Shao Song

At the end of February, spring plowing roughly ended, and the war broke out suddenly.

The imperial rear army, who had been resting for more than half a month, but had not left the front line, moved first.

Under the command of Wu Yeong, the imperial rear army deployed at least 20,000 soldiers at the junction of the security forces and the northern part of Gyeongju, that is, the three most sensitive Hengshan front lines on the northwest side of Yan'an. Once unfolded, the troops were divided into two routes, all the way along Luoshui to the southeast direction, that is, the Yan'an Mansion Wanyan Living Girl; all the way to the northwest direction, that is, the Dingbian Army area that was previously captured by Xixia in Jingkang.

The scale of the war before Jingkang was definitely a big battle, but at this time of the day, it is the kind of big or small. And the form of combat is also destined to be a typical battle for the walled city, mainly for the control of the castles on the front line of the Song and the Western Xia Hengshan for many years. There will be no big waves in a short time, and there will be no special results that shake people’s hearts. .

But it still shocked everyone.

Moreover, Da Song and Da Jin are war-hostile countries, and the enmity between the two sides is deeper than the sea and higher than the mountains, and the war has never officially stopped for a day, so it is needless to say.

Although Da Song and Xixia often reached a nominally brief peace, because of the Hundred Years' War, their enmity was deeper than the sea and higher than the mountains. Even the most anti-war Da Song center internal high-level civil servants, except for a very small number of people who are willing to accept Xixia because they are tired of the war, most people regard Xixia as a'rebellious' from the beginning, that is, an'illegal self. 'Independent', everyone thinks from the bottom of their hearts that the birth of this regime is illegal.

Therefore, it doesn’t matter whether it’s the parrot fried noodles or it’s clear, or it’s "I have tolerated you for a long time", and it’s impossible to get a war horse reserve to cross the river without fighting Xixia...In short, this war with Xixia belongs to everyone in essence. The kind that has nothing to say.

Therefore, it was not the war itself that shocked everyone.

So what is the off-court significance of Wu Jie's offensive? The answer is to take the initiative to attack, to attack the regular forces of the Jurchens and Dangxiang people, and against the regular forces of the two most powerful enemies of the Song Dynasty.

This year is the sixth year of Jianyan, 1132 AD, and the war began in 1125 seven years ago.

In the first three years of the war, the Song army was defeated and defeated, and finally led to the Jingkang change that shocked the world, and the actual demise of the Song regime. Then, in the first year of Jianyan (that is, the second year of Jingkang), the Zhao Song official family, as the only orthodox imperial family that slipped through the net, ascended the throne in Nanjing (Shangqiu).

At that time, the Song Dynasty court was a small imperial court in exile. Hebei did not dare to go, and the Central Plains did not dare to stay. The chiefs and important officials argued the most about whether to go to Chang'an, Nanyang, or Yangzhou as a place to stay;

At that time, the Great Song Dynasty was basically occupied by Hebei and Hebei. The Central Plains, Guanzhong, and Jingdong were completely exposed to the military front of the Jin Army. The people flocked to the south, officials heard the wind and abandoned the land. The north of the Huai River basically entered anarchy, while from the south In the north, there are soldiers and bandits everywhere;

At that time, the army of the Song Dynasty was a group of defeated generals. There were three or two big cats and puppies. The highest-ranking soldier was actually Liu Guangshi's kind of goods. Even the recognized "loyal and brave" Han Shizhong could not restrain his subordinates. Mutiny on the side;

Everything at that time is vividly visible.

And now, Zhao Song actually fought out, and launched an offensive at the same time against the serious troops of Jurchen and Xixia.

Some things are like this...Although everyone is psychologically prepared for a long time, although most people know that it may not have any obvious results on its own, even quite a few people still know that such a thing is not meant to be just Pretending to be an attack or some kind of preparatory action, but still can't help being a little excited, a little emotional, and a little surprised.

Because this is the text of history, the process of history.

At the top of countless deaths, survivals, flames, iron currents, nature, and human nature, history will eventually choose to use this kind of thing as a node to record emotionlessly... Zhao Song's seven years of resistance to war, five years of hard work, and finally construction In the sixth year of Yan, Spring took the counterattack step.

Then time changes, no one will remember all the faces that were once alive, and no one will remember all the shadows of the swords and swords that once shining through the era, but only a part of people and some things, just like this counterattack, were recorded without emotion.

After Wu Jie started, the other Song Jun also continued to move.

Han Shizhong’s re-entry into the same state, and one of them arched forward into Danzhou, ensuring the pressure on the other side of Yan'an, and at the same time directly threatening the Jinjun’s channel to support Yan'an from the Daning area across the river, which made the Jinjun of Yan’an Really felt the danger of being encircled and annihilated.

The pressure on Xixia’s side was significantly greater. Yue Fei, Qu Duan, Wang Debu, and tens of thousands of Song Army elites appeared on Jingyuan Road in large numbers, riding well, and then using Zhen Rongjun (later Guyuan) as their base camp. , Began a fierce attack on the Huaide Army that was previously taken by Xixia, also known as Pingxia City, and the northern part of Xi'an City Walled City.

The strategic location of Pingxia City is extremely prominent. It was Zhezong's time who concentrated the entire Guanzhong's manpower and material resources, and suddenly activated it. It took 23 days to build it, and as soon as it was built, it caused a great shock in Xixia... …Because the city and the surrounding supporting docks directly control the upper reaches of the Hulu River, and the Hulu River traverses Douling and directly reaches the Yellow River all the way.

At the mouth of the river, it is actually only a mere 120 miles away from the core Xingling land of Xixia (Ningxia Plain).

It is not unreasonable that Li Ganshun’s mother chose this place for the second time after Xiao Liang.

Moreover, Yue Fei, Wang De, and Qu Duan are obviously the elites of the tune, and most of them are locals, and they can adapt to the battlefield when they come up. At the same time, the proportion of cavalry is quite high, but they are just as good as the battle. There is aggressive momentum. And under the fierce attack of the Song army of these several lines, the Hulu River Basin, which Xixia people called the Weiru River, quickly collapsed the surrounding defense line, and the city was quickly divided and surrounded. It is conceivable that if it can’t be quickly dispatched into an organizational system With large-scale reinforcements, Li Ganshun's efforts after Jingkang will be completely wiped out.

And this made it even more difficult for Li Ganshun, who had fallen into a certain difficult situation because of the sudden outbreak of the war.

This person has been the Lord of Xixia for almost 50 years. Of course he knows the importance of Pingxia City. Of course, he knows that once the Pingxia City, which was finally taken advantage of the Jingkang Rebellion, is recaptured by the Song Army, Xixia will never have peace. But he didn't dare to easily deploy troops and horses to fight... Because just in early March when the Song Army was attacking and advancing across the board, a definite news from the captives and the small frontier swinging tribe was that the dragon of the Zhao Song official family moved north again. , But it is directly into the northernmost city of Fangzhou, Fangzhou.

The city of Fangzhou is of course a strategic key point. This is evident from the results of Wu Jie’s previous battles here, and it is only natural for the Song army to arrange soldiers and horses here. However, only the arrangement of backups does not require the Longzhu of the Zhao Song official family.

Obviously, the Zhao Song official family wanted to directly fight the Yan'an-Hengshan battlefield on the eastern front of the two governors Han Shizhong and Wu Jie.

Moreover, the appearance of the emperor of Song Dynasty less than a hundred miles from the front line is already commonplace for the Jurchens, but for the Xixia people, for the small party tribes in Hengshan, it is for the people in the occupied area of ​​northern Shaanxi. Words, but it is still a great shock.

Many small tribes of Dangxiang, although most of the time they still consider themselves to be Xixia people, but they have been infiltrated for a hundred years, they still know what the emperor of Song Dynasty is, and there is such a sense of fear in their bones.

Therefore, the emperor of Song Dynasty was in Fangzhou. The shock and pressure caused by this sentence directly caused the wind in Hengshan to rise. Many small party tribes inside and outside Hengshan were shaken, and there were repeated riots in the enemy-occupied areas of northern Shaanxi. Thing about rebellion.

Regardless of whether it was Yue Fei or Wu Jie, the offensive obviously became smooth.

At this time, Li Ganshun really did not dare to pull troops from the Hengshan line of defense, because once there was a mistake, a big defeat in the field, even if it was only more than 10,000 troops, was likely to cause a chain effect, and finally ended up losing all the games. Situation.

After fighting for only a few days, the experienced Xixia Kingdom Master fully realized a reality, that is, the Song Army of today is by no means the Song Army of the past, and the Song of Today is definitely not the Song of the past.

Counting on Xixia herself to form a strategic balance with the Song people alone, it was wishful thinking from the beginning.

During the suffering, Li Ganshun’s only hope was the Jurchen. The letters asking for help began to be sent out from Xingyuan Mansion as quickly as possible, and they were delivered to the area occupied by the Jin Army from the back of Hengshan. , Ruo Lu Guan, can be said to have a share of the audience.

Daning City is the main passage from the Jin Army hinterland to the east of the Yellow River to Yan'an.

This is because the Xinshui flowing here is only a few dozen miles away from the mouth of the Yellow River on the opposite bank of the Yanhe River, and the mouth of the Yanhe River is downstream, making the logistics transfer from east to west very appropriate.

Therefore, Wanyan Wushu, the fourth prince of the Kingdom of Jin who came from Yan'an, took this place as his own line for a long time, and almost succeeded in splitting and disintegrating the living female group here.

Turning to the front, when the war broke out in early March, the first letter of help, not knowing how many horses were killed, arrived here. This is actually the Daikin Wei who is in charge of the entire West Route Army and the Western Front Theater. After reading the letter, Wang directly made a judgment in the hallway of Daning City:

"To save Xixia."

"His Royal Highness, let's save the girl first!" Because the war broke out suddenly, the West Route Army who came from Taiyuan City all overwhelmed Yan Ba ​​Lisu directly in the seat to persuade him. "Although the living girl has grievances with me, I shouldn't abandon the 10,000 West Road Army veterans in any way... Compared with that, what are the Xixia people even if they have lost their country?"

The rest of the people in the hall nodded.

Moreover, in the past, Yan’an Mansion Hedgehog gathered nearly 20,000 soldiers and horses, but it was through the east wind of Zhao Song’s official house and the gap between the truce after entering the customs. A small half of the people have followed Wanyan Sali drink and Pucha Huzhan. Retreated to Hedong.

Therefore, there are only 10,000 living women now. But Wanyan Sa Liyue and Pucha Huzhan were sitting in this lobby.

"The living girl should be saved too." Wu Shu didn't give much explanation, just got up and paced in the lobby with his hands for a while, and then made a definite response.

"Then King Wei meant...to leave the army and cross the river to Yan'an?" Ba Lisu stared at Wu Shu, so that his brows frowned.

"No!" Wu Shu shook his head decisively. "I've been here for a long time, and I can see clearly that Daning went to Yan'an from here. It was easy to come back. What's more, there are many mountains in Yan'an and two big rivers that are gradually rising. It is not a good place for our Jurchen cavalry to play... I even doubt it. Han Shizhong said that he had to have enough troops to cut off Yanhe and forced 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 bite us badly."

Ba Lisu was silent. The generals next to him, Wanyan Saliyu, Pucha Huzhan and others were also silent... They could understand the idea of ​​Wushu very well, because the biggest loss in the last Yaoshan battle, They are the two million households led by Wan Yan Wushu himself. And the reason why the two million households lost so much is not how **** they fought so much that they lost so much, but because they were able to evacuate in an orderly manner after the war. They were isolated on the other side of the battlefield and could not return. After losing supplies, he was ganged up on the bank of the Yellow River.

Once bitten, twice shy.

The Jurchen really didn't want to fight on the other side of the river, nor did he want to jump into a trap.

"How many troops are there on the other side?" Wu Shu turned around in the hall a few times before suddenly speaking.

"If you talk about manpower, it is naturally boundless." Pulling away the speed of the hand. "Needless to say, the four princes should have seen and heard about it... From the same prefecture to Danzhou, the civil servants and auxiliary soldiers have been in succession, visible to the naked eye across the river, the flags are densely packed, and there is everything you can think of."

Wu Shu sighed more and more: "Where are the soldiers?"

"The soldiers can only count." Pulling Lisu continued to confront him in the seat. "The left army of Han Shizhong's imperial camp has been there, the army of Wu Jie's imperial camp has been there, and Li Yanxian has never moved. It is nothing more than how many soldiers Zhao Song officials brought in... They said it was fifty thousand. It was Yue Fei’s former imperial army, the imperial army led by Wang De, and the imperial cavalry led by Qu Duan. These three companies can naturally draw 50,000 yuan, but it’s not accurate. It can only be said that according to the words of the Xixia people, The three people and their main subordinates showed their faces in Pingxia City. The Xixia people who beat them asked us for help, and Zhao Song's official family was in Fangzhou. The place said that there should be some direct command reserve... It can be seen that it is a little bravado. It shouldn’t be much worse.”

Wu Shu kept nodding, and finally gave out a number directly: "Plus Li Yanxian, 150,000?"

Ba Lisu thought about it for a while, and Sa Li drink next to him also thought about it, but there was no answer.

"Song people are here prepared." Wu Shu did not entangle this destined to have no specific answer, but everyone had a problem with spectrum in their hearts, but continued to follow this inference and put forward a conclusion and a new question. "You can't cross the river, at least you can't cross the river from Yan'an to help... Instead, you have to make the living girls prepare early, and if necessary, go from the northern Suide army and Linzhou... Can you ask for the Linzhou discount?"

"I don't know." Pulling Su shook his head again and again. "The entire northern Shaanxi on the other side of the river, Yan'an Mansion, Suide Army, Jinning Army, Linzhou, Fengzhou, and Fuzhou were all beaten down by the Lou family with a living girl, and then Xijing stayed behind to deal with it, but before Yaoshan it happened to be Xijing. The Khitan people in the country made chaos, and the newly appointed Xijing left behind was simply the newly appointed sixth prince..."

"Leave aside this." Wu Shu was also helpless, but frowned even more. "I still feel a little wrong. We have so many things, how are the Song people okay? They really have launched a 150,000 army in northern Shaanxi to delay, set up bait, and decisive battles in food and grass reserves? The army is placed in the garrison and it is the same thing. The cost of the battle is another matter, and once the fight starts, it is another matter...Why is he so calm when we are not prepared?"

Pulling away thoughtfully: "Wang Wei said that the Han people were making a fake shot. He intended to intimidate us and take the five counties of northern Shaanxi for nothing? Maybe their logistics simply can't support a large-scale war for two or three months? Was also unable to launch a 100,000-strong general battle in Yan'an?"

Wu Shu was silent for a moment~www.wuxiaspot.com~ shook his head hard: "No bet!"

Pulling Lisu sneered, and finally no longer concealed: "Wei Wang, the good and the bad things are all you, what should you do? Xu is also your sentence!"

Wu Shu slowly said: "After a long time, it was not Nanyang situation. General Han has already died on the other side. I just want to try not to make mistakes... Pull Lisu, you have been in the West Route Army for a long time, for you. If I want to save Xixia, keep the girl alive, don't want to risk crossing the river, and want to delay the Song people, what should I do, can I have a proper response?"

"Simple." When Ba Lisu heard the other party telling the story of Nanyang, he recovered solemnly and was frank. "This is the original intention of seeing the king of Wei in the future... I would like to ask the king of Wei to give an order to join the army to build pontoon bridges in Pujin and Longmenjin to crush the same state; the Yuezhongtiao Mountain to attack the land to crush Shaanxi. Zhou, forcing the Song army to draw troops from northern Shaanxi and confront me there! If so, I dare not say that everything can be solved easily, but it is enough to alleviate the overall situation!"

Wu Shu suddenly realized that this so-called encircling Wei and saving Zhao, or pretending to encircle Wei and pressing Wei to save Zhao. It can only be said that Pujin and Tongguan have been the key to Guanzhong for thousands of years. It really makes sense.

At this point, Daijin Wei Wang continued as always, but he did not hesitate to make a decision: "Just listen to what Dutong said, I will go to Pujin again in person!"