Chapter 581: The troops are rushing to the ground, it is difficult to turn the tide
When the sun was setting to the west, on the top of the city of Taiyuan, I saw the spreading military front receding from the field of view.
Far and near, there are black beacon smoke rising into the sky, and little flames are still burning on the top of the city. People push the corpses down the city, and hang the wolf fangs and other city defense objects on the wall again, inside the female wall.
Pile up sandbags.
In the wilderness below, dark red blood and corpses intertwined to form a tragic picture. Most of the corpses belonged to civilians of the Wu Dynasty who were driven to attack the city. The dead were mixed with the undead. The painful groans continued, but most of them
The moans have become weak, and countless corpses and dying people are lying on the field. Farther away are the civilian prisoners who are not dead but are in despair, and the Jurchen army with murderous intentions and ambitions.
Qin Shaohe stood on the wall and looked at the Jin army camp on the other side. During the battle, as the chief officer, he also participated in the battle on the city wall and killed two Jin soldiers with his own hands. At this time, there were mottled blood stains on his body.
, a corner of the official uniform has also been burnt black.
The fierce fighting continued for a day and a night. When seeing the countless tragic scenes on and off the city wall, people's emotions were no longer pity. The numbness and trembling of the body resonated with the whole world, and the buzzing sound filled the surrounding air.
Here, in every inch of the world, the consciousness of death and the fear lurking behind it, the bloodthirsty impulse and the lingering fear after being injured, will all be mixed together.
Along with these things, there is also some greater emotion that transcends these, spreading before our eyes - of course, perhaps only such emotions can appear in the hearts of Confucian generals like Qin Shaohe -
The collision, life and death, pain and hope of more than 100,000 people, the past of countless people extends here, and many, many will come to an abrupt end in this angry tide.
"It's not that difficult to defend." Looking in the direction where Wanyan Zonghan might be, Qin Shaohe murmured in a hoarse voice, but his words were not recognized by the generals behind him.
Because the Jurchens' previous achievements were so brilliant, when the enemy's troops advanced to Taiyuan, everyone who defended the city did not know whether they could defend the city under the first wave of offensive. Also because of the worries and consciousness in his heart, Qin Shaohe acted as
Only one of the chief officials rushed to the city wall to fight in person at the first time. Although it took a day and a night to finally wait for the Jurchens to retreat, everyone did not feel relaxed at all. Because of this mood, when Qin Shaohe
When he said words to boost morale, several generals at the rear did not express their agreement immediately.
Of course, this also proves that under the coordination of Qin Shaohe, the generals did not slack off in the rear, and they all felt the pressure brought by the Jurchens in this first collision.
After looking at each other for a while, the time to express their agreement had passed. One of them pointed forward and whispered: "Master Magistrate, the Jin people failed to attack the city for the first time and failed to do it in one go. It was also because they rushed here in a hurry to attack.
The city's equipment is not fully prepared. They are withdrawing their troops at this time and will never retreat. Instead, they will spend time preparing their equipment. The next attack will be even more violent. We cannot take it lightly."
"General Han is right." Qin Shaohe nodded, "Now that things have happened, we already know how ferocious the Jurchens have become. Look at those people under the city wall. From today on, they have been placed in front of us.
The only choice is to stick to one road. But the good thing is that they have never fought before, and everyone is guessing the strength of the Jurchens. After a head-on confrontation, they can always know that although the Jurchens are powerful, they are not three-headed and six-armed ghosts and gods. There is a
There is a limit. Everyone, from now on, the lives of hundreds of thousands of people in Taiyuan will be in our hands...work hard."
He bowed his hand, and the other generals also bowed their hands heavily. Qin Shaohe smiled and said: "But it's okay. It is said that it only took three hours for Wanyan Agu to capture Shangjing. We have already defended it well." He said.
After saying that, he walked aside, picked up a pair of bows and arrows, and went to the city wall. Looking at the groaning below, he aimed for a moment and fired an arrow.
Among the corpses below, a civilian from the Wu Dynasty who had his hands and feet broken but was still alive was struck by an arrow in his heart and finally died.
Qin Shaohe held the bow and stood there staring blankly at the corpse below for a long time. Then he finally took a step back and waved his hand: "Pass me an order to ask the Divine Bow Team and the Military Law Team to choose those below who are seriously injured and can no longer be saved."
If the civilians are in too much pain, just give them a ride..."
He walked down the city wall. Not far away, a man named Cheng Zhouhai walked towards him. Although his clothes were neat and meticulous, no matter the dust on his robe or the look on his face, he could tell that the man had been
When he came to the front, Cheng Zhouhai bowed his hands and said, "Master Qin, now that the war has come to an end, it's time for the young men I organized to take turns to go to the city to have a look."
Qin Shaohe nodded: "Send them up. It's time to show them what the people outside the city are like. Tell them that this is what they will look like if the city is broken... But although the Jurchens retreat,
But it’s hard to say whether it’s a feint to retreat. When sending people up, don’t send too many people to be careful not to mix in the Jurchens’ details. In addition, if the Jurchens attack the city again, they must withdraw immediately...”
After talking a lot, Qin Shaohe felt that it seemed too verbose. Qin Shaohe's expression calmed down, and then he smiled bitterly and patted Cheng Zhouhai on the shoulder. After working in the Prime Minister's Mansion for so long, if
Cheng Zhouhai was determined to surpass him in the meticulousness and rigor of planning. With a slight smile, Cheng Zhouhai just replied: "Yes." Then he looked at the deputy beside him, who nodded.
Cheng Zhouhai looked towards the city wall. Qin Shaohe, who was patting his shoulder, looked forward. The outer buildings of Taiyuan close to the city wall were being demolished. Soldiers and civilians were busy in the field of vision, running back and forth. Further away, Taiyuan City was lined up row upon row.
The buildings are spread out, the war has begun, and the lives of hundreds of thousands of people still have to continue in a tense manner.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! In the wilderness outside the city, the August autumn wind whistled through the wilderness full of blood and the smell of war smoke. Corpses, wounded and the assembled and restless army stretched all the way.
What awaits them is the same unknown fate.
This is the beginning of the Battle of Taiyuan...
Soon, Qin Shaoqian led the Wurui Battalion to engage the enemy in Shouzhang. What met them was the army led by Wanyan Zongwang and Guo Yaoshi. The two armies fought back and forth for a day near Shouzhang, where the plains and plains had become scorched earth. Qin Shaoqian did not order the Wurui Battalion to attack them.
To confront the opponent head-on, he divided Wurui Camp into five teams of nearly 10,000 people. Taking advantage of the geographical advantage, they were able to deal with Guo Yaoshi near Shouzhang, always pretending to attack. A large number of reconnaissance cavalry and detachments were always there.
Small-scale fighting broke out all around.
In this back-and-forth battle, Guo Yaoshi chose a relatively conservative advance to determine the situation. In such a feint and small-scale attack situation, the most elite unit led by Qin Shaoqian turned the illusion into reality and attacked Zhang Linghui.
With the troops he led, a fierce fight broke out between the two sides near Xizhi Village, north of Shouzhang. He tried to swallow up the weaker Zhang Linghui in the first attack, but only gained a partial upper hand.
On the other side, Yaoshi Guo was already fighting with an enemy force of 10,000 people responsible for containment, and the 10,000-person force was defeated after half an hour.
The defeated team fled in all directions, and then many liaison officers who had been arranged by Qin Shaoqian gathered around them again. Next, the entire Shouzhang battlefield seemed to turn into a huge piece of loose sand, surrounded by opponents, and the fighting became fierce.
But there was no main force anywhere. Qin Shaoqian led the 10,000-strong fighting force lurking around, and at the same time maintained the operation of the battlefield with the greatest strength, waiting for the opportunity to deal the most violent blow to Guo Yaoshi and others. Guo Yaoshi began to gather in
The troops rushed towards Shouzhang County, where thousands of people were garrisoned.
This chaotic battle lasted for a day. Small-scale fighting broke out dozens of times, and large-scale battles occurred twice. However, it also made it impossible for Guo Yaoshi and others to concentrate on attacking the city. One day later, Wanyan Zongwang's main force arrived
, 80,000 to 90,000 people met in Shouzhang, and after colliding with Wurui Camp, they rolled over Shouzhang County in a mighty manner...
Wuwei, who was supposed to snipe Zongwang's troops in a three-way attack, and Wusheng, the two armies guarding Jinan, did not appear from the beginning to the end. The Wurui battalion, which took the initiative to intercept the Jurchen army, had nothing but that kind of scattered sand in this battle.
Apart from Qin Shaoqian's superb army formation skills, which were shown in the general deployment, there is not much to mention...
After this battle, Wanyan Zongwang entered the Central Plains!
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A large number of wounded soldiers, defeated soldiers and civilians near Shouzhang retreated from the front. The sound of chaos filled the sky.
Ning Yi and Wen RenBuer stood on the side of the road, watching the scene of defeat.
"Although we already know that General Qin will be defeated, if this happens, time will really run out."
Wenren Fujie took a breath and sighed in a low voice. After a while, they faced an injured general who was retreating: "Where is General Qin! Where is your General Qin!?"
The general glanced at Wen Renbuer and Ning Yi, then shook his head: "I don't know! I don't know! He just ordered us to withdraw to Dongping! Ask others!"
The general walked away among the crowd. Wenren Buer glanced at Ning Yi, who looked serious but calm. Ning Yi tilted his head and looked at the crowd: "Do you think this is a calm transition?"
"What?"
"Look at these people, civilians evacuated, which means they didn't leave in a hurry, right?"
"...Right." Wen Renfuer hesitated for a moment, and then said, "But the Jurchens passed too quickly, and the original plan of Jianbi Qingye must not be able to keep up..."
"You have to do it even if you can't keep up." Ning Yi closed his eyes and opened them after a moment. "After all, this is a game of chess. You can't expect others to follow your pace..."
After saying this, he walked into the crowd and grabbed a defeated military general. The other general stretched out his hand to draw his sword, but Ning Yi held his wrist down: "This general, where is General Qin? Where is your General Qin? "
The other party just stopped being frightened. After looking Ning Yi up and down, he waved his hand suddenly: "How do I know!"
The sky is filled with an ominous atmosphere, far and near, this is just a corner of chaos. And the Jurchens' long march means that the entire plan of strengthening the walls and clearing the country will fall behind at the beginning.
On the seventh day of August in the thirteenth year of Jinghan, Emperor Zhou Zhe Qiangang made an arbitrary decision and the imperial court issued an order to fortify the walls and clear the country on the five roads of Hedongdong, Hedongdong, Jingdongdong, Jingdongdong and Hebei. However, the public opinion in the court and in the society , in fact, it is still in a very subtle state.
The Jurchens arrived too quickly, and the entire society had not yet been enveloped by the fear of war. While Ning Yi and others were working with the Prime Minister's Office to clear the country, the entire court was filled with impeachment reports like snowflakes. It flew on the royal case.
In a war, the use of measures such as fortifying walls and clearing fields is really too decisive a measure. The benefits involved in relocating tens of millions of people and destroying materials are astronomical, not to mention that it is still around the autumn harvest. Anyway, most of the people who fortified walls and cleared fields People basically hold two attitudes. One is due to interests. They want to strengthen the walls and clear the country, and move the population and burn down the fields and houses. Those who are most affected are the big landowners and gentry in the north, and those who can support their position are the other people. A relatively rational attitude is: fortifying the walls and clearing the country will not help at all. It will only cause a large number of civilians to die at the hands of our own people.
This argument is very tenable. At the most intuitive level, the entire Jurchen army going south is only 200,000. How many places can they sweep along the way? How many people are killed? More places, or not It is possible for these people who were affected by the war to survive in the cracks of the war. And even if the country is really fortified and the country is cleared, when these two hundred thousand people want food, they can easily satisfy their needs by laying down a place. , on a land where tens of millions of people live, how far can you clear the fields to make all the food disappear?
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! "Even if the court cannot stop the Jurchens, the common people should be left alive!"
In the comments of Confucian scholars, the backlash caused by this measure is indescribable, but what really supports the operation of this measure is the attitude of Emperor Zhou Zhe. In a sense, Zhou Zhe is synonymous with courage, but only With his support, this matter can remain unchanged amid so much criticism. As the upper echelons of the Wu Dynasty, whether it is Cai Jing, Tong Guan, Li Gang, Qin Siyuan and others, they may have vaguely seen this time. The seriousness of the situation caused fierce quarrels among the lower levels. The attitude of these powerful people was surprisingly consistent. They just watched the matter in silence. After all, this was something that Li Gang and Qin Siyuan could not explain.
Under the operation of low-level officials north of the Yellow River, huge and astonishing results were achieved in the early days of clearing the country. However, the real focus of Ning Yi and others' work was actually placed south of the Yellow River from the beginning. They guided a large number of refugees southward, exaggerating The atmosphere of war, publicity about the necessity of strengthening the walls and clearing the country, and the atmosphere of terror quickly accumulated, but as Wen Renfuer said, the Jurchens came too quickly.
There were verbal and written criticisms in the capital court, and the impeachment war was still going on in chaos. Scholars and scribes were in restaurants and brothels talking about the impassioned war and the bravery on the front. On August 20th, Wanyan Zongwang's troops began to cross the Yellow River. Zhou Zhe
Jinluan Palace shouted: "Why haven't we started cleaning up the area around the capital yet?"
Just before this day, the troops near Gyeonggi had been transferring a large amount of nearby food to the city, and then finally began to drive away civilians and plunder food. A huge and chaotic civil unrest began to break out. A county magistrate asked the people to evacuate
was stoned to death by the angry people, and then the army began to clash with the people. In this rapid situation, the debate over the strong walls and clearing the country came to an abrupt end in the capital, and an atmosphere of panic began to envelope everyone in the city.
Here, a large number of people poured into the capital, and a large number of people poured out to the south.
On August 23, the Yellow River defense line collapsed, and the entire Jurchen Eastern Route Army crossed the Yellow River.
Ning Yi and others' previous plans created certain arrangements and conveniences for the transportation of grain and population migration near Kaifeng, but a large number of people were still involved in the war. For the first time in more than two hundred years, the war spread to the Yellow River
On the South Bank, no one expected that the whole war would start so quickly. It seemed that it had just begun and was about to end.
On August 28, just over a month before the start of the Jurchen War, Wanyan Zongwang fought over thousands of miles, began to besiege Tokyo, and then launched an attack.
The defense forces of Wu Dynasty's capital city have been fully reduced to the city. At the same time as the Tokyo defense battle began, Zhou Zhe's order was sent out. More than 300,000 Qinwang troops from various places began to gather in Tokyo, including those in Shouzhang.
The military power that remained unchanged during the battle defeated the two armies. An even larger and chaotic war is about to begin outside Tokyo.
While Ning Yi was coming south with his army, Taiyuan City had been resisting Wanyan Zonghan's crazy attack for nearly half a month...