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Chapter 54 Attack on Hedong

As expected by Zhao Huan, Zhang Jun was very angry after learning of the great victory of Yao Duanlongkou. After the battle of Yichuan, he felt that his subordinates had won a great fortune and felt uncomfortable. However, he asked him to take more than 20,000 subordinates to desperately rush to Chang'an City to fight tens of thousands of elite Jin cavalry head-on, but he did not have the courage.

So despite his jealousy, Zhang Jun still led his subordinates and advanced slowly. Yao Duan and others took the initiative to invite the enemy to attack, but they could not meet him for the time being, but they just gave him an excuse to march slowly.

As for loyalty to the emperor and serving the country, he asked himself that he did not want to be a traitor, but he did not want to fill his life in vain. Anyway, according to what he thought, the emperor had probably been rushing to the wind and fled to Sichuan, and there was no danger. Chang'an City was originally Jingzhao Mansion, with a grand name, but in fact the city was very small. Not to mention that it was compared with Kaifeng in Tokyo, even an ordinary inner city was far inferior. It was just an imperial city in the Tang Dynasty. Since this is the case, it would definitely not be able to hold on. The Jin soldiers won the city.

He must also pursue the fugitive emperor. His subordinates were all infantry. He was anxious to arrive. He might be in a hurry. He might as well go slowly to Chang'an to clean up the mess, and then act according to the situation, or go to Sichuan to rescue the shelter, and act with other troops, or even if there is any mistake in Tongguan, the Song army was defeated and he had to rely on his 30,000 elite troops to resist. At that time, his position as General Zhang will definitely rise and be held high, and he will be just around the corner.

With this thought, Zhang Jun's troops slowly returned from Duyan Road. From the time they got the news, they walked straight for five or six days before they left Langyan's territory. A few days away from Chang'an. However, when they heard about the great victory in Chang'an, the emperor not only did not escape, but instead wore armor and kissed the city. He also used a young genius Yu Yunwen, who used cavalry to rush over the unexpected Jin soldiers, not only defended the city, but also broke the enemy under the city.

In this way, Zhang Jun raised his spirits, urging his subordinates to rush to Chang'an while sending a letter to Yao Duan, and ordered him to catch up quickly.

Unexpectedly, Yao Duan and Zhang Xian did not obey the order. After hearing about the great victory in Chang'an, the enemy soldiers were defeated, the two of them decided to join the army and knew that there were too few troops stationed in Chang'an. The cavalry was not of scale at all. Even if the enemy was defeated, they did not hurt their muscles. So they temporarily changed their route and did not go to Chang'an, but turned to Delongkou.

More than 2,000 cavalry and infantry crossbowmen cooperated, and many enemy cavalry horses were lost. More than 10,000 people were temporarily convened, with five thousand households, and the organization was chaotic and they were not subordinate to each other. In addition, the battle under the city made each other deeply resentful. The Han army fled the earliest, but the strength was the least. Han Chang refused to do his best because of Wanyan Sali's work. Several tens of thousands of households met. Huang Xin tied up the team and protected the fleeing soldiers along the way. Han Chang ignored everything, just thinking about escaping back early and saying something else when he saw Zong Bi.

In this way, the newly defeated general of the army was free from morality and weakened its combat power. When more than 10,000 elite Song troops appeared in front of him, he was the stupidest Jin general and knew that he would be defeated first if he didn't fight this battle.

But the opponent strangled his throat, but he had to fight. At that moment, more than 10,000 cavalry rushed forward, thinking of chasing the opponent's insurgency formation and killing a bloody road. Unexpectedly, the Song army was extremely powerful. Not only did they build a defense line to defend, but the cavalry rushed forward first. The black-faced man in the head flew with an iron whip. With one whip, he smashed a Jin soldier's head and fell off his horse. The other cavalry followed closely, like a sharp iron spear, inserted straight into the Jin soldier formation, rushing left and right. The Jin cavalry suddenly became the name of elite troops, but they were struggling to mess up the formation and had no general command. Although the number was several times that of the opponent, it seemed that they were always fighting with less and more enemies with only the cavalry's personal combat power.

When the enemy's invasion formation caught up, the spear and sword were greeted with each other. The Jin soldiers were immediately defeated and fled along the river in panic. Even Saba was shot in the back. The situation of the Jin soldiers was really embarrassed.

When these cavalry fled, they barely crossed the river elsewhere, but the infantry following them were not so lucky. Yao Duan's troops would win every battle, and their morale was extremely high. They blocked the escaped Jin soldiers, killed and slashed, and won consecutive battles. Poor that the Jin soldiers fled in a hurry. Many people did not even have weapons. How could they fight with the Song army with high morale like wolves and tigers? They fled in scattered and fleeed, and were personally led by Yao Duan to charge back and forth, and buried their corpses for dozens of miles and beheaded more than ten thousand. It was really a disastrous defeat that the Jin Kingdom had never seen since its founding.

This great victory was much rarer than defeating tens of thousands of miscellaneous soldiers in Yichuan, and made Zhang Jun jealous and angry. He knew that Yao Duan had sent someone to Chang'an to deliver a letter and could not hide it, so he hurriedly compiled a book and submitted a memorial. In addition to expelling too late for his rescue of Chang'an, he also ignorantly described the behavior of Yao Duan and others as his own command.

Anyway, as the main general, he has such great achievements, so he must remember his achievements.

When he received a reply from Chang'an, although he did not praise him as he wished, he never scolded him for his slow action. At the same time, the emperor and the Privy Council ordered him to go to Hedong to cooperate with Yao Duan, pursue the remaining enemies and attack Taiyuan. Zhang Jun thought carefully that the main force of the Jin Dynasty gathered in Tongguan area, and the Hedong garrison defeated Yichuan, the second defeated the city of Chang'an, and the third defeated Longkou Ferry, the entire Hedong area. If no one was stationed, he would be better for the previous few wars.

I didn't catch it. When I arrived in Hedong, I could not let others succeed in regaining Taiyuan.

So he ordered Yao Duan and others to attack Pingyang and other places along the Fen River. However, he crossed from Longkou, but he also made efforts to fight several battles, and defeated the fallen flowers and flowing waters of the Hedong garrison in the Jin Kingdom that he had finally been gathered together. In just half a month, he went to Yi, Fen, Ci, Shi, and Lu for several states, and the troops were directly defeated by Taiyuan.

At the same time, the battle between Yao Duan and others was not smooth. The enemy gathered nearly 20,000 remaining soldiers, almost all of them gathered near Pingyang. Although they suffered consecutive defeats, they were the elite Jin Kingdom, and their numbers were dominant. They fought several fierce battles on both sides. Although the Jin soldiers still suffered losses, their positions were stable and they did not defeat again.

Zhang Junwenxin even urged his subordinates to attack hard and attack hard. He must first attack Taiyuan and win the first merit.

The attack of Pingjin was a short distance from Taiyuan. The city was stopped by Zhang Zhongfu and Zhang Zhongyan, and the two brothers were stationed with thousands of Han soldiers. Although the city was high and dangerous, it was easy to defend and difficult to attack, the two brothers of Zhang were surrendered to the Song Dynasty. His father died in battle while defending Taiyuan. Zhang Jun knew that the other party might not have surrendered sincerely, but just saw that the Jin people were in a difficult situation and the Song Dynasty had a sign of losing the country. Therefore, he surrendered regardless of his father's revenge. Therefore, he did not rush to attack again. He just sent a detailed work to secretly enter Taiyuan, holding his own letters to persuade the two brothers to surrender. If the two brothers surrender, there would be no need to struggle to attack the city. Taiyuan was at his fingertips.

With this idea in mind, and the continuous battles were fought, the troops were also very tired. Zhang Jun ordered the army to take a break in the pacification of Jin. In the evening, he received a report from Yao Duan. There were more than 5,000 defenders in Chang'an. Under the leadership of Kang Chengi, he supported Yao Duan and combined 15,000 troops. The Jin soldiers could no longer stop. Yao Duan discussed with Zhang Jun that if it was difficult to capture Taiyuan, it would be better for the two to join forces and defeat the Jin soldiers surrounded. Not only would they get Hedong, but they could also inform a large number of Jin soldiers that had vitality, which was more cost-effective than simply siegeing cities and plundering land.

"Crazy, I'll stop me from making me a contribution!"

In front of the messenger, Zhang Jun refused to comment, but only said that the army was in poverty and needed a few days of rest. When the messenger went out, his face changed color and threw Yao Duan's documents to the ground.

There were originally many literati staff around him. After the emperor reformed the military system, it was inconvenient to retain it. He had to order a few Tiexin to transfer to the military position and still served in the tent. The rest had to be dismissed. At this time, the general manager got angry, and the rest couldn't help but make fun of it and followed him to scold Yao Duan.

Zhang Jun was originally tilted on the couch, listening to everyone's words with his eyes closed, and hearing them scolding him, but he felt shameless in his heart, so he tilted his head and waved his hand, and smiled and said, "It's okay, people have the same heart, no wonder he is."

Although Zhang Jun won many battles, he didn't know what was going on, but he was just depressed. At this time, he saw Yao Duan's clerk and realized that Duan was the bottom of it. He already knew in his heart that this general under his command would never be able to be under him after these few battles. The emperor and the Shufu were also treated the same as Yao Duan and Zhang Jun. In terms of war arrangements, sometimes Yao Duan was the main one. Although his troops surpassed Yao Duan, he was actually the other party's deputy.

It was late autumn at this time. Seeing that the winter solstice was not far away, Hedong was Shanxi in later generations. It was very cold. More than ten days ago, light snow had already passed by Daizhou and other places. Near Taiyuan Prefecture, the trees were withering, and the cold weather was already extremely cold.

Zhang Jun put a few copper basins in his tent, placed charcoal, flames squirted, and the heat dissipated. Although the cold wind slapped outside the tent, blew the big tent and crackled, the inside of the tent was as warm as spring, without feeling the chill at all.

Zhang Jun is in his prime, but he is very happy. In addition to the brazier, he ordered people to place fox fur on his bed. It was soft and warm on it. The golden cup in his hand kept coming. After a while, he was already slightly drunk.

He put down Yao Duan's affairs and asked about the military affairs in his camp. He had seen several generals. He saw that it was getting late and was preparing to rest. But suddenly he remembered something and asked a staff officer named Luo: "What's the situation in Tongguan? Wanyan Zongbi is not a useless person. He is responsible for this battle. Once Chang'an is defeated and Hedong is defeated, he will have no choice but to do anything?"

The staff officer replied with a smile: "Then Zongbi had no choice. The news of Chang'an defeat passed. Zongbi was furious and immediately ordered people to fight hard several times. However, the road of Tongguan Valley was thousands of miles. We intercepted many times along the way. The Jin soldiers were not good at attacking the city. The morale was already depressed. At this time, the surprise soldiers failed and the morale was even worse. General Quduan set up more divine arm bows and crossbows near Guancheng. When the enemy approached, thousands of arrows were fired at once. He could not get close to him. Many people had to die. In this way, the Jin soldiers were even more unable to succeed. In addition, the weather gradually became colder, and the enemy was hundreds of thousands of people, and people could not help but eat horses and chew. I heard that the upper class of the Jin Kingdom was also quarreling, Zong Han wanted to withdraw his troops, Zong Fu and others said they wanted to fight again. Zongbi heard that the war in Hedong was on the rise again, and his hands and feet were even more in chaos. Not only was there no danger in Tongguan, but he was afraid that the Jin people would be defeated again if they were not careful."

Junzi snorted in his nose, not as happy as the staff officer imagined. He just agreed to show that he knew.
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