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Ji Jing is also a veteran of the Western Army, and participated in two battles against Liao with Taiwei Tong Guan.
This time Tong Guan left Taiyuan Mansion with the staff and civil servants of the Xuanfu Department's Yamen, but left the generals such as Ji Jing to Zhang Xiaochun.
How did you know that Ji Jing was afraid of fighting with the Jin army, but after receiving the appointment, he shirked away on the grounds that the Shiling Pass guards were insufficient.
Zhang Xiaochun ordered Wang Zongyin to lead troops to reinforce Shiling Pass, and sent Geng Shouzhong, a descendant of the Liao Kingdom, to lead [-] righteous victorious troops to Shiling Pass.
After all the arrangements were settled, Zhang Xiaochun sent Ji Jing to guard the gate again, but Ji Jing couldn't shirk it, so he had to reluctantly take up the post reluctantly.
After arriving at Shiling Pass, facing the Jin army forwards Wanyan Loushi and Wanyan Yinshuke, Ji Jing ordered Geng Shouzhong to lead the troops out of the pass, and went around to the rear of the Jin army to prepare for a sneak attack.
Geng Shouzhong was also a brave general of the Han army in the Xijing Road of the Liao Kingdom.When the Datong Mansion in Xijing was attacked by the Jin army, it was Geng Shouzhong who led the troops to rescue and fought bloody battles with the Jin army outside the city.
In that battle, Wanyan Zonghan, Wanyan Zongxiong and other clan nobles were forced to fight the enemy in person.Although Geng Shouzhong was defeated in the end, he wounded Wanyan Zongxiong and killed Wanyan Zonghan's younger brother.
Therefore, Geng Shouzhong is a rare general among Song army generals who has experience in fighting the Jin army.
However, this moment, that moment.When Geng Shouzhong was a general in the Liao Kingdom, he commanded the elite Han army in the Liao army.Now the Yisheng Army under his command is a new recruit with little actual combat experience.
Ji Jing arranged for Geng Shouzhong's troops to leave the customs to attack the most elite forward army of the Jin Army, and it was really suspected that Geng Shouzhong was sent to die.
When Ji Jing did this, he also had his concerns.After Daizhou guard Li Siben was betrayed by the Yisheng Army to the Jin Army, Ji Jing no longer dared to trust the Yisheng Army composed of Han people in the Liao Kingdom.
That's why he sent Geng Shouzhong's troops out of the customs to make a sneak attack, and let these Han people from the land of Yanyun in the former Liao Kingdom go to fight the Jurchens to the death, and both sides will suffer.
After Geng Shouzhong took the order, he left the pass calmly. Halfway through, he suddenly led the troops back to Shiling Pass, and told the general Ji Jing that his men were all infantry and could not fight against the Jin army.
Geng Shouzhong said, I am a Haner in the north who is good at riding horses. If you can lend me some of the horses of the Taiyuan Defenders, I will be able to defeat the Jin Army.
In order for Geng Shouzhong to play as soon as possible, Ji Jing agreed to Geng Shouzhong's request.
Therefore, Geng Shouzhong forcibly recruited more than half of the troops and horses of the brave army in Shiling Pass.
Some people in the brave army refused to lend their horses, so Geng Shouzhong's troops forcibly snatched them away, causing chaos in the pass.
Ji Jing found that Geng Shouzhong's troops were out of control, and suspected that he had defected to the Jin Army.In order to save his life, Ji Jing absconded with his relatives, and Shiling Pass was completely controlled by Geng Shouzhong.
When the Jin army reached Shiling Pass, Geng Shouzhong also led the troops to fight, and fought a battle with the Jin army's forward.
It's a pity that facing the elite of Wanyan Loushi and Wanyan Yinshuke, Geng Shouzhong was defeated in the first battle.
After the defeat, Geng Shouzhong opened the door to offer the pass, and really surrendered to the Jin army.
After Ji Jing heard that Geng Shouzhong surrendered the gold, he knew that he had ruined the event because of his cowardice and incompetence, so he dared not return to Taiyuan City, so he fled to Fenzhou to hide.
After occupying Shiling Pass, the north gate of Taiyuan Fucheng was opened, and Jin soldiers drove straight in, forcing them to the foot of Taiyuan Fucheng.
After Song Taizong Zhao Guangyi broke through Taiyuan City, the capital of the Northern Han Dynasty, he set fire to Taiyuan City, the Xiongcheng City in Hedong.
Today's Taiyuan City was built by Pan Meixin, a famous general of the Song Army.
The circumference of the new Taiyuan city is only ten miles, with Yunlu Street to Houxiaohe from north to south, and Qiaotou Street to Shuiximen from east to west.In terms of defensive capabilities, it is much worse than Taiyuan City during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms.
Song Taizong Zhao Guangyi would not have expected that his willful fire would harm future generations.
Because the city is not big, there are less than [-] residents in Taiyuan Prefecture.
Under the leadership of Zhang Xiaochun and Wang Ting, the entire army and civilians in the city devoted themselves to the defense of Taiyuan.
The people built a heavy city inside the Tucheng of Taiyuan City, and dug trenches outside the Tucheng to strengthen the city defense.
The enemy is now, the prefect Zhang Xiaochun sits in the mansion, and the deputy commander of the army and horses, Wang Zhi, supervises the defense of the city on the city wall every day.
Under the arrangement and dispatch of the two, the people in the city over the age of 15 and under the age of 60 were all given weapons, allocated lots, and guarded the city day and night.
The food stored in the city was also confiscated and subjected to military control, regardless of rich or poor, high or low, it was supplied daily per head.
After Yan Zonghan failed to persuade him to surrender, he led the Jin soldiers to attack the city in turn.
However, Wang Teng led the Shengjie army and the army and horses in the city to resist desperately, and repelled the Jin army's attacks again and again.
Wanyan Zonghan saw that Taiyuan City was difficult to conquer, so he gave up the strong attack. Instead, he built fortifications outside the city and used antlers to encircle Taiyuan City like an iron barrel, cutting off all passages outside Taiyuan City.
This tactic of the Jin army is called the "lock city method", which is a method of encircling points to fight for aid.
Because compared to siege, the Jin army is better at field battles.Therefore, the Jin army figured out this set of tactics when it destroyed the Liao Kingdom.
For cities that are difficult to attack, the Jin army usually does not attack by force, but builds fortifications to surround the city, and uses this as a bait to give the enemy a chance to come to rescue.
The real purpose of the Jin army is to wipe out a large number of enemy troops who came to help in the field.
This tactic worked repeatedly in the Battle of Jinliao.What will be the result of using it on Song Jun in this way?
Chapter 886 Surrounding the Points for Aid
The tactics of the Jin army's siege and reinforcements soon showed their power.
After the West Route Army of the Jin Army captured Daizhou and Xinzhou, Xuanfu envoy Tong Guan sent people to mobilize people from all walks of life in Hedong to support Taiyuan.
The Jin army captured Shiling Pass, and as soon as they reached the city of Taiyuan, Sun Xu, the magistrate and observer of Shuozhou in the Song Dynasty, brought [-] Song troops to support and rushed to the city of Taiyuan.
After Tianzuo Emperor Yelu Yanxi defeated Wuzhou, the Song Dynasty briefly ruled Shuozhou and Wuzhou for several months.
At that time, Xixia took advantage of the chaos to invade Shuozhou and Wuzhou. As Xixia's old enemy, although the settlement with the Kingdom of Jin had not been completed, the Song Dynasty could not allow Xixia to occupy these two states.
Therefore, the Song army sent troops to Shuozhou and Wuzhou to repel the Xixia army.
At this time, the Kingdom of Jin was already discussing a full-scale attack on the Song Dynasty, so they ignored the small fights between Song and Xia for the time being, and allowed the Song Dynasty to occupy Shuozhou and Wuzhou.
When the Jin army marched south, as soon as Wanyan Zonghan led the troops into Wuzhou, the Wuzhou defenders surrendered the Jin army without hesitation and returned to the embrace of the Jin country.
Sun Xu, a famous general in Hedong, was worried about the safety of Taiyuan City, the capital of Hedong, after he got the news of the Jin army's southward invasion, so he led his army to leave Shuozhou and rush to Taiyuan.
Not long after Sun Xu left Shuozhou, the remaining defenders of Shuozhou also opened the city and surrendered to the Jin army, and the Jin army occupied Shuozhou again without any effort.
Wanyan Zonghan heard that Sun Xu was a famous general in the east of the Song Dynasty, so he didn't dare to underestimate him. He sent two generals, Wanyan Loushi and Wanyan Yinshuke, to fight against Sun Xu's army under the city of Taiyuan.
In Taiyuan City, Zhang Xiaochun, the magistrate, and Wang Zhi, the deputy chief of the army and horses, went to the city to watch the battle.Wang Ting also personally beat drums to cheer for Sun Xujun at the top of the city.
Wanyan Zonghan knew the Song army very well. When he sent troops to the south, he once said to the generals around him, such as Wanyan Xiyin, Yelu Yujian, Wanyan Loushi and Wanyan Yinshuke: "The Song army is weak and incompetent. At first they would fight desperately and fight one or two tough battles. But once the Song army is defeated, they will flee in the face of the wind."
In Yanjing City, the battle between Wanyan Zongwang's East Route Army and Changsheng Army proved Wanyan Zonghan's judgment.
In Hedong, Wanyan Zonghan originally thought that the first battle would be fought in Daizhou, but Li Siben's army was defeated without a fight, and went all the way to the city of Taiyuan without hindrance.
The battle with Sun Xu's army was the first tough battle fought by the Jin Army's West Route Army.
As a famous general in Hedong, Sun Xu is obviously much stronger than Li Siben.Under the command of Sun Xu, [-] Song troops took up positions and fought against the Jin army without fear.