Great Song Pirate

Chapter 717
Throughout the winter, Wu Shu and Zong Juan led their troops to attack the Song Army who cultivated the way of teachers without stopping, hoping that after defeating the Song army who cultivated the way of teachers, they would take down Taiyuan Mansion and win a space for them to move around. .

But this time, I don't know whether they themselves are too weak, or the Song army has become stronger. The two led the army to work hard all winter, without even breathing, but they couldn't take down Xinzhou, let alone destroy the seed division. Dao's Song army captured Taiyuan Mansion, but the morale of the tossing soldiers and generals was even lower, and they were completely exhausted.

When the weather gradually warmed up, Wu Shu was sitting in the tent, and when he heard the news that Xu Yi from the Jinghai Kingdom had commanded more than 2 Jinghai soldiers again, and they were marching towards Fengsheng Prefecture, he panicked. Wake up, they are exhausted now, and the army is short of food and clothing, how can they still be the opponents of the Fubo army!

So he immediately recruited Zongjuan to discuss the matter, and the two murmured for a long time, so they had to suspend the attack on the Chongshidao Song army, move their troops eastward, and set up a defense line east of Datong Mansion, with layers of defenses, hoping to delay the attack. Take a look at the speed of the Jinghai army's westward expedition.

Other than that, they had no better way, but they had a good idea. After fighting for a whole winter, how could Zhong Shidao, a veteran of the Great Song Dynasty, let Jin Jun leave at will?So as soon as the Jin army retreated in Xinzhou, he immediately commanded the soldiers to follow the Jin army's pace and attacked Daizhou, so that Wu Shu had to split up with Zong Jun.

Wu Shu had already been beaten into a frightened bird by Xu Yi during the First Battle of Jizhou, how could he have the courage to face the army of Jinghai Kingdom!So he asked Zong Jun to lead some troops to Fengsheng Prefecture to fight against the Jinghai army, and he stayed in Daizhou to resist the Song army who had cultivated the way of teachers. Anyway, the Song army is still much better than the Jinghai army, at least his men The generals are not too afraid of the Song army.

And Xu Yi led the army out of Yanshan Mansion soon. He followed Yue Fei's suggestion and gave up the plan to attack Fengsheng Prefecture directly. Instead, he detoured to the north of Fengsheng Prefecture and suddenly appeared outside the city of Guihua Prefecture. The defenders of the Jin Kingdom in Huazhou were caught off guard. It took only two days to break through Guihua Prefecture (Xuanhua County), the first gateway of the Jin Army, and then immediately continued to move south without stopping, and arrived at Fengsheng Prefecture (Zhulu County). , this can be said to be the gateway to the northwest. As long as Fengsheng Prefecture is broken, Datong Mansion will no longer be in danger.

When the Jin Dynasty destroyed the Liao Kingdom, there was a fierce battle in Fengsheng Prefecture. The Liao army here resisted desperately and held on for half a month. Finally, they were defeated by the main force of the Jin army. This shows that Fengsheng Prefecture It is a strategic place, but also a strong city.

When the Wushu soldiers were defeated and retreated to Datong Mansion, they also attached great importance to the defense of this place. They stayed behind 3000 elite soldiers in Fengsheng Prefecture, and gathered more than [-] soldiers when the Jin army abandoned their cities and fled to Datong Mansion. The soldiers were stationed in the city of Fengshengzhou. The small Fengshengzhou, together with the original defenders, assembled more than ten thousand golden soldiers, in order to stop the Fubo army's westward march here.

But what Wu Shu didn't expect at the time was that after Xu Yi defeated him, he didn't immediately send troops to chase him to Datong Mansion, and let his precious troops be wasted here for a whole winter. In the case of Ma, it is estimated that with his remnant soldiers and Zong Jun's subordinates, the Zhongshidao army might not be invincible in a winter's battle.

But even so, Wushu did not dare to move the garrison in Fengsheng Prefecture, fearing that the Fubo Army would come here to make a surprise attack at any time. During the winter, the Jin army in Fengsheng Prefecture was in a state of panic. In the situation of the whole day.

It can be said that the defenders here have tried everything possible to strengthen the city's defenses, and have arranged several lines of defense in the direction of the east of the city leading to Yanshan Mansion. In their view, with such defenses, even if the Fubo army comes to attack, There is a huge price to pay.

Therefore, even after hearing that Guihua Prefecture was captured by Jinghai State, the guards of the Golden Army here did not feel too panicked. They gathered their men and began to deploy defenses in Fengsheng Prefecture, in an attempt to give Xu Yi's Jinghai National Army an attack. Head on.

Before Xu Yi led the army to Fengsheng Prefecture, a large number of scouts had already passed back the deployment of the Golden Army in Fengsheng Prefecture to the army. The location and other elements were drawn into a map and presented to Xu Yi.

After Xu Yi watched the deployment of the Golden Army in Fengsheng Prefecture, he asked Yue Fei to come up with an idea to see how he could take down Fengsheng Prefecture as soon as possible. This could be regarded as a test of Yue Fei's ability in using troops!

After Yue Fei finished looking at the map, he called the scouts over and questioned him in detail, and said with a slight smile: "Your Highness, don't worry about this matter, Fengsheng Prefecture seems to be arranged like an iron bucket by the Golden Army, but it is actually It is not that there is no room to take advantage of. Your Highness, please give Yue Fei a 1000-strong elite army. Your Highness only needs to feign an attack in the east of the city. In the end, we will guarantee that the enemies outside Fengsheng Prefecture will be cleared within two days. As long as we reach Fengsheng Under the city of Fengsheng Prefecture, with our artillery fire, we can definitely conquer Fengsheng Prefecture very quickly!"

Seeing Yue Fei's confident attitude, Xu Yi nodded and said, "1000 people is too few, I will entrust Daniel's [-] Dragon Army to lead, you just let go and do it!"

Yue Fei was overjoyed when he heard that, among the more than 2 troops, Daniel's Longwei Army is definitely the elite of the elite, and Xu Yi entrusted Daniel and Longwei Army to him to command, which shows how much trust he has in him up!
So when Xu Yi's army arrived about ten miles east of Fengsheng Prefecture, they stationed there. After Yue Fei fell into the night, he immediately led Daniu and three thousand Longwei troops out of the camp and hid in the night.

Fengsheng Prefecture is surrounded by three mountains, and only the east of the city is suitable for large army operations. Therefore, it can be said that the Jin Army put all its attention on the east of Fengsheng Prefecture, but did not pay enough attention to the north, south and west.

When Xu Yi led his army to feign an attack from the east, the Jin army defended against danger in the fortifications. The artillery did not do much harm to them, so Xu Yi led his army to attack two or three times, but they were repulsed by them, and they failed to gain anything. results.

But just when the Jin army was complacent, an elite army from the Jinghai Kingdom suddenly appeared behind the Jin army defenders outside the city. Yue Fei led the troops and spent the night bypassing the Jin army's defense line from the mountains. Suddenly killed behind Jin Jun, Jin Jun immediately panicked and fell into the situation of being attacked from both sides.

Jin Jun couldn't figure out how the elite soldiers of the Jinghai Kingdom appeared behind them like magic soldiers descending from the sky, and the leader of the Jinghai Kingdom general armed with long spears on foot, led the soldiers like wolves and tigers, howling Then he rushed into the Jin army, and the Jin army couldn't hold on for even a stick of incense, and then began to collapse.

Originally, the Jin army had not too many people outside the city, and there were only less than 4000 defenders. How could it be the opponent of the elite among the elite of the Longwei army?

And the leader of the army is Yue Fei, an unworldly famous general, together with the famous fierce general of Jinghai Kingdom, Daniu, they led the army in an assault, it was as if they had entered no one's land, and they killed the Jin army and fled in all directions. All the Jin troops outside Fengsheng Prefecture were wiped out, and only less than a hundred people fled back to Fengsheng Prefecture.

As a result, the few lines of defense that the Jin army regarded as impenetrable were easily broken by Yue Fei from behind, making Fengshengzhou appear in front of the Jinghai army like a stripped woman.

The Jin army in the city immediately turned pale with fright, and the morale of the army began to shake. Originally, most of these people were not Jurchens. After the power far exceeded their expectations, the soldiers of other clans in the golden army panicked.

Although the city of Fengsheng Prefecture is strong, its area is not large. After the defeat in the first battle outside the city, the strength of the defenders here has been greatly reduced to 6000 to [-]. At the beginning, a big city like Yanshan Mansion faced the attack of the Jinghai army. At that time, Jin Wushu didn't dare to defend the city, and led his troops to break through and escape from Yanshan Mansion. What's more, with their small number of soldiers, how could they face the Jinghai army whose number was many times larger than theirs? Talk about continuing the war!

Although the guard here is also a Jurchen, and he is also a confidant of Wushu's subordinates, but he has no way to appease the generals under his command. The situation in the city has been changed, but the morale of the army has been completely messed up.

After Yue Fei cleaned up the Jin army outside the city, he immediately joined forces with Xu Yi's army, and after a short night's rest, he immediately launched an attack on the city.

After a blast of artillery bombardment passed, the city of Fengshengzhou was hit with gravel flying randomly, and the city gate was also riddled with holes. After seeing the sharpness of the Fubo army's artillery fire, the defenders in the city immediately collapsed completely.

A golden general guarding the south gate was a Han from the old Liao Dynasty. Seeing that Fengsheng Prefecture could no longer hold on, he immediately beheaded several Jurchen officers under his command, then raised a white flag and opened the south gate to surrender to the Fubo army.

Yue Fei was immediately ordered to take charge of the matter, and immediately rushed into the south gate of Fengsheng Prefecture. Speaking of which, the Jin army had been operating for a whole winter, and Fengsheng Prefecture, which they regarded as the gateway to Xijing Road, was within two days. When it arrived, it was broken by the Jinghai Kingdom.

After Yue Fei led his troops into the city, his spears waved, and there was no Jin soldier who could go for a few rounds under his command. After only one hour, Yue Fei led his army to kill one of Feng Shengzhou's opponents. The golden general guarding the city tried to fight trapped beasts in the city, but unfortunately he was not Yue Fei's opponent. As soon as the two met, Yue Fei picked him off his horse with a single shot, and cut off his head on the spot. Level, picked above the spear.

As soon as the guard died, the Jin army immediately collapsed completely, and the whole army surrendered to Yue Fei, ending their resistance. Yue Fei's resourcefulness and bravery in this battle impressed all the generals in the army. There is no shortage of strong generals in the country, but people with both wisdom and courage like him are really rare, so even if some people still have a little dissatisfaction in their hearts, after this battle, they have nothing to say.

The speed of the fall of Fengsheng Prefecture far exceeded the expectations of the Jin Army. In their view, no matter how powerful the Fubo Army was, it would be impossible for them to take down two cities in a row. So at this time, Zong Jun still He is leading more than 1 gold troops, rushing towards Fengsheng Prefecture.

But when he just arrived in Hongzhou (Yangyuan, Hebei), he heard the news of the fall of Fengshengzhou and Guihuazhou. He was shocked, so he hurried back to Hongzhou and stationed here. In order to block the footsteps of Xu Yi's army from attacking Datong Mansion.

However, he still overestimated his own strength. The morale of the current Golden Army is not only low after losing consecutive battles, but it can be said that the elite has basically been exhausted in the past two years. There are many people in the army. They are all the old Liao people who were forcibly recruited from the local area, and they cannot compare with the soldiers and horses under Xu Yi in terms of quality, let alone the three thousand Longwei soldiers under Xu Yi, they are not comparable to them at all .

It can be said that the present is not what it used to be. Xu Yi has now fully grasped the initiative on the battlefield. Xu Yi has the final say on how to fight the battle, and there is no choice for the Jin army.

After Xu Yi led his army to take down Fengsheng Prefecture, he did not take any rest and left a few low-level officers on the spot to reorganize the surrendered troops here. As for their loyalty, Xu Yi will not consider it for the time being. Anyway, these Among the surrendered troops, after a fierce battle among the Jurchens, most of them were wiped out. A few chose to surrender to save their lives, and were immediately escorted back to Yanshan Mansion. Some manpower, and the remaining people, as long as they are not blind or stupid pigs, can see that the Jin Kingdom is already in a turbulent state, and the building is about to collapse, and it may be annexed by the Jinghai Kingdom at any time. They have no other choice, either If you fight with Xu Yi, there is only a dead end, so Xu Yi left a small number of officers in charge of reorganizing them at ease, and he and Yue Fei continued to lead troops out of Fengsheng Prefecture and rushed towards Datong.

Outside the city of Hongzhou, Zong Juan finally experienced the power of the Fubo Army for the first time. This time Zong Jun did not dare to lead his troops out of the city to face Xu Yi, but adopted the fighting method of shrinking his head, while defending Hongzhou, At the same time, he rushed to Daizhou to find Wushu for emergency, and asked Wushu to lead troops to save himself.

But Xu Yi and Yue Fei saw that Zong Jun was not fighting behind closed doors, so they couldn't think of any better way, so they immediately set up artillery to attack Hongzhou, and launched a real tough battle, which lasted for five days At that time, Zong Jun sent troops to block the four gates, personally supervised the battle in the city, and sent his cronies to stand on the four walls, and the battle was quite fierce.

And this battle also made Yue Fei truly understand the power of artillery, and began to adapt to the tactics of the Fubo Army. Every day, he must personally replace Xu Yi to supervise the battle outside the city, and launched a fierce attack on Hongzhou one after another. Three days later, Zong Jun did not wait for Wushu's reinforcements, and Hongzhou City finally could not withstand the onslaught of the Jinghai army. Although he led the army to make a final resistance, he was eventually killed by the rebellious army.

Once Hongzhou falls, the next stop is Datong Mansion, and what is Wushu doing at this time?It turned out that this guy was very cunning. After hearing Zong Jun's plea for help, he didn't dare to go to Hongzhou for rescue, but like a rabbit, he abandoned Daizhou City at night, and then the whole army came from Daizhou overnight without warning. The area retreated and ran clean.

On the contrary, his withdrawal made Shidao Zhong a little confused, because this time when Xu Yi sent troops, he did not agree with Da Song in advance to jointly attack the Datong Mansion, and because of the lack of news, Shidao Zhong didn't know the dynamics of Xu Yi's army at all. , I thought Xu Yi should still be gathering troops in Yanshan Mansion at this moment, but I didn't know that Xu Yi had already reached the Hongzhou area at this moment.

So after Wushu abandoned the city and fled, cultivating the way of being a teacher made him afraid of Wushu. .

After Wu Shu withdrew his troops from Daizhou, he didn't even dare to stay in Datong Mansion, so he mobilized the remnants and defeated generals around Datong Mansion, immediately abandoned Datong Mansion, turned around like a bereaved dog, and headed towards the Mongolian prairie without stopping. .

It's not that Wushu is too timid, but it just shows his cleverness. It's that he has already seen that he will never be able to stop Xu Yi's army. There is only one, and that is to die with Datong Mansion. Facing Xu Yi's sharp guns, he has no power to fight back. Instead of waiting to die here, he might as well find a retreat and leave a fire for Dajin Kingdom!He also understood the current situation, the Great Jin Kingdom was at stake, if he didn't find a way out in advance, then the entire Jurchen clan might be completely doomed!

That's why he chose to abandon Datong Mansion, and even the entire Xijing Road. He led the remaining [-] elites, took a large amount of property and soldiers from other tribes, and fled to the Wugu Enemy Commander Division together. The territory of the Mongolian tribe, but the current Mongolian tribe has not yet formed a unified country, and most of the tribes are scattered loosely on the huge Mongolian grassland, and he still has three thousand Jurchens in his hands, enough to occupy a territory in the Mongolian grassland , rest and recuperate!
And after Xu Yi captured Hongzhou, he received a tip from Datong Mansion. He sighed and lamented that Wan Yan Zongbi really ran fast enough. He failed to catch him twice, so he ran away like a rabbit. up!So he immediately ordered Yue Fei to lead a cavalry to go to Datong Mansion, control Datong Mansion, and lead the army to arrive later.

Yue Fei lived up to Xu Yi's great trust, and led his army to Datong Mansion immediately. He took over Datong Mansion within the first time, began to settle down here, and searched for the remaining Jin Kingdom forces to welcome Xu Yi's arrival.

When Xu Yi led the army to Datong Mansion, the situation in the city had already been stabilized. Yue Fei ruled the army very strictly. However, the looting of the generals will only create a lot of trouble for Jinghai Kingdom's future rule here, and he and Xu Yi agree on this point.

With Xu Yi's arrival, Datong Mansion has completely fallen under the control of Jinghai Kingdom. Until this time, Zhong Shidao was shocked to hear that the Jin army had already fled, and Jinghai Kingdom had already controlled Datong Mansion, so he was shocked and worried. He said that Xu Yi was really powerful, he actually finished what he hadn't done in two years in such a short period of time, and completely expelled Jin Jun from Datong Mansion.

Zhong Shidao couldn't help sighing a little, he knew that he had lost another great opportunity, because he was half a step too late because of his caution, otherwise, he would have the opportunity to seize the Datong Mansion ahead of Xu Yi, Because Xu Yi took advantage of the emptiness and seized the Hejian Mansion to avenge the Song Dynasty, at least to save the Song Dynasty's face, but now it is too late to say anything, let alone how powerful Xu Yi's troops are, Just considering the current relationship between Da Song and Jinghai Kingdom, he can't have any conflicts with Jinghai Kingdom, otherwise, I'm afraid his own officials will not spare him!

So after Zhong Shidao took down Daizhou, he stopped going north. He just sent troops to regain the homeland of the Song Dynasty, and did not dare to send troops to take the opportunity to seize the original scope of the old Liao, because the Dasong and the Jinghai Kingdom had an appointment, and the Dasong Song had essentially admitted that the Jinghai State would inherit the territory of the old Liao, so the fighting along the Xijing Road had basically stopped.

Xu Yi started to tidy up Xijing Road step by step, sending troops and horses to take over the ruling power of various places in Xijing Road, but at this time, an unexpected thing happened. He rode a fast horse and rushed into Datong Mansion. The man on horseback ran all the way to Xu Yi's temporary Xingyuan gate, turned over and fell off the horse, then got up in disgrace and rushed to the gate, shouting to Xu Yi's guards: "I am going to receive the people from Yunnei Prefecture. Urgent request to see the king!".

Xu Yi was discussing the next move with Yue Fei at this time, and when he heard that the guards had come to report, he immediately nodded and told them to bring the reporter in.

"Your Majesty! Something is wrong! The Xixia Kingdom suddenly sent tens of thousands of soldiers and horses a few days ago, drove straight in, captured Yunnei Prefecture in advance, and began to develop towards the north of Yunnei Prefecture. When I go to Yunnei Prefecture to receive , clashed with the Xixia Kingdom, we were caught off guard and suffered a great loss! The little one came here for help!" After the soldier was brought in covered in dust, when he saw Xu Yi, he knelt down on the ground and hurriedly Busy to report.

"What?" Xu Yi immediately became furious after hearing this. "Li Qianshun is really damned! He actually took this opportunity to take advantage of us! Send me Ma Zhe!"

Not long after, Ma Zhe ran in, and Xu Yi asked him angrily, "Tell me what's going on? Why did such a big mess happen without me knowing?"

Ma Zhe quickly replied: "Your Majesty, please calm down. This matter is due to my negligence. Some time ago, I also heard that the Xixia Kingdom Chen Bing was located in the south of Xijing Road. I thought Xixia was to prevent the Jin army from being defeated. The territory of Xixia was looted, so they didn't pay much attention to the situation there, but today, it seems that the minister was wrong, and the Xixia Kingdom decided to repeat the old tricks. I want to take the opportunity to reap some benefits, and at the same time expand their territory, creating a fait accompli!"

(End of this chapter)