In the fourth year of Xuanhe of the Song Dynasty, the Song army, as agreed, was when the Jin army swept across the Zhongjing Road and Xijing Road of the Liao Dynasty. Tong Guan and Cai You led the troops to attack the Liao Dynasty in two directions, and Zhong Shidao led the east route army to Baigou.
Marching forward, Xin Xingzong led the West Route Army towards Fan Village. Yelv Chun, who was also regarded as the leader of the Liao Dynasty and was stationed in Xijin Prefecture, Nanjing, sent Yelu Dashi, and Xiao Qian led his troops to resist.
In May, when the sun was declining and the Liao army was about to be subjugated, they defeated the Song Dynasty's Western Route Army forward Yang Keshi and the East Route Xinxing Zong tribe. The Song army suffered heavy casualties and had to retreat towards Xiongzhou. The Liao army gathered its elite cavalry.
He sent his army to pursue them, and started a bloody battle with the Song army led by Zhong Shidao outside Xiongzhou City. It was originally May, but the wind suddenly rose, dust flew, and fist-sized hail fell from the sky. Facing the Liao army,
With the crazy counterattack and the sudden blow of hail, the Song army collapsed across the board. From the south of Xiongzhou, to the north of Mozhou, between Tangbo, and to the west of Xiongzhou, Baozhou and Zhending, dead bodies were scattered everywhere, and it was impossible to defeat them.
.The remaining troops of the Liao army actually showed off their power in the area north of Xiongzhou. Then they returned with their troops and defended the Liao Dynasty's Nanjing Prefecture.
The soldiers and horses of the Liao Dynasty, who were in a life-and-death situation, used their power to defeat the Song army who took advantage of the fire and thought they would win. This undoubtedly boosted the sluggish morale of the army's lieutenants. However, Yelu, who was supported by the ministers and named Emperor Tianxi,
Chunque also died of illness when the Liao Dynasty was in danger. The posthumous edict established the fifth son of Tianzuo Emperor Yelu Yanxi, King Qin Yelu Ding, as the emperor. However, Yelu Ding still remains with Yelu Yanxi who fled to the Yinshan area. Yelu Chun's widow De Fei
Xiao Puxian's daughter was then revered as the empress dowager, and was given the title of regent of the country.
Tong Guan, who was jealous and eager to capture Nanjing of the Liao Dynasty, sent people secretly to have an affair with Li Chuwen, a powerful official who saw that the Liao Dynasty was over and planned to surrender to the Song Dynasty. The Song army also gathered troops again to march towards Xijin Prefecture. Subsequently, Liaoyi Prefecture
Gao Feng, Zhuozhou Governor Xiao Qingyu and other generals surrendered to the Song Dynasty one after another. Xiao Puxian knew that the situation was extremely critical and it was really difficult to recover. After discussing with the ministers in the Xijin Mansion, she expressed her willingness to surrender to the Song and Jin Dynasties.
The Liao Dynasty's political power was still intact.
After receiving the report, Zhao Ji in the Song Dynasty thought that the Yanyun land in the Nanjing area of the Liao Dynasty was about to be recovered. He was very happy, so he changed the name of Jinfu to Yanshanfu (Yanjing) with a stroke of his pen, and changed the names of other military prefectures. But compared with
After accepting the invitation of the Liao Dynasty to declare peace, they stopped fighting. Now that the general situation has been determined, why not send out troops to conquer Yanjing in one fell swoop? First, the Song army led by Yang Keshi and Gao Shixuan rushed to Yanjing at night and killed them brazenly under the guidance of the internal forces.
Enter the city.
However, the Song army, who thought the situation was settled, rushed into the city and looted property, indulged in lewdness, and even massacred the Khitan people, ridiculing the people. The Han people in the city were also robbed and plundered. The people in the city even included a large number of Han people who identified themselves as Liao people.
Aroused resistance, fierce street battles were fought with the remaining Liao and Song troops who stayed behind. Yang Keshi escaped in embarrassment, Gao Shixuan and other troops died in the city, and only a few hundred of the 6,000 elite soldiers fled. As for those still outside Yanjing City,
However, the Song army ran into the Liao Dynasty's Privy Councilor, who was on the front line to guard against the Jin army's southward movement. Hearing that Yanjing had failed, he quickly sent troops to help, and all the armies were led by Xiao Qian's troops...
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Xiao Qian led his troops to intercept the food route of the Song army, and attacked Liu Yanqing at night. Liu Guangshi's soldiers and horses were defeated.
They pursued and fought another battle with the Song army in Baigou. The Song army suffered a disastrous defeat and fled to Xiongzhou, unable to capture the Yanjing lands anymore...
The Western armies that wiped out the Manichean uprising in the south of the Yangtze River were originally the elite divisions that the Song Dynasty most relied on, but they were defeated one after another by the remnants of the Liao army. This was far beyond the expectations of Tong Guan, who even tried his best to promote the alliance with the Jin Dynasty to destroy the Liao Dynasty.
The accident of the officials of the Song Dynasty. As for the reasons for the defeat, in addition to the Western Army's transfer from the south to the north, the generals were arrogant and exhausted, and the Heshuo Forbidden Army, which was also the main force in the expedition against the Liao Dynasty, was ineffective and underestimated the desperate situation of the Liao Dynasty.
In addition to the huge combat power that broke out in the battle, discerning people also know that the two disastrous defeats are also related to Tong Guantee's excessive eagerness for success and the same undercurrent between the generals and factions of the Western Army.
And Yelu Dashi and Xiao Qian, two famous generals who successively achieved great victories in the battles to defend the Nanjing areas of the Liao Dynasty and defeat the Song army, at least at this stage, the shock they caused to the Song people was no less than when the Song and Liao wars were frequent.
He met famous generals such as Yelv Xiu Ge and Yelu Xiezhen who had repeatedly defeated the Song Army.
Originally, according to the agreement between the Song and Jin Dynasties, the Song army mainly attacked the Nanjing Road area of the Liao Dynasty, while the Jin army focused its attack on the annexation of the vast territory of the Xijing Road of the Liao Dynasty. Each other's attack direction had its own focus. Previously, even the Song army's first attack
Yubaigou was defeated by the remnants of the Liao Dynasty. Wanyan Aguda of the Jin Kingdom still gathered his troops to abide by the alliance and did not order his troops to go south through Gubeikou, Juyongguan, Yuguan and other places to take the opportunity to raid the Song Dynasty. However, when the Song army successively
After a miserable defeat, Tong Guan, who still planned to regain the Yanyun Land to satisfy his ambition of becoming king and nobility, actually took the initiative to send envoys to invite the Jin army to go south to attack the Yanyun Land.
Since there are strong reinforcements from the coalition forces that can take Yanjing on their behalf, even if they spend a lot of money to redeem Yanjing and other places, they can still be rewarded by the court for their efforts in regaining the land of Yanyun. As for consuming the national treasury and asking the Jin army to conquer the Liao Dynasty on their behalf, what will happen afterwards?
The influence of Tong Guan is not within the scope of Tong Guan's consideration...
The weakness of the Song army and the attitude of the Song envoys were beyond the expectations of the Jin officials and generals. From Wanyan Aguda onwards, most of the Jurchen leaders' attitudes towards the Song court had a subversive change. This was based on
At first, the Jin State did not intend to violate the treaty of the "Sea Alliance". Instead, it responded to the request of Song Army Commander Tong Guan and asked its troops to go south to do the work. In the Jin State's view, the Song Dynasty's rule was corrupt and the Song Army's combat power was weak.
This exposure undoubtedly taught the Jin officials, including Wanyan Aguda, and the Jin army general Sifu, who originally coveted the Song Dynasty's wealth, to say: You Song people were given a chance, but you really didn't use it.
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Finally, Wanyan Aguda sent an edict to all places in Nanjing of the Liao Dynasty, declaring that when the king's master arrived, those who surrendered would pardon his crimes, and all the officials remained in office. He also ordered him to lead Wanyan Aguda, Digunai, Yinshu Ge and other generals.
The army occupied Juyongguan, and then went straight to Yanjing with overwhelming momentum. Although the Northern Liao regime defeated the Song army twice, it knew that it could no longer resist the front of the Jin army, so it had to abandon the city and flee. Among the fleeing soldiers and horses,
, Yelu Dashi escorted Xiao Puxian's daughter to flee to Yinshan, and had no choice but to reunite with Yelu Yanxi, the Tianzuo Emperor they had nominally deposed; Xiao Qian, who was originally the leader of the Xi tribe, led a defeated army composed of his own tribe to Jianyan.
Shan Yi fled.
After the Jin soldiers entered Yanjing without bloodshed, they appeased the civil and military officials who had surrendered from the Northern Liao Dynasty, and immediately sent out troops to hunt down the remnants of the Liao army. The powerful clans in the Nanjing Road area even took the opportunity to burn and kill the looting rebels and bandits.
For self-protection, we originally waited to see who among the Song, Liao, and Jin forces could control the territory around Yanjing. However, judging from the current situation, many powerful armed forces who have strongholds to protect themselves are beginning to tend to surrender to the Jin side.
In addition to Yelu Dashi who escorted Xiao Pu Xiannu to Yinshan to join Yelu Yanxi, and Xiao Qian who led the Xiren tribe to retreat and assemble, and seemed to have other plans, the remnants of the Liao army that escaped from Yanjing were also defeated by the Jin army's pursuit.
In the chaos, the soldiers and horses fled in all directions. Now the entire Nanjing Road of the Liao Dynasty has been destroyed. The remaining Liao army forces separated from the soldiers and horses of Yelu Dashi are being hunted and hunted by the Jin army.
I’m afraid the day when they will be wiped out and annihilated one after another is not far away...
However, at the same time, two naval vessels dispatched from Baozhou area in Liaodong and Liangshan in Jezhou Shuibo on Jingdong Road in Song Dynasty met at Wuqing County (later Tanggu area in Tianjin) near Nanjing Road in Liao Dynasty south of Yanjing.
At night, after the first sentinel ship went to inspect the situation on the shore, all the people on the ship were ready to land...
