The red sun in the evening turned into stars all over the sky, and then turned into clouds billowing in the daytime.
The news of the great victory at Wangyuan Bridge in the southwest and the panic of Zong Han's troops had spread to various places in the south of the Yangtze River and the Central Plains in April.
A war that can be said to determine the trend of the world has now shown a trend that is inconsistent with most people's expectations. The combat power and tenacity of the Chinese army have stunned the eyes of many people. Some people are stunned, some are terrified, and some people are surprised by this.
Some people are excited by the results of the victory, and some are wary of it. But no matter what attitude and mood they hold, as long as they are slightly qualified to dance on the stage of the world, no one can be indifferent to it, and they are indifferent to it, but they are already
This is something that cannot be argued with.
Even though they were thousands of miles apart, the two armies on Liangshan were inspired. Grass bandits from all directions came to surrender, even between the Huaxia Army led by Zhu Biao and Liu Chengzong and the Guangwu Army led by Wang Shanyue and Xue Changgong.
This huge victory caused two small-scale frictions and fights, which made people laugh and cry.
Wanyanchang, who is far away in Baoding, has strengthened his defense forces in the Central Plains area because of the instigation on Liangshan Mountain, and is on guard against those people in Shandong area being encouraged by the war situation in the southwest and taking risks to cause something big.
Farther away, within the Kingdom of Jin, large-scale influences are gradually brewing. In the cloud, after the first round of news came, it was not made public and was only quietly circulated among some high-ranking households in the Kingdom of Jin. In the clouds,
After learning about the defeat of the West Route Army, some of the founding clans of Dajin pulled out the Han slaves from their homes, killed a group of them, and then went to the Yamen to pay the fine.
It will take more time for the tragic news about the West Route Army's retreat to come back from thousands of miles away in the southwest. By then, a huge wave will occur within the Jin Kingdom.
Jin land.
As the horse team passed through the rolling hills and turned towards the small basin on the side of the mountains, Lou Shuwan opened the curtain in the carriage in the middle and saw faint black smoke and residual fire below.
The flames ravaged the village and wheat fields, and nearby troops had already come over to save what could be saved in the mess. The closer the horse team got, the more clearly they could hear the cries in the wind.
"……brute."
She clenched her fists and cursed like this.
This is a scene in March.
If it hadn't been for what happened in the spring of this year, Lou Shuwan might have received more encouragement from the information about the Southwest War. But at this moment, Jin was troubled by sudden attacks and was in a state of panic.
The winter snow melted in the second month of the lunar calendar, and the battle for the Shan territory led by Lou Shuwan's side and Liao Yiren's side started again. This time, the sudden appearance of foreign reinforcements from Liao Yiren's side used various means to uproot Lou Shuwan's side.
In the two counties and towns, the other side was cruel and killed many people. After some investigation, it was confirmed that those involved in the attack were probably grassland people who had come all the way from Xixia.
This newly emerged alien mercenary has flexible combat skills and a strong desire for battle and massacre. They broke into the city twice, pretending to be merchants, contacted the defenders in the city, and after obtaining permission, they seized the city gate with a small number of elites, and then launched
Slaughter and burning. Just from the battle to seize the city gate, we can confirm that this army is indeed an elite combat force that cannot be underestimated in this era.
The capture of the city in February had aroused the vigilance of Lou Shuwan and Yu Yulin. By the end of February, the other side's operations were hindered. After being discovered once, in early March, this army launched a sneak attack on the patrol.
They attacked two small counties and towns successively by spreading false news. At the same time, they also launched more brutal and inhumane attacks on the civilians in the area under the jurisdiction of the Tiger King.
Small groups of cavalry and elite hunters with flexible combat power penetrated the villages and towns here, attacking the villages at night, and most importantly, burning down the houses and wheat fields. This kind of battle strategy, in previous wars, even
Liao Yiren would never dare to use it, but in March, this place encountered such frenzied attacks more than ten times.
Winter wheat is usually planted one year earlier in August or September of the lunar calendar and harvested in May of the next year. For Lou Shuwan, it is the most critical harvest for the revival of Shanxi. Liao Yiren is also a local rich family, fighting to the death on the battlefield, but always
It means that those who defeat the opponent can live a good life. No one will set fire to the people's wheat fields, but the arrival of the prairie people has set a precedent for this.
In February and March, Yu Yulin gathered his troops and regained two more towns. However, the areas outside the army and near the plains were also harassed by the prairie cavalry. They relied on their superb volley skills to attack the weaker troops.
After shooting, he turned around and ran away. After pulling away, he fired again. He only pinched the soft persimmons and never chewed the hard bones, which caused a certain degree of trouble to Yu Yulin.
As a general who has led troops for many years, Yu Yulin and many others can see that the fighting power of the grassland people is not weak, they are just used to adopting such tactics. Perhaps because the survival of Jin has nothing to do with them, Liao Yiren
After inviting them over, they kept poking at everyone's weaknesses. For them, this was a relatively simple and easy battle, but for Yu Yulin, Lou Shuwan and others, there was only resentment.
Already.
The only thing that can comfort this side is that due to the lack of support, Liao Yiren's forces are completely unable to match Yulin's attack on the frontal battlefield. However, the opponent is on the defensive. Even if everything goes well, they must defeat Liao Yiren and regain the entire Jin Dynasty.
It will take nearly half a year. But no one knows how many crazy things these grassland people will do in half a year, and it is difficult to fully confirm. If these guys are determined to launch an attack in Jin,
What will happen?
During the friction and investigation after the two parties came into contact, the war situation in the southwest was reported one by one. Zhan Wu, who was in charge of affairs here, once reminded Lou Shuwan that although the northwest was reduced to a wasteland, he had no idea about the situation in Xixia and other places.
Too many people are paying attention, but before coming to Shanxi, Mr. Ning once took people to Xixia to investigate the movements of this group of grassland people.
The force that would make Ning Yi secretly pay attention to it was a signal and hint in itself. Lou Shuwan paid more attention to it because of this. She asked Zhan Wu what Ning Yi thought of this group of people and whether he had any countermeasures or back-ups.
Wu is a bit embarrassed.
"...The time Mr. Ning came here, he only arranged things about the Tiger King. Perhaps he didn't expect that these people would reach out to the Central Plains. What he saw and heard in Xixia was not mentioned to anyone..."
Lou Shuwan was in a depressed mood, and when she heard such an answer, she frowned: "Go away, you Black Flag Army are just like that Ning Yi. They feed you with good food and drink, but they are useless!"
When she encountered something related to Ning Yi, she would scold her. Sometimes she was vulgar, and Zhan Wu was helpless. Especially after receiving assistance from the other party last year, everyone in the Chinese Army was short-tongued and soft-handed in front of her, and they could only yell in despair.
Leave. What face is, it doesn’t matter anymore.
Ning Yi had no way of knowing what he thought of the grassland people, so Zhan Wu had to write a temporary letter to report back the situation. Lou Shuwan summoned Yu Yulin and others to ask them to be more vigilant and prepare for a tough battle.
For Liao Yiren, try to plan to solve it as quickly as possible. Although the grassland people are temporarily slick in tactics, they must also have the psychological expectation of fighting a tough battle with the opponent. All methods to check and balance the opponent's guerrilla strategy must be implemented now.
So the fist was withdrawn, and the scheduled time for the Liao family's overall operation was postponed to April. During this period, Lou Shuwan and others launched a conservative defense on the outside of the territory, but the scene of the village being attacked was still reported from time to time.
Every burned wheat field and village was like a knife in Lou Shuwan's heart. Under such circumstances, she even brought her personal guards to press the center of the administration towards the front line. Prepare.
The offensive was still going on for some time, and the private efforts to persuade and persuade Liao Yiren to surrender were also going on in full swing. The smoke of war in Jin was still blowing. By the beginning of April, the atmosphere was chilly, because people suddenly discovered that the prairie people were interspersed and harassed.
Starting from the end of March, it stopped for some reason.
A long period of silence may be preparing for the next round of attack. Realizing this, Lou Shuwan ordered the army to be more vigilant, and at the same time asked people in front to inquire about the news. Soon after, extremely strange news,
It came from the Liao family’s army...
…
North of Fenyang, in Huixian, where Liao Yiren's ancestral home is located, chaos still continues here.
The prairie people suddenly attack.
It was the evening of March 28th. A dinner party hosted by the Liao family was held in this mansion. Soon after, the Mongolian cavalry launched an attack on the nearby military camp. They captured the general of the army.
They captured various commanding heights in the inner courtyard of the Liao family. After that, the Mongols controlled the Liao family for four days. Due to previous arrangements, the nearby armaments were looted, and a large number of prairie people came over and dragged away what they valued most at this time.
Gunpowder, iron cannon, ammunition, etc.
Although it seemed premeditated, the Mongols still showed a lot of haste throughout the entire operation. It was difficult to determine at the time why they chose such a time to attack the Liao family. But in any case, four days later,
During that time, all kinds of cruel and inhumane things happened in the Liao family mansion. Liao Yiren was not dead at that time, and no one sympathized with him in later generations. But in early April, he and part of the Liao family were missing for a time.
The Liao family's power fell into chaos, and no one paid attention to the whereabouts of the Mongols after they plundered the Liao family.
On the second day of April, the Mongolian cavalry left the Liao family, and the nearby military camp suffered a massacre. On the third day of the Lunar New Year, the first group of people who arrived found the bodies of the Liao family all over the ground. Starting from the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, people started to come to Lou Shuwan's side.
Conveyed the idea of surrender. At that time, people were still in chaos and did not understand why all this happened, and they still could not clearly see the impact it would have on the future situation. Where did the Mongols go? Only after the fifth day of the Lunar New Year did they consciously trace
unfolded, and the shocking feedback came only after the tenth day of the lunar month.
It would be many years before people could gradually sort out a rough outline of what happened in Jin from the mouths of survivors...
No one knew that on the afternoon of March 27, when two Mongolian generals named Jamuka and Chi Laowen were discussing matters in a room in Jindi, what alerted the outside window was a flying bird.
Bird, or a member of the Liao family who passed by accidentally. But in any case, the order to prepare for action was sent out soon after.
In the three months since they arrived in Jin, the Mongols were fighting while learning more about the situation in the world. At this time, they already knew that there was a more powerful force in the southwest that defeated Wanyan Zonghan's enemy Jamukha.
What they discussed with Chi Laowen was what they were going to do next. Things were moved forward because of the news outside.
On the second day of April, the Mongolian army headed north with a group of Liao family members who were like animals. They had tortured enough information. The key to the operation lay in several stewards and immediate relatives who were involved in the Liao family's business in the past.
On the seventh day of the lunar month, a caravan carrying the flag of the Liao family arrived at Yanmen Pass, the northernmost point in the Central Plains.
After the Jurchens took control of Yanmen Pass and essentially controlled the Central Plains, due to the decline of the Central Plains, there were not many business trips between the two sides, but there were always some. The Liao family was one of the forces with trade qualifications, and Yulou Shuwan, Yu
After Yu Lin and others launched a resolute confrontation, the Liao family's status among the local warlords was very high.
This was a large team of more than 200 people. They transported a lot of goods. The large amount of goods also meant that the troops stationed at the checkpoint would have more fuel and water. So the two sides conducted friendly consultations: the Jurchen team guarding the checkpoint conducted a
After a lot of trouble, the leader of the Liao family couldn't wait to throw out a lot of treasures to bribe the other party. Such eagerness was originally unusual, but the Jurchen generals guarding Yanmen Pass had been soaked in the filial piety and favors of all parties for a long time, and for a while they didn't
Exception found.
More than two hundred people entered through the gate of Yanmenguan. Among the more than two hundred people, there were many Mongolians who would become famous in the future. They were: Jamuhe, Chi Laowen, Mu Huali, Zhe
Farewell, Borshu, Torre, Hesar and Borjijin - Temujin...
More cavalry are waiting quietly in the mountains south of Yanmen Pass...
This is the moment when the Jurchens' defense is empty.
The tiger showed its fangs. Soon after, the Mongolian troops penetrated the entire Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures and reached Yunzhong...