When the Mongolian army attacked the Jin, they first defeated the main force of the Jin army in Huailai and Jinshan, forcing the Jin army commander Wan Yan Gang and Shuhu Gaoqi to retreat to Juyong Pass, and then bypassed the Zijin Pass and invaded the Central Plains.
The army was divided into three routes in the Central Plains. The left route followed the sea to the east, attacking Zhongdu and western Liaoning; the right route followed Taihang to the south, and then entered the north and south roads of Hebei Province; the main force of the middle route army swept across Hebei East and West Roads, Damingfu Road, and then once
Go deep into the east and west roads of Shandong.
The already shaky armed forces of the Kingdom of Jin suffered another heavy blow in this war.
Among the nineteen governor's roads in the territory of the Kingdom of Jin, the most elite ones are Hebei, Zhongyuan, and Shandong. They are all fertile lands with a dense population and a source of wealth. By this time, seven of them were affected by the war.
Six.
All living creatures were wiped out on the fertile fields for thousands of miles, and the bones were scattered like a tangle. The Jurchens were certainly wiped out, but the Han people who had lived here for generations, after a lapse of a hundred years, once again suffered a bloody massacre, and the number of dead was in the millions.
Such a powerful prairie cavalry, such a sharp attack, such a devastating destruction, such a merciless massacre, has never happened since ancient times.
Of course, the Mongolian army also has hidden worries.
If at the beginning of their march south, the Mongolian army was like hungry and bloodthirsty wolves, now they are full, and some even overeat and are holding on.
Many of their troops gradually lost their original rapid advance and retreat style, and began to be slowed down by the huge number of prisoners and supplies captured, which also weakened their fighting spirit.
Relatively speaking, the previous coup of the Jin Kingdom in Zhongdu, although it caused huge casualties, was like a sharp knife cutting through carrion, giving a slight rebirth to the seriously ill body.
After the new emperor came to the throne, he used his disciples Shan Yi, Xu Ding and others to govern the country, and also promoted a number of military men.
The generals who controlled the military forces around Zhongdu, such as Anzhen, Wanyan Chenghui, Wu Lindayu, Heshi Lieheshou, Miao Daorun, and Zhang Rou, were all talented and could not only withstand the attack of the Mongolian Left Route Army on Zhongdu.
Invasion, and even the momentum of a two-pronged counterattack.
Along the way, after the new emperor ascended the throne, he led 20,000 troops to defend the Wugu Sun Wutun camp left behind in Beijing.
Wugu Sun Wutun fought against the Song people of the Southern Dynasties. He used 5,000 elite soldiers to defeat a water formation of 50,000 Song soldiers. From morning to noon, he captured three bridges and pulled out thirteen fences. He was named Tiger General.
Wugu Sun Wutun led his troops out of the central capital and marched westward until they reached Dingxing County in Zhuozhou, which was where Yang Aner's Tiewa Ganjun Army was stationed that day, thus threatening both the east and west retreat routes of the Mongolian army at the same time.
The other group is headed by Li Ying, the experienced officer of Shuhu Gaoqi.
Li Ying, in his capacity as the governor of the capital, gathered the remaining soldiers and civilians in Xuandezhou, Dexing Prefecture and other places, and obtained the strong man Li Xiong and others, with ten thousand soldiers. He then used this army as a stronghold in Xishan, Zhongdu, and constantly threatened Juyongguan, robbed and killed
The strength of the Mongolian army squad marching here.
These two people are not serious enemies, but they have the emperor of the Jin Kingdom behind them and the Zhongdu City with millions of soldiers and civilians as support, so they are not easy to deal with.
So ten days ago, Genghis Khan personally led Qiuxue's army and the twenty thousand households who were the main force of the Central Route Army to leave Jinan and head north at full speed.
When the military report reached Zhuozhou, Wugu Sun Wutun did not dare to fight Genghis Khan head-on, so he immediately withdrew his troops and returned to Zhongdu. As a result, his troops were still halfway there, and the Mongolian cavalry traveled four hundred miles day and night to arrive. They drove and killed them.
All 20,000 soldiers and horses were wiped out, and Wugu Sun Wutun died in the battle among the rebels.
At the same time, Hesar and other troops who were originally in Zhuozhou tried to make achievements before Genghis Khan arrived. As expected, they defeated Li Ying's troops at Qingbaikou, and Li Ying was seriously injured and returned to Zhongdu.
At this point, the Mongolian army re-guaranteed the retreat route of the army and continued to maintain a semi-encirclement situation on Zhongdu.
Genghis Khan went north to Zhongdu, and the fourth prince dragged thunder south to Shandong. Soldiers and civilians from various places around Jinan gradually gathered to resist. The two Mongolian armies stationed in Jinan had thousands of households, so they launched attacks one after another.
Naturally, the soldiers and civilians everywhere were unable to withstand the might of the Mongolian army. Just to the west of Jinan City, Fengji Town, Changqing County, Guide Town, and Guangli Town changed hands one after another and were burned down by the Mongolian army.
The Mongolian army rose up to fight and continued to advance westward until they reached the lush mountains of Pingyin County, where they were blocked by the defenders of Dongping Prefecture.
However, the defenders did not dare to fight for a long time. When the Mongols gathered thousands of horses, the defenders immediately fled. A man from a hundred households named Yan led some soldiers and civilians to maintain their organization and fled all the way into Pingyin County.
When he climbed to the top of Pingyin City, the county magistrate Wendy Hantugu scolded him: "You have attracted the Mongols!"
Yan Baihu knew that the county magistrate was just complaining and was too lazy to pay more attention.
He looked down at the city with a gloomy face, and saw more than a hundred Mongolian cavalry driving about three to four thousand Han people towards the city wall. Hundreds more cavalry stopped in the distance and watched. Someone pointed at the city head and shouted loudly.
laugh at.
Among the three to four thousand civilians, a few suddenly broke away from the team and ran towards the forest on one side. Before they had run twenty steps, the Mongolian army's arrows arrived.
The arrow missed their vital points, but hit their legs. They fell to the ground and struggled to crawl forward, and then were trampled twice by the Mongolian cavalry who rushed over, and finally stopped moving.
The other civil servants continued to move forward. Their heads were lowered, neither looking at the Mongols nor the road ahead. When they got closer, Yan Baihu rubbed his eyes and saw that there were still people crying in the team.
Women. But those in the front row were all strong men. They had no weapons in their hands. Each of them held a bamboo basket. Occasionally, a few carried picks and the like, and walked forward slowly, getting closer and closer to the county seat.
"Damn, they want to fill the trench." Yan Baihu spat.
Wendy Hantugu was shocked and said: "That's not possible."
Yan Baihu called a few of his subordinates: "You have a loud voice. Hurry up and let them run away! You can go to the mountains to the east or the woods to the west. Don't go to the city to die! Shout!"
Pingyin County is bordered by a large river to the west and the remnants of Mount Tai to the east. Not far from the county seat, there are rolling hills and hills, and forests crisscrossing them. If these three to four thousand people run away desperately, no matter how fast the Mongolian cavalry moves, they will never be able to catch them.
Killed them all.
Several subordinates immediately shouted repeatedly.
But those Han men and women were probably frightened stupidly by the Mongols and ignored them. The large group of people rushed to the city like zombies. Some of them shoveled the soil with bamboo baskets and dumped it into the ditch, and some slowly
Climb across the trench and use your pickaxe to pound the base of the city wall.
Pingyin County is a small county. The city walls are in disrepair and the trenches are shallow. How can it withstand so many people filling in land and digging at the same time?
The countless soldiers and civilians on the top of the city looked pale as they looked at the gray figures below.
A soldier suddenly shouted: "This is from Changqing County! My mother-in-law is still in Changqing County!"
No one paid him any attention.
Shortly after the fall of Jinan, Changqing County was lost. Later, the Mongolian army shrank, and Yan Baihu took people to see it. There was no one alive in the county for a long time. These men and women now were naturally plundered by the Mongols.
, but no one wanted to ask about their origins. They were just some strong men and women left after the massacre of the city, and they were driven by the Mongols to consume arrows and fill ravines.
Only one of them will die.
And if Pingyin County is lost, the soldiers and civilians in the city will suffer the same fate.
"Fire the arrow!" Yan Baihu shouted.
More than a hundred archers immediately leaned out of the city wall and shot at the civil servants below.
This action is very dangerous, because the Mongolian knights are watching eagerly from a hundred steps away. If they want to cover the people to fill the trench, they only need to ride closer to the city, and they can cover the city with heavy bows and long arrows, and snipe the archers at the city.
.The archers must have suffered heavy casualties.
However, perhaps the Mongols were a little tired, so they did not move. They only lazily monitored the people digging under the city and did not allow them to escape.
The common people were shot by archers on the city, and flowers of blood bloomed in the crowd. Some people cried loudly and tried to escape, while others screamed twice in despair and moved forward instead, probably wanting to die. There was a woman who was crazy.
Smiling, he opened his clothes, exposed his chest, and signaled the archers to shoot in the heart.
Occasionally, a few people turned around and ran away, and then the Mongols laughed and divided into small groups to kill them.
The Mongolians looked very relaxed. Sometimes they would shoot with bows and arrows, and sometimes they would chop with machetes. If someone missed, they would be laughed at loudly by others.
Yan Baihu looked at this scene indifferently. He felt painful, angry, but powerless. The archers shot two rounds, but they were all soft-handed and stopped their arrows. County Magistrate Wendy Hantugu opened his mouth,
When I got the order to continue shooting, I felt my throat was dry.
At this moment, a sharp roar came from behind the Mongolian cavalry.
Dozens of Mongolian cavalry turned back at the same time, obviously showing a nervous attitude. After a while, a Mongolian light cavalry riding three horses at the same time ran over and shouted a few words to them.
I don’t know what he said, but the leader of the Mongolian cavalry suddenly pulled out his scimitar and slashed it in the air repeatedly. Some Mongolians even shouted angrily.
Yan Baihu guessed that it would not be good news. He thought that these Mongols might attack the city overnight and then massacre the city to vent their anger?
While he was getting anxious, the Mongolian cavalry suddenly dispersed, splitting into several small groups and galloping along the city walls. They did not check the defense situation at the top of the city, but instead waved their whips, whistled and roared, and gathered the civilians back from the trenches.
, and then led them back where they had gone.
The smoke and dust billowed and did not disperse for a long time.
The defenders on the city looked at each other as if in a dream.