Gao Jingshan's response was very appropriate, and Gao Qingyi's initial persuasion was also correct. As independent leading generals and military auxiliary officers, these two have each experienced too many military experiences, and they grasped the key point almost instinctively.
The problem - the Song army set up camp overnight and moved the main part of the army to this side of the river. Although it was a military miracle and a feat that was enough to shake the minds of the Jin army, it must have been hasty and full of flaws.
He looks strong on the outside but tired on the inside.
So at this time, the Jin Army didn't need to think about too many things. They just suppressed their fear and consternation, focused on the gaps in the defense line, and attacked with all their strength.
If you can't conquer it, you will live a miserable life again.
However, if the Song Army could not resist and the Jin Army opened up internal and external routes, then not only would the Song Army's hard work this night be completely wasted, but they would also be in a dilemma.
At that time, Yue Fei was really smart and put himself in danger.
Correspondingly, of course Yue Fei also knew very well that the matter was not over yet - most of the soldiers and civilians were already very tired, but there were still many things that needed to be done, the narrow terrain and the stability of the
The defensive fortifications are certainly the only way to make the Jin Army's cavalry lose their combat advantage, but the prerequisite is that the construction and strengthening of the defense line must be completed.
We must insist on completing the defense line!
The Jurchens must be blocked!
However, war is not about inviting guests to a meal. It requires you to set the table, count the guests, arrange the corresponding meals and bowls, and then the guests arrive on time as scheduled. At that time, everyone will bow their hands and bow to each other before taking their seats. Dozens of days of confrontation.
, a sudden change in the military situation will inevitably lead to a fierce and lightning-fast military collision. The scale of the battle last night was just an appetizer at best, and the unfolding of the battle and events will never develop as the commander expected.
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It first appeared unexpectedly in the city.
"What else?"
As soon as he got off the city, Gao Jingshan saw a familiar Bohai Puliyan (fifty captain, deputy Mou Ke) hurriedly riding along the wall from the west, and he was also angry for a moment.
"Capital!" Na Puliyan said hello and quickly got off his horse. However, because the horse's momentum was too fast, he staggered after dismounting and almost rolled on the ground before holding on to the roots of the city wall. "The C-shaped turret in the northwest suddenly picked up the miscellaneous materials.
They blocked the passage of the city wall and threw down the flag from upstairs! It must be that Liu An's son was shaken when he saw the Song army besieging the city and decided to rebel!"
Gao Jingshan was stunned for a moment, but then he came to his senses and turned around on the spot to point to a Meng An who had followed him from the city center: "Take people to recapture it quickly! If you can't recapture it quickly, set it on fire! The city wall is several feet thick.
Add strips of stone and bricks to the soil, and you are not afraid of burning! Never give the Song army outside the city a chance to climb the city to support! If the Song army does not notice it, do not make any unnecessary moves, but if the Song army notices it, it will definitely kill those who caused chaos
The person will be stripped off his clothes and hung from the tower regardless of life or death!"
Na Meng'an suddenly realized this, and immediately turned around and called several Mou Ke and Pu Liyan's names, and then hurriedly followed Pu Liyan who reported the news to the due west, that is, the northwest corner of the city.
After the people left, Gao Jingshan thought for a moment and pointed to Gao Qingyi urgently: "Gao Tongshi, go to the military camp in the city to call Wang Dang out. He is the most reliable Han general. Ask him to lead the team to inspect the Han army. If there is anything wrong,
OK, kill them on the spot... Then you yourself will open the treasury, take out the silk, wine and meat, and also patrol, and appease the Han army once again!"
Gao Qingyi woke up and left in a hurry.
However, this first accident was a near miss, because the Han army in the corner tower rose up hastily and was not unified internally. After a mere quarter of an hour, accompanied by the rumble of artillery carts in the east of the city, the Jin army responded internally and externally. , recaptured the Bingzi turret in the row of diagonal turrets in the southwest of the city, and then killed all the Han army officers who made the rebellion.
From beginning to end, the Song troops outside the city were not even aware of this small splash that could directly change the fate of the entire world.
But no matter what, after this incident, the entire Jin army in the city knew that whether it was the crossbows on the river hitting the city or the elbow and armpit troubles, they had already arrived. There is no need to be surprised by what happens next. .
"make life difficult for!"
Just when Gao Jingshan turned back to Cuiyun Tower near the north of the city, he didn't even have time to go up the building. Just when various city defense military orders were temporarily added to the interface downstairs, unlike the previous officers who quickly dealt with the rebellion, another officer who had been ordered before The officer came to report with a completely dejected face. "Everyone knows that the Song Army's cavalry is blocking the bridge opposite the Yongji Canal. The messenger we want to send to the north cannot get through at all. However, the package in the south of the city is not tight, so we ordered to burn it." The ship’s messengers didn’t have to go through the Yongji Canal, so they probably rushed out a few..."
Gao Jingshan, who had only slept for two hours last night, reined in his horse and stood under Cuiyun. Hearing this, he couldn't help but let out a long breath, but his exhaustion was revealed. Then he steeled himself and braved the rumbling wind from the east. The sound made its way to the west city.
Arriving at Xicheng and hurriedly climbing up the city wall, Gao Jingshan just took a look, then took another long breath, and then simply felt a headache.
Moreover, when receiving the report before, the marching commander of the Daming Mansion of the Jin Kingdom knew that an organized cavalry team of the Song Army had arrived on the west side of Yongji Canal in advance, and he also knew that it must be Yue Fei's Beiwei Army. , but to be honest, the cavalry of the Song Army has never been valued by the Jin Army.
It’s not surprising that the Jurchens looked down on them. On that day of the battle at Yaoshan, Yue Fei’s Beiwei army also participated in the battle, but their performance was actually not good.
Of course, the Song army had hundreds of thousands of troops and tens of thousands of cavalry. The only exception was Han Shizhong's bronze-faced Wei army, which fled from Hebei, went to Huaishang to expel Wushu, and then went to the Battle of Yanling and the Battle of Yaoshan. Including the previous Hedong Battle, the performance was truly amazing.
However, when Gao Jingshan came to the city in person at this moment, he just glanced at it, and as a man who had led the army for many years, he realized in his heart that he should not use old accounts to make new books - it has been five or six years since Yaoshan. For a while, the Jin Army has not fought for five years, and the Song Army has not used weapons for three years. At this moment, while the Jin Army's cavalry is becoming more and more unruly, the cavalry that the Song Army fully supports, especially this kind of organization that has already thought about it, is afraid that It has been gradually polished.
In other words, this well-equipped Beiwei army is indeed a strong and elite Jurchen army.
Facing this elite heavy armored cavalry with outstanding discipline, it is really difficult to make a single-soldier breakthrough.
In addition, the assessment of the combat power of this cavalry army also made Gao Jingshan think a little further... He is not a simple general, but a commander with political mind and overall concept, and even the military and political affairs That kind of.
"Capital, do you want me to lead six of our troops down there to provide cover?" Just when Gao Jingshan felt a strange ripple in his heart, Pu Suyue, who had received several army sticks last night, That is, the eldest son of the deceased Da?, Bohai Meng'an, who was still holding his ground in the west from last night until now, could not help but limped over and made a suggestion.
Gao Jingshan turned his head and looked at the other party with complicated eyes, showing a slight hesitation.
"Capital!" Pu Suyue obviously had a misunderstanding when he saw this. "Twenty army sticks won't make me unable to ride a horse or use a spear..."
"It's not the time yet." Gao Jingshan shook his head and his tone was a little scattered. "And it's too late... At this point, we can only hope that Ali and Piaohe will know the situation. I guess they will be here soon... You go and assemble.
Soldiers and horses, not only your own six soldiers, I will gather fourteen more soldiers for you... This is the limit. We will pick up the battle from the front later. If reinforcements come from the east of the channel, you don't have to wait forever.
Jiqu, immediately harass Yue Fei's main force in front of the Great Wall; and if the reinforcements come from the west of the channel, you don't have to be afraid of casualties, you must try to break through the channel and involve the reinforcements!"
Pu Suyue was overjoyed, bowed, and limped down again to prepare the cavalry. Gao Jingshan, after giving a few instructions to the Xicheng officers to take care of the city defense, decided to go see the elite heavy cavalry outside the city...
...After a while, I just left for the northwest corner building, which is best for observing the situation.
The northwest side of Yuancheng is built into a wavy slope due to the diversion of the Yongji Canal. Each protrusion has a tower. The previous rebellion of the Han army took place in the Bingzi Tower here, and Gao Jingshan was also on the top of the tower.
We walked into Building B, which was covered in bloodstains, and then looked at it from a high position on the mediocre top floor.
As he said before, it's too late.
It had only been a moment since the commander-in-chief of the Jin Army ascended the tower, when smoke and dust started to rise on the horizon further north of the Song Army's defense line... Obviously, the field forces deployed by the Jin Army in Guantao, two armies of ten thousand households, were completely
According to the previous agreement, we will cook at the fourth watch and head south at dawn to sweep the area.
They haven't missed a beat.
The Jin Army's forward cavalry arrived especially quickly.
There is no way, Guantao is just east of Yongji Canal, the Jin Army brigade is only twenty or thirty miles away from Yuancheng, and the forward station near here is only ten miles away from the Song Army's 'camp', today
I came in a hurry as soon as the sky became bright, and the result was that I arrived as soon as I said I would.
And these Jin Army forwards, like the Jin Army in the city, were obviously confused by the Song Army's huge formation.
However, behind them was a full force of two thousand households, and they did not have the psychological shock of a one-night city. However, after a slight hesitation, they immediately launched an attack on the Song army's position.
The answer is self-evident. The small group of Jin Army cavalry had nothing to do in front of the tight antlers, and could only retreat in embarrassment after encountering the Song Army's crossbow attack.
For a time, the Song army's advance and retreat slowed down a bit, and cheers resounded throughout the ground to the north.
However, before the cheers completely stopped, Yue Fei, who was sitting silently under the blanket, heard a strange sound, and then instinctively looked towards the river. Not only him, but many officers around him also instinctively looked over there. Because of this sound
, is very similar to the sound of stone bullets hitting Yuancheng's thick city wall after a salvo of naval crossbows, just like muffled thunder on a sunny day.
However, there was no sign on the river that they had just fired the cannon stones at a faster speed. They were still aiming in position uniformly, waiting for the signal from behind them under the banner of Tianxingdao.
Yue Fei reacted immediately, then stood up, got on his horse, turned around and stood still to the north. The surrounding officers were also stunned and turned around in awe.
Sure enough, the thunder got louder and louder, and got closer and closer, bringing a cloud of smoke that covered the sky to the north. The smoke filled the air like a dark cloud, but it quickly stopped in front of the northern defense line, and the people on the battlefield
The thunder soon left only the river and the east city of Yuancheng.
It was obvious that the main force of the Jin Army had arrived.
The Song army's sentry cavalry immediately reported back, saying that they had seen the flag of the Jin army's veteran general Ali.
However, just as the Song army's sentry cavalry traveled two miles between their own formations, without hesitation, consultation, or even a gap, almost just a meal, the Jin army in the north did not hesitate and chose to dismount and fight on foot.
Use the posture of a heavily armored infantry to move the antlers and fight for the north fence!
This time, there was no need for sentries to report. The shouts of killing, the sound of bows and crossbows piercing the air, could be heard in the distance, the flags were waving and orders were given, and the movement of troops could be seen in the distance.
On the hastily erected defense line in the north, the battle became particularly fierce. The Song army, which had been well prepared, fired crossbows and arrows from the shooting platform behind the fence. However, the heavily armored Jin army was not afraid and directly faced the crossbows and arrows.
Casualties were taken layer by layer to lift the antlers.
That's not all. As the antlers were partially removed, the Jin Army immediately changed tactics. On one side, they continued to open up the front line. On the other side, they began to dismantle and chop the antlers on the spot, wrap them in their own flags and even military uniforms, and then set them on fire.
Get up, form a strange temporary torch, and throw it back and forth under the fence.
This move had a miraculous effect, and soon part of the fence was ignited, forcing the frontline Song army commander to panic and rush to get water to put out the fire.
On the corner tower of Yuancheng, Gao Jingshan, who saw this scene and the movement of smoke and dust from a distance, was excited... He had to admit the determination and appropriateness of the two veteran generals Ali and Piaohe.
When Yue Fei saw the fireworks to the north from a distance, he was also a little serious.
"Du Tong!"
A Jin army hurriedly boarded the corner tower to deliver the message. "General Pu Suyue is ready. Please go out from the west gate and go around to the north to frustrate the Song army to help Ali and join the two generals!"
Gao Jingshan turned around, hesitated for a moment, and then waved his hand with all his strength: "No rush!"
"marshal!"
The Song Army also had a counselor wearing leather armor who stepped forward cautiously. "The Jin Army's offensive is quite urgent. Should we send reinforcements? It's appropriate to start from here. It's fast enough to start from the east of Yongji Canal."
Yue Fei did not hesitate, and without even looking at the other party, he raised his hand and said, "Don't move!"
The counselor resigned reluctantly.
Although the coaches of both sides have not been shaken by Ali's offensive for the time being, the direction of the war is beyond everyone's expectations. In other words, Ali, a Jurchen general who has risen from a lowly soldier to tens of thousands of households, and his troops are really stronger than everyone.
Anticipate.
Almost as soon as he arrived at the front line, he issued the order to dismount and fight to fight for the defensive line, and then desperately used his flag and military uniform to burn the fence, and it had a miraculous effect, and that's not to mention... Obviously, with the rear
The Han'er army arrived, and the Jin army's crossbow support quickly took shape, and the real arrows began to cross on the battlefield.
Let us also say that the area between the east of the Yongji Canal, which was only a few miles wide, was blocked by the antlers, and the two sides only fought along a few temporarily opened narrow fronts.
At this time, in this combat mode, although the Jin army could not invest a large number of troops, the numerical advantage of the Song army was not very obvious. Instead, due to exhaustion, it fell behind the Jurchen army.
A quarter of an hour later, the Jin army successfully crossed the trench, pushed a fence with burned pillars and ropes, and crossed the defense line.
"Come with me!"
In front of the defense line, Hu Qing, the commander of the imperial camp's right army who was responsible for the defense of this section, was momentarily panicked. He shouted in a Jingdong accent to call out to his immediate bodyguards. Then he hurriedly put on his robe and personally stepped forward to try to block the gap.
However, when he led his troops to meet him, it was just a face-to-face encounter. A Jurchen heavily armored person who rushed out first saw the opportunity and shot an arrow directly towards Hu Qing, hitting Hu Qing's face without a visor. Hu Qing was the commander of the official
, actually died on the spot in front of the fence.
After Hu Qing died, the guards behind him panicked for a moment and hurriedly snatched away the body of their leader, then withdrew in a daze. As a result, the Jin army took advantage of the situation and poured into the gap, chasing and killing them wantonly while cutting down the fence with weapons.
Try to widen the gap.
On the tower, Gao Jingshan's breathing became heavy after seeing this scene from a distance.
"Let Zhao Buyu lead a thousand people over to plug the leak!"
After a while, the news of Hu Qing's death in battle spread to Da Bao. At this time, the Jin Army had obviously expanded its advantage of the breakthrough point. There were even two other people who knew the breakthrough point, and Yue Fei had to face this problem. "But if Tian Du
The commander-in-chief has his own arrangements, so don’t seize the front without authorization and only maintain it in the rear..."
Zhao Buyou was an imperial student who came from the imperial family and was known for his martial arts. He met Yue Fei by chance in Xiangzhou as early as Jingkang. He always remembered him and had been his subordinate since he was a general under Yue Fei's left-behind department in Tokyo. Now he is the commander-in-chief.
After Zhao Buyu left, there were discussions and officers gathered around him. They all seemed to feel that the situation was a bit dangerous and that Yue Fei's handling of the situation was a bit underestimating the enemy.
"It's not that I underestimate the enemy." It is a matter of life and death for more than 100,000 soldiers and civilians. At this point, even Yue Fei has to give a little explanation to his staff and close officers. "On the contrary, it is because Piaohe's troops have not yet appeared, and the response in the city is
The troops have not yet come out! What's more, the Yongji Canal divides the area into two. Although the war in the east seems to be in danger at this time, the Jin army is just relying on its own strength and has a lot of energy. Once it is restrained, it will definitely be frustrated. On the contrary,
It is the gap of only a few hundred steps to the west of Yongji Canal that is the real critical point in this battle, and it is necessary to leave enough backup for emergency response."
The generals tried their best to suppress their uneasiness and continued to wait and see.
However, having said that, in the process of Zhao Buyu leading his troops to support forward, the situation on the front line became worse and worse - the Jin Army continued to make earth-shaking changes on the front line with the power of breaking through the fence, and a group of troops came to support from the rear.
The heavy armor passed through the gap, and without hesitation took advantage of the chaos to rush in front of a team of civilians who were obviously transporting water to put out the fire, slashing and killing them arbitrarily, causing even greater chaos.
Seeing such a situation from a distance, Yue Fei continued to sit still on his horse, while Gao Jingshan on the turret completely hesitated before Pu Suyue asked for battle for the fourth time.
As the commander-in-chief of the Daming Mansion, Gao Jingshan was completely transparent about the battle situation, and he was also very clear about Yue Fei's intention to stand still. He even looked down to the north from a distance, and could see some places more clearly than Yue Fei.
After all, he was also waiting for the Jin army to detour to the west of Yongji Canal and rush into the gap with only a few hundred steps left.
But a big problem now is that the Song Army built a city overnight and built countless bridges on the Yongji Canal. Although the Song Army cannot say that it is smooth walking on the east and west sides of the ground, it definitely has a mobility advantage. As for the Jin Army,
Whether it was the previous obstruction of the sentry cavalry in the city, or the fact that Piaohe did not appear at this time, as well as his own hesitation about the direction of Pu Suyue's attack, it had actually clearly demonstrated a huge tactical loophole of the Jin Army... In such a magical situation of the Song Army
Under the operation of Yongji Canal, the geographical advantage they originally relied on became the biggest tactical obstacle to the Jin army.
In a hurry, the large unprepared troops tried to seize time to cross the Yongji Canal, a hanging river above the ground, which was very troublesome.
This is true in the city, and so must be the case with the reinforcements.
But now, Ali's desperate attack without hesitation had a miraculous effect. Therefore, Gao Jingshan himself did not know whether to invest his mobile troops in the north or west of the city.
"Let Pu Suyue leave the city and go to the north of the city to harass Yue Fei. Remember, letting him harass is not letting him fight lightly." Finally, his eyes once again glanced at the silent Song army cavalry in the west of the city.
, Gao Jingshan suppressed his uneasiness and turned back to issue a military order. "Just try to hold the opponent back so that the opponent cannot try his best to support the northern defense line."
As soon as he said this, the Jin Kingdom's military commander regretted it, but he did not change the military order after all.
Because he knew that if he continued to let Pu Suyue wait any longer, he would suffer and regret, and changing military orders on the battlefield would be worse than making a possibly wrong decision.
Just like this, when the chaos reached its maximum at the northern defense line, with a rumbling sound, the Jin Army cavalry in Yuancheng finally appeared, but they poured out of the west gate, and then gathered along the city to the north.
Let's say that there were two cavalry teams in the Song and Jin Dynasties, one in the east of the canal and one in the west of the canal. The Yongji Canal in the middle was an artificial water canal that rose slightly but could not cover the tall cavalry. It was only a few dozen steps wide and the two sides were far away.
The opponent's armor was visible, but neither side cared about the other, nor did they make any unnecessary moves.
The Jin Army's cavalry hurried north along the city, while the Song Army's cavalry did not risk being attacked from a distance by the city and harassed them across the river. They just watched the other side pass by.
This scene further confirmed Gao Jingshan's conjecture on the turret. The discipline of the Song Army's cavalry was far beyond his imagination. If the cavalry in the city crossed the canal and went to the west of the canal to meet them, the effect would be worse.
"Marshal, the Jin army has left the city!"
The general beside him was overjoyed. "He's coming towards us! Do you want to follow General Han's example and lure them to the front, and then let the Beiwei army risk blocking their way back in order to annihilate them all in the city?"
"No need." Yue Fei didn't look back at the situation behind him at all, but kept his expression unchanged, and quickly ordered on his horse. "Hebei and Hedong are completely different. There is no need to fight in vain. Send orders to Yao Zheng, Pang Rong, and Li Shan to wait for the enemy cavalry to cross.
Just approach the northwest corner tower of Yuancheng immediately and block it in front of the city!"
After the military order was issued, when the Jin army turned out of the northwest corner tower, the three troops started to activate in accordance with the military order. At this time, another continuous burst of rumbling thunder resounded through the battlefield again, and billowing smoke filled the sky again.
This time, the movement came from the northwest of Jia Di, and it did not gradually subside like it did from the north. Instead, it kept moving straight towards the gap in the northwest of Jia Di.
That's right, without Gao Jingshan's military orders, the Jin army Wanhu Piaohe crossed the Yongji Canal from the rear under the cover of Ali, and seized the Song army's biggest flaw.
"Let Zhang Zigai stand up."
The exhausted Master Tian felt relieved, but he loosened the dust in his hand, and the dust fell and sprinkled on his dusty armor. "Go up to him! Tell him that success or failure depends on this! Decide on your lieutenants in advance.
Sequence, don’t be like that idiot Hu Qing. Not only did he lose his life, but he also destroyed the front line! The rest of the people don’t have to wait any longer to follow their own defense lines and head north to meet the enemy!"
After Tian Shizhong gave the order, nearly 10,000 elite soldiers from the imperial camp immediately stood up from between the civilians and the banners, and headed north with a loud movement, like a rising tide.
On the top of the city, Gao Jingshan looked at this spectacular scene, and suddenly felt that something was wrong... The strength of the Song army's soldiers was somewhat beyond his imagination... Zhang Rong led the navy in the east, Tang Huai in the south, Zhang Xian in the west, There are also necessary troops left behind on the other side of the river. Where did these more than 10,000 people come from?
And if the strength of the Song army was like this from the beginning, then what's the point of Ali's infantry assault being so good? I'm here to calculate and calculate, and what's the point of calculating the odds of winning on the east and west sides?
On the east side of Yongji Canal, there is no chance of winning!
"Show the flag!" Yue Fei finally glanced back at Yuancheng, but ordered on his horse again. "Let the pontoon bridge be dismantled on the river, let Zhang Dutong transfer the ship, and bombard Ali along the river! The Chinese army is on standby! Back to the Wei army. Stand by!"