's third division had to race against time. They had to take advantage of the emptiness of Dadingfu before Zongfu led the army to conquer Jinzhou, which was guarded by only 2000 people. Only then will there be a chance to bring Zongfu's army back from Jinzhou. Otherwise, Fang Youren's [-] generals who stayed in Jinzhou will die without a place to bury him. Zongfu was blocked between Dading Mansion and Jinzhou City, so this move was an extremely dangerous one!
If they succeed, the benefits are really tempting!The first will deal a huge blow to the entire Dajin Kingdom, and open up a battlefield where the Fubo army can move freely along the Zhongjing Road!
Second, it can severely attack the forces of the Jin people near the Zhongjing Road, set off the resistance of the old Liao people to the Jin people here, completely change the situation in the Kingdom of Jin, and block the north-south passages of the Kingdom of Jin!

Thirdly, it can cut off the support from the north of the Dajin Kingdom to the south, so that the Zongwang army in the south can't take care of their heads, and fall into the situation of hatchback fighting, which can effectively support the Northern Expedition of the Song army.

The fourth is a private idea that Xu Yi can't say now, that is, the Fubo Army can take the opportunity to seize a large area of ​​​​the Zhongjing Road in advance if the Song Army's Northern Expedition succeeds!Now he doesn't have the same heart with Zhao Xu. Establishing a country is what he must do. Only when he wins the land in the north can he really have the capital to fight against the Great Song Dynasty. Otherwise, once the Northern Expedition of the Great Song Dynasty succeeds, he and Sooner or later, he will turn his back on him. Da Song is orthodox, and his strength is far superior to his Fubo army, and he doesn't want to go to war with Da Song, to kill the Song people who are of the same origin as himself. , he can only give up his vested interests in Liaodong, and return to Liuqiu Island to be a small warlord!
Of course, if he fails, he may throw one-third of the most elite soldiers and horses on hand in Zhongjing Road, run back to Liaodong with his tail between his legs and stay there, and he may even throw himself in Zhongjing Road together. The risk is not negligible.

But based on the expected benefits, Xu Yi still decided to take a risk, play a little bigger, take down the Dading Mansion, and then stab them in the lower abdomen of the Jinren.

After a few days of rushing, the army was exhausted, but Xu Yi didn't dare to relax a bit. If the action to go deep into the hinterland of the Kingdom of Jin was a little slower, the entire army might be wiped out. Once the Jin people reacted, If you surround them from all directions, if you hold them back in the wild, you won't be able to escape even if you want to!

While Xu Yi was rushing all the way towards Dading Mansion, Jinzhou City also ushered in Zongfu's 1227 troops. Wanyan Zongfu is also a well-known general in the Kingdom of Jin. He is the third son of Jin Taizu Wanyan Aguda , also came out of fighting on the battlefield with his father since he was a child. In the fifth year of Zongfu Tianhui in history (20), he served as the right deputy marshal and stationed troops in Yanjing.In November, attack Songzi and Qingzhou from Hejian.The following year, the Song Dynasty defeated Ma Kuo with 12 troops in Le'an.After descending to Huazhou, he took Kaide and Daming and pacified Hebei.In the eighth year, he raised troops to Luoshui, defeated the Song Dynasty General Zhang Jun with [-] cavalry and [-] infantry in Fuping, surrendered Yaozhou, Fengxiang Mansion, went down to Jingwei Prefecture, defeated Song Jinglue envoy Liu Niziwating, and took over Yuanzhou.In the second year, he was the deputy marshal of the left.Take Baochuan City, descend to Xizhou, recruit Gong, Tao, Le, Xining, Lan, Kuo, Jishi and other prefectures and Dingyuan, Hezheng, Ganyu, Ningtao, Anlong and other city villages and the town of Baoleihan camp In the forties, he calmed down the Fifth Route of Shaanxi and sent troops to garrison the key points. It can be said that compared with Zongwang, he was not bad at all. He once made great contributions to the Kingdom of Jin, but all of this happened because of the appearance of Xu Yi, and history turned upside down. The changes made him no chance to complete these great achievements, but he could only be a local official in Dadingfu.

This time, when he heard that the Fubo Army had once again raided Jinzhou from the sea, he immediately became furious. Last year, the Fubo Army was within his jurisdiction, breaking through Pingzhou and Laizhou, and beating him. He was caught off guard, which made him very embarrassed. He was reprimanded by Wu Qimai and took away some of his rewards. The pressure on Dingfu is not small. Although he was not transferred to suppress the Fubo army, he was ordered to raise food and grass for the Zongwang army and Zonghan army who attacked the Song Dynasty, and to recruit troops for the army. Logistical work, hard work, scolding, but not seeing his credit, made Zongfu very unconvinced.

Now the Fubo Army is here again. Although the rupee said that the Fubo Army has tens of thousands of people, Zongfu is not an idiot. He immediately guessed that the rout had exaggerated the strength of the Fubo Army, so he didn't wait for Zongwang to ask His letter of dispatching troops was delivered to Dading Mansion, and he personally raised his troops out of Dading Mansion and rushed towards Jinzhou.

This time, he wants to personally meet the legendary invincible Fubo army, whether it is as powerful as the rumors, this Xu Yi's appearance in Jinzhou City this time is just an opportunity for him to make meritorious service, so he can't wait So he led his troops to Jinzhou City, thinking about meeting Xu Yi himself for a while.

Fang Youren, the commander of the second regiment, guarded Jinzhou City. When Xu Yi left Jinzhou, he told him that once the Jin soldiers came to attack, no matter how much he paid, even if he was the last man in the battle, he must defend Jinzhou City. For him, the task was both glorious and a bit embarrassing, because Xu Yi only left him two thousand soldiers, and it was really difficult to defend Jinzhou City. Fortunately, when Xu Yi left, he left him He fired half of the firearms to increase his firepower, and asked Sun Hai to transfer hundreds of people from the navy to increase his strength, and added a batch of supplies to him, which made him more confident.

During the days when Xu Yi left, Fang Youren did not dare to be negligent, and led more than 2000 soldiers to rush to repair the damaged south gate, and implemented military control in Jinzhou. The head helped them defend the city wall, but because of hasty preparations and limited troops, he did not choose the method commonly used by the Fubo Army to build fortifications outside the city for defense, but deployed all his troops on the city wall, and prepared Five hundred reserves were ready to support the four walls at any time. When Zongfu's army arrived outside Jinzhou City, the defense of Jinzhou City was basically completed.

As soon as Zongfu led the army to Jinzhou City, he scolded the Fubo Army in Jinzhou City, and asked the Fubo Army to go out of the city to fight. Fang Youren was not a fool, how could he go out of the city to fight with Jin soldiers ten times as many as them, so he hurriedly They closed the four doors, and answered the Zongfu army's call with the thunder cannon and crossbow in their hands.

As a result, the general Zongfu sent to challenge him before he could see what Commander Fubo looked like, he was turned on his back and died under the city. Zongfu was so angry that he scolded the Fubo army for not obeying the rules. He was sharp, but he also saw that there were not many Fubo troops in the city, and he heard that the main force of the Fubo army had captured the city of Laizhou in the south, so he immediately launched a violent attack on the city by virtue of the large number of others.

There was nothing fancy about this battle. It was a decisive battle from the beginning. Zongfu personally led the supervisory team to supervise the battle. Teams of golden soldiers were driven towards Jinzhou City. The Fubo Army in Jinzhou City just a few days ago It was still the identity of the attacker, and immediately turned into the identity of the defender.

Under the command of Fang Youren and the leadership of officers from various places, the Fubo army on the city wall launched a tenacious counterattack against Zongfu's army, using almost all the means at their disposal to attack Zongfu's golden soldiers.

The pick-up between the two sides on the first day caused Zongfu a big loss. Although he had already heard that the Fubo Army's weapons were sharp, he had never seen how sharp they really were. Instead of being able to attack the city wall of Jinzhou City, the corpses of more than 1000 people were thrown under the city. Zongsuke lost nearly one-tenth of his troops in one fell swoop. Surround Jinzhou City and fight slowly.

But he forgot one thing, that is, to send someone to find out where Xu Yi went after he brought the main force of the Fubo Army down to the state!
Zongfu should be unlucky. In fact, more than ten thousand people in Xu Yi wanted to be completely invisible and invade the hinterland of the Kingdom of Jin. It was an impossible task at all. Some Jin people on the road found their traces more or less, and someone ran to inform them. Jin Guo officials in the local area, but these officials did not believe what these people said, thinking that if the Fubo army really came, would they not attack their towns, and slipped past, so they did not pay attention to the reports of these people, So he suppressed the news, and just sent some scouts to check it out, thus missing the opportunity for Dading Mansion to prepare in advance, and Zongfu failed to grasp the real whereabouts of Xu Yi and his main force.

Zong Fu never imagined that Xu Yi would be so bold that he would lead an army of more than ten thousand soldiers to penetrate hundreds of miles into the hinterland of the Kingdom of Jin and directly take the Dading Mansion he was guarding. On the other hand, after besieging Jinzhou City with confidence and boldness, he insisted on retaking Jinzhou City, an important place, before looking for Xu Yi's main decisive battle.

After besieging Jinzhou, Zongfu accepted the lesson of the first day's encounter, adjusted his tactics, and made more preparations, then launched another attack on Jinzhou. However, Fang Youren led his army to resist firmly on the city wall. Zongfu's offensive was disintegrated time and time again, and caused a lot of casualties to Zongfu's army. Zongfu was so angry that he jumped outside the city and cursed, but there was nothing he could do about this small city of Jinzhou.

The more angry you are, the easier it is for you to lose your mind. At this time, Zongfu violated the taboo of being a general. He lost his due calmness, forgot to think about things, and just kept mobilizing Attack on Jinzhou.

In this way, although Fang Youren successfully held back Zongfu's army, he was under tremendous pressure. After Zongfu's army attacked Jinzhou for three consecutive days, he also lost a lot of soldiers on the city wall, and here It is not the territory of the Song Dynasty. Although the common people in the city did not dare to take the opportunity to cause chaos, they did not actively cooperate with the Fubo army to fight against the enemy. Once the Jin army outside the city launched an attack, these strong men who were driven up the city wall would also be passive and sabotage, hiding under the battlements and refusing to show their faces, so the only ones who really resisted the Jin army were Fang Youren's 2000-odd Fubo Soldiers, so after the losses increased, the situation began to become more dangerous, and the defense in some places began to have loopholes due to lack of manpower.

Fang Youren personally boarded the west wall where the battle was most intense, led his troops to resist, and repeatedly repulsed the Jin army, but suffered several arrow wounds on his body. Even so, he refused to retreat from the wall to bandage up. It aroused the fierceness of the brothers under him. Anyway, they all knew that once Zongfu broke through Jinzhou City, none of them would be able to leave alive, so they all fought to the death. The golden soldiers who had climbed the city wall rolled down together, smashing down a string of golden soldiers on the ladder, and fell to death together on the ground below the city, spreading blood under the city of Jinzhou.

At this time, Xu Yi had already led his troops to start the prelude to the battle against Dading Mansion. The Fubo Army suddenly appeared ten miles outside the city of Dading Mansion, and the Jin people here were scared to death. Unexpectedly, when the main general Wanyan Zongfu led his troops to leave Dading Mansion to encircle and suppress the Fubo Army, the Fubo Army ran outside the city of Dading Mansion instead, so they hurriedly began to prepare for defense, but at this time, only There are more than 5000 generals in the area, and most of them are old and weak soldiers. But the discerning Jin Bing glanced at the Fubo Army outside the city, and knew that the number of Fubo Army far exceeded the number of soldiers in their city, so Hurry up and force the people in Dadingfu to go up to the city to defend together.

Standing outside the city of Dadingfu, looking at the former Zhongjing of the Liao Kingdom, Xu Yi gasped for a while before expressing emotion. This was the first time he had been to this place, and he saw the city of Dadingfu from a distance. Before coming to the majestic and unusual Daliao Pagoda (called Daming Pagoda in later generations), he had done some understanding of Dading Mansion. Dading Mansion was actually Zhongjing before the Liao Kingdom, which was the heyday of the Daliao Kingdom. The city built was the most magnificent city in the Liao Kingdom, even bigger than Shangjing in the Liao Kingdom, and was later used by the Liao Kingdom as the capital. It is one of the most important cities in the Liao Kingdom and the current Jin Kingdom. First, everything was built in the imitation of Bianliang City in the Song Dynasty. It has a circumference of [-] Li and is divided into the inner city, the outer city and the imperial city. A reduced version of Bianliang City.

Moreover, since it was built here, it has been the economic and cultural center of the Liao Kingdom, and has had a huge impact on the south of the Liao Kingdom. However, a few years ago, it was also captured by the Jin people, which made the originally majestic city somewhat dilapidated. But this does not affect the majestic appearance of Dading Mansion, it still gives people a sense of majesty.

When Xu Yi was in the later generations, he had no impression of this place, and he had never been here. He only heard that it was destroyed in the flames of war in the Ming Dynasty and became a ruin. But after arriving here today, he still had to For this historic city, he expressed his sincere admiration. The Dading Mansion in front of him is much taller than the Liaoyang Mansion in Tokyo they attacked last time.

Looking at the golden soldiers running back and forth on the city wall through the binoculars, Xu Yi knew that this treasure was right again today. Judging from the sparse number of golden soldiers on the city wall, the huge Dading Mansion is indeed very empty of troops. In normal times, if he was asked to lead [-] soldiers to attack a city like Dadingfu, even if he had sharp artillery, it would undoubtedly be like a dream if he wanted to take down this fortified city in a short time, but today is different, Because today's Dading Mansion is really an empty shell.

From the mouths of the surrendered soldiers from Dading Mansion, Xu Yi and others learned that since the Jin people captured Dading Mansion, the Liao army in the city resisted fiercely when the Jin soldiers attacked the city. After the destruction, Jin soldiers wantonly burned, killed and looted here, which made the Liao people understand the Jin people very well. Moreover, during this period, because the Kingdom of Jin wanted to support the army going south to attack the Song Dynasty, for more than a year, the Jin people were near Dading Mansion. It can be said that it is excessive expropriation, which has made the people in this area miserable. The people here have long complained about the Jin people and wished to kill them. The reason why they surrendered to the Fubo army so readily this time is because of them. Most of them are from this area, and they are not willing to sacrifice their lives for the Jinren at all, so they are willing to join the Fubo Army and settle new and old scores with the Jinren.

As soon as Xu Yi led the army to Dading Mansion, he immediately dispatched a cavalry regiment to block the four gates of Dading Mansion, strictly preventing the Jin people in the city from going out to ask for help, and concentrated the main force at the main south gate. Ready to attack the city.

Considering that the soldiers were already exhausted from the rapid march for the past few days, so when they arrived at Dading Mansion, they did not start attacking the city immediately, but let the soldiers set up camp and have a good rest after the encirclement was formed. Night, after all, attacking a big city of this size is a huge test for their army. If the brothers don't recover their strength, they won't be able to persevere!
When Xu Yi's soldiers and horses surrounded Dading Mansion, the Jin army in the city had already been in a mess. The leader staying here was the deputy general of Wanyan Zongfu, named Wanyan Jiamu, the youngest brother of Jin Taizu, During the Zhang Jue Incident, he once defeated Jia Mu, but due to various reasons, Jia Mu could only become the deputy left guard of Dading Mansion. Yan Jiamu was also panicked.

He is well aware of his current strength. Due to successive years of fighting, Dading Mansion, as a major city in the hinterland of the Jin Kingdom, basically has no foreign troubles to worry about, so there have not been many troops stationed here. In addition, the recent war in Liaodong has been tense. The war in the city has also begun to tighten. The soldiers and horses stationed here have been transferred away again and again, leaving a serious emptiness here, but because no one thinks that Dading Mansion will be attacked at this time, no one pays attention to this matter. , and this time I heard that after the Fubo Army captured Jinzhou City, the furious Wanyan Zongfu personally collected [-] soldiers and horses in the city, and sent troops to Jinzhou to conquer the Fubo Army, so basically Dading Mansion can only be regarded as an empty city now. Speaking of which, there are still about [-] generals, but most of these people are old, weak, sick and disabled, and their combat effectiveness is considered to be the lowest group in the Jin army. Otherwise, they would not be allowed to stay in Dading Mansion old age!

(End of this chapter)