If Yan Yun doesn't return, he would rather die than return!
If this came from the mouth of an ordinary person, then everyone would probably just laugh it off without much emotion.⊙
But coming from the emperor's mouth, the situation was completely different.
In ancient times, the emperor was supreme and a god-like existence. It meant so much to lead a personal expedition. It can be said that with one more emperor, the combat effectiveness of the soldiers would increase several times. This is not an exaggeration.
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Because the emperor's coming here fully demonstrated the importance the court attached to this war, and also fully boosted morale. The majestic emperor, regardless of the danger, personally came to the front line to supervise the battle, and even expressed that he would live and die with the Yanyun soldiers.
So mighty and domineering, how can any soldier have the nerve to succumb to others? It is conceivable that once the war starts, everyone will rush forward fearlessly. The emperor is behind me, and there is no way I can hide behind the emperor. Moreover,
This is a good opportunity to show off.
Think of Genghis Khan, the prodigy of that generation. He would fight every enemy and win every battle. He was the well-deserved first god of war. He probably led the most military expeditions among emperors. As long as he was around, all Mongolian soldiers would take the lead bravely and be fearless.
This is the benefit of a personal expedition.
Like Song Huizong, if he ran away before the enemy came, the soldiers would definitely think, why should I work for you if you leave us alone, and morale will become very low, which is often a failure.
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This is the fundamental difference between "come with me" and "come with me", although the difference is only one word.
Of course, it is also very dangerous to conduct a military expedition in person, because once something happens to the emperor, his morale will be greatly affected, and even fall into despair. Therefore, the key is to rely on success or failure.
The covenant has been burned and the war has been issued.
Zhao Kai also informed the world that the Song Dynasty and Xixia formed an alliance to jointly fight against the Jin Kingdom.
The news quickly spread throughout the country. Because the date for the declaration of war was predetermined, Bianjing also issued an announcement at the same time, which shocked the whole country.
Didn't the emperor go to Luoyang to worship his ancestors? Why did he go to Yanyun to fight, and he wanted to start a war with the Kingdom of Jin. The people of the Song Dynasty were as confused as the two-foot-long monk.
However, due to the disappearance of the previous fleet, the people's hatred against Jin was very high. Coupled with Li Qi's secret manipulation, many bloody people were very much in favor of sending troops against Jin. They must teach this Jurchen a lesson.
I think Han people are easy to bully. In addition, there are many businessmen who also agree very much, especially the businessmen in Jiangnan. The war in this court consumes everything quickly. Their goods are flowing out like water. How can they be unhappy?
However, there are still some people who are not in favor of declaring war on Jin, because now the country is peaceful and the people are well clothed and well fed. They live and work in peace and contentment. There is no need to change. After all, the war is cruel, and it is good to win. If it is lost, it will be terrible. For many years
Your hard work may be wasted.
There are also many conservative forces in the court. They want to stop it, but the problem is that the emperor has gone to Yanyun. Even if you scream, the emperor will not hear it. Moreover, the covenant has been burned, and it is already too late to restore it.
Of course, they didn't dare to go to Yanyun to shout. It was too dangerous there, so they could only sit at home and tremble.
However, the people in the Yanyun area are very supportive of Zhao Kai's sending troops. Although they have been peaceful for many years, the Jin soldiers have been stationed here with heavy troops. This has made the people in the Yanyun area always on guard. Instead of being frightened every day, it is better to
Take the initiative to seek war, unify Yanyun, and consolidate the defense of the Great Wall. Then they will no longer have to fear the powerful northern countries. Moreover, the emperor is here, so what do they need to fear?
Although the Kingdom of Jin had not yet learned about it at this time, after all, ancient communications were not so developed, it is conceivable that once the Kingdom of Jin knew that the Song Dynasty had declared war on them, they would definitely be very surprised. If it were in later generations, you would have to go and see it.
Calendar, is this year the Year of Fools?
This is incredible.
In fact, the rulers of the Jin Kingdom, especially Wanyan Zongwang and Wanyan Xiyin, also knew that there would be a war between the Song and Jin Dynasties, but they miscalculated the military strength of the Song Dynasty. This was definitely an extremely misjudgment.
It would take at least a few more years for the Song Dynasty to have the strength to fight them, so they stepped up their efforts to destroy Xixia, trying to take a preemptive strike before the Song Dynasty could compete with them.
However, they never expected that the Song Dynasty would declare war on them this year, and it would come so suddenly without any warning.
This misstep directly resulted in the extremely empty deployment of the Jin Army's troops in Yanyun.
Because the Kingdom of Jin had just been founded, and there were very few Jurchens, most of whom were composed of Han and Khitan people, military power was very important for Wanyan Sheng to consolidate his internal affairs during this period. Therefore, Wanyan Sheng did not dare to do so at this time.
He deployed heavy troops in the Yanyun area, including Shangjing, Huanglong Mansion, and Dading Mansion, to prevent the Khitans from rebelling. In the Yanyun area, including the border area with the Song Dynasty, Wanyan Sheng arranged two legions.
, one is Wanyan Zonghan's tribe in Yunzhou, and the other is Wanyan Zongwang's tribe in Pingzhou. The two of them are like Tu emperors.
Originally this was enough, but both of them believed that if they sent troops to Yanyun, they would be able to win, because the Song army also stationed heavy troops here and built fortresses aggressively. More importantly, there were many rivers in the Yanyun area, and it was difficult to defeat them.
It was conducive to the development of the Jin army. If it was delayed any longer, it would be more difficult to fight. So they wanted to attack Xixia in a roundabout way, because they thought that the weak Song Dynasty would not dare to attack them, so they transferred half of the troops from Yanyun to the westward expedition.
Including Wanyan Zonghan's departure, the Jin army had a total of more than 40,000 troops left in the Yanyun area.
The Song army had 200,000 elite troops in the Yanyun area, and 200,000 fought against 40,000. This---of course, the Song Dynasty was a very strange country. Even with such a huge disparity in military strength, they were often defeated.
The army was wiped out, so it's still hard to say.
The Jin army was not afraid. Anyway, they had always used more to defeat fewer. This disparity in military strength was perfectly normal in their eyes.
In fact, before the alliance was torn up, Han Shizhong's navy had already been dispatched. Zhao Kai gave an order and the other five armies marched at the same time, and the war was about to break out.
However, the first one along the way is naturally Zhang Shuye of Tanzhou. According to Zongze's strategy, the pass must be closed first, because judging from the deployment of the Jin army's troops, it is a left-right containment. Yunzhou Wanyan Zonghan restrained the Song Dynasty's Shan
The latter three states, and Wanyan Zongwang of Pingzhou is to contain the nine states in front of the mountain. If you concentrate our forces to attack Yunzhou, we will concentrate our forces to attack Yanshan Prefecture. During the Yanyun War, Wanyan Zongwang also sent troops to Yanyun, which caused Li Qi to have to
He divided his troops to guard Yanshan Prefecture and did not dare to attack rashly. Only then did he resolve the crisis in Yunzhou and promote the Yunsang Alliance.
Wanyan Zongwang's base camp was in Pingzhou. If Pingzhou wanted to enter Yanyun, it must enter through Gubeikou. Therefore, although Wanyan Zongwang was forced to retreat by Han Shizhong's navy at that time, he still sent people to defend Gubeikou and could not defeat Song Dynasty.
If the army occupies this place, then he has the initiative and can enter the customs at any time.
Zhang Shuye's main task along the way is to seize Gubeikou and prevent Pingzhou reinforcements from entering the pass. In this way, they can fully seize Yunzhou, Xinzhou and other places behind the mountains.
However, this Zongze just arranged the strategy. As for how to fight, he didn't say specifically, because he didn't know. If he did everything, then what would people like Zhang Shuye do?
So how to capture Gubeikou depends on Zhang Shuye.
However, because the two places were so close to Gubeikou as soon as they left Tanzhou, it only took two or three days to travel. Therefore, Zhang Shuye did not rush to send troops and immediately summoned all the soldiers to discuss countermeasures. You should know that he was also already old.
It was over 70 years ago. Historically, he also died during the Jingkang period, but by suicide. He also knew that this was his last battle, so he did not want to leave any regrets and was determined to capture Gubeikou.
, This life cannot end in failure, and he said to the soldiers: "The terrain at Gubeikou is dangerous, easy to defend and difficult to attack. I fought Wanyan Zongwang here in the past, but unfortunately I failed to break it. I don't know how good you are.
You can help me capture Gubeikou."
Deputy pioneer Guan Sheng said: "Deputy commander, Gubeikou is only guarded by a few thousand Jin troops, but we have 20,000 elites, so we can attack and capture it by force."
Zhang Shuye frowned and said: "I also tried to attack by force at the beginning, but failed, so attacking by force is definitely not the best strategy." They must be the first stop, because they are closest to the Jin army, and it is also an extremely important battle, win or lose.
It directly affects the entire battle situation, but Zhang Shuye always maintains his composure. He knows that the terrain of Gubeikou is dangerous and has been defeated here. He knows that a hasty attack will most likely end in failure. This is only the last resort.
This Gubeikou is a pass. There is only one road leading to the pass on land. If we don't attack by force, how can we fight? All the soldiers are silent.
At this time, a young general sitting at the end suddenly stood up and said: "If the deputy commander can give Beizhi a vanguard army, Beizhi can defeat the Jin army."
The tone is very arrogant!
Zhang Shuye raised his eyes and saw that this man had an elegant face and was very handsome. He seemed to be a talented person, but he said he was a junior general. In fact, it did not mean that this man was about thirty years old. It was just that his official position was relatively small and he was almost sitting down.
When we got to the gate, it was a pity that this was just a vanguard army. To put it mildly, it was just trying to make up for it. If he were in the main camp of the Chinese army, he would have to stand guard outside the camp. He is not qualified to stand, so how can he be qualified to sit?
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The old man was secretly shocked. I still have such a talented person under my command. He opened his mouth to defeat the Jin Army. If the Jin Army was really so easy to defeat, I would probably have black hair. He couldn't help asking: "Who are you?"
Because Zhang Shuye is a member of the General Staff and does not have the power to command the army. Although he cannot participate in many military exercises, he only knows some generals, such as Wang Gui, Fu Xuan, Dong Xian and other major generals who have already achieved meritorious deeds.
There is no need to mention Yue Fei, but it is impossible for everyone to know his name. This person has a humble official position. Judging from his military uniform, he is a captain with at most fifty people under his command, so he does not know this person.
Guan Sheng and other generals also looked at this person with strange expressions. This tone was too loud, and he was most likely bragging.
The young general cupped his fists and said: "Liu Qi, a humble officer, is a captain of the Shooting Sun Battalion of the Northern Military Region."
This sun-shooting camp is the archers' camp.
Obviously Liu Qi also knew that Zhang Shuye didn't know him, so he simply reported his family name.
Have not heard.
Zhang Shuye had never heard of it, and he thought to himself, if you, a captain, are sitting here, you must be a good archer, better than other captains. If you really have such ability, there is no way that the Zong Prefect will not promote you.
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But when a civil servant next to Zhang Shuye heard the name Liu Qi, he was stunned for a moment, and then whispered beside Zhang Shuye: "General, this man is the son of the Northwest General Liu Zhongwu."
Zhang Shuye had heard that General Liu Zhongwu was a famous general who had made great achievements in fighting Xia and Tubo in the northwest. He asked in a surprised tone: "Are you the son of Liu Shaobao?"
Liu Zhongwu has passed away, and Emperor Huizong of the Song Dynasty named him Shaobao.
Liu Qi nodded and said, "Exactly." As he spoke, his face looked slightly embarrassed.
Zhang Shuye was even more puzzled. He looked at Liu Qi. How did you end up like this, after you were the queen of the generals and the queen of Shaobao? It seems that you are not too young. You are in your thirties and you are still a small captain. What do you want?
If you are capable, based on your family background, you will definitely be much better than Yue Fei and the others. Yue Fei was born in a peasant family and is now the commander of the palace. No matter how bad you are, you will have to be the commander of a battalion. How can I trust you?
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