Chapter 472: The Arrival of the Doomsday
The city of Tongzhou was full of panic and running. The Jurchen nobles who pushed this place step by step from Liaodong, and the Jurchen nobles who fought to the capital and fled to Tongzhou, were all like the end of the world. All the news about the violent and chaotic Song army was circulating among the crowd. Some people said that the Song people burned and killed them all the way, and some said that the Han'er had already been killed outside the city, causing great panic to the remnants of the Jurchen who were originally frightened birds.
But Nianhan can no longer control the situation.
The defeat of Yinzhou made the Jurchens lose his last breath. On the way from Yinzhou to Tongzhou, the once arrogant Jin Dynasty had actually disappeared.
Wu Qimai in Tongzhou City already understood the ultimate fate. Although the tenacity in his bones made him choose to resist to the end, even if he died, he would die with dignity.
But even so, he was not interested in paying attention to the situation in Tongzhou City at this moment, nor could he pay attention to it. Before Nianhan led the remaining soldiers back to Tongzhou, he had only three or four hundred personal guards left, which would be great if he could maintain the stability of the city lord's mansion.
And he also knew very well that Tongzhou City could not be defended at all.
Not to mention whether the city defense here is strong, but only the morale here is vulnerable.
Although after Nianhan took his people back, there were more than 10,000 troops in Tongzhou City, those men were not trustworthy at all. If Guo Yaoshi had not been desperate, he would have been impossible to turn against him. He would have been like Wang Bolong, Yelu Yujian or Bohai people, who had been to join the Song people.
There are no loyal ministers like Han Qinghe.
Wu Qimai said hello to Han Qinghe, who had already died in Liaoyang.
Yes, this man had long been dead. The Great Jin Kingdom was so depressed that it was in such a state. How could loyal ministers and warriors not die?
To be honest, those who can run to Tongzhou alive are all scum who are afraid of death as long as they are not Jurchens.
So, the Tongzhou city has completely lost control, and robbery has become a wind, and houses that have been broken into the door can be seen everywhere. The bodies on the roadside are dead are ignored. Thousands of people have taken their families to leave the city and blindly heading north. Wu Qi bribed them all.
I don't care about it.
The two top Jurchens who have seen the final ending are all making final preparations for the final battle.
In the city lord's mansion, Wanyan Wushu's eyes were red and swollen, and his face was as if dead ashes were sitting alone in the hall.
In the battle of Yinzhou City not long ago, he supervised the army to guard the west of the city. After the Song army broke through the city wall, he led the army to resolutely resist.
In a cruel street battle, Wanyan Wushu led his troops to counterattack many times, and even went on the battle personally, but all of them were blocked by the vanguards of the Song army who were killed into the city.
The latter has no firearms.
In the streets and alleys of Yinzhou City, the two armies encountered each other, and they were fighting for swords, spears, armor, blood, resilience, and fighting spirit.
Wanyan Wushu witnessed with his own eyes that the once arrogant Jurchen soldiers were defeated by the Song army, which was not as large as the number of people.
He had witnessed the tragic scene of the collapse of the Jin army more than once on the battlefield. However, Wu Shu was always a little dissatisfied and always believed that the Han people won by firearms. In real hand-to-hand combat, the Song army was no match for the Jurchen Warriors at all.
But in this battle in Yinzhou, he gave up.
Even though Wu Shu knew very well why the Jin soldiers could not fight against the Song army, there were many external factors in this. The combat power of the Jin soldiers in Yinzhou was much worse than that of the Jurchen elite at the peak, but if they could not fight, they would not be able to fight. The facts do not require a reason!
So, from that day on, Wanyan Wushu was also "dead".
During the Battle of Yinzhou, after the banner of Nianhan disappeared in Yinzhou, there were only one or two thousand people left by Wanyan Wushu, and the Jurchens and Han'er were intertwined. At that time, there were very few Bohai people in the Jin army. His troops were surrounded by the Song army and were about to be wiped out.
But God didn't want to see him die in Yinzhou. The Song army himself had trouble and opened a hole at the last moment. Wanyan Wushu's personal soldiers dragged him to escape from the sky.
But this is just a body without a soul.
In the Battle of Yinzhou, the Jurchens' final hope was destroyed. Take him as an example. He originally had five or six thousand troops under his command, but when he escaped from the city, how many people were left around him?
Just five or six hundred people. Only one of them remains out of ten.
Wanyan Wushu beat him very fiercely, while Nian Han and other senior Jurchen leaders beat him very fiercely.
In order to win this battle, the Jurchens would die without a life and have no future. No matter how many people escaped their lives in this battle, they would still collapse when they rushed to Tongzhou. This saved the capital and did not save the Wanyan family. Therefore, Nianhan was very tough in the battle to defend the city. He was very busy with the Song army that broke the city and rushed into the city. He was at all costs to transfer people to block the gap. His only remaining son, Wanyan Xiebao, lost his life in this battle.
Compared with normal offensive and defensive battles, the Jin army suffered greater casualties in Yinzhou, and the consequence of this was that Nihan completely destroyed the final cohesion of the Jin army.
The five or six hundred troops who followed Wu Shu to Tongzhou quickly disintegrated after arriving in Tongzhou, and no soldiers were willing to obey the command of the superiors.
What I still hear now is that I think I have lived enough?
Not to mention the Han people inside and the smaller number of Bohai people, even the Jurchens, they all started to mess up, snatching food and food from the city one by one and fleeing northwards.
Wanyan Wushu now only has a hundred and ten iron players, and the others are gone. At least they are wandering around and looting outside the city, rather than obeying orders under his command. This is the true portrayal of the current Jin army.
Of course, when it comes to this position, those who can still stay with Wanyan Wushu are all loyal to Wanyan Ju. Just like the three or four hundred guards who were still guarding Wu Qimai at the City Lord's Mansion at this time, just like the hundreds of guards under Nianhan's current moment.
Apart from these people, most of the remaining people were fighting for something in Tongzhou City.
The Great Jin Kingdom, with the Wanyan clan as the core, was originally a country that was rapidly expanded from a tribal alliance. The powerful and wealthy people at the Wanyan clan as the core completely controlled the power of the high-level and expanded and consolidated their prestige with one victory after another.
Victory and strength are the foundation of the Great Jin Kingdom and the lifeblood of the Great Jin Kingdom.
When Agu started the army, there were only 2,500 troops, which was already the efforts of his father, grandfather and great-grandfather. The natural environment of the river was harsh, the long-term severe snow and cold and hard life had certainly trained the barbarity and physique of the Jurchens, but also limited their population. However, when the Jin army destroyed the Khitan, raised its troops south, crossed the Central Plains, and drank horses, how many troops had already been there in the Yellow River?
Excluding the Han army, Khitan army, and Bohai army, there are only 50,000 to 60,000 Jurchen soldiers. Where did so many of them come from?
There is only one answer, that is, these real Jurchens are not wild Jurchens, nor are they born Jurchens, but are all mature Jurchens living in the Liaodong area south of the Huntong River. They are Changbai Mountain tribe conquered by Aguda, the Hesuguan tribe flattened by the iron hooves of the Jin army, the Yidian tribe, Huiba tribe, Lumaoduo tribe, Yalu River tribe, etc. in the Liaodong area.
The number of these mature Jurchen tribes is far smaller than that of the Jurchens, which are known as the seventy-two tribes, but the population of the single tribe can easily defeat the Wanyan tribes and other Jurchens in the Huntongjiang River Basin. They are the Jurchens who were directly ruled by the Liao people, and they are also the natural allies and the best party to lead the way when Wanyan Jurchens headed south to Liaodong.
Therefore, when Aguda became emperor and went south to Liaodong, it was a snowball-like move.
The mature Jurchens actively or passively united around the Great Jin Kingdom with the Wanyan clan as the core. When the Great Jin Kingdom was smooth sailing, these people were also fearless on the battlefield and were fearless, as cruel and barbaric as the Jurchens were born.
Because at that time, the interests of all Jurchens were the same, and there was no sequencing of Jurchens, mature Jurchens or wild Jurchens, and everyone was the same.
But now everything has become different again.
The husband and wife were birds in the same forest, but they flew on their own when the disaster came. What's more, the Jin Dynasty was just a state regime with a very short history.
Its mythical rapid rise was only because of the favor of the goddess of victory. The Wanyan family relied on the land and wealth obtained by war to maintain their own expansion. The foundation of the entire Jin Kingdom was the strength of the Jin army. When the fundamental power that supported this country disappeared, what was waiting for was the collapse.
Whether it is the Jurchens, the Khitans, the Bohais, or the Liaodong Han people, they are all included. Everyone's loyalty lies only in the invincibility of the Jin army. After stripping this, no one cares about the "Great Jin Kingdom" or the "Great Jin Kingdom". If the Song people had not had the very cruel attitude towards the Jurchens, countless mature Jurchens would have surrendered after the end of the Liaoyang Battle.
Now their last hope has disappeared. One by one, the mature Jurchens would rather escape northward into the deep mountains and forests in a daze and live the hard life of their ancestors again than lose their lives for Wanyan.
Chapter completed!