Chapter 60 Attack Kaifeng in vain

Genghis Khan was chatting with Yelu Chucai when the news of Samuhe's capture of Tongguan was delivered to the grassland.The two chatted happily until Genghis Khan heard the good news.His face was solemn, Yelu Chucai had never seen him face the battle situation with such an expression since he followed the King of War. After a long silence, Genghis Khan finally let out a sigh: "The battle of Samuhe is not easy!" Yelu Chucai asked, "Why?" Genghis Khan replied: "Kaifeng City is their last stronghold, and they must defend it to the end. They have a strong force and are more than enough to defend the city. There are only 10,000 people in Samuhe, so it is obviously impossible to attack by force. People in the Central Plains have dealt with us many times, and they know that we The strategy of using troops, so the strategy of luring the enemy will not work, so I said, Samuhe is not easy to fight this battle."

Yelu Chucai didn't say anything, probably because it was a purely military issue and he had no ability to participate, and Genghis Khan didn't mean to let him make up his mind.On that night, Genghis Khan dispatched twenty thousand households to the Kaifeng battlefield.At the same time, Xixia was ordered to send 30,000 troops to fight together. The emperor of Xixia at this time was Li Zunxu, who killed his uncle Li Anan in 1211 and proclaimed himself emperor.Before he became emperor, he was the number one scholar. After he became emperor, he verified the adage that "knowledge is not equal to wisdom" with practice, and Xixia was staggering under his rule.

As soon as Genghis Khan's order arrived, Li Zunxu, who was composing a poem, threw away his brush and immediately dispatched 30,000 horses to the Kaifeng battlefield.Samuhe didn't have any hope for these 30,000 people, because it seemed that these 30,000 people were all morons. In fact, Samuhe's vision is too high, the 30,000 troops of Xixia are genuine regular troops.Just compared with the Mongolian Corps, they appear to be super miscellaneous. Although Samuhe now has 60,000 troops, the garrison in Kaifeng City and its surrounding area is conservatively estimated to be 200,000. Therefore, the battle of Samuhe is still difficult to fight.When the corps advanced to Mianchi, which was 300 kilometers away from the closed city, Samuhe encountered the Jin Guo corps stationed here.The commander of the corps, Pucha Ali, was ready to fight. Although his back was chilling when facing the Samuhe corps, he did not retreat for the time being.

Samuhe ordered the Xixia corps to launch an attack. The Xixia corps yelled wildly and charged in a disorderly manner. Pucha Ali was overjoyed and said to his advisers that if the enemies were all of this quality, then Dajin was expected to recover. , hit their old lair. As soon as the two sides fought, the Xixia Corps was defeated miserably, and they uttered earth-shattering cries.Pusha Ali was full of confidence and ordered to pursue the remnants of the enemy.Samuhe waited for a long time, and when he was complacent, he ordered the Mongolian army to charge. The two corps are not at the same level at all. Pucha Ali is not inferior to the Mongolian corps, like a boxer whose hands are tied, and he loses even the power to resist.He managed to find a way to escape among the rebellious army, so he flattered his horse and left. Before leaving, he deliberately took his mistress with him.

The Samuhe Corps pursued the remnants of the enemy like a gust of wind, and did not stop until they reached the suburbs of Kaifeng.There was an uproar in Kaifeng immediately, and Wanyan Xun called an emergency meeting as usual to discuss countermeasures. Shuhu Gao Qiyong took on the heavy responsibility and was solely responsible for the defense of Kaifeng City. His method was to close the city gate tightly and resist tenaciously.In such a situation, even with the help of God, Samuhe couldn't win Kaifeng.So he chose another strategy. The main force tightly besieged Kaifeng, and several small teams attacked the satellite cities around Kaifeng, and harassed the surrounding villages to isolate Kaifeng.

Shuhu Gaoqi turned a blind eye to everything outside Kaifeng City, and only had Kaifeng City itself in his heart and eyes. Under the fierce attack of the Samuhe Corps, Kaifeng City made creaking sounds, but it stood still. At this time, Samuhe was out of skills. He only knew that Kaifeng City had at least 200,000 defenders, but he didn't know that Kaifeng City's reserve resources were scarce.The city walls of Kaifeng City are far worse than that of Zhongdu, and the food reserves are only one-tenth of that of Zhongdu, barely supporting 200,000 people for a month.Samuhe tried many times to lure the enemy out of the city, but none of them worked.Shu Hu Gao Qi seemed to be nailed to death in Kaifeng City, no matter what tactics he used, he just remained motionless.

In fact, Shuhu Gao Qi was not completely immovable. Apart from Sa Muhe, his enemies also included the inspectors in the government.All the inspectors accused Shuhu Gaoqi of "fearing the enemy like a tiger" and allowing the Mongols to sweep around Kaifeng City.Their opinion is to send a brave army to break through the siege of the Mongols and regain Tongguan, and then send a brave army to Mianchi. In this way, Mianchi and Tongguan are the horns, and Kaifeng is the bull's head. The three parties will work together to wipe out the Mongols. Under the city of Kaifeng. Wanyan Xun decided under the citations of the censors that Shuhu Gao Qi should support the opinions of the wise censors.After listening to Wanyan Xun's words, Shu Hu Gao Qi lazily said: "The inspectors don't know anything about military affairs, what the hell!"

This sentence caused a violent shock among the inspectors, and they all wrote to ask Wanyan Xun to dismiss Shuhu Gaoqi from his post and let someone with courage and insight replace him.Wanyan Xun asked Shuhu Gaoqi for advice, but Shuhu Gaoqi replied lazily: "Before the Mongols leave, I will not dismiss any posts, and no one can dismiss me." Wanyan Xun was very calm. His only wisdom told him that Shuhu Gaoqi could not afford to offend him. He held a heavy soldier in his hand and was a man of absolute integrity in the military. In times of crisis, a person like him is the Buddha and God.

Shuhu Gaoqi's conservative defense soon saw results, and Samuhe wandered around the city of Kaifeng.But at the same time that Samuhe was turning around, Wanyan Xun was also turning around, because the food in Kaifeng City had bottomed out, so he asked Shuhu Gaoqi for advice.Shuhu Gao Qi still looked like he was half dead, and said, "Please make peace." Wanyan Xun sent someone to seek peace with Samuha, and Samuhe notified Genghis Khan of the news.Looking in the direction of Kaifeng City, Genghis Khan said: "We have killed all the deer and wild animals, and there is only one rabbit left. Why shouldn't we let it go?"

When Genghis Khan said this, his comrades-in-arms were all nearby. After hearing this sentence, they shouted in unison: "Only when the emperor is no longer the emperor, but your loyal servant of the Great Khan, will there be a war?" Peace." Genghis Khan was very happy with the spirit of his comrades, but he knew the difficulty of Samuhe.So he said that Samuhe could act on the front line, and the war against the people in the Central Plains would continue, but he didn't have to compete in Kaifeng. After receiving the message from Genghis Khan, Samuhe lost his mind.He was ashamed of not being able to capture Kaifeng, so he put forward harsh conditions for the peace agreement of the Kingdom of Jin: hand over all the cities in Hebei, Shandong and other places to Mongolia, Wanyan Xun will remove the title of emperor, and Genghis Khan can make him the king of Henan.

After Wanyan Xun received such a condition, he was so angry that he died.He wrote back to Samuha and said: "Even if I agree to your condition, my ancestors will not agree to it, and my subjects will not agree to it if my ancestors agreed to you. If I agree to your condition, you will let Song What do people think of me, what do Xixia people think of me, what do North Koreans think of me, and what do those countries in the West think of me!" Samuhe was now unable to get off the tiger, so he had to attack Kaifeng again.But many people can see that his mind is no longer in Kaifeng.Shuhu Gao Qi keenly discovered that Samuhe was absent-minded about Kaifeng City, so he sent intelligence personnel to rescue soldiers where there were still rescue soldiers. In times of national crisis, there must be loyal ministers and righteous men.Xu Ding, the highest official of Hedong Province, ordered people to lead 10,000 horses across the Yellow River to rescue Kaifeng.At the same time, under the influence of Shuhu Gaoqi's "high-ranking officials and rich salary", the rebels from all over the country led their troops one after another.These people showed loyalty on their faces, as if they wanted to contribute their blood and even their lives to the emperor Wanyan Xun. Under the command of Xu Ding, these rescue troops attacked Samuhe in five ways.Samuhe realized that if he did not retreat, he would be in danger of being surrounded and beaten, so he quickly withdrew from the Yellow River. This retreat was a miracle in the strategic shift in human military history.The Samuhe Corps retreated 800 kilometers within two months, a speed comparable to that of a mechanized force. None of Jin's troops pursued them, because they had a deep understanding of the Mongols from their long-term wars with the Mongols.The understanding of the Mongolian Corps in the military circles of the Kingdom of Jin has been deeply rooted.In their view, the Mongols were good at fighting in motion.That is to say, whether attacking or retreating, the Mongol will destroy his opponent.Therefore, you can't figure out at all whether the Mongols' retreat is an escape or a strategic shift, whether they are tempting you to pursue them or are they really running away.When the Mongolian army retreated, they often dropped gold and silver treasures, or threw sand into the air, or tied branches to the horse's tail to raise dust. Chasing the Mongolian troops is a thrilling job, because you will lose their tracks if you don't pay attention. What's more likely is that they suddenly turn around and charge at you, and you will suddenly find that their number is many times greater than when they fled. When the military circles of the Kingdom of Jin think of the Mongolian Corps, they will always associate it with "appearing and disappearing", "coming and going like the wind", and "like lightning". Perhaps these words are not what they want to say. What they want to say most is that this is a group of vicious ghosts , Whether attacking or retreating, you have to pay a heavy price for their actions. During the strategic shift, Samuhe smoked from his seven orifices. This was the most useless battle he had ever fought in his life. He didn't want to end this battle in such a disgraceful way, so he marched quickly and came to Pingyang Mansion at lightning speed. (now Linfen, Shanxi) under the city. At the end of 1216, Samuhe poured out all the anger of his failure to triumph on the city wall of Pingyang Prefecture.He was too unlucky, the leader of Pingyang Mansion at that time was Xu Ding.Facing 60,000 enemies, Xu Ding was fearless, and fought a defensive battle with vibrancy, playing the prestige of the Jin Kingdom, showing momentum, and at the same time playing style. After ten days of siege, Samuhe saw that there was no hope of winning, so he had to withdraw to the north.Xu Ding watched him retreat north from the city wall of Pingyang, smiling.With the retreat of Samuhe to the north, both sides of the Yellow River became calm again.Samuhe's achievements are extraordinary, trampling on Shaanxi, Henan, and Shaanxi, restraining the power of the Jin Kingdom in Henan, and effectively cooperating with Mu Huali's invincibility on the battlefield in western Liaoning. When he returned to the grassland, Genghis Khan held a grand celebration banquet for him.Samuhe got drunk at the banquet.When he was drunk, Jin Guo began to redeploy the defense of Tongguan, deploying the defense of the north and south of the Yellow River. Genghis Khan and his comrades are also deploying, but not defensively, but offensively.