The Struggle of the Reborn Prince

Three days later, the news came that all the Song army in the three routes were defeated. The process was almost the same as that of Zhao Qiong and others, but the result was even more tragic...

In order to complete the established strategic deployment of rescue of Taiyuan, the Song army required the three armies to coordinate and move forward quickly. The requirements were not too high, but this was impossible at all. The three generals all had opinions on this plan and did not agree with it.

, and they were dealing passively in their respective occupied areas and did not actively fight. At this time, the important official Xu Han mistakenly listened to the spy and made the judgment that the Jin army would withdraw its troops on its entire line. He repeatedly urged the Zong army to advance, and even blamed him.

He held heavy troops but stayed and watched.

Faced with the three reinforcements with a negative attitude, the Privy Council envoy Li Gang and the co-magistrate Xu Han were finally angry. Such a arrogant general would be more than good. He severely scolded the three generals and sent them to the army for more than a day.

Six or seven letters, which shows that it is really urgent! After receiving the reprimand, everyone had to move, otherwise they would be sued. Zhong Shizhong led Qin Feng's army to set off from Jingxing, Hebei, and the Xihe Marshal Yao Gu led Xihe Army.

Zhang Xiaochun's son Zhang Hao led the Hedong Army to the north from Changzhi and Fenzhou respectively to agree that Yao Gu and Zhang Hao's army would advance in a separate way and meet near Taiyuan.

Under the urging of the Privy Council, under the pressure of civil servants and under the pressure of public opinion, the Northern Song army in Taiyuan advanced three routes. Li Gang and Xu Han commanded the battle and ordered Yao Gu and the elite Shaanxi soldiers led by Zhong Shizhong to command the battle.

, abandon the cities and dangers that can be held on, and even strictly order the baggage and food and grass to be abandoned.

On May 9, the vanguard of the central division of the Zhong Division arrived at the stone bridge twenty miles away from Taiyuan. The central army arrived at the stone pit in Shouyang, but did not encounter any resistance from the Jin army along the way. However, they arrived at the Pingding Army (now Yangquan City, Shanxi)

After taking advantage of the victory, they occupied Shouyang and Yuci. The army was already seriously short of food? Each soldier only had a spoonful of black beans a day, and their combat effectiveness was weakened and their morale was low.

The military strategy is clouded, and the city without aid cannot be defended. At this time, Taiyuan has been surrounded for almost half a year. The defenders suffered heavy casualties and had no strength to break through and launch a counterattack. It is difficult to pose a threat to the Jin army. Silver Technique can calmly mobilize troops.

He only led some old, weak, sick and disabled to siege the city, so he set up a suspicious formation. Wanyan Tuhe quickly led a small number of infantry and cavalry to entangle the main force of the Song army on the southern front, Yu Qingyuan blocked Zhang Hao and Yao Gu. Disguised as the main force to confuse the Song army.

, drag them down and buy time for the main force to annihilate the enemy.

At the same time, Silver Skill concentrated eight thousand main Jin army cavalry, using Wanyan Loushi as the commander to deal with the central unit of the Song army division that was raiding from afar. They first fought with a small group of troops, pretended to be defeated and retreated, and retreated step by step.

The Zhong Shizhong made a misjudgment, believing that what he encountered was just a sporadic defenders of the Jin army, which drove the troops to chase them wildly. He fell into the Jin army's plan to lure the enemy into depth.

At this time, the weaknesses of the middle division of the Zhong Division were fully exposed. Because of the lack of horses, many infantry troops were invaded. As the front line was extended, the coordination ability of the entire army weakened, and the baggage could no longer keep up. The soldiers were not full, resulting in a disintegration of the morale of the army.

As smooth as this veteran in the Zhong Shishi had been through the battlefield, he violated the taboo of military strategists who were careless and neglected to guard against the enemy. When he received a scout report that the Jin army was attacking in Yuci, he still believed that the Jin army had returned to the north.

The scattered troops were unexpectedly the main force of the Jin army who came to block the attack.

Wanyan Loushi led his troops to attack quickly. He cut off the Zong army and the Song army rushed to fight. He won three battles and moved forward hard. Yao Gu should have killed quickly to rescue Zong army, but Yao Gu was not an excellent general.

At the same time, he also complained about the court's decision. After being blocked by the Jin army's Wanyan Tuhesu division, Yao Gu found it difficult to judge the strength of the other party. He had a general under him, Jiao Anjie, who was always afraid of the enemy and was afraid of fighting. He reported the military situation to the public.

It is said that the head commander of the Jin army Zong Han led a large army, but Yao Gu and Zhang Hao were on the verge of patrol and failed to meet with Zhong Shizhong as agreed.

When the central part of Zhongshi was forced to retreat to the Shaxiong Ridge, it was once again besieged by the Jin army. The military food was short of military rations and the low morale Song army almost collapsed. The four wounds in the body of Zhongshi, who was left with only a hundred soldiers, were still injured.

Fighting hard, he eventually died in a trap and hated the battlefield. After defeating the central headquarters of the Zhongshi, the main force of the Jin army returned calmly, defeated Yao Gu's army in Pantuo east of Qi County, defeated Zhang Hao's army in Jiaocheng, and Song Ting rescued Taiyuan for the first time

The effort failed in such a way that with the advantage.

The bad news of the defeat reached Tokyo, and the court was uproar. Li Gang and Xu Han were shocked. Li Gang said to Xu Han: "Our scholars do not know the art of war, but hold the post of Privy Council, which will ruin national affairs!" However, the big mistake has become irreversible.

The most elite Western Army in Song Dynasty suffered heavy losses and never recovered from then on. At the end of the west mountain, their deeds finally became legend...

The failure to go to Taiyuan not only caused huge losses in military force, but also ceded the three towns in the court, and the voice of peace with Jin resurrected. However, the three towns in Taiyuan were barriers to the Central Plains. If they were lost, the country would be in danger. After repeated arguments, Zhao

Huan decided to support Taiyuan again and mobilized more than 200,000 troops, and led troops to rescue Taiyuan with Liu Wei, Jie Qian, Jinzhi, Zhang Hao and others as generals.

In order to cooperate with this battle, Zhao Huan issued an edict to seek talents and recruit soldiers. Xu Churen suggested implementing the Ma administration, and detaining households and excluding land to recruit soldiers from the township. Zhao Huan adopted it. He issued an edict to persuade the people to use wealth and grain to help the army.

The state donated money and materials to serve as military use. On May 25, an edict was issued to seek talents who were able to learn martial arts and learn military books. In early June, another edict was issued to entrust the Censors and above in Beijing, and order the magistrates and the magistrates outside the jurisdiction of the magistrates and the rulings of the roads outside.

The above officials each bravely commanded talents to enrich their military strength.

But there is another old saying: The country is easy to change and its nature is difficult to change. Zhao Qi put on a stance of resolute resistance against the war, but these measures will not be effective in a short period of time. If you go to Taiyuan and lose again, the Jin army will go south again and be his own throne.

It was really overturned. So he asked Geng Nanzhong to discuss privately redeem the three towns by replacing tax money, but he still faced an obstacle, that is, Li Gang.

Zhao Huan was increasingly dissatisfied with Li Gang, but he was afraid of him in his heart. As long as Li Gang got involved, he had to do his own thing according to his opinion, otherwise he would either argue in the court or repeatedly write down the chapters.

Defend or force you to make concessions by resigning. As the emperor, you can't suppress him sometimes, but you have to follow him everywhere. But his official position actually caused Tai students to write to the letter, which almost caused civil rebellion.

Zhao Huan felt that Li Gang relied on his merits and talents and did not take the emperor's dignity seriously.

Geng Nanzhong turned out to be Zhao Huan's old minister in the Eastern Palace. The old saying goes, "One person becomes a god and a dog to ascend to heaven." After Zhao Huan ascended the throne, he became a wife for many years and was constantly promoted and promoted, and was entrusted with important tasks. But Geng Nanzhong's heart was still unbalanced because Wu Min

Li Gang was also promoted from above, and now he is above himself. Especially Li Gang, who was from the fifth-rank Taichang Shaoqing, was promoted to the position of Privy Councilor of the first-rank in two months.

Geng Nanzhong was indignant about this and had been waiting for an opportunity to exclude Li Gang. He had been with the emperor for more than ten years and immediately saw Zhao Huan's thoughts. The emperor no longer dared to have hope for helping Taiyuan, but he wanted to discuss peace and was worried.

When Li Gang was in the court, he would definitely firmly oppose the proposal of cede land and seeking peace. Then the time to attack Li Gang was coming, and his technique was similar to the way he drove Zhao Zhen out of the capital back then to delegate power and promote him!

On this day, the priests discussed in the court whether to continue to rescue Taiyuan or to cede land and negotiate peace. Li Gang and Geng Nanzhong had a dispute in front of Zhao Huan. Geng Nanzhong suddenly said: "If you are determined not to abandon the three towns, you must resolve Taiyuan.

Encirclement; if you want to break the encirclement in Taiyuan, you must be Li Gang." Zhao Huan nodded and looked at Li Gang.

Li Gang hurriedly refused to say that he was a scholar and did not know about military affairs. Before, Tokyo was besieged, and I had no choice but to handle military affairs for Your Majesty. Now if I commanded the army as the commander, it might be a disaster for the country. Zhao Huan said that since you can lift the siege of Tokyo,

He must have been able to escape the siege of Taiyuan, and immediately appointed Li Gang to replace Zhong Shidao as Hedong and Hebei Xuanfu Envoy. After retiring from the court, Li Gang said he was ill and did not leave. He submitted memorials to request retirement, but Zhao Huan refused. A censor wrote a letter to Zhao

Huan Ji argued that Li Gang could not leave the court, but was scolded by Zhao Huanyan.

Li Gang's resignation was handed over a dozen copies in a row, but Zhao Huan still refused. He understood what was going on, but he also understood that there must be field battles to rescue Taiyuan. Field battles are different from defending the city. You must arrange troops and make decisions in the face of the enemy, such as

If you don’t go through the battlefield for a long time, you will definitely lose more and win less. Once you lose, your own defeat is still the second. If the siege of Taiyuan cannot be resolved, and your soldiers and generals will be damaged, and your spirit will be irresistible.

When the two sides were in a stalemate, the emperor suddenly issued an edict to order Yao Gu to go north again to lift the siege of Taiyuan again. Yao Gu had just been defeated and dared not go, so he asked the court to send generals quickly. Zhao Huan's move was to force Li Gang to a dead corner. Taiyuan was in danger.

Rescue is urgent. You, Li Gang, refuse to accept the order. If Taiyuan is lost, you will not be able to escape the serious crime of disaster to the country!

Li Gang was in a dangerous situation of dilemma. Seeing that Li Gang was about to fall into Geng Nanzhong's trap, Xu Han hurriedly sent someone to secretly send a letter to Li Gang. When Li Gang opened it, he saw that there were only two words on the letter. Du You were there.

Du You is a place name, west of Xianyang. During the Warring States Period, Bai Qi, a famous general of Qin, was greedy and destroyed by ministers, which led to suspicion from Qin Zhao and was driven out of Chang'an. When Bai Qi arrived at Du You, he received an order to kill him and was forced to commit suicide.

Li Gang suddenly woke up when he saw these two words and murmured to himself: "How can he be long-lasting when his master is so powerful!"

Li Gang had no choice but to accept the order, but there were 20,000 soldiers under the name of Xuanfusi, but there were several stalls. There were only 12,000 people who could barely get the money. It was not his turn to take care of the two armies.

Liu Wei, deputy envoy of Xuanfu, did not listen to his orders at all. He applied for the opening fee, and Geng Nanzhong, who was in charge of financial power, granted 200,000 yuan in one million. He had nothing, but he was urged to send troops as soon as possible and apply for

Delay, two words 'not accurate'!

Just as everyone was about to watch a joke, the court suddenly received news that Prince Yan, Prince Yan, was ordered to recruit 100,000 troops to help Taiyuan, which shocked the people and the people in the court. At this time, there were still people storming in the muddy water...

To be continued...)