In the fifty-fourth round, Song Chen deceived himself

Let's say that Sticky Han obtained the wax pill book of the Song people and the Liang Wang Yali of the Liao State, and Zong Wang obtained the wax pill book of the Song people and Yelu Yu of the Zuo Jian Army, and at the same time told Jin Taizong Wu Qimai, Wu Qimai was annoyed after reading the two wax pill books, and immediately sent someone to the two people with an edict: "In-depth attack, the marshal will be appointed to take long-term measures."

After the two deputy marshals received the edict, they saw that Jin Taizong Wu Qimai had approved the Southern Expedition and had authorized the two of them. Then they discussed and coordinated with each other, and agreed on the time and direction of the march. On August 10, Zongwang set out from Baozhou and Muhan from Xijing Datong, and launched a large-scale attack on the Song Dynasty's Hedong Road and Hebei Road, respectively.

The first target of this southern expedition was Taiyuan. This time he was determined to win, and for this reason, he recruited all the soldiers and people from Xijing Datong Mansion to Taiyuan to help attack the city.

At the beginning, Sticky Han had ordered to build another city under Taiyuan City and live there, called the Marshal's Mansion. Now, he resides in the marshal's palace and begins to deploy and implement the plan of action for the siege of Taiyuan. He was still responsible for the siege of the city with his silver skills, using Lou Room to meet the reinforcements from the direction of Shouyang, and blocking the enemy from the direction of Fenzhou with the speed of pulling out. The two reinforcements were soon broken by Lou Room and Pullaway Speed, and Taiyuan became an isolated city with no reinforcements.

Yinshu can mobilize all the armies, each led by Pucha Huzhan, Yelu Tushan, Wanyan Yanying, Gu Zhen, Xi Mu, Si Jing and others, and deploy them around Taiyuan City. At the same time, a fierce attack was launched on the city of Taiyuan, day and night, endlessly.

Taiyuan City was besieged by Jin soldiers for 260 days, and the soldiers and civilians in the city died of hunger due to food shortages.

Although Zhang Xiaochun, the keeper of Taiyuan, and Wang Yu, the deputy governor, tried their best to defend the lonely city for more than half a year. As a result, God was exhausted, and it was no longer possible to resist the attack of a strong enemy. Not long after, Taiyuan City was finally captured by the Jin soldiers.

Zhang Xiaochun, the keeper of Taiyuan, was captured by the Jin people, and Sticky Han loved his talent deeply and used it. Wang Yu led a weary army and wanted to go out through the west gate. When the desperate fight reached the west gate, what was unexpected was that the city bridge plug was broken, and the door was difficult to open. Then he returned to the city, and at this time he was already in a hurry.

The entourage soldiers advised the king to reduce the gold. When Wang Yu heard this, he sighed: "Now that the city has been broken, the soldiers are hungry and have no plan, and the city gate cannot be opened, this is really the time when the heavens are dead to my king." How can I, the king, be a man who fears hardship and death, and cannot go up against the mandate of heaven and bear the court? Then he went to the original temple, took out the imperial face of Song Taizong, held it in his arms, came out of the lonely city, and died in the Fen River. Wang Yu's son, Wang Gou, was also killed on the same day.

In addition, those who died in the disaster of Taiyuan also included Gao Ziyou, the commander Li Zongyan, and Shan Xiaozhong.

Taiyuan was unable to conquer for a long time, and Mu Han was angry with the Shengjie army of Song who insisted on Taiyuan and vowed not to surrender. After the city was broken, in order to retaliate, the commanders of the Shengjie army were all killed by the Jin soldiers. And Wang Yu, who was the deputy governor of the capital, showed his outstanding talent and heroic spirit in commanding the defensive battle of Taiyuan. Sticky Han hated it even more. Hearing that he went to Fenshui and died, people fished out his body, and was afraid that it would be fake, and ordered Zhang Xiaochun to verify the correctness, so he scolded his remains, and led the crowd to trample on it repeatedly, in order to relieve the hatred in his heart. That's not all, and ordered his corpse to be thrown into the wild.

At that time, there were unknown people, regardless of the danger to their lives, who stole Wang Yu's body, and did not know where he was buried.

Zongwang sent from Baozhou and deployed the generals to separate ways to invade. Sent Yerodor to take Xiongzhou in the east, and Nayan to attack Zhongshan in the south. With Wang Bolong as the vanguard, he divided into two ways with the soldiers of the sudden attack on Xinle.

A few days later, the good news came one after another. First, Yeluduo defeated the attack of the Song army of 30,000 in Xiongzhou, and then led the crowd to the city of Xiongzhou. Then, Nayan and others annihilated more than 7,000 enemies in Zhongshan and led their troops to besiege Zhongshan.

After the pioneer Wang Bolong sent his troops to Baozhou, he encountered the stubborn resistance of more than 50,000 Song soldiers. Wang Bolong fought hard and surrendered more than 100,000 Xinle soldiers and civilians. When Wang Bolong was fighting fiercely with the main force of the Song army, he suddenly led the crowd to take advantage of the situation and attacked the new county seat.

At this time, Zongwang personally commanded the army and made a detour to the south. In Jingcheng, he defeated the Song soldiers of the Seed Master Dao Department and captured the Jingcheng Heavenly Danger. At this point, the strategic encirclement of Zhending Mansion has been completed. The offensive and defensive battle of Zhending Mansion kicked off in this way.

It turned out that the commander of the Northern Song Dynasty Defense Zhending Mansion was Liu Tao, who once guarded the Yanlu of the Ministry and fought against the Xia people, and knew how to attack and defend. When he was the marshal of the Zhending Mansion, there were bandits and chaos in the territory.

The head of the thieves is named Chai Hong, who has a wealthy family and considerable financial resources. But because it was unbearable to be requisitioned, it rose up and gathered a crowd to plunder. The patrol captain went to the conquest, but the soldiers were defeated and died, and the commander led his troops to fight for him, and he fell into an ambush and died in battle.

Liu Tao rode to the town alone, sent people to recruit him, and Chai Hong followed. Liu Tao treats him with sincerity, moves with affection, knows with righteousness, and sets up a banquet to treat each other. He also played the court and let him be an official. Chai Hong was deeply moved, so he indulged in his people and returned to his hometown. Liu Tao did not spend a single soldier and surrendered Chai Hong's department, and there were no more robbers in Zhending Mansion.

When Guo Yaoshi was the commander of Yanjing, he asked the imperial court to supply war horses. The court listened to it, and the edict was paid for by the Hebei war horse, which was still not enough, and took the horses of the people. Liu Tao wrote: "It is not a safe strategy to loot all the horses in the inner county and pay them all to a general. So the matter was stopped.

At that time, the Jin people had already intended to go south, but the court turned a deaf ear to it, and vigorously asked for the land in the clouds. And in the dark, we will step up the rectification of the fortification equipment to deal with the occurrence of emergencies.

In the winter of this year, the Jin soldiers really invaded the south. Zong Wang led his troops to the city of Zhending, and saw that the Song people were prepared, so he stayed by the side of the city and drove through.

When Zong Wang returned from Bianjing, he came to Zhending City for the second time. At this time, the monarchs and ministers of the Song Dynasty had already promised to pay Yu Jin with three towns. However, Liu Tao still led the crowd to stick to it and ignored it. Zongwang ordered to surround it with troops and repair the ladder to show his determination to attack the city.

Liu Tao was wearing heavy armor, personally came to the city to supervise the battle, and found that the Jin soldiers were already approaching the city, so he ordered them to be shot by force. Zong Wang saw that Zhending Mansion was well defended and the city was extremely strong, so he expected that it would be difficult to conquer for a while, so he withdrew from the siege. Wang Yuan, the head of Liu Tao's department, and Li Xian, the commander of the department, carefully trained an army of thousands of people, all of whom were loyal and brave and good at fighting, and became the backbone of the defense of Zhending Mansion.

Since the Jin soldiers invaded the south, the nearby counties have all closed the city gates, and the people have been trapped by it, and only the city gate of Zhending Mansion has been opened on time. And as usual, the people can also enter and leave the city at any time, cultivate and graze, and be safe. In the territory of Hebei, Zhending Mansion is known as the city of fortifications.

Zongwang's third siege is really determined, and he is determined to win. And the opponent they met was not the former Liu Tao.

It turned out that the situation in Taiyuan was critical at that time, and Li Gang was ordered to recruit troops to save him. Liu Tao was appointed as the deputy envoy of Xuanfu. Led 50,000 troops into Liaozhou to take advantage of its risk. Liu Tao followed Wang Yuan and Li Xian again. As a result, the defensive strength of Zhending Mansion was greatly weakened. And Li Miao, who succeeded Liu Tao to guard the Zhending Mansion, encountered an unimaginable situation.

Li Miao, the word Yansi, is a descendant of Li Shizhi, the prime minister of the Tang Dynasty. Rare talent, sharp and decisive, dare to act. If the world were fair, people like him should do something. But he was born at the wrong time, and it coincided with the traitorous minister in power, which made his fate even more bumpy.

At that time, Cai Jing and Tong Guan were planning to enter into a maritime alliance with the Jin people to attack the Liao State. Tong Guan tried to make Li Miao attach himself to him, summoned him to his private place, and moved him with words. Li Miao said extremely that if he is attacked, he will suffer from it in the future.

Tong Guan secretly instructed Chen Jizhong to weave Li Miao's crimes, a total of 53 articles. Intended to put it to death.

However, in the statistics, none of these crimes could be implemented, and he was finally dismissed from office on the charge of being responsible for the construction of the shrine Shenxiao Palace.

Later, Tong Guan played the post of governor of Zhuozhou with Li Miao, and then changed to Yangzhou. Li Miao resigned and sighed: "The country's troubles have started since then. ”

Zong Wang's troops besieged the capital, Yao Pingzhong's night attack failed, and the Beijing division was shaken. Song Qinzong asked Li Miao about his plan to defend against the enemy, and Li Miao played: "Victory and defeat are a common thing in soldiers, and Your Majesty does not need to worry too much. But since ancient times, there has never been a precedent for success in the face of uncertainty. He also strongly recommended the appointment of seed masters, and gave them the right to do things, so that they could see and act, and regard the enemy as advance and retreat. Because Geng Nanzhong advocated the collegiate discussion, he transferred Li Miao to the right Wendian to revise and transfer the post to Gyeonggi, and Li Miao resigned.

The imperial court also tried to deal with the affairs of Tangwan, Cangtian, and archers in Shanxi, but Li Miao made great remarks about it, and was seized of his post and demoted to the promotion of Baojia. When Li Miao arrived in such a place, he still continued to admonish him, and he was deprived of his post as an observer. At this time, the Jin soldiers had invaded the south for the second time, and Li Miao was forced to defend Zhending Mansion.

Li Miao arrived at Zhending Mansion and counted the soldiers, less than 2,000. Counting the money, it is less than two million. He was unable to resist the enemy, so he informed the people in the city that they would make a strong contribution and have money to pay, and they would defend it together.

The people in the city listened to Li Miao's words and were deeply moved. Within a few days, 130,000 pieces of coins and 110,000 stone of grain were donated, and thousands of people volunteered to defend the city.

Li Miao paid these untrained volunteers to the capital to govern Liu Yi. Liu Yi deployed them at the top of the building to compete with the fierce and fierce Jin soldiers. There is no doubt that the two armies have never fought each other, and the Song soldiers are already at a disadvantage. Li Miao also saw the lack of strength to defend the city, so he sent someone to beg for Liu Tao, the deputy division of Xuanfu, and sent someone to Jingshi with a wax book to ask for help from the middle road. It's all like mud cows into the sea, and there is no news.

Li Miao knew that there was no foreign aid, and Zhending Mansion had become an isolated city. He can only rely on his own strength to find a way to defend this lonely city.

Zongwang commanded all the armies, surrounded the Zhending Mansion, and attacked on all sides. Liu Yi led more than 1,000 soldiers and the people who volunteered to defend the city, fighting day and night on the top of the city. Fight and defend, hold each other for more than a month. Although Zong Wang knew that the defenders of the city were not elite soldiers, it was difficult to break through for a while.

Just when the fierce battle under the city of Zhending continued for several days, Sticky Han had already broken through Taiyuan. After Lou Mu defeated the troops of the Song general Liu Zhen in Shouyang, Mu Han ordered him to continue his eastward march in order to open the passage from Hedong Road to Hebei West Road and join forces with Zongwang's army. Lou Room then made a detour through Jingcheng. Arrive at the city of Zhendingfu.

At this time, the offensive and defensive battles of Zhending Mansion had reached a white-hot intensity. Although Zong Wang tried his best to break the city, he felt a little helpless. The arrival of Lou Room was like a drought and a rainstorm, which made Zong Wang overjoyed.

On that day, Zong Wang and Lou Room inspected the offensive and defensive battles around Zhending Mansion together, and Zong Wang saw Lou Room stopped outside Beichenghao and observed carefully. On the top of the castle here, there is a turret, which is the most heavily defended place in the city.

Zong Wang asked, "General, in this place, the defensive force deployed by the Song army is the most powerful, and it is very difficult to break through from here. ”

Lou Room said with a smile: "Second prince, don't you hear that the method of using soldiers is a trick. If the tiger is diverted from the mountain and its forces are transferred, then the defense here will not be stable. ”

Zong Wang listened, and also said with a smile: "Listening to the general's words, it seems that there is already a good plan to break the city in his chest. If the general can break through this city, I will definitely hold a banquet for the general to celebrate his success. ”

Lou Room smiled: "This city cannot be stormed, it can only be calculated." If this is the case, within three to five days the city will surely be for us. ”

When Zong Wang heard this, he was overjoyed and said, "If the general had come early, he wouldn't have spent so much trouble." ”

On this day, according to Lou's plan, Zongwang concentrated his forces and attacked the north wall of Zhending Mansion.

The north of the city is the place where Liu Yi defended. After attacking for most of the day, it was difficult to capture. I could only hear the golden soldiers under the city shouting in unison: "The Song soldiers guarding the city here really seem to be iron lumps piece by piece, and they are very tough." Tomorrow, we'll try it in a different place. ”

The next day, the offensive in the north city really weakened, but most of the siege equipment was deployed in the east city. From the morning, the Jin soldiers took turns to attack the city and never stopped.

Dongcheng was personally commanded and defended by Li Miao. He saw that Jin Bing was getting more and more violent, and his heart became nervous. I was afraid that I would make a mistake for a while, and the Jin soldiers would take advantage of it, so I urgently ordered Liu Yi to lead my troops to Dongcheng for reinforcements. The fierce battle in Dongcheng lasted for two days and two nights, and the Jin people showed no sign of a temporary truce for a while.

That night, several blazing fires were lit outside the city of Dongcheng, illuminating the heavens and the earth. And I heard the drums of war in unison, and I heard them endlessly. The Song army gathered at the head of the eastern city wall, not daring to slack off. Under the cover of night, Jin Renshen unknowingly moved the siege equipment deployed in the eastern city to the northern city. At dawn, a sudden assault was launched on the city.

At that time, the north wind was tight, and Lou Mu, Xian Mao Ali, and Huo Lu and others, commanding the soldiers, stood on the high place of the upper wind, and set off bunches of flames. The beam of fire drifted with the wind, and the tower at the head of the city was ignited in an instant. In the blink of an eye, the fire borrowed the wind, and the wind helped the fire, and the city became a sea of fire.

Liu Yi saw the flames of Beicheng soaring into the sky, and heard the sound of killing, shouting: "Not good! "Hurriedly led troops to the rescue, but who knew that it was too late. I saw that the Jin soldiers climbed up the battlements in the chaos, and the Song army left behind was weak, where could they resist it. The city was destroyed, and the golden soldiers poured into the city like a tidal wave.

Liu Yi led the crowd to fight in the streets, and saw that there were fewer and fewer soldiers. Liu Yi couldn't help but know it, and said to his brother: "I am the general of the Song Dynasty, how can I be poked by thieves!" "I stepped forward and planned to break out, but all the gates were already guarded by the golden generals, and it was expected that it would be difficult to get out of the city. Then he went to the Sun Mountain Pavilion, untied the ribbon and hanged himself.