Chapter Fourteen The Shock
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On the Central Plains battlefield, the Tiger and Lieutenant Army, under the command of Li Hu, launched continuous attacks on 28 and 29.
The Jin army fought with the main force, and Zong Wang lay in the carriage to command. Wanyan Talai, Wanyan's mother, Liu Yanzong, and Guo Yaoshi led their troops to fight, but at every critical moment, the Jin army could not hold on and retreated.
After two days of fierce fighting, the strength of the Tiger Lie Army was completely exposed. Although the soldiers were in high morale and were willing to sacrifice their lives, they still had a certain gap in combat power compared with the real main force of the Jin army. Li Hu wanted to preserve his strength and dare not fight too fiercely, but Zong Wang intended to cheat and lure the enemy, and was unwilling to beat the Tiger Lie Army away.
The two armies were entangled with each other, the Jin army fought and retreated, while the Tiger and Lieutenant Army approached step by step.
On the thirty days, the two sides fought fiercely in Chenqiao.
Zong Fu urgently reported that the 100,000 troops had retreated to Baimajin, and the Southern Barbarians had begun to dig the river embankment, and everything was ready.
Zong Wang immediately ordered the Jin retreat. This time, the Jin army retreated to Fengqiu and could retreat into Huazhou tomorrow.
Late at night, when Zong Wang and the generals were discussing the military, the letter from Yanjing arrived. Before he could read the letter, Zong Wang's face suddenly changed, his whole body trembled, and then opened his mouth and let out a cry of pain, fell on the table, and blood gushed out of his mouth.
The generals were shocked, and Wanyan Talai lazily hugged Zong Wang and shouted repeatedly, Wanyan's mother hurriedly opened the letter and read it out loud.
Wanyan Yu's entire army was wiped out, Wanyan Yu and Wanyan Zongxian were killed. The news was so shocking that Wanyan's mother couldn't believe her eyes and looked at the letter several times. Wanyan Talai, Liu Yanzong and others were completely stunned. A cold chill instantly invaded their bodies, causing them to fall into deep fear.
Not only did this battle lose, but it also lost a lot. On the Daibei battlefield, Wanyan and Yu's entire army were wiped out; on the Central Plains battlefield, Yelu Yu saw the entire army was wiped out; on the Central Plains battlefield, Wanyan and Wulu were surrounded, and even if they broke through, the losses would be amazing.
The news that Wanyan Olu was trapped in Taiyuan was sent to Zong Wang yesterday. He was in hand, but because the digging of the embankment was not implemented, it was useless for Zong Wang to be anxious, and the main army had to withdraw step by step. If God protects it? The Jin army took advantage of this flood.
If Li Hu was killed, the entire battle situation would be overturned again. Zong Wang now puts all his hopes on this man-made disaster.
Zong Wang stopped vomiting blood under the rescue of several doctors and craftsmen, but the man was still unconscious.
The news that Wanyan Yu's entire army was wiped out too much. If... if he had accepted Zong Han's suggestion and withdrawn quickly, even if Wanyan Yu could not be rescued, at least he could have been able to promptly protect Daibei and protect Daibei, so that the situation would not be so bad that it is irreversible today.
Wanyan Gao and Zong Wang both bear unshirkable responsibilities for the failure of this battle, but Zong Wang proposed the strategy of going south, and Zong Wang insisted on the battle against Bian Jing. As a result, he failed. Not only did he cause this strategy to suffer a heavy blow, but he also brought immeasurable losses to the Great Jin Kingdom. Zong Wang's health was getting worse and worse because of this huge pressure, and today he was directly knocked down by the disease under the bad news of failure.
Zong Wang lost his command ability, and his successor was his deputy, Liu Yanzong, the Privy Council of the Great Jin Dynasty. Although Wanyan Talan and Wanyan? His mother held a large army and had a noble status in the Great Jin Dynasty, she was not as good as Liu Yanzong.
Liu Yanzong suggested that Zong Wang should be sent across the Yellow River immediately and carefully treated to ensure Zong Wang's safety.
In terms of retreat, he originally planned to continue to lure Li Hu to the white horse according to the established deployment, and then dig a dike and flood the dead. However, when he saw Wanyan's mother, Wanyan Talai, Guo Yaoshi and others were no longer interested in fighting, he decided to retreat at full speed. He was a Han Chinese and had no prestige among the Jurchen generals. Once he made a mistake in luring the enemy and was defeated by Li Hu, the consequences would be unimaginable.
That night, Wanyan Talai led the six Xi troops to guard Zong Wang and evacuate overnight.
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Thirty days, Taiyuan battlefield.
Under the command of Luo Sinan, the Tiger Lie Army launched a fierce attack on the Jin army.
The Tiger and Lieutenant Army and the Northwest Army jointly fought, and the Cavalry and Infantry Army cooperated and the offensive was tide. At the same time, all the firearms in Taiyuan City were thrown into the battlefield, and the explosions of artillery arrows and fireballs were shocking and resounding throughout the mountains and fields.
Wanyan
The Olu and the Jurchens burst out with amazing power under the threat of death. They conquered Shouyang City on the afternoon of the 30th.
During the fierce battles in recent days, the Hedong General Jie Qianxin was seriously injured, and Hu Yanzhuo and Liu Ziyu were also injured in many places. More than half of the more than 10,000 Hedong soldiers were killed and injured, and in the end, only more than 4,000 people were left. After the city was broken, the soldiers still insisted on street fighting, but Luo Sinan forced them to retreat and allowed the Jin army to break through.
The Jin army was like a beast that had escaped from trouble, dragging its bloody body and leaving with a fierce look.
Gao Baolong, Mu Taoli, and Abaddon led the horse army to pursue him, but the mountain road was narrow and the results were limited.
In this battle, more than 20,000 enemies were wiped out and a large number of war horses and supplies were seized, but the losses of the Taiyuan army were as high as more than 15,000.
On the night of the thirty days, Wanyan Olu led his army to break through to Pingding City. The Jin army attacked from front and back. Lu Junyi had already received Luo Sinan's order in advance. Seeing Wanyan Olu break through, he immediately abandoned the city and left the Jin army to join and retreat to Hebei.
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On the first day of May, the Jin army accelerated the evacuation and retreated into Huazhou City.
The Tiger Lieutenant Army fought for three days and showed exhaustion. However, Li Hu estimated that the news of the Daibei battlefield had reached Zong Wang's hands, and Wanyan Olu was surrounded in Taiyuan again. Even if Zong Wang wanted to bite him, the situation was critical and he had to evacuate quickly. Li Hu ordered to follow and pursue and bite the Jin army tightly in order to aggravate the panic of the Jin army and strive to deal with it severely when the Jin army crossed the river.
On the evening of the first day of the first day, the Tiger and Lieutenant Army chased to the city, and the two armies were thirty miles apart.
The city of Baima is about 150 or 60 miles away. If the Jin army spread their legs and ran wildly, they can reach Baima late at night on the second day of the lunar month, and cross the river early on the third day of the lunar month.
That night, Li Hu summoned the generals of each army and asked the soldiers to rest and prepare for the hard battle the next day. In this battle, the Huliwei Army not only had to run more than 100 miles, but also attacked the Jin army in the Baimajin area. Therefore, the entire army needed to maintain high fighting spirit and sufficient physical strength.
The Tiger Lieutenant Army stumbled on her, which really aggravated the fear of the Jin army. The Yellow River was ahead, and even if there were floating bridges on the river, there were more than a dozen.
It takes time for tens of thousands of people to evacuate, but the Tiger Lieutenant Army chased them too close and could launch an attack when they reached the edge of the Yellow River. The Jin army would definitely suffer severe damage when panic.
That night, Liu Yanzong, Wanyan's mother, and Guo Yaoshi started arguing about the retreat the next day. Liu Yanzong insisted on evacuating to the Baima for two days, so that the soldiers could maintain their physical strength and block the attack of the Tiger Lie Army at any time, and at the same time, they could allow the troops that evacuated first to cross the river safely. There were fewer troops on the south bank of Baimajin, and this army after the cut off could cross the river in the shortest time to reduce losses. More importantly, this could lure Li Hu and his Tiger Lie Army to the Baima and kill them according to the scheduled plan.
Guo Yaoshi firmly disagreed. After Wanyan Talai took the six Xi troops to escort Zong Wang away, the number of troops in the rear cut off the rear was less than that of the Huli Army that was chasing him. Moreover, the army was not very morale. Once they fought, they might not be able to stop Li Hu. In this army in the rear cut off, Liu Yanzong was the commander, Wanyan's mother was the commander of the southern commander, and they were all under Meng'an Mouke. When he arrived at Baimajin, Liu Yanzong would definitely withdraw first, Wanyan's mother was in the middle, and he would definitely cut off the rear. What does it mean to be abandoned by the Jurchens, and the Changsheng Army would be a burial for the Tiger's Lie Army.
Pharmacist Guo’s strength is not as strong as before, and he will be less powerful than speaking without strength. Liu Yanzong and Wanyan’s mother joined forces to suppress Pharmacist Guo and forced him to
Pharmacist Guo accepted their retreat plan.
Guo Yaoshi returned to the military camp and told Zhang Linghui, Liu Shunren and others about the unfavorable situation of the Eternal Victory Army. When these people heard that the Jurchens were about to dig the Yellow River embankment, they were so scared that they immediately decided to evacuate overnight. They always had to find a reason to evacuate overnight. After all, they are following the Jurchens now, and it depends on the Jurchens' expression. If they find a reason to kill Zong Wang after escaping the Yellow River, it would be more than worth the loss.
At the beginning of the second morning of the second day of the lunar month, Guo Yaoshi conducted a "night attack". The tiger and horse army attacked the Changsheng Army's camp at night. The Changsheng Army was in chaos. Tens of thousands of soldiers took the opportunity to throw away their food, grass and supplies, and ran wildly.
The ever-winning army was "defeated", and the other Jin soldiers were all broken, and they rushed to the ground and fled.
Liu Yanzong, Wanyan's mother believed it, panicked, caught in a large group of people, and ran wildly.
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When Li Hu received the news, he hesitated, suspecting that this was Zong Wang's plan to lure the enemy.
Dong Joker, Chai
Yun, Yuanye and others also had the same view. Although Zong Wang's army had been "defeated" in Huluhe, it was the critical moment of the war. Zong Wang must be prepared and would not repeat the same mistakes. Moreover, the Tiger and Lieutenant Army did not launch a night attack at all. Why did the Jin army suddenly flee? Thinking of the Jin army having withdrawn two groups of troops in advance, the Jin army suddenly "fled" more than 100 miles away from the White Horse, which was obviously a trap.
Li Hu asked Zhuxia to send scouts to investigate the enemy situation. The army quickly approached the white horse after dawn. I responded to the change with the unchanging situation, but I wanted to see how your Zongwang retreated across the Yellow River.
In the early morning, the scouts reported that the Jin army camp was in a mess, all the food, grass, livestock and supplies were discarded, and the fleeing army was even more rushing. The horse army and infantry were seriously disconnected, which was the best opportunity to chase and kill.
Li Hu was moved. Even though Zong Wang was determined to lure him into a trap, wasn’t the price too high by using the method of losing tens of thousands of troops and discarding a large amount of food, grass, livestock and supplies? Zong Wang wasn’t so crazy, right? Perhaps the Jin army was really collapsed under the chaos of the morale of the army and the tiger steadi army step by step.
"The command of the 9th Army of Huliu, the selection army of Han Shizhong, and the commander of the former army, Yue Fei,
All the horse troops in their ranks were sent to pursue them immediately."
At six o'clock in the morning, Chu Xiaoyao, Lin Chong, Yang Keshi, Zhe Kecun and others commanded their respective armies and rushed north to pursue.
At the time of Si, Li Hu and Dong Xiaochou led the officials of the General's Office and the Hu Guard to the City. Out of caution, Li Hu personally rushed to the Jin army camp to investigate. The Jin army fled and the camp was in a mess. Li Hu looked around and walked into the Jin army's general's office. Li Hu noticed a map spread on the case table. On the map, Baimajin was marked with a cinnabar pen, and then the cinnabar pen drew three lines from Baimajin, one to Liangshanpo, one to Yingtian Prefecture of the Southern Army, and one to Bianjing, spreading in a fan shape.
Li Hu didn't understand, and hugged his arms, frowned and thoughtful.
Dong Xiaochou, Chai Yun and others surrounded him, but they were puzzled.
At this time, Fang Jin walked in and said to Li Hu with a smile: "General General, the weather is wrong today, it seems to be raining. It rains heavily and the road is muddy and difficult to walk, which is conducive to our horse army's pursuit."
"It's raining?" Li Hu didn't care and said casually
He said, "The Yellow River flood season is coming soon, and of course it will rain."
"It's better to have a heavy rain." Chai Yun smiled, "There has been heavy rains in Guanshan area recently, and the water level of the Yellow River has soared. If there are a few more heavy rains in the Central Plains and crush the floating bridges on the Yellow River, the Jin army will be dead."
Li Hu suddenly thought of something, his face darkened, he lowered his head and looked at the map on the table again, exclaiming, "No, the Jin thief wants to break the embankment, and he wants to dig the Yellow River embankment."
Everyone was stunned, and then they all changed their color in horror.
"Quick, hurry, send an order to ask the troops to return quickly, retreat, retreat quickly." Li Hu shouted, his voice changed, "Every time to evacuate the people, hurry, hurry..."
Everyone was almost suffocated and rushed out of the tent like flying. For a moment, people shouted and horses neighed, and the sound of horns calling the police rose into the sky.
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Notes:
The Yellow River is diverted:
In the second year of Jianyan in the Southern Song Dynasty (1128 AD), in order to resist the Jin army's southward advance, Du Chong, left behind in Tokyo, opened the Yellow River embankment in Huazhou, causing the Yellow River to divert its route, and went southeast from Sishui and Ji River to the sea.
At this point, the Yellow River enters the Bohai Sea from the north to the Yellow Sea from the south to the Yellow Sea.
Before 1855, the Yellow River mainly swung in the south. Although it was swept north at times, it was forced to block the south by human forces.
During the period when the south flowed south to capture the Huai River and above the Qingkou River, the main stream of the Yellow River below Zhengzhou and above the Qingkou also migrated uncertainly, either from the Si River, from the Bian River and the Wo River to the Huai River, or from the Ying River to the Huai River, or from the Ying River to the Huai River at the same time. It was not until the late Ming Dynasty that Pan Jixu ruled the river that the Yellow River was basically fixed in Kaifeng, Lankao, Shangqiu, Dangshan, Xuzhou, Suqian, and Huaiyin. It is the former path of the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and it has been running for 300 years.
In the fifth year of Xianfeng in the Qing Dynasty (1855), the Yellow River broke the copper tile wing in Lanyang, Henan (now Lankao County), and diverted it. It was once again placed back to the north, passing through the current river channel, and flowing into the Bohai Sea in the north.
The most recent time was during the War of Resistance Against Japan. In 1938, Chiang Kai-shek ordered the
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