Great Song Pirate

Chapter 686 Variables
After listening to Wu Shu's words, everyone's expressions changed, but they also understood the meaning of Wu Shu. Now they are indeed in a dilemma. On one side is the huge Song army, and on the other is the powerful Fubo army. If you want to go home, you can only deal with the Fubo army after you beat the Song army to the ground first, and it is their habit to pinch soft persimmons first, so after listening to Wushu's words, These generals stepped in one after another and responded: "I would like to listen to the command of the commander-in-chief!"

After seeing everyone's expressions, Wu Shu nodded slightly: "That's right! If that's the case, let's start with Hedong Road first!..."

Immediately afterwards, Wushu began to throw down a command arrow, and sent out the army separately, and the whole Dezhou City became busy.

A group of Jin army soldiers and horses drove out of the Dezhou Camp in mighty force, and rushed to their respective goals.

After Han Shizhong led his troops to Pingyuan County, he immediately stationed his soldiers and horses. Pingyuan County is a small county. After the devastation of the war, there were not many people left in the county seat, and the city head also grew There are a lot of weeds, and the city walls are riddled with holes, making it look bleak.

Han Shizhong is a powerful general, he is a general from the lowest level of soldiers, so he has very rich combat experience, and he is a standard general who dares to fight and fight, but this does not mean that he is a reckless one. People, this time Jin Bing withdraws troops, in his eyes, he always feels that things are not that simple, Jin Jun seems to want to engage in some kind of conspiracy, but he can't figure out what kind of medicine is sold in this Wushu gourd, so he told Uncle Zhang Ye reminded him several times, and wanted to ask Zhang Shuye to be more careful.

But Zhang Shuye was born as a literati after all. Although he has rich experience in leading troops, he has read many military books and strategies on weekdays. He likes to talk about military affairs, but he is still a little weaker than generals like Han Shizhong, but he is old. However, although Han Shizhong was brave, he could only work under Zhang Shuye. After hearing what Han Shizhong said, Zhang Shuye had a different opinion from him, and felt a little disdainful.

From Zhang Shuye's point of view, the Jin army was frightened by their continuous attacks and harassment during this period, so they took the initiative to withdraw their troops and give up those state capitals. The best timing, so I didn't pay attention to Han Shizhong's opinion at all, but followed Zhao Xu's will, divided up the army and started to recover the old land. For a while, Zhang Shuye became famous in the Song Dynasty, and he faintly overwhelmed Hebei Zongze and Shanxi The momentum of a teacher.

Seeing that persuasion was useless, Han Shizhong himself couldn't think of what Jin Wushu was doing, so he gave up. This time he was ordered to lead troops to approach Dezhou to contain the Jin army in Dezhou, so he immediately raised some troops and left Jinan City, came to Pingyuan County.

But after arriving here, Han Shizhong stopped moving forward, but stationed in Pingyuan County, because he knew that after the Jin army had undergone this contraction, its strength had once again gathered together. Soldiers and horses, wanting to fight Texas is a joke. No matter how bold he is, he is not so bold as to be crazy. What's more, out of his 3000 generals, only 8000 are really trained by him. These [-] people They are all the people he brought over from Cangzhou before, and they can be regarded as real elite soldiers. Most of the remaining [-] people are some rout soldiers or volunteers who were just recruited from the local area a few years ago, and their combat effectiveness is not strong. After this period of hard work, they can already be used to set up a battle, but facing the same number of Jin Jun, these people are not the opponents of Jin Jun at all.

So he didn't intend to take these 1 people to take risks in Texas, but planned to keep an eye on the Jin army in the plain, so that the Jin army could not go south, attack Jinan, and form a barrier to Jinan, which is considered to have achieved his goal.

Not long after his soldiers and horses arrived in Pingyuan County, before they had finished repairing the city wall, they heard a report from a scout that a 7000-man golden soldier was rushing from the direction of Dezhou. Fight outside the city.

Although his generals dare not say that they are more elite than the Jin army, he still has the confidence to fight the Jin soldiers outside the city when the number is similar. Therefore, when the Jin soldiers arrived outside the city of Pingyuan, Han Shizhong He had already raised his sword and mounted his horse, and formed a formation outside the city, waiting for their arrival.

The two armies have nothing to talk about now, and the Jin people also know what kind of temper Han Shizhong is, and he can't be scared away, so he didn't talk nonsense. As soon as the two sides met, they started a big battle outside the city, fighting each other After fighting for a long time, seeing that they couldn't beat each other, they went back to camp and waited for another day to fight again.

During this battle, Han Shizhong strategized in the army and blocked the strong Jin army with his weak army, but his own losses were not too great. He also killed hundreds of Jin soldiers, which greatly boosted morale. After nightfall, Han Shizhong personally organized a team of soldiers, sneaked out of Pingyuan County, and attacked the camp of the Jin soldiers outside the city in the middle of the night. Taking the lead, he repelled the Jin army for [-] miles overnight, leaving behind more than a thousand weapons. Corpse, the angry general Jin Jun almost wiped his neck and hanged him down.

The Battle of Pingyuan was considered to be a test of Han Shizhong's ability to control the army. When the news of the victory reached the Jinan government, Zhang Shuye couldn't help but praise Han Shizhong greatly, calling him the best general of the Song Dynasty!
But such good news did not make Zhang Shuye happy for long, and soon he got a bad news. Zhang Qingjun, who set out from Weizhou, also encountered a large number of Jin soldiers in the area east of Yanci. Wu Shu personally led [-] cavalry, and when they ran into Zhang Qingjun, the defenseless Zhang Qingjun was defeated and fled when the two sides touched each other. There was no way for Zhang Qing to escape, and he was finally chased by the Jin army to the seashore. Fortunately, he encountered a few ships there, loaded him and the remaining dozens of remnant soldiers on board, and fled to the sea. Zhang Qing lost his life.

After the news came, Zhang Shuye was shocked. He suddenly remembered what Han Shizhong had reminded him before. As Han Shizhong had expected, Wushu's retreat was indeed a plan. What he needed was to concentrate his forces and send his Song army back to the ground. After defeating each of them, Zhang Qingjun was their first target.

After figuring this out, Zhang Shuye hurriedly sent someone to order Guan Shengjun to stop moving towards Dezhou immediately, and transferred to Linzi to garrison on the spot to prevent Jin Wushu's surprise attack on them.

But it was a little too late for him to understand. Jin Wushu started to send troops with all his strength this time. After he led his troops to defeat Zhang Qing's army for the first time, he only sent a small number of troops to chase and kill the defeated Song army. Taking the main troops and horses, they rushed directly to Linzi City without stopping, and intercepted Guan Sheng's soldiers and horses in the south of Linzi City.

Guan Sheng can be regarded as a brave general. Although the sudden appearance of the Jin army surprised him, but after seeing that he could no longer escape from the Jin army, he still commanded the troops and horses and formed a battle formation relying on a slope. Outside Linzi City, There was a big battle with the Wushu army.

There is a reason why Wushu can become the famous general of the Great Jin Kingdom. He is not an ordinary person. Apart from being brave, he is also quite treacherous, and his military management is quite strict.

When he intercepted Guan Sheng's [-] troops, he immediately commanded his Jin army and began to attack Guan Sheng's army. However, Guan Sheng suffered from not having many cavalry, so he could only passively defend. Wushu divided the Jin army cavalry into several waves. , Taking turns galloping around the periphery of the Song Army, constantly consuming the strength of the Song Army by riding and shooting, and constantly weakening the fighting spirit of the Song Army.

But the Song Army watched them come and go like the wind, and could only fight with bows and crossbows. Although it also caused some casualties to the Jin Army, compared to the casualties caused by the Jin Army, it can only be regarded as a pitiful word. Well, after going back and forth, these timid people in the Song army began to collapse, and chaos began to occur in the army. Although Guan Sheng killed several officers who were not good at controlling the troops in a row, the situation was slightly stabilized, but Jin Wushu immediately launched He launched a general offensive and dispatched the most elite Tiefutu in his army, with Tiefutu in the center, brazenly rushing towards the Song army's formation.

You must know that although the Song Dynasty had heavy infantry wearing infantry armor, those heavy infantry equipped with infantry armor were only owned by the Western Army and some elite Song Army in the past. During the battle, most of them have been wiped out, and even their armor has become the spoils of gold army.

Although after nearly half a year of rectification, Zhao Xu also did his best to re-equip the Song army, but the manufacture of infantry armor is by no means something that can be mass-produced overnight, so although the northern armies have recovered a lot However, in terms of equipment, it is still far behind the level before the war between Song and Jin.

After Jin Wushu used his mace, Guan Sheng's troops couldn't hold on as soon as the Tiefutu came out. These Jin troops armed to the teeth were basically immune to the arrows shot by the Song army, while Guan Sheng's army But there was no way to resist the charge of these living tanks, so after a short time, Guan Sheng's formation was broken from the center by Jin Wushu's iron pagoda.

As soon as the Chinese army was broken, all the formations were immediately destroyed. Guan Sheng's army could no longer effectively resist the Jin army, so in the Jin army's whole army assault, it began to be defeated. Poor Guan Sheng has been practicing for more than a year. The [-] elite soldiers who came out were wiped out in this battle, only Guan Sheng and a group of cavalry with horses escaped.

At the last moment, Guan Sheng was unwilling to fail, and started a fight with the Jin army. Although he killed many Jin soldiers, he was also seriously injured. If he snatches it out, Guan Sheng will definitely not be spared in this battle. Even so, when Guan Sheng is rescued by his own soldiers and sent back to the Jinan mansion, his life will be [-]% and only [-]% will be left, at least every one and a half years With Zai's self-cultivation, it is impossible to carry his Qinglong Yanyue knife to fight against the Jin army again!
After Jin Wushu defeated Zhang Qingjun and Guan Shengjun in succession, he rushed to Lu Chengjun who was setting out from Laizhou to meet him again. Fortunately, because his army was too tired, he met Lu Cheng's [-] soldiers After the soldiers and horses, they were finally blocked outside Laizhou City. Although Lu Chengjun blocked Jin Wushu's army, he lost half of his soldiers and horses, and was almost eaten by Jin Wushu.

Jin Wushu saw that his army was exhausted, so he loaded up with food, fodder, armor and other things, sang all the way, and returned to the Dezhou camp in victory. The battle ended in just a few days. Thousands of soldiers and horses ate up nearly 3000 troops of the Song army in a row, but only more than [-] people were injured, leaving a strong mark in the history of Song and Jin warfare.

This time Wushu's attack caused the Song Dynasty to suffer a great loss. The good situation of the Northern Expedition was on the front line of Shandong, and it was hit hard. On Zhang Shuye's side, except for Han Shizhong's army that still maintained its combat effectiveness, the rest A few soldiers and horses were either wiped out or completely disabled. It became impossible to recover in a short time.

For Da Song, it is no problem to replenish the number of people, but it takes almost no year to replenish so many armors and supplies at the same time, so don't even think about it. They should also be given enough time to practice, not to mention that there are not many qualified low-level officers in Zhang Shuye's hands, so who should control the troops?

So this battle is tantamount to putting a stop to the war in Shandong area. Only Han Shizhong's soldiers are left to support this big tree in Shandong. attack!So after this battle, the fighting in the Shandong area stopped, and the Song army's offensive completely turned to the defensive. Fortunately, Jin Wushu did not intend to continue to develop south this time. He had more important things to do, otherwise If not, it is not impossible to lose all of Hedong Road.

After Jin Wushu defeated the Song army on the Shandong side, he left some Jin troops stationed along the Dezhou line to monitor the actions of the Song army, and ordered them to send teams of thousands of people to go deep into the hinterland of Shandong to plunder. Searching for food and property to support the vitality of the Jin army basically solved the recent food problem of tens of thousands of Jin troops, and finally relieved Wu Shu, who was worried about running out of food.

After finishing the work on the Shandong side, seeing that Zhang Shuye was unable to launch another attack on Dezhou, Wu Shu confidently and boldly transferred the troops from Shandong to Zhending, where he was ready to meet Zongze's army. When he arrived, Wushu, who had tasted the sweetness, planned to do the same. Here in Hebei, there will be such a good show of running thousands of miles.

The news of Shandong's defeat soon spread to Hebei and Jingzhong. Zhao Xu was shocked when he heard it. He wanted to send troops there, but found that only the [-] soldiers of Yao Pingzhong who were guarding the capital were left. Years ago, Zhong Shizhong was ill and finally couldn't survive the New Year, so he let go and went west. Before he died, he returned the imperial army to Zhao Xu.

After thinking about it, Zhao Xusi did not hand over the power of this army to some veterans, but took control of it himself, letting Yao Pingzhong and Zhang Hu control it on his behalf. Zhao Xu is not stupid. He knows that this is a special period in the Song Dynasty. If he does not decentralize power, he will never have a strong army. The Northern Expedition was required, but for the safety of himself and Gyeonggi, the forbidden army controlled by Yao Pingzhong and Zhang Hu has not moved in the Gyeonggi area.

One is that the capital is inseparable from the protection of these soldiers and horses. The lesson of Zongwang crossing the river to attack Bianliang City for the first time is still fresh in his memory. On the back road, most of the imperial guards in name were destroyed in the battle last year. This army is already his last guard. If someone wants to rebel, this is the last card in his hand.

So after hearing about Zhang Shuye's big defeat, I took a look and saw that only Zhang Hu and Yao Pingzhong could be used at the moment, so I had to shake my head and give up, ordering Zhang Shuye to reorganize the army , while ordering Jiangnan and other places to continue to step up support for Shandong.

After Zong Ze heard about the situation in Shandong, he immediately summoned his generals to Xingzhou to discuss the matter and discuss countermeasures. As his confidant general, Yue Fei was not a vegetarian, and he immediately saw the Shandong soldiers. The reason for the defeat, and it is expected that after defeating the Song army on Zhang Shuye's side, Dingwushu will definitely transfer troops from Shandong to Zhending Mansion to reinforce the Central Army, which will then lead to a surge in the strength of the Jin Army's Central Army. He will definitely find a way to launch a fierce offensive against the Song Army on the Hebei side.

Regarding Yue Fei's opinion, Zong Ze took it very seriously, and Yue Fei's guess was also supported by Wang Yan and others. In the entire Zong Ze army, these generals also saw that Yue Fei was definitely not someone in the pool. In the past year, in the battles with the Jin army, Yue Fei has almost led a surprise army and rarely lost. Moreover, the soldiers under his command are brave and good at fighting, and they are the strongest fighting force in the entire Hebei army. Show admiration, let alone others.

Although he guessed the next move of Jin Jun, Zong Ze didn't think of any good way to deal with Jin Wushu, so he finally asked Yue Fei for advice.

"This matter is actually easy to handle. If the Jin army really gathers a heavy army in Zhending as we expected, then the end will be predictable. Jin Wushu will imagine that Shandong will defeat our armies one by one. Why don't we pack them up first, and don't leave any chance for Wushu to defeat us. The reason why Shandong suffered such a big loss is mainly because the Jin people gave up Weizhou, Laizhou and other places, making Zhang Shuai's soldiers In order to regain his homeland, Ma had to choose to divide his troops, leaving Jin Wushu a chance!
But we don’t need to worry too much. We have conquered many counties south of Zhending Mansion in a row at this time. It can be said that we have come here steadily. In order to be on the defensive, don't go to meet the front and hold back the Jin army, while Zongshuai sits in Xingzhou to support, and calls on the village brave to prevent the Jin army from crossing the line of Gaoyi. In addition, we have Beijing Daming Mansion, Xiangzhou, and Longde Mansion behind us Supporting each other, and during this period of time, the food and fodder we hoarded are no longer in short supply like last year. As long as these things are done well, they will not be able to drive straight in like they did when they went south last time, and Jin Wushu will have nothing to do with us!
Moreover, the final general heard a message from the Jin soldiers' captives, saying that King Jinghai of the Fubo Army had landed from Jinzhou, conquered Jinzhou and Laizhou in a row, and recently drove straight in, conquering the Zhongjing Dading Mansion in the hinterland of the Jin people. With such a strong enemy behind them, the Jin army will definitely have worries. As long as we hold them back, in summer, the Jin army will not be able to withstand the heat, so their offensive will weaken naturally. Then it will be us who will attack Zhending Mansion opportunity! "

Yue Fei stood in front of the map, pointed at the map and talked to the generals sitting in the commander's mansion, making everyone nod their heads.

"Pengju is really good, he thought things out so properly, not bad!" After hearing Yue Fei's words, Zong Ze was relieved a lot.

"I've also heard about Jinghai King Xu Yi. Although the Jinren tried to prevent the news from leaking, but the paper couldn't hold fire. Someone brought the news from the north. This King Jinghai is always doing things unexpectedly. He actually did such a bold thing, daring to go deep into the territory of the Jin Kingdom for hundreds of miles alone, catching a Jin man by surprise. In this way, the Jin army lost the two important supply areas of Jinzhou and Dadingfu. This is really enough for the golden man!
Think about it, King Jinghai is young, and the number of soldiers and horses is not too many, but he beats the Jin people with no power to fight back. We say that we have a lot of troops, but we have more defeats and fewer victories against the Shang Jin army. It's embarrassing! " Zong Ze had heard about Xu Yi's matter, so he couldn't help feeling emotional.

"Don't underestimate yourself, Zong Shuai. Thinking back when the Jin army went south, if Master Zong hadn't risen up and called us to fight against Jin in Hebei, I'm afraid that Hebei would no longer be the land of our Great Song Dynasty. Zong Shuai's credit is enough to go down in history! Why bother?" To compare with King Jinghai? As far as the general knows, the reason why the Fubo army is powerful is because they have a variety of strange skills and powerful weapons. After the bang, the world is moved by it. There is absolutely no reason for him to be spared, that's why he's so powerful, it's not a real skill!" A general under Zongze's account came out and said.

Zongze shook his head and smiled wryly. He didn't get entangled in this matter any more, and began to deploy defenses against the Jin Army. Another general, Wang Yan, was in charge of Heshun's defense, and the rest of the generals also had their own tasks, defending some counties.

After arranging these things, Zong Ze said: "Okay, everyone, this battle will be related to the success or failure of the Northern Expedition of the Great Song Dynasty. Don't be careless and let the Jin army take advantage of our loopholes. Zong Ze thanked you all on behalf of the people of the Great Song Dynasty !"

"Don't worry, Zongshuai, the last general will take the lead and never let the Jin people take advantage of us!..." The generals immediately got up and replied loudly.

When the Great Song's Northern Expedition went to such a point, it was once again full of variables.

(End of this chapter)