Sure enough, just as Hu Biao had judged, the situation was exactly the same. In the next few days, their actions along the way were extremely smooth.
On February 18, at about ten o'clock in the morning, the forward troops of the army arrived in Baozhou.
After arriving here, the forward troops can find it.
Baozhou City was also burned to ashes early after the Jin people implemented the tactics of fortifying the walls and clearing out the wild areas. Most of the residents in the city were taken away to Yanjing.
It is precisely because Baozhou City has no value at all.
Therefore, Hu Biao and the others did not enter the city, but directly drove the army towards Yanjing City...
At noon on the 19th, the Baigou River, which was familiar but unfamiliar to Hu Biao and others, had already appeared in front of them.
Thinking of the last mission, they led hundreds of people from the Xuange Camp across the river and headed for Pingzhou in the North with a death wish.
In order to avoid the humiliation of Jingkang, even after risking his life, it still could not be avoided.
And after five years, when they came here again.
Although the disgrace of Jingkang finally happened, they brought the strongest army in the world and prepared to take revenge after arriving here.
For a while, after thinking about all the past events mentioned above.
Hu Biao and all the netizens who are still alive now look at the rushing river and feel a little sad in their hearts.
While Hu Biao and others were looking at the water of the Baigou River in front of them, preparations for Yiying's army to cross the river were being made in an orderly manner.
Even some of the original bridges on the river have been completely destroyed by the Jin people.
However, due to the busy work of many craftsmen accompanying the army, a total of six pontoon bridges are being quickly erected.
Relying on the materials prepared in advance, this process was as simple as putting together building blocks. The pontoon was completely completed by three o'clock in the afternoon.
It was eleven o'clock in the evening, and all the hundreds of thousands of people from the Northern Expeditionary Army crossed the river. The footsteps of the Song Dynasty army once again set foot on the land of Yanyun...
On the 20th, the Northern Expedition army continued to advance.
However, Zhan Xiang and Fengrui in Yanshan learned that the remaining troops of the Ever Victorious Army, as well as other Jin people's participating troops, had evacuated overnight after receiving reports from their subordinates early in the morning.
Got a clean one.
In order to evacuate safely and smoothly overnight, they did not even take away the camp and most of the food, grass and baggage, leaving everything behind.
The large amount of food is enough for so many people in Yanshan to feed them for three to four months.
Suddenly, the refugees in Yanshan encountered a crisis, and by this time it was completely over.
The crux of the matter is that things cannot be settled like this, and so many soldiers and civilians, as well as the 'White Fox Empress', cannot die in vain.
In the time that followed, the two people, the 'Currently Master of Rolling Blinds' and the 'National Master of Tianxiang', issued their own call to the refugees in Yanshan and a group of believers in surrounding areas:
Fight back, block the retreat of Wanyan Wu who begged to buy, and use his head to pay tribute to the spirits of those soldiers and civilians who died in the sky.
There is no need to avenge the 'White Fox Empress', because she did not die in battle, but simply disintegrated her human body and returned to heaven.
When such a call spreads, there are immediately a huge number of followers.
In Yanshan alone, there are 30,000 elite soldiers and 25,000 civilians gathered together. If the believers from various states who come voluntarily are added, the number of people under the command of Zhan Xiang and Fengrui will exceed 20,000.
One hundred thousand people.
Even if one of the civilians is not very powerful in combat, relying on such a huge force can help them fight.
Basically, Wanyan Wu was blocked from begging for money. After seeing something bad, or after being defeated, he fled back to Huanglong Mansion...
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On the morning of the 21st, the Northern Expedition army was only 150 miles away from Yanjing City. At the current smooth marching speed, it could reach the city within two days.
By this time, the Yiyingjin people in the city were facing the approaching Northern Expeditionary Army, and they were already frightened three times a day.
It was also on this day that Hu Biao and others received a group of unexpected messengers.
To be more precise, they were the royal relatives of the Zhao family of the Song Dynasty, headed by Liu Wenyan, the consort who married Zhao Qiaoyun, the seventh daughter of Emperor Huizong of the Song Dynasty.
When these people saw Mr. Hu, they immediately burst into tears.
Crying and complaining about how barbaric those Jurchens were, and how much grievances they had endured in the Jin Kingdom for almost a year.
At the same time, they also brought a message from Wanyan Wu begging for money:
If the Song Dynasty is willing to stop the war, the Jin Dynasty is willing to release all the royal family members, as well as a number of civil and military officials; and is willing to withdraw from Shanhaiguan and cede all the land in the pass to the Song Dynasty.
If not, the day the army arrived at Yanjing City would be the day when many members of the Zhao royal family, civil and military officials of the Song Dynasty would die.
Faced with such a message, Liu Wenyan and other royal relatives also begged and asked Mr. Hu to help save people.
Mr. Hu touched the stubble on his chin and said firmly:
Since ancient times, not only the land within Shanhaiguan has been the homeland of the Han family; the Black Mountains and White Waters outside Shanhaiguan, and even further north, as far as the Beihai area where Su Wu used to herd sheep, are also Han lands.
How could the Jurchen barbarians have the confidence to use the Han family's homeland as a condition for peace in order to survive in an ignoble way?
Immediately, the ears and noses of some of the accompanying Jin men were cut off.
When they put it back, they also asked them to take a message with them to beg for money from the pseudo-emperor Wanyan Wu:
The hatred between the Song Dynasty and the Jin Dynasty cannot be washed away even by rivers and rivers. There is no mention of the strike, just wash your neck and wait for death.
As for the safety of the captured Zhao royal family in the city, as well as the civil and military officials.
Hu Xianggong even assured Liu Wenyan's consort and others that Dongchang's fans were fully prepared; they would naturally avert the danger and there was no need to worry about this...
On the 22nd, at three o'clock in the afternoon, the Northern Expedition army slightly adjusted its marching direction.
To be more precise, it changed from advancing all the way north to now advancing rapidly toward the northeast.
Such a reason for changing some directions of progress is actually very simple to say:
After seeing the terrifying siege ability of the Song army, Wanyan Wu Qimai, who knew that it was impossible to make the Song people stop their troops, had no intention of using the tall walls of Yanjing City to start an offensive and defensive battle.
Instead, he planned to engage in a life-and-death battle with the Song people outside Yanjing City, about forty miles east.
At least in such a terrain, they can take advantage of their large number of cavalry.
It would be impossible to use it in a city with complex terrain.
After the specific location of the decisive battle between the two sides was marked on the sand table by the combat staff, Hu Biao felt an inexplicable sense of familiarity.
This situation continued until Lang Qing, a local native a thousand years later, suddenly said:
"Good fellow! In the area between Yanjing and Tongzhou, isn't this the Bali Bridge? By the way, the Bali Bridge was only built during the Ming Dynasty, and it still doesn't exist anymore."
Upon hearing this, Hu Biao reacted.
Isn't this the place where Daqing fought against the eight coalition forces more than 700 years later in history? Isn't this the place where the iron-hatted monk Gelinqin suffered another huge defeat in his life?
"What the heck! It's actually a decisive battle here. I don't know if it's a good sign or a bad sign."
Hu Biao reacted and immediately cursed in his mouth.
But soon after, this guy calmed down and began to discuss with everyone how they should fight the head-to-head battle in the Eighth Palace.
There is definitely no problem in winning this battle.
The question is, how can we minimize our own casualties, and don't let Wanyan Wu, the target of begging, have the chance to run away.
For this, you really need to plan carefully.
But what Hu Biao and the others didn't know was that just as they were about to face the final battle on the Yanjing battlefield, the third army led by Ma Kuo, Lao Hei, Da Yu and Wu Zu in the northwest battlefield.
Their most critical battle is about to begin, and they will soon face off against the legendary Iron Kite...
