Chapter 904: Invincible

Wu'er Siqi was in a dilemma, but fortunately, Brother Cha's order came quickly, and a battle report came from Guanzhong, and the Song army Fan Zhixu was defeated, losing 160,000 soldiers, and the Jin army had already entered Tongguan; Brother Cha Ge believed that Huanqing Road and Qizhou were now chicken ribs, and that Suizhou should be abandoned in the north of Western Xia to seize Yanzhou, and Xihe Road and Qinfeng Road should be captured in the south and west. Brother Cha reminded Wu'er Siqi that retaking Yanzhou is not only a matter of Qingyan, but also that Yanzhou is the only way for Yue Fei to reinforce Yelu Yujian, and cutting off Yanzhou means that when the spring flowers bloom, Yelu Yujian will only have the fate of defeat.

As for the losses of Western Xia in Qizhou, they are nothing compared to the upcoming achievements on Huanqing Road, Jingyuan Road, Xihe Road, and Qinfeng Road. The 100,000 captured army of Western Xia was finally dispatched, and the 70,000 captured army attacked Jingyuan Road, Xihe Road, and Qinfeng Road by separate routes, and the 30,000 captured army to kill Ben Yanzhou; Yue Fei saw that the situation was not good, and took the initiative to retreat to Jingzhou, and the two sides fought for several rounds without winning or losing, and the northern front was calm again.

Wu'er Siqi sent people to send a letter to Wuzhai Fort in Qizhou, so that they could learn from Yelu Yu to see the frozen city, but it was still a step late, Zhenwu City, Ningjiang Fort, and Ningbian Village had been conquered by the Dingbei Army, and 8,000 defenders were annihilated; only Xi'an Fort and Anfeng Village were still in the hands of Xixia, and there was no reserve for winter in the two villages, if the ice and snow sealed the village, I am afraid that they would freeze to death before the beginning of spring, and more than 2,000 people of the defenders of the two villages knew that Wu'er Siqi would not come to the rescue, so they simply surrendered.

The war in Fuzhou was over, but seeing that the other side was closed by ice and snow, Wu'er Siqi was cowering in Suizhou, and Yang Zhi knew that he was unable to forge ahead for a while; besides, Fan Zhixu's fiasco made the Yongxing army lose its defensive ability, which would inevitably affect the battle situation in Hedong. Yang Zhi could only leave Zhe Keda and Yang Zhen to consolidate the battle line, and he had no choice but to lead 20,000 horsemen back to Huozhou and began to reconsider the gains and losses of the battle.

The response of the Xixia people this time was quite beautiful, and the news came from the Yanyan Road, a large number of turf and walled forts on Jingyuan and other roads were captured by the Xixia army, and the Xixia army in order to reduce losses, even directly said to the Song army that as long as they went to reinforce Guanzhong, even if they were on the march, they would not attack, and let the Song army fight to the death with the Jin army.

Yang Zhi sent a fast horse to Zhao Kai of Taiyuan and Liu Xiang of Jinning Mansion to send letters to each other, suggesting that the Jinning army should take over the three prefectures of Fuqi, and in addition, considering that the Qingyan Road was likely to be cut off after the beginning of spring, Zhao Kai was asked to consider capturing Jiezhou;

When Zhao Kai received Yang Zhi's letter, he quickly reported that the Jin army launched an attack in Yunzhong and Youzhou at the same time, Wanyan Xiyin led an army of 20,000 to attack Hongzhou, and Wanyan Zongben led an army of 30,000 to attack Yizhou. The two sides fought hard for more than ten days, Wang Ping, the governor of Yanshan Mansion, knew that he was invincible, and Hedong and Hebei were unable to support from a long distance at this time, so he took the initiative to withdraw from Yizhou, and let 20,000 people rush into Taihang Mountain to join Liu Qi and Gongsun Sheng, and he led an army of more than 10,000 people to the south to meet with Zhang.

Yunzhong won unexpectedly, Han Shizhong contacted Yelu Baqing in charge of intelligence in Datong in Huairen County, he is now the deputy general under Yelu Nuge, and led 5,000 people to attack Huairen County with Yelu Nuge, and was specifically responsible for finding out the news; Yelu Baqing brought Yelu Nuge into an ambush circle, most of the 5,000 Jin troops were shot and killed, more than 1,000 people surrendered, and Yelu Nuge was captured. Han Shizhong, Li Yanxian, and Yelu Baqing immediately pretended to be the Jin army, attacked Wanyan Xiyin's camp, burned the company camp, and killed more than 4,000 enemies; the Jin army was defeated and had to retreat to Datong Mansion.

When Marshal Taiyuan celebrated in the mansion, when Yang Zhi and Yue Fei were in the west, Han Shizhong rose and held the northern line of Yingzhou, Zong Ze smiled and said: "It was not in vain that Yang Zhi spent so much money to recruit Han Shizhong, as long as Yan Xiyin is not replaced, Han Shizhong can at least fight for a while." Marshal, since this is the case, Liu Xiang has already gone to Qizhou to supervise the battle, it is better to let Yang Zhi lead the Hetao cavalry to Taiyuan to repair, and the old man will go to assist Xu Huiyan to capture Jiezhou. ”

A hint of disappointment flashed in Zhang Xiaochun's eyes, originally if Zong Ze left, there would be no heavyweights in Taiyuan who originally followed Zhao Kai, but when Yang Zhi came, everything was different; Yang Zhi is now the number one general under Zhao Kai, holding the army in Yunzhong and Hetao, and the right to speak is not under Zong Ze.

When Qian Gai sent troops to the east, Li Fu, Lu Chewen, and Su Dayan moved to Taiyuan with more than 100 students from Guanzhong Academy. Yang Zhi is the financier behind the scenes of Guanzhong Academy, and he is also Li Fu's junior brother.

Fengxiang Mansion, twenty miles northwest of Tianxing City, the rocky hills, except for the ice and snow, there is no grass or trees in sight, the clouds in the sky are dim, and several black eagles are hovering in the sky, as if waiting for the living people below to leave; Your Majesty, I have done my best, if it weren't for the generous crying, I wouldn't have forced Fan Zhixu's 200,000 troops out of the customs, let alone the current tragedy in Guanzhong, Zhou Yuan is deeply guilty, I'm sorry for the millions of soldiers and civilians in Guanzhong, I'm sorry for the Great Song Dynasty. ”

Zhou Yuan raised the big axe, rushed to the Jin army on his horse, and shot at the arrows head-on, Zhou Yuan was shot to death after only rushing more than ten steps of the war horse, and was shot into a hedgehog in less than a stick of incense, but Zhou Yuan supported the ground with an axe and did not fall to death. The cold wind was calling out, for Zhou Yuan's unyielding soul, but the Jin army didn't seem to care too much, they were numb to killing, and one of the Jin generals rode past and cut off Zhou Yuan's head.

Wan Yan Gao continued to brush up his presence in Guanzhong, and the Zhulu Jin army under his command, plus the surrendered Song army was less than 100,000, but Wan Yan Gao was convinced of the assertion that "if the Jurchens are full of 10,000, they are invincible", and concentrated a 10,000-strong cavalry composed entirely of Jurchens as the main force, with the assistance of the rest of the armies. On the third day of entering Tongguan, after the Wanyan Gao army ambushed and annihilated 40,000 Song troops in Changlepo, they quickly attacked the city all the way, seized the Jingzhao Mansion to govern Chang'an, captured Fu Liang, the economic envoy left by Qian Gai, and then swept Fengxiang, Longzhou and other places.

Qian Gai and Fan Zhixu mobilized various armies in an attempt to contact the old rebels to recover Fengxiang, Wan Yan Gao expected that the Song army would send reinforcements, and set up an ambush on the main road to Fengxiang in advance, breaking the 100,000 reinforcements coming from Xihe Road in one fell swoop, and then captured Fengxiang. Subsequently, the Jin army was invincible, and in one day, it defeated 30,000 Qin Feng's army in Wugong in the early morning, 30,000 Shaanzhou troops at noon, and broke 150,000 reinforcements from all walks of life in Weinan overnight.