Chapter 10 The Yellow River
Zhao Chen thought about how to bring the child into the palace, but after thinking about it, he didn't have any idea!
He is the crown prince, the master of the East Palace! In the East Palace, everything is up to him! It's a pity that the East Palace is only a corner of the Imperial Palace, and if you want to enter the East Palace, you must enter from other parts of the Imperial Palace! He has no way to control the other guards, eunuchs, and ladies in the palace! Moreover, even in the East Palace, it is difficult for him to be unscrupulous.
"The Jurchens surround Kaifeng, Kaifeng is bound to be in chaos, and there may be turmoil in the palace! At that time, maybe there will be a chance to bring the child into the palace, right? Zhao Chen said secretly.
"Your Highness, do you still want to learn martial arts today?" Wang Dedao.
"Naturally, I still have to learn martial arts!" Zhao Chen nodded.
This afternoon, Zhao Chen still followed Wang De to learn swordsmanship! Wang De's swordsmanship is a great improvement on the basis of the swordsmanship in the army, which can be called his originality! This swordsmanship is extremely subtle and murderous, but there is still a certain gap between this swordsmanship and the Dazheng swordsmanship practiced by Zhao Chen.
That Dazheng swordsmanship is a royal martial arts, Zhao Chen can only practice it by himself, and he can't let Wang De guide him! Although he practiced by himself, Zhao Chen already felt that the power of this Dazheng swordsmanship was far superior to the swordsmanship taught by Wang De! That Taisho swordsmanship goes down with a sword, and the moves are extremely powerful, which can be said to be unstoppable!
In the process of practicing martial arts, Zhao Chen's mood slowly calmed down! He knows that it is not okay to be in a hurry, and he will not solve any problems in a hurry! Now he can only wait slowly, slowly looking for opportunities! In the past few months in the palace, a huge crisis is coming, and Zhao Chen's heart has improved a lot.
The autumn rain outside was still dripping, the sky was slowly getting dark, and the candles in the East Palace were lit.
That night, Zhao Chen left Wang De to eat together.
In the past few months, Zhao Chen and Wang De have gotten along almost every day, although one of them is a prince and the other is a lower-level general, but there is not much difference between them and the real master and apprentice!
Of course, in addition to master and apprentice, there are other relationships between the two! Zhao Chen is the crown prince and is the king, Wang De is the general of the forbidden army, and he is the minister, and the most important thing for the two is the relationship between the monarch and the minister!
Wang De was actually very grateful to Zhao Chen for his "kindness" to him, and he could feel Zhao Chen's heart for him! Zhao Chen doesn't seem to treat him as a courtier at all, but purely as a teacher, or even as a friend! Since ancient times, few kings have treated their courtiers like this! This made Wang De happy and a little frightened at the same time, he was afraid that he would not be able to repay this monarch's kindness!
"The three towns in the north have been broken, you say, when will the Jin soldiers reach Kaifeng?" Full of wine and food, Zhao Chen said.
"There is a danger of the Yellow River in the north, and the Jin soldiers may not be able to hit Kaifeng!" Wang Dedao.
Zhao Chen shook his head, he didn't believe this! It is clearly written in the history books that the Jin soldiers did hit Kaifeng! Whether it is the three northern towns or the Yellow River, it is difficult to stop the pace of the Jin soldiers' advance! Now it is no longer a question of thinking about whether the golden soldiers will come, but how to escape after the arrival of the golden soldiers!
"Just now, Gonggong Liu of Funing Hall came and said that His Majesty had sent two generals, Zhi Keqiu and Zhi Yanzhi, to lead an army of 150,000 to the banks of the Yellow River to block the Jin soldiers! This time, the Jin soldiers went south in two ways, and their total strength was limited! With 150,000 troops on the other side, they will definitely not be able to come! Wang Dedao.
"Can you ask for it? Orihiko quality? Although Zhao Chen had never heard of the names of these two people in his previous life, but now as the crown prince, in a few months, he has already had a certain understanding of these Great Song generals.
The folding family, like the seed family, is a family of soldiers and generals in the northwest! Especially this Fold family, the history is long, and the history of the Fold family is much older than the history of the Great Song Dynasty! Since the middle and late Tang Dynasty, the Zhejia has guarded the northwest, generation after generation, and has a history of nearly 500 years! In later generations, there will be a "She Lao Taijun" among the Yang family generals, but in fact, it is not She Lao Taijun, but the old Taijun! The marriage between this family and the major generals in the northwest has a great influence in the northwest! When the Planter Dao served as the envoy of the Northwest Economic Strategy, he didn't dare to offend this family!
In the past hundred years, the rise of the Western Xia, and the Zhe family has also played a great role in resisting the Western Xia! However, Jin Bing is not Western Xia, and the Zhejia family cannot be Jin Bing's opponent!
"I'm afraid it's hard for the Folded Family to resist the Jin Bing! General Wang, I still have one more thing to ask for! Zhao Chen said.
"Why should His Royal Highness the Crown Prince be polite to the last general?" Wang De hurriedly said.
"What if...... I mean, if the Jin soldiers really broke through the Yellow River and surrounded Kaifeng! Kaifeng City is broken, can General Wang protect my safety? Zhao Chen said.
"Does that need to be said? If it really comes to that point, I will definitely protect His Highness from the palace! Wang De said without hesitation.
"Thank you, General!" Zhao Chen nodded.
This Wang De is the first master of the forbidden army, his martial arts have entered the innate, and with his protection, it must be easier to escape.
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Time passed day by day, and the battle reports from the north continued to enter the palace, and almost all the war reports showed that the Jin soldiers were constantly advancing! The Song army north of the Yellow River simply could not stop the advance of the Jin soldiers!
At the end of September, news came from the north that the first human race of the Western Army, Shi Dao, died of illness! The entire Kaifeng City no longer has any hope for the troops in Hebei and Hedong, and at this moment everyone's eyes are on the banks of the Yellow River! The monarchs and ministers of the Great Song Dynasty pinned their hopes on the Great Song army on the south bank of the Yellow River, hoping that these Great Song troops would be able to resist the pace of the Jin soldiers!
In addition to folding and asking for and folding Yanqing, Song Qinzong appointed Wang Hui, the two Huai guards, as the deputy envoy for the defense of the Yellow River! Zhe Keqiu, Zhe Yanzhi father and son led 150,000 Zhejia troops to resist the Jin Bing West Route Army led by Yan Zonghan, and Wang Hui led 100,000 taels of Huai Forbidden Army to resist the Jin Bing East Route Army led by Yan Zongwang!
King Kang Zhao Gou was appointed by Song Qinzong as the "Generalissimo of Hebei Soldiers and Horses", responsible for mobilizing the four soldiers and horses in the world to serve King Qin.
The beginning of October has arrived, and the weather is getting colder!
Wanyan Zonghan finally led the army to the southernmost part of the east of the river, in the area of Puzhou Mansion!
Ahead is Fenglingdu, the most important ferry crossing on the Yellow River! Ancient Chinese myths and legends say that Nuwa's surname is "Feng", and Nuwa died of exhaustion after mending the sky and was buried here, which is called "Fengling", and the ferry here is called Fengling Ferry! Here is the throat of Hedong, Henan, Guanzhong, since ancient times here is the place where soldiers must fight, the ancients had a poem "a water north and south, the Central Plains gas from the whole." The clouds and mountains are connected to the Jin soil, and the smoke trees enter the Qinchuan River"! Only through here can the Jin soldiers go south and enter Henan!
Wanyan Zonghan stood at the Fengling ferry and looked at the opposite side, but the Yellow River was hazy, even if he was a top master, he could only see a rough idea! There were faintly countless barracks over there, and countless Song soldiers were stationed there, and Wanyan Zonghan's face couldn't help but show a trace of sadness!
A tall and thin middle-aged Jurchen stood beside him and said, "Da Shuai is a little worried in his heart? ”
Wanyan Zonghan nodded and said, "The Yellow River is so turbulent, it is already difficult for us to get there!" Now that the Song people have laid down heavy troops on the opposite side, how do we get there? Tell me, what should we do now? ”
The tall and thin middle-aged man next to him is called Wanyan Liyan, also known as Wanyan Lou Room, this person is also the fierce general of the Jin State, and it was he who captured the Liao Emperor Yelu Yanxi alive in the midst of thousands of troops and horses, and made great contributions to the Jurchen to destroy Liao! In addition to being brave, this person is also the wise general of the Jin Kingdom, and when Wanyan Aguda was alive, he often praised Wanyan Lou's room! Now, Wanyan Lou is the first general under Wanyan Zonghan and Wanyan Zonghan's right-hand man.
Hearing Yan Zonghan's question at this moment, Wan Yan Lou also showed a wry smile and said, "Dashuai, the situation in front of you is really not easy to deal with!" If we have a navy and warships in Jin, then we can still rush over! But if we don't have a navy or a warship, how can we break through the Yellow River defense line? ”
"Go and call all the commanders, and we'll discuss together and see how to cross the Yellow River." Wanyan Zonghan thought about it and said.
The military system of the Jin State is an arrangement of ten thousand commanders, thousand commanders, centurions, and ten commanders, one commander commands ten thousand commanders, one thousand commanders commands ten centurions, and so on! After Genghis Khan led the Mongols to rise, he praised Wanyan Aguta as a military genius and followed the military system of the Jin State! This military system looks simple and crude, but it is extremely efficient, and it is the most advanced military system of this era! Such a military system is also one of the reasons why the Jurchens have extremely high combat power!
The military systems of the Liao State and the Great Song Dynasty were extremely chaotic, especially the Great Song Dynasty! Emperor Taizu of the Great Song Dynasty relied on the support of the army to get the world, and after he got the world, he prevented the army from rebelling in the Great Song Dynasty, so he first released the military power with a glass of wine, relieved the military power of his generals, and then reformed the military system! In the Great Song Army, there were countless high-level officers such as economic envoys, system envoys, defense envoys, and propaganda envoys, and the number of lower-level officers was even more, and many soldiers didn't know who their immediate superiors were! Such a military system is enough to ensure that the Song army achieves the ultimate goal of "soldiers do not know generals, generals do not know soldiers", and of course it also ensures that there will be no powerful ministers in the army, and there will be no rebellion in the army! During the entire Northern and Southern Song Dynasty, there were almost no rebellions of generals in the Great Song Dynasty! Zhao Kuangyin's goal was realized, but the army of the Great Song Dynasty was also completely destroyed! The Great Song army was not the opponent of the Liao State, or even the opponent of the small Western Xia State, and as for the newly rising and prosperous Dajin State, they were even less opponents!
At this moment, Wanyan Zonghan summoned all the commanders over to discuss the way to cross the Yellow River! But in the face of the rolling Yellow River, facing the Song army, which was several times more numerous than them, these commanders couldn't think of any way!
After the consumption of Taiyuan City, now Wanyan Zonghan only has 50,000 soldiers and horses in his hands, and there are 150,000 Zhijia troops on the other side of the Yellow River! With three times as many enemies and the danger of the Yellow River, how easy is it for them to cross the river?
When the Jin soldiers went south for the first time, the Song army was unprepared, so they could easily come to Kaifeng! But this time the Song army was careful to be careful, it was extremely difficult for them to cross the Yellow River!
"Could it be that my Jurchen army is actually blocked on the bank of the Yellow River?" Wanyan Zonghan gritted his teeth and said!
Three days have passed, and Wanyan Zonghan has already ordered the soldiers to make a raft and prepare to cross the river with a raft! But he also felt that it was unreliable! The Yellow River is turbulent, and I don't know how many people will die when I cross the river on a raft! Moreover, even if the Jin soldiers came to the other side, and the Song troops on the opposite side waited for their work and swarmed up, what would they do? But now, Wanyan Zonghan really can't think of any other way!
On this night, Wanyan Zonghan was sleeping soundly, and Wanyan Lou came to report that there was a Han scholar asking to see him!