Chapter 19. Civil strife in the Song Dynasty.

After fifteen days of frantic travel, Feng Xiaotian and the others took down these ten cities, and the other six basically did not fight. Only four of them were discovered because of the carelessness of the soldiers, and this was the reason why the battle took place, and Feng Xiaotian could only use the reincarnation of the world pupil about five to ten times a day because of his limited strength.

In the future, he will not be able to use more power to control the three energies, after all, his spiritual power is limited. Then they also fought a few tough battles, losing more than 10,000 people, and finally relied on Feng Xiaotian to calculate their defense loopholes, which took down these recalcitrant elements.

Afterwards, Feng Xiaotian did not rush to kill people and establish authority, but used a gentle way to properly settle the people, set up a public court, return justice to the people, and win people's hearts. Through the reaction of the people, the bad guys and bullies who did some bad things were all cleaned up.

As long as the corrupt officials who are the corrupt officials of the common people are found guilty, they will be beheaded in public, and then their property will be confiscated and distributed to the people who suffer the most. The good land is also divided, and I can't use it myself anyway. The second is to send the gold, silver, weapons and other materials stored in the treasury to the territory of Chu State, which is the focus of propaganda on the way, so that all the people of Chu State know that Chu State has won a great victory, so that more people can revere themselves and let themselves harvest more power of faith, and this has also been approved by His Majesty the King. In this way, the cohesion of the people can be higher, and the original anti-war voices in the court also chose to shut up in the face of this mountain of wealth, and instead began to praise the king's wisdom and martial arts, and praised the king of Chang'an for his courage and good fighting, opening up and expanding the territory for the country, and making immortal achievements.

As the so-called few families rejoiced and a few families were sad, the Chu State was celebrating the victory with great fanfare, while the Song State was gloomy and bleak, even frightened, if it weren't for the heavy guards on the front line all year round, if you want to go over, you must have strict instructions and official documents. And Feng Xiaotian couldn't get so many official documents for a while, he had already entered them. As for now, they can only be stationed outside this line.

It may also be that the old king of the Song State, Zheng Ling, died of illness at this time, and let the crown prince succeed to the throne, and the first thing the prince succeeded to the throne was to ask the god of war of the Song State, the veteran officer of the "War Evergreen" to reinstate himself. Speaking of this war evergreen, his life can be described as a legend, joined the army at the age of sixteen, and his family is also a generation of military families, through relationships and his own persistence from a centurion, he fought many battles for the Song State, and at the age of forty, he was already the generalissimo of the Song State. And when he was eighty years old, because the old king was anxious and eager to prove himself, he personally led his troops into danger, but was captured alive by the Liao State.

But at this critical moment, the veteran general Zhan Changqing took all the troops he could mobilize, even including his five sons, and went to the battlefield together, rushed into the dangerous place of nine deaths and saved the king!

After being rescued, they broke through from the other direction, with a total of 500,000 soldiers and horses, and less than 20,000 came out alive in the end, including the four sons of the old general, but they were caught up by the Liao army before they went far.

The Liao army is a new force, and the momentum is flourishing, and on the other hand, the Song army is all wounded and has no fighting spirit, and even the king is desperate, at this moment, the old general made a decision that shocked everyone, that is, let his son, pretend to be the king, run in the other direction, and he and others pretend to be ordinary people. Protect the king from the path back home, you know. This is his last son, and this task is obviously to send him to death, even the king can't stand it anymore, and the condemnation of conscience makes him embarrassed, so he wants to stop it, but the old general doesn't give people time to object.

And the old general's son also inherited the old general's character, and I saw him walk quickly to the king, first say "offended", and then start to take off the king's coat, put it on himself, get up and mount, shout "follow me" and go away without looking back.

The old general also turned his head and ran away with the path of the dynasty, and after about half an hour, he faintly heard a shout of killing from the other side of the mountain, and the king at this time was already ashamed and speechless, because his arrogance and stupidity killed so many people, and it made this old hero who should have been raised for the rest of his life lose his son when he was old, so how could he face the people of the country and the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty!

Angry and angry, he ran to the old general and was ready to ask him to give up himself to save his son, but when he came to the old general, he found that the old general had already thought that he was in tears. The pain of a white-haired person sending a black-haired person made him feel unbearable, and every son was raised by him with countless efforts since he was a child. It can be said that they are the lives of the old general, and this kind of pain makes him very unwilling to die with his sons

But for the sake of the Song State, he can't! Once the king is captured, then the Liao State is likely to use the king to force these generals and officials to surrender. At that time, the Song Kingdom would not be far from the death of the country. Therefore, he had to do this for the sake of the Song State, so when they returned to the Song State safely, three days later, the Liao State came to attack, and the Song State was greatly injured at this time, and he was unable to fight again.

The old general, who was well aware of the national crisis, put aside his hatred and personally went to negotiate peace with the Liao State, and after three days of negotiations, he finally succeeded in giving the Song State a buffer time after paying a certain price. Of course, the Liao State wanted to be angry and take the Song State. So he deliberately gave him the heads of the old general's five sons, and also sent the murderer of his son to negotiate, during which the old general could not get angry or get angry, otherwise he would be caught and start a war.

Therefore, he can only greet him with a smile, as if the other party is not an enemy who kills his son, but an old friend who has not seen him for many years. The pain in this is not something that ordinary people can endure, even the Liao people on his opposite side have great admiration for him, and in the face of the country's righteousness, he forgets his personal grievances. Not everyone can do that.

Ten years later, the national strength of the Song State eased, and he personally led the troops. With an army of 100,000 and three years of bloody battles, he finally recaptured the land that the Song State had fallen, and the murderer of his son was also killed. And the king did not treat the old general badly, because his official was already the largest, so he directly called the prince and ordered him to call the old general's father-in-law, and kneel. How could the prince, who had always been arrogant, endure this? But the king's order could not be violated. He could only kneel down and kowtow with a smile on his face, but he was extremely reluctant in his heart.

The good times didn't last long, King Zheng Ling, after that battle, had many old injuries on his body, plus he was old, sick in bed, and couldn't get up. All state affairs were handed over to the prince, and the first thing the prince did was to withdraw the old general's military power from Mingsheng and secretly. Arrange him to retire in a quiet place.

At first, the old general was very unwilling, but then he figured it out, once a son of heaven and a courtier. It's time to give up horses all your life, it's time for young people to go through some tribulations. In this way, he can grow without the suppression of the old king and the general, the prince is like a tiger out of the cage, he immediately went through the army to reorganize the army and began to send his henchmen to fight in the Chu State, but he also knew that the Chu State was not easy to fight. Therefore, the emphasis is on military training, and Chu Guocheng is strong and wide, and he doesn't care much about the harassment of Song State, and he can also improve the vigilance of the army, so he acquiesces. In this way, the two countries were hostile to each other and did not fight too much, until this incident happened. When the news was transmitted back to China, everyone's first reaction was that this was impossible, and then as more and more military reports came, this made everyone believe in this fact, the poor old king was dying, but when he heard this bad news, he directly screamed for his life, which was already in the turmoil of the Song Kingdom, which was tantamount to adding insult to injury, internal and external troubles, and it made the prince numb. A lot of things are pressed against him.

First of all, the old king's funeral must be done, and then his own enthronement ceremony must be done, and then there are his brothers. is also very interested in the position of the king, and always gets together to plot something, but the biggest threat is the army of Chu led by Feng Xiaotian, it can be said that they have all hit the doorstep, once the first line of heaven is broken, then the Song State will be finished.

At this time, the crown prince could no longer care about fighting for power and profit, and hurriedly invited the veteran general to return to Beijing to preside over the overall situation. At first, the old general was very unwilling, thinking that he would pay so much for the country. In the end, he was sent away by a yellow-mouthed child, but for the sake of the country's righteousness, the old general still returned. The first thing he did when he came back was to firmly stand on the side of the prince and refuse the solicitation of other princes. Because at present, only the crown prince is qualified to inherit the throne, if he chooses someone else, it will inevitably cause a civil war in the Song Dynasty, and at that time, there will be no need for the Chu State to fight. The Song State was about to die at the hands of its own people, and then it would take advantage of its position in the court. Disturb the centrists, so that the other princes do not dare to rebel, and then recruit troops. All the families and the soldiers in the palace can be recruited, so that the crisis on the front line can be solved, and these ambitious guys can be quiet for a while.

After that, it was a non-stop rush to the Shenmen Fortress outside the sky.

Shenmen Fortress is the gateway to guard the first line of heaven for the Song State all the year round. Among them, the thickness and height of the city wall, as well as the equipment for defending the city, are more than ten times that of Linguan City. The reason why it is so majestic is because it is not a day's journey after a line of sky, that is, the capital of the Song Kingdom, once the first line of heaven is broken, the Song State can be said to be dead, because the first line of heaven is too narrow, even if it is broken, it is impossible to send a large army to pass through immediately, so as long as a few thousand people, with some long-range bows and arrows. You can easily hold this place.

Because of this, the defense outside the first line of heaven is very strong, but the first line of heaven is just a small city built so-so, and there are also fortifications on the first line of sky, once the enemy is strong, then they will launch the last resort, with huge stones to block the first line of sky, so as to buy them time.

The fortress was built under the personal supervision of the veteran general, and when it was built, the treasury of the entire Song State was empty. The king turned his hair gray for money, and the whole country fell into an economic crisis. If it weren't for this, the king wouldn't have risked his life and almost ended up being caught.

It was at this time that the Liao State invaded on a large scale, and the Manchu civil and military did not trust the king. He thinks that the treasury has been empty for many years during his reign, and he is really unworthy of being a master. The king was in a hurry, and in order to prove himself, he decided to drive the expedition in person, which was the later thing, and it can be said that it was also a god gate, if it weren't for it, the Song Kingdom would have been broken long ago. The completion of the Song Kingdom's economy staggnated for ten years, and after its completion, the king named it after "God", meaning that this is the door that only God can open.

Since the completion of the Shenmen Fortress, there has been no war for nine years, and the last time it was the Liao State fought here, but after five months of protracted war, it paid an extremely painful price. The Liao State had to negotiate peacefully, and if it weren't for the Xiongcheng Song State, it would have been destroyed by the Liao long ago.

Now, this fortress named after "God" is about to usher in another test of its kind, Feng Xiaotian took the original army of 100,000 and the captives along the way, a total of 300,000 people, came to a plain in front of this Shenmen fortress and settled down.

And after several tentative attacks, Feng Xiaotian had no choice but to wait for the opportunity first, and at the same time, the veteran general who had dealt with the internal relations of the Song State also came to the Shenmen Fortress, and brought 800,000 troops behind him. Both armies were in full position, and neither dared to make a big move.

Just when the two countries were fighting in full swing, the entire continent was boiling because of the battle between these two countries, first of all, how Feng Xiaotian took half of the Song Kingdom in just fifteen days, at first everyone couldn't believe that this was true, because the city guards in the ten cities could not collectively commit treason together, right? But this happened like this, which made everyone amazed.