In desperation, Li Ziqian chose to take the risk, and Wan Yansheng ruthlessly rejected his request for help, only expressing his willingness to contain his army and crown him king of Goryeo.

This made Li Ziqian have a kind of pain of being abandoned after being used, he contributed 100,000 Goryeo cavalry to the Jin soldiers, and it was also a hundred thousand elites built with the strength of the whole country, and the last one did not come back, all of them were buried in the Song Dynasty, but the Jurchens only returned to themselves with a light sentence, 'Understand the difficulties of Goryeo, but the Jin State has no time to send troops to help'.

This sentence made Li Ziqian feel as uncomfortable as being cut by a knife, and made him completely desperate.

But at this moment, an urgent piece of information gave him a glimmer of hope in despair, and the Song army attacked all parts of Goryeo on a large scale, and the current strength of Kaegyong was only 15,000.

Li Ziqian suddenly saw an opportunity, he was afraid that the Song army reinforcements would come, so he immediately ordered to leave 3,000 people to defend Xinyi City, and the remaining 40,000 troops rushed to attack Kaijing lightly, and he must recapture Kaijing before the Song army reinforcements came.

The 40,000-strong army rushed on the narrow official road, and each soldier only carried seven days' dry rations, Li Ziqian made a desperate bet, if he could not recapture Kaijing within two days, then he would no longer have to think about recovering the country, and directly turned around and defected to the Jin State.

At noon, the 40,000-strong army was killed under the city of Kaijing, at this time, the Song army was fortified and cleared, and there was not a single family within a radius of 100 miles outside the city, and the Goryeo army did not want to get a grain of grain.

Li Ziqian looked at this familiar city, turned back to the 40,000 army and shouted: "Your parents, wives and children are all in the city, if you want to recapture the city, there is no second way except to fight to the end!" ”

The 40,000-strong army raised its arms and shouted, "Take the city!" Take the city! Take the city! ”

After shouting the slogan, but the most realistic thing was in front of Li Ziqian, they didn't have siege weapons, what to take to capture the city?

He immediately sent 10,000 troops to the nearby forest to cut down trees and build ladders, and the rest of the troops rested in place to prepare for battle, Zhang Shun stood at the head of the city and looked at the busyness of the Goryeo army from afar, and secretly sneered in his heart, if the ladder building time is deducted, then the siege time left for the Goryeo army is only one and a half days, and the 40,000 troops can take Kaijing in a day and a half? It's too easy to think.

In fact, the Song army transferred another 3,000 men from Dong'an Island yesterday, increasing the number of troops in the city to 18,000, and except for 3,000 to maintain order in the city, the remaining 15,000 people were all put into defending the city.

Of course, they also had to be wary of someone inside the city cooperating with the army outside the city to seize the city, so the Song army guarded the four city gates very closely, and at least 1,000 soldiers were deployed on each city tower, and even at night they would be highly vigilant, and no one was allowed to approach the city gates.

At this time, Ruan Xiaoqi suggested: "Dutong, it's better to keep a hand when the enemy forces are trying to attack, and when they attack in an all-round way, then use the earth-shaking thunder to clean them up!" ”

Zhang Shun shook his head, "Their real threat is not us, but their food, don't keep a hand, and attack with all their might when they try to attack!" ”

"Obey!"

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In the early morning of the next day, the Goryeo army beat the drums of war, and 10,000 troops quickly assembled in Nancheng, and they spent one night building hundreds of improvised siege ladders.

"Attack!" Li Ziqian waved his sword and shouted loudly.

"Whew-"

The horn of the attack sounded, and 10,000 troops carried hundreds of siege ladders and slaughtered the city like a tide.

Forty medium-sized trebuchets on the head of the city began to creak and rattle, forty giant sky-shaking thunderbolts were put into the throwing pockets, and the Song soldiers also raised their crossbows.

The black and oppressive Goryeo soldiers were overwhelming, and the army at the head of the city stood still, patiently waiting for the order to shoot, and in just a moment, the Goryeo army had rushed to about 100 paces, and the main general Zhang Shun gave the order to launch.

The sound of bangs at the head of the city suddenly rang, five thousand divine arm crossbows were fired at the same time, and dense arrows were fired at the soldiers of the Goryeo army, and the soldiers under the city raised their shields to greet each other, at this moment, forty trebuchets also attacked, and with a bang, forty giant sky-shaking thunderbolts rose into the air and flew towards the top of the Goryeo army.

"What's that?" Li Ziqian asked in surprise as he looked at the small black dot in the air.

"It should be a boulder shot by a trebuchet." A general spotted a trebuchet on the top of the city.

"It's too little!"

Li Ziqian shook his head slightly: "It has no effect!" ”

As soon as he finished speaking, a series of earth-shattering explosions came from the crowd, and all the soldiers covered their ears, their faces showed pain, and the strong shock made their ears buzz, black smoke covered the earth, and the bows and crossbows at the head of the city stopped firing.

After a while, when the black smoke cleared, the remaining Goryeo soldiers turned around and ran wildly, they had already been frightened, forty earth-shattering thunderbolts exploded in the dense crowd, no one was spared in a radius of more than ten zhang, more than 3,800 people died directly from the explosion, or were shocked to death by the shock wave, or were hit by iron pieces, and hundreds of people died under the fire of the divine arm crossbow, and only more than 5,700 people fled back.

Li Ziqian's face turned pale, and he remembered the thunder mentioned by the first informant, it turned out that the Song army actually had such a powerful firearm.

The courage in Li Ziqian's heart was lost at this moment, and he realized that he could not recapture the capital at all.

That night, Li Ziqian led more than 30,000 men to retreat to the Yalu River, and they would cross the Yalu River to Jinguo after obtaining supplies in Xinyi City.

But what Li Ziqian never dreamed of was that the Song army had already captured Xinyi City by sea and burned two pontoon bridges across the river at the same time.

At this time, there was also a serious split within the Goryeo army, and more and more generals and soldiers were seriously dissatisfied with Li Ziqian, and hatred and anger were growing, and a storm was coming.

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In the past few days, Wan Yan Sheng, the wolf lord of the Jin Kingdom, has been extremely troubled, and several bad news have come one after another, first Wan Yan Zongbi led 30,000 cavalry to chase after the Khitan Yelu Department and the Xi people Sugu Department, and was intercepted by 60,000 Khitan and Xi people combined cavalry.

The two sides broke out a fierce battle on the south bank of Huangshui, and the fierce battle lasted for two days and two nights, but the final result was that both sides were defeated, with nearly 30,000 Khitan and Xi people killed, and nearly 20,000 Jurchen also killed.

Wan Yan Sheng was furious and wanted to kill Yan Zongbi, and the generals begged hard to avoid the death penalty, and Wan Yan Zongbi was beaten with a hundred military sticks with a rod.

The second thing is that the iron ore mines in Liaoyang Province, because the mines and blast furnaces have been destroyed, it is necessary to reopen the mines and build furnaces, and at the same time it will take 100,000 miners and smelters and a year or two to barely restore half of the original output.

It is possible to reopen mines, build furnaces, and recruit people, which requires the investment of several million taels of silver, and the financial resources of the Jin State have been exhausted and cannot support it at all.

Take 10,000 steps back and say, even if there is money in the treasury, but now the most serious problem is that there is no one, there are not so many miners in the Jin country, the Khitan and Xi people have fled, Goryeo was captured by the Song army, and most of the Liao Han slaves in the various tribes are mainly women, and there are some children, and there are no young and strong men who are urgently needed by Wanyan Zongwang.

In desperation, Wanyan Zongwang had to recruit miners among the people of Jurchenping, and after recruiting for half a month, he could recruit less than 10,000 people, which really disappointed Wanyan Zongwang.

In the past two years, in order to conquer the Mobei grassland, the Jin country has exhausted the national strength reserves, and various strategic materials such as war horses, armor, tents and so on have been exhausted, and almost all the warehouses are empty.

It was only then that Wan Yansheng realized how important the supply of pig iron from Goryeo was to the Kingdom of Jin, but it seemed too late to change course now.

After Yan Sheng had just received a message from the flying eagle from the Sinuiju spies, Li Ziqian's army was cut off from food, and there was infighting near Sinuiju, and the army broke out in large-scale cannibalism to grab hundreds of prey, killing 7,000 people, and Li Ziqian was also killed in the internal strife, leaving more than 20,000 troops to lose their leader and flee overnight.

Another piece of news was that the Song army burned the pontoon bridge, the powerful naval army blocked the Yalu River, the Jin soldiers could not cross the Yalu River, and the supply of pig iron to Goryeo was completely cut off.

At this time, the news that the Song Dynasty had recruited 400,000 soldiers from the Song Dynasty and that the Song Dynasty had obtained 150,000 war horses from the Hexi grassland, these two news especially hit Wan Yansheng hard.

Anxiety and worry about the future of the Jin Kingdom made Wan Yan Sheng's heart haggard, and when the first winter snow came, Wan Yan Sheng, the wolf lord of the Jin Kingdom, was sick.

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Winter goes to spring, and the spring of Song Xing's second year is coming.

On the seventh day of the first month of March, news came from Shangjing that Wan Yansheng, the wolf lord of Jinguo, finally died of illness after surviving a winter.

Wan Yan Sheng left a will, and the twelve-year-old Wan Yan Aguta's grandson Wan Yan Kang succeeded to his throne, but Wan Yan Sheng had no time to reconcile the increasingly intensifying contradictions in the upper echelons of the Jin Kingdom.

When Wanyan Kang had just ascended the throne, a fierce power struggle broke out within the Jin Kingdom, and Wanyan Zonghan, who was originally the most promising to inherit the position of the wolf lord, was the first to be out, was removed from all official positions, and placed under house arrest in Shangjing's mansion.

The Jin State soon formed two major factions, one faction was headed by Wanyan Zongpan, Wanyan Zongjun and Wanyan Xi Nilie, who held the power of the court, and Shangjing Road was their sphere of influence, and the 80,000 Jin soldiers stationed in Shangjing were commanded by Wanyan Zongjun and Wanyan Xi Nilie.

The other faction was led by Wanyan Zongwang and Wanyan Zongbi, Wanyan Zongwang led 70,000 troops to defend Linhuang Mansion on Zhongjing Road, and Wanyan Zongbi led 50,000 troops to defend Nanjing Liaoyang Mansion, and Wanyan Zongwang and Wanyan Zongbi formed an alliance.

In order to stabilize Wanyan Zongwang and Wanyan Zongbi, the Jin court named them respectively as the national theory of Kulubo Jilie and the national theory of Zuo Bo Jilie, which is equivalent to Shang Shuling and Zuo Prime Minister.

However, among the five great Bo Ji Lie, Tan Ban Bo Ji Lie and Nuo Ban Bo Ji Lie fell into the hands of Wanyan Zongpan and Wan Yan Zongjun, and the other Wanyan Xi Ni Lie, who held military power, was named Asher Bo Jilie.

The three of them formed an alliance and held the power of the Jin court.

In mid-March, the 25th Army of the Grassland Alliance held a ceremony to send troops to the city of Kedun and began a crusade against the Jin State, while at the same time, the Song Dynasty also gathered 600,000 troops in Yanshan Province.

Since the melting of river ice in February, the Song Dynasty began to transport grain and grass materials to Yanshan Province on a large scale, and they traveled all the way north through river-sea combined transport, and the destination was Luxian County, fifty miles east of Yanjing City, where Lushui was directly connected to the Yongji Canal.

It was once the transit point of the materials and grain of the Sui Yang Emperor's expedition to Goguryeo, and it was also the logistics center of the Liao State and the Song Dynasty, and the Liao State had built hundreds of large warehouses along the Lushui River, which was later used by the Jin State, and now has become the logistics center of the Song army.

The other way is to go north by sea, hundreds of sea boats from Lin'an Mansion loaded with grain and grass materials, arrive at Luanzhou in the north of the Bohai Sea, change boats at the mouth of the Weishui River, the boats have been going north to directly reach Lulong County, Pingzhou, which is less than 100 miles away from Yuguan, where hundreds of thousands of Song troops are stationed.

The transportation of grain and grass materials of the Song army lasted for a month and a half, transporting 1.2 million stone grain and 500,000 quintals of grain and grass to Yanshan Mansion, as well as a large number of various military materials, and at the same time requisitioned 50,000 carts and 200,000 people in Hebei Road, Hedong Road and Central Plains Prefectures to go north to help the Song army transport materials.

On 20 March, Li Yanqing, the commander of the Song army, arrived by boat at the main camp of the Song army in Lulong County, Pingzhou, along with hundreds of young civil officials, who were to take over the captured Jin lands.

The footsteps of the great war are getting closer and closer.

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[Historically, the internal strife of the Jin State was very serious, and the Jin State turned from prosperity to decline, because the internal strife greatly damaged the vitality, and this book because the Jin State did not have the financial support of the northern Song Dynasty, once the internal strife broke out, the consequences would be even more serious.

Moreover, the current Jin State has not yet changed to the ruling mode of the landlord class, and is still in the predatory mode of ruling the grassland, as long as this mode of ruling can plunder the property and population, it will quickly become strong, but once it can not plunder the property and population, it will decline rapidly.

The rapid decline of the Jin State in this book is because of this, so the Song Dynasty was able to fight a protracted war with the Jin State, but the Jin State could not fight a protracted war with the Song Dynasty, just like the Xiongnu, Turkic and other steppe tribes, either fleeing far away, or perishing if they could not escape. 】

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