Qian Song

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After Yue Fei led the Longxiang Army to the south, the Han people in the former Yanyun area in the Zhao and Song Dynasties offered their cities and surrendered one after another, and then volunteered to be the guides and vanguards of the Qianjun Army. territory.

However, the Zhao Song Dynasty was not without people who were loyal to the country.

Li Yi is one of them.

Li Yi is a native of Xinqin in Linzhou, and he is from the same hometown as Yang Ye, the famous founding general of the Zhao and Song Dynasties (that is, Yang Jiye among the generals of the Yang family). He is the inspector of Daizhou West Road.

After Yue Fei went south, he sent Zang Fen, the general of the Yisheng Army who had surrendered to the Dagan Dynasty, to the counties under Daizhou to recruit him to surrender.

Zang Fen was ordered by Yue Fei to surrender everywhere, even Li Siben, the commander-in-chief of the Yisheng Army, surrendered, but he met Li Yi's hard nail here in Nao County.

Nao County is also known as "the key to the Three Jin Dynasty", and it is also a place that military strategists must contend for.

Li Yi happened to be in the middle of Nao County at this time, and he was the person with the highest official position in Nao County.

Zang Fen and Li Siben were ordered to come to the city of Nao County. After discussing, Zang Fen shouted to the people in Nao County to persuade them to surrender.

Hearing Li Siben's persuasion to surrender, Li Yi stood on the tower and scolded Li Siben for being unfaithful and unrighteous, for failing the emperor's grace, and suddenly shot an arrow at Zang Fen under the city.

Li Yi's arrow skills are very good, and one arrow hit Zang Fen's horse.

The war horse was frightened and threw Zang Fen to the ground.

Li Yi immediately made a follow-up shot.

Zang Fen turned around and ran away in fright.

Li Siben was also scolded by Li Yi so shamelessly that he had to surrender Li Yi, so he could only go back and reorganize his army to attack Nao County.

After driving Zang Fen and Li Siben away, Li Yi said to the general Zhe Ke and others in Nao County, "I will guard this city with you, and I will repay the country with all my loyalty."

At this time, there are still many fortresses in Daizhou that have not been captured by Yue Fei.

For example, Yangwu Village where Sun Yi and Zhe Zhongan were stationed.

Yangwu Village, Nao Village, Xixingsai, Ruyue Village, Hugu Village, Dashi Village and other military villages are all in Daizhou.

These military strongholds were built when Yang Ye was guarding Daizhou, the purpose was to defend against the invasion of the Liao Kingdom.

Li Yi, Sun Yi, Zhe Zhongan and others are all concerned about the safety of the Zhao Song Dynasty, so they often exchange news.

At the beginning, when Shiling Pass was not lost, Li Yi suggested that Sun Yi, Zhe Zhong'an and others withdraw from their fortress and go to Shiling Pass to garrison, because Shiling Pass is the throat of Taiyuan, and the nature is steep and steep. If you can hold on to Shiling Pass for more than ten days, then Taiyuan City can gather food for defense and wait for reinforcements from all directions. Even if the Gan army stationed under Taiyuan City, because Shiling Pass is in their hands, the Qian army will definitely not dare to continue. go south.

Sun Yi, Zhe Zhong'an and other generals loyal to the Zhao and Song Dynasties took it very seriously, and they invited Li Yi to garrison Shiling Pass together.

Li Yi discussed with Zhe Ke and the other generals, and felt that it would be more beneficial for the Zhao Song Dynasty if they went to Shiling Pass to stand by and wait for help.

So Li Yi and Zhe Keyu prepared to divide their troops to break out of the city, and then went to Shiling Pass.

But when the people in Nao County heard that Li Yi was going to lead his troops to leave, they all wept and asked to stay behind.

Seeing this, Li Yi couldn't bear to abandon the city, and finally decided to stay in Nao County and wait for help.

The military strength in Nao County at this time is actually very strong. Zhe Keyu, his younger brother Zhe Kecun, general Lu Zhixing, county magistrate Li Sheng, county magistrate Tang Chen, prison guard Zhang Hongfu, county lieutenant Liu Ziying, and wine prison Yan Chengdu He is a good fighter.

In addition, there is also Cui Zhong, the commander of the Yisheng Army, who can be regarded as a good fighter.

However, the only problem is that Cui Zhong is a Han Chinese in Yundi, and the soldiers of the Yisheng Army under him are also Han Chinese in Yanyun area.

Li Yi was a little worried about Cui Zhong's loyalty, so he told the others in half: "Cui Zhong is a Han son, and his heart is to be a leader. We will guard the city with Cui Zhong. If Cui Zhong turns against him, it will not only harm the country." , we will also suffer from it, how about killing it?"

Zhe Kehe agreed with Li Yi's suggestion, but many people couldn't bear to kill Cui Zhong at will.

Seeing this, Li Sheng, the county magistrate, suggested: "Cui Zhong has always been loyal, so it's better to just wait and see."

The next day, Li Siben led the Yisheng Army to attack Nao County.

Li Yi and others fought bloody battles on the city wall.

When the fierce battle between the two sides was in full swing, Cui Zhong suddenly pulled out his saber and killed the military supervisor Zhang Hongfu, then opened the city gate wide and led the victorious army outside the city into the city.

After Li Yi learned of this, he was shocked, and hurriedly led a large army with Zhe Keyu, Zhe Kecun and others to fight against the righteous victorious army pouring in from outside the city.

Li Yi and others led the army to fight the righteous victorious army all night, and finally exhausted, they were captured by the reinforcements sent by Yue Fei.

In fact, Li Yi had long been mentally prepared to die for the country, and he told his son Li Zongzhou a few days ago:
"If the city is broken, I will definitely not be able to live. After I die, if you are lucky enough to survive and sue my death to the court so that my death will not be obliterated, later generations will say that I am a loyal minister of Song Dynasty, and you are a filial son. Yes. The imperial court will extend favor in the future, so that your uncle will be orphaned. Your stepmother has just married me for a few months. I put the state affairs first, so how can I care about her? After I die, you should serve her like your own mother If you are all unfortunate enough to fall into the enemy, you should not abandon her. After I die, if you can return to your hometown, you will bury my bone camp in Xianlong, so that I can serve my ancestors in Jiuquan after death. "

After Li Yi was captured, Li Siben tried to persuade him to surrender with kind words many times, but Li Yi was determined to kill himself in order to become benevolent, and he criticized Li Siben for being unyielding.

Li Siben was furious and sternly said: "My emperor slapped the people and punished crimes. He used the righteousness to punish the innocent, and he would take the world. How can a small county stop the heavenly army? My emperor always likes loyal and righteous people, so we didn't kill you." Wait, but if you agree with your words, you will be saved from death, and you will still be in office, so why be stubborn?"

After hearing this, Li Yi said in half, "I will not break my promise, and I will live and die with you."

Then, Li Yi scolded Li Siben loudly: "You are deeply favored by the emperor, but you don't want to repay it. Who can reuse it. I am a loyal minister of the Song Dynasty. Because of the traitor's internal response, the city was broken and I was captured. If you kill me, you will be killed. An Neng Gou Sheng, let the other generation deceive me that there is no one in Song Dynasty?"

Zhe Keyu also said loudly: "I have guarded the family for hundreds of years, Anken has been responsible for the country and ruined the reputation of the family, an ignorant traitor, why don't you kill me!"

Li Siben was red-eyed by the scolding, so he wanted to call his soldiers to kill Li Yi and Zhe Ke.

But at this moment, Yue Fei sent Yao Yu to take over Nao County.

Yao Yu issued an order to Yue Fei: escort Li Yi, Zhe Keyu, Zhe Kecun and others to Yanjing...

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Taiyuan, known as Jinyang in ancient times, is also known as Bingzhou and Longcheng.

However, Taiyuan City at this time is actually not the ancient city of Jinyang in the past.

It is said that the ancient city of Jinyang has dragon veins.

Jinyang was known as the Kingdom of Tang in ancient times, and the Tang Dynasty was born here. After Li Yuan and his son established Chang'an as their capital, they took "Tang" as the country's name, and named Jinyang the northern capital and Beijing, and the capital Chang'an and the eastern capital Luoyang. It is called "Sandu" and "Sanjing".

Especially during the period of Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, Later Tang, Later Jin, Later Han, and Northern Han, either made their fortunes in Jinyang, or used it as the capital of the country. For a time, Jinyang became famous all over the world, and folks said that it was a "Dragon City".

Zhao Guangyi was narrow-minded. He was very worried that ambitious people would occupy the ancient city of Jinyang and rebel against the Song Dynasty, so he burned down the ancient city of Jinyang.

But then, Zhao Guangyi discovered that if he wanted to defend against the invasion of the Liao Kingdom, he couldn't do without this crucial point.

No way, Zhao Guangyi ordered Pan Mei to build a new city in Tangming Town on the opposite bank of the Fen River, [-] miles northeast of the old city of Jinyang.

This new city is Taiyuan City.

However, the scale and shape of Taiyuan City are much smaller than Jinyang Ancient City.

After Tong Guan led the Xuanfu Department to withdraw from Taiyuan City, Zhang Xiaochun and Wang Teng, who stayed behind, sent people out of the city to contact the nearby counties and counties, asking them to send troops to reinforce Taiyuan, and at the same time organized the army and people in the city to prepare to meet the enemy.

Soon after, the main force of Yue Fei's troops broke through Shiling Pass and arrived at the foot of Taiyuan City.

Since going south, the Longxiang Army has not encountered too strong resistance, and even up to now, the Longxiang Army has not really fought.

But under the city of Taiyuan, Longxiang's army was stubbornly blocked by the Song army.

The first to come to reinforce Taiyuan City was the famous Hedong general Sun Yi.

Sun Yi originally wanted to garrison Shiling Pass.

But Sun Yi was a step behind Geng Shouzhong, and Geng Shouzhong dedicated Shiling Pass to Yue Fei.

Later, when Sun Yi learned that Taiyuan City was in danger, he immediately led an army of less than two thousand horses to detour for reinforcements.

Although Sun Yi's troops have less than two thousand troops, they are highly skilled and have high morale.

When Sun Yi came to help, Yue Fei had already led his army to the city of Taiyuan.

Therefore, Zhang Xiaochun did not let Sun Yi enter the city, but stood on the tower and said to Sun Yi: "The enemy is approaching, so I dare not open the door. Observe and serve the country faithfully!"

Sun Yi didn't blame Zhang Xiaochun for letting him hit the stone with an egg, and he didn't fear the enemy, but said with great regret: "But I hate that the soldiers are too few and the strength is weak!"

After all, Sun Yi led less than 2000 troops into battle.

The Volunteer Army originally had a large number of war horses.

But according to Li Cun's instructions, Yue Fei "borrowed" all the horses of the Yisheng Army to re-form the horse army, so all the original Yisheng Army was downgraded to infantry.

However, it’s not that Li Cun didn’t give the soldiers of the Yisheng Army no chance at all. Instead, he used the supervising army to select all the credible and credible talents in the Yisheng Army, and then sent them to the Ministry of War for training and political education. To become a real soldier of the army, he will be treated fairly and justly.

In fact, among the newly formed cavalry, the soldiers of the Yisheng Army accounted for a large proportion.

It is precisely because of this that the soldiers of the Yisheng Army, from Li Siben and Geng Shouzhong down, are all actively performing, hoping to be rebuilt and become real soldiers of the army.

In short, because the Yisheng Army did not have a horse army, Yue Fei led the Shengjie Army with Zhao Bingyuan to fight.

Unexpectedly, Zhao Bingyuan was unable to take down Sun Yi in a short time with an army several times that of Sun Yi's.

Not only that, more than a thousand cavalry were killed by Sun Yi's troops against the soldiers of the Shengjie Army.

It can be seen from this that the combat effectiveness of Sun Yi's soldiers is very strong.

In the end, Zhao Bingyuan had no choice but to use the wheel tactics, and he exhausted the physical strength of Sun Yi's soldiers before he surrounded and captured Sun Yi's remnant troops who were fighting to the death.

Zhao Bingyuan was furious because his troops were severely injured, and wanted to slaughter Sun Yi's remnant to vent his hatred, but was stopped by Yue Fei.

Yue Fei then sent all of Sun Yi's troops to Yanjing and handed them over to Li Cun for disposal.

Next, the reinforcements came from the Western Army.

Among them are Fuzhou Zhizhou Zhekeqiu, Fuyan Road Guard General Liu Guangshi, Army Horse Envoy Han Quan, Jinning County Magistrate Luo Cheng, etc.

Among them, Zhe Keqiu and Liu Guangshi are the main reinforcements, and both of them have more than 2 horses.

Including the rest of the troops, the total number of Song troops who came to reinforce was as many as [-] to [-], and they all came to Taiyuan to participate in the war on their own initiative from different places.

Zhe Keqiu is the son of Zhe Kexing, a famous general in Northwest China. During the years of war with Xixia, Zhe Kexing cared for the soldiers, won many surprise victories, and made many military exploits. His troops were respectfully called "Zhejia Army" by the people of Song Dynasty.

From the beginning of the Tang Dynasty to the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, for hundreds of years, the Zhe family "occupied the prefecture alone, controlled the northwest, and relied on it in China".

The natal family of Taijun She, a general of the Yang family, actually came from this Zhe family.

Zhe Keyu, Zhe Kecun, and Zhe Zhong'an are all family generals.

Fuzhou borders the Yellow River in the east, the grassland and desert in the northwest, and overlooks the Hexi states in the south. The geographical location is very important.

The Zhao and Song Dynasties placed Zhejia generals in Fuzhou, mainly to defend Xixia, and secondly to resist Liao.

The Zhe family lived up to the high expectations of the Zhao and Song Dynasty. First they fought against the Liao Kingdom, and later they fought against Xixia for several generations.

The Zhejia Army, also known as the Fuzhou Army, has become one of the most combative armies in the Western Army.

In order to rescue Taiyuan, Zhe Keqiu personally led [-] Fuzhou soldiers to cross the Yellow River from Fuzhou, pass through Kelan Prefecture, and arrive at Tianmen Pass.

It was discovered that there were soldiers guarding Tianmenguan here, so they turned to Songziling and stationed in Jiaocheng, southwest of Taiyuan.

On the other hand, Liu Guangshi led his troops from Yanyan, marched all the way to Taiyuan, and finally met Zhe Keqiu in Jiaocheng, and the two armies were stationed at corners.

Liu Guangshi made a mistake when attacking Li Cun, and was later punished by relegation.

However, Liu Guangshi suppressed Zhang Di's uprising in the battle to exterminate Zhang Di, an uprising army in Hebei, and killed Zhang Di.

After Zhe Keqiu joined Liu Guangshi, and Han Quan, Luo Cheng and other troops were added, the strength of the troops was actually almost the same as that of Yue Fei's department, which needed to be deployed everywhere.

After discussing with Zhe Keqiu, Liu Guangshi and others, they decided to fight Yue Fei's troops.

Yue Fei also hoped that the main force of the Song army would be resolved in the first battle.

Thus, the two sides fought on the north bank of the Fenhe River.

The two sides fought from morning to noon in this battle, and there was no winner.

This is mainly due to Liu Guangshi's understanding of the tactics of the Gan army. Therefore, under Liu Guangshi's proposition, the Song army changed from attacking to defending.

——The Song army defended according to danger, and never gave the infantry of the Qian army a chance to come forward, so that the firearms of the Qian army could not exert their power.

To put it bluntly, Liu Guangshi's style of play is to seek no faults, not meritorious deeds.

Liu Guangshi thought so, as long as they could drag the Qianjun under Taiyuan City and prevent the Qianjun from capturing Taiyuan City, it would be fine.

After that, the Zhao Song Dynasty will definitely send reinforcements to rescue the crucial Taiyuan City.

Then their reinforcements will be more and more.

One goes up and down the other, and when they have the certainty of winning the army, they can counterattack according to the situation.

It is also based on Liu Guangshi's tactical concept that as long as the infantry of the Gan army advances, the Song army will withdraw, and if the horse army of the Qian army advances, the horse troops of the Song army will fight.

Yue Fei saw that the Song army was so difficult to deal with, so he decisively used Wang Gui to detour to attack Houzhai, which could be obtained at a discount.

If you don't notice anything, Wang Gui succeeds, causing the soldiers in Fuzhou to be in chaos.

Yue Fei seized the opportunity and used the reserve team to attack the Fuzhou soldiers.

Seeing that the situation was not good, Liu Guangshi ran away watching the wind.

Zhe Keqiu saw that Liu Guangshi had run away, and retreated in a big crash.

In the end, only Luo Cheng, Han Quan and other ministries remained in the battle and did not surrender.

Seeing this, Yue Fei surrounded him with a large army.

Luo Cheng and Han Quan's subordinates saw that the Song army's momentum was gone, and if they continued to fight, they would really die, so they tied Luo Cheng and Han Quan, put down their weapons and surrendered.

Yue Fei also sent Luo Cheng, Han Quan and other people who did not surrender to Yanjing and handed them over to Li Cun for disposal.

In this battle, the Song army killed and injured more than [-] people, and more than [-] people surrendered. The Qian army won a complete victory.

Seeing that there is something to ask for, Liu Guangshi's defeat is successful, and he can escape. Zhang Xiaochun and Wang Chi know that there will be no reinforcements in Taiyuan City in a short time.

In order to strengthen the city's defenses and make up for the lack of troops, Zhang Xiaochun and Wang Teng ordered that all men over the age of 15 and under the age of 60 in Taiyuan City be included in the list of city guards.

At this time, there were only more than 2 soldiers and civilians in Taiyuan City. It can be said that after removing the old, weak, women and children, everyone in the city became soldiers.

It is not difficult to see from this that Zhang Xiaochun and Wang Tian are determined to stand firm and wait for help, and even live and die with Taiyuan City.

Zhang Xiaochun said to the soldiers and civilians in the city: "Taiyuan has been a powerful feudal clan since ancient times. The city is strong and food is sufficient. In addition, the soldiers are brave. I don't want to go out. I should wait until the enemy's food is exhausted, and the arrogant soldiers will be lazy. I will wait for the reinforcements to be nearby. Corresponding internally and externally, make the enemy match. If the horse doesn’t return, it’s okay to take revenge for the imperial court and protect your blood relatives?”

Everyone promises.

And just when Yue Fei was about to attack Taiyuan City, Yue Fei suddenly received an order from Li Cun: Don't attack Taiyuan City by force, just encircle and attack areas other than Taiyuan City.

According to Li Cun's instructions, Yue Fei besieged Taiyuan City tightly after capturing the counties on the outskirts of Taiyuan.

The so-called method of locking the city is actually to build a fortification around the place outside the city where the arrows and stones cannot touch, and divide the defenses, so that the city and the outside world cannot communicate with each other.

Zhang Xiaochun and Wang Chi, who were about to defend Taiyuan City to the death, saw that the Qian army was about to lock up Taiyuan City, they were puzzled about what kind of medicine was sold in the gourd of the Daqian Dynasty, but they couldn't help secretly heaving a sigh of relief.

——Although Taiyuan City is indeed strong and has a lot of food, Wang Ting is a general who is good at defending. The key point is that the firearms of the Daqian Dynasty are too sharp, so if the Qianjun let go, Zhang Xiaochun, including Wang Tie, really wonder if they can defend Taiyuan City?

Fortunately-

Looking at the posture of the Daqian Dynasty, it seems that they are not planning to attack Taiyuan City...

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