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

However, at this time, Taiyuan City is no longer the ancient city of Jinyang - the ancient city of Jinyang was burned by Zhao Kuangyi as early as the fourth year of the Song Taiping rejuvenation, which is said to be because the ancient city of Jinyang has dragon veins.

Jinyang was known as the Tang Dynasty in ancient times, the Tang Dynasty was born here, after Li Yuan and his son set the capital of Chang'an, they took "Tang" as the country name, and sealed Jinyang as the northern capital, Beijing, and Kyoto Chang'an, the eastern capital Luoyang and called "three capitals" and "three capitals".

During the period of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, the Later Tang Dynasty, the Later Jin Dynasty, the Later Han Dynasty, and the Northern Han Dynasty either originated in Jinyang or took this as the national capital.

Jinyang is famous all over the world, and folk legends say that this is a "dragon city".

Therefore, Zhao Kuangyi ordered the ancient city of Jinyang to be burned after destroying the Northern Han Dynasty.

Three years later, out of the need to defend the Khitan, Zhao Kuangyi ordered Pan Mei to build a new city in Tangming Town, on the other side of the Fen River, thirty miles northeast of the ancient city of Jinyang, but the scale and shape were much smaller than the ancient city of Jinyang.

After Tong Guan led the Xuanfu Division to evacuate Taiyuan, Zhang Xiaochun, the pacification envoy of Hedong Road and the governor of Taiyuan Prefecture, and Wang Yu, the deputy governor of the capital, the commander of the Xuanfu Division of Hedong, and the governor of the Shengjie Army, organized the soldiers and civilians in the city to prepare for the battle, and at the same time sent people out of the city to contact the nearby prefectures and counties to ask them to send troops to reinforce Taiyuan.

Ten days later, Wanyan Zonghan led the Jin army on the West Road to break through the Shiling Pass and quickly arrived at the city of Taiyuan.

Since entering the territory of the Song State, the Jin army on the Western Route has never encountered effective resistance from the Song army.

But under the city of Taiyuan, the Jin army on the west road was stubbornly resisted by the Song army.

The first to come to reinforce Taiyuan was Sun Yi, a famous general in Hedong.

At the beginning of the Jin army's invasion, when Sun Yi led his troops out to fight the Jin army, Han'er knocked on the door and surrendered.

Sun Yi had no choice but to lead his army to Taiyuan.

When Sun Yi came to Taiyuan City, the Jin Army on the West Road had already surrounded Taiyuan City.

Zhang Xiaochun stood on the city tower and shouted to Sun Yi: "The enemy is near, don't dare to open the door, observe and serve the country loyally!" ”

Sun Yi replied: "But the hated soldiers are few and weak!" Then he led 2,000 soldiers into the Jin army.

Although Sun Yi's army was less than 2,000, its morale was very strong and the battle was very brave.

Wanyan Zonghan ascended to observe the situation on the battlefield and saw that Sun Yi's army was brave and difficult, so he decided to use tactics to win.

Wanyan Zonghan ordered the people of Shuozhou to be driven to the city of Taiyuan to show Sun Yijun.

Sun Yi's Duoshuo people, seeing their relatives being escorted to the battlefield by the Jin army, the army's heart was suddenly in turmoil, and then a military mutiny occurred.

At that time, Sun Yi was fighting fiercely with the Jin people, and was suddenly killed by a traitor from behind.

It's a pity that a generation of famous generals died tragically under the knife of the rebels!

The soldiers led by Sun Yi were all killed by the Jin people.

There were also Shaanxi troops who came to Taiyuan for reinforcements, that is, the most elite Western army of the Great Song Dynasty - mainly including Fuzhou Zhizhou Zhekeqiu, Yanyan Road Guard General Liu Guangshi, and Han Quan, the military and horse envoy, Luo Cheng of Jinning Zhixian and so on.

Among them, Zhe Keqiu and Liu Guangshi were the main forces, leading more than 20,000 horses respectively, and in total, the Song army had about 40,000 reinforcements.

Zhe Keqiu is the son of the famous general Zhi Ke Xing in the northwest, in the many years of war with the Western Xia, Zhi Ke Xing loves the nurse soldiers, many surprising victories, and has a lot of achievements, and the department is called "the family soldier" by the Song people.

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

The Yang family's maiden family, She Taijun, is actually this folded family.

There are three prefectures on Hedong Road in the Song Dynasty, namely Fuzhou, Linzhou and Fengzhou, which are places where ethnic groups live together, among which the Dangxiang ethnic group is the mainstay.

From the time of Zhao Kuangyin, the Song Dynasty implemented a special policy for the region, that is, to rule according to customs, appoint local tyrants or ethnic minority chieftains as governors or officials, and restrain them to contain each other, so as to consolidate the border security order.

Later, Li Jiqian of Xiazhou rebelled against the Song Dynasty, and his son Li Yuanhao established the Xia State and broke away from the Great Song Dynasty.

The Song Dynasty accepted this lesson and adjusted its ruling policy on the three prefectures of Lin, Fu, and Feng in the frontier area of Hedong, and further strengthened its efforts to win over the local tyrants.

However, due to the specific situation of Lin, Fu and Feng, the strategies are also different.

Fengzhou was later captured by the Western Xia, and the Wang family was no longer hereditary, and the Yang family of Linzhou was only hereditary for three generations, except for the Zhe family of Fuzhou who had been hereditary military power.

The Zhe family is in the same domain here, which is indeed an exception for the Song Dynasty, which is always on guard against repeating the scourge of the late Tang Dynasty.

The purpose of the Song Dynasty to give the Zhe family hereditary military power is very clear, that is, to let them fight against the Western Xia here for a long time.

Fuzhou is bordered by the Yellow River in the east, the grassland desert in the northwest, and the Hexi Prefectures in the south, so its geographical location is very important.

The Zhe family did live up to the expectations of the imperial court, fighting against the Western Xia for several generations, before and after more than 100 years, and made a lot of achievements, while the Western Xia cavalry has never been able to cross the Yellow River in the east.

Because of this, the Western Xia family can be said to hate the Zhen family.

(Later, Zhe Keqiu was poisoned, and the Tangut people took advantage of the opportunity of the Zhe family's funeral to invade Fuzhou, and then killed the Zhe family, and even dug up the corpse and dug up the grave, from this point it is not difficult to see how much the Zhe family was hated by the Tangut people, and then it can also show how much his family contributed to the Song Dynasty.) ）

Zhe Keqiu led 20,000 reinforcements, wading the Yellow River from Fuzhou, passing through Lanzhou, to Tianmen Pass, and found that there were Jin soldiers guarding here, so he turned around and took Songziling, and came to Jiaocheng in the southwest of Taiyuan to station.

Liu Guangshi led the troops from Yanyan, all the way to Taiyuan in the northeast, and met with Zhe Keqiu in Jiaocheng and stationed them respectively.

Liu Guangshi failed to reach Yanjing in time to meet Guo Yaoshi in time during the Northern Expedition to capture Yanjing, resulting in the defeat of the Song army that had already invaded Yanjing City first, and was punished by demotion when he was held accountable.

Later, Liu Guangshi made meritorious contributions to the pacification of the Hebei Rebel Army, and was promoted to the deputy commander of the Ma Bu Army on the Yanyan Road.

On the north bank of the Fen River, the Song army fought a major battle with the Jin army.

From the morning to the middle of the day, the two armies did not distinguish between victory and defeat, and all the armies of the Song army fought very tenaciously, and it can be said that they did not give an inch.

Defending until the middle of the day, a strange army of the Jin army suddenly broke itself and fought behind the department!

The situation changed dramatically.

Liu Guangshi soon fled from the wind, and the troops were defeated, Luo Cheng and Han Quan died in battle, and the soldiers outside the river were lost.

In this battle, the Song army lost more than 10,000 people, and the Jin army waited here for work and won a complete victory.

At this time, there were only more than 20,000 residents in Taiyuan City, and the soldiers were only 3,000 Shengjie troops led by Wang Yu and some box troops.

Shengjiejun is Tong Guan's pro-army.

Before leaving Taiyuan, Tong Guan appointed Wang Yu as the deputy governor of the capital, that is, the deputy marshal, and left a part of the Shengjie army under Wang Yu's command, so that he was responsible for guarding Taiyuan.

Wang Yu is a native of Kaifeng, the word is Zhengchen, born in a family of Jiangmen, and his grandfather and father are both generals of the Western Army.

When the rebellion of Tianhu, Wang Qing and Fangla was pacified, Wang Yu served as the commander of the infantry army, and made military achievements, and then followed Tong Guan's Northern Expedition, and then was later promoted to the commander of Hedong Xuanfu Sidu, and was stationed in Taiyuan with Tong Guan.

Although he only had 3,000 men and horses, every day or two, Wang Yu led a group of light horsemen out of the city to attack the Jin army.

Wang Yu and the others rode war horses, held broadswords, rushed into the Jin army camp, turned to the left and right, killed about 100 enemies, and then retreated.

It can be said that the reason why Taiyuan City can be defended for so long is largely because of the bold Wang Yu, who from time to time replaces defense with attack.

After Liu Guangshi was defeated and left, there were no new reinforcements from the Great Song Dynasty.

Zhang Xiaochun couldn't help but be a little shaken, thinking that more than 20,000 people and more than 3,000 soldiers could not resist the 60,000 Jin army who were good at fighting, and then moved the idea of surrendering.

Therefore, Zhang Xiaochun convened a meeting of the supervisors to discuss and wanted to surrender in Kaicheng.

After Wang Yu learned of this, he immediately led 500 swordsmen to the prefect's mansion to pay homage to Zhang Xiaochun.

Wang Yu asked the swordsmen to line up in front of the palace gate.

Wang Yu asked loudly, "Do you want to be an official?" ”

The crowd answered, "Yes! ”

Wang Yu said: "If you make meritorious service to the imperial court, you can get an official!" ”

Wang Yu asked again, "Do you want a reward?" ”

The crowd answered, "Yes! ”

Wang Yu said: "For the court to defend against the enemy, you can be rewarded!" ”

Wang Yu then said: "You want both officials and rewards, so you should declare your strength and dedication to defend the country with loyalty." What should you do if there are those who speak down in the stream? ”

They raised their swords and replied, "May they be slain!" ”

Wang Yu asked, "What should I do if I say it?" ”

The people raised their swords again and replied, "Beg to be killed!" ”

Wang Yu asked again: "Xuanfu and the eunuchs should surrender, what should I do?" ”

The people raised their swords again and replied, "Beg to be killed!" ”

Zhang Xiaochun was shocked when he saw this, and since then he has never said anything about surrendering, and the military power in the city has been in the hands of Wang Yu since then.

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

Zhang Xiaochun and Wang Yu were determined to fight to the death with the Jin army, and they held on to the wall and waited for help.

Zhang Xiaochun said to the soldiers and civilians in the city: "Although the Jin people are under the city, they are incapable of doing harm, Taiyuan has been a strong feudal domain since ancient times, the city is strong and the food is sufficient, and the soldiers are brave, I don't want to go out of the division, when the Jin people are exhausted and lose their food, they will be arrogant and lazy, and they are waiting for reinforcements nearby, corresponding inside and outside, so that Hu Cai does not return, the upper is the revenge of the imperial court, and the lower is the blood of Baoru, but what? All of them promised.

The circumference of Taiyuan City was only ten miles, and they dug a trench outside the earthen city and built another heavy city inside the earthen city. Military control was imposed on the food stored in the city, and the food was supplied daily per capitation regardless of whether it was rich or poor.

Zhang Xiaochun sat in the town, co-ordinated the logistics arrangements, Wang Yu was on the city wall every day to supervise the battle and defend the city, he took the lead, every day to gallop back and forth, where there was an emergency, he came to support, he not only won the love of the people of Taiyuan, even the Jin soldiers outside the city, also knew that there was a brave and warlike Wang in the city.

The Jin army attacked in turn for more than ten days, and the city of Taiyuan was still towering.

Cloud ladders, partial bridges, stone-throwing vehicles and other siege weapons were all used by the Jin soldiers, and the slightly larger stones on both sides of the Fen River were used up by the Jin soldiers, but every attack was stubbornly blocked by the soldiers and civilians of Taiyuan City, and each time they were repulsed.

Wanyan Zonghan was very annoyed by this, and he ordered to build fortifications outside the city, and besieged Taiyuan City like an iron barrel with a deer antler company camp.

Taiyuan City is now like an isolated island, completely surrounded by the Jin army on all sides, and all external communication channels have been completely cut off by the Jin army......

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PS: Say a couple of words.

After writing this book and reading "Water Margin" deeply, Big Bird believes that "Water Margin" is one of China's four great masterpieces, and it can even be said that if it only has the first half, it is China's first famous novel.

Of course, the second half of Luo Guanzhong's supplement is also very level, worthy of a literary master.

But Luo Guanzhong made a big mistake in "Water Margin", that is, he should not slander Wang Yu - the hero Wang Yu.

This duke is a first-class hero in history, and in the heart of the big bird, this duke is the backbone of the Han people.

Such a hero should not be stigmatized as a villain, even for the sake of artistic creation.

Luo Guanzhong was wrong.

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