The situation on the battlefield can really only be described as changing rapidly.
Less than an hour ago, Huang Wuji used a bed crossbow to separate the second prince of Dajin from Bu Yin and become "He Li Chuan". For a time, he was in the same position and had a bright future. But who would have thought that Meng'an, the close supervisor of Huoli, would suddenly go berserk and attack Huang Wuji's phalanx under the fire from the sky. He would risk hundreds of lives and kill Huang Wuji to avenge their lord. hatred".
Fortunately, Huang Wuji is a general who can be strong and cowardly. When he saw that he couldn't beat him, he quickly gave in and ran away. And he escaped with great success... He was obviously an "escape tactic expert" who was good at escaping.
Because he escaped relatively quickly, and before running away, he moved his recognition flag and tooth flag to the center of the formation and set fire to it, making people think that he would not retreat until he died, and died by self-immolation!
Therefore, the victorious Jin soldiers did not immediately chase Huang Wuji and his defeated soldiers, but rushed towards Huang Wuji's recognition flag and tooth flag - they had to put out the fire, grab people and seize the flag!
But Huang Wuji couldn't be allowed to hold a flag and set himself on fire. Otherwise, how would it prove that they had avenged "Ao Li Chuan"?
Of course, the occurrence of such a mistake is also related to the fact that after Ou Li failed to "string", there was no one to take over the ten thousand households under his control for the time being.
Wanhu, who was inseparable from each other, was actually fighting "spontaneously", especially Meng'an, which he was in charge of personally, and only a group of plotters were commanding it.
So after defeating Huang Wuji, everyone suddenly lost their direction, and it was normal for some confusion and mistakes to occur.
However, their chaos did not last long. Wanyan Aguda's youngest brother, Wanyan Wudubu, took over the troops left behind by "Wa Li Chuan" with Wanyan Chan's mother's gold medal.
Because Wanyan Mu's sons were all incompetent, Wu Dubu, who was only 28 years old this year, became Wanyan Mu's deputy. After learning that Oni Libu was "in a bunch", Yan's mother immediately asked her little brother to take over his Wanhu gold medal to take over Oo Libu's army.
Wu Dubu, who had just taken office as a new official, wanted to organize his men to launch a pursuit. The seven or eight thousand defeated troops led by Huang Wuji, who had lost their armor, had already merged with a military formation sent by Han Shizhong - Han Shizhong had a total of six armies at hand. He led one, his generals Xie Yuan, Dong Min, Chen Jue, and Wang Sheng each led an army, and Zhao Kai's old subordinate Xiang Ke also led an army.
These six armies have been lined up from north to south south of the Wuzhang River, and they have all formed a square formation. Before Huang Wuji's defeat, these six formations of Song troops all came with "Qixu Rulin" and slowly marched eastward. Now seeing that Huang Wuji was defeated, he quickly said "Stand still as a mountain".
However, the backbone of Huang Wuji's troops who had just separated from the Jin soldiers were all experienced veterans. Of course they were defeated "as fast as the wind"... They ran faster than the wind, and I didn't even wait for them to make up for it. After mobilizing troops to launch a pursuit, they had already merged with an army led by Xiang Ke.
Now Wanyan and I don't dare to act rashly... The six armies under Han Shizhong are full of momentum!
If the combat effectiveness of these six armies is the same as that of the army led by Huang Yaoshi, then I will make up for it and there will be "strings".
So when I saw the Song army's strict formation, Wu Dubu quickly gathered his troops, found the exhausted "Bo Li Chuan", had people pull out the big arrows still stuck in the body, and found a big flag to wrap the body. After wrapping up the package, he moved to the southwest with him - he still had to continue to implement the plan specified earlier by Wanyan Yibu and Wanyan Yanmu, from the south bank of the Wuzhang River to the west, bypassing Kaifeng Fucheng, and then turn back and head north to meet Da Da Prince Nianhan joins forces!
Shortly after Wanyan Wudubu and Wanyan Yanmu led their more than 20,000 troops to move to the southwest and leave the battlefield, when the dusk of September 21st of the first year of Jingkang came, Wanyanwu also begged for goods from Wuhan. The troops north of Zhanghe issued an order to turn north.
The reason why he ordered the troops to retreat north was not because of Onli's failure on the other side of the Wuzhang River (he didn't know yet that Ori's "string") and Yan's mother had withdrawn from the battlefield, nor was it because of Liu Yanzong's artillery and Talan. The losses of the Xi soldiers were not small, but because the fast horse riders sent by Wanyan Wushu had arrived at Chenqiao Town, and they also brought news that the main force of the Song Army on the North Road was probably heading towards Daming Mansion!
It turns out that Jin Wushu discovered something was wrong at noon today... The sentinels he sent out to monitor the Song Army's Xiaowuxi Camp and Heping Lingxi Camp found that the Song Army's brigade was walking north along the Yellow River embankment after leaving the camp. Enter!
This shows that they are going to attack Daming Mansion!
Therefore, while Wanyan Wushu led his troops to the north, he also sent messengers to Daming Mansion and the north bank of Wuzhang River to report the news.
As soon as Wu Qimai received the news, he immediately became anxious and angry.
Daming Mansion must not be thrown away!
There is a large amount of grain, grass and baggage stored in Damingfu City, and the trophies and slaves captured by the Jin Bing East Route Army (the army previously led by Yan Mu and Olibu) are also stored in the very spacious Damingfu City. .
If the Daming Mansion is lost, then the Southern Expedition of the Jin Kingdom will really be ruined... It's even hard to say whether it can return to the north safely!
That's why Wanyan Wu begged for money and asked his successor Wanyan Xie to guard Daming Mansion with a force of ten thousand households... With a force of ten thousand households guarding Daming Mansion, it should be foolproof.
However, the Song Dynasty had sky fire and cannons with super long range!
These two things plus Zhao Bupo's bravery... the daimyo is about to be finished!
Therefore, Wu Qimai no longer dared to fight Han Shizhong, so he quickly gathered his troops and prepared to go north to help the daimyo.
As long as the daimyo is in hand, he will still have a chance to capture the two territories in Hebei and continue to compete with the Song Dynasty for the Central Plains.
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Hebei, Daming Mansion.
It was evening on September 21, the first year of Jingkang.
The sky is already quite dark, and there is also a strong north wind blowing. The temperature is also plummeting, and the sky is covered with dark clouds, which makes the people in this Damingfu city in Beijing, the Song Dynasty, somewhat breathless. coming.
The Wei County Gate and Guanyin Gate of Daming Mansion facing west were still wide open at this time, and there was no tense atmosphere of an impending war.
Obviously, due to various reasons, the Chuanqi sent by Wanyan Wushu has not arrived at Daming Mansion yet.
The Beijing city of the Song Dynasty had been occupied by the Jin Kingdom for several months. The people of the Song Dynasty outside the city who were still thinking of rebelling against the Jin Dynasty and welcoming the king's division either ran away or were suppressed by the Jin Kingdom!
Even if there are still some loyal subjects of the Song Dynasty official family, they can only dare to be angry but dare not speak out.
After the 200,000 to 300,000 troops led by Emperor Wu Qimai of the Jin Dynasty marched from Yanjing City to Daming Mansion, people's hearts around the famous people also changed. One after another, local gentry began to show their strength. Even officials from the Song Dynasty defected to Dajin.
Wan Yanxie, who stayed in Daming Mansion to take charge of the overall situation, naturally refused to accept these traitors from the Song Dynasty who had taken refuge in Dajin, and granted them official posts and made wishes. Moreover, they spread rumors everywhere, saying that Kaifeng Mansion has been surrounded by people and will soon be defeated... From now on, the whole of Hebei will be like this.
Although it is a rumor, I can’t help but believe it!
For example, Du Chong, who knew about Cangzhou in the Song Dynasty, believed it. A few days ago, he took a thousand soldiers and a batch of grain and grass plundered in Cangzhou to seek refuge in Daming Mansion... He was still plausibly saying that he was not Not for myself as an official, but for the people of Cangzhou! The soldiers of the Kingdom of Jin were asked not to go to Cangzhou to hunt grass and valleys.
Wan Yanxie naturally liked Du Chong as a good official who loved the people. He immediately gave Du Chong the title of Shangshu Zuopushe and asked him to stay in Kaifeng Mansion as an official and be responsible for managing the territory occupied by the Jin army. Even the civil affairs of Daming Mansion were handed over to him.
After Du Chong took office as the new official, of course he had to perform well, so he sent people to the four villages of Daming Prefecture to post notices to comfort the people, telling everyone the good news that the Song Dynasty had been destroyed, and also asked the people in Daming Prefecture who had gone to the countryside to escape. Go home and settle down. It was also announced that various commercial taxes in Damingfu City would be exempted for three months... People from the four villages of Damingfu were welcome to enter the city to sell local products, fruits, vegetables, poultry and other items.
Da Jin Kingdom not only does not collect taxes, but also ensures everyone’s safety, and also ensures that anyone who buys things will be paid!
This time is the autumn harvest. People in the four villages of Daming Prefecture always have some products to sell, and they also need to buy some tea, salt and cloth from Daming Prefecture City.
No matter what, the market in Damingfu must be improved as soon as possible, so that more people can be fooled into serving the Kingdom of Jin!
Under Du Chong's deceptive policy, many Daming people and gentry who could not hide in the countryside began to return to the city in the past few days, and more villagers and small businessmen came to the city to do business.
In order to facilitate everyone's access, Du Chong also deliberately extended the opening hours of Wei County Gate and Guanyin Gate. Although it is already evening, the gates are not closed yet.
However, because there is not much peace outside the city, few people go out of the city now. The villagers and businessmen who have sold their goods are willing to find a place to spend the night in the city.
But there were still some merchants who came from afar, pushing wheelbarrows, carrying large and small bags, and carrying burdens, and rushed toward the two city gates that had not yet been closed. Among them was a group of wine merchants. There were not only dozens of wheelbarrows pushed by people, but also carts pulled by donkeys. The carts were filled with baskets of wine jars - not the big jars, but small ones. The big jar can hold at most two or three kilograms of wine. The mouth of the jar is also wrapped with a long red cloth. It looks very eye-catching. You can tell it is good wine at a glance!
There was also a grown-up man in front of him, about 20 years old, with a white face and no beard, eyes one big and one small, wearing a satin robe, and holding a big flag in his hand, with three big characters "Yuetai Wine" tattooed on the flag!
Yes, it’s Yuetai, not Maotai, because the wine merchant’s surname is Yue Fei and his courtesy name is Pengju... Yes, it’s that Yue Fei and Yue Wudi. For some reason, instead of being an official and killing thieves, he has switched to starting a business and selling wine. .
So of course what he sells is Xiangzhou's famous Yuetai wine...and the taste of this Yuetai wine is a bit strange, very strong, and makes people dizzy when smelling it. I don't know how it was brewed. ?
