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This road was also the way for the neutral Mongolian army to withdraw when Jinliao launched the Battle of Changchun Prefecture.
The last time Ximenqing asked Jiao Ting to report to the Mongolian Ministry, he followed the same path.
Under the escort of a thousand elite golden soldiers, Ximenqing's team safely crossed the Jinshan Mountains and arrived at the upper reaches of the Hela River.
Looking north, the prairie below the mountain appeared in front of everyone.
Chapter 764 The Lonely War of Xi Wang Xiaoqian
When Ximen Qing led his men and horses north to the prairie, pretending to befriend the Mongolian Ministry for the Kingdom of Jin, but in fact to send Bor Jijin?
Xiao Qian, the king of the Fourth Army of the Liao Kingdom, fell into the trick of the Jin army to lure the enemy, and rushed forward underestimated the enemy. As a result, he was attacked by Wanyan Zonghan's army and lost the capital of the Liao Kingdom, Zhongjing Dading Mansion.
Xiao Qian led the army to withdraw from the south of Enzhou City, intending to leave Ma Mengshan and retreat to Zezhou to collect the remnants of the army and fight the Jin army again.As a result, on the banks of the Sanfu River to the west of Dading Mansion, the retreating Xiao Qianjun was attacked by Wanyan Yinshuke, a Jurchen general under Wanyan Zonghan's command.
Although Xiao Qian still had [-] to [-] troops, his army had already fought fiercely with Wanyan Zongxiong's army in Enzhou City for several hours, many soldiers were wounded and marched forward, they were exhausted already.
When Xiao Qian withdrew his troops under the city of Enzhou, in order to avoid low morale and a lack of morale, he concealed the news of the fall of the Zhongjing Dading Mansion.But when the army withdrew south to the Sanfu River in the north of Guihua County, tens of miles away from Dading Mansion in Zhongjing, all the soldiers under him also noticed something strange.
Only then did Xiao Qian inform the whole army that the Dading Mansion in Zhongjing was lost, and the destination of the march was Zezhou and Songting Pass.
Just when the Liao army was shocked and people's hearts were unstable, Wanyan Yinshu led the army to attack Xiao Qian's army.
Wanyan Yinshu could wait for work at leisure, and defeated the [-] Liao army in chaos with [-] elite cavalry.
Had it not been for Chao Gai, Dong Ping, Yishi Bajin, Xiao Yi, Luohu and other generals who fought their way to the death and covered Xiao Qian's escape to the south, Xiao Qian, the king of the fourth army of the Liao Kingdom, would have almost died on the banks of the Sanfu River.
Although he lost a lot in the battle of Dading Mansion in Zhongjing, Xiao Qian has a stubborn character and vowed to fight the Jin army endlessly.
As the king of Xi, Xiao Qian's mobilization ability in the hometown of Xi people in Jingdao, Liao Kingdom is still very powerful.After Xiao Qian fled to Zezhou with Chao Gai, Dong Ping, Yishi Bajin and thousands of remnants, he raised his arms and summoned more than 2 troops from the nearby Xiren tribe.
At the same time, Xiao Qian's favorite generals Yelu Aguzhe and Yelu Shude escaped from the pursuit of Wanyan Zongqian's army after retreating from Maliling, and luckily escaped Wanyan Zonghan and Wanyan Yinshu Kejun along the way. The interception gathered more than 1 Liao troops and the defeated army fled back to Zezhou.
After Xiao Qian reorganized his troops, he took advantage of Wanyan Gao who was stationed in Dading Mansion in Zhongjing to appease the ministries of Zhongjing Road, and sent Xiren cavalry to feign surrender to the Jin army going south, and agreed with them on the date and place of surrender.
Wanyan Gao believed it to be true, and according to the agreement, sent generals Wen Dihen Alichu, Nahetunen, Zhu Jiaba Tilin and others to lead the troops to Shiziling, southwest of Dading Mansion in Zhongjing, to meet the surrendered Xiren tribe.
Xiao Qian dispatched a large army to surround Wen Dihen, Alichu and others, intending to annihilate this golden army, which would bring shame to Beijing's Dading Mansion.
After the Jin army was besieged by the Liao army, it did not panic.Wendyhen Alichu and others abandoned their horses, climbed up the high mountain and cliff of Shiziling to defend themselves, and started a desperate fight with the Liao army.
The Jin and Liao armies fought fiercely in Shiziling for more than half a day, but the Liao army failed to annihilate the outpost Jin army.With the arrival of reinforcements from the Jin Army, Xiao Qianjun was defeated by the Jin Army again, and had to abandon Zezhou and flee to Bei'an Prefecture in the west.
Xiao Qian’s route for withdrawing troops along this route was from Enzhou Lindu Pavilion to Guihua County Fugu Pavilion, Zezhou Shiziling Iron Slurry Pavilion, Songziling Luerxia Pavilion, Chehe Niushan Pavilion, Building Pavilion, Liuhe Pavilion, all the way back to the Bei'an Prefecture where the Liu River and the Luan River meet.
Xiao Qianjun took the official road of the Liao Kingdom from Dading Mansion in Zhongjing to Xijin Mansion in Nanjing.The reason why Xiao Qian recruited troops all the way and resisted steadily was to prevent the Jin army from marching into the Nanjing Road of the Liao Kingdom.
In the southwest of Bei'an Prefecture, after passing through the two stations of Worulai Pavilion and Xinguan, and then crossing Sixiang Ridge, you will arrive at the famous Gubei Pavilion.
The Gubei Pavilion station was built in the valley of the Gubeikou of the Great Wall, which is the boundary between the Zhongjing Road and the Nanjing Road in the Liao Kingdom, and it is also a dangerous pass.
When Xiao Qian led the army to retreat to Bei'an Prefecture, there was no way to retreat.If they retreat again, the Liao army will really retreat into the territory of Nanjing Road, which also declares that the Liao army has completely lost the war in Zhongjing Road.
At this time, only if the Liao army stayed in the territory of Zhongjing Road, could the Khitan and Xi tribes all over the Zhongjing Road be encouraged to fight against the Jin, so that the Jin army could not successfully occupy the Zhongjing Road of Liao State.
Therefore, Xiao Qian knew the importance of the Battle of Bei'an Province. On the one hand, he sent Xiao Yi and two generals Luohu to the nearby Xiwangling to collect the army and horses of the Xi tribe. Marshal Du and Yeluchun, king of Qin and Jin Dynasties, moved to rescue soldiers.
Xiao Qian sent two generals to gather troops and horses. Xiao Yi is a descendant of the former Xi Wang Nailie, and he also has a great appeal to Xi people.Luohu's father, Erilici, was the governor of the Xi tribe in the west, and his status among the Xi people was second only to King Xi Xiaoqian.
After Xiao Yi and the two generals Luohu went to Xiwangling for a while, the Western Jiedu envoy Erili stabbed [-] troops to join Xiao Qian's army, and all the tribes of the Xi nationality around Bei'an Prefecture also sent troops to join the battle. The momentum of Xiao Qian's army revive.
When Xiao Qian's army retreated all the way to Bei'an Prefecture, and learned that Zhongjing Dading Mansion had fallen, Yelu Dashi had no intention of fighting, and led the army of Nanjing Road in Liao Kingdom to retreat from Jinzhou, Zhongjing Road to Qianzhou, Runzhou, Pingzhou and Jingzhou is preparing to rely on the Great Wall of Lulongling to resist the attack of the Jin Army's South Route Army.
In Yelu Dashi's view, the Jin army captured Dading Mansion in Zhongjing, and the next target must be Xijin Mansion in Nanjing, so he hurriedly retreated to defend Nanjing Road.
To Yelu Dashi's surprise, the Jin Kingdom's South Route Army did not follow him and marched southward, and went straight to Xijin Mansion in Nanjing.
After Wanyan Sagai got rid of the entanglement of the Yelu Dashi Army, he sent his two brothers Wanyan Wulu and Wanyan Jiamu to lead the army westward, conquering Ande Prefecture, Xingzhong Mansion, Jianzhou and Lizhou along the way. The Northern Route Army joined forces in Dadingfu, Zhongjing, and aggressively attacked Xiao Qian's army in Bei'an Prefecture together.
The reason why Wanyan Sagai's army did not take advantage of the momentum to attack the Nanjing Road of the Liao Kingdom was not because the Yelu Dashi Army blocked the way, but because the Jin Kingdom and the Song Kingdom had an "Alliance on the Sea" covenant.
In the covenant signed by Zhao Liangsi and the Kingdom of Jin, there is such a stipulation: "For the Yanjing area, the Jin army cannot take it alone, and Yanjing is captured by the Song army. The Jin army is not allowed to pass through Songting, Gubei, and the south of Yuguan. Before the country, the northern and southern armies first took Gubei, Songting, and Dongyuguan in Pingzhou as the boundary."
Although the monarchs and ministers of the Song Dynasty did not send troops in time according to the covenant, and jointly attacked the Liao Dynasty with the Jin Kingdom during the agreed period, the Jin Kingdom's monarchs and ministers did not want to tear up the "Sea Alliance" with the Song Dynasty in a treacherous manner.
Therefore, Wanyan Sagai's army had no intention of crossing Yuguan in Pingzhou and invading Nanjing Road in Liao Kingdom.
Yelu Dashi didn't know the details of the alliance between the Jin and Song Dynasties, and made a serious misjudgment of the movement of Wanyan Sagai's South Route Army, which led to the combination of the Jin Army and the Jin Army, which brought great pressure to Xiao Qian, the king of the Fourth Army.
Compared with the external military pressure, what makes Xiao Qian more difficult to accept at this time is that the Xijin Mansion in Nanjing, which he was fighting to protect, was actually given up by Yelu Yanxi, Emperor Tianzuo of Liao Kingdom!
Chapter 765 The oriole is behind
Bei'an Prefecture in the southwest of Zhongjing Road in Liao Kingdom is located north of Gubeikou, and it is the last line of defense to prevent the Jin army from attacking Nanjing Road.
After the Jin army successively captured many prefectures and cities in the Zhongjing Road of the Liao Kingdom, the defeated Liao army retreated to Bei'an Prefecture, and regrouped under the command of Xiao Qian, the king of the Fourth Army of the Liao Kingdom.
Bei'an Prefecture was originally a city built by the Liao Kingdom during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period to resettle the Han people who moved north.
This place is between Dading Mansion in Beijing and Xijin Mansion in Nanjing. Many ceramic artisans live here. Many official kilns and folk kilns have been built outside the city.
Because of the production and trading of ceramics, although Bei'an Prefecture is small, it is a wealthy city.
However, as tens of thousands of Liao troops retreated here, the tranquility of Bei'an Prefecture was broken.
In order to defend the Nanjing Road, Xiao Qian, the king of the Fourth Army, collected and rectified the defeated soldiers from all over the country, and urgently strengthened the city defense of Bei'an Prefecture, intending to stand firm here and wait for reinforcements.
On the wall of the east gate of Bei'an Prefecture, there are three hideous heads hanging on the wall.
Those three were exactly the three Khitan generals who had abandoned the Zhongjing Dading Mansion without resisting when the Jin army sneaked into the Zhongjing Dading Mansion, and led their troops to flee to Bei'an Prefecture.
When Xiao Qian first came to Zhongjing Road, he adopted a gentle and appeasement policy towards the generals in his administration.The generals of the Liao army who lost Gaozhou and Enzhou were not punished.
However, when Xiao Qian led the army to go out in person, the three Khitan generals who stayed behind in Zhongjing Dading Mansion easily abandoned the city they were defending, causing Xiao Qian to suffer from the enemy and lose a lot.
At this time, Xiao Qian collected a lot of defeated troops, and in order to clean up the military discipline, he took these three generals who had fled before the battle and killed them.
The three bloody heads had the effect of "killing chickens to scare monkeys", and the Liao army in and out of the city had a much stricter military discipline.
However, Xiao Qian stood on the city wall and looked towards the east, his brows were still furrowed, and his heart was full of ups and downs.
Just now, someone from Xijin Mansion in Nanjing brought a very bad news to Xiao Qian.
Tianzuo Emperor Yelu Yanxi, who used Xijin Mansion in Nanjing as his temporary capital, learned that Dading Mansion in Zhongjing had fallen. He was afraid that the Jin army would take advantage of the momentum and go straight to Xijin Mansion in Nanjing, so he left Nanjing with his concubine, children and close minister Xiao Fengxian and others. Analyze Tianjin Mansion and go west to Xijing Road.
Since the emperor was defeated in the guard of Dagang and buried an army of 70, it seemed that he no longer had the courage to personally lead the army to fight against the Jin army.
The Shangjing Linhuang Mansion was abandoned in the early stage, and now the Zhongjing Dading Mansion has been lost. The emperor didn't want to work hard, but ran away again. Want to hand over the Nanjing Xijin Mansion?