Qian Song

Chapter 390 Let the Khitan people take care of the Jurchen prisoners of war (ask for a monthly ticket!)
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When the court of the Kingdom of Jin received the news that Yelu Angge led the Khitan army to swindle Jinzhou City, Wanyan Zongfu died in battle, and the Khitans slaughtered the Jurchens, Yeluyu saw that his family had already fled to the Northeast Recruitment Department.

After Wanyan Quan heard the news, without even thinking about it, he ordered that Yelu Yujian's family be executed.

Then, under the propositions of Wanyan Zongpan, Wanyan Zongqian, and Wanyan Zongjun, Wanyanquan ordered the various Jin armies to kill any Khitans and Han'er who might participate in the rebellion.

Although these two erroneous decisions caused all the troops of the Jin Kingdom to become unstable, the birthplace of the Jurchens was also occupied by the Liao people, and the Liao people still massacred the Jurchens in the rear of the Jin Kingdom, cutting off the Jin Kingdom's high-level officials. the back road.

However, they no longer cared much about the high-level officials of the Jin Kingdom in their bitter cold hometown, and did not put too much energy on countering the rebellion. Instead, they only asked the soldiers and horses of the Northeast Recruitment Department that had been transferred by them not to continue going south. Immediately turned the horse's head and went back to suppress the rebellion.

After handing over the matter of suppressing the rebellion in the rear area to the Northeast Recruitment Department, all the high-level officials in the Kingdom of Jin immediately focused all their attention on the cadres who had opened up the Liaoxi Corridor.

At this time, the court of the Kingdom of Jin faced an important choice.

That is how to deal with the attack of the dry army?
Although this issue has been discussed once by the high-level leaders of the Jin Kingdom.

Last time, after discussion, all the high-level members of the Kingdom of Jin agreed that they should fight the Dagan Dynasty and use force to make the Dagan Dynasty retreat.

For this reason, the court of the Kingdom of Jin not only transferred Jin Wushu, who had won 30 horses from Wanyan Zonghan, back to King Qin to rescue him, but also let Wanyanchang, who had 20 horses, shrink his troops. Ma, surrendered to the Hedixin tribe of the Jin Kingdom, surrendered to the Shanzhikun tribe of the Jin Kingdom, surrendered to the Guangji Sardinia tribe of the Jin Kingdom, and had a great enemy with the Dagan Dynasty and currently surrendered to the Tata of the Jin Kingdom Erbu, come to King Qin to rescue him.

in fact--

At that time, the idea of ​​the Jin Dynasty court was to let these centrist forces reinforce Jinzhou.

Who would have thought that the [-] Khitan troops of Yelu Yujian, who was stationed in Guangning Mansion at that time, dedicated the city of Jinzhou under the leadership of Yelu Angge without waiting for reinforcements from Jinzhou to arrive.

Seeing that the situation was not good, the Jin army that arrived at Jinzhou City immediately retreated to Jin Guo Tokyo, and those who had just arrived, such as the extremely active reinforcements of the Koryo Army and the Tataer Division, also stopped at Jin Guo Tokyo.

In addition, the Wanyanchang Department (actually the Wanyan Zongjun Department, which is currently managed by Wanyanchang) was originally stationed in the Tokyo area of ​​the Kingdom of Jin.

All of a sudden, the Kingdom of Jin had amassed an army of 40 to 40 troops in the Tokyo area, and Wan Yanchang also came from Nanjing of the Kingdom of Jin to Tokyo of the Kingdom of Jin to sit in the town and control the army of [-] to [-] people.

Correspondingly, Yue Fei left some troops to occupy the Liaoxi Corridor, and after resting in Jinzhou City, he commanded 20 troops from the First Military Region, the Fourth Military Region, and the Tenth Military Region and headed towards Tokyo, the Kingdom of Jin.

At the same time, Han Shizhong, who had been standing still, also led the [-] troops from the Second Military Region and the Fifth Military Region to the outside of Nanjing in the Kingdom of Jin to confront the [-] troops under Wan Yanchang.

——Among them, [-] Jin troops were stationed in Nanjing City of Jin Kingdom, and [-] Jin troops were stationed at Daguangdingzi Mountain to the west of Nanjing City of Jin Kingdom.

Nanjing in the Kingdom of Jin is located in the southern section of the Daxingan Mountains and the northern foothills of the Yanshan Mountains, the vast area of ​​the Xilamulun River and the Laoha River Basin, and is the interception and composite part of the Inner Mongolia Plateau, the northern Hebei hills and the Liaoning Plain. It has a unique geographical location and The geological structure is surrounded by mountains on three sides, high in the west and low in the east, with many mountains and hills, which is extremely easy to defend and difficult to attack.

This made Han Shizhong afraid to act rashly for a while.

As for the [-] troops from the Third Military Region led by Su Dong, they had already fought against Jin Guo's Northwest Road Recruitment Department many times.

It’s just that the general of Jin’s Northwest Road Recruitment Department is Wanyan, the son of Jin’s No.1 general Wanyan Loushi. In addition, Wanyan Huonu, who is a famous general and talented, has a thorough research on firearms, so that the two sides have fought several times. Wanyan Huonu used flexible guerrilla tactics and did not suffer too much. deficit.

Now, a full-scale confrontation between the Qian army and the Jin army has emerged, and the decisive battle is imminent.

Under such a situation, Wanyan Zongpan, who had power over the government and the opposition, suddenly changed course and advocated negotiating peace with the Daqian Dynasty in exchange for peace.

At a meeting where Wan Yanquan convened a group of ministers from the Kingdom of Jin to discuss the situation and countermeasures, Wanyan Zongpan said: "Emperor Dagan is kind and generous. Duo, Wulubu, and Jiamu have repeatedly violated the Dagan border, and they have accumulated grievances for a long time, which led to today's disaster. Today, Yeli Duo, Wulubu, and Jiamu have all been killed by Dagan. Send Han’s family to Emperor Daqian to eliminate the hatred between the two families, and then accompany him with a heavy gift, which will definitely make Dagan retreat and eliminate the catastrophe of destroying the country.”

As soon as Wanyan Zongpan said this, he was immediately opposed by Wanyan Zongqian.

Wanyan Zongqian said coldly: "What is the prime minister talking about? Wulubu, Eriduo, and Jiamu all made countless contributions to my great gold's southern and northern wars. My great gold can have today, and all of them are indispensable. The Emperor Daqian killed his clan men, imposed capital punishment, and robbed his clan women. The hatred was as deep as the sea, and the prime minister didn't want to avenge his clan. To show the power of our country, he wanted to send Nianhan to the tiger's mouth?! "

Before Wanyan Zongpan could answer, Wanyan Zonggan continued to be filled with righteous indignation: "Nianhan is domineering and wrong, but he has also fought for many years in the south and north for my Dajin. There is hard work without merit. How can the prime minister bear the death of Nianhan's family..."

Politicians are mostly selfish and unscrupulous people.

Wanyan Zongqian is no exception.

Therefore, Wanyan Zongqian opposed Wanyan Zongpan's gift of Wanyan Zonghan's family to Li Cunyihe, and commended the contributions of Wanyan Zongwang, Wanyan Zongfu, and Wanyan's mother. Yan Quan also went with Wan Yan Zonghan to attack the frontier of the Dagan Dynasty.

Let's put it this way, Wanyan Zongqian is very clear that on the surface Wanyan Zongpan advocates a peace negotiation, but in fact he is pointing his sword at Wanyan Quan, and the ultimate goal is to suppress their father and son.

Therefore, Wanyan Zonggan, who has seen through all this, of course cannot let Wanyan Zongpan succeed.

Wanyan Zongjun said lightly: "The Prime Minister is doing this, but it is also a helpless act. The front line reports, the guns and weapons are extremely sharp, and the soldiers are good at fighting. They must not be our army's enemy. For the sake of the ancestral temple, the most urgent thing is to bear the humiliation first. Order Dagan to retreat, wait for the imperial court to put down the chaos that I saw, and then make any calculations, otherwise, Dajin will have to face Dagan and Khitan attacking back and forth, how can we win?"

Wanyan Zongxian argued: "My Dajin and Dagan did not resent each other for a day. If we turn away the heroes of the generals to make friends, it will make our Dajin warriors feel cold. At the time of the rise and fall of Dajin, can An Neng do this?"

Wan Yanchang's younger brother Wan Yanxu also said: "If it is beneficial to my Dajin, how dare you be selfish?"

Soon, the main combat faction had the upper hand.

Then, a minister said: "At present, the hearts of Khitan and Han in the country are floating. If a few armies come to fight, fighting is inevitable. But at this time, the Qian army is arrogant and unstoppable. If our army goes out, the enemy will be defeated. This is a taboo for military strategists. I hope that His Majesty will return to Taizhou, personally lead the army to wipe out the rebels, and then choose generals to go out, divide the troops into four groups, surround and wipe out the main army, so that none of them can return."

Another minister said: "Shangjing is the foundation of the world. If it is shaken, how can it support the world? There are still hundreds of thousands of powerful troops in Shangjing. They can fortify the walls and collect the people to clear the country, so that the enemy can't attack and retreat. Master And depressed. Once the King Qin's division arrives, the inside and outside will become horns. At that time, besieging the Qian army is like driving a herd of dogs and sheep, and Da Qian will definitely ask Luo Bai for orders."

Wanyan Zongqian suggested: "In the past, Khitan had millions of teachers and went straight to Chanyuan in Zhao Song Dynasty. At that time, if you listened to the advice of avoiding luck and the words of fortifying the wall, how could the world be peaceful for more than a hundred years? Relying on the mighty spirit of the ancestors of Zhao Song, the state of the country Fu, Zhao Song's famous official Kou Zhun insisted on requesting Song Zhenzong's imperial conquest. After Luanyu crossed the river, the morale of the Song army was greatly boosted, and the Liao general Taran was shot and killed. The morale of the Liao army was devastated, so he sent envoys to ask for peace, and Hebei was recovered. Today The matter is the same, please imitate Song Zhenzong's imperial conquest, this matter must be done quickly and cannot be delayed."

Wanyan Quan knew very well that Wanyan Zongqian was not a good bird, and wanted to use him to control the government.

But at present, the only person Wanyan Quan can trust is Wanyanzong who is known as his father and son.

Moreover, Wanyan Quan understood that Wanyan Zongqian asked him to take the imperial conquest in person because he wanted him to take this opportunity to build up his prestige so that he could regain the imperial power from Wanyan Zongpan in the future.

Therefore, Wanyan Quan decided to accept Wanyan Zongqian's suggestion and go to the imperial conquest.

Immediately, Wanyan Quan had someone draft an edict for the personal conquest, ordering the divisions to gather troops and horses to stand by. At the same time, Wanyan Zongxian was appointed as the deputy envoy of the personal conquest camp, and allowed to do it at his own expense; Wanyan Yinshuke and Wanyanxu were appointed as staff officers.

But on the same day, Wan Yanchang, the commander-in-chief of the eastern theater, that is, the Golden Tokyo area, made a decision that would determine the fate of the two countries.

So far, all the Jin troops sent by the Jin Dynasty court to reinforce Jinzhou City have been in place.

Seeing that I have an army of 40 to [-], just in terms of strength, it is almost double that of the dry army.

Moreover, most of them have cavalry in their hands.

——In field battles, one cavalry can be equal to at least three infantry.

The key point is that the Qianjun is not in the strong city that the nomads hate the most at this time, but is ready to fight the Jinjun.

No matter how Wan Yanchang looked at it, he felt that he was absolutely sure of winning the decisive battle with Yue Fei's troops.

In fact, not only Wan Yanchang thought so, but also the commanders of Wan Yanchang's various ministries, especially the Koryo Army and Tata'er Department, who spent all day persuading Wan Yanchang to fight Yue Fei's troops.

After Wan Yanchang deduced with his staff, he believed that his department had no possibility of losing at all.

Therefore, Wan Yanchang, who commanded so many people for the first time, was not only a little bit flustered, but wanted to defeat Yue Fei in one fell swoop, become a hero of the Jin Kingdom, and even become the emperor of the Jin Kingdom in the future.

Therefore, Wan Yanchang ordered the whole army to attack, and his cavalry was divided into four groups, with [-] Koryo troops in the middle on the left and [-] in the middle on the right. The [-] Tataer Division and the [-] Jin Army on the North Road on the left, and the [-] Jin Army led by Wan Yanchang on the South Road on the right, attacked the main force of Yue Fei's Department from four different directions.

——Wan Yanchang is going to split into a joint attack, attack from four directions, encircle and wipe out Yue Fei's cadres in one fell swoop.

After finding out the news of the Jin army's four-way march through the secret agents of the Wu De Division, the Pro-Military Duwei Mansion, and the Military Intelligence Department, Yue Fei just said coldly: "I will only go all the way."

Yue Fei immediately gathered all the cavalry of the Gan army and handed them over to Zhang Xian to command.

Zhang Xian led about [-] cavalry cavalry, and went straight to the left middle of the Jin army.

At the same time, the [-] Korean troops in the left middle of the Jin army marched much faster than the other three Jin troops in order to grab the lead.

When the two sides traveled to Liaohe, they met unexpectedly.

The Koryo army advanced too fast, isolated and prominent, and its former army had reached the bank of the Liao River.

Koryo General Tuo Junjing did not expect that the dry army with a large number of infantry would march so fast, and then divided the troops into two, preparing to garrison the Liaohe River with the main force, and led 3 horses to cross the Liaohe River first.

Through the binoculars, Zhang Xian saw that the Koryo army was advancing alone and its forces were scattered, so he divided his troops into two groups to attack. Niu Gao led [-] cavalry to attack halfway across, and he personally led [-] cavalry to detour to attack the main force of the Koryo army.

Soon, the two armies began to fight according to Zhang Xian's vision.

After noon, the sky was so dark that it was difficult to distinguish at a distance, the Koryo army lit torches to illuminate for shelling.

However, the Qian army used the torch lit by the Koryo army to attack from the dark and shoot with arrows, killing and injuring many people.

Then, Zhang Xianchi took advantage of the heavy fog, crossed the trenches of the Koryo Army, pulled out the gates of the Koryo Army, and attacked the Koryo Army's camp.

After the two sides fought for almost an hour, the main force of the Koryo army was defeated, with many casualties.

At the same time, Niu Gao immediately defeated the [-] Korean army led by the Korean general Tuo Junjing with a half-cross.

In this battle, the Koryo army suffered more than [-] casualties, the Liaohe River was stained red with blood, and many Koryo generals were killed in the battle. Tuo Junjing only led an army of less than [-] to flee back to Jin Dongdong.

The left center of the Jin army was completely wiped out.

The [-] Tataer Division and the [-] Jin Army on the North Road on the left advanced to the northeast of the Liaohe River. When they learned that the Koryo Army was defeated, they did not dare to advance.

In order to preserve the strength of the Jin army on the north road on the left, Wanyan Saliji surrounded the camp with camel formations, and also lined up the firearms troops sent by Wanyanchang behind the camel formations, followed by the cavalry, and ordered two Tatar troops Each of the ten thousand people is divided into camps several miles away to form horns.

At this time, the infantry army led by Yue Fei also came to the edge of the Liao River steadily.

Seeing that Wanyan Saliho gave up his superiority in cavalry and prepared to fight a positional battle with the Gan army, Yue Fei personally deployed 160 cannons in red to bombard the camel formation that Wanyan Saliho had set up.

As soon as the battle started, the 160 red cannons of the Gan army fired intensively at the camel formation of the Jin army on the left north road.

Under the fierce artillery fire from the Gan army, the camels, war horses, and warriors of the Golden Army on the left side of the North Road were flying with flesh and blood, and their corpses piled up like a mountain.

After Qianjun's red cannon completely blasted the camel array arranged by Wanyan Salihe, Zhang Xian and Niu Gao each led [-] cavalry to charge into the Jin army's position on the left north road.

Wanyan Sali was crying when she drank and cried, but she was really unwilling to fight.

Although the red-clothed cannons of the Gan army disrupted the position, Wanyan Sa Lihe still personally led the remnants of the Jin army on the left north road to start a fierce battle with the Qian army.

But in the end, the Golden Army on the left side of the North Road was first blown up by the dry army, and even lost its courage by being blown up.

As a result, the two armies fought for a while, and the Jin army on the left north road retreated, leaving behind most of the troops, led by Wan Yan Sa Li, they fled the battlefield like bereaved dogs.

The coalition forces of the Eighty Thousand Hedi Xin, Shanzhikun, Guangji and other ministries on the middle road on the right side of the Jin Army failed to advance to Liaohe as scheduled due to the confusion of command, and the rugged mountain road on this road, which made it difficult to move.

Because they did not know that the left middle road and the left north road had already lost, the allied forces of the Eighty Thousand Hedixin, Shanzhikun, and Guangji Spurs on the right middle road of the Jin Army still marched northward according to the original plan.

After defeating the Jin Army on the North Road on the left, the Gan Army immediately moved its troops to meet the allied forces of the Eighty Thousand Hedi Xin, Shanzhikun, and Guangji Spurs on the right middle road.

In order to completely annihilate the [-] Hedi Xinbu, Shanzhikun, and Guangji Babu allied forces on the right side of the middle road, Yue Fei adopted the method of luring them to advance quickly and setting up an ambush to gather and annihilate them. The Khitan army pretended to be the Jin army, and sent Koryo men who surrendered holding Tuo Junjing's command arrows, falsely claiming that the Koryo army had already confronted the Qian army, and wanted the [-] Hedi Xinbu, Shanzhikunbu, and Guangji troops on the middle road on the right. The Ministry of assassination and other allied forces advanced quickly.

The Bawanhedixin, Shanzhikun, and Guangji assassination forces on the middle road on the right believed it was true, and immediately ordered to advance lightly.

The Bawanhedixin, Shanzhikun, and Guangji assassination forces on the middle road on the right marched forward all the way.

When the vanguard of the Bawanhedixin, Shanzhikun, and Guangji Spurs on the middle road on the right entered Mingdagang, they were ambushed by the Gan army.

Hedi Xinbu, who was at the forefront, was completely wiped out by the tactics of red cannons and cavalry in the first battle.

Yue Fei immediately sent Zhang Xian and Niu Gao to take advantage of the victory to defeat his follow-up troops.

Most of the [-] gold troops in Wan Yanchang's hands are cavalry, and they could have supported the other three groups of gold troops.

However, because the news of the Jin army was transmitted too slowly, and the Gan army was so precise and ruthless, Wan Yanchang did not respond to the other three groups of Jin troops.

It wasn't until the defeated Tuo Junjing and Wanyan Saliha sent their horses to tell them that Wanyanchang learned that his four armies had already lost two of them.

Wan Yanchang hastily ordered the allied troops of Bawanhedixin, Shanzhikun, and Guangji on the middle road on the right and the former Jin army on the south road on the right to return to the division.

But when the messengers sent by Wanyanchang caught up with the army in the middle on the right, there were not even one-third of the allied forces of the [-] Hedixin, Shanzhikun, and Guangji Spurs left.

Even the former Jin Army on the South Road on the right was discovered by the Vanguard Battalion of the First Army of the Qian Army when they received the retreat order from Wan Yanchang.

Meeting each other on a narrow road, Yue Yun was not afraid, but ordered people to sound snails on the mountain to send out a shock signal, and shouted loudly.

The former Jin army on the south road on the right thought that the main force of the Qian army was attacking it, and fled in panic, trampling on each other, killing and injuring more than a thousand people.

The Pioneer Battalion of the First Army won without a fight.

It is worth mentioning that Yelu Mawu, the general of the Liao Jin Dynasty, took advantage of the chaos and led more than [-] Khitan troops to join the Gan army.

Zhao Ding and Gao Qingyi, who accompanied the army, together with Zhang Jun and Yelu Angge, hosted a grand banquet for Yelu Mawu.

During the meeting, Zhao Ding, on behalf of Li Cun, told Yelu Mawu in detail the surrender policy of the Dagan Dynasty.

Yelv Ma Wu said: He and the Khitan army he led did not come here for glory and wealth, but for revenge. They only wanted to kill the Jurchens after they captured Jin Dongdong.

Zhao Ding immediately said: "When I am in the army, I am not allowed to kill prisoners."

Then, Zhang Jun added with a smile: "However, I can arrange for the Khitan army to guard the Jurchen prisoners of war."

Three days later, guided by the five Khitan troops of Yelvma who had been stationed in Jindong for a long time, Yue Fei's department, which had already rested, continued to march towards Jindong in a large scale.

Although Wan Yanchang, who had subdued the rout at this time, actually still had an army of [-] to [-], millions of people, and the fortified city of Tokyo in the Kingdom of Jin.

But Wan Yanchang, who was already frightened, heard that Yue Fei’s troops were directly attacking him, so he resolutely gave up the Tokyo City of the Kingdom of Jin, and led the remaining 10,000+ troops of his department and the people of Tokyo, the Kingdom of Jin who were willing to go with him Fleeing to Nanjing in the Kingdom of Jin...

So far, the strategic goals of the first phase of the Dagan Dynasty have all been achieved.

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