Chapter six hundred and fiftieth chapters turn from defense to attack
In the Battle of Jingzhou, Zong Han was captured and the Jurchen vanguard was annihilated. When the news spread, the Central Plains was filled with joy.
The roads in Hebei breathed a sigh of relief and began to send some soldiers and horses from the towns they were defending to go north.
The happiest people are the Han people in the North. They have experienced too many betrayals, and the Central Plains Dynasty has been unable to protect them for a long time.
Now that the imperial court has regained its strength, it has also slightly won over the hearts and minds of the people here. Of course, it is still too early to say that it has completely brought them back.
In Yanzhou City, Yang Lin looked at the battle report and was filled with joy.
The surrounding officials and generals also looked happy and discussed with each other.
Yang Lin saw that at the end of the letter, Han Shizhong specifically clicked on the matter of Hongjiazhai, and his heart moved.
Since the beginning of the feudal lordship in the late Tang Dynasty, the northern Han people have become an armed military town that is difficult to control, and their attacks have left the Central Plains in a state of chaos.
After the Five Dynasties, after the Song people implemented the national policy of exalting literati and suppressing warriors, the Han people in the north were almost abandoned.
On their homes, rivers were dug, floods were released, and giant trees were planted...
In fact, these Han people were very good at fighting. In the early Yuan Dynasty, almost all the Mongolian nobles opposed Kublai Khan's Sinicization policy.
When Meng Ge was in power, Alibuge was stationed in Harahorin, the capital of the Great Mongolia, and had always opposed Kublai Khan's sinicization policy.
Ali Buge, who stayed in Mobei during Mengge Khan's personal campaign, tried his best to lure Kublai Khan back to the grassland, so as to force him to submit and then legitimately ascend the throne of the Great Khan.
The Mongolian soldiers under Kublai Khan did not obey his command. In desperation, Kublai Khan freed a group of Han slaves, organized them into an army, and recruited many Han advisers to advise him.
A miracle happened. The Mongolian army, which was invincible in Europe and Asia, was beaten to pieces. In this fierce civil war, Abrigo was defeated miserably and was imprisoned to death.
Because of the weird policies of the Song Dynasty and the hundreds of years of being a foreign race, the Han people in the North were at their most alienated and alienated at this time, and it was time to regain their hearts.
After Yang Lin read the letter, he pressed it on the table. The civil and military officials who were celebrating loudly looked over.
Yang Lin coughed slightly and was about to give an order. Lu Qian strode in from outside with a gloomy face. He walked closer and whispered: "Young Master, please report the civil war."
Yang Lin took a look and saw that Wanyan Lou's family was in Yehuling and had won three out of three matches, defeating Yao Pingzhong, Yang Keshi and Wang Zhen in a row.
The Jurchen West Route Army crossed the Aichuan River and approached Duanyunling. Yao Pingzhong reduced his troops and defended in the Yuzhou area.
Yang Lin frowned and thought deeply, Yunnei's army had not recovered from the last battle.
Wanyan Loushi is truly the leader of the most evil generation of Jurchens. He is a well-deserved God of War. Looking at his achievements, even the history books will be amazed.
The natural warriors of various Mongolian tribes were given to this fierce general, which greatly increased the pressure on the northwest.
The battle line was too long, running from east to west, and it was impossible to sing triumphant songs everywhere. Yang Lin had already prepared in his heart, so he was not too shocked. He just poured a basin of cold water on everyone to calm down the Song soldiers after the victory.
Face this decisive battle correctly.
He sighed and said: "We annihilated Wanyan Zonghan, but Yunnei suffered some losses. Wanyan Loushi won three out of three battles and reached Duanyunling."
Everyone looked at each other and then remembered the name Wanyan Loushi.
The joyful atmosphere in the whole hall condensed, and everyone, both civil and military, bowed their heads and pondered. If Yun Nei was wrong, the Great Wall would lose its meaning.
The Tatars can take a detour from Yuzhou to attack, and then the good situation will return to zero. Let's start from scratch. Without the Great Wall, even if we win, we will lose the goal of defending the enemy outside the country.
Jingzhou and even Tanzhou can be given up temporarily, because these two military states have been built as complete military towns and have few civilians.
If the war reaches Hebei, its nature will change. In the country that has just stabilized, I am afraid that someone will come out to make trouble again.
Under the strong pressure of Yang Lin in China, the old forces of all walks of life had to hide and endure, and were even forced to change.
But once all the power is used to deal with the Jurchens, there is no guarantee that they will not take advantage of the situation. By then, it will become a situation of internal and external troubles like the late Ming Dynasty, which will be the most difficult to deal with.
At this time, more than a dozen horsemen came galloping from outside Yanzhou. The leader was a military general with a long beard, a thin body, and a dark complexion. He was clearly Zongze, the general manager of the North Road.
Zongze guarded Juyong Pass, and there were no Jurchen Tatars to touch this hard nut. In the first two Youyan battles, the Jurchens suffered in front of Juyong Pass.
A large number of troops were invested, but they could not knock down this majestic pass at all. Zongze searched for battle reports day and night at Juyong Pass, holding back his words. However, he, Han Shizhong and Yao Pingzhong were on the same level, so naturally he could not command them.
Although Zongze was the general manager of the North Road and nominally governed the entire north, this was all Yang Lin's intention at the time. Han Shizhong's official position was even more terrifying. He was the general marshal of the Hebei army in Hebei. Logically, he should command all the soldiers.
Ma. As for Yao Pingzhong, he is the governor of Yunnei...
Yang Lin was originally afraid that the power would be in the hands of one person, so he marched into Bianliang. There were people here who were loyal to the Zhao and Song royal families, and he would die without a burial place.
That's why we created three corps, which are not subordinate to each other. They only follow their own orders and enjoy full autonomy. In fact, the commanders of the three corps can control the direct troops under their respective command.
Han Shizhong's people have already settled in Youyan, with their home behind them; Zongze's soldiers were all recruited in Hebei when he was in charge of Hejian. Guarding Juyongguan is to prevent the war from spreading to Hebei; Yao Pingzhong's veteran Western Army guarded Yun
It can also ensure that his hometown Qinlong will not be harmed by war.
So Yang Lin was originally very satisfied with this, but once he encountered such a battle, there was a problem of insufficient coordination and coordination. Everyone wanted to take me as the leader, and no one wanted to create opportunities for the other party to cover. Only Yang
Lin can only do it if he comes to the scene in person. On the Jurchen side, Wanyan Aguda's imperial commander personally conscripted for the same reason.
When Zongze heard that Yang Lin was coming, he was overjoyed and immediately rushed to Yanzhou with more than a dozen guards.
Seeing the smoke and dust rising from a distance, the defenders at Yanzhou City Gate had already received the signal from the front and opened the city gate.
Zongze inquired about Yang Lin's whereabouts and rode away immediately. When he stepped in, everyone was discussing the situation of the northwest war.
"Shao Zai!"
Yang Lin raised his head from the sand table and said with some confusion: "Why are you here? Did something happen at Juyongguan?"
Zongze didn't have time to exchange greetings. He had saved so many things to say that for a moment he didn't even care about etiquette. He held the sand table and started talking.
"There is not a single Tatar in front of Juyong Pass, but this place is too important, and I don't dare to let my troops leave. I heard that the young master has come to Yanzhou, and I came here to give my advice."
Yang Lin waved his hand and signaled the soldiers to move him a stool. Zongze walked to the sand table, saw the mountains and rivers in Yunnei, and asked: "Young Zai, something happened in Yunnei?"
"My three-pronged army was defeated by Wanyan Loushi and the Mongolian coalition one after another. Yao Pingzhong has retreated to Duanyun Ridge." Yang Lin said worriedly.
Fortunately, Wanyan Aguda chose to trust Zong Han this time and led the army not to Yunnei but to Youyan to storm the Great Wall.
Zongze came over on horseback, his voice a little hoarse, but he still stepped forward and said: "Young Zai, why concentrate your troops on Yunnei? The mountains and rivers here are steep and the city is the best in the world. Who can defeat Hongzhou or Datong easily?
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As soon as Yang Lin heard this, he knew there was more to come and stretched out his hand to signal him to continue.
"In the early Han Dynasty, the Xiongnu were rampant, and the siege of Baideng almost killed Emperor Gaozu. The Han Dynasty had to give gifts and money to their relatives in exchange for the Xiongnu not going south. When Emperor Wu arrived, he sent Zhang Qian as an envoy to the Western Regions to contact the feudal Xiongnu, and the army fought bloody battles for many years.
, captured the Protectorate of the Western Regions. From then on, the foreign tribes in the north lost the opportunity to bypass the Great Wall and go south to invade the Hetao. The Han army could attack the grasslands from the Western Regions and encircle them on both sides, killing the Huns so that they did not dare to go south and release their horses. All countries in the Western Regions obeyed, and the Han Dynasty became famous.
It’s the same for a while.”
"In the prosperous Tang Dynasty, the defeat of the Turks was almost exactly the same as what the Han Dynasty did. But in the Song Dynasty, the entire northwest, even the Hetao was lost in the Western Regions. Therefore, the Song Dynasty has been bullied for a hundred years.
Have you ever taken the initiative to send troops?"
"Now that we are in control of the Western Region, we have strong soldiers and horses, but the grasslands are empty, and the great Khan elected by the Mongols only cares about the small profits in front of him, he defected to the Jurchens, and worked together in collusion, what power is there on the grasslands to resist us?"
"It's better to unite with the Kerei people and send troops from the Protectorate of the Western Regions, through the foot of Tianshan Mountain, to the grasslands to support the Kerei people to unify Mongolia. Then we will attack the Jin Kingdom from the west, and we will break out of the Great Wall to support them. In this way, the general trend will be
"Hey, no matter how brave the people in the Lou family are, what's the use?"