Gao Kan and his army finally successfully entered Daming Mansion.
Later he found out that the Jin Army's eastern and western armies surrounded Daming Mansion, and the total number of soldiers and horses should be more than 80,000. Including the Song people who surrendered, the number of soldiers and horses was hundreds of thousands.
With such a huge army, it is not difficult to capture Daming Mansion. Even if it is besieged, Daming Mansion can be surrounded by an iron barrel.
But when he led his troops to attack Daming Mansion, everything went incredibly smoothly.
The real reason is that the Jin army's siege of Damingfu was fake, but the surprise attack on Bianliang in Tokyo was real.
The main force of the Jin army went straight to Bianliang after forming a siege on Daming Mansion. When Gaokan entered the boundary of Daming Mansion, the main force of the Jin army was already in Bianliang City.
So in fact, the number of Jin troops in Daming Mansion is only a few thousand.
Most of these thousands of people were killed by Gao Kan twice.
The remaining soldiers and horses were stationed in various places in Daming Mansion. After Gaokan found out, he sent various troops to kill all of them.
It took nearly half a month of hard work to finally clean up the Jin people in Daming Mansion, ensuring that the entire territory was under control.
During this half month, the war situation in other places in the Song Dynasty was also constantly changing.
King Qin's army from all over the Song Dynasty rushed to Bianliang. More than a dozen of them ran into the Jin army before they reached the capital. After dozens of battles, the soldiers and horses from all walks of life were defeated by the Jin people. .
There were so many soldiers and horses that the Jin army was completely wiped out, and the remaining ones had to withdraw to the south.
Gaokan guarded Daming Mansion, but became the only island behind the Jin army under the control of the Song people.
According to the previous analysis of the battle situation, if the Jin army continues to move south, then they can use Daming Mansion as their base to send troops from various directions to expand the area they control.
But once the Jin army stops moving south and the army turns back to kill Daming Mansion, then they will most likely face the crisis of fighting alone.
Under such a situation, Gao Kan was naturally worried.
Just when he felt that Daming Mansion was not a place to stay for a long time, and he wanted to withdraw the army first and go back to Zhending Mansion along the way to make plans, two pieces of news came to him.
The first news is that before the city of Bianliang was destroyed, his cheap father Gao Taiwei used his military advice to ask the Zhao Song officials for a title for him.
Canonized by the officials of Zhao and Song Dynasties, Gaokan was granted the title of King of Hebei, commanding all military and political affairs in Hebei, and allowed him to lead troops to fight to the death with the Jin people.
The canonization edict was supposed to reach Gaokan a few days after the city of Bianliang was destroyed.
However, because Gao Kan was supposed to be in Zhending Mansion according to his previous orders, the person responsible for delivering the edict went to Zhending Mansion first.
After arriving there, they found out that Gao Kan had led the army south to King Qin and arrived at Daming Mansion, so he turned to Daming Mansion.
Such a large circle of delays took a lot of time, and Gao Kan got the edict only half a month later.
At this time, the bloodline of the Zhao Song official family had been almost slaughtered by the Jin people, and the only remaining ones were some distant relatives living in the south.
Those who held military power in the southern regions, within this half month, successively supported more than a dozen people with the name of Zhao Song official family to ascend the throne, and according to the territory they controlled, they controlled the areas that had not yet fallen. The land in the south of the Song Dynasty was divided into more than a dozen pieces.
Putting aside those things for the moment, Gaokan had this edict. As the king of Hebei, at least in the right sense, he had the right to command and recruit all Song people's militia and horses in the east and west of Hebei.
The Jin people were wreaking havoc and killing the people of the Song Dynasty, making countless people angry.
Gao Kan took this opportunity to issue the first royal edict together with the imperial edicts of the two deceased official saints of Zhao and Song Dynasties, ordering all the people and soldiers of the Song Dynasty in Hebei to come to Daming Mansion to serve.
As for the second message, it came from the north.
Yan Qing has been lurking in the north since he was ordered by Gao Kan to go deep into the land of the Jin people.
Just as the Jin army marched southward and defeated the Song Dynasty, Xixia in the north suddenly made a move. They gathered an army of 100,000 to attack the Jin Kingdom. They fought and won consecutive battles and conquered more than a hundred cities.
Half of Yanyun Sixteen's territory has now belonged to Xixia.
The Jin army and horses left behind in the north have all gathered and went north to resist the Xixia army.
Gao Kan keenly grasped the opportunity brought by the second news. Without any hesitation, he immediately ordered Cao Qi and Lin Chong to be the commanders of the left and right armies.
Each led 20,000 troops and horses, sent out from Daming Mansion, marched eastward to Enzhou, regained the lost territory, and gathered the remnants of the Song army.
Go all the way north to Mingzhou and go to Zhending Mansion.
The two armies finally joined forces at the Guangxin Army Town. After returning to the south and roughly recovering the two areas in Hebei, the army returned to Daming Mansion.
After the two received the order, they immediately ordered their troops and horses to send out.
Gao Kan also ordered someone to send a message to Yan Qing, asking him to operate outside the northern border and organize bribes to recruit people.
If Yan Qing were to move in the north alone, he might have difficulties, so he was asked to find Yelu Aqi. If the two of them join forces, they would be able to accomplish something.
Taking advantage of the opportunity of Xixia's troops, Gaokan wanted to regain the lost territory as much as possible. After closing Hebei, he planned to plot the land east of Hedong.
As for the Jin army in the east and west, he expected that after Xixia attacked Dajin, they would not stay too long and would return sooner or later.
It's just that the Jin army spent so much effort this time and finally occupied so much territory in the Song Dynasty.
It is certain that they cannot easily give up the hard-won results. There is a high probability that although the army will withdraw, some troops will still be left behind.
Together with those who surrendered to the Jin army, they could hold on to most of their battle results and provide a steady stream of supplies to the Jin Kingdom.
On the contrary, if Gaokan is occupied at the moment, there is no need to worry that Wanyan Zongwang and Wanyan Zonghan will lead troops to Daming Mansion to attack him, unless these two people's minds are squeezed by the door.
He holds Daming Mansion in his hands, with a high city and a vast supply of food, and tens of thousands of soldiers and horses.
As long as we stick to the city of Damingfu, even if the Jin army has 100,000 troops to attack, it should not be a big problem to hold on for half a year. But, can the Jin army wait for half a year on the Xixia side?
Obviously they can't wait half a year!
What Wanyan Zongwang and Wanyan Zonghan brought with them when they went south this time were the most elite warriors of the Jin Kingdom. The remaining soldiers and horses in the Jin Kingdom were no match for the Xixia people.
Therefore, they must attract elite reinforcements as soon as possible, otherwise, their home base will be handed over to the Xixia people.
In this way, the Jin army's route back to the division was probably to take the eastern coastal line, return to the Jin Kingdom via Shandong, and then march to the Xixia front line after purges.
As long as the war between Xixia and Jin lasts long enough, Gaokan will be able to ensure that there is enough time to conquer all of Hebei, Hedong, the capital and even part of Shandong.
At that time, the connection between the Jin people and the occupied lands in the south was cut off, and Gaokan could slowly go south and consolidate and regulate the Song Dynasty bit by bit.
