The hill opposite the Fangzhou city is part of the northern mountain range Qiaoshan, called Xiaoqiaoshan.
As the name suggests, this mountain got its name for two reasons: one is that it comes from the whole mountain of Qiaoshan, and the other is that the top of the mountain is right in front of the big suspension bridge in the north of Fangzhou City. Such terrain, combined with the road and river in front of the mountain, and the Fangzhou City on the south bank of the river, naturally formed an exquisite, solid and integrated defense system.
By the evening of that day, a full day had passed since Wu Jie climbed up to the Qiaoshan military camp in person after he cried while looking at the mountain. At this moment, the governor of Jingyuan Road was sitting in the camp on the mountain, watching coldly as the soldiers in the camp celebrated wantonly.
Of course we should celebrate.
I didn't mention last night. Today at noon, 10,000 Jin troops came to attack. Almost all of them were Jurchen and Bohai soldiers. They were intimidating and shocked the defenders. In fact, these Jin troops were indeed strong. They first took a rest in the gullies of the plateau far away. When the hottest time in the afternoon was over and they had recovered their strength, they all dismounted, put on heavy armor and held hard bows. They fired at the Song troops on the mountain and the city on the other side of the river, and ignored the effective casualties caused by the crossbows, enemy-killing bows, and divine arm bows, and forced to attack the mountain on foot!
The Song army had clearly killed and wounded effectively, and the Jin army had clearly suffered obvious casualties, but the Jin army still fought hard to the front of the mountain. By the time the Jin soldiers reached halfway up the mountain, the Song army in the front row of the military camp on the mountain had begun to collapse.
But the Song army still won!
As luck would have it, before the Shenbi bow sequence in front of the military camp collapsed, a Shenbi archer hastily raised the angle and shot a crossbow arrow, which actually pierced the foot of the enemy Wanhu from a distance. The Jin army was so frightened that everyone rushed to rescue him. In addition, the Jin army had already suffered considerable casualties and did not dare to let the injured Wanhu stay at the foot of the mountain, so the Jin army simply retreated.
At this time, the scouts found out that the Jin army retreated to two plateaus in succession and stopped to rest after hiding in the flower ditch ten miles away... In other words, today's battle was indeed won, and it was a big victory! Because the Jin army left behind more than a hundred corpses, but the Song army was almost unscathed.
"Who shot that arrow?" Most of the people in the camp were still in a state of commotion, but as Wang Xi in the city on the other side of the river was ordered to lead his troops to the military camp to help clean up the battlefield, dozens of officers gradually gathered in front of the commander-in-chief, and Wu Jie only then looked up and asked.
The generals looked at each other in bewilderment. However, Yao Ding, the commander in charge of the divine arm bows and Wu Jie's favorite general, stood up with his chest puffed out and his belly protruding. He then saluted and said, "General, the battlefield was extremely chaotic at that time. It is really hard to see who shot the shot. But at that distance, since it was not a crossbow, it must have been shot by our divine arm bow team. The city on the other side of the river may not be able to reach it..."
Wang Xi, who came out of the city, wanted to fool people by saying something, but firstly, he saw with his own eyes that the Jin general was shot too far to the north, and secondly, as a fellow villager and confidant, he saw that Wu Jie's expression was a little strange, but he suppressed the idea of vying for credit... This was not common in the Western Army.
"That's right." Wu Jie sat still, his expression calm. "That's the truth. In this case, the great credit will be shared by all of you, the Divine Arm Bow Team... Everyone in this mountain stronghold who went to the battle today will receive a piece of silk, and the Divine Arm Bow Team will receive an extra piece of silk. The silk is in the city. Do you trust me?"
As soon as these words were spoken, all the generals couldn't help but laugh, and the soldiers around who heard these words simply burst into laughter. The roar became louder and louder as the soldiers spread the news by word of mouth.
There is no doubt that Wu Jie still has a lot of credibility in the army.
In fact, it was not only Wu Jie, but also Qu Duan before, and Wu Jie's brother Wu Lin, who were basically able to gain the trust of these soldiers when they spoke... It can only be said that the reason why this army mainly composed of Jingyuan Road was able to take charge of the situation after Loushi swept Guanxi, and after the defeat in Yan'an, it once annexed the other two armies and dominated Guanxi, was for a definite reason.
In the previous few years, the situation in Guanxi was extremely difficult, but the troops in Jingyuan Road had strict military discipline and clear rewards and punishments internally, which led to the fact that several main generals of this army were able to win the hearts of both the military and the people.
For example, after the first Loushi Guanxi sweep, Qu Duan recruited defeated soldiers and refugees in Jingyuan Road, claiming that people's hearts were at peace and no one stole things on the road; and in another time and space, the Wu brothers were guarding Dasan Pass, and there was a shortage of food and grass in Shu. It was the people of Guanxi in the occupied area who continued to supply food and grass to Dasan Pass. These can almost be called ironclad evidence.
However, the reason for this is not to say that Qu Da, Wu Da, Wu Er and other officers from Shaanxi and northern Shaanxi have high ideological awareness. The key lies in the three words "sons and daughters of the army".
In the Western Army system, everyone knows clearly who lives where, who is rich and who is poor, who is good at literature and martial arts, who is wise and who is brave, whose father died for whose brother, and whose family died for whose clan. In the past, the imperial court had supplies, the country was safe, and the Western Army was large in number, so officials could naturally eat empty salaries and use some tricks, but now the country is broken and the family is ruined, the population of Guanxi is declining, and the number of Western Army has been sharply reduced. With only those things and people, it is inevitable that they have become more strict.
Of course, this is not entirely a good thing. At the very least, this close relationship between the military and the local area can easily enhance the authority of some military commanders and then form local semi-independent forces.
Even Qu Duan, although he had no intention of rebelling, he was so domineering before. Didn't he think that he was popular among the elders of Guanxi and that his army only listened to his words?
All I can say is that it was fortunate that guy couldn't even handle the internal relations properly, causing the Wu brothers to rebel against him, otherwise, he would have just taken advantage of the situation to become a vassal state.
After the rewards were decided, the cheers of the surrounding soldiers gradually died down. Wu Jie looked at Yao Ding again, and then sighed: "As the old saying goes in Shaanxi, Yang, Yao, Zhong and Zhe are considered the older generation of generals before the two Lius (Liu Fa and Liu Yanqing) started their careers... Among them, the Yang family left Guanxi in their old age, but later the old steward Yang recognized the clan, and his grandson Yang Yi Zhong is now a favorite of the emperor, so it can be considered a continuation of the family line; there is no need to say much about the most prominent Zhong family. During the Jing Kang period, the old and young Zhong Jing Lie Xianggong died for their country together, which was quite spectacular; as for the Zhe family, the entire clan surrendered, with only one Zhe Yanzhi in Bashu, who is only a civil servant, and is basically extinct... And your Yao family in Shaanxi..."
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