Time flies, and soon the year passed, and it came to the third day of the first month of the first year of Jingkang. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info bad news came one after another, the Jin Army's East Route Army had crossed the Yellow River, and the Song Army had no ability to resist along the way, in fact, the imperial court did not send any soldiers and horses to resist, and the local army alone could not resist the wolf-like Jin Army at all.

So the Jin army burned and looted all the way south, and the front of the army was directed towards Tokyo. Emperor Daojun, Cai Jing, Tong Guan and others were all panicked when they heard that the Jin soldiers had crossed the Yellow River, and Emperor Daojun decided to flee south overnight, while Cai Jing, Tong Guan and other traitors decided to follow Emperor Daojun. The reason is very simple, their power and wealth are all given by Emperor Daojun, and the newly succeeded Song Qinzong does not seem to trust Cai Jing and others, not to mention that once the son of heaven and a courtier, the new emperor ascended the throne, and these old ministers will be replaced sooner or later, so Cai Jing and others decided to follow.

On that day, Huizong didn't have time to wait for dawn, so in the middle of the night in the name of burning incense, he hurriedly escaped from Tokyo, and only took Cai You, Yu Wencuizhong and a few inner servants to flee east from Tongjin Gate. He thinks the boat is slow, and he takes it on his shoulder; I was afraid that I wouldn't be able to go fast, so I switched to a fast boat that carried bricks and tiles. When he arrived in Nanjing (now Shangqiu, Henan, not Jinling), he changed to take a mule, and only then did he take an official ship in Fuyu (now Suxian, Anhui), and fled to Sizhou (now Xuyi, Jiangsu) before daring to stop and rest for a while.

At this time, Tong Guan and Gao Yu led the Shengjie soldiers to arrive, and instigated Huizong to cross the Huai River to Yangzhou. When Huizong crossed the pontoon bridge, the guards who accompanied the car cried on the Panwang, Tong Guan was afraid of affecting the speed of escape, so he ordered the pro-army to shoot arrows, and many guards fell into the water with arrows. Also fleeing south with Huizong were Cai Jing, Zhu Mian and others. After Huizong arrived in Yangzhou, he left Empress Taishang in Yangzhou and fled to Jingkou (now Zhenjiang, Jiangsu) on the south bank of the Yangtze River.

The news of Emperor Daojun's abdication and escape came to Shandong Road, and Zhang Shuye was so anxious that half of his hair turned white overnight, and he seemed to have aged more than ten years overnight, and with his complete disappointment in Emperor Daojun, his hopes for the Great Song Dynasty were finally all placed on the new successor Song Qinzong. But this time he didn't rush to ask Sanniang to write again to invite the army to Qinwang, he needed to see what the new successor emperor and the new court would do, just because he had already taught Sanniang to write twice, as the so-called thing is not three, if the third time is not completely sure, Zhang Shuye does not plan to let Sanniang go to the book again, he Zhang Shuye is in front of Sanniang, and he can no longer afford to lose that person.

The Jin army is divided into two routes, but the circumstances are different. Wanyan Zonghan, the left deputy marshal of the west road, led the army to attack Taiyuan from Datong, and Wanyan Zongwang was not as smooth as Wanyan Zongwang on the east road. At the end of the seventh year of Xuanhe, the Jin army of the West Road conquered Shuozhou, and the first month of the first year of Jingkang broke Daizhou, and then Zhongshan surrendered, and surrounded Taiyuan in the middle of the first month, but because the city of Taiyuan was high and deep, the Song army defended the city and the elite Western army, which was blocked by the Jin army offensive on the West Road in Taiyuan.

At the end of the first month of the first year of Jingkang, Wanyan Zongwang's army crossed the Yellow River, captured Xiazhou the next day, and then the soldiers and horses reached the city of Tokyo, and the Jin army besieged Bianjing, the capital of the Northern Song Dynasty, for the first time.

The news of the Jin army's crossing of the Yellow River reached Kaifeng. Emperor Daojun fled in a panic, and took Cai Jing and other important ministers, just ascended the throne Song Qinzong's eyes were black, and the new court was also panicked, and the main battle and the main escape were different. Zai Zhibai Shizhong and Li Bangyan asked Qinzong to go to Xiang (now Xiangfan City, Hubei) and Deng (now Deng County, Henan) to avoid the enemy. Li Gang, the new squire of the military department, said that he could not do it, and when the court debated with Bai Shizhong, he believed that the capital was where the temple, the sheji, the hundred officials, and the people were located, and they could not give up, and should stick to it, as long as they stabilized the people's hearts, strengthened defense, and waited for the arrival of the army of King Qin in various places, they would definitely be able to hold it.

Qinzong immediately appointed Li Gang as Shangshu Youcheng and stayed in Tokyo, wanting Li Gang to guard Tokyo for him, and he fled to Shaanxi to avoid the enemy. Li Gang begged desperately with tears, and Qin Zong promised not to go to Shaanxi and stay in Tokyo.

However, this Emperor Qinzong was not a hard bone, and in the middle of the night he changed his mind and told Zai Zhi to prepare to leave Beijing after dawn. When Li Gang heard the news, he immediately rushed to the palace and saw that Qinzong was ready and was about to leave. Li Gang asked the palace guards on duty with golden guns, is he willing to defend the capital for the country? Or would you like to follow the emperor and run away? The guards on duty with the golden guns replied that they would defend it to the death.

Immediately, Li Gangchang bowed in front of Qinzong and said sadly: "Your Majesty, the soldiers inside and outside the palace are willing to die for Your Majesty, why does Your Majesty want to leave?" Before in the Jinluan Palace, His Majesty swore that he would fight the Jin army to the end, why did he change his mind overnight? Qin Zong was full of shame and speechless, but ordered someone to help Li Gang up.

Li Gang said again: "If Your Majesty runs away, the families of the wives of the soldiers and soldiers are all in the capital, and they are not willing to leave. In the unlikely event that half of the soldiers on the road have fled, who will your majesty have to protect them? And once the Jin people learned that His Majesty had left Beijing, they would definitely chase after him with elite cavalry, how could His Majesty avoid the pursuit? Running away is actually very dangerous, and it is not enough to stay in the capital, the old ministers and others will definitely hold the capital, and teach His Majesty to be safe and sound! After Li Gang said this, and was so frightened, Qin Zong agreed to take back his life and stay in Kaifeng.

After dawn, Li Gang was afraid that the new monarch would run away again, so he summoned hundreds of officials and soldiers, and announced in public that the emperor had made up his mind, and anyone who dared to say that anyone who left the capital and ran away would be beheaded. In this way, the hearts of the people in the capital gradually settled down.

Song Qinzong also crowned Li Gang as the envoy of the pro-expedition camp, and was fully responsible for the defense of the capital Kaifeng. Li Gang was ordered to immediately organize the army and the people to prepare for war with all their might. The building was repaired, the cannon sat on the crossbow stone, and a large number of masonry, wood, and fire oil were prepared as defensive tools. At the same time, on all sides of the capital, 12,000 forbidden troops were equipped, supplemented by the box army and the armor militia to assist in the defense. He also divided the 40,000 men of the horse infantry army into five armies, the front, the rear, the left, the right, and the center, and the 8,000 naval troops, which drilled day and night.

The former army was deployed outside the Tongjin Gate to protect the Yanfeng Warehouse, which contained 400,000 stone of grain. Shake the rear army to the Chaoyang Gate and defend the area of Fanjiagang, where the Kaifeng moat is the most shallow and narrow, so as not to let the Jin soldiers approach the city gate. The left, right, and center armies were in the city, acting as reserves.

On the eighth day of the first month, when the defensive preparations were still in progress, the Jin soldiers arrived at the city of Kaifeng, and under the guidance of Guo Yaoshi, they occupied the Tiansi Prison in Mutuogang, northwest of Kaifeng, and obtained more than 20,000 horses and a large amount of livestock fodder.

That night, the Jin soldiers went down the Bianhe River with dozens of fireboats to attack the West Water Gate. Li Gang personally came to the battle, with 2,000 elite infantry troops under the city, hooked the enemy ships with long hooks, and threw stones to hit the ships. He also put sticks on the river to block the advance of enemy ships, and transported the rockery from Cai Jing's garden to block the doorway of Xishuimen to prevent enemy ships from entering the city. After a day and night of hard fighting, more than 100 Jin soldiers were killed and the attack of the Jin soldiers was repulsed.

On the ninth day of the first month, the Jin army attacked the sour date gate and sealed the Qiu gate. Li Gang led more than 1,000 forbidden troops in the palace who were proficient in archery to rush to Suozaomen to command the battle. At that time, the Jin soldiers had already crossed the city and were using a ladder to enter the city. More than 1,000 forbidden soldiers in the palace shot at the golden soldiers with their divine arm crossbows, and the golden soldiers fell one after another. Li Gang also sent hundreds of elite golden gun squad guards to go down the city and burn dozens of enemy ladders.

The soldiers of the Song army became more and more brave the more they fought, using hand cannons and sassal wood at close range, using divine arm bows at a distance, and using crossbows and cannons at a distance, repelling the attacks of the Jin soldiers again and again. At the same time, the whole army launched attacks on Chenqiao, Fengqiu, Weizhou and other gates, and was also stubbornly counterattacked by the Song army defending the city. The battle lasted from morning to afternoon, with Song officers and soldiers killing and wounding thousands of Jin soldiers. Seeing that the Jin army could not attack, they had to stop the siege.

When the Jin soldiers entered the city of Kaifeng, Song Qinzong saw that the Jin army was strong, and the weak side was exposed, although he appointed Li Gang as the pro-conquest camp envoy and was responsible for defense, but on the other hand, he sent Zheng Wangzhi and others to the Jin camp to sue for peace.

On the night of the eighth day of the first month of the first year of Jingkang and the fourth year of Jin Tianhui, when Li Gang led the army and people to resist the siege of the Jin soldiers, Zheng Wangzhi and others went down to the city to negotiate peace with the Jin envoy Wu Xiaomin. The conditions for the peace talks proposed by Wu Xiaomin were that the two countries should be bounded by the Yellow River, and that Song would pay Jin Silk to pay for the army.

Zheng Wangzhi and others argued repeatedly, but Wu Xiaomin ignored them. Zheng Wangzhi had to enter the city with Wu Xiaomin to meet Qinzong. Qinzong's soft bones, and inherited the glorious tradition of the Song Dynasty emperor's peace, immediately expressed to the Jin envoy that he was willing to send the prince or prime minister to the Jin camp to negotiate peace.

When the day dawned, Li Gang learned that Qinzong had privately negotiated peace, and he couldn't help but be sad and angry, but he was helpless, so he immediately entered the palace to meet Qinzong, and proposed that he negotiate with Jin, Qinzong was afraid that Li Gang's attitude would be tough and he could not reach an agreement with Jin, so he sent Li Ze, a member of the Privy Council, and authorized him to allow him to increase the annual currency to Jin by 300 to 5 million taels, the military expenses of 300 to 5 million taels, and give Zongwang 10,000 taels of gold and wine fruit for bribes.

When Li Ze arrived at the gold camp, after seeing Yan Zongwang, Zongwang proposed to pay 5 million taels of military expenses, 50 million taels of silver, 1 million pieces of silk, 10,000 cattle and horses, and also cut the three towns of Taiyuan, Zhongshan, and Hejian to give Jin, and took the prince and the prime minister as hostages before he was willing to withdraw from the army.

Li Ze begged repeatedly, but Zong Wang insisted on the conditions and did not let go, and Li Ze had no choice but to go back to report. After listening to the above conditions put forward by Zongwang, Qinzong and Prime Minister Zhang Bangchang immediately agreed, and immediately issued an edict to loot the gold and silver of the people, and even confiscated all the wealth and silk of the advocating family. Even so, they only received 200,000 taels of gold and 4 million taels of silver, but the people have been looted.

While looting, Qinzong also sent down the edict to Taiyuan, the three towns of Zhongshan and Hejian, and their subordinate counties and the state army north of the three towns, so that they were ready to cede to the Jin people. Li Gang resolutely opposed the cession of land, and also thought that the amount of military expenses was too much, and advocated sending envoys to negotiate with Jin to delay time and wait for the arrival of reinforcements from King Qin from all over the country. However, Li Gang's opinion was opposed by the ministers, and Li Gang offered to resign, but Qinzong did not allow it. When Li Gang returned from his tour of the city, an oath of complete agreement with the conditions put forward by the Jin army had been issued, and Zhao Gou, the king of Kang, and Zhang Bangchang, the prime minister, had gone to the Jin camp as hostages.