Chapter 620 Super High EQ Shock

[In 1206, the Mongol Khanate was officially founded.

For the Mongol Khanate at that time, the country that must be attacked was naturally the Jin Dynasty, which had a deep hatred.

So it was natural that Genghis Khan could not wait to lead the army in person and launched an attack on Xixia.

Once on the issue of relocating the capital in the Northern Song Dynasty, the God of Chess gave advice: it is about virtue, not danger.

As a result, we all know that the Jin people marched straight into the city of Bianliang, and the Northern Song Dynasty was destroyed with unprecedented efficiency.

The independent Xixia had to suffer a little more: what is danger? What is virtue?

The territory of Xixia was in the Hexi Corridor. This piece of land, low EQ says it is connected in all directions, and high EQ says it is surrounded by enemies.

In modern times, there is a place very similar to it called Poland, which is nicknamed the crossroads of Central and Eastern Europe. No matter whether you fight the east or the west, you can't get through it if you don't kill it.

Moreover, Xixia, like Poland, was always aggressive with its neighbors when it was strong, so when it was in trouble, others would naturally not pay much attention to it.

The Mongolian cavalry galloped and plundered in the Hexi Corridor, a land without dangerous passes, and came and went like the wind.

Within two years, Xia Xianzong could not bear it anymore and wrote to the Jin Emperor Wanyan Yongji for help.

But the Jin people were facing the threat of Kaixi's Northern Expedition, and secondly, there were conflicts between the Jin Kingdom and Mongolia and Xixia. They were eager for a dog-eat-dog fight, and it was good enough not to make things worse. They only hated that they could not go to the front line to watch the excitement, and explicitly rejected Xia Xianzong's request for help.

Xia Xianzong wrote to the Southern Song Dynasty for help... Oh, sorry, the last time the Song and Xia bordered each other was before Yue Fei's death. After Yue Wumu was framed, the Song and Jin agreed to Shaoxing Peace and ceded the two states of Shang and Qin. After that, the Song and Xia were no longer adjacent, so naturally there was no way to ask for help.

So the Mongols, without interference, mercilessly beat up Xixia. From 1206 to 1209, Mongolia launched three large-scale attacks on Xia, most of which were successful. In the end, Xixia surrendered and ended the first Mongol-Xia war.

In addition to paying tribute, the most important requirement of Mongolia for Xixia was to join Mongolia in attacking Jin. The purpose of everything was still for this old enemy.

But the Jin Dynasty at this time was no longer the Jin Dynasty in Mongolia's memory.

Just before and after Mongolia surrendered Xixia, the Kaixi Northern Expedition between Song and Jin also produced results.

The warlike Mongols paid great attention to this war and were eager to see the strength of their future opponents from it.

As a result, the Song and Jin joined forces to give the Mongols a little Song-style shock.

Facing the Song's Northern Expedition, Jin first sent General Pushan Kui, but he soon died of illness, so he sent General Wanyan Zonghao, but he died of illness after half a year, so he changed General Wanyan Kuang to continue the fight.

The Mongols said, "What the hell are you fighting for? Changing commanders three times in one battle is a big taboo in military strategy. Do you understand?"

As a result, the Song Dynasty, which was clearly calling for the Kaixi Northern Expedition, lost Zaoyang, Guanghua, Suizhou, De'an, Anlu, Yingcheng, Yunmeng, Hanchuan, Jingshan, etc., and was about to invade Jiangnan.

So the Mongols were also shocked: "You don't call this the Kaixi Northern Expedition. According to the reign of the Jin Dynasty, it should be called the Taihe Southern Expedition."

These thoughts were later written into the revised "History of Jin" by the Mongols: In the campaign of Zhangzong's attack on Song, the commander-in-chief changed three times, which is a taboo in military strategy. The Song Dynasty didn't know to take advantage of this and claim it as a merit, and still said that there was someone? !

It is also for this reason that it is not surprising that the Jin Dynasty was defeated in the battle of Yehuling, which was launched by the Mongols two years after the forced surrender of the Western Xia Dynasty.

The Battle of Yehuling, or more precisely the Battle of Yehuling-Huihebao, was a battle in which the Jin army was defeated in a narrow place like Yehuling, and then retreated to the open Huihebao and suffered a devastating blow from the Mongols. Later, the Mongolians who wrote history boasted that the Jin army had 300,000 troops, but this 300,000 was just a claim. In fact, the Jin Dynasty had already had a "good" tradition of eating empty salaries at that time, and the so-called 300,000 was probably only 100,000 at most.

On this point, Li Zefen, a former artillery party general who defeated the captives before the founding of our country, a hero of the anti-Japanese war, and a historian, combined his experience in the artillery party and his own professional comments on the first battle between the Mongols and the Song Dynasty when compiling the "Complete History of Sino-Foreign Wars".

At that time, the Jin army changed its commander before the battle (Wanyan Chengyu replaced Du Jisizhong), ate empty salaries on the front line, and issued gold yuan indiscriminately in the rear... Indiscriminately issued Jiaochao, in short, it was all familiar.

Therefore, in Professor Li's opinion, this so-called key defeat of the Jin Dynasty is very simple:

The Jin people failed to defeat the elite Mongolians in Yehuling, and they fled to Huihebao and relied on fortifications, but were blown up again, which eventually led to a great defeat. 】

〖Low EQ: Taihe Southern Expedition; High EQ: Kaixi Northern Expedition; Super high EQ: The Mongols shouted awesome.

Taihe Southern Expedition reminds me of General Chen's words: Vietnamese and French are a pair of wonderful opponents. Now the same applies to the Southern Song Dynasty and the Jin Dynasty.

One went to ambush late because of the rain, and the other set off late because of the rain. The final meeting can only be said to be a choice of equals, which can only be described as wonderful.

Why do I feel that if there is any normal Song, Liao, and Jin, it can't raise something as exciting as the Whip of God.

You say Mongolia is weak, but it was like a piece of cake for them to conquer all the fronts from Khwarezm to Poland. But you say Mongolia is strong, but Genghis Khan finally died in Xixia...

The two chief commanders of the Jin Dynasty died of illness in succession? No wonder the Jin Dynasty looked like a dead end.

The Great Jin and the Great Song are indeed uncles/nephews. The Yehuling had the advantage of terrain and military strength, but was defeated by the Mongols. Later, the Mongols were not sure of taking down the Yanjing City, so they blackmailed and ran away. As a result, Jin Xuanzong himself was scared to piss his pants, and he followed Zhao Gou's example and built the Yannandu and fled to Kaifeng, handing over Hebei.

Saying this makes me think of the Ming Dynasty. The emperor guarded the country, and there was indeed some great power style here.

Xixia and Poland after contact with Mongolia are indeed quite similar. They roll their eyes when they pinch their necks, and they brag when they let go. 〗

In the small courtyard in Luoyang, Liu Bei first asked an irrelevant question:

"There has never been anyone like Emperor Gao or Emperor Shi Huang in the West?"

In fact, he had wanted to ask this question for a long time.

Later generations rarely talked about the West, but every time they glanced over, they could see dozens of countries of varying sizes scattered around the Mediterranean Sea.

The only thing I can remember is probably Rome, but Rome only completed its founding around the Mediterranean Sea. As the younger generation said - it turned the Mediterranean Sea into its own bathtub.

But from the fleeting glance at the map from the Tang to the Song and Yuan Dynasties, what can be seen is that less than half of the Eastern Roman Empire is left.

But even so, you can see that the Mediterranean Sea is sparse to the north. It is not an exaggeration to say that there are hundreds of countries.

And thinking about the various descriptions of Rome in the past and later generations, Liu Bei naturally made a guess:

"It can't be... we are waiting for Rome in this world to be the country with the largest territory in the West for two thousand years?"

Several people suddenly felt that it was really possible, at least as far as what they could see on the light screen, there was really no one that could surpass their Rome in the 19th year of Jian'an.