In the evening, the setting sun is like blood.

The fierce war slowly subsided.

The plain was covered with corpses, blood pooled into puddles, and severed arms were floating in the blood.

Zong Wang rode a horse, surrounded by a crowd of people, and walked on the battlefield that was slowly getting depressed.

As far as the eye can see, there are mountains of corpses and seas of blood.

I originally thought that to encircle and kill this Song army, I would only need to kill several thousand more troops.

But at this moment, the number of battle casualties has completely exceeded Zong Wang's bottom line.

"Report!" A scout came over from below, "Your Highness, the head of Yao Zheng, the leader of the Song Army, was found."

"bring it here."

Not long after, a Jin Army soldier took Yao Zheng's head over with great interest.

"Your Highness! This is the head of Yao Zheng, the commander-in-chief of the Song Army. Here is his nameplate."

Zong Wang took over the nameplate, which was already covered in blood scabs. It did have the words "Yao Zheng, Deputy Commander of the Third Army of the Shenwu Army" written on it.

"Go down and receive the reward."

"Thank you, Your Highness!"

Next, Zong Wang did not attack Cangzhou City again.

The positional battle between the two sides is actually not over yet, but the main troops have been killed.

There were some broken troops on both sides, scattered across the vast plains.

Some evacuated in the chaos, while others continued to fight.

It wasn't until the next day that the Jin army counted the number of people killed in the battle, and they actually found a number that made Zong Wang almost flip the table.

The Jin army lost more than 8,000 people in battle alone.

These are only those who died in battle, not counting those who became separated and disappeared after the army was broken up into many small units.

This means that Zongwang's army can no longer continue southward and penetrate deep into the Song Dynasty.

For the Song Army, this battle can only be described as tragic.

One deputy commander, three commanders, ten governors, thousands of soldiers, and countless others were killed in the battle.

This was an extremely brutal battle.

But it is also an extremely meaningful battle.

It was this battle that temporarily preserved the defense line on the eastern front, kept the battle situation on the east-west front from being unbalanced, and gained strategic space for Yue Fei's western front.

Not only that, the balance of the war was actually tilting towards the Song Dynasty.

Because on the second day of the Battle of Cangzhou, the Liaodong Army in Fuzhou began to march north to Liaoyang, and the battle between the Song and Jin Dynasties broke out, spanning more than two thousand miles from Hedong to Goryeo.

If Zong Wang quickly penetrated the Cangzhou defense line in a short period of time, Yue Fei would be forced to divide his troops and return to the east front, while Zong Han would push his army into the west front.

Zhao Ning, on the other hand, must use all his strength to resist Zong Han's attack.

Taking ten thousand steps back, even if Zong Han is stopped, Zhao Ning will face huge losses.

I am afraid that the warring factions in the court will also be under tremendous pressure, and may even cause further unpredictable chain reactions.

The political turmoil was very scary for the Song Dynasty, which was still implementing the New Deal in internal affairs.

Fortunately, Zong Wang's elite troops were blocked in Cangzhou.

Even Zong Wang himself had to lament: I won a tactical victory, but suffered a strategic defeat.

On September 4th, Liaoyang Prefecture received an emergency notification and discovered a Song Army warship in the harbor of Gaizhou.

And traces of the Song army were also found fifty miles east of Gaizhou City.

On the sixth day of September, after the emergency military report reached Liaoyang, Liaoyang began to urgently recruit a troop of troops and rush to Gaizhou.

However, the news was learned by Han Derang, the imperial envoy sent south by Wanyan Zongpan.

Handerang quickly wrote to Shangjing.

Once the war reaches Liaoyang, Yanyun's rear will be cut off by the Song army, and Zong Han and Zong Wang's retreat will be gone.

Also on the sixth day of September, the Liaodong Navy led by Zhang Rong brazenly launched an attack on Gaizhou Seaport.

The warships of the Song Army first attacked the Gaizhou harbor with trebuchets. Then the warships approached, and the long muskets made of steel spewed out flames.

On this day, a fire broke out in a ship in Gaizhou harbor.

In the afternoon, Zhang Rong commanded the Song army to land in Gaizhou and quickly took control of all supplies in Gaizhou seaport.

This is equivalent to cutting off part of Gaizhou's material supply.

Soon, the army commanded by Dong Tan also approached Gaizhou and further blocked the official road to the east of Gaizhou.

On September 5th, Korea opened its capital.

Qin Hui led people to the palace, where he met Wang Kai, the leader of Goryeo.

"I wonder what Mr. Qin is talking about when he comes to see Xiao Wang?"

Qin Hui said seriously: "I heard that you are sick?"

Wang Kai was stunned for a moment and said: "Thank you very much, Mr. Qin, for your concern. Xiao Wang may have just caught the cold occasionally."

This may be used more cleverly.

Because Wang Kai was not sick at all.

But Qin Hui said that he was sick, and he did not dare to refute, so he had to go along with the situation.

"I'll bring a doctor to treat you." Qin Hui continued.

"No need to trouble Mr. Qin..."

Wang Kai wanted to say something, but the doctor had already come over and saluted Wang Kai: "Your Majesty, please extend your left hand."

Wang Kai did not dare to refuse and stretched out his left hand.

After taking his pulse, the doctor said: "I have prepared a medicine for the king, which will ensure that the disease will be cured."

"Thank you, doctor."

I saw that the doctor actually ordered people to start cooking medicine on the spot.

"This is……"

"The king is weak and needs to take medicine immediately."

"now?"

"Yes, now!"

"this……"

Qin Hui said: "This is also for your own good."

"Thank you, Mr. Qin. Xiao Wang suddenly remembered that Han Shuai had something urgent to do with Xiao Wang today..."

"Come here, help the Lord take the medicine."

Qin Hui gave an order, and several people came over to capture Wang Kai, while another person gave Wang Kai medicine.

Wang Kai was force-fed the medicine, and then his complexion began to swell, and his whole body trembled in pain: "Qin Hui, you..."

"Ah, the king, what's wrong with you!" Qin Hui was shocked, "Quick! Check the king's pulse quickly!"

The doctor took Wang Kai's pulse and said: "The king has been working hard day and night on state affairs, and he has contracted the cold. There is no hope."

Not long after, news came from the palace that the leader of Goryeo had passed away.

Hu Yantong hurried to the Duhu Mansion.

"Han Shuai!"

"how?"

"Our army launched a protracted battle with the Jin army three hundred miles east of Xijing..."

"Tell the important point!"

"Two thousand three hundred and twenty of our cavalry were killed."

"So many!" Han Shizhong took a breath.

It seems that this temporarily formed cavalry is indeed no match for the golden man and the kidnapping horse!

"But the Jin Army's casualties are not small this time. The Jin Army's casualties are expected to be similar to ours."

"really?"

"The Jin army withdrew very quickly. When reinforcements arrived, they had already withdrawn. The general chased for a while but failed to catch up. The Jin army was unwilling to fight anymore."

In the past six months, the cruelty of Goryeo's battlefield has even exceeded that of Cangzhou.

Nearly a million Koreans alone died.

More than 200,000 people were directly killed in the war, and hundreds of thousands more were forced to leave their homes because their fertile farmland was destroyed, starved to death on the road, were killed by wild beasts, and were killed and eaten by their own kind.

Many state capitals and towns east of Xijing are already empty.
Chapter completed!