Wanyan's mother said: "Zhang Xiaochun, by saying this, you deliberately provoked me and asked me to lead troops to Shouyang, and then the main force of the Song army came to besiege Taiyuan, right?"

Zhang Xiaochun said: "Xiaguan dare not have such an idea. As a minister of the Jin Kingdom, Xiaguan is naturally serving the Jin Dynasty."

Wanyan's mother said coldly: "You Song people are full of evil!"

Wanyan Hujia said: "Du Tong, what should we do now?"

Wanyan's mother said: "Zhang Xiaochun, you go down first."

"I am resigning."

Zhang Xiaochun left the Tongjun Department.

Wanyan's mother said: "The Song army's main target is Taiyuan City. Since they have laid out this strategy, we will follow it!"

Yelujin said: "The commander-in-chief knew that this was the Song army's plan, so why did he go to Shouyang?"

"I have been fighting with Taizu for more than ten years. What do I rely on? I rely on bravery!" Wanyan's mother laughed and said, "Let the main force of the Song army besiege Taiyuan! Since they think I am not as good as Wanyan Salihe

, let them come! When the time comes, I will capture Shouyang and chop off the head of Wu Jie with my own hands under Taiyuan City, so that the Song army will know how stupid they are."

Yelujin said: "Du Tong, why don't we send our last general to Shouyang? How can Du Tong come to Shouyang in person!"

"No! I have to go there in person, so that the Song Army will think that their plan to lure the tiger away from the mountain is successful, and then Zhang Xiaochun will inform the Song Army!"

Wanyan Hu Jia said: "Since everyone knows that Zhang Xiaochun tipped off the Song army, why not kill him?"

"Zhang Xiaochun is the person named by the second prince to stay. Without sufficient evidence, I can't touch him!" Wanyan's mother said.

The person Wanyan Yanmu was most afraid of was not Wanyan Wu, the Jin Emperor, who was begging for money, but Wanyan Zongwang.

Wanyan Zongwang is the nephew of Wanyan Chamu, but his crushing of Wanyan Chamu is not a crushing of power, but a comprehensive crushing of intelligence and structure.

However, Wanyan Cha's mother was not sent to Taiyuan by Zong Wang, but by Wanyan Zonghan.

Zong Wang knew Wanyan Cha's mother very well. As a reformist in the Jin Kingdom, Zong Wang would not send a bad-tempered person like Wanyan Cha's mother to Taiyuan to do bad things.

However, the power struggle in the Jin Kingdom and the gap between the Song and Xia wars gave the Jin Kingdom the opportunity to go south, so Zonghan sent Wanyan Chai's mother to come.

Moreover, Wanyan Gao's death caused Wanyan Zongwang to return to Beijing in a hurry.

If the War between Song and Xia affected the Jin Dynasty and changed the pattern of Taiyuan, it was inevitable, then the death of Wanyan Gao, which caused Zong Wang to go north, was an accident in the development of affairs.

Opportunity is always caused by the combination of inevitable cause and effect and accidental events.

To put it simply: you must have both strength and opportunity.

Zhang Xiaochun returned to the magistrate's office, and by the afternoon, he had received the military ration requirements from the Tongjun Division.

He knew his plan had succeeded.

There are some people who have clearly fallen into the trap of provoking generals, but refuse to admit it.

A truly brilliant strategy is based on the truth.

Wanyan Yan's mother would not have thought that the core of the whole situation was to burn the food he had gathered.

As long as the food in Taiyuan Prefecture was burned, even if Wanyan Yanmu defeated the Song army in the field, it would be impossible to stay in Taiyuan Prefecture because most of the food in Taiyuan Prefecture had been plundered and concentrated by him.

When the time comes, it may be difficult for him to dig three feet into the ground to obtain food quickly.

As for how he dared to rush south to grab food when the entire army was short of food and the morale of the army was unstable?

Maybe any commander in his right mind wouldn't do that.

After Yang Zheng captured Shouyang, he settled down in Shouyang. When he had nothing to do, he took his people to the wealthy families in Shouyang to collect some military rations. His life was pretty good.

On the seventh day of the eleventh month, Wanyanja's mother led 10,000 elite troops and rushed towards Shouyang, leaving 5,000 troops in the city.

His purpose was actually not Shouyang, but to lure the main force of the Song army to Taiyuan, and then use these 10,000 elites to return reinforcements, and attack the Song army with the Jin army in the city, defeating the Song army in one fell swoop.

On the tenth day of November, the Song army from Longde Prefecture finally arrived in Pingyao, and a large amount of grain and grass also arrived in Pingyao.

The military commander of this Song army was Zongze's son Zongying. He was ordered to come and obey Wu Jie's command.

Zong Ying said: "Wu Tongzhi, under the orders of the General Secretary of Daming Prefecture, Shangdang sent 40,000 horses to obey the command."

"It's hard work and the Zong commander is wise. I've heard about it for a long time."

Zong Ying didn't dare to be proud. He knew that the other party was so polite because of his father's face.

He said: "If Wu Tongzhi has any arrangements, just dispatch them."

"Has Commander Zong had lunch?"

"not yet."

Wu Jie put his arm around his shoulders and said, "Let's have lunch together. After lunch, I have several beautiful young ladies here for you to choose from."

Zong Ying was stunned, thinking that he heard wrongly, and said: "Wu Tongzhi, I'm afraid this is not good, right?"

"Hey, why are you being so polite? It's one thing for us big-headed soldiers to come back alive after going to the battlefield. We should enjoy our lives while we are alive. We should share the hardships and share the blessings."

Zong Ying instantly gave Wu Jie a look that any man would understand.

At night, Wu Jie received a secret letter.

Before dawn the next day, he summoned his commanders and said: "The gold thieves commander Wan Yancha's mother led the army out of Taiyuan and rushed to Shouyang. There were only seven thousand gold troops left in the city. The time has come for us to attack Taiyuan.

, you all go quickly to rectify the troops, Guo Hao, you lead the three thousand elite forwards to open the way."

Guo Hao came out and said: "The last general takes orders!"

Li Heng, who joined the army, said: "Under Wu's control, although the Jin army only has a few thousand people, the defenders can recruit tens of thousands of civilians in the city at any time. Taiyuan City is impregnable. It is not that we have not tried to attack by force in the past two years, but they all ended in failure."

, it may be inappropriate to suddenly attack Taiyuan."

Wu Jieyan said concisely and comprehensively: "What Li Canjun said is reasonable, but it is a military order."

Li Heng did not dare to say anything more.

After receiving the order, the generals began to recruit soldiers.

At dawn, Guo Hao's 3,000 forward army set off. In the morning, 30,000 people from the front army set off first, followed by the central army and the rear army.

It was only two hundred miles from Pingyao to Taiyuan City. News that the Song Army's tens of thousands of troops suddenly marched northward obviously could not be concealed from the Jin Army's scouts. It soon reached Qi County, and Qi County hurriedly spread the news to Taiyuan.

On November 13, when Taiyuan City received news of the Song army's large-scale march northward, Wanyan's mother also arrived in Shouyang County.

Wanyanja’s mother: I have figured out your plan.

Zhang Xiaochun: You are so smart, I have nothing to say.

Wu Jie: I'm sure that Wanyan's mother has figured out our plan, but he will still go to Shouyang. Let's cooperate with him and come to Taiyuan.

The Battle of Taiyuan started with the Song Army's raid on Shouyang, and by this time, it was considered to be in full swing.

Comparing the strength of the two sides, the Song army's forbidden army was about 50,000, and the Shouyang army was divided into 5,000 and the Xiang army was 50,000.

The Jin Army's regular army has 15,000 troops, and the logistics army is much larger. Together with Shouyang in the east and Quyang in the north, there are a total of 130,000 people, and it is known to the outside world as an army of 250,000.
Chapter completed!