On the other hand, since it was related to the safety of the other party's base, Zhang Rong did not keep the other party for long. He just took over the civilians escorted by the other party and delivered the military equipment in the city as a thank you. As for the affiliation of Li Kui and others, he was also very clear and directly reiterated their status. He handed over these foreign generals who had lost confidence in him to Yue Fei, and took the initiative to urge the other party to lead the newly recruited generals to go south immediately to clean up the situation.
However, Yue Fei left the people of Dongping Prefecture behind and marched south with his army at high speed. Only half a day later, he learned a bad news - after the Jin army broke through Dingtao, they immediately crossed the river, but after crossing the river, they did not attack Jeju, which had an empty defense, but continued to go straight south!
In other words, the situation that Yue Fei was most worried about came true. The Jin people were so deliberate, crossing the river secretly and dividing their troops, just to catch the Song people off guard and to do something stupid, and to abolish Zhang Suo's army in Nanjing (Shangqiu) right away!
Then, as Yue Fei led his troops into Jeju, bad news continued to come.
For example, Fu Xuan, who escaped at the risk of his life, brought news that the number of Jin troops that broke through Dingtao that day was no less than 10,000. He saw with his own eyes that two groups of Jin cavalry, each with 5,000 to 6,000 horses, gathered together at the foot of the city that day... One group came from the northeast along the Ji River, which were the troops led by the Wanhu Ali; and the other group, under the flag of Wanhu Elubu, had no unusual attire, but came from the northwest in the wilderness, and it was not known whether they came from Puzhou or Huazhou.
If there are less than ten thousand Jurchens, they will be invincible!
Of course, this statement was absurd to Yue Fei, who had rich experience in fighting the Jin people. He had been fighting the Jurchens for four or five years, and he knew that the Jurchens were also human and would die. Moreover, since the day he took office as the pacification envoy, he had always thought that in just two or three years, he could train tens of thousands of infantrymen to fight against tens of thousands of Jin cavalrymen in the field...
However, back to the present, Yue Pengju knew very well that his troops had only been formed for less than half a year and might not be able to fight the Jurchens head on. Just take Zhang Suo's Nanjing as an example. There were only a weak army of 120,000 but only 130,000 in fact, which was said to be 15,000.
It was indeed a weak army. Among the 120,000 to 130,000 soldiers, 4,000 to 5,000 were surrendered bandits, 5,000 to 6,000 were newly recruited soldiers brought from Shouchun, and only 1,000 to 2,000 were the so-called 'elite' of the Western Army, and they were still led by Xin Daozon (San Xin), who was like a yamen official.
According to Yue Fei, if there were only five or six thousand people, and Xin Daozon could stay alert and defend the city, he might be able to wait for support from him and General Zhang Jun. But with more than ten thousand Jurchen troops, unless Yue Fei could lead his troops to fly over... or even if he flew over, it would not work, because Nanjing might have fallen by then, and his benefactor Zhang Suo Zi Zheng was in great danger.
With this thought in mind, Yue Fei, who had some hope in his mind, simply passed by Jeju City without entering. He simply abandoned the baggage and asked Wang Gui to pick it up behind him, while he led his troops quickly to the southwest.
However, just as he led his army to the border between Shanzhou and Jeju, the densely packed defeated soldiers and the fleeing people of Yingtianfu (where Nanjing is located) and Shanzhou conveyed the exact news to Yue Zhenfu - Xin Daozon died in a hasty battle, and Zhang Suo was taken advantage of by the enemy due to his misjudgment. He was so ashamed that he chose to burn himself to death in the Nanjing Palace.
This incident dealt Yue Pengju an unprecedented blow, because Zhang Suo's kindness to him was similar to that of Zong Ze. For Yue Fei, who lost his father at the age of nineteen, the two of them were truly father and son.
You can't raise an army just because you are angry, let alone when the enemy's situation is unclear?
Yue Fei understood this principle as early as when he arrived in Xiangzhou that day, so the Jeju Governor had no choice but to take precautions and withdraw to Jeju. Then, he carefully deployed defenses relying on the Heshui River southwest of Jeju, and sent a messenger to the southeast direction, to ask for instructions from General Zhang Jun, the only friendly army with sufficient troops on the side of Jeju surrounded on three sides.
However, bad things always seem to happen in groups. Just when they stabilized the defense line, a huge internal conflict broke out within Yue's army!
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