Lin'an Never Night

Chapter 819: Under Control
The late spring wind occasionally brings sandstorms from the Loess Plateau.

Therefore, Fujiwara no Himeka, Ermeyisa, Xiao Qingtang and others who were traveling with Yang Yuan all wore veil hats.

The army has assembled at the foot of the city. Standing on the city wall of Xingqing Prefecture, the capital of Western Xia, one can see the vague outline of He Lianshan in the distance, as faint as ink.

The black cloak with gold inlay made Yang Yuan look even more noble, and his slender figure made him look like a handsome and elegant scholar.

Yang Yuan's eyes swept through the crowd of people seeing him off, and when he saw the Queen Mother of Western Xia, Ren Muyan, and Queen Wang Yunmei, he paused slightly.

The Empress Dowager was dressed in plain clothes with only a white jade hairpin in her hair, but it could not conceal her dignified and charming demeanor.

When her eyes met Yang Yuan's, she looked away in panic, and two red clouds suddenly appeared on her white jade-like cheeks.

Her long eyelashes trembled slightly, revealing the unrest in her heart to Yang Yuan.

She was not sure whether she would never see Yang Yuan again after going to Lin'an.

Because, even if Yang Yuan returned to Lin'an, with her identity, it would be difficult for her to have the chance to meet him again, let alone... have any close contact.

Standing beside her, Queen Wang of Western Xia lowered her head, her bare hands tightly grasping a silk handkerchief in her sleeves.

She still remembered the shame and embarrassment she felt on that first night, as well as the forced gentleness and shyness she had to put on.

She still remembered how she was reluctant but willing on the second night, and how she gradually fell into it.

She still remembered the half-hearted and silent acceptance on the third night.

She still remembers looking forward to the darkness during the day and being passionate when it got dark.

She had never been as happy as she was during those few nights since she grew up.

Unfortunately, such days end too quickly, and soon, she will become a lonely person alone in her room again.

Wang did not have the self-control that Ren had, and tears had blurred her eyes.

She turned her head quietly, raised her sleeve to wipe the tears from the corners of her eyes, and "complained softly":

"It's late spring and the wind and sand are still so strong. It's better to go to Lin'an. I heard that the water town in the south of the Yangtze River will not have such weather."

As she spoke, she took a veil from the maid and put it on her head.

The curtain fell, and this time she could cry freely.

Li Renxiao stood in front of Wangshi and didn't see that his queen was crying for another man.

He was glaring at Yang Yuan with hatred. It was this man who had taken away his kingdom.

"Young Master Yang, I wish you a successful and successful journey!"

Li Renxiao bowed and smiled, but the smile did not reach his eyes.

Yang Yuan's eyes fell on him and he smiled faintly: "Thank you for the good words, Lord Anshun."

When Li Renxiao heard the three words "Duke Anshun", his face turned pale and then purple.

Li Renyou and other three brothers who were standing beside Li Renxiao glanced at Li Renxiao with mockery on their faces.

They looked calm, even a little gloating.

They are princes, but their lives are always like walking on thin ice.

Now I am about to go to Lin'an. Maybe the degree of freedom is not as good as before, but it is not like before, with a knife hanging over my head.

This made them feel no uneasiness about their trip to Lin'an, and they even had some expectations.

"Since the emperor ascended the throne, Yang has been busy with government affairs and military affairs, and has not returned to the capital to report for duty.

After the matter in Shaanxi is settled, Yang will return to Lin'an to meet Your Majesty.

When the time comes, I will meet with Lord Anshun again."

Yang Yuan looked at Li Renxiao and spoke with a smile.

But his eyes missed Li Renxiao's face and looked behind his shoulder.

Ren and Wang's eyes suddenly lit up, revealing some joy.

Once people have hope, their spirit becomes particularly different.

The army set out with the sound of horse hooves.

The desolate sound of horns came one after another from far away.

The heavy artillery carriage was particularly eye-catching among the moving troops.

This is Yang Yuan’s central army. The central army is divided into three armies: front and rear. This is the central army where Yang Yuan is located, with about 15,000 people.

Yang Yuan took the wine handed to him by the one-armed hero Chen Zhuoguang and drank it all in one gulp. Then he threw away his cloak and walked down the city wall.

The troops went farther and farther away, and Yang Yuan stood on his horse in the army and looked back.

Under the blue sky and white clouds, Xingqing City gradually disappeared from his sight.

……

Yang Yuan divided his troops into three groups and entered Shaanxi from Western Xia. The battle went smoothly at the beginning.

After the three armies set out, they had to act according to the established strategy, and it would be difficult for them to communicate with each other.

The information obtained after much effort and loss of a large number of intelligence personnel is all outdated, so there is no need to understand it at all costs.

The resistance Yang Yuan's troops encountered during their attack was much more difficult than when they attacked Western Xia.

On the one hand, the combat effectiveness of the Jin army was indeed superior to that of the Western Xia army.

On the other hand, it was also because the Jin army was mainly defending the city.

The big cities and towns in Guanzhong were all strong and thick-walled, far from comparable to the cities of Western Xia. There were only two ways to capture such strong cities: one was to cooperate with the outside forces, and the other was to besiege the city for a long time.

Yang Yuan advanced into Shaanxi, hoping to fight a war of speed, not giving the Jin court a chance to respond by deploying troops, and naturally he would not adopt a strategy of besieging the city for a long time.

His heavy artillery had a great destructive effect on the city, but it was not an absolute means to conquer such a strong city.

But at this time, Yang Yuan's role in the secret spy system came into play.

Although the Jin army recruited a large number of Han soldiers, the entire military system had not yet adjusted due to the expansion of a large number of Han soldiers.

Whether it was promotion, treatment, measurement or rewards for military merit, the Jurchen soldiers were very different from those of the Han army.

This requires the adjustment of the entire military system, which will take some time even if the imperial court vigorously promotes it.

What the Song Dynasty wanted was this time difference, and it attacked the Jin Dynasty before it completed the adjustment of its military system.

How could the Han soldiers, whose food and wages were withheld and who had no chance of promotion, be willing to work for the Jin Kingdom?
Therefore, once the Song Dynasty's spies bribed and wooed them, the Jin Dynasty's Han troops changed their minds.

Those who mutinied, turned against their own side, fought passively, killed their generals and surrendered, offered their city gates, and assassinated their officials...

After seeing these actions, the Jin generals began to guard against and exclude the Han army.

These actions pushed the Han army further away.

As a result, many passes in Shaanxi Province fell into the hands of the Song army one after another.

The purge that began within the Jin army made the already fragile Jin army even more fragmented.

Yang Yuan's battle went smoothly thanks to the role played by his Neijishi, Waijishi and Tongchuan Road Jinglüe Anfushisi, which had gradually become similar to the shogunate.

While Yang Yuan was planning to reorganize the three generals of the Western Army, his staff had already begun to deduce how to attack Western Xia and how to attack the Jin Dynasty.

Although the development of events, such as the submission of Western Xia, was completely beyond their predictions.

However, the occurrence of this incident only saved a lot of manpower and material resources for this part of their original plan, making the subsequent war more advantageous for them.

These are by no means strategic preparations that were accomplished overnight. They were secret plots that had been implemented long ago, which led to the current situation. Once they were started, they achieved the shocking effect of breaking through the barriers and breaking through the barriers.

But at this time, the food supply of the Shihan tribe was cut off.

The Shihan tribe soon learned that it was the Tatars who cut off the food supply from Western Xia and launched mobile warfare against them.

The Tatar tribes had been harassed and plundered by the New Jin Empire.

However, the Tatars were in disarray and had no power to resist. They could only use the vast grasslands to escape.

The Tatars have had enough of this hard life.

A hero is born!

When the time comes to give birth to such a person, such a person will naturally emerge in the era.

The Jin Dynasty Emperor Wanyan Liang found the chief of the Tatar tribe, Naur Buyilukhan, and appointed him king.

The Jin Kingdom also gave him a considerable amount of weapons and armor to help him suppress the rebellions and establish alliances.

After Naur became king, with the help of the Jin Dynasty, he quickly launched a war of unification against the Tatar tribes.

In recent years, the New Jin Empire has been sucking blood from the Tatars, which has quickly removed the obstacles for the Tatar tribes to accept Naur's rule.

This year, Temujin had just become a fetus and had not yet been born.

But there was another person in the world who replaced him, and that person was Nawur.

Naur united most of the Tatar tribes, established the Great Mongol Alliance, resisted the New Jin in the east, and went south to Shaanxi to assist the Jin in fighting.

The Song Dynasty was an ally of the New Jin Empire, the mortal enemy of the Tatars, and was naturally an enemy of the Mongols.

Nawuer accepted Wanyan Liang's invitation to join the Jin army to fight. Not only did he accept a large number of weapons and armors as gifts from the Jin army, but Wanyan Liang also promised him that all the Tatars captured along the way would belong to him.

This scene is somewhat similar to the time when the Tang Dynasty borrowed troops from the Uighurs.

The Tang Dynasty borrowed troops from the Uighurs four times, with the condition that "on the day of conquering the city, the land and common people will belong to the Tang Dynasty, and the gold, silk, and children will all belong to the Uighurs."

As a result, the Uighur soldiers fought the rebels as agreed, but they also looted the cities they captured and the villages they passed through.

They raped and looted everywhere, and tens of thousands of people were slaughtered, looted, and raped.

Anyway, the emperor of the Tang Dynasty has already promised that "all gold, silk, and children will be returned to the Huihe people", so why should they be polite?

Although the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty promised to take back the conquered cities, how could the Uighur soldiers be so obedient?
Today's Tatar soldiers are just like the Uighur soldiers back then.

The Song army was the attacking party entering Shaanxi, while the Jin army was the defending party occupying the city.

Therefore, the Song army often needed to march, and it was not appropriate to deploy defenses and set up artillery during the march.

The Tatar cavalry were good at field battles. Their wolf pack piercing tactics allowed them to come and go as fast as the wind and move as fast as thunder. This caused great trouble to the Song army and greatly delayed its advance.

If this situation continues, once the Jin Dynasty's huge state machinery is fully operational and more troops are drawn into Shaanxi, the Song army's strategy will inevitably fail.

However, Yang Yuan was not alone.

The sudden attack of the Tatar soldiers was indeed beyond his expectations, but he also had many backup plans that were not revealed.

For example, the New Jin Empire's southern expedition,
For example, Xin Qiji and others were hiding in the heart of the Jin Kingdom and quietly cultivating their power.

For example, the Song army in Lianghuai and Ezhou took the initiative to attack to contain the Jin army.

For example, the Great Shamanism has developed rapidly in the New Jin Empire and the Tatar Steppes and has a huge number of believers.

Everything was still within his expectations.

It seemed that it was still within his expectations.

(End of this chapter)