It can be imagined that before tonight, there will be 40,000 to 50,000 people arriving, and the number will only increase in the future. In the end, if Wu Jie can arrive as promised, it would not be surprising if there are 100,000 people here.
Let’s not talk about the future for now. Let’s just say that for now, Zhao Jiu can finally stop his horse by the Fen River and take a closer look at the Taiyuan City of this era.
By the way, the Taiyuan City in the Song Dynasty is not the same as the Taiyuan City in the Han and Tang Dynasties.
The main part of Taiyuan City was located on the west side of Fenshui River, which is the traditional Jinyang area, and the city was large. The Taiyuan City in the Song Dynasty was built by Emperor Taizong of Song, Zhao Guangyi, after he destroyed the old city. He found that Taiyuan could not do without a big city, so he asked Pan Mei to rebuild the new city. The new city was located in Yangqu County on the east side of Fenshui River, not in the traditional Taiyuan area, and was much smaller.
However, this does not mean that this city is inferior to any Taiyuan city in history in terms of defense. Otherwise, Nianhan would not have had no choice but to lock the city and march south, only to find that Taiyuan was still in the hands of the Song army. He had no choice but to besiege the city and fight for reinforcements. After defeating hundreds of thousands of Song troops, it still failed. In the end, it took 250 days for the city to be breached, and he had to massacre the city to vent his anger.
"Officials, please wait and see."
Han Shizhong led his Beiwei Army to the north of the city to guard the road for defense, and Li Yanxian went to preside over the construction of the fortress under the city. Unexpectedly, it was Yang Yizhong, who was always taciturn outside, who took the initiative to instruct Emperor Zhao on the defense of Taiyuan City... He was originally from Daizhou in the north. "Taiyuan City is more than ten miles in circumference. It is not a big city, and it is not made entirely of bricks and stones, but mostly rammed earth... But the west of the city faces the Fen River, and then the Fen River is diverted around the city as a moat... There are only four gates, three gates on the east, north, and south sides, all of which have separate protruding gates. The gates and the city gates behind them rely on suspension bridges, but they are real brick and stone walls... Not only that, there is also a separate inner city in the city, with a circumference of more than five miles, almost occupying half of the city, and there are no people living in the inner city, but warehouses, government offices, and barracks..."
"In other words, although Taiyuan City is small, it is actually a special flat fortress?" Zhao Jiu, standing by the Fen River, looked at the flags of the Jin army waving on the city wall in the south of Taiyuan, and suddenly realized. "A place dedicated to military use?"
"Yes." Yang Yizhong nodded in response. "It's fortunate that it's winter and frozen. Otherwise, the Fen River flows around the city, and the three city gates are standing side by side. We can only use artillery to attack... and the people in the city can use artillery to counter artillery... so we just have to fight..."
Yang Yizhong spoke slower and slower, and Zhao Jiu and other close ministers were also gradually attracted by other things... It turned out that just as Han Shizhong was on the way to the northern passage of Taiyuan, Li Yanxian led the large army to set up a camp, and when Emperor Zhao was listening to the introduction under the dragon flag, as the flags on the southern city wall waved, suddenly, a group of Jin cavalry appeared from the east.
This group of cavalry was not large in number. There were only seven or eight Mouke, or about seven or eight hundred cavalrymen. Judging from the situation, they were obviously transferred from the eastern city.
Under the watchful eyes of Emperor Zhao and many of his close ministers, they first attacked the southeast corner of Taiyuan City, startling some civilians and soldiers who were setting up camp there, causing a small chaos... That would have been fine, as the defenders in the city took advantage of the foreign enemy's unstable foothold and launched a cavalry raid to dampen the enemy's morale, which was a conventional tactic... However, after a successful attack, this small force not only did not turn back, or showed signs of turning back, but actually relied on the cover of the southern city gate, turned around, and headed straight for the dragon flag.
"Wanyan Zhehe, do you think I am Sun Quan?" Zhao Jiu was stunned for a moment, then laughed. "But he didn't know how he broke the Xiaoshi Bridge when the Fen River froze."
"Your Majesty, why don't you take shelter for a while!" Although they were more than a mile away, Yang Yizhong had no choice but to change the subject. "Your Majesty, we will fight the enemy..."
"I will stay here and watch you defeat the enemy!" Zhao Jiu stopped his horse and shook his head.
Yang Yi Zhong glanced at Wang Yan, and seeing that the other party nodded in understanding, he and Liu Yan hurriedly put on their helmets, and then one of them led the infantry and the other led the cavalry, and they hurriedly formed a battle formation forward.
However, because the enemy came suddenly, and although the imperial guards were wearing the main armor at the beginning, they were still not fully equipped, so the speed of the armored formation was inevitably a little slow to keep up.
In fact, this is probably the reason why this Jurchen cavalry felt that they could make a profit.
But having said that, how could Zhao Jiu retreat at this time?
However, just as the two armies were about to meet hastily, a group of soldiers suddenly rushed out from the gap between the main formation of the Song army and the imperial squad, and collided head-on with the Jurchen cavalry.
Zhao Jiu was stunned for a moment, because he saw clearly that these were the Japanese samurai who had been left behind when he set out and had just arrived from the rear... Hundreds of Japanese samurai, some holding terrifyingly long bows, some holding swords as tall as them, riding on unarmored horses that were probably used for logistics supplies to travel, with amazing momentum, they rushed straight into the Jurchen cavalry formation.
Of course, it was not new for Japanese samurai to fight on horseback, because Taira no Kiyomori had been skilled in riding horses since he came to the Akashin Team. At that time, Zhao Jiu asked out of curiosity... As a result, Taira no Kiyomori told Emperor Zhao that at that time, most of the samurai in the north of Japan fought on horseback, and they only had pedestrians to assist them. Their weapons, from the tachi to the longbow, especially the tachi with a blade almost as big as a person, were originally exclusive weapons for fighting on horseback.
Now, the most crucial point is that the Jurchen cavalry was not sure if they were frightened by the exaggerated weapons of the Japanese samurai, but they actually paused. Not only that, because the blade was too long, the bow was too big, and the visual effect was too strong, even Zhao Jiu couldn't help but have some hope.
But it was just a hope. The next moment, as these exaggerated swords slashed through the Jurchen cavalry's thick armor that weighed at least 50 kilograms, both sides of the battle and many people watching, including Emperor Zhao, all woke up from their dreams.
For a time, the cavalry was rampant and Japanese samurai suffered heavy casualties.
Fortunately, he bought time for the imperial guards and the Song army, so he can be regarded as loyal and brave.
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