Chapter Twenty-Nine: The War in the North
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The name of the Great Jin Emperor Shi Chonggui is lucky, but unfortunately, he is not lucky at all. Since his accession to the throne, he has changed his uncle Shi Jingtang's policy of betraying the country to seek glory and serving the Khitan. The bilateral relations between the Great Jin Dynasty and the Khitan gradually deteriorated, especially after the Qicheng War in the first year of Kaiyun, the Khitan Emperor Yelu Deguang was unwilling to lose, and after half a year, he was ready to move again. He gathered forces and repeatedly attacked and plundered in Yizhou (now Yixian County, Hebei), Dingzhou (Dingxian County, Hebei), Daizhou (Dai County, Shanxi), Cangzhou and other places. Shuozhou's spinning and recovery made him jealous of Liu Zhiyuan, but even Liu Zhiyuan just beat it down and ran away, but he didn't dare to defend Shuozhou, which made him invade Yi, Ding and other Hebei prefectures more frequently.
In the first month of the second year of the opening of luck, Yelu Deguang and the Khitan Nanjing (now Beijing) left behind Zhao Yanshou Shuai Khitan army of 80,000 people went south again, besieged the uncle Du Wei (that is, Du Chongwei, avoiding Shi Chonggui, renamed Du Wei) in Hengzhou, and captured the nearby counties of Gucheng, Huangcheng, Gaoyi, Zhaoqing, Ningjin, Puze, Lecheng, etc., and the forward reached Xingzhou (now Xingtai, Hebei), and the Hebei prefectures flew to Bianjing like snowflakes.
Shi Chonggui wanted to do it himself, but unfortunately he was knocked down by a severe cold. In desperation, he had to order Zhang Congen and Ma Quanjie, the generals, to lead their troops to Xingzhou to garrison and defend against the Khitans. Without an emperor, these people seemed to feel that no matter how good they behaved, no one cared, and they even went to Xiangzhou (now Anyang, Henan) and stopped going. Seven days later, Shi Chonggui recovered from his serious illness, and he couldn't wait to go on a personal expedition.
At this time, Yelu Deguang couldn't attack Xingzhou for a long time, so he ordered his godson Zhao Yanshou to bypass Xingzhou and come straight to Xiangzhou. After the loss of the sixteen states of Yanyun, the terrain of North China was flat, which was conducive to cavalry attacks, and there was no danger to defend, so he was not afraid of being cut off by the Jin army at all.
But after all, this is the territory of the Great Jin Dynasty, although Shi Chonggui is suspected of being from the Shatuo tribe, but he has a strong sense of Chinese identity, and no matter how violent he is, he is also under the banner of serving the country and the people, and he rarely kills the people of the Central Plains. But the Khitan people are different, the Khitan people fight and believe in taking food from the enemy, this group of people is like a group of wolves, burning, killing and looting all kinds of evil, beating grass and grain, not only robbing the people's food, but also killing people and setting fire after robbing.
This inevitably caused the military and people of Hebei Zhuzhou to hate the enemy, when Zhao Yanshoudi's army just walked to the territory of Xiangzhou, Shi Chongguidi's former military commander Huangfu Yu got the news, this person is a fierce general, and he is still a little jealous of the evil wolf of Yelu Deguang, and he is not afraid of Zhao Yanshou, a traitor, this sheep in wolf's clothing, he is not afraid at all, and he is too lazy to think of any strategy, so he directly attacks the Anyang Bridge on the bank of the Anyang River, and sets up a formation to wait for the enemy.
Zhao Yanshou was the envoy of the Lulong Festival in the Later Tang Dynasty (now Tangshan, Hebei, Qinhuangdao), and Shi Jingtang was the son of Yelu Deguangdi, but unfortunately, Shi Jingtang had a large capital that year, and ceded the sixteen states of Yanyun, and Yelu Deguang made him the emperor. Zhao Yanshou was not convinced, the emperor's dream had not been shattered, and he hoped that he could make a great contribution this time, and let Yelude make him the emperor. Therefore, when he saw that the Jin army had set up a position at Anyang Bridge, he was not ambiguous, and ordered his ten thousand cavalry to rush over.
The advantage of Huangfu Yu is that the position has already been set, and the Jin army has also fought with the Khitan, and has won it, and he is not afraid, and the other is the atrocities of the Khitans, which makes these people angry.
The two sides fought on the bank of the Anyang River for two hours without winning or losing, at this time, the former deputy general Gao Huaide suddenly had a plan, he took his own personal guards, detoured behind the Khitan to assault, and shouted: "The Jin army has all arrived." ”
After two hours, it hurts to slash people and slash the ground, but he is gritting his teeth and persevering, hoping that the other party will not be able to hold on first. At this time, I suddenly heard that the reinforcements of the Jin soldiers had arrived. The morale of the Jin army increased greatly, as if the small universe suddenly exploded, full of energy, but the Khitan army was disillusioned. In ancient times, the battlefield was not as easy to communicate as it is now, and the officers were relatively weak in command of the army. The Khitan people fought bravely, but the military discipline was not very good, this rumor spread ten, ten spread hundreds, the Khitan army's heart was so shaken, Zhao Yanshou couldn't control the army if he wanted to, so he was defeated in such a daze.
At the beginning of February, Shi Chonggui arrived in Huazhou (now Huaxian County, Henan), crossed the Yellow River on the same day to Liyang to comfort the three armies, five days later, and reviewed the three armies in Lanzhou, and ordered the world: Khitan is not peaceful, it is difficult to sleep, now when the public fights, in order to save the lives of Shuofang, if Yan An hesitates, then the north of the river, reduced to the soil. On the same day, he ordered that the deputy commander of the northern camp was Ma Quanjie, Li Shouzhen, the commander of the camp, and Zhang Yanze, the commander of the right Shenwu army, led the front army, and the next day, he appointed Fu Yanqing, the envoy of the Xuzhou Jiedu, as the commander of the horse army in the north, and appointed Pan Huan, the commander of the left Shenwu army, as the commander of the infantry army in the north, and the handsome soldiers and horses then went north. and issued an edict ordering the envoys of Shunguo and the northern camp to recruit Dewey and Ma Quanjie to turn and advance together.
At the end of February, the main force of the Jin army and the Khitan army met at Dunqiu (now Qingfeng, Hebei), and Yelu Deguang personally went out to suppress the battle. Seeing that his grandfather was so desperate, Shi Chonggui also bravely rushed to the front of the battle, and more than 100,000 people fought for three or four hours, killing the sky darkly, with heavy casualties, and still no difference between victory and defeat. Yerod was a good man who did not suffer immediate losses, and ordered the army to retreat slowly. The Jin army was exhausted and unable to catch up.
The Battle of Donqiu was a battle of no victory. After this battle, Yelu Deguang retreated to the sixteen states of Yanyun, changed his strategy, and no longer fought the main force in the Jin army, but played the "strong wall and clear the wilderness" based on the anti-guest, relying on the Khitan bow and horse skill, sent a number of small detachments, invaded the territory of the Great Jin Dynasty, killed people when they saw them, and burned the grain and grass when they saw them. In Yizhou and other places in North China, the "three-light policy" was played. The Jin army relied on the advantage of large numbers of people and abundant local grain and grass to fight a war of attrition with the Khitans, and Yelu Deguang's hand made it difficult for the Jin army immediately.
Shi Chonggui wants to fight, but he can't find the shadow of the Khitans, if he retreats, the Khitans may come back immediately, and then the army's heart is turbulent, and I am afraid that it will be defeated. At this dilemma, Dewey had a bad idea to invade the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun and teach the Khitans a lesson, so that they would be afraid of the Great Jin and would no longer dare to go south easily.
This idea is good, but unfortunately Shi Chonggui lacks experience in commanding battles, and he often appears on the front line of battles, but he rarely uses any tricks; Second, Dewey had a set of ideas for trying to come up with a plan, but when he came to war, he was a little vague and a little confused.
In March, Dewey led Li Shouzhen, Ma Quanjie, An Xian, Huangfu Yu, Fu Yanqing and others to lead an army of 30,000 to attack Taizhou, which was occupied by the Khitans. Dewey struck while the iron was hot, continued to march north to recover Mancheng, captured the Khitan Leader and did not thorn, and soon recovered Suicheng.
At this time, Yelude couldn't bear it anymore and led more than 50,000 Khitan troops to the south again to fight Dewey. There was no stone chonggui shouting and shouting to press the formation, at the critical moment, Dewey was a little stunned, he and Li Shouzhen discussed: "Our army has not much grain in stock, and the grain and grass transportation can't catch up, and now the army is deep into the enemy's territory, in case the Khitans come with all their strength, cut off my way back, then there will be no grain and grass inside, no reinforcements outside, but a dead end." It is better to temporarily return to Taizhou to observe the strength of the Khitan army and distinguish its strength and weakness. Huh? ”
At this time, Dewey actually forgot his original intention of this expedition, and actually led the army to retreat. One day later, he retreated to Mancheng, and two days later he retreated to Taizhou. In two days, the Khitan strikers had already arrived in Taizhou. At this time, Dewey heard that it was Yerod who personally commanded the army. He actually made a mistake, and in the early morning of the next day, he quietly abandoned Taizhou and fled south. These 40,000 or 50,000 troops, no matter how quietly they are, cannot avoid the Khitan army that is riding out.
Since the death of the Tang Dynasty, it has always been the Khitans who have gone south to invade the Central Plains, and the Central Plains army has never dared to invade the Khitans. The sudden invasion of the Jin army made Yelu Deguang suspicious, and he couldn't figure out how many Jin troops there were. He followed Dewey's army closely, and after following for a day, he finally couldn't help but send the Khitan elite Iron Harrier Army to attack the Jin army, testing the intention and strength of the Jin army.
In the wilderness near Yangcheng, the Khitan cavalry rushed towards the Jin soldiers in a horizontal row like a wall. Dewey immediately commanded the army that was retreating to the south, with the guard as a unit, forming a phalanx, holding a shield in his left hand and a broadsword in his right hand in the first circle of the periphery, followed by the pikemen with iron spears raised in the direction of outwards, and the archers in the circle, bending bows and shooting arrows, killing and wounding the Khitan soldiers. In addition, elite cavalry was dispatched under the command of Fu Yanqing to charge the Khitan army from both flanks.
In this way, while fighting and retreating, most of the grain, grass and ordnance were lost, and it took more than ten miles to the south in one day to retreat to Yangcheng. In desperation, Dewey summoned the generals again, boosted morale and said: "Now that the Khitan Emperor has come in person, he can be called a strong enemy of us, and if there is no bloody battle now, I am afraid that my generation will not return to the south again." The generals said yes in an uproar, restrained their armies, boosted morale, and prepared to fight to the death.
The next day, the situation worsened. After a day of temptation, Yelu Deguang finally determined that this Jin army was only returning south in a hurry, and had no other intentions. But he did not immediately start the war, but the Great Khitan cavalry, around the Jin soldiers, with the strategy of tired soldiers, shouting and killing to shake the sky, with the strategy of tired soldiers, taking turns to attack the Jin soldiers.
Dewey's waiting for an opportunity to fight, but the guide was looking for an opportunity to fight on the way to escape, and the Jin army fled all the way south and was sleepy and hungry, and finally came to Baituanwei Village in the north of Dingzhou. And the Khitan army no longer attacked, but only surrounded the Jin corps, preparing to attack last.
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