Chapter 2045: Hesitate before the river bank, the loyal soul of the empire, guarding for three years

This time their march brought a large number of civil officials, family members, palace ladies and concubines, precious classics and treasures. There were also a large number of civil officials and military generals, a large number of craftsmen, and a large number of nobles and wealthy merchants from the Jin Dynasty.

These people and baggage combined make the team extremely bloated.

Under this circumstance, Wanyan Shouxu decisively left the slowest part of his army behind. He led a large number of main combat troops and rushed forward!

After capturing Wuwei, the incident suddenly occurred because the local troops were attacked, so there was no time to board the ship and escape. Wuwei, a major town connecting Chaohu Lake and the Yangtze River waterway, was located in an important town where the water and dry wharf intersection, and a large number of cargo ships and merchant ships were all obtained by the Jin army.

Then Wanyan Shouxu immediately ordered his troops to cross the Yangtze River by boat. The 250,000 combat troops took a ferry to cross the Yangtze River natural danger in two days!

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At this time, Wanyan Shouxu saw his army competing for thousands of sails. A wide Yangtze River was like a calm inner lake, with no soldiers or ship defending and resisting. He watched his troops cross the Yangtze River, which stumped countless heroes in history.

At this time, Wanyan Shouxu felt a sudden sense of heroism.

He had come along the way and found that the Song Dynasty official army opposite him was so lazy that he had no power to fight!

From this point of view, his next combat operation will turn from Fanchang City on the south bank of the Yangtze River to the east and continue to attack Lin'an, probably not as difficult as he thought before.

In Wanyan Shouxu's opinion, this next step of action will definitely be much smoother than expected.

But at this moment, Wanyan Shouxu glanced at him and saw a general beside him looking at the land in front of his horse intently... This man was obviously thinking.

Wanyan Shouxu lifted the reins and walked towards the man.

"Guo Bin, what are you thinking?" Wanyan Shouxu asked the mighty general.

At this time, the general raised his head and looked at Wanyan Shouxu, but he wanted to speak but stopped.

Who is this Guo Bin? He is very famous in history.

Because he has another name... Guo Xiama.

This Guo Xiama was a famous general in the late Jin Dynasty. He was unparalleled in his life and was loyal and unyielding, but he gave such a very funny name.

Toad is a Chinese medicine, but it is actually a frog. It’s just that it is not pure green, but a frog with a scientific name called the Ze Frog.

It usually has brown or gray spots on its body. In Bai Juyi's Pipa Sing, there is a poem like "Home is living under the toad tomb".

This Guo Xiama was originally an archer and fought with the people of Xixia throughout his life, and was invincible in his courage. He always used magical archery techniques to shoot enemy generals. After many amazing achievements, he later became the commendation of the Lintao Mansion... Of course, that was before Shen Mo conquered Lintao.

When Shen Mo was conquering Lintao Prefecture, Guo Xiama had long been transferred away.

In the second year of Yuanguang in the Jin Dynasty (1223), hundreds of thousands of infantry and cavalry in the Western Xia attacked Fengxiang, and the situation was extremely urgent.

At that time, the Jin army marshal Chizhan Hexi led the military with Guo Xiama. When Guo Xiama was patrolling the city with Chizhan Hexi, he saw a Xixia general sitting on a Hu bed (maza) outside the moat. The Xixia general thought that the distance was very far and the arrow could not reach, so he deliberately acted as if he was despised by the defenders.

At that time, Hexi pointed this person to Xia Toad and asked him if he could shoot him. At that time, Xia Toad shot his bow and arrow without hesitation.

When the Xixia general raised his elbow, Guo Xiama shot his armpit with an arrow without armor covering him, and shot the Xixia general with one arrow from a distance. This incident greatly boosted the morale of the soldiers guarding the city, and the Xixia army was inexplicably shocked.

It was this Guo Xiama, who, after the demise of the Jin Kingdom in history, surrendered to Mongolia when all the surrounding prefectures and counties were all surrendered. Only when the country was destroyed, he still stood firm in an isolated city and refused to surrender for nearly three years!

Until the eighth year of Ogedei Khan in Mongolia (1236), the Mongolian army began to attack the city with all its strength.

At that time, the toad was still determined to fight to the end. He collected all the gold, silver, copper and iron in the city, and cast them into artillery, regardless of their wealth, to fight back against the Mongolian army.

Finally, when the city was about to be destroyed, Guo Xiama ordered people to pile up firewood and grass in the prefecture and set off a big fire.

Under the storm of fire, Guo Xiama led his soldiers to wait in front of the fire for the Mongolian army to attack. When the city wall was broken, Mongolian soldiers immediately flocked to him.

In that final battle, as long as Guo Xiama's soldiers were seriously injured, they would stand up and jump into the fire to commit suicide. Xiama himself stood on the haystack and used the door panel as a cover to shoot two or three hundred arrows one after another, and the arrows were shot every time.

It was not until the arrow was shot that Guo Xiama jumped into the fire and burned himself to death. Until the whole city fell, none of the troops in the city surrendered.

After Guo Xiama died in martyrdom, locals set up a temple to pay tribute to him. Until now, the former site of Jingyuan City God Temple is still the Guo Xiama Temple. The city god worshipped in the temple is Guo Xiama himself.

Yes, everyone is right. The Jingyuan City, which was guarded by Guo Xiama for three years in history, is Jingyuan City on the way across the border from Xixia to Lintao Road!

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It is such a general who is now following Wanyan Shouxu's army in person.

When Wanyan Shouxu saw Guo Xiama want to speak, he stopped, so he waved the guards beside him and signaled that the general could speak.

At this time, Guo Xiama looked at the Jin army crossing the Yangtze River behind him, and said dullly to Wanyan Shouxu: "What will Your Majesty do when these ships are used up?"

"Then you need to say it? Of course, it is a ship to pick up the supplies and the officials' families behind." When he heard Guo Xiama's words, Wanyan Shouxu frowned, and he was a little puzzled by the question he asked knowingly.

At this moment, General Guo Xiama looked at the rolling Yangtze River and suddenly said something:

"You should send these ships to the lower reaches of the Yangtze River."

"Um?"

When Wanyan Shouxu heard Guo Xiama's words, he seemed to be confused. But at this moment, he heard Guo Xiama continue to say:

"The supplies and civil servants we put behind are actually not very beneficial to crossing the river early. On the contrary, north of the Yangtze River, the Song people's army was either afraid of us or forced by the Emperor of Song to cross the river to defend Lin'an. It would be safer for our people to stay there."
Chapter completed!