Although Zong Wang's death had a great impact, the Jurchen was a family of Fang Xing, with many elite soldiers and good generals, and although Zong Wang's successor, Zong Fu, was not as strong as his brother, he was enough to inherit his business. Therefore, the dominance of the Central Plains war situation was still in the hands of the Jin people after Zong Wang's death.

At this time, there were three main anti-Jin forces in northern China, namely Cao Guangbi in Hedong, Zong Ze in Bianliang, and Wang Shizhong in Shandong. In addition, although Shaanxi's soldiers and horses were not unified, they had no weak resistance to Jin and Xia.

At the beginning, the Kaifeng Mansion Yin was vacant, and Li Gang was still in the phase at that time, and he thought that the restoration of the old capital would not be done by Zongze, so he asked Zongze to guard Bian.

When Zong Ze arrived, the situation in the Central Plains was very critical, the Jin people's rangers were running up and down the Yellow River, the drums were heard day and night, and everyone inside and outside Bianliang was in danger. After the last fall of the Beijing Division, the building was completely abandoned, the soldiers and civilians lived together, and the thieves were rampant, and the feet of the Son of Heaven in the past have become a criminal abyss today.

In order to solve internal and external troubles, Zong Ze adopted three major strategies.

The first is to rule piracy. He handed down a strict order: for thieves, the stolen goods are not serious, and they will be dealt with in accordance with military law. Zong Ze had a high prestige in Lianghe and strict law enforcement, and soon the thieves gradually stopped, and the public security situation gradually improved, benefiting neighboring prefectures and counties. Farmers began to return home, and merchants became active again.

The second is to use the bandits, which have become a climate, while strictly enforcing the law against thieves. After the destruction of Bianliang City, there were countless uprisings in various places, these people were either anti-Jin rebels, or for the gangsters who disturbed the people, and most of them were anti-Jin and disturbed the people - after all, most of these uprisers were originally a group of hungry peasants, and after these people got together, there was no perfect logistics and supply system like Cao Guangbi, and there was no more convenient way except to plunder. After Cao Guangbi's uprising, although he opened the door to recruit the rebels, because the silver technique could be used to suppress the territory, the loyal army had to spend most of its energy on defending the battle, and the rebels just did not refuse to come. With Cao Guangbi as a buffer in the north, Zong Ze had an opportunity and situation to subdue the righteous army, plus he had the triple advantages of fame, prestige, and position, and Bianliang still had three or four hundred thousand loads of grain and grass to raise troops, so a banner of righteousness recruited the Liukou Righteous Army to defend the Beijing Division, and the people attached to it were like clouds. For example, Wang Shan of Hedong and Yang Jin of Jingxi are known to support hundreds of thousands, before and after Zong Ze recruited to disarm and surrender, Zong Ze moved with loyalty, prestige with military orders, raised with accumulated grain, turned thieves into soldiers, only a few months there were hundreds of thousands of people in Henan and Hebei counties and counties, the road was safe, and the anti-gold force was also strong - these robbers were born recklessly, dare to fight and dare to kill, if the Ministry of Legion law, combat effectiveness can be much stronger than the forbidden army in the late Northern Song Dynasty. As soon as the robbers became soldiers, the Central Plains was at peace, and the trade route between Bianliang and Dengzhou flourished again.

The third is to dispatch soldiers and horses, according to the terrain in Bianliang City outside the city of 24 fortified walls, along the river to build a series of bead villages, connecting Hedong, Hebei mountains and rivers loyal and righteous militia. Slowly, the people and horses of Shaanxi and Jingxi were willing to listen to Zong Ze's moderation, and once the people and horses of the two rivers had a center to mobilize, the horses and feet of the Jin people were greatly restricted, and it was difficult to come and go as they said before, and the Song army also fought several partial victories in this situation.

With Zong Ze's efforts, not only did the Central Plains briefly restore tranquility, but the pressure on the Shangdang loyal army was also greatly reduced.

Due to the death of Zong Wang, there was a gap in the layout of the Jin Army's East Route Army in Hebei, so the pressure on Hebei was temporarily eased. It's just that Hedong has long been regarded as a thing in the bag by Zong Han, and Shangdang is a strategic place in the southeast of Jin, so Zong Han can't tolerate Cao Guangbi to occupy Shangdang, but Shangdang's terrain is dangerous, and Cao Guangbi guards the law, so Yinshu can not defeat the loyal army after several strong attacks, and the biggest result is only to occupy half of Longde Mansion. When Yinshuke's offensive was strong, Cao Guangbi cleared the field on the northern wall of Shangdang, and sent mountain soldiers to attack and disturb Yinshuke's supply line; When the Yinshu army saw that the strength was weak, he sent elite soldiers out of the city to invite the battle. This area is all mountainous, and Cao Guangbi's troops are not much weaker than Yinshu, and he occupies a favorable location and people, so he can maneuver with Yinshu.

When Zong Ze ran the Central Plains, the Jin army retreated slightly north, and Liu Qi approached the Jin people's stronghold in Hebei with his troops, and the east, southeast, south, and southwest directions of Shangdang became the rear. At the same time, Chen Chu and other government-run businessmen of the Han Department took the opportunity to carry out large-scale activities and sent a steady stream of military rations and weapons to Shangdang. Lin Yi had a lot of gold and silver on hand, and he bought as much as the supplies from the East China Sea, and in just half a year, he hoarded hundreds of thousands of loads of grain and grass, and the population of the Shangdang also gathered more and more, of which the combat team alone reached 80,000.

For a time, the entire Central Plains became a large battlefield, and the number of troops under the orders of the Southern Song Dynasty regime was close to one million. Of course, these hundreds of thousands of people are uneven, most of them are really vulnerable to the Jin people, but the combat effectiveness of several of the main forces has become stronger and stronger, if Cao Guangbi's loyal army, Zong Ze's Bianliang army, Wang Shi's Dengzhou soldiers and Qin Long's western soldiers are connected, then it will not be so easy for the Jin soldiers to go south to herd horses! Because Cao Guangbi, Wang Shizhong, and the soldiers and horses of Shaanxi were willing to obey Zong Ze's moderation at this time, the actions of the soldiers and horses of the Central Plains during this period were more orderly than the troop arrangements during the Jingkang period, and the war situation in the Central Plains once again developed in a favorable direction for the southern army.

In this case, Zong Ze began to arrange all the military horses to intend to counterattack, and repeatedly wrote to Zhao Gou to go north to boost the morale of the army. Chen Zhenghui was quite worried when he heard the report, and said to Yang Yingqi: "Now the morale of the Central Plains is like a rainbow, if Zhao Gou takes the opportunity to go north, once he is defeated, I am afraid that the people of the Shangdang Party, and even the soldiers and civilians of Dengzhou will return to their hearts." ”

Yang Yingqi heaved and said: "If he has a kind like this, then I will admit it." ”

Soon the news came, Zhao Gou not only did not dare to march north, but fled south, and at the same time constantly sent envoys to Zong Han and Zong Wang's army, hoping to cede the land and sue for peace.

Chen Zhenghui and Chen Xian sighed when they heard the news in Jinmen and Tanggu respectively, Dengzhou and Shangdang, whether they were Shilin or soldiers, they were even more disappointed, Zong Ze was indignant in his heart, and soon he became ill, at this time he was nearly seventy years old, and it was difficult to clean up once he was sick, not to mention that Zhao Gou's cowardly behavior was clearly to push this old minister to the ghost gate.

Zong Han originally planned to solve Xiao Tienu first, then solve Cao Guangbi, and then go south to destroy the Song Dynasty, and finally Tu Han, at this time, forced by the times, decided to deal with Zong Ze as a key figure in the Central Plains war, he believed that as long as Zong Ze was broken and the hub of the Bao Song forces was dismantled, the anti-Jin armies would fall into a situation of fighting their own battles again, and then he would be able to break them individually. Zong Han asked the armies to separate ways and invade the south, and he could continue to contain Cao Guangbi with silver techniques, Zong Wei crossed the river from Heyang to attack Henan, Zong Fu and his brother Zong Bi crossed the river from Cangzhou to attack Shandong, Wanyan Lou Mu crossed the river from Tongzhou to attack Shaanxi, and he personally led the troops to cross the river from Jiangzhou, according to Luoyang and Zong Ze. So countless fierce battles broke out in the Central Plains again!

Zhao Tanger's entry into Bianjing under such a situation, her arrival did have the effect of cheering people's hearts, but at the same time, it also contrasted Zhao Gouzhi's timidity. Soon after Zhao Tanger's entry into the city, he heard that Zong Han had taken the Bishui Pass, and ordered the general to lead the cavalry to attack and plunder the western part of Beijing, and the world was shaken.

The Jin soldiers went south, and the resistance was different, among which the Western Route Army that invaded Shaanxi was the most smooth, although the Shaanxi soldiers were strong, but at this time they lacked overall deployment, and they were at a loss in the face of the strong attack of Yan Lou's room. Wanyan Lou's room first broke Tongzhou, and then broke Chang'an, and went all the way to rage, but it was a rare opponent. Zong Han's partial division in Dengzhou and Zhengzhou was also uncertain, burning several cities and slaughtering countless people.

The progress of the East Route Army is quite unsmooth, the Song army learned the lesson of the last time, as soon as they heard that the Jin people came south, Zong Ze spread Henan, Wang Shizhong also spread Shandong, and at the same time ordered the strong wall to clear the field, because Zong Ze has established a considerable fortifications, the Jin soldiers outside the city of Bianliang have no food to cause. Zongfu asked Ouyang Shi to transport grain to help, Ouyang Shi couldn't shirk it, Chen Xian set up a poison plan, and sure enough, 10,000 loads of grain came, and when the grain transportation team arrived on the bank of the Yellow River, it suddenly "caught fire", and all the 10,000 loads of grain and grass and a large number of materials of the Jin army in Hebei were all wiped out.

Jin Bing thought that he could collect grain on the spot like the last two times, but he didn't expect to fall into such a situation. At this time, they had run out of grain and grass, and heard that Zong Ze had sent a large army to the north in a roundabout way, preparing to intercept their way back.

While Bianliang, Shaanxi, and Shandong were facing the pressure of large soldiers at the same time, the pressure on the loyal army was significantly lighter. But Zong Han's arrangement is really ingenious, although the soldiers and horses of Yinshuke are not enough to break through the Longde Mansion, but it is still maintained in a situation where Cao Guangbi is in a situation where he is more than self-preservation and lack of progress, Wang Yan suggested that 5,000 elite soldiers should be sent to rescue Bianliang and Shandong, but Cao Guangbi felt that 5,000 elite soldiers could not have a fundamental impact on the war situation in the Central Plains whether they entered Bianliang or aided Qingzhou, and thought that with Yang Yingqi's support and Zong Ze's management, Dengzhou and Bianliang should be no problem to defend respectively.

At this time, Cao Guangbi actually wanted to do another more important thing, that is, to save people! But where is that man?

At the end of 1678, two secret sons, one in the east and one in the north, entered the Shangdang respectively, bringing the news that Cao Guangbi had been waiting for for a long time. To the east was Yang Yingqi's person, who brought a message: The Han Department has received definite news, Zhe Yanchong is currently in the hands of Zong Han of the West Route Army, and there is an internal response in Zong Han's army, and it should be much easier to save people than in the hands of the East Route Army, but the specific place where the eldest brother is under house arrest is still unknown.

And the person in the north came from even more strangely, only bringing one sentence: "People are in Taiyuan!" ”

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