Chapter 297: Datong
"Brother Yue, generals, this is the deployment of Datong!" Dong first spread out a map and said.
At that moment, Yue Fei, Zhang Xian, Liu Qi and others carefully watched and discussed.
"Now there are probably more than 10,000 Jurchen troops here!" Dong Xiandao.
"Ten thousand? Were they a pure Jurchen army, or were they a new annex made up of Khitans? Yue Fei said.
"Both! The Jurchens were a little more numerous. Dong Xiandao.
"Who is the guard of Datong?" Yue Fei said.
"The guard general is the Jurchen Zhao King Wanyan Zongjie! In addition to Wanyan Zongjie, Wanyan Ba quickly served as a deputy general! Dong Xiandao.
Yue Fei beckoned, and at that moment, another officer stepped forward and explained to everyone the details of Wan Yan Zongjie and Wan Yan Ba's departure. Wanyan Zongjie is the tenth son of the Jurchen Taizu Wanyan Aguta, and after Wanyan Wu Qimai succeeded to the throne, he was named King of Zhao. When Wanyan Aguda fought in the world, Wanyan Zongjie was still young, so Wanyan Zongjie did not follow Wanyan Aguda to fight together. However, Wanyan Zongjie has an excellent relationship with Wanyan Zongbi, and he is also the main battle faction among the Jurchens, and he has always disagreed with the Han people to negotiate peace. Wanyan pulls out the speed is Wanyan Yinshuke's younger brother, the force is super strong, extraordinary! After Wan Yan Yinshu died, Wan Yan pulled out the speed of first serving as a guard in Taiyuan, and then came to the Datong area last year.
This information was investigated by the Intelligence Department and transmitted to all armies! Over the years, the intelligence department has collected all the information of important generals of the Jurchens, and has a deep understanding of the personality, temperament and so on of important people!
After hearing these words, Yue Fei nodded.
When the two armies fight, they must know that they know each other, and the temperament of the enemy's defenders must also be investigated! To fight a war with troops, it is necessary to make judgments and deployments based on the temperament and habits of the enemy generals.
"Wanyan Zongjie has never been on the battlefield at all, so it's not enough! As for the speed of pulling out of the face, this person has the courage and no strategy, and it is not enough! Liu Qi next to him said.
"Not bad!" Zhang Xian also nodded.
"What has been the situation in Western Xia recently?" Yue Fei said suddenly.
"On that day, Your Majesty let go of the Yellow River, and the Yinchuan Plain suffered a catastrophe, and the Western Xia people suffered heavy casualties! Moreover, because of the raging Yellow River, the farmland of the Tangut people was also swept away, and the Tangut people lacked food! This winter, Xingqing Mansion is afraid that more than 100,000 people will starve to death! We got the news that Li Qianshun, the king of Western Xia, had left Xingqing Mansion and now came to the area of Keyimon in the north! There are still several Western Xia cities in the north, and there are still close to a million party members! Because of the defeat in the war, Li Qianshun's prestige has been greatly reduced, and now those Xixia cities are all against Li Qianshun! There is even a guard of the Western Xia city who wants to take refuge in our Great Song Dynasty! Dong Xiandao.
"In that case, they can't take advantage of the opportunity to send troops." Yue Fei nodded and said.
Although the Western Xia existed in name only, there were still cities in the northern part of the Western Xia, and there were still millions of party members, so the mobilization of the army must take into account the situation of the Western Xia, and the Western Xia must also be wary.
"Brother Yue, the west of Datong is full of grasslands! It's incredibly open! If we want to attack Datong by surprise, it is simply impossible! What kind of tactics are we going to use? Dong Xiandao.
"Naturally, it's a strong attack!" Yue Fei said lightly.
"Storming? That Datong is a famous city in the northwest, and its defense is unusually strong! If we attack, I'm afraid that the price we will pay will not be small! Dong Xiandao.
Datong is the location of the famous Datong army in the Tang Dynasty, it was once the location of the Beijing division of the Northern Wei Dynasty, and when the Liao State was located, it was the Xijing of the Liao State! It has the great significance of sitting in the northwest of the Central Plains! By the time of the Ming Dynasty, it was the most important border city in China, and countless wars in the Ming Dynasty took place in the Datong area! The construction of this Datong is extremely strong, and it is not even under the Xingqing Mansion of Western Xia! On that day, Dong Xian followed Zhao Chen to attack Xingqing Mansion, but he couldn't conquer Xingqing Mansion at a great price, so he is now very suspicious of attacking Datong!
"They only have more than 10,000 soldiers and horses, we have an army of 100,000, and it won't cost too much to conquer Datong!" Yue Fei said.
"But that day in Xingqing Mansion, there were only more than 50,000 old and weak soldiers in Western Xia, and our hundreds of thousands of troops surrounded Xingqing Mansion for many days, and it was still difficult to overcome!" Dong Xiandao.
"The situation in Datong is different from that in Xingqing Mansion! The defenders of Datong are Jurchens, and the people in Datong City are composed of Khitans and Han Chinese! Once the Great War broke out, it would be impossible for the Khitans and Han people to help the Jurchens defend the city! And on the same day in Xingqing Mansion, a big war broke out, and hundreds of thousands of party and people defended the city together, which was difficult for us to overcome! Wanyan Zongjie and Wanyan Ba are not as fast as the then prime minister of Western Xia, Wei Ming Anhui, and the imperial concubine Ren of Western Xia! Yue Fei said lightly.
On that day, Xingqing Mansion was besieged, and Xixia faced the destruction of the country and the family, and at that moment, hundreds of thousands of party members in Xingqing Mansion actively participated in defending the city! Even women came to the city walls and participated in the defense of the city! This nation broke out with the last courage and will, and this was able to hold Xingqing Mansion! But in Datong, the Jurchens belonged to the invaders, and it was impossible for the people of Datong to help the Jurchens! Therefore, in Yue Fei's opinion, the difficulty of attacking Datong is far less difficult than the difficulty of attacking Xingqing Mansion in the first place!
"General Yue is right! There are only 10,000 defenders in Datong, so we don't need to hesitate at all! A strong attack is enough to defeat Datong! Liu Qi also said at this moment.
"Order the army and rest! Set off immediately tomorrow, and the soldiers will go straight to Datong! Yue Fei said.
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Datong, during the Warring States Period, was the location of Yunzhong County placed by King Wuling of Zhao to guard against the invasion of grassland nomads from the northwest.
From the Warring States period to the Qin and Han dynasties to the Tang Dynasty, the status here is extremely important.
Until the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, the Later Jin Shi Jingjiao ceded the sixteen states of Yanyun to the Khitans, including Datong, so the Han people lost Datong.
In the past, only Han Chinese existed in this city, but after more than 100 years of rule by the Khitans, the number of Khitans here has exceeded 100,000. It's just that the Khitans, who were once a statistical class, have now become the ruling class, and their status is no longer much different from that of the Han Chinese. They also had to endure the enslavement and humiliation of the Jurchens! The Jurchens are brutal, far better than the Khitans of the past.
Because this was once the capital of the Liao State, where the Western Army was located, and the geographical location was extremely important, the Jurchens had 10,000 defenders here.
It's just that the Jurchens didn't expect the big war to happen here, so the defenders here are extremely slack.
It has reached the twenty-fifth day of the first month, and the sky has gradually darkened, and there are few figures on the Datong city wall at this moment.
Most of the Jurchen soldiers had already returned to the city, either sleeping or having fun. Over the years, Datong had never been invaded, so these Jurchen soldiers had no guard in their hearts.
In the center of the city of Datong, there is a palace here. This is one of the symbols that once served as the capital of the Liao State, and the Liao people once built many palaces here. Of course, later generations will never see these palaces, Datong City has suffered many wars, to the early years of the Ming Dynasty once rebuilt Datong City, at that time Datong was already a ruin.
At this moment, in a palace, the lights are bright, and two generals are sitting there eating meat and drinking.
Countless maids came and went, constantly serving wine and food.
One of the generals was only twenty-six or seventeen years old, and he was very handsome, somewhat similar to Wanyan Zongwang.
The other person is unusually tall, and the beard on his face is iron, and he stands up one by one, just like the legendary image of Zhang Fei! It's just that unlike Zhang Fei, he is bare-headed, pigtailed, and dressed as a standard Jurchen!
"Your Royal Highness, the second prince and the fourth prince are going to use troops against Guan Shaanxi, but you and I are staying in Datong! When the time comes, without the credit of you and me, you and I will not get a reward! The Jurchen man, who looked like Zhang Fei, finished drinking a bowl of wine and was a little angry.
"When the fourth brother arrives, I'll see if I can go south with him! My relationship with my fourth brother has always been very good, and he should agree to me! The young general said.
"When the time comes, please ask Your Highness to bring the last general!" A general who looks like Zhang Fei.
"It's nature! You're my right-hand man, and I'm going to take you with me! After we arrived in Guanshan, we wantonly slaughtered Han soldiers and humiliated Han women! Gold and silver treasures, we can take them as we like, without any scruples! The Han Chinese, who are destined to be slaves of our Jurchens, kneel before us and obey our commands! The young general let out a long laugh and said.
"Your Highness, two years ago, the Han people defeated our Jurchens. Even my eldest brother, he died at the hands of the Han Chinese. "Wanyan pulled out of the speed road.
"It's a fluke that the Han people were able to win! Their intrigues are really powerful, and they need to be embankmented! However, this time we mobilized the strength of the whole country, the force is too strong, in the face of such a force, any conspiracy and trickery will only seem ridiculous! The Han people, cowardly and incompetent, ridiculous and ridiculous, when our army arrives, I guess all the Han soldiers will kneel down immediately! Even if we put knives on their heads and we cut off the heads of Han people one by one, the rest of the Han people still kneel on the ground and dare not resist us! This is the Han Chinese, the most incompetent race in the world! Let's go south and conquer them! The young man seemed to have drunk a little too much, and said with great excitement at the moment.
"Your Highness is right!" Wan Yan Bal nodded quickly and said.
The two of them drank to their heart's content until it was dark, and the two of them simply rested in the palace.
It wasn't until midnight that the two of them were awakened, and they faintly heard the sound of shouting outside.