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Seeing that Wanyan Liang was still hesitating, Tang Kuobian continued, "Wanyan Yong is proficient in the art of war. If he stays in the capital, there will be no problem."
"Just do as you say."
"For the sake of nights and dreams, I think His Majesty should send a cavalry to speed up the journey and arrive in Yanjing in advance to avoid the situation from changing."
"Well, let Xiao Yu come to see me."
Not long after, Xiao Yu, Minister of the Ministry of War and Deputy Marshal of the Left, arrived in front of the camp.
"I see you, Your Majesty."
"You lead three thousand cavalry, and in the name of begging for thieves, quickly go south to Yanjing. After arriving at Xijin Mansion, first observe secretly. Beijing, take Yanjing to defend, and don't let Song people enter the city."
"Why is this?"
"There is no need to ask why, how can Yanjing hand over to the people of Song Dynasty?"
"What if Song people want to take it by force?" Xiao Yu couldn't help asking.
"Song people are afraid that they have already fought with Wushu, and they have no skills to separate them. It is not so easy to force them. Besides, the current situation is that the Song army and Wushu are fighting against each other. We are sitting on the fisherman." Tang Kuo argued. Said lightly.
Wan Yanliang kept nodding his head, he said with a smile: "Anyway, I have the advantage."
Xiao Yu led the cavalry and set off early in the morning.
At four o'clock in the morning on the 23rd (eight o'clock in the morning), it was just dawn in the early spring morning. The ice and snow of the North Yellow River in front of us had not yet melted, and the endless wilderness was desolate.
Not long after, the sound of iron hooves broke the tranquility of the morning.
A large-scale cavalry suddenly appeared ten miles north of Cangzhou City. They rushed forward quickly, crossed the camp where the Song army was originally stationed, and chased the defeated Song army frantically.
At this time, Wanyan Tuhe, who was still on the north side of the North Yellow River, was overjoyed when he learned that the Song army was defeated, and immediately arranged the main force to cross the Yellow River and approach Cangzhou at full speed.
As a powerful elite group arranged by Jin Wushu on the Eastern Front, Wanyan Tuhesu's mission is to quickly destroy Cangzhou, and then move west to join forces with Wushu.
Regarding the situation in Cangzhou, Jin Wushu is also a headache.
Many of the previous intelligences were first that the Song people planted heavy troops in Cangzhou. He deduced that Zhao Guanjia must have wanted to take advantage of his Jin Wushu to besiege Hejian, and use Cangzhou soldiers to advance westward and kill a surprise from the Jin army's rear.
Facts were exactly as Jin Wushu expected, Zhao Ning's tactics were simple and unpretentious, and he planned to attack the Jin army from the east with surprise soldiers from Cangzhou when Jin Wushu attacked Hejian.
And it was Han Shizhong, the famous warrior of the Song Dynasty, who took on this task.
The scouts informed Wanyan Tuhesu of a lot of information, half of Cangzhou's [-]-mile radius had been searched by the golden scouts.
"Report to Duke Ding that the defeated Song army has all fled back to Cangzhou City."
"How about the defense of Cangzhou City?"
The scout replied: "It is already full of Song troops."
Wanyan hurriedly inspected the surrounding open fields again, and said, "Who are the generals of the Cangzhou Song Army? Have you found any of them?"
"It is said that it is Li Cui, the former governor of Hebei. This person fought under Zong Ze's command back then, and he was very brave when he fought against our army."
Chapter 1461 Ambush King Han Shizhong (Second Change)
"Oh, it's him, I seem to have some impressions." Wanyan nodded quickly, "But he can't stop me, pass my order, encircle Cangzhou on three sides, and order people to set up heavy artillery in Beicheng. It's dark today Before that, Cangzhou must be conquered!"
"Order!"
Under the iron hooves of the Jin army, the Song army barracks in the city were routed. Not long after, the sound of countless footsteps resounded on the wasteland in the early morning. It was the mighty main force of the Jin army's infantry.
They divided into three groups and encircled Cangzhou City from east to west, north and east.
In order not to give time to the Song army in Cangzhou City, the Jin people marched extremely fast, and completed the encirclement of Cangzhou City at about four quarters past Si time.
Wanyan Tuhesu was quite satisfied with the battle situation in front of him.
Yesterday he arrived at the bank of the Yellow River, stationed on the north bank, and sent forwards to fight the Song Army for a few rounds. Before dawn today, he sent people to surprise the Song Army's barracks again, causing chaos in the Song Army's barracks.
(In the Song Dynasty, the Yellow River had a branch between Cangzhou and Hejian, called the North Yellow River)
Immediately, he decisively dispatched cavalry reinforcements, and only then did the Song army be defeated before.
Calculated in this way, Wanyan's sudden and quick tactical attack on the Song Army barracks outside Cangzhou City was rather vigorous and resolute.
He himself couldn't help showing a smile on his face at this moment.
"Ding Guogong, His Royal Highness Wei Wang sent an urgent letter."
Wanyan, who was immersed in the joy of besieging Cangzhou, took the letter, and after reading Wushu's urgent letter, the smile on his face became more confident.
The king of Wei has now encountered a difficult nut to crack. Wan Yanheng of the rear army may have a hard time trying to stop Yue Fei. After a few days at most, Yue Fei's troops can break through Wan Yanheng and go down.
Wanyan suddenly thought to himself, the situation is quite urgent.
But he was even less anxious.
The more this is the case, the more it means that His Royal Highness King Wei needs him, and the greater his contribution in this battle.
Wanyan suddenly ordered someone to write a letter to Wushu, the core meaning was simple: Don't worry, Cangzhou will be leveled before dark today.
The attack on Cangzhou City began soon, and the Jinren performed a series of classic siege techniques.
Heavy artillery bombardment, dense arrow rain, artillery suppression, and twenty goose carts were pushed forward at the North City Gate.
The golden army is extremely powerful.
"Han Shuai, the Jinren have already started their attack on Cangzhou City."
"Go, order Zhang Qing, Hu Yantong, Xie Yuan, Sun Yongxun, and Yan Yongji to send troops immediately, without any hesitation, to attack Cangzhou City!"
"Order!"
At this time, Wanyan Tuhesu didn't know that an ambush had already been laid a hundred miles outside Cangzhou City, and they were all cavalry.
There are not many troops, only a thousand cavalry for each route, but Wanyan Tuhesu is attacking the city with all his might!
"Report! Duke Ding, the Song army is extremely stubborn in resisting!"
"Hahaha! Resist! Resist! The more Song Jun resists, the more excited I am! Resisting is normal. If the fight goes so smoothly, it must be a fraud!" Wanyan suddenly laughed loudly, looking at the front The battle in Cangzhou City was brutal, and his eyes showed excitement.
Immediately, he said to the messenger: "Let Nie Erbojin work harder, if he can be the first to break through Cangzhou City today, I will ask the King of Wei to give him a Marquis!"
The messengers quickly passed the news to Nie Erbojin, the head of the Wan Fu, outside the East City Gate.
As soon as Nie Erbojin heard that he could be a Marquis, his battle value instantly soared, and he quickly sent several more infantry forward.
"Whoever can break the city first, I will reward him with a thousand taels of silver!"
As soon as this remark came out, the three armies boiled.
The Jin army outside the east city became like wolves and tigers.
The so-called great reward must have a brave man, probably so.
However, during normal wars, few generals would dare to offer a thousand taels of silver. After all, a thousand taels of silver is a huge sum of money when converted into currency.
How could he yell like that when he just started fighting and he was clearly in a dominant position?
Doesn't Nie'er Bojin have the hope of becoming a Marquis?
"Destroy this Cangzhou, rob him for three days and three nights, you can play with the women in it as you like, and take the property in it as you like!" Nie'er Bojin shouted again.
The messenger hastily passed on Nie Erbojin's words.
Following the collapse of the city wall, the golden army rushed forward like a wave, and everyone wanted to be the first to rush up.
Near noon, when the Jin army was attacking the city excitedly, Wanyan suddenly received a strange news: a thousand cavalry soldiers of the Song army were found, and they were quickly approaching Cangzhou!
Looking at the collapsed city wall of Cangzhou, Wanyan suddenly felt a little doubt in his heart.
Song army cavalry?
Fast approaching Cangzhou?
He couldn't understand the situation.
Where did the Song Army cavalry come from?
Could it be that the people of Song deliberately placed them there to lure themselves to attack the city in formation so that they could attack from the rear?
Isn't that right?
Song people ambushed me with a thousand cavalry?
Regardless of whether it was a Song people's strategy or not, Wanyan suddenly dismissed it quickly, and said with a sneer, "If I were the generals of the Song army, I would arrange at least six thousand cavalry, and in order to prevent being intercepted, I would split up multiple routes to quickly cover up and kill them." ..."
As soon as he said this, his heart skipped a beat, his expression suddenly became serious, and he couldn't help muttering: "The soldiers are divided into multiple ways to cover up and kill..."
"Report! Dingguo Gong, another cavalry of the Song Army with a thousand soldiers is quickly approaching in the east of the city, only a few miles away from our army!"
Wanyan suddenly froze for a moment, and stared towards the east of the city. At this moment, he wished he could stare his eyes out.
There was an extremely ominous premonition in his heart.
He immediately ordered a cavalry to quickly go to the east of the city to intercept the Song army. If the Song army cavalry killed them from the rear of the army, Nie'er Bojin could basically go to sleep.
Before it was over, he sent another cavalry to Xicheng. Although he hadn't received any information from there, he definitely had to do it just in case.
But it was all too late.
A group of cavalry led by Han Shizhong himself arrived outside the east city immediately.
Looking at the Jin troops in front of them who were concentrating on attacking the city wall, Han Shizhong knew that his plan had succeeded!
Han Shizhong has an obvious style of fighting. Unlike Wu Jie's mobile warfare, he likes to fight ambushes very much.
In history, he defeated the golden man several times, all of which were ambushes.
In the fourth battle between Song and Jin Dynasties, when he was chasing the main force of Jin Wushu on Jingdong Road, when he fought Wanyan Zongmin, he was ambushing from behind.
This person's ambush has one characteristic: it is accurate and ruthless!
Of course, apart from Han Shizhong's liking for ambushes, he himself is very fierce in battle.
He is taller than Yue Fei, and his personality is actually very irritable, especially after drinking some wine.
At this time, he was drinking wine, carrying a blunt weapon, wearing armor, riding a war horse, and leading a group of iron cavalry, he charged like a whirlwind, entered the rear of the Jin army, and immediately plowed open The guarded Jin army rushed inside with impunity.
Chapter 1462 The Initiative Changes Hands (First Change)
Nie Erbojin was still urging the forward to push towards the entrance of the city wall, when he suddenly heard that there seemed to be some movement behind him, he couldn't help but turned around and took a look, only to see chaos behind him.
The neighing sound of war horses came, and countless people fled in a trance.
"It happened..." Nie'er Bojin wanted to ask, but greater confusion interrupted his questioning.
In front is the thunderous siege shout, and behind is the roar of the Song Army's iron hooves.
"Song Jun is here!"
"Song Jun is here?" Nie'er Bojin was stunned, but he didn't react.
Han Shizhong has already rushed to the front like a god of death.
Nie Erbojin suddenly felt that the sun above his head was covered by a mountain-like figure, his heart trembled, and it was too late to run away.
Moreover, Han Shizhong came too fast, and Nie Erbojin, who was still obsessed with the siege, could not have imagined that a Song army cavalry would suddenly come to kill him later.
I saw Han Shizhong swung down the blunt weapon neatly, and hit Nie'er Bojin on the head. Nie'er Bojin groaned, fell to the ground, twitched a few times, and died.
Looking closely, the place where Nie Erbojin's helmet was hit was sunken, and his head was deformed.
The main general was killed, and the surrounding golden men were in chaos, throwing what could be thrown, turning around and running around.
Interestingly, in the battle of Dayi Town in the official history, Nie Erbojin was also defeated by Han Shizhong.
What's even more frightening is that the Jin army under the city wall still didn't notice it. They were marching forward to attack the city, but they didn't know that the people cutting melons and vegetables had rushed from behind.
Without any suspense, Song Jun rushed to the city and harvested another group of Jinren.
Wanyan suddenly learned about the situation in Dongcheng, and was so angry that she almost jumped up on the spot.
However, the news that came immediately made him jump on the spot.
The west city was also attacked, and the whole army was defeated.
Han Shizhong sent out several cavalry, and Beicheng was naturally indispensable.
It's just that Beicheng is where the main force is, and there are many scouts. They first discovered the cavalry of the Song Army and made defenses in advance.
It's just that the forward who attacked the city was miserable.
Although Wan Yantu joined forces quickly and Ming Jin withdrew his troops, thousands of vanguards had already climbed up the collapsed city wall and fought with the Song army defending the city.
The latter part withdrew and returned to the army formation. More forwards lost their linkage with the main force and quickly became the key targets of the Song cavalry.