Chapter 316: One Punch Is Enough to Prevent a Hundred Punches
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After Chen Xizhen arrived in Luanzhou, he handed over the additional troops Jiang Hongfei gave to Han Shizhong, and then told Han Shizhong about the punishment.
Han Shizhong was ashamed and moved after hearing this.
Since then, Han Shizhong has been training his troops honestly, waiting for the opportunity to avenge his previous shame.
Soon, Yue Fei also came to see Chen Xizhen.
Chen Xizhen said to Yue Fei and Han Shizhong: "Zhang Jue is deeply rooted in Pingzhou. We will not move our troops on the surface, but will secretly strengthen our intelligence and reconnaissance work and pay close attention to Zhang Jue's every move. In addition, the cavalry in your hands should be assembled and ready to attack at any time."
The Jin Kingdom also had a backup plan in Ping, Luan and Ying.
The person in charge of the affairs of Ping, Luan and Ying was Wanyan Jiemu, the then governor of the Southern Route of the Jin Kingdom.
Wanyan Jiemu is Wanyan Aguda's half-brother. Since the rebellion against Liao, he has made outstanding military achievements. Previously, he led his army to garrison in Jinzhou. His main tasks were to attack Xiao Gan and recruit Zhang Jue.
After Jiang Hongfei took over Yandi, Wanyan Aguda said in the edict to Wanyan Jiemu: "Xiao Gan, with a motley crowd, is defending the dangerous and difficult areas. He will surely die. If he does not go out to plunder, there is no need to attack him. Pingzhou, which is occupied by Zhang Jue, is of vital importance. If there is an opportunity, you can allow him to serve as the governor of Nanjing concurrently with the Minister of the Secretariat, recruit him to surrender, and wait for an opportunity to seize Pingzhou."
There were only 3,000 troops stationed in Jinzhou. Wanyan Jiemu left 1,000 to guard the city, and the remaining 2,000 followed him south.
Soon, the Jin army arrived in Runzhou and occupied it. Later, they sent troops all the way to Yuguan and sent captives with letters to recruit Zhang Jue to surrender.
Zhang Jue didn't want to surrender to the Jin Kingdom because he was fighting under the banner of enfeoffment of Yelu Yanxi. If he surrendered to the Jin Kingdom, his image would collapse.
However, Liangshan Marsh did not accept Zhang Jue's surrender at all, and sent Han Shizhong and Yue Fei to seize Luanzhou and Yingzhou respectively, and were ready to move towards Pingzhou.
There was no other way, Zhang Jue could only write a surrender letter to Wanyan Aguda and send someone to Wanyan Jiemu:
"The emperor of the Northern Dynasty went hunting in the west and never returned, the emperor of the Southern Dynasty was defeated by the Liangshan bandits, and the Liangshan bandits went north to occupy Nanjing. The bandits were everywhere, the roads were blocked, and the authorities had no support. I sent people to bring a written invitation, and then I sent a letter of surrender. I was pardoned and ordered to deal with it..."
Seeing that Zhang Jue was willing to surrender to the Jin Kingdom, Wanyan Jiemu was very happy. He accepted Zhang Jue's surrender on behalf of Wanyan Aguda, and changed Pingzhou to Jin Nanjing according to Wanyan Aguda's wishes, promoted Zhang Jue to Tongzhongshumenxia Pingzhangshi and Nanjing garrison, and then closely followed the developments in Pingzhou.
After Zhang Jue won the great victory at Tuershan, Wanyan Jiemu reported the good news to Wanyan Aguda as soon as possible.
Wanyan Aguda was very happy to hear that Zhang Jue had won a great victory at Tuer Mountain. He immediately issued a secret decree to Wanyan Jiemu, asking Wanyan Jiemu to reward him with tens of thousands of spiritual stones. At the same time, he sent Zhang Jue's brother Zhang Jun to Pingzhou with the military badge of the same Zhongshu Menxia Pingzhangshi and Nanjing garrison, as well as imperial edicts, imperial edicts, and imperial edicts.
Zhang Jue was overjoyed when he learned about it, and personally led a large group of officials out of the city to greet the Jin envoy.
This matter was soon discovered by the intelligence personnel of the Jinyiwei, who quickly reported it to Chen Xizhen.
Chen Xizhen felt that the opportunity had come, so he asked Han Shizhong and Yue Fei to send a thousand cavalry each to attack Zhang Jue.
Han Shizhong did not dare to neglect it, and sent his general Wang Sheng to lead a thousand cavalry to attack immediately.
Yue Fei also sent his general Niu Gao to lead a thousand cavalry to attack immediately.
Facing the sudden attack of Wang Sheng and Niu Gao, Zhang Jue was unprepared and was caught off guard by the Liangshan army.
Zhang Jue hurried back to the city, but was intercepted by Han Shizhong in the east of the city. He was defeated and could not return to the city.
Zhang Jue had no choice but to flee to Runzhou along a small road, and his brother Zhang Jun went with him.
After that, the Liangshan army surrounded Pingzhou City and attacked it day and night.
Surprisingly, even without Zhang Jue in Pingzhou City, it was still very difficult to fight. Han Shizhong and Yue Fei fought for several days but failed to take it down.
Later, Chen Xizhen and others learned that only Zhang Dungu and other generals were holding on in Pingzhou City.
Zhang Dungu was Zhang Jue's cousin. He led several nephews of Zhang Jue and the people of Pingzhou to defend Pingzhou City.
However, many officials in Pingzhou, such as Wei Fu, deputy envoy of the Jiedushi, and Zhao Minyan, a staff officer, had abandoned the city and fled.
In fact, the people of Pingzhou hoped to get rescue from the Jin army, so they held on and refused to surrender.
But the Jin Kingdom did want to get Pingzhou, but Wanyan Jiemu only had 3,000 troops, and another 1,000 were left in Jinzhou, and there was no reinforcement, so facing the fierce offensive of the Liangshan Army, Wanyan Jiemu did not dare to fight with the Liangshan Army openly.
To put it bluntly, in Pingzhou, the attitude of the Jin Kingdom was actually to seek but not to gain.
In this case, how could Pingzhou withstand the attack of the Liangshan Army?
Not long after, Pingzhou City was breached by the Liangshan Army, and Zhang Jue's mother and wife were all captured by the Liangshan Army.
The day after Zhang Jun arrived in Runzhou, he heard that his mother was captured by the Liangshan Army. He hurried back to Pingzhou and wanted to ask Chen Xizhen, Han Shizhong, and Yue Fei to let his mother and his family go.
In order to let the Liangshan Army release people, Zhang Jun presented all the imperial edicts on gold flower paper that Wanyan Aguda gave to his brother Zhang Jue, as well as the imperial edicts and other documents, to Chen Xizhen.
Chen Xizhen didn't dare to deal with the matter, so he quickly sent someone to send these things to Jiang Hongfei.
Jiang Hongfei didn't understand Khitan characters, so he called Liu Yanzong to be the translator.
——The Jurchens had no characters at first, and the Jurchen nobles all learned Khitan, so after the establishment of the Jin Dynasty, almost all the internal and external official documents were in Khitan. However, Wanyan Aguda, Wanyan Wuqimai and other Jin Dynasty high-level officials were already studying the creation of Jurchen characters.
Liu Yanzong hated the Jin people for destroying his homeland, so when he translated for Jiang Hongfei, he inevitably exaggerated and hoped that Shuibo Liangshan could really fight with the Jin Kingdom to avenge their Liao people.
Jiang Hongfei knew this very well.
In fact, Liu Yanzong was not the only Liao people who hoped that Shuibo Liangshan would go to war with the Jin Kingdom. It can be said that a large number of Liao people hoped that Jiang Hongfei could help them avenge, even Xiao Puxian was no exception.
Let's put it this way, when Jiang Hongfei issued a declaration of war to Wanyan Aguda, Jiang Hongfei's reputation among the Liao people increased greatly, and the number of Liao people leaving Yandi and going out of the pass immediately decreased.
This is actually one of the reasons why Jiang Hongfei went to war with the Jin Kingdom.
Of course, this is not the main reason why Jiang Hongfei went to war with the Jin Kingdom.
Wanyan Aguda understood that what you can't get on the battlefield can't be obtained at the negotiation table, so why doesn't Jiang Hongfei understand it?
Jiang Hongfei knew better than anyone how aggressive the Jin people, especially the Jurchens among them, were. If they were not beaten hard, they would not only not hand over Yundi obediently, but would also frequently come to harass his territory.
Therefore, before competing for the Central Plains, Jiang Hongfei must first teach the evil neighbor Jin a profound lesson, so that they would not stab him in the back when he went to compete for the Central Plains.
For this purpose, Jiang Hongfei would definitely not hold back.
Upon learning that Chen Xizhen and his men had captured Pingzhou, Jiang Hongfei immediately appointed Zhan Du as the governor of Pingzhou, sent Lin Ren to preside over the Tianxingdao, and Li Yanxian led his troops to Pingzhou to build the Guanningjin Defense Line.
The Guanningjin Defense Line is a defense line from Yuguan (Shanhaiguan) through Ningyuan to Jinzhou, with Shanhaiguan as the backing, Ningyuan as the backbone, and Jinzhou as the vanguard. In between, there are multiple forts built as joint defense strongholds.
It is not difficult to guess from Jiang Hongfei's order that Jiang Hongfei wants to seize Jinzhou, that is, to take the initiative to attack Wanyan Jiemu.
And the people who took action were naturally Chen Xizhen, Yue Fei and Han Shizhong who were already familiar with Wanyan Jiemu...
At the same time, Wanyan Aguda had secretly ordered the Jin army to attack: one route led by Wanyan Zonghan went to Nan'ankou; one route led by Wanyan Chang went to Gubeikou; and another route led by Wanyan Aguda went to Juyongguan. Three routes attacked Yanjing at the same time.
In addition, Wanyan Aguda also ordered Wanyan Xieye to tie up his horse, put down his flag and wrap his armor, and gallop silently to Jinpoguan, wanting to take Jinpoguan, and then attack Juyongguan from Jinpoguan, and then attack Yanjing.
In other words, the Jin people did not attack Yanjing in three routes, but in four routes.
The first one to fight was Juyongguan, which was closest to Fengshengzhou.
After taking over Juyong Pass, Wang Bing, the commander of Juyong Pass, personally supervised the construction and asked the thousands of craftsmen and tens of thousands of civilians sent by Jiang Hongfei to build Juyong Pass as solid as a rock.
Wang Bing predicted that there would be a war between Shuibo Liangshan and Jin Kingdom sooner or later, and Juyong Pass would definitely be the focus of Jin Army's attack.
Not long ago, Jiang Hongfei declared war on Jin Kingdom again, and Wang Bing became more cautious.
Not only Wang Bing was cautious, but Shuibo Liangshan's hotel intelligence system and Jinyiwei also sent out a large number of spies to find out the dynamics of Jin Army.
Therefore, as soon as Jin Army moved, Shuibo Liangshan's hotel intelligence system and Jinyiwei gave warnings to the five pass guards and Yanjing.
After Wang Bing learned that Jin Army was about to act, he immediately prepared for war, deployed his 10,000 troops to various important places, and formulated a rotation schedule and passwords, and prepared rolling logs, stones, kerosene, braziers and other necessary tools for defending the city.
Some people may think that the 10,000 troops stationed at Juyong Pass by Liangshan Marsh are too few.
In fact, Juyong Pass is a place where one man can defend against ten thousand men. Usually, there are 3,000 troops guarding it. This 10,000 troops is already a lot.
In addition, in order to strengthen the defense of Juyong Pass, Jiang Hongfei transferred 150 bed crossbows, 3,000 divine arm bows, and 1 million arrows to Wang Bin, and sent Zhao Li to reinforce Wang Bin at any time.
The canyon where the Juyong Pass is located belongs to the Jundu Mountain area of the Taihang Mountains. It is sandwiched between the West Mountain, with huge streams and cliffs below. The terrain is extremely dangerous.
The commander of the Jin army responsible for attacking Juyong Pass was Wanyan Zongwang, the second son of Wanyan Aguda.
When Wanyan Zongwang arrived at Juyong Pass, he saw that Juyong Pass was impregnable due to its special geographical location. If they relied on hard attack, even if they attacked until the end of time, they might not be able to shake this ancient pass.
Wanyan Zongwang is the most warlike son of Wanyan Aguda and a very wise general.
After a tentative attack was easily repelled by Wang Bing, Wanyan Zongwang decided to take advantage of his wits.
So, after launching several large-scale attacks, Wanyan Zongwang abandoned strategic materials such as weapons and horses and pretended to escape.
Seeing this, many generals of the Liangshan Army thought that the Jin army that swept across the Liao Kingdom was no more than this, and it was a joke that Wanyan Zongwang could become a famous general.
The more arrogant a person is, the less clear his mind is.
Many generals of the Liangshan Army wanted to go out of the pass to pursue the Jin army.
Only Wang Bing smiled coldly and asserted: "This is because the Jurchens saw that my pass was difficult to break through and lured me out of the pass. How could I fall into his trick?"
If Wanyan Zongwang had only this method, he would not be one of the culprits who caused the Jingkang Shame in history.
In order to make the Liangshan army guarding Juyongguan completely believe, Wanyan Zongwang designed a trap.
While pretending to escape, Wanyan Zongwang not only ordered the Jin cavalry to throw away the cheese, mare's milk and other items they carried with them, but also deliberately let the Liangshan army capture several Jin soldiers.
Under severe torture by the Liangshan Army soldiers, these Jin Army soldiers who were deliberately captured had to tell the "truth" about their escape.
It turned out that some Liao people rebelled in the Jin army's base camp and wanted to drown themselves in Liangshan. They had to retreat. They were afraid of being pursued by the Liangshan army, so they fled in a hurry.
After many Liangshan generals heard the false news spread by the Jin Army soldiers, they believed it to be true if they found a treasure. They asked the king for instructions and immediately sent troops to hunt down the Jin Army and capture Wanyan Zongwang alive.
Guarding Juyong Pass with Wang Zhen was Shan Shiqi, the commander of the Bu Qi Army.
Shan Shiqi felt that he was better than Wanyan Zongwang.
After hearing the false news from the Jin Army soldiers, Shan Shiqi felt as if he had found a treasure, believed it to be true, and wanted to go out to capture Wanyan Zongwang.
At the beginning, Jiang Hongfei left a clear order, with Wang Zhen as the main leader and Shan Shiqi as the supplementary one.
However, Wang Zhen is a new member of Shuibo Liangshan, and he is a Song general who was forced to come by Jiang Hongfei. There may be loyalty issues, and Shan Shiqi's qualifications are much more senior than Wang Zhen.
Therefore, if Wang Zhen tried to stop Shan Shiqi from fighting, he might split the defenders at Juyongguan.
So, Wang Zhen said: "If General Shan is determined to attack, I have a condition..."
Shan Shiqi naturally agreed.
Soon, Shan Shiqi led the Buqi Army to break out of Juyongguan, vowing to capture Wanyan Zongwang alive.
Unexpectedly, Wanyan Zongwang had already set up an ambush on the way, waiting for Liangshan's army to fall into the trap.
After the Bu Qi Army entered the ambush circle set by Wanyan Zongwang, the nightmare began. The Jin Army surrounded them from all directions and instantly gave way to the Bu Qi Army.
Although Shan Shiqi, Zhu Jing and the Buqi Army were not afraid of death and caused a lot of casualties to the Jin Army, the Jin Army was best at field battles, and they were calculated mentally and unintentionally. As a result, the two sides fought for only half of the battle. Within an hour, Bu Qi Army had lost more than half of its troops.
There is no other way, Shan Shiqi and Zhu Jing can only fight and retreat, retreating to Juyongguan...
In the middle of the battle, Wanyan Zongwang deliberately opened a way to escape, allowing Shan Shiqi and Zhu Jing to lead the remaining defeated generals to escape.
Wanyan Zongwang didn't realize it because of his conscience. He asked the Jin Army soldiers who had already put on the uniforms of the Liangshan Army to mix with the retreating Bu Qi Army and kill towards Juyong Pass.
When Shan Shiqi and Zhu Jing led the defeated soldiers of Bu Qi Army and fled back to Juyong Pass, they were still in shock. They heard screams one after another outside. Someone was shouting loudly: "The Jin people have occupied Juyong Pass. The Jin people have occupied Juyong Pass. Run away." ah!!!"
Shan Shiqi didn't know that there were Jin people in his team, so he subconsciously wanted to order the withdrawal of Jinpo Pass.
But before Shan Shiqi could say anything, a man suddenly shouted in Chinese at Juyong Pass: "Get down!"
The soldiers of the Bu Qi Army remembered the condition that Wang Zhen had put forward before the battle. As soon as he shouted "get down", all the people of the Bu Qi Army must lie down unconditionally.
Before setting off, Shan Shiqi handed over the soldiers of the Bu Seventh Army in accordance with the agreement with Wang Zhen.
Therefore, upon hearing this sudden order, the soldiers of Bu Qi Army reacted and quickly fell to the ground.
As for the Jin Army who infiltrated the Bu Qi Army, not to mention that most of them couldn't understand Chinese, even if they did, they couldn't react.
As a result, one hundred and fifty bed crossbows and thousands of divine arm bows were fired at the same time.
The Jin army who sneaked into Bu Qi's army were immediately killed in pieces, and their death was horrific...
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