Song Emperor Jiangshan

Caishiji is located in the upper reaches of Jiankang, where the Yangtze River twists and turns and runs north-south. There are many hidden beaches in the river and countless small islands. From south to north, there are Jiangxinzhou, Xiaohuangzhou, Xinxinzhou and Lieshanzhou. , Zimuzhou, etc., the terrain is very complicated.Wan Yanliang chose to forcibly cross at this point, on the one hand because the shallow river becomes narrower and easier to cross in winter, and on the other hand because this place is in the upper reaches of Jiankang, as long as the stronghold here is captured, the army can cross the river from now on, even without Too many troop carriers are needed, and people and horses can swim across the river continuously. When the army gathers, attacking Jiankang is like catching a ball with five fingers, which is all right.

This is what Xiao Shan saw when he led a thousand cavalry and nine thousand infantry to the headquarters.

The small islands on the river have all been occupied by Wanyan Liang’s golden soldiers, and the Taiping City on the east bank is being besieged by Wanyan Liang’s army. I don’t know how many people are stationed in the city, but the soldiers sit on the road along the road, or throw away their helmets and armor. , or looting around, or fleeing separately.

Xiao Shan walked all the way, collecting rout soldiers all the way. In less than three days, he had already gathered tens of thousands of rout soldiers. Xiao Shan reorganized them into an army and named it the rear army. He let this part of the army build fortifications along the river and occupy Zimuzhou in the lower reaches, which has not yet been occupied by the Jin soldiers, prevented the Jin soldiers from going down the south, leaving the lieutenants to guard the organization, and left them with nearly [-] mines to deploy in the river to build a line of defense.

He also led the Fourth Army of the headquarters to go southward. First, all the people near Taipingzhou were expelled from the situation to prevent them from being robbed by the Jin soldiers. They also collected food in the suburbs. Jin Bing snatched it away.

After completing the peripheral work, he got in touch with the generals in Taipingzhou City, and at night, used the vanguard to fight a bloody road and enter the city.

The guard in the city was Cheng Min, who was sent by Zhang Jun earlier, and only less than 5000 of the [-] soldiers and horses he brought are now defending the city. The food and grass in the city are almost exhausted. A large number of troops and weapons and supplies came, as well as a lot of food that he scavenged nearby, enough to last for a while.

After Xiao Shan and Cheng Min met each other, the most important thing was to discuss how to deal with Wanyan Liang who was crossing the river.

Cheng Min saw Xiao Shan coming, and after hugging him warmly, he said worriedly: "Now Wan Yanliang has [-] troops crossing the Yangtze River, and the news he received is that he is still constantly mobilizing troops to the other side. He is going to cross the river with his millions of troops, if so many troops cross the river, the Jin people will be able to bypass Taipingzhou and go straight to Jiankang!"

Xiao Shan kept dispatching scouts along the way to investigate the enemy's information. Knowing that what Cheng Min said was true, he discussed with Cheng Min: "It is secondary to prevent the Jin people from crossing the river. The main thing is to think about it." There is no way to kill the effective force of the Jinren. Offense is the best defense!"

Due to the arrival of Xiao Shan, the city has enough troops and attacking weapons, as well as arrows and bows. Xiao Shan and Cheng Min decided that the first task is to concentrate their forces and find a way to wipe out all the golden soldiers crossing the Yangtze River.

On the second day after Xiao Shan entered Taipingzhou, a small-scale battle started in Taipingzhou.He tried his best to eat as many Jinren's troops as possible, and in this case, he wanted to minimize his own casualties.

At the very beginning of the battle, Xiao Shan was not in a hurry to attack the Jin soldiers stationed on the small island on the river. He dispatched troops and seized the nearby strongholds with absolute superiority. Rebuild and concentrate the troops again to attack the next location.

This kind of action did not arouse Wan Yanliang's vigilance at the beginning. After the third day, after Wan Yanliang lost six strongholds on the east bank of the river that he had already obtained in a row, he began to pay attention to his combat intention in Xiaoshan.Obviously, the opponent is making preliminary preparations for the Battle of Crossing the River.

He began to send a large number of spies to investigate Xiao Shan's target, but the enemy's appearance was almost strange, and he often detected his troops moving northward. Most of them appeared in the south instead. After doing this three or four times, Wan Yanliang became furious. For the past ten days, he seemed to be fighting an enemy in the air. When the reinforcements arrived, the opponent had already run away.This kind of running back and forth but finding no battle at all made Wan Yanliang extremely anxious, and lost his temper at Zhou Hong who came to him: "Didn't you say that Xiaoshan headquarters only has 1 horses? Why does it feel like he has an army of [-] troops?" !"

Zhou Hongdao: "Your Majesty, be safe and don't be impatient. Xiao Shan is the best at sports and combat. All his horses have undergone special training. They can run for hundreds of miles day and night and continue to fight. Our army does not need to entangle with Xiao Shan anymore. Attack Taipingzhou. Then he can't help but not come back!"

Wan Yanliang pondered for a moment, then waved his big hand: "Call all the troops and horses, ignore other places, and attack Taipingzhou with all our strength!"

At the same time, Xiao Shan and Cheng Min were also discussing.

Cheng Min looked at the Jin soldiers who had been mobilized frequently by Xiao Shan recently, and laughed loudly: "Xiao Tongzhi's strategy of mobilizing the enemy's troops is unprecedented!"

Xiao Shan also said with a smile: "After watching Yan Liang's movements these days, he can't sit still anymore, he is ready to take the initiative and attack Taipingzhou with all his strength. Everything is going according to the plan, try to attract more troops from him to gather in Taipingzhou, let's go A big move!"

During the day, the infantry of Taipingzhou strongly resisted Wan Yanliang's attack, while at night, some troops who came forward sneaked out of the city and ambushed everywhere.

By the fifth day, there were only 1000 defenders in Taipingzhou City, and outside the city, apart from nearly 2 troops from Xiaoshan and Cheng Min, there were also 3 troops from Li Xianzhong's troops sent by Zhao Yuan for reinforcements. .

In the early hours of the day, Xiao Shan led the last group of soldiers who were about to withdraw from the city, and bid farewell to Cheng Min.

"General Cheng must guard until dusk, before he can pretend to be defeated and let Wanyanliang's soldiers into the city."

Cheng Min smiled and said: "Don't worry, I know!" After finishing speaking, he said: "I'm just worried that after the Jin soldiers enter the city, it may be difficult for [-] people to win. Since ancient times, it is easier to defend the city than to attack it!"

Xiao Shan had a plan in his mind: "In the middle of the night, when Wanyan Liang is resting on his back in victory, I will lead a team to attack the city, cooperate with the inside and outside, and kill him by surprise!"

The fighting during the day was extremely fierce. At [-] o'clock in the evening, the west gate was opened first, and Cheng Min fled with only a hundred people in a panic.Wan Yanliang led his troops into the city to collect prisoners, but what made him very depressed was that although he had robbed such a strategically important place, there were only a thousand prisoners of the Song army in the city, but there was a lot of food, which made him a little bit Wan Yanliang, who was short of food, was very happy.That night, a celebration banquet was held, and everyone was rewarded with wine.

His general, Yelu Yuanyi, had suffered from Xiaoshan's loss in Hongze Lake, and suggested that Wan Yanliang kill all these captives, but Wan Yanliang refused: "Our army just won the victory, and we should open the war for other states and counties. A good start, if the massacre can only make the next city more difficult to attack."

Yelu Yuanyi wanted to persuade him again, but Wan Yanliang had already gone into the room to have fun with his newly captured beauty in his arms.

That night, everything was silent, and in the middle of the night, light snow fell in the sky. This was the first snow since the beginning of winter. The winter in the south of the Yangtze River was different from that in the north. It was very cold and humid, and the cold air penetrated deep into the bones. Not afraid of the cold, but the signers in the city couldn't resist, and they all gathered around the brazier to keep warm.

On the surface of the river, the garrison on the small island in the middle of the river is constantly crossing the river by boat. Xiao Shan took 2000 troops and ambushed in the wild grass outside the city. The Song army, who was "captured" by the Jin soldiers, cooperated and opened the city gate.

And the ambush soldiers in other places were responsible for blocking the city gates to prevent Wan Yanliang from breaking through and running away.

The rout soldiers that had been recruited earlier had already deployed iron chains and mines at the north-south turning point of the river to intercept Wan Yanliang's boats going down the river.

At four o'clock, the Jin soldiers patrolling back and forth on the city tower breathed heat into their hands, and kept complaining: "Grandma, the winter in Jiangnan is so cold!"

The centurion on the city wall yelled at these soldiers who complained about the weather: "Give me some energy! Take a good look at it!"

Those golden soldiers immediately stopped complaining, but they were still a little bit upset. The emperor Wan Yanliang was warming his pillow on the high bed in the room at the moment, hugging dozens of beauties for fun, but he could only suffer from the cold here. What about soldiers!

Suddenly, a golden soldier pointed into the distance and shouted: "There is a situation, there is a situation!"

The centurion immediately looked in the direction pointed by the golden soldier, but found nothing.The withered and yellow grass and trees looked black in the dark night, and the light snow in the sky made this black shadow even more blurred.

"There is a fart situation, the weather is cold, let's drink a sip of soju to keep warm!"

While the golden soldiers on the tower were drinking to keep warm, a group of soldiers in black and white camouflage uniforms crawled silently under the tower, 1000 meters, 500 meters, 100 meters, without anyone noticing, It is slowly approaching the tower.

Suddenly, taking advantage of the moment when the soldiers on the tower turned their heads, the iron-clawed rope jumped onto the depression of the city wall without a sound. Hundreds of vanguard soldiers, each carrying ten grenades, quickly climbed up the tower.

The golden soldier on the tower turned around, and suddenly saw some people in strange costumes appearing behind him. He was about to open his mouth to shout, but was held down by the neck by that person, and with a soft click, the golden soldier's neck was instantly twisted.

Song Jun, who went up to the tower first, immediately stripped off the golden man's armor, put it on himself, and raised a torch to signal down the tower.

Xiao Shan saw the signal in time in the wild grass a hundred meters away, waved his hand, and ordered in a low voice: "Get ready to fight!"

Hundreds of people used the same method to touch the city tower again, but this time, luck was not as good as the first time. Two golden soldiers discovered this action and immediately blew their horns to warn the golden soldiers guarding the city.

Immediately, there were a large number of golden soldiers on the city wall. Before those golden soldiers rushed in, they heard Song Jun issue an order: "Bombing team, prepare to drop bombs!"

The booming explosion sounded on the city tower, and the sound woke up more Jin soldiers. They hurriedly got up and put on their clothes, and rushed to the place where the sound came from.

There was already chaos on the tower, and some "golden soldiers" did not listen to greetings very much, and even ran to the crowd of golden men and shouted in Jurchen: "The Song army is attacking, attacking aggressively!"

There was continuous smoke and dust on the city tower, and the sound of explosions came one after another. At the same time, the entire four walls of the city began to be attacked.

Wan Yanliang was sleeping soundly exhausted after having fun with dozens of beauties, but he was suddenly awakened by the sound of the explosion. At first he thought it was thunder, and was wondering why there would be thunder in winter, but after a moment of trance, he Then he woke up immediately, it was not thunder, it was Xiao Shan's troops attacking!

This sound is exactly the same as the cannon sound during the bloody battle in Xiangyang!

Wan Yanliang hurriedly got up, put on his cloak, and rode out of the house in person. After the initial chaos, the city immediately became orderly under Wan Yanliang's command.

"Your Majesty, the east gate is being bombarded by the Song army, and half of the city wall has been blown up!"

"Your Majesty, the north gate is also under attack, and I can't stand it anymore!"

"Your Majesty, the Song Army has captured the southern city wall!"

Wan Yanliang scolded angrily: "What are you panicking about! Where are you being bombarded? Where is Song Jun, tell me seriously!"

After a while, Wan Yanliang figured out that the only three places that were shelled were the east, north and west.However, the Song army actually appeared and was fighting and fighting, only the southern city wall.

A large number of golden soldiers gathered at the southern city gate, and began to shoot arrows from the bottom up, and some rushed forward bravely.The other three city gates were immediately dispatched with artillery to confront the Song army outside the city.

But what Wan Yanliang didn't expect was that the location of the cannons outside the city had already been determined, but the Song army could change the location with one cannon fire. Those cannons didn't seem to be on the ground at all, but were pushed by wheels. go.

Xiao Shan also received the report in time: "General, the Jin people are using cannons!"

Xiao Shan didn't take it seriously: "It doesn't matter, they can't hit our army!" Of course, it is impossible to hit the cannon that Xiao Shan brought. Tube cannons such as mortars can be described as the most advanced equipment in the Southern Song Dynasty, which can change locations at any time and fire.

Amidst the sounds of battle in the city, the battle at the south gate was the most intense, and the commander's command was constantly issued: "Drop a group of bombs, drop!"

Following the order, hundreds of grenades exploded among the golden soldiers. The south gate chosen by Xiao Shan had an open inner city without any shelter and concealment.

After a round of grenades was thrown, the golden soldiers under the city were blown to pieces, and Xiaoshan's troops were also injured or accidentally injured.

But what made Wan Yanliang dumbfounded was that the golden soldiers under the city were injured and basically lost their combat effectiveness, while the troops of Xiaoshan on the tower were injured, and they were accompanied by doctors who watched them carefully. After taking out the shrapnel and performing a simple bandage, those soldiers can go into battle again.

The dozens of grenades carried by each soldier were quickly consumed. Under the smoke, these soldiers began to rush down the tower, fighting hand-to-hand.

On the city wall, Xiao Shan bared his right arm in the light snow, holding a long spear: "Kill!"

With his shout, the soldiers rushing down the tower took out the water bag from their waists to replenish water.

The golden men looked at each other in blank dismay: "Did you still drink water during the war?"

However, they soon discovered that Song Jun didn't seem to be drinking water.

That's right, this is what Xiao Shan specially prepared for this battle.When he exterminated the demon Wang Bupo in Xuanzhou, Wang Bupo used a drink made of jute to stimulate people's nerves as a stimulant.

Xiao Shan followed suit, but the difference was that he did not tell these leading soldiers what kind of talisman water it was, but instead selected soldiers who voluntarily took stimulants and rushed to kill them.

Under the action of the drugs, those soldiers felt no pain from the trauma, and their spirits and muscles were highly stimulated. They were a hundred times braver than usual battles.

In the dark night, a large red flag was erected on the city tower, with the words "Da Song" embroidered with gold thread on it.

"Da Song!"

"Da Song!"

Such terrifying hypnotic and inspiring slogans were shouted again, and the prisoners of the Song army in the city also rushed out according to the prior arrangement, and opened the gate under the cover of artillery fire and smoke.

Soldiers poured into the city like a tide, and fierce street fighting started.

"Da Song!"

"Da Song!"

The shouts shook the sky, and the whole city was surrounded by shouts. Wan Yanliang's hundreds of thousands of infantry were pressed step by step, and finally gathered around the government office, stubbornly resisting.

As for the soldiers who acted as the vanguard, the power of the medicine had expired at this moment, and a large number of military doctors accompanying them stepped forward and took him away for treatment. The soldiers who followed were soldiers with more grenades, and they continued to throw them at the government office where the Jin army gathered. bomb.

In addition to the original gunpowder blasting, the craftsmen of the weapon supervisor carried out new modifications, filling these bombs with more shrapnel and poisonous smoke, and the flames continued for a while, causing countless damage to the golden soldiers.

Wan Yanliang became the turtle in the urn, breaking through the encirclement everywhere, but came back after being blocked by the artillery fire.

In the end, his three thousand elite guards escorted him to break through from the east side where the cannon fodder was the weakest, and ran out of the city. Li Xianzhong's troops rushed to reinforce him and killed most of them.

Taipingzhou was occupied by the Jin soldiers for only one day, and then returned to the hands of the Song army.

Cheng Min led the army into the city, looked at the trees and houses that had been blown up and down all over the place, and sighed: "I heard that the new explosives developed by the Military Weapons Supervision are powerful. I will see its power when I see it today!"

Xiao Shan was covered in blood, and he didn't know whether it was his own or the enemy's. At this moment, he wiped the blood from his face and said with a smile, "Wait until Yan Liang breaks out from the river!"

As expected, Wan Yanliang was ready to break out from the river, but when he was about to go south, the few remaining boats suddenly touched the fishing nets on the river, and strings of water columns rose and fell from the river, and countless small boats lay in ambush Sent out as many as possible to clean up the golden soldiers who fled in panic.

Wan Yanliang changed direction in time and headed north again.However, the Song army stationed in Zimuzhou had already received news that the firepower here was stronger, and Wan Yanliang's battleship was almost completely destroyed.

Just when he lamented that the small island in the river had not been lost, suddenly countless troops emerged from the center of the river and killed the small island with no defenses.

After a day and night of fierce fighting, only a thousand of Wan Yanliang's [-] troops crossed the river this time and fled back to the north bank in embarrassment, never daring to cross the river from here again.

The news of the Battle of Taipingzhou spread quickly across the country. It was undoubtedly one of the few major victories since the Southern Song Dynasty fought with the Jin soldiers in these years. Along with this news, there was also the name of Xiaoshan, Jiankang , Zhenjiang, Lin'an, and even the land of golden soldiers in Jiangbei, this name has become known to everyone.

Along with the spread of this battle, there is another story, that is, the story of Xiao Shan righteously destroying his relatives and capturing the traitorous general Zhou Hong alive.

Some people made it so magical that Xiao Shan ran for eight hundred miles overnight to intercept Zhou Hong, who knelt on the ground and begged for mercy, so he spared his life and bound him back.

There is also a version that Zhou Hong learned that Xiao Shan was leading the army, so he looked forward to surrender and dared not resist.

But the real situation was that when the battlefield was finally being cleaned, some soldiers found that Zhou Hong's legs were injured and he was lying on the ground unable to move, so they escorted him to Xiao Shan.

When he heard the news, Zhao Yuan was the happiest. He looked at the battle report sent back from the front line. This time Xiaoshan killed and wounded [-] Jin people, captured more than [-] Chinese signing troops, and confiscated Wanyan Liang's war supplies Countless people were already happy, and immediately told the court that when Xiao Shan came back to offer the captives, all the officials had to go out of the city to greet him.

The result of this battle was beyond the expectations of all the ministers. Retaking Taipingzhou was already an arduous task, but they did not expect that Xiao Shan not only took back Taipingzhou, but also captured so many prisoners. Ordinary sergeants and low-level military officers even regard them as gods.

Although some high-ranking generals were offended by the empty pay for the investigation, ordinary soldiers and officers did not enjoy the benefits of empty pay, and instead applauded this kind of investigation.Coupled with the remarkable achievements this time, the soldiers felt that they were honored, and some even sued the chief for corruption to the imperial court.

After this battle, some non-governmental organizations in Jiangbei became more active. There were bandit kings You Zhijiao, who proclaimed themselves envoys, Hebei and other road appeasement envoys, and announced that all states and counties in Jiangbei were Qin Wang.In a short time, tens of thousands of troops were summoned, divided into [-] armies, and copied Yan Liang's retreat.

The main combat faction in the DPRK and China became more and more powerful, clamoring to kill Wan Yanliang.

On the day when Xiao Shan led the army back to Jiankang, there was fine snow in the sky, layers of red clouds made the sky low, and the mighty team arrived at Jiankang, followed by Wan Yanliang, who was snatched back this time. A large amount of food and countless captives.

Zhao Yuan went to greet him at the gate of the city in person, civil and military officials at all levels at the gate opened their faces, and when they saw Xiao Shan, they all expressed admiration from the bottom of their hearts.

Xiao Shan got off his horse at the gate of the city, then knelt down in the crushed snow, he raised his head, and he could see Zhao Yuan ten paces away, who was wearing a crimson gauze robe, standing in front of Wanjun.

Xiao Shan held up the list of money and food for Wanyan Liang's men and horses he had captured with both hands: "I am fortunate to not disgrace my life!"

At that moment, the crushed snow suddenly stopped, the bright clouds dispersed, and beams of sunlight penetrated through the clouds and shot down from them, like holy light.

Zhao Yuan supported Xiao Shan with both hands, and looked deeply at Xiao Shan.

The other party's eyes were clear and full of energy, the corners of his mouth were slightly raised, his resolute face looked particularly handsome at this moment, the armor on his body refracted colorful rays of light, directly hitting Zhao Yuan's heart.

"Xiao Qing is flat!" Zhao Yuan said these words with great confidence, with a smile on his brows and eyes, "This time you have made the most contribution, and I will reward you a lot!"