Guide to traveling through the Northern Song Dynasty

The camp established by Zhang Guangdao was located in the urban area of ​​Yangquan in later generations, northwest of Pingding Military City.

This place is connected to Shouyang County and blocks the northern passage. It is the only place where Wanyan Zonghan's reinforcements must pass.

Yao Pingzhong's camp is located in the northeast of Pingding Military City.

This place cuts off the passage between Pingdingjuncheng and Jingxing, and at the same time it also induces the Jin soldiers from Chengtian Village to attack. (Chengtian Village is located more than ten miles west of Niangziguan.)

"Da da da da..."

A fast horse came from the west. The messenger ran to the commander's tent holding a waist badge and panted: "The main force of the Jin army appeared in the north of Shouyang County, and has passed several ridges of Fangshan Mountain!"

After Zhang Guangdao opened the letter and read it, he began to think about how to fight next.

He set up a trap here to surround the city and call for reinforcements, but Wanyan Zonghan didn't fall for it at all.

The Jin soldiers removed Sanjiao in the north of Taiyuan and stationed troops there to prevent the Taiyuan defenders from going north to cut off their food routes. Then from Xibaijingzhai (Yangqu County), they crossed Shandong and then went south, hoping to attack Shouyang County.

Shouyang and Leping (Xiyang) are Zhang Guangdao's two rear areas. Wanyan Zonghan's intention is very obvious. He plans to cut off Zhang Guangdao's westward retreat first, and then come over to annihilate Zhang Guangdao's army.

"Send the order to attack the city tomorrow!" Zhang Guangdao made a quick decision. He had a backup plan.

You fight yours, I'll fight mine, see who can break the city first.

The governor of Shouyang County is Guo Yaoshi. In addition to his old brothers from Liaodong, he also added some refugees in Shanxi. Including the peasants who transported grain, there were a total of six to seven thousand people - these peasants were transporting grain to Zhang Guangdao. Wanyan Zonghan's siege of Shouyang also cut off one of Zhang Guangdao's grain routes.

At this moment, Jin Bing is already digging sand and preparing to fill in the moat of Shouyang County!

Pharmacist Guo stood on the city tower, observing the movements of the Jin soldiers. He put down his telescope and turned around to lecture: "Brothers, some of you will follow me from Liaodong to Youzhou, and from Youzhou south to Kaifeng. In these years, the situation is precarious, and how can there be a few days?" A stable life? Since I voted for the prince, I no longer have to worry about food and grass, and many people have married. When the world is peaceful, we can live comfortably. Today, the golden people are coming to kill us, and they will not let us have an easy time. I wish Will you follow me to kill the enemy and achieve meritorious service?"

"Kill!" the officers from Liaodong shouted in unison.

Pharmacist Guo added: "The remaining brothers are all natives of Shanxi. You must be well aware of the life of the people in those prefectures and counties in the north. Some of you have fled from the north, and your hometown is still in Jin." In the hands of others. The enemy is coming today. Are you willing to follow me to defend the villagers?"

"Defend the villagers!" Shanxi officers also roared.

There are more than seven or eight thousand people in the city, and there are also people who have fled in recent days. Pharmacist Guo also recruited young men in the city. The garrison already exceeded 10,000, and there were also a large number of old, weak, women and children to help carry supplies.

When the Jin soldiers forced the soldiers and civilians to fill in the moat, Medicine Master Guo led his archers out of the city to shoot, slowing down the enemy's filling speed. After dilly-dallying for about half a month, they took advantage of the foggy weather to organize a suicide squad and went out of the city to destroy a small number of the Jin soldiers' siege equipment.

On the sixteenth day of the siege, Wanyan Zonghan began to organize a large-scale siege operation and launched more than twenty flat artillery pieces.

I don’t know who revealed Hui Hui Pao to Jin Bing.

Although Shouyang County was fortified by Zhang Guangdao, it still appeared too small and fragile.

Wanyan Zonghan first used Shanxi Han troops to attack the city, consuming Guo Yaoshi's defensive materials. Then the old Liao and Han soldiers were used to attack the exhausted defenders in turn.

Outside Shouyang City, there were corpses everywhere.

On the twenty-first day of the battle, Jurchen and Bohai soldiers made a surprise attack mixed with the siege cannon fodder.

A section of the west city wall was attacked by Jurchen soldiers. Guo Yaoshi urgently dispatched a reserve team to kill them.

At the same time, cracks appeared in a section of the wall on the north side due to repeated bombardment by artillery. Pharmacist Guo sent people to dig in the city to collect soil, and organized the old, weak, women and children to pile the soil behind the cracked city wall. Even the rammed earth houses in the city were demolished to reinforce the city wall.

"There are nearly three thousand casualties. This city is not easy to capture." Wanyan Loushi said.

Wanyan Zonghan said: "Most of the dead were Han soldiers, the rest were also Bohai soldiers, and not many Jurchen warriors died."

Wanyan Loushi said: "The Han soldiers in Shanxi no longer want to fight. Every time they rush to the city, they are shot with a few arrows and then escape back before they start to climb the city wall. We cannot delay it any longer, and we should send more Jurchen warriors to attack the city." "

Wanyan Zonghan shook his head: "The one guarding the city is Pharmacist Guo, so we must be careful. We will use the miscellaneous soldiers for half a month. When the defenders are really tired, it will not be too late to send in Jurchen warriors."

Wanyan Zonghan came to the wrong place, he should not be fighting in Shanxi.

The land of Shanxi is divided into several plates by mountains and rivers.

Shanxi is like a solid ship, and every plate is like an airtight cabin. If one or two are defeated, the ship will not sink. We must continue to attack, one city after another.

Due to the damn terrain, most military tactics will not work in Shanxi.

Even the Jurchen cavalry is greatly reduced. There are mountains and ridges all over here, and infantry is more effective in fighting.

The powerful cavalry under Wanyan Zonghan could only show its power in some valleys.

Discussing military affairs from the perspective of the Jin Kingdom, Wanyan Zongwang should be allowed to lead troops to attack Shanxi, while Wanyan Zonghan should be allowed to lead troops to attack Hebei, so as to give full play to the strength of their respective troops.

But that's impossible!

Wanyan Zongwang had a flirtation with the inner court, and was even initially pushed out to check and balance Wanyan Zonghan.

Therefore, Youzhou must be handed over to Wanyan Zongwang, and it is closely related to the hinterland of the Jin Kingdom.

In order to strive for autonomy, Wanyan Zonghan could not use the almost white land of Youzhou as his territory. If he chooses there, the Jin Dynasty court will not move the people there because they are afraid of over-strengthening this guy.

The choice of battlefield alone reflects the internal strife of the Jin Kingdom, resulting in Wanyan Zonghan's elite being unable to display their true combat effectiveness at all.

The thirty-second day of the siege.

Wanyan Zonghan finally couldn't bear it anymore and began to invest a large number of Jurchen soldiers to attack the city, and used various methods such as digging tunnels into the city.

Although the defenders were exhausted, they were more than able to defend the city.

This is one of Zhang Guangdao's military food bases. The food is enough for the defenders for one or two years.

It was the end of another day's attack. Wanyan Zonghan's face was expressionless. He had just received a letter asking for help. Pingding Army City could no longer withstand Zhang Guangdao's strong attack.

Wanyan Loushi said: "The best way is to give up fighting Shanxi. Only leave a strong army to guard Yunzhong (Datong), and the rest go to Hebei to fight. It is open and flat, and our Jurchen cavalry can gallop freely. The army If we stay in Shanxi and the enemy hides in the city, everything will turn into a siege."

"Going to fight in Hebei means bowing to Wu Qimai, and you will be controlled by him from now on." Wanyan Zonghan said.

Wanyan Loushi said: "As long as he has strong soldiers, what can Wu Qimai do to us?"

Wanyan Zonghan finally said what was in his heart: "It is ours to conquer Shanxi, and it is theirs to conquer Hebei."

Wanyan Loushi was speechless.

Wanyan Zonghan's territory was a large area of ​​grassland and northern Shanxi, and he could only conquer along Shanxi. No matter how much territory in Hebei is captured, if Taiyuan is not broken, it will always be separated by Wanyan Zongwang, which is equivalent to helping Wanyan Zongwang expand his territory.

How could Wanyan Zonghan, who was actually about to become a warlord, do things that were detrimental to himself and others?

The internal strife in Jin led to a big strategic mistake in this southern invasion!

According to Ju Ming's original plan, as long as the Shanxi army held Taiyuan, Wanyan Zonghan's army could do nothing, and there was no need to fight head-on like Zhang Guangdao.

These nobles of the Jin Kingdom were so arrogant that they dared to go south to invade the Ming Dynasty despite their internal chaos.

Wanyan Zonghan seemed to have forgotten that the tall and solid cities he captured in Shanxi last time could not be conquered by the superior combat power of the Jin soldiers. It was the Song Dynasty court that forced the old Liao and Han soldiers to rebel. These old Liao and Han soldiers who were placed in Shanxi either acted as internal agents or killed the generals, and finally captured the city again and again.

If the Song Dynasty treated the old Liao and Han soldiers well, and if the Song generals did not bully the old Liao and Han soldiers, Wanyan Zonghan would not even be able to defeat the northwestern part of Shanxi!

Even if you don’t remember these, Wanyan Zonghan still wants to occupy the entire Shanxi?

Fighting in Shanxi is a tower defense clearance game!

Looking at the letter asking for help in his hand, and looking back at Shouyang City under the sunset, Wanyan Zonghan was riding a tiger and was unable to dismount, so he said to Wanyan Lou's room: "You personally lead the elite cavalry to rescue and pacify the military city. I will continue to attack Shouyang and capture this place. So that you can do other things."

Indeed, if Shouyang County is not captured, it will be dangerous for the army to go to the Pingding Army for a decisive battle, because the geographical situation is really unfavorable to the Jin soldiers.

Taiyuan is blocked in the west, and Shouyang is stuck in the middle. If the main force of the Jin army wants to go to Pingding, it must pass through the northern border of Taiyuan, then pass through the northern border of Shouyang, and then cross the mountains.

If you're not careful, the food channel will be broken!

Of course, you can also transport grain from Jingxing, but then you have to see Yan Zongwang's face.

After nightfall, Wanyan Loushi led the elite cavalry and quietly rushed from the northeast to aid the pacification army.

Zhang Guangdao worked hard, fearing that he would have few soldiers. Except for Guo Yaoshi who was left to defend the city, all other troops were drawn out to fight the main force of the Jin army.

Fortunately for Wanyan Zonghan, he actually dared to divide his troops at will and didn't take Zhang Guangdao seriously at all.

These Jin Kingdom nobles seem to still be playing in the nostalgic server.

They have always fought like this when they met Liao soldiers, Song soldiers, Xixia soldiers, and rebellious Han people, Xi people, and Bohai people. There are tens of thousands of enemies, but they dare to pass with just one or two thousand cavalry, and then they always win a complete victory.

The most typical one is fighting Xixia on the grassland. Xixia has more than 30,000 troops, while the Jin Kingdom only has a thousand cavalry. The Jin soldiers suffered two to three hundred casualties in the first battle, but they continued to lure the enemy and eventually defeated more than 30,000 Xixia soldiers to the point of collapse.

Is Li Bao a lunatic?

The golden man is crazy when he fights!

Zhang Guangdao, who was storming and pacifying the military city, never dreamed that there would be such a beautiful thing in the world.

Guo Yaoshi is not very beautiful. The northern section of the city wall has been reinforced many times, but it has still been blasted by shells.

However, it can still be defended. Due to the excessive reinforcement of rammed earth, the hole created is a slope, and there are also messy obstacles. The defenders can rely on the slopes and obstacles to continue to defend.

"Father, the golden man is here again."

"Take your old brother and go guard there in person. If the city wall is damaged, come and report it!"

"yes!"

Pharmacist Guo stood at the top of the city leaning on a spear. He was so desperate and had no complicated thoughts.

It was just that he had rebelled so many times that he was tired of it. Since Prince Zhu trusted him and Zhang Guangdao also entrusted him with important tasks, he would risk his life to protect Shouyang.

Ming Dynasty will definitely not be defeated. If we can survive this time, we will have a bright future!