Chapter 244 Never Forget (Part 2) Happy Birthday to A Yue's Daughter
It is said that on the third day after the Battle of Yaoshan, which was the beginning of June, as the rain stopped, the war situation quickly developed towards a complete calm.
It is not known whether it was confirmed that Wanyan Wushu had fled to Hedong or that the remaining troops on the southern front had been surrounded and annihilated, but the Jin army, having lost its commander, did not hesitate any longer and marched northward under the leadership of Wanyan Huonu and Wanyan Balisu, and then successively abandoned Fucheng and the camp at the mouth of the Beiluo River, and then watched as the entire Danzhou and Fuzhou were also about to be thrown away...
In response to this, Song military commander Wu Jie did not dare to delay and immediately dispatched troops to attack in multiple directions. While carefully recovering the lost territory, he also monitored and guarded against the main force of the Jin army, which still had considerable combat effectiveness. He himself moved to Fangzhou to take charge of the next step.
Soon, as the troops moved north in batches and most of the wounded were transferred to the Weishui Plain in the rear, the baggage was dispersed, and the Yaoshan Camp was no longer a place where heavy troops were concentrated.
However, because the dragon flag of Emperor Zhao has been flying here all the time, this place is still the focus of world attention and is the real heart of Guanxi.
For several days, Zhao Jiu, the Emperor of Zhao Song, Yuwen Xuzhong, the envoy to Guanxi, Zhang Jun, the transport envoy of the five routes of Bashu, Hu Yin, the actual person in charge of the three routes in northern Shaanxi, as well as Hanlin scholar Lin Jingmo and Privy Councilor Liu Ziwu, led a group of close ministers on their journey to the west and all stayed here.
Among them, Emperor Zhao did not care about other things. Within a few days, he just offered sacrifices to the dead, copied the list of the dead in battle, and carried out large-scale favors and enfeoffments for the dead in battle. Many important military and national affairs in Guanzhong were still handled by the former three officials of Guanxi and their accompanying close ministers.
And here, I have to say specifically that this battle was truly brutal.
In fact, before Loushi launched the assault, the casualties of both sides were still at a normal ratio. Although the battle between the armored troops was fierce and the casualties were severe, both sides had to work hard to completely kill off one of the armored warriors of the other side. However, after Loushi launched the assault, the troops of Jiao Wentong, Li Yongqi, Xihe Road, and Qinfeng Road were truly defeated and slaughtered in person. Coupled with the large-scale trampling after the collapse, the two routes and four troops suffered heavy casualties... In the end, as the victorious side, they collected no less than 10,000 corpses, and the number of disabled and seriously injured who could no longer serve in the army was probably no less than this.
Out of a hundred thousand people, twenty thousand were killed in one battle!
In addition to the deaths of senior generals, if it were not for the final success in beheading Wanyan Loushi, capturing Han Chang alive, and trying to encircle and annihilate Wanyan Wushu's troops, I am afraid that the victory would have seemed forced.
After such a brutal battle, the post-war cleanup was naturally cautious and arduous.
However, that was not all. As the war continued to subside, another piece of news soon arrived that was actually anticipated by many people but was destined to shock the government and the public.
It is said that after Wanyan Wushu crossed the Yellow River on a wooden dragon and arrived at Hezhong Prefecture, he did two things regardless of the consequences:
One thing was that he did not stop at all, and immediately took a small road to Huguan to catch up with the 20,000 Jin troops he had previously separated... Let's not talk about this for now;
The other thing was that before leaving, he urged his brother, the Third Prince Erlido, to quickly order the withdrawal of his troops from Luoyang overnight, which made Li Yanxian's tentative action inevitably fail. With the withdrawal of the two generals Ali and Erlubu, the battle situation in Luoyang was completely revealed, and some things were finally exposed - it was confirmed that the Prime Minister Wang Boyan burned himself to death in the old palace of the abandoned capital after the fall of Luoyang.
This was not the first prime minister-level figure to die after the Jing Kang Incident, but he was the first prime minister to die for his country after the Jing Kang Incident. The significance of this is self-evident.
Up to this point, the only battlefield between the Song and Jin armies that was still worth discussing was the battlefield in Hebei, while the rest were gradually gathering towards the pre-war front.
It was in this situation that in mid-June, Xu Jingheng, the deputy prime minister of the capital province, who had already made preparations, traveled day and night along the main road on the south bank of the Yellow River and arrived in Guanzhong and Yaoshan.
Yuwen Xuzhong and other high officials from Guanxi came out of the camp for more than ten miles to meet them. The two sides talked non-stop, and when they arrived at the camp, it was already noon. As soon as he entered the camp, without waiting for a rest, the governor of the capital came to ask to see the official of Zhao Song.
After the greetings, the two sides did not mention anything else. Instead, they chatted for a few minutes and then Zhao Jiu asked about the situation in Tokyo.
"Good instructor, I know." Under the awning behind the military camp overlooking the mountain, Xu Jingheng sat beside Emperor Zhao, holding a cup of warm tea with salt in it. Hearing this, he also put down the tea, showing great emotion. "This trip to Tokyo was a close call..."
"What do you mean?"
Zhao Jiu, who was sitting under the awning, stopped working on the desks in front of him early and turned sideways to face Xu Jingheng, showing enough respect for Xu Jingheng and the civil and military officials in Tokyo behind him.
"First, the commander of the Daming Prefecture, Talan, had tens of thousands of soldiers. He made some unusual movements, as if he was planning to cross the river from the lower reaches and join forces with the pseudo-Qi army. However, the rear army of the imperial camp had not arrived at that time, and the front army of the imperial camp had a very long battle line. The people of the capital were in a panic..."
"We have set up a defense line. How dare Talai come to fight with his temper?" Zhao Jiu sneered. "Even the leaders of the Pseudo-Qi dare not move rashly. And Liu Yu, even if he wanted to avenge his son, would not dare to disobey the leaders and send troops at the same time."
"Yue Pengju also said the same thing." Xu Jingheng laughed. "And it was also at that time that he proposed to cross the river to the north and turn the tables..."
"Were there any obstacles in Tokyo at that time?"
"Of course there is." Xu Jingheng responded sternly. "But it was suppressed by Prime Minister Lu... Prime Minister Lu said that things should be prioritized, and the government's real foundation is in Guanxi. Yue Pengju's actions can be done as long as they can have the effect of slightly affecting the Jin army in Hedong."
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