764, the backbone of the nation
The news of the collapse of the Liao State and the destruction of the country soon spread all over the world, but the happiest thing for this was the Great Song Dynasty, Dazai Zhang Bangchang, Shangshu Zuocheng Li Di and others immediately made a statement to Zhao Huan, saying that the Liao had been destroyed, and my Great Song Dynasty and Jin Su had an alliance, and Jin had a great grudge with Huaguo, so it was the best time for my Great Song Dynasty and Jin to form an alliance again, with the help of the Jin army to fight Zheng thieves and recover the country.
This proposal also caused a response in the DPRK, but some people also expressed their opposition, and An Yaochen, a scholar from the Zhongshu House, and others said, the Khitan is like a wolf, the Jurchen is like a tiger, and the tiger is more terrible than the wolf I don't know how many times, and now the wolf has been killed by the tiger, and it is too late for us to prevent the tiger, how can we still take the initiative to let the tiger into their own home? As for Huaguo, although it is an enemy of the country, after all, it has been a truce with us for four years, and they have always been at peace, and now they have the threat of foreign enemies, and they dare not do anything to us in a short time. In fact, the threat from them is even smaller than that of the Jin Kingdom, because after all, everyone is of the same clan and clan, and they will not do anything too much. Therefore, the most important thing we should do is to continue to use this precious time to develop ourselves, first based on self-preservation, and then try to recover the country, neither to cause trouble, but also not to lead thieves into the house!
If you can look at these two diametrically opposed suggestions with a long-term perspective, you will definitely be able to see that the suggestions of An Yaochen and others are more stable and reasonable, but at this time, Zhao Huan has been blinded by the deception and lies of the entire imperial court from top to bottom, he actually thinks that the current strength of the Great Song Dynasty is really as good as the false values reported by the people below, what money and food are abundant, and what soldiers are strong and strong, especially for him, the existence of Huaguo is a great shame for him and the Great Song Dynasty, he has long wanted to destroy Huaguo and capture Zheng Linfeng alive,
Therefore, compared with An Yaochen's "passive defense", Zhang Bangchang and others' "positive actions" are more in line with Zhao Huan's mind.
Zhao Huan immediately ordered an envoy to Jin to discuss an alliance to attack China.
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Soon, after learning that the envoy of the Song State had arrived, he was waiting outside the palace to summon him, and asked for an alliance with him to attack the Hua Kingdom, and he couldn't help laughing, and smiled at the people around him, "I am hesitating, and the Song Kingdom actually took the initiative to send it to the door, God really helps me!" ”
Jin Guo is full of civil and military people are also laughing, these days, they have been discussing endlessly for the next is to attack China first or Song first, but basically the argument of attacking Song first is heavier, the reason is very simple, Song is weak and Hua is strong, of course, you must pick the soft pinch first, once you can capture the Song State, not to mention anything else, it is the tens of millions of people in the Song State is the biggest temptation, ancient wars, to a considerable extent, the population is the population, the more people you have, the more wealth you create, the more grain and rice you produce, The stronger the accumulated national strength, the stronger the Jin State can really become stronger, just imagine, if the national strength of the Song Dynasty can be matched with the military strength of the Jin State, who is the opponent in the world?!
But there is a big risk in attacking Song first, that is, we must always be on guard against the opportunity of Hua Guo's attack, and now, Song Guo actually took the initiative to ask them to help fight Hua Guo, isn't this just in the hands of Jin Guo?
Wanyan Aguta immediately ordered to summon the envoy of the Song State, and it was a high-level summoning to show that the Jin State was still as respectful and friendly as ever to the Song State, and the Song envoy was the privy envoy Feng Lu, and Feng Lu was really flattered in the face of this high-level welcome.
Subsequently, the two countries began negotiations on the formation of an alliance, Wanyan Aguta expressed his friendship to the Song State on the one hand, and gritted his teeth on the other hand to express his hatred for the Chinese State, under this tone, he almost agreed to all the conditions put forward by the Song State, and their conditions were very simple, first, after the capture of Zheng Linfeng and Yelu Caijie, they would dispose of it, second, Nanjing Dao would belong to them, and third, Song sent millions of coins to the Golden Year.
Feng Lu was overjoyed, he thought that the Jin State had put forward some harsh conditions, but he didn't expect it to be like this, he immediately said that without further ado, he would immediately return to China to invite the emperor, but it shouldn't be a big problem.
In this way, Wanyan Aguta entertained Feng Lu for a few more days, and then also sent his own envoy to the Song State with Feng Lu.
After a long journey, Feng Lu returned to Kaifeng and reported to Zhao Huan, Zhao Huan was also overjoyed, the simple conditions of the Jin Kingdom made him unbelievable, although he could not personally dispose of Zheng Linfeng, but he thought that it would be worse than death if it fell into the hands of the barbarian Jurchens; It is a pity that Nanjing Road cannot be recovered, but as long as the whole country can be recovered, only one Nanjing Road will not be needed; As for the million-year-old coin, this is not a drop in the bucket for Da Song?
Zhao Huan couldn't help but secretly rejoice, secretly saying that this Jurchen was just a group of barbarians who had never seen the world, and they were satisfied with only a million yuan, which was really pitiful.
Immediately, Zhao Huan ordered to fully accept the conditions of the Jin State, and the two countries formally formed an alliance to jointly attack the Chinese State.
After consultations with the Jin envoys, the plan for jointly sending troops was immediately decided, and the Song State from the Daimyofu to the Hebei East Road from west to east, and the Jin from the Zhongjing Road and the Xijing Road from north to south, jointly attacked the Hua State, and tried to wipe out the main force of the Hua State in the Hebei and Shandong areas.
Sent away the golden envoy, Zhao Huan immediately ordered the army to immediately assemble on the front line of the Daimyo's Mansion, just to send troops will cost a lot of money and food, the treasury is obviously empty, but Zhang Bangchang and others in order to cover up, actually falsely reported a huge amount of military salary to cover up, Zhao Huan did not doubt it, and followed their advice, and levied another round of heavy taxes across the country,
The whole court was overjoyed by this decision, but they were not happy that they were going to send troops to attack China, but that they could make a windfall by collecting taxes.
And this is the most fundamental reason why they strongly agree with the resumption of war in alliance with Kim.
Because of the national disaster, wealth is the best and the most!
The Jin envoy returned to the Jin country, and Wanyan Aguta immediately ordered the mobilization of troops to prepare for war, but he did not arrange the army as agreed with the Song, but hoarded heavy troops in Xijing and feinted to attack Nanjing Road, but in fact, what he intended was Sima Zhao's heart, everyone knew it, but Song did not know!
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The news that Song Jin had formed an alliance again to deal with himself was soon known by Zheng Fei, who had already prepared for war with Jin, but unexpectedly waited for this result.
Zheng Fei couldn't help but scolded Zhao Huan and Song Guo for having their brains kicked by a donkey, and they had already suffered so many losses in their own hands, why did they still have such a long memory?
After an emergency military meeting, everyone unanimously agreed with Zheng Fei's speculation that Song Guo was likely to be used as a gun by Jin Guo this time, and not only was he used as a gun, but he would also lure wolves into the house, and finally plant evil fruits to eat by himself!
At the same time, it is also determined that the Song State is hopeless, and Dahua's only choice at present is to resolutely face the battle, destroy the Song State before the Jin State, seize more dangerous checkpoints, and occupy a favorable position before the real decisive battle with Jin!
With Zheng Fei's order, the 500,000 troops that had been prepared for a long time quickly gathered in Hebei and Shandong, and a steady stream of materials was transported from all over the country to the north.
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In September of the fourth year of Dahua, the Song army and the Chinese army once again formed a confrontation on the front line of the Daimyo's mansion, and a major war was about to break out.
On September 10, the Song army, in accordance with the agreement with Jin, crossed the border and launched an attack on the Chinese army, and the Chinese army also launched a counterattack, and the two armies fought on the front line of the Daimyofu.
But at this time, a scene that was unexpected to the Great Song Dynasty and like falling into an ice cellar suddenly happened, 200,000 Xia troops suddenly appeared in the northwest and launched an attack on the northwest of the Great Song Dynasty, and the Jin army, as an ally, not only did not attack Nanjing Road at the same time as agreed, but instead waved its army south, and also launched an attack on the two roads of the Great Song River and Hebei!
At this time, the main force of the Song army has basically been transferred to the Daimyofu to fight with the Chinese army, and the troops of the northwest and Hebei are empty, and they are simply unable to resist the surprise attack of the Jinxia army, and the Song army is losing and retreating, and a large area of the country has fallen madly under the iron hooves of the Jinxia army at an incredible speed.
Zhao Huan and Song Ting learned that they were like a blow to the head, and they were completely confused, and Zhao Huan realized that he was in the Jin Kingdom, and he regretted not starting at the beginning, but it was too late.
By the end of September, the Xia army had attacked their unprecedented depth---- Hezhong Province, just a stone's throw away from Xijing.
The Jin army also attacked Taiyuan Mansion, and as soon as Taiyuan Mansion was broken, there was a horse Pingchuan that could go directly to Tokyo!
At this time, the Song army with the Western Army as the main force learned that the northwest had been lost, and their relatives and homes had fallen under the iron hooves of foreigners, the Western Army was grief-stricken, and under the persuasion of the former Western Army veteran Master Dao, Liu Fa and others, especially Li Gang, who had been "killed" for many years but suddenly turned out, the Western Army was led by Yao Gu and began a large-scale defection, and more angry soldiers rushed into the tent and killed the commander Liu Yanqing, The Western Army opened the gate of the first line of the Daimyo's Mansion and welcomed the Chinese army into the city.
When the news came, the Song court was completely in chaos, and Zhao Huan hurriedly sent envoys to the Jin and Xia armies, willing to beg for a truce on the condition of the lost land, but the Jin and Xia countries ignored it at all and continued to attack, but they were immediately surprised to find that they could not attack, and the originally vulnerable Song army actually reorganized the defense line in Hezhong Mansion and Taiyuan Mansion respectively, blocking the progress of the two armies.
The two armies of Jin Xia couldn't help but be puzzled, so they sent spies to investigate the inside of the two provinces, but the news they got deeply shocked them, it turned out that it was not a regular army of the Song State that stopped them in these two provinces, but an army composed of the rout soldiers on the front line, the refugees who fled here, the local people, as well as the robbers of the Han people, the grass bandits, and the rebel army that had been fighting with the Song army not long ago!
It is such a ragtag army that does not distinguish between men and women, old and young, without clothing, without food, and even with serious shortage of weapons...... It should not even be called a ragtag army, it can only be regarded as an army of "refugees", shouldering responsibilities that should not belong to them, and recasting a new Great Wall in front of the invaders at the most difficult moment for the country and the nation!
This is not over, the two armies of Jinxia and Xia were blocked with the offensive, and they fell into a new trouble, it turned out that in the place they had captured, the Han people began to spontaneously organize to resist them, the Han people took hammers, shovels, kitchen knives or even just a stick and a stone, or a few dozen people, or hundreds of thousands of people gathered, constantly harassing the two armies of Jinxia, harassing the grain routes of the two armies, and killing the soldiers of the two armies alone.
Of course, these "attacks" are not worth mentioning at all for the Jinxia and Xia armies, but I have to admit that they are indeed as annoying as mosquito bites.
The two armies of Jinxia were furious and began to suppress bloody, as long as there was a resistor in a village in a township and a village, all of them would be slaughtered, but the results were very small, and the Han refugees like ants still did not know whether they were alive or dead, and they used their own flesh and blood to block their progress like giant elephants!
Their sacrifice was not worthless, on the other side of Taiyuan Mansion, Zheng Fei was commanding the Dahua army to rush here, and the people in those places showed a completely different side to the arrival of Dahuaguo, welcoming them warmly like a savior!
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A round of the Jin army's offensive was repulsed again, leaving behind hundreds of dead bodies, but these hundreds of dead bodies in golden clothes were inconspicuous among the thousands of corpses wearing Hanfu.
The rebel army of Taiyuan Mansion once again repelled the Jin army at a tragic price!
As soon as the Jin army retreated, the gate of Taiyuan Mansion, which was full of fire and stone smash remnants, and cracks was finally opened, and a group of unkempt, yellow-skinned, and clothed people, including men and women, old and young, rushed out like black ants, and began to search for the surviving compatriots among the dead bodies all over the ground, picking up the swords and bows and arrows left by the Jin army, and every time they picked up an extra knife, or even an arrow, they could make their compatriots who participated in the battle have one more real weapon in the hands of the Jin army's next attack!
"There are living ...... here It's Master Yue! Come on, everyone! A voice suddenly sounded, and suddenly a group of people surrounded him,
They found a sturdy and tall "blood man" who had passed out in the middle of the dead bodies of more than a dozen golden soldiers, although his face could not be seen clearly because of the blood stains on his body, but his clothes and body shape had been completely imprinted in the hearts of many people, and people still recognized him at a glance.
Since the beginning of the defense of Taiyuan, a brave young man who is superior in both kung fu and the ability to command the rebels has appeared, and with his several brave battles, many people know his name and know that his name is Yue Fei!
In this round of battles that just ended, the Jin army finally broke the gate of Taiyuan Mansion, seeing that the Jin army could enter the city, at the moment of crisis, Yue Fei took the lead in a desperate fight with the Jin army at the city gate, and successfully led thousands of brave people to drive the Jin army out of the city gate again, and the city gate behind was finally repaired and closed, but Yue Fei and these thousands of brave people were drowned under more Jin army attacks outside the city.
Everyone thought that Yue Fei had died in battle, but they didn't expect him to be alive, but they just fainted from exhaustion. And judging from the scene where he fainted to death, it was obvious that it was several brave people who struggled to fall on Yue Fei's body before he died that he was not discovered by Jin Bing.
Yue Fei was quickly carried into the city and placed in a clearing not far from the city gate, this is the temporary treatment center of the rebels, the place of more than 100 steps wide is already full of wounded, of course, there is no food in the city now, what medicine will there be? All people can do is to boil hot water and keep wiping their bodies with hot cloths that are gradually becoming cold, hoping that a miracle will happen.
At any time, there are people who die, there are no tears, because they have cried dry, there is no hesitation, because there is no time, all people are doing what they can do, the national disaster is at the head, and the backbone of the nation cannot be bent!
A little boy who was only twelve or thirteen years old was arranged to wipe Yue Fei's body, he had just wiped it twice, but he heard an old voice behind him, "Baby, I'll come." ”
The little boy looked back and saw that it was a gray-haired old man, and his left forearm was gone, and the eye-catching blood stains on the rolled sleeves indicated that this was something that had happened not long ago.
The little boy hesitated, "Grandpa, ...... your hands?" ”
The old man smiled, looked at Yue Fei's sleepy face and said softly, "It's not in the way, one hand is fine, he is my family." ”
The little boy nodded, immediately handed him the hot cloth in his hand, and then ran to the other side to help.
The old man gently wiped the blood on Yue Fei's face with a hot cloth, and for a while he was in tears, he was Zhou Dong who was hated by Zheng Fei to the bone!
The Jin army came to invade, and the Taiyuan government fled when they heard the news, and finally resisted the Jin army, which was actually a city full of refugees and spontaneously rushed to the "thieves" who he once looked down on the most.
These "rebels" used to rebel against the government in order to survive, but now that foreign enemies are invading, they have turned their guns and fought against foreign enemies for the country that once only thought about how to exterminate them.
But just when they were gnawing on tree bark, eating grass, and fighting to the death with wooden sticks against the fierce Jin soldiers, news came that Song Ting actually ordered them to stop resisting immediately, and not to provoke the Jin army to affect the peace!
Peace?! Do you want to negotiate peace now?!
Zhou Tong couldn't understand, the extreme despair made him feel suffocated, what happened to Da Song? In the face of national crisis, is there anything more important than driving out thieves and defending the country?!
What I insist on...... Is it right or wrong?!