The Song Dynasty has been deliberate for 16 years, only to know that it is the Water Margin

In the third year of Jingkang of the Song Dynasty, February 18th was the Spring Equinox.

The Jurchens of the Jin Kingdom gathered an army of 200,000, which was divided into two groups: the east was led by Wanyan Zongbi, and the west was led by Wanyan Zonghan, and they went south to attack the Song Dynasty.

The Kingdom of Jin shouted the slogan at this moment, the Jurchens are invincible if there are not even ten thousand Jurchens.

Thousands of Jurchen soldiers are fierce and unstoppable, and they are invincible in the world.

This statement is not a Jurchen boast, but comes from the mouth of Liao Taizu Yelu Abaoji.

In the fourth year of Liao Tianzan, the tenth year after the founding of the Liao Dynasty, Yelu Abaoji launched an attack on the Bohai Kingdom, preparing to annex the Bohai Kingdom and incorporate it into the territory of the Liao Dynasty.

During the war, the Jurchen tribe belonging to the Bohai Kingdom resisted the Liao's attack tenaciously, posing a huge obstacle to the Liao army. The Jurchen were fearless of death, brave and good at fighting, like wild beasts in the forest.

After seeing the fierce resistance of the Jurchens, Abaoji sighed, "If there are not even ten thousand Jurchens, they are invincible."

And this sentence that should not have come from the mouth of Taizu of Liao ended up being like Ji Yan and became the Khitan's nightmare at the end of the empire.

The post of marshal of the Jurchen East Route Army was originally assigned to Zong Wang by Wanyan Wu, but Zong Wang was seriously ill and unable to get up, so he recommended Wanyan Zongbi to him.

Although Zong Bi was the fourth prince, his qualifications at the moment were not sufficient. There was someone in the government who was more qualified than him to be the marshal of the East Road. However, Zong Wang fought hard and threw out the newly prepared heavy cavalry iron pagoda to Wu. Qimai wrote a letter recommending Zongbi to command. Wanyan Wu Qimai thought twice before ordering Zongbi to take command of the East Route Army.

There are no iron pagodas on the west road, but there are ten thousand iron pagodas on the east road, all under the command of Wanyan Zongbi.

The two armies took different routes. The east route took Hebei Second Road, and the west route took Hedong Road.

There are many important towns on the East Road, including Hejian Prefecture, Enzhou Prefecture, Daming Prefecture, Zhongshan Prefecture, Zhending Prefecture and Xinde Prefecture.

On the west road are Taiyuan Prefecture and Longde Prefecture.

Although it seems that the east road has greater obstacles, in fact part of the territory on the east road is not in the hands of Song Dynasty, but in the hands of Tian Hu.

Tian Hu's power spans both sides of Hedong and Hebei, but there are local snakes in Hedong who have killed their families and are strictly guarded. Therefore, Tian Hu only occupies some insignificant and barren places in Hedong, but as for Hebei, he occupies a few choke points.

After Song Jiang led his troops to flee Xixia and defected to Zhao Tong, Tian Hu completely let the sheep go. Because the Song Dynasty was mainly focused on reviving Yanyun and had no time to take care of him, he followed what was written in the book and began to recuperate.

As long as the Song Dynasty went to Hebei and did not attack him, he would not care about the Song Dynasty and let the troops and horses there pass by.

As for the Jurchens who are now powerful and invading the south, he also has the same plan. As long as they don't touch his own country, the other party can go wherever they want. It doesn't matter if they conquer Tokyo, and it has nothing to do with him if they attack Jiangnan.

But Tian Hu thinks so, but it does not mean that Wanyan Zongbi also thinks so...

Baigou's defense line did not even hold for a whole day before it was directly torn apart by Wanyan Zongbi. The Song army was defeated like a mountain, retreating for hundreds of miles, with countless casualties.

This is guarded by Zhongshi Dao with troops and horses, and there are many generals under his command. They are all famous people, the group of people who will leave their names for future generations in the future.

However, even if the old strategist knew how to fight, he would still find it difficult to resist the Jurchen soldiers who looked like wolves and tigers, as well as the heavily armored iron pagoda that had just entered the battlefield. Originally, he had long been on guard against the Jurchen invasion, and had made complete preparations, including complete fortifications, etc., but it was of no use. The Jurchen soldiers were as fierce as tigers, especially the Iron Buddha Tu, and ordinary defenses were of no use to them.

The horse-rejecting stakes and horse-rejecting fences, under the heavy armored cavalry, had no blocking effect at all and were directly smashed to pieces.

The horse rope is useless. This side of the Hebei border is a plain. It is difficult to ambush people on both sides to hide in chains. Moreover, the plain soil is loose. At this moment, it is warm and rainy in spring, and the ground is soft. When the heavy cavalry charges, the iron ropes tied to the ground will directly It was broken open and broken.

The only useful thing is the trench, but the trench is not very concealed. If you set a trap to lure the opponent to come, you can get twice the result with half the effort. But at this moment, the Jurchens are taking the initiative to attack, and the Song army is defending, so it is different.

Although the Jurchens were extremely brave, they were not fools. Since they had taken the initiative, they had to explore the way forward and naturally found trenches. Although the soil was transported back to the camp by the Song army to build Lookout Mountain and Arrow Mountain, it was not easy to fill it, but You can ride on a rolling wooden platform. Even though it was a little slower in the past, it was still safe.

The Song army did not watch the opponent come forward, but the arrows were almost useless against the Jurchen team. The Jurchens were very careful. They had white mountains and black waters, were fishermen and hunters, and were most familiar with bows and arrows. They knew how to protect them most effectively and with the least effort.

The Iron Buddha does not need to be very defensive, because ordinary bows and arrows cannot penetrate its heavy armor.

Bed crossbows and artillery carts are useful, but they are difficult to attack intensively and require filling time. They are suitable for the active side and are a great weapon when used to master the rhythm of the battlefield.

When used passively, there are so many artillery carriages and bed crossbows for defense. The bed crossbow is a consumable ordnance. After shooting a few arrows, the crossbow body must be repaired. Otherwise, it is highly likely that it will not work if it is used by force. scrapped.

What's more important is that there are not many crossbow flying cannons in the Song Army at present, but there are only a few in total.

Last year, during the expedition against Liaoning, almost all the property in Tokyo was emptied and brought back. They fought all the way and besieged Yanjing for several months. Everything was used up and nothing was left.

Later, in order to protect the Sixteen Prefectures, Tokyo hurriedly made some more and sent them over to distribute among the various states. As a result, the Sixteen Prefectures were lost and they became Jurchen trophies.

The Song army counterattacked several times, and some were sent from Tokyo. They tried their best to create it, but they all came back defeated. People could run away, but it was difficult to carry weapons with them. Only a few of them could be brought back to Baigou.

Therefore, for various reasons, the Song army could not hold on at all. When Zhong Shidao saw that the opponent actually had heavy armored cavalry, he vomited blood three times and almost fainted on the battlefield.

The defense line was lost, and the Jurchens marched straight in. Because they wanted to attack an important town, they went to the vicinity of Tianhu's forces on the edge of the Taihang Mountains...

At Xihe Huangshui, Lu Junyi led 30,000 elite troops across the Yellow River. He gathered his troops at Xizhou and Yao Pingzhong, with a total of 40,000 troops. They directly sent troops to the border of Qinfeng Road. However, Qinfeng's side was heavily protected and could not cross for the time being, so he had to station. , waiting for news from Tokyo.

In the land of Hexi, on the second day after General Lu led 10,000 iron kites and 20,000 light cavalry, and quietly marched north to the grassland, Zhao Tao personally ordered a hundred thousand troops, left Xingzhou, passed the Xiangqing Army, and arrived at the Jianing Army Division. Fu Yan Road border.

The current economic and strategic envoy of Yanyan Road is Zhang Shen. He has not followed the Western Army's northern expedition before and has been sitting here to coordinate other northwest roads. Most of the news about Hexi from the DPRK is reported to him. of.

At this moment, when he saw Zhao Tao coming with his troops, he was shocked and immediately went to resist.

Zhao Tong received the report of the scouting horses and did not attack directly. He just ordered the troops and horses to be stationed at the junction.

(End of this chapter)