Guide to Traveling through the Northern Song Dynasty.

Chapter 448 0443 [Guo Pharmacist’s Rebellion]

The army of the Kingdom of Jin went south and divided into east and west.

The commander-in-chief of the West Route Army is Wan Yan Zonghan, whose position is Deputy Marshal Zuo, and his power in the army is second only to the Emperor of Jin.

This road is the main force of the Jin army, as well as Wanyan Loushi, Wanyan Yinshuke and other strong generals.And after listening to Yan Zonghan's orders, the emperor of Jin may not be able to command them.

The Eastern Route Army had to pull even further, and its leader was Wanyan Zongwang.The troops under his command are a hodgepodge, including some elites from the Jin Kingdom, surrendered troops from the Liao Kingdom, and a mess of local troops.

The Kingdom of Jin almost came out in force and issued an Eighth Route Militia to attack the Song Dynasty!
Yanjing.

Guo Yaoshi has been impeached many times for disobedience, and Guo Yaoshi has been compared to Wang Anzhong of An Lushan. He has been transferred back to Tokyo to avoid intensification of conflicts.

Cai Jing, the defense envoy of Youzhou, was ordered to concurrently serve as the magistrate of Yanshan. As expected, his relationship with Yaoshi Guo eased.

Guo Yaoshi was arrogant and domineering before, and Wang Anzhong's responsibility was not small.

This man was a favorite of Song Huizong. He was arrogant when he was in Kaifeng. When he arrived in Yanjing, he was also bossing around Pharmacist Guo.Pharmacist Guo was often deducted from his food and salary in various ways, so Pharmacist Guo had no choice but to directly lead his troops to withhold the newly delivered food and grass.

Now Cai Jing is in charge of the overall situation and can even discuss problems when they arise. Pharmacist Guo has also given Cai Jing enough face.

At this time, the Jin soldiers had already penetrated Jizhou. Guo Yaoshi went to reconnoiter the movements in person. He learned that the Jin army on the east road was a platter force, so he planned to take the initiative to attack the Jin soldiers.

The subordinate officer said to Cai Jing: "If Guo Gong fights the Jin people in the field, if he wins, he will not hurt the Jin country's muscles and bones. If he loses Yanyun, he will have no more soldiers to use. It is the best policy to gather all the troops and defend the city of Yanjing."

Cai Jing hesitated.

The subordinate officials went to Guo Yaoshi's house privately and told him that Cai Jing had decided on this plan.

Pharmacist Guo felt something was wrong, so he immediately saw Cai Jing in person and argued: "The army has always defended the isolated city. If there is no reinforcements to rescue it, it will be defeated for a long time. I personally took the scout cavalry to see it. The flags of the Jin soldiers in Jizhou were in disorder. , not all of them are elites from the Jin Kingdom, we should take the initiative to go out of the city to fight with them!"

Cai Jing also felt that defending to the death was not an option, and there must be no reinforcements, so he decided to take a gamble: "For important military affairs, I will leave it to Guo Gong!"

Guo Yaoshi then led [-] troops to meet the enemy, and left [-] for Cai Jing to defend the city.

The Song and Jin armies met at Baihe, and each set up camp to face each other.

The next morning, the sentinel rushed to report: "The Song army has crossed the river at night!"

Wanyan Zongwang, who had just woken up, was surprised by this: "Song general is so courageous? Send an order to all the troops to set up a formation and kill the Song army!"

There was a person sitting next to him, named Wanyan Talan.

Seeing that Wanyan Zongwang directly ordered to fight without saying hello to himself, Wanyan Tarlan was very unhappy.

Because Wanyan Talan's identity is similar to that of a military supervisor, and he has the right to deploy troops from the Eastern Route Army.

The elite under Wanyan Zongwang's command is the direct lineage left by Wanyan Aguda, and the emperor of the Kingdom of Jin can't command them very well, so he sent a supervising army to check and balance.

Following Wanyan Zongwang's order, the two armies fought.

The situation was extremely unfavorable to the Song army because they were fighting against the water and lacked enough room to turn around.

The combined strength of both sides was close to one hundred thousand, and the entire battlefield was more than ten miles wide.

Guo Yaoshi was originally in the Chinese army. After discussing with other generals of the Ever Victorious Army, he took the initiative to attack from south to north with more than 8000 strong Liaodong troops from his headquarters, and killed Wanyan Talan's troops on the flank of the Jin army.

Guo Yaoshi said to all the generals under his command: "Go and tell the soldiers that we have no way to retreat. We will either die in a fierce battle with the Jin soldiers, or be driven into the river by the Jin soldiers and drown!"

Thousands of elite golden soldiers, armored like clouds, and iron cavalry like mountains, rushed towards Guo Yaoshi.

Guo Yaoshi's [-] Liaodong direct descendants are all veterans who have experienced countless wars. Although the military discipline is extremely poor, their combat effectiveness is overwhelming at this moment.Because they knew that it was impossible to escape, and once they fled, they would be blocked by the river and slaughtered.

The spectacle of a last-ditch battle reappeared in the land of China.

The Changsheng Army formed a defensive formation to block the Jinbing's first attack.Just as Jin Bing was about to attack for the second time, Guo Yaoshi ordered the whole army to counterattack.

Eight thousand direct descendants of Liaodong killed the elite Jin soldiers and retreated steadily.

"Marshal, the Jin soldiers here have been defeated, do you want to fight back elsewhere and cooperate with General Liu and the others?" the generals under his command galloped to ask.

Pharmacist Guo said: "This golden army has been defeated but not broken. We must chase it to the end!"

The horn sounded, and Guo Yaoshi led his headquarters to chase after him. Wanyan Tarlan's elite finally collapsed.

At this time, the pursuit was too far away, and it was too late for Guo Yaoshi to go back and cooperate with the friendly forces.Seeing the Jin soldiers' camp in front of him, he immediately ordered: "Burn the Jin soldiers' camp and burn their food. The Jin soldiers will surely be defeated thousands of miles away!"

The camp of golden soldiers was on fire, and countless golden soldiers came back to rescue. Guo Yaoshi's eight thousand elites were about to be besieged.

What are the other Song soldiers doing?
Ran!

When Guo Yaoshi was chasing Wanyan Talan, Wanyan Zongwang deliberately stood still and allowed the Song army to pursue his supervisor.This is an internal fight on the Jin Bing side.

The Song army was also fighting internally.

Liu Shunren and Zhang Linghui, who were also from the resentful army, have been waiting by the river.The golden soldiers did not come to beat them, and they did not go to fight the golden soldiers.

Wanyan Zongwang heard that his supervisory army was defeated and that Guo Yaoshi was burning the camp, so he immediately dispatched troops to go back for rescue.At this time, Zhang Linghui rode up to Liu Shunren's formation: "Most of the Jin soldiers have retreated, and they are probably going to surround and kill the man named Guo. Do we want to save him?"

Liu Shunren sneered: "What to save? They were all surrendered by the Liao Kingdom. He, Guo Yaoshi, became the Jiedushi. How many official posts did we get? The food and armor sent by the Emperor of Song were also first equipped in Guo Yaoshi's headquarters, and the remaining He gave us the rags he left behind. His surname is Guo, so we are naturally unjust. It just so happened that the main force of the Jin army retreated, so we could take the opportunity to cross the river and return to Yanjing without any damage."

Zhang Linghui hesitated.

Liu Shunren said: "As long as the people named Guo are defeated and lose their troops and generals, the Song Dynasty court will have to rely on us, and the soldiers, armor, money and food they bring will also be ours!"

Zhang Linghui was moved by these words.

Ever since, in this battle, only Guo Yaoshi's [-] elite fought hard, and the rest of the Song army ran away without firing an arrow.

Although the main force of the Jin soldiers withdrew to rescue the main camp, there were still countless miscellaneous troops that remained unmoved.

When Liu Shunren and Zhang Linghui withdrew their troops and crossed the river, Wanyan Zongwang raised his arms and said, "Kill them!"

A group of Jin Kingdom's miscellaneous troops rushed towards the Song army who was halfway across.

Liu Shunren and Zhang Linghui were so frightened that they abandoned their troops and fled in terror. Their losses were instantly greater than that of Guo Yaoshi.If Bai He hadn't blocked the pursuit, these two men would have been completely wiped out.

However, it was said that Medicine Master Guo burned part of the Jin camp, and when he saw the enemy's main force returning for reinforcements, he immediately led his troops to evacuate north, and even brought back more than half of the eight thousand elites.

The three generals of the ever-victorious army returned to Yanjing one after another.

Liu Shunren was the first to file a complaint and said to Cai Jing: "Pharmacist Guo ignored the overall situation and pursued the enemy deeply alone, which caused a gap in our army's formation. Fortunately, General Zhang and I fought hard and brought back thousands of remnants. Pharmacist Guo is so domineering, He is arrogant and should be beheaded!"

Zhang Linghui also said: "Mr. Guo hasn't come back yet, so he may have surrendered to the Jin people."

The next morning, Guo Yaoshi returned with his troops.

Liu Shunren said again: "Be careful that he has taken refuge with the Jin people and he is cheating the city when he comes back this time."

Cai Jing looked at Guo Yaoshi who was covered in dried blood under the city, and after thinking about it, he ordered: "Open the city gate, and welcome Guo Gong and the soldiers to come in."

Cai Jing is betting on his life.

Generals Liu and Zhang were severely depleted and their abilities were worrisome. They were unable to shoulder the important task of defending Youzhou.

It's better to bet that Pharmacist Guo will be loyal to the court.

When Guo Yaoshi returned to the city, he immediately cursed Liu and Zhang, and told Cai Jing the truth: "I have killed so many Jin soldiers that they lost their helmets and armor, and also burned some of the Jin soldiers' camps. As long as these two people take the opportunity to cover up the killing, , even if they can't defeat the Jin soldiers, they can still burn down the enemy camp after a while. But these two birdmen escaped, and according to the military order, they should be beheaded!"

All the previous choices Cai Jing made were very correct, but now he was confused.

He believed that although Liu Shunren and Zhang Linghui were defeated, they still had some troops under their command.Once the two generals are captured or executed, their tribesmen will surely be resentful and may even defect at a critical moment.

Therefore, Cai Jing did not punish anyone, but had to persuade the three generals.

That night, Liu Shunren found Zhang Linghui: "Guo is able to bring troops back, he will definitely not let us go."

"But the Emperor of Song favored him and his troops were stronger. How can we fight against him?" Zhang Linghui felt scared.

Liu Shunren sneered and said: "You can still seek refuge with the Jin people!"

These two guys secretly sent people to contact Wanyan Zongwang, and asked Wanyan Zongwang whether he wanted Yaoshi Guo's people or his head. They could send them there.

What kind of person is Doctor Guo?

He was tricked just now, so it is impossible for him to make a second mistake. He can basically guess what Liu and Zhang want to do.

So Guo Yaoshi went to Cai Jing and said, "Youzhou can no longer be defended, and the envoy is willing to surrender gold?"

Cai Jing was startled and said, "Duke Guo has taken refuge with the Jin people?"

"I haven't yet," Medicine Master Guo shook his head, "but Liu and Zhang will definitely pay money so that you will neither kill them nor arrest them and jail them, so I will have to be the first to do so."

Cai Jing quickly made amends: "I can arrest them."

"It's too late," Medicine Master Guo shook his head, "I have decided to pay the money. Before I came this time, I was under the care of the envoy in the past, and I wanted to take the envoy to surrender with me. If the envoy is willing, he can also share the contribution of dedicating the city. This is to repay the envoy's kindness. If the envoy is unwilling, he can only be a prisoner and be taken to the Kingdom of Jin by me."

Cai Jing was dumbfounded, not knowing how to answer.

"Is your Majesty willing to pay the money?" Medicine Master Guo asked again.

Cai Jing bowed his head and remained silent for a long time, shaking his head with firm eyes.

"Alas," Guo Yaoshi sighed, and said to his soldiers, "Tie it up!"

After arresting Cai Jing and Lu Yihao, both civil servants fell into the hands of Guo Yaoshi.

Liu Shunren and Zhang Linghui finally realized that something was wrong, and were about to gather troops to deal with it, but Medicine Master Guo had already come over with his elite troops.

Both generals were beheaded by Medicine Master Guo, and they took control of the entire Yanjing City, and then sent people to invite Wanyan Zongwang to take over the territory.

(End of this chapter)