"Because such good land will be ours in autumn!" Lou Shi raised his head and laughed, his helmet swaying back and forth, swinging the willow branches. "As for you, if you feel that you have lost face in this battle, you can be the last one to retreat and see if you can hit the Western Army and make them suffer."
Having said this, Lou Shi simply stretched out his leg and kicked his son lightly over, then held the reins and rode along the Ba River to see the willows, no longer paying attention to military affairs.
At the end of the month, there was still no news from Zhang Jun. Wanyan Loushi no longer hesitated and ordered the entire army to turn back along the original route. Tens of thousands of elite cavalrymen, as if they were at the mercy of their own arms, gathered between Tongguan and Huayin in an instant, and then moved north in an orderly manner.
Seeing this, Li Yanxian immediately dispatched troops to carefully recover the lost territory, and sent Li Qiong to cross the river to Pinglu; Han Shizhong did not hesitate and immediately led tens of thousands of troops to advance forward in an orderly manner; seeing this, Wu Jie also persuaded Hu Yin to personally lead 5,000 Jingyuan troops and 5,000 Qinfeng Road reinforcements as the commander-in-chief, a total of 10,000 people to pursue eastwards.
However, after Wu Jie, the commander-in-chief of Jingyuan Road who was eager to make a contribution, led his troops across the Beiluo River from Changle Town in Huazhou, he encountered Wanyan Huonu and his 10,000 cavalry head-on.
The two sides were fighting 10,000 against 10,000, but it was infantry against cavalry, unprepared against prepared. After one battle, the Western Army was defeated and the rout could not be stopped. When Wu Jie fled back to the west bank of the Beiluo River and checked the troops, he found that nearly half of the army had been lost.
Of course, there was also good news. When Wanyan Saba in the direction of Shanzhou tried to withdraw, he was pursued by Li Qiong and blocked by Zhao Cheng, an ambushor in Zhongtiao Mountain. He suffered a great defeat at the foot of the mountain, and this Wanhu of the Jin army barely escaped with his life.
But no matter what, the final outcome has no impact on the overall situation.
This is because the spring breeze in February is like a pair of scissors. It not only brings green to the Guanzhong Plain, but also sends away tens of thousands of Jin Army's Western Route Cavalry... In full view of the public, and without any possibility of falsehood, the main force of the Jin Army directly crossed the Puzhou Floating Bridge and entered the Hezhong Prefecture, the core area of the Jin Dynasty's rule.
At this time, due to the muddy spring rain, Zhang Jun and his reinforcements from Xingyuan Prefecture (Hanzhong), Xihe Road and other places had just arrived in Fengxiang.
All kinds of information were gathered in Luoyang and then spread to Tokyo.
Among them, the whole of Tokyo was naturally jubilant... because no matter what the details were, no matter how many specific wins and losses there were, the result was that the main force of the Jin army returned empty-handed, which meant that the Henan region was as solid as a rock, and that the Song Dynasty court was becoming increasingly stable in the Yellow River basin.
So there's no problem with Tokyo, an increasingly bustling city, being excited about this.
But in Luoyang, perhaps because the city was still a dead city a year ago, there was not much excitement.
On the contrary, for Zhao Guanjia, who had stayed in this city for nearly a month, at this moment, he felt an unprecedented sense of confusion and panic.
You must know that before this "war" began, Emperor Zhao judged that there would be a war between Song and Jin that would determine the fate of both sides. For the Song Dynasty, the success or failure of this war was related to whether it could gain a firm foothold in the Yellow River Basin. So after Wanyan Loushi went south, he was quite relieved.
Moreover, I have made up my mind to sell everything I have and throw it all away to win this battle.
However, as the battle progressed, Wanyan Loushi's procrastination and inaction made everyone, including Zhao Jiu, suspicious. But as reinforcements arrived and Zhao Jiu moved forward to Luoyang, he saw and judged his side's absolute strategic advantage with his own eyes, and gradually gained confidence and a sense of security.
However, this sense of security came to an abrupt end after Wanyan Loushi suddenly withdrew his troops.
Zhao Jiu was not the only one who felt it was absurd, everyone found it unbelievable... To put it bluntly, you, Lou Shi, the most famous general of the Jin Dynasty, have even taken off your pants, and this is what you do to the Song Dynasty?
However, as Wanyan Loushi's withdrawal of troops became completely certain, the accompanying Privy Council officials and military officers at all levels had to take the initiative to find excuses for the other side.
Some people believed that there was a big chaos within the Jin Dynasty and Loushi wanted to go back to fight for power; some people believed that Wanyan Loushi was old and weak, no longer as brave as he used to be, and his physical condition even seriously affected his command ability; some people believed that this southward march was just a show of force by the Jin army and had no real strategic intention, so once the Song army was fully assembled, they would naturally withdraw.
Of course, as a time traveler, as someone who was used to seeing world maps and who firmly believed that there would be a great war, Emperor Zhao certainly had his own unique guess... He sometimes wondered if Wanyan Loushi's inexplicable and fruitless "great invasion" was like a large-scale strategic reconnaissance for a real great invasion?
And if it is, assume it is.
So does a military plan that requires 50,000 or 60,000 cavalrymen to spend a month conducting reconnaissance actually exist? If so, how large would it be? When would it be launched?
Moreover, what did Wanyan Loushi discover?
But in the end, Zhao Jiu suppressed this idea due to his abundant rationality as an engineering student and a little panic from the bottom of his heart... After hesitating for half an afternoon, he finally gave the order, letting Han Shizhong take advantage of the approaching army to destroy the thousand-year-old floating bridge in Puzhou, and then come directly to catch up with him and "return triumphantly" to Tokyo with him and Li Yanxian.
The day Zhao Jiu returned to Tokyo was February 13th, and on the same day, Wanyan Loushi also arrived in Taiyuan City.
On this day, Zhao Jiu, who had "returned in triumph", temporarily forgot the doubts and fears in his heart. With the help of his two confidants Yang Yizhong and Liu Yan, he wore a full set of fine steel armor, rode the iron elephant temporarily borrowed by Qu Duan, and under the Jinwu flag, together with the heroes of this battle Han Shizhong and Li Yanxian, they carried bows and swords, detoured to the south of the city, and led more than 10,000 elite soldiers from the imperial camp into the city from the imperial road.
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