Two flowers bloom, one on each side.
To avoid clutter, let me say a few words about the preface, starting with the division of troops at Tongguan——
On April 25th, with great fanfare, the Zhong division led the army across Fenglingdu and went north to support.
Lao Cao set out on the next two days and quietly marched westward along the Wei River. In the remaining time of the month, he traveled two thousand miles and captured Lanzhou.
Later, he made a surprise attack on Xingqing Mansion from the waterway and achieved great success. Then he crossed the river and returned eastward, killing Xixia territory. Li Qianshun was shocked when he heard the report, and hurriedly ordered his brother Richard to lead a side force of 50,000 troops and turn around to deal with Lao Cao.
By now, it was already mid-June.
In more than a month, Lao Cao was making great progress here, but in Taiyuan, there was a sea of blood and mountains of corpses.
In fact, it’s not just Taiyuan.
Nowadays, the four kingdoms of Song, Liao, Jin and Xia are fighting. Henan, Hebei, Shanxi, Shaanxi, and even the land of Youyun are full of wars and wars...
The book returned to the main story, but it said that more than 20,000 troops were led by Zhongshi, who crossed the Yellow River, passed through Hezhongfu, Jiangzhou, Jinzhou, Fenzhou, and all the way up the Fen River.
As far as the eye could see along the way, I saw countless people from the Song Dynasty, with panic-stricken faces, helping the old and young, and hurriedly fled south.
There were also many defeated troops and officials mixed in among them, crying and just rushing on their way.
Xiangguo Souchong traveled all the way, looking for people and asking questions, and gradually pieced together the truth——
It turned out that Xixia's attack on Taiyuan was not at all what he thought at first, "It was difficult to conquer Tongguan, so he attacked Taiyuan." Instead, after defeating the three prefectures of Feng, Fu, and Lin, he divided his forces and moved one army southward to sweep across the Yongxing military road and attack directly. When they arrived at Tongguan, the first army took the Zhejia Army as the vanguard and attacked Lanzhou eastward.
The Zhe family has been guarding this place for generations. How deep is its prestige? Seeing that the Zhe family has surrendered, who dares to be an enemy in the neighboring prefectures and counties?
So an army on the east route marched down to Xingxian, Lanxian and Loufan without losing any blood.
——In fact, when they were advancing vigorously in Luliang Mountain, Lao Cao had just passed by and was recruiting troops and horses from the Liaozhou, Longzefu, and Zezhou areas, and was marching slowly.
When Xixia wiped out the Luliang area and reached Taiyuan Prefecture, they failed to capture it as they wished and were blocked by the troops led by Zhang Xiaochun, the prefect of Taiyuan.
Zhang Xiaochun was a Jinshi in the Yuanyou Year. He had always been a talented person. He was originally the transfer judge of the Yongxing Military Road. Because the old official wanted to open Yanmen Pass, he borrowed the Jin soldiers from Hedong Road to enter the Liao Dynasty. He was also afraid that the Jin soldiers would come. What if you are in love with the prosperity and refuse to leave? By then Yanmen Pass has been handed over to others, how can we resist it?
After thinking about it, he promoted Zhang Xiaochun to be the direct bachelor of Longtuge, the governor of Hedong Road, and the governor of Taiyuan Prefecture.
If Jin Bing really had a change of heart, he would be asked to defend Taiyuan Mansion to cut off the north-south road so that subsequent Jin soldiers would not be able to advance straight in.
Unexpectedly, before the Jin soldiers arrived, the Xixia soldiers committed suicide first.
Fortunately, Zongze served as the military commander here for two years. During this period, he worked hard and trained many archers in addition to the imperial army and Xiang army.
When Mr. Zhong attacked the Liao Kingdom, he took away the imperial army. The Xiang army and archers from various counties were still in the local area. Zhang Xiaochun gathered them in time and gathered three to four thousand capable warriors. Then he mobilized the people in the city and the army and the people joined forces to fight. He blocked Xixia's first round of attack.
The two sides were still in a stalemate here. The other Xixia army was unsuccessful in attacking Tongguan, so they simply left 20,000 miscellaneous soldiers as suspects to contain Xiao Zhong. The rest all went north to participate in the siege of Taiyuan.
It was this route of soldiers and horses that alarmed Mr. Lao Zhong.
After Lao Zhong's defeat at the Yellow River, he led his remaining troops to retreat into the mountains to rest and recuperate. He wanted to wait for his illness to recover, but then he went to Bianliang to aid. Unexpectedly, he suddenly ran into the Xixia's vanguard troops. Both sides were caught off guard, and a chaotic battle broke out. retreat.
At this time, Lao Zhong didn't know that the Taiyuan beacon fire had started early. When he saw the Xixia soldiers coming from Tongguan, he just thought that they could not attack Tongguan, so he divided his troops to attack Taiyuan. He sent Wang Wende to take a detour to Tongguan to report the news, and he led the remaining troops and rushed there. Taiyuan, help each other defend the city.
Lao Zhong's prestige was much higher than that of Zhang Xiaochun. He also had generals Han Cunbao, Qu Ke and Ma Zhong under his command. After entering the city, the morale of the people in the city was greatly boosted.
Then a large number of soldiers and horses arrived from the South Road of Xixia. There were a total of 130,000 Xixia soldiers, 3,000 Jurchen soldiers, tens of thousands of Zhejia soldiers, plus the surrendered Song troops from several nearby states, the total was no less than 200,000, and Taiyuan was completely surrounded. .
They also sent countless small teams to plunder food everywhere, so that the people had difficulty making a living and fled south one after another.
When Zhongshi learned about the situation, he was deeply worried and came to Lin Chong for discussion: "General Lin, the enemy's army is surrounded by 200,000 people in Taiyuan. We can only wait for more than 20,000 people, and half of them are new soldiers. If we force the city to attack, there will be casualties." Amazing, what can you do?"
Lin Chong thought for a long time and said slowly: "General, I heard that the Taiyuan City Wall is forty miles long, high and strong, and there are good generals like Lao Zhong Xianggong sitting on it. Even if the enemy has many soldiers, it will be difficult to defeat him in a hurry..."
After saying that, he lowered his head and thought hard for a while, and then said in a low voice: "The general doesn't have any strategy in his mind, but after thinking about it carefully, if my brother Wu uses troops, he will definitely not be willing to fight head-on... Yes, the distance between Yuci County Taiyuan City is only more than twenty miles away, why don't our army take Yuci and consider it the horn of Taiyuan?"
The cultivator thought for a while: "That's fine! Let's act according to this plan."
The two of them agreed and immediately attacked Yuci. However, they were happy that this county had not been occupied by Xixia. All the people in it had fled, leaving only an empty city.
The two were overjoyed and quickly led troops in. They immediately sent people to demolish the houses and repair the city gates and walls.
It turns out that this county also had its glory days, but it was when Emperor Taizong destroyed the Northern Han Dynasty, destroyed the city of Jinyang, abolished the Taiyuan Prefecture of Bingzhou, abolished Taiyuan and Jinyang counties, established a new Bingzhou Military, and moved it to Yuci. Therefore, The city wall was greatly repaired according to the scale of the prefectural city. Later, because "Yuci had to hold a meeting", the Bingzhou military headquarters was moved back to Taiyuan New City, and Yuci was reduced to a subordinate county again, but the city wall remained.
Xiao Zhong said fairly: "Since our army is here, we should say hello to Xia Gou so that he does not dare to attack the city with all his strength. You just sit in the city and wait for me to kill him."
Lin Chong quickly stopped him: "In your sixtieth year, if you are allowed to go into battle and fight, what's the use of leaving me and other descendants alone? Lin will lead his own troops to kill him."
Mr. Souchong then said: "If you want to go, don't reveal the tiger cavalry under your command. This elite soldier is of great use. You can only lead my personal troops there, and you are not allowed to go deep. You can only demonstrate a little and then come back." .”
Lin Chong clasped his fists and accepted the order, then led more than 800 of Xiang Gong's soldiers out of the city and rushed all the way to Taiyuan, without even meeting a single scout.
Lin Chong turned pale and said, "Oh no, what my brother is most worried about is the merging of the Jin soldiers. Seeing that the Xixia soldiers were so careless, they must have known about the battle in Bianliang and that our army was unable to take care of Taiyuan. How did he know that?" Someone must have been sent to contact Lou Shi's group."
Then he gritted his teeth and said, "But since he dared to be so careless, I don't blame Lin for killing him today."
The place where he came was just to the east of Taiyuan City, where the Western Xia general Li Liangfu was sitting with more than 20,000 troops and was attacking the city.
Lin Chong looked back and shouted: "You are all brave men in the Western Army. Each of you has countless lives of Xia Gou in your hands. Lin is not talented and has only fought against Xia Gou for the second time. Let's see if I can claim anything in this battle." Take his life!"
Those Western troops all laughed and said: "The really powerful summer dog has iron kite ears. Now we can take whatever we want from these infantry troops."
Seeing that his morale was not bad, Lin Chong felt a little relieved and said with a smile: "In that case, I simply went to assassinate his general, thinking that the Taiyuan defenders would be relieved of their worries."
After speaking, he waved his spear and shouted: "Kill the summer dog!"
More than 800 people responded with one voice and galloped away on horseback.
The Xixia people were in the midst of attacking the city when they suddenly heard something moving behind them and quickly turned around. Lin Chong took the lead, glared and gritted his teeth, and ran into the Xixia rear army. He swept across with a snake spear that was eight feet long and was invincible to all who came before him.
Li Liangfu, the general of the Xia Dynasty, was sitting on the Grand Master's chair and was watching his troops attack the city. Suddenly he heard a loud killing sound behind him. , dared to come to ask for wild fire, so I will kill him today, making the defenders in the city terrified."
While shouting and shouting, he ordered the soldiers and horses to outflank him. Unexpectedly, only a few orders were passed, and he saw that the Song army was charging very fast. Looking at the direction, it was coming towards him!
Youfenjiao: 200,000 troops surrounded Taiyuan, and the general encouraged him to add new reinforcements. The war drums of Dongcheng rang loudly, and a huge wave of snake spears was set off.
I wrote slowly and it was too short. I felt really bad.
There is another chapter tonight, maybe later~~
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