In 979 AD, also the first month of the fourth year of the Taiping Revival of the Northern Song Dynasty, in the Hanging Arch Hall of Tokyo, 40-year-old Song Taizong Zhao Guangyi could not help but say happily after reading the fold just presented: "Good, good, good!" Now that the south is basically calm, I can clean up the capricious villain of The Northern Han Dynasty Liu Jiyuan! ”
When the ministers at the bottom heard it, they all knew that this Emperor Taizong was going to prepare to attack the Northern Han Dynasty, after all, this Liu Jiyuan relied on the Liao State to harass the Northern Song Dynasty many times, and Emperor Taizu raised troops to fight when he was in power, but he ate the defeat and returned, and now that Emperor Taizong is newly established, he naturally needs a great merit to convince the world! Therefore, the ministers all waited quietly, waiting for the Emperor Taizong to line up his troops.
Zhao Guangyi on the throne calmed down a little, looked at the ministers and said, "Although the Northern Han Dynasty cannot compete with my Great Song Dynasty, the Liao State behind it cannot be underestimated, and my imperial brother is a precedent." Therefore, this time I decided to adopt the policy of siege and reinforcement, and captured the Northern Han in one fell swoop! Pan Mei, I order you to make an envoy for the capital and lead a large army to attack Taiyuan with all your might. Guo Jin, you led the troops to deploy at Shiling Pass, if the Liao State went south to support, you had to intercept! ”
Pan Mei and Guo Jin walked out of the line, knelt down to take orders, and then set off to deploy, and a war to exterminate the Han gradually began!
On February 15, on the outskirts of Tokyo, Song Taizong, dressed in a military uniform and riding a high-headed horse, shouted at the 100,000 troops behind him: "Soldiers, set out for Zhenzhou!" ”
Emperor Taizong of Song led a large army to Arrive in Zhenzhou in March, set up camp, and ordered Pan Meibu to close together like Taiyuan City, intending to gather troops to attack Taiyuan.
In April, Emperor Taizong of Song gathered a large army in Taiyuan and had Liu Baoxun's forces build equipment to besiege the city at the same time as a small group of Northern Han troops on the outskirts. After all the deployment was completed, Emperor Taizong of Song ordered a large army to encircle Taiyuan City and personally rode around the four gates of the city.
Inside Taiyuan City, Liu Jiyuan of the Northern Han Dynasty saw that the Northern Song army was gradually encircling Taiyuan City, and thought to himself: "This Zhao Guangyi is going to come to the real thing this time..." He wrote a letter and sent emissaries to the Liao State to ask for help, and the Emperor of the Liao State received the letter, and as usual, immediately sent the Southern Governor Yelü Sha as the capital, and the Wing King Enemy Lie as the overseer, leading tens of thousands of troops to Taiyuan.
When Zhao Guangyi learned of this news, he ordered Guo Jin: "Yelü Sha, the prime minister of the Southern Province of liao, led an army to attack, and you must intercept his army!" Guo Jin received the will and immediately deployed to wait for work in the area of Baiheling.
Yelü Sha led his army to the vicinity of Baiheling and ordered the garrison to observe, while the always arrogant enemy martyrs believed that Song Washu was weak and should attack immediately, so he led his team to cross the river to fight. Guo Jin seized the opportunity to take advantage of the enemy's army to reach halfway and fight with bows and arrows, and the five Liao generals, including the enemy lie, were killed, and the Liao army was greatly defeated!
At this time, in Taiyuan City, Liu Jiyuan, the lord of the Northern Han Dynasty, was anxious, and the reinforcements of the Liao State had not arrived for a long time, so he called his men and sent another envoy, but he did not want to be captured by Guo Jin and taken to Zhao Guangyi.
On April 28, Song Taizong rode alone to taiyuan city and shouted at the city wall: "Liu Jiyuan, your emissaries have entered my hands, you don't have to wait for the Liao army anymore, let's surrender as soon as possible!" After saying that, he asked the soldiers to drag out the Envoys of the Northern Han Dynasty and cut them in front of the battle, and ordered the siege of the city.
On the sixth day of the first month of May, Liu Jiyuan of the Northern Han Dynasty saw that the Liao reinforcements were not available, and the city of Taiyuan was about to be destroyed, so he had to climb the city tower and shout to the Song army below: "I am willing to surrender!" Zhao Guangyi in the Chinese army camp listened to the news reported by the soldiers, and the corners of his mouth rose, thinking in his heart: "I have finally become the emperor's brother's unfinished business!" ”
After Liu Jiyuan surrendered, he was made a right general and coordinated with Liu Baoxun to supervise the affairs of Taiyuan, and at this point, the war of the Northern Song Dynasty to unify the world ended.
The war of the Northern Song Dynasty to conquer the Northern Han Dynasty is the end of the Northern Song Dynasty's war to unify the world, with the surrender of Liu Jiyuan, the situation of the division of feudal towns in China since the Middle Tang Dynasty has temporarily come to an end, and the society has ushered in a period of stable development, and the merits of Song Taizong cannot be ignored!
As for this battle, the main reason is that the Northern Song Dynasty adhered to the correct policy of "first south and then north, first easy and then difficult" and Song Taizong's siege and reinforcement, after step by step implementation, the Northern Han and its dependence on the Liao State were cut apart, in this battle, Pan Mei and Guo Jin made great contributions, which was a generation of famous generals!
However, it is a pity that after Song Taizong defeated the Northern Han Dynasty, he was overwhelmed by the victory, and ordered the army to go out of Taiyuan to find a decisive battle in the Liao State in an attempt to recover youyun Sixteen Prefectures, and finally suffered a big defeat and lost his advantage, which is a pity!