The decisive battle of Xianping Mansion is related to the fate of the Song and Jin dynasties, and it is also related to whether Sanniang can successfully ascend to the throne in the future. At this time, Sanniang relied on military strength, authority and victory in the war against Jin to maintain popular popularity and hold people's hearts, but she knew that if the Northern Expedition failed, with the temperament of human nature to overturn the wall and push everyone, she would be greatly disappointed at that time.

At the same time, just because of this battle, Sanniang is sitting in the rear of the national capital, not personally on the front line, although she has thought about it a lot in advance, let Yue Fei and other staff officers deduce countless times, but the battle situation is changing rapidly, and it is difficult for her to say that this battle will definitely be won, after all, the Jin army is 500,000 people, and after the left and right armies will join Xianping Mansion, there are only 200,000, and the main general of the Jin army is Wanyan Zongbi, a famous Jin Wushu in history. All the deployments have been completed, and Sanniang can only sit and wait for news from the front line.

And Sanniang is also worried about the weather, the north is too cold, she is very worried about the impact of the cold weather on the elite of the Song army, you must know that Napoleon, Hitler, their elite troops are also defeated by the weather. Before the Northern Expedition, when Yue Fei deduced the Northern Expedition strategy, Sanniang had asked Yue Fei to pay attention to the weather in the north many times, and Sanniang didn't want to throw her elite in the north because of the weather.

On the other hand, Jin Taizong announced his personal expedition in November, and the weather was already very cold at this time, and his wishful thinking with Zong Bi and other generals of the Jin Kingdom was also the weather. After Yan Zongbi's words, the Han people are all southerners and are not tolerant of bitter cold, and my Dajin warriors are all northerners, who have experienced frost and snow for a long time, and can take advantage of the bitter cold to break the enemy. The Jin people also thought of using the weather factor to win, so they chose to send troops in November.

But it's a pity that people are not as good as heaven, God seems to have made a big joke with the Jin Kingdom, which led to the decisive battle of Xianping Mansion, which should have been a fierce battle, turned into a bleak battle in which the Jin people dug their own graves.

At the beginning of December of the second year of Jingkang, on a snowy and cold day, the Jin army rushed to Xianping Mansion with great momentum, while the Song army occupied the city and carried the city behind the wall. The Jin soldiers were all wrapped in animal skins, just as Jin Taizong and other Jin generals expected, the Jin soldiers were hard-cold, they were familiar with this kind of weather, and knew how to protect themselves in various bitter cold weather. On the other hand, although the Song army also prepared thick winter clothes, as well as cities and camps to shelter from the wind and snow, the Song army did not have the experience of fighting in this bitter cold weather, and many soldiers suffered from frostbite on their hands and feet, heads and faces, and even many of them suffered from snow blindness, and their morale was not high.

After the arrival of the Jin army on the first day, the forward army and horses stormed the camp outside the city of the Song army, and the Song army fought hard for a long time before the Jin people were repulsed, and the casualties were comparable, so that the Jin army saw the hope of victory. But from that night on, Jin Ren couldn't laugh.

That night, Qiao Daoqing found Yue Fei and said that the weather would get worse tonight, and he should shrink his forces and enter the city. After Zong Ze, Li Gang and Yue Fei discussed, they believed Qiao Daoqing's words, and ordered the Song army in the camp outside the city to burn down the camp outside the city overnight and move into the city to escape the cold weather.

The Jin army saw that the Song army burned the camp at night, and Jin Taizong and Zong Bi and other Jin generals were very happy, and said that the Song army was cowardly and gave up the outer camp, and tomorrow they could directly attack the city, and the Jin army cheered and cheered.

I didn't think that in the second half of the night, after the Song army retreated into the city, the weather became colder, and the weather during the Xiaoice period was changeable, this time it was a strong cold air south, bringing a severe cold and blizzard weather that was more severe than in previous years. This blizzard fell for a day and a night, the snow was more than a foot thick, and the temperature reached the point where the air turned into ice.

In this kind of weather, Mo said that it is the golden people of the northern country, even the Eskimo people can only hide in the igloo and do not come out, even if they are adapting to the cold climate, people can never resist this severe cold.

It was the Jin army outside the city that fell into bad luck, their leather tents could not withstand the cold, wind and snow, and the animal skins on their bodies could not withstand the cold, and the cattle, sheep and horses of the army froze to death countless times, and what was worse was that the heavy snow and cold froze the retreat of the Jin army, and the marching army in this harsh weather was undoubtedly looking for death. The Jin army had to dig trenches and pits to avoid the wind and snow, but the weather was bitterly cold, and the ground was frozen as hard as iron, so it was difficult to dig a pit.

On the other hand, the Song army, although not as resistant to the bitter cold as the Jin soldiers, but they retreated into the city, where there were houses and houses, tiles to cover their heads, and walls to resist the wind and snow. Moreover, after the Song army entered the city, Yue Fei ordered all the troops to prepare to resist the severe cold, distributed a lot of spirits to keep out the cold, and only a few soldiers were left at the head of the city to monitor the Jin army, and the rest of the soldiers and horses hid in the house, and no one was allowed to leave the house without permission. A charcoal fire was lit in the house to ward off the cold, and the soldiers hugged each other to keep warm, barely surviving this difficult hurdle.

Three days later, the cold air went south, the weather cleared, and the Song army counted some losses, except for a few houses that were crushed by the heavy snow and dozens of soldiers were injured, most of the Song soldiers survived the scorching weather.

When the soldiers of the Song army stepped on the thick snow to climb the city, they found that outside the city was just a white and clean land, and the dozens of miles of the Jin army's 500,000 people were gone.

Opening the city gate, the entrance of the city gate was covered with more than snow, much higher than one person, the soldiers of the Song army took turns to go forward, barely digging a way out of the city, Yue Fei wanted to send someone out to investigate. However, the team had only gone for a mile, and then had to retreat to the city, but because the snow was too thick to move, they had to retreat and wait for the snow to melt a little.

The Liao people who have lived here for a long time in the city also lamented that they have lived here for decades, and they have never seen such a heavy snowstorm this year, and they don't know how many people, horses, cattle and sheep will freeze to death.

Seven days later, the snow melted slightly, and the water level of the Qinghe River and the Liao River skyrocketed, but fortunately, the terrain of Xianping Mansion was slightly higher, and it was not affected by the rising river water, but the snow in the city melted, and the whole city was wet and cold, and there was water everywhere.

Yue Fei sent several teams out of the city to investigate, and after the snow melted, countless corpses of Jin soldiers were displayed all over the mountains outside the city, as well as countless horses, cattle and sheep, and all kinds of weapons and flags were scattered everywhere. In front of nature, people seem so small and vulnerable, even if there are 500,000 Jin army.

After waiting for another half a month, the weather began to warm, and the Song army continued the Northern Expedition. The Song army continued to move north, and all they saw along the way was the bleak scene of the people in the north after suffering from the snowstorm, and the cattle and sheep at home were all frozen to death, and they were busy taking meat from the dead cattle and sheep for storage. There are many nomadic hunting in the north, and a snow disaster freezes to death many cattle, sheep and horses, and the people of the north do not know what to eat in the coming year.

In the past, in the coming year, whether it was Liao or Jin, the northern country would definitely invade the Song State in the south, to grab money and grain to survive this post-disaster year, but now it is not good, the Jin State is being attacked by the Song State, where can I still send troops south to fight the grass valley?

After seeing the worries and miserable situation of the people in the north, Zong Ze and Li Gang said: "It seems that there will be a catastrophe and famine after the spring in the north. Li Gang sighed and said: "If you want to completely pacify the northern Xinjiang, the key is to completely sinicize here. ”

Yue Fei in the front army naturally did not know what the two old men were discussing in the back, the former army outpost inquired, only because of a heavy snowstorm, the Jin army of 500,000 in the field, was frozen to death and frostbitten most of the half, and finally Jin Taizong had no choice but to retreat, and on the way to the march scattered a lot of soldiers, most of those soldiers were scattered, in the words of the people of the north, that is, the heavens hated the Great Jin Kingdom, and it was to rain down this kind of rare natural disaster in a hundred years, and to lower the punishment, most of the soldiers fled, and finally fled back to Shangjing Huining Mansion with Jin Taizong and others, There were less than 30,000 guards left, and they were all on foot, and the horses froze to death.

The decisive battle of Xianping ended in such a strange way, the two sides did not actually have a big fight, more often the two sides were fighting against nature, and those who could survive and save themselves would become winners. Jin Guo camped in the wilderness, originally they had not camped in the wilderness in winter, but they encountered a severe cold weather that occurred once in a century, which they did not expect. The Song army took refuge in the houses in the city, escaped a severe cold invasion, and had the last laugh.

When the good news of the Northern Expeditionary Army was transmitted back to Kaifeng, it was already past the year, and this year began to use the year name of the empress Huanhuan, which was set by Sanniang when the empress ascended the throne in the east of the year, and the name of Jianyan was used.

On the twentieth day of the first month of the first year of Jianyan, the good news of the Xianping Mansion of the Northern Expeditionary Army came, and the 500,000 people of the Jin Army encountered a heavy snowstorm, and there was no one in ten, and they returned defeated, and the Song Army won a complete victory, and prepared to continue the Northern Expedition after the ice and snow melted. When the news came, Sanniang was playing against the empress, and after seeing the good news, Sanniang continued to play chess, but said lightly: "The heavens are dead, and the big thing is decided." ”

Huan Huan couldn't be so calm, she was pleasantly surprised to take the good news and read it, she jumped up with joy, and she didn't even play chess, so she changed her outfit and rushed to Taimiao to pay tribute to her ancestors. Sanniang slowly put down the chess pieces, couldn't hold them anymore, and knocked down the chessboard when she stood up, and the chess pieces were scattered all over the ground.

On this day, the lights inside and outside the city of Kaifeng are colorful, and the celebratory atmosphere that has just passed the year is back, only because Sanniang ordered to return the money and food that the people were robbed, and the people who fled have also been resettled, the military and the people have just passed a peaceful and peaceful year, and the enthusiasm has not disappeared.

There was no such joy in the court, the heavy snow in the north, the people in the north will definitely have no food and clothing in the coming year, and how to stabilize the north has become a new focus of debate. The Song State launched the Northern Expedition, although the Song State was rich, but after supplying such a large-scale campaign, the treasury was empty, and it was difficult to take care of the relief of the Northland, so many courtiers proposed that after the Song army destroyed the Jin State, it would retreat south to Yanshan and hold the sixteen states of Yanyun, and the people of the North would let them fend for themselves.