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Taiyuan was known as Jinyang in ancient times, also known as Bingzhou, also known as Dragon City, has a long history, is an ancient civilization in northern China.

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At this time, Taiyuan City was no longer the ancient city of Jinyang - the ancient city of Jinyang was burned as early as the fourth year of the Song Taiping rejuvenation, and was ordered to be burned by Zhao Kuangyi of Song Taizong.

It is said that it is because the ancient city of Jinyang has a dragon vein.

Jinyang was known as the Tang Dynasty in ancient times, the Tang Dynasty was born here, after Li Yuan and his son set the capital of Chang'an, they took "Tang" as the country name, and sealed Jinyang as the northern capital, Beijing, and Kyoto Chang'an, the eastern capital Luoyang and called "three capitals" and "three capitals".

During the period of five dynasties and ten kingdoms, the Later Tang Dynasty, the Later Jin Dynasty, the Later Han Dynasty, the Northern Han Dynasty, or originated in Jinyang, or took this as the national capital, for a time, Jinyang was famous in the world, and folk legends said that this was a "dragon city".

Therefore, Zhao Kuangyi decided to burn the Northern Han Dynasty after destroying it.

Three years later, out of the need to defend the Khitan, Zhao Kuangyi took off his pants and farted again, and ordered Pan Mei to build a new city, namely Taiyuan City, in Tangming Town, on the other side of the Fen River, thirty miles northeast of the ancient city of Jinyang.

However, the scale and shape of this Taiyuan city are much smaller than that of the ancient city of Jinyang.

Since December 8, after Tong Guan led the Xuanfu Division to evacuate Taiyuan, Zhang Xiaochun, the pacification envoy of Hedong Road and the governor of Taiyuan Prefecture, and Wang Yu, the deputy governor of the capital, the commander of the Xuanfu Division of Hedong, and the head of the Shengjie Army, organized the soldiers and civilians in the city to prepare for the battle, and at the same time sent people out of the city to contact the nearby prefectures and counties, asking them to send troops to reinforce Taiyuan.

Ten days later, Wanyan Zonghan led the Jin army on the West Road to break through the Shiling Pass and quickly arrived at the city of Taiyuan.

Since entering the territory of the Song Dynasty, the Jin army on the western route has never encountered effective resistance from the Song army, but under the city of Taiyuan, they were finally stubbornly blocked by the Song army.

The first to come to reinforce Taiyuan was Sun Yi, the observer of Zhishuo Ningfu.

Although Sun Yi led less than 2,000 troops, his morale was very strong and he was very brave in battle.

As soon as he arrived at the city of Taiyuan, Sun Yi fought a number of battles with the Jin army, and the two sides never won or lost.

On this day, Sun Yi fought with the Jin people again under the city of Taiyuan.

Zhang Xiaochun stood on the city tower and shouted to Sun Yi: "The enemy is near, don't dare to open the door, observe and serve the country loyally!" ”

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Because Han'er has repeatedly rebelled, and there are many Han'er among Sun Yi's subordinates (Sun Yi's subordinates are also righteous victorious soldiers), so whether it is Zhang Xiaochun or Wang Yu, they all don't believe Sun Yi and are afraid that he is here to defraud the city gate.

It is precisely because of this that Zhang Xiaochun and Wang Yu did not let Sun Yi enter the city, but let Sun Yi fight with the Jin army.

In this matter, Zhang Xiaochun and Wang Yu actually did nothing wrong, it can only be said that this is a kind of helplessness in a special period.

After listening to Zhang Xiaochun's words, Sun Yi replied: "But the hated soldiers are few and weak!" ”

After that, Sun Yi led his subordinates to fight with the Jin army.

Sun Yi is a famous general in Hedong, Shoushuo has a prestige, and the Jin people are also afraid of him.

Now that Sun Yi and his subordinates are so brave, Wanyan Zonghan, who is stationed in Beichen Village, Taiyuan at this time, is frowning!

Wanyan Zonghan ascended to observe the situation on the battlefield for a long time, and saw that Sun Yi was brave and difficult, and the soldiers under Sun Xu were also not afraid of death, the key was that they were horse troops, and they could run if they couldn't beat them, so they decided to use poison tactics to deal with Sun Yi and them.

After Yan Zonghan went south, he forcibly recruited many people from Yundi and let them serve as the people's husbands and auxiliaries of the Jin army.

Wanyan Zonghan ordered that all the people in Shuozhou be found, and then driven to the city of Taiyuan, where they used their lives to threaten Sun Yi and Sun Yi's subordinates to surrender.

Sun Yi's many Shuo people, seeing their relatives being escorted to the battlefield with knives around their necks, the army's heart was suddenly in turmoil, and then a military mutiny occurred.

At that time, Sun Yi was fighting fiercely with the Jin people, and was suddenly killed by a traitor from behind.

It's a pity that a generation of famous generals died tragically under the rebel knife like this!

And the soldiers led by Sun Yi were all killed by the Jin people.

There were also Shaanxi troops who came to Taiyuan to reinforce, they were Fuzhou (later Shaanxi Fugu) Zhizhou Zhekeqiu, Yanyan Road (later Yan'an, Shaanxi) guard general Liu Guangshi, in addition to the post and military horse envoy Han Quan, Jinning Zhixian Luo Cheng and so on.

Among them, Zhe Keqiu and Liu Guangshi were the main forces, leading more than 20,000 people and horses respectively, so that a total of nearly 50,000 reinforcements came to Taiyuan from different places to participate in the war.

Zhe Keqiu is the son of the famous general Zhi Ke Xing in the northwest, in the many years of war with the Western Xia, Zhi Ke Xing loves the nurse soldiers, many surprising victories, and has a lot of achievements, and the department is called "the family soldier" by the Song people.

From the beginning of the Tang Dynasty to the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, for hundreds of years, the Zhe family "dominated Fuzhou, controlled the northwest, and China relied on it".

The Yang family's maiden family is actually this folded family.

There are three prefectures on Hedong Road in the Song Dynasty, namely Fuzhou, Linzhou and Fengzhou, which are places where ethnic groups live together, among which the Dangxiang ethnic group is the mainstay.

Since the time of Zhao Kuangyin, Taizu of the Song Dynasty, the Song Dynasty has implemented a special policy for the region, according to the rule of customs, appointing local tyrants or ethnic minority chieftains as governors or officials, and restraining them to contain each other, so as to consolidate the border security and order.

Later, Li Jiqian of Xiazhou rebelled against the Song Dynasty, and his son Li Yuanhao established the Xia State and broke away from the Great Song Dynasty.

The Song Dynasty accepted this lesson and adjusted its ruling policy on the three prefectures of Lin, Fu, and Feng in the frontier area of Hedong, and further strengthened its efforts to win over local tyrants.

However, due to the different specific conditions of Lin, Fu and Feng, the strategies are also different.

Fengzhou was later captured by Western Xia, and the Wang clan ceased to be hereditary.

And the Linzhou Yang family has only been sealed for three generations.

Only the Zhe clan of Fuzhou has always been hereditary military power.

The Zhe family was in the same domain town of the Great Song Dynasty, which was indeed an exception for the Song Dynasty, which was always on guard against repeating the disaster of the late Tang Dynasty.

Of course, there is a reason for this.

The purpose of the Song Dynasty to give the Zhe family hereditary military power is very clear, that is, to let them fight against the Western Xia here for a long time.

Fuzhou is bordered by the Yellow River in the east, the grassland desert in the northwest, and the Hexi Prefectures in the south, so its geographical location is very important.

The Zhe family did live up to the high expectations of the Song Dynasty, and fought against the Western Xia for several generations, before and after more than 100 years, and made a lot of achievements, while the Western Xia cavalry never crossed the Yellow River in the east.

Because of this, the Western Xia hated the Zhe family to the core.

(Historically, after the fall of the Northern Song Dynasty, the Western Xia invaded the east, and after conquering Fuzhou, they dug up the graves and whipped the corpses of the Zhe family, which shows the hatred between them.) ）

Zhe Keqiu led 20,000 reinforcements, crossed the Yellow River from Fuzhou, passed through Lanzhou (later Shanxi Lan County) to Tianmen Pass, found that there were Jin soldiers guarding here, so he turned around and took Songziling, and came to Jiaocheng (later Shanxi Jiaocheng) in the southwest of Taiyuan to station.

Liu Guangshi led the troops from Yanyan, all the way to Taiyuan in the northeast, and met with Zhe Keqiu in Jiaocheng and stationed them respectively.

Liu Guangshi failed to reach Yanjing in time to meet Guo Yaoshi in time during the Northern Expedition to capture Yanjing, resulting in the defeat of the Song army that had first invaded Yanjing City, and he was demoted.

Later, in the battle of Zhang Di of the Hebei Rebel Army, Liu Guangshi made great contributions, and reinstated the Chengxuan envoy and was promoted to the deputy head of the Ma Bu Army on the Yanyan Road.

On the north bank of the Fen River in the Jiaocheng section, the Song army and the Jin army fought a big battle.

From morning to noon, the two armies won and lost each other, and the battle was stalemate, and it was impossible to see who could win for a while.

Later, Wanyan Zonghan sent people to detour back to the back of the Zhe Keqiu army and raided the army led by Zhe Keqiu, which made the Song army suddenly lose the upper hand.

Seeing this, Liu Guangshi ran away with his headquarters.

The already hard-fought army was immediately defeated.

As a result, Luo Cheng and Han Quan died in the battle formation, and the powerful Zhejia soldiers will lose seven or eight out of ten.

In this battle, the Song army lost a total of more than 10,000 horses (most of which were the Zhejia army), and the Jin army waited here for work and won a complete victory.

The generals of the Jin Army who commanded this battle were Wanyan Yinshu Ke and Yelu Yujian.

By the way, in this battle, most of the Jin troops who participated in the battle were righteous victorious troops, a small part were Liao troops, and there were very few real Jurchen troops.

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At this time, there were only more than 20,000 residents in Taiyuan City, and the soldiers were only 3,000 Shengjie troops led by Wang Yu and some box troops.

Shengjiejun was originally Tong Guan's pro-army, and it was a very effective team recruited by Tong Guan from the northwest.

Before leaving Taiyuan, Tong Guan appointed Wang Yu as the deputy governor of the capital, that is, the deputy marshal, and left a part of the Shengjie army under Wang Yu's command, so that he was responsible for guarding Taiyuan.

Wang Yu is a native of Kaifeng, the word is Zhengchen, born in a family of Jiangmen, and his grandfather and father are both generals of the Western Army.

When pacifying the Fangla Rebellion, Wang Yu served as the commander of the infantry army, and made military achievements, and then followed Tong Guan's Northern Expedition, and then was later promoted to the commander of Hedong Xuanfu Sidu, and was stationed in Taiyuan with Tong Guan.

In order to strengthen the city's defense and make up for the lack of troops, Zhang Xiaochun and Wang Yu ordered that all men over the age of 15 and under the age of 60 in Taiyuan City should be included in the list of defending the city.

Zhang Xiaochun and Wang Yu were determined to fight to the death with the Jin army, and held on to the wall to wait for help.

Zhang Xiaochun said to the soldiers and civilians in the city: "Although the Jin people are under the city, but we can't, Taiyuan since ancient times, the city is strong and the grain is sufficient, plus the soldiers are brave, I don't want to go out of the division, when the Jin people are exhausted of food, the arrogant soldiers are lazy, but waiting for reinforcements nearby, the inside and outside correspondingly, so that Hu cavalry does not return, the upper is the imperial court revenge, the lower Bao Ru and other blood dependents, can it? ”

Everyone is promised.

The Jin army attacked Taiyuan City several times, but under the insistence of Wang Yu, a general who was very good at defending, the Jin army's attacks were all repelled by the Taiyuan army and civilians.

As a last resort, after the Jin army captured the outer counties of Taiyuan, it tightly besieged Taiyuan City with the "City Lock Law".

The so-called "lock-up law" is actually to fence off Taiyuan and cut off the contact between the people in the city and the outside world.

And because Taiyuan City, an extremely important city, was not captured, the Jin army on the Western Road did not dare to divide its troops south.

Wanyan Zonghan was furious and swore that he would take Taiyuan City and then slaughter the city to vent the hatred in his heart!

In this way, the Jin Army of the West Road, which had been overwhelming before, was dragged under Taiyuan City......

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While the Jin Army on the West Road led by Wanyan Zonghan was stubbornly blocked by the Song Army under the city of Taiyuan, the Jin Army on the East Road led by Wanyan Zongwang had already occupied Yanjing without blood.

The reason why Wanyan Zongwang took the vital Yanjing so easily was because Guo Yaoshi rebelled, and Yanjing surrendered without a fight.

On the afternoon of December 8, the day Tong Guan left Taiyuan, Pharmacist Guo sent people to invite Cai Jing, Lu Yihao, Li Youquan, Shen Xuan, and other key officials of Yanshan Prefecture to his home to discuss matters.

Cai Jing and the others did not know that Guo Yaoshi had decided to surrender to the Jin people, and had set up an ambush at home, so they came together.

As soon as Cai Jing and the others entered the door, Guo Yaoshi said to them: "Zhang Linghui is ready to surrender to the Jin people, he has embezzled the big seal in the army, and has submitted the surrender table to the Jin people, although I have sent someone to chase the people he sent back, but now the situation is very critical, the Jin army is coming, Yanjing is in danger, in my opinion, we might as well surrender, right?" ”

When Cai Jing heard that Guo Yaoshi was going to surrender, he said angrily: "Jing swears to serve the country, how can he surrender?" Do you want to be a son of heaven? Is there anything that the Son of Heaven can't afford to be for? ”

Guo Yaoshi lowered his head and said: "Although Your Majesty has no place to be sorry for the pharmacist, but he killed Zhang Jue, I don't believe that I am a Liao person, the rabbit dies and the fox is sad and hurts it, I have a very happy relationship with the adult, and now I will tell the truth, it is not that the pharmacist wants to invest in the gold, but that the Liao people are disappointed in the Great Song Dynasty and want to invest in the gold, the pharmacist is just conforming to the will of the people and the military, after all, the pharmacist is also a Liao person, who knows if he will become the second Zhang Jue?" ”

Seeing that Guo Yaoshi's intention to surrender was extinct, Cai Jing took off his saber and was about to commit suicide.

Guo Yaoshi hugged Cai Jing at once, and the officer Zhao Heshou went up to grab Cai Jing's arm, and all the officers of the Changsheng Army rushed up to grab Cai Jing's saber.

Lu Yihao turned around and tried to escape, but was stopped by the officers of the Changsheng Army.

Pharmacist Guo said in a stern tone: "No one is allowed to leave here, but there are disobedient people, and there is no mercy!" ”

As a result, Cai Jing and others were put under house arrest by Pharmacist Guo.

After the third watch that night, a fire suddenly broke out in Yanjing City, and the uncontrolled soldiers of the Changsheng Army burned and looted everywhere.

Obviously, Yanjing at this time and Chang Shengjun at this time are no longer controllable, including Guo Yaoshi.

On the evening of December 9, someone reported to Guo Yaoshi that Wanyan Zongwang had arrived on the outskirts of the city and was about to enter the city.

Guo Yaoshi hurriedly led the officers out of the city to greet them.

After coming back, Guo Yaoshi said to Cai Jing and others: "The prince has an order, and the officials of the Southern Dynasty will not kill him, but will go out of the city and surrender." ”

Cai Jing said: "We have already been detained, why bother to descend again? What is the number of courtesies to use when you see them? If there is little humiliation, I will die. If I die, the whole family will be killed, please hang all Guo Xianggong and bury him in a pit. ”

Cai Jing also told his son Cai Songnian to be brave and unyielding.

Everyone asked Pharmacist Guo: "Don't see the prince"

Pharmacist Guo said, "We must meet. ”

The next day, the Jin army officially entered Yanjing City and planted the Jin flag all over the walls of Yanjing.

In order to recover and govern Yanjing, Zhao Ji and the Song Dynasty began to operate in five years, and after ten years, countless efforts and money were paid.

Since the beginning of the fifth year of Xuanhe, the Great Song Dynasty took over Yanjing from Cai Ying, and it has been less than three years.

Without any resistance, Yanjing was easily occupied by the Jin army.

The culprit is, of course, Pharmacist Guo, who is in charge of Yanjing's defense.

However, looking at it at a deeper level, Zhao Ji and the officials of the Song Dynasty and Yanshan Mansion also have unshirkable responsibilities.

On December 11, Wanyan Zongwang sent Xiao Sanbaonu, Wang Wei, and Zhang Yuangong to Guo Yaoshi's house to meet with Cai Jing and the officials of the Yanshan Prefecture.

Xiao Sanbaonu was a Khitan, Wang Wei and Zhang Yuangong were both Han, they were originally Liao officials, and later surrendered to the Jin.

They said to Cai Jing and others: "The prince said, don't be frightened, today's incident is the dishonesty of the Southern Dynasty." ”

Then, they talked about the Song Dynasty's breach of contract to accept the traitor Zhang Jue, and the fact that they often fooled the Jin people in matters such as paying the New Year's coin, and there were accusations against Zhao Ji in their words.

After hearing this, Cai Jing defended and said: "Emperor Zhao is the king of Yao Shun, but he was mistaken by the group. ”

Wang Wei said: "We have a royal pen to testify. ”

Cai Jing continued to defend and said: "An Zhi was not written by someone else on behalf of Emperor Zhao? ”

Wang Xiao didn't answer.

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After the Jin army entered the city, he compared the imperial pen found from Zhang Jue's house with the imperial pen in Guo Yaoshi's hand, and confirmed that the handwriting of the two was completely consistent, and both came from Zhao Ji's hand.

Zhang Yuangong said disdainfully: "Since he is the king of Yao Shun, why don't you know how to make good use of it, if you left the king of Liaodong at the beginning, how can there be today's disaster?" ”

Many Liao people regret letting Cai still go and not leaving with Cai still in the first place, and this Zhang Yuangong is one of them, so he said this at this time.

Cai Jing was silent for a long time before he replied: "It's not easy to know people, Yao Shun thinks it's difficult. ”

Obviously, to this day, Cai Jing also feels that Zhao Ji's best choice at the beginning was not to force Cai Yi away, but to let Cai still govern Yanyun, if that is the case, how can the Jin people have the courage to invade south?

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On December 14, Wanyan Yanmu sent Wang Xiao to invite Cai Jing and other officials to gather at Yanshan Mansion first, and then collectively come to the court outside Xuanhe Gate.

Wanyan Yan's mother announced in public: Cai Jing, the pacification envoy and prefect, stayed in Yanjing, and the transfer envoy Lu Yihao, the deputy envoy Li Youquan, the promotion officer Shen Xuan, and the salt and tea division official Du Shiliang, and the political supervisor Chen Jie and other five people, accompanied the army, and the army continued to move south.

After announcing the decision, Wanyan Yanmu ordered the officials to go back and make their own preparations.

At the beginning, when Wanyan Zongwang was discussing the candidates for the army with Wanyan Yan's mother and Guo Yaoshi, he also wanted Cai Jing to accompany him, but they felt that Cai Jing was difficult to speak, so they gave up and decided to let him stay in Yanjing.

Before leaving, Shen Xuan went to say goodbye to Cai Jing.

Shen Xuan said: "Since I arrived in Yanshan for three years, it is not said that I am so different from people. The way forward is to lure the state army, or to keep it for use, which is the place of death. But those who will never forget the festival of death, but the university and Xuan, the university will be able to see the Lord one day, and he should be with a certain Mingzhi. If someone sees it first, so it is. ”

On December 15, Wanyan Zongwang ordered Guo Yaoshi to lead a thousand cavalry as the vanguard, and the army left Yanjing and advanced all the way to the south.

At first, the Jin people did not trust Guo Yaoshi, and even had doubts, so they only asked him to bring a thousand horsemen as guides to lead the way in front.

Guo Yaoshi said that a thousand men and horses are too few, how can it be enough to be at the front, in case of encountering the Song army of the brigade, I am afraid that something will happen.

The Jin people felt justified, so they added another thousand horsemen to Guo Yaoshi, and ordered him to ask for instructions and report on everything.

Guo Yaoshi saw that the Jin people didn't trust him, and knew that if he continued to fight, there would be no good results, and he might backfire and be killed by the Jin people instead.

So, Guo Yaoshi took 2,000 men and horses to act as the vanguard of the Jin people, and cautiously invaded the south.

At this time—

The northern border passes of the Song Dynasty, such as Songting Pass, Hancheng Town, Fujiakou, Shimen Town, Yehu Pass, Gubeikou, etc., were all lost, and the officers and troops guarding the passes had already collapsed.

Jingzhou (that is, Yutian County in the later generations, originally belonged to Jizhou, and the imperial court in the sixth year of Xuanhe placed Jingzhou here) Zhizhou Yu Zhongzheng, who had been imprisoned by the Jin people;

Jingzhou (later Jingxian County, Hebei) Zhizhou Wu Zhen has escaped from the sea;

Jizhou (later Tianjin Jixian County) Zhizhou Gao Gong and Fang Zeng commented that they had led the soldiers of the tooth team to flee south;

Danzhou (later Miyun, Beijing) Zhizhou Xu Jieqian and Huang Wen also fled one after another;

Shunzhou (later Huairou, Beijing) Zhizhou Lin Liang Humerus, the road expanded, then into Yanshan;

Zhuozhou (later Zhuozhou, Hebei) Zhizhou Ge Feng, had fled first;

Huang Lie, the governor of Yizhou (later Yixian County, Hebei), fell into the city and broke his left foot when he fled, and unfortunately broke his right foot and died.

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