On the first day of September in the first year of the Han Dynasty, the four Jiedu envoys who rushed back from the west and north returned to their respective stations. With the orders of the King of Han, they began to prepare for the upcoming war. On the second day of September, the King of Han's chariots left Nanchang for the
Hangzhou. The heavy armored infantry were slaughtered and ordered to return to Luoyang. The King of Han's chariot drove up the official road in a mighty manner, escorted by a thousand cavalry and three thousand fine armored light cavalry of the Han army.
At this time, after resting in Quanzhou for a month, the Han navy, led by Zhaoxian, left Quanzhou port and headed up the coast. According to Liu Ling's arrangement, the navy will arrive at the Bohai Sea at the beginning of winter in two months.
Near Yuyang, then drive to Youzhou via He Road.
After setting off from Nanchang, Liu Ling's ceremonial car drove through Jinling without delay, and arrived in Hangzhou in only half a month.
The scenery in Hangzhou was much more beautiful than in later generations. But Liu Ling had no intention of seeing those picturesque scenery, and he was eager to return home.
I originally promised my women to accompany them for a while, but as a result, there was no peace of mind about big or small things along the way. I happened to find out about the Xixia secret spies a few days after I went out for fun, and then rushed back to Jinzhou to deal with it. Later I accompanied them.
Within two months, I went to Ryugu Island again, and I was delayed in Ryugu Island for three months. It was Yangchun when I left Jinju, and now it is late autumn.
He felt guilty for his woman Liu Ling. He left them in Hangzhou for several months. As a husband, he was indeed incompetent. Xu Sheng, the governor of Hangzhou, packed up the original palace of King Wu Yue in Hangzhou and sent
They were protected by a large number of elite soldiers. Lu Yuzhu and the others spent more than two months in this picturesque Hangzhou, but they did not feel bored at all. From spring to midsummer, the most beautiful months in Hangzhou left a deep impression on them.
impression.
Even if you don’t go anywhere, just boating on the West Lake every day is a pleasant and comfortable thing.
The palace of King Wu Yue in Hangzhou was not far from the West Lake. There is no doubt that several women liked it far more than Jinzhou. If you compare it, Jinzhou was the temporary capital of the Han Dynasty and was originally the city of Zhou Dynasty.
It was the place where General Meng Hu, one of the great generals of Wei, stationed troops. Later, after so many years of construction by the Han army, Jinzhou became a militarized fortress. Although the city wall was not as tall as Xingqing Mansion in Xixia, in terms of defense, it was no better than Xingqing Mansion.
Qingfu is bad. Compared with Hangzhou, Jinzhou is too solemn and calm. If Jinzhou City is a warrior wearing a helmet, then Hangzhou City is a gentle and pleasant woman. Living here is far more comfortable than Jinzhou City.
It was comfortable. So Lu Yuzhu and the others quickly fell in love with this place. For more than two months, they had lived a very comfortable and relaxed life.
After Liu Ling arrived in Hangzhou, he tried his best to take time to accompany them on their sightseeing tours. Since Liu Ling would go north soon, Liu Ling tried his best to compensate the women during this period. Little Liu Xian was already a toddler, and it looked like
He looked like a little fat duck, waddling and cute. In this way, he spent more than a month in Hangzhou. At the end of October of the first year of Dazhi, Liu Ling said goodbye to Lu Yuzhu and they left Hangzhou and rushed to Kaifeng. In Kaifeng
Leading the assembled army of 100,000 troops, they marched northwestward and arrived at Luzhou on November 20th.
The army led by Liu Ling had just arrived in Luzhou when an express report from the Supervisory Yuan brought news of a large-scale invasion by Khitan cavalry.
On the fifth day of the eleventh month, Yelu Chucai, the king of the southern palace in Youzhou of the Liao Kingdom, personally led nearly 400,000 troops to cross the Sanggan River. Luo Xu, the Jizhou Jiedushi of the Han Dynasty, led his 120,000 troops to meet the enemy on the south bank of the Sanggan River. The Han army will
The Khitan army was blocked on the Sanggan River and was difficult to cross. Yelu Chucai ordered to build a pontoon bridge to forcefully attack the Han army's defensive formation. From the first day of contact, the Khitan people did not test but directly launched a fierce attack. The main battlefield was at the Sanggan River.
On the waters of An section.
In the month before the Khitan people went south, almost all the fishing boats in the Youzhou Basin of the Sanggan River were burned to pieces by the Han army. Therefore, Yelu Chucai ordered people to collect boats and mobilized civilians to build pontoons. Only the Sanggan River
Although the water flow of the river in this basin is relatively slow, it is not easy to build several pontoon bridges on a river more than one mile wide.
The Han army deployed a large number of gunpowder trebuchets and repeating pyrotechnics on the bank of the river, as well as hundreds of heavy catapults. It took a lot of effort to build a pontoon bridge of more than 100 meters. As a result, the Han army's gunpowder trebuchets bombed
The civilian laborers who came down to build the pontoon bridge suffered thousands of casualties. The civilian laborers fled to the north bank, but were shot to death by a hail of arrows from the Khitan supervising team. The civilian laborers, who could neither move forward nor retreat, had to grit their teeth and stand.
After building a bridge in the river, the water of Sanggan River turned light red in just half an hour.
When the news reached Luzhou, the Khitan team had not yet crossed the Sanggan River. It was the middle of winter, and the people who suffered the most serious losses were the people in the river. Although Yelu Chucai sent people to carry thousands of jars of strong liquor and pile it on the river.
The villagers were allowed to drink to relieve the cold, but how could one or two sips of strong liquor withstand the biting river water? In the lower reaches of the Sanggan River, countless dead bodies were seen floating by on the river every day.
It took more than ten days for the pontoon bridge built by the Khitans to cross the middle of the river, but it already cost tens of thousands of civilians and thousands of soldiers. The Khitan soldiers who rowed boats to attack were surrounded by Han troops as soon as they came ashore.
The dense forest of horizontal knives chopped through them, leaving hundreds of mutilated corpses on the ground. On the contrary, after nightfall, the Han army with boats made a surprise attack at night. They did not seek to overwhelm the Khitan company camp, but only set fire to the pontoon bridge.
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Yelu Chucai didn't have any good way to cross the river. Fortunately, his mission was only to contain the Han army in Jizhou and Cangzhou. Most of the people who died were civilians whom he sent to kidnap. No matter how many Yelu Chucai died, he would not be able to cross the river.
Feeling distressed. As long as the Han army is firmly stuck on the Sanggan River and unable to rescue Daizhou, Yelu Chucai's mission will be completed. He just urges the civilians to build pontoon bridges every day, and there is no sense of urgency in his heart. The defense of the Han army is
There are endless means. The power of gunpowder trebuchets in the water is greatly reduced, and the gunpowder bags dropped in the water become mute, but the heavy crossbows are sharp. Later, the Han army lowered the fire boats upstream to hit the pontoon.
, the pontoon bridge that the Khitans worked so hard to build could not withstand several hits from fire ships and was burned down.
The two sides faced off at the Sanggan River, and 120,000 Han troops were waiting in full formation.
On the eighth day of November, Cangzhou Jiedushi Yang Ye led 40,000 selected elite troops to cross the lower reaches of the Sanggan River at night and quietly detoured back to the flank of the Khitan army. However, Yang Ye did not attack rashly, and the Khitan army outnumbered him.
With more than ten times the number of men and horses, if they attack rashly, the 40,000 elites who have crossed the river may be stuck in a quagmire and unable to extricate themselves. Without reinforcements, if they cannot return to the south bank, this lone army will only be destroyed.
Yang Ye is waiting for the arrival of the Han Dynasty Navy.
On November 20th of the first year of Dazhi, on the day Liu Ling arrived in Luzhou, the four armies of Datong Prefecture in Xijing of the Liao Dynasty, totaling 500,000 troops, were divided into 16 routes and went south. The right army had 4 routes of 120,000 troops.
Liao general Huo Xiaolinghu led the attack on Lanzhou, and fought fiercely with the Han Dynasty's Lanzhou Jiedu envoy Wang Banjin. Two lines of the front army, with 60,000 troops, led by General Yelu Feiyang, advanced to Daizhou, and the right army's four groups had 120,000 troops.
The army, led by General Tiago, fought against the Han army of Yizhou Jiedushi Luo Fu. Yelu Deguang, the left-behind prince in Xijing of the Liao Kingdom, led the Chinese Eighth Route Army with a total of 24 troops, passing through the defense line of Daizhou Jiedushi Dugu Ruizhi.
Attacking Taiyuan, the Liao rear army was divided into two groups, led by Liao general Su Ge.
Liao Xijing and Nanjing, soldiers and horses came out in full force.
On November 20th, Wang Banjin, the governor of Lanzhou, sent an envoy to Echeng in Western Xiaxia, requesting Weiming Xuxiao to send troops to contain the Liao army. Weiming Xuxiao received the envoy, and then promised to send troops northward after preparing all the food and grass.
They attacked Liao Xijing to contain Yelu Deguang's troops, but the Xixia army still took no action until the Han envoys returned to Lanzhou.
In the north, hundreds of miles from Lanzhou to Bazhou, war is rising again.
Liu Ling led the army to replenish food and grass from Luzhou and then continued to march north. It took ten days to reach Taiyuan. At this time, Yelu Deguang's 240,000 troops had also passed through the gap in the Han army's defense line.
Yelu Deguang got in, first besieged Xinzhou, and after more than ten days of fierce attack, he could not break the city. Yelu Deguang left 20,000 troops to continue attacking Xinzhou, and then sent his army south. The Liao army's more than 200,000 troops brought smoke and dust that covered the sky.
When he appeared in the north of Taiyuan, Liu Ling also happened to arrive in Taiyuan.
Taiyuan Jiedushi Hua Ling had 60,000 men and horses, plus the 100,000 troops brought by Liu Ling. Compared with Yelu Deguang's Liao army, they were still at a disadvantage. However, the Liao army's main attack and the Han army's defense were equally matched.
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Just when Yelu Deguang went south and entered the territory of the Han Dynasty, Emperor Yelu Xiongji of the Liao Kingdom sent his third brother Yeluhao to stay in Beijing, and Han Zhigu became the prime minister to assist in the government. He personally ordered 200,000 palace troops to go south to
General Xiao Mi was the vanguard and headed straight for Taiyuan.
In this battle, Yelu Xiongji mobilized millions of troops and launched an offensive against the Han Dynasty on a front line of hundreds of miles. On the Han side, Cangzhou Jiedushi Yang Ye and Jizhou Jiedushi Luo Xu led You with 250,000 horses.
The 400,000-strong army left by King Yelu Chucai of the Nanmian Palace in the prefecture blocked the Sanggan River. On the Lanzhou side, Wang Banjin left a 100,000-strong army to monitor the movements of Goose City in Western Xia Dynasty, while mobilizing the remaining nearly 100,000 troops to block Huo Xiaoling.
Hu's 120,000 Liao soldiers. Yizhou Jiedushi Luo Fu blocked the Liao general Tiago's 120,000 Liao soldiers with 80,000 Han troops. Daizhou Jiedushi Dugu Ruizhi used 60,000 troops to fight against Yelu Feiyang's Six
Wan Liao soldiers.
The total number of troops invested by the Han army was nearly 700,000, and nearly 2 million troops from both sides launched an unprecedented battle. If we count the 400,000 troops of Xixia in Swan City, this will be a battle in which the outcome is related to the pattern of the world! (Unfinished)
