Xianxia version of Water Margin

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Zhao planned to conquer the Central Plains in one battle, so why didn't Jiang Hongfei want to do this?

But it was the same as Zhao Gou worried.

Jiang Hongfei was also worried that many Song generals were disobeying Zhao Gouyang and refused to lead their troops to a decisive battle with the Yuan army.

At present, many Song armies have such signs. Zhao Gou asked them to surround the Gyeonggi area, but they only dared to wander in relatively safe areas and did not dare to come to provoke the Yuan army.

Jiang Hongfei has commanded the troops for so many years, how could he not see that these Song troops did not want to go to war with the Yuan army at all?

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It's not that Jiang Hongfei didn't know that procrastination would be beneficial to the Yuan Empire. After all, the Zhao and Song dynasties had been preliminarily destroyed, and all the accumulation over the past two hundred years belonged to the Yuan Empire. How could Zhao Gou's newly established small dynasty have money and food? To support an army of more than one million people?

In this way, the Song army will definitely become a scattered mess, fighting on its own.

Ordinarily, this would actually make it easier for the Yuan army to eat these Song armies one by one.

But the problem is that once things develop to that day, the people in the Central Plains region may suffer.

You must know that historically, Zhao Gou and his ministers did not dare to resist the Jin Dynasty. Their only countermeasure was to order the construction of the Yellow River embankment to allow the Yellow River water to flow from Si River to Huaihe River in an attempt to block the pursuing troops behind them. As a result, not only did the river crossing fail to stop the Jin army, but more than 200,000 local people were drowned, and the number of deaths caused by displacement and plague was several times that. The most prosperous and prosperous Lianghuai region in the Northern Song Dynasty was destroyed, and nearly 10 million people became homeless and became refugees.

Later, Zhao Gou also praised Du Chong for performing this task, and asked Du Chong to replace Zongze as the left-behind in Tokyo.

Once the Yellow River is opened, it may take hundreds of years to recover the damage caused. The Jin and Yuan dynasties in history were, to a large extent, brought down by the Yellow River that was repeatedly regulated.

Therefore, Jiang Hongfei wanted to fight Zhao Gou quickly and completely defeat Zhao Gou, or drive Zhao Gou and his men to the south of the Yangtze River and let them compete with Fang La or Wang Qing for territory.

Based on this strategic purpose, Jiang Hongfei was very happy to learn that Zhao Gou was going to fight with him, and personally mobilized his troops and generals to prepare for a battle to conquer the Central Plains.

It's a pity that Jiang Hongfei overestimated Zhao Gou. He was not a decisive hero at all. He had great righteousness in his hands. Those generals who held military power were still new to the army, and he could not firmly grasp the general power in his own hands. Not to mention Fan Ne, Zhao Ye, Wang Xiang and others who had been resisting the decree, even Yang Weizhong, who was in charge of the Generalissimo's Mansion, was actually unwilling to go to war.

Not long ago, Lin Chong's troops advanced to Kaocheng, less than a hundred miles away from Nanjing.

Zhao planned to let Yang Weizhong personally lead the troops to fight Jiang Hongfei's general.

He didn't want to, but Yang Weizhong said angrily: "If the major generals are not available, the generals will be the first choice. What's the point?"

Later, it was Zhao Gou who forced Yang Weizhong to fight, and Yang Weizhong reluctantly gathered the five armies of the Generalissimo's Mansion to fight.

But they went to war. Yang Weizhong led an army of tens of thousands. Facing Lin Chong's army of 10,000, he only dared to set up defenses twenty miles away and did not dare to fight.

Zhao Gou actually pretended not to know about this and had no intention of replacing Yang Weizhong.

Jiang Hongfei's expectations for Zhao Gou were really in vain.

There was no other way, Jiang Hongfei could only retreat and do the next best thing, and attack them separately.

And Jiang Hongfei's first target was Zhao Gou's hope, which was the ace army of the Zhao and Song Dynasty - the Western Army of the Song Dynasty, which was Fan Zhixu's tribe.

In order to achieve this strategic goal.

Jiang Hongfei asked Liu Huiniang to mobilize troops and generals to attack various Song armies to contain them and prevent them from reinforcing Fan Zhixu's troops.

Soon, under the leadership of Liu Huiniang, the armies of the Yuan and Song Dynasties were everywhere, and they began to fight.

After this fight, Jiang Hongfei discovered that Song Jun actually fought well.

Huang Qianshan sent commander Zhang Huan to lead his troops out of Nanjing to occupy favorable terrain and confront Shi Jin's troops head-on.

At the same time, Huang Qianshan sent Ding Shun and Meng Shining to lead their troops into two wings, setting up an ambush outside the city to kill Tang Bin's tribe.

After the battle started, the Song army fired fiercely.

During the battle, Chen Da was shot from his horse by the Song army and was almost captured alive by the Song army. Fortunately, he was rescued by Shi Jin at the last moment.

After Tang Bin's troops fought with Ding Shun and Meng Shining's troops to no avail, they retreated on their own initiative.

On the way, Yang Zhi actually turned the feint attack into a decisive battle.

As soon as Yang Zhi led 10,000 troops to the outside of Xihua City, the Jingdong transfer judge Zhilong Tuge Lu Qiu Sheng, who had been well prepared, personally led the militiamen he had recruited out of the city to ambush Yang Zhi's troops.

The two armies continued to fight until the fifth watch of the night. Yang Zhicai retreated more than 20 miles with only more than 7,000 horses left.

The Huarong Division was responsible for attacking Kaide Mansion and containing the main force of the Zongze Division.

After receiving the order, Hua Rong planned to attack Kaide Mansion from Weinan, and then line up outside the moat embankment to hold back the Song army.

Unexpectedly, Zongze ordered Kong Yanwei to lead his troops to set up camp by the moat. The two armies fired across the river. Later, Quan Bangyan was sent to support him, and he and Kong Yanwei's troops covered the attack.

Hua Rong did not expect that Zongze's tribe not only had tens of thousands of troops, but was also so good at fighting. As a result, he suffered a huge defeat. If the troops were not all light cavalry, they might have been completely wiped out by Zongze's tribe.

In short, in this confrontation, the Dayuan Army did not actually gain the upper hand.

But this is only from a tactical level. From a strategic level, Zhao Gou can be said to have been completely defeated by Jiang Hongfei.

Because none of these paths are Jiang Hongfei's real goals.

Jiang Hongfei's real target was the more than 200,000 Song Dynasty Western Army led by Fan Zhixu who had arrived in Qianqiu Town.

——After Fan Zhixu led more than 200,000 Western troops out of Wuguan, he moved around Mianchi and later stationed in Qianqiu Town, aiming at the city of Bianliang in the eastern capital.

Just as the Song army was fighting on its own, Yue Fei led 30,000 elite Yuan cavalry and headed straight for Qianqiu Town.

Fan Zhixu used the marching speed of the Song army to estimate the marching speed of the Yuan army, and felt that even if the Yuan army was given ten days, it would not be able to reach Qianqiu Town.

Fan Zhixu wanted to take this opportunity to recover Luoyang, the Western Capital of the Zhao Song Dynasty, from Wang Qing's Chu State with an overwhelming force.

For this purpose, Fan Zhixu gathered all his 200,000 troops in Qianqiu Town.

Fan Zhixu's strategy seemed to be very successful.

Seeing that Fan Zhixu led 200,000 Western troops to Luoyang, the Chu army guarding Luoyang abandoned Luoyang City and retreated southward, leaving Luoyang to Fan Zhixu.

After Fan Zhixu learned about this, he sent people to occupy Luoyang while saying to his left and right: "How dare you, a small bandit, stop my heavenly army?"

But just when Fan Zhixu was feeling proud, Yue Fei led 30,000 Yuan cavalrymen and suddenly rushed straight to Qianqiu Town.

Fan Zhixu had never expected that the Yuan army would come so quickly, so the 200,000 Western Army was not prepared at all and was caught off guard by the 30,000 battle-hardened Yuan cavalrymen.

What's more terrible is that these 200,000 Western Army were all gathered together.

On the other side, Yue Fei led the Iron Buddha Left Army and rushed to the 200,000 Western Army, and then used the remaining 25,000 cavalrymen to bite and kill them.

The 200,000 Western Army was killed and routed. They abandoned their baggage and scattered, trampling on each other, and half of them were killed or injured.

In this battle alone, the 200,000 Western Army of the Song Dynasty was defeated by Yue Fei's troops and collapsed.

Some of the defeated soldiers of the Western Army wanted to flee back to Shaanxi, but halfway through their journey, they heard that Shaanxi had been captured by Yuan generals Qiao Daoqing, Han Shizhong, Wu Jie, Zhe Keqiu, Yelu Dashi and others. They defended Dongtong Pass, Xisan Pass, Nanwu Pass and Beixiao Pass, and the Song army could not enter Shaanxi at all. Even Hangu Pass and Mengjin Pass were captured by the Yuan army.

Shaanxi could not be returned, and the Western Army soldiers could only follow Fuyan Marshal Zhang Shen to flee to Yingtian Prefecture in Song Nanjing to join Zhao Gou.

At the same time when Fan Zhixu was defeated, because of the great defeat of Yuan general Hua Rong, Zong Ze felt that the Yuan army was nothing more than that.

In addition, Zhao Gou and others had always been timid and did not dare to fight the Yuan army. Zong Ze wanted to set a benchmark for Zhao Gou and others so that they would no longer be afraid of the Yuan army, a paper tiger.

Therefore, Zong Ze decided to pursue the victory and not wait for other Song troops. He went straight to the capital to recover Bianliang City.

In order to meet this war, Zong Ze had been preparing for a long time.

Zong Ze heard that the Yuan army had a secret weapon called "Benlei Chariot", which was invincible and more powerful than armored heavy cavalry. It was said to be magical, but it had never been used in battle so far. No one knew its true power.

This gave Zong Ze an inspiration.

Based on the Benlei Chariot he had heard of, Zong Ze built 150 chariots as his secret weapon to defeat the Yuan army.

Each of Zong Ze's chariots had 25 guards, 25 left corners, 25 right corners, and 25 front defenses. There were four teams in total, with 100 people in each chariot, 150 chariots, and a total of 15,000 people.

Zong Ze had high hopes for his chariot army, expecting his chariot army to defeat the Yuan army in one fell swoop and wake up Zhao Gou and other Song officials.

To be honest, Zong Ze didn't want to face Jiang Hongfei's hundreds of thousands of Yuan troops alone.

Zong Ze also sent people to invite other Song troops to join him.

But Zhao Gou ordered that no one could attack the Yuan army without authorization, and they had to wait for his command and advance carefully.

Many Song soldiers were unwilling to fight the Yuan army, which was not easy to deal with. With Zhao Gou's order, they could just take advantage of the situation.

So no one was willing to work with Zong Ze.

There was no way. In order to awaken Zhao Gou's conscience, let Zhao Gou remember that his parents, concubines, five daughters, and all relatives were still suffering in Bianliang City, let Zhao Gou take the responsibility he should take, and let Zhao Gou stop dreaming of running to Jiangnan to live in peace, Zong Ze resolutely said to his left and right: "The general is alone and has few soldiers. If he does not go deep into the important areas, he will not be able to win." Then he ordered the whole army to attack and fight a decisive battle with the Yuan army.

After Zong Ze's Song army advanced to Nanhua County, they met Hua Rong's army again.

However, this time the commanders of the Yuan army became Jiang Hongfei's virtuous concubines, Madam Jia, virtuous concubines, Xu Qingniang, and Wang Gongren.

The women commanded Hua Rong's troops, Guan Sheng's troops, Qin Ming's troops, Sun Li's troops, Yan Shude's troops, Li Kui's troops, Liu Tang's troops, and Wu Song's troops to fight against Zong Ze's Song army.

Zong Ze, regardless of his old body, braved arrows and stones and fought on the front line of the battle.

Zong Ze has always been able to share the joys and sorrows with the soldiers in the army, so all his soldiers are happy to serve him.

Now, Zong Ze is leading the way again, and his Song army soldiers are fighting hard to defeat the Yuan army.

However, Madam Jia and others took advantage of Zong Ze's desire to fight and lured him into a trap.

When Zong Ze personally led his chariot army to the ambush circle of the Yuan army, Guan Sheng and Qin Ming led their cavalry to attack Zong Ze's chariot army from both ends.

In an instant, arrows rained down like rain, shooting at Zongze's chariot army.

Zongze's chariot was large and clumsy, and it was difficult to turn around at a critical moment, and it could only defend the front, not the sides.

In addition, the battle broke out suddenly, and Zongze's Song army could only respond hastily.

As expected, the Song army under Zongze suffered extremely severe damage.

Then, Hua Rong led the cavalry and infantry of the Yuan Dynasty to attack.

After Zongze led the troops to resist for a while, he was really defeated.

There was no choice but for Zongze to change into the white shirts and straw sandals worn by the soldiers with Quan Bangyan and others, and flee south with the defeated soldiers to Yao Peng’s army, and then flee to Nanjing of the Song Dynasty with Yao Peng’s army overnight.

In this battle, Zongze’s vanguard Wang Xiaozhong was shot and captured, and later surrendered to the Yuan Empire. Zhibozhou Sun Zhen wanted to meet Zongze, but was hijacked by his personal soldiers to the Yuan army and had no choice but to surrender.

Zongze’s 150 chariots were difficult to operate due to their large size, and the Song army had a hard time pushing them. In the case of defeat, the Song army soldiers had to abandon them all and escape alone.

This just provided convenience for the Yuan army soldiers.

The Yuan army soldiers used these chariots to load various spoils of war and returned triumphantly.

Later, when Zhao Gou heard about this, he laughed and said sarcastically: "I see that Zongze's chariots are not suitable for use, and it is a waste of labor and materials. Zongze did not listen, and now he has helped the enemy."

But soon, Zhao Gou could no longer laugh.

Two bad news were brought by Zhang Shen and others who came to surrender to Zhao Song.

The first bad news was that Fan Zhixu's 200,000 Song Dynasty Western Army was defeated. Excluding the dead and wounded and the surrendered Yuan Empire, there were less than 30,000 left to surrender to him.

The second bad news was that the Yuan Empire had sent a large army to attack Shaanxi while Fan Zhixu led the Western Army out of Shaanxi, and the Guanzhong area was likely to be lost.

For Zhao Gou, there were more bad news than these two.

Before, it was because of Fan Zhixu's threat that Fan Ne, Zhao Ye, Wang Xiang and other Song troops agreed to listen to Zhao Gou.

Now, Fan Zhixu has been defeated by Jiang Hongfei, and they will definitely not listen to Zhao Gou's dispatch again.

Sure enough!

Two days later, news came one after another that Fan Ne, Zhao Ye, and Wang Xiang all surrendered to the Yuan Empire. Jiang Hongfei asked Yue Fei to recruit these Song troops and take them into Shaanxi to recover Shaanxi and Sichuan.

Zhao Gou and his ministers were shocked to learn of this thunderbolt!

Geng Nanzhong and Wang Boyan quickly brought up the old matter and suggested that Zhao Gou immediately go south and join forces with Tong Guan to divide the river with the Yuan Empire. The next step is to unite with Wang Qing and Fang La, and the three families will jointly fight against the Yuan Empire.

Zhao Gou agreed.

On that day, a group of Song army generals in Nanjing City had already begun to study overnight how to defend against the Yuan army's pursuit to the south after crossing the river?

Two days later, the vanguard army and baggage had already begun to move to Yangzhou.

This shows how strong Zhao Gou's determination to flee south was.

Someone questioned Zhao Gou and his ministers: "Why don't you return to Beijing and take a detour?"

Faced with such questioning voices, Zhao Gou and his ministers turned a deaf ear.

Moreover, Zhao Gou and his ministers did not consider it at all. They had a large number of troops in the north, and these people did not want to flee to the south.

Among them, Zhao Gou was the worst.

It is no exaggeration to say that seeing that the 200,000-strong Western Song Army, the ace army of the Zhao Song Dynasty, was almost annihilated by the 30,000 Yuan Army, Zhao Gou completely awakened to Zhao Paopao.

Parents, wives, concubines, daughters, clansmen, whoever I love, no one is more important than my life, Zhao Paopao, I will flee for my life regardless of everything...

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