Battle of Yanzhou (Part II)

After dealing with these things, the two of them came to Wanyan Yungong's imperial camp and reported the battle situation to him. On the first day, Wan Yan Yungong personally supervised the battle, but was hit by a cannon by the Song army near his team, and was immediately frightened Yan Yungong's soul flew out of the sky, and from then on, he never dared to go to the battlefield in person, and just waited in the camp every day for the two to come back to report.

The two walked to the front of the imperial camp and explained their intentions to the guards, who did not dare to slack off when they heard this, so they asked the two to wait for a while, and they immediately went in to report. The two of them were waiting outside the imperial camp, and then they heard the sound of rare silk and bamboo wind music coming from inside, and they faintly smelled the smell of wine. The two couldn't help but smile bitterly at each other, at this time, the emperor actually had the heart to drink and have fun in the imperial camp.

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In the middle of the night, although the climate is getting warmer, at night, it is still bitterly cold. Yang Yan stood on the city wall, looking at the Jin army camp in the distance, thinking thoughtfully. In the past few days, because of the continuous defeat of the Jin army's attack, the morale of the Song army has not been depressed in the slightest. Although the Song army also lost more than 3,000 troops, and more than half of the firearms were basically used, the goal of consuming the Jin army was achieved.

And in the past few days, according to the report of the spies, the Jin army has continued to send small groups of men and horses to villages near and far to loot grain, which obviously means that the Jin army's grain and grass are not available, all of this is as Yang Yan expected in advance, the Jin army hastily dispatched troops, although the men and horses are numerous, but they are not well prepared, and it is not difficult to break.

At the same time, there is another thing that makes Yang Yan satisfied, that is, the Jin soldiers plundered the people of the Western Xia like this, which will inevitably arouse the dissatisfaction of the people of the Western Xia against the Jin army, and the Jin army was still invited by the Western Xia court, so even with the Western Xia court, it will also lose a lot of people's hearts. Then, in the future, when the Song army occupied the land of Western Xia, it had to implement an effective restoration policy, which should be easier to convince the people.

It's just that at the moment, Yang Yan is waiting for an opportunity to break the Jin Army.

At this time, Yang Changpeng came to Yang Yan's side and said, "Zihao, haven't you slept yet?" ”

Yang Yan nodded and said, "Brother Peng, I can't sleep for a while, and when I saw that the weather was fine, I went to the city for a walk." I didn't expect it to be so ambiguous these days, the snow melted a few days ago, I knew it was like this, I didn't need so many cotton clothes, and now it has become a burden. ”

Yang Changpeng said with a smile: "This is just an occasional warmer weather, and in a few days, it will be cold again, and there will be heavy snow in most likewise." That's when cotton clothes will be useful. ”

Yang Yan was slightly stunned and said, "Brother Peng, did you say it would snow again?" ”

Yang Changpeng nodded and said: "I have been guarding in the northwest area for many years, and I still have some understanding of the climate. ”

Yang Yan immediately asked: "Brother Peng, can you calculate accurately, there are still a few days before the sky changes, when will it snow?" ”

Yang Changpeng was also stunned, feeling that Yang Yan asked quite strangely, and said: "I can't say for sure, it's just a matter of more than ten days." ”

Yang Yan shook his head and said, "What I want to know is the time, the more Huai is the better, can you immediately find a few local people with common sense of the weather and ask." ”

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Temujin stood on a small cliff and looked down the mountain with a canopy in his hand.

I saw that on the avenue on the side of the mountain, a group of Jin troops was marching on the road. Thousands of large and small chariots were escorted in the procession, and a long line was formed, and almost no one was visible.

Temujin laughed and said, "Finally, you are here." Then he immediately turned around and came to the front of the Mongol army hidden behind the cliff, and said loudly: "The grain transportation team of the Jin people is here, this is the first step for us to repay the blood debt of the Jin people, let's go to war." ”

This Jin army is indeed a grain transportation team sent by the Jin State, led by a general called Da Shidu, with 10,000 horses and escorting nearly 5,000 vehicles.

Da Shidu also knew that the army in the summer did not carry much grain and grass materials, and the emperor was still the emperor himself, and along the way he was connected to three edicts urging him to release as soon as possible, so Da Shidu did not dare to slack off, urging the soldiers and men to escort the grain and grass materials all the way to hurry, but when he entered the territory of Xixia, he immediately encountered a heavy snowfall, and the heavy snow auxiliary ground was more than half a foot thick, and it was difficult to walk an inch. Da Shidu had no choice but to stop for two days, and as soon as the snow stopped, he gave the order to set off regardless of the snow on the road.

Fortunately, the weather is gradually returning to the dark, the snow is gradually melting, and the road is getting better and better. Therefore, Dashidu ordered the soldiers to hurry and make up for the lost time in front.

But after going deep into the realm of Western Xia, the road gradually became unsmooth. Along the road, you can see groups of refugees staring at their chariots, looking like they want to get up and stop. Although they dare not rob openly during the day, at night, there are endless steals. And more and more.

Da Shidu just kept cursing that the Western Xia people were hungry and crazy, and they didn't know that this was the grain and grass given to the Jin army who helped them defeat the Song army. Of course, he didn't know that most of the reasons for the rampant disaster in the Western Xia Territory were due to the plundering of the Jin army in the Xia Dynasty. had to order the soldiers to be strictly guarded, but in the end, because there were too many vehicles escorted this time, Jin Bing also took care of the other. Fortunately, the only people who stole the grain team were hungry people, and they robbed a few packets of grain at a time, and the loss was not too big.

However, now the grain transport team has arrived near Liuboling, and after walking for three or two days, it can reach the camp of the Jin army, and Da Shidu also learned that 20,000 horses were sent to meet him in the camp, and Da Shi was about to run into it, so Da Shidu was also relieved a lot. Now he only hopes to rush to the camp as soon as possible to take this burden one day earlier, and he can be relieved one day earlier.

But at this moment, I only heard the dust on the left and right sides, and the sound of killing was loud, killing countless cavalry, and coming straight to the grain team, but the clothes and armor banners were clearly not the Jin army.

Dashi couldn't help but be shocked, this was the people and horses from there, but he didn't allow him to think about it, and hurriedly ordered the grain carts to be gathered together, and the Jin army formed a circle around the periphery to protect the grain carts and prepare for battle.

However, it was too late to take the scriptures, and before the Jin army could completely set up the formation, I saw a dense rain of arrows pouring down towards the Jin army. The golden soldiers bore the brunt of the attack, many of them were hit by arrows and fell to the ground, and many of the men and coachmen were also hit by arrows, and many arrows were shot directly at the vehicles. And the vehicles that were hit by the arrows immediately emitted a scorched smell.

Someone immediately noticed that something was wrong and immediately shouted, "They're using rockets." ”

"Quickly put out the fire and protect the food."

This army was none other than the 5,000 Mongol army led by Temujin. Yang Yan predicted that the Jin Kingdom would inevitably rush to transport a batch of grain and grass materials to supplement the military. This batch of grain and grass materials must not be allowed to be transported to the camp of the Jin State, so he asked Temujin to lead the Mongol army to lurk in the area of Helan Yuan, waiting for the Jin army's grain team to appear. At the same time, Yang Yan also gave Temujin 10,000 rockets, and asked each Mongolian soldier to bring a small bag of fishing oil so that they could burn the Jin army's chariots.

Although this Mongolian army only had 5,000 men, it was the most elite cowardly army in Mongolia, and several of Temujin's generals were all there, the four dogs, the third brothers, and the three sons, so the combat effectiveness should not be underestimated. Ten thousand rockets were also dispersed to the Mongol soldiers, two each, mixed with a rain of arrows, and fired at the Jin army. The fire thorns carried by these rockets are specially made by the Great Song Dynasty, which burns longer and is not easy to extinguish.

The vehicles hit by the rockets immediately burned, and although the fire was not large, if left unchecked, it could burn into a fire, and the vehicles of the Jin army were all gathered together, and if one car burned, it would immediately spread to the surrounding vehicles, so that it would be uncontrollable.

Therefore, many golden soldiers were immediately busy extinguishing the fire, and many golden soldiers went around looking for water, and there was no formation in the first place, and there was a big chaos all of a sudden. And Da Shidu was also so anxious that he was sweating profusely, not knowing whether to organize Jin soldiers to fight the fire or resist the enemy.

After the Mongol army finished shooting the rocket, it immediately rode forward and entered the ranks of the Jin army, at which time the Jin army had already been in chaos, and there was the opponent of the Mongol army. What's more, at this time, the Mongol army was full of revenge and anger, and everyone fought bravely to be the first, slashing and killing the Jin army, only to kill the Jin army's corpses all over the ground, and the blood flowed into a canal. Even the chauffeurs died in the process.

Seeing that the situation was not good, the other Jin soldiers had no choice but to abandon the grain cart and flee in all directions. While Temujin commanded the Mongol army to chase and kill the Jin army, he ordered people to set fire to the carts everywhere, this time not with rockets, but with fishing oil, and then set on fire, and the grain, forage, and cotton clothes transported were also extremely flammable things, so the fire suddenly expanded several times, and burned continuously.

And Da Shi knows that he has a great responsibility, and if he loses his food and grass, even if he escapes to Jinying, it will be a dead end. Therefore, with hundreds of soldiers around him, he gritted his teeth and fought to the death. But no matter how desperately they were, they couldn't resist the elite Mongol army. It was not long before he was killed and scattered by the Mongol army, and Dashi was also cut down by Subutai, and the rest of the people fled for their lives.

Temujin naturally knew that his first task was to burn the grain and grass of the Jin army, not how many Jin soldiers he killed, so after killing the Jin soldiers, he immediately ordered the Mongol army not to chase after the defeated army, and continued to burn the grain wagons, and set fire to the places where the fire was not big or had not burned for the time being. Eventually, the entire convoy burst into flames.

At this time, someone reported to Temujin that a large group of the Jin army had been found in the west, and it was probably to rescue the grain caravan. When Temujin heard this, he did not like to fight, and immediately ordered the Mongol army to retreat.