The Struggle of the Reborn Prince

After a summer and autumn preparations, the time for war was ripe. After discussion, the Jin army set the time for war in early December. The reason for choosing early winter was because the Jurchens were more familiar with this climate and had rich experience in winter combat.

.One other thing is that the rivers of all sizes and large were frozen at this time, which was conducive to the rapid passage of the Jurchen cavalry.

It can be said that the Jin army did a lot of homework in planning this battle, and made careful arrangements in terms of military mobilization, food and grass organization, weather choice, strategic deception, military restraint, tactics, etc., which can be said to have taken up all of them.

The time, place, and people are harmonious enough to show that the Jin Dynasty went south this time was different from the past. After careful planning, it came prepared. Looking at the Song Dynasty again, it did not make any preparations for war. A war to destroy civilizations by barbarism.

The dark curtain opened!

Unlike the previous two times, because the Jin Dynasty lost Fengshengzhou, and after arduous negotiations, Yin Shu returned without success. Not only did he not come back, but he was rejected even if he borrowed the road, so the Western Route Army lost it.

The passage to the south. Even so, they did not give up their intention to attack Song, but decided to go to Hebei, east and west routes and set out from Yanjing Prefecture.

Zong Han led the road from Hebei West Road, and Han Li drove south from Hebei East Road. After crossing the Yellow River, he joined forces to attack Bianjing, dispatched 110,000 troops, and left five troops in Pingzhou, Nanjing.

Wan Yi Zonggan was the commander of the capital and went south to reinforce at any time, while preventing the troops from Xijing from taking the opportunity to attack Yanjing Prefecture.

At the beginning of the war, the Jin army launched a rapid assault with an absolute advantageous cavalry cluster. The local Song army in Hebei was beaten by the Jin people and fled in panic and retreated step by step. The two Jin troops rushed straight into the heart of the Northern Song Dynasty like sharp knives, encountering Jiancheng

He immediately took a detour and prepared to conquer Kaifeng in one fell swoop through a sudden and violent attack.

On December 10, the Song Dynasty had just made up the promised compensation, and the hostages were already on the way, but the Jin army suddenly launched an attack. This was like a scoundrel knocking the Song Dynasty's monarch and ministers were stunned, and they were all furious. Geng Geng

Nan Zhongda envied Li Bangyan, whom he recommended, and after receiving the edict, this kid did not return to Beijing to take office immediately. He was still procrastinating on the way, not only did he avoid contributing his wife and children, but he also did not have to block the gun for himself.

Because Geng Nanzhong and others were blindly relying on peace. At this time, the war and defense tools were not prepared. They thought that raising hundreds of thousands of soldiers under the capital, where would they get so much money and food? What's more, they have now been with gold

When the country negotiates peace, why should we use troops? Not only did we disband all the soldiers who served the king, but we also ordered the troops to stand on time and not to enter the capital without authorization. Such a soldier who served the king did not come here, so he naturally became the target of complaints from the officials.

The target of the loyal ministers attacking.

Just when the ministers of the Northern Song Dynasty were talking and no consensus, Wanyan Zonghan's Western Army was unstoppable and swept across the Hebei West Road like crazy. Along the way, most of the Song Dynasty's city guards abandoned the city and fled. The important town was Zhending twice

The Jin army captured. However, in order to please the Jurchens, it was not repaired and easily captured by the Jin army. On December 20, Zonghan arrived at the north bank of the Yellow River in just ten days.

The deputy envoy of Xuanfu Zhe Yanzhi led 120,000 troops to station on the south bank of the Yellow River to meet the enemy. Li Hui, the official of the Privy Council, also led 10,000 cavalry to defend the Yellow River. After the Jin soldiers explored the horses and found out the news, they returned to Zong Han, saying that there were heavy soldiers of the Song Dynasty by the Yellow River.

When gathering, you should not cross the river rashly. Wanyan Loushi offered his advice: "Although the Southern Dynasty has many troops, there is no need to be afraid. You just need to gather all the war drums in front of the formation tonight, and beat the war drums all night long. Let's see what changes the Song soldiers have changed at dawn.

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The rumbling sound of war drums came from the dark night, causing the soldiers and generals of the Song Dynasty to suffer in fear. As dawn approached, these cowards began to flee one after another, and finally ran away. The sound of war drums of the Jin soldiers actually scared away more than 100,000 troops of the Song Dynasty.

On December 21, Wanyan Nianhan's army crossed the Yellow River and rushed straight into the Yong'an army. The guards of Zhengzhou opened the door and surrendered, and were close to Tokyo. Wanyan Wuli led his army to bypass the two rivers.

The Fuzeng Fan Ne was stationed in Huazhou and Junzhou. He crossed the Yellow River through Guyu Enzhou and rushed straight to Daming Prefecture. At this time, both Jin armies had already crossed the Yellow River, and Tokyo was in danger...

Seeing that the Jin army was at the city, Zhao Huan remembered to summon all the kings and soldiers to rescue the emperor quickly, and also issued an order to proclaim King Kang Zhao Gou as the Grand Marshal of the Hebei Army and Horses, and ordered him to summon all the troops from Hebei to the capital. But these were already at the time.

Evening, since Bianjing was besieged by the Jin army, except for the Southern Supervisor Zhang Shuye who brought 30,000 troops into the capital to serve the king, there has never been a large army of kings. The only thing that can be relied on in the city is that it was originally

Seventy thousand guards and archers stationed in the capital are now there.

The emperor made no decisions, and there was a mess below. Zhao Huan was filled with fear. He summoned ministers one by one to seek good strategies. Tang Ke, the young master and secretary of the Secretariat, always advocated peace talks, but after much discussion, he discussed the Jin army to the city.

After the end, he had no choice but to do anything at this time, so he advised Zhao Huan to follow his father Zhao Ji's actions, to keep the crown prince guarding the capital, and lead the people to flee west to Chang'an.

Zhao Huan also began to want to escape, but the Jin soldiers were already under the city. Can they escape? Then, He Li entered the meeting. Zhao Huan asked if he moved the capital, He Li thought that moving the city was the biggest mistake. Zhao Huan also thought that He Li's words were justified.

, and then changed, and he was enough to make a stamp: "Today we should defend the country and the country."

Then he met Zhang Shuye, the general manager of the southern capital who had just arrived in the capital to serve the king. Zhang Shuye believed that the Jin army was fully prepared this time, and the troops were very sharp and they were afraid that they could not be stopped. He suggested that Zhao Huan move south to Xiangyang first.

Zhao Huan also believed that the words were reasonable, and he had no idea when he advanced and retreated.

At this time, it was already rumored that the Jin people's roaming had crossed the river. The Palace Secretary sent someone to investigate and reported that it was not just the roaming, but the main force of the Jin East Road Army had crossed the Yellow River. The court ministers still didn't believe it, how could the Jin people have been?

Come so quickly? So he sent another 300 infantry soldiers to explore in detail, and received a reward on the same day: the Jin soldiers had arrived at Chenqiao.

Zhao Huan was shocked and immediately ordered martial law in the capital. The capital was Qingye, and residents outside the city moved into the city and lived in temples. Qingye ordered the city, but unexpectedly, chaos suddenly fell into chaos outside the outskirts of Tokyo. The soldiers of the Song Dynasty, Baojia, took advantage of the situation to cause chaos and robbed them.

The money of residents near the city burned the houses. The Northern Song Dynasty court could not maintain order and could not control the situation.

Two days later, someone suddenly came from Heyang to report that the fleeing soldiers from Zhe Yanzhi's troops crossed the river, not Jin soldiers. The court officials were overjoyed and immediately ordered the Qingye to stop, and all residents outside the city would go home. This order was made.

But the people cheered. But amid this cheer, the Jin soldiers really came. At this moment, all four gates of Tokyo were closed, and the residents outside the city became prisoners of the Jin army... (To be continued.)