Chapter 960: The Jin Kingdom Defeated

"General Qiyu, the permanent population of Shangjing City is more than 100,000, and there are tens of thousands of refugees, except for a few people who hid in the cellar to escape the catastrophe, most of them died in the massacre of the Jurchens, and the corpses that were finally cleaned up have exceeded 120,000 bodies, and there are many stumps that cannot be put together at all, so it is impossible to count the exact number of deaths, and among these deaths, the number of young women is very small, I heard the survivors say that the Jurchens once captured young women in the city, It is estimated that at least tens of thousands of young women were taken captive by the Jin army, including the palace maids and concubines in the palace of the Liao Kingdom! Xiao Dilie's face was gloomy and he replied to Hu Yanqing in front of him.

On the third day when he arrived in Shangjing, Hu Yanqing finally arrived, but he was the same as Xiao Dilie, but what he saw was the dead corpses all over the city, Xiao Dilie led his five thousand people to clean up for three whole days, and only a small part of the area was cleared, and there were more corpses in the city.

"Beasts are not as good as beasts!" Hu Yanqing couldn't help but grit his teeth when he heard this, although it was the capital of the Liao people who was slaughtered, but the Liao State had surrendered to the Great Song Dynasty before, although the Great Song Dynasty had not taken over here, but the people here also belonged to half of the Great Song people, but now more than 100,000 people in the city were slaughtered, and tens of thousands of women were taken away, which can be called a great shame.

"General, the Jin army is brutal and unkind, it is no different from beasts, the last general asked my Great Song Dynasty to send troops to smash the Huanglong Mansion, in order to comfort the hundreds of thousands of souls in the capital!" Xiao Dilie said with a sad face again at this time, although he has returned to the Great Song Dynasty, he is a Khitan after all, Shangjing is the capital of the Liao State, and it is also the place where the Khitans are most concentrated, and most of the people living in the city are Khitans, but now they have all become the souls of the Jurchens. This made him inevitably sad in his heart.

"The Jin Kingdom is definitely going to attack, but as for when to attack and how to fight this battle, it is not for us to decide, but I have already reported the matter on the Shangjing side to General Yang, and then he will report it to the imperial court. Presumably, the imperial court will definitely not let the Jurchens be so arrogant! Hu Yanqing was also a little angry at this time, although he had killed people before, but it was all on the battlefield, and the people he killed were all people who dared to resist the orders of the Great Song Dynasty, but he would never be able to do this kind of thing if he slaughtered all men, women, and children.

Xiao Dilie also knew that it was not his own decision on whether to march to the Jin Kingdom, but the thought of the hundreds of thousands of people who died tragically in the capital made him still uneasy, and he roared angrily at the moment. He had a grudge against the Jurchens for killing his father, and now he has witnessed the brutality of the Jin army, which can be said to be a mixture of national hatred and family hatred, which makes him eager to immediately lead his troops to destroy the Jin country.

A few days later, Yang Huaiyu finally led the army to Shangjing, and when they saw the corpses spread outside the city in sight, all the soldiers in the middle army also felt extremely angry and asked Yang Huaiyu to fight. The arrogant Jurchens must be destroyed, because they can all be felt. This is the Jurchens demonstrating against their Great Song Dynasty, and the majesty of the Great Song Dynasty cannot be challenged by anyone!

Yang Huaiyu's face was also gloomy, and he could also feel the strong provocation of the Jurchens from these corpses, which made him very annoyed, since he joined the army, he had never been so provoked. But this also aroused his fighting spirit even more, and from this moment on, he secretly swore in his heart that he would destroy the Jurchen in this life!

The massacre of Shangjing was soon sent to the city of Tokyo, which made the Great Song court angry. Especially when Zhao Xu was in his youth and vigor, seeing that the little Jurchen actually used this method to demonstrate to him, he was even more furious, and a holy decree was quickly sent to the front line, ordering the Western Route Army and the Middle Route Army to advance hand in hand, and attack the Huanglong Mansion where the Jin State was entrenched from both sides.

After receiving the holy decree, Yang Huaiyu, who had a short rest, immediately sent troops to Huanglongfu, before attacking Liao, it was almost a one-sided war, the number of Liao's troops was too large, but in the face of the Song army, they often fled without a fight, so the 150,000 army in Yang Huaiyu's hands did not have much loss, and there were 140,000 people who maintained their complete combat strength, and at this time, they were inspired by the provocation of the Jurchens to have infinite fighting spirit, so the 140,000 army immediately mustered all their strength to kill Huanglongfu after receiving the order.

At the same time, the Western Route Army, which also received the order to attack, was also led by the ancient general of Guhe, and the southwest direction of the people rushed to Huanglongfu, and for a time the newly established Jin State faced the sandwich attack of the two armies of the Great Song Dynasty, and the number of each army far exceeded the sum of their domestic armies, and the combat effectiveness of the Song Army was not comparable to the Liao Army, which made the newly established Jin State immediately fall into a desperate situation.

However, Ah Guda is not a person who admits defeat so easily, and he also knows that with his own strength, he must not be able to fight hard with the two Song armies at the same time, but he was wiped out by the Liao army when he was weak, and he often encountered this situation, so he has already accumulated rich experience, first of all, he sent his younger brother Wu Qimai to lead thousands of troops to harass Yang Huaiyu's army, and he led the main army to meet the enemy's Western Route Army led by the ancient general, because he had long heard of Yang Huaiyu's name, and knew that the other party was very difficult to mess with, On the contrary, the reputation of the old general Furukawa in the Liao State was not so significant, and the number of the Western Route Army was also small, only 100,000 people, which was mainly due to the fact that Furukawa deployed part of the troops of the Western Route Army behind his back to prevent a rebellion between the Liao State and the barbarians on the western grassland.

This tactic of Aguta has always been very effective, with a small number of troops to contain the enemy's army on one road, and then concentrate forces to eliminate the other, he once used this method to defeat the encirclement and suppression of the Liao State 100,000 troops, and at that time the troops in his hands were less than 10,000 people, and now he has 50,000 troops in his hands, so in his opinion, even if the Song army's combat effectiveness is stronger than the Liao army, he may not have no hope of victory.

First of all, Wu Qimai's five thousand elite cavalry went to contain Yang Huaiyu's army, but the cavalry of the Great Song Dynasty was also very difficult to provoke, as soon as Wu Qimai appeared in front of the Song army, he was immediately pursued and killed by three Great Song cavalry, and each of them was above him, which made Wu Qimai only flee in embarrassment, and was even almost strangled by three cavalry jointly, and finally lost more than 3,000 troops when he finally escaped, and failed to achieve the strategic goal of containment.

The two sides just met in the southwest of Huanglong Mansion, and before Ah Guda exerted the true power of his cavalry, he was turned on his back by several rounds of artillery salvos from the Song army, and they were also the first time to face the Song army head-on, when they were in Liaoyang Mansion before, they only besieged Hu Yanping's army, strictly speaking, and did not fight head-on, so Ah Guta's combat power of the Song army was also seriously underestimated, and the war horse was extremely afraid of the sound of artillery, It also caused them to be in a chaotic formation after being shelled.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, the old and strong ancient general immediately ordered his cavalry to charge, their western army was originally the ace army of the Great Song Dynasty, especially in the northwest of the land of many warriors, among which there are many grassland people, Western Regions and Tufan people to join the army, so the cavalry of the Western Army is stronger than the Hebei Army, and the number is more, this time the ancient general brought nearly 30,000 cavalry alone, not much worse than the Jurchens, so when the 30,000 cavalry against the 50,000 cavalry of the Jin Kingdom has been chaotic, the victory was decided almost instantly, The Jin army was killed by the Great Song cavalry, but it was defeated.

Seeing this situation, Aguta also immediately made a decision and immediately issued an order to retreat, but fortunately, most of the cavalry under his command were light cavalry wearing leather armor, unlike the cavalry of the Great Song Dynasty wearing iron armor, which improved the protection and combat effectiveness of the cavalry, but it would affect the speed of the cavalry, so Aguta led the cavalry to escape from the battlefield easily, but later when he counted the losses, he was heartbroken to find that with just one charge, the 50,000 army under his command lost nearly 10,000 people, and the rest were also shocked. It seemed that it would be difficult to have the courage to fight the Song army again.

However, this defeat on the battlefield finally woke up Ah Guda and made him understand the huge gap between himself and the Great Song Dynasty, which also made him immediately change his tactics and decisively withdraw the army to Huanglong Mansion, and at this time, Wu Qimai also led the remaining 1,000 cavalry back to Huanglong Mansion.

But now there is no time for Ah Gu to sigh to them, Yang Huaiyu and Guhe's two armies are rushing to the side of Huanglong Mansion, and now there are two roads left in front of Ah Guda, the first is to rely on the city wall of Huanglong Mansion to defend it, but their Jurchens are mainly cavalry, and they are not very good at defending the city, in addition, Huanglong Mansion has been broken many times, and the city wall is also a little dilapidated, I am afraid that it only takes a few rounds of volleys from the Song army to break the city wall, and if there is a street battle in the city, it is not conducive to their cavalry strategy.

In addition to defending to the death, the rest is naturally left to escape, they Jurchens are good at escaping if they can't fight, as long as they escape into the deep mountains and old forests, no matter how powerful the army is, there is no way to take them, but now it is different from before, Aguta has already established the country and called the emperor, and has also captured a large number of people as the foundation of the Jin country, if at this time give up the last territory of Huanglongfu and flee into the mountains, then these people and resources must also be abandoned, because it is impossible for them to bring hundreds of thousands of people into the mountains and forests.

For the above two roads, it was difficult for Ah Guda to make a decision for a while, and seeing the two Song armies getting closer and closer, it also made him feel imminent, but at this moment, there was a person who suddenly saved the Jin Kingdom that was about to fall into destruction. (To be continued.) )