Poor Family - v2 Chapter 1036

  Chapter 1036 Qinghe War (Part 1)

The fire burned for two full days, and the entire Hejian County was burned to the ground. None of the nearly 30,000 Jin soldiers escaped, and all of them were burned to death in Hejian County, making Hejian County a purgatory on earth that night. .

At this time, Cao Meng led 40,000 reinforcements to Hejian County. Although it was a bit regrettable, Cao Meng also knew that he was actually two days late. If Wu Jie hadn’t used a strategy to kill Jin Bing, Jin Bing would have already broken through and went north. up.

  Cao Meng turned his attention to the south, and he had a chance for Wanyan’s mother’s army in the south.

Although Wang Gui had led an army of 50,000 troops northward to enter Yanshan Mansion a day earlier, Wu Jie’s 30,000 troops continued to stay at Hejian Mansion and intercepted the Jin soldiers in Hebei for the second time, while Zhang Jun’s 30,000 troops also Occupying Zhending Mansion, he also set up an interception line in Zhending Mansion to intercept the northward Jin soldiers on the front line of Zhending Mansion.

   This is an encirclement and interception by an army of 260,000, and their goal is the 30,000 troops of Wanyan Jiamu who are returning from the north.

At this time, Li Yanqing’s 160,000 troops had already arrived in Mingzhou, about a hundred miles away from the Jin soldiers who went north. About a thousand of their logistics ships entered the Yongji Canal from the Yellow River, turned to Tangshui in Xiangzhou, and went north. Entering Zhangshui from Linzhang County, this logistics fleet stretched for 20 miles, and there were more than 5,000 optical fiber workers, guarded by 20,000 troops.

  The main force of Li Yanqing was marching in front of the supply ship. That night, the army arrived at Ping’en County, Mingzhou. In the night, more than 100,000 troops rested in the wilderness north of Ping’en County.

  In a large tent, Li Yanqing, Yue Fei, Han Shizhong, and Liu Guangshi discussed the next battle plan in front of the ceramic map.

“According to the latest information, the Jin soldiers have already gone north. They also got hundreds of ships to transport the plundered food and grass, and thousands of carts to carry the plundered wealth and women. The march was relatively slow. Thirty-five thousand cavalrymen along Yongji He went north and is currently in this position.”

  Li Yanqing planted a small black flag in Yangxu Town of Yongji Canal, “It’s just a hundred miles to the southeast of us. It’s unlikely to find us, but they should find Cao Meng’s army tomorrow.”

  Li Yanqing clicked on Qinghe County again, “Cao Meng’s 40,000 troops have arrived in Qinghe County and are going to intercept them in Qinghe County.”

  At this time, Han Shizhong asked: “If the Jin soldiers find Cao Meng’s army, will they choose to detour north?”

Li Yanqing smiled slightly and said: “This is the strategic choice of both sides. The key is what kind of information should we give each other? If the Jin soldiers find that the Song army has only 40,000 people, how will they choose? If they find that the Song army has only Ten thousand people, how would they choose?”

  Yue Fei nodded, “What Dou Shuai means is that we hide the strength of the 160,000 army and strategically deceive the Jin soldiers?”

Li Yanqing nodded, “If the Jin soldiers find that the Song army has only 40,000 people, I think they will never give up their property and population easily, and will definitely concentrate their forces to defeat the 40,000 Song army. As for the thousands of carriages, they will put them in the Zongcheng The county is twenty miles south of Qinghe County, so this battle will be fought between Zongcheng County and Qinghe County.”

   “How do we participate in this war?” Liu Guangshi asked.

Li Yanqing pointed to Zongcheng County, “We will divide our troops into two groups. General Han and General Yue will each lead 20,000 troops to detour to the north. When the war breaks out, we will assist Cao Meng’s army in fighting. I will lead 100,000 troops to attack from behind Zongcheng County. Surround the enemy from behind, and make sure to wipe out Wanyan Jiamu’s army in the wilderness between Qinghe County and Zongcheng County.”

After the Song army wiped out five thousand gold soldiers in Daming City, Wanyan’s mother also realized that the danger was coming. He persuaded the leaders of the Bohai and Koryo tribes, and then led an army of 35,000 to go north, full of spoils from burning, killing and looting. Thousands of carts were filled with all kinds of gold and silver, and there were more than 10,000 women.

   This is the condition set by the Bohai Department and the Koryo Department to send troops to Hebei. The Kingdom of Jin must ensure that they get enough property and women from the Song Dynasty, otherwise they will never follow the Kingdom of Jin to send troops in the future.

The wolf lord of the Golden Kingdom, Wanyan Sheng, agreed to this condition, but Wanyan Xie didn’t quite agree with it. At this time, Wanyan Xie also realized that they needed to restore the northern economy to a certain extent, so that the northern economy of the Great Song Dynasty could support the Jin Dynasty for a long time. Soldiers, otherwise the broken north will only become a burden for Jin Guo.

  Although Wanyan Sheng also agrees with Wanyan Xieye’s thinking, but right now, if they don’t give enough benefits to the Bohai Department and the Korean Department, they won’t get the support of these two allies.

  So Wanyan Jiamu was sent to Hebei at this time, as a deputy capital marshal. In fact, he only had one task, to satisfy the desire of the two tribes to plunder, and then lead the army to retreat northward.

In the morning, 35,000 cavalry escorted a large amount of food, grass, and wealthy women to about 20 miles south of Zongcheng County. Army, cut off their way.

  Wanyan Jiamu immediately summoned several chiefs to discuss countermeasures. All the chiefs agreed that they would never give up the spoils and concentrate their forces to defeat the Song army in one battle.

   Even the leaders of Bohai and Goryeo, who had been unwilling to contribute to the siege battle, also took pictures of their chests. Their two ten thousand cavalry were willing to launch the first attack for the vanguard.

  Wanyan Jiamu put all the loot and women in Zongcheng County, and ordered 1,000 people to guard them. He led 34,000 cavalry slowly to the north, preparing to attack the 40,000 Song troops blocking the way.

At this time, the 40,000 Song Army had quietly turned into 80,000 Song Army. The 40,000 troops of Yue Fei and Han Shizhong appeared in the northeast, and the 40,000 troops led by Cao Meng had already lined up. The distance between the two sides was about one mile. Spears are like forests, and the whole wilderness is full of murderous intent.

  Wanyan’s mother looked at the Song army who suddenly appeared in the northeast direction, and his heart sank into the abyss.

  He suddenly remembered the information he had received before, that 200,000 Song troops crossed the Yellow River. Could it be that he was facing these 200,000 Song troops?

  But at this time, Wanyan Jiamu had no choice. If she could defeat the Song army on the opposite side, she would simply go northward, regardless of the spoils.

  Wanyan’s mother glanced back at the Jin soldiers who were ready, and had no choice but to bite the bullet and ordered: “The Bohai Ministry and the Korean Ministry are ready to attack!”

  5,000 cavalry marched out slowly, including 3,000 Bohai Jin soldiers and 2,000 Koryo Jin soldiers. The 5,000 of them acted as the vanguard to sweep the enemy’s crossbow array, clearing the way for the army behind to attack.

   This is the usual tactics of Jin Bing, sacrificing a small number of troops to create opportunities for the army behind to attack.

  The first 3,000 cavalry are the Jin soldiers of the Bohai Department. They will be the main offensive force, and the two cavalry battalions of the Koryo Army will follow behind. They will serve as follow-up forces.

The rumbling drums sounded suddenly, the excited war horses snorted heavily, the spears were lifted up, the swords were unsheathed, and the five thousand gold soldiers were launched. The two thousand Korean cavalry were divided into left and right wings, covering the three thousand Bohai Sea The army cavalry phalanx, like a torrent rushing out of the breached levee, rushed towards the Song army.

The Song army was still as stable as Mount Tai, motionless, only 10,000 crossbowmen slowly raised their god-armed crossbows, and stretched them into the air at an oblique angle of 30 degrees. There were five rows of crossbowmen in total, and each row was separated by two steps. It will be launched when the opponent takes 150 steps, and will attack the opponent in five rounds.

  Behind the crossbowmen were five thousand musketeers, who also fired five rounds, using the combined strike of muskets and crossbow bolts to give the golden soldiers a head-on blow.

   Behind the Musketeers are 5,000 heavy armored infantry. Their task is to cover the retreat of the Crossbowmen and Musketeers.

   There are 20,000 cavalry on both sides of the large square, and 10,000 people are deployed on the left and right.

   At the same moment when the two armies were about to fight, Li Yanqing led an army of 100,000 to appear ten miles south of Zongcheng County. They rushed towards Zongcheng County from the south and southwest directions.

The cavalry led by the three thousand gold men was getting closer and closer, and the shields held high by the cavalry formed a black shield wall. The speed of the cavalry was not fast, it was already three hundred steps. ,”kill!”

  The three thousand cavalry suddenly accelerated, and they rushed towards the Song army formation. Cao Meng ordered sharply: “The crossbowmen are ready to shoot!”

   Ten thousand crossbowmen brushed up the crossbow arrows, pointed the cold arrows at the golden soldiers who were rushing, and the crossbowmen kept adjusting the shooting distance through Wangshan.

   “Two hundred steps…one hundred and fifty steps…”

   “Shoot!” Cao Meng gave the order to shoot, and the first round of two thousand crossbow arrows soared into the air, and disappeared without a trace in an instant, rushing into the enemy group with the sound of howling wind.

  The golden soldiers slowed down and raised their shields to meet each other. There was a clanging sound, mixed with the screams of someone being shot by an arrow. The arrow rain was too dense, and hundreds of people still fell from the horse.

Jin Bing’s newly equipped shield actually blocked the first round of arrow rain from the Song Army, followed by the second and third rounds, the overwhelming arrow rain roared, so dense that people could not breathe. The method of shooting keeps the bow and arrow at the most intensive strike.

   It was extremely difficult for the Jin soldiers to move forward. Every step they took, they had to pay the price of hundreds of people being shot and killed by arrows, and they were unable to fight back.

More importantly, their bows and arrows are far less sharp than the Song Army’s god-armed crossbows, and the range can’t reach that far. In just thirty steps, the Song Army shot a total of two rounds at the Jin Bing like a torrential rain, which was saturated with 20,000 arrows. In the blow, Jin Bing also paid nearly 2,000 arrow casualties.

Under this great test of will and courage, the Bohai cavalry could not stand it any longer, and chaos began to appear. At this moment, two thousand Korean cavalry suddenly rushed out from behind and rushed to Baihai with the fastest speed. Step outside the Song army’s position and pounce.

  (end of this chapter)