In the autumn of the second year of Zhenyou, less than three months after the peace agreement between Mongolia and Jin was reached, Genghis Khan sent his general Muhuali to seize the Beijing Road. In late winter, the Great Khan personally asked his army to go south and approach Zhongdu from the northeast.
In this direction, there were originally many military towns and passes, which were enough to block the march of the army. But what do these passes mean before the huge waves set off by the Mongolian army?
What's more, this time there were tens of thousands of soldiers accompanying the Mongolian army. These auxiliary troops were very different from the teams that had followed the Mongols in the Autumn Wind. They had been used as the main force in attacking cities and strongholds along the way. Most of their generals were familiar with the Jin army's defenses, and they were holding back their energy to defeat Genghis Khan. Performance.
It was like a pack of dogs transforming into a pack of wolves. Attacking along the way, the Jin army on Zhongdu Road was unexpectedly invincible.
Within a few days, the Mongolian army easily reached Pingzhou and attacked from all sides.
Pingzhou is the gateway to the east of Zhongdu. During the time of Taizu, this place was the center of the struggle between the Jin, Song and Liao kingdoms. The imperial court designated Pingzhou as Nanjing and appointed Zhang Jue, a warlord who was dealing with the three kingdoms, to stay in Nanjing. The death of Zhang Jue also opened the prelude to the war of Dajin going south to destroy the Song Dynasty.
However, as the territory of Dajin gradually expanded, the importance of Pingzhou declined rapidly. At first, it was still the seat of the Qianbo Division and the Transportation Division. Later, various agencies withdrew and the garrison continued to decrease. After the Taihe period, this place was just an ordinary military state under the rule of Zhongdu Lu of the Jin Kingdom.
The incident occurred in Zhongdu the year before last and the new emperor ascended the throne. Shuhu Gaoqi, who was in charge of the defense of the northern front of Zhongdu, had the selfish intention of seizing power, so he mobilized the troops along the border to Pingzhou and the cavalry to station Jizhou to respect himself. During that period, Pingzhou also There were soldiers and civilians fleeing from Linhuangfu, Luquan and Qingzhou.
Wulin Daqizhu, the eastern military envoy appointed by the emperor, recruited a considerable army here, and Wanyan Pu, the western military envoy, was under his command, and they were two forces that the emperor could directly dispatch.
However, the emperor's desire to directly control the army would inevitably lead to conflicts with various arrogant generals.
Since the second year of Zhenyou, the Marshal's Office and the Xuanfu Envoy Office seemed to have a tacit understanding, and they often forcibly transferred troops from the two Economic and Strategic Envoy Offices. Wanyan Pu La even wrote a letter to the emperor crying, saying that he had been transferred 20,000 troops twice, and now "there are less than 10,000 soldiers, and the old and weak are seventeen or eighty. It is not a pity to die of a minister, and we must take care of the country's affairs." consider."
The west side is so miserable, and the east side is no different. After all the Beijing Road was lost, Pingzhou, Luanzhou and Jizhou became the horns of each other. They were already the last barrier to the east of Zhongdu and their strategic position was extremely important.
However, after the peace agreement with Mongolia was reached at the beginning of the year, the marshals in charge of military power in the DPRK and China were always intentionally or unintentionally weakening the power of the Eastern Economic and Strategy Department. Ulin Dazhu had fewer and fewer troops under his direct control.
As a result, when the Mongolian army suddenly turned their backs and entered Pingzhou City, he could not even hold on at many passes, and could only hold on to the isolated city with desperate determination.
But in this world, who is not fighting to the death?
Shi Tianying charged and killed several times in a short period of time, his physical strength was not weak, and his ferocious aura was even stronger. He swung his sword and knocked off half of an enemy's head, shouting: "Follow! Follow!"
After shouting several times, he realized that he had rushed too far, and his companions who were supposed to follow him were blocked by missing arrows, and the people who followed him into the city in the first place had all been killed.
Most of the black army soldiers who had just climbed the city wall were dead now. The defenders regained control of the walls on both sides and mobilized dozens of archers to shoot at the gaps indiscriminately. A black army general led a team to come up for reinforcements, and was shot like a hedgehog in the blink of an eye.
The defenders' equipment was very crude, their bows and arrows were junk, and most of the arrows failed to penetrate the leather armor. But one of them happened to penetrate the gap under the armor's stomach, so it suddenly shook and fell sideways. The body was unsupported by the arrow and could not touch the ground.
They were all about to die, and all the soldiers kept shouting kill, but in the end they were at a loss and could only hold up their shields at the gap to defend themselves.
The two armies fought hard in the gap, competing to see who could hold on. Once the offensive and defensive forces were discouraged, the defenders cheered up. A group of soldiers rushed along the inside of the city wall, almost cutting off the black army that rushed into the city.
Shi Tianying was furious, turned around and charged, and in a blink of an eye he hit two rammed earth courtyard walls, repelled two groups of defenders who tried to hinder him, and killed five of them.
He fought so bravely and fiercely, and his whole body was steaming like white mist, so he naturally attracted special attention from the archers of the defenders. However, he always engaged in life-threatening hand-to-hand combat with the defenders, and he advanced and retreated as fast as lightning through the city wall. Therefore, several skilled bow-wielders on the wall took aim at him for a long time, but they were not sure that they could hit him without hurting him. to companions.
Seeing that he was not far from the gap in the city wall, an archer pointed at Shi Tianying on the top of the wall and shouted: "Liu Ran! Look here! Here!"
Not far away, a young man seemed to shout hoarsely: "I saw it!"
Shi Tianying suddenly stopped. The next moment, the earth wall around him suddenly opened a hole, and a spear thrust out from the broken stone and broken bricks, and passed close to Shi Tianying's face.
Shi Tianying roared, stretched out his left hand, grabbed the gunman's arm, and then pulled him sideways.
When he was about to kill him with a knife, a young man with a strong body jumped over the earth wall, approached like a cheetah, and slashed with a knife.
Shi Tianying didn't care about killing people and just blocked with his sword.
There was a loud "clang" sound. The man holding the knife was no match for Shi Tianying's strength, and immediately staggered back, shouting: "Old Liang, hurry up!"
When the two sabers collided, the soldier whose arm was grabbed by Shi Tianying took the opportunity to struggle violently and got free from him, rolling backwards.
He stood up and stood firm, and immediately opened the door with a long spear. Another young man held a sword and shield in both hands and stepped aside to block him. The three of them each held long and short weapons and got into a fighting posture.
He is a rare expert...and he uses all the tricks and routines learned from the Dajin Army! It's a pity that if you want to keep me, Shi Ruizhi, it's not enough!
Although Shi Tianying had the temper to kill, his mind was not dizzy.
At this time, he was trapped in the city alone. If he hesitated for a moment, more defenders would surround him. You have to leave quickly and let the three people in front of you go!
He glared at the three of them fiercely and suddenly ran away.
Relying on the thick armor and stomach and quick movements, he rushed to the gap with the rain of arrows on his head. Several black saber shieldmen rushed forward, protected him with their large shields, and then retreated to a corner of the city wall beyond the gap.
He half-crouched on the ground and heard the snapping sound of arrows hitting the shield, the muffled sound of stones hitting the human body or the ground, and the rumble of the footsteps of a large number of black soldiers behind him.
In the midst of the noise and chaos, a general shouted in his ears: "General, the defenders responded quickly and have a lot of manpower! We have to slow down and reorganize the team, and then..."
Shi Tianying seemed not to hear it.
It was a coincidence that his head and body were completely protected by the shield guards, with only a few narrow gaps. Shi Tianying glanced over and happened to look out from a gap and saw the rear of the army.
The Mongolian army was accustomed to outflanking, so the rear that Shi Tianying saw was not to the north, but to Yangshan, south of Pingzhou City. The mountains on the east and south sides of Yangshan Mountain are steep, with a group of peaks on the west side guarding the Luanshui River, while the slope on the north side is smaller. Genghis Khan's pure white banner stands on the northern slope of Yangshan Mountain. It seems that the Mongol Khan is there to judge the situation and will invest the main force of the Mongolian army at any time.
Legend has it that this Yangshan Mountain is the Shouyang Mountain where Boyi Shuqi was ashamed to eat Zhou millet and pick weeds. Now, the Mongols have set foot on it and dominate the Central Plains, which is very ridiculous.
However, this world is already like this!
For hundreds of years, the Han people in the north had to either rely on the Khitans or the Jurchens if they wanted to make achievements. Now it's the Mongols' turn to rise. If we don't seize this opportunity, will we be buried with the rotten Jurchens?
Shi Tianying has read books and is very good at talking. In the eyes of outsiders, he was very well-behaved and smart in front of Mu Huali and Genghis Khan, so he was reused.
But Shi Tianying himself knew that the situation was not like that at all.
Genghis Khan was a vigorous and outstanding man. His criterion for evaluating a person was only whether he was useful or useless. For those who are useful, Genghis Khan is not restricted by any ethnic group or region, and he is not stingy with high-ranking officials, generous salaries, and great power. But for those who are useless, Genghis Khan will not pay much attention to them no matter how much you talk about them. You glance.
In such a regime, whether you want to make a difference or protect your elders, the only way is to make yourself useful. And Shi Tianying was absolutely convinced that with his own civil and military talents and the power of the black army, he could occupy a solid position in the newly emerging Mongolian regime!
"Don't we know what the Jurchen officials are capable of? They can't stand it! They only have the courage for a while, and they will collapse soon!"
Shi Tianying pushed away a shield and pointed to the location of Genghis Khan's great scroll: "Did you see it? The Mongol Khan is watching the battle there and watching our abilities! Now, come with me and I will lead you to destroy the city. ! Take you to make meritorious deeds and be rewarded! Take you to get riches!"
Isn't this what warriors in troubled times want?
A few words cheered up the soldiers.
Shi Tianying ordered an officer: "Go back to our formation and tell all the Black Army soldiers along the way that there is no need to hesitate. We will definitely break the city this time!"
The officer got down on his hands and knees and ran out from under the shield.
Shi Tianying looked around at the generals again: "How about it? Do you want to fight with me and gain wealth together?"
Everyone shouted loudly: "I am willing to follow the general!"
The soldiers in black helmets once again poured into the gap in the city wall. This time, there was a steady stream of people coming in, like a black tide that never stops. This sudden and tenfold offensive made Liu Ran and others who had just joined the brigade feel tremendous pressure.
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