Rebirth: Overthrow Song Dynasty

Li Yanxian led 50,000 cavalry from the Yanyun Military Region to gallop towards the east. At the beginning, the road was flat and surrounded by grasslands, but after walking for a long time, the road became rough again!

In the early morning of September 13th, Li Yanxian rushed to the Niushan Pavilion area! The Niushan Pavilion was a small castle built by the Khitan people, and now there are hundreds of Jurchen soldiers stationed there! Seeing the Song army coming overwhelmingly, the Jurchen soldiers in the Niushan Pavilion fled in a hurry, but not long after, these hundreds of Jurchen soldiers were completely overwhelmed by the Song army!

On September 15th, 50,000 cavalry came to the Luer Gorge area. There was also a fort at the entrance, and there were more than 1,000 soldiers stationed inside. Part of the slave army! The Song Army arrived late at night and suddenly launched an attack. The enemy troops in the Luerxia Fortress did not take any precautions at all. In less than a quarter of an hour, the Luerxia Fortress was conquered. 50,000 Song troops roared past and continued to head east!

On September 16th, 50,000 cavalry suddenly appeared under Shenshan County north of Zezhou!

They built a human ladder and began to attack the city, and they encountered almost no resistance from the beginning to the end! Shenshan County is located a hundred miles to the north of Zezhou, and to the west is Luer Gorge. They did not expect the sudden appearance of the Song army at all. There are not many defenders here, and there is no resistance at all!

In less than half an hour, Song Jiang had completely controlled Shenshan County, and they only left 3,000 people to guard here. Li Yanxian immediately led the remaining cavalry to go south with all their strength, heading towards Zezhou!

To the south of Niushan Mountain, Fu Xuanzheng, the deputy commander of the army and horses of the Yanyun Military Region, led fifty thousand soldiers in a rapid march in the direction of Pucheng County.

Fu Xuan was originally an important general of the Yue family army in history. In history, Yue Feiping Zhong Xiang Yang Mo, Fu Xuan repeatedly defeated Zhong Xiang Yang Mo's army! When Jin Wushu and Liu Yu aggressively invaded the south, Fu Xuan, Wang Gui, and Dong Xian led 20,000 Yue family troops to resist Jin Wushu in Tangzhou. Fu Xuan killed more than 3,000 Jin soldiers and captured more than 5,000 horses! Historically, the strongest of the Yue family's army was the Beiwei army. In the beginning, Yue Yun was in charge of the Beiwei army, and later it was Fu Xuan who was in charge of the Beiwei army!

He was originally the leader of the Hebei Rebel Army, but he fell out with Wang Ze of the Hebei Rebel Army. Wang Ze followed Zhao Gou, and Fu Xuan sent someone to contact Wang Gui! After the Song Army conquered the Central Plains and Yanyun, Fu Xuan led the remaining Yanyun Rebel Army to defect to the Song Army, under the jurisdiction of Li Xianzhong!

After Fu Xuan entered the Yanyun Military Region, he immediately showed outstanding military talent. Therefore, in less than two years, Fu Xuan has become an important general in the Yanyun Military Region, second only to Li Xianzhong and Li Yanxian. The deputy commander of the army and horses of the Yunjun District.

At the same time that Li Yanxian conquered Shenshan County, Fu Xuan had already led an army to Pucheng County!

Whether Shenshan County or Pucheng County are small counties around Zezhou, the defense force is extremely weak, and Pucheng County began to fall almost instantly!

After conquering Pucheng County, Fu Xuan divided his troops into two groups, heading north and northeast! In this way, with Li Yanxian coming down from the north and Li Xianzhong coming from the west, the 170,000 troops of the Yanyun Military Region could completely surround Zezhou, leaving no chance for the enemy to escape.

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On the early morning of September 17, the area around Zezhou was foggy.

At this time, the weather had become cold, and on the city wall in the west of Zezhou, a Jurchen youth was standing there with his hands behind his back.

This Jurchen young man is very tall, his head is bald, he doesn't even have braids on the back, just like a monk in the Central Plains! His face was handsome, and his eyes looked far away, with a melancholy look in them.

"General, it's so cold, why did you come to the city wall so early?" After a while, a commander walked up the city wall with a dozen soldiers. Seeing the Jurchen youth standing here, the commander hurriedly saluted.

"I couldn't sleep late at night, so I came here to take a look. Today's fog is really heavy, and the weather is completely cold!" the Jurchen youth said.

"Yes, the weather is cold! General, Lord Wanyanchang and the fourth prince have already contacted Khitan and Mongolia. Soon they will go south, and we will enter and obtain the Central Plains again. It's exciting to think about it. !” The commander laughed.

This is the news from yesterday that Khitan and Mongolia are about to go south, especially the Yelu Dashi in Khitan is not far from Shangjing. At the time of Yanyun, the defenders of Zezhou wanted to attack Juyongguan from the north and seize Yanyun in one fell swoop!

"Going south? Entering the Central Plains? Wan Yanchang and the Fourth Prince are delusional!" the Jurchen youth smiled wryly.

"Delusion?" The commander was taken aback for a moment, with a surprised expression on his face.

"The Han people were the strongest during the Han and Tang Dynasties. People call it the prosperity of the Han and Tang Dynasties, but neither the Han nor the Tang Dynasties are as good as the current Great Song Dynasty! The population of the Great Song Dynasty is now several times that of the Han and Tang Dynasties, and the strength of the Great Song Dynasty is far more than that of the Han and Tang Dynasties. During the Han and Tang Dynasties, the strength of the Song Dynasty was not inferior to that of the Han and Tang Dynasties! In the Han Dynasty, the Han people defeated the Huns, and in the Tang Dynasty, the Han people defeated the Turks! Neither the Huns nor the Turks were stronger than our Jurchen ! They are no match for the Han people, how can we defeat the Han people?" the Jurchen youth asked.

"General, when we went south, the Han people were vulnerable. They just suddenly became stronger, but in fact they were still very weak. The general was too worried!" the commander said disapprovingly.

"Do you worry too much? When I was in Guanshan, the living girl was defeated first, and then the second prince and Wanyan Loushi were defeated. After that, Zhao Gou in the south of the Yangtze River was completely wiped out. The second prince and Wanyan Loushi led twenty Thousands of elite soldiers were wiped out! The cavalry of the Han people also went north into the grassland. Their number of cavalry was not as good as that of the fourth prince, but the fourth prince was not their opponent. Han Chang, the general of the fourth prince, died in their hands! At the beginning of this year At that time, the fourth prince also went south to Datong, and in the end the fourth prince himself almost died in the hands of the Han people! In the past seven years, we have not won a single victory against Emperor Xuanwu. In the end, you had to cooperate with Khitan and Mongolia. Under such circumstances, why do you still look down on the Han people? Don’t you think you will face the Han people until the Han people have wiped out all of us Jurchen?” said the Jurchen youth.

"This..." The commander was tongue-tied, he wanted to argue, but he couldn't think of words to argue! Moreover, he actually recognized what the Jurchen youth said, and he was shocked!

"The Han people have not left Yanyun and Datong for a year, not because they are afraid of us, but because they need to recharge their batteries! They have just acquired the Central Plains and Yanyun, and their material reserves are insufficient, and the army food is not enough to support the Northern War! But according to As far as I know, the Han people have had a bumper harvest this year! I'm afraid they will go north soon!" said the Jurchen youth.

"Probably not?" the commander said.

"In the past, the Han people focused on defense and never took the initiative to invade other countries. However, since Emperor Xuanwu succeeded to the throne, several battles have been dominated by attack! Just like when he suddenly went north and entered Xixia without warning, the Xixia people absolutely did not expect it. How strong will the Han people be? In less than half a year, Xixia was wiped out! At that time, the Han people used about 300,000 troops! This time, if the Han people go north, they will definitely not use 300,000 troops. It is very likely that there will be more, far beyond our imagination! I am very worried now, very worried! I am afraid that our Jurchens will completely perish!" said the Jurchen youth.

Thinking of these things, the Jurchen youth felt chills all over his body!

"General, such a thing will not happen." The commander said.

"I still trust my judgment." The Jurchen youth shook his head.

"By the way, General, I have one more thing to report to you." The commander said.

"What is it?" the Jurchen youth said.

"Someone came from the direction of Niushan last night. They said they found the Song army west of Niushan. The number was extremely large. The general thought he was talking nonsense, so he didn't report to the general at that time." The commander said.

"What?" The Jurchen youth froze there for a while, and then shouted violently: "Call him here immediately! Quick! Go find him now!"

A quarter of an hour later, a Jurchen soldier knelt down on the ground, and the Jurchen youth said, "Quickly tell me, did the Song army appear west of Niushan?"

The Jurchen soldier nodded hastily, and said: "General Qi, I was originally a post soldier in Bei'an Prefecture. Countless Song troops appeared. At that time, I was almost petrified, so I immediately returned along the original road! There are many roads in Niushan Mountain. I have been walking there all year round, and I know a small road, so I am much faster than the Song army! General, I will never lie to you , Song Jun really appeared!"

The Jurchen youth stood there blankly, and after a while, with a horrified expression on his face, he said: "The Han people are marching north! Bei'an Prefecture must have been conquered by the Han people, and Zezhou is definitely not their opponent! Gather the army immediately , Escape from Zezhou!"

The commander said in disbelief: "Escape from Zezhou? General, we don't know if the news is true or not?"

The Jurchen youth said: "Listen to me, there is nothing wrong! I have long expected this day to come, but I didn't expect it to come so soon! Let's go now, or it will be too late!"

The commander was still hesitating, and the Jurchen youth couldn't help kicking him, saying, "Hurry up and gather the army! Do you really want to die in Zezhou?"

Only then did the commander leave in a hurry, while the Jurchen youth hurriedly went to find the rest of the soldiers and generals and asked them to gather immediately.

The sky was gloomy, and half an hour later, the 10,000 defenders of Zezhou City hurriedly left Zezhou and headed north.