Spoiling History: Starting from the Three Kingdoms

【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 Kingdom, which had a deep blood feud.

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.

And 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 said it was connected in all directions, and high EQ said it was 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 east or west, you can't get through it unless you kill it.

And Xixia, like Poland, is always arrogant with its neighbors when it is strong, so when you are unlucky, others will naturally not pay too much attention to you.

The Mongolian cavalry galloped and plundered freely in the Hexi Corridor, a land without dangerous passes, coming and going 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. Secondly, there were conflicts between the Jin Kingdom and the Mongolian Western Xia. They were eager for the dog to bite the dog. 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 and ceded the two states of Shang and Qin. After that, the Song and Xia were no longer adjacent, and naturally there was no way to ask for help.

So the Mongolian, without interference, ruthlessly beat the Western Xia. From 1206 to 1209, the Mongolian launched three large-scale attacks on the Xia, most of which were full of returns. In the end, the first Mongolian-Xia war ended with the surrender of the Western Xia.

In addition to paying tribute, the most important requirement of Mongolia for Xixia was to join Mongolia in attacking Jin, and the purpose of all this was to defeat 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 Mongolia paid great attention to this war, and was eager to get a glimpse of the strength of future opponents from it.

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

Facing the Northern Expedition of Song, 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 fighting.

The Mongols said, what the hell are you fighting for? Changing the commander three times in one battle, do you understand the taboo of military strategists?

As a result, the Song Dynasty, which had clearly called 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: this is not called the Kaixi Northern Expedition, it should be called the Taihe Southern Expedition according to the reign of the Jin Dynasty.

These thoughts were later written into the revised "History of Jin" by the Mongols: Zhangzong's campaign against the Song Dynasty changed the commander-in-chief three times, which is what military strategists fear. The Song Dynasty did not know to take advantage of this and claim 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.

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 Mongolians shouted awesome.

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

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

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

You say Mongolia is weak, he broke through the entire line from Khwarezm to Poland like a toy, but you say Mongolia is strong, Genghis Khan finally died here in Xixia...

The two chief coaches of the Jin Dynasty died of illness in succession? No wonder the Jin Dynasty looked like a lost cause.

The Great Jin and the Great Song were indeed uncles and nephews. Yehuling had the advantage of location and military strength but was defeated by the Mongols. Later, the Mongols were not sure they could capture the city of Yanjing, so they blackmailed and fled. As a result, Jin Xuanzong himself was frightened and peed his pants, following Zhao Gou's example, and fled to Kaifeng in the Zhenyou migration, 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.