Chapter 47 The fourth quarter, the death of the Guazhoukou tyrant

Although the Jin army suffered a disastrous defeat, the greedy and brutal Wan Yanliang did not give up.Seeing that the military attack was unsuccessful, he wanted to use alienation to achieve his goal.He wrote a letter and sent it to Song Ying. In the letter, he urged Wang Quan to surrender to Jin, and promised to give Wang Quan high-ranking officials and rich salary.At this time, Li Xianzhong, the new chief general of the Song Army, had already arrived at the quarry.Yu Yunwen saw through Wan Yanliang's divorce scheme, so he wrote a reply letter in Li Xianzhong's name to expose the enemy's conspiracy.The letter roughly said: "Now the general of our country's army has been replaced by me, Li Xianzhong, don't you know my name? If you want to cross the river from Guazhou (in Yangzhou, where the canal flows into the Yangtze River) , I will definitely wait for you there, fight to the death! You don’t need to make false threats.” Li Xianzhong sent two Jin Army prisoners to take the letter to Jiangbei.Wan Yanliang was furious when he saw the letter, and immediately ordered the army to go to Guazhou Ferry, in a vain attempt to cross the river from here and seize Jingkou.

In the Huaidong area, veteran Liu Kai was originally in charge of defense.He is old and sick, and can't actually handle heavy work anymore.Fearing that the Jin people would take advantage of the situation, Yu Yunwen volunteered and asked Li Xianzhong to allocate part of his army to support Huaidong.Li Xianzhong admired him very much, and immediately dispatched 16,000 infantry and a part of the navy, asking him to drive to Jingkou at night.When Yu Yunwen came to Jingkou, he first visited the veteran Liu Kai and asked Liu Kai for his opinions on defense.Liu Qi moved on the sickbed and said: "I never thought that the imperial court had raised soldiers for 30 years, and let a scholar like you make great achievements first. It really made us generals ashamed to death!" land.He saw that there were too few ships on the banks of the Zhenjiang River, and he was afraid that there would not be enough.He ordered people to change all the vehicles and boats into warships.He was afraid that the "car and boat" (a large warship with wheels treading on water) would break down temporarily, so he ordered the Song army's chariot and boat to sail around Jinshan three times, and it turned out to be very flexible.Jin Jun was very surprised when he saw it on the north bank.Wan Yanliang pretended to be calm and said: "It's just a paper boat, what's the fuss!" A general of the Jin army pointed out that the Guazhou River was wider than the quarry, and the Song army on the south bank had already prepared, and asked Wan Yanliang not to If you are busy attacking, it is better to garrison Yangzhou and talk about it slowly.Not only did Wan Yanliang not listen, but he beat him with 50 army sticks.Wan Yanliang repeatedly ordered the Jin army to cross the river with harsh military orders, and the order stipulated: "If the sergeant flees, kill the general; if the general flees, kill the general!" Unrest.Some generals of the Jin army discussed in secret, preparing to lead an uprising and kill Wan Yanliang.

At dawn on November 27th, Jin general Wanyan Yuanyi led his soldiers to Wanyanliang's imperial camp.Wan Yanliang woke up from the dream when he heard the commotion, thinking it was the Song army who came to rob the camp.He hurriedly put on his clothes and sat up, a feathered arrow had already shot into the tent with a whizzing sound, Wan Yanliang picked it up and looked, he was shocked, it turned out to be the arrow of Jin Jun.He was about to take his bow to reflect, but he was shot by a burst of arrows from the Jin army outside the camp.The soldiers of the Jin Army rushed in and saw him lying on the ground with his limbs still moving, so they strangled him to death with a rope.This murderous tyrant finally came to a tragic and shameful end!

After Wan Yanliang was executed, the Jin army retreated 30 miles north from Guazhou.In the name of the Governor's Mansion, Wanyan Yuanyi sent someone to Jingkou Songying with a letter to discuss peace.Soon, all the Jin troops in Jingzhou, Xiangyang and Lianghuai pulled out their camps and returned to the north.Jin's threat to the Southern Song Dynasty was temporarily relieved, and the people in the south of the Yangtze River were saved from the ravages of Jin soldiers.

In the battle of quarrying, under the command of Yu Yunwen, the Song army won a complete victory by attacking the crowd with the few and attacking the strong with the weak, which reversed the critical situation at that time and maintained the partial security of the Southern Song Dynasty.It is a pity that the Southern Song surrender faction headed by Song Gaozong did not seize this turning point, took advantage of the victory of the Northern Expedition, and regained the lost ground.Even so, the battle of quarrying still played a major role in the history of the Southern Song Dynasty.Yu Yunwen's achievements are worthy of praise by future generations.