The rise of the prince

Chapter 815 The Counterattack Begins

After taking Liaodong, Di Zhi had to make a choice, either stand still, or go west to join forces with the commander in chief.

Judging from the situation in Liaodong, the commander-in-chief must have attracted most of the Jin Kingdom's attention, so that the entire Liaodong was empty and there was no decent resistance.

Di Zhi quickly made a judgment, occupied Liaoyang, and stood still.

There are too many uncertainties in the west, and it is very likely that the main force of the Jin army will not be found.

There is not much intelligence support, and their eyes are completely black. In the vast Liaodong, they have 8000 people like an ant in the forest.

It would be better to wait for the Jin army to come to them. Di Zhi believes that the Jin army will definitely come. Liaoyang is not only a strategic location, but also the "Land of Dragon Prosperity" of the Jin country. The Jin country cannot sit idly by.

In this way, the strategic constraints assigned by the commander-in-chief can be realized, making it difficult for the golden man to choose between things.

Once in Liaoyang, the surrounding small towns, which were originally unstable, looked down.

Relying on the new artillery, Sea Ginseng Forest has been attacking the city all the way north along the coast, and has already occupied Chenzhou, the most important port city in the south of Liaoyang!
Originally, there were no defenders in Chenzhou, and almost all the troops in Liaodong were transferred to the front line of the Liaoxi Corridor.

After receiving the news, Di Zhi also had a plan for the next battle.

If there are not many reinforcements from the enemy army, they will stick to Liaoyang. If the enemy does not hesitate to pay a large army to attack, they will retreat south to Chenzhou.

The new artillery equipped by the new army fleet is several times that of the army!Cannonballs are dozens of times more, and sea transportation is always much less labor-intensive than land transportation. The cannonballs that can be transported by a large ship require hundreds of thousands of people on land.

If the Jin army dares to follow them and move the battlefield to Chenzhou, Di Zhi is confident to defeat all the enemies, no matter how many they have.

Di Zhi personally wrote a letter to Chenzhou's Shen Lin to exchange ideas, asking him to lead the fleet to garrison Chengdu, and at the same time let the combat ships enter the combat position as much as possible to stand by.

To attack land from the sea, warships need to flank the enemy, move some gun positions, and adjust their attitude, which is also a time-consuming and labor-intensive task.

After complete control, the next step is to liquidate the various forces in Liaoyang City.

Liaoyang City was the place where the Jin Kingdom made a fortune, and many Jurchen family members lived here. Di Zhi killed a group of reckless ones, stabilized the situation, asked someone to identify them one by one, and found the important ones to take as hostages.

There was even a surprise, they captured many family members of the Pucha family, including the eldest son Puchaping, the heir of the Pucha family!

Di Zhi didn't know about Pucha's family, nor did he understand the Jurchen clan's political structure, but there were some who were willing to talk about it. Jing Jun's successive victories and the Jin Kingdom's violent expropriation had already made many people dissatisfied.

Now that Jing's army has reached Liaoyang, many people on the wall can't wait to please Jing Guo. Di Zhi led the army into the city, and many people came to find him.

Several of them secretly told the location of the Pucha family's ancestral home, and also revealed the family background of the Pucha family.

Di Zhi was also shocked, it was a gift from heaven, the Jurchen family, the family of the Queen of the Jin Kingdom, is headed by Pu Chayi, King Qi of the Jin Kingdom!
This big fish can't run away!
As soon as he got the news, Di Zhi sent a company to arrest him.

As soon as the Pu Cha family got the news of Jing Jun's entry into the city, the whole family was ready to run to the west gate, but they were still blocked at the gate of the city, so they had to rely on the family's private soldiers to fight out.

Most of the private soldiers of the big clan are raised in the name of domestic servants, and most of them are rare masters, selected from the army by King Pu Chayi of Qi.

So the young and old Pucha's family still had hope at first, with hundreds of elite private soldiers like this, it probably wouldn't be a problem to break out.

However, several rounds of volleys from the new army completely shattered their dreams. No matter how high the martial arts are, facing the bullets is just a joke. In a short time, the corpses piled up in the alleys.

The biggest sheep that entered Liaoyang this time was caught.

Di Zhiqin went to see Puchaping, who was so scared that his face was paperless, and his family of more than 40 people, and asked them to identify them one by one to ensure that the wrong person was not arrested.

By July 28, the entire Liaoyang was completely under the control of the new army. Anyone who dared to resist in the city was wiped out, and the heads of the city gates had piled up into a hill.

The Shangjing Imperial Palace hundreds of miles away is brightly lit, singing and dancing.

It's not that Wan Yanli couldn't tell the priorities, and was still obsessed with sensuality at such a critical moment, but that after Wanyan Zongbi got on his horse, he stopped the Jing army from attacking, and even forced the Jing army to retreat ten miles, forcing the Jing army who had won a lot of battles to give up. Ningyuan.

Although this kind of victory is not big or small, it may not even be called a victory, but it must be publicized!
Now the whole country of Jin is in a state of panic, and everyone is worrying in their dreams whether Jing Jun will hit the door tomorrow, and they need the consolation and encouragement of victory too much.

So Liu Xu suggested that no matter what the truth is, let's talk big.

The emperor himself had to take the lead in holding a grand ceremony to celebrate the victory, to make the matter known to the people; at the same time, he had a big feast for the ministers and magnified the trivial matters, so that people could know that the Jin Kingdom had withstood the attack, so as to appease people's hearts.

The grand palace banquet was full of wine and wine, and people kept coming out to sing praises. Many people's faces were flushed, and their faces were beaming and elated.

This kind of joy is not a disguise, but real.

Only a few people knew the exact news on the front line, such as the Ministry of War, Liu Xu, and the emperor. Even if they were in court, what most people heard was second-hand news from the Ministry of War and the emperor.

The news was naturally processed. Most people really thought that Wanyan Zongbi defeated Jing Jun in Ningyuan, and Jing Jun was forced to retreat a hundred miles. He could no longer pose a threat to Ningyuan, and he could not continue to go north. Rest easy in Beijing.

It was also at this time, beyond the brightly lit palace in Shangjing, outside the high walls, among the houses in the streets, among the high walls of the attics, the people were excitedly discussing how King Wanyan Zongbi of the Liao Dynasty defeated the Jing army, and how his glorious career was victorious in all battles.

However.
Also at this moment, in the far south, outside the city of Ningyuan, the camp of the new army was brightly lit.

The auxiliary soldiers were busy receiving a new batch of shells transported from the rear all the way from the rear, and carried them into the warehouse from the carriage overnight. Li Xingzhou went to the warehouse in person and stroked these terrifying big guys like a baby.

This made the accompanying Wei Yubai, Yang Hongzhao and others see it as unnatural, and the movements were too insignificant, which did not conform to the image of a wise and powerful commander in their hearts.

Li Xingzhou let go of these icy big guys, turned around and said, "Give me the commander's order, and tomorrow morning, the whole army will start cooking early.

After eating, the first and second divisions are in charge of the western front, the third and fourth divisions are in charge of the eastern front, and the fifth division is the reserve team. The imperial cavalry cover the two wings and attack in the direction of Ningyuan! "

The next night, the night was dark and the wind was high, and the moonlight was clear. The Jin army launched the Qingqi night attack tactics summed up by Yan Zongbi again.

Covered in soft moonlight and under the cover of night, thousands of cavalrymen from the Kingdom of Jin galloped and detoured south from behind the bushes on the left wing of the camp.

In the past, as long as they were exposed, the new army would shoot in the general direction of the darkness. However, due to the severely limited vision at night, the damage caused was limited, and they could only be hit by luck. The Jinren could withstand such casualties and continue to attack and harass at night.

This tactic once caused great trouble to Jing Jun.

However, the cavalry of the Golden Army soon discovered that tonight seemed to be a little different from the past, because Jing Jun did not shoot in a hurry.

Just when they were surprised, an orange fireball suddenly lit up in front of the Golden Army cavalry, illuminating the woods in an instant, accompanied by a loud roar, the leaves were shaken off, the horses were startled and ran around, and the crackling sound kept ringing, bursting Branches within a few meters of the center were mercilessly snapped off by shrapnel.

Within a dozen or so steps of the explosion, people around fell off their horses, or accompanied by miserable wailing, the horses traveling at high speed fell to the ground, throwing the people on their backs several feet away.

Then, the fireballs flickered one after another, and the grove screamed again and again, and the fragments of the blooming shells ruthlessly deprived many cavalry of their lives from the darkness.

Many people didn't understand how they died until they died. The fragments of the explosion were too fast, too deadly, and too ruthless.

The artillery fire continued for a few quarters of an hour. After the woods became almost silent, the infantrymen of the new army began to come out of the camp and approached with their guns raised. Anything that could move was shot dead on the spot.

The next day, after dawn, the battlefield was counted. The Jin army who attacked the battalion left more than 800 corpses, and the corpses were scattered all over the field.

The tried and tested tactics of the Golden Army suffered a fiasco!
Afterwards, several divisions of the New Army began to expand from east to west, advancing mightily northward in the long and narrow Liaoxi Corridor, and the general counteroffensive began!

(End of this chapter)