Smelting and Exploding the Heavens

Chapter 191
According to the plan, it was said that Fan Zhuoyuan's [-] soldiers would be sent out of the city to find the decisive battle of Wanyan Lou's troops, which was full of harvest.

But it is not so easy to implement. Wanyan Zonghan still has 12 soldiers and horses gathered outside. Although these soldiers and horses are not enough to encircle Yanjing City, most of them have horses to move around the city.

So if you really want to go directly south from Tongzhou County, Wanyan Zonghan will know what Fan Zhuoyuan is going to do right away.

What's more, he and Wanyan Loushi's various actions originally hoped to force the Song army to leave the city for a decisive battle, so that they would have the opportunity to wipe out the most ambitious troops among them, so as to weaken the Song people's will to resist.

Therefore, if we really want to implement the plan to leave the city, we have to find another way.

Fan Zhuoyuan thought of an idea...

Wang Ting went out of the city to harass the Jin army at night for several days in a row, winning and losing, no matter what the result was, it made the Jin army angry and exhausted.

As the commander-in-chief, Wanyan Zonghan could clearly feel the progress of the Song army in the past three months. From the beginning, he only dared to hide behind the city wall, and later he repeatedly attacked successfully, and his morale was greatly boosted.

More and more Song troops dared to take the initiative to go out of the city to invite battle. It was not the first time that such night raids had happened, but these night raids have come too frequently recently.

Wanyan Zonghan felt that the Song army was about to do something big, so he raised his vigilance.

Just after the disturbance and commotion last night, Wang Teng led [-] troops out of the city to invite battle the next morning!
Wanyan Zonghan looked at the large formation of the Song Army one mile away from the city wall, and felt a temptation in his heart. He knew that there were only [-] defenders in Yanjing City, and now Wang Zhi dared to lead most of them out?
If it can be defeated with one blow, wouldn't it be easy to take Yanjing City?
The strategy he and Wanyan Loushi had considered to lure the Song army out of the city for a decisive battle seemed to have succeeded.

However, as a famous general for a while, Wanyan Zonghan still kept his eyes open. He glanced at Tongzhou County, thirty miles away, where a tiger general had made trouble for him in the past three months.

The biggest losses suffered in the field battle all came from the Xiaojie army stationed there.

Now if the Song army intends to fight decisively, then the soldiers and horses of the two parties in Tongzhou County and Tanzhou in the northeast must also make moves. The strange thing is why there is no response from the scouts?
Wanyan Zonghan fell into deep thought, and next to him was the general Wanyan Zongbi, the fourth son of Taizu, Jin Wushu.

At this time, he approached Wanyan Zonghan and said, "The main force of the Song army has already left the city. Don't we seize this opportunity?"

Wanyan Zonghan looked at the slightly impulsive fourth son of Taizu, and said, "Why do you think the Song army suddenly went out of the city to fight us?"

Jin Wushu thought for a moment, then shook his head slightly.

Wanyan Zonghan pointed to Tongzhou County in the east and Tanzhou in the northwest.

"The enemy's situation is unknown, so it's best not to act rashly."

At this time, three cannons sounded, and iron bullets were scattered directly into the golden army's formation, causing chaos.

Wanyan Zonghan's face changed drastically, and he turned his head to look, and the soldiers below reported: "Report to the Marshal, the Song Army pushed out three heavy artillery pieces! Do we want to fight back?!"

Jin Wushu said: "Is this two miles away from the city? They can even hit our camp. Taibao, do you want to fight back? We don't use much artillery these days!"

Wanyan Zonghan said: "Send scouts to the east to investigate, and keep an eye on the situation in Tongzhou County and Tanzhou.

Song Jun is so arrogant, so let's fight with them and set the cannon! "

Just as the Jin army was setting up the cannons, Wang Zhi fired three more cannons, blasting the Jin army's camp to pieces and turning people on their backs. Finally, a group of soldiers immediately carried the cannons onto the carts and quickly approached the city wall. .

Jin Jun was furious from top to bottom, shall we leave after the fight?How can it be so cheap!
So they also fired bombardments, but they didn't know that Wang Teng actually sent out only [-] soldiers and horses. It looked like there were [-], but there were two scarecrows mixed in between the two soldiers, and they were carried out with ropes.

The Jin army was ten miles away, even if it was closer to eight miles, it would be impossible to see whether the person standing in the formation was a real person.

In addition, in order to prevent being bombarded, the formation of Wang Zhi's platoon was also evacuated. Looking at the number of people, the Jin army can only identify the number through the military flag, but is it not easy to fake the military flag?
So after the three cannons were fired, Wang Ting asked people to drag the cannons and retreat.

The Jin army fired back, and most of the people knocked down were scarecrows.

They naturally felt that they had suffered a great loss, and in a rage, the frontline commander demanded that the artillery array be moved forward and continue to bombard Wang Ting's troops.

Unexpectedly, within eight miles without knowing it, it was the attack range of the city defense guns on the city wall. When the city defense guns opened, the Jin army lost dozens of people again and had to retreat with the artillery array.

Wanyan Zonghan watched as some of the Song army returned to the city with carts and artillery carts. There were tens of thousands of soldiers and horses stationed outside the city. He felt something was wrong and ordered the scouts to check it out.

This inevitably broke out in another battle between the scouts of the two armies, which greatly delayed the Jin army for a while.

It was only then that Jin Jun's scouts discovered that Wang Zhi had arranged scarecrows outside the city. When he turned around to inform Wan Yan Zonghan, Wan Yan Zonghan was so angry that his nose was crooked.

Immediately thinking of Song Jun's abnormal behavior, he felt even worse. After waiting for a while, the scouts who went to Tongzhou County reported back with injuries.

"Marshal! There are [-] cavalry in Tongzhou County, and they headed east at dawn!"

"Going east? How come there are [-] cavalry under Fan Zhuoyuan? Did you read it wrong? Could it be a trick of suspicious soldiers with multiple flags?"

The scouts lowered their heads and said, "There are a lot of scouts in the Xiaojie army, and they are also very good at riding and shooting. I suffered a bit from waiting, and I really didn't get too close to watch. I only judged that there were about [-] from the flags and horseshoe prints."

Wanyan Zonghan said: "There must not be ten thousand."

Immediately, he and Jin Wushu looked at each other again, and felt that something was wrong!

They go to the east, what is there in the east?Jizhou City and Yuguan!

Jizhou City was the area where the Jin army stored food and grass. Since the Song army had never dared to go out to fight in the city, only [-] garrison troops remained.

Similarly, the defenders of Yuguan are only [-], and Yuguan is obviously more important than Jizhou City, because that is their way of retreat!
Once the Song Army takes Yuguan, the 10,000+ soldiers of Wanyan Zonghan and Wanyan Loushi will be the turtles in the urn. The army with no way out will be confused. With the depletion of food and grass supplies, defeat will happen sooner or later.

So when they heard that Fan Zhuoyuan was likely to lead the Xiaojie Army to raid Yuguan, their first reaction was shock.

"Hurry up, order the cavalry to pursue! He must be wiped out in the wild, and he must not be allowed to reach Yuguan!"

At this time, Wang Bao found that the Jin army was about to arrange cavalry to pursue Fan Zhuoyuan, and sent troops out of the city to provoke.

Wanyan Zonghan didn't have the time to pay attention to him, but he couldn't ignore him completely. With the boldness of Wang Tian, ​​Guo Yaoshi and others, if they dared to chase Fan Zhuoyuan in person, they would dare to take over their camp directly!
Therefore, he ordered the infantry to garrison in place, prepared gunpowder and waited for it. He also arranged [-] cavalry mixed with Jin people and Khitan people.

However, due to Wang Zhi's night raids and harassment for several days, the horse's physical strength is not well recuperated, and it may be difficult to catch up with Xiao Jie's troops.

It's not a big problem if they can't catch up on the way, as long as Fan Zhuoyuan's troops can be blocked under Yuguan or Jizhou City, then the Jin army will turn around and kill the Xiaojie army.

So after the arrangement was made, Wanyan Zonghan suddenly felt calm again, and slowly played the back and forth game with Wang Jin, with a smile on his lips, thinking that Song Jun's risky adventure was simply dizzy, If you dare to attack Jizhou or Yuguan in the east, let you taste the bitter fruit of being besieged and wiped out under the strong city of Dunbing!

(End of this chapter)