Song Emperor Jiangshan

This person is none other than Wan Yanliang, the emperor of the Kingdom of Jin!

Zhang Xiaoxiang stood up when he heard the Jin man's question. He was wearing a dark green official robe and stood on the city wall.

Wanyan Liang's eyes narrowed slightly, Zhang Xiaoxiang stood on the tower and said loudly: "Your Majesty is the leader of the Xinyang Army, I don't know which general you are, why did you attack me in the Song Dynasty for no reason?"

Wanyan Liang sneered, and said: "It turned out to be a doll, it seems that there is no one in Nanchao, let's get a child to be an army leader!"

Zhang Xiaoxiang smiled slightly, and said: "This general looks like he is only in his 20s, and he is only two or three years older than the lower officials. Could it be that there is no one in the Kingdom of Jin, and he bought a doll to be a general?" ?”

Everyone laughed together on the tower, Wan Yanliang's face turned red, he frowned and said: "The Southern Song Dynasty is originally my big metal country, this general is just here for fun, how dare you stop me and hurt my big gold generals? "

Zhang Xiaoxiang still had a smile on his face: "Song and Jin negotiated a peace, the terms are fixed, and the two sides are not allowed to cross the border arbitrarily. My Song Dynasty abides by peace and justice every year, and has never cheated. I don’t know why Jin suddenly violated the border. It is the general. Do you act privately without listening to the order of the patron, or is the patron lax?"

Wan Yanliang was choked by Zhang Xiaoxiang, and rolled his eyes and said: "Nonsense, during the peace talks between the two parties, it was clearly stipulated that only I, Da Jin, can be called the word 'big', a mere Southern Song Dynasty, and dare to call myself 'Da Song' in front of me, Da Jin." ’, and said that the peace agreement was not violated?”

Just as Zhang Xiaoxiang was about to speak, Xiao Shan walked over and whispered in his ear: "Lord Zhijun, this is Wan Yanliang, the emperor of the Kingdom of Jin, I recognize him!"

Shocked expression appeared on Zhang Xiaoxiang's face, and he looked towards Wan Yanliang who was downstairs at the gate. Wan Yanliang also saw the young general beside Zhang Xiaoxiang at this moment, but he felt a little familiar, but he didn't recognize who it was, but continued to move towards him. Zhang Xiaoxiang said: "Xinyang Zhijun, but a rank six sesame official, I will see that you have some skills, come to my Dajin, and I will seal you a rank three Minister of the Ministry of War!"

Zhang Xiaoxiang looked solemn: "I will never dare to treason the country if I eat the salary of the Lord of Song Dynasty! The emperor of Jin's personal conquest this time invaded our frontiers, so he has no choice but to stick to it!"

Wan Yanliang was taken aback, wondering how the other party knew his identity, he looked at Xiao Shan again, finally recognized him, and shouted at Xiao Shan: "Xiao Shan, it's you! It really is you!"

Seeing that he was recognized, Xiao Shan also shouted towards the tower: "Wan Yanliang, you are not your emperor in the Kingdom of Jin, you are dating your sister-in-law, sleeping with your general's wife, what are you doing here?"

Wan Yanliang was furious when his scar was uncovered by Xiao Shan. When he reined in his horse and wanted to rush forward, he was stopped by the guards in golden armor beside him. Rationally stepped forward more than ten meters, and the Qixing scattered cannon on the side would have killed him.

Wan Yanliang shouted: "Xiao, you are so courageous! When you see me, don't you hurry up and kneel down to salute? When Zhao Gou sees me, he should respectfully call 'Daddy'! A father is a son! If you come to turn around twice, you dare to stop it?"

Xiao Shan snorted heavily: "Come here, let you come here alone, with tens of thousands of troops, you clearly want to invade the south! I was ordered to defend the Song Dynasty, and anyone who dared to invade half a step, let him come in vertically and go out horizontally !"

Wan Yanliang was furious: "How dare you call yourself 'Da Song' in front of me?"

Xiao Shan said loudly: "In the hearts of my people in the Song Dynasty, Song is their own country. Of course it is called Da Song! Da Song!"

When he shouted like this, the soldiers on the city tower immediately roared loudly: "Da Song! Da Song!"

Amidst the roar, the mountains shook and the ground trembled, Wan Yanliang said sharply: "That meeting, I brought few people with me, and you took advantage of it. Since you are also in Xinyang today, it will save me from running around and taking you back alive. Let's see how angry you are!"

Xiao Shan stopped talking nonsense with Wanyan Liang, and with a wave of his hand, cannons, stones and arrows flew randomly on the tower, Wan Yanliang hurriedly retreated, and the two armies exchanged fire again.Wan Yanliang never appeared on the battlefield again, but returned to his central army tent, hugged the wife of the general he had robbed, and sighed: "It's a small city of Xinyang that can't be captured for more than ten days. He also said who is guarding the city, so it turned out to be this disaster!"

During the interval of the battle, Xiao Shan took the opportunity to ask Zhang Xiaoxiang: "My lord, have you notified the nearby prefectures and counties about what happened here?"

Zhang Xiaoxiang nodded: "When you came back that day, I went to Xiangyang, Jingzhou, and Ezhou to report the situation, and at the same time reported the situation to the court. But I didn't expect Wanyan Liang to come here in person. He is... Are you going to invade the south?"

Xiao Shan nodded, Wan Yanliang came over in person, the invasion of the South must be certain.However, I have not heard any definite news before, and I believe that this time the scale is not large, and it should only be of a tentative nature.But it is also very likely that if it is successful in one fell swoop, the temptation will immediately turn into a real large-scale invasion.

According to the geographical location of the border between Song and Jin, Xiangyang borders Jin. If Wan Yanliang also uses troops to these two places, it is unlikely that these two places can come out to rescue, but Ezhou and Jingzhou are closer to the rear. He should be able to rush to the rescue, but he doesn't know how long he will have to hold on.

In these days, all the people in the city have never let up in the slightest, but it may be very difficult to go out of the city and eat part of the enemy.During these days of fighting, Xiao Shan also figured out the composition of the more than 600 people outside the city. There were very few real Jin people, less than [-] people, and most of them were Han Chinese acting as puppet troops.If you have two thousand soldiers in your hand, you can find an opportunity to eat part of the enemy.

But now there are too few people. During the defense of the city for nearly half a month, the number of strong soldiers who can go out to fight and kill has been quickly reduced. At most, 500 people can be recruited, and there are not enough horses, so they can only hold on temporarily.

The cannon stones were not enough, so Xiao Shan demolished houses in the city, dug roadbeds, and used them as cannon stones. Although some wealthy households felt sorry for their houses, they also knew that if the city was destroyed, they would be even more unlucky. All the men, women and children in the city were mobilized. Women and children were responsible for delivering food and hot water, and bandaging the wounded. After a short training, the young and middle-aged did some simple engineering work.

Wan Yanliang stayed outside the city for another month, and Xiao Shan finally got the news of the other three important towns adjacent to it.The enemy army was also found in Xiangyang next door. There are mountains on both sides of Xiangyang, which is the main road leading to the south from the Central Plains. It is an important town on the upper reaches of the Yangtze River. Anyone who wants to go south must pass through here.There are more enemy troops outside Xiangyang City than here, and it is impossible to come to rescue.

And judging from the arrangement and layout of the enemy troops in these two places, Wan Yanliang is obviously a big idea of ​​attacking from both sides. If he can pass through Xiangyang, it will be a smooth road, but he has been on guard for many years, no matter how stupid Zhao Gou is, he knows This is a top priority upstream and never overlooked.Connecting to Xinyang, although the road is narrow, the guards are relatively weak, so it is easier to attack.

Xiao Shan understood this, and Wan Yanliang didn't go to sit in Xiangyang, but came here instead, probably because he himself knew that it would not be easy to win Xiangyang, so he looked for a softer one.

Soldiers are precious and fast, Wan Yanliang is the first time to go south, he stayed in a small Xinyang army for many days, he must be in a hurry, so I hope that the royal driver can come in person to boost morale, otherwise I won’t see him today.

The fact is also the same, since Wan Yanliang came, Jin Bing fought much more bravely than before, Xiao Shan also struggled a lot, the city has almost reached the point of running out of ammunition and food, just struggling to support.

Zhang Xiaoxiang's brows are getting more and more wrinkled these days, almost becoming a plain word: "General Xiao, if the imperial court doesn't send troops to rescue, I'm afraid it won't be able to hold on."

Xiao Shan sighed slightly in his heart, Zhao Gou probably would not issue an edict to send troops to rescue, at most he would ask Wan Yanliang again for peace.But now even Zhang Xiaoxiang, who is the Zhijun of Xinyang, also showed such a disappointed and worried look, if he lamented along with him, it would only make things worse.

Xiao Shan stood up, clenched the iron spear in his hand, and said resolutely: "Jingzhou and Ezhou are both safe and sound. We are the gateway to the upper reaches of the Song Dynasty. We must not lose it easily! If we lose it, the Jin soldiers can drive from here Go south, besiege Xiangyang, and occupy the upper reaches. When the time comes, the soldiers will point directly at Lin'an, and the country will not be far away!"

Zhang Xiaoxiang nodded, and said: "You're right, stick to it!" As he said this, there was a resolute look in his eyes, he was about to die in battle, and he didn't take half a step back.

Xiao Shan was infected by his emotions. When he was in the capital, most of the officials he met were those who followed his power and betrayed the country for glory.Or it's just intrigue and strife against each other, Qin Hui is the same before and after death, but he didn't want to be in Xinyang City, this young Zhijun, would have such determination.

Xiao Shan thought for a while, and said: "I won't die, this is just the beginning, we are still young, how could we be trapped to death like this? Jingzhou is far away, and I am not familiar with the local prefecture, but the control of Ezhou's military leadership Officer Li Dao, I have some friendship with him, I should personally write a letter and send it to him, hoping that he can send troops to rescue him!"

Xiao Shan wrote a letter at that time, explaining the situation of the Jinren, and said that now Li Fengniang is engaged to the royal family, although she is not married to the prince Zhao Yuan, but the royal residence of Enping County is also honorable, if her father works for the court and defends the territory, Making extraordinary achievements will be of great help to Li Fengniang's status in the palace in the future.

At noon ten days later, the arrows in Xiaoshan City were basically used up. It had been a month since the siege, and the food and grass in the city were also insufficient. Now the soldiers who fought every day could only eat porridge to fill their stomachs. Iron horses such as hatchets and door nails, summoned the blacksmiths in the city to make arrows from iron.The weapons made by the blacksmiths in the city are much inferior to those made by the weapon supervisors in Lin'an, but it's good if they can be used.

In the evening of that day, the spies sent by Xiaoshan came back to report that Yan Liang was indeed cutting down trees nearby to make trebuchets, and had completed more than [-] catapults.If these catapults were launched at the same time tomorrow morning, the pitted walls of Xinyang City would never be able to withstand another attack.

Xiao Shan decided to attack again tonight to destroy the enemy's siege equipment.

At midnight, more than a hundred people dressed in black slipped down the city wall.The Jinren's trebuchets were not placed in the camp as usual, they were just placed in the wilderness, guarded only by a small group of soldiers.Xiao Shan knew that this was Wan Yanliang's trick to lure the enemy, he wanted to lure him to send elites to destroy these things, but he had no other way, he could only go with thousands of people.

These more than a hundred people carried longbows, iron swords on their belts, leather armor, oil pots and kindling on their backs, and quickly moved towards the enemy's trebuchet in the night.

Suddenly, these people stopped, and all changed to crawling forward. Only a dozen or so people bent their backs and ran quickly towards the trebuchet.

When he was still 50 meters away from the trebuchet, he heard the sound of a cannon, and there were three to four hundred infantry ambushing around him, three times the number of troops Xiao Shan brought.

Wu Luan, who was beside him, was a little hesitant: "General, do you still... go?"

Xiao Shan suddenly jumped up from the ground and shouted loudly: "Strike to the death!"

Following his shouts and killing cries, torches began to be lit in the Golden Camp, and the sound of horseshoes was faintly chaotic, but after only a moment of panic, order had already become orderly.

Time, this moment is time!

The Song army was not frightened by the pre-ambush, and instead of slowing down, they moved faster. They formed a group of ten people and formed a barrier to resist the Jin army's infantry rushing from the periphery. The remaining 20 people , then quickly ran to the trebuchet, and quickly poured oil on the trebuchet while killing the enemies who rushed over.

However, even at this speed, it was too slow, and the encirclement was quickly closed. If it was fireproof at this time, it would definitely burn itself.

Xiao Shan looked around and saw that the enemy's cavalry were ready, so he immediately ordered: "Retreat immediately!"

The speed of people running couldn't compete with the speed of horses at all. Soon, Xiao Shan and others were overtaken, and they quickly scattered into the mountains and jungles aside, each looking for escape.

Xiao Shan didn't retreat but approached, he rushed towards the cavalryman closest to him alone, swung the iron sword in his hand, and was holding the iron hammer thrown by the enemy.

The force was so strong that Xiao Shan felt his arms were so weak from the shock, he drew the sword in his hand, jumped up, and struck out with one palm, with a muffled bang, he knocked the cavalry off his horse in mid-air .Without turning the wrist of the other hand, he grabbed the horse's reins, got on the horse, clamped the horse's belly with his legs, and galloped away.

Wan Yanliang's voice came from behind: "That is Xiao Shan, the chief general of Xinyang, he is on orders, capture him alive, capture him alive!"

Xiao Shan galloped ahead alone, with more than a hundred riders behind him steadfastly biting him. He lay tightly on the horse's back, took out the kindling from his arms in his busy schedule, shook it twice in the air, ignited three rockets, and suddenly He turned around, drew his longbow, and pointed his arrow at the sky.With three swishing sounds, three arrows shot out from his hand at the same time.Wan Yanliang saw the rocket's whereabouts, and immediately drew his bow and set up an arrow, hoping to intercept the rocket on the way, and the golden soldiers beside him followed suit, but Xiao Shan's three arrows were very powerful and fast. One was intercepted, but one pierced Xia Ye's air in an arc in midair, and landed directly on the trebuchet that had just been poured with oil and put together as a bait.

With a bang, the flames were brightly lit, and as soon as the oil saw sparks, a fire dragon sprang up quickly, and in an instant, Wan Yanliang's newly built stone trebuchet fell into a sea of ​​flames.

At the same moment, Xiao Shan only felt a pain in his back, he stretched out his hand and turned around to touch it, and was shot in the back by an arrow.

For the convenience of movement, he is wearing paper armor this time, which has a protective effect against long-range shooting, but just now because he turned his head and shot an arrow, he ran slowly. The enemy is only fifty steps away, and an arrow can shoot through the armor.

Xiao Shan gritted his teeth, stretched out his hand and broke off the arrow shaft on his back - keeping this thing would only affect his speed, and continued to gallop while lying low on the horse's back.

This war horse has been trained. Tonight, Wan Yanliang has been fed a special high-grade ration of soybeans mixed with eggs in order to ambush. At this moment, he is extremely energetic and runs very fast.The Jin army doesn't know how to make paper armor, and they wear heavy iron armor on their bodies, and the horse's load is much greater.Although the Jin army has a large number of people, and they bite Xiao Shan tightly, they will not be able to catch up for a while.

Wan Yanliang shouted from behind: "Xiao Shan has been hit by an arrow, hurry up and catch him, and you will be rewarded with a hundred taels of silver!"

Xiao Shan felt a little disappointed in his heart - he thought he would reward him with a hundred taels of gold, but it turned out to be only worth 100 taels of silver...

Under the moonlight, Xiao Shan was alone in front, and the pursuers behind him were showing off their might, billowing smoke and dust rolled up, covering half of the city with smoke and sand.

Xiao Shan didn't dare to run to Xinyang City at all now, he alone could divert so many pursuers, which meant that the people he brought out could take the opportunity to enter the city, so he could only run towards the outside of the city.

However, even so, the golden man was getting closer and closer. The horse Xiao Shan was riding was not a top-notch horse, but among the golden man cavalry, there were already a few horses with good physical strength, which gradually drew with Xiao Shan. Getting closer.

Seeing the row of smoke and dust getting closer and closer to Xiaoshan, suddenly in the southern sky, bursts of muffled thunder sounded like drums of war.Xiao Shan listened attentively, it didn't sound like war drums, but it was the sound of war drums at all!

It's reinforcements arriving!

Xiao Shan raised his head slightly, looked forward, and saw under the moonlight, a group of more than [-] cavalry quietly appeared in the wilderness.

Xiao Shan recognized that the leader was none other than the three hundred cavalry under General Liu Qi who had appeared before him when he was suppressing the demon king Bupo in Xuanzhou.

Xiao Shan immediately turned his horse's head, and the three hundred cavalry behind him also recognized him, a battle of cavalry confrontation started in the wilderness.

The thunder was still faint, and suddenly, a purple lightning pierced the sky, and then, heavy rain poured down, and the two sides fought life and death in such a rainstorm in the wilderness.

Xiao Shan and the cavalry around him fought side by side, they had cooperated several times, and now they cooperated tacitly, quickly outflanking, encircling, attacking and assassinating.

After three or four rounds, Wan Yanliang led fewer people and began to retreat.

Just as they were retreating, drums sounded again from the east, Xiao Shan followed the lightning, and he could clearly see the banner of the army, it was Li Dao who was stationed in Ezhou, who sent a team to rescue.

Li Dao's troops were all infantry, and they quickly formed various formations on the flat ground to intercept the Jin army who wanted to break through.

This conflict was also found in the camp of the Jin Army.A sneak attack at night quickly turned into a battle under the city.

Fighting until the thunderstorm subsided, the gold master Wan Yanliang fled back to the camp alone. The total number of Xiaoshan's troops did not exceed 3000 people. Pursuing in the wilderness was profitable, but if they went straight to the Jin camp, they still couldn't.And after a night of fierce fighting, everyone was exhausted, so they had to withdraw their troops and return to the city.

Wan Yanliang returned to the camp, looked at his trebuchets that had been burned by fire and then drenched by rain, and now turned into charcoal, he shook his head and sighed: "It seems that Xiangyang and Ezhou sent troops to rescue at the same time, it seems that they I have been prepared for a long time! I have heard for a long time that the upper reaches of the Yangtze River was where Yue Fei was stationed, and his army was brave and invincible. I thought that Yue Fei would be vulnerable after more than ten years of death, but now it seems that it is still difficult to start here."

The counselor next to him said: "Your Majesty has wasted too much time in Xinyang. Now it seems that if Xinyang is like this, the Song army in Xiangyang has been operating for many years, and I am afraid it will be more difficult to attack."

Wan Yanliang snorted heavily, and flew into a rage: "It's all Xiao Shan! If it wasn't for him, Xinyang City would have been captured long ago. Now I don't care about him, I'm only looking for Zhao Gou's trouble! This time going south, It was originally a test, since the upper reaches of the Yangtze River are difficult to conquer, let’s go to Huaixi to have a look! The Song Dynasty army in Huaixi is full of pussies, they can’t take down my surname Wanyan!”

Wan Yanliang's plan Xiao Shan didn't know, Xiao Shan is now with Zhang Xiaoxiang, welcoming the rescuers who rushed over.

There is nothing to eat in the city, and there is no wine in the wind, only some cold water. During the conversation, I learned that Liu Kai was ordered to garrison Xiangyang. Attacking Xiangyang, unexpectedly, although its troops were deployed in large numbers, they did not attack at all.Liu Kai hadn't seen Wanyan Liang these days, he was afraid that he would sit in the town himself and win Xinyang, so he sent someone to arrive overnight, just in time.

Li Dao didn't want to send troops out at first, but after much deliberation after receiving Xiao Shan's letter, he was still afraid of offending the celebrity in front of the crown prince, and in order to make his daughter's waist stronger, he dispatched all the troops in the city to drive away. Go to Xinyang for rescue.

So many people came all at once, although they rescued them, they didn't bring any food. After Xiao Shan resettled all these people, he worried to Zhang Xiaoxiang: "If Wan Yanliang doesn't leave, the food will be troublesome, it's only enough for one Four or five days! You can't be passive like this, attack again tomorrow, eat part of its strength, and force him to retreat!"

At dawn, Xiao Shan launched another attack, Wan Yanliang never expected that Xiao Shan would launch another attack in just one hour after night fighting.

While arranging the retreat, he hastily responded to the battle. The puppet army of the Jin people saw that their trebuchets had been burned and could not attack for a long time. Xiaoshan had reinforcements, and the commander was preparing to retreat again. They had no fighting spirit at all, and some even fought He shouted, "General Xiao, I am a Han Chinese, please spare me!"

This situation was beyond Xiao Shan's expectation. He didn't know that Wanyan Liang was going to leave, he just thought that there was a change in Wanyan Liang's army, and after observing that Wan Yanliang's retreating flag was tilted and the team was chaotic, he immediately sent back an order , Chased across the board, and claimed that his reinforcements had [-] people, and ordered the cavalry to tie branches to their horses' tails and run back and forth to bluff.

The battle ended quickly. Thousands of puppet soldiers dropped their weapons and sat on the ground amid Xiao Shan's shout of "Drop your weapons, the Song army will not kill your own people!"Wan Yanliang was about to retreat, but he never expected that Xiao Shan would catch the loophole at this moment.He didn't know how many soldiers and horses there were in Xiaoshan at the moment, but he saw a lot of people last night, all of them were elite soldiers and strong generals, seeing his puppet army head now, he didn't care about them even more, and only brought his direct descendants and cronies with him, Leave in a hurry.

After Wan Yanliang ran like this, Xiao Shan chased him even more vigorously. It was only at this moment that Xiao Shan could deeply understand the meaning of the sentence in "On War" that "the results of battle are generally obtained during the pursuit, and will expand rapidly" mean.

In the original battle, Xiao Shan relied on his own bravery to gain the upper hand, but in this kind of pursuit, the advantage expanded rapidly, and the troops led by Wan Yanliang quickly disintegrated. In just two or three days, he had captured a lot of money.

Xiao Shan led his troops in pursuit, few others dared to chase too closely, afraid that Wan Yanliang would jump over the wall and come back to find himself desperately, he chased after a while to clean up the scattered supplies of the Jin army, delivered the prisoners, and chased all the way to the border of the Song Dynasty, approaching the city of the Jinren Only then did the troops come back.

This battle can be described as a complete victory for the Song army. Xiaoshan captured more than [-] horses, captured thousands of people, and countless supplies and food.He reported the matter to the imperial court, and did not expect too much from Zhao Gou, thinking that the other party would say "you must work hard" to him.But he never imagined that a month later, when he had suffered eight wounds in the bloody battle against Xinyang, and the wounds had not healed, what he received was not a commendation from the court, but a reprimand from Zhao Gou—if you don’t obey Talking about peace and provoking troubles really failed my expectations.Nianqing has made great achievements in the past, so this matter is not going to be pursued.If there are more golden soldiers coming, restrain your subordinates, don't pursue them beyond the boundaries, and don't slow down my words.