Chapter 53: Song and Jin go to war
Everything went as planned by Concubine Zong Wan, the Jade Maiden, and Wu Qimai ascended the throne for the first time, full of ambition, thinking that he had the power of the world.
even vainly used the treasury property for his own pleasure, but was discovered by the prime minister, and told Wanyan Zongwang and others, Wanyan Zongwang invited the real power faction in the DPRK, such as Wanyan Zonghan, Wanyan Zonggan and others to join forces and expose them in public in the court.
In the end, the ministers united and invited him to the throne with a belt frame, and twenty rods of staff in public!
After the beating, he was put back on the throne, and then, all the ministers led by Wanyan Zonghan knelt down together to plead guilty.
The matter has come to this, and Wu Qimai, who was extremely humiliated, had no choice but to endure the pain and drink the convulsive wine brought by the attendant, and then forgive the ministers for their innocence.
In the evening, Concubine Wan repeatedly made suggestions for him, thinking that since the descendants of Taizu were so dissatisfied with him and humiliated in court, Wu Qimai did not have outstanding military merits, and now only by going south to attack the Song Dynasty and marrying the ministers with real power with the wealth of the Great Song Dynasty can he keep the throne.
Wu Qimai remembered the matter of the day, and this humiliation could only be swallowed fiercely, so he adopted the strategy of concubine.
Soon after, he united with his ministers and made up his mind to attack the Great Song Dynasty!
Then, under the pretext that the Great Song Dynasty received Zhang Jue, the general of the Liao State, he began to gather 200,000 soldiers and horses, and decided to invade the south in three ways.
At this time, the period of peace between Song and Jin had only just passed two years, and Yanshanfu Road was already full of flames.
In the past two years, Fan Zhuo has taken precautions and handed over the refined gunpowder formula to Tong Guan, who sent him to the palace.
In addition, a special firearms department was set up in Yanjing City to store gunpowder.
At the same time, Fan Zhuoyuan also offered the blast furnace steelmaking method, which was more efficient than the traditional steelmaking method, and secretly developed the original city fire artillery, but the technology was not at home or could not make the fire door gun, and the main force still had to rely on cold weapons to fight.
Fan Zhuoyuan also increased his authority because of these two contributions, and Tong Guan was promoted to Chengdu through the Privy Council, and he was justifiably in charge of the army.
At present, it has long been expanded from the original 5,000 soldiers and horses to 10,000, half of which are cavalry.
All the generals and soldiers have also been trained by Fan Zhuoyuan, although those Hebei forbidden troops do not have the courage to fight in the field, but there are certain rules for defending the city.
At this time, I heard that the Jin State was gathering troops and horses, preparing to tear up the Sea Alliance and attack south, and the Song Kingdom was in a panic.
Song Huizong's original idea was to kill Zhang Jue, the general of the Liao State, and send his head to the Jin State to "ask for guilt".
However, he was strongly opposed by the important ministers of the court, but he still killed Zhang Jue under the welcome of Cai Jing and others, and asked for guilt to the north.
The Jin people thought that the Song State was not sincere and insisted on sending troops, so the Song Dynasty could only passively resist the enemy.
However, at this time, fortunately, the Yanshan defense line was in hand, although Song Huizong did not plant, but there was still a barrier in his heart, and he ordered Tong Guan to stick to the Yanshan Mansion Road, and at the same time mobilized famous generals to go north, such as Seed Master Dao and others.
At the moment, Fan Zhuoyuan was deployed in Juyong Pass and Deshengkou to prevent the Jin Kingdom from entering Shuozhou, after all, the population of Yunshuo and other four states was looted, and although the Great Song Dynasty won the land of four states, there was no one to defend it, which was equivalent to an empty city.
The seed master led 50,000 soldiers and horses to guard the first line of Miyun and Jizhou Zunhua, and Liu Yanqing led 40,000 soldiers and horses to guard Yuguan.
Tong Guan led 100,000 soldiers and horses to sit in Yancheng, coordinated in the center, and sent troops to support all parties at any time.
This arrangement is to guard the Yanshan Mansion Road with 200,000 soldiers and horses, even if it is a passive defense, it can ensure everything.
However, the reality did not go as expected, and the Jin army attacked the Song with an army of 200,000, but it was divided into three parts.
On the left side, Wanyan Zongwang was the commander, leading 50,000 troops to attack the empty Yunzhou and Shuozhou, with the ultimate goal of attacking Taiyuan to the south and cutting off the elite support route of the Song army from the west road area.
In the middle of the road, Wanyan Zonghan was the commander, leading 50,000 troops down the Chaohe River, preparing to break through the Gubeikou and enter Danzhou, but in fact, it was a sheep attack all the way.
On the right side, Wanyan Lou, the god of war of the Jin Kingdom, was the commander, and under the control of Wanyan Zonghan in the middle lane, he attacked Yuguan along the Liaoxi Corridor and took Pingzhou, and he was the biggest main force to take Yanshanfu Road.
The soldiers and horses on the left side of the Jin State were all the way to the division, and quickly took the empty Yunzhong region, but in Shuozhou, they were stubbornly resisted by the elite of the Western Army led by Sun Yi, who was observed in Shuozhou, and fell into a stalemate.
The Jin army attacked Gubeikou in the middle, but the Yanshan defense line was dangerous, and it was strictly defended by the subordinates of the seed master, and the Jin army was not good at attacking the city, and was greatly defeated, so it shifted its direction and entered Luanyang, and even broke through Longjing Pass, Da'ankou, and Hongshan Pass, and crossed the Great Wall to attack Jizhou Zunhua.
This road is the route of the later emperor Taiji to lead the Qing soldiers to attack the BJ city, Zunhua will be Xin Xingzong, although this person drinks the blood of the soldiers to invade the merits of his subordinates, but he is also a strong general in the Western Army, relying on the benefits of firearms to ensure that Zunhua is not lost.
The middle route army of the Jin Kingdom was stationed under the fortified city, and was frightened by the artillery, and the city was unfavorable.
Enraged, the Jin army invaded, slaughtering and plundering countless people in the countryside to vent their anger and drive the people to attack the city.
The defenders of Zunhua watched silently, and did not go out of the city to rescue, in the face of the exorcism of the people to attack the city, although the morale of the soldiers was extremely low, they were still supervised by Xin Xingzong to supervise the defense of the city.
In the countryside, thousands of miles wailed, and blood flowed and pestles.
Despite this, the overall line of defense is not lost, it is still solid, and it has been commended by Tong Guan.
In the end, the problem was at the Pingzhou Yuguan where Liu Yanqing was stationed, the Jin State God of War Wanyan Lou Room was really famous, and the main force of 100,000 Jin soldiers was dense and boundless.
As a long-legged general, Liu Yanqing was terrified, and he resisted well in the first few days, but suddenly the Jin soldiers drove the people to attack the city, and 10,000 ants attached him.
When he was about to fight, he led the Chinese army of 20,000 horses and horses to flee directly, abandoning the 20,000 soldiers who were resisting in the city.
Connected to the Great Wall, the extremely strong Yuguan Pass was immediately declared lost!
When Yan Lou took this fortress, he was also inexplicable, and originally thought that there would be a bitter battle with heavy casualties.
But in just a few days, he actually broke through the Chongqing Pass, which surprised and delighted him.
Previously, he had seen the benefits of the defenders' artillery on the battlefield, and at this time he got more than ten heavy guns of more than 1,000 catties, and he was immediately overjoyed.
With heavy artillery in hand, the only shortcoming of the Jin army's siege ability was immediately solved.
At the same time, the Jin army, which was often attacked and plundered, did not kill prisoners for the first time this time, but left most of the surrendered Song army, and reused the gunners inside, all the way to Jizhou.
When Tong Guan learned the news of the loss of Yuguan, he woke up overnight and scolded Liu Yanqing angrily in the house, threatening to kill him this time.
But to this day, I still don't know where Liu Yanqing led the 20,000 soldiers and horses, and even if he wanted to ask for the crime, he couldn't catch anyone.
Li Gang and a group of generals entered the palace and began to discuss how to deal with the current situation.
Once Yuguan is lost, from Pingzhou to Yanjing City, it is a smooth road, and there is no danger to defend.
The 100,000 golden soldiers have obtained heavy weapons such as heavy artillery, and when they join forces with the 50,000 troops on the middle road under Zunhua City, they don't have to think that the tens of thousands of defenders of Xin Xingzong will definitely not be able to hold on.
At that time, it will be a tragic battle to defend Yancheng......
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