Chapter 1534 The beacon fire in the sky, the battle of Taiyuan (1)
The outline of Taiyuan City stood alone on the desolate land. It turned out that the densely populated villages, markets and towns around it were lifeless. Instead of the rising smoke, the smoke after the war was rising.
Many parts of the moat surrounding the city have either been filled in, or roads leading to the city have been built from the Duhao Floating Bridge. There are a large number of siege equipment such as goose carts, oars, and ladders scattered in front. Some of them have been scattered.
The burnt utensils under the city wall were littered with the corpses of the Jin army who had not yet restrained themselves. The inside and outside of Taiyuan were even more devastated, and the air was filled with the strange smell of blood, corpse odor and gunpowder smoke. It was already riddled with holes.
Behind the city wall, the Song army led by the prefect Zhang Xiaochun and the Western Army general Wang Zhen suffered heavy casualties, and even the people in the city suffered most of their losses in the protracted battle to defend the city.
Looking into the city, nearly half of the houses and buildings near the city gate have been demolished. Among the devastated streets and streets, there are people carrying corpses one after another with numb faces. Most of the soldiers guarding the city behind the city wall are injured.
Looking outside the city, one can immediately see many forts scattered at random behind the large formation of the Jin army, which has long trapped this strategic military base under the rule of Hedong Road. The Jin army is densely arranged.
The crowds were still gathering like ants, crowds of people were surging, and countless stiff bows and crossbows were pointed directly at the top of the Taiyuan city wall. We were already in a desperate situation, but seeing such a huge scene of the enemy attacking the city, it also taught us that
People are looking more and more despairing, and their hearts are like falling into an ice cave
The Jurchen tribes, who were originally better at field battles than attacking fortified areas, have accumulated rich experience in siege warfare in the battles to capture key places such as the five capitals of the Liao Dynasty. Now that the Jin Kingdom's West Route Army is besieging Taiyuan, it is also equipped with a large number of attack weapons.
To build the city, Wanyan Nianhan, the commander of the Jin Army's West Route Army, used the locking method to surround the city and build fortresses beyond the range of the Song Army's bows and arrows. He occupied all the surrounding counties, villages and towns, completely isolating Taiyuan City from the external supplies of the Song Dynasty.
, the material reserves in the isolated city were limited. After a tight blockade and several rounds of sieges, the soldiers and civilians in the city struggled to support themselves for several months. The food reserves were exhausted. The soldiers slaughtered cattle, horses, and mules, and then cooked crossbow leather armor and chaff tree bark to satisfy their hunger.
The soldiers and civilians were so weak that they could no longer hold their weapons, so how could they withstand the fierce siege of the Jin army?
As a shrill horn sounded to the ears of the defenders above the city, the Song Army officers and soldiers all stood up quickly and shouted warnings. However, some of them looked frightened, and although some of them loudly encouraged their colleagues around them, these decisions
The eyes of the Song Army who were fighting to the death were clearly mixed with a bit of despair.
The soldiers and civilians in Taiyuan City are extremely weak and exhausted, and several broken city walls in Taiyuan City seem to be about to collapse if they are hit by a few more rounds of falling rocks or car collisions. After fighting hard until now, everyone has reached the end of their willpower and physical strength.
limit. However, up to now, no reinforcements have been expected to come to rescue the isolated soldiers and civilians in Taiyuan City. In fact, from Zhang Xiaochun, Wang Zhen and other civil and military officials who led the forbidden army in the city and the people to defend the city to the death, down to an ordinary soldier in the army, even if
Even in such a situation where supplies and news were completely cut off from the outside world, we could also realize that the reinforcements sent by the imperial court were all defeated one after another by the Jurchen foreign invaders who were better at field warfare outside the city.
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If it were not for the deliberate intention of the Tatar commander of the Jin Army, who intended to annihilate a large number of the Song Army's reinforcements, Zhamo Taiyuan City might have been breached by the enemy in the previous rounds of battles. No matter how hard he resisted, it would have been nothing more.
Those who sit back and wait for death will be destroyed by the fierce attack of the foreign invaders and Tartars.
However, one of the commanders of the Shengjie Army who was guarding the city walls of Taiyuan anxiously ordered the military academy around him to go and report to the commander-in-chief quickly. After knowing that the Jin Army seemed to be going to attack the city in a large scale, he immediately ordered all the soldiers to prepare for the situation in a hoarse voice.
The city defense equipment was almost exhausted. While he rushed to the top of the city to defend, he looked down at the formation of the Jin army in groups and was suddenly startled. Because this victorious army commander Wang
Seeing that the troops of the Jin army were not pressing forward to rush towards the Taiyuan city, they turned around and lined up towards the rear, with their backs to the city wall about to form a formation.
When the Song Army commander stared blankly in the direction of the Jin Army's front, only a moment later, he suddenly saw many black lines gradually emerging from the other end of the horizon, thousands of troops quickly gathering in the open.
Thousands of horses and swords and halberds are cold and murderous.
Looking at the movements of the Jin army's formation, directly across the Taiyuan city wall and the army that suddenly came all the way, groups of cavalry were arranged in an orderly manner from both wings. Most of the people in the forefront should be wolf-wielding soldiers.
The cavalrymen who were armed with heavy weapons such as sticks, hammers, and axes were clearing the way. The archers and horses behind them all had their bows in their hands. There were also a large number of horse soldiers with sabers raised in their hands, and the sharp lights were like river water and the scales were cold.
Judging from this battle, it is obvious that they are about to fight against the army that suddenly rushed here!
"Hurry! Go and report to the Royal Capital, our reinforcements from the Song Dynasty have finally arrived!!!"
The commander was overjoyed and immediately shouted loudly, and a burst of cheers erupted from the top of Taiyuan City, which had been shrouded in oppressive danger for several months.
The troops and horses under Xiao Tang's command were united and Xiao Sha's momentum was even greater than that of the Jin army. Countless arms and weapons in the formation stretched out towards the sky like a forest. Under the sunlight, it was like a sea of cold steel reflecting the sun.
Tian. And the many leaders of the central army cast their eager eyes on the commander who was surrounded by them. Another battle with the Jin army was about to happen, and all the heroes were in high spirits.
However, Xiao Tangyuan's expression was still solemn when he looked at the opposite military formation. On the way from Shaxiong Ridge to Taiyuan, he had several small-scale encounters with the Jin army. He also vaguely remembered the Jinguo West Road army coach Nian.
At the beginning of the invasion of Taiyuan, Han formulated the strategy of "containing foreign aid and cutting off its salary channels". This was obviously not only necessary to seize the important military town of Taiyuan, but also to take advantage of the Jin army's better ability in field warfare.
The advantage disintegrated the rest of the main force of the Song Army. The Taiyuan Defense Battle between the Song and Jin Dynasties was also one of the most classic encirclement and reinforcement battles in the history of Chinese wars. Now, although he led all the rebels under his command to finally rush to Taiyuan City for reinforcements, Xiao Tang himself did not know what was going on.
Is everything exactly what Wanyan Nianhan expected?
The scale of the battle centered on Taiyuan is no longer limited to the battlefield under this isolated city. The enemy and we now have to consider playing on a larger chessboard. Han Shizhong, led by Niu Gao, and Li Xiaozhong's troops in Shaanzhou met
The army, as well as the northward reinforcements recruited by the states north of Gyeonggi Province, Ma Xiaotang asked himself that he had made arrangements as much as possible in those aspects where he could not predict the situation of the battle at the moment, at least he had to focus all his energy on what to do now.
With the Jin army surrounding Taiyuan City in front of them,
It's just that the Jin Army general Yin Shuke, who is now personally commanding the siege of Taiyuan under Wanyan Nianhan's military order, is even more powerful than Wanyan Huonv, Wanyan Yanmu, Mulianghu and even Wanyan Orulubu who he faced in the past.
Compared with the many famous generals who founded the Jin Dynasty, they were also more difficult opponents to deal with when the two armies were fighting.
At this time, in the large formation on the opposite side, Yin Shuke was also surrounded by many Jin Army generals under his command. He straightened up his strong and tall body and looked in the direction of Xiao Tang's army. His eyes were as sharp as knives.
When he raised his head and looked around, he felt the momentum of commanding thousands of troops to sweep the world. After a moment, because of Yin Shuke's face, which was originally full of anger, a ferocious smile suddenly appeared, and then he said fiercely: "But
I never expected that a living girl would die in your hands. Wanyan Lou's house is in debt to a certain family. And you, Xiaotang, have failed to appreciate the kindness of the old Emperor Aguda for you, and you have chosen to work for a certain family.
Collision, now it has finally arrived, and the old and new grudges have just been settled with you."