Chapter 520: Dong Ping's Contribution
Wan Yanyu said worriedly: "I hope that the soldiers and horses of the two roads can be safely returned, otherwise we will not even be able to stop the soldiers and horses of the grassland road." ”
Wanyan Zong said: "Only 10,000 Bohai Navy and Han troops died along the way, and even fewer died along the way, so it should be possible to retreat." ”
Wanyan Wu begged to buy and said: "I'm afraid that if I return it, Da Liang will not stop, the barbarian soldiers on the grassland road alone will not be easy to deal with, and if Da Liang sends another 100,000 Han soldiers, we will be a little difficult." ”
Wan Yanyu said: "The northeast is cold, Daliang shouldn't send too many Han people to attack us, but I don't know where the barbarians on the grassland road will attack after they hit Linhuang Mansion." If we hit Beijing, we will transfer back the soldiers and horses, and we can go and grab them back. I'm afraid that they will come directly to attack Huining Mansion, and Yan Mu will not be able to withdraw back at once. ”
After Yan Wu begged to buy this, he couldn't help but change his face and said: "There are only 10,000 Jurchen soldiers in Huining Mansion, and if the barbarians fight over, it will be bad." No, we have to let the mother withdraw as soon as possible. ”
On this point, Wan Yan Yu and Wan Yan Zong have no opinion.
Wan Yanyu hesitated for a while and said, "If we ask for peace with the Liang State, will the Liang State withdraw its troops?" ”
If it was before, Wanyan Wu Qimai and Wanyan Zonggan would definitely point at Wanyan Yu's nose and scold their mother, and maybe they would draw their fists at each other. In the past few years, they can be said to be invincible, and they have long forgotten the days when they had to let the beauties of the clan sleep with the Liao people. However, the troops on both sides encountered obstacles, and the whole army was wiped out by the whole army on the defensive road, which made them sober up.
Wanyan Zong said: "Now they have big fists, I'm afraid they don't want to." ”
Wanyan Wu begged to buy but gritted his teeth and said: "Try it, this time it cost 20,000 Jurchens, and more than a dozen of them died." If we continue to fight, I am afraid that not only the Bohai people and the Han people will have different intentions, but other Jurchen tribes may not be willing to fight us to the death. ”
The Jurchens like to make people slaves, and they also know how to be good slaves for others, as long as they endure it. After getting through it, maybe there will be a time to turn over and be the master.
The three of them soon reached a consensus and sent Hulu, who had been an envoy to Liang, to Liang to sue for peace.
They are willing to be minions, but the girder doesn't seem to give them a chance.
Hao Lu had just pulled the small amount of gold and silver from the treasury of the Jin State to the Liang State, and after Yan Wu begged to buy it, he received an urgent report, and the soldiers and horses on the grassland road were coming east, and it seemed that the target was Huining Mansion.
Wanyan Yanmu has already left the Bohai Navy and the Han Army to rush back, but the schedule is still not as fast as the barbarians.
The three of them gritted their teeth and discussed for a while, but they were still reluctant to lose the capital of Dajin, and they armed all the surrounding Jurchens who could go to the battlefield, and prepared to defend Huining Mansion to the death.
Dong Ping has been aggressive all the way. It is also quite refreshing, one person and three horses, marching three hundred miles a day. If it weren't for the Han cavalry under his command, he felt that those steppe barbarians could run five hundred miles a day, or even more.
As for the supplies, they were completely obtained from the cities of the Jin Kingdom along the way, and the Jin Kingdom did not have time to clear the walls, so they killed them, and there was gunpowder to break the city. Neither stone nor earth walls are useless.
"Hahaha"
When Dong Ping arrived at the city of Huining Mansion with a large army, he couldn't help laughing when he looked at the Jin soldiers who were waiting in the city.
He hurried all the way, afraid that the Jin Guosavages would abandon Huining Mansion and go to the mountains and forests. In that case, it would be difficult for him to capture the Emperor of the Jin Kingdom. Unexpectedly, the Jin Guo savage actually prepared to guard Huining Mansion without his own strength, as if he wanted to fulfill his merits.
Although he likes to rush into battle, he is not willing to hide in the barracks every day, and leading troops on Ningxia Road and Grassland Road for more than two years almost suffocates him. He would rather abandon the steppe road with the most soldiers and horses. Go back to Bianjing, the city that never sleeps, to be a military general in the DPRK and China. This expedition is an opportunity, if he can catch the emperor of the Jin Kingdom, it will definitely be indispensable to add an official to the knighthood. At that time, he asked the prince to transfer him back to the court as a general.
Dong Ping asked people to invite the leaders of the various departments of the grassland, and shouted: "The meritorious service is in this dynasty, the prince has an order, and the reward of the emperor of the Jin State is 10,000 gold, and he will be made an earl." I tell you how old the Count is, I am the Marquis, and the Count is only one level below me. ”
When the leaders of the various departments heard that they were only one level lower than Dong Ping, their eyes suddenly lit up, and they howled one by one to play with the Jurchens.
Dong Ping looked at everyone's intentions, nodded with satisfaction, and if he caught the Emperor of Jin, he would no longer have to deal with these stench people. Although after Daliang built the grassland road, he ordered all the grassland departments to bathe frequently, but many tribes did not have this condition, and civilians could not wash it if they wanted to. The chiefs of the tribes, although they are in a position, do not seem to be willing to change their traditions for many years. This thing is not easy to supervise, and Dong Ping has no choice but to turn a blind eye.
"The Nabarian tribe is in charge of the east gate, the Mongolian department is in charge of the north gate, the Kereh department is in charge of the south gate, and the rest of the tribes are in charge of the west gate. Gaps will explode on all sides, and if the Emperor of Jin escapes in any direction, then the tribe will not think about the reward of beheading in front. Does anyone have objections? ”
When the leaders of the various departments heard the words of the translator, they looked at Dong Ping's sharp eyes and clenched their fists to receive the order.
Dong Ping waved his hand with satisfaction and said, "Okay, let's go and prepare." ”
The three major tribes of Naiman, Mongolia, and Kelie roared away, and Dong Ping also retreated a few miles with people, and after four huge explosions, Huining Mansion was drowned in the sound of fighting.
Dong Ping did not lead his troops to fight the Jurchens hand-to-hand, but dispersed the Han cavalry under his command in all directions to ensure that there were no war horses within five miles of the city, and the Jurchens could not grab the war horses if they broke through the city, and as for the war horses in the city, it was impossible to gallop again after four huge explosions.
This is also Dong Ping's lesson learned from Yan Yu's breakthrough from Linhuang Mansion, although the grassland departments are fierce, but the Jurchens are as ferocious, and they can still break through if they desperately grab the war horse. If there were no horses, a distance of five miles would be enough for the cavalry to kill all the infantry with fire, thunder, bows and arrows.
What Dong Ping had to do was to wipe out all the Jurchens in the city of Huining Mansion, and it was not in his scope of consideration how many people died in the grassland or how many people died in the city.
With the help of a small number of fire thundermen sent by Dong Ping, the various divisions advanced quickly, and once the Jurchens gathered together, the heavily armored fire thundermen would bombard them with fire thunder. After the Jurchens were blown up, the fierce steppe tribes would rush up to kill the Jurchens.
In less than an hour, Wan Yan Yu retreated to the palace in embarrassment, and shouted to Wan Yan Wu Qimai on the throne: "I can't hold it, the people of the tribe gather together, and the Han people will blow it up with fire and thunder." If you disperse, you will be surrounded by barbarians, so let's break through. ”
Wanyan Wu Qimai also heard the sound of fighting on all sides getting closer and closer, and hesitated for a while. Still didn't have the determination to live and die with Huining Mansion, so he got up and said, "Where are we going to escape?" ”
Wan Yan Yu said: "The Liang army is from the west, the north is the Tieli Division, the south is our Wanyan Division, and the east is the Wuja, and our tribe will be killed by the Liang army." Huining Mansion is broken, the Tieli Department is only afraid that it will not be reliable, we will go to the Wuya Department to take refuge temporarily, and if the Liang army chases closely, we will continue to the east. Go to the Jurchens of the East China Sea. The Jurchens of the East China Sea are barbaric, and they will not take refuge in the Liang State. ”
Wanyan Wu Qimai nodded and said, "Okay, then we will break through to the east." ”
The two discussed and decided that they couldn't care about the women in the palace, so they sent people to the city to be in charge of the west, south, and north of the Jin general, and ordered them to break through, and the two men came to the east with two fierce guards.
The Naiban Division, who was in charge of the east, suddenly found that the Jurchen soldiers were rushing forward desperately, and they were also desperately blocking up, and they also killed and injured many people, if they were broken through by the Emperor of Jin. If all the rewards for the previous beheadings are canceled, they can be said to have lost their wives and soldiers, and the leader of the Naiban tribe also wants the Earl of Daliang.
If he obtains the Earl of Daliang, he will be the person with the highest official position in the various ministries of the grassland. He didn't know that there was still a big difference between a knighthood and an official title. As for 10,000 gold coins, he can also take them out, which is nothing more than the value of 3,000 war horses. Although the Nabarian tribe is very poor, it is the common people below who are poor. The tribal chiefs and the Great Khan were not short of money.
Although the Great Khan of the Naiban tribe tried his best to shout and let the tribal warriors block the Jurchens, they were under the charge of the Jurchens who did not want to die. Or was a gap opened.
Wanyan Wu Qimai and Wanyan Yu came out of the east gate, and there were only two or three hundred guards left behind them, and there were countless people from the barbarian tribe chasing and killing behind them.
Wan Yanyu pointed to the Han cavalry in the distance and said with a smile: "Your Majesty, let's kill and grab a few horses, and then we can escape." ”
Wanyan Wu Qimai is also a savage who can fight with black bears hand-to-hand, and he did not have a trace of timidity, and rushed towards the cavalry under Dong Ping with his escort.
"Shoot"
Wan Yanyu was disappointed this time, the Han cavalry did not rush up to fight them, but kept wandering around them, shooting them with bows and arrows, and never giving them a chance to grab horses.
"The cunning Han people will be killed if they are good men."
Wan Yanyu watched the Jurchen guards fall under the arrows and roared angrily, but no one could understand his bird language.
The soldiers under Dong Ping's command carried out Dong Ping's orders very well, only using bows and arrows, and did not give the Jurchens a chance to grab horses.
When Dong Ping heard the warning from the east and rushed over with his troops, there were only a dozen people left around Wanyan Wu Qimai, with the cavalry under Dong Ping in front and the soldiers and horses of the barbarian department behind.
Seeing Dong Ping's arrival, the Liang soldiers gave way one after another.
Wanyan Wu begged to scream and desperately, Wanyan Yu said: "We can't kill it, let's surrender, Yan Mu and Zhu can't leave them and tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, they don't dare to kill us." ”
More than ten feet away from the savage in the circle, Dong Ping stopped and shouted: "Abandon the weapon within three counts, otherwise you will be killed by arrows." ”
At the sound of an order, the surrounding soldiers and horses opened their bows and arrows to aim at the people in the circle.
"Bang"
Wanyan Wu Qimai looked at the sharp arrows flickering in the cold light around him, hesitated for a moment, and threw the blade in his hand to the ground.
When the dozen or so people in the back saw that the emperor had abandoned their weapons, they also threw their weapons away.
Dong Ping nodded with satisfaction, and waved his hand to let Wanyan Wu Qimai and others be tied.
Wanyan Wu begged to see that the Han people actually wanted to tie him up, and couldn't help but overturn Dong Ping's own soldiers.
Dong Ping is not a person who suffers losses, especially for a subordinate prisoner, after seeing that Yan Wu begged to buy and dared to beat his own soldiers, he immediately shouted: "Be bold, give me a fight to the death." ”
A group of pro-soldiers also shared the same hatred and rushed up one after another.
Seeing this, Wan Yan Yu hurriedly pushed away the people who tied him up next to him, and took more than a dozen Jurchen soldiers to protect Wan Yan Wu in the middle.
"Okay, okay."
Dong Ping saw that the Jurchens still dared to disobey, shouted twice in a row, recalled the soldiers who surrounded him, and waved his hand: "Shoot them all." ”
The surrounding soldiers and horses saw Dong Ping's order, and they didn't hesitate, a bowstring sounded, and more than a dozen people in the circle were immediately shot into hedgehogs.
The leader of the Naiban tribe originally wanted to share some of the credit for capturing the Emperor of the Jin Kingdom, but when he saw that Dong Ping shot the Emperor of the Jin Kingdom who had abandoned his weapons, he didn't dare to go up and be bored with himself, so he took the soldiers and horses to kill the Jin soldiers who broke through.
Dong Ping asked people to cut off the head of Yan Wu begging, and sent fire thunderers to help the various departments kill the Jurchen soldiers in the city.
Until late at night, there were sporadic fighting in the city.
In this battle, all the Jurchen men in the Huining Mansion were killed, and Dong Ping did not modify the rewards of the imperial court. The ministries will not keep prisoners for more rewards. Although the total annihilation of the Jurchens would have cost greater casualties, no barbarians seem to have taken this into account.
More than 35,000 Jurchens were beheaded, many of them were old and weak, and more than 15,000 people died in various departments.
There were only more than 50,000 of the 100,000 vassal troops left, and even so, the poor and crazy troops proposed to go out of the city the next day to continue to kill the Jurchens outside the city.
Dong Ping did not refuse the requests of the various ministries, but he was also afraid that the Jurchen soldiers of Zhongjing Province would withdraw and kill them by surprise, so he ordered the various ministries to take turns to go out on the expedition, and everything they grabbed went to the barbarians. The head of the man can also be taken back to the imperial court in exchange for rewards. Dong Ping also sent some fire thundermen to assist them in breaking through the Jurchen tribe's stockade.
After the founding of the Jurchen state, many Jurchen tribes moved around Huining Mansion, and the men of the tribe basically went out to fight, under the attack of the murderous barbarians, these Jurchen tribes were all killed, and many women were beheaded and mixed into the men's heads to repay the merits.
Dong Ping had Chao Yong's secret order, and he also turned a blind eye to this situation, so that the beheading of the barbarians soon became indiscriminate between men and women, and many Jurchen tribes disappeared directly.
When Wanyan Yan's mother withdrew to Huining Mansion with 50,000 Jurchen soldiers. A radius of dozens of miles has been reduced to ruins.
Seeing the destruction of their homes, the savages of all tribes howled and cried to attack Huining Province.
As soon as the Huining Mansion was destroyed, the rule of the Wanyan tribe among the Jurchens was also shaken. Wanyan Yan's mother could only obey the will of the people and lead the troops to attack Huining Mansion.
Although Dong Pingbu did not have artillery. But it brought a lot of fire and thunder. After a fire and thunder blew up the Jurchens and cried and called for their mother, 50,000 barbarians also howled and rushed out to fight with the Jurchen savages.
The martial arts of the Jurchen savages were not inferior to the grassland barbarians, but Wanyan Yanmu led the troops to rush back without stopping, and the grassland departments had already rested in Huining Mansion for three days. Kill the stockade outside the city where only the old and weak women and children remained. For them, it's really not much of a war.
If it weren't for the trend of hatred, the Jurchens would probably not last long before they would be repelled by the various tribes of the steppe. But many tribes were burned and looted, so the Jurchens also played with the various tribes of the steppe.
Dong Ping watched the Jurchens and the various tribes of the grassland fighting outside the city at the head of the city, and he couldn't hide his pride.
This expedition can be said to have perfectly completed the task given to him by Chao Yong, seized the capital of Jin, killed the emperor of Jin, and weakened the strength of the Jurchens and the grassland tribes.
If the Jurchens and the grassland are all spelled out, it will be the most perfect.
However, the result was not as Dong Ping wished, the strength of the grassland departments was still better than that of the Jurchens who came from afar, although it was 50,000 against 50,000, but two hours later, the Jurchens fled from the war group one after another, and scattered as birds and beasts.
Dong Ping saw that the Jurchens were going to flee, and immediately ordered all departments to continue to pursue and kill.
Dong Ping originally wanted the various departments to hunt down the Jurchens to the edge of the sky, but that night, all the departments of the grassland came back with their heads to report their merits.
In this battle, more than 20,000 Jurchens were killed, more than 16,000 people were killed in various parts of the grassland, and several tribal leaders were killed on the battlefield, but Dong Ping most hoped that the Great Khan of several big tribes did not die. Under the desperate fight of the Jurchens, although the grassland tribes won, they did not take much advantage.
Dong Ping did not stop at Huining Mansion, but left 5,000 Han cavalry and wounded vassal armies of the grassland to guard Huining Mansion, and he personally led 5,000 Han cavalry and 30,000 cavalry of the grassland to the south, pursuing the Jurchen soldiers who fled south, and rendezvous with Chao Yong, who was advancing east from Yuguan.
Yuguan finished Yan Zongwang's way, and the road was easier than that of Yan Yan's mother, but there were no pursuers along the way. However, Wanyan Zongwang was harassed by Chao Yong with the cavalry of Huarong and Zhu Tong. As soon as the brothers stopped, Chao Yong led his troops to harass them, and when Wanyan Zongwang gathered troops and horses to fight Chao Yong, Chao Yong led his troops to retreat.
Wanyan Zongwang set up several ambushes, but Chao Yong saw through them, wasting a lot of time, but it was in vain.
The Bohai Navy and the Han army were the first to collapse, and many of them surrendered directly to the pursuing Daliang soldiers and horses.
Several state capitals such as Runzhou, Qianzhou, and Laizhou in the western Liaoning corridor have just withdrawn with their troops led by Yan Zongwang, and the Han, Xi, and Khitan people in the city have opened the city and surrendered.
Chao Yong's harassment tactics made Wanyan Zongwang miserable, and finally gritted his teeth and ran towards Huining Mansion without looking back, only then did he throw off the Liang cavalry.
Wanyan Zongwang complained bitterly, in fact, Hua Rong and Zhu Tong's cavalry also complained, how far the Jurchens ran, they had to chase as far as they wanted, and they had to harass the Jurchen soldiers at night. Moreover, they are not adapted to the cold weather in the northeast, if it were not for the invincible prince of Daliang to lead the troops, the Daliang cavalry would have struck long ago.
Chao Yong also knew the ability of the Liang cavalry, so he harassed Yan Zongwang for a few days, and after watching Yan Zongwang run away, he no longer forcibly led his troops to chase after him, but led his troops to capture Liaoyang Mansion in Tokyo, and steadily advanced northward.
Wanyan Zongwang brothers led troops to Huanglong Mansion, and then bumped into Wanyan Yan's mother and led thousands of remnants of soldiers to flee south. Although there are many Jurchens who have escaped, there are already Jurchen tribes who are ready to find another way out.
Officially, there were thirty tribes of the Jurchens, but in fact the Jurchens did not know how many tribes they had. Even the Wanyan tribe is a tribal alliance composed of many small tribes.
Brother Wanyan Zongwang discussed with Wanyan Yan's mother for a while, and then led his troops to the south. In the south, there are Changbai Mountain, Yalu River, Haoladian and other Jurchen tribes that can accommodate them, although the range of the East China Sea Jurchen is larger, but for them, the East China Sea Jurchen is also the same existence as the wild people, and they do not want to be with the wild people unless they have to. (To be continued......)