Chapter 1936 Stop fighting for war, once and for all
The battlefield was cleaned up, and the corpses of Teng Yan, Teng Kan, and even the dead Qi army officers were buried. A large number of cavalry and infantry troops, grain and grass baggage, and siege equipment... Huanglong still looked to the relatively flat terrain as always. The city wall in the west corner of the mansion was marching vigorously. The direction of the soldiers was as always, which was to use their current strong strength to sweep and crush them, take advantage of the situation to sweep and annex the entire remaining territory of the Jin Dynasty, and completely destroy the Jurchen regime.
No matter how hard the Jin army tried to resist, they could only lay down dead bodies and suffer heavy casualties. They could not stop the Qi army from heading north. Now it is a real war to destroy the country. You can use any of your methods. All strategies and strategies are of no avail. At the most, the fight is about the national destiny of the two countries. At the worst, the fight is about the strength of the military and the lives of the soldiers. Obviously, at this time, it is not all about the Jurchen tribe. The lives of all the young and strong men have been lost, and the Jin Dynasty can no longer afford to spend any more...
However, for the Prime Minister Zuo and Wanyan Xiyin, who was ordered to take charge of the Huanglong Mansion in the face of danger, the nightmare had just begun.
As one of the founding heroes of the Jin Dynasty, Wanyan Xiyin took part in advising and advising on various major events such as the rebellion against the Liao Dynasty and the founding of the country. He was originally the most influential senior minister around Wanyan Aguda who made suggestions. Although after the founding of the Jurchen Kingdom, he was not like the Wanyan Olubu, Wanyan Nianhan, Wanyan Wushu and other important generals personally led the troops to conquer the north and south, but they were also important figures in the establishment and administration of the Jin Dynasty. Now Jiao also served as The marshal's right supervisor mobilized troops and dispatched generals. Wanyan Xiyin, who was in charge of the war, was fully in charge of the defense of Huanglong Mansion. It was also because the generals in the Jin Dynasty who were able to lead the army and fight in the war suffered casualties, not because he was a veteran with high prestige in the Jin Dynasty. Xun Chen calmed down the situation, fearing that the frightened and scattered defenders of Huanglong Mansion would completely collapse after enduring several rounds of fierce attacks by the Qi army...
But now Wanyan Xiyin has also realized that the important war surrounding Huanglong Mansion, which will completely determine whether the Jin Dynasty will fall or not, will probably end in a dead end.
However, Wanyan Xiyin was not only praised as good at strategizing and far-sighted in the Jin Dynasty, he also still carried in his bones the ferocity and toughness of a fierce nation that was worn out by the white mountains and black waters. What he wants to do now is still They tried their best to defend Huanglong Mansion, even if they killed all the men in the city. Although this would eventually be a protracted and brutal battle, the enemy of Xiao and Tang Dynasty, who was busy with the expedition, might not be able to take care of the south if they could not capture it for a long time. Similarly, the Song people's movements were like fire and water.
As long as they can wait until the Qi Dynasty withdraws their troops, although a large area of ​​territory in Liaodong has been lost, they can still maintain the state power and still have a chance to breathe. The Jurchen tribe was once prosperous in pressing out the Hu River, and was surrounded by the boundless mountains of the Greater and Lesser Xing'an Mountains. The forest is dense, the terrain is overlapping with mountains, and the forest is as vast as the sea, just like the vast desert in the north of the Great Wall. The remaining tribesmen avoid migrating. Even if a large army comes to attack, most of them will have no chance to catch them all. At worst, they will have to go back to where they were in the bitter cold. The hard days of struggling to survive in the dangerous mountains and rivers, if they endure for more than ten or decades, the Jurchen tribes may not be able to rise again. It is not the same as the previous generations who endured the enslavement and oppression of the Liao people. Teach us to take advantage of the situation to raise troops and annex that huge country?
It's just that they have conquered this land and lived a life of happiness and enjoyment. Which of the kings, ministers and dignitaries of the Jin Dynasty would take the initiative to abandon the relatively crowded and prosperous place in Xiabei District, and hand over the remaining state capitals such as Huanglong Mansion and Huining Mansion to Xiao
By this time in the Tang Dynasty, it was already too late to escape. When the Qi army continued to advance north under the personal command of Xiaotang Yujia, he had also deployed troops and generals, and sent out all the troops and brigades like octopuses with their tentacles in Jin.
It spread throughout the remaining territory of the Jin Dynasty, occupying all the important roads and passes, and made a move to capture all the kings and ministers of the Jin Dynasty.
Since Wanyan Ben's dangerous move failed to succeed after all... Now the Jin Dynasty had no choice but to shrink its remaining troops and stick to Huanglong Mansion. According to Wanyan Xiyin's plan and deployment, they had no choice but to stick to the city walls and use this to consume Xiao as much as possible.
The Tang Dynasty had no more military strength and food supplies. There would no longer be reinforcements, and we could not expect the enemy to retreat in a short time. We could only do our best to fight to the end.
Until the Qi army finally arrived several miles away from Huanglong Mansion, the Jin army who was running around in panic on the city saw an extremely spectacular military formation formed around the city, like a vast ocean. As far as the eye could see, the sky was covered.
Banners that blocked out the sun also sprung up like bamboo shoots after a spring rain from among the advancing army, and under the countless banners, the soldiers of the Qi Dynasty marched forward majestically...
The panic-stricken Jin Army guards at the top of the city looked around in panic, and saw that although a large number of Qi Dynasty troops and horses outside the city had gathered in formation, they seemed to have no intention of launching an attack on the city for the time being. However, when the ministries were in a hurry, Mou Ke quickly climbed up
When they climbed up to the top of the city and looked out, the look of despair on their faces could no longer be concealed, because a large number of Qi army troops, mainly in the west corner of Huanglong Mansion, arrayed in front of the formation, had begun to build the horizontal axis of the fixed base in an orderly manner. They saw a
Various catapults and cannons were erected high in front of Huanglongfu City, and the crossbow strings on the capstans had already been spread out, and the crossbow carts, which looked like iron spears and long arrows, were also placed.
The soldiers pushed forward slowly, and in rows and columns, they aimed the giant crossbows towards the walls of Huanglong Mansion...
Just like according to the original trajectory, the Jurchen army invaded the south brazenly and was overwhelming. When they besieged Bianliang in Tokyo, they used the captured Song and Liao catapults to set up around Bianliang, and they also blasted the walls all day long.
The situation is average.
Taking advantage of the relatively flat terrain to the west of Huanglong Mansion, the Qi army obviously wanted to use various catapults and artillery to bombard and destroy the city defenses, consume the military resources in the city and frighten the Jin army defenders. And there were only 15,000 defenders left in Huanglong Mansion.
No matter how hard the army tried to launch a surprise attack out of the city with life-saving defenses, they would most likely fail and waste their military power in vain. They were in such a dangerous situation and were in a dilemma, and ultimately could not fall into the situation of huddled in the city and being passively beaten.
And until more than thirty catapults stood in front of the Qi army's formation, like towering wooden towers, they had not yet formed the scale of the artillery array that was listed outside the city when they stormed Yanjing. Xiao Tang then used
Ling Zhen, the chief of the Ordnance Supervision who arrived immediately after being picked up by the army and the commander of the artillery camp during this war, directed the artillerymen of each battalion to launch artillery bombardments against the walls of Huanglong Mansion.
After all, due to the terrain of Liaodong, the number of siege equipment such as catapults and cannons transported with the army is limited. The previous battles to storm the city also consumed most of the cannons, stone and firearms, and the large-scale construction of local materials outside Huanglong Mansion also took a long time for the soldiers. Today
Different from the past, the daily huge amount of military supplies consumed by more than just a few armies is too huge. The saying that a country cannot be without a king for a day also has its truth. It was not long after the Xiaotang establishment came to the throne, and they headed north to the desert, east to
Conquering the Kingdom of Jin is far away from the court and is not allowed to personally control the state affairs. The longer the delay is, the more likely it is to cause the danger of shaking the foundation of the Qi Dynasty.
At this point, Wanyan Xiyin, who is now in charge of the Huanglong Mansion and commands the garrison, and is also known for being good at planning, is indeed right in his judgment. The Qi army is indeed unstoppable in its encroachment, but those guys are indeed
It cannot be worn out for many years. The soldiers on both sides of the Huanglong Mansion battle are fighting for who can survive to the end, or the Jin army can survive until the Qi army cannot attack the city for a long time, and Xiao Tang has been away from the court for a long time.
It could easily lead to domestic chaos, and the Song court was eyeing it in the south. In the end, they had no choice but to withdraw their troops and return south, leaving the Jin Dynasty with the remaining territory in the northeastern half;
The army ran out of food and supplies, and then marched northward without stopping, killing all the Jin Dynasty monarchs and ministers, and completely destroying the Jin Dynasty's political system...
Xiao Tang, who was sitting in the Qi army's large camp outside Huanglong Mansion City, gave the order to immediately launch a fierce attack on the city wall. He secretly said in his heart: Even if the remaining Jin army who defended Huanglong Mansion were to resist to the end, they thought they would have enough energy to exhaust it.
Our army has no choice but to withdraw its troops, but how could I not know the truth that wildfires cannot be burned out, but spring breezes will blow them again? The purpose of this war to destroy the country is to end it once and for all. Otherwise, it will cause endless harm, and how can the Jurchens come back again?