As the west was gradually sloping, on the top of the city of Taiyuan, I saw the spread of soldiers retreating from the field of vision.
Far and near, there are black beacon smoke rising into the sky. The flames above and below the city head are still burning. People push the corpses down the city, and hang the defending objects such as wolf tooth pats on the wall again, inside the parapet. Stack up sandbags.
In the field below, dark red blood and corpses were intertwined into a tragic picture. Most of the corpses belonged to the civilians of the Wu Dynasty who were driven to attack the city. Moaning has become weak, countless corpses and dying people are lying on the field, and farther away, there are civilian prisoners who are not dead but almost desperate, and the Jurchen army with murderous intentions and ambitions.
Qin Shaohe stood at the top of the wall and looked at the golden army camp on the other side. During the battle, as the chief officer, he also participated in the battle on the city wall and killed two golden soldiers with his own hands. , the corner of the official uniform has also been burnt to black.
After the continuous day and night of the fierce battle, when seeing the countless tragic situations on and off the city walls, people's emotions have long ceased to be sympathy. The numbness and trembling of the body resonated with the whole world, the buzzing sound filled the surrounding air, every inch of the world, the awareness of death and the fear that lurked behind it, the bloodthirsty impulse and the lingering fear after the injury, All get mixed up.
Along with these things, there is also a greater feeling that transcends them, which spreads out in front of us. Of course, this kind of emotion may only appear in the hearts of Qin Shao and Confucian generals like this. More than ten Ten thousand people's collision and life and death, pain and hope. The past of countless people has extended to this point, and many will come to an abrupt end in this rage.
"It's not too difficult to guard." Looking at the direction where Wanyan Zonghan might be, Qin Shaohe whispered in a hoarse voice, but his words were not approved by the generals behind him.
Because the previous Jurchen's record was too brilliant, when the enemy's soldiers spread to Taiyuan, everyone who defended the city did not know whether they could defend the city under the first wave of offensive. It is also because of the worry and self-consciousness in his heart that Qin Shaohe, as one of the chief officials, rushed to the city wall to fight in person at the first time. At this time, although it took a day and a night to finally wait for the Jurchen to step back, everyone didn't feel relieved at all. Because of this kind of mood, when Qin Shaohe said something encouraging. Several generals in the rear did not express their agreement immediately.
certainly. This also proved that under Qin Shaohe's deployment, the generals did not slack off in the rear, they were all already in this first collision. Solidly felt the pressure brought by the Jurchen.
After looking at each other a little. It's time to signify that it's past. One of them pointed forward and said in a low voice, "Lord Prefect, the Jin people failed to siege the city for the first time. They couldn't make a dash because they came here in a hurry, and the siege equipment was not ready. It will retreat, but it will take time to prepare the equipment, and the next attack will definitely be more violent, we must not take it lightly."
"General Han is right." Qin Shaohe nodded, "We already know how fierce the Jurchen has become. Look at the people under the city wall, who have been in front of us since today. Yes, there is only one way to go. But the good thing is that they have never fought before, and everyone is guessing the strength of the Jurchen in their hearts. There is a limit. Everyone, since then, hundreds of thousands of lives in Taiyuan will be handed over to us... Let's work hard."
He cupped his hands, and the rest of the generals also cupped their hands heavily. Qin Shaohe said with a smile: "But that's fine. It is said that Wanyan Agu defeated Shangjing, and it only took three hours. We have already defended it pretty well." to the city wall. Looking at the moan below, aiming for a moment, he fired an arrow.
Among the corpses below, a civilian of the Wu Dynasty, whose limbs were broken but still not dead, was shot in the heart and finally died.
Qin Shaohe held the bow, stood there staring blankly at the corpse below for a long time, and finally took a step back and waved his hand: "Pass my order, let the Shengong team and the military law team choose the serious injury below to be sure that there is no help. Civilians, it's too painful, just give them a ride..."
He walked down the city wall, and not far away, a man named Cheng Zhouhai walked towards him. Although his clothes were neat and meticulous, no matter the dust on his robe or the look on his face, he could see that the other party had been working for days. of fatigue. When he came to the front, Cheng Zhouhai bowed his hands: "Master Qin, since the war is over, it is time for the young men I organized to take turns to go to the city to see it."
Qin Shaohe nodded: "Send it up, it's time for them to see what the people outside the city are like, and tell them that if the city is broken, that's what they are like... It's just that the Jurchen stepped back, but It’s hard to say whether to feign retreat. When people are sent up, don’t be too much. Beware of Jurchen’s meticulous work mixed in. In addition, if Jurchen attacks the city again, they must withdraw immediately…”
After chatting for a while, and then feeling that it seemed too long-winded, Qin Shaohe's expression settled, then he smiled bitterly and patted Cheng Zhouhai on the shoulder. Having done things in the prime minister's mansion for so long, Cheng Zhouhai will outperform him if he is said to be meticulous and rigorous in his planning. With a slight smile, Cheng Zhouhai just replied, "Yes." Then he looked at his deputy, who nodded.
Cheng Zhouhai looked at the city wall, and Qin Shaohe, who patted his shoulder, looked forward. Taiyuan's outer buildings near the city wall were being demolished. The soldiers and civilians were busy in the field of vision, running back and forth. In the distance, Taiyuan City was row upon row. The houses stretched out, the war had begun, and the lives of hundreds of thousands of people still had to continue in a tense form.
On the field outside the city, the autumn wind in August blew through the field full of blood and smoke. The corpses, the wounded, and the assembled and restless army stretched all the way. Waiting for them is also an unknown fate.
This is the beginning of the Battle of Taiyuan...
Soon, Qin Shaoqian led the Wu Rui camp to meet the enemy at Shouzhang, and the army led by Wanyan Zongwang and Guo Yaoshi was greeted by them. The two armies fought back and forth for a day near Shouzhang, where the fortified walls and clear fields were scorched. Qin Shaoqian did not make Wu Rui Ying confront each other head-on. He divided Wu Rui Ying into five teams of nearly 10,000 people. Taking advantage of the geographical advantage, he dealt with Guo Yaoshi near Shouzhang, always posing as a feint. And a large number of reconnaissance cavalry and detachments broke out in small-scale battles from time to time.
In this back-and-forth battle, Guo Yaoshi chose a relatively conservative advance to determine the situation. In such a feint and small-scale offensive situation, the most elite unit led by Qin Shaoqian turned the truth into reality and went straight to the troops led by Zhang Linghui. In the attack of time, the weak Zhang Linghui was swallowed. But only partially prevailed.
On the other side, Pharmacist Guo was already fighting with a team of 10,000 enemies who were responsible for containing them. The ten thousand team was defeated after half an hour.
The defeated team fled in all directions, and then many liaison officers who had been arranged around by Qin Shaoqian gathered again. Next, the entire Shouzhang battlefield seemed to turn into a huge scattered sand. There seem to be opponents all around. The fighting became fierce. But nowhere is the main force. Qin Shaoqian led the team of 10,000 people who were good at fighting and lurked around. At the same time, he maintained the operation of the battlefield with the greatest strength, waiting for the opportunity to give Guo Yaoshi and others the most violent blow. And Guo Yaoshi began to gather troops. Pounce on Shouzhang County, which is guarded by tens of thousands of people.
This chaotic battle lasted for a day, with dozens of small-scale battles and two large-scale battles, which made Guo Yaoshi and the others unable to concentrate on attacking the city at all. A day later, Wanyan Zongwang's main force arrived. Ten thousand people joined forces in Shouzhang, and after colliding with Wu Ruiying, they ran over Shouzhang County in a mighty way...
The two armies, Wuwei and Wusheng, who were supposed to attack Zongwang's troops in a three-way attack, were guarding Jinan and Daming, but they did not appear from beginning to end. As for the Wu Rui Battalion, which took the initiative to intercept the Jurchen army, there was not much to mention in this battle except Qin Shaoqian's superb army formation skills shown in the scattered sand-like deployment...
After this battle, Wanyan Zongwang entered the Central Plains!
A large number of wounded and routed soldiers and civilians near Shouzhang retreated from the front. Chaos filled the sky.
Ning Yi and Wen Renbu Er stood on the side of the road, watching the defeat.
"Although I already knew that General Qin would be defeated, time would really run out."
Wenren Buer took a breath and sighed in a low voice. After a while, they greeted a wounded general who had withdrawn: "Where is General Qin! Where is your General Qin!?"
The general glanced at Wenren Buer and Ning Yi, then shook his head: "I don't know! I don't know! I just ordered us to withdraw to Dongping! Ask others!"
The general mixed in the crowd and went away, Wen Renbu Er glanced at Ning Yi, who had a serious but calm face, Ning Yi tilted his head and looked at the crowd: "Do you think this is considered a calm transition?"
"what?"
"Look at these people, the civilians evacuated, it means that they didn't leave in a hurry, right?"
"... Right." Wen Ren Buer hesitated for a moment, and then said, "But the Jurchen passed too fast, and the original plan of Jianbi Qingye definitely couldn't keep up..."
"If you can't keep up, you have to do it." Ning Yi closed his eyes and opened them after a while, "After all, this is a game of chess, you can't expect others to follow your pace..."
After he said this, he walked into the crowd and grabbed a defeated general, who reached out his hand to draw a knife, but Ning Yi held his wrist: "This general, where is General Qin? Where is your General Qin? "
The other party was shocked, and after looking at Ning Yi up and down, he waved his hand suddenly: "How do I know!"
The sky is filled with ominous breath, far and near, this is just a corner of the chaos. And Jurchen's long-term drive means that the entire plan of fortifying the wall and clearing the field will lag behind at the beginning.
On the seventh day of the eighth lunar month in the thirteenth year of Jinghan, the emperor Zhou Zhe made an arbitrary decision. However, the public opinion in the entire court and in society is actually still in a very delicate state.
The Jurchens came too fast, and the whole society was not overwhelmed by the fear of war. Just as Ning Yi and the others and the Prime Minister's mansion were carrying out the implementation of the fortification and clearing of the field, the whole courtroom was flying towards Zhou Zhe's imperial case like snowflakes.
In a war, it is too decisive to use such means as fortifying the walls and clearing the fields. The benefits involved in migrating tens of millions of people and destroying materials are astronomical, let alone around the autumn harvest. Anyway, most of the people who are strong and clear have basically two attitudes. One is because of their own interests. It is necessary to strengthen the walls and clear the fields, and to relocate people to burn their fields and houses. The most affected are the big landlords and gentry in the north, and they can support their position. Yes, it is another relatively rational attitude, that is: it will not help at all, he will only let a large number of civilians die at the hands of our own people.
This argument is very tenable. On the most intuitive level, all the troops of the Jurchen south are only 200,000. How many places can they swept through fighting along the way? How many people were killed? More places will not be affected by military disasters. It is possible for these people to survive in the cracks of war. And even if it is really hard and clear, when these 200,000 people want food, they can easily meet their needs by laying down a place. On the land where tens of millions of people live, how clear you can make all the Food disappears
"Even if the court can't stop the Jurchen, the people should be left alive!"
In the remarks of Confucian scholars, the backlash caused by this measure is indescribable, but what really supports the operation of this measure is the attitude of Emperor Zhou Zhe. In a sense, Zhou Zhe is synonymous with courage, and only his support can make this matter stand still amid so many verbal criticisms. As the upper echelons of the Wu Dynasty, whether it is Cai Jing, Tong Guan, Li Gang, Qin Siyuan and others, they may have already seen the seriousness of this situation. Agreed, they just watched this matter silently. After all, Li Gang and Qin Siyuan were indefensible.
Under the operation of the lower-level officials in the north of the Yellow River, in the early stage of clearing the walls and clearing the field, huge and amazing results were achieved, but the real focus of Ning Yi and others' work was actually placed in the south of the Yellow River from the beginning. They led a large number of refugees to the south, exaggerated the atmosphere of war, publicized the necessity of clearing the walls, and the atmosphere of terror was rapidly accumulating, but as Wenren Buer said, the Jurchens came too quickly.
In the imperial court in the capital, there was a lot of scolding, and the impeachment battle was still going on in a chaotic manner. In the restaurant and between the brothels, the scholars and scribes talked about the impassioned war and the heroic bravery ahead. On August 20th, when Wanyan Zongwang's troops started to cross the Yellow River, Zhou Zhe shouted from the Golden Palace, "Why hasn't the cleanup started near the capital!"
Just before this day, the troops near Gyeonggi were already transporting a large amount of food nearby to the city, and then they finally started to drive away the civilians and scavenge for food. A huge and chaotic civil unrest broke out. After a county magistrate was stoned to death by angry people when he asked for the people to evacuate, the army began to clash with the people. In this swift and violent situation, the debate over the strong walls and clear fields came to an abrupt end in the capital, and an atmosphere of panic began to cover every part of the city. A large number of people poured into the capital, and a large number of people poured out to the south.
On August 23, the Yellow River defense line collapsed, and the Jurchen East Route Army crossed the Yellow River across the board.
The previous plan of Ning Yi and others created certain rules and convenience for the transportation of food and population near Kaifeng, but a large number of people were still involved in the war. For the first time in more than 200 years, the war has spread to the south bank of the Yellow River. As for the beginning of the entire war, no one expected that it would extend so quickly.
On the 28th of August, just over a month before the Jurchen battle, Wanyan Zongwang killed thousands of miles and began to besiege the city of Tokyo, and then launched an attack.
The defense forces of the capital of the Wu Dynasty have been shrunk to the city. At the same time as the battle to defend Tokyo, Zhou Zhe's order has been issued, and more than 300,000 troops of the King of Qin have begun to gather in Tokyo. In the battle, the two armies, Wuwei and Wusheng, remained unmoved. A larger and more chaotic war is about to unfold outside Tokyo.
At the same time that Ning Yi followed the army to the south, Taiyuan City had been defending against Wanyan Zonghan's frantic attack for nearly half a month... (Please search Piao Astronomy, better and faster!
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