Let's say that it was late at night on New Year's Eve. I don't know whether it was the first year of Jianyan or the second year, the fifth year of Tianhui or the sixth year of Tianhui. In short, when the snowflakes were falling, more than one person got drunk.
"I'm bored in the army, so I want to cross the river and have a look!"
In the Jin Army's central tent, the Jin Army's commander, Wanyan Zongbi, commonly known as the Fourth Prince Jin Wushu, who had his legs crossed on the desk, suddenly threw the entire gold wine bowl in his hand onto the hard ground.
The originally steaming military tent suddenly became quiet. The officers and soldiers in the tent looked at each other, but also frowned.
Let's say that in terms of crossing the river, Jin Wushu was obviously risking his life, because the Huaihe River section in Shouzhou is obviously controlled by the Song army... Thanks to the hasty clearing of the wall, a large number of ships were concentrated on the south bank.
The ferries on the north bank were also generally burned down. The Jin army did not have many ships at all, and they were unable to organize a large-scale crossing of the river. After the failure of the hasty reconnaissance that day, the Song army even began to be brave enough to use ferries in the river in the past few days.
Patrolled.
If we encounter several Song army boats in the river in the middle of the night, no matter how strong the fourth prince's equestrian skills are, he can only sink them to feed the ducks.
Comparatively speaking, someone crossing the river with such righteousness and awe-inspiring is like parting with life or death. The only risk comes from the instability of Xiacaicheng... Because there is no risk in terms of simply crossing the river and entering the city. Xiacaicheng is
There is an internal ferry crossing from Linhuai. Although the ferry was burned down, the waterway can still go straight to the inside of the city wall, so it is impossible to hit the Jin people.
But it is obvious that the thinking of the Jin people was completely different from that of the Song people.
"Is the fourth prince not preparing to attack the city?" After a pause, a rough-looking Jurchen Meng'an (also known as the Thousand Commander) took the lead in asking.
"Puluhun thought the right thing." Jin Wushu raised his head and wiped his beard and said. "You have all seen during the past few days of investigation. This Xiacaicheng is a first-rate key city, and we are here this time.
I didn’t come south to fight this kind of war, I just wanted to capture Zhao Song’s new official family... I won’t touch them if I can!”
"Fourth Prince, yesterday someone in the city escaped from the west and was caught by us. He told us about the fear and instability in the city." Another person spoke, but it was a man with fair appearance and short stature. This man was called Ali.
, he is also an authentic general of the Jin Army, a commander of ten thousand men under the so-called Meng'an (chief of thousands) and conspiracy (of centurions) system. "Why can't you be at ease and besiege the city, attack the city, and force Zhang Jun to surrender? Xia Cai
If the emperor surrendered, wouldn’t Emperor Zhao and Song abandon the north bank and run away?”
"You also said that after Cai surrendered and Emperor Zhao and Song ran away, wouldn't it be in vain for us?" Seeing that it was Ali who spoke, Wu Shu turned over and sat up, facing each other seriously with a smell of wine. "And if we attack first.
There is an inner crossing to Linhuai in Xiacai City. Although it is said to have been burned down, the traffic with Huainan is always open. And the Emperor of the Song Dynasty was stationed on the northern slope of Bagong Mountain, so Jinwu’s paper was hanging high.
If you look at the city, you can tell... Where the Emperor of Song is, I can't say that the morale in the city can be sustained!"
"No matter what the Fourth Prince said!" Ali also threw the wine bowl in his hand to the ground. "Let me tell you straight, I would rather send troops to attack the city first, and if that fails, launch artillery fire on the city, rather than flood the city because the coach is drunk.
Dying in the Huaihe River will cost me my life!"
As soon as these words came out, all the Han troops in the tent were frightened, but Jin Wushu raised his head and laughed, and some other Jin army officers also laughed. Only Ali was angry there, and another captain of ten thousand men laughed at Lu Bu.
He just looks bad... It turns out that the Jin army is strict in running the army, and there is a famous military rule, which is that if a superior officer dies in battle, the subordinate officer directly under him must be beheaded in public no matter what the reason is!
Therefore, in every battle, as long as an officer of a certain unit personally charges forward, his unit will also fight to the end without wavering.
And this is naturally the real reason why Ali is so angry. He is not afraid of Jin Wushu going to the battlefield, so what does it mean to go to the battlefield? In the Aguda era, which of the nobles of the Jin army was not grinded out by mountains of corpses and seas of blood? Even the name Ali has its origin...
Ali is changed from the three characters Alixi, and Alixi means the name of the lowest deputy soldier when the Jurchens were still under the tribal system and carried out small-scale robberies.
In other words, Ali has climbed up step by step from the humblest Alixi. How can he be better than Jin Wushu who went into battle as a teenager and killed eight people with his own hands?
In fact, many generals in the Jin Army who were not from the Wanyan clan, including those from the Wanyan clan, had names with strong military overtones, and one could easily tell their approximate origins and origins by hearing them.
Back to the present, the problem is that Ali, who was born in Alixi, can accept defeat and death on the battlefield, but cannot accept the innocent implication caused by his superior's drunkenness.
To put it bluntly, if Jin Wushu fell headlong into the Huaihe River tonight, it would be fine with others, but he would have to hand over his life for free and be buried with him; and if he fell into the water and was captured, it would be even more ridiculous. It is impossible to say that the whole army would have to do this.
Retreat... In fact, this is also the fundamental reason why Yue Fei was able to retreat unscathed after capturing the enemy general when he was on the edge of Taihang Mountain, and why Wang De was able to kill a whole boat of people by the Huaihe River.
"General Ali, don't worry." Jin Wushu said some words of comfort after he finished laughing. "Today is New Year's Eve. There are lanterns and banquets on the opposite side. How could a boat be sent to patrol the river at this time? Even if there is a patrol, I will take you with you.
A few Han people can cope with it... Besides, I don't want to go ashore, nor am I drunk and fooling around, but I really want to see the strength of the camp on the other side in the river, and see if the Emperor of Song is there? How is the morale on the other side?
?Let’s see if the Huaihe River can be crossed directly on a floating horse? Or can a floating bridge be built?”
At this point, seeing that Ali Xi was still talking, Jin Wushu sneered, got up and went out of the tent, as if he was drunk and preparing to cross the snow at night to observe the enemy camp... But Ali Xi and the one opposite him
Zhen Lubu looked at each other, but they had no choice but to drink and eat meat.
Let's say that when Jin Wushu left the Jin Army's camp, he did not greet anyone else. He directly led three or five personal guards and rode to the north bank of the Huaihe River. He found a few small boats that the Jin Army had and summoned more than a dozen Hebei soldiers.
The Han soldiers, who were good at rowing, took a small boat and crossed the river in the snow.
The boat turned a little westward, and when it reached the middle of the river, under the lights on both sides of the river, it vaguely saw the hazy figure of another Han army ship on the south bank more than a hundred steps away, but this ship was heading northwest.
They went there, as if they were heading to Caicheng, and paid no attention to the small boat that was deliberately talking in Chinese. Since there was no energy in the river, Jin Wushu didn't bother to pay attention to the other party's messenger, and the two sides passed by each other directly.
However, after this boat, Jin Wushu never encountered a Han army ship again, so he rowed freely from east to west, holding a wine pot in the middle of the Huaihe River to carefully observe the military situation on both sides of the river.
However, with this observation, Jin Wushu felt more and more embarrassed... Not to mention the solidity and completeness of Xiacaicheng, he had already known all about it in the past few days, and at the foot of Bagong Mountain across the river to the southeast of Xiacaicheng
, but the mountains are dangerous and the camp is strong!
Not only that, if you look closely at this moment, you can see that Bagong Mountain is just a part of a whole mountain range (Xiaoshi Mountain), or it is an independent extension. This mountain (Xiaoshi Mountain) blocks the Huaihe River from the north to the south. The terrain is dangerous, and it stands in the north.
Cai, Shouchun in the south, and the northern and southern Feishui rivers converge at the Huai River at the foot of the mountain. The terrain is really complicated. Let’s just talk about Bagong Mountain. The reason why this mountain is famous all over the world is precisely because it is located in the main road of this complex terrain.
If you want to cross the river from here, the two serious and wide roads are covered by Bagong Mountain on the left and right, but the Song army has already built forts here!
Let's say that Jin Wushu was the fourth son of Aguda, and he was only twenty-five or six this year. So on the one hand, he participated in most of the major wars in the rise of the Jin Kingdom as a middle- and lower-level officer, and he had the qualities of a Jurchen professional soldier.
Uniquely rough, brutal, cruel and cunning; but on the other hand, the Kingdom of Jin has been established for thirteen years. As a prince of an appropriate age, he has been exposed to the most advanced culture of this era very early and has been greatly influenced by it.
degree of cultural education, and broadened their horizons during the Southern and Northern Wars...
Today, he came to Hezhong in the snow. On the one hand, as a commander, he wanted to find a way out of the current situation, so he had to fulfill his duties as a military commander and come to see the reality in person. Just like his father was about to die of illness and still wanted to go to Juyong Pass.
It's just like patrolling the front line; on the other hand, there is also a complicated mind deep down in my heart. I look down on the vulgarity of the Jurchen veterans and the pretentiousness of the Liao and Song surrenders, so I want to escape.
It was snowing heavily, and Jin Wushu entered the Huaihe River in a small boat. He looked at the mountains, the river, and the sky and sighed. At first, he was still looking at the military deployments carefully, but at the end, with half a bottle of wine down, he even vaguely forgot about himself.
The real purpose is to stand in the river and become a little crazy.
ps: I am extremely grateful to the boss of World Fireworks and the Seven Days of Chaos for being an alliance. I asked Xiaojiu to kowtow to make up for it. This new book issue is 27 cute... It should be expected to be exciting, but I don’t know why, but instead it feels a little trepidatory.