Chapter 213: The soldiers are on hiatus
Zhu Xia Gate is the south gate of Dading, for the structure of one door and three holes, only open the small doors on both sides of the main gate on weekdays, one in and one out of the two do not disturb each other. On the side of the city, there is a tax card, and the caravan needs to show the road guide to pay the merchant tax, so the speed of entering the city is not fast, and it is more crowded and chaotic.
At this moment there was a hurried sound of horses' hooves, and several horsemen galloped in, their faces were tired and dusty, but people could still see from their costumes and flags that these people were messengers in the army, and from their anxious looks, these merchants who had traveled north and south felt a little bad, and the messenger had sent back certainly not good news.
"There is an urgent report ahead, the troops are defeated at Yuguan, and the Song army is approaching Dading Mansion, and it will be defended quickly!" Seeing that the city gate was blocked, the messenger shouted loudly, which confirmed their suspicions, but they also had doubts in their hearts, and the good news could be shouted loudly and shouted in the streets, this kind of bad news has always been concealed, so as not to cause turmoil, but they could not be allowed to think about it, and suddenly someone shouted:
"The Southern Korean army is coming..."
"The gates are closing!"
"Run..."
The caravan that was queuing up to enter the city immediately stirred, they knew that the most unlucky thing in the war was that they were the merchants, not to mention the loss of goods, and their lives could be lost here, but the inside of the city was always safer than the outside, so they rushed to the city desperately, the tax card was overturned, and the soldiers who maintained order in the city had just cleared a way for the messenger to enter the city, but they were instantly crowded and did not know where to go.
'Dangdang...' The defenders at the head of the city suddenly saw the camp under the city, and the crowd rushed into the city like crazy, and immediately sounded the alarm, although they did not know what was happening in the road. But they knew that the city gate should be closed first, and the soldiers who could come down from the city wanted to lower the drawbridge. It was no longer possible to close the gates, and the crowds of people, goods, and horses and carts filled the gates.
'Knock, knock...' Flames rose up and exploded in the air.
"The Song army has entered the city, run!" The red light shone in the air, and there were people in the city who knew the goods, and they immediately shouted.
'Squeak, squeak...' The front that had been closed was suddenly opened, and a group of horsemen swung their swords in, and the sharp-eyed men recognized them as the robbers whose identities everyone suspected. The other part of the people lifted the goods off the roof of the car, and immediately revealed the muzzle of the black hole. With a crisp sound of 'da-da...', the rope pulling the drawbridge was broken, and the gunfire caused even more confusion, and people were already unable to care about the goods, so they scattered along the main road.
"One team controls the city gates, and the second team captures the inner city gates!" The commander pulled the pistol from his bosom and gave a loud order, and immediately someone stepped forward and pulled out all kinds of weapons from the pile of goods on the cart and moved separately. The soldiers of the Jin Army guarding the city gate were only a team of 100 people, and they had already been crowded by the crazy crowd and did not know where to go. The rest were also shot and slashed by those 'bandits', and they were quickly cleaned up.
Some of them went up to the city walls and took control of the city, while others drove carts into the city, arranged a chariot formation in front of the city gates, and used the bags discarded by the caravans. The donkeys built a ring of fortifications. The men who rode into the city fired their guns into the air as they rushed along the main road into the inner city, causing even greater confusion, thinking that the outer city had been lost. All flocked to the inner city, and the same thing happened again. The gates were shutted by the crowd that swarmed in.
"The Song army entered the city, and the city gate was lost!" The news spread like the wind quickly throughout Dading Mansion. People do not change the authenticity, and they can't be screened, because the streets are already crowded with panicked crowds, some people who react quickly have packed up their soft and run to the other three city gates that have not yet been 'lost', and fled outside the city, and the soldiers who came to investigate the situation were also blocked by the fleeing crowd, not to mention retaking the city gate, even if they were not trampled to death, they were lucky, some wanted to enter the city and some wanted to go out of the city, and the four doors of Dading Mansion could not be closed.
Just when Dading Mansion fell into chaos, the sound of horses' hooves suddenly sounded like rolling thunder in the south of the city, and the dust and smoke stirred up by the horses running were all over the place, as if a hurricane was blowing, stretching for more than ten miles, and the galloping horse team rushed into the city in a blink of an eye, rushing into the city from the open city gate, and only entered the inner city along the road that was more than ten zhang wide, and defeated the few defenders, and in less than an hour, the northwest Xiongcheng had fallen.
The prefect of Dading hid in the palace city, watching the Song army under the city panic, the defenders in the city were all taken away by the capital commander Alubu, how to fight the lack of soldiers in their hands, and at this time the Song army issued the most ultimatum, if not surrendered, the general will immediately slaughter the city, kill all the old and young in the city. Seeing that the general trend had gone, the last ultimatum also gave the prefect a step, and after the Song army promised not to massacre the common people and not to plunder the army, the city was opened and surrendered, and the seal letter, the city map and the account books of the government treasury were presented.
In the evening of the same day, Yelu Yu also arrived with a large army. He is a Khitan royal family, and he is famous in Liao, and what happened back then also made many people sympathize, and Dading Mansion is the old capital of Khitan, and many of them still live here. He came forward to convene the clansmen to meet, and in the name of Khitan greater than Yue, he made a list to calm the people and stabilize the hearts of the people in Dading Mansion. After the Song army entered the city, Zhao Yan also strictly restrained the troops, strictly prohibiting those who disturbed the people and violated the city to be beheaded immediately.
Thanks to the efforts of the two men, it only took two or three days to settle down, and the residents who had fled returned one after another, and the shops reopened. But Zhao Yan didn't dare to stay longer, and after replenishing military resources, he quickly advanced north to prepare to meet Yelu Dashi's Eastern Expeditionary Army, and Yelu Yu led a part to stay in Dading Mansion, using his old connections to recruit surrounding states and counties to consolidate the newly occupied land.
Dading Mansion was occupied, Wanyan Alu replenished the army and defeated Yuguan, the news of the loss of Nanjing and Yanjing also came one after another, the Jurchens all lost their color, the army of the Song Dynasty fled everywhere, and the land of Gaozhou, Enzhou, Wu'an, Songshan and Huizhou in more than ten days fell into the hands of the Song Dynasty. After Zhao Yong went all the way out of Gubeikou, he opened the road with artillery fire and captured Bei'anzhou, Lizhou, Yuzhou, and Jianzhou.
At this moment, the Jin State in Huining, Jin Shangjing, was in a panic, more than 200,000 troops were annihilated, and the three generals were either killed or captured, but the Song army still attacked unabated and captured the city of Dadingfu with victory, and seemed to have the intention of attacking Liaodong. If a corps suffers heavy casualties, but as long as the seeds are still there, they can quickly replenish and recover quickly. But the Nanjing Army, the Yanjing Army and the Dadingfu Army were almost wiped out, and there was no main general; Although the Dadingfu army fled back to Liaodong, it had become a frightened bird, and its strength was greatly damaged, and it would take time to recover its combat effectiveness.
Under the auspices and mediation of Zong Han, they ordered the remnants of the Dadingfu Road to retreat in the direction of Liaodong to preserve their strength, and urgently transferred the army to Xingzhong Mansion to block the Song army's eastward advance. Ordered the Beijing army to march south to put pressure on the Song army in order to relieve the pressure on Liaodong. At the same time, strong men were urgently recruited, and all Jurchens between the ages of 14 and 60 were among the points gathered, and the other ethnic groups were drawn to fight with the army.
When the Song and Jin armies were preparing for another battle, the Western Liao army, which had come from an expedition of thousands of miles, also crossed the Gobi Desert, and the vanguard appeared on the periphery of the battlefield. And the heavens seem to be unable to bear to see the cruel fight of human beings, suddenly the temperature plummeted, and a heavy snow fell, this snow can be described as a rare occurrence in a century, for five days in a row, the snow is up to two feet deep, in this weather it is difficult to move an inch, and the three sides can no longer fight, so they can only stay in the city and wait for the weather to clear.
The first to be unbearable was the Western Liao Eastern Expeditionary Army, and the result of the adventure was also expected, Xiao Lira led the Western Liao Army to walk more than 10,000 miles, and did not even see the shadow of a Jurchen soldier, but his own materials were exhausted, and most of the cattle and horses were exhausted and fell in batches, but the army was exhausted. Finally reached the long-awaited homeland, the cold nature poured cold water on their ambitions, and even the bravest warriors had no place to use, and no matter how sharp their swords were, they could not cut the merciless hands of nature. After thinking about it for a long time, as a last resort, the coach Xiao Lili had no choice but to announce the return of the class teacher.
Preemptively occupied Dadingfu Road, forced away the Western Liaodong Expeditionary Army, the Song army's campaign purpose has been achieved and is unwilling to fight again, in order to alleviate the logistical supply difficulties, Zhao Yong all the way back to Yanjingfu Road after the weather clears. The situation in the Jin Kingdom does not want to fight at all, and of course it will not start a war without authorization. The two armies were based in Dading Mansion and Xingzhong Mansion, with Qingshan as the block, and the Daling River as the boundary to confront each other, and the war was temporarily stopped under God's intervention!
After Zhao Ta learned that Dading Mansion had been captured by Zhao Yan, the boulder in his heart fell to the ground, and he sent an edict to return to Beijing in the New Year. Before leaving, Zhao Ta issued an imperial decree appointing Zhao Yong as the envoy to stay in Beijing and pacify the people, and Zong Ze returned to the court with him. The dragon generals, leopard generals, and wolf generals each left a brigade of troops, and each general supplemented the brigade to form a forbidden army on the basis of the formation of an army, inheriting the old number of loyalty and bravery, and the rest of the troops returned to the original place after the division was stationed.
The new Dadingfu Road was built, and Yelu Yu was appointed as the pacification envoy, Zhao Yan was the pacification envoy, temporarily commanding the armies, and the Datong Mansion pacification envoy was succeeded by Xiao Chongjian; Based on the Dragon Wing Army and the Lion Wing Army, a forbidden army was formed, inheriting the old name of Kelu. The Hedong, Hezhong and Shaanxi Prefecture armies were transferred to form a state army. At the same time, the Desert Brigade and the Hunting Cavalry Brigade were transferred north to Dadingfu, and on this basis, each of them was expanded into an army of three brigades, which was directly under the jurisdiction of the Privy Council.
After arranging everything, Zhao Ta left Yanjing City under the protection of the dragon general and the guards and embarked on the road back to the city, when the car drove out of the main gate of the sub-city, he looked back at the empty stele pavilion in front of the door, among which Zhao Ji's own book of the 'Fu Yanjing stele' had already been broken into several sections, scattered outside the stele pavilion, submerged in the wild grass. In the stele pavilion, the merit monument of Akuda was re-erected, who would have thought that in less than ten years, his stele would be pushed to the point of smashing and Zhao Ji's stele in the barren grass... (To be continued......)