Volume 8 Jingkang Change Chapter 707 [The Fall of Yanjing]

To say that the surrender of Guo Yaoshi and Chang Shengjun to the Song Dynasty was undoubtedly a very serious blow to Yeluchun, but in the face of the vigorous Western Army of the Jin Kingdom, Yeluchun's courage began to gradually shrink. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE怂 ļ½‰ļ½Žļ½†ļ½

It is said that Xiao Gan proposed to stick to the Jin army and fight to the death of the Jin army, while Yelu Dashi thought that although the Jin army was currently in full swing, it was good at attacking but not good at defending, so it was better to abandon the strategic transfer of the Xijin Mansion to Datong Mansion, temporarily avoid its edge, and then fight with the Jin army at the right time and place in the future, that is, to exchange space for time.

Even Yelu Dashi believed that the alliance between Song and Jin might not be strong, or he could ask the Great Song Dynasty for assistance and jointly resist the southern invasion of the Jin State.

As a result, it is said that Xiao Gan and Yelu Dashi had a quarrel at that time because of their opinions to the left, and then Yelu Chun adopted Yelu Dashi's opinion and sent envoys Xiao Rong and Han Fang to the Great Song Dynasty. Xiao Rong and Han Fang went to Xiongzhou to see Tong Guan, and presented the book on the Northern Liao Institute and said that they would pay money to the Song Dynasty and be a minister.

But Tong Guan believes that it is not enough to only pay money and be a minister, and it is necessary to accept land. In fact, the payment of the minister is the surrender of the land, Han Fang smiled and said: "The payment is the payment of the soil, and the variety of captives is not easy to draw, and the court should think about both, and there is no regret for the day after tomorrow." ā€

As a result, Tong Guan gave Ye Luchun's book list to Zhao Guan's family, but Zhao Guan's family did not respond.

Then, here's the highlight!

After the Jin army consolidated Wuqing, it successively conquered Gu'an, Fanyang, and Shunzhou (now Shunyi) north of Xijin Prefecture.

At this time, the first section of the Jin army crossed the Lugou River in the middle of the night with 3,000 light horsemen and local guides, and arrived at Sanjiadian (still its name today, in Mentougou District). The next morning, the Jin army light cavalry sent elite fine work mixed in the suburbs, successfully captured the Yingchun Gate in the east of Yanjing, and the rest of the Jin army's light cavalry quickly rushed into the city to kill, but was driven out by the Liao army garrisoned in the city, and finally the remaining men and horses guarded the Yingchun Gate.

At the same time, the northern and southern armies of the western army of the Jin army also launched attacks on the defenders of Xiao Gan and Yelu Dashi respectively, and the Jin army sent another 10,000 troops to continue the detour to Yingchun Gate to help. Yelu Chun, who was guarding Yanjing City, saw that the situation was not good, and on the one hand, he threw all the leather family troops guarding the Yanjing Imperial City, trying to annihilate all the Jin troops at Yingchun Gate and recapture the city gate, and on the other hand, he also sent people to send a message to Xiao Gan and Yelu Dashi, asking them to return to help quickly.

At this time, Yelu Chun may not have known that the Jin army had already launched an attack on Xiao Gan and Yelu Dashi's troops at the same time, otherwise he would definitely not have sent such a message that might have more morale among the army.

But then Xiao Gan and Yelu Dashi's response was very different: after Xiao Gan's troops repelled the two rounds of attacks of the Jin army, they left a Xi army light cavalry to hold the camp, and then quickly returned with the elite of the whole army; However, Yelu Dashi was not moved by this news, and the whole army insisted on counterattacking until the afternoon and night, when the tentative Jin army retreated, leaving a few wounded soldiers to hold on in the camp, and then led the whole army to retreat in the direction of Yanjing Xicheng.

As for Yanjing City, even Ye Luchun invested nearly a thousand elite leather room army soldiers around him, but he was unable to wipe out the Jin army's forward guarding Yingchun Gate before the Jin army's arrival of help. Therefore, after the arrival of the Jin army's reinforcements, the Jin soldiers engaged in a bloody street battle with the Khitan soldiers defending the city, and the battle was very fierce.

Because this Jurchen has its own aura of rage, while the combat effectiveness is strong, the Jurchen soldiers naturally have no military discipline at all, not only robbing the people's property at will, burning and killing, but also do not distinguish between obedience and disobedience, as long as they see the people in Khitan costumes, they are a murderer, and the result naturally aroused the resistance of the residents in the city, and they rose up to assist the Khitan soldiers to counterattack the Jin army, so that the Jurchen soldiers also suffered a lot of casualties.

Eventually, by the time Xiao Gan's troops arrived at the city, the Jin army had already captured almost a quarter of Yanjing City, and occupied and controlled the four gates on the southeast, north, and south sides with the Yingchun Gate as the center.

As soon as Xiao Gan saw that the general trend had gone, he no longer attacked the Jin army on the city gate, and immediately chose to wave the army to the west, and sent people to enter Yanjing City through other city gates, and went to the palace to persuade Yeluchun, who was still directing the resistance, to transfer his strategy.

In the end, Yeluchun gave up resistance under the persuasion of Xiao Gan's envoy and Xiao Gan's sister Concubine Xiao, and chose to transfer strategically. Coincidentally, at this time, Yelu Dashi's troops happened to be strategically transferred, so his runaway troops were also transformed into escort troops, escorting Yelu Chun to retreat in the direction of Datong Mansion.

After that, early the next morning, when the people in the city who were still resisting learned the news that Yeluchun had run away, they also gave up their resistance resignedly, but the Jin army, which had suffered heavy losses, did not want to leave it at that. After beckoning the progress of the northern and southern armies, the Jin army launched a three-day massacre in Yanjing City.

Within three days, the Khitan people in the city were almost slaughtered, and the Xi, Zahu and Han people were also poisoned, but in the end, how many people the Jin army killed in Yanjing City, as far as the current number is not an exact number, only know that almost half of the 26 squares in the city were destroyed, and the smoke rising from the cooking in the city was less than one-tenth of the heyday.

At this point, Yeluchun established himself as the queen and set Yanjing City, which was the capital of Western Liao, also fell into the hands of the Jin army.

In addition, let's talk about Yongqing, after this city was defeated by Han Jinbao's imperial chariot army, Han Jinbao originally left 3,000 people to garrison, but later Liu Yanqing sent his own sons Liu Guangguo and Liu Guangshi to order 2,000 men and horses to come to "assist in defense", but when Liu Yanqing and they were strongly counterattacked under Yanjing City, Liu Guangguo first led his 2,000 men and horses to withdraw first in the name of asking for help from the Chinese army.

Later, as Liu Yanqing and others retreated to the Baigou River, Liu Guangshi saw that the situation was not right, and hurriedly led his 2,000 men and horses to retreat to Bazhou. In the end, after a long time without reinforcements to help, and the food and grass and military resources were extremely scarce, Han Jinbao had to order the garrison to abandon the city and retreat south.

However, because the news of the Jin army's massacre in Yanjing had spread at this time, the Khitan, Xi and Zahu in Yongqing City had asked to be attached to the south side of the Great Song Dynasty. (To be continued.) )