Prince of Song Dynasty

Chapter 1113 Party Jin Surrenders
In the next few days, Muro Fatty quickly used some secret channels to send a small amount of weapons and equipment to the violent bear.There is no armor, this thing is in the Liao Kingdom, and it is impossible to equip the entire army. It is difficult for non-elite elites to have armor. They only wear leather armor. Like Xiangfu Kingdom, which spares no effort to arm the army, the financial resources of the Liao Kingdom are not enough. To deal with it, but the bow and crossbow are generously given a lot.

On November [-]th, half a month after Huang Dongqiu led the Black Wolf, White Wolf, and Zhelan armies and divided them into three groups to encircle Gyeongju, the food and grass in Gyeongju were exhausted. Huang Dongqiu sent envoys to persuade him to surrender. Meet Ye Chen face to face, otherwise everything will be destroyed.Huang Dongqiu used Haidongqing to send the news to Xia Jing. Without much hesitation, Ye Chen led [-] Heavenly Guards and [-] Shadow Guards to march outside Qingzhou City on Yongxing Army Road of the Song Army.

After some messenger exchanges, Ye Chen agreed to Dang Jin's seven requests.With Ye Chen's reputation in the minds of the people of the world, what he said and the guarantee he made were as good as he said, and Dang Jin immediately ordered the city gate to be opened, and led the [-] remaining elite troops from the Northwest Frontier Army in the city to attack Ye Chen. Dust surrenders.

On this day, nearly 20 people in Gyeongju City were extremely happy.

On this day, the [-] soldiers of the Northwest Frontier Army were ecstatic.

On this day, Dang Jin and a very small number of senior officials of the Northwest Frontier Army were in a complicated mood and could hardly restrain themselves.

Ye Chen decreed on the spot to confer on Dang Jin the rank of General Zhao Xin, the second rank of official residence.

According to one of Dangjin's requirements, Xiangfuguo's army on the north road must go to Hebei first, defeat the Khitan army, and drive them out of the Song Dynasty. Dangjin is confident that as long as Ye Chen comes to Zhending Mansion in person, the northern army led by Zhao Zan will Daying will also surrender to Ye Chen.

On November 21st, Ye Chen personally commanded 12 horses from the Black Wolf, White Wolf, and Xuanwu armies, plus 7 people from the party, for a total of 19 people. .The Zhelan Legion will leave behind the civil service system that will later arrive in Xiangfu Kingdom, and begin to consolidate the occupied Yongxing Army Route.

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The Longguan Fortress easily fell into the hands of Han Tao of the White Tiger Army. Han Tao left a battalion to garrison Longguan to lead the main force of the White Tiger Army. Song Jun continued to rush forward without stopping, bypassing Chen Cang and heading straight for Dasan Pass.

Han Tao knew that once the Dashan Pass was obtained, the Chencang City between Longguan and Dashan Pass would be just a lonely boat in the vast ocean, which could be overturned at any time.The most important thing is to completely cut off the connection between Qinzhou City, the prefecture city of Qinfeng Road, and Jingzhao Mansion, the northwest center of the Song Dynasty, and the transportation of grain and grass.

There are only more than 5000 defenders at Dasan Pass, but the terrain is extremely dangerous, easy to defend and difficult to attack. Although the White Tiger Army has made a lot of preparations in advance, it is not easy to win.

Dasan Pass was the pass of the scattered countries during the Zhou Dynasty, so it is called Sanguan.It is the first of the four major passes in Guanzhong.Located at the northern foot of the Qinling Mountains in the southern suburb of Chencang (later Baoji), it has been known as the "Throat of Sichuan and Shaanxi" since ancient times.

According to historical records, there have been more than [-] battles at Dashan Pass.When Chu and Han were fighting, Han Xin "built plank roads in the open, and kept Chen Cang in secret" passed by here.During the Three Kingdoms period, Cao Cao's westward expedition to Zhang Lu also passed through this place.According to Chen Shou's "Three Kingdoms" records: "(Jianxing six years) spring, Liang came back to Sanguan, surrounded Chencang, Cao Zhen refused."

Dasan Pass was established in the Western Han Dynasty (it is said that the name of San Pass began in the Qin Dynasty at the latest), and was abandoned at the end of Ming Dynasty.There is a "Qinling" stone tablet at the site of the pass.To the east of the ancient Sanguanguan site on Sanguanling, there is a stone tablet of "Ancient Sanguan Site".

Therefore, Dasan Pass is a transportation hub that enters the Guanzhong Plain from Guanzhong to the west, and has an extremely important strategic position.Originally, Lu You, a famous poet in the Southern Song Dynasty, wrote the first part of "Book Anger", "The building boat crosses Guazhou in the night snow, and the iron horse disperses in the autumn wind".Because it strangles the throat of north-south traffic, it has been the "Throat of Sichuan and Shaanxi" since ancient times, and a place that must be contested by military strategists.

Before coming to such a grand pass, Han Tao himself had collected a lot of information, whether it was the strength of the troops in the Dasan Pass, various deployments, or even how many defense methods he had, etc., he had inquired clearly.Just because he knew the situation of Dasan Pass, although Han Tao had made full preparations, he also knew that this battle was more than ten times more difficult than winning Long Pass.

Dashanguan is difficult to attack, mainly because in addition to the high-rise Zhuzhuguan Walled City, there are many military fortresses and military forts built on both sides, and there are two protruding mountain ridges on both sides, and a little experience in siege Those who are familiar with it can see that the key to breaking the city lies on these two protruding mountain beams.Guan Shanhu, the guard of the Dasan Gate, obviously also realized this, and there was a commanding elite soldier stationed on each of the two mountain ridges.

In fact, these military strongholds and military forts were all built after the founding of the Xiangfu Kingdom. Obviously, they were originally intended to prevent the entry of the Xiangfu Kingdom's army.

In order not to affect the attack on the main pass, Han Tao first concentrated his forces to take down the five military strongholds and two military forts on both sides.At this time, the strength of Xiangfu country's siege equipment is reflected. Giant catapults, gunpowder kits, grenade bombs, giant nest vehicles, giant crossbows. Guns, engineers demolish walls, etc., all kinds of means are displayed one by one. In five days, all the military forts and military villages on both sides fell into the hands of the White Tiger Legion.During this process, because the defenders of Dasan Pass were much smaller than the White Tiger Legion, and they were afraid of the combat power of the White Tiger Legion, they never dared to come out to support, so they had to retreat to the main pass.

The reinforcements from Dasan Pass did not come, because during the process of attacking San Pass, Han Tao sent an army of [-] troops led by the deputy army commander Wen Zitao to clean up the prefectures and counties outside Chen Cang. Under the circumstances, the defenders could only shrink back, and they could no longer pose any threat to the White Tiger Army.

On the sixth day, the White Tiger Army began to concentrate its forces to attack the main pass, but at the same time, under the leadership of Sun Lixing, a thousand soldiers from the special brigade had already crossed the mountains and ridges, and circled behind the Dashan Pass.

On the first day, the White Tiger Army lost [-] lives and wounded and failed to climb the city wall.

On the second day, the White Tiger Army blew up half of the city wall with gunpowder, but due to the special terrain here, it still did not collapse. Unless all the explosives quota of the White Tiger Army was concentrated this time, it would be possible to blow up and collapse the city wall in one fell swoop.But there are still many cities to attack later, how could Han Tao be willing to use all the gunpowder here.

On the third day, in the middle of the night, a thousand special brigade soldiers climbed up the mountain ridges on both sides from behind.The sound of killing suddenly shook the sky above the mountain ridge.

Guan Shanhu, the guard of the Dasan Gate, is quite confident about the two commanding troops on the two mountain ridges, because these defenders are used to fighting in the jungle and mountains, because all the soldiers and horses are recruited from the local mountain people. Later, the most important thing was that in order not to shake the morale of the soldiers, the guards specially took out some food and donated some food to the homes of the soldiers who were affected by the disaster.Therefore, the morale of the defenders of Dashan Pass was also maintained. Not to mention, the two commanders also occupied a favorable location during the night battle and in their familiar environment. Tiger didn't think the other party would be able to sneak attack successfully.

However, these 1000 people faced the same number of soldiers from the special brigade, so the result would definitely be beyond his expectations. In just half an hour, two crucial mountain beams fell into the hands of the White Tiger Army.More than 170 soldiers of the special brigade suffered losses in this battle.

Once the two mountain ridges fall, the Dasan Pass means that the advantage of the Dasan Pass will no longer be, and the morale of the defenders will be fatally hit.

On the second day, the White Tiger Legion aggressively attacked the city. On the two mountain ridges on both sides, Han Tao deployed 5000 men each. They kept shooting with steel string bows in their hands. The overwhelming rain of arrows suppressed the main gate. Ways to defend the city.In this way, the Song army fought hard for most of the day, and more than two-thirds of them died in battle. The defense line of the soldiers who could only wait to be beaten to death finally collapsed. People supervised the battle, but they couldn't stop the soldiers from escaping from the city wall. Even the defenders' personal soldiers were killed by the retreating soldiers. If the guard Guan Shanhu was not famous, the retreating soldiers would have killed him.

In this way, after paying the casualties of more than 100 people, the White Tiger Army finally climbed to the top of Dashan Pass through the ladder after spending half a day.So far, the throat Dasan Pass, which prevented the army of Xiangfu Kingdom from entering the pass, was successfully obtained.

On the top and bottom of the city, there are dead bodies everywhere. On the troop transport road at the top of the city, the fallen corpses are pierced with dense arrows, as if they were stabbed one by one. When they are closed, the death conditions of the soldiers of the White Tiger Legion who died in battle are also horrible. , some were smashed into shapeless by rolling wood and rocks, some were scorched black by kerosene, and the one with a different head and glaring eyes was shocking.

Guan Shanhu, the guard of the Dasan Gate, was surrounded by a group of soldiers from the White Tiger Legion with disheveled hair. This guard who was loyal to the Song State did not surrender until his death.Han Tao admired this person very much in his heart, and since he hadn't done anything for a long time, he disregarded the strong dissuasion of the deployment, and fought alone with Guan Shanhu. The two fought for a hundred rounds, and Guan Shanhu was beheaded by Han Tao. .

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Dasan Pass fell, and Chencang County Guard and Magistrate directly opened the city gate and surrendered on the day when the White Tiger Army troops approached the city.So far, Qinzhou City has become an isolated city.

(End of this chapter)