Chapter 583: Zeguo Jiangshan enters the war map (2)
First there was a slight tremor in the air.
The withered grass lay low in the field beside the bushes, and the soil particles trembled slightly in the grass. Then the sound gradually became louder, and the slight horse hooves gradually turned into a rapid roar. Suddenly, the war horses rushed from the bushes.
out!
One horse, ten horses, a hundred horses... The galloping cavalry rushed towards the wilderness like a torrent of conflict. The knights on horseback were tall and rugged, wearing broad robes and fox-tail hats from the north. They came from the north.
The cavalry of the Kingdom of Jin. Amid the rapid galloping, the knights on the horses were also skillfully drawing their bows and nodding arrows.
The field of vision swept forward along the ground. More than five hundred soldiers of the Wu Dynasty had already formed a tight formation, and spears were piercing out in front of the formation like a forest. General Tang Weiguang looked at the Jurchens who were speeding towards them.
Riding, he clenched his fists in his hands, raised them high, and said loudly: "Don't panic! The formation is not chaotic! Stay close! The bows and arrows are ready -"
"--put!"
A stone's throw away.
Arrows flew into the sky, criss-crossed in the sky, and fell in different directions.
The cavalry of hundreds of people turned while galloping, drawing a huge arc amidst the roar. Arrows fell with crackling sounds, some hitting the shields, some piercing into the soil, and a small part of them saw blood.
Tang Weiguang pushed aside the shield-wielding guard beside him and looked at the Jurchen cavalry with wide eyes. The roaring torrent drew an arc in front and moved towards the flanks.
"Prepare your bows and arrows! Give me the order! Turn the formation to the west - don't mess up! As long as there is no mess, they can't do anything to us -"
The formation of spear and sword and shield soldiers in front turned in one direction and faced the Jurchen cavalry again.
"push--"
The forest of spears advanced slowly, and in front of it, the torrent of Jurchen cavalry rushed forward again, turning into an arc in front of the field of vision.
Almost at the same moment when the Jurchen cavalry fired arrows, Tang Weiguang waved his hand violently.
"put--"
The arrow rain crisscrossed again and fell sparsely. On the Jurchen side, some cavalry also fell off their horses.
"There's nothing to be afraid of, just keep an eye on them and push them!"
The infantry array advanced slowly with the spears in hand. The archers drew their bows again, and the Jurchen cavalry opened the distance. Then they circled back and fired a third time. After this exchange of fire, the Jurchen cavalry separated from the middle and became two.
The troops crossed and galloped for a moment, outflanking them from different directions. The formation of the infantry also began to change again, tightening towards the center as it expanded. Another round of volleys fired from both sides. After more than 400 Jurchen cavalry merged, the small
After turning around in a circle, I finally reluctantly headed towards the far distance in my field of vision.
In front, there were several corpses of Jurchen soldiers and injured horses. They had no time to restrain themselves.
Tang Weiguang clenched his fists and looked over, his palms sweating slightly and trembling. He was still confirming whether the Jurchens had really left. In the previous rounds of confrontation, each other's losses were not heavy, and the response and change of formation seemed simple.
It was simple, but he knew in his heart that as long as there was a slight difference, the more than 500 people in his group would instantly collapse and be harvested by the Jurchens like a flock of sheep in the wilderness.
"Sir, we won." Someone said happily beside him, "We beat the golden dog away!"
"Uh..." Tang Weiguang was stunned. He originally wanted to retort subconsciously, but then he nodded: "Find someone to pack up the loot and bandage the wounded."
He walked towards the soldiers in front: "Did you see that the golden dogs were beaten away by us? They have nothing to fear. As long as they act according to the rules, these golden dogs dare not confront us! We train so much on weekdays, what do we have to be afraid of?
of--"
Then someone shouted loudly: "Sir, we are not afraid!"
"That's right, they are just uncivilized Jurchen barbarians. If one comes, let's chop him off——"
Someone burst out laughing, and Tang Weiguang also laughed: "Okay! That's it. When I get back, I'll ask you for credit!"
There were cheers in the military formation.
Then the scouts went to investigate the whereabouts of the Jurchen cavalry, and a group of soldiers dragged away the bodies of the Jurchen horses that had fallen on the field.
Within a radius of hundreds of miles outside Bianliang City, large-scale troops have gathered from all directions. The number of troops stationed in the core area is as high as 170,000, mainly gathered in the Lankao and Qixian areas to confront the Jin soldiers.
The total military strength in Bianliang City at that time was between 70,000 and 90,000. On the other hand, there were tens of thousands of soldiers scattered around Kaifeng Mansion. They were responsible for guarding the place, evacuating the crowd, and providing relief to the Jurchens.
The grain raiding team exerted pressure and squeezed the Jurchens' living space.
Teams of 500 people, 1,000 people, and 2,000 people were scattered in various places in this area. Every day, conflicts broke out everywhere. The Jurchens' grain-plundering team met them and started fighting. One by one
The battle reports all show the intensity of friction before the war...
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"...On average, there are at least 20 conflicts involving more than 200 people every day. Eighty percent of the cases on our side are good news. I think the Jurchens are about to surrender."
The yellow leaves were falling, and the small convoy was driving forward on the road in the woods. Ning Yi was riding on the horse, frowning and talking in a low voice. Next to him was Su Wending of the Su family, a young man who was young at the time.
At this time, there was a calmness on his face.
"Seeing that the war is coming, I think the army also wants to boost their morale."
"The problem is that these things actually don't mean much." Ning Yi said, "And you are too naive. The war is coming... But many people actually don't have the confidence. People like the military leaders, Tong Guan, and Gao Qiu don't have this confidence.
Neither did Li Xiang... Of course, maybe it can't be said that Li Xiang didn't, but this time he was under too much pressure. There were more than 80,000 troops in the capital, but they would not send a single soldier, and now there are nearly 200,000 troops outside.
If our army goes to war with Wanyan Zongwang, no one is confident that they can win. What everyone is really waiting for is negotiation."
"Of course we can't worry too much about these things." Ning Yi did not continue to talk about the overall situation and sighed, "I have been having a headache recently about how to deal with the cavalry. The Jinren's kidnapper horse, except for having another cavalry to fight against, is really
It’s very difficult to find a solution.”
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Su Wending thought for a while: "Don't everyone in the army say that if the infantry array is well maintained, it is not impossible to defeat it."
"That's just nice to say." Ning Yi shook his head, "After all, the number of Jurchens here is smaller than ours, and the war has not yet started. They don't want to have a head-on confrontation. They are all testing with a circular formation. You can handle it.
He will leave. If you can't handle it, he will take advantage of the situation. But if you want to chase him, you won't be able to catch him. So the good news now is all false and meaningless."
"The Jurchens are afraid of head-on confrontation. Is there any way to force them to do so..." Su Wending said.
"Let's not talk about how to force it. Even if it is a head-on confrontation, it is still seeking death. If the cavalry is really used to charge into the formation, there will be some casualties in the front line, but after the infantry formation is rushed away, the formation will naturally be chaotic. With the current combat strength of the Wu Dynasty army
, the next step is harvesting, and when the time comes, the real battle report will most likely be a disastrous defeat, and now it’s just because the Jurchens don’t even want to pay this loss.”
While he was talking, someone suddenly came from the front on horseback. It was a master recruited by Zhuji. At this time, he was exploring the road ahead as a spy. He whispered a few words, which made Ning Yi's face turn slightly.
Changed...
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Outside the woods was a smooth hillside. Down the hillside, a brutal pursuit and killing came to an end. The fleeing soldiers were overtaken by the cavalry flying from behind, and their heads were chopped off with long swords. A large number of tragic casualties were suffered.
The road spreads forward and backward.
This was a scattered Wu Dynasty army. Some of the defeated troops were chased into a small village ahead. However, the people in the small village had basically evacuated. Some cavalry rushed in. After a while, in the village,
A fire was set.
Some cavalrymen were searching for oil and water from the corpses on the road outside, but they moved very quickly, and the few unpalatable dry rations carried by the army were quickly thrown away by them. It seemed that these cavalrymen still had something to do. After gathering together, they turned back
Running in the direction, in the afternoon sunshine, a Jurchen cavalry cheered and threw the head into the sky.
The cavalry went away. After a while, Ning Yi, Qi Xinhan and several other guards appeared at the edge of the forest. He could know that he had met 20% of the people who were not lucky.
Several people came down from the grass slope to check if there were any survivors. When they finally found a dying casualty in the grass on the roadside, after hearing what he said, Ning Yi was slightly stunned and looked at
Toward the direction of the Jurchen cavalry.
But at this time, he had no choice...
The Jurchen cavalry rushed back several miles away, and a civilian migration team of thousands of people was surrounded by some of them. At this time, the Jurchens forced them to hand over their baggage, property, rice, grain and other things.
It's coming to an end. The things everyone handed over formed a hill in front of the array...
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Tian Ashan felt that his hands and feet were cold and his whole body was shaking. He felt that he might die.
His wife was holding his hand next to him and kept crying softly. She cried but did not dare to make a sound to alarm the Jurchens, so she kept shaking.
When the Jurchens drove them to hand over their belongings and rice, they went over and threw their baggage and gold and silver on the hill. Then they heard the Jurchen next to them say something. He was stunned, and then the other person repeated
After reading it once, he knew very well that the other party was saying in Chinese: "You take off your clothes!"
"Wha, what..."
"Take off your clothes, who knows if you are hiding something on your body, and all of you, take off your clothes!"
A Jurchen suddenly said: "That's right! That's right!"
Then there was roaring laughter.
Tian Ashan was stunned there, just shaking his head subconsciously. The next moment, the Jurchen came over impatiently, pulled his wife aside, and tore off her clothes with a loud bang: "Take off your clothes!"
"Ah——", the woman screamed crazily, and Tian Ashan waved over subconsciously: "What are you doing? You don't want..." Not far away, a Jurchen general walked over with a gloomy face, and brushed
One knife, and then a strong kick to kick Tian Ashan away.
Tian Ashan saw his hands flying out, blood spurting out, and the Jurchen general's knife piercing his wife's back.
"What are you doing! Don't delay." The general shouted in Jurchen dialect, "Kill——"
"yes!"
More than four hundred Jurchen knights drew their swords at the same time and hacked into the crowd.
…
The intense and boiling time only lasted for a moment, and the sound gradually disappeared. The Jurchens each packed up their trophies, looked at the afternoon sun, and went back in the direction of Moutuogang. Not long after, they met a soldier on the way back.
The two sides faced off for a moment. The Jurchens threw down some heavy objects and several carts, and ran away with only valuable and easy-to-carry belongings and rice grains.
Not long after, Ning Yi saw this good news among many intelligences. It said that the Jurchens brutally massacred a civilian team of thousands of people, plundered their property, and met a flanking force of the Wujie Battalion. After the two sides fought fiercely,
, the Jurchens fled, and this army recovered a large amount of property.
Such victories and defeats are staged fiercely every day.
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In Taiyuan, the autumn wind blows.
When Qin Shaohe walked out of the tower, he coughed a few times subconsciously and wrapped his clothes tightly.
The city wall is full of soldiers standing guard. Inside and outside, there are traces of countless battles, residual blood stains, traces of flames, and traces of being hit by stone bullets. Outside the city, the Jurchens’ tents stretch out.
Through the thick wooden wall, you can see the figures of soldiers walking among them. The attack and defense for more than a month have ended for several days. It seems that the Jurchens have planned to be trapped for a long time and no longer attack. At this time, walking on the city wall
, among the soldiers, Qin Shaohe suddenly felt as if the world and the earth had become quiet.
This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! After more than a month of repeated attacks and defenses, it is hard to imagine what a huge pressure it was. The city wall was broken through several times and recaptured by force several times. Several times, Qin Shao and
He thought that Taiyuan was about to fall. Wanyan Zonghan, who was outside the city, had already threatened to kill all the people in Taiyuan after the city was broken. But in the end, the city wall was still firmly guarded here.
Although Qin Shaohe never actually fought with a sword after taking the lead for the first time, he still suffered several injuries on the city wall. At this time, his body lost a lot of weight, and his body exuded the smell of medicine. He would collapse if the wind blew.
An illusion. But only his eyes have become quieter and firmer than before, which is something accumulated due to "death" after many people fell around him.
He looked quietly at the direction of the Jurchen tent from a distance, and at this moment, he actually understood where the feeling of tranquility in the world came from.
Taiyuan has become an isolated city.
In the second half of the siege battle, on the Jurchen side, it was not Zong Han who directed the war, but his general Yin Shuke. Zong Han led other troops and wiped out all the troops near Taiyuan within half a month.
The city has turned today's Taiyuan into an isolated city.
But it was also like a nail, nailing the Jurchens' Western Route Army here, making it impossible for them to move south with peace of mind.
Someone came over next to him, and it was Li Pin who also smelled of medicine and was thin. Qin Shaohe had laughed at him not long ago, saying that literati were weak and Li Pin fell ill from exhaustion, but even if he was sick, he
He is still accurately responsible for his work, but he is also not in good health and is responsible for inciting many people to go to the city wall, Cheng Zhouhai.
"Master Qin, the food has been collected." Li Channel said, "There is basically enough food for the city people to eat for three months in the warehouse. If we start saving now, we can delay it for half a year."
"Enough." Qin Shaohe laughed, "When the outside news was cut off, I knew that hundreds of thousands of people were gathering in Bianliang. As long as the siege of Bianliang could be solved, the siege of Taiyuan would naturally be solved. The Jurchens advanced quickly,
With such a strong offensive, we can win quickly. I think they won't be able to hold off this winter. Ahem... you and I will have no choice but to spend our time with Nianhan and the others in Taiyuan."
"I'm lucky to hold such a humble position." Li Pin cupped his hands and smiled.
"You don't know if you don't fight." Qin Shaohe put his hands behind his back, looked at the sky, and breathed a long sigh of relief, "If it hadn't been for defending the city this time, Qin wouldn't have known that he was so good at fighting and... able to defend it.
This city..."
His voice became softer. Later, what he remembered was that he looked at the many people who died on the city wall. Among these people were officers, soldiers and civilians. The fighting in the past month was too fierce.
He was often stained with blood, often stepping over corpses while running, and even fell into a pool of blood. At that time, he had no time to look at these dead people, but now he remembered them.
After all, they will defend this city...
The autumn wind is coming, and winter is coming. When the mountains are covered with heavy snow, even the Jurchens walking out of the ice and snow will find it difficult to launch an siege in such weather. By then, the situation in Taiyuan City may be better.
It was much relieved. Qin Shaohe relaxed a little. He knew that as long as he pinned the Jurchens' West Route Army, it would be enough to greatly ease the war situation in the capital. All this, whether it was Qin Shaohe, Li Pin, Cheng
Zhou Hai, as well as many generals and officials, all understand in their hearts.
They will accomplish great things.
Due to the closure of the news, Qin Shaohe did not know that at this time, under the leadership of Zhe Keqiu and Liu Guangshi, the strongest Western Army of the Wu Dynasty was already fighting Wanyan Zonghan at Tianmen Pass. He also
Little did they know that at the same time, amid the confrontation outside the capital, the imperial court was discussing the conditions for peace talks proposed by Wanyan Zongwang to cede Taiyuan and other places.
He would not know that this short period of peace and relaxation would become the beginning of a long hell...