Qian Song

Chapter 348 Zhao Song is dead! ! ! (Ask for a monthly pass!)

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Zhang Jun originally planned to rely on Qu Duan in the military, but after in-depth contact, the headstrong Zhang Jun developed a great aversion to Qu Duan, who is accustomed to offending others and arrogantly relying on his talents.

More importantly, Zhang Jun wants to organize a decisive battle with Qianjun in Shaanxi, which will determine the world.

However, most of the generals of the Song army in Shaanxi did not agree with Zhang Jun's proposition, especially Qu Duan.

Zhang Jun held a military meeting to solicit the opinions of the generals on the decisive battle.

Qu Duan, who has the strongest military strength, made a speech without hesitation: "The plains and wilderness are beneficial to the horse army. Our army is far inferior to the Qian army in the horse army. Moreover, the Qian army has won consecutive battles recently and is full of vigor. Our army is very strong. It is difficult to compete with them. Therefore, our army should prepare troops and horses, and stick to the dangers of mountains and rivers. After ten years, we can talk about the decisive battle."

Qu Duan was worried that Zhang Jun didn't understand military affairs, and then explained in detail: "The high mountains and steep valleys are conducive to our army's formation and defense. Although the enemy army is brave and has heavy armored cavalry, they cannot charge in the mountains. Our army relies on the steep mountains. Even if the enemy invades with heavy troops, it will be extremely difficult to seize this land!"

The "Guanfu" mentioned by Qu Duan is the Guanzhong Plain, which is often called "Eight Hundred Li Qinchuan".

Eight hundred miles away, Qinchuan borders the rolling Yellow River in the east, the majestic Qinling Mountains in the south, and the Beishan Mountain System composed of Liangshan, Huanglongshan, Yaoshan, Sagashan, Jiuyishan, Qishan, Qianshan and Longshan in the north.

The "Saga" mentioned by Qu Duan does not refer to Saga Mountain specifically, but refers to the Beishan Mountain System in general.

The cavalry of the Song Army is far inferior to the dry army that recovered the Yanyun area.

Fighting in the long and narrow Guanzhong Plain, it was indeed difficult for the Song army to compete with the cavalry of the Qian army.

However, as long as the Song army guards Beishan and occupies a geographical advantage, it can completely control the Guanzhong Plain condescendingly.

In fact, the Qian army did not dare to stay for a long time when they captured Chang'an several times, because they were worried that the Song army would cut off the back of the Qian army or divide and encircle the Qian army anytime and anywhere.

Therefore, Qu Duan's opinion of "relying on the dangerous danger and guarding the place of Guansuke" is actually very insightful.

However, most of Zhang Jun's civil servants believed that Qu Duan's opinions were too slow or cowardly.

Zhang Jun even said sharply: "Don't I know this? However, the thieves have already captured His Majesty and sent a large army to fight. If we don't win the battle as soon as possible, my Song Dynasty will be leaderless, and the country will lose its power at that time." Well, that's why we have to hold a decisive battle!"

Although what Zhang Jun said was true, in the eyes of most of the generals including Qu Duan, it was not the time for a decisive battle with the strong and strong army, so most of the generals responded to Zhang Jun's claim of a decisive battle with silence.

The military meeting also broke up unhappy.

After the meeting, Zhang Jun recruited opposing generals and reiterated his intention to hold a decisive battle. He said: "Although Lin'an City was occupied by gangsters, Your Majesty was also captured by gangsters. In the hinterland of our Great Song Dynasty, if there is no reinforcements to Xingyuan Mansion, sooner or later they will surrender the city, so I will hold a decisive battle. As long as the main force of the Gan army is defeated, the gangsters in Lin'an City will be destroyed without attacking. This is the only opportunity for our Great Song Dynasty Also, if you don't catch it, then I will become a sinner of Song Dynasty!"

Some generals didn't dare to force Zhang Jun's opinion, so they could only persuade them tactfully: "Scholars and horses in Shaanxi are withering, depending on the situation, it must be five years later that they can't make a big move."

But Zhang Jun still insisted on his own opinion and retorted: "You can't stick to everything. Once the main force of the Qian army is called to attack Xingyuan Mansion, your majesty and the Song Dynasty will be in danger. Taking a step back, the Qian army only needs to travel in Shaanxi for one day. If we don’t retreat from the fight, there will be hope for the gangsters in Lin’an City, and they will definitely rely on His Majesty to protect themselves. If things go on like this, our Great Song Dynasty will collapse without a fight because the dragons have no leader.”

It has to be said that Zhang Jun's claim is not wrong in theory.

Therefore, the decisive battle in Shaanxi was decided by Zhang Jun alone.

But Qu Duan always insisted on his own opinion. No matter what Zhang Jun told Qu Duan, Qu Duan firmly believed that the decisive battle could not be held now.

Seeing that Qu Duan was stubborn, Zhang Jun forced Qu Duan to surrender his military power, and then left Qu Duan in the Xuanfu Department as a staff officer.

Although the other generals did not approve of holding a decisive battle in their hearts, but because Zhang Jun was determined to hold a decisive battle and dealt with Qu Duan, who was the most opposed, to make an example of others, the other generals no longer objected on the surface, and stood against Zhang Jun against his will. On the other hand, Jun won Zhang Jun's appreciation and trust with absolute obedience.

After some days, someone slandered Zhang Junjin, saying that Qu Duan was dissatisfied with Zhang Jun's handling, and predicted that Zhang Jun would be defeated, and concluded that Zhang Jun would be the eternal sinner of the Zhao and Song Dynasties.

This aroused Zhang Jun's suspicion.

Therefore, Zhang Jun liquidated Qu Duan's murder of his colleagues and annexed his colleagues to expand Qu Duan, demoted Qu Duan to an official position, and resettled him to live in Jiezhou.

Soon, Zhang Jun relegated Qu Duan to be the Deputy Envoy of Haizhou Tuanlian, and resettled Wanzhou to live at home.

Because Zhang Zhongfu and Li Yanqi were Qu Duan's confidantes, they were also punished at the same time-they were demoted to Weizhou guards.

After purging the senior officers of the Jingyuan Army, Zhang Jun appointed his confidant to take full command of the Jingyuan Army.

Qu Duan has run the Jingyuan Army for many years, and his roots are very deep. It is impossible for Zhang Jun's confidants to really establish their prestige in the Jingyuan Army in a short period of time.

Zhang Jun planned to hold a decisive battle in the near future, but he changed his generals just before the battle. It cannot but be said that he committed a military taboo just like Tan Zhen back then.

At this time, knowing that Zhang Jun wanted a decisive battle, Liu Kai deliberately cooperated with Zhang Jun to dispatch troops in Shaanxi to attack Yan'an Mansion, Bao'an Army and other places in northern Shaanxi. Most of the troops retreated to the eastern part of the narrow Guanzhong Plain.

Zhang Jun, who had won several small victories in a row, was more confident in defeating the Gan army in one fell swoop, and then dispatched troops more intensively to prepare for the decisive battle.

Under the unremitting efforts of Zhang Jun, who owns Zhao Gouyi's edict, the Song Army of the Fifth Route of Shaanxi was led by Yongxing Shuai Zhang Dian, Huanqing Shuai Zhao Zhe, Xihe Shuai Liu Xi, Qin Feng Shuai Sun Wo, and Jingyuan Shuai Xi Gong. According to Zhang Jun's order, they are gathering in Fuping area.

This situation is very in line with Liu Kai's intention to solve the main force of the Song army in one fell swoop through a decisive battle.

——The terrain here in the Sichuan-Shaanxi region is mostly easy to defend and difficult to attack. If it is fought bit by bit, the Dagan Dynasty may not know how long it will take to destroy the Western Song Dynasty. This opportunity to destroy the Western Song Dynasty may be wasted again, and if Liu Kai can defeat the main force of the Song army in one fell swoop, the process of destroying the Western Song Dynasty will be greatly shortened. , Liu Kai will be able to destroy the Western Army. The key point is that, judging from the current situation, although the number of the Gan Army is not as large as that of the Song Army, its overall strength should be higher than that of the Song Army.

Why, Liu Kai dispatched troops and generals, and was also preparing for the final decisive battle with the Song army.

The speed of mobilization of the Qian army was very fast. Even before the Song army was mobilized, the Qian army had already mobilized 20 troops to station troops on the banks of Luoshui, Xiayu and other places.

Here, Zhang Jun made another major mistake that Tan Zhen once made.

At this time, although the dry army has already assembled.

However, due to the bad terrain occupied by the dry army, the dry army was divided into two parts.

At this time, Zhang Jun, who was sitting in Binzhou to supervise the battle, had formed a huge corps with more than 40 people (including nearly [-] cavalry), which was unprecedented in the history of Song and Qianlong Wars.

——This is the final battle that will determine the survival of the Western Song Dynasty. Therefore, under the mobilization of Zhang Jun, in addition to the tens of thousands of soldiers and horses led by Zhang Jun and Liu Guangshi who are still guarding Lin'an City, the soldiers and horses in the Sichuan-Shanxi area Almost all of them have gathered here in Fuping.

The Song Dynasty had the momentum of breaking all the boats.

Coupled with sufficient logistics materials, transportation is also fully guaranteed.

This fostered Zhang Jun's mood of underestimating the enemy.

Zhang Jun appointed his confidant Liu Xi as the governor of the capital, and ordered a decisive battle with the Qian army in Fuping.

But since Zhang Jun was determined to fight the army, he missed the opportunity just like Tan Zhen.

In all fairness, the strength of even the unassembled Song Army far exceeds the combined strength of the Qian Army in Shaanxi.

If Zhang Jun decisively attacked any part of the Gan army, it would be possible to defeat a large part of the main force of the Qian army with overwhelming momentum, and then go to a decisive battle with the other part of the Gan army, and the probability of victory would be greatly increased.

The generals of the Song Army also suggested to Zhang Jun that they should take advantage of the favorable terrain along the Weishui River and take advantage of the opportunity before the reunification of the Qian army to launch an attack immediately, and first destroy half of the main force of the Qian army.

But Zhang Jun pretended to be cautious and denied this correct suggestion.

At this point, it is not an exaggeration to say that Zhang Jun is a stupid pig and copied Tan Zhen's failed path.

This may be the inevitable common fault of sour literati as commander-in-chief.

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According to Zhang Jun's deployment, the Song army gathered in Fuping and put on a majestic posture.

Fuping is located at the foot of Beishan Mountain, on the northern edge of the middle section of the Guanzhong Plain. The terrain is flat and easy to attack but difficult to defend.

But as long as it retreats tens of miles north or west from Fuping, the Song army can fight against the mountains.

After seeing the terrain, some generals of the Song Dynasty objected to the formation of troops in Fuping. They said: "Soldiers move with ease. Now the terrain is unfavorable, how to fight? We should move to a higher place to restrain the charge of the enemy cavalry."

However, there were also many Song generals who opposed it. They believed that there was a swamp with autumn reeds in front of the Song army, which was enough to limit the impact of the enemy's cavalry.

Zhang Jun chose one of the two and finally chose Fuping, which he is more familiar with, for the decisive battle.

Due to Zhang Jun's constant tricks and self-willedness, the 20 troops under Liu Qi's command came to Fuping without any danger, took a full rest, and then took the initiative to attack the Song army.

Liu Kai first dispatched the fierce general Yang Zaixing to lead [-] elite cavalry to charge while throwing firewood and soil bags to fill up the swamp in front of the Song army's formation, so that the land that the Song army relied on as a barrier disappeared.

Later, Liu Kai sent Yao Xing, a fierce general of the Qianjun Army, to lead [-] cavalry to bypass the Song Army's camp and attack the Song Army's weakest right wing.

It was Du Chong who commanded the right wing of the Song Army.

Du Chong's defense area was not well prepared. Du Chong, who had a fluke mentality and a little unfavorable preparation, led the crowd to escape. He only used carts to improvise a barrier, and the defense force was extremely weak.

Before the start of the war, Liu Qi had already learned about the deployment of the Song Army and the true strength of each part of the Song Army from Wu Desi, the pro-army Duwei Mansion, and the secret agents of the Military Intelligence Department.

Du Chongbu was the first breakthrough Liu Qi found.

And Du Chong is really a wine bag and rice bag.

As soon as Yao Xing led the attack, the vanguard of Du Chong's troops began to collapse without firing an arrow or firing a single cannon.

Seeing this, Yao Xing shouted loudly: "The enemy army has been defeated, follow me to make contributions!" Then he rushed to the Song army's camp at the head of the horse.

In fact, Zhang Jun and the others also knew that Du Chong was unreliable, and he didn't expect Du Chong to be able to withstand the attack of the Gan army.

But after Du Chong's troops were defeated, the panicked soldiers of Du Chong's troops flocked to the Song Army's camp and disrupted the Song Army's position. This was unexpected by Zhang Jun and the others.

Yao Xing's troops were all elite cavalry experienced in many battles. They followed the fleeing Song Army soldiers of Du Chong's Department, successfully passed through the shooting area of ​​Song Army's artillery and crossbows, and went straight to the front of Song Army's camp.

As a result, the Qian and Song Dynasties fought fiercely on the right wing.

Yao Xing was the second most powerful general in the Gan army. After he rushed into the camp of the Song army, he was like a god of killing.

And Yao Xing's soldiers were brave men who had experienced many battles. They followed in Yao Xing's footsteps and caused huge damage to the right wing of the Song Army.

If the Gan army has the second most powerful general, it will naturally have the first fierce general.

The number one general in the dry army is naturally the invincible Yang Zaixing.

Unlike Yao Xing who rushed into the camp of the Song Army by a little coincidence, after Yang Zaixing's troops rushed through the swamp, they did not hesitate to face the Song Army's artillery fire, arrows, and cannon stones and paid nearly [-] yuan. At the cost of casualties, he rushed into the camp of the Song army.

Yang Zaixing is a man of boldness and courage, and every time he encounters a fierce battle, he will personally attack the battle, with incomparable bravery.

After rushing into the camp of the Song army, Yang Zaixing had already been hit by three arrows, but he didn't seem to know it. After rushing left and right for an unknown how long, Yang Zaixing was wounded dozens of times.

But Yang Zaixing didn't stop, and he even thought about capturing Zhang Jun alive among the hundreds of thousands of Song troops, so that the Song army would "capture the thief first and capture the king first".

Yang Zaixing, with his spear and horse, rampaged through the Song army like a tiger descending a mountain. Thousands of enemies were picked off by Yang Zaixing.

It's a pity that the target that Yang Zaixing wanted to kill never appeared in his field of vision - in the face of such a terrifying and almost crazy opponent, even Zhang Jun, who was well guarded by left and right, did not dare to beat him directly , disappeared without a trace.

Yang Zaixing was very disappointed, but he didn't stop because of this, but continued to shoot straight forward, like a sharp sword ruthlessly piercing into the Song army's formation.

And behind Yang Zaixing are seven or eight thousand elite cavalry who are equally fearless.

Yang Zaixing's department and Yao Xing's department were like two giant dragons. They stirred up the hundreds of thousands of Song soldiers from left to right.

Standing on the high platform, Liu Qi keenly found the weakness of the Song Army by carefully observing the changes in the Song Army's position. The Song army and the [-] Song army descended to charge the Song army's weakness, that is, the Huanqing army.

Zhao Zhe, the commander of the Huanqing Army, once fought against the rebels together with Zhang Jun.

Zhang Jun admired Zhao Zhe's talent very much, and specially appointed Zhao Zhe to replace Wang Si as the appeasement envoy of Huanqing Road Economic Strategy.

In fact, Zhao Zhe is a civil servant, and he is not an expert in leading troops to fight. It's just that Zhang Jun doesn't understand military affairs, so he feels that Zhao Zhe, who is a little wise and brave, is a rare talent.

However, Zhao Zhe's little Zhiyong is obviously not enough in this kind of decisive battle with hundreds of thousands.

As a result, when the battle was in full swing, Zhao Zhe saw that the Qian army was attacking fiercely, so he left the team without authorization and did not supervise the battle in front of the army.

The combat effectiveness of the Huanqing Army was already weak, and Zhao Zhe left the team without authorization, so the Huanqing Army was overwhelmed by the Zhejia Army at once, and then the Zhejia Army and the [-] Song Army surrendered to the Song Army, and the gap in the Song Army's position was torn apart more and more. The larger the size, the final result was that the other battalions of the Song Army had no time to reinforce them.

As soon as the Huanqing army collapsed, the soldiers fled, which immediately affected the entire battle situation.

In addition, Yang Zaixing and Yao Xing had disturbed the two wings of the Song Army at this time, as if they were overwhelmed.

Liu Qi seized the opportunity to press all the firearms that were previously restricted, and then threw all kinds of firearms at the Song Army as if they didn't need money, defeating the main force of the Song Army in one fell swoop.

Liu Kai did not stop the offensive because of this, but sent all the [-] cavalry who had been preparing for a long time to cover up and kill the Song army.

At the same time, Liu Qi asked the surrender team that had been prepared a long time ago to disperse in all directions to recruit surrender everywhere.

On the other hand, before the Yugan battle, Zhang Jun only thought of victory but not of defeat, so once he lost the battle, he would behave at a loss, not knowing how to clean up the mess.

Under the ebb and flow, the Song army collapsed thousands of miles.

Huanqing, Jingzhou, and Panyuan were successively captured by the Qian army, and a large army of the Qian army approached the city of Weizhou.

Weizhou guards Zhang Zhongyan and Zhao Bin were originally Qu Duan's confidantes.

Qu Duan was demoted, and Zhang Zhongfu and Li Yanqi were punished, which made them already dissatisfied. In addition to the current situation, everyone knew that the Zhao Song Dynasty must have completely died.

Therefore, when the Qian army was crushing the city, Zhang Zhongfu, Li Yanqi and others decisively broke through the city and surrendered.

And this is like a fuse.

Next, Song generals continued to lead their trilogy to surrender.

It didn't take long, with the help of the soldiers of the Song Army who surrendered to the Dagan Dynasty, the Qian army swept across Shaanxi and came to Xingyuan Mansion.

Zhang Jun, Liu Guangshi and other Song leaders saw that the Qian army was powerful and did not dare to make an enemy, so they had to withdraw from Xingyuan Mansion and enter Shu.

Lin'an City, which has held on for nearly half a year, finally received its reinforcements.

After Liu Kai and Li Yanxian won the victory meeting, Liu Kai passed on Li Cun's order. Li Yanxian served as the envoy of the Sichuan system and was responsible for calming down all the armed forces in Shu. The comfort envoy of Sichuan was responsible for handling all the government affairs of the Shu region, while Chen Kuutong escorted Zhao Gou and all the royal families and clans in the Sichuan-Shanxi area of ​​the Zhao and Song Dynasty back to Bianliang City in Tokyo, and all the officials of the small court of the Western Song Dynasty also went there Tokyo Bianliang City accepts disposal...

So far, it can be said that Zhao Song is dead! ! !
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