Under Yizhou City, in a temporarily requisitioned restaurant near the city wall, all the tables, chairs and benches were pushed away, and a large sand table was placed in the middle.
Yang Lin and more than a dozen guards from around Yizhou were pointing around the sand table. This time Shou Youyan refused to give up an inch of ground. There were small-scale encounters almost everywhere. The number of casualties continued to increase, and each had its own victory or defeat.
Yang Lin looked around and saw that all the generals present looked a little tired. In order to encourage people, he pretended to smile casually: "We will fight for our lives as soon as we meet. This battle will take a lot of losses, but you should not be afraid of it. We are losing money."
The Tatars suffered huge losses. Behind us was the Song Dynasty, and they were just a small tribe in a mountain den. We had tens of millions of Han family members, and tens of thousands of them were killed or injured. The Khitans behind us dared to rebel against them.
.You remember, we are not afraid of a protracted war. No foreign nation can fight a protracted war with our Han dynasty. They do not have our heritage."
When the generals heard this, they cheered up. This battle was indeed a bit cruel, but what Shaozai said seemed to be really reasonable. After such a protracted battle, the Song Dynasty's own hematopoietic function was depleted, which was far stronger than that of the Jurchens.
Too many of their elite soldiers were really dead, so how could they suppress the Khitan men behind them in the vast land of the newly conquered Liao Dynasty? You must know that the Khitan are also known as warriors on horseback, not a group of lambs.
The constant replenishment of soldiers, population, money and food is enough to make Youyan become a quagmire of the Jurchen war, trapping them here.
The generals were whispering to each other, and when they were feeling a little excited, a soldier came in, clasped his fists and said: "Young Master, there is news from the sentry in front that a large number of enemy troops gathered out of Taining Mountain and headed south."
Yang Lin and all the generals made a move and gathered around the sand table. Looking along, they all fell silent.
"The Tatars are going to Hedong!" Wu Jie exclaimed.
"They came from afar to fight, but no food and grass arrived. We also have a strong wall and clear the country. Their supplies should be difficult to support their southward invasion. From this point of view, the only possibility for this Jin army going south is to go to Hedong without fighting.
place to plunder food and supplies.”
"That's not bad."
Yang Lin nodded frequently and said with a smile: "It doesn't matter. The imperial court has sent 200,000 imperial troops from the capital camp. Together with the soldiers and horses from the Hedong prefectures, the force is already ten times that of the enemy. Cai You, haha, although the battle is not good, I
Write a letter to teach him what to do. It is nothing more than strengthening the walls and clearing the fields, holding on to the fortress and city. Once a small group of Jurchen troops are found to be alone, they will come out from the city at intervals to lay siege, haha."
Yang Lin was really happy. The Jurchens divided their troops and went south, indicating that they could no longer support themselves. The food in the army must have been stretched thin. Otherwise, if the war here was so stalemate and the Jurchens had no remaining strength at all, they would definitely not
He divided his troops and went south.
There was a burst of laughter in the tent. Cai You led the troops, but he did not advance at Daming Mansion. It has become a joke. The Youyan generals waited for the 200,000 reinforcements mentioned by the court. When the flowers all withered, they did not
Saw a figure.
Now that the Jurchens have come to visit themselves, it can be considered that these 200,000 friendly troops have shared some of the pressure on themselves. Thinking back to what Shaozai just said, the Jurchens cannot afford to delay, and now it seems that there are signs that they cannot afford to delay.
Although the war will still be cruel and bloody, signs of hope have appeared, and they are showing an increasing trend. We generals only need to grit our teeth and delay for a few more months, and we will eventually drag out these ferocious savages.
Died on the land of Youyan.
Yang Lin was in a good mood, rolled up his sleeves, and said loudly: "Bring a pen and paper, I will personally write a letter to our Mr. Cai and teach him step by step how to fight! He only needs to follow the prescription and take the medicine. This small group of Jurchen
Illness, if you keep it, the medicine will cure it, haha."
After laying out the paper and pen, Yang Lin splashed ink and wrote eloquently and in great detail.
I just wanted my men to pack up and take them away, but then I thought about it, Cai You is a stick man. Although this matter is simple and clear, I am afraid that he has other ideas.
Yang Lin sighed, threw the letter aside, and reworded it. The content of this letter was still the same, but the wording was very polite, and even looked up to Cai You. No matter how much he looked down on him in his heart, he still coaxed him first.
Let's wait for him to win this battle. No matter what method Cai You uses, he will always be the direct commander of the 200,000 Beijing camp forbidden troops. Yang Lin has no way to change the general, he can only coax him, point out the way, and use
Military merit induces this person to do his job well.
All of this was done under the eyes of the generals, and everyone couldn't help but secretly admire that the young master was so distinguished that he was almost on an equal footing with Cai You's father. For the sake of military matters, he had to go to great lengths to please Cai You. He was really public-minded——
The afterglow of the setting sun shone on the outskirts of the ancient city of Wangdu. The corpses strewn all over the place filled the ten-mile radius with a stink. From the broken city gate, there were faint bursts of heart-rending wails.
After the Jurchens ravaged the city, it was like a purgatory on earth, with blood staining the river in the red city.
The Jurchen Tatars had just left, and they didn't even have time to plunder the city, which allowed half of the people in the city to survive.
Wanyan Xiyin was riding on the horse. He no longer had the caution and worry he had when he set off for the battle. The happiness came so suddenly, making him feel as if he was dreaming.
The soldiers and horses of my group originally planned to avoid the main force of the Song army in the east of the river, plunder some villages and towns in the cracks, collect food and grass and transport them back to Yizhou, and continue to fight against the Song army in Youyan.
The result was beyond everyone's expectations.
In early August, Wanyan Xiyin crossed the Xushui River, but the Baozhou garrison could not hold on. The Jurchen soldiers spread out here, searching the surrounding villages and towns to collect food.
Less than three days after the battle, Cai You, who was far away in Daming Prefecture, sent someone to angrily accuse the Baozhou military generals of being incompetent. Cai You, who was already dissatisfied with Baozhou civil and military officials demanding bribes, asked his slaves to whip the Baozhou regiment commander Zhang in the city.
Yan, forcing them to leave the city to fight, otherwise they will be punished as being afraid of fighting and fearing the enemy.
Baozhou's garrison was just a Xiang army, and they were not as strong as farmers when hoeing the ground. As soon as Zhang Yan, the Baozhou regiment training envoy, realized that he would die in the city, and he would die if he did not leave the city, he raised his knife and killed himself in desperation. Baozhou regiment training envoy Zhang Yan
Wang Hui hated Cai You deeply and took Zhang Yan's confidants to join the Jin army.
Wanyan Xiyin was overjoyed and personally welcomed them into the camp, treating them with utmost courtesy. Thanks to Wanyan Xiyin, who was willing to lower his body to welcome the surrender of the enemy, the traitors in Baozhou were so determined that they volunteered to falsely open the gate of Lewangdu.
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The Jurchens fought in Youyan for more than a month, unable to gain ground and fighting fiercely every day. However, when they entered Hebei, they were overwhelmingly powerful. They conquered two cities in a row in just seven days.
Cai You panicked, but he himself did not dare to brave the target and come to the place where the battle was ahead. So he sent his 200,000 troops to move forward together to defeat the Jurchens with their numerical advantage. As for Yang Lin's letter to him, it had already been
He was sent to Bianliang by Xiao Cai overnight. He and Liang Shicheng had long conspired to kill Yang Lin and eliminate this political enemy in the court. Yang Lin's letter was slightly misinterpreted and it was another piece of evidence of ineffective combat and passive avoidance of war.
On the land of Hebei, large armies without subordinates or commanders rushed toward Baoding in a chaotic manner.
These soldiers and horses are all of equal rank, and no army of 200,000 people can march and fight in a tacit understanding without a commander.