Chapter 278: The Banner of the Hopeless City is Lowered
Yang Yingqi no longer has enough time and energy to make comprehensive arrangements for the reconstruction work in the Northeast, what he can do is to set a general policy and assign trusted ministers to implement it, and then he can only rely on the efforts of Yang Pu and others. However, what reassures Yang Yingqi is that after so many years of training and training, the Xinhan regime already has a huge talent pool, and the national weather is new, so many things are being explained very reassuringly.
After Zhe Yanchong took the stage to accept the court meeting of the princes and generals, Yang Yingqi hurried to Liaoyang, stayed in Liaoyang for a few days, hurried to Liaokou, and arrived at Jinmen five days later - the next Central Plains war, there will be many things to prepare!
When he was in Ningjiang Prefecture, Zhi Yanchong, Yang Yingqi, and Xiao Tienu made an overall plan to attack Yanyun. For the route of the Jin army, the military staff officer suggested crossing the sea for a surprise attack, but Zhi Yanchong opposed this, he believed that the Han army was greatly superior to the Jin army in terms of strength and strength, because the Yanyun Jin army had become a lost dog, and the morale of the Han army had also overwhelmed the Jin army as a whole. The generals were all convinced.
At this time, the battle situation in the northeast had been decided, and the strength of the Han army was relatively much more than enough. Today, the military strength of the Han Ministry in the Northeast can be mainly divided into six major departments.
The first is the Northern Expedition under the personal command of Zhi Yanchong, which has 80,000 people in addition to the Aru Barbarians who came to join the army: 30,000 of them are elite soldiers honed by the main military system of the Han Dynasty over the years, and they have been fighting in the south and north for many years, and they are the backbone of the Han Army; The 20,000 people were the "new army" that only went to the battlefield when they attacked Liaoyang Mansion, but after nearly a year of actual combat, they have gradually been able to keep up with the pace of the 30,000 elite soldiers; In addition, after attacking Liaoyang Mansion, about 20,000 or 30,000 surrendered troops including the Khitan, Jurchen, and Bohai tribes were successively absorbed. After the fall of Huining, nearly 50,000 soldiers and horses from all localities and ethnic groups surrendered and joined them.
The second part is the Anton Army led by Aruman. Most of the officers of the Andong Legion are the Han veterans who have followed the Aruban to fight since the Huining era, and the core combat strength is the strong men selected by the Aru Man in the Hosu Pavilion Department and the Han Department of the East China Sea. In addition, the Andong Legion was also responsible for controlling the people of the Han tribe in the East China Sea.
The third part is that after Zheyan Chong captured the Liaohe River Valley, he arranged more than 35,000 soldiers and horses in the vicinity of Xianzhou and Suizhou to guard against laziness.
The fourth part is the soldiers and horses guarding the eastern part of the Liaoxi Corridor, numbering about 20,000, led by Shi Kang, and is a branch of the Liaokou Army.
The fifth part is the Monan Army led by Xiao Tienu, including the 40,000 Xiao Ziqi soldiers he directly has, and the 40,000 or 50,000 Mobei tribes he controlled. Among them, Xiao Tienu took away 40,000 troops in order to attack Huining, and the rest of the troops and the families of the Mobei tribes stayed in Linhuang Mansion.
The sixth part is the Beihai Division that has not been used in this Northern Expedition, but it has played a great role in Ningding southern Liaoning and deterring Goryeo.
At this time, the Han Department achieved a decisive victory, and the morale of the soldiers was high, and they asked for battle. Zhi Yanchong ordered Aruban to defend Huanglong Mansion with his headquarters, and increased Shi Kang's soldiers and horses by 20,000 people, so that he could take the camp step by step in the Liaoxi Corridor and counterattack the defense. The main attack team took Xiao Tienu 40,000 as the front, Zhe Yanchong led 50,000 people as the middle army, and 20,000 people on the Xiansui front as the rear army. Vice Premier Han Fang was in full charge of the logistics of the war.
In addition, Zhi Yanchong transferred about 40,000 troops from various armies to march by sea into Tanggu and Shandong. In the north of Shandong, Wang Xuan was responsible for guarding the Yellow River and Jishui to consolidate the defense line facing the Jin army, in the southeast of Shandong, Zhao Li was responsible for supervising Xuzhou in case the Southern Song Dynasty stabbed him in the back again, and Yang Kaiyuan sent troops to Tanggu to contain Zongfu's reinforcements to the northeast on the one hand, and on the other hand, he sent rangers from Tangnan to attack the east and west roads of Hebei, so as to weaken the Jin army's control in this area. In the end, the forces from all sides were combined, first under Yanjing, and then from Yunzhong.
As early as before Xiao Tienu set off from the Xiansui front, he had been ordered to lead more than 20,000 Hu and Han soldiers and horses to occupy Gaozhou, Huizhou, and Enzhou in the north of Dadingfu, and sent a Hu cavalry to harass the naturalization of the western part of Dadingfu.
For a long time after Xiao Ziqi occupied Linhuang Mansion, Tart Lazy, who had been focusing on the Xiansui front, had not figured out who his opponent in Linhuang Mansion was, and the two elites of Jin Ren in Yanyun had not yet realized the seriousness of this matter in a timely and full manner. At the beginning, although there were some rumors that blew into Tart's ears that Linhuang Mansion had been controlled by the Han Ministry, Tart Lazy also thought that it was the Han people of Linhuang Mansion who were responding to Zhiyan Chong, and when he completely figured out the origin of the army that occupied Linhuang Mansion, don't say surprised, it was too late to regret it - because within a few days, the news of the fall of Huining also came!
At this time, the total number of troops controlled by Tart Lazy in the area of Dading Mansion was only 50,000, and in addition to the troops distributed in various strongholds, the number of troops gathered in Dading was only 20,000. There are only five or six thousand soldiers and horses directly related to the Jurchens under the tart lazy man, and the relatively close-related Hu troops are no more than 10,000, and his troops are far less good at fighting than Zong Han and Zong Bi's subordinates, so the troops deployed outside either surrender or rout when they encounter a kind of illness, and they fail to form a relatively decent resistance. Along the way to the south, like a wind sweeping away the leaves, swept away all kinds of arrangements in the north of the old Liaozhong Jingdao, and when they arrived at Dading Mansion, there were only more than 10,000 defenders in the city, and both the army and the people were panicked.
The strength of the Han army was driven to Zhongjing Road one after another, and after getting a large number of reinforcements, they were not greedy for merit, but only dispatched troops, and used the main force to block the silver art and tart laziness, and monitored the traffic arteries in and out of Dading Mansion with partial divisions, and spread a letter demanding that Dading Mansion and neighboring prefectures and counties surrender. Dading Mansion is the place where Zhe Yan Chong has been stationed, and many local powerful people have dealings with Zhi Yan Chong, at this time the Northeast Huining has been extinguished, Xian, and then the army pressed the border, and the prefectures of Sichuan, Jian, Li, and Yu have changed their banners and returned to Cheng. Xiao Tienu's front army had arrived outside the city of Dadingfu at the end of October, but he did not attack the city, but only joined the siege of soldiers and horses who had been subdued all the way.
In November, Yinshu saw that Zhongjing Road was unstoppable, and instead of advancing and retreating, it retreated to the area of Bei'anzhou, and Dading Mansion became a lonely city.
Tart Lazy once tried to harass with the elite, but where are his people the elite opponents of Xiao Ziqi? As soon as he left the city, he was eaten cleanly, and the people in the city were all frightened when they saw Xiao Ziqi's combat effectiveness, and they did not dare to go out of the city to face the battle.
Xiao Tienu only besieged the city, and did not attack until November when Zhiyan Chong led his troops.
After Zhi Yanchong and Xiao Tienu joined the school, he took Xiao Tienu to the place where he was trapped and revisited, sighing: "It's a pity, it's a pity"
Xiao Tienuqi said: "What is a pity? ”
Zheyan said: "I sighed for Zong Han and them. If they had known about today's events, they should have killed me in the first place. ”
Xiao Tienu laughed and said: "When Ah Gu beat has not become a big problem, Emperor Liao wanted to kill him like a dog, but he didn't kill him!" ”
Zhi Yanchong nodded and said, "You are right, I didn't fully grasp the situation at that time, I just took a risk." Who can predict the affairs of the world? ”
Xiao Tienu said: "What if you don't know the prophet?" Kill one of Ahbone, maybe another one will pop up! ”
Orihiko Chong smiled: "Not bad! Then he ordered the siege of the city, and suddenly he sent people to come to him, but he was lazy and sent people out of the city to negotiate peace. Zhi Yan snorted: "Peace? Discuss what and! Surrender or die! Whether it is dead or alive is up to us, what to discuss! But he still met with the lazy messenger, and after the meeting, he didn't let the messenger speak, but just sneered: "Go and tell the tart lazy that for the sake of my relatives, I will not attack the city, and give him another three days to think about it, and if you don't want to die, you will surrender!" He's Ah Hu's cousin, so I won't kill him, and I'll make him a rich man. As for the other conditions, half of them are also not mentioned! If he doesn't leave the city after three days, then Huining will be an example of Dading! ”
The envoy entered the city to restore his life, and the tart was lazy and angry when he heard it, at this time Zhi Yanchong had an army of more than 100,000 people, and in terms of the number of people, there were not as many residents in the city of Dadingfu as the other party, and the combat effectiveness of the soldiers was far inferior. Tart lazy knew that he was not Zhiyan Chong's opponent anyway, and if the other party attacked the city, the fall of Dading Mansion would only be a matter of time.
And what's even worse is that the tart lazy can't see that the whole situation has the possibility of getting back, if he wants to tell him to defend it, who will he defend it for? For Zonghan? For Sosuke? For Zongbi? If Huining was still there, the tart might be more firm, but now that the entire Huining has disappeared in the fire, and even Wu Qimai is dead, who is he still guarding for? Zong Han and Zong Fu may not be so good to him.
On a tactical level, it was almost a mortal war; On a strategic level, this is another hopeless war whether it can be defended or not, and this is true for the tart lazy, and even more so for the soldiers and civilians in the city. Zhi Yanchong's conditions are harsh for tart laziness, but not for the soldiers and civilians in the city. These soldiers and people did not yearn for Zhe Yanchong like the soldiers and civilians of Liaoyang Prefecture, but they also did not have the will to resolutely resist like the people in Huanglong Mansion and Huining. If they had any hope of victory, they might have held on, but now they don't see that hope. The most terrifying thing is that once the city is defeated and falls, what will Zhi Yanchong do to them? From the experience of Liaoyang Province, it seems that surrender will not be retaliated, but from the situation of Huanglong Province and Hoi Ninh, it seems that the consequences of resistance will be unimaginable. This battle to defend the city is either victory or the destruction of the whole city!
"Are we going to keep it? For whom will you keep it? ”
The arrows of surrender and intimidation outside the city continued to shoot in, tempting the soldiers and civilians in the city, and also hitting the morale of the city.
Tart Lazy sensed this change, and he knew that he had to make a quick decision: to suppress the rebellion in the city with thunder, and then fight to the death with Orihiko; Or do you conform to the "will of the army and the people" and surrender?
He may be a loyal servant, but to whom should he be allegiant?
Day 1, Day 2, Day 3......
When the Han army was ready to attack, and when the powerful in the city were ready to respond to the Han army, the flag was raised at the head of the city.
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