The rise of the prince

Chapter 754 Good News
Once the war starts, it cannot be stopped in a day. Undoubtedly, the war in Jingguo and Jinguo has already begun, and it may last for several years, or even ten years.

But this year's war will undoubtedly come to an end.

The next few months will turn cold in the north, and without a decisive victory, the Jin Kingdom will not be able to sustain itself.

According to Wei Chaoren's observations, the Jin people should have killed three to four thousand people in the past few dozen days, and the losses were heavy.

However, they also suffered a lot from defending the city, and the Jin people were desperate to attack the city, especially in the first few days.

In the end, the defenders did not count the wounded, and more than 800 people were killed in battle.

Wei Chaoren also murmured in his heart, if he encountered such a sturdy army on the wilderness plain, even if he had the same number of people, he didn't have much confidence in whether he could win.

No wonder the Jurchens were able to kill all the way from Liaodong to Shangjing.

Afterwards, he ordered scouts to be sent out one after another to investigate the movement of the Jin army. After most of the Jin army retreated, they retreated to the north to set up camp twenty miles away, and then there was no movement.

Wei Chaoren understood that they were hesitating and retreated. At this time, they lost many troops but failed to gain any military exploits. They were very unwilling to retreat. After a while, the north began to turn cold, and the supply was unfavorable, making it difficult to continue.

Wei Chaoren couldn't hold on, and didn't give them a chance at all. The two sides agreed to a stalemate until the end of July. Seeing that the weather was getting colder and colder, the weeds on the roadside in Yanshan Mansion in the morning had begun to form hoarfrost.

Finally, the Jin army couldn't hold on, and began to slowly retreat northward.

Wei Chaoren sent out scouts and found that they were withdrawing in batches, and the number of them was getting smaller and smaller every day.

By the last few batches, there were roughly less than [-] people left in the Jin Army camp, and the subordinates proposed to take the opportunity to attack them.

The Wei Dynasty thought again and again and did not send troops, and the king of Jin's exhortations echoed in his ears again and again, not to seek meritorious service, but to have no faults, just keep it, don't startle the snake
"Father, why don't I lead the new army to test, and the Guanbei army will respond later. If there is an ambush, it won't be too late for us to retreat as horns." Wei Yubai suggested that as the Jin army retreated, the new army brought by Wei Yubai would be the first in the army. The division was also stationed in the west of the city.

Wei Chaoren said: "No need, if something happens to you, King Jin will not want this old man's life."

"Hahaha" these words immediately caused the surrounding people to burst into laughter.

Wei Yubai rarely blushed: "Father, what nonsense are you talking about?" Most of these people were his father's subordinates, and they were all uncles and uncles who had watched her grow up. It is not easy to be a royal family. At the beginning, the Yang family married a princess a few generations ago, which immediately made the Yang family the most prominent family in the west of Taihang Mountain.

Now there is a girl from the Wei family in the east of Taihang Mountain who is going to marry the King of Jin, and she is likely to be the imperial concubine in the future. That is naturally a big event and spread quickly.

Wei Chaoren, who was almost the first time in his life to see his daughter as a shy little girl, was very pleased, but also a little bit embarrassed, the children were going to start a family before they knew it.What's rare is that the man who married her happened to be the man she fell in love with, what a rare thing in a rich family.

Wei Chaoren returned to his thoughts, and said to the current situation: "It is enough to explain the problem that the released scouts have returned safely. The Jinren set up an ambush."

Everyone nodded after listening. Wei Chaoren has been in the border all year round and has rich experience. His words are very authoritative.

In the end, the Yanshan Mansion still did not send troops, and just watched the golden man retreat to Shanhaiguan by himself.

The confrontation and confrontation, which lasted for more than two months, came to an end. They did not win, and the Jinren did not get any good results.

In the offensive and defensive confrontation, they did not let the Jin people take advantage, and even had the upper hand, but many houses outside the city were burned by the Jin army, and the angry Jin destroyed all the unharvested crops in the north of the city, which was a big loss. .

In the camp of the Jin Army, Wan Yanyun yelled angrily, "The Han people are all cowards, as timid as mice! We only have these people left, and they dare not come out to fight! Turtles shrunk in the city!"

The soldiers guarding outside the tent trembled, and all the generals stood in front of the tent and dared not go in and speak.

This was a well-designed trap. The people of Jingguo used that cannon to accidentally destroy the building car built in more than ten days, causing them heavy losses.

Coupled with the thunderstorm that fell from the sky later, it made people panic. Many people even rumored in the army that it was a punishment from the Buddha.

However, it was quickly suppressed by the commander-in-chief Wan Yanyun with thunderous means, and he didn't dare to attack the city anymore. Firstly, there were Jingguo's cannons on the top of the city, and secondly, it was difficult to rebuild buildings in a short time.

The people were not reconciled, they had no results and lost their soldiers. If they just went back in such a disheartened manner, not to mention that the emperor might punish them, even they themselves would feel ashamed.

Since the Dajin Kingdom raised its troops in Liaodong, how could it have fought such a useless battle.

So everyone discussed with the commander-in-chief and came up with a plan, which was to retreat in batches with great fanfare.

However, ordinary soldiers were indeed withdrawing, but the most elite [-] iron pagodas of the Kingdom of Jin they brought to the south this time were pretending to retreat. They would stop and prepare for battle after retreating five miles north.

When there are fewer and fewer people left in the front, Jing Jun will definitely not be able to resist attacking. At that time, the elite Tiefutu will definitely defeat Jing Jun by killing another carbine. On the frontal battlefield, Dajin's iron cavalry has never been defeated.

This plan was approved by the marshal and all the soldiers, but the result
As if they had no temper, the people of Jingguo did not move at all, and only continued to send a few scouts out of the city to investigate.

In order for the scouts to go back and report back, they didn't even take a shot at the scouts, allowing them to watch the army on their side retreat wave after wave from a distance.

But it was useless, Jing Jun still had no intention of going out of the city at all!

After several days in a row, Wan Yanyun lost his temper, and the generals were frightened, but there was still no effective way, as long as Jing Jun did not come out, they had nothing to do.

In the end, the commander-in-chief Wan Yanyun couldn't bear it anymore and wanted to fight back, but was dissuaded by Pu Chayi. Most of their troops had retreated to Shanhaiguan. The weather was getting colder and colder, and it would be more and more difficult to transport food in the future. It is too risky for Wan Dajun to hoard the enemy's territory at this time.

After repeated persuasion, Marshal Wan Yanyun had no choice but to order the withdrawal of troops.

After the entire army had withdrawn from Shanhaiguan, it was already August, and Wei Chaoren's battle report was rushed to the capital within [-] miles.

When the battle report arrived in the capital, although Li Xingzhou had some disputes with the officials of the Ministry of Rites, he had already been established as the crown prince by the emperor, called the grandson of the emperor, and entered the East Palace. Of course, he had not moved to the East Palace yet.

Both inside and outside the court paid a lot of attention to the invasion of the Jin people, and it caused panic. After all, the strength of the Jin army has been heard by people over the past few years.

When the news arrived, Li Xingzhou hurriedly sent it to the emperor from the Privy Council, and then announced it to the world at the court meeting the next day.

The Guanbei Army beheaded more than [-] ranks in Yanshan Mansion. The Jin Army fought hard for more than two months without any results, and had retreated to the north of Shanhaiguan.

This kind of news made the emperor's ministers very excited. The emperor promised Wei Chaoren on the spot to be the general of the country and the Jiedu envoy of Yanshan Fulu, and then he promised Wei Yubai to the emperor's grandson.

In fact, at this time, almost everyone knew that Wei Chaoren's daughter ran with King Jin every day, so it's no wonder that she didn't get tricky.

When the news came out, the people beat gongs and drums and jumped for joy. The war in this era is not the kind of war in the east and high in the west as in later generations.

If Wei Chaoren loses, the people along the way from Yanshan Mansion to Kaiyuan may be destroyed, so the people are also happy from the bottom of their hearts.

For Li Xingzhou, there is another point that is very cool, that is, he slapped the officials of the Ministry of Rites in the face.

Since July, the officials of the Ministry of Rites have been using him to talk about things and even impeach him. The key point is that he let Wei Yubai lead the army to the north and serve as the commander of the first division of the new army.

This was a senior official of the fourth rank reported to the Ministry of Officials. He arranged for a woman mainly because Wei Yubai was familiar with Guanbei, and he and Wei Chaoren were father and daughter, so it would be better for them to fight together.

As a result, the officials of the Ministry of Officials violated the ancestral system and disrupted the government, and began to impeach in a mess.

However, Li Xingzhou is also a violent person. Once the people in the Ministry of Rites impeached him, he simply added Qi Fang as an envoy of the Suzhou Municipal Bureau of Shipping.

Those old men in the Ministry of Rituals almost exploded in anger, and argued even harder, but there was nothing they could do about him.

Now that the good news came from Yanshan Mansion, it must be due to Wei Yubai, who slapped those old antiques with a resounding slap.

But this also had a bad effect, because there were rumors that Qifang was his mistress, which made He Qian and Gillian in the house look at him strangely. After all, in their opinion, Qifang had a husband. Wife, does my husband like other people's wives?

(End of this chapter)