Poor Family Chapter 1015

  Chapter 1015 The army is killed

Just when the news that the Song army seized the Daming City reached Lin'an Mansion, Li Yanqing formally issued the Northern Expedition Order as the regent of the country, and issued an impassioned call to the Song Dynasty to restore the homeland, enumerating the heinous crimes committed by the Jin soldiers. Sin, counting the bitter expectations of the occupied areas for the Northern Expedition of the Song Army, and calling on the righteous soldiers in the occupied areas to rise up against the cruel rule of the Jin Kingdom and welcome the restoration army of the Song Dynasty.

Encouraged by Li Yanqing's recovery proclamation, volunteers from all over the Central Plains and Hebei revolted one after another. The five brothers of the Liu family, the largest anti-golden rebel army in Taihang Mountain, led an army to capture Hejian Mansion, and Zhang Peng led thousands of people in Xiangzhou to occupy Anyang County. Li Miao, who had been suppressed in Fuyuan, revolted again and gathered thousands of people to occupy Changshan County.

In the Central Plains, troops were raised everywhere. Ma Tie of Chenzhou led an uprising of 3,000 wharf laborers. Zhong Taoer of Zhengzhou also gathered thousands of people to raise the uprising flag. Wei Zhouli of Changge County, Yingchang Prefecture led an uprising of 6,000 refugees. There were still a large number of small-scale volunteers, and the officials in the Central Plains and Hebei were also panicked, and they sent people to Lin'an to contact Zhizhengtang.

  At the same time, Li Yanqing issued military orders to all the commanders, asking them to send troops according to the established plan.

  Yue Fei led 60,000 troops from Xiangyang to attack Dengzhou and Ruzhou. Dengzhou defender Li Cheng led 5,000 Qi troops to surrender.

   Just after Yue Fei's army entered Ruzhou, Zhang Jun also led an army of 30,000 across the Yellow River in Mengzhou and marched towards Luoyang, while Wu Jie in Guanzhong also led an army of 30,000 out of Tongguan and headed for Hangu Pass.

Three routes of 120,000 troops pointed their swords at Luoyang from three directions, but there were only 20,000 defenders in Luoyang. The main general was Liu Yu's eldest son Liu Lin. Yu replied, and there was only one sentence in the letter, stick to Luoyang and wait for the Jin soldiers to come south to rescue.

Liu Yu already knew that the Kingdom of Jin had added 100,000 troops to Yanshan Mansion, and the total strength of Yanshan Mansion had reached 150,000. No matter what, Wanyan Xie would not sit back and watch the Central Plains and Hebei fall, and would definitely go south to rescue, but Liu Yu would not What we know is that the Ruan brothers are killing all the ferries on the Yellow River.

  Even if Wanyan Xie had a heart, he might not be able to save him.

  On the eastern front, Han Shizhong and Liu Guangshi each led 40,000 troops to the north. Their opponents were the 40,000 Qi troops in Suzhou and Sizhou and the 20,000 Jin soldiers stationed in Xuzhou.

Han Shizhong and Liu Guangshi didn't care about the Qi army, but they were very afraid of the 20,000 Jurchen cavalry in Xuzhou, so the marching speed of the two was not fast. Not much time.

  However, to the delight of Han Shizhong and Liu Guangshi, the 30,000 cavalry led by Li Yanqing also went north quietly.

The 30,000 cavalry led by Li Yanqing went north from Taizhou at the mouth of the Yangtze River, entered Chuzhou from Taizhou, then entered Haizhou from Chuzhou, turned around and marched westward in Shuyang, and entered Pizhou. At this time, they were only 120 meters away from Xuzhou. Ten miles away, Li Yanqing immediately ordered the army to set up a big camp in Suqian County and stand still.

  Li Yanqing's original plan was to enter the East and West Roads of Beijing and cooperate with Wang Gui's army that landed in Jiaozhou Bay to wipe out the 30,000 Jin soldiers in Yunzhou.

But the situation changed beyond his expectation. There were strong winds and huge waves along the southern coast of Shandong Peninsula, which made it impossible for ships to go north. , escaped the wind and waves by luck, and has already sailed towards the entrance of the Yellow River.

Because Wang Gui's army landed in Haizhou ahead of schedule, and the golden soldiers of Yunzhou temporarily solved the supply of soldiers and horses by plundering food, and did not go south to meet with the golden soldiers of Xuzhou for a while, Li Yanqing changed his plan and decided to concentrate his forces to wipe out Xuzhou's soldiers. Twenty thousand gold soldiers.

  Donghai County is today's Lianyungang. After the 70,000 troops led by Wang Gui landed in Donghai County, they rested for half a day and immediately rushed to Xuzhou, which was 200 miles away.

The general of the Xuzhou Golden Army is called Wanyan Xiemao Ali, who belongs to the Jurchen Wanyan tribe, but is not a clan. He is a well-known warrior among the Jurchens. He is tall and tall, with big arms and a round waist. Three years ago, he was named Meng'an by the wolf lord, that is, Chief Wanfu.

According to the practice of Jin soldiers, it is impossible for the 20,000 Jin soldiers stationed in Xuzhou to be all Jurchens. Commander Ali, a main army is paired with a servant army. This is the practice of deploying troops for the Golden Army. When danger comes, the servant army will go up to cover the main army. In the previous major battles, the slave army suffered far more casualties than the Jurchen army, which really dissatisfied many tribes.

  Like the Bohai Ministry has made it clear that if the Jurchens let the Bohai soldiers serve as servants, then they will not send another soldier.

The Kingdom of Jin changed its strategy, instead of letting Bohai, Goryeo and other armies serve as servants, but let Khitan and Xiren serve as servants. This is also the sorrow of the destroyers. The Khitan and Xiren had no choice but to accept it room.

At this time, Xiemao Ali had already heard the news of Han Shizhong and Liu Guangshi's dispatch of troops. Qi Wang Liu Yu urgently asked him for help. Xiemao Ali's garrison had two tasks, one was to monitor Liu Yu, and prevent Liu Yu from colluding with the Song Dynasty behind his back and betraying him. For the interests of the Kingdom of Jin, the second is to monitor the Song Dynasty. Once the Song Army shows signs of going north, they must immediately support Liu Yu's army to fight against the Song Army.

  So when Liu Yu's request for help was sent, Xiemao Ali did not hesitate, and immediately led 20,000 cavalry south to Suzhou.

After the 20,000 cavalrymen from the Kingdom of Jin went south, there were only 1,000 Han troops left in Pengcheng County who were in charge of maintaining order in the city. He led the crowd to surrender the Jin soldiers.

  Since the commander-in-chief Xiemao Ali led the army southward, Li Zhao felt extremely ominous. He was restless all morning, always feeling that some danger was coming.

  At noon, he simply came to the city wall to inspect. At this time, he didn't care about maintaining order in the city, but pulled all the thousand soldiers to the city to stand guard and patrol.

  At this time, a soldier came to report, "Commander, a businessman came from the East City and said important information!"

  Li Zhao was startled, and hurried to the east gate, only a black, fat middle-aged man with the appearance of a businessman was looking around anxiously.

  He hurriedly asked loudly: "Is there any urgent news?"

  The soldiers reminded the businessman, "This is our Commander Li!"

  The middle-aged businessman hurriedly stepped forward and bowed to salute, "I am Yao Fugui, I have important information to report to the commander."

   "What important information?"

   "I received news from my brother from Haizhou that a Song army of tens of thousands of people is coming from Haizhou to Xuzhou."

  This news surprised Li Zhao, "How many people are there?"

   "About 20,000 to 30,000 people?"

   "Is this news reliable?"

   "Reporting to the commander, the news is absolutely reliable. The villain's shop is in the city, so I dare not report false news."

  Li Zhao believed it. It was about two hundred miles from Haizhou to here. If he marched rapidly and kept at night, he would be able to kill Xuzhou at noon tomorrow.

  He must immediately send someone to report this news to Xiemao Ali.

   "Go and get me the messenger!"

At night, 20,000 Jin soldiers rested in the west of Fuli County. Xiemao Ali studied the Song Army's combat strategy alone in the big tent. Army, this confused Xiemao Ali a little. The Song army did not join forces and squeezed the 80,000 army into one fist. This was a bit inconsistent with Li Yanqing's combat style in the past.

  In Li Yanqing's previous battles, no matter how many enemy troops were divided, they always concentrated their forces to wipe out one enemy army.

Of course, Xiemao Ali can also understand. After all, they are two different generals with equal status, so there is a problem of who leads the other. They are united, and there is no problem with the two armies fighting independently, but they can jointly attack a target.

  Xiemao Ali couldn't figure out the reason for this, so he simply didn't think about it any more, and ordered the army to rest well, and to go south early tomorrow morning to cooperate with the Qi army and prepare to wipe out Han Shizhong's troops in Suzhou.

   Just as Xiemao Ali was blowing out the lamp and preparing to go to bed, there were sudden hurried footsteps outside, and a soldier hurriedly reported, "General Qi, Xuzhou urgently asks for help!"

  Xiemao Ali sat up in shock, walked out of the tent and asked, "Where is the messenger?"

  At this time, a messenger soldier was led up, knelt down on one knee and said: "A Song army with tens of thousands of people is fighting from the direction of Haizhou to Xuzhou. The distance is less than 50 miles. Commander Li asks the general to return to the army immediately for rescue!"

  Xiemao Ali was stunned. It turned out that the Song army had divided their troops to confuse themselves. Their real main force had already reached Xuzhou, and they were going to attack Xuzhou and take over their lair.

  Xiemao Ali thought of his dozens of concubines and a large amount of food and supplies, and he was immediately anxious, and immediately ordered: "The whole army is up, go north and return to Xuzhou immediately!"

The soldiers who had just fallen asleep were woken up. They were extremely exhausted, but they had no choice but to complain about riding on their horses. They didn't even need their camp tents. Twenty thousand cavalry turned around and galloped towards Xuzhou. I can't take care of it for the time being.

  (end of this chapter)

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