Just when Qin Hui, Liu Ziyu and others followed Yue Fei to Pingding Military City, a large army was passing through the peaks and valleys of Taihang Mountain.
This is an army of golden men with red and black sun flags!
A very big army!
If you stand on the slope of the mountain road and look down, you will see a really spectacular army. There are large groups of generals wearing Jurchen or Khitan style robes, all leading their horses and walking in. Only a few of them look like high officials. People are riding arrogantly on their horses. The marching team was connected end to end and was dozens of miles long! It was vast, with tens of thousands of people and horses. The former army has entered the area under the jurisdiction of the Pingding Army, while the rear army is still in Shouyang County, Taiyuan Prefecture.
Wanyan Zonghan, the left deputy marshal of the Kingdom of Jin, was among this army. Zong Han is about forty-five or six years old. He looks a bit older due to his years of military service. His complexion is dark and red, and his beard and hair are gray. However, his figure is still burly and strong, no less than any man in his 20s or 30s in the army. Year old Jurchen warrior. He was riding a tall Liaodong horse. Because he was afraid of the heat, he wore a bald head without a hat. He wore a white narrow-sleeved round-collar robe with a well-made gold belt tied around his thick waist. Apart from a long sword hanging from his belt, he carried no weapons and was not wearing any armor.
Looking at him like this, it didn't look like he was marching on the battlefield, but rather like he was out for a hike in the spring season.
Similar to him, the commander of the army who was as relaxed as if he were traveling in the mountains and rivers, the Jin soldiers marching in front of, behind and to the left of Wanyan Zonghan also acted as if they were traveling far away. Most of the people did not wear armor, but packed their armor and let the horses carry it. Apparently they were not worried at all that the Song army would set up an ambush in the mountains for a surprise attack.
Of course, their relaxation is justified, because they have not encountered any ambushes or raids since they invaded the territory of Dasong River East Road in October last year. The only trouble is to attack the city. Not all cities are difficult to attack. Only Taiyuan, the capital of Dasong River East Road, is more difficult to attack. But this is not a problem. Is it possible to cultivate land in the small Taiyuan City? As long as you are surrounded and hungry, there will always be a break...
However, the development of things was beyond Wanyan Zonghan's expectation. His plan to besiege Taiyuan Mansion was actually broken ten days ago! Because he received a gold medal order arrow from Marshal Wanyan Xieye who was stationed in Yanjing - along with the gold medal came two pieces of absolutely shocking news!
The first news was that the 10,000-strong army led by Guo Yaoshi and Liu Yanzong encountered a fierce attack by 50,000 elite soldiers under the command of Zhao Kai, the marshal of Hebei soldiers and horses of the Song Dynasty, near Daming Mansion! Although Guo Yaoshi and Liu Yanzong risked their lives to fight, they were still defeated because they were outnumbered, with the loss of more than 3,000 people. Liu Yanzong himself was shot dead by the Song people with an eight-oxen crossbow when he led his team to break out... Guo Yaoshi packed up the remaining troops and fled to Cangzhou under the Hebei East Road of the Song Dynasty. He also reported the Wei County battle report to the capital marshal Wan Yanxie at Qianfu Village in the north of Cangzhou.
The second news is even more terrifying. It is that the East Route Army has lost contact!
There are as many as 60,000 regular soldiers (including 10,000 from Guo Yaoshi and Liu Yanzong), and the total force is close to 100,000 (including Ali Xi's auxiliary soldiers). The East Route Army led by the second prince Wanyan Zongwang actually lost contact. From mid-February, At first, no news about the Eastern Route Army was sent back to Yanjing.
This made Marshal Wanyan Xie extremely anxious. The Eastern Route Army went deep into the Song Dynasty alone and attacked the Kaifeng Prefecture in Tokyo... Will they run into the legendary 800,000 forbidden troops? Bar?
Because he was worried that Wanyan Zongwang would be killed by 800,000 forbidden troops, Wanyan Xie also immediately gave a gold medal to Wanyan Zonghan of the West Route Army, and asked him to immediately lead the main force of the West Route Army out of Taihang eastward, enter Hebei West Road, and then open up the The communication line from Yanshanfu Road south to the Yellow River will support the retreat of the East Route Army.
Although I don’t really believe that Wanyan Zongwang would be defeated by the 800,000 Song Dynasty’s Imperial Guards... But Wanyan Zonghan still believes that there are 800,000 Imperial Guards!
How could it not be?
The Song Dynasty had a population of hundreds of millions and hundreds of millions of acres of fertile land. Even if it had a million soldiers, it would only account for one percent of the population, and it could definitely be supported.
Therefore, raising 800,000 forbidden troops is really not a burden to the Song Dynasty... Anyway, Wanyan Zonghan felt that if he became an official of the Song Dynasty, he would have to raise 2 million forbidden troops! Otherwise, how many people inside and outside the Song Dynasty would be worried about such a wealthy country. Without two million forbidden troops guarding it from all sides, how could they sleep?
Because he believed that Wanyan Zongwang had hit 800,000 forbidden troops, Wanyan Zonghan did not dare to neglect... and hurriedly solved the siege of Taiyuan Mansion. After leaving a small number of troops to garrison Xinzhou, Daizhou and Meng County and Shouyang County in the east of Taiyuan Prefecture, he personally led the main force of the West Route Army to rescue Wanyan Zongwang.
Of course, Wanyan Zonghan could not tell his subordinates that the East Route Army of Jin Dynasty was likely to be surrounded by the 800,000 imperial troops of the Song Dynasty... According to the order he issued, the West Route Army gave up the siege of Taiyuan and instead crossed Taihang to advance to Shandong. The purpose was to cooperate with the Eastern Route Army in besieging Song Dynasty's Tokyo Bianliang!
This is to devour the Song Dynasty in one fell swoop and seize the beautiful country of the Central Plains!
Therefore, the morale of the West Route Army is extremely high, and it can be said that everyone is vying for the first place!
However, looking at the overlapping mountains in front of him and the increasingly darker sky, and seeing his army marching slowly in the winding valley, Wanyan Zonghan was always a little uneasy, "Wushi, Li Pingdingjun How far is the city?"
"Back to the deputy marshal, there are still twenty miles." Half a horse behind Wanyan Zonghan, a middle-aged man with a slightly thin body, a large forehead, deep eyes, and three long beards immediately replied.
"Twenty miles..." Zong Han looked up at the sky. It was impossible for the large group of troops to arrive today. Only the vanguard could approach Pingding Military City after nightfall. "Give Yelu Yujian an order to add more troops." Work hard and surround Pingding Military City before dawn tomorrow!"
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Because of Wanyan Zonghan's order, the situation on the Pingding Army's side took a turn for the worse. Just in the early morning of the next day after Yue Fei led people to protect Liu Ziyu and Qin Hui into the Pingding Army City, a large number of gold thieves suddenly swarmed around the Pingding Army City!
It was not yet bright, but Yue Fei was already standing on the highest point of Pingding Military City, looking down at the enemies who suddenly appeared and surrounded the city.
The names on the general identification flags erected two or three miles away were written in large Jurchen characters. Yue Fei didn't recognize this kind of writing that looked a bit like Khitan characters, and no one in the army could recognize it. If anyone in the Pingding Army knows the name Jurchen, they will know that the one who led the troops to Pingding Army this time was Yelu Yujian, Marshal of the Kingdom of Jin.
Although they did not recognize the words on the flag of Yelu Yujian, many of the two thousand generals in the Pingding Army City recognized the black and red military flag of He Jin Bing - the flag was composed of black and red, with two colors on it. There is a golden sun.
In Taiyuan Prefecture, which is next door to the Pingding Army, this flag symbolizing the Great Jin Kingdom has been raised over many walled cities.
The Song army here in Pingding Army originally thought that the golden thieves would slowly capture most of the cities in Taiyuan, Xinzhou, Daizhou and other places, and then choose to move eastward or southward.
Unexpectedly, the golden thieves who were attacking the city around Taiyuan suddenly sent thousands of elite troops directly into the Pingding Army, catching the Song army here by surprise - actually it was not caught off guard. Ji Taiwei of the Pingding Army had already I noticed something was wrong within a few days. Therefore, the more than 2,000 troops and horses under his command were already on alert. The more than 1,000 troops and horses in the Pingding Army Horse Farm also moved to Niangzi Pass early in the morning, and many hard detectives were sent to ambush in the nearby mountains.
But these preparations of his were of little use in front of the golden thief who had an absolute advantage. The military city was pacified on March 11, the eighth year of Xuanhe's reign, and was surrounded by at least 5,000 gold thieves.
Qin Hui, Liu Ziyu and Yue Fei were all trapped in Pingding Military City.
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