This means that the conditions for generals to lead troops are very harsh, so as to prevent the incident of Park Kaka from happening.
Moreover, there is only one major general among the generals stationed outside the city, and the rest of the lieutenant generals and generals are all in Bianliang. Unless a high-level battle is encountered, it is basically impossible to deploy them.
But it is obvious that destroying the Jin Dynasty was not a particularly high standard. Even in the war of annihilation, only three lieutenant generals were sent, and that was for the purpose of decentralizing power. Otherwise, one lieutenant general would be enough.
Soon, in early January of the 14th year of the Qingli period, the Song Dynasty announced to all quarters that the Liao Kingdom had offered its territory and the Jurchens had established a country without authorization, which was a rebellion. It then officially marched north to attack the newly established pseudo-regime of the Jin Dynasty.
This reason seems strange to later generations.
The winner takes all.
Since the Liao Dynasty was destroyed by the Jin Dynasty, it should be the Jin Dynasty that inherited the territory of the Liao Dynasty.
But in ancient society, especially in the Confucian cultural circle of East Asia, what was emphasized was the righteousness and status of the relationship between ruler and subject, father and son.
The Jurchens were once subjects of the Liao Kingdom, and now they are rebelling, which is disloyal to the Liao Kingdom.
In name, the Liao regime was recognized by all parties. Since the Liao offered its territory, the territory should belong to the Song Dynasty. It was reasonable for the Song Dynasty to attack under this name.
certainly.
In fact, this is just an excuse. There were too many rebellions in ancient times. Cao Pi usurped the Han Dynasty, Sima usurped the Wei Dynasty, Liu Yu usurped the Jin Dynasty, and the Tang Dynasty also rebelled to establish the Sui Dynasty. Can we deny their legitimacy?
So in essence, whoever has the bigger fist is right, but since the four countries are now vassal states of the Song Dynasty, they naturally need such an excuse to justify their actions.
When Wanyan Wugunai of the Great Jin Dynasty learned about this, he was naturally shocked. He quickly sent an envoy again and wrote a sincere letter, stating that he had never thought of being an enemy of the Great Song Dynasty and was willing to become a vassal state of the Great Song Dynasty after the founding of his country.
However, as the saying goes, the bigger the fist, the more powerful the power. The Song Dynasty was now powerful, and the Jin Dynasty was afraid, so of course they would be humble. But if the Jin Dynasty, after destroying the Liao Dynasty, discovered that the Song Dynasty was weak and could be bullied, how could they miss this opportunity?
Isn’t this how the Northern Song Dynasty fell in history?
Therefore, the Song Dynasty did not pay any attention to the Jin Kingdom at all. Instead, it sent 30,000 troops from Youyan Road, and more than 10,000 troops each from Yunshuo Road and Liaoyang Prefecture to support each other, advancing in three routes.
Wanyan Wugunai, who was acting arrogantly in the Liao Dynasty's Zhongjing Dading Prefecture, decided after two days of discussion not to engage in a head-on confrontation but to lure the enemy deeper into his territory.
It has to be said that he was wise. Just like the Ming Dynasty's efforts to eliminate Nurhaci, Nurhaci did not fight hard, but chose to retreat first, lure the enemy deep into his territory, and then defeat them one by one, achieving a great victory in the Battle of Sarhu.
Unfortunately, the Song army was not the Ming army. Although the Song army still had major problems in overall command, such as the three routes were led by a total of five lieutenant generals, there was no main general to unify the command of the battle, resulting in each fighting on its own.
However, in the absence of a unified command from above, the intermediate combat units, each consisting of an army, were well-equipped and well-managed. Essentially, a lieutenant general led two armies, with one army commanded by a major general. Totaling over 50,000 men, they worked together to encircle the Jurchens.
The first to march north were the troops stationed in Liaoyang Prefecture. They adopted an unstoppable fighting style and marched north along the main road. In just a few days, they first captured Chenzhou, and then took Guide without stopping, and headed straight for Huanglong Prefecture.
Wanyan Ugunai immediately mobilized a large number of troops to evacuate the heartland of the former Liao Kingdom, and then in Tongzhou, which is the area of Siping City in Liaoning Province in later generations, he planned to take advantage of the terrain to intercept the invading Song army halfway.
But what made Wanyan Ugunai collapse was that the army did not even reach the ambush point. When a large number of Liao army surrendered soldiers heard that they were going to fight with the Song army, most of them ran away halfway. Many even killed the supervising Jurchen officers and fled in all directions.
After all, the Jurchens were still outnumbered by the Khitans, and their obedience after being captured was due to their natural fear of the Jurchens. However, once their fear of the Song army took over, their fear of the Jurchens was naturally overwhelmed, leading to a desperate resistance.
Rather than being shot to death by the Song army from hundreds of feet away on the battlefield, or being killed by cannons from miles away, they would rather fight to the death with the Jurchens, whose main weapons were still cold weapons, in exchange for a chance of survival.
When this happened at this critical juncture, Wanyan Wugunai had no way to deal with it. In fact, even the Jurchens themselves were in panic, let alone the captives?
So he had no choice but to continue advancing.
After finally arriving at the destination, arranging the ambush position, and listening to the scouts' reports on the enemy's movements, they waited patiently for the Song army to arrive.
As a result, just as I saw the human figure, I suddenly heard a faint "whoosh whoosh whoosh whoosh" sound coming from a mile or two away.
Then.
"Bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang!"
The Jin people were stunned by the mortar bombardment and didn't know what was happening. Explosions were heard everywhere, as if the surrounding mountains and hills were about to be flattened.
It can only be said that this is just a light mortar of the first generation, weighing more than 200 kilograms and with a maximum range of only one kilometer.
During World War II, the Japanese Type 94 mortar had a range of four kilometers, and Type 96 and Type 4 mortars with a range of two or three kilometers were also standard.
In comparison, the weapons of the Song army still had a certain gap compared with the more advanced industrial countries during World War II.
But compared with the Jin Dynasty during the cold weapon period, the situation was completely different.
The Jin people had just seen human figures in the distance, and it was the scouts in front who saw them. The main force behind them was still in the ambush circle, and they couldn't even see the people, but they were hit by artillery fire.
Immediately afterwards, a large number of Song troops came charging in, with the sound of gunfire continuing, and even the sound of machine guns emitting blue patterns, "da da da da".
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