Chapter 554: Prince Zonghan's Depression
The crisis in Danzhou disappeared with the annihilation of Liu Yanzong's troops by Zhu Wu in Qifeng Mountain, and Ruzhou, which can be adjacent to Danzhou, is about to have an extremely tragic offensive and defensive battle.
The root cause of all this is naturally the Khitan Tianzuo Emperor Yelu Yanxi, originally Wanyan Aguta sent only 20,000 soldiers and horses to search for Yelu Yanxi, and they entered the country in multiple ways, secretly searched and arrested, and returned immediately after catching people, but they didn't expect that Wanyan Zonghan promised to be good, but in fact, it was Yang Fengyin who disobeyed, and commanded the soldiers and horses to burn, kill and plunder, so that Pang Yi, Xu Jing, and Li Congji raised troops and fought with him.
Although Wanyan Zonghan looked down on the Han people very much, although the Jurchens only lost about 2,000 people in that battle, but the Tang army's spirit of knowing that it was death but still going forward really shocked him, knowing that the number of Han people was far superior to that of the Jurchens, he was afraid that the rest of the Tang army would be the same, so he rushed back to Shangjing in the starry night and said it in front of Wanyan Aguta.
Wanyan Agu, who had planned to go south after capturing Yelu Yanxi, inquired, knowing that many of them were fabricated by Wanyan Zonghan, he still resolutely sent a large number of generals, including Liu Yanzong, as well as 80,000 Jurchen iron cavalry and nearly 100,000 Khitan servants.
With this large team of men and horses, Wanyan Zonghan's confidence was immediately sufficient, and with a direct wave of his hand, he divided the Jurchen Iron Cavalry into two, and he and Liu Yanzong each led 40,000, and the 100,000 Khitan servant army, he did not give any of them to Liu Yanzong, of course, with his status as a prince, where did Liu Yanzong dare to say a word, when even if he led 40,000 iron horses to Danzhou, Wanyan Zonghan returned to the junction of the two states with an army of 140,000, and gathered the original 18,000 soldiers and horses, and went to Ruzhou in a mighty way.
With 15,000 or 60,000 soldiers and horses in hand, Wanyan Zonghan was naturally unwilling to just search for Yelu Yanxi, so he naturally locked his eyes on the entire Confucian Prefecture, and even the entire land of Yanyun.
It's just that he didn't expect that his seemingly extremely powerful forces had just begun to set foot on the land of Yanyun, and he encountered something extremely embarrassing to him.
Although the city of Ruzhou was built in the second year of Tang Yifeng, it has experienced nearly 400 years of wind and rain, and the city wall is also mottled and rotten.
Although in the field battle, the combined forces of Xu Jing, Li Congji, and Pang Yi were all defeated by the Jurchens, but this was purely because the cavalry they had was too small, and compared to the Jurchens and other nations living on horseback, their cavalry was too naΓ―ve, but when it came to guarding the city, Xu Jing and Li Congji, no matter who they were, could throw out Yan Zonghan a few streets.
In Wanyan Zonghan's view, the small Confucian city is not a problem at all, as long as he waves the army to attack the city, not to mention a day, I am afraid that as long as an hour, the Confucian city can be razed to the ground, but I don't want the fact that it is the opposite, he waved the army to attack for three days, not to mention that he captured the city, and he did not even hit the edge of the city, but lost a lot of soldiers and horses.
As a Jurchen prince, Wanyan Zonghan's pride can be imagined, but now he is hindered by the defeat of his original subordinates, which makes him embarrassed, but he thinks about it, and he goes back and forth in the tent I don't know how many times, in addition to making himself more and more anxious, he can't think of any way to take Confucianism, so he has to order someone to call all the generals under his account.
The prince called, these generals didn't dare to be the slightest bit lazy, and hurried over, but when they saw Yan Zonghan's gloomy face, they were all excited, and they all entered the tent with their heads down, and stood there honestly.
After all the generals were able to arrive, Wanyan Zonghan's eyes swept back and forth on the generals a few times, and suddenly kicked over the handsome case in front of him, and scolded everyone viciously, "You group of waste, this has been attacked for three whole days, how many of our Jurchen warriors have died, but you group of waste, but you can't even climb up a small city, what use do you have, you come up with a feasible way for a certain family today, if there is no way, a certain family will kill all of you, Then take the lead in the charge! β
The generals couldn't help but look at each other, asking them to take the lead in charging into battle, or burning, killing and plundering, then they are the masters among them, but if they want these people with muscles in their brains to think of siege strategies, it is undoubtedly really called Zhang Fei's embroidery, and they can only stare at each other with big eyes.
Jin Gulu looked left and right, and saw that everyone was frowning, pretending to think there, and couldn't help pinching his chin, muttering there, "If it's a field battle, my Jurchen Iron Cavalry can perform a battle, where are these things!" β
"Nonsense!" Although Jin Gulu's voice was light, but Wanyan Zonghan's ear power was so good, he immediately heard it in his ears, and rushed to Jin Gulu's front in one step, kicked it to the ground, and shouted while kicking, "This truth is the way of a certain family, you don't need to tell a certain family again, if you can't come up with a way to use it, a certain family will laugh at you!" As he spoke, he took out the sword from his waist and made a few strokes on Jin Gulu's neck.
The generals were shocked and had the heart to step forward to persuade them, but when they saw Wanyan Zonghan's murderous appearance, the words on their lips were swallowed, and just when Wanyan Zonghan became more and more impatient and prepared to kill the head of Jin Gulu to make an example, they heard a burst of rough laughter outside the tent, "Big wolf lord, what is it doing here to be angry, can you say it and listen to it?" β
After Yan Zonghan and the generals inquired about their prestige, they couldn't help but be overjoyed, and they couldn't take care of Jin Gulu who fell to the ground anymore, and stepped forward to grab the arm of the person who came, "Tong Xian Wenlang, you can be regarded as coming, without you by the side of a certain family, a certain family can be said to be all things going wrong!" β
"Oh?" Tong Xian Wenlang glanced at Wanyan Zonghan in disbelief, and his eyes swept over the slightly embarrassed faces of the generals one by one, but finally stopped at Jin Gulu who fell to the ground, "Big wolf lord, this Jin Gulu general is brave and good at fighting, and he is a famous general of my Jurchen, I want to ask the big wolf lord for personal favors, but I spare him this time!" β
"Humph!" Wanyan Zonghan listened, but he snorted coldly, pointed at Jin Gulu and shouted, "If it weren't for Tong Xian Wenlang joining the army to intercede, I wouldn't have been able to kill you today, and now I won't get out with me!" β
Jin Gulu struggled to get up from the ground, nodded to Tong Xian Wenlang in thanks, and limped out, and after Jin Gulu's figure was completely invisible, Wanyan Zonghan explained the current predicament in detail, and asked Tong Xian Wenlang to think of a way for him.
Tong Xianwenlang laughed, "What's so difficult about this!" Xuan even stretched out two fingers, "I have three strategies for the big wolf lord to choose!" β
"Three strategies?" There was a sound of inhaling cool air in the tent, and Wanyan Zonghan glared fiercely at the generals who had muscles in their heads, and said to Tong Xianwen Lang with a smile on his face, "Please also join the army and tell me, what is the solution?" β