All Heavens and Worlds Modified History System

Chapter 270 It’s all the Song people’s fault!
Datong Prefecture is the ancient Yunzhong area.

It was first established when King Wuling of Zhao defeated the Hu and built the Great Wall. The famous general Li Mu was stationed here all year round.

This place is surrounded by mountains, with the Sanggan River flowing through it, forming a fertile Datong Basin.

This place has been a bridgehead for attacking the grassland throughout the ages, and it is also a must-pass place for grassland tribes to move south.

The city is tall and its defenses are strong. The water from the Sanggan River is diverted to form a moat around the city.

Wanyan Gao led the main army southward, crossing mountains and rivers to attack Taiyuan Prefecture.

The one who stayed behind here was the Jin army's southern route commander-in-chief, Diebojilie (deputy marshal) Wanyan Olu.

Wanyan Wulu was very surprised to learn that the enemy was coming.

He had just returned from a sweep of the grasslands with the Du Marshal last month. Not to mention the Khitans and Song people, he didn't even encounter a few grassland tribes.

But in front of us, there were troops and horses coming from all over the mountains to kill us.

The sheer number of them is simply enough to make one's scalp tingle.

Wanyan Wuluzhi felt it was extremely ridiculous.

When the main army attacked the grassland, these people disappeared without a trace, and no one knew where they went.

As soon as we got back and divided our troops, the main force went south to besiege Taiyuan Prefecture. These people appeared all at once as if they had fallen from the sky.

"Marshal," said one of his subordinates, Anbulasu, "I will go out of the city and charge in for a while."

The Jin people were not good at defending cities and preferred field battles.

Although there were many enemies outside, the Jin people, whose morale was high, had no fear.

Of course, the most important thing is those light cavalry outside, who don’t even have iron armor.

Wanyan Wulu pondered for a moment, then nodded and said, "Go, go with Sahmen."

Two Meng'ans together can take care of each other.

It would be a good idea to try out the quality of these people.

An hour later, the drawbridge of Datong Prefecture was lowered and the city gate opened.

More than a thousand Jin cavalrymen shouted and rushed out of the city on horseback, attacking the herdsmen directly.

The fighting power of the grassland herdsmen is hard to describe in a few words.

They are indeed numerous and have the courage to fight.

The organization and equipment are really poor.

Faced with the Jin people, almost everyone of whom was wearing armor, they were quickly defeated as expected, and then they fled all over the mountains and plains.

Wanyan Olu on the city wall was stunned. "So weak?"

They are even weaker than the Khitans and cannot withstand a fight at all.

He even felt a little regretful, "I should have known earlier that I would be sent to deliver a letter for help to the Marshal."

Outside the city, the two generals, Blasu and Sahmeng, felt relieved and chased after the fleeing enemies.

It’s just that the herdsmen are all light cavalry and their riding skills are excellent.

It is easy to defeat them, but it is difficult to catch up and kill them.

At this moment, amid the sound of drums and trumpets, a team of familiar opponents appeared before them.

"Khitans!!"

Thousands of Liao cavalry in Khatun City launched a charge towards the Jin army.

The two sides have been fighting each other for years.

Whenever they meet, they fight to the death.

The Liao army in Khatun City had never fought with the Jin army before. Unlike other Liao troops who had been frightened by the battle, they were not as fearful and dared to fight head-on.

The two sides fought back and forth, and the fighting was extremely brutal.

"You are indeed Liao dogs." Wanyan Wulu on the top of the city wall punched the battlement and said, "I was looking for you everywhere, but you came here to die."

When he was about to order the defenders to assemble and go out of the city to fight a decisive battle with the Liao dogs, the sound of drums and horns outside the city rose again.

This time, Wanyan Wulu finally saw the scene that made him lose his mind.

The mighty Great Wall of Steel came in formation, bathed in the sunshine.

Tens of thousands of soldiers were so dazzling under the sun.

And their flags were completely different from those of the familiar Khitans.

"Is it Song people?!"

Before Wanyan Wulu could react, amid the terrifying sound of horse hooves, more than ten thousand armored cavalry rushed over like a tide, circling from both wings towards the city gate, clearly trying to cut off the retreat of the Jin army outside the city.

"Sound the gong!" Wanyan Wulu immediately ordered, "Tell them to come back quickly!"

I was not in a hurry when I saw the Song army soldiers before, because although the soldiers had amazing momentum, their speed was not worth mentioning and they could leave whenever they wanted.

But when the Song people's armored cavalry appeared, things were different.

The Jin people had never fought against the Song army. The famous general Lou Shi who had fought against them was defeated and killed in the battle, which made the Jin people's evaluation of the Song army obviously overestimated.

I feel that he is at least on the same level as me, otherwise there is no way he could beat Lou Shi.

Powerful reinforcements arrived at the battlefield, and the nomadic cavalry that had been defeated before turned around and fought back like a swarm of locusts. The Khitan cavalry in the melee fought desperately to entangle them.

The Crown Princess and the King of Song had already said that if you take the head of a Jin man, you will receive a reward of fifty strings of cash!

That’s fifty strings of cash!

People in Bianliang City might not think that fifty strings of coins is a lot, even if they don't have it, but the rich and powerful have seen it a lot.

People in other parts of the Song Dynasty would find it difficult to earn fifty strings of cash, but it was not a huge sum. However, for the impoverished grassland herders and the Liao cavalry who had been stationed in Khatun City for many years, this was a huge sum of money.

The wages of avarice is death.

Seeing that they have gained the advantage, they naturally come to seek wealth without fear of death.

Blasu and Sahmen also realized that something was wrong and tried desperately to gather their troops in an attempt to break out.

But in the end, only less than three hundred riders escaped and rushed all the way to the city gate.

Wanyan Wulu was very conflicted.

He wanted to send troops out of the city to rescue, but he was worried that once the city gates were opened and the city was taken away by the Song people, Datong Prefecture would not be able to be defended!

Chen Ran himself was unaware of the huge impact his direct defeat and annihilation of Wanyan Loushi's troops had on the Jin people.

Wanyan Loushi was the war god of the Jin people, but he was destroyed by the Song people.

Of course, the fighting effectiveness of the Song people was infinitely exaggerated in the eyes of the Jin people.

Just as Wanyan Wulu was struggling, Chen Ran's armored cavalry had already gathered two hundred steps away from the city gate, blocking Bolasuk and Sahmeng.

The Song army's cavalry was well-equipped, had high morale, and most importantly, had sufficient numbers.

After changing to a good horse, his combat capability was indeed greatly improved.

Several thousand versus three hundred, the result is self-evident.

Blasu and Sahman were both surrounded and killed.

Two miles away, the Song army's Jiajia formation also began to attack the surrounded Jin remnants. After a fierce battle, they successfully eliminated the two Meng'ans.

"Your Majesty, we have captured 1,319 heads of the Jin thieves, 625 war horses, and weapons and armor."

The small number of people is because both Meng'an (1,000-man teams) are not fully staffed.

The Jin people, who had been in a state of war, had almost all their Wanhu, Meng'an and even some Moukes under their full complement.

The real peak period of full strength was when they went south to attack Song Dynasty.

As for the fact that there were only a few hundred war horses, that was because great losses of horses were suffered on the battlefield.

Being hit by an arrow, injuring the leg, being hit, or even running for too long and sweating, etc., can all cause a warhorse to become damaged and injured. After all, horses are such delicate creatures.

Injured and dead horses are usually treated as food.

"The Liao army and the warriors of each tribe will be given 50 strings of cash for each of their spoils." Chen Ran glanced at Yelu Yanxi, who had an expressionless face. "Our soldiers will be rewarded according to the system of military merit."

After counting and recording the merits, Chen Ran ordered his men to throw all the heads beside the city wall so that the defenders could have a good look at them.

In fact, there were Jin people who wanted to surrender before, but unfortunately, neither the herdsmen nor the Liao army nor the Song army accepted their surrender.

"Fifty strings of cash!"

"Title! Title!! Title!!!"

Want to surrender? Surrender your sister~~~
When fighting the Jin people, the soldiers did not accept surrender, but Chen Ran simply ignored it.

He felt that only dead gold men were good gold men.

Without any hesitation, the army began to quickly build siege equipment after settling down, preparing to attack Datong Prefecture.

Chen Ran was not worried about the return of the main Jin army that had marched south. One must know that from Datong to Taiyuan, except for the Xinzhou Basin, the entire area was covered with mountains and steep cliffs.

It would not be easy for the Jin army to return if they arranged soldiers to block the narrow passes and could not make use of their cavalry advantage.

In the following days, follow-up troops arrived at the city of Datong one after another.

The countless men, horses, cattle, sheep and livestock, as well as the countless tents and camps, which stretched as far as the eye could see, made the Jin people on the city walls feel their scalps tingling.

This is even more than the number of Liao dogs who protected Budagang back then!

When they were fighting at Hubudagang, the main forces of the Jin army were all there, and they had famous generals like Lou Shi who were able to break through and defeat the enemy.

But now, the defenders in the city were only Wanyan Olu's direct subordinates with less than 5,000 men, in addition to thousands of Bohai people, northern Han people, surrendered Khitans and Xi people, and even Koreans.

There were tens of thousands of Khitans in the city, and in Wanyan Wulu's view, they were all destabilizing factors.

Not only can they not help defend the city, but they also have to devote their energy to surveillance.

The Song people are to blame for this war!
Why would they go against the Great Jin when they had no grudges in the past or hatred in the present? !
After only a few days of preparation, Chen Ran forced the Khitans and tribal herdsmen to launch an attack.

The first step is to fill the river.

As long as you carry a bag of sand and stones and throw it into the moat, you can get a string of money when you come back.

The Liao army liked money and silk, but the herdsmen preferred physical objects such as salt, tea and even iron pots.

After filling the river and consuming the defenders' arrows, they immediately began to attack the city using various siege weapons.

Attack the city from all sides, and attack every tribe that comes.

Wanyan Wulu had no chance of defending the huge Datong Prefecture.

What's even more terrible is that when the Khitans in the city learned that the Liao emperor's flag appeared outside the city, they actually launched a riot and rebellion in an attempt to support it.

Wanyan Olu had to organize his already stretched military force to quell the rebellion.

The Jin soldiers were not good at defending the city, and faced with almost endless enemy troops, they were under tremendous pressure. Once the killing started, they could not stop, and soon they turned the suppression of the rebellion into a massacre in the city with red eyes.

Not only did they kill the Khitans, but they also targeted the Bohai people, the northern Han people, the Koreans, and others.

The entire Datong Prefecture was plunged into complete chaos.

Seeing the fire in the city, Chen Ran thought for a moment and understood what had happened.

He quickly withdrew the cannon fodder and devoted himself to the Song army soldiers who had recuperated.

The result was naturally to capture the city in one battle!
(End of this chapter)