Chapter 125: The two countries go to war, and the Northern Jin Dynasty is defeated

With the support of Empress Dowager Ning, King Li began to make drastic preparations to move troops in advance.

In order to ensure that the information was not leaked as much as possible, King Li transferred troops to each other throughout the Western Zhou Dynasty to confuse the Northern Jin Dynasty, and at the same time, the most elite 100,000 white feather flying horses under his command were quietly transferred to the border of the Jin and Zhou Dynasty.

The sixth day of the fourth month of the fourteenth year of Liyang, which is also the sixth day of the fourth month of the sixth year of the Western Zhou Dynasty

Ji Lin soldiers led hundreds of personal guards, overnight rushed to the Jin and Zhou borders, the seventh night of the first month, Ji Lin soldiers sent the general Guo Tian to lead 50,000 troops, raided Beiling Prefecture Jun County, at the same time, Ji Lin soldiers under the command of another general Bao Xiong led 50,000 horses appeared near the Jin and Zhou border Xiao Pass.

The Zhou army attacked suddenly, the two defenders were caught off guard, only one day, Jun County missed, the defenders died, and Xiao Guan relied on the city to have many soldiers, barely held under the offensive of the Zhou army, but the defenders of the city also suffered heavy losses, and the letter of help was sent to Cai Hua, the general of Beiling City.

Cai Hua has been on the orders of Emperor Liyang during this time, and he was on the border to reorganize the army, and suddenly heard that the Western Zhou Dynasty was coming in advance, and he was shocked in his heart, so he hurriedly sent troops to rescue, but he didn't want to fall into Ji Lin's plan.

It was not that the Zhou army could not take Xiao Pass, and deliberately let it be used as bait, leading Cai Hua to send troops to rescue and surround the point for reinforcements.

In the battle, Ji Linbing personally commanded 30,000 white feather flying cavalry and 60,000 Zhou troops, and all the 40,000 Jin troops who came to aid were annihilated, and the main general of the Jin army was killed on the spot.

After this battle, Ji Linbing took advantage of the victory, led the troops to sweep Beiling Mansion, within ten days, the four counties of Beiling fell into the hands of the Zhou army, Junxian and Xiaoguan before the half, Beiling Mansion has fallen most of it.

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At the same time, Song Han, the former general of the Western Zhou Dynasty, who was divided into two routes with Ji Lin's soldiers, led an army of 150,000 and rushed to take Jinglongling, the border gateway of the Southern Tomb Mansion of the Northern Jin Dynasty.

However, although Jinglongling was taken by Song Han, the news of the Zhou army's attack spread in Nanling Mansion, and the border army stationed in Nanling Mansion under the command of Peng Kuohai, a general of the Northern Jin Dynasty, firmly blocked the 150,000 Zhou army in the area of Danglong Mountain in Nanling Mansion.

Former general Song Han's plan to raid Nanling Mansion died directly.

Although Song Han hit Peng Kuohai hard, the Ji Lin soldiers on the side of Beiling Mansion made progress very smoothly, with 100,000 white feather flying horses, 150,000 Zhou troops, a total of 25 major troops, and they were invincible everywhere they went.

The border army and the Beiling army led by Cai Hua, the general of the Northern Jin Dynasty, were defeated and retreated, and they were not opponents at all.

On April 16 of the 14th year of Liyang (the fifth year of Tianye), the last county of Beiling Mansion fell, and Cai Hua led the army to retreat to Beiling City.

On April 19, the city of Beiling Mansion was surrounded by 250,000 regiments led by Ji Linbing, and then once again implemented the strategy of encirclement and reinforcement, using Cai Hua in the city to lure the border troops who were still resisting in Beiling Mansion to come to the rescue.

On April 25, Cai Hua in Fucheng broke through at night after gaining insight into Ji Linbing's strategy, but was ambushed by the Zhou army, and the Jin army suffered heavy losses and lost three generals.

On April 28, after several tragic breakthroughs, Cai Hua finally broke through successfully under the cover of his subordinates and led the remnants to flee to Nanling Mansion.

Two days after Cai Hua fled, on April 30, the city of Beiling Mansion fell, and the entire Beiling Mansion fell into the hands of the Western Zhou Dynasty, at this time, less than a month before Ji Linbing sent troops.

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The fall of Beiling in January shocked the government and the opposition of the two countries, how happy and not to talk about the Empress Dowager of Western Zhou Ning, the Northern Jin Dynasty, Emperor Liyang was furious, and within three days, he issued several holy decrees to hold the general Cai Hua accountable.

It is estimated that if it were not for the change of commander in battle, it would be a taboo for soldiers, and there were people in the court to intercede for Cai Hua, it is estimated that General Cai would have been escorted back to the capital for interrogation.

But that's the case, Emperor Liyang didn't spare him lightly, the titles and restaurants were all degraded, and a pronoun was added in front of the official position of general.

The No. 1 boss in the Northern Jin Dynasty military had just lost the battle in front of him and his reputation was discredited, but he was cleaned up by Emperor Liyang and lost face.

A month ago, he was also General Cai Da who shook the Three Kingdoms, and now, General Cai Da has become Cai Da joke.

The arrogant Cai Hua naturally couldn't bear such a humiliating gap, and after coming to Nanling Mansion, he gathered and cleaned up the border army, preparing to give Ji Lin a head-on blow.

The fifth day of the fifth month of May, the Dragon Boat Festival

After leaving 50,000 soldiers and horses to guard the Beiling Mansion that had just been captured, Ji Linbing led the remaining 200,000 troops to take Peng Kuohai's back road from Beiling Mansion, and together with Song Han, they attacked the Jin army.

And Peng Kuohai had already expected that before the two sides attacked, he calmly retreated, and also set up a small ambush, which made Ji Linbing suffer a small loss.

After that, Ji Linbing and Song Han joined forces, a total of 350,000 troops, and invaded Nanling, and Cai Hua also gathered the remaining 150,000 border troops after converging with Peng Kuohai, as well as the two town guards who came to help, a total of 230,000 troops, and Ji Linbing confronted and fought a decisive battle in Caishi Mountain.

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May 10

The armies of the two sides officially started the war, the Zhou army had just taken Beiling Mansion, the morale was booming, and there were 100,000 white feather flying horsemen in the town, and the combat power was higher than the Jin army that hastily joined the army and met with the defeat of Beiling.

Since the beginning of the tenth, the two sides have fought several times, the Northern Jin Dynasty has lost more and won less, the morale of the army has been declining, and the soldiers have also begun to question Cai Hua as the coach, and more importantly, Emperor Liyang in the rear heard that Cai Hua was constantly defeated, and finally had the idea of changing the commander.

In order to protect his position, in a hurry, Cai Hua ignored Peng Kuohai's advice and insisted on leading the troops to attack the Zhou camp at night, but the result was an ambush in the middle, losing tens of thousands of troops, and Cai Hua himself was surrounded by the Zhou army on a small barren slope, and finally drew his sword and killed himself.

Colored Stone Mountain, Colored Stone - Cai's death is also the destiny of heaven.

In the event of another big defeat, even the commander died in the hands of the enemy, the morale of the Jin army was extremely low, Ji Linbing took advantage of the situation to attack the Northern Jin Dynasty camp, how Rao's Peng Kuohai commanded, after all, he was unable to turn the tide, and the Northern Jin Dynasty was defeated.

The 230,000 who were finally led by Peng Kuo to retreat were only in their early 80,000s, and the most elite 200,000 border troops in the Northern Jin Dynasty suffered as much as 90% of the battle losses.

My Dajin border is in danger!

This sentence was said by the veteran Peng Kuohai when he led the troops to retreat, and the situation after that did not surprise him.

The main force of the Jin army was disabled, and there were no soldiers and horses in the entire Nanling Mansion that could resist the Zhou army's soldiers.

Until the end, the Western Zhou army was blocked by Peng Kuohai with 80,000 defeated troops outside the General Pass at the junction of Nanling Mansion and Quliang and Guangqing Mansions.

However, Ji Linbing, who had just taken Beiling and Nanling, also wanted to digest the results of this period of time, and at the same time supplement the battle losses in the past two months, so he led his troops to be stationed outside the General Pass, but suspended the siege of the city.

At the end of May, with the temporary truce of the Ji Lin soldiers, the two sides entered a truce together

But everyone knows that this battle is far from over, and the Northern Jin Dynasty, which has lost the second mansion, will not just give up, and in the near future, there will be a big battle outside the General Pass.

At that time, the real decisive battle between the two countries will be .........