Taking the Yangtze River as the line, most of the areas south of the Yangtze River have been almost divided among the three kingdoms of Qi, Yue, and Wu, while most of the areas north of the Yangtze River are still in a state of division and chaos.
Gaokan integrated 80,000 troops and divided them into four groups.
The Jin armies, led by Yang Zhi, Lin Chong, Lu Zhishen and Cao Qi respectively, headed in the four directions north of the Yangtze River.
There were 20,000 soldiers and horses in each route, and they swept down in a mighty manner. The small separatist forces along the way were no match at all.
After spending more than half a year, Gaokan basically captured all the Song Dynasty north of the Yangtze River.
The only one that did not move was Bianliang, Tokyo. This road was originally the direction Yang Zhi led his troops to recover, but Gaokan told Yang Zhi from the time his army was sent out that the army would recover along the way. It didn't matter where it hit, except Bianliang cannot go.
As a result, Yang Zhi's troops marched too quickly, and it took less than two months to reach the left side of Bianliang.
However, due to Gaokan's strict orders, he had no choice but to station troops outside Bianliang.
At this time, Qi State, which was closest to Bianliang in the south, saw that Yang Zhi's army could enter Bianliang City at any time. Finally, it could not sit still and took the lead in attacking.
Qi State raised an army of 50,000 and rushed to Bianliang, hoping to occupy the capital before Yang Zhi's troops entered Bianliang.
After Yang Zhi got the news, he immediately reported it to Gao Kan, hoping to wait for Gao Kan's order before he could lead his troops directly into Bianliang City.
However, what he finally waited for was an order telling him to continue to stay where he was, and the army was not allowed to move without permission.
In the end, Yang Zhi could only watch the Qi army enter Bianliang City.
As the Qi army entered Bianliang City, the leader of the Qi Kingdom also entered Bianliang shortly afterwards. At the same time, he announced to the world that the north was the most powerful, and tens of thousands of troops were at the high hills outside Bianliang City. Wu and Yue could no longer sit still.
Less than ten days after King Qi proclaimed himself emperor, the two countries successively issued messages of crusade against Qi.
The combined armies of the two countries, one hundred thousand strong, marched towards Bianliang City in a mighty manner, and the leader of Qi State immediately raised troops to meet them.
The three armies were fighting in a melee, but Gaokan didn't care about them at all.
In Gao Kan's eyes, the combined troops of Qi, Yue, and Wu were less than 200,000, and most of them were formed from the originally weak local Xiang armies of the Song Army.
Although after two years of continuous fighting, the combat effectiveness of these soldiers and horses has improved a lot.
But compared with the soldiers and horses of Xixia and Jin in the north, they are still far behind.
That is to say, he is on the north side, and he is the one who bears the threat from the troops of Xixia and Jin. Otherwise, the so-called Three Kingdoms would have been beaten to pieces long ago.
Gaokan didn't care how the Three Kingdoms fought, and even deliberately gave Bianliang City to them to fight for, just to keep them fighting in the south so that they wouldn't have time to make trouble for themselves.
For Gaokan, matters within the Song Dynasty were always the Song people's own business, and their real threat was the foreign tribes in the north.
Originally, he thought that if Wu and Yue combined their forces to attack Qi together, even if Qi could sustain it for a while, sooner or later they would be divided and devoured.
Unexpectedly, the final result was far beyond his expectation.
The two armies of Wu and Yue were defeated by the Qi army outside Bianliang City. The two sides only fought for three months, and the Wu and Yue armies had to retreat.
Even the Qi army took advantage of the situation to pursue it and occupied a lot of territory that originally belonged to the two countries.
In the end, they had no choice but to form an alliance to jointly fight against Qi.
But this result brought trouble to Gaokan. After Qi defeated Wu and Yue, it suddenly began to feel confident.
Not only were they constantly threatening the two countries with a large army in the south, they even mobilized troops and horses and began to move towards Gaokan's territory.
Judging from that posture, it seemed that he wanted to drive out the tens of thousands of Yang Zhi's troops stationed in the capital area first, and then plot more.
The first battle between the two sides took place in the late winter of the third year.
With nearly 40,000 soldiers and horses, Yang Zhi blocked Qi's 60,000 invading army and temporarily defended the Gyeonggi Road.
However, more reinforcements from Qi State came from all over the south to Gyeonggi Road to surround him on both sides. Seeing that when those troops arrived, it was difficult for Yang Zhi to continue to defend.
Gao Kan, who was in charge of Daming Mansion, couldn't bear it anymore. If the tiger didn't show its power, people would treat it like a sick cat.
Immediately, Lu Zhishen was dispatched to lead 40,000 troops from Shandong and headed straight for Qi.
The army first met Qi's soldiers and horses to reinforce the battle of Gyeonggi Road. In just half a month, Lu Zhishen beat these soldiers and horses until they cried for their fathers and mothers.
After that, he continued to move his troops to the front line of Gyeonggi Road, outflanking Yang Zhi's army on both sides.
The 60,000 soldiers and horses of Qi State were in a bubble on the Gyeonggi Road, and then they suffered heavy casualties. They also ordered the two men to capture more than 10,000 people.
It was only at this time that the leader of Qi State finally realized that he had been fighting Wu and Yue in the south for several years, thinking that he was invincible in the world, but in the north.
Facing the soldiers and horses of Gaokan, the former King of Hebei, his men were not enough.
After realizing this, Qi State retreated to Bianliang. Even the leader of Qi State did not even stay in Bianliang capital. He directly handed over the city to the soldiers and horses left behind. He returned to his original home base of Qi State capital in despair and continued to fight with Wu and Yue. Bullshit.
After cleaning up the state of Qi, Gaokan left 20,000 troops on the Gyeonggi Road and recalled Yang Zhi and Lu Zhishen.
Xixia and the Kingdom of Jin had been in peace for half a year, and finally there was new news.
I don’t know whether the two countries secretly conspired and discussed it, or whether they both felt at the same time that instead of fighting each other to death, it would be better to pick on the soft persimmons first.
So the Jin Kingdom raised an army of 40,000 people, with General Wanyan Zongwang as its commander, and sent the troops to Beijing and went straight to Baoding and Cangzhou.
Xixia raised 50,000 troops and sent them to the Qilian Mountains, pointing directly at the Hedong Road.
Gaokan received the letter from Yan Qing from the north and knew that both sides could not hold back and wanted to continue to invade and plunder the Song Dynasty, which in their eyes was like a lamb waiting to be slaughtered. Gaokan was waiting for this opportunity.
There are only 90,000 soldiers and horses from the two countries combined in one place, and they are attacking from both sides.
That scene was so similar to when the Jin Kingdom sent out two armies from the east and west to attack the Song Dynasty at the same time.
The only difference from last time is that this time Gaokan already has nearly 200,000 troops under his command. At the same time, in the past few years, he has continuously trained a large number of elite and strong troops through various recapture operations in the Song Dynasty.
More than 130,000 soldiers and horses were stationed at the border, waiting for the two countries to attack him first.
After all, in the eyes of Xixia and Jin people, the Song people were synonymous with weakness. As long as their army marched south, the Song people would definitely flee.
Although Gao Kan had already had the ability to take the initiative, he deliberately waited for a good opportunity.
The soldiers and horses of the two countries took the initiative to attack, just to show the enemy's weakness. They first deceived those people into the Song Dynasty, and then wiped them out in one go. By then, the army would have a smooth road to the north.
Xixia and the Jin Kingdom had been wreaking havoc on the Song Dynasty for so many years, and it was time to start paying off their debts.
