Chapter 952: Victory Pass
I don't know why, since he stepped into the realm of the Jin Kingdom, Huang Jie's feelings of sadness and sadness have increased, and even gradually replaced the vigilance, worry and worry that he should have for Jin Zhan. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
Speaking of which, he should also know from the bottom of his heart that it is impossible to negotiate peace this time, so the future that can be predicted is nothing more than two paths: one is that hundreds of thousands of Northern Expeditionary troops will be wiped out, and the Great Song Dynasty will collapse and perish; The other is to exterminate the Jin Kingdom and the Jurchens, and never make peace!
Therefore, Huang Jie is very confident that it is impossible for the Great Song Dynasty, which has obtained so many black technologies, to be defeated, so it is equivalent to saying that the Jurchens are really dead this time!
It is precisely because this belief in Huang Jie's heart is very firm that he began to think of the scenes when he went to Jin to welcome relatives as a greeting envoy and met and intersected with Aguta and Wuzhu and others. At that time, Jin Guoshang regarded Liao as his mortal enemy, and naturally expressed enough sincerity and goodwill to the Great Song Dynasty and the envoys of the Great Song Dynasty, and naturally cultivated his friendship with Huang Jie, so now Huang Jie thinks that this battle will be fought to the end, and he is bound to slaughter almost all the Jurchen men as he said, and wipe out a nation alive and annihilate in the long river of history, so he naturally feels desolate.
Not to mention that Huang Jie's sadness and sorrow are ridiculous or not, he is really ready to wait for Zongwang's army in Liaoyang Mansion for three days. The day after Zong Wang went to Yaozhou, he also took the sea and land from Yuguan to the good news, and in the case of the seed master Dao personally coming to the front line to supervise the battle, the 60,000 Hebei Road Army (Combined Army) led by him captured Yuguan in only four hours.
At this time, there were actually only 6,000 defenders in Yuguan, and there were less than 1,000 female real soldiers, and the rest were all strong men who were forcibly recruited, and the combat power and will to guard the pass were not enough at all, so it was really light and clever to take Yuguan by the seed master.
Of course, to be so easy to get, there are two indispensable factors inside and outside, one is Wanyan Xiyin's good strategy, in order to prevent the Song army from finding out the news that the Jin army is about to go south, he deliberately put Zongwang's 50,000 elite Jin army in Jinzhou, and after Zongwang learned that Liaoyang, which was guarded by Yan Xiyin, was besieged, he disobeyed the military order issued by him early in the morning to defend Yuguan and seek an opportunity to go south, but turned around to save Liaoyang.
Another is that in the past few years, the Song army has infiltrated a large number of people with a purpose, and by taking advantage of the convenience of repairing Yanjing City, all the roads along Yanjing to the south to Hebei have been built into high-speed roads that can pass four cars. Therefore, when the Song army launched, it directly transported the army to the hinterland of Yanyun at a very fast speed through the highway, and then took Yanjing as the middle line, and the troops were divided into two routes, one was led by the seed master road to the northeast and went straight to Yuguan, and the first route was led by Yao Gu, the son of Yao Gu, the general of the northwest, Yao Zhongping, the leader of the Xihe River, and Liu Guangshi, the commander of the Xuanfu Division of Shaanxi, led the 50,000 Xihe army and the Shaanxi army to Gubeikou.
And Zhe Keshi's brother Zhe Keqiu, also led the 30,000 Zhejia troops (infantry troops) stationed in Daizhou, and cooperated with the Ninghua Army, the Baode Army, Fuzhou, and Fengzhou to build a defensive line with more than 50,000 border troops, and stubbornly guarded the passage of Datong Mansion to the south and Yanmen Pass.
Finally, with the addition of the troops used by the commander in Qinzhou to contain the Western Xia, the total number of troops mobilized by the Northern Song Dynasty this time has reached nearly 400,000, and the 20,000 people led by Huang Jie himself are the essence of the 400,000 army.
However, after seeing the battle report sent by the Seed Master Dao and learning that of the four hours he spent to conquer the Yu Pass, one and a half hours were wasted in sending envoys to persuade the Yu Pass guards to surrender, and another hour was to send troops along the Yu Pass City Wall to attack the remnants of the Jurchen soldiers who were defending the beacon tower, and it was only one and a half hours that were really used to lay down the pass, but after knocking out the entire three bases of artillery ammunition and the ammunition of sixty heavy artillery, Huang Jie couldn't imagine what kind of ruin the Yu Pass that the Seed Master Dao had beaten down would be.
You must know that according to the regulations of Huangzhou Thunder God Academy, the standard base ammunition of an artillery is thirty-six rounds (don't ask why it's not a hundred rounds or more, because people in this era like to have a terrible number), that is, in just one and a half hours, the seed master Dao fired 6,480 cannons at Yuguan, so many shells, I am afraid that it is not an exaggeration to say that Yuguan was beaten into a sieve, right?
Huang Jie was also taken aback, when he and the Seed Master Dao were studying the plan of how to attack Yu Pass, although they repeatedly emphasized the power and tactics of artillery, they really didn't ask the Seed Master Dao to destroy this pass that was very important to the Great Song Dynasty.
However, as a veteran commander, he is naturally also an old man, he actually sent troops to attack at the same time, he had already allocated hundreds of flat low sand ships to transport a large number of prefabricated components for the construction of Lingbao to stop in the open sea of Yuguan, so after he collapsed the city wall of Yuguan alive and wiped out the 6,000 defenders, he was also busy with the sand boats to land at the foot of Yuguan regardless of losses, and then used various prefabricated components to rebuild Yuguan again, and also proposed in the document sent to change the name of Yuguan to Deshengguan, and asked Huang Jie's opinion.
To be honest, if Huang Jie wants to rename it, he is more inclined to change the name of Yuguan to the catchy Shanhaiguan in later generations, but thinking that Wu Sangui has not yet happened after leading the Qing troops into Shanhaiguan and finally destroying the "future things" of the Ming Dynasty, he simply sold the face of the seed master and supported him to change the name of Yuguan to Deshengguan.
Moreover, Huang Jie also planned that after the death of the Seed Master, he would definitely make a stone at the place where the mountains and the sea met before the victory pass, and erect a statue at least five zhang high for the Seed Master Road, so that his exploits will be passed on forever. As for why he put this matter after the death of the Seed Master, at least if he wanted to do this when the Seed Master Dao was alive, I was afraid that the old man would directly die of anger to Huang Jie.
Because since the Spring and Autumn Period, the Chinese people have regarded the statue as a taboo, just like Confucius: the initiator, there is no aftermath?
Because in the era in which Confucius lived (the late Spring and Autumn Period), there were still many barbaric countries (such as the Qin State) after the nobles or monarchs and other awesome characters hung up, they would look at the slaughter of slaves, prisoners of war, and even wives and concubines, maidservants, and slaves to be buried, so this sentence means that Confucius advocated "Sokcho as a person" or made of terracotta figurines to accompany the burial, and did not approve of the use of living people for burial, that is, from then on, the Chinese people regarded human figurines or sculptures as burial objects.
Of course, there are exceptions, such as in the early Song Dynasty, if the statues of ministers and generals were placed in front of Zhao Kuangyin's tomb, it would be an honor to honor the ancestors. However, as an old minister of the Four Dynasties (Shenzong, Zhezong, Huizong Zhao Ji and Qinzong Zhao Huan), if you ask him to choose which emperor's tomb to be buried as a stone man, I am afraid that he will not choose anyone.