The story background of "Man Jiang Hong" was set at the beginning of the establishment of the Southern Song Dynasty, and the filming location of this film was selected in Jinyang Ancient City, Taiyuan. If it is substituted into history, Taiyuan at that time, together with the whole Shanxi region, has already been included in the golden territory. But quite coincidentally, in the history of Jin Dynasty's oppression and humiliation, it was the desperate battle between Taiyuan military and civilians and Jin Jun that delayed the decline of Northern Song Dynasty.
Suffering from the plight of no food and grass in the inner room and no reinforcements outside, Taiyuan, which lasted for nine months, finally fell in the autumn of the first year of Jingkang. However, compared with Qin Hui, who was shocked by the powerful enemy in the north and only knew how to plunder the folk wealth to please the invaders, the blood and tears of Taiyuan's struggle to defend the countryside will always be written in the history of China.
The commander-in-chief ran away from the scene and was ordered at the critical moment.
In A.D. 1 125, the Liao Dynasty, which was originally adjacent to the Northern Song Dynasty, was destroyed by the rising Jurchen regime Jin. In the process of the change of Liao and Jin Dynasties, the Northern Song Dynasty actively participated in it, trying to share the territory of Liao with the military forces under the leadership of the Wan Yan family, and also recapture Yanyun's hometown ceded by Shi Jingtang in that year.
Ironically, however, the army of the Northern Song Dynasty was not ready to join hands with Jin to destroy Liao. Tong Guangang, commander-in-chief of the Northern Song Dynasty, gathered troops and missed the opportunity to attack Liao with Jin because of suppressing the uprising in southern Fang La. After solving the problem of "backyard fire", Tong Guan dragged his army to Yanjing, trying to get all the remnants of the Liao Dynasty back. As a result, Song Jun of the Northern Expedition not only failed to win Yanjing quickly, but was easily defeated by the remnants of the Liao Dynasty in Baigou. When he fled from Xiongzhou border in the south, Song Jun was even intercepted by Liao people, which made him very flustered.
The poor performance of the imperial army in Tong Guan stimulated the rulers' desire to expand their political achievements. So, shortly after the Jin Dynasty destroyed Liao, the rulers, under the cover of inviting Tong Guan to negotiate, forced the two men to go south in two ways and hit the hinterland of the Northern Song Dynasty. Among them, tens of thousands of left-wing troops led by Jinjiang Ganhan (that is, people) started from Datong area in Shanxi today and plundered Shanxi. In the early stage, the Korean War marched smoothly, and Song Jun was invincible. Even the Korean war itself was surprised that the "Southern Dynasties" did not stop him with mountains that were easy to defend but difficult to attack.
The sticky army soon approached Taiyuan. As a red man in front of the emperor and a "great hero in conquering Yanyun", although Tong Guan was in Taiyuan, his heart had already flown back to Tokyo, because the previous battle with the Liao army had completely lost his confidence. At this time, how could he resist Liao? Therefore, despite the ridicule and obstruction of Zhang Xiaochun, a local official in Taiyuan, Tong Guan insisted on running away, while the burden of guarding the city fell on Zhang Xiaochun, a local official in Taiyuan, and Wang Bing, an Fu Xuan strategist who followed Tong Guan.
Zhang Xiaochun, as the Hedong envoy of Fu Xuan and the magistrate of Taiyuan, belongs to the civil service system and is not familiar with the army. Now that Guan has abandoned the city, 8 Jin Army has heavily besieged the lonely city. Naturally, he regarded Wang Bing, commanded by Fu Xuan from the central military system, as his only savior. At present, Wang Bing did not give in, but resolutely led his 3,000 soldiers into the intense garrison work.
The first battle was successful, and the undercurrent surged.
Apart from the city walls, Taiyuan lacks an effective defense barrier. Historically, local rulers in Shanxi chose to use Taihang Mountain or Saibei Mountain to build defensive positions to "defend the enemy from Shanxi soil". Even during War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression's period, the Kuomintang still chose to invest heavily in the peripheral passes of Shanxi, such as Xinkou and Niangziguan, instead of focusing on defending the inside and outside of Taiyuan's city walls. Because they all know that Taiyuan city alone can't keep it.
This truth may not be clear to Sticky Han and Wang Bing, but Sticky Han underestimated Song Jun's determination to defend Taiyuan City. At this time, he could have besieged Taiyuan city with heavy troops, plundered the wealth north of the Yellow River in the south, and looked for opportunities to meet another main force unable to leave, forming a surprise attack on Kaifeng, Tokyo. However, Sticky Han believes that he has rarely lost a battle since he started fighting with Jin Taizu. Now I am trapped under the isolated island of Taiyuan, and my face is sad. Therefore, he decided to make all kinds of siege machines to cover the infantry's forced siege.
In the face of the menacing army, Wang Bing also took the initiative to assume the heavy responsibility of command. While recruiting young people in Taiyuan to cooperate with guarding the city, he also paid close attention to the enemy's movements. When the sticky siege equipment approached the city wall, he ordered people to throw the lasso that bound the boulder out of the machine that entangled each other and then pull it down hard. Jin Junyong's wooden chariot, covered with iron leaves and raw cowhide, headed for the city gate with bundles of firewood under the rain of arrows in Song Jun, trying to fill in the trenches and reduce obstacles for the subsequent attacking troops.
Unexpectedly, Wang Bing had taken precautions. He ordered people to dig a tunnel leading to the trench, then pour water and float in with lights. In this way, the firewood thrown into the ditch by 8 Jin Jun was instantly ignited, and the unburned firewood was also submerged by water. The Jin people were busy for a long time, but they still failed to break through the Yugoslav capital. Seeing that both strokes missed, the Korean War ordered people to throw huge stones as big as buckets with trebuchets to destroy the city walls. So, Wang Bing sent someone to plug the gap in time with a bag full of bran to avoid further damage to the Yugoslav capital project. When 8 jin j offensive weakened, regardless of physical fatigue, Wang Bing brandished a knife to lead the death squads out of the city to counterattack 8 jin j positions, which greatly boosted Song Jun's morale.
There are many ways for the Jin people to attack the city, but Wang Bing and his men can always do the same thing. What we have listed is by no means covering the whole picture of the war. Even these are the letters written by Zhang Xiaochun, the magistrate of Taiyuan at that time, to his son Zhang Hao (for details, see Li See Huarui's Comments on the Deeds of Bing Wang, a famous anti-gold star in the Northern Song Dynasty). This shows that Taiyuan's offensive and defensive war is fierce.
Defend the front and abandon the rear.
The war in Taiyuan was deadlocked, and the right army, which was inseparable from Baozhou, had arrived at the gates of Tokyo in advance. Although Jin Jun, who was inseparable from the model, failed to capture Bianjing quickly, he always maintained military pressure on the city and even defeated the night attack launched by nearly 10,000 elites led by Yao in the northwest. However, the delay in picking him up still made him feel at home.
Seeing that Song Jun got to the battlefield of Kaifengfu, I couldn't help worrying that this side was caught in an embarrassing situation surrounded by the other side, so I secretly arranged for withdrawing troops. At the same time, I made a big fuss about the failure of Song Jun's previous camp robbery, demanding that the monarch of Song State and his subjects contribute a lot of gold and silver and cede territory to compensate for their "losses". The ceded land includes Taiyuan, which has been unable to capture for a long time. At this point, Song Qinzong of Kaifeng City had already been scared out of her wits by the blackmail of Jin people, and Li Gang, who commanded guarding city, was also dismissed by him. When he got the conditions for the Jin people to cut land, he immediately agreed.
I can't help but send someone to announce the news to Mianhan and ask him to convey the order to cede territory in the Song Dynasty and leave. However, Bing Wang didn't believe this was the original intention of the imperial court at all. Instead, he suspected that it was a trick of the Jin people, so he flatly refused.
Wang Bing firmly defended the city, while Zhang Xiaochun, as a civilian, was pessimistic because he could not come to the imperial court for reinforcements for a long time. Now, combined with his many years of official experience, he is more inclined to think that the cession of Taiyuan is the original intention of the court. Therefore, Zhang Xiaochun "will find a way to surrender the enemy one day", that is to say, Zhang Xiaochun took the opportunity of eating to convene colleagues from the Ministry of Supervision to study how to "surrender the Golden Man with dignity" in the future.
However, there is no windtight wall in the world. Wang Bing soon noticed the changes in Zhang Xiaochun and threatened to "kill those who dare to surrender" to temporarily subdue the capitulators in the city. At this time, Taiyuan, which is United on the surface, is undercurrent. After the model could not leave the army, Han Zhan knew that the strategy of attacking Kaifeng had failed and had to retreat to the north, but Han Zhan left, and 8 Jin Jun's siege of Taiyuan was still not lifted, but was handed over to his subordinates.
Almost at the same time, Song Qinzong learned that Taiyuan was not lost, so under the persuasion of ministers, he denied the previous land division. In order to gain the initiative in the future war of resistance against gold, Song Ting also led and Yao Gutong and other northwest border guards to Shaanxi. As a result, Yao was defeated and died among farmers. Since then, Song Ting has used Li Gang to organize reinforcements. However, Li Gang lacked confidence in fighting the Jin Army on the battlefield. "Since Chen Shusheng doesn't know the soldier, he is afraid that he will be incompetent and miss the state affairs" (Volume 54, Supplement for the Director of the Mirror). Later, when he saw that he had to prevaricate, he had to go to help, but his attitude was still negative and he stayed in Huaizhou thousands of miles away.
During this period, the phenomenon of food shortage in Taiyuan City became more and more serious, and the human tragedy of family members killing each other appeared constantly. "Nine times out of ten, the soldiers and civilians in the city starved to death." In order to further isolate Taiyuan, the army of the Korean War plundered southern Shanxi, causing a large number of refugees to cross the river into Henan.
The fall of Taiyuan
Jin people's fear of going south continued to spread. In the same year when he returned to the north, Jin Ting launched an invasion of the Northern Song Dynasty. This time, Taiyuan soldiers and civilians still refused to surrender, but they themselves lost the basic physical strength needed for resistance because of long-term lack of food. In September of the first year of Jingkang, Jin people boarded Taiyuan City and "walked on the ground". Knowing that the city wall had been broken, Wang Bing assembled the remnants and tried to fight with the Jin people in the street, but it was difficult to save the overall situation of the city's fall.
Seeing more and more enemies around him, Bing Wang, unwilling to be humiliated, committed suicide by jumping into Fenshui with Song Taizong's "jade capacity". Ironically, when the Northern Song Dynasty perished in the Northern Han Dynasty, it was Song Taizong who hated Taiyuan and ordered all the houses in the city to be burned down and then flooded, which brought disaster to this historic city.
Compared with Wang Bing who would rather die than surrender, Zhang Xiaochun chose to kneel down and surrender, because the fall of the city is a fait accompli. After entering the city, Sticky Soldier said nothing about the massacre, forcing Zhang Xiaochun to identify Wang Bing's body, then swearing and stabbing his body with a halberd to cover up his embarrassment of being stuck in Taiyuan for nine months.
After the fall of Taiyuan, Kaifeng and Tokyo, they completely lost the only fortress that contained the Jin people going south, and had to face the enemy with twice the strength alone. A few months later, Kaifeng fell, and the Northern Song Dynasty, which lasted 100 years, was declared extinct. Wang Guowei, a modern scholar, couldn't help feeling when collecting the relevant information about Wang Bingshou's guarding the city-"Hedong has fallen, and Bianjing can't be defended. It is the bureau of Jingkang. If it lasts for another year, it will be delayed." Defending Taiyuan has also become the last strong enemy against gold in the Northern Song Dynasty.