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Chapter 64: Thirty-six strategies

Zhao Kai and Zhao Zhi’s biological father... It’s really not easy to save! Because there are really 150,000 gold thieves in Kaifeng Prefecture!

Fortunately, the two Jin army commanders Wanyan Zongwang and Wanyan Jiemu, who are now in Chenqiaoyi, do not know that there is their "100,000 army" in Kaifeng City, otherwise Kaifeng Prefecture would have been conquered long ago.

Because they didn't know the existence of these "100,000 Jin soldiers", these two people are now in a dilemma.

"The army of the chief lord, the prince, and the minister really saw more than 10,000 cavalrymen of the Song people on the battlefield on the west bank of the Yellow River! If there were not so many cavalry, with Guo Liushou's ability to use troops to fight, how could he be defeated by the Song people in Wei County..."

Xianlie Temple in Chenqiaoyi has now become the central army garrison for Wanyan Zongwang and Wanyan Jiemu. On the tenth day of the second month, they summoned Han Chang, a thousand-household Han family from Liaodong Han from Hebei in Xianlie Temple.

Han Chang brought unexpected bad news to Wanyan Zongwang and Wanyan Zhumu - Guo Yaoshi. Liu Yanzong took the 10,000 army to Daming Mansion to get money, but was defeated by the Song army. He was defeated quite miserably! It was so miserable that he had lost contact for many days. If Han Chang had not brought back the news, Chen Qiaoyi would not know what happened to Guo Yaoshi and Liu Yanzong's army?

In fact, it is now that Wanyan Zongwang and Wanyan Zhumu don’t know about Guo Yaoshi. Now Guo Yaoshi is leading more than 7,000 troops to Cangzhou, where the Song army is empty. The prefectures and counties along the way are still under the control of the Song Dynasty government, so Guo Yaoshi cannot inform Wanyan Zongwang and Wanyan Zhumu of the battle.

This makes it a bit scary.

Could it be that Guo Yaoshi and Liu Yanzong took the 10,000 troops to Daming Mansion were wiped out?

Although these 10,000 troops are all Han troops, the 5,000 ever-winning troops can be regarded as elite soldiers, and the 5,000 Han troops on Nanjing Road are not very weak. Now the entire army is wiped out, what does this mean? This shows that there is the main force of the Song army in Hebei!

Could it be that a large part of the "800,000 Imperial Guards" who have not appeared since the war started actually hid in Hebei... Is this to lure the Jin soldiers into the depths, then cut off the rear route with a snap, and then gather to annihilate them?

It's terrible to think about it!

"Han Chang," Wanyan Zongwang's face of a Bodhisattva who always smiled was now entangled, "You said that the Song people had more than 10,000 cavalrymen in Daming Mansion, so how many infantry are there?"

Han Chang said: "I will not hide it from the prince's king. Hundreds of cavalry of the minister were blocked by the Song people's cavalry and could not get close to the enemy camp, so I don't know how many infantry the Song people had. However, the Song State had few horses, so the Song army was mainly infantry. If the cavalry exceeded 10,000, then the infantry should have 50,000..."

"It must be more than 50,000!" A young man standing beside Wanyan Zongwang, about his early twenties, with a thin, dark skin and distinctive angular features, gritted his teeth and interjected, "If there weren't so many people, how could he break the camps of tens of thousands of eternal soldiers and the Han army stationed in Nanjing Road within a few days?"

Wanyan Zongwang nodded and frowned, "What you said in Anguo is reasonable... The Song army in Daming Mansion is probably less than 100,000!"

It turned out that this young man was Guo Anguo, the beloved son of Guo Yaoshi. He is still leading 3,000 elite troops of the ever-winning army by Wanyan Zongwang.

"Second Prince," Wanyan Jiemu's brows were also furrowed, "Although we trapped Kaifeng Prefecture, there were too many defenders in Kaifeng Prefecture, and the city was so strong that we could not compare with the Khitan cities we captured... It is impossible to attack Kaifeng, we can only be surrounded. The siege is protracted and the siege lasts for a long time. If Hebei changes and breaks our retreat, even if we take Kaifeng Prefecture, we cannot bring back the siege of the goods. It is better to clear Kaifeng, return to Hebei, and defeat the main force of the Hebei Song army first."

Although the combat power of the Song Dynasty army was quite weak, they also had advantages, such as defending the city! The Song army's ability to defend the city was world-class, and it was completely different from the Khitans who were good at field battles and ignored city defense. Therefore, the two armies of the Jin Kingdom have not yet captured any big city that the Song army defended, so naturally they have no confidence to touch Tokyo City. Therefore, until now, the Jin people have not attacked the city, but are just continuing to besiege Tokyo Kaifeng Prefecture.

Wanyan Zongwang shook his head: "Can you defeat the main force of the Song army by withdrawing troops in Hebei? Will the Song army in Hebei not defend the city to avoid the decisive battle? Moreover, they are not all infantry, and there are at least tens of thousands of cavalry. They can use infantry to defend the city and then use cavalry to deal with me, which is difficult to deal with..."

"Is the generals of the Song people so clever?" Wanyan Jiemu was a little suspicious.

"I'm afraid there are!" Wanyan Zongwang said, "Otherwise, how could Guo Yaoshi be defeated? By the way, Han Chang, did you find out who the commander of the Song Army in Hebei was?"

"It's Zhao Kai, Prince of Yun."

Wanyan Zongwang waved his hand, "What we are asking about is the actual coach, not a wooden sculpture."

"Oh," Han Chang said, "I only heard that there was a general named King Dai, who was very successful and killed the Lord Shumi."

"Dai... King?" Wanyan Zongwang thought for a while, "Name for Dai?"

"It should be the surname Dai." Han Chang replied. It seems that he still hasn't figured out the relationship between "King" and "King Dai", and still thinks that a general named Dai has appeared in the Song Dynasty.

Wanyan Zongwang looked at a fat man wearing a literati shirt, about thirty years old, with a fat head and big ears present, "Cai Lingshi, do you know this person?"

Cai Lingshi, known as Songnian, was from Zhending, Hebei. His father Cai Jing was the former pacifier of Yanshan Prefecture Road in the Song Dynasty. When Yanshan Prefecture was occupied by the Jin people, Cai Songnian and his father Cai Jing surrendered to the Jin Dynasty. Now Cai Songnian was enlisted as Lingshi by Wanyan Zongwang, and followed him to attack the Song Dynasty.

Cai Songnian thought hard for a while before shook his head and said, "Reply to the words of the prince, I have never heard of a general named Dai in the Song Dynasty."

Wanyan Zongwang thought for a moment and asked his side and left and right: "The news from Kaifeng Prefecture and the outside world these days should not be very smooth, right?"

"It's not clear!" A Jurchen general shook his head immediately and said, "Don't worry, Prince Langjun, the roads entering and leaving Kaifeng Prefecture are under the firm control of our Jurchen Erlang. Although the Song army in the city organized several times to break through hundreds of cavalry and must have sent some news, it is impossible for external news to enter Kaifeng City."

Kaifeng Prefecture is a big city, and Wanyan Zongwang's soldiers had only 50,000 soldiers, so it was impossible to surround Kaifeng Prefecture. He could only set up more than a dozen besieged strongholds around Kaifeng Prefecture, and at the same time, he sent cavalry to patrol day and night, forming a huge shade net around Kaifeng Prefecture.

However, there are still a large number of cavalry in Kaifeng Prefecture City, so it is not difficult to concentrate its efforts to penetrate this shielding net. However, it is impossible for the outside world to use the same method to send troops and information to Kaifeng Prefecture, because the brigade of cavalry would be discovered by the Jin people before they could approach Kaifeng Prefecture.

"That's good!" Wanyan Zongwang nodded, and then said to Wanyan Jie's mother, "Uncle, why don't we use a trick to deal with the Song Dynasty officials in Kaifeng Prefecture!"

"Failing?" Wanyan Jiemu was a little confused, "What kind of fraud?"

Wanyan Zongwang said: "Let's send someone to tell Zhao Ji that we and Zhao Kai have already agreed... The State of Song gave us 3 million yuan in annual currency plus a Yanshan Prefecture Road, and then the two countries became brothers and shared peace.

However, the annual monies have to be calculated from last year, so we have to give 3 million first, but Zhao Kai only gave us 2 million, and there is still 1 million left to let the Kaifeng Prefecture official family pay. In addition, the Kaifeng Prefecture official family sends another prince to serve as hostages and sends us back.

As long as Zhao Ji agreed to these conditions and gave us 1 million and a prince, we could retreat to Hebei with a full load. When we arrived in Hebei, we would try to find out the background of the main force of the Song army and the situation of the general named Dai, and then design to deal with them!"

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