The people of Liao probably knew that in the current war situation, it was almost inevitable that Zhongjing would be defeated. The large area of land outside the Great Wall would become Jurchen hunting grounds.
King Wei and King Xi in Nanjing were even more pessimistic——
If not, how could he risk everything to attack the Song Dynasty?
Compared with the Nanjing kings, Emperor Tianzuo, who had suffered repeated defeats and battles, was finally stronger and still had the illusion of defending against enemies beyond the Great Wall. He deployed 10,000 soldiers at Juyong Pass and sent Prime Minister Zuo Youxi Jin to guard it personally. (Note 1)
Bo Jin, the leader of the tribe, is originally a Jurchen term. In peacetime, it is called Bo Jin. In wartime, it is called Meng'an or Mouke based on the number of warriors under its command. The Liao Kingdom also called small tribes with their own soldiers this way. leader. (Note 2)
Don't look at it. Ten thousand people are not too many, but they are all the sharp soldiers of the tiger and bear divisions of the Pishi army.
Pishi means "King Kong" in the Khitan language, which is equivalent to the imperial guard of the Liao Emperor. They are named after eagles, dragons, phoenixes, tigers, bears, iron doves, falcons and other ferocious birds and beasts, and their combat power cannot be underestimated.
Not to mention anything else, these 10,000 Liao soldiers fought hundreds of battles with the Jin people, and suffered repeated defeats. They have survived to this day, and they are naturally capable. They can be regarded as the last card that Emperor Tian Zuo can play. .
What's more, Juyongguan is the most powerful place in the world. It is a place where one man can guard the gate and no one can open it. If troops are usually stationed, it will only number two or three thousand.
Under Youxi Bo Jin, there were four more powerful generals. The first was Gao Liu, the commander of the army, the second was Zuo Qigong, the governor of the Guangling army, the third was Yu Zhongwen, the commander of all the armies, and the fourth was Cao Yongyi, the minister. .
A little aside from the topic——
A famous saying by a principal in later generations said: "Every inch of mountains and rivers is worth an inch of blood." This is a plagiarism of Zuo Qigong's sentence. The original sentence is: "The king should not listen to the advice of donating Yan. An inch of mountains and rivers is worth an inch of gold."
In the original time and space, the soldiers of the Jin Dynasty killed the Great Wall, and the sixth rank surrendered in order to offer Youzhou and serve as officials in the Jin Dynasty. At that time, Wanyan Aguda, the Taizu of the Jin Dynasty, wanted to break the former alliance and return Youzhou to the Song Dynasty, so Zuo Qigong did this. The poem urged Jin Taizu not to return Youzhou, but Jin Taizu refused.
The book returns to its true story.
But it was said that Youxi Bo Jin and others had been worried day and night since they took up their posts at Juyongguan, fearing that the Jin soldiers would descend to Zhongjing and attack with their troops. Unexpectedly, before the Jin soldiers arrived, the "thieves and bandits" would come first.
That night, the magistrate of Changping County sent his confidants to rush to the pass to report that the Xifeng Army, which had occupied Youshun and Shun Prefectures, had brought an army of 100,000 to kill them——
Lao Cao deliberately set up camp in Laoda. The county magistrate calculated based on the scale that there were 50,000 troops. He multiplied the number by two and reported to Juyongguan.
Youxi Bo Jin was shocked when he heard this: "How can these thieves do so much in such a short period of time?"
He hurriedly summoned all the generals to discuss countermeasures. Who knows how many people listened, but they all didn't care.
Gao Liu said disdainfully: "The defender of Youzhou was so incompetent that he defeated a group of bandits and captured the city. However, the bandits are still bandits after all. They claim to have a hundred thousand troops, but who knows how many they actually have? And they all coerced the people to pretend to be a large army. What can they do? Use? Prime Minister Zuo only needs five hundred soldiers and horses from me, and he will definitely defeat the bandit army and capture the bandit chieftain alive."
When Youxi Bojin heard what he said, he couldn't help but nod. He said that it's not about having too many soldiers, but about having the best. He had accompanied him to conquer the Jurchens, and he had a very profound understanding of it while guarding the Dagang.
With the 10,000 bears and tigers under his command, if he wants to compete with the Jin people, it is certainly insufficient. But against this group of thieves who have just started, wouldn't they be able to pinch them with both hands?
Zuo Qigong also said: "What Gao Tongjun said is reasonable. Moreover, our army has been defeated repeatedly before, and its morale has been difficult to boost. It is just a good opportunity to use the bones of these thieves to sharpen their knives, kill a big battle, win a big victory, and also let the soldiers improve." Just lift your spirits."
Youxi Bojin felt more and more reasonable, and nodded repeatedly: "What the two generals said is right, and I think so too. However, five hundred people is too few, so I divided the troops and horses in Guanzhong into half, from Gao and Zuo. I will lead three generals, Cao and Cao, to deal with the rebels, and General Yu will follow me to defend the city."
At that moment, it was agreed to beat the drums and gather the troops. After some preparations, they opened the door wide and five thousand Liao troops rolled out and rushed to Changping in the night.
When marching at night, it is reasonable to say that it is more convenient to light torches. However, when so many people light torches, they look like fire dragons and can be seen dozens of miles away.
Juyongguan is only a dozen or so miles from Changping. If the momentum is too great, a few Liao generals will just scare the rebels away. Wouldn't they lose all their credit?
He simply ordered the soldiers to pull one by one, one foot deep and one foot shallow, and hurried on in the dark, thinking that it was close anyway, so if they fell a few somersaults, they could climb up.
At that time, the bandits and soldiers did not know the true situation and rushed to attack the city rashly. Then they broke out in one fell swoop. How much credit would it take?
After stumbling like this for more than ten miles, when I was about to reach Changping County, I suddenly saw something vaguely standing in the middle of the road. It was about one foot high and four feet wide. There were some white flowers on it, which I couldn't see. What is Qing.
Seeing curiosity, Gao Liu stopped the procession and asked someone to light a torch. He walked closer and took a photo, and he saw that it was an upright coffin!
On the coffin board, six large characters were painted in white paint: All Liao dogs died here!
Gao Liu jumped off his horse, strode forward, grabbed the torch, stared at it, looked at it from top to bottom, bottom to top several times, and said angrily: "Why don't a literate person come and take a look at this place?" What on earth did you write!"
At this time, Zuo Qigong of the Chinese army arrived and saw that the Liao soldiers were all gathered together. He frowned and dismounted from his horse. However, he was a man with ink in his belly. He immediately read: "All the Liao dogs died." this!"
Gao Liu was furious after hearing this: "Wow, you dare to call us Liao dogs. When we caught this person, his tongue was cut off..."
Zuo Qi Gonghun flew out of the sky, grabbed him and ran away, shouting: "You fell into the trap!"
Before he finished speaking, random arrows shot out from the woods on both sides.
Gao Liu held the torch in his hand, like the sun shining in the dark night, and like a ready-made target for arrows. He leaned his bow on the left to hurt him, and most of the arrows he shot were aimed at the two of them, like a hedgehog being shot in an instant.
It's just that both of them wore heavy armor, and those who shot arrows had limited arm strength. Although the arrows were inserted crookedly all over their bodies, they were limited in how far they penetrated the armor and flesh.
The Pishi troops under his command also wore iron armor. Although the arrows came suddenly, they only killed dozens of people.
Gao Liu was extremely angry and shouted decisively: "Left and left, go into the forest and kill these people!"
The two of them did not mount their horses, each pulled out their swords and rushed into the forest.
This group of Liao troops reacted quickly and immediately divided into two groups and followed them into the forest.
When the archers in the forest saw the Liao soldiers charging back like wolves and tigers, they couldn't help but hurriedly turned around and ran away. Some of them were stunned and stood there in a daze, and were instantly killed by Pi Shi's army.
Gao Liu killed more than ten people in a row, and realized that this group of ambush soldiers was not good at fighting. He became angrier and cursed: "What kind of birdman, with such strength, dares to ambush grandpa?"
Before he finished speaking, a big man appeared from behind the tree and shouted in a deep voice: "Liao Gou, let's see how strong grandpa is!"
The two iron swords in his hands were slashing at him headlessly. Hearing the whistling wind of his sword, Gao Liu felt a chill in his heart. He knew he had met a good player, and secretly said in surprise: I didn't expect there to be such a person among the thieves!
Don't dare to be careless, guard the door tightly with a knife.
When the Liao soldiers saw Gao Liu eating people and retreating step by step, they all rushed forward to help, and lit torches one after another. Under the firelight, they saw a nine-foot tall man with a face like iron, eyes like bells, and two fierce heavy swords. Abnormal, he just rushed forward, and more than a hundred people couldn't stop him from coming and going.
It wasn't until all his soldiers and horses fled that the big man returned and fought through the siege, hiding in the mountains and forests.
Gao Liu held a single sword in hand and looked at the fifty or sixty corpses on the ground. He couldn't help but be afraid, but he said: "This guy can only fight on foot. If grandpa had been on horseback with a gun, he would have poked eight holes in him."
Leading the troops to exit the forest, they saw Zuo Qigong in the forest opposite, with a look of resentment on his face, and walked out dejectedly: "They are just a bunch of grass bandits, they will be scattered in a hurry, but they are a leader who can use iron rods. He really has some skills, but he has never been able to retain them." Get off him."
While talking, Cao Yongyi led the rear team to catch up. After listening to the second general's story about the encounter, he blurted out: "This is Sun Bin's plan to kill Pang Juan! It's just the way of fighting, the soldiers are brave, the armor is thick, and the food is sufficient. This is the king's way, otherwise if anyone can listen to a few stories, he can still be a general and fight in the same way?"
When Gao Liu and Zuo Qigong heard this, they all nodded and laughed: "Not bad!"
At this time, the Liao army captured several injured prisoners who were not dead. After torture, they confessed that they were all newly recruited soldiers from Youzhou. The number of prisoners they recruited was only more than 10,000, but they were deliberately stabbed. Go to the boss's camp and bluff people.
Hearing this, the three generals laughed in unison: "There are more than ten thousand grass bandits. It's in vain for us to attach so much importance to him. So, why wait until dawn? We just went all out and destroyed his camp!"
After saying that, the prisoners were beheaded, and the whole army marched quickly into Changping City. They asked the county magistrate to prepare war meals and had a hearty meal. Without waiting for dawn, they opened the city gate and attacked Lao Cao's camp.
In the Xifeng Army camp, Sun An and Luan Tingyu returned in embarrassment and complained: "Brother, these soldiers and horses are really weak."
According to Cao Cao's instructions, the two of them led 500 men each, bypassed the county and ambushed the main road, and fought hard. Only two or three hundred men followed back, and the rest were either killed or fled.
Lao Cao laughed and said: "If you are an elite soldier, how can I specifically tell you to save your own life first? It's just to make him look down on me!"
Sun An worriedly said: "Brother, this group of Liao soldiers react quickly, dare to fight and fight hard, and their combat power is not weak. Although we have more soldiers and horses, after all, the training is too short. If we fight head-on, we will have no chance of winning."
Cao Cao nodded and said with a smile: "Don't worry, I've taken care of everything."
At this time, Shi moved into the tent and said with a smile: "Brother, everything has been arranged properly."
Lao Cao nodded and said: "Okay! Act according to plan!"
At the fourth watch, six thousand Liao troops came like a tide——
How come there is one thousand more? But it was the Changping County Magistrate who learned that he had been deceived by Lao Cao and that the bandits actually only had more than 10,000 soldiers. He was furious and mobilized all the soldiers and horses defending the city to fight out with the army.
Cao Cao's brothers had received the order early, and the gate of the village was immediately opened. Qin Ming and Xu Ning each led more than a thousand men to fight out. Qin Ming roared: "Wuna Liaogou, my brother's fifty thousand troops are here, you guys are waiting. How dare you make a mistake!"
Gao Liu cursed loudly, and Pegasus went straight towards Qin Ming. Qin Ming waved his mace to fight. Cao Yongyi came forward to join him, but Xu Ning blocked him.
A "Thunderbolt Fire" and a "Golden Spear General" each used their own methods to fight against two Liao generals. Zuo Qi Gong made a move with his spear and waved the army forward. The two armies fought fiercely for a while, but the West Wind Army was killed and retreated step by step. back.
Most of these Liao troops were frightened by the Jin people. They were fighting at this moment. When they found out that there were such useless opponents in the world, they couldn't help but work up. As the saying goes, you can't hold back your anger when you see a coward. Their abilities, which were only five points, were all lost. He used a lot of power.
Xu Ning shouted: "Brother, we have bumped into Liaogou's elite, let's retreat."
He waved his gun, forced the enemy general away, returned to his horse and left. Qin Ming also made a feint, reined in his horse and fled.
As soon as the two of them retreated, the two thousand soldiers were immediately defeated and turned around to flee for their lives in the camp.
The sixth grader had not seen a victory in a battle in several years, and his face flushed with excitement: "Go in, don't let anyone go!"
Zuo Qigong was a little surprised: "It's not that there are more than 10,000 people. Could it be that there is an ambush in the camp?"
Gao Liu laughed and said: "This kind of waste is not afraid of a hundred thousand ambushes! Don't think too much. I think he only has two or three thousand who can barely fight. The rest are probably just mobs."
When Zuo Qigong heard this, he thought it made sense. He felt relieved and rushed into the camp. Sure enough, he saw many soldiers in his camp running back as hard as they could.
The Liao soldiers were really having fun in this battle. They howled like wolves and rushed forward with all their strength. After a while, they rushed to the middle of the camp and saw only a huge tent that was empty. Apparently, the leader of the thieves also saw that the opportunity was not good. , escaped in advance.
Gao Liu was extremely excited and shouted: "Chase! Don't let anyone go. Everyone should come to take the credit."
Before he finished speaking, he heard a shout, and the hundreds of people at the front suddenly disappeared. The Liao soldiers stopped suddenly, and then they saw a pit in front of the commander's tent, and all the Liao soldiers in front fell into it.
Gao Liu's expression changed slightly, and he forced a smile and said: "This thief has a lot of tricks, but I don't know which story I heard this from..."
Before he finished speaking, he heard a clear shout: "Shoot!"
In an instant, hundreds of rockets were seen flying from the front, left, and right, tracing a gorgeous trajectory and landing on the surrounding tents.
The expressions of the three Liao generals all changed. Only then did they realize that the camps here were so dense...
boom!
Fires shot up into the sky from three sides. In those tents, there were hundreds of horses, cattle and sheep, pulling large and small simple wooden carts, loaded with blazing firewood, and ran into the crowd in a dizzy manner.
The so-called fire and water are ruthless. These two things are nothing unusual on weekdays. Once they appear on the battlefield, they will definitely be deadly weapons.
The fire in Lao Cao's camp had been prepared for most of the night. The tents were carefully arranged and filled with firewood and poured with oil. The cattle, sheep and carriages were blindfolded in advance, and the direction of the fire was fixed. At the same time, the instinct is to run forward.
Therefore, as soon as the rockets fell, the Liao army's front, left, and right sides were like three walls of fire, and trains crashed into each other, making it seem like they had stepped into a sea of fire and hell in an instant.
Even though they were the elite of the Pishi Army, they could not help but be in chaos. As for the more than a thousand Changping garrison, they were in disarray.
"We've fallen into a trap!" Zuo Qigong turned pale with shock and shouted, "Quick, withdraw the troops!"
The Pishi army had a fierce look in their eyes. They first killed a piece of the Changping defenders who were running in panic, and then retreated after looking back. However, how could Lao Cao be unprepared with such a trick?
However, many large carts were pushed out, covered with flames. The Liao army's retreat seemed to be sandwiched between two walls of fire. Behind the wall, the West Wind army kept shooting arrows and throwing stones.
At this moment, the Liao army was just running away, eating those he shot to death, smashed over, fought for the road to kill, and squeezed into the fire and burned to death, at least more than a thousand people were killed here.
From the central military tent to the gate of the camp, flames formed a narrow path. How could there be many escaped Liao troops? The army failed to form an army, the formation failed to form, and they rushed to the county seat without looking back.
When Gao Liu led the last few hundred people to escape, his hair was smoky and smoky from eating it. He was about to leave when suddenly thousands of soldiers and horses surrounded the camp. The leader, riding a horse and holding a sword, was about to leave. It was Sun An, shouting loudly: "Don't leave the Liao dog. The beating was unpleasant just now. Let's fight again now!"
There are different teachings: Lao Cao planned to capture Juyong and attacked with fire in a murderous manner. In the future, people will pay homage to the sun, and the wild flowers on the ground will be red.
Note 1: No information could be found about the general guarding the Juyong Pass in the Liao State. He only mentioned that Emperor Tianzuo arranged a powerful force: "With strong troops to guard Juyong, when the Jin soldiers approached the pass, the rocks collapsed and the garrison soldiers were crushed to death." , collapsed without a fight." - "History of Liao"
In addition, in the Battle of Juyongguan, the Jin soldiers captured Yelu Dashi. There is no evidence whether this person is the general guarding the pass. Anyway, he is going to fight the Song Dynasty now, so let’s change him to another general. Youxi Bojin is a Water Margin character, Gao Liu They are all historical figures, Liao ministers who surrendered after being defeated.
Note 2: In "Water Margin", Jin from the Liao Kingdom appears frequently. The author thinks that Uncle Shi may have made a mistake and applied the Jin Kingdom's system to the Liao Kingdom. Anyway, we just follow the uncle's setting and don't go to the end. Evidenced.
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