Qian Song

Chapter 214 Is it still useful to cede land and indemnity to marry the emperor? (Ask for a monthly pass!)
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After the Ever Victorious Army crossed the Juma River and entered Qianjing, they advanced very quickly.

Two days later, the Changsheng Army came to the south of Yanjing City and stationed at Baoguang Temple.

Although Li Cun was in Yanjing City, Li Cun delegated the command of this battle to Han Shizhong, and let Han Shizhong take full charge of commanding this battle.

——Li Cun is like this because the Daqian Dynasty is facing a full-scale attack from the Zhao Song Dynasty and the Dajin Kingdom, and the four battlefields are in full bloom. He has to make overall plans to ensure that he can really repel the joint attack of Song and Jin.

Han Shizhong considered that the number of horse troops he could mobilize was far from comparable to that of the Song Army, and he might lose to the Song Army in direct field battles.

Therefore, Han Shizhong led the Jinwu Army to station in Yanjing City, and Han Bie led the Tabai Army to station in the north of the city.

The vanguard of the Ever Victorious Army, Zhang Linghui, was patrolling the north of the city. When he met the front army of the Tabai Army in Shahe, he immediately fought with the front army of the Tabai Army with superior soldiers and horses. The former army of the army captured many people and captured more than [-] people alive.

The ever victorious army won the first battle.

Knowing this, the morale of the Changsheng Army from Guo Yaoshi down was greatly boosted, and they threatened to take back Yanjing in a single battle.

After Han Shizhong learned of this, he did not punish Han Bie. Instead, he sent Hu Yantong to lead the Jinwu Army's former army to garrison at Deshengkou, so as not to directly conflict with the Changsheng Army for the time being.

Soon, Hu Yantong took advantage of Hanbie's new defeat, and used the green flag at the victory gate to pretend to contain the defeated army to lure the enemy.

When Guo Yaoshi received the report of the scouting horse, he underestimated the enemy, and his army continued to attack.

However, Han Bie seized the opportunity to suddenly lead the Tabai Army to attack the rear of the Changsheng Army. The Changsheng Army retreated and confronted the Tabai Army in Qingsha Hebei.

A few days later, Guo Yaoshi realized that Hanbie's troops were insufficient, and he was only defending against the danger. He could only support Yanjing's cadres, so he left only a part of his troops to confront them, and besieged Yanjing City with a large army.

——In order to attack the city, Guo Yaoshi dispatched another [-] infantry from the rear.

Subsequently, Zhang Linghui led more than [-] troops to attack the southeast of Yanjing City; Liu Shunren led more than [-] troops to attack the northwest of Yanjing City; and Guo Yaoshi personally led the army to attack the northeast and southwest of Yanjing City.

At the same time, Guo Yaoshi recruited the cadres defending the city to surrender.

A few days later, Guo Yaoshi went from Baoguang Temple in the south of the city to the north of the city, and personally urged the generals to attack the Qingshahe Tabai Army.

The two sides fought for a day, with thousands of casualties each. The White Army was slightly frustrated, but still held on by virtue of the danger.

The next day, Guo Yaoshi attacked the city again, and the Song army went to the city by night with [-] death squads, but was repelled by Zhao Li.

Later, Han Shizhong discovered and blocked the tunnel dug by Song Jun.

After that, Han Shizhong continued to stand firm while waiting for an opportunity.

At this time, due to the siege of Yanjing City and the shock from far and near, Xiao Yixin, the magistrate of Shunzhou, was dissatisfied with Li Cun's "killing the donkey" and demoted him to a state guard. Xun Ze sent someone to lock the gate of the city when the guard general Guan Sheng led the army to fight, and at the same time sent someone to notify Guo Yaoshi to come and take over Jizhou City.

Shunzhou and Jizhou descended to the Song Dynasty one after another, which brought great encouragement to the Zhao and Song Dynasties.

While Tong Guan sent people to take over Shunzhou and Jizhou, he also sent [-] reinforcements to Guo Yaoshi, hoping that Guo Yaoshi could capture Yanjing City in one fell swoop and capture Li Cun alive.

At this time, the Gan army was dragged at Yehuling, Yuguan and Yanmenguan. From the perspective of the Zhao and Song Dynasties, Guo Yaoshi did have the possibility of attacking Yanjing City.

Only Yaoshi Guo became more and more uneasy as he fought more, because no matter how he attacked Yanjing City, there was no tendency to attack it.

Guo Yaoshi was very worried that once the Dagan Dynasty could win the victory in Yehuling, Yuguan and Yanmenguan, then Yanjing City would have reinforcements from the Dagan Dynasty.

At that time, the Song army will undoubtedly be defeated if the Qian army will attack from both inside and outside.

Moreover, the Song army besieged the strong city of Yanjing, and the soldiers were too lazy and their morale was low.

As a last resort, Guo Yaoshi personally supervised the battle of the various armies to attack the Tabai army, and the two armies fought on the Gaoliang River.

Han Bie led the Tabai army and retreated in defeat.

However, the Ever Victorious Army has been attacking Yanjing City non-stop for nearly [-] consecutive days, and the soldiers have long been exhausted. Therefore, although they defeated the Tabai Army, they only chased them for more than ten miles from noon to evening, allowing the main force of the Tabai Army to escape easily. out.

What Guo Yaoshi didn't expect was that the You Yi Army, who had never fought against the Qian Army since the Song Army, suddenly came out of the secret road unexpectedly under the leadership of Yang Zaixing, and everyone held torches and rushed straight.

The Song army didn't know how many You Yi's troops were, and they were already frightened before the battle, so they didn't dare to fight, and only wanted to defend according to the Gaoliang River.

Seeing that Yang Zaixing finally went to battle, Han Bie immediately led the remnants of the Tabai army back to fight again, and held a stalemate with the Song army. Then he and Yang Zaixing each commanded elite cavalry, advanced from the left and right wings of the Song army, and attacked the Song army at night, encircling the Song army with two wings. The momentum of the attack.

The battle was very fierce, Yang Zaixing took the lead and was wounded three times, and Yu Li fought at the forefront of You Yi's army.

Han Shizhong in Yanjing City saw that the chance of victory had arrived, he opened the door to line up, beat drums on all sides, and personally led all the Jinwu army out of the city to fight the Song army.

The Jinwu army opened the way and stormed with tiger squatting cannons, swarms of rockets, and thunderbolts.

All of a sudden, the sound of cannons shook the sky, and the cannon stones and arrows flew all over the sky.

Song Jun was beaten and retreated steadily.

Not long after, Guo Yaoshi was surprised to find that the Song Army had been surrounded by the Qian Army.

The Song army could not resist the onslaught of the Qian army.

They could only retreat one after another.

Han Shizhong came to the front line to command and chased the Song army from behind, while Han Bie and Yang Zaixing led the Tabai Army and You Yi Army to pursue the Song Army by surpassing them.

Under the attack of the Jinwu Army, the Tabai Army, and the You Yi Army, the Song Army was defeated, with tens of thousands of casualties, and had to retreat southward overnight, fighting for the road, and was defeated.

Guo Yaoshi and a group of Song generals were dispersed, and all Song generals could not find their sergeants.

Seeing that the defeat was over, Guo Yaoshi had no choice but to lead his own army and fled southward.

Han Bie and Yang Zaixing kept chasing after him.

Even Han Shizhong led the Jinwu army to give up their supplies and chase along the road.

Under the leadership of Tong Guan, Cai Jing and other senior officials of the Song Army stood on the north city wall of Zhuozhou, looking northwardly towards Yanjing.

——Tong Guan and the others have already learned that there was a big battle in Yanjing last night, but they don't know whether Guo Yaoshi attacked Yanjing City in this battle, or the dry army repelled Guo Yaoshi's attack.

Yanjing is not too far from Zhuozhou, only more than 100 miles away.

Tong Guan and the others could only see the direction of Yanjing, and the dust was like a cloud, and it was hard to distinguish all over the sky.

At noon, Tong Guan and others suddenly saw that Zhang Linghui led the army back, then Liu Shunren also retreated, and then Guo Yaoshi also led the army back.

But Han Bie and Yang Zaixing led the Tabai Army and You Yi Army to chase after them.

After Tong Guan got the news, he ordered that the army should not enter the city.

——Tong Guan was worried that when the Song army entered the city, it would lead the Qian army into the city, so he ordered the city gate to be closed.

Song Jun shouted loudly outside the city gate: Don't close the city gate!

But the Song army in the city resolutely carried out Tong Guan's order.

Guo Yaoshi, Zhang Linghui, Liu Shunren and other Song generals had no choice but to turn around and fight Han Bie and Yang Zaixing.

Not long after, Yang Keshi and Yang Weizhong rushed to join the battle with their troops after hearing the news.

The two sides started a bloody battle right under the city of Zhuozhou.

Standing on the tower, Tong Guan saw the fierce fighting outside the city, so he sent Xin Qizong and Xin Yongzong to lead the Shengjie army out of the city for reinforcements.

The Shengjie army is worthy of being Tong Guan's pro-army. These Western troops are fierce in temperament and are not afraid of death in battle. With them participating in the battle, the Song army quickly turned the tide of the battle.

But when the problem came, not long after, the former army of the Jinwu Army also rushed to the battlefield under the leadership of Hu Yantong, and the two sides launched another bloody battle.

In real time, the sky was dark, the north wind, heavy rain, and hailstones shook like fist bowls, and the two armies could not look at each other. The fight was the fighting will of the two armies.

Not long after, the left and right armies of the Jinwu Army also arrived on the battlefield.

Fortunately for Song Jun, it was already dark at this time, and the Tabai Army, You Yi Army, and Jinwu Army were all exhausted from the continuous battle.

Therefore, after Han Shizhong led the Jinwu Central Army to the battlefield, he ordered the troops to withdraw.

In this battle, the Song Army suffered as many as [-] casualties, and the dead bodies lay on top of each other. It was invincible. Another [-] to [-] Song Army soldiers were captured, and the soldiers trampled on each other. , Grain, and currency are innumerable.

Tong Guan then ordered Guo Yaoshi to set up camp outside the city, gather his team, and stand by for orders.

At dawn the next day, although the wind and rain had stopped, the sky was still gloomy, and the ground was full of water and mud.

Tong Guan stared at the dark sky, feeling indescribably complicated.

Three days later, Tong Guan received the news that Shunzhou and Jizhou had been taken back by Qianjun, Xiao Yixin and Zhao Wenxun were killed, all men in their families were executed, and all those who followed him in the rebellion were also executed. , all the female relatives of those who participated in the rebellion were confiscated, waiting to be rewarded to the soldiers who made military exploits.

Tong Guan called Guo Yaoshi, Zhang Linghui and Liu Shunren to inquire about the front line.

Guo Yaoshi and the three were all depressed, shirking responsibility and slandering each other, and no one wanted to bear the responsibility for the defeat.

A few days later, Tong Guan heard that Wanyan Zonghan and Wanyan Zongwang were successively defeated by Qianjun.

What makes Tong Guan even more terrified is that there is news from Yanmen Pass that Li Siben, Geng Shouzhong and others will be defeated by general Yue Fei...

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When Wanyan Zonghan attacked Yehuling, Wanyan Zongwang attacked Yuguan, and Guo Yaoshi attacked Yanjing City, Yisheng Army and Fuzhou soldiers also sent troops to Yanmen Pass and Chenjiagu to capture Shuozhou and Yingzhou.

When Yue Fei heard the news, Zhao Bingyuan led the Shengjie Army to Chenjiagu to fight Song General Zhe Keqiu. He himself led the Longxiang Army to Yingzhou to fight the Yisheng Army led by Li Siben and Geng Shouzhong who had left Yanmen Pass.

After Li Siben led the Yisheng Army to Daizhou, he immediately ordered Geng Shouzhong to lead more than [-] troops from Xixing, and detoured along Xiaoxing to the north entrance of Yanmen; Yanmen North Ridge.

Yue Fei followed his plan and led Li Siben and Geng Shouzhong to Yanmen Beiling, then occupied the dangerous terrain, and defeated Li Siben and Geng Shouzhong with sharp weapons such as tiger squatting cannons, heartless cannons, and swarming rockets.

In this battle, Yue Fei beheaded Li Lu, the son of Li Siben, captured more than 4000 soldiers of the Yisheng Army alive, and captured many armors and leather horses.

At the same time, Zhe Keqiu and Zhao Bingyuan fought fiercely at the entrance of Chenjiagu.

The two sides came and went, fighting from morning to night, and finally fought to a draw.

When it was dark, Zhe Keqiu saw that he could not win, so he had to retreat from Chenjiagu to Fuzhou.

After that, for a long period of time, the Song Army had been defending Yanmen Pass and other dangerous passes and fortresses, so that Yue Fei had no choice but to take the Song Army for a while.

However, although Yanmen Pass is a strategically important location, it can only temporarily block the offensive of the Gan army, and cannot be used to hold on to resist the enemy for a long time.

A few days later, Yue Fei personally led Long Xiang's army to Yanmen Pass.

Li Siben was eager to avenge his son and asked Geng Shouzhong to guard Yanmen Pass. He himself led thousands of horsemen under his command to go out from the west path, then from the small path to the north entrance of Yanmen, and then went south, preparing to attack Yue Fei from behind.

It must be said that Li Siben was really courageous, he actually wanted to attack Yue Fei's tens of thousands of horses with thousands of cavalry, which was a very difficult and dangerous thing.

Ordinarily speaking, Li Siben should have a chance to win with this surprise attack.

However, what Li Siben met was the future famous general Yue Fei.

As soon as Yue Fei arrived at the battlefield, he first checked the terrain according to what Li Cun taught him.

After checking, Yue Fei was very worried about the small road south of the north entrance of Yanmen.

Therefore, Yue Fei kept an eye out and asked Wang Gui to lead his troops to lay an ambush here.

As a result, as soon as Li Siben led thousands of cavalry to attack the Longxiang army who was preparing to attack Yanmen Pass, intending to stab Yue Fei from behind, Wang Gui ambushed him with tiger squatting cannons, swarms of bee rockets and thunderbolts by taking advantage of the terrain.

Most of the thousands of troops led by Li Siben were left behind by Wang Gui's Ministry. Li Siben only led hundreds of horsemen and fled to Chenjiagu in embarrassment, and then fled from Chenjiagu to Fuzhou taking advantage of Zhao Bingyuan's carelessness.

It is worth mentioning that when Wang Gui was chasing the enemy, he saw a man riding a tall horse surrounded by the Song army.Wang Gui guessed that this person might be the commander-in-chief of the Song Army, so he shot him an arrow.As a result, it hit Li Siben in the back and severely injured Li Siben, making it impossible for Li Siben to return to Yanmen Pass.

After losing the main general, the morale of the righteous victorious army in Yanmen Pass plummeted.

Yue Fei seized this opportunity to storm Yanmen Pass with Yue Heng and Yao Zheng in turn.

During this process, Yue Fei fully implemented Li Cun's fighting concept of "poor means interspersed with tactics, and rich means covered by firepower". All kinds of gunpowder weapons were smashed at Yanmen Pass without money, and defeated the volunteers in Yanmen Pass. tremble with fear.

In the end, under the leadership of Geng Shouzhong, the Yisheng Army abandoned the pass and fled, and the Gan army captured the crucial Yanmen Pass.

Yanmen Pass is an important pass on the Great Wall. It is famous for its "dangerousness" and is known as "the first pass in China".

Since the Qin and Han Dynasties, the northern part of Shanxi has been the center of the rule of the Northern Dynasties and has become the frontier of national integration.Yanmen Pass and Daizhou where it is located are the channel for ethnic minorities in northern Serbia to invade the interior. Therefore, Yanmen Pass has been a strategic border defense site since ancient times.

According to incomplete statistics, as of this time, there have been more than 100 battles at Yanmen Pass.

It can be seen that Yanmen Pass is indeed a battleground for military strategists.

Moreover, Yanmen Pass leads to Yundi in the north and Taiyuan in the south. It can control the vast grasslands in advance and defend the middle of the pass for thousands of miles. Its strategic position is very important.

Today, this Yanmen Pass has fallen into the hands of the Dagan Dynasty, which means that the Dagan Dynasty has opened the northern gate of the Zhao and Song Dynasty.

In this way, if Li Cun wanted to conquer the Song Dynasty, he could divide his troops into two groups and go southeast from Hebei and River at the same time.

It's no wonder that Tong Guanhui was shocked.

What frightened Tong Guan even more was that Yue Fei did not stop after defeating Yanmen Gate.

—— After asking Li Cun for instructions, Yue Fei continued to lead his troops to the south, and soon, even Daizhou was captured by Yue Fei.

At the same time, after Han Shizhong regained Shunzhou and Jizhou, he also led the Jinwu army to the south.

For a while, it seemed that the Daqian Dynasty had already begun to dry up the Song Dynasty.

Seeing that the situation is not good, Tong Guan sent people back to the capital to ask Zhao Ji to make up his mind quickly, and at the same time held a Xuan Fu Division meeting.

Lu Yihao, the transshipment envoy, suggested that a death squad of 2000 people should be formed immediately, and then the gates of the city should be opened to escort important personnel to retreat southward.

Cai Jing was the guard, and he didn't dare to give up Zhuozhou easily, so he said: "This matter must be studied carefully and carefully thought out, and the door should not be opened rashly."

Shen Guan, the promotion officer, also disapproved of opening the city gate and fleeing south.

Tong Guan did not express his position at the meeting.

After Cai Jing returned home, he said to Xu Cai and Cai Songnian, "I'm discussing countermeasures at the Xuanfu Department, and he wants to abandon the city and move south. What do you two think about this matter?"

Both Xu Cai and Cai Songnian thought it was impossible to do so.

Xu Cai said: "Your Majesty is a minister who guards the land. How can he be compared with others? He should defend it to the death. Besides, in the south of the city, the defeated army is everywhere, and there is no way to vent it. Do you know if I will return?!"

Cai Jing said, "That's exactly what Jing meant."

But after a while, someone came to report that Lu Yihao and Liang Jing, the envoy of Lianfang, arrived at the south gate of the city with their families and were about to leave the city. In addition, there were about 200 Cao Si officials who smashed the gate at the south gate of the city and wanted to escape to the south of the city. .

Cai Jing decisively ordered Cai Songnian: "You immediately lead people with sharp knives to stop them. Anyone who dares to take advantage of the chaos and come out will be killed!"

After a long time, the area around the south gate of the city was calmed down.

That night, there were many rumors in Zhuozhou City, and there were even rumors that the Changsheng Army might rebel.

After Xu Cai heard the news, he hurriedly reported to Cai Jing.

Cai Jing didn't quite believe it, and told Xu Cai not to talk nonsense.

Not long after, Lu Yihao, Liang Jing and others all came to Cai Jing's home and urged Cai Jing to abandon Zhuozhou and flee.

Wu Ji, who was engaged in official business in the appeasement department, also suggested to Cai Jing: "The overall situation has been determined, and the public should not be rigid. It should be for self-protection, and it should be done slowly."

Without waiting for Cai Jing to give instructions, Tong Guan ordered everyone to withdraw from Zhuozhou, and the Song army, led by Guo Yaoshi, deployed defenses along the Baigou River.

As far as the matter is concerned, Tong Guan's order is actually very correct.

After all, Zhuozhou went deep into the land of Yan, and except for an isolated city, there was no danger to defend.

In the past, it was because Li Cun was unwilling to deal with the Zhao Song Dynasty that the Zhao Song Dynasty could occupy Zhuozhou.

Now that the two sides have gone to war, the Zhao and Song Dynasty in Zhuozhou can no longer ask for anything.

The key point is that the Song army has been completely defeated. The next step is to use the power of the whole country to fight against the Daqian Dynasty, or to cede land and pay compensation to marry the emperor concubine to seek peace, then it is up to Zhao Ji to make a decision.

What Tong Guan can do is try to help Zhao Ji buy some time...

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(End of this chapter)