Rebirth: Overthrow Song Dynasty

Zhao Chen thought about the way to bring the child into the palace, but after thinking about it, he didn't have any ideas!

He is the crown prince, the owner of the East Palace! In the East Palace, everything is under his command! It's a pity that the Eastern Palace is only a corner of the Imperial Palace. If you want to enter the Eastern Palace, you must enter from other places in the Imperial Palace! He has no way to control the other guards, eunuchs, and maids in the palace! Moreover, even in the East Palace, it is difficult for him to be unscrupulous.

"The Jurchens surround Kaifeng, Kaifeng is bound to be in chaos, and there may be chaos in the palace! At that time, maybe there is a chance to bring the child into the palace?" Zhao Chen said secretly.

"Your Highness, do you still want to learn martial arts today?" Wang De said.

"Of course I have to learn martial arts!" Zhao Chen nodded.

This afternoon, Zhao Chen still followed Wang De to learn swordsmanship! Wang De's swordsmanship has been greatly improved on the basis of the army's swordsmanship, and it can be called his original creation! This sword technique is extremely exquisite and murderous, but there is still a certain gap between this sword technique and the Dazheng sword technique that Zhao Chen has practiced.

That Dazheng swordsmanship is an imperial martial art, Zhao Chen can only practice it by himself, and cannot let Wang De guide him! Although he practiced it by himself, Zhao Chen already felt that the power of this Dazheng swordsmanship was far better than the swordsmanship taught by Wang De! That Dazheng swordsmanship strikes down, the moves are extremely powerful, it can be said to be unstoppable!

In the process of practicing martial arts, Zhao Chen's mood gradually calmed down! He knows that it is not okay to be anxious, and it will not solve any problems! Now he can only wait slowly, slowly looking for opportunities! In the past few months in the palace, a huge crisis is about to come, but Zhao Chen's temperament has improved a lot.

The autumn rain outside was still pattering, the sky was gradually getting dark, and the candles in the East Palace were lit.

That night, Zhao Chen left Wang De to have dinner together.

In the past few months, Zhao Chen and Wang De have been getting along almost every day. Although one is a prince and the other is a low-level general, they are not much different from real masters and apprentices!

Of course, apart from master and apprentice, there are other relationships between the two! Zhao Chen is the prince, but the king, and Wang De is the general of the imperial army, but the minister. The most important relationship between the two is the monarch and the minister!

In Wang De's heart, he was actually very grateful to Zhao Chen for his "kindness" to him, and he could feel Zhao Chen's confiding heart to him! Zhao Chen didn't seem to treat him as a courtier at all, but purely as a teacher, or even as a friend! Since ancient times, there have been few kings who have treated their subjects like this! This made Wang De happy and at the same time a little apprehensive, he was afraid that he would not be able to repay the kindness of the monarch!

"The three towns in the north have been destroyed. Tell me, when will the Jin soldiers reach Kaifeng?" Zhao Chen said, full of food and drink.

"There is a natural danger of the Yellow River in the north, and the Jin soldiers may not be able to fight Kaifeng!" Wang De said.

Zhao Chen shook his head, he didn't believe this! It is clearly written in the history books that Jin Bing has indeed reached Kaifeng! Whether it is the three towns in the north or the natural danger of the Yellow River, it is difficult to stop the progress of Jin Bing! Now it is no longer a question of thinking about whether the golden soldiers will come, but a question of how to escape after the golden soldiers arrive!

"Eunuch Liu from the Palace of Funing came here just now and said that His Majesty has sent two generals Zhe Keqiu and Zhe Yanzhi to lead an army of 150,000 to the banks of the Yellow River to stop the Jin soldiers! This time the Jin soldiers are going south in two ways. The troops are limited! There are 150,000 Zhe family troops blocking the other side, and they will definitely not be able to come!" Wang De said.

"Zhe Keqiu? Zhe Yanzhi?" Although Zhao Chen had never heard of these two names in his previous life, as the crown prince, he already had a certain understanding of these Song generals in a few months.

The Zhe family, like the Zhong family, is a family of soldiers and generals in the northwest! Especially this Zhejia has a long history, the history of Zhejia is much longer than that of Song Dynasty! Since the middle and late Tang Dynasty, Zhejia has been guarding the northwest, generation after generation, with a history of nearly 500 years! According to later generations, there is an "Old Madam She" among the generals of the Yang family. In fact, that is not the old Madam She, but the old Madam Zhe! This Zhe family is married to a family of major soldiers in the Northwest, which has a great influence in the Northwest! When Zhong Shidao served as the Northwest Economic and Strategic Envoy, he did not dare to offend this family!

For more than a hundred years, Xixia has risen, and Zhejia has also played a great role in resisting Xixia! But Jin Bing is not Xixia, Zhejia can't be Jin Bing's opponent!

"The Zhe family may not be able to resist the golden soldiers! General Wang, I have one more request!" Zhao Chen said.

"Why should His Royal Highness be polite to the last general?" Wang De asked hastily.

"If... I mean, if the Jin soldiers really broke through the Yellow River and surrounded Kaifeng! Kaifeng city is destroyed, can General Wang protect my safety?" Zhao Chen said.

"Does it need to be said? If that step is really reached, I will definitely protect His Highness to leave the palace!" Wang De said without hesitation.

"Thank you, General!" Zhao Chen nodded.

This Wang De is the number one master of the Forbidden Army, his martial arts has stepped into the innate, with his protection, it must be easier to escape.

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As time passed day by day, battle reports from the north kept coming to the palace, and almost all the battle reports showed that the Jin soldiers were constantly advancing! The Song Army north of the Yellow River could not stop the advance of the Jin Bing at all!

At the end of September, news came from the north that Shi Dao, the number one member of the Western Army, died of illness! The entire city of Kaifeng no longer has any hope for the troops in Hebei and Hedong. At this moment, everyone's eyes are fixed on the bank of the Yellow River! The monarchs and ministers of the Great Song Dynasty pinned their hopes on the Great Song Army on the south bank of the Yellow River, hoping that these Great Song Army can resist the pace of the Jin Bing!

In addition to compromise and quality, Song Qinzong also appointed Wang Hui, the defender of the Lianghuai River, as the deputy envoy for the defense of the Yellow River! Zhe Keqiu, Zhe Yanzhi and his son led the 150,000 Zhe family army to resist the Jinbing West Route Army led by Wanyan Zonghan, and Wang Hui led the 100,000 Huai Forbidden Army to resist the Jinbing East Route Army led by Wanyan Zongwang!

Kang Wang Zhao Gou was appointed by Song Qinzong as the "Marshal of Hebei Soldiers and Horses", responsible for mobilizing the four soldiers and horses in the world to serve the king.

It's early October and the weather is getting colder!

Wanyan Zonghan finally led the army to the southernmost point of Hedong, the area around Puzhou Prefecture!

In front of it is Fenglingdu, which is the most important ferry on the Yellow River! According to ancient Chinese myths and legends, the surname of Nuwa is "Feng". After mending the sky, Nuwa died of exhaustion and was buried here. It is called "Fengling", and the ferry here is called Fenglingdu! This is the throat of Hedong, Henan, and Guanzhong. Since ancient times, it has been a battleground for military strategists. There is a poem in the ancients that says, "One water flows north and south, and the central plains are self-sufficient. Yunshan connects Jin soil, smoke trees enter Qinchuan"! Only through here can Jinbing go south and enter Henan!

Wanyan Zonghan stood at Fengling Ferry and looked towards the opposite side, but the water vapor in the Yellow River was hazy, even if he was a top expert, he could only get a rough look! There were indistinctly countless barracks over there, and countless Song soldiers stationed there, Wanyan Zonghan couldn't help showing a trace of sadness on his face!

A tall and thin middle-aged Jurchen stood beside him, and said, "The commander-in-chief is a little worried?"

Wanyan Zonghan nodded, and said: "The Yellow River is so fast, it is difficult for us to cross it! Now that the Song people have deployed heavy troops on the opposite side, how can we cross it? Oriyan, tell me, what should we do now?"

The tall and thin middle-aged man next to him is called Wanyan Oriyan, also known as Wanyan Loushi. He is also a strong general of the Jin Kingdom. He was the one who captured the Liao Emperor Yelu Yanxi alive among thousands of troops and killed the Jurchens. Liao made a world-class feat! In addition to being brave, this person is also a wise general of the Kingdom of Jin. When Wanyan Aguda was alive, he often praised Wanyan Loushi! Now, Wanyan Loushi is the number one general under Wanyan Zonghan, Wanyan Zonghan's right-hand man.

Hearing Wanyan Zonghan's question at this moment, Wanyan Loushi also showed a wry smile, and said: "Commander, the situation in front of us is really difficult to deal with! If our Kingdom of Jin has sailors and warships, we can still rush over! But we Without naval forces and warships, how can we break through the Yellow River defense line?"

"Go and call all the commanders, let's discuss together and see how to cross the Yellow River." Wanyan Zonghan thought for a while and said.

The military system of the Kingdom of Jin is an arrangement of ten thousand commanders, thousand commanders, hundred commanders, and tens commanders. One ten thousand commander commands ten thousand commanders, one thousand commander commands ten centurion commanders, and so on! This military system was first created by Wanyan Aguda. After Genghis Khan led the Mongols to rise up, he praised Wanyan Aguda as a military genius, and also adopted the military system of the Kingdom of Jin! This military system looks simple and rough, but it is extremely efficient, and it is the most advanced military system of this era! This kind of military system is also one of the reasons why Jurchen's combat power is extremely high!

The military systems of the Liao Kingdom and the Great Song Dynasty were extremely chaotic, especially the Great Song Dynasty! At that time, Emperor Taizu of the Song Dynasty won the world with the support of the army. After he won the world, he prevented the army from rebelling again in the Song Dynasty. So he first released the military power with a glass of wine, relieved the military power of his generals, and then reformed the military system. ! In the Great Song Army, there are layers of restrictions. There are countless high-level officers such as economic strategy envoys, system envoys, defense envoys, and Xuanfu envoys. As for the number of lower-level officers, there are even more. Many soldiers do not know who their immediate superiors are. ! This kind of military system is enough to ensure that the Song army can achieve the ultimate goal of "the soldiers don't know the generals, and the generals don't know the soldiers". Of course, it also guarantees that there will be no powerful officials in the army, and there will be no rebellion in the army! During the entire Northern and Southern Song Dynasty, there was almost no general rebellion in the Song Dynasty! Zhao Kuangyin's goal was achieved, but Song's army was completely destroyed! The army of the Great Song Dynasty is not the opponent of the Liao Kingdom, not even the opponent of the small Xixia Kingdom.

At this moment, Wanyan Zonghan called all the commanders together to discuss how to cross the Yellow River! But facing the rolling Yellow River, facing the Song army which was several times larger than them, these commanders could not think of any way!

After the consumption of Taiyuan City, now Yan Zonghan only has 50,000 soldiers and horses in his hands, while there are 150,000 family troops on the other side of the Yellow River! The number of enemies is three times that of theirs, and there is the danger of the Yellow River. How easy is it for them to cross the river?

When Jin Bing went south for the first time, Song Jun was unprepared, so they could easily come to Kaifeng! But this time the Song army was careful, it was extremely difficult for them to cross the Yellow River!

"Could it be that my Jurchen army was blocked on the bank of the Yellow River?" Wanyan Zonghan gritted his teeth!

Three days have passed, and Wanyan Zonghan has ordered the soldiers to make rafts and prepare to use rafts to cross the river! But he also felt that it was unreliable! The current of the Yellow River is so fast that if you cross the river with a raft, you don’t know how many people will die! Moreover, even if the Jin soldiers came to the other side, what would they do if the Song army on the opposite side waited for work and swarmed up? But now, Wanyan Zonghan really can't think of any other way!

On this night, Wanyan Zonghan was sleeping soundly, and Wanyan Loushi came to report that there was a Han scholar asking to see him!