Chapter 5: The Khitan Destroys the Jin Dynasty (I)

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Time flies, and in a blink of an eye, it has been three years of great luck. In June of this year, the Jin minister Sun Fangji rebelled in the Wolf Mountain, attached to the Khitan, the Khitan Xiongzhou Assassin History invaded the border, Shi Chonggui appointed Li Shouzhen as the northern camp capital deployment, and the Yicheng Army Jiedu envoy (now Huaxian County, Hebei) Huangfu Yu was deployed as the deputy capital, and the army was Yizhou and defeated the Khitan.

In July, the heavy rain continued, the Yellow River broke in Xianyuchi County, and then in Yang Liu, Chaocheng, Wude, Hebei and Shandong, the houses were washed away, the fields were flooded, and after the famine, the Jin court in the relief matters, the uncle of the country, Feng Yu and the privy envoy Sang Weihan had different concepts, and finally Feng Yu, who was the heaviest military food, defeated Sang Weihan, who advocated raising the people, Sang Weihan was disheartened and closed the door, and the Jin court officially began to implement limited relief.

Under the action of a strong typhoon, the rain range in August was ready to move to the upper reaches of the Yellow River, causing the water level in the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River to rise again, and in early September, the Yellow River broke again in Mengzhou (north of Luoyang), Huazhou, Weizhou and other places, and the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River completely fell into the side of Zeguo.

In September, the autumn wind together, the grass and trees withered yellow, after the flood disappeared, the unharvested crops in the fields have been completely soaked, the people lack food and clothing, the face is yellow and thin, and the people have helped the old and the young, begging along the way for a living, all the way to the south; Those who can't walk can only eat some bark and Guanyin soil, looking forward to the relief of the imperial court, and many people have not seen a grain of grain relieved by the imperial court until they die. After the flood, the plague broke out again, the entire Central Plains land was ten rooms and nine empty, the fields were barren, the roads and bridges were destroyed, and Huaizhou, which was originally densely populated, did not see a single figure for more than ten miles. According to archaeological statistics, before the Yellow River burst, there were more than 7oo households in a county in Huaizhou, and after the flood completely passed, there were less than 9o households left.

Compared with the continuous floods in the Central Plains, the Saiwai grassland encountered a rare drought, and in many places, the grass and trees completely died, and the cattle, sheep and horses of the Khitan people starved to death countless times. The Khitan, who was also short of food and clothing, gradually shifted its attention to the Central Plains with its unique bandit thinking. The Khitans stationed in Xiongzhou, Yingzhou and other places continued to harass and probe in the south.

At this time, Li Shouzhen and others, who were stationed in the north on the frontier, constantly passed the so-called victory report to Shi Chonggui's hands and demanded grain and grass finances in line with the idea that meritorious service should be rewarded and the state's money should not be taken for nothing. Originally, Shi Chonggui wanted to give it, and if he didn't want to give it, he would pull it, but he handed over the grain and grass to the north camp to ask his uncle Dewey to come at his discretion, Dewey's ability to fight is not good, but the means of plucking the goose are still very skilled, if it is something given to Liu Zhiyuan, he may not dare to move, since it is a reward for Li Shouzhen, he unceremoniously deducted a lot from it. Li Shouzhen was furious when he heard this.

On the other hand, in order to fully guarantee the military rations of the troops stationed on the northern border, Shi Chonggui only halved the tax in the flood-stricken areas, but doubled the tax in the non-flooded areas. From Yizhou and Dingzhou in the north to Anzhou and Fuzhou in the south, the entire ruling area of the Jin Dynasty was boiling with public resentment. Even so, the reserves of military rations were declining dramatically, and by September, the troops north of the Yellow River had a maximum of three months' stockpiles.

In fact, at this point, Dajin is already walking a tightrope in the air, dancing tango on the edge of a cliff, and there is only one heartbeat left to play. The situation is so bad that Shi Chonggui has no intention of playing. He was worried, but there was nothing he could do. At this time, his brother-in-law, Feng Yu, gave him an idea. An idea that directly led to the demise of the Jin State - to win over Zhao Yanshou and others, who had already surrendered to the Khitan, to return to the embrace of the motherland.

Feng Yu is very smart, he can also see that the Jin Kingdom is now full of internal contradictions, if our Great Jin is playing with the old boy of Khitan Yelu Deguang, it is estimated that the Great Jin will be finished. But Yelu Deguang thinks very highly of himself, if Yelu Deguang won the war last year, or the year before last, then the Jin State may still negotiate peace with the Khitan, and now that the Jin State has won, then Yelu Deguang will definitely find a way to get this face back.

Now the situation in the Great Jin Dynasty is so bad, Yelu Deguang goes south, if it is tough, the Great Jin may still be able to win, if there is a war of attrition, the military rations of the Great Jin are estimated to be unable to support. But this year's Khitan life is not easy, and it is inevitable that the Khitan will go south. So, Feng Yu came up with a bad idea of using traitors to control the Khitan.

This traitor refers to Zhao Yanshou. Zhao Yanshou was a member of the Later Tang Dynasty, and the official worshiped Lu Longjie. When Shi Jingjiao rebelled against the Tang Dynasty, Zhao Yanshou was ordered to conquest Shi Jingjiao, and halfway through, he heard that Shi Jingjiao had surrendered to the Khitan, Zhao Yanshou turned his mind around, and also sent a messenger to show his loyalty. It's just that in order to show filial piety, Shi Jingjiao sold Yetian's heart without pain, and ceded Yanzhou, Yunzhou and other sixteen states to the Khitan.

Shi Jingjiao's move was quite ruthless, on the one hand, he curryed favor with his godfather, and on the other hand, he completely sold Zhao Yanshou. Why? The reason is that Zhao Yanshou is the envoy of the Lulong Festival, and the place under his jurisdiction is in the sixteen states of Yanyun. After Yelude established Shi Jingjiao, he probably felt a little sorry for his filial son Zhao Yanshou, so he brought Zhao Yanshou back to the Khitan, named King Yan, and became the Khitan's Youzhou Festival envoy.

Feng Yu came out from the perspective of national righteousness, and whimsically thought that writing a letter would be able to influence Zhao Yanshou, and let Zhao Yanshou be the northern Great Wall of the Great Jin Dynasty and resist the Khitan attack for the Great Jin. After handing over the chapter, Shi Chonggui looked at it for a long time, hesitated for a long time, and finally agreed with the idea of trying it. The year before last, Shi Chonggui fired his military advisor Jing Yanguang, and this year, he angrily took away his uncle (Shi Jingjiao)'s military advisor Sang Weihan, and there are few ministers in the court who can take the helm and take the pulse of the Great Jin. Shi Chonggui just wants to hear different opinions now, and it's difficult.

Zhao Yanshou took Shi Chonggui's letter, read it once, and smiled. You Shi Chonggui is too naïve, your uncle and I are mortal enemies, and your family's country can be said to have been taken away from someone Zhao. I can't go on now, I remember that my old Zhao is here, why did I go earlier.

Zhao Yanshou immediately handed over the letter to Yelu Deguang, saying that he was loyal. After reading this letter, Jerod suddenly had an idea in his heart. In order to let Zhao Yanshou exert his strength, he also promised that once the Great Jin Dynasty was destroyed, he would set up Zhao Yanshou as the emperor of the Central Plains.

At the end of September, when Feng Yu was about to wear it, Zhao Yanshou's reply finally came. In the letter, Zhao Yanshou first reviewed the revolutionary friendship between himself and Shi Jingjiao when they were generals under the account of the Later Tang Mingzong, and expressed his return to his roots and his hope to return to the heart of the motherland. Feng Yu replied to the letter and showed it to Shi Chonggui. Shi Chonggui was also unbelievably overjoyed for a while.

It's often said that good things come in pairs. Just two days after Zhao Yanshou's reply arrived, the Khitan Xiongzhou (one of the sixteen states of Yanyun, close to Dingzhou and Yizhou) also secretly appeared on the table, saying that he wanted to dedicate the south of Xiongzhou to the Great Jin. There was a cheer from the top and bottom of the Jin court. The two sides agreed that the Great Jin Dynasty would send 80,000 troops to Xiongzhou to meet Zhao Yanshou, return to the big family of the motherland, and occupy Xiongzhou at will.

Dewey and Li Shouzhen each led a group of people and horses, and rushed to Xiongzhou with great interest, they thought that this time they were just doing a casual activity, waiting for Shi Chonggui's reward. Who knows, after arriving at the Xiongzhou City to converge, the situation between the two is not right, this Xiongzhou City is still there, but the gate is open, and neither Zhao Yanshou nor Gao Muhan is seen. The army is outside, but encountered such a strange thing, although the two people look at each other unpleasantly, but still walk together to discuss, when the two are discussing, there is a Malay newspaper, saying that it is 5o miles north of Xiongzhou, and now an army of 5ooo people, with a high-character flag, is advancing north.

Dewey didn't remember whether he ate or not, he pondered for a while, and was actually going to send someone to catch up with him to see if it was Gao Muhan, and casually ask Gao Muhan what happened.

Li Shouzhen's head was like a rattle, and he couldn't help but persuade: "Marshal, hurry up and order the withdrawal of the army, this place is evil." I'm afraid that there is an ambush in the Khitan, and if I don't leave, when there will be ambushes, it will be too late to regret it. He was already suspicious of this successive defection incidents, but now when he saw Xiongzhou like this, he retreated in his heart.

Dewey mainly felt that the four gates of Xiongzhou were wide open, and Gao Muhan's army appeared, which was quite strange. Judging from the heart, he should have been a little skeptical in his heart, but as soon as Li Shouzhen said this, Dewey strengthened his opinion: "It's okay, send someone to see, last year, we had 40,000 people, didn't we defeat the Khitan army?" We'll have 80,000 people this year. As he spoke, he glanced at Li Shouzhen.

Li Shouzhen's eyes drooped, and she stopped stubble. You are all recruited, Lao Tzu is all deployed, the officials are lower than you, what you say is what you say. There's no need to be serious with you on this matter. Moreover, Dewey was right, how can we say that there are nearly 100,000 people.

Li Shouzhen was silent, and Dewey sent Liang Hanzhang, the envoy of the Yongqing Army, to lead 8ooo troops to talk to Gao Muhan. As a result, Liang Hanzhang took the order and left, but never came back. He was ambushed by the soldiers, and from noon to 10 in the evening, he was shot dead under the city of Gaoyang, and the whole army was annihilated.

In fact, when Liang Hanzhang was ambushed, if Dewey raised troops to the north to help, and fought a decisive battle with the Khitan army in Gaoyang, it was still possible to rescue Liang Hanzhang and even repel the Khitan. But Dewey withdrew. From the city of Xiongzhou, he fled all the way south to Wuqiang County in Jizhou, Dajin.

Xiongzhou was originally a trap, because the terrain of Xiongzhou was flat, and the best ambush location could only be Gaoyang County, northwest of Xiongzhou (now Hejian, Hebei). Yerod wanted to shoot a tiger, but he hit a roe deer by mistake, and the deer bit him painfully. So, he changed his offensive strategy and began to attack Hengzhou (Shijiazhuang) on two sides. o

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