In order to block the Jurchens' attack, Yelu Zongyuan deployed almost all the troops and horses in his hands. The entire Zhongjing Road assembled only more than 500,000 troops, but there were as many as 450,000 in these two places. It can be seen that he was determined
The Jurchens must be kept out of the Zhongjing Road.
However, after countless calculations, Yelu Zongyuan forgot one thing. The Jurchens grew up in the high mountains of Changbai Mountain and have already adapted to the life of galloping in the mountains. The Jurchens can ride horses among the rugged rocks.
They traveled through forests and ravines, crossing many treacherous terrains. The famous horses they rode, a specialty of Changbai Mountain, were also extremely strong, and the steep mountain roads could be traversed as if they were on flat ground.
It is precisely because of such ability and capital that Wanyan Aguda proposed a bold plan to directly cross the Yiwulu Mountain. He wanted to traverse the dangerous peaks and steep slopes for more than 40 miles, so that his 170,000 troops could directly reach the inland of Zhongjing Road.
Wanyan Aguda dared to think, and he also dared to do it. Even if some people in the army raised objections, he still insisted on it. Entering the mountains from the territory of Daoxianzhou in Tokyo, Wanyan Aguda sent an advance team of 10,000 soldiers and horses, specifically responsible for
Roads and bridges were built in extremely dangerous terrain. As long as there was a road, nothing could stop the Jurchen army from moving forward. Only in places where there was no feasible road, simple vine bridges were built and huge rocks were moved to open up passages.
No one could have imagined that it only took Wanyan Aguda three days to accomplish this impossible thing. Although nearly 6,000 people were lost on the way across the mountain, most of them fell to their deaths and fell into the cliffs of the mountain stream.
There were countless of them. However, the army of more than 160,000 successfully crossed Yiwulu Mountain at dusk three days later and entered the Pingchou area of Zhongjing Road. Moreover, Wanyan Agu also destroyed several Liao troops in Yiwulu Mountain.
The Huangling Tomb ruined the so-called Dragon Vein Feng Shui of the Liao people.
That night, the people of Yizhou City, located in the middle section of the Daling River in Shannan, encountered an overwhelming attack by Jurchen soldiers and horses that appeared from nowhere without warning. How many soldiers and horses were stationed in Yizhou City?
The horses had already been exhausted. Besides, Yizhou is still in the middle of Yiwulu Mountain, which is the safest place. There is no way to be prepared. This battle was almost bloodless, and the whole Yizhou was shrouded in blood and massacre all night. At dawn,
Almost all the nearly 70,000 Liao people in the city died.
The reason why Wanyan Aguda agreed to his soldiers and horses to start their conquest journey with such a brutal massacre of the city was not only to inspire the ferocious bloodiness of his Jurchen warriors and give them a clear motivation, but also to give them a clear motivation.
The Liao people's sudden display of power made all the Liao people tremble with fear and lose their fighting spirit.
Wanyan Agu made an order, whoever sees the woman first will enjoy it, and whoever grabs the property first will own it. This is to inspire the ferocious nature of the Jurchen warriors and encourage them to fight for these things. Of course.
, Wanyan Aguda also issued a strict order, but if there is an internal fight between women over the competition for property, both parties will be executed regardless of right or wrong. Even the teams to which both parties belong will be punished by being prohibited from participating in the carnival.
At dawn, the water of the Daling River that passed through the city was dyed red, and countless corpses were floating eastward along the river. The situation was horrific, like a river of blood in hell.
Yelu Zongyuan's son Yelucai, who was stationed in Haibei Prefecture downstream to wait for the enemy, did not learn about the bloodbath in Yizhou until the next morning. That was because the corpses that had drifted for dozens of miles from the upstream were discovered by riverside residents and reported to Yelu.
Only then did he realize that something big had happened somewhere upstream.
When they learned that Yizhou was under enemy attack, the Jurchen cavalry had already left Yizhou for four or five hours. Like a huge sharp blade, it pierced into the heart of the Zhongjing Road. Yelv Chun urgently mobilized his troops and set off in pursuit.
.At the same time, he also immediately informed the eldest prince Yelu Chun who was stationed in Yizhou of the news, and asked him to immediately return to the army to pursue him. The opponent had already spread his wings and flown in.
How could Yelv Zongyuan have thought that his so-called double-headed snake formation had no effect at all, and they pinched him seven inches away, pinching his life gate.
The situation is not serious. This so-called double-headed snake formation has used most of Yelu Zongyuan's troops. Now, there are only 70,000 troops stationed in Dading Mansion in Zhongjing, and all the inland prefectures are empty.
.And now the Jurchen cavalry is heading straight for the Dading Mansion in Zhongjing, and the two resisting armies are now left behind. The two-headed snake failed to bite anyone, but a black tiger from the Jurchens came and ripped out the heart.
One day later, the Jurchen army captured Qianzhou, and there was another bloody massacre. Qianzhou was bloodbathed, and only half of the 80,000 people in the city escaped and fled south along the Daling River to Xingzhong Prefecture. But because of this
In this way, the Jurchen army wasted time in conquering the state capitals along the way, which gave Yelu Zongyuan the opportunity to dispatch his troops.
Yelu Zongyuan quickly ordered that 50,000 of the 70,000 soldiers and horses in Dading Prefecture be urgently transferred to Xingzhong Prefecture. At the same time, the falcon used to deliver the news conveyed Yelu Zongyuan's urgent order to Yelu Chun and Yelu Cai.
Among the large armies led by others, Yelu Zongyuan asked the two men to send all the cavalry, light cavalry, and light cavalry to rush to Xingzhong Prefecture, and the slow-moving infantry and heavy troops to follow up, so as not to delay the speed of the army's rush to reinforcements.
The two Liao armies, which were not far away from the Jurchen army in the first place, were not able to take advantage of the opportunity to catch up with the enemy after Qianzhou was captured, but were instead pushed dozens of miles away due to their slower overall marching speed. Yelu Zongyuan
The order issued was for them to lead the charge with cavalry and not to drive back with the slow-moving infantry.
As a result, three lines of cavalry rushed to Xingzhong Prefecture from Dading Prefecture and the north and south armies. Yelu Zongyuan's intention was obvious. He could not allow the Jurchen army to directly attack Dading Prefecture. He wanted to use Xingzhong Prefecture.
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Moreover, Yelu Zongyuan knew that the terrain of Xingzhong Mansion was capable of blocking the Jurchen army. At the critical moment, he had the last resort to stop the Jurchens from attacking. Of course, the premise was that Xingzhong Mansion could not stop the Jurchen army.
Only with the real army, he will use the last resort.
On the tenth day of April, Wanyan Agu led his army to capture Chuanzhou, the last state capital northeast of Xingzhong Prefecture. Once Chuanzhou was lost, Xingzhong Prefecture was exposed and had no barrier. The good news is that Chuanzhou is in the Jurchen Prefecture.
Before the army arrived, the city had become an empty city. All the officials and people fled to Xingzhong Mansion for refuge. The entire city was destroyed and burned, leaving almost nothing for Wanyan Agu's troops. When
When the Jurchen army entered the city, what they saw was the ruins of a city.
In fact, most of the cities in the Liao Kingdom can be said to be undefended. This is naturally due to their habit of nomadic life on the grasslands in their early years. Except for the Five Capitals and a few large state capitals, the rest of the cities did not have any decent city defenses.
.To be a little exaggerated, the so-called prefecture and county towns are just settlements where the land is surrounded by walls, houses are built, and roads are built. This is just like the Khitan people, the ancestors of the Liao people, who used tents and wooden fences to fence the grasslands.
The same principle applies to settlements.
Even in order to facilitate traveling on horseback, some cities do not even have real city gates. The cities have many exits and are completely open. This also resulted in the Jurchen army being able to crush these so-called gates without any effort.
City. However, when facing Xingzhongfu, the second largest city on Zhongjing Road, the situation is completely different. Although Xingzhongfu is half the size of Dadingfu, it is a strong city on the plain. As a defense guard against Dading
The auxiliary city of the mansion must not only serve as a barrier, but also can be a retreat at critical moments. Therefore, the city defense facilities of Xingzhong Mansion are complete, which is definitely not comparable to those undefended cities.
The geographical location of Xingzhong Mansion is excellent. There are four peaks in the north and south. Dahua Mountain and Qingshan Ridge are on the north side, and Helong Mountain and Fengtai Mountain are on the south side. Although these four mountains are not tall and steep mountains, their altitude is only about
Hundreds of meters away, but they perfectly blocked all the passages with a radius of hundreds of miles on the north and south sides of Xingzhong Mansion. They allowed the Daling River to pass between the four mountains, and allowed Xingzhong Mansion to guard the four mountains.
This is also the reason why the Jurchen army must capture Xingzhong Mansion. It is unrealistic to want to pass through the mountain again, which will delay a lot of time. By the time it passes through the mountain, the opponent may have already
The army retreated and assembled, and was ready. Moreover, capturing Xingzhong Mansion was of great strategic significance. It would lay a solid foothold for the Jurchen army on Zhongjing Road and become a strategic stronghold that could be advanced, attacked, retreated, and defended. This is
Extremely important.
In Wanyan Agu's strategic intention, Xingzhong Mansion must be captured. It was the key step in his two-step strategy.
After watching Yan Agu's troops, they were approaching fiercely, but in fact they themselves were in great danger. You know, in order to unexpectedly invade the hinterland of Zhongjing Road, Wanyan Agu ventured through Yiwulu Mountain. This move really worked, but in fact
It also brought great hidden dangers. When the army crossed the Yiwulu Mountain, they had to abandon all their baggage and equipment and move forward lightly before they could cross the mountain. As the saying goes, there must be losses when there are gains. The strategic intention was achieved, but it took a lot of effort.
The cost and pressure are becoming greater and greater as time goes by and the situation evolves.
The first is the problem of supplies. Hundreds of thousands of horses and horses cannot drink from the northwest wind. Although they carry dry food, bean cakes and other supplies, they cannot carry a large amount of supplies through Yiwulu Mountain, so the supplies they carry are less than ten days. This requires entering the Zhongjing Road.
After that, the Jurchen army must continue to plunder supplies to support the war. This is one of the important reasons why the Jurchen army did not choose to attack Dadingfu directly, but instead attacked these states and cities along the way. It must continue to plunder.
Only with supplies can the army maintain the supplies it needs. Otherwise, the problem of people eating horses' chews cannot be solved, and the army will be defeated.
