Chapter 775: History That Is Hard to Change
When the prefect heard about this kind of thing, he naturally vigorously denied it, and immediately opened the rumor. Despite this, Li Sichu, who felt the danger, had to be on guard.
The Yisheng Army was originally stationed outside the city, and Li Sichu began to secretly build weapons and armor. As a result, the news was revealed and was denounced. Instead of attracting the attention of local officials, in order to appease Li Sichu and the 4,000 righteous victors, the whistleblower was sentenced to match.
The move of the magistrate of Pingyang did not make Li Sichu relent, but made him speed up the pace of rebellion. At this time, the news of the defeat of the army in Taiyuan came again, and Li Ichu strengthened his determination to rebel.
Soon after, Li Sichu led his subordinates to disguise themselves as business travelers and infiltrate the city of Pingyang to set fire everywhere to create chaos. The rebels plundered the gold silk, drove their children, drove cattle and horses, took donkeys, pigs and sheep, killed them all for preserved meat, and broke wheat for dry food.
On the second day after Li Sichu led the rebellious army to plunder Pingyang Mansion, the news reached Jiangzhou, south of Pingyang Prefecture, where 4,000 Yisheng troops were also stationed.
Xu Changyan was worried that he would follow in the footsteps of Pingyang Mansion, so he decided to strike first. So in the name of teaching and reading, open the armor warehouse, order the officers and soldiers to wear armor, reorganize the weapons, at dawn, the Song army quietly cut in, the leader of the Yisheng Army Niu Qing was still drunk and lying, heard that there was a change, hurriedly got up to get the weapons It was too late, and he was injured and captured.
Since all the 4,000 Yisheng troops in Jiangzhou were killed, the rest of the states and counties on Hedong Road heard the news and began to kill the Yisheng army frantically.
These righteous victories who either passively or actively betrayed the Song State, since they were not allowed to be allowed by the Great Song Dynasty, then they had only one way left, that is, to go to Taiyuan City and surrender to Wanyan Zonghan.
Wanyan Zongwang of the Eastern Route Army received Guo Yaoshi and his tens of thousands of Changsheng troops on the road, and this time Wanyan Zonghan of the Western Route Army also surrendered the Yisheng Army led by Li Sichu and others.
With these soldiers and horses who knew a lot about the defense and military affairs of the Hebei Road, and after hearing that Yan Zongwang had been repulsed on the bank of the Yellow River, Yan Zonghan decided to divide the troops into two routes and personally led the troops to attack Tokyo City, the capital of the Great Song Dynasty.
With the help of Li Sichu and others, the Jin soldiers successfully passed through the North and South Passes, and when they crossed the pass, Wanyan Zonghan and Wanyan Zongwang crossed the Yellow River at the beginning, looking up and sighing: "The pass is so dangerous, and let me pass it, the Southern Dynasty is no one!" ’
It only took a few days, and when the Great Song Dynasty was still studying whether to fight with the Jin people or make peace, Wanyan Zonghan had already arrived outside Tokyo with 30,000 Jin cavalry.
History is indeed not easy to rewrite, according to the normal historical trajectory should be the arrival of the Jin State East Route Army Wanyan Zongwang, although it was interfered by Li Nan halfway, but the Jin State West Road Army still arrived.
Before the Jin soldiers arrived, Huizong Zhao Ji, that is, the emperor of the Great Song Dynasty, did not compete for the throne with his son Zhao Huan, and fled directly overnight.
Because he was too abrupt to leave, he didn't have time to prepare food, and after this bumpy and tiring, Song Huizong began to feel hungry. Cai You, the palace envoy, hurriedly sent an attendant to look for food on the boat, but later only got a piece of bread from the boatman.
People don't feel tired when they run for their lives, and it is said that Huizong Zhao Ji and others traveled hundreds of miles at night, which is even more powerful than strictly trained soldiers.
After arriving in Sizhou, Song Huizong stopped his hurried footsteps and rested a little. Sizhou City is located in the lower reaches of the Huai River, where the Huai River is connected with the Bianhe River, which is the key point of north-south traffic, and its strategic position is very important. At this time, Yu Wencuizhong, the deputy envoy of the palace, and some other ministers who escaped from Tokyo City, such as Tong Guan and Gao Yu, all chased after him from behind.
Tong Guan had been appointed by Song Qinzong to stay in Tokyo, but Tong Guan heard that Zhao Ji of Huizong had been lucky, in fact, he fled, and he immediately led 3,000 soldiers to protect the emperor.
In fact, there are many officials like Tong Guan who left the capital without permission, fled the city of Tokyo, and went to safer areas.
It is said that 56 people who escaped from the attendant Zi Shangshu were Zhang Quan, Wei Zhongda, He Dagui and so on. So much so that there was a situation where three or four people went to the court, and the class was empty, and everyone was shocked. The most ruthless are Cai Jing, Cai You and Song Huan's family, there are more than 1,000 people in the family, and none of them are in Beijing. And Cai Jing and Cai You's subordinates, there are many people who abandon their officials and flee.
Tong Guan and Gao Yu are both important ministers with military power, they both led the troops, Tong Guan led 3,000 Shengjie soldiers, Gao Yu led 3,000 Praetorian Guards, nominally they were all here to escort Song Huizong, and they all wanted to protect Song Huizong across the Huai River and go to Yangzhou. In fact, they also came to follow Song Huizong to save their lives.
As the saying goes, once a son of heaven and a courtier, now the Jin soldiers are in the city, and there are not many soldiers and horses in Tokyo at all, and everyone feels that staying in the capital is more auspicious.
Tokyo is the capital of the Song Dynasty, the circumference of the city is more than 30 kilometers, composed of three cities: the outer city, the inner city and the imperial city, with a population of more than 150 thousand, it is a majestic, large-scale, splendid capital. It was also the political, economic, and cultural center of the Song Dynasty and a prosperous world metropolis.
The Western Route Army led by Wanyan Zonghan had a total of 60,000 people who went south to attack the Song Dynasty, fought fiercely in Taiyuan City for more than a month, and defeated several Song reinforcements, even if the soldiers were elite, there were many losses.
This time, Wanyan Zonghan's soldiers were divided into two routes, leaving half of the men and horses to continue to besiege Taiyuan City, and he personally led 20,000 cavalry to Tokyo, the capital of the Great Song Dynasty.
Although Li Gang led most of the forbidden army in Tokyo to pursue the imperial expeditionary force, and the remaining soldiers and horses were also taken away by Gao Yu and Tong Guan, this big city with a population of 1.5 million people was definitely not something that only 20,000 people could attack.
Wanyan Zonghan first stormed Tokyo City, but the capital of the Great Song Dynasty was really high and strong, and with only a small number of forbidden troops in the city, the palace guards were enough to defend this strong city.
In the face of the attack of the Jin soldiers, there are still a large number of young men in the city who can be recruited, and tens of thousands of people can be gathered to defend the city at any time, so as long as Qinzong is not chaotic and appoints a general with real talent and learning, then even if the number of Jin soldiers increases several times, it will not be able to help this capital.
It's a pity that there are no such generals around Qinzong, Li Gang and Chongshidao are still leading troops, and there are only soft bones like Li Bangyan and Zhang Bangchang in the city.
As one of the six thieves, Li Bangyan, after Qinzong succeeded to the throne, several of him who were good at sycophancy and flattery, so he wholeheartedly took refuge in the new emperor, so he could keep the official position of prime minister after Liang Shicheng was killed.
Just when the military and civilians of Tokyo City were working together to defend the city, Prime Minister Li Bangyan, Bai Shizhong, Zhang Bangchang, Zhao Ye, Wang Xiaodi, Cai Mao, Li Di and others persuaded Zhao Huan of Qinzong to negotiate peace with the Jin army several times.
Qinzong Zhao Huan has a weak personality and has long had the intention of discussing and withdrawing from the army, but now that the Jin army is fiercely attacking the city, he can't find too good a time, and he still has a hope, that is, Li Gang, Chongshi Dao and Liu Yanqing, who are quickly returning to the rescue of the division, and the hundreds of thousands of troops led by them.
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