Qiming 1158

Chapter 291 Du Shan Kening decides to take a gamble

Zhou Zhi was shocked when he learned that the army's food supply was threatened. He knew that the matter was serious and no trivial matter, so he immediately led the army back to help after receiving the order, and did not dare to delay at all.

When he led the army across the Yellow River, he found that the bridge he had carried before was still there, so he immediately arranged for the army to cross the river.

But not long after, when the army had just passed a vanguard, a Jin army of about 2000 people suddenly attacked, blocking the way of the Liberation Army on the bridge.

Zhou Zhi's army was arranged to come back after a series of hard battles. They were very tired and did not get a rest, but they had to fight immediately.

Therefore, You Yijun was slightly defeated by the strong blocking of the Jin Army.

The engagement area on the bridge was limited, and it was difficult for Zhou Zhi to take advantage of his strength, but the Jin Army took advantage of this weakness of the Restoration Army and successfully blocked the Restoration Army's attack with a small number of troops.

After some hard fighting, some of the troops that had already crossed the river could not resist the attack of the Jin army, and were beaten and collapsed, so they all rushed to the bridge and tried to escape back to the other side.

However, at this moment, there are still many troops trying to cross the river to support, because Zhou Zhi ordered the army to quickly cross the river to support the army that had already crossed the river.

While trying to escape, while crossing the river for support, the two sides collided, and the bridge was suddenly crowded.

After a while, many soldiers fell into the water from the bridge, were washed away by the rushing river, and disappeared in an instant.

There are also many who were chased by Jin Jun and had no choice but to jump into the river to try to survive. The probability of surviving is not high. It is possible to drown or be hit by a dark stone.

At this time, the Golden Army crossbowmen fired arrows at the chaos of the Restoration Army on the bridge, killing many soldiers of the Restoration Army, making the chaos on the bridge more and more serious.

A large number of soldiers of the Restoration Army were shot and killed, causing more panic among the soldiers. They were on the bridge, with no escape route and lack of protection. Under the panic, the order collapsed.

The breakdown of order has triggered a larger-scale chaos, crowding and stepping on people just to make a way out.

Yet this only pushes them from the brink of death completely.

Finally, the three bridges crossing the river could not support the huge vibration and weight in the extreme chaos, and collapsed one by one, and soon all collapsed.

The soldiers on the bridge fell into the water one after another and struggled hard in the rolling water. Some soon disappeared, and some hugged the planks and struggled, trying to go ashore to survive, but unfortunately it was too difficult.

Zhou Zhi watched his river-crossing operation fail miserably. He lost three bridges and was blocked by Jin Bing on the south bank. He felt very regretful and felt that instead of relying on bridges, he should cross the river by boat.

But the matter has come to this point, he has no other way but to find ships from other places, or rush to make ships, ready to launch the second stage of the battle.

Zhou Zhi did not admit defeat, and Jin Jun certainly did not want to be outdone.

They are now waiting for work, just waiting for the Restoration Army to hurriedly prepare to cross the river, and they are ready to do damage at any time.

From the sixth day of April until the tenth day of April, Zhou Zhi launched three forced crossings, all of which failed.

Zhou Zhi's confidence was getting weaker and weaker, and he gradually felt powerless, and the morale of the army continued to decline, and he could no longer persist.

His greatest hope now is whether there can be a force on the other side to stand up and launch an attack from the rear of the Jin Army, so as to save them blood and tears in the front.

This is of course impossible, and it is better to expect them to suddenly explode.

In fact, Zhao Kaishan's rear is facing an unprecedented and severe threat.

A 1000-man Golden Army cavalry burned, killed and looted in Jeju and Tengzhou, burned a large number of military warehouses of the Restoration Army one after another, and killed the local troops who tried to stop them.

The Jin general who led this cavalry was named Tu Shan Kening, who was the defense envoy of Suzhou and one of the frontier generals on the border between Song and Jin.

He was born in a powerful family, but he was unsmiling, calm and composed, proficient in Khitan and Jurchen characters, and good at learning.

He was originally an official in the central government, but after Wanyanliang usurped the throne, a relative offended Wanyanliang, and he was implicated, so he was forced to go out.

Wanyanliang was never merciless towards people he didn't like, and he remembered very clearly that even if he didn't have a good life outside, it would be difficult for him to stay in one place for a long time.

However, at the moment, Tu Shan Kening is working as a defense envoy in Suzhou, facing the Jianghuai Theater in the Southern Song Dynasty.

During the Kaifeng war, Tu Dan Kening soon learned the specific news, and he really wanted to do something.

However, since Kong Yanzhou's order to the frontier generals was to strictly guard the local area, not to be dispatched at will, and those who violated the order would be executed, so the disciple Dan Kening did not take any action at first.

He was actually quite worried that the Liberation Army and the Song Army would act together. The Liberation Army would attack Kaifeng, and the Song Army would launch the Northern Expedition, so he ordered Suzhou to enter a state of emergency and forcefully attack the horses.

But what made him a little puzzled was that from the time the Restoration Army launched the attack, he hadn't heard of any actions by the Song Army.

It is very difficult to guard against spies these days. As long as there is a heart, there is very little military news that cannot be inquired. After all, the military operation itself is very dynamic. Unless the distance is too far, it is difficult not to leak the news.

As far as the information transmitted by several intelligence lines under the control of Dan Kening himself, it is shown that the frontline Song Army has not received any orders to dispatch or assemble, and everything is business as usual.

The Restoration Army is on the move, so Song Jun didn't see it?

The Restoration Army attacked Kaifeng, the ancient capital of the Song Dynasty!

The Emperor of Song is not going to do anything about it?
This is too strange, right?
The so-called abnormality must be a monster, and Tudan Kening really thought that Song Jun's lack of action was Song Guo's plan to delay troops. Song Guo was waiting for the moment when Jin Jun relaxed his guard or the army went north to assist Kaifeng, so he continued to prepare, Fighting hard.

But Song Jun still has no news.

The news of Kong Yanzhou's successive defeats continued to spread to the south, but there was still no movement from the Song army at the frontier, just as they had never heard of it.

Kaifeng's fight was extremely fierce. The Guangfu Army and Jin Army fought each other with red eyes, and they were almost out of their minds, while Song Jun's side was quiet.

It's time to gamble for money, drink and drink, play with women, play with women, do everything, just don't assemble, don't fight.

Du Dan Kenning thought about it and felt very contradictory.

Even if they want to be surprised, they won't even prepare logistical materials, right?

In the end, the war still needs logistical materials. As the saying goes, the three armies will go ahead without food and grass, but now the Southern Song Dynasty materials are not prepared, the people are not recruited, and the livestock are not arranged...

There is no preparation at all, how is it unexpected?

Just betting that the Golden Soldiers are all waste, win a battle, set off in the morning, and have lunch in the city of the Golden Kingdom at noon?
Is this a decision that someone with a little military common sense can make?
On the one hand, the fact that the Song army did not move, and on the other hand, the danger of Kong Yanzhou's retreat, was very contradictory.

He really wanted to go north to support him, but if he took away all the elite troops on his side, and the Song army launched a surprise attack, then Suzhou would be very dangerous.

In the final analysis, the biggest variable is the Song army. If the Song army attacks, the problem will be very serious. If the Song army does not attack, there will be no big problem.

After comprehensively judging the situation of the enemy and ourselves, and seriously thinking about the strange situation that the Song army did not prepare for combat, Tu Dan Kening hesitated for a while, and finally decided to take a gamble.

I bet that Zhao Gou would not dare to take the initiative to launch a war against the Jin Kingdom.

So he decided to dispatch [-] elites to go north with him, leaving only a few troops to continue to station in Suzhou.

In order to prevent the sudden attack of the Song army, he arranged some false appearances that the army was still there, but his subordinates were still very worried.

"Will Song Jun come?"

"Not necessarily, I hope not to come."

"If Song Jun really came, what should we do?"

"Fight to the death, can't hold on, wait for reinforcements."

"But what if you can't keep it?"

"I will die with you."

Tu Dan Kening made up his mind, no longer wavered, leaving a bitter lieutenant to attack decisively.

(End of this chapter)