Chapter 56: The Battle of Datong

Because it was some things during this period of time that made him excluded from the heir competition by the old man, he had a lot of reflections. But there are many things that I still don't understand. However, he understood one thing.

His two nephews are not good things.

King Jin's mind has always been thinking about how to be the lord of the world. Instead of being the king of Jin.

Although he has this thought, but the situation in the world is stable, and he is slowly giving up.

And now all of a sudden, the old man is gone, and the two nephews are actually fighting with open fire, and King Jin suddenly feels that the destiny is in me. King Yan didn't have the idea of Bian Zhuang stabbing the tiger and killing two birds with one stone, but King Jin had it.

Therefore, in the eyes of King Jin, the most important thing for him is to develop his own power. Before his own forces have risen, he will not intervene in the main battlefield of the war between the north and the south.

Is Datong important?

Significant.

But in the eyes of King Jin, once he won Datong, it meant that he was very likely to have a battle for Datong with Beijing. Of course, Datong has topography, but Datong's topography is for those outside the Guan, not for Beijing.

Once he confronted Beijing in advance, with the consumption of his capital. will definitely be controlled by Nanjing, and the future will not be up to him.

Even in the eyes of King Jin, the fall of Datong to Beijing is not necessarily a good thing.

First of all, between Datong and Taiyuan, there is a world-famous checkpoint, that is, Yanmen Pass. A level that even geese can't pass. Even in the era of artillery, Yanmen Pass is still a natural danger, and King Jin feels that as long as he guards Yanmen Pass, Beijing has no way to take him.

On the other hand, the troops of Beijing were approaching Yanmen Pass, and Shanxi was facing the enemy on almost two sides, both of which were blocked by mountains. Easy to defend and difficult to attack, in the eyes of King Jin, Beijing will not attack easily unless its head is not kicked by a donkey.

It's easy to hold these two lines of defense.

This situation is the most beneficial to King Jin. Because he is in the south, Shanxi is in the south, he is in the north, and Shanxi is in the north, if he comes, it will be important in both the north and the south, and only in this way will the south allow some of his small actions.

How could he save Datong, he was even happy to see it.

Zhao Yong's words actually gave a glimpse of King Jin's thoughts.

King Jin didn't pretend anymore. He sneered and said, "Marquis Nanxiong, the affairs of this king, there is no need for the Marquis of Nanxiong to take care of them, the affairs of Datong are not something that the king can interfere with, and the Marquis of Nanxiong wants to beg for it, go by himself."

Zhao Yong sneered, didn't say much, and shook his hand away.

The king of Jin also ordered to strengthen the defense of the first line of Yanmen Pass, and in the eyes of the king of Jin, Datong had been lost.

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All kinds of things in Taiyuan, Zhu Xiongying and his party don't know.

They are also very cautious about attacking Datong. Without him, Datong is a strong city. It was an important fulcrum of the Northern Front. It was carefully built by Xu Da, the Duke of Wei. Even with the great development of firearms today, it is not easy to storm Datong.

Heavy artillery is a must.

Even if heavy artillery is used, is there no heavy artillery at the head of Datong City? And the northern tour of the army, most of them were cavalry, not that there was no artillery in it. Some of them are very lightweight, small cannons that horses can carry around, rather than heavy cannons. If heavy artillery is used, it must be transferred from Beijing.

This comes and goes, and it has to be a month.

Coupled with the siege, there is no one month or two who will not be able to take Datong.

Although it is said that it takes a month or two to take a fortified city like Datong, it is simply not too profitable. But there are a lot of things to do now, it is impossible for him to be in the same place for two months, and it is impossible for him to keep Zhu Xiongying here.

There will be a lot of personnel disputes.

The best result is to raid into Datong City. After all, there are at least one or two thousand elites in Datong City, and it is estimated that there will be no resistance under Datong, and tens of thousands of elite soldiers will be in hand, and if you fight a Datong offensive and defensive battle, it will cost you.

Qu Neng was originally going to lead a raid on Datong City by himself, but Zhu Xiongying and He Xi were unwilling, after all, Qu Neng's influence in the Dongsheng army was undoubted

, once he dies in Datong City, he will be full of branches. So Qu Neng recommended his son Qu Liangcai.

Zhu Xiongying and He Xi naturally agreed.

Whether Qu Liangcai can command thousands of troops and horses, He Xi doesn't know yet. But Qu Liangcai commanded a small-scale assault battle, but there was no problem, after all, in history, if he shot the helmet of King Yan, without the King of Han to save him, King Yan estimated that he died under Qu Liangcai's knife.

He Xi has seen King Yan's martial arts, and with He Xi's ability, he can't tell who is higher or lower between King Yan and Qu Liangcai. But Qu Liang has such a record, and now there is no problem in raiding Datong City.

In fact, the battle of Datong was also very smooth.

Not the usual smooth.

Qu Liangcai took advantage of the evening, when the city gate was about to close, with more than 100 cavalry, saying that it was a caravan from the north, and won the cost in one fell swoop, and then, Qu Neng entered Datong City with a large group of cavalry, Zhu Xiongying and He Xi followed.

There was little resistance.

After Zhu Xiongying and He Xi entered the city, they immediately summoned the officers of the Datong guards, pacified the subordinates, and issued a reward of silver, and let the officers loyal to the southern army go south. After some operation, Datong is already the Datong of Beijing.

After all, the guard system allows the soldiers and their families to be local, and a very small number of people are loyal to the Southern Army, and most of the soldiers actually do not have any firm ideas, and there is no obvious difference between being loyal to Beijing or being loyal to Nanjing.

At least not to the point of fighting to the death for this distinction.

However, He Xi also felt strange.

Datong City got it too easily.

Now it is not the Jianwen Dynasty in history, but now Zhu Yunwen's famous ministers and generals have grabbed a lot of them, Xu Da, Feng Sheng, Fu Youde and other generals, looking at the five thousand years, they are also a momentary hero. He Xi's military confidence in the south was based on the elimination of cold weapons in the era of firearms, that is, the updated version. After all, generation after generation of versions of gods, how the old versions of the gods performed in the new version, He Xi didn't know. But he is confident that he will perform better than these old gods.

After all, he has a strategy.

But it doesn't mean that He Xi underestimates the strategic vision of these gods.

He put himself in the shoes of the Southern Army, and felt that the Southern Army should not ignore Datong no matter what.

And in Datong City, some of the intercepted letters also made He Xi understand. These are letters, that is, Zhao Yong reminded Datong over and over again to beware of the attack between Beijing and Dongshengwei.

It's just that Zhao Yong's reminder even had the opposite effect.

Without him, as mentioned earlier, the thoughts of Datong Wei, tens of thousands of soldiers in Datong, plus their families, the city is fully stocked, and in the face of the enemy's siege, gritting his teeth and fighting for several months, or even two years is not a problem. But it depends on whom?

If it is *** to the south, Datong will definitely unite as one and fight a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood, and he will not say anything. But in the face of the Northern Army, there is no such thought.

You must know that Datong is often under the command of Beijing. The relationship between Datong and Beijing is very close. The generals of each other know each other, and there are even some clans who are officials on both sides. For the sake of the above's thoughts, Datong was smashed to pieces, which was unwilling of the local officers in Datong.

Moreover, many of Datong's generals are experienced in combat. The most tragic war in the world is the siege and defense of the city, and this kind of tragedy is not only for the army, but also for the people. After all, the most tragic battle of the founding of the Ming Dynasty was the Battle of Nanchang, which is still fresh in the memory of many people.

In many cases, other wars do not affect the people. And this kind of defense of the city, the most important thing is to organize the people in the city, men, women, and children, and even concentrate the food and materials of the whole city.

Every family, everyone has to contribute.

At that time, there was no distinction between those who were soldiers and those who were not.

And now Shanxi is just a reminder, and no troops are sent, and because of the guard system, the soldiers in Datong are all locals. Are these generals really willing to fight like this?

At that time, they asked them to surrender to Beijing, and they did not dare.

As a result, Datong's city defense was so lax.

For the Datong army, they would rather be taken down by Beijing like this, and the situation will be repeated in the future, and it is not him

They surrendered voluntarily. There will be no obstacle for them to surrender to the Yugoslav army in the future. Anyway, this is a civil war, there are so many people on all sides, even if Nanjing wins, it is impossible to kill all the people who follow Beijing, right?