Chapter 139: Privy Counsellor
It seems that it is just a blink of an eye, and twenty, thirty, or even forty years of time disappear without a trace under people's noses.
Looking back and asking himself what has happened in the past thirty-five years, Downing's answer to himself is that he has grown up.
Three years have passed since the Battle of Gubeiguan between Liaojin and Jin, and no one expected that a war would break out in that inconspicuous place that would change the balance of power of the three countries.
The Battle of Gubeiguan was won by the Jin State, and it was also won in the face of the Song and Liao attacks......
Wanyan Lou Room relied on his 30,000 soldiers to lay a foothold on the east bank of Luanshui, and then expanded the battle line towards the Gubei Pavilion.
Yelu Dashi naturally did not allow this to happen, and he gathered the remaining 40,000 troops to set up a decisive battle with the Jin army in the southern area.
In this battle, under the command of Yelu Dashi, the Liao army had a slight upper hand. But you have a good plan, and I'll go over the wall ladder again. Wanyan Lou was not a bad talent, he sent a cavalry to attack the supply depot of the Liao army, and burned the grain and grass supply of the Liao army to the ground.
The morale of the Liao army suffered a heavy blow, and the soldiers had no intention of fighting, so Yelu Dashi had to order a retreat.
At the same time, when the Song Kingdom heard that a war had broken out in the area of Gubeiguan, he wanted to go to support. At the beginning, the route was to take the eight states in the west of Yanyun, and by the way, the lost territory could be recovered.
But after fighting with the Jin army stationed here, the Song army helplessly found that they were not opponents at all. So he had to retreat in disgrace, and finally took the eight eastern states of Yanyun owned by the Liao State to take a detour to the Gubei Pavilion.
At the beginning, Tang Ning had done the thing of destroying the false way, so the Liao army was quite unkind to the Song army that borrowed the road.
The Song army, which had been criticized all the way, began to have a bad feeling for the Liao, and finally arrived at the Gubei Pavilion, and the 80,000 Song troops who arrived on the battlefield as reinforcements immediately threw themselves into the battle.
The grain and grass were burned, and the soldiers had no intention of fighting. Yelu Dashi only had to let the soldiers retreat to the walled fort to defend this way, but Wanyan Lou Room would not let go of this opportunity, he led his troops all the way to conquer the Liao army walled fort, a total of seven walled forts, he has captured five.
Looking at the remnants of the defeated soldiers who fled back, Yelu Dashi's heart also began to waver.
At this time, Song reinforcements arrived in time, and they were accompanied by 50,000 Liao troops.
With this army of nearly 100,000 people to deal with the 30,000 people in Yan Lou's room, Yelu Dashi was very sure in his heart.
But that's when the expected happened.
The commander of the Liao army's reinforcements thought that Yelu Dashi was too young to serve the crowd and had no experience, so he let him stay where he was cool and let him personally command the battle line.
At the same time, the commander also thought that the Song army was just a wreck that would only shrink back and throw gunpowder, so he asked the commander of the Song army to stay where it was cool.
The commander of the Song army stopped hearing this, and said in his heart that he was also named by His Majesty himself, why are you belittling me so much? So he had a conflict with the commander of the Liao army.
Wan Yan Lou was not idle at this time, he sent soldiers to attack the Liao army fort at night, and then quickly fled after killing people and setting fire, and the Liao army panicked and had a stampede accident, and even more people died under his own hands than the Jin army.
Yelu Dashi really couldn't bear it anymore, and when he was about to reason with the two, he received news that it was the reinforcements of the Jin army coming down the river.
Three days later, a large fleet of ships arrived at the Gubei Pavilion area, and again brought in 20,000 reinforcements.
But the equipment of these 20,000 people is not ordinary, and it is staggering just to look at. Yelu Dashi secretly said that it was not good in his heart, so he sent people to collect intelligence, and finally got a shocking result, that is, the Emperor of the Jin State Wanyan Agu drove the expedition in person, and came to the Gubei Pavilion with 20,000 people.
The news spread soon after, the world was shaken, the Liao army sent reinforcements, and the Song army also sent reinforcements, preparing to defeat Yan Aguta after speaking here.
However, Wanyan Aguda was not a motionless wood, and the next day after he went to Luanshui, he ordered him and Wanyan Lou to lead 25,000 men each, and the troops were divided into two ways to attack the remaining two Liao army forts.
The Song-Liao coalition army tried their best to resist, but in the end they still couldn't stop Wanyan Agu's offensive. This person only needs to rush forward in front of the battle when the battle starts, and shout: "Rush! ”
Those Jurchen soldiers rushed up with a scream as if they had been beaten with chicken blood.
As if devastated, the defensive front of the Song-Liao coalition army was completely defeated by Wanyan Aguta, and the two walled forts were separated, and they could no longer help each other.
In this way, the 100,000 allied army was defeated by the Jin army led by Wanyan Aguta in a bewildering way, just as he had defeated the 30,000 Liao army with 3,000 troops.
There were very few soldiers who escaped from the two walled forts that were encircled and suppressed, and when they met with the reinforcements sent by the Song and Liao countries, they only had less than 30,000 left after losing their armor along the way.
Most of them were pursued by the cavalry of the Jin army on the way to escape, or were captured by the Jin army during the war.
Moreover, as soon as the two commanders fought, they disappeared, and in the end, it was Yelu Dashi who gathered the remnants of the defeated army and fled to the route where the reinforcements came.
After the news spread, Yelu Yanxi and Zhao Ji were very angry. Ordered to find the two commanders and behead them for public display.
In fact, these two knew that they were done with the game when they fled, and even if they went back, they couldn't afford to be held responsible.
The defeat of 100,000 people by 50,000 is no longer a question of command ability, but a question of whether this person is in command or not.
So the two of them simply didn't do anything, and ran to the side of the Jin army to surrender.
Although Wanyan Aguda doesn't like these two people, but in order to make it more
Many people were able to take refuge, but he still accepted these two people.
It's just that whether these two people will die of stomach trouble because of drinking bad water is none of his business.
Next, the reinforcements of the Jin army came down the Luanshui again, and the mighty army of 100,000 marched towards the Gubei Pavilion on the east bank of the Luanshui.
Wanyan Agu beat the royal driver and said that he was bound to win this land, and according to the urine nature of the people in the Song Liao court, it is estimated that he will give up the Gubei Pavilion.
However, the Gubei Pavilion is a place that holds Luanshui, which is very important for the Jin country that relies on Luanshui to transport troops. It can't be handed over easily, so they still bite the bullet and say to continue fighting.
Fight and fight, and as a result, 200,000 Song-Liao coalition troops were killed by Wanyan Agu in the Gubei Pavilion. People all over the world have great hopes for this war, and Zhao Ji also sent Tong Guan to transfer Liu Fa and others from the Western Army as the generals of the unified army.
Yelu Dashi also received the appreciation of the Liao army supervisor after gathering the remnants of the defeated army and fleeing back, and specially asked him to command the battle.
However, even so, the Song-Liao coalition was ultimately unable to achieve victory.
In every era, there is a lucky person who is favored by the world, and Wanyan Aguta is undoubtedly one of them.
Even if this person was in the battle formation, those oncoming arrows seemed to go around him like a bend.
When the gunpowder explodes, it doesn't explode around him.
After rushing down with three hundred personal soldiers, there were still a hundred left, and he himself was unscathed.
The Jurchens are more superstitious, and seeing this, their worship of Wanyan Aguta is even more crazy, and they shout long live, and the background is that the Song-Liao coalition army fled in a hurry.
Subsequently, after Wanyan Aguta occupied the Gubei Pavilion, he returned to the court, and in the following three years, no major war broke out between the three kingdoms.
Today, three years later, Wanyan Aguda sent Wanyan Lou Room and Wanyan Zonghan to lead 200,000 troops to the Song State. He himself led 300,000 troops to Datong Mansion and directly took Yelu Yanxi.
Soon after, the news reached Zhao Ji's ears, this heavenly meeting, Zhao Ji, who was sitting on the dragon chair in the main hall, was very pale, he trembled his lips, looked at the dead silence of the civil and military ministers, and said: "Everyone...... Can the secretaries have a strategy to defend against the enemy? ”
"Your Majesty, the matter has come to this, let's surrender!"
"Yes, Your Majesty, the Liao State is just surviving now, and the Jin State is worthy of our relationship, let's form an alliance with the Jin State!"
For a while, there were different opinions, and the court became a vegetable market again.
Zeng Bu lost the battle with Cai Jing a few years ago, and was fired by Zhao Ji in a rage.
Since he left, the backbone of the court seemed to have been pulled away at once, and no other sound could be heard except for surrender and peace.
But today it seems to be a little different......
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