In the battle of Shouyang, the seed division advanced lightly, and won 5 battles and 3 victories with the Jin army. However, the planter forgot to carry the silver, so the Song army abandoned his weapon and fled, and the 68-year-old veteran planter died in battle.
As the saying goes, before the soldiers and horses move, the grain and grass go first. So, what happens if "grain and grass don't go first"? In the battle of Shouyang, the answer was given in the division: the soldiers fled, and the main general was killed.
In 1125, under the pressure of the Jin State, Song Qinzong accepted the terms of the peace agreement between Yan Zongwang and ceded the three cities of Taiyuan, Zhongshan and Hejian to the Jin State.
The Northern Song Dynasty was weak, and Song Qinzong did not have the courage to fight, but the generals defending the city were unwilling to give up their hands and send them out of the city, and they resolutely opposed the Jin army entering the city.
The morale of the soldiers was high, and the main battle faction also strongly demanded to counterattack the Jin State and rescue Taiyuan, Zhongshan, and Hejian. In this way, Song Qinzong decided to send the Western Army to attack the Jin army.
The Western Army, which had fought against the Western Xia in the northwest for a long time, was a master of mountain warfare. In addition, the Western Army is equipped with a divine arm bow, and in the case of forming a phalanx, it also has the strength to fight with the Jin Army.
Representatives of the Western Army, the Chongjia Army, the Yao Family Army, and the Zhejia Army. Among them, the armed forces of the family army are strong, from literature to martial arts, famous generals have appeared from generation to generation, and dozens of family generals have died on the battlefield.
For the Northern Song Dynasty, the status of the Seed Army was several grades stronger than that of the Yang Family, but the literary and artistic works were not taken seriously, and now the "popularity" of the Seed Army is too low, and the Yang Family General is a household name.
In the way of the planter and the planter, the third generation of the breeder will be the bearer, with rich combat experience, and the elite soldiers under his command will gather.
The Jin army besieged Kaifeng and Taiyuan, and the seed division was ordered to be the king of Qin, leading the troops to attack Hebei, rescuing Hejian and Zhongshan, and the seed army won many battles.
At first, the seed division planned to continue to advance, but the Song army did not cooperate well, and the imperial court command system was chaotic, so the seed division had to stay in Zhending to avoid being encircled.
After the Jin army retreated, Song Qinzong got an erroneous message: Wanyan Zonghan went to Datong to graze, and the Jin army on the west road was also preparing to retreat, which was a great opportunity to rescue Taiyuan.
Xu Han gave the wrong information to the imperial court, and Song Qinzong also made a wrong judgment. The monarchs and ministers of the Song Dynasty did not know the soldiers, and they also commanded indiscriminately, which harmed the majority of soldiers.
Wanyan Zonghan was strategic, and went to Datong to escape the summer and graze, which was to paralyze the Song army. Before Wanyan Zonghan went to Datong, he let Wanyan Yinshu be in charge of military affairs, which was second only to Wanyan Lou's fierce general.
In order to lift the siege of Taiyuan, Song Qinzong asked the seed master, Yao Gu, and Zhang Hao to go north in three ways, and converged under the city of Taiyuan to fight a decisive battle with the Jin soldiers.
Song Qinzong's battle plan was opposed by the planters. Because, the division did not believe that Zong Han really withdrew his troops, and he was not optimistic about the ability of the Song army to fight together.
In the northwest battle, the Song army attacked alone, often defeating the Western Xia. Once they work together, they can't cooperate with each other, but they are broken by their opponents, as in the "Five-Way Battle of Summer" fiasco.
In the later battles of Fuping and Huaixi, the Song army was killed by the Jin army because of the lack of cooperation from all sides, and suffered a crushing defeat in large-scale battles.
Knowing oneself and knowing one's opponent, winning a hundred battles, the seed master has experienced a hundred battles, and knows the advantages and disadvantages of the Song army very well. However, Song Qinzong continued to urge, and the seed master had no choice but to go on an expedition.
Before the expedition, the planters were grief-stricken: I am a person who is greedy for life and afraid of death, and I am still misunderstood by others in my old age, and there is nothing more shameful than this.
The holy decrees and messengers came one after another, and the planters had to go into battle lightly, and they didn't even bring the money to reward the soldiers, laying a hidden danger for the fiasco later.
The seed division entered Shanxi from Jingcheng, defeated the Jin cavalry who came to intercept at Shouyang and Yuci, captured two cities, and made a good start.
After winning the first battle, the seed division continued to advance, winning 3 of 5 battles, and the striker was only 20 miles away from Taiyuan, but problems also followed.
To rescue Taiyuan, in addition to the seed division, there are also Yao Gu and Zhang Hao, but now only the seed division is fighting, and the other two soldiers and horses are not cooperating.
The seed master sent someone to contact and urge Yao Gu and Zhang Hao, hoping to flank the Jin army together, and before Yan Zonghan arrived, he could repel Yan Yinshuke and open up the internal and external connections in Taiyuan.
There were many internal contradictions in the Western Army, the relationship between the Yao family army and the seed army was not good, and Yao Gu got false news again, mistakenly thinking that Zong Han had gone south, so he preserved his strength and waited and waited.
As for Zhang Hao, the combat effectiveness of the department was not good, and it was Song Qinzong who "parachuted" in, so he didn't give face to the seed master at all, so he naturally wouldn't go north to fight.
In this way, it should have been a three-way attack, and he became a lone soldier among the seed divisions, fighting alone against famous generals of the Jin Army such as Wanyan Yinshuke and Wanyan Huonu, and the results can be imagined.
After completing the Yan Yinshu, you can send troops to counterattack, and the division will fight and retreat, and retreat to the vicinity of Shouyang. At this time, the Song army ran out of food and grass, the soldiers were exhausted, and the Jin army stepped up its offensive and was in a passive position.
However, the seed master did not give up, and he fought with the Jin army in the form of a phalanx. After a morning of fighting, the left and right flanks of the Song army were all routed, and the Jin army was killed in the middle.
The seed master still did not retreat, he concentrated the divine arm bow, stubbornly counterattacked the Jin army in the middle, and fought for a few hours.
The power of the divine arm bow was infinite, and the Jin army suffered many casualties, so they stopped attacking when they were afraid. At this time, Song Jun had a problem himself.
As soon as the battle ended, the Song army made a request to reward him with silver in time. The planters were too eager to go on the expedition, and they did not bring any money with them, so they could not meet the requirements of the soldiers.
There was no salary, the Song army was noisy, and most of them abandoned their weapons, abandoned the planters, and fled alone.
At the moment of the war, the strong enemy has not retreated, how can he be reckless for the sake of money? Song Jun's move made the seed master fall into despair.
The Planter could have escaped, but he didn't want to, even if there were only a hundred people left around him, the Planter would have to fight to the end.
The breeder stepped on his war horse, took the lead, and led his own soldiers to launch the final charge against the Jin army.
The Jin army rained down arrows, and the mount in the planter was killed, and he himself suffered 4 wounds. In the division of the plant, he changed his foot battle, fought with the Jin army, and died in battle.
The Battle of Shouyang exposed the weaknesses of the Song army: the level of coordinated operations was too poor, and the Song army under the recruitment system was unreliable. When the money was in place, they fought bravely; Instead of paying the money in time, the soldiers abandoned their commanders and ignored the situation of the battle.