Four hundred and ninetieth chapters lost a capital in six days
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The Han army suddenly launched a massive counterattack from Lanzhou in the twelfth lunar month, forcing the Xixia army to retreat continuously. Li Hunu retreated to Fuzhou, and Wang Banjin led the Han army, all dressed in white clothes and white armor, to be aggressive. Li Hunu wanted to divide his troops to contain Datong, Xijing, Liao Kingdom
The soldiers and horses were restrained on both sides, but they had no choice but to retreat again, all the way back to Swan City.
After the Han army captured Fuzhou, they stopped attacking. Wang Banjin reorganized his army, trained his soldiers, and prepared for battle.
Dugu Ruizhi went out of Daizhou to attack Datong Prefecture in Xijing of the Liao Dynasty, and fought several battles with Yelu Deguang's first general Huo Xiaolinghu, each with a victory or defeat. Wei Mingxiao, the leader of the Xixia Kingdom, personally commanded an army of 200,000 people across the vast grassland.
, all the way to Linhuang Mansion in Shangjing, Liao Dynasty. The Xixia army was unstoppable, and they surrounded the capital without encountering much resistance along the way. The Liao Dynasty was larger than Yue Yelv Moge assembled an army, with General Xiao Mi as the vanguard to meet the enemy, and fought with the Xixia army
War and Shangjing outside the city.
During the battle between the two sides, Wei Mingxiao, the leader of the Xixia Kingdom, personally went into battle to kill the enemy and took the lead. The morale of the Xixia army was greatly shaken and they defeated the 30,000 Liao army led by Xiao Mi. The Liao general Xiao Mi was shot to death by Wei Mingxiao with an arrow. The Liao army retreated.
In Shangjing City, they guarded behind closed doors. The next day, the Liao general Yeluhong went out to fight again, but was killed by the Xixia general Li Pangu in front of the battle. The Liao army was defeated again, Wei Mingxiao sent his army to attack the city, and the Liao army defended. Both sides
lost heavily.
On the third day, General Tiemu Qiuge of the Liao and Jin Dynasties led three thousand wolf cavalry out of the city to form a battle formation, and killed four Xixia generals. Li Pangu, the Xixia general, went out to fight. The two sides fought for more than a hundred rounds without deciding the winner. It was getting dark, and two people were killed.
They lit torches and fought at night. Both of their weapons were broken and their horses died from exhaustion, so they fought again on foot. Li Pangu, who was famous in the sky, made a mistake and called for gold to withdraw his troops. Brother Yelumo finally found a tiger general and naturally did not want to look at it.
When Tiemu Qiuge was injured, he sent a large army out of the city to respond. Li Pangu retreated, and Tiemu Qiuge was welcomed back into the city like a hero.
They fought again the next day. Li Pangu and Tiemu Qiuge fought for hundreds of rounds and still couldn't decide the outcome. After losing several battles in a row, the Khitan people had already lost their spirit. Seeing Tiemu Qiuge's heroism, the Khitan people were unruly and reconciled.
The enthusiasm for war was aroused again, and although there were few soldiers, they defended Linhuang Mansion and refused to retreat.
The two sides were in a stalemate in Shangjing. The Xixia army was powerful but it was difficult to break through Shangjing for a while. The Liao army held on desperately and refused to retreat. Wei Mingxiao divided his army into fifty thousand soldiers and massacred the Xiwandan tribe, one of the eight Khitan tribes, and killed ten old and weak women and children.
More than 10,000 were taken, and more than 100,000 horses and countless cattle and sheep were taken away, and they were burned and killed all the way back to Helan Mountain.
Yelu Xiongji was furious when he learned that the Xixia army had attacked Linhuang Mansion in Youzhou. He first issued an edict to deprive Yeluji of his position as crown prince, and despite the objections of his ministers, he appointed his second son Yelu Deguang as the crown prince and ordered him to lead an army to attack Youzhou.
Zhou. Yelu Xiongji left three of the eight generals of the Golden Account to assist Yelu Deguang, and led an army of hundreds of thousands to rush back to Linhuang Mansion.
Yeluji originally wanted to defend Youzhou, but his subordinates betrayed one after another. The soldiers who defended the city opened the city gate to welcome Yelu Deguang's army into the city. Yeluji hurriedly fled Youzhou with less than 10,000 soldiers. He did not dare to stay and went all the way.
He fled to the northeast. He wanted to seize a foothold in Liaoyang Prefecture in Tokyo, but was intercepted and killed by the Xiren tribe's army on the way. Yeluji was defeated again and fled in a panic. He was intercepted and killed along the way. He fled to Yuguan and was overtaken by Yelu Deguang's army.
, the guard at Yuguan did not open the city gate, and Yelu had no way out, so he committed suicide at the foot of the city.
Yelu Deguang took his body and took it back to Youzhou. While expressing his gratitude to Yelu Xiongji, he buried Yelu Ji as a prince in Liaoyang Mansion in Tokyo.
After hearing that his eldest son had died, Yelu Xiongji seemed to have aged twenty years overnight, with his temples all white, showing his age.
The elite troops of the Khitan palace army rushed back to Linhuang Mansion, and the Xixia army fought in the wild. The Khitan people went to Beijing and were surrounded. The crowd was excited, the soldiers fought with their lives, and reinforcements from various places continued to arrive. Although the Xixia army had the upper hand in the early stage and won several battles in a row,
But then it gradually became passive. The Khitan armies formed an encirclement. Wei Mingxiao ordered the troops to retreat, and the Xixia army formed a formation and retreated in an orderly manner.
The Khitans pursued, and the two sides fought several battles. Wei Mingxiao finally returned to the country, and the Khitan army counterattacked Xixia under the leadership of Yelu Xiongji. However, they were blocked by Chen Touxian's army guarding Swan City. Both sides fought bloody battles for days with numerous casualties. This time
During the Northern Expedition, Wei Mingxiao, although he did not capture the Liao Kingdom and Shangjing, he massacred one of the eight Khitan tribes and slaughtered countless smaller tribes. The Khitan lost no less than 300,000 people, millions of cattle, sheep and horses, and its vitality was severely damaged.
Although the first Northern Expedition to the Khitan launched by Liu Ling did not achieve a decisive victory, it severely damaged the arrogant Liao Dynasty. The Khitan lost nearly one million tribesmen and more than 200,000 soldiers, and was no longer able to use foreign troops in the short term.
In the first month of the fifth year of Datong, Liu Ling returned to Jinzhou, and hundreds of officials went out of the city to welcome Sanli.
After returning to Jinzhou, Liu Ling became the regent as the King of Han and was the prime minister of the government. Song Zhen, the Minister of Rites, wrote a letter asking the King of Han to enthrone him as the emperor for his country's plans. After that, all the officials wrote letters one after another, respectfully inviting Liu Ling to the throne. Liu Ling just refused.
It was announced that the reign name would still be Datong.
On February 13, the fifth year of Datong, Liu Ling appointed Zhou Yangong as Prime Minister, Hou Shen and Xie Huanran as auxiliary ministers and stayed in Jinzhou. He collected millions of grains and grains and transported them to Shuzhou. He mobilized an army of 50,000 and left Jinzhou to lead the army.
Pointing directly to Jiangnan.
While the army was still marching, Chen Yuanshan, the general of the Han army in Huazhou, led an army of 150,000 men divided into two groups to attack Kaifeng and Zhengzhou.
On February 20th, tens of thousands of members of the White Lotus Sect in Kaifeng City raised flags to revolt, captured the city gate and allowed the Han army to enter the city. Kaifeng guard Li Tianfang died in the rebellion, and the Han army captured Kaifeng.
On February 27, the Han army besieged Zhengzhou for half a month but still failed to break the city. Wu Zilai, the governor of Zhengzhou, called on the people to defend the city, blocked four gates, and vowed to fight to the end. Mao Yuan, the general of the Han army on Zhengzhou Road, was furious and ordered the army to attack.
The army attacked frantically for three consecutive days. They attacked the city several times but were pushed back by the Zhou army. For another three days, the Han army lost more than 10,000 yuan and still failed to conquer Zhengzhou. Wu Zilai posted a notice declaring that the Han army would not leave any chickens or dogs behind after breaking the city.
, calling on all the people to take up arms to defend their homeland. More than 100,000 people in Zhengzhou were afraid that the Han army would massacre the city, so they assisted the Zhou army in resisting to the death.
On the first day of March, Chen Yuanshan sent his trusted general to guard Kaifeng, and personally led an army of 50,000 to aid Maoyuan.
After arriving in Zhengzhou, Chen Yuanshan ordered Maoyuan to divide 60,000 troops all the way east to clear out the remaining Zhou army. He personally led the army to continue to attack Zhengzhou City. After more than a month of continuous attack, the Zhengzhou defenders suffered tens of thousands of casualties, but the Han army still failed to break through.
Zhengzhou. Chen Yuanshan was furious and personally supervised the battle. The Han army attacked fiercely every day, and rivers of blood flowed inside and outside the city of Zhengzhou.
Maoyuan led an army of 60,000 all the way to the east, conquering Caozhou, Jeju, Yunzhou, Qizhou, Qingzhou, and Mizhou. In the Qingzhou battle, the Han army killed more than 20,000 Zhou troops and pursued the Zhou army general Yue Le as far as Mizhou.
, the two sides fought a decisive battle, Maoyuan took the lead to break through the Zhou army's formation, and beheaded the Yue Le formation. The last few state capitals in the eastern part of the Zhou Dynasty were captured by the Han army, and the Han Dynasty's fire dragon flag flew above the coastal cities.
At this point, all the ninety-eight states of the Great Zhou Dynasty were occupied by the Han army except Zhengzhou.
More than two months after the Han army attacked Zhengzhou, Zhengzhou still stood strong. However, the Zhengzhou defenders were exhausted, and the morale of the Han army had gradually declined. Wu Zilai, the governor of Zhengzhou, commanded the soldiers and civilians to hold on to Zhengzhou for more than two months, killing and wounding no less than three Han soldiers.
Thousands of people. But the city was in desperate need of supplies, and the soldiers and civilians of Zhengzhou vowed to fight to the death. On March 27, the fifth year of the reign of the Han Dynasty, Chen Yuanshan personally led 20,000 soldiers to attack the west gate of Zhengzhou. They fought from morning until sunset, and finally captured the city of Zhengzhou.
.The Han army gradually took the initiative and captured the west gate wall.
Chen Yuanshan saw that he had a chance to win, so he personally climbed to the top of the city to fight. Wu Zilai recognized Chen Yuanshan as the leader of the Han army, and summoned archers to shoot arrows at random. Chen Yuanshan, a famous general of the Han army, was shot to death on the top of the city!
The leader of the Han army died unexpectedly, but Wu Zilai did not see the collapse of the Han army. The Han soldiers went crazy and fought hard to seize the city, dug open the west gate, and let the Han cavalry enter the city. Tens of thousands of Han troops entered the city, and the Zhou army
Gradually retreated. Every street was a battlefield of life and death. In the end, Wu Zilai died among the rebels because he was outnumbered. Xu Sheng, the deputy general of the Han army, was furious at the stubbornness of the Zhou army and ordered not to surrender. The Han army arrested Zhou soldiers and Zhengzhou officials throughout the city.
The people of Zhengzhou were fierce, killing the soldiers of the Han army who were maintaining law and order, seizing weapons and continuing to resist.
Xu Sheng was furious and ordered the killing of all those who resisted, whether civilians or soldiers. The death of Chen Yuanshan aroused the boundless murderous intention of the Han soldiers. Anyone who saw a weapon was killed by the Han soldiers. Within a day, there were many corpses in Zhengzhou City.
Ten thousand. In this battle, the Han army lost more than 30,000 soldiers, including General Chen Yuanshan.
After the Han army entered the city, they massacred the remnants of the Zhou army and killed more than 90,000 resisting soldiers and civilians. Zhengzhou was almost turned into an empty city.
On March 29, the fifth year of the reign of the Han Dynasty, Zhengzhou was completely controlled by the Han army. At this point, the Great Zhou Dynasty was declared destroyed.
When the news reached Shuzhou, Liu Ling, who was reorganizing his armaments, remained silent. After the death of Liu Mao, the Hou Tinghou, in Zhaozhou, another tiger general under Liu Ling's command was killed. Liu Ling decreed that Chen Yuanshan would be granted the title of hereditary Duke of Su, ranking Ling.
Yan Ge. He also named Liu Mao the Duke of Baoguo. Liu Ling severely reprimanded Xu Sheng for setting up an army to massacre the people and surrendered, and ordered him to build the Zhongyi Mausoleum in Zhengzhou City to bury the dead Zhou soldiers and people. Thinking of Wu Zilai's loyalty, Liu Ling issued a decree
An ancestral hall was built in Zhengzhou to allow the people to mourn Wu Zilai. Xu Sheng was also ordered to stay in Kaifeng to stabilize the rear. Maoyuan was ordered to be the military governor of Qingzhou to stabilize more than ten state capitals in the east.
From then on, the Great Zhou Dynasty was destroyed.
In early April of the fifth year of Datong in the Han Dynasty
Liu Ling sent an envoy to Jinling to persuade the Southern Tang Emperor Li Yu to surrender. Li Yu was furious and killed the Han envoy.
Li Yu appointed General Li Liaoyuan as the Marshal of the Army and Chu Zhongtian as the Marching Commander, and assembled an army of 200,000 to fight against the Han army. At the same time, he announced that he would stick to Jinling and never do the shameful thing of moving the capital again.
At the same time, Jin Yiji Wuming of the Supervisory Council who successfully entered the inner courtyard of the Southern Tang Palace was appreciated and reused by Li Yu after "killing" the assassins sent by Liu Ling, the King of Han. Li Yu was afraid that Liu Ling, the King of Han, would send people
He assassinated him and kept Ji Wuming with him at all times. Later, when discussing military and state affairs with important ministers, Ji Wuming did not shy away. The Han and Tang armies had not yet launched, and the Southern Tang Dynasty had already lost for a while.
On the fifth day of April, Liu Ling swore an oath in Shuzhou, with an army of 300,000 men, a mighty force, with flags fluttering, covering the sky and the sun. This was the beginning of the war to attack the countries south of the Yangtze River.
What is speechless is that Li Yucai announced that he would never take a step back, and left Jinling under the persuasion of the Manchu civil and military officials and returned to the southern capital Nanchang. The reason was for no other reason than that before Liu Ling's army left Shuzhou, the Han Dynasty
For the first time, the navy showed its domineering and mighty power. The army did not move, and the navy went first. On the first day of April, on the day when Li Yu killed the Han envoy, the terrifyingly powerful Han navy suddenly appeared.
On the river, it killed and annihilated the Jinling Navy of the Southern Tang Dynasty in just one day. The huge Dahai Loach battleship, which was thirty feet long and could carry nearly a thousand soldiers, was fifty feet long and could carry one thousand two hundred soldiers.
Soldiers and giant warships equipped with small trebuchet cannons directly psychologically destroyed the psychological defense line of the Southern Tang people. Hundreds of large and small warships crossed the river, showing unparalleled domineering force.
Jinling has a prominent location, only across the river from the Han Dynasty. And under the threat of the Han navy, how can Li Yu stay stable in Jinling?
On the seventh day of April, the Han Dynasty navy captured Jinling.
From the time Li Yu announced that he would not retreat until the fall of Jinling, it only lasted six days. (To be continued)
