Chapter 738: Thicker and Longer
Ah Guta is afraid that he still doesn't know the news that Goryeo is attached to the Central Plains, of course, he can't help it even if he knows. The current matter alone had already made him more than capable of strength, not to mention worrying that the Qi army was advancing from the peninsula to Liaodong.
Yanjing's offensive in the Jinxi Corridor is still in full swing, and the offensive of the Qi army's naval division on the Liaodong Peninsula is also in full swing. The Dajin Kingdom, which was attacked on both sides, was not only forced to divide its forces into two sections, but now its strategy against the enemy was also vacillating.
The group of forces led by sticky drinks are mainly the faction of the Minister of State. As mentioned above, the unification of Wanyan Nuzhen began with Wanyan Wugunai.
This Ugunai liked the courage and courage of the second son, Wanyan Libo (Agu beat his father), so the descendants of Wanyan Libo dominated the politics of Wanyan Jurchen. When the sons were all adults, according to Jurchen custom, they should move to different palaces [tribes] to live, but Ugunai let the eldest son and the second son live in the same house, and the impeacher should be in charge of household affairs, and the impeachment should be in charge of foreign affairs. This is one of the reasons why the son of the impeacher, Wanyan Sagai, Wanyan Sticky and Drinkable, held the position of National Commentator Bo Jilie (equivalent to the Minister of State) for a long time, and the son of the impeachment of Libo, Wanyan Aguta, and Wanyan Wu Qimai, became emperors.
Because of historical reasons, I had to respect my uncle's lineage, and when he had just inherited the position of the patriarch of the Yan Jurchens, he divided the Jurchen tribes with Wanyan Sagai. The north of Pideshui is ruled by Wanyan Aguta, and the area around Lailiushui is ruled by Wanyan Sagai.
If such a situation can last for a hundred and ten years, it is difficult to say that the Jurchen will really be divided into two parts. But the time for Wanyan Jurchen to be divided into two was too short, so when Ah Gu fought against Liao, the entire Wanyan Jurchen was involved. It is also for this reason that the status of sticky drink among the Jurchens is so important and has a decisive weight. That's because the sticky drink is the majority shareholder of the Jurchen!
Now that he is sticky and drunk, he advocates concentrating his forces to hold Jinzhou, and the Qi army wants to open the passage into Liaodong, which is necessary to take Jinzhou. Sticky didn't drink it, although the strength of the Jin Army has been weakened a lot after the big war last year, it still has the strength to fight. Then it should be a stubborn defense of Jinzhou City, which is easy to defend and difficult to attack - Jinzhou City is adjacent to the Xiaoling River in the south, that is, the Xiaoling River, the river is wide and clear, and it goes straight into the Liaohai Sea. There are mountains on the left and right sides of the city, and the Xiaoling River flows into the coastal plain through the mountains on the east side, although the latter is a plain, it is more of a puddle and a swamp, because this place often has seawater inflow, so it is really difficult for Jinzhou City to fight from south to north. Sticky and drunk because he saw the geographical advantages of Jinzhou City, and felt that the Jin army could fight. And along the Liaohai Sea, as long as there is no big chaos, no matter how jubilant the warships are, they will not be able to drive ashore. After all, it's just a harassment.
And you must know that the Liao army that attacked Jinzhou City this time is full of Yanjing soldiers and horses, and there are only an army in one place, how many people can there be?
In this way, it can not only keep the gateway of Liaodong safe, but also boost the spirit of the Jurchen soldiers and horses. After that, they Jurchens closed their doors and defended themselves, and in three or five years, when the Central Plains Han'er completely swept away the Khitan remnants in the north, even if the strength of the Jurchens could not be restored to the same as before, it could be much better than now?
And Wu Qimai and Wan Yan Xian are also represented by the 'Ah Gu Fighting faction' [they were all born by a father's mother, so to speak], but they don't think it's a good way to stick to Jinzhou, and they are even ready to lose Liaoyang Mansion. Because the enemy is strong and we are weak, the Han people can't strike a blow, and they can still have a second, third, and fourth, and they are raising troops ten times and can't succeed, and they still have the strength to raise troops for the eleventh time......
The true power of women has declined, and such a head-to-head confrontation with the Han army in the Central Plains will only continue to bleed, which is really not the work of a wise man.
They felt that it was okay to bring people back to Huanglong Mansion as soon as possible. Although doing this is very discouraging and frustrating, who calls the Han people strong, although this is a helpless move, it is also the most realistic move.
When their Jurchens returned to their lair, the Central Plains people came to attack and kill again, that is, they were advantageous, and the Han army was unfavorable. The latter is first unfamiliar with geography, and the second is the long distance. And in the place where Liaoyang is to the north, half of the year is winter, and the time, place and people are all in Jurchen. If the Central Plains soldiers and horses come to attack and kill again, they may not be able to repeat the battle of Dagang.
When you are weak, you take the initiative to go farther away from the enemy, which is a very simple reason.
What's more, after they return to their lair, they can still go west to manage the prairie......
Now, both factions are sticking to their guns.
The time entered the beginning of May, and the large Qi army was already in place. Lei Heng, Zhu Tong, Li Jun, and Hu Yanqing in Liaodong, the water and land echoed, and the infantry army was already heading towards the north. In the Jinxi Corridor, Song Gongming sat in Yuguan, Hua Rong and Shi Wengong raised the horse army to the north into the Liaozhong Beijing grassland, containing the Khitan soldiers and horses in the north, and Hu Yanzhuo and Yelu Ma Wu, combined with Wen Zhongrong, Cui Wei and Liu Shunren, and the army approached the outside of Jinzhou City.
The war has begun, and Aguta has once again convened a pre-imperial meeting to discuss the current situation and countermeasures.
As a result, no one can convince anyone.
Some people advocate sticking to Jinzhou, some people advocate taking the opportunity to return north, and then Liaodong is ceded to the Han people, which also makes the Han people pay less attention to them, and quickly go to fight the Khitans.
Even Wu Qimai thought that when the people returned to Huanglong Mansion, they could send someone to discuss with the Han people, and I would call you a vassal, and then your Emperor Lu had a large number of them, so let them go.
The ministers were arguing and arguing, and no one wanted to let go. How to choose? Aguta can't decide. Otherwise, this will make the differences between the two factions deeper and heavier.
"Your Majesty......" Wu Qimai looked at Ah Guda in confusion. It's all at this time, why not take the opportunity to be arbitrary?
If this drags on any longer, it will be difficult to retreat calmly.
"The news I just got, Wang Bolong, is unstable!"
Ah Gu gave Wu Qimai a news that shocked the latter. Wang Bolong, this is an old Jurchen courtier.
"It's not just Wang Bolong, but also Na Yelu Yujian."
After Yan Xian also fled from the prairie in Xijing Road, Ah Guda still had more trust in Yelu Yu. This Yelu Yu saw that he did not drop the chain at the critical moment.
But after he received the news of Wang Bolong's instability, the trust in Yelu Yu in his heart suddenly crossed. Although you can't get the handle for a while, when you have doubts about a person, you look at people with colored glasses, and you feel suspicious about what he does. Especially after Yelu Yujian's niece Ali Po also became the concubine of Emperor Lu, how suspicious Ah Guta looked at him.
Wu Qimai's face became solemn. The current soldiers and horses of the Jurchens are the real Jurchens, the Han'er of Liaodong, the Khitans who surrendered, and the Bohai people.
Now, the leaders of the Liaodong Han and Khitan people are unstable, and this matter is serious.
"Your Majesty is going to ......"
"Borrow a knife to kill!"
Aguta will not transfer Wang Bolong and Yelu Yujian to Jinzhou or southeast Liaodong, but he will send the Han'er army and the Khitan army to go, and the matter is gone. Besides, most of these people are related to the sticky drinking party.
The Jurchens in the official history, because Wanyan Xian also died early, directly detonated the battle for the throne of the Jin State, and the entire Jurchen high-level was divided into two, one was the reformers who hoped for the full sinicization, and the other was the conservative school who stuck to the Jurchen tradition.
Because according to the Jurchen tradition, after Wu Qimai died, Wanyan Xian also died early, and the one who should take over is the sister-in-law of Wanyan Wuyashu [Brother Aguta], and the son-in-law of Wuyashu is not, it is the sister-in-law of Aguta. At that time, Aguta's three sons-in-law were also dead, that is, Wu Qimai's son-in-law, that is, the core figure of the old school, and there were still those who were alive.
It was a battle for the throne. In the end, the eldest grandson of Aguta, a supporter of the reformists, Wanyan Hera [i.e., Jin Xizong Wanyan Yan], was appointed as the emperor of the Jin State and was determined to be the heir to the throne of the Jin State. The inheritance of the throne of the Jin Kingdom has also changed from the early brother to the brother, to the father-son inheritance.
But now this scene may not happen again, and there is no conceptual difference between the Jurchen upper echelons, and everything is willing to divide its own forces. The strength of sticky drink is not small, and when the army is marching and fighting, he is often the commander of the first army, attacking cities and plundering land, forcing countless prisoners. It is inextricably linked to forces other than the close relatives and clans.
His first confidant was the deceased Wanyan Xiyin, who was proficient in many languages and was the first polymath among the Jurchens. Naturally, it has connections with Khitan, Han'er, etc., and there are also Bohai people of Gaoqing descent in the entrainment. At the same time, there are many talents emerging from the Jurchen clan, and outsiders have to huddle together to keep warm. That sticky drink is a natural leader.
Ah Guda let out a long breath, when the heaven and the earth are all working together, and the heroes are not free. This is true.
Earlier, all the victories swept through the Jurchens, and all the disputes were covered up by victory. Now, when the victory is far away from the Jurchens, such rifts have emerged from it.
A year ago, why did Aguta bother with these 'minutiae'? At that time, he was the Lord who sat on the top, in charge of everything. But now he has fallen into the 'mortal dust'.
The next day, when he didn't have a score in his heart, he received the will of Ah Guta. A Gu named him the marshal of the right capital and led 20,000 troops to reinforce Jinzhou. Although most of the 20,000 people were Han and Khitan troops.
Later, Ah Guda took Wanyan Xian as the marshal of the left capital, led thousands of troops, left Liaoyang Mansion, and arrived in Yaozhou.
The Qi armies on both sides did not know the reaction of the Jurchens at this moment, and on the Liaodong Peninsula, after Lei Heng and Zhu Tong captured Hue City, the soldiers had already touched Zhenhai Mansion further north.
In this era, the development of the Liaodong Peninsula is still at a very low-end level. The simplest example of this is that on the vast peninsula, there are only seven cities on the map.
The Liaodong Peninsula is a dagger stabbing into the sea, and the east and west coastal areas are flat, like a sword edge. In between, especially in the north-central region, rolling mountains cut off traffic on both sides of the peninsula like a sword ridge.
Therefore, the Qi army had already set a strategy when attacking the Liaodong Peninsula. The naval division mostly disturbed the Liaohai, while the land division focused on attacking the eastern side of the peninsula.
Under Jinzhou City, Hu Yanzhuo and Yelu Mawu, who arrived at the front line, felt even more depressed when they looked at the solid exterior wall of Jinzhou City.
Jinzhou City and its army across the Xiaoling River, because of the limited number of troops in their hands, even if they had the help of the naval warships that followed the river to Jinzhou, they did not dare to easily send troops and horses to cross the other side of the river. If you want to effectively attack the defenders of Jinzhou, you can only rely on the power of the naval warships.
It's a pity that the existing artillery of the naval division can't beat Jinzhou City at all, and I really don't know how much the Jurchens have increased the thickness of the city wall.
The latter was originally a small city that even stone cannons could resist for a few days, but now the Jin army is rammed earth inside and outside the city wall, and I don't know how thick the city wall is. The horizontal and vertical three or five catties of cannons hit the city wall, giving the Qi army the feeling of tickling.
"Cannon, to take Jinzhou, you must have a thicker and longer cannon!" Yelu Mawu looked at the Xiaoling River, played the warship with the banner of giving up today and fighting again tomorrow, and said irritably.