Across the Water Margin: Officials of Ximen

Obviously, taking advantage of the changes in Aguda's family and Sa Gai's family, Wu Qimai is desperately trying to seize and consolidate power.

Although the Aguda family lost the control of Hezhameng'an, they have grasped the most prosperous and rich Yanjing area in the Kingdom of Jin.

Not only the fourth eldest Wanyan Zongbi, but now the third eldest Wanyan Zongfu is also serving in the second brother Wanyan Zongwang's army, helping the second brother to firmly control the Jin Army's East Route Army.

The military and political power in Pingzhou and Yanjing are all in the hands of Wanyan Zongwang.

Of course, the biggest warlord in the Kingdom of Jin, enough to rival the begging of the emperor Wanyan Wu, was Wanyan Zonghan, who was a master of Datong Mansion in Shanxi and Marshal Wanyan Zonghan of the Jin Army.

Since the conquest of the Song Dynasty, although Wanyan Zongwang's army rushed to the city of Bianliang in Tokyo, he successfully forced the Song Dynasty to cede the land of the three towns.But apart from a bloody battle with Guo Yaoshi in Yanjing, his army has not defeated many powerful troops of the Song Dynasty.

Wanyan Zonghan was different. Although he did not conquer Taiyuan Fucheng, he continued to fight the main forces of the East Army and the West Army of the Song Dynasty. Using Taiyuan City as a bait, he had wiped out hundreds of thousands of Song Army elites.

Facing the impressive record of the Song army's strong army winning every battle, Wanyan Zonghan's reputation grew even higher.

Therefore, although Wanyan Sagai passed away due to old age, the power of Wanyan Sagai has been completely transferred to Wanyan Zonghan, and it has not caused any adverse effects on Wanyan Zonghan's power.

Ximenqing knew that with the advancement of the second conquest of the Song Dynasty, the political balance of the three pillars within the Kingdom of Jin would gradually be broken.

As the consort of the Kingdom of Jin and a member of the Aguda family, Ximen Qing is ready to join this game of power in the future.

However, it is still necessary to return to the Song Dynasty at this time, and Ximen Qing is indispensable for the next big drama in the south.

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Although he was bloodletted again and again by Wanyan Zonghan's army, Zhao Huanjun and his ministers still stupidly organized the army to die.

In order to rescue Taiyuan for the third time, the imperial court ordered Li Gang to be the envoy of Xuan Fu, commanded 17 troops to rescue Taiyuan, and summoned Hedong volunteers and 22 banned soldiers, making a total of [-] troops.

However, the army directly commanded by Li Gang only has more than 1 people, and the rest of the troops are divided into generals.These troops are actually under the orders of the Privy Council in Bianliang City, Tokyo, that is, under the personal command of His Majesty the Emperor.

In order to prevent the generals in the army from rebelling, the military system of the Song Dynasty was such that the armies were not subordinate to each other, and all obeyed the orders of His Majesty the Emperor who was thousands of miles away.

That is to say, the Privy Council representing the emperor issued wooden plans and military orders, remotely commanding when and where the frontline troops would march.

The situation on the battlefield is changing rapidly. In ancient times, when there was no modern command means such as radio, it must be authorized to the front-line commanding generals.

Facing a flexible and powerful enemy, how could such a rigid command system in the Song Dynasty win the battle?

Among the famous generals' divisions, they were forced to march by the Privy Council thousands of miles away, which led to a heavy siege and annihilation of the entire army.

In the era of backward communication means, the tactic of several armies going hand in hand can easily be defeated individually due to inconsistency.

The Song Army's first two rescue campaigns in Taiyuan Fucheng were defeated by the Jin Army.However, Zhao Huanjun and his ministers did not learn from the lesson, and once again commanded the Song army to advance in three directions.

After Li Gang was forced to lead the army, he set off from the capital on June 27, the first year of Jingkang, and arrived in Mengzhou City, Heyang in early July. After resting in Mengzhou for more than ten days, he entered Huaizhou in the northeast of Mengzhou.

After the Jin army detected the movement of the Song army, Wanyan Yinshu shrank the army back to the Taiyuan City, and was ready to wait for the Song army to attack Taiyuan, and then defeated the Song army one by one.

Therefore, Li Gang's army in Huaizhou successfully recovered the unguarded Longde Mansion.

Afterwards, Liu Wei, deputy envoy of Xuanfu, Xie Qian, deputy envoy of Zhizhi, Zhang Hao, envoy of inspection and defense, Zhe Yanzhi, Wang Yuan, Zhe Keqiu, Zhang Sizheng, Wang Yining and others will gather in Longde Mansion to attend the event organized by Xuanfu. At the military meeting presided over by Li Gang, it was agreed that on July 27, all roads would march and encircle the Jin army under the city of Taiyuan.

According to the arrangement of the imperial court, the Song army marched and deployed around Taiyuan City in a fan shape.

The Pingding Army and Liaozhou Army to the east of Taiyuan were led by Liu Kai and Wang Yuan.

The Weisheng Army Road south of Taiyuan was led by Xie Qian and Zhe Yanzhi, while Fan Qiong led the Shandong soldiers to station between the South and North Passes.

The Fenzhou Road in the northwest of Taiyuan was led by Zhang Hao, Zhe Keqiu, Zhang Sizheng, Wang Yining and other generals.Among them, Wang Yining controlled the Jiangsu and Zhejiang soldiers, and Zhang Sizheng led the Fujian and Shu soldiers.

In name, the soldiers and horses of the various routes were controlled by Li Gang, the Xuanfu envoy of Hebei and Hedong, but in fact, the generals still obeyed the orders of the Privy Council of the imperial court.

At the military meeting in the Longde Mansion, the generals agreed that they would all lead their troops to a place five stations away from Taiyuan City, advance side by side again and again, and meet at the foot of Taiyuan City at the same time.

From the participating troops of the Song Army, we can see how much the Song Army lost in the previous two fiascos in the rescue of Taiyuan City.

Zhe Keqiu, Liu Yanqing, Zhong Shizhong, Yao Gu and other generals were defeated, and the main field forces of the Western Army in Hedong and Shaanxi in the Song Dynasty were exhausted.

Now the Song Army actually has to rely on troops transferred from Shandong, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian and Shu to go into battle.

You know, the forbidden army in these places has long been so rotten that even the Liangshan bandits and the Fangla rebels can't beat them. How could they be the opponents of the Jin army?

Moreover, the force distribution and marching route of the third Taiyuan siege battle were almost the same as those of the second Taiyuan siege battle, except that the generals and troops were changed.

The military command ability of Zhao Huanjun and his ministers, including Xuanfu envoy Li Gang, is really appalling.

Chapter 929 Prelude to the War of Destroying the Nation

When Wanyan Yinshuke, Wanyan Loushi and other generals in the Jin Army camp under the city of Taiyuan Fu learned about the Song Army's marching route from Tan Ma, they were so shocked that they didn't know what to say.

In the words of later generations, it is "same formula, same taste".When the Song army made the second siege, they advanced in three ways, and now they are advancing in three ways again, with no change in tactics.Could it be that the commander-in-chief of the Song army is really so stupid?

The Zhang Hao Division of the West Route Army of the Song Army is still stationed in Fenzhou as in the last siege battle. There are about [-] to [-] township soldiers and regular soldiers under his command.

On the first day of July, before Li Gang held a military meeting in Longde Mansion, Zhang Hao dispatched the commander Zhang Sizheng to lead the army to rescue Taiyuan.

Zhe Keqiu and Zhang Sizheng led the Song army to Guozha Town between Fenzhou and Wenshui County. The general camped in a narrow terrain with a low center and high sides, and he was neglected to guard against it.Because Guozha Town was still in the territory of Fenzhou controlled by the Song Army, neither General Zhang Sizheng nor Zhang Sizheng expected that the Jin Army, which was on the defensive, would take the initiative to attack.

In the early morning of July [-]th, the Jin Army suddenly arrived without warning, and soon broke into the Song Army's central army.At this time, Zhe Keqiu, Zhang Sizheng, the two commanders, and the deputy Qianliang Xiangyun are still eating breakfast in the military tent.

When the three of them were eating, the cavalry of the Jin army had already broken into the camp and shot Xiang Yunshi to death with an arrow.

Zhang Keqiu and Zhang Sizheng fled away on horseback in a hurry, and the Song army was defeated without a fight.

After Li Gang held a military meeting in Longde Mansion, at the beginning of August, two generals Liu Wei and Wang Yuan of the East Route Army of the Song Army led [-] soldiers and horses to attack the Jin Army from the direction of Liaozhou and Pingding Army.

The advancing route of Liu Kai's army was almost the same as that of the Zhongshizhong, and they also walked through the Shuihe Valley to attack Yuci County westward.The only difference is that the Central Army of Zhongshi entered Dongguoshui River Valley from Shaxiongling in the northeast, while Liu Kai's army entered Dongguoshui River Valley from Lutai Mountain in the southeast.

Seeing that the Song army followed the old road to die, Wanyan Loushi of course would not refuse anyone who came, and dispatched elite soldiers to fight Liu Kai's army.

Most of the [-] soldiers and horses in Liu Kai's army were volunteers he recruited in Hebei and Hedong. They were not well equipped and their training was extremely poor.After the two armies fought, Liu Kai's army was quickly defeated by the Jin army, and Liu Kai and Wang Yuan returned to Liaozhou in embarrassment with the defeated generals.

Wanyan Loushi took advantage of the situation and sent troops to occupy the Pingding Army, posing a new threat to Zhending Mansion and Zhaozhou on Hebei West Road from the west.

When Liu Kai was defeated, Wanyan Yinshuke's army was fighting at Nanbeiguan with [-] troops led by Song generals Xie Qian, Zhe Yanzhi, Fan Qiong, and Guo Zhizhong.Xie Qian and others fought with the Jin army for several days, killing each other.

At the beginning of August, after Wanyan Loushi defeated Liu Kai's army, he went south to reinforce Wanyan Yinshuke's army and launched a surprise attack on the Song army's main force, Jieqian Department.

Xie Qian's army was careless. During the march, no spies were spread widely, and no one climbed to watch. They did not find a golden army approaching quietly.

Wanyan Loushi's army came suddenly like a ghost, and defeated the unsuspecting Xie Qian army.

When the Jin army came, many armored guns and knives of the Xie Qian army were still placed on the car in bundles, and they did not have time to open them.The soldiers in the army panicked and ran for their lives. Many soldiers and horses fell into the valley, causing heavy casualties.

After the disastrous defeat in this battle, Xie Qian's army was confiscated by the Jin army in the amount of hundreds of thousands of gold, silver, money, food, and silk.

Xie Qian's entire army was wiped out, and he managed to escape by fleeing into the mountains with dozens of cavalry soldiers.Knowing that he could not escape the guilt after the defeat, Xie Qian did not dare to stay in Hedong any longer, and fled all the way back to Lantian County in Jingzhao Prefecture, Shaanxi, where he hid.