At the end of February, when spring plowing was roughly over, the war suddenly broke out.
The rear army of the imperial camp, which had rested for more than half a month but had not left the front line, was the first to move.
Under the command of Wu Jie, the imperial rear army deployed at least 20,000 soldiers at the junction of the Baoan Army and the northern area of Gyeongju, that is, the most sensitive Hengshan frontline junction of the northwest side of Yan'an, the Jin Kingdom, the Xixia Dynasty, and the Song Dynasty.
Once deployed, the troops were divided into two groups, advancing along the Luoshui River to the southeast, where Wanyan Huonv was located in Yan'an Prefecture; and to the northwest, toward the Dingbian Army area where Jingkangzhong was previously captured by Xixia.
Before Jingkang, the scale of the war was definitely a big war, but at this time, it was a big or small one. And the form of the battle was destined to be a typical battle for the city, mainly against the enemy.
For many years, the Song Dynasty and the Western Xia Dynasty had been fighting for control of the castles on the Hengshan front line, but they could not create any big waves in a short period of time, nor could they produce any particularly shocking results.
But it still shocked everyone.
It goes without saying that the Song Dynasty and the Jin Dynasty were war enemies. The hatred between the two sides was deeper than the sea and higher than the mountains. Moreover, the war never officially stopped for a day.
Although the Song Dynasty and Xixia often reached short-term peace in name, due to the Hundred Years' War, the hatred inside was deeper than the sea and higher than the mountains. Even among the most anti-war senior civil servants in the Central Committee of the Song Dynasty, except for a few people
Because they were tired of the war and were willing to accept people other than Xixia, most people regarded Xixia as "rebellious" from the beginning, that is, "illegal self-independence". From the bottom of their hearts, everyone believed that the birth of this regime was illegal.
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Therefore, regardless of whether it is Parrot Zhajiang Noodles or Jingwei's clear distinction, or it is 'I have tolerated you for a long time', and it is impossible to obtain the reserve of war horses to fight across the river without fighting Xixia... In short, this war with Xixia belongs to everyone in essence.
The kind that have nothing to say.
Therefore, it is not the start of the war that shocks everyone.
So what is the off-site significance of Wu Jie's offensive? The answer is to take the initiative to attack the regular troops of the Jurchens and Party members, and to attack the regular troops of the two most powerful enemies of the Song Dynasty.
This year is the sixth year of Jianyan, 1132 AD, and the war started seven years ago in 1125.
In the first three years of the war, the Song army was defeated again and again, which finally led to the Jingkang Incident that shocked the world, and the Song Dynasty regime was actually destroyed. Then, in the first year of Jianyan (that is, the second year of Jingkang), the Zhao Song Dynasty official family was the only one to slip through the net.
The royal family was orthodox and ascended the throne in Nanjing (Shangqiu).
At that time, the Song Dynasty court was a small court in exile. It did not dare to go to Hebei or stay in the Central Plains. The most controversial thing between the prime minister and the important ministers was whether to go to Chang'an, Nanyang, or Yangzhou as a place to stay;
At that time, the country of the Song Dynasty was Hebei. Hebei was basically occupied. The Central Plains, Guanzhong, and Jingdong were completely exposed to the front of the Jin army. The people swarmed south, and the officials abandoned their land after hearing the news. The north of the Huaihe River basically entered a state of anarchy, and from the south
To the north, there are soldiers and thieves everywhere, and there are bandits everywhere;
At that time, the army of the Song Dynasty was a group of remnants and defeated generals, with three or two big cats and puppies. The highest-ranking soldier was actually a guy like Liu Guangshi, and even Han Shizhong, who was recognized as a "loyal and brave", could not restrain his subordinates.
There is uprising and chaos on the sidelines;
Everything that happened at that time is vivid in my mind.
But now, Zhao Song actually fought out, and launched an attack against the Jurchens and Xixia's serious troops at the same time.
Some things are like this... Even though everyone is mentally prepared, even though most people know that it may not have any obvious results, a considerable number of people even know that the original intention of such a thing cannot be said to be just
It was a feint or some kind of preparation, but I still couldn't help but feel a little excited, a little emotional, and a little sad.
Because this is the text of history and the process of history.
Countless deaths, survival, flames, iron flows, nature, the top of human nature, history will eventually paradoxically choose to use this kind of thing as a node to record without emotion... Zhao and Song fought for seven years of resistance and five years of hard work, and finally in the construction of
In the sixth year of the Yan Dynasty, spring took the step of counterattack.
Then time passes, and no one will remember all the living faces, and no one will remember all the swords and swords that once shone in the times. It is just some people and some things that have been recorded as emotionlessly as this counterattack.
After Wu Jie took action, the rest of the Song army also continued to move.
Han Shizhong's troops re-entered Tongzhou, and one of them advanced into Danzhou, ensuring pressure on the other side of Yan'an. At the same time, it directly threatened the Jin army's channel to support Yan'an from Daning across the river. This made the Jin army in Yan'an
I really felt the danger of being surrounded and annihilated.
The pressure on the Xixia side was obviously greater. Yue Fei, Qu Duan, Wang De, and tens of thousands of Song army elites appeared on Jingyuan Road in large numbers, equipped with both horse and foot, and then seemed to use Zhenrong Army (later Guyuan) as their base camp.
, began to launch a fierce attack on the Huaide Army, commonly known as Pingxia City, which was previously captured by Xixia, and the walled city in the northern section of Xi'an Prefecture.
Pingxia City has an extremely prominent strategic location. Zhezong concentrated all the manpower and material resources in Guanzhong and suddenly launched it. It took twenty-three days to build it in an assault. As soon as it was completed, it caused great shock in Xixia...
…Because this city and the surrounding supporting docks directly control the upper reaches of the Hulu River, and the Hulu River crosses Douling and reaches the Yellow River directly.
When we reach the mouth of the river, we are actually only a mere 120 miles away from the Xingling Land (Ningxia Plain), the core of Xixia.
It was not unreasonable for Li Qianshun's mother to choose this place for her second expedition after Xiao Liang.
In addition, Yue Fei, Wang De, and Qu Duan were obviously selected elites, and most of the generals and soldiers were actually locals. They were able to adapt to the battlefield immediately. At the same time, the proportion of cavalry was also quite high, but they fell into disarray as soon as they entered the battle.
It has the momentum of aggression. Under the fierce attack of these Song armies, the surrounding defense lines in the Hulu River Basin, which the Xixia people call Weiru River, quickly collapsed, and the city wall was quickly divided and surrounded. It is conceivable that
, if large-scale reinforcements cannot be quickly dispatched, then Li Qianshun's efforts after Jingkang will be completely in vain.
And this made it even more difficult for Li Qianshun, who was in a difficult situation due to the sudden outbreak of war.
This person has been the leader of the Xixia Kingdom for almost fifty years. Of course he knows the importance of Pingxia City. He certainly knows that once Pingxia City, which was finally taken during the Jingkang Rebellion, is recaptured by the Song army, Xixia will never have peace.
But they dared not easily deploy troops and horses to fight... Because in early March when the Song army was attacking across the board and advancing, a certain message repeatedly obtained from prisoners and small tribes on the border was that the Longzhu of Zhao Song's official family had moved north again.
, but directly entered Fangzhou City, the northernmost part of Fangzhou.
Fangzhou City is of course a strategic key point, as can be seen from Wu Jie's previous battle results here. It is natural for the Song army to deploy troops and horses here. However, it is only a reserve arrangement that does not require the dragon banner of the Zhao Song official family.
Obviously, the Zhao and Song officials wanted to directly supervise Han Shizhong and Wu Jie to deal with the Yan'an-Hengshan Eastern Front battlefield.
Let's say that the Emperor of the Song Dynasty appeared less than a hundred miles away from the front line. It was a common occurrence for the Jurchens, but for the Xixia people, for the small Dangxiang tribes in the Hengshan Mountains, and for the people in the occupied areas of northern Shaanxi, it was a common occurrence.
words, but it was still a huge shock.
Many Dangxiang small tribes, over and over again, although they still consider themselves Xixia people most of the time, they still know what the Emperor of the Song Dynasty is and have such a sense of fear in their bones.
Therefore, the emperor of the Song Dynasty is in Fangzhou. The shock and pressure brought by this sentence directly caused the Hengshan area to become trembling. Many small tribes in Hengshan and outside were shaken. In addition, the people in the occupied areas of northern Shaanxi repeatedly rioted.
Defection.
Whether it was Yue Fei or Wu Jie, the offensive was obviously becoming smoother.
At this time, Li Qianshun really didn't dare to mobilize troops from the Hengshan defense line, because if there was a mistake and a field defeat occurred, even if it was just more than 10,000 troops, it would likely lead to a chain effect, and ultimately the whole game would be lost.
situation.
After only a few days of fighting, the experienced leader of the Xixia Kingdom completely realized a reality, that is, the Song Army of today is definitely not the Song Army of the past, and the Song Dynasty of today is definitely not the Song Army of the past.
Counting on Xixia alone to form a strategic balance with the Song people was just wishful thinking from the beginning.
In the midst of suffering, Li Qianshun's only hope was the Jurchens. Letters asking for help began one after another, sent from Xingyuan Mansion as quickly as possible, from behind Hengshan to the areas occupied by the Jin Army.
, Zhilu Guan can be said to be shared by those who see it.
Daning City is the main passage from the hinterland of the Jin Army to the east of the Yellow River to Yan'an.
This is because the distance between the Xin River flowing here and the mouth of the Yellow River on the other side of the Yan River is only a dozen miles, and the mouth of the Yan River is downstream, making the logistics transfer from east to west very appropriate.
Therefore, Wanyan Wushu, the fourth prince of the Jin Kingdom who came to Yan'an, regarded this place as his headquarters very early and almost succeeded in dividing and dismantling the Living Women Group here.
Turning to the present, after the war broke out in full force in early March, and after the first letter for help arrived here, who knew how many horses were killed, the Dajin Wei, who was actually in charge of the entire Western Route Army and the Western Front Theater,
Wang directly read the letter roughly and made a judgment directly in the hall of Daning City:
"We want to save Xixia."
"Your Highness, save the living girl first!" Because the war broke out suddenly, Wan Yanba, the commander of the Western Route Army who came specially from Taiyuan City, spoke directly in the seat to persuade him. "Although the living girl has a grudge against me, no matter what,
We shouldn’t have abandoned those 10,000 veterans of the Western Route Army... Compared to this, what do the Xixia people mean even if their country has perished?"
The rest of the people in the hall nodded one after another.
In addition, in the past, nearly 20,000 soldiers and horses were gathered in Yan'an Prefecture. However, due to the east wind of Zhao Song's official family entering the pass, and the truce after entering the pass, less than half of them had already followed Wanyan Salihe and Pucha Huzhan.
Withdrew to Hedong.
Therefore, there are only 10,000 living women on hand now. But Wanyan Salihe and Pucha Huzhan are sitting in this hall.
"We need to save even living girls." Wu Shu didn't explain much. He just got up and walked around the lobby for a moment with his hands behind his hands, and then gave a definite response.
"Then what King Wei means... is to send out a large army to cross the river to Yan'an?" Ba Lisu stared at Wu Shu so hard that he frowned.
"No!" Wu Shu shook his head decisively. "I have been here for a long time and I can see clearly that it was easy to go from Daning to Yan'an in the past but difficult to come back. What's more, Yan'an is mountainous and there are two big rivers that are gradually rising. They are not our Jurchens at all.
The cavalry is a good place to play... I even suspect that Han Shizhong already had enough troops to cut off the Yanhe River and force the living women to withdraw from the north. The reason why he stood still in Danzhou was to wait for us to send troops there, and then severely punish them.
Give us a bite."
Ba Lisu was silent, and the generals beside him, Wanyan Salihe, Pucha Huzhan and others were also silent... They could understand Wushu's thoughts very well, because the biggest loss in the last battle of Yaoshan was,
They were the two ten thousand households led by Wanyan Wushu himself. The reason why those two ten thousand households suffered heavy losses was not really due to how they fought bloody battles, resulting in heavy losses, but because they were different from other troops who were able to evacuate in an orderly manner after the war.
They were isolated on the other side of the battlefield, unable to return, and then were gathered and annihilated on the bank of the Yellow River without supplies.
Once bitten, twice shy.
The Jurchens really didn't want to fight on the other side of the river, nor did they want to jump into the trap.
"How many troops are there on the other side?" Wu Shu walked around the hall a few times and suddenly spoke.
"If we talk about manpower, it is boundless." Bajisu opened his hands in response. "I don't need to tell you that the fourth prince should have seen and heard about it... From Tongzhou to Danzhou, civilians and auxiliary soldiers came one after another.
Visible to the naked eye from across the river, the flags are densely packed and everything imaginable is included.”
Wu Shu sighed even more: "Where are the soldiers?"
"The soldiers can only do the math." Ba Lisu continued to speak sternly in the audience. "The left army of Han Shizhong's imperial camp has always been there, the rear army of Wu Jie's imperial camp has always been there, and Li Yanxian has never moved. It's nothing more than Zhao.
How many troops did the Song Guan family bring in this time... They themselves said it was fifty thousand. They said they were Yue Fei's imperial camp front army, Wang De's imperial camp middle army, and Qu Duan's imperial camp cavalry. The total of these three families was natural.
We can draw 50,000, but it is not accurate. We can only say that according to what the Xixia people think, these three people and their main subordinates all showed up in Pingxia City. The Xixia people who were beaten asked us for help, and the official family of Zhao Song was in Fangzhou.
It is said that there should be some backup for direct command there...it can be seen that even if it is a bit of a bluff, it shouldn't be too different."
Wu Shu kept nodding, and finally gave a number directly: "Including Li Yanxian, 150,000?"
Balisu thought for a moment, and Salihe next to him also thought for a moment, but neither of them said a word.
"The people of the Song Dynasty came well prepared." Wu Shu did not dwell on this question that was destined to have no specific answer, but everyone had some clues in their minds. Instead, he continued to follow this inference and put forward a conclusion and a new question. "If you can't cross the river, in the end
At least we can't cross the river from Yan'an to rescue... Instead, we have to make preparations in advance. If necessary, we can go from Suide Army to Linzhou from the north... Is it safe to ask for a break from Linzhou?"
"I don't know." Ba Lisu shook his head repeatedly. "The entire northern Shaanxi, Yan'an Prefecture, Suide Army, Jinning Army, Linzhou, Fengzhou, and Fuzhou on the other side of the river were all captured by Lou Shi with his living girls.
Then Xijing was left behind to deal with it, but the Khitans in Xijing happened to be in rebellion before Yaoshan, so the new Xijing stay behind was simply the newly appointed sixth prince..."
"Let's not talk about this." Wu Shu was helpless, but he frowned more and more. "I still feel a little wrong. We have so many things, how can the Song people be okay? They really mobilized an army of 150,000 to delay in northern Shaanxi.
Setting up bait, food and fodder reserves for the decisive battle? It's one thing to spend the army at the station, it's another to spend it when it's moving, and it's another thing once it's fought... Why is he like this when we are not prepared?
Calm?"
Ba Lisu thought thoughtfully: "Did King Wei say that the Han people were just trying to make a false move? His original intention was to intimidate us and seize the five counties in northern Shaanxi for nothing? Maybe their logistics cannot support a large-scale war for two or three months? The military resources are weak.
Are you unable to launch a large-scale battle involving 100,000 people in Yan'an?"
Wu Shu was silent for a moment and shook his head with difficulty: "You can't gamble!"
Ba Lisu sneered and finally stopped trying to hide it: "King Wei, you are the one who says both good and bad things. What should I do? You must also say the same thing!"
Wu Shu responded slowly: "It's been a long time. It's no longer like the situation in Nanyang. General Han has died on the other side. I just want to try not to make any mistakes... Ba Lisu, you have been in the West Route Army for a long time. What do you think?
, If I want to save Xixia and keep my daughter alive, but I don’t want to risk crossing the river, and I also want to delay the Song people, what should I do? Is there a proper response?"
"Simple." When Ba Lisu heard the other party talking about the story of Nanyang, he regained his composure and responded honestly. "This is exactly what I wanted to do when I met the King of Wei in the future... I would like to ask the King of Wei to give an order to unite the army to Hezhong Mansion.
In Pujin, Longmenjin built pontoon bridges to suppress Tongzhou; across the mountains in the middle, attacked Pinglu to suppress Shaanzhou, forcing the Song army to mobilize troops from northern Shaanxi to confront me there! And if this is the case, I dare not say that everything will happen.
It can be easily solved, but it is enough to relieve the overall situation!"
Wu Shu suddenly realized that this so-called strategy of besieging Wei and rescuing Zhao, or pretending to besiege Wei and suppressing Wei and rescuing Zhao, could only be said that for thousands of years, Pujin and Tongguan had always been the key to Guanzhong, and it really made sense.
As soon as he thought of this, King Wei of Jin Dynasty made his decision without hesitation: "Just listen to what Dutong said, I will go to Pujin again in person!"