The Struggle of the Reborn Prince

The Jin army suffered two consecutive defeats, and did not dare to act rashly anymore, and retreated into Baishuikou and closed the door without fighting. The mountains on both sides of Baishuikou were steep and the canyon was deep. Zhao Yong sent people to explore the way several times but returned in vain. The Jin army

In order to prevent sneak attacks, in addition to deploying a large number of troops in the dangerous pass, they also set fire to the mountains and turned several surrounding barren mountains into flaming mountains. They all became immortals and lived in smoke all day long.

Zhao was at a loss and had to mobilize artillery to block the door of the house and bombard them every day. Now the Jurchens didn't come out. They built the door with no problem. Finally, they simply built the door with stones, as if they gave up going south. But when Zhao Qi sighed after learning about it, he sighed.

With a sound, he knew that the Jin army had learned that the Silver Skills had opened the road to Taiyuan and slipped away quietly.

After hearing this, Zhao Yong immediately sent someone to check it out. Sure enough, there was no one in the canyon, and the Jin army really ran away secretly! Zhao Qi knew that it was time for him to leave, and he understood that the upcoming New Year would look different, history

A new page will also be opened. He thought hard about where he would go in this moment of great historical changes, whether he would be willing to be at the mercy of his destiny, or to fight back and completely change this history?

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Besides, after Han Li failed to occupy Yanshan Prefecture, all the prefectures and counties under Yanshan Prefecture saw that the situation was despair, and all the troops surrendered in the wind. On December 10, the Jin army occupied all the six prefectures and twenty-four counties under Yanshan Prefecture without bloodshed, and 110,000 stationed in Yanshan

The Song army no longer existed. The rapid progress of the Jin army was largely due to Guo Yaoshi's surrender to the Jin Dynasty. In addition, Guo knew the military and political background of the Song Dynasty. Emperor Taizong of Jin issued a special order to entrust Guo Yaoshi to Jinyanshan

He stayed behind and was given the surname Wanyan. He followed Han Wuru to attack the Song Dynasty.

After a few days of rest, then left Yanshan Prefecture on December 15th and continued to invade the south. Han Li did not trust Guo Yaoshi who had just surrendered and placed the Changsheng Army in Yanjing City. If something happened in a lifetime, the left-behind people would not be able to suppress it.

, Isn't it a troublesome thing? So I asked Guo Yaoshi to lead a thousand cavalry to the vanguard commander to lead the way for the army.

Seeing that his subordinates were about to be disintegrated and divided, Guo Yaoshi also became interested. Without these younger brothers, he would have no capital to settle down. Of course, he was dissatisfied with this arrangement and said that there were too few soldiers and could not take on the heavy responsibility of the front line. Han Li

He did not force him to add another thousand cavalry, but ordered him not to attack and loot the prefectures and counties ahead without authorization.

After leaving Zhuozhou, there was no obstacle in the vast North China Plain. On the 16th, the Jin army crossed the Baigou, the boundary line agreed by the Song and Jin countries. It was located in Zhongshan, Zhending and Hejian, three important military cities in Zhending and Hejian, the first to be the iron hoof of the Jin army.

Impact. Without the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun, the Hebei Plain has no danger and terrain to defend. The three towns in Hebei are the last national defense lifeline of the Northern Song Dynasty in the North China Plain!

So the three towns in Hebei became the Great Wall of the Song Dynasty. Once lost, they will go south to the north bank of the Yellow River, with a flat horse and no danger to defend. The cavalry of the nomadic peoples is unobstructed. Therefore, the courts of all dynasties attached great importance to the three towns as their support.

The defense of military fortresses, arranged a large number of imperial guards in the three towns, excavated many ponds and lakes, and then used the characteristics of the terrain to connect the rivers with the lakes and ponds, forming a "Great Water Wall". Boats cannot be carried in deep water.

.You cannot hike and wade on the shallow areas, and plant trees and afforestation on a large scale along the edge.

But man's calculations are not as good as God's calculations. A hundred years of peace is achieved. The people do not know the war and the soldiers are prepared to be sluggish. This leads to the siltation of fields and the depth of water has long been less than the depth that can defend against cavalry in the past. In winter, the river water freezes, and the Jin Kingdom takes advantage of the cold winter to attack.

This line of defense is useless.

The target of the Jin army's southward journey was Bianjing, so they did not adopt the tactic of strong attack and hard attack. When they encountered a city, they would defeat them if they could. If they could not defeat them, they would bypass them and fight while walking. The Jin soldiers attacked Baozhou and attacked Zhongshan.

When the palace met the Song general Zhan Du defending him, he couldn't stop. Han Li could not command the army, and bypassed Zhongshan and turned to the southwest to attack Zhending. One day, Zhending fell.

In the following days, the Jin soldiers successively conquered strategic areas such as Qingyuan, Xinde, and Handan. Most of the cities in the vast North China Plain had fallen into the hands of the Jin soldiers. What's worse, all the military rations in these lost places were left.

The Jin soldiers had enough for them to eat for several years. This not only solved the logistics problems of the Jin army, but also achieved the goal of supporting the war with war...

In the face of such unfavorable war on the front line, Zhao Qi was devoted to his efforts to worry about the country and the people, worry about the future of the Song Dynasty, and find a way out for himself. What about the priests in the court who were busy with the gods?

Before the Jin army launched a large-scale invasion, Cai Jing, the prefect of Yanshan, wrote more than 170 memorials, secretly reporting the border situation, and told the Song Dynasty that the emperor and ministers of the Jurchens might invade the south. But I don’t know if it was Cai Jing’s staff bad or whether it was the situation in the border area.

The promotion was too fast and was envied by people. Some people in the court believed that it was just to hold the position of Yanjing Mansion and would make up the rumors that the Jin army was approaching, creating tension, so they ignored it at all.

As a result, when the Jin army attacked and flew to the court like snowflakes on the front line, they all insisted on their own opinion, believing that it was just a small conflict between the Song and Jin borders, and the situation was not very serious. At this time, they caught up again

The emperor held a grand ceremony for the suburbs. In order not to disturb the emperor's elegant mood, the war report was suppressed. Not only did Zhao Ji not know about this, but even the two prime ministers Li Bangyan and Bai Shizhong did not know about it.

It was not until the fifth day of the 12th month that the Jin Kingdom sent envoys to Tokyo to ask for the emperor, but in fact they were here to issue an ultimatum, telling the Song Dynasty that if they wanted to cease the war, they would need to cede land and pay compensation. Only then did the two prime ministers Li Bangyan and Bai Shizhong know about the front line.

It was true, but like those people, these two people continued to conceal the situation on the front line, and gave a heavy gift to send the gold envoy away as soon as possible, so as not to let the emperor hear the news.

On December 16th, Tong Guan, the envoy of the Prosecution of the Two Rivers, ran back to Bianjing from Taiyuan to avoid the war. The lid finally couldn't be covered, but these people were still trying to avoid the responsibility and how to get themselves out of it.

Pick it out. Don’t say that when they met, they really came up with a solution. They only told the emperor that Guo Yaoshi and the Changsheng Army were besieged by the Jin army after the fierce war, and were unable to break through and were forced to surrender.

Don't look at it, the nature of the matter changed. It was obvious that they failed to observe that Guo Yaoshi took the initiative to treason and surrendered to the enemy without taking preventive measures. After changing a few words, it not only covered up the truth of the matter, but also took all the responsibilities.

It was pushed to Cai Jing, who was killed after being captured and refused to surrender. Everyone escaped the punishment without evidence. It seemed that it was fine, but for their own selfish interests, they threw the Song Dynasty to the brink of destruction!

The lid was unveiled, and the government and the country were in an uproar, but one by one, they were urging people to fight, but no one could turn the tide and come up with a solution. There was no way to face the serious situation. Zhao Ji was also so scared that he asked.

The plan for the ministers, let alone a capable man appeared. Minister Li Ye wrote a letter to the Jin Dynasty to go on an envoy to negotiate peace.

At this time, someone stood up, how could Zhao Ji not agree? He immediately made an appointment. But Li Ye proposed another condition to carry 30,000 taels of gold as the cost of peace talks. But at this time, the treasury could not afford so much gold for the moment.

In the end, Zhao Ji took out two golden jars of 500 taels each from the treasury, ordered the Calligraphy Bureau to melt them and recast them into golden plaques, and handed them to Li Ye to do the business first.

However, the Jin army had fought to Yanjing Mansion, so of course they would not take this little bit of silver into their eyes. Li Yebai ran away to grind the soles of his shoes and walked away without any result. But after spending so much gold, he had to explain it to the emperor.

, So Li Ye told Zhao Ji, "The Jin soldiers are like tigers, horses are like dragons, go up the mountain like apes, go down the water and enter into the sea, their momentum is like Mount Tai, and China is like eggs!"

This statement is vivid and vivid, and the metaphor is appropriate. It greatly increases the momentum of the enemy, destroys his own prestige, and makes the people in the court and the country angry. However, Li Ye also won himself the honorary title of "Liu Rushi" and left his name in history.

It also scared Zhao Ji and became even more panicked.

It was only when Zhao Ji felt that the matter was serious, but everything seemed to be a little late. The Jin people soon sent a proclamation to denounce him, full of rude words. Tong Guan discussed with the ministers, afraid that Zhao Ji would see it

Sad and dared not submit a memorial. Li Bangyan suggested that if the manifesto was submitted at this time, it would prompt the emperor to make up his mind to issue an edict to ask for advice.

So the ministers submitted the manifesto in Xuanhe Palace. After reading it, Zhao Ji burst into tears and said only three words: "Stop, stop, stop!" Then... he fainted.

In a dilemma, Zhao Ji summoned Yu Wen Xuzhong, a grandson of the Zizheng Hall, to discuss how to deal with it. This honest man actually told the truth. As expected, he got into the trap designed by Li Bangyan and others. Yu Wen Xuzhong persuaded the emperor to sue himself first.

The edict changed the disadvantages to restore the will of heaven and follow the hearts of the people. As for defense, the generals can be entrusted to him. Everyone knows that Tong Guan also wrote the "Sincere Edict" in the Fang La uprising a few years ago. What ended up being the result of the "Sinful Edict" in his hand?

I sent it home, but everyone didn't mention it, but he just mentioned it.

Zhao Ji, who had no choice, immediately adopted it and ordered Yuwen Xuzhong to draft an edict, saying that he had made all kinds of mistakes since he ascended the throne, ordered the abolition of Huashigang, and the bureaucrats and other bad policies, and asked the bureaucrats and scholars of the world to speak out in the current affairs, hoping that the county and county in the world would lead

The teacher works for the king.

Judging from this edict, Zhao Ji had long known about the country's shortcomings, policies, and his misconduct, but without the strong external blow, he would never think that he was wrong. Fear is the best

Cleaning up the awakening agent! Everything is true, but this self-criticism was still opposed by most ministers, who criticized Yuwen Xuzhong for being too extreme.

But at this time, the Jin soldiers were getting closer and closer, and the alarm was like snowflakes. The capital was full of war, and the grass and trees were all soldiers. The two sides were still arguing. After several revisions, the imperial edict still failed to go to the gong. The military situation was critical, and the Privy Council reported that the Jin soldiers were about to arrive.

The north bank of the Yellow River! Zhao Ji had no time to consider this matter again. The next day he issued an edict to the whole country. He began to consider his own way of retreat and how to escape from this chaotic situation. Of course, the best way is to find a scapegoat... (To be continued...

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