Northern Song army besieged the city of Northern Han surrendered

Song Kaibao first year (968) after the pacification of the Hou Shu, the Northern Han lord has just died, the hearts of the people have not yet been settled, Zhao Kuangyin suddenly turned his troops into a large-scale attack on the Northern Han. In August, Song Taizu ordered Li Jixun, the Zhaoyi section minister, Dang Jin, the guards of the infantry commanding officer, Cao Bin, the Xuanwei South House, He Jiyun, the defense of Dizhou, the defense of Huaizhou, Kang Yanzhao, the Jianwu section minister Zhao Zan, and so on, respectively, rate of the department, respectively, from the Lu (today's Shanxi Changzhi), Jin (today's Shanxi Linfen) two states to attack Taiyuan.

In September, there was an internal unrest in the Northern Han Dynasty. Hou Ba Rong, an official of the Ministry of Public Works, killed Xue Ji En, the new lord of the Northern Han Dynasty, and Guo Wu Wei, the chief of the Sikong government, killed Hou Ba Rong, and welcomed Liu Jiyuan, the prince of Taiyuan, as the lord of the country. Seeing that the Song army had entered his territory, Liu Jiyuan hurriedly asked Liao for help, and at the same time ordered Liu Jiye and Feng Jinke to lead the troops to guard the Tuanbai Valley (southeast of present-day Qixian, Shanxi Province) to resist the Song army. The Song army quickly broke up the northern Han army and pushed the city of Taiyuan.

October, the Song Emperor sent an envoy to Taiyuan to persuade him to surrender, but Liu Jiyuan refused to do so. In November, the Liao army's Generalissimo Tal led a large army to rescue the Northern Han Dynasty and pushed into Taiyuan. Li Jixun and others were unable to attack Taiyuan for a long time and the Liao army arrived, so they led their troops back south. The Northern Han army took the opportunity to launch a pursuit and plundered the Song states of Jin and Jiang (present-day Jiangxian County, Shanxi Province).

In February of the second year of Song's Kaibao era (969), Emperor Taizu of Song ordered Cao Bin and Dang Jin to lead their armies to Taiyuan first, and then he personally led his army to conquer the Northern Han. Northern Han Liu Jiye, Feng Jinke two generals learned that Song Taizu has arrived in Luzhou, and sent Li Jixun rate of the front army rushed to Tuanbai Valley, knowing that they are outnumbered, hasty run back to Taiyuan.

March, Song Taizu to Taiyuan, conscripted tens of thousands of local workers, build a long wall to surround Taiyuan, and build a long embankment, Fen water irrigation city, many attacks, for more than three months, unable to break the city, when the weather is very hot, the Song army, many people suffering from abdominal disease, heard the news that the Liao army troops to rescue the northern Han. The Song army retreated in haste. The Liao and Northern Han allied forces pursued the Song army, which fled in great defeat, abandoning a large amount of military supplies for the Northern Han.

In October of the eighth year of Song Kaibao (975), when the Southern Tang Dynasty had been pacified, Song Taizu revived his northern expedition and prepared to recapture Yanyun. In August of the following year, sent the guards horse army commanding officer Dang Jin, Xuan Hui North House make Pan Mei, etc. led by five military horses gathered under the city of Taiyuan, and the northern Han army and the Liao army to aid the fierce battle. Unexpectedly, at this time, Song Taizu Zhao Kuangyin died, Song Taizong Zhao Guangyi succeeded to the throne, because of the national mourning, so in December recalled the division of the Northern Expedition, so that the Song Taizu sent troops to attack the Northern Han Dynasty war, are due to the Liao army reinforcement blocked, unsuccessful.

Song Taizong in Taipingxingguo three years (978), forcing Chen Hongjin "land", Wu Yue "return to the land", determined to eliminate the Northern Han. In view of the previous attacks on the Northern Han failed due to the Liao army rescue lessons, Song Taizong formulated a clean periphery, first blocking the Liao aid, and then take the Taiyuan strategy. Afterwards, he stepped up the training of his army and ordered the neighboring states of Jin, Lu (present-day Linfen and Changzhi in Shanxi Province), Xing, Zhen, and Ji (present-day Xingtai, Zhengding, and Jixian in Hebei Province) to repair their weapons and siege equipment, and to transfer grain and grass, so as to actively make preparations for the attack.

Taipingxingguo four years (979 years) in the first month, Song Taizong decided to march into the northern Han again, and take the city to block the reinforcement of the combat guidance, the deployment is: the order of the Xuan Hui South House make Pan Mei for the north road are recruited to discuss the system, the rate of Cui Yenjin, Li Hanqiong, Cao Han, Liu met the army attack on Taiyuan; the order of the Yunzhou Observation Envoy Guo Jin for the Taiyuan north of the Shilingguan (today's Xinxian County, Shanxi South), the deployment of the blockade of Liao troops from the north to reinforcement; Tian Renlang and Liu Xu were ordered to scout the four trenches of Taiyuan and check the equipment for the attack; Meng Xuanpu was ordered to be the military horseman, stationed in Zhenzhou, to block the Liao troops reinforced from the east;

Hou Steep, the Hebei transit ambassador, and Lei Dechong, the northern transit ambassador of Shaanxi, were ordered to take charge of the eastern and western transit of Taiyuan and Liu Baoxun, the transit ambassador, was ordered to take charge of the northern transit as well; Zhao Guangyi, Emperor of the Sung dynasty, personally led one part of his main force out of Zhenzhou (present Zhengding, Hebei) to hold back Yui, who had been attacked by the Liao army. Zhengding, Hebei), to hold back the Liao army in Youzhou from large-scale westward reinforcement or southward movement.

Taipingxingguo four years on February 15, Song Taizong led the army from Tokyo (present-day Kaifeng, Henan Province), March into Zhenzhou, split troops to attack Yu County (present-day northeast of Yu County, Shanxi Province), Qinzhou (present-day Qinyuan, Shanxi Province), Fenzhou (present-day Fenyang, Shanxi Province), Lanzhou (present-day Lanxian, Shanxi Province) and other peripheral counties, in order to contain these areas of the northern Han army reinforcement of Taiyuan. By this time, Guo Jinjun had already advanced to Shiling Pass.

Liu Jiyuan, the lord of the Northern Han Dynasty, heard that the Song army was pressing down on his territory and sent an envoy to Liao to ask for help. The Liao Emperor ordered the Southern Chancellor Yelu Sha to be the commander of the army, and the King of Ji to be the supervisor of the army. He led the troops to rescue the Northern Han Dynasty. March 16, Yelu Sha led the army day and night into the Baima Ling (now northeast of Shanxi Yu County), and Guo Jin blocking support troops met, the two armies across the big stream confrontation.

Yelu Sha intends to wait for the follow-up troops to arrive before the war, the enemy Lie and others believe that the immediate attack is advantageous, so they jumped ahead of the stream to attack the Song army. Guo Jinjun took advantage of the half crossing, suddenly attacked, beheaded five generals, such as enemy Lie, wiped out more than 10,000 people, the remaining Liao army fled in a hurry. The remaining Liao army fled in haste. The king of Beihan, Yelu Xiezhong, led his army to arrive, and the Song army retreated after ten thousand arrows were fired. The Northern Han sent another messenger to Liao to ask for help, but the messenger was captured by Guo Jinjun and killed under the city of Taiyuan. The Northern Han army was again defeated by the Song army, so they defended the city.

The Song army won the victory with great aid and took advantage of the situation to attack on all fronts. In mid-April, after the Song army attacked Yu County, Longzhou, Lanzhou and other areas, Song Taizong led the army to Taiyuan, with hundreds of thousands of troops, set troops to surround the city. On April 23rd, he toured the city to comfort the generals and sent a letter to beckon Liu Jiyuan, the lord of the Northern Han Dynasty, to surrender, which was rejected. Twenty-fourth night, Song Taizong to the west of the city to supervise the generals to attack the city, unsuccessful.

May 1st, and the Chu will rush to attack the south corner of the city west, trapped in the siege of Yangma City. North Han Dynasty XuanHui make Fan beyond the surrender. On the third, Song Taizong to the northwest corner of the city, the northern Han horse foot army commander Guo Wanchao and other successive surrender. On the fourth day, Song Taizong to the south of the city, once again beckon surrender, while waving the army stormed the city. Far away in daizhou (today's Shanxi daixian) of north han extra horse harnessed by the side of a team of harnessed by the side of a team of captain chung chun to the liao emperor, yelu xian because of the liao army in baimaling new defeat, can not be sent to save troops.

At this time, Emperor Taizong of the Song Dynasty ordered the city to be flooded by the Fen River again, making the city of Taiyuan an ocean of water. Liu Jiyuan, with no reinforcements outside and no fighting spirit inside, surrendered on the sixth day of the fifth month. Song Taizong ordered Liu Baoxun to preside over the political affairs of Taiyuan, and appointed Liu Jiyuan as the right general and Duke of Pengcheng County.