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Chapter 85 Sneak attack from behind
Back to a few days ago, on May [-]st of the first year of Duanping, Guo Jing and Qiu Zhiqing had been waiting on the bank of the Yellow River for two days, but they still hadn't heard the news that Meng Gong's army was approaching Tongguan.

It was originally planned to attack Tongguan on May [-]th. For this purpose, they even prepared Mongolian costumes. They can pretend to be Jingzhao government reinforcements to support Tongguan.
However, they couldn't wait for the news that Meng Gong's troops were in Tongguan, and at this time Meng Gong was also very anxious.

The original plan was that after Xu Zimin and Shi Songzhi defeated the main force of Liu Xiangan's Mongolian army, they would invite the defenders of Tongguan to help them. However, Xu Zimin and Shi Songzhi were defeated by Liu Xiangan's [-] remnants.

Meng Gong had no choice but to make a move, and the Tongguan defenders came to help as scheduled, but Meng Gong also lost his sneak attack.At this time, Shi Songzhi did not want to enter Tongguan again and retreated to Luoyang on the grounds of heavy losses, euphemistically calling it a rest and waiting for help.

In fact, from Meng Gong's point of view, except for a few rounds of defeats before, Shi Songzhi's losses were not too great, and he was still able to fight.

But what Shi Songzhi is afraid of is that his troops will be compromised. If so, his credit for trekking thousands of miles to recover Xijing Luoyang will be greatly reduced. If he is not careful, he may be in vain...

It was originally planned to sneak attack Tongguan to leave the city defenders, but now it has turned into a frontal battle. The Song army, which was originally in the upper hand, lost its advantage after Shi Songyi retreated...

On May [-]th, the sentry reported that Meng Gong fought fiercely with the enemy in Lingbao, and fought fiercely in front of Qin Hangu Pass for several days, and the winner has not yet been decided!

The supervisor Zhang Wenfu hoped that Guo Jing would lead his troops back to aid, because it was simply unrealistic for them to win Tongguan without the cooperation of Meng Gong's frontal attack with their five thousand cavalry!

Guo Jing carefully questioned the sentry and thought: The main force of the Tongguan defenders has been transferred away, and most of the remaining defenders are Jin Guo surrendered troops, so there is nothing to worry about!And Meng Gong has not made much progress in the past few days.

If they can win Tongguan, it will undoubtedly be the greatest support for Meng Gong!
"Everyone, please take a look!" After finishing speaking, Guo Jing led the generals to the large map. To be honest, it was a bit abstract. Although Qiu Zhiqing thought that he listened carefully to his elementary and middle school geography classes, he still didn't understand it well.

It doesn't matter if Qiu Zhiqing doesn't understand, Guo Jing is explaining to everyone: "We are only less than eighty miles away from Tongguan downstream. Although we have detained all the people who crossed the river, it is inevitable that there will be omissions, so we can't hold it for a long time!"

"Two days later, Jingzhao Mansion's food delivery team to Tongguan will arrive in Huayin. According to the Imperial City Secretary's report, Jingzhao Mansion will only send food to Tongguan twice in a month. Therefore, after two days, regardless of Meng Shuai's How about going straight to Tongguan!"

Everyone understood Guo Jing's meaning, that is to attack the grain transport team, and then pretend to be the grain transport team, and surprise Tongguan from behind!
Although it was a bit dangerous, as a cavalry unit, even if the surprise attack failed, they could calmly detour to Linzhiyuan, bypass Tongguan from above Linzhiyuan and join Meng Gong.

Forgive Tongguan even if the five thousand gold soldiers dare not go out of the city to pursue them, let alone divide their troops to guard the Twelve City on the plateau between Jingou and Tongluochuan!

When they arrived at the city of Tongguan, they realized that this idea was not realistic at all. Because there was a city defense map of Tongguan in the Song Dynasty, the Imperial City Division did not investigate it clearly. Tongguan was in the hands of the Kingdom of Jin.

All the generals agreed, but Zhang Wenfu, the supervisor of the army, firmly believed that they had completed the scheduled interspersed work, and it was Meng Gong and the others who were unable to advance to the city of Tongguan.

This led to the abortion of the plan, and their food and grass were less than seven days old. If they retreated now, if they marched faster, they could still retreat to Mengzhou and meet Zhang Jing to replenish on the spot before the food and grass ran out.

If they take the risk of crossing the river and raiding Tongguan, if there is any disagreement, they will be blocked by the Mongolian army. At that time, Tongguan will block the way, and Jingzhao Mansion will chase after them, and they will be doomed!
It cannot be said that there is anything wrong with what Zhang Wenfu said. After all, although the Sichuan government envoy issued a document saying that it was fighting fiercely with the Mongolian army in Shukou, it was reported half a month ago.

No one knows whether the main force of the Mongolian Guanzhong is still fighting the Sichuan Song Army in Shukou at this time, or has returned to Jingzhao Mansion (Xi'an) to support the front line of Tongguan.

Guo Jing said that even if the Mongolian army attacking Shukou's defense line retreated, it was impossible to go straight to Tongguan. They had to guard against Chen Wei's attack and Fengxiang took the opportunity to take Guanzhong.

Regarding this point, Zhang Wenfu also knew in his heart that this was a high probability event, but he was unwilling to take risks. To put it bluntly, his credit was enough, relying on this credit for regaining Weizhou and defeating the Mongolian army in Mengzhou.

It was enough for him to be promoted several levels in a row. The Song Dynasty had its own rules for promotion, and no amount of credit would be a waste. Now that he has the opportunity to withdraw the troops, there is no need to take risks.

To put it bluntly, it was Meng Gong who did not arrive on the battlefield as scheduled, not them.This battle has reached here, in his opinion, it has already gained a lot.

Go on, if you win, Meng Gong deserves most of the credit. If you lose, don't mention that your previous credit may be discounted.

To sum it up in one sentence - Zhang Wenfu started to fight timidly!
All the generals looked at each other in blank dismay, they knew the pissing nature of these civil servants, so when the supervisor said that he wanted to withdraw his troops, no matter how high-sounding the reason was.

They could tell at a glance that those were not his intentions, but a set of routine operations to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages!
At this time, I thought that Zhang Wenfu was just a person who simply discussed the matter, that is, Guo Jing and Qiu Zhiqing. They all believed that a literati should have the character of a literati, and they didn't think about cowardice for a while.

Guo Jing is still explaining to him that he tried to impress Zhang Wenfu with the truth!

"Food and grass are not a problem. I still have seven days of food and grass. When the Jingzhao Mansion sends the grain and grass to Tongguan Daying, I will have no worries about food and grass..."

Just like you can never wake up a person who pretends to be asleep, before Guo Jing finished speaking, Zhang Wenfu jumped up at the table and angrily said:
"Guo Jing! If you insist on leading the five thousand court elites to fight for your life, it doesn't matter if you are dead. How should I explain to His Majesty?"

In Zhang Wenfu's heart, he had never looked at Guo Jing directly. He is a Mongolian general, what qualifications does he have to be equal to him, a two-rank Jinshi, a son of heaven?

In the past, it was fine to win battles, he could barely work together, but now he wants to take him to fight for his life, it is simply unreasonable!
Qiu Zhiqing found that this person was really unreasonable, and a big battle was imminent. At this time, if he said "it doesn't matter if you die", isn't this obviously giving yourself a negative status?

No wonder Zhao Yun wanted to look at these supervising troops by himself, not to mention that the success is not enough, but the failure is more than enough...

Seeing that everyone's complexion is not good-looking, even Guo Jing's complexion is a little dark.He is straightforward, but not stupid, how can he not hear Zhang Wenfu's blatant contemptuous tone.

Qiu Zhiqing knew that he couldn't go on any longer, so he held the warden by the back of his neck, ignored Zhang Wenfu's struggle and yelled, and left a sentence: "Everyone wait a moment, I have something to say to Mr. Zhang, go back as soon as you go!" I got a handsome account...

A quarter of an hour later, I don't know what Qiu Zhiqing said to the supervisor. After returning, Zhang Wenfu seemed much calmer.

He also said that he objected to Guo Jing's opinion in principle, but for the sake of the overall situation, he was willing to return along the way he came and go to Meng Gong's camp to negotiate the transfer of the army...

On the night of the [-]th day of the fifth month in the first year of Duanping, a mighty army of [-] marched down the Yellow River, with a horse bound in their mouths, one-third of them took a boat, and two-thirds went down the south of the Yellow River.

Departure at Shenshi, until the end of the [-]th Chou, the whole army crossed the river, and when they crossed the river, they could still see the flames on the top of Tongguan City!

After crossing the river, in order to avoid exposure, they scuttled the ship, and the whole army went to a hidden place to wait.

At the beginning of Maoshi, the whole army hid in Liexiegou, fifteen miles west of Tongguan!
Here guards the only way from Guanzhong to Tongguan. If there is no accident, the food transportation team set off from Jingzhao Mansion four days ago and camped in Huayin yesterday.

Their hiding place is about [-] miles away from Huayin, that is to say, at noon today, the food transportation team will pass by their ambush place, and they can hurry up and rest for a whole morning!

The surprise attack was originally scheduled on May [-]th, and it was also when Tongguan was short of food, but unfortunately the sky failed to fulfill people's wishes...

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Lu Qiuming was originally a soldier in the Kingdom of Jin. Years ago, the general led them to defect to Mongolia. As the general's confidant, he was promoted to be a commander.

However, he, who was supposed to enjoy the blessings in Tongguan, was put on an errand to deliver food to the Jingzhao Mansion. He came and went for ten days, twice a month, and he was on the road most of the time.The whole body has lost fat!

This time it was a little more than usual, with 250 shi of military rations and [-] carts. The convoy stretched for more than two miles, and I had only a thousand-man team and two thousand civilian husbands to escort them.

Speaking of the two thousand civilian husbands, it is estimated that they will never return like the previous two batches. The war ahead is urgent, and civilian husbands are urgently needed...

While Lu Qiuming was still feeling emotional, a group of cavalry suddenly appeared in front of him, about a hundred of them. Although everyone was wearing Mongolian costumes, they were holding a crossbow with a divine arm.

Lu Qiuming swallowed his saliva, and suddenly heard movement from the wind wing on the right, turned his head, and saw the same row of Mongolian servants holding crossbows with divine arms.

Don't think about it, it's probably the same scene behind me. Lu Qiuming, who is quick-witted, quickly guessed the whole story and decisively ordered everyone to put down their weapons.

Although this may lead to massacres, but the opponent didn't do it directly, it means that these carts and food are useful to them, as long as they are useful!
When Lu Qianhu was brought in front of Guo Jing and Qiu Zhiqing, Guo Jing asked Qiu Zhiqing to put on a bad face in order to scare him. When he saw this person, Qiu Zhiqing said: "This person can't be kept. Drag it off!"

As soon as this person opened his mouth, Qiu Zhiqing almost thought that Master Tang was possessed.

"Useful! Useful! Useful! This official, don't kill me. Listen to me, I'm useless now, but once I get to Tongguan, I'll be of great use! I know the Tongguan guard very well. He is my old boss. I am familiar with many of the guards of Tongguan City..."

Listening to this Master Lu... Wrong, this Commander Lu was talking endlessly about how familiar he was with the brothers guarding the city, and how strong his relationship with the generals who stayed inside was.

Guo Jing and Qiu Zhiqing looked at each other, they smiled at each other, an idea was born...

　Not very good at writing wars, sorry, third watch, welcome to vote and comment
　　
　
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