Chapter 2 Three-way Cutting Gold Sound Shocking Embattled Grass and Wood Soldiers
However, it is said that the Song army broke the Jin army of 170,000 in Luoyang, and the 250,000 army of the second southern expedition of the Jin State was wiped out, and the Song army took advantage of the situation to attack Liao on a large scale, only because the Jin army that crossed the Yellow River in the south was all annihilated, and not a single soldier could escape the Yellow River.
At first, the Jin Kingdom attacked the Song Dynasty on two roads, and the general under the command of Zong Han Wan Yan Lou went all the way south to break through Luoyang and occupy Tong Pass, and then Zong Han ordered Wan Yan Xiyin to lead the army to help defend, and returned to Taiyuan after changing Yan Lou's room to continue to besiege Taiyuan, which was to complete Yan Xiyin's troops and escape.
After the Battle of Luoyang, after the Northern Expeditionary Army on the left side of the Song army won the will of the Song court, they immediately marched north. The commander of this army and horse breed division is the commander-in-chief, and there are 20 generals of Shandong Road, Sun An, Tang Bin, Wen Zhongrong, Qiao Daoqing, Qin Ming, Huang Xin, Li Kui, Lu Zhishen, Wu Song, Yang Xiong, Shi Xiu, Sun Xin, Sun Li, Ou Peng, Deng Fei, Bao Xu, Xiang Chong, Li Gon, Mu Chun, Kong Ming, Kong Liang, Ma Lin, Shi En, Xue Yong, Ling Zhen. The subordinates are all elite military horses on Shandong Road, and they came with the great victory Yu Wei, and the stragglers of the Jin army south of Taiyuan could not resist and withdrew to Taiyuan.
When the Yan Lou room in Taiyuan heard that the Song army was moving north, he was taken aback, and said that the left and right generals said: "Three days ago, I learned that the Song army attacked and broke through the Tong Pass, and I wanted to lead the army south to help defend Kaifeng, but the second prince came to the general and taught me to still control Taiyuan and guard the northern passage, so as to prevent Taiyuan and Shanxi Song troops from following the south after our army went south, and attacked our army from north to south." But now that the Song army is heading north, is it possible that the more than 100,000 elites of the second prince's department will be wiped out? ”
Wan Yan Ang, a famous general of the Jin State under his command, said: "I heard that the Song court set up a new empress, spread the text in the world, and taught the Song State all the military horses and horses. This department is rumored to have more than 100,000 elite soldiers, hundreds of generals, last year to attack our army at dusk, then defeated our army, and the elite Guan Sheng Department of the department, in Hebei and the fourth prince to compete, for several months the army has not fallen behind. And our army is facing each other here, I heard that it is also the Lin Chong Department there, our army has been facing each other for a long time under the city of Taiyuan, and the two armies have clashed more than ten times, and they have won and lost half. At this moment, if the second prince is defeated, and the Yellow River and the Southern Song army march north, our army has to retreat, otherwise it will be attacked by the Song army under the city of Taiyuan, and the whole army will be destroyed. ”
Wanyan Lou was old, and he also knew that the current situation was unfavorable, so he said: "What you said is reasonable, but the current situation is not clear. Otherwise, the situation is not clear, we will withdraw our troops here first, if the second prince escapes from the river, and we fail to answer, how can we say anything from Your Majesty? ”
Wanyan Lou is also helpless, just because the victory or defeat is unknown, if he leads his troops away, he fails to respond to Wanyan Zongwang, and he will be investigated in the future, and he will not be able to escape military law. After finishing Yan Lou's office, the Jin army had to continue to wait in Taiyuan, and Tanma continued to investigate.
It's a pity that it was like this, and the lives of tens of thousands of soldiers and horses of the Jin army of the ministry were sent. The Jin army here was only destroyed by Zongwang's army and horses, and no one could send back the news, but Lin Chong had already received a book from the flying pigeon in the breeder. After getting the news, Lin Chong led the army to join the troops of Liu Tang and Wang Yu in Taiyuan, and began to launch a fierce attack on the Jin army outside the city of Taiyuan, hoping to entangle the troops of Wanyan Lou and wait for the arrival of the army in the division to break the enemy in one fell swoop.
After waiting for two days in the Yan Lou room, he finally got the news that the Jin soldiers who went south to spy on the south were all wiped out, and the news spread to the north bank of the Yellow River, and the soldiers and civilians of the Song State celebrated the victory, so they came back to report.
After getting the news, Wan Yan Lou Room, Wan Yan Ang and other Jin generals were dumbfounded, you must know that since the Jin State started its army, they have been invincible, even if there are occasional setbacks, they can save most of the military horses, but they don't want to lose so badly now.
The generals of the Jin army who came back to their senses wanted to lead the army to retreat north, but it was too late, Lin Chong's department and Taiyuan City's Liu Tang and Wang Yu's troops had already lined up and intertwined with the Jin army.
After crossing the Yellow River to the north in the Song Army, the Song Army Division drove all the way, and within a day the vanguard army and horses arrived in Taiyuan, attacked the camp of the Jin Guobu Army, and broke through the camp in one day, and then began to pursue and kill the Jin army.
Wanyan Lou Room and Wanyan Ang led the army to retreat north, and was chased and killed by the Song army along the way, and when they returned to Datong Mansion, there was no one in the ten military horses under their command, and Wanyan Lou Room and Wanyan Ang hurriedly applied for documents and asked for help from Jinting, while defending Datong Mansion.
After Zongze, the northern expeditionary army of the other way, met with Guan Sheng in the Daimyo's mansion, the two armies took advantage of the situation to sweep north, and fought several fierce battles with the fourth prince of the Jin State, Wanyan Zongbi's department, and the middle route army broke the Jin army in Zhending, and then went north to threaten Xiongzhou and Zhongshan Mansion, and Wanyan Zongbi had to retreat to Zhongshan Mansion.
Jin Taizong, who was far away in Shangjing Huining in the Jin Kingdom, was shocked when he heard that Zongwang and Zonghan's armies were exhausted, and when the Song army went on a three-way northern expedition, he was shocked and a little panicked. It must be known that when the Jin State was first established, the national energy situation was still unstable, and when the elite army of the Jin State was there, it was still able to suppress it, but now most of the elite military horses in the country were lost on the south bank of the Yellow River, which really hurt the foundation of the Jin State.
After hearing the destruction of the Southern Expeditionary Army, Jin Taizong Wanyan Wu Qimai hurriedly convened his ministers to discuss, calling on the soldiers and civilians of the Jin State to enlist over the age of thirteen and men under the age of sixty, and urgently recruit the military horses to deal with the invasion of the Song State. But people and horses are easy to gather, but it is a pity that it is difficult to gather food, grass, equipment, clothing and armor.
Jin State Caochuang, Wanyan Aguda reigned, Nian Lian war, the hometown of Liao was just ransacked by the war, originally hoped to get more land, money, food, and population through the southern expedition to the Song State. Land and population are just that, and the most important thing is money and food. The Jurchens of the Jin Kingdom and the old people of the Liao Kingdom in the north were all from nomadic backgrounds, unlike the Han people in the south who were engaged in farming, and their national strength was already weak.
At this time, the Jin country, although the capital of Shangjing Huining, but Huining did not have a decent palace, Jin Taizu Wanyan Aguta during the reign, because of the busy war, did not build a palace. After the second emperor Jin Taizong succeeded to the throne after Yan Wu Qimai, he began to order the Han Lu Yanlun to preside over the construction of the capital in 1124. At this time, the palace was built for more than two years, and it was only about to be completed, and most of the money and grain obtained from the robbery of the Liao State were used to build the palace and the southern expedition, which was not only insufficient soldiers and horses, but also began to run out of money and grain.
Therefore, although the Jin State has drawn up 300,000 military horses through conscription, all the military horses lack money, food, equipment, and armor. Fortunately, the Jin country was born in a safari, and the soldiers and civilians had some equipment and armor in their own homes, and most of the military horses recruited were their own horses, leather armor and bows and knives, and even many soldiers held their own hunting forks and wore their own leather armor and went on the expedition. Now that the Song army is heading north, the Jin State can only hope to defeat the Song army and obtain the Song army's equipment, grain and grass to continue the war.
The house leak happened to rain overnight, and gradually the news of the defeat of the Jin State spread, and the old and young relics of the Liao State really did as Sanniang said, and there was no need for the Song Kingdom to contact, and these old and young people began to move on their own.
After more than ten days of the Song army's northern expedition, the Liao nobles in the Jin State began to raise their banners, that is, to oppose the Jin and restore the Liao, and began to raise troops to rebel. For a time, from the Jin Kingdom to Shangjing Huining to Liaoyang Mansion, there was smoke billowing from all places, and the flames of war began to burn. Jin Taizong had no choice but to order the newly recruited 500,000 troops to be divided into 100,000 and sent to various places to quell the chaos.
What's more terrible is the Western Liao established by Xia and Yelu Dashi, the two countries heard that the Jin State was defeated, Sanniang sent a letter to the Xia State Famous General Wei Ming Chengjing, Chengjing also saw that the Jin Dynasty was worried about internal difficulties, so he and the Western Liao Yelu Dashi Xiushu Alliance, and the two families formed the Liaoxia Alliance to attack the Jin State from the west.
At the same time, among the Mongol tribes in Mobei that the Jin State had originally subjugated, the Tatar tribe, the Wangu tribe and other tribes also began to drive out the officials of the Jin State, and the leaders of the various tribes also did not submit to the governance of the Jin State, and raised their banners and raised troops one after another, either in response to the nobles of the Liao State, or in response to the Western Liao and Xia States.
In short, because the Jin State lost the battle for the founding of the Song State, the weakness of a new country without any foundation was completely exposed, and rebellions broke out everywhere, and the surrounding countries were all tiger and wolf countries, and they all began to use troops against the Jin State, and even the countries such as Goryeo that had already surrendered began to rebel.
At that time, if it had not been for the Korean battlefield to resist the coalition forces of the United States and dozens of other countries and completely stabilize the Northeast, there may not have been a period of peaceful development in the following decades. At this time, the Jin State lost the key battle of the Southern Expedition to the Song State, and the situation took a sharp turn for the worse, not to mention that the Jin State was not as vast as the later generations of New China, and it was not as deep as the later generations in terms of manpower and powerlessness.
Historically, it was precisely because the Jin State won the battle with the Song State that it maintained its coercion over the Song State for a long time and subdued the Xia State, and then ushered in a period of peaceful development in the country for decades. After the third emperor Jin Xizong ascended the throne, he and Wanyan Zongbi promoted the reform of the Han system and reused the Han people, which made the Jin State truly strong.
At this time, in addition to the strong military power, the rest of the Jin State can be said to be useless, once the strong military force that can ensure domestic stability disappears, then what awaits the Jin State must be the destruction of the country.
Just when Jin Taizong was in a hurry, a worse news came, the Song army took the sea route and the Northern Expeditionary Army of the Song Army on the right side led by Song general Yue Fei captured Yanjing, and then broke through Yanshan and other passes, and the passage to the north to attack Jin has been opened.
After that, Yue Fei did not sit in Yanjing, but left Niu Gao to guard Yanjing, waiting for the soldiers and horses of the Middle Route Army to come to join the division, and he led 30,000 troops and horses to cross the Liaodong Peninsula to the east and attack Liaoyang Mansion of the Jin State.
On this Northern Expedition, Sanniang set extremely strict military rules for all Song troops, that is, they must not kill the people of the north. In later history, when the Song army Tong Guansuo's department attacked Yanjing for the first time, he made this mistake. Historically, Guo Yaoshi had a plan to attack Yanjing, and it was relatively smooth at first, and the Song army successfully occupied Yanjing, but at this critical moment, the Song generals not only did not appease the people in the city, but issued a wrong order: kill the Khitan and Xi people in the city. And the Song soldiers were disordered in discipline, drinking and robbing everywhere, which caused a strong resistance, and Empress Xiao also ordered Xiao Gan to rush back to help. In this way, the Song army fought hard for three days and nights, and there were no reinforcements outside, only Guo Yaoshi, Yang Keshi and hundreds of soldiers were lucky to escape, and most of the soldiers such as Gao Shixuan died in the city. In history, this surprise attack on Yanjing, Guo Yaoshi's strategy was not high, but due to the discipline disorder of the Song soldiers, the wrong national policy, the contradictions between the generals and the cowardice and incompetence of the main general Liu Yanqing, the success was lost, and the recovery of Yanjing became a failure. Immediately, Liu Yanqing burned the camp and collapsed, the Liao army attacked, and the Song soldiers were defeated. So far, Song's two battles against Yan have failed.
It was during this Northern Expedition that Sanniang issued a strict military order, not to kill indiscriminately, but to appease the Khitan, Xi people, Beidi Han people and other tribes, and isolate the Jurchens, so as to accelerate the fall of the Jin State.