Chapter 430 Jurchen Western Route Army
Han Wang took over the military affairs of Yizhou in disguise, mobilized another 1,000 security teams from Zhending, and finally formed a complete military system. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
There are five battalions in one army, five battalions in one battalion, ten teams in each city, and ten people in each team. After the reorganization, the Yanshan Volunteer Army had a full strength of 2,500 people, and recruited 2,500 young and strong auxiliary troops with special skills from Zhending and Yizhou.
The first-class Viscount of Yanshan, the general of Dingyuan, Han Wang, served as the commander of the Righteous Army Group, governed the rebel armies of Yanyun, and the Shuai camp was temporarily located in Yizhou.
Han Wang transported all the inventory of the Zhending battalion to Yizhou without reservation, solved the problem of armor except for most of the recruits in logistics, and after waiting for a month, he could also be fully armed.
Han Shizhong, the commander of the First Army of the Righteous Army, and Yao Zheng, the deputy commander of the army, had 2,500 people under their jurisdiction, including Luo Yanqing, Qi Wuji, Tian Shouyi, Yu Wei, Hu Hongxiu and other generals.
Li Qing, the commander of the Second Army (Auxiliary Army) of the Righteous Army, and Niu Gao, the deputy commander of the army, have 2,000 people under their jurisdiction, including Gao Chong, Wang Zhao, Wang Feng, Liang Hongyu, Qi Youwei and other generals.
Han Wang secretly transferred Yang Zaixing and Tang Xiu back, and together with Shi Yan, he set up a Shenji spy reinforcement battalion with 500 people under his jurisdiction.
Nominally, Shi Yan is the commander of the battalion, but in fact, his official rank is the commander of the army, and Yang Zaixing and Tang Xiu are the deputy commanders of the battalion.
After the reorganization of the Yanyun Rebel Army Group, the top priority was to try to find out the combat intentions of the Jin army, and at the same time understand the strategy of the imperial court for the situation in Yanjing.
Although the Jin army was defeated by Han Wang, the victories of Zhuozhou and Yanjing rekindled their high morale. Originally, it was planned to withdraw to Zhongjing in the next few days, but there has been no sign of their withdrawal.
On the contrary, in the past few days, Xianye has strengthened the investigation work inside and outside Yanjing and Zhuozhou, and put all some cows, ghosts, snakes, and gods in prison. Despite this, there are still squads that disappear or are killed every night.
At the same time, Xian also occupied Yanjing and Zhuozhou, seized a large number of armaments, prisoners and population, in order to pull out the thorn in the heart of Yizhou, he actually recruited 20,000 servant troops in one go, plus the original Jurchen 5,000 people, known as the 50,000 army, and suddenly attacked Ulzhou to the west.
At this moment, Zong Han, who was in Datong, Xijing, at the same time waved 50,000 troops to the south to blitz, starting from Yingzhou, conquering Daizhou in only half a day, and then the army rolled south, straight to Taiyuan.
Taiyuan City was built by Pan Mei, a famous general in the early Song Dynasty, and at the beginning of the construction, it was considered that one day the northern captives would attack the city in the south, so the structure of Taiyuan was a huge military fortress. All kinds of fortresses, tunnels, large bows and crossbows, catapults, and caves are readily available.
Moreover, there were abundant armaments, materials and food, and Zhang Chunxiao, who was the envoy of the Hedong Road at that time, and Wang Zhengchen, the deputy governor of Taiyuan, both had the determination to defend the city.
Zhao Gou, who happened to be passing by, was unexpectedly blocked in Taiyuan City by the rapidly invading Jin army, and Zhao Gou, who had experience in battles, understood that the strength of the Jurchen was currently unable to compete head-on. It was suggested that Zhang Chunxiao and Wang Zhengchen must stick to it and not go out of the station.
Zhang Chunxiao ordered that strong men over the age of 16 and under the age of 50 have the responsibility of defending the territory and resisting the enemy. All the weapons in the arsenal were distributed to the people, and they took turns to go to the city to guard against the siege of the Jin army.
And Wang Zhengchen wore armor day and night to patrol the city defense, once there was a police, rushed over to support at any time, and the people of the city knew the name of the king. Eight thousand soldiers, one hundred thousand people, the entire Taiyuan City hated the same enemy, like a huge rock blocking in front of Zong Han.
On the one hand, Zong Han received Wu Qimai's request to go south to destroy the Song Dynasty, and on the other hand, he also suggested through Zong Bi that the east and west roads should go south at the same time, and strive to solve the Song army north of the Yellow River in three months, and completely eliminate the elite Western Army and most of the forbidden army of the Song army.
Zong Han didn't want to go south to attack Song so urgently, but he couldn't refuse the two of them. Therefore, after arranging the Jin army in Yunnei, he took Xi Yin, Lou Mu, Zong Bi, Shi Gu Nai and other generals to lead 10,000 Jurchens and 30,000 servants to Taiyuan to respond to the actions of Xianye.
I thought that the 50,000 army would be able to successfully defeat Taiyuan, but I didn't expect that the defense of Taiyuan City was unbreakable. After three days of strong attack, 1,000 Jurchens and 4,000 servant troops were damaged, and there was no sign of the collapse of Taiyuan.
In the evening discussion, Xi Yin simply made it clear that this kind of play happened to fall into the trap of the Song army. The Jurchens were in the field, and the Song army was strong in the city defense, attacking the enemy's strengths with their own shortcomings, which was unwise.
Lou also agreed with Xi Yin's statement, believing that Taiyuan was abundant in materials and high morale, and was not suitable for a strong attack. It is recommended to adopt a long-term siege strategy, the whole army is cavalry, only 2,000 Jurchens, 6,000 servant troops can besiege Taiyuan.
Shi Gu Nai even suggested that food and water should be cut off, and trebuchets should be used to bombard the city wall every day, perhaps ten days and half a month could consume the will of the defenders, and Taiyuan would be at your fingertips.
Zong Han was as good as a stream, leaving Shi Gu Nai and 8,000 soldiers, and he continued to go south with 27,000 men. And to Liaozhou, Zhaozhou, and Zhending. Along the way, the large and small cities collapsed under the crazy iron hooves, and in only four days, they reached the west of Zhending.
Under the threat of life and death, a large number of heroes and powerful people joined the Jin army one after another, and became the Song traitors of the Jurchen Western Route Army, and reported all the officials, troops, and armed forces to Zong Han, and then the Jin army searched and exterminated them on a large scale, and the tragic situation was unbearable to witness.
The Jin army divided into three directions and rushed wildly, committing numerous crimes wherever they passed. Not only were countless cities, checkpoints, and houses destroyed, but even entire villages were slaughtered. Under the high-pressure terror, a large number of people fled south in a daze, but after three or five days, they ran out of rice and grain, and either starved to death, or were accepted by bandits as a homeless army, attacking the wealthy and powerful, so that the situation was rotten into a pot of porridge.
When Zonghan's army approached Zhending from the south, Wang Shiyong knew that the situation had collapsed and was hopeless. Weighing left and right, he could only retreat to Yizhou Hanwang in the east.
However, he had a long heart, and in order to get Han Wang's support, he deliberately took Han Wang and the families of his important generals with him.
When a group of thousands of them abandoned the city overnight, tens of thousands of Zhending residents who did not know the truth saw that the prefect had fled, and they were even more panicked and fled to Yizhou with Wang Shiyong.
And when Zong Han took Zong Bi to Zhending to face a burning empty city, not only was he stunned, but the people of the Southern Dynasty were ruthless enough to burn it down. But the city can be burned, but people can't burn, so speed up and catch up.
When Han Wang received the letters from Zhending and Ulzhou, he knew that the most serious situation had emerged, and the Jin army had changed by mistake because of himself, and advanced the time of attacking the Song Dynasty in the south by nearly four years.
Zong Han has already pursued along the road, and he will continue to move south to sweep Ulzhou, and he will be attacked from both sides at that time. The Jin army had no less than 30,000 troops, but he only had 5,000 people, and most of them were recruits, and there were not many effective ways to hold on.
Are you going to be buried in Yizhou? (To be continued.) )