Chapter 715 - Draining National Strength
Wan Yan Liang and Wan Yan Yong fought in the north and south directions, which lasted for more than a month.
In the vast northern grasslands, the two armies come and go, the advantage is fought, the disadvantage is run, either unable to catch up, or blocked, the two sides have never been able to seize the opportunity to give the other a fatal blow.
This kind of rush and chase made the soldiers on both sides exhausted, not eating and sleeping well, and with the arrival of the wind and snow, the morale of the army gradually became unstable.
But after this battle, Yan Yong is the attacker, occupying some advantages, the place of battle is in the area controlled by Wan Yan Liang, on the way to chase the march, he encountered large and small tribes, and directly robbed them, replenished the food and grass for the march, and even wiped out the other party easily, eradicating the tribes that took refuge in Wan Yan Liang, you can warn other tribes and further hit Wan Yan Liang's support forces.
As the war continued, Wan Yanliang's sphere of influence was constantly destroyed, and life was not easy.
At the same time, Wan Yan Yong was not so good, after all, the place of contact between the two sides was on Wan Yan Liang's territory, Wan Yan Liang's food and materials could be replenished from Datong Mansion two or three hundred miles away, and Wan Yan Yong had to be replenished from Liaoyang Mansion thousands of miles away.
Therefore, after a long time, the two sides are evenly matched, and no one can take advantage.
And Wan Yan Yong's vain attempt to drag Wan Yan Liang with the main force and divide an army with Yanjing to attack Datong Mansion was also easily crushed by Wan Yan Guangying, the prince of Xijin, who was sitting in Datong Mansion.
It turned out that the army he separated from the army had not yet joined the Yanjing army, and was ambushed in Xinghe, more than 100 miles away from Datong Mansion, and the whole army was annihilated, and the Yanjing army that advanced west from Fengshengzhou planned to cross the mountains north of Tianzhen and surprise attack Datong Mansion, but did not want to be ambushed in the mountains north of Tianzhen, retreated in defeat, and retreated back to Fengshengzhou.
Just when the two sides were entangled around Datong Mansion, the Xijin garrison garrison of Zhending Mansion and Hejian Mansion suddenly launched an attack on Yanjing, sending 100,000 troops, with a huge momentum, connecting several prefectures and counties within ten days, and approaching Zhuozhou, Gu'an and other places on the periphery of Yanjing.
Previously, Liaoyang Mansion and Yanjing judged that the Jinan Mansion and the Daimyo Mansion of the Great Song Dynasty were contained in the south, and the troops deployed by Wanyan Liang in Zhending Mansion and Hejian Mansion would definitely not dare to be mobilized on a large scale, so when Wanyan Yong launched a thousand-mile expedition to the west, nearly one-third of the troops stationed in Yanjing were transferred.
In addition, it was necessary to divide troops out of Fengshengzhou to attack Datong Mansion, and at this time, the garrison around Yanjing was less than half of what it was at its peak.
The garrisons of Zhending Mansion and Hejian Mansion attacked Yanjing desperately in the north, which greatly surprised Yanjing to stay behind, and waited for the other side to attack Zhuozhou and Gu'an, Yanjing had to order to give up the periphery for the time being, and collect troops to defend Yanjing.
In any case, Yanjing stayed behind and always believed in his own judgment, Zhending Mansion and Hejian Mansion Jin Army went north, even if they captured all the prefectures and counties except Yanjing, they would not be able to hold it, and they would retreat to Zhending Mansion and Hejian Mansion in less than a month, because the Song people in the south stationed 200,000 troops in Daimyofu and Jinan Mansion were not just to defend the Jin soldiers from going south.
From the current point of view, occupying Yanjing, Zhending Mansion, Hejian Mansion, Daimyo Mansion, Jinan Mansion and other places, all in a dead end, within three or five years, small disputes continue, but to start a big war, to destroy any party, it is unrealistic, so Yanjing stayed behind to see Xijing attacking the city and plundering the land and approaching Yanjing City, he is not in a hurry.
Yanjing City has thick walls and sufficient materials, and there is no problem in guarding it for half a year with only the reserves in the city, and even if the Jin army of Zhending Mansion and Hejian Mansion comes to the city, they can only retreat and want to besiege the city, unless they live enough and want to die under Yanjing City.
Yanjing stayed behind and ordered, and all the peripheral forces were reduced to Yanjing City, and not a single soldier was left outside the city!
Three days later, the vanguard of the Jin army of Zhending Mansion chased to the foot of Yanjing City, stopped three miles away, and did not come closer.
Two days later, as many as 50,000 troops had gathered under Yanjing City.
The next day, the vanguard army launched an attack on Yanjing, fighting fiercely for several hours, leaving behind hundreds of corpses, and retreated to the camp in defeat.
After that, the Jin army under the city did not attack the city again for many days.
Five days later, Yanjing stayed behind and got an urgent report from Pingzhou: Pingzhou was besieged by 30,000 Jin troops, and it could only hold out for ten days at most, so please send troops to help!
Pingzhou was in an emergency, and Yanjing, who got the urgent report, stayed behind and was unmoved, throwing the emergency report into the brazier and burning it.
Although the geographical location of Pingzhou is very important, it is a convenient passage connecting Yanjing and Liaoyang Mansion, he is not worried about whether Pingzhou will be captured, because he knows that Pingzhou, which is located between Yanjing and Liaoyang Mansion, even if it is captured by the enemy, under the attack from three sides, they will not be able to gain a foothold in Pingzhou, and they will withdraw after fighting.
Six days later, news came from the direction of Pingzhou: Pingzhou was left behind and killed, more than 3,000 remnants surrendered, and the city of Pingzhou was broken and occupied by Xijin.
Hearing the news, Wanyan Huhe's heart was touched.
Soon after, the Yanjing Garrison Mansion ordered: The whole army will stick to Yanjing City, and no one is allowed to go out of the city to meet the battle without an order, and those who violate the order will be beheaded!
After a few more days, the wind howled and the gloomy sky suddenly snowed heavily.
The Xijin army surrounded by Yanjing City has not fought for many years, and it is used to living in the barracks.
The next day, the Xijin army under the city began to withdraw.
Seeing the rare opportunity, the Yanjing guard asked for troops to pursue and regain the lost territory, but was rejected by Wanyan Huhe, who stayed behind.
Wanyan Huhe told the generals that it was snowing heavily and it was not appropriate to send troops, and after the wind and snow stopped, send spies to investigate the enemy's situation, and then send troops!
Who knew that this heavy snowstorm lasted intermittently for nearly a month before it stopped.
Due to the long duration of the wind and snow, the cities previously captured by the troops of Zhending Province and Hejian Province had to abandon the newly occupied territory due to difficulties in transporting supplies, and the armies returned to their original positions.
At this point, in addition to Pingzhou, Xijin and Dongjin are in the direction of Yanjing, Hejian and Zhendingfu, and they have returned to the original point again.
In Yanjing's view of Yan Huhe, it won't be long before Pingzhou will return to its original point, and the Jin soldiers of Hejian Mansion will quickly retreat south.
However, half a month later, Wanyan Huhe found that he had miscalculated, and the Jin army that captured Pingzhou not only did not retreat, but continued to attack Laizhou to the east, with the intention of attacking Liaoyang Mansion directly.
After finding out that there were more than 20,000 people in that Jin army, Wanyan Huhe immediately ordered to send 30,000 troops to recapture Pingzhou, block the greedy Jin army of Hejian Province to the east of Pingzhou, and annihilate them together with the defenders of Laizhou.
Five days later, the defenders of Yanjing recaptured Pingzhou.
For another five days, the defenders of Yanjing and the defenders of Laizhou met to attack the Western Jin army attacking the north.
The Xijin army was short of supplies, lost in a battle, and had no way to advance or retreat, so it could only retreat to the northern mountains.
After the other party fled into the mountains, the Jin army of Laizhou and Yanjing retreated, retreated to Laizhou and Pingzhou, and no longer paid attention to the Jin army of Hejian Fu in the ice and snow, because what awaited them was only surrender or destruction, and there was no third way otherwise.
At the beginning of the month, Wan Yan Yong withdrew his troops and returned to Linhuang Mansion, and Wan Yan Liang led the army back to Datong Mansion.
In the autumn and winter of the third year of Beiding, Wan Yan Yong took the lead in launching an offensive annexation war, and finally ended in a draw with Wan Yan Liang, and no one could get benefits from the two sides except for consuming a large number of troops and national strength.
However, through this annexation war, Wan Yan Yong once again spread his influence to the western grasslands, proving to the tribes on the grasslands that he Wan Yan Yong had enough strength to compete with Wan Yan Liang and enough strength to represent the entire Jin court.
Wan Yan Liang only integrated the northern grasslands last year, and Wan Yan Yong used a war that lasted for more than two months to shake the positions of the tribes again, making Wan Yan Liang do useless work.
But Wan Yanyong, who returned to Linhuang Mansion, was not happy for too long, and was so angry that he almost fainted, because there was an enemy army in the rear of his sparse troops and neglected to take precautions, and in half a month, he had captured and destroyed five or six cities, and all the accumulated grain and grass materials were looted and burned, but now his whereabouts are unknown!
The hinterland will not allow the other side to act recklessly.
Wan Yan Yong immediately ordered that the other party must be eliminated within ten days, and no one will be left!
So Beijin spent three years of wax moon in Beiding in the pursuit of the enemy army in the hinterland, and ushered in the early spring of the fourth year of Beiding.
The Hejian Jin army that went deep into the hinterland of Beiding, after a few months of wanton destruction, the main force finally fell into the encirclement of the Dongjin army, and after a big battle between the two sides, the main force of the Hejian Fu Jin army was wiped out, and more than 1,000 people remained, disappearing without a trace.
The vanished army, some say they fled into the reckless mountains between the white mountains and black waters, others say they fled all the way north into the sparsely populated northern grasslands, and finally they disappeared, and no one knows where they went.
In March and April, everything returned to the status quo ante, Dongjin and Xijin temporarily withdrew their troops, both sides were exercising restraint, and no one dared to provoke a war at this time, because they could not afford to fight.
Last year's cold winter and heavy snow, the northern livestock froze to death countless times, as soon as spring arrived, the grassland began to famine, and there were many extermination wars between tribes, just to rob each other's cattle and sheep, and by the way to capture some prisoners and exchange grain with the rich people in the grain-producing areas.
The farming area of Dongjin is mainly in the Yanjing area, but in the autumn and winter of last year, the Jin army of Zhending Mansion and Hejian Mansion went north, and the damage was serious, and in addition it was located between the two armies, the people fled south, ten rooms and nine emptiness, the fields were seriously barren, and the grain produced could only be eaten by the Yanjing garrison, and there was not much surplus grain to supply Liaoyang Mansion, and most of the population of Dongjin still relied on herding and hunting for a living.
There are many farmland areas in Xijin, and the farming areas of Zhendingfu and Hejian Mansion are very large, but wars are frequent, and most of the local people have fled south, going to Jishui, south of the Yellow River, or westward into the Taihang Mountains, and those who remain in the local area are less than four or five percent of the original, and the grain production is limited.
Guanzhong and Hedong, which belong to Xijin, have been calm for many years, there are not many wars, and the damage to agriculture is small, but since the rule of the Jin people, the water conservancy is seriously wasted, and the grain production is not too rich, and the Jingzhao Mansion in Guanzhong and Pingyang Mansion in Hedong are very far away from Datong Mansion, and the road transportation is inconvenient, and the grain from the south is transported to the north, and the consumption on the road is very great, and it is very difficult.
The natural disaster calmed down Wan Yan Liang and Wan Yan Yong, and how to tide over the difficulties and calm down the grassland rebellion is the top priority.
The two of them thought of Bianjing together, under the current situation, sending troops to grab food is not in their consideration, and the only effective and fast way to obtain food is to buy it with money, or exchange it.