Song Dynasty

Chapter 102
On the north bank of the Yangtze River, ever since Wanyan Ba ​​Lisu led five hundred kidnappers across the river, Wu Shu felt uneasy.He didn't go back to the camp, so he simply set up a tent and rested by the water to wait.

After eating a jug of wine, chewing a few pieces of dried meat, and lying in a small tent for a long time, I heard the faint shouts of killing coming from the other side of the river, and the flames flickering in the snow and mist, but how could I sleep? Got it.

After tossing and turning on the animal skin for a long time, my whole body ached in the end.

Wu Shu angrily kicked off the cloak he was wearing, walked out with a knife in his hand, and walked back and forth along the river.

The big river outside was still rolling eastward, and under the light, the waves were shining, or gathered, or scattered, just like his disturbed mood.

Apparently, the guards had seen Wanyan Zongbi's uneasy behavior a lot, and they didn't seem to care.

Yes, their commander, the fourth prince of the Great Jin Kingdom, is a top-notch talent among the younger generation of the Jurchen clan.Not to mention his bravery, his ability to command an army is also amazing.

In the last battle of Kaifeng, the two dog emperors who broke Kaifeng from the Song Dynasty and captured the Han people were all done by Wushu. That was a big victory that my Jurchen has never had.

However, Wushu is good at everything, but he is restless.

How should I put it, many times I always feel anxious for no reason, and people are also moody.He was still smiling happily on his front feet, but sad on his back feet.When encountering troubles, he is always so worried that he can't sleep, and he can't stop sighing, which makes people feel ashamed for him: a dignified woman and a real man, just kill when you encounter enemies, drink as much as you have wine, sleep on the floor when you are tired, think so much, it won't work woman?

Moreover, the things he was worried about had never happened, and he was suspicious. Isn't this making himself uncomfortable?

Dizzy from his back and forth, a Jurchen guard was about to persuade him with a smile.

Suddenly, Wu Shu shrugged his shoulders, like a male wolf suddenly awakened in the dark night, even the fur on his body stood up, and beads of melted snow water rolled down: " He's back, Ma Wu is back... No, how did he come back in such a good way?"

Hearing this, all the guards were startled at the same time, and looked over intently, only to see several ships approaching quickly.

The sky had already opened up, and the boat was full of people, and suddenly it was the Khitan signing army who had attacked earlier.

All of them were covered in blood, their faces were full of horror, and they were desperately paddling their oars.Twenty boats passed by, and only a few of them returned in embarrassment. It was obvious that the five tribes of Yelvma had suffered a big defeat.

A guard on the shore shouted and asked: "What's the matter, why are you back?"

On the boat, all the Khitan people cried in confusion: "I lost, I lost, my brothers died so badly!"

"What?" Wu Shu was startled, rushed over with one step, and shouted: "Ma Wu, Ma Wu, where are you?"

Hearing that the Khitan people had suffered a big defeat, the Jurchens on the shore cursed at the same time: "You Khitan people are really useless, you can't eat this, if you knew it, we would go up by ourselves."

At this time, I saw that someone on the boat came down with a stretcher, and Yelv Ma Wu was lying on it covered in blood.

Wu Shu turned his head and yelled at his subordinates: "Shut up the fuck."

He went to the stretcher, grabbed Yelu Mawu's hand, and asked, "Ma Wu, what's going on?"

Yeluma ate a bone from Yue Yun on his waist, and although his spine was not broken, he suffered serious internal injuries, and blood gushed out of his mouth, which made him cough while talking: "Wu Zhu, I'm sorry, Cough cough... When I met Du Chong's main force, everyone couldn't stand it anymore and was driven to the boat. One thousand...cough cough, 1000 people...only more than three hundred people came back..." Finished , his eyes turned red, and he turned his head away.

"Du Chong is an elite, where did Du Chong get his elite?" Wu Shu was stunned: "Even your Pishi Army was defeated?"

"I don't know, I don't know..." Yelv Mawu murmured.

Wu Shu regained his composure and said, "Ma Wu, don't worry, I sent five hundred crooked horses across the river earlier, and I will soon defeat the Song army."

"500 people are really too few, it's just enough to fit people's teeth." Yeluma couldn't stop panting: "It's over, it's over, this river can't be crossed!"

A Jurchen general was furious and scolded: "Ma Wu, you don't want to spoil your prestige with other people's aspirations. We Jurchen are not those weak Khitans under your command. So what if you have 500 people? If you don't believe me, just wait and get out of here quickly." I will turn Du Chong's dog's head off and bring it to you, to see that you are not ashamed."

Hearing that he insulted Khitan, all Liao people were ashamed and angry.

"Okay." Wu Shu waved his hand: "Bring the horse back to the camp five times, let Lang Zhong show it to him."

When the Khitan soldiers such as Yeluma staggered away, the Jurchen general was still angry: "A bunch of incompetent waste, Wushu, you shouldn't have sent them across the river. This is nothing short of frightening the snake. It's a tough fight with less fighting. We have to rely on ourselves. What are you talking about to pull out the speed, they are stuffing the teeth of the Song dog, and the mouth is full of mustard... Wushu, Wushu, what's wrong with you?"

However, Wu Shu was still standing there, looking at the distance with a look of apprehension.

Jurchen general: "Wu Shu, don't worry, you can win by pulling out the speed, how many Song Dogs are there, how can we stop our cavalry?" His tone was full of arrogance and confidence.

Yes, he has that confidence.

Actually, he and Wu Shu didn't know.In another time and space, relying on the [-] Jurchen infantry who crossed over, the Jin army completely defeated the [-] left-behind army of the Song Dynasty, and took Jiankang City easily.

In this time and space, the 1000 people were replaced by [-] cavalry, and the team was led by Ba Lisu, and the combat effectiveness was even stronger.

"Yes, who in this world can stop our Jurchen cavalry?" Wu Shu muttered to himself.

"Wu Shu, let's go back to the tent, maybe there will be good news later, it's still early...Wu Shu..."

Called a few times, but did not get a response.

The Jurchen general who spoke seemed to be insane when he saw Wushu, and he stood by the river and looked south.

The sky was dimly opened, and the snow became tighter and tighter in bursts, and the entire river was covered by a snow curtain.In this way, the situation in the south is even more unclear.

Wushu spent the whole morning wandering and hesitating by the river.

I don't know how long it took, but suddenly, someone shouted: "Wu Shu, you're back, you're back."

"What...how did you come back?" Wu Zhu yelled, and ran forward into the water three steps at a time, causing layers of icy waves to splash on the river beach.

I saw, in the hazy white, a few boats drifting randomly along with the river.Alone, so miserable.Those ships were full of Jurchen soldiers, unlike the usual loud cheers when returning home in triumph, dense black shadows sat on the deck, and no one made a sound.

Wu Shu and the Jurchen generals who followed behind him understood everything - but they lost for a while - if the speed of pulling away went smoothly, he should be chasing the defeated soldiers of the Song Dynasty on the south bank of the river now!
When we set off, we pulled out [-] large boats and now only six of them have come back.So, doesn't it mean that more than half of the five hundred fine cavalry has been reduced... How is this possible, how is it possible?

Standing in the knee-deep water, Wu Shu's body trembled slightly, but he gritted his teeth tightly and said nothing.

Soon, the big ship docked, the gangway was put on the shore, and the exhausted soldiers walked down in a mess leading their horses with sullen faces.They were covered in blood and their faces were pale.

Before Wu Shu stepped forward, someone rushed forward, holding the defeated soldier's hand and shaking it: "What's the matter, what's the matter?"

"Lose or win?"

"Where is the speed of pulling out, what about the speed of pulling out?"

The person who was asked just shook his head, and some even fell headlong and fell directly to the ground.

"Wu Shu, why don't you ask?" A general said to Wanyan Zongbi.

Wu Zhu clenched his teeth, and stood by the water, looking at the soldiers who disembarked one after another.

Soon, the soldiers on the boat brought all the wounded to the ground with their horses, but Wanyan Balisu was not among them.

At this moment, everyone understood everything, as if their hearts were being held by huge hands, and they couldn't breathe anymore.

After a while, all the Jurchen generals were red-eyed: "Wu Shu, send troops, kill them, and avenge Ba Lisu."

"Wu Shu, give an order, don't let Ba Lisu die in an unclear manner."

"Wu Shu, I would like to be a striker and win Jinling for you. We want 20 people in Jinling City to be buried with Ba Lisu!"

……

Wu Shu seemed to be insane, for a long time, suddenly he sat down in the water and cried loudly: "Pu Lisu, ba Lisu, why did you die, and how should I explain to Yinshu Ke!"

"I want revenge, I want revenge!"

Seeing him fall down suddenly, everyone was shocked, they all stepped forward to help him up, with tears streaming down their faces: "Wu Shu, give an order!"

"En." Wu Shu nodded, choked with sobs, and said, "Give me an order, the whole army is going to retreat."

Everyone was stunned for a long time before they all shouted angrily: "Wu Shu, what are you doing? When did our Jurchens suffer such a big loss? If we don't make up for it, how can we show people?" ?”

……

In this southward invasion, the army of the Kingdom of Jin was divided into east and west.The West Route Army, led by Wan Yanchang, was in charge of sweeping the Huainan battlefield, and waited for an opportunity to cross the river from Jiangzhou and enter Jiangnan, intending to capture the Queen Mother Yulong alive, with a total force of [-]; Taking Jinling City as a base, they attacked Hangzhou and captured Zhao Gou. The troops along the way reached an astonishing [-].

These two armies are all the mobile forces that Jurchen has at hand. Coming all the way to the south, it can be said to be overwhelming and overwhelming.

Since the confrontation with Du Chong's left-behind army across the river, 5 people have been stationed in Jiangbei to search for ships and fighters.

It is different from the gathering of armies imagined by later generations, where tens of thousands of people will stay in one camp.In fact, the Eastern Route Army of the Golden Army was divided into countless groups to garrison various military points.There are dozens of camps, forts, forts, cities, and fortresses in total.It has been built from Majia Ferry in the west to Zhenzhou in the east.The large camp has a scale of ten thousand people, but the small one is only an outpost of more than a hundred people.

There is also a large amount of food, fodder and weapons stockpiled in the camp. It is really a huge scale of the joint camp.

With such a large family belongings, it is naturally complicated and busy to set out and retreat.

There was a crowd of people in front of them. The mules and horses neighed on the official road, and the soldiers crowded and shouted at each other. The traffic jam was so severe that they couldn't walk thirty miles a day.

Marching like this is not the style of Wushu.

Since coming from the south, Wanyan Zongbi, the well-known commander of the Kingdom of Jin, has always brought a brigade of Qingqi to clear the way ahead, and it is not uncommon for him to travel hundreds of miles a day.However, the great river and natural moat in front of him blocked his way.I had no choice but to be patient and advance slowly step by step.

The snow was still falling, and there was chaos all around.I haven't seen the sun for many days, and the clear and blue river water in the past has become turbid, with sundries and corpses of horses and horses floating down from it from time to time, the mess is just like Wu Zhu's mood at the moment.

He was wearing a wide open suit, with his head retracted into the hood, looking sadly at the south, and muttering to himself: "Dajiang, Dajiang, Jinling can't be fought anymore, this battle is impossible, what can I do?" !"

Yes, for the battle of crossing the river that day, the Jin army's preparations were not insufficient, and the plan was not incomplete.First, Khitan warriors crossed the river from Majiadu to attack, confusing the enemy and attracting Du Chong's main force.Then, with five hundred kidnappers, they landed secretly from Shangdukou and flanked the Song army.

These two groups of troops are the essence of Jurchen and Khitan, and the leading generals Yelu Mawu and Wanyan Balisu are brave generals who have achieved great reputation on the battlefield.

For this battle, Wushu has strong confidence.

In fact, the battle seemed to go smoothly from the very beginning, and before the kidnappers arrived, Yelv Ma Wu's Khitan army completely plunged Du Chong Xingyuan's former army into chaos.

However, an army came out from nowhere and drove the Khitan people across the river.It was also this Song army that, after a bloody battle with huge sacrifices, made persistent efforts to defeat the five hundred kidnappers, and even took off the head of Ba Lisu.

What kind of army is this? Ferocity, arrogance, and tenacity, especially the tenacity is simply admirable and terrifying. It already has the demeanor of the strongest fighter of our Jurchen.

Next to him, the pale-faced Yelu Mawu on the horse sighed a long time: "Without a boat, I can't get through. Such an opponent...I really want to fight him again."

In the battle that just passed, less than six hundred of the thousand Khitans returned, and only a hundred or so of Kidama remained. This loss may not be a big deal for the fifty thousand army.However, the damage to morale was incalculable.The most terrible thing is that there are no boats. If you want to rely on the remaining few boats to cross the river bit by bit, that is the real refueling tactic.When I met the fierce Song Dynasty, how many people went there, how much people ate, and that's not the way to send them to death.

Wu Shu patted him on the shoulder: "Ma Wu, I originally thought that you would be depressed after suffering such a big loss, but I didn't want to remain high-spirited. Very good, he is my son from the Northland. The future will be long, and the general of the Song Army on that road is someone Such a talent is already a sword drawn from its sheath, and will definitely meet us on the battlefield in the future. At that time, it will be enough to return it back a hundred times and a thousand times. You and I don't have to be single-minded in Jiankang and Song Dynasty. People are entangled, the south of the Yangtze River is very big, and the great river is very long. The river can’t be crossed here, so it’s better to find another place.”

Yelvma nodded five times, and tightened the fur on his body again, feeling severe pain all over his body.His injury was serious, but he managed to sit upright on the horse: "It's agreed, let me play the striker in the next battle."

"Okay, I agree with you." Wu Shu nodded: "However, you still have to be careful, the general of the Song army guarding Dantu is also a character."

"You're talking about Han Shizhong and Han Liangchen. Don't worry. He's just a soldier in the Western Army. He didn't seem to have any performance on the battlefield before." Yelu Mawu said disdainfully: "Although he has more than ten thousand troops But speaking of it, they are all newly recruited refugees, and after deducting civilian husbands and auxiliary soldiers, there are only a thousand capable fighters. Dantu, I want it!"

Yes, after the failure of the attack on Jiankang, the Jin army could only give up its strategic concept of sweeping the south of the Yangtze River with Jinling as the basis, and prepared to cross the Yangtze River from Guazhou.

Over there is the boundary of Yangzhou. The place is rich and populated, and there are inexhaustible manpower and material resources. It should be possible to recruit enough ships.

As long as Zhenjiang is captured, the army can go all the way from Dantu to Changzhou and Suzhou along the Grand Canal, and go straight to Lin'an, where the Song Dynasty emperor Zhao Gou lived.

We can't take Jiankang and occupy the entire Jiangnan. Now we might as well change our thinking and implement a lightning strike and beheading tactics on Zhao Jiu.

Hearing Wushu's answer, Yeluma showed a gleam of joy on his face, and he slightly bowed his hands.When I lowered my head, some nosebleeds spilled down and landed on the snow-covered ground, white and red, so eye-catching.

(End of this chapter)