Since the "Battle of Xiazhou" during the reign of Emperor Mingzong Li Siyuan, Xiazhou has been substantively divided. The mainstream modern view is that the Central Plains Dynasty at that time had formed a tripartite confrontation with the Liao and Xiazhou Li families. Among them, the Xiazhou Li family The strength is undoubtedly the weakest.
The Li family of Xiazhou came from Qi and Chu. Although the leadership changed over several generations, the bloodline of the Tuoba Li family has been continued. More importantly, their ideas of governing the country have also been inherited from Qi and Chu. Diplomacy was the main method, and military means was the supplement. It went back and forth between the Central Plains Dynasty and the Khitan, and both sides were popular.
To the Central Plains dynasty, they were traitors, "Xia independence elements" and national separatists who were separatists. Recovering Xiazhou has been the dream of the Central Plains people since the late Tang Dynasty, the Five Dynasties and then the Song Dynasty.
During the Northern Song Dynasty, large-scale wars broke out between the Central Plains people and Xixia. In the Southern Song Dynasty, the first task of the Central Plains people became "Wang Shibei determines the date of the Central Plains". Recovering the north of the Huaihe River was more urgent than recovering Xixia, so the "Xiazhou issue" was artificially shelved and ignored.
Therefore, in Li Yimin's opinion, when he was doing things in Xiazhou, he should get the support of the Central Plains Dynasty, just like the Khitan supported Shi Jingtang. The Central Plains Dynasty could reap the benefits of Xiazhou's internal strife, so why not?
It's a pity that he made the wrong calculation. Because he chose the wrong time.
At that time, the tension between Jin and Liao was already at war, and a war was about to break out. At this time, the Later Jin Dynasty had no energy or ability to intervene in the civil strife in Xiazhou. If Li Yimin succeeded, the later Jin Dynasty could certainly follow the trend, but another key problem is that he failed.
At this time, Li Yimin, who fled to the areas controlled by the Later Jin Dynasty to seek political asylum, was like Zhao Yanshou in Khitan territory.
Shi Chonggui made a correct choice: he issued an edict to escort the traitor Li Yimin to Xiazhou and asked Comrade Li Yiyin to behead him. By turning a difficult political burden into a political resource, Li Yiyin owed the Later Jin court a huge favor.
Within half a year, Shi Chonggui cashed out and Li Yiyin sent troops to attack Khitan.
Li Yiyin was very smart. He did not send troops immediately, but waited and watched. Maybe he did not know that the Later Jin Dynasty won the victory of Majiakou on the Shandong battlefield, but he must have learned about the battle situation in Shanxi battlefield.
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In the second month after the war broke out, Khitan suffered a series of blows and fell into an extremely unfavorable situation on the main battlefield in Shandong:
1. Guerrillas everywhere
In the far west, Xiazhou Li Yiyin personally led an army of 40,000 to enter the country to fight; in the Shanxi battlefield, the Khitans were defeated across the board; in the main battlefield in Shandong, they suffered the defeat of Qicheng and Majiakou.
Yelu Deguang became furious and began to vent his anger on the Han people.
After the "Beizhou Massacre", Yelu Deguang had already embarked on a public relations journey, dressing himself up as a benevolent and forgiving lord, and allowing the Khitan army to appear as liberators in newly occupied areas, such as Bozhou and other places. The Khitan people were gentle and considerate to the people in the occupied areas, and promoted and promoted talented people, bathing in the great favor of the Liao Empire.
Now, Yelu Deguang tore off the mask of hypocrisy and revealed his fierce look. He once again raised the butcher's knife against the Han people in the occupied areas and killed to vent his anger. For the captured soldiers of the Later Jin Dynasty, he used more cruel methods to kill them.
The people of Hebei deeply felt what it was like to be slaves to the subjugation of the country, and their anti-Liao sentiment became increasingly strong and they began to rise up to resist.
2. Pig teammates
After the defeat of Majiakou, Yang Guangyuan and Zhou Ru were greatly frightened. Yang Guangyuan immediately led his army to greet him, trying to open up a line of communication with the Khitan army.
Yang Guangyuan set his attack target on Dizhou, and the man who once rejected him, Li Qiong, fought back. Yang Guangyuan was unable to capture Dizhou quickly, and the Central Army in Yunzhou threatened his flanks, so he had to burn down the camp and retreat to Qingzhou.
Shi Chonggui ordered He Zhanjian to station in Yunzhou and increase the containment of Yang Guangyuan in Qingzhou.
After Zhou Ru, the governor of Bozhou, surrendered to the Khitan city, the Khitans tied the soldiers of Bozhou with ropes, put handcuffs and shackles on them, and escorted them to the front line of Weizhou, preparing to be incorporated into the Khitan army. After crossing the Yellow River, one night, while the guards were sleeping, a sergeant quietly unlocked the shackles, secretly helped other soldiers to open the shackles, and then stole the weapons of the Khitan soldiers and killed more than 200 Khitan soldiers. He died in his sleep and then fled back south.
Unfortunately, they did not have a boat to cross the river, so they had to swim. As a result, only sixty-seven survivors swam to the other side alive.
3. The chrysanthemums are broken and the ground is covered with wounds.
The Khitans chose to march straight in and use the "leapfrog tactic" to attack Beizhou in the hinterland of the enemy's territory. Their tactical requirements were to win a quick victory and complete the victory in one battle. They were most afraid of falling into a stalemate, such as the current one.
The Great Plains of North China is indeed an ideal battlefield for cavalry to gallop freely, but the Central Plains people chose to exploit their strengths and avoid their weaknesses. All states and counties in Hebei closed their cities and stood firm. Although the wilderness and suburbs were ravaged by Khitan cavalry, the Later Jin Dynasty still preserved a large number of fresh troops. Time bombs threaten Khitan's transportation lines at any time.
For example, the coffin of the "Golden-headed King" was seized in Jizhou;
Another example is Cangzhou, which intercepted a Khitan transport team composed of 3,000 people. Their task was to transport the population and baggage plundered on the front line back to Khitan. They were equivalent to the Khitan cash transport vehicles. The Cangzhou defenders immediately dispatched cavalry to launch an attack. Attacked, captured and killed more than a thousand people, and the rest abandoned their baggage and fled;
An Shenyue, the governor of Yizhou, defeated the Khitan army in the border area and forced the Khitan army to retreat to Youzhou. An Shenyue took the opportunity to burn the pontoon bridge, temporarily cutting off a small section of the main Khitan force's retreat.
Three small things were enough to remind Yelu Deguang that he had committed a taboo among military strategists.
Shi Chonggui ordered Liu Zhiyuan to cross the Taihang Mountains and join forces with Du Chongwei and Ma Quanjie...
Seeing that the Later Jin Dynasty was about to complete the strategic encirclement of the main Khitan forces, Yelu Deguang's situation was in danger.
At this time, Yelu Deguang felt a little regretful. First of all, under the instigation of traitors such as Zhao Yanshou and Yang Guangyuan, he did have a arrogant mentality. He was not fully prepared for the military power of the later Jin Dynasty and the resistance of the people, and strategically looked down upon him. secondly, their own political demands have seriously affected the military process. Although military is an extension of politics, political line struggles cannot crudely interfere with specific military deployments and remain in the outline control aspect.
After all, Yelu Deguang was also a "Generalissimo of the World's Soldiers and Horses" and had experienced the baptism of the battlefield. When Yelu Abaoji was alive, he was already a qualified commander who could take charge of his own affairs. Faced with the dangerous and unfavorable situation, Yelu Deguang Deguang also used his strengths to avoid weaknesses, and created a trap for the main force of the later Jin Dynasty, preparing to turn the tables in one fell swoop and turn defeat into victory.
