A fiasco in the wild, a fire of nirvana self-immolation, made Qingyun Castle, which had been inherited for a hundred years, disappear from then on.

More than 20,000 lives were buried.

If there is a murder case in peacetime, it can also alarm the state capital. In the current autumn of war and chaos, it really responds to the sentence "human life is like grass mustard".

Yinshu Ke made a desperate attempt to defeat Qingyun Castle, and all he gained was countless corpses and a cottage that turned into a sea of fire.

The Jurchens were stunned after the victory.

It has been eleven years since the first day when Yan Agu started to fight against Liao. The Jurchen army has experienced hundreds of battles, large and small, and none of them have been fought as tragically as today.

Moreover, there is not a trace of loot after the victory!

A grotesque victory and a pile of charred corpses made the Jurchens, who were arrogant to the extreme, feel a chill, and their hearts were also shrouded in a layer of haze.

At the same time that the Jurchen Eastern Route Army was gaining momentum all the way, and had already won the first battle under the Shuo Dynasty and the troops under the city of Taiyuan, the progress of the Jurchen Western Route Army was even faster than that of the Eastern Route Army.

This is thanks to another "three-surnamed house slave" who will soon be famous in the annals of history - Guo Yaoshi.

This person was originally a general of the Liao State, and there was a fierce cavalry unit composed of the Xi people in Liaodong, which was originally called the "Resentment Army" and later renamed the "Changsheng Army". At the end of the Liao Kingdom, he took the initiative to surrender to the Song court, and was reused and trusted by the Song court, giving him great preferential treatment and privileges, allowing him to lead a large army to guard Yanshan Mansion and become the "Great Wall" of the Great Song Dynasty in the north. As soon as the Jurchens came, he decisively surrendered to the Jurchens.

The combat effectiveness of the army in Hebei was low, especially after Tong Guan's Northern Expedition, and he became a frightened bird, and he was all timid when he heard the battle. The court of the Great Song Dynasty also knew it, so it relied heavily on Guo Yaoshi to be able to "serve the country with loyalty" and entrusted him with the important task of guarding the country. For a period of time after returning to the Great Song Dynasty, Guo Yaoshi was repeatedly gifted, and his army was also strengthened. The victorious army became the first and almost the only line of defense against the Jurchens in the Great Song Dynasty.

But now, Guo Yaoshi once again defected, led his troops to surrender to the Jurchens, and took the lead with self-exaltation, and played the role of a hound for Wanyan Zongwang, the commander of the Jurchen Western Route Army, and took the lead in the charge!

The details of the Great Song Dynasty's defense and troop deployment in Hebei, how could Guo Yaoshi not know? With his great help, the Western Route Army was like a bamboo, and it drove straight in!

Since the founding of the People's Republic of China, the Great Song Dynasty has lost the Yanyun area in the history of the Central Plains full of lofty mountains and mountains, built with the Great Wall, and used to resist Beidi, and the north and south of the Yellow River are all flat rivers, and there is no military buffer, so the recovery of Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures and the defense of Beidi invasion have become a compulsory lesson for every generation of officials in the Great Song Dynasty. For more than 100 years, the Great Song Dynasty has built a military iron triangle in Hebei, that is, the three towns of Zhongshan, Zhending and Hejian.

But in just a few days, the Jurchens broke through the "impregnable" Zhongshan Mansion, uprooted the first corner of the Iron Triangle, and annihilated more than 30,000 Song soldiers in World War I! Only two days later, the real decision was broken again, and 5,000 enemies were killed!

The defense line of the Great Song Dynasty in Hebei collapsed and completely collapsed in an instant!

Guo Yaoshi led the way, with the best marching route and the fastest marching speed, Wanyan Zongwang, who was next to his new master, stretched out thousands of miles in one breath and killed to the edge of the Yellow River - across the river from the Kaifeng Mansion in Tokyo of the Great Song Dynasty!

The Great Song Dynasty stationed a lot of troops in the area of the Yellow River, but when they heard that the Jurchen army was coming, they actually broke down and dispersed - the only resistance they made was to burn the bridge across the river!

Wanyan Zong looked at the riverside, and was originally prepared for a bloody battle and landing on the beach as quickly as possible. But I didn't expect that there was no one within a hundred miles, and there was no trace of a Song soldier who ran a dead horse!

Seeing the burned Yellow River Bridge, the whole Jurchen army couldn't cry or laugh, so while reorganizing the soldiers and horses, they searched for boats everywhere, and crossed the Yellow River without hurrying and swaggering!

At this time, the court of the Great Song Dynasty was staging one scene after another of desolation.

More than half a month has passed since the time when Taiyuan Mansion was fortified and cleared and more than 10,000 displaced people fled south in a hurry. But it wasn't until the Jurchens hit the Yellow River that the famous emperor of poetry and painting, Zhao Ji, was willing to believe that this time the Jurchens were going to move the real thing, and they were coming to rob him!

Previously, he and many of his ministers were still unanimous in their belief that the Jurchens were just scaring and scaring people, and they just wanted to ask for a little more coins. Now that Tong Guan is gone, just send someone to negotiate. In short, peace is precious, and you must not start a war with the Jurchens! - As for the officials and generals of Taiyuan Mansion who have broken things, they must be recalled to the imperial court to punish them one by one!

Of course, there are also some ministers who insist on earning their strength on the basis of reason and not showing weakness to the Jin people, since the Jin people dare to kill the marshal of our town, they have already torn up the covenant, where will they talk to us about faith? At this time, it was necessary to strictly prevent the invasion of Jurchen soldiers and horses; In addition to ordering the Yanshan Mansion Guo Yaoshi to defend strictly, he must also send troops to help fight Taiyuan!

The two sides insisted on their own words and argued endlessly. Zhao Ji was tired of hearing it, so he simply ignored anyone, and still returned to the harem to accompany his heirloom poems and paintings and the beauty of the Allure.

Until the Jurchens hit the edge of the Yellow River, the quarrels in the court of the Great Song Dynasty did not stop, of course, they did not send a single soldier, but fled from the Yellow River to countless stragglers!

It was not until this time that Zhao Ji and the officials of the Great Song Dynasty knew that a catastrophe was coming. But their first reaction was not to urgently respond to call on the military and civilians to resist the Jurchens, but to flee!

Zhao Ji is actually a very talented and smart person, otherwise how could he have such high achievements in art; But one of his weakest points is his political IQ. After being an emperor for half his life, he didn't do a few good things, and he didn't have a few days when he was really assertive. But this time, the great emperor of poetry and painting broke out in character, and suddenly became assertive - he gave the throne to the crown prince Zhao Huan, and he took the beautiful poetry and painting and a dry of mediocre officials and ministers, slapped the soles of his feet with oil, slipped away, and fled to the south!

Zhao Huan, who has been the crown prince for many years and has always been worried about being deposed, has longed for this throne for more than a day or two. But now that the fire has burned his ass, he has been thrown out, and he doesn't do it. When he heard that Zhao Ji was going to pass on the throne to him, he was stunned and refused to ascend the throne. The crowd woke him up and forced him to put on a dragon robe. Zhao Huan refused to cry, make trouble, and hang himself, and was finally pressed and twisted by a group of people to sit on the throne, and succeeded to the throne as the new official family of the Great Song Dynasty.

When Zhao Huan was humiliated and sat on the dragon chair with tears in his eyes, he stepped off the BMW and just stepped on the land on the south bank of the Yellow River for the first time; Wang Yu of Taiyuan City was taking stock of the grain in the treasury with Chu Tianya; Zhang Yimin, the wife of the owner of the village in Qingyun Castle, was walking towards Qingyunping with her feet up.

Under the pressure of the great wheel of history, many people have been wiped out, and many things are unbearable.

Zhang Xiaochun stood on the tower of the south gate of Taiyuan City, looking through his eyes, and could not see a single soldier.

He sighed deeply. Looking back, a team of armored soldiers is walking under the city, led by two horsemen, a man and a woman, the man wears gold armor and a red robe and rides a jujube red horse, the young man is heroic; The woman is like a fiery yaksha riding a snow-white horse, dazzling and unusual.

Maybe he's right...... Taiyuan, you really can't count on the official family and the imperial court. Ay! With a deep sigh again, Zhang Xiaochun, who has been an official for half his life, has strong doubts and shakes his belief in the court of the Son of Heaven for the first time.

At this time, Chu Tianya and Xiao Linglong had already ascended to the top of the city.

"Why are you two here?" Zhang Xiaochun asked.

Chu Tianya stepped forward and hugged his fist and said, "The last general was ordered by the capital to come and inspect the city gate of the Quartet to come and go to rescue. ”

"Hmm." Zhang Xiaochun glanced at Chu Tianya deeply, nodded without saying much, and said, "This mansion will come and take a look." The general is at his own mercy, and the government has taken his leave. ”

"Governor Zhang, please stay." Chu Tianya suddenly called.

"Something is wrong with the general?" Zhang Xiaochun stood still and turned around and asked.

Now Chu Tianya is already the "commander of the military capital", and he has more real power of 10,000 soldiers and horses under his command, and Zhang Xiaochun has to call him a "general".

Chu Tianya smiled slightly, took a few steps forward and whispered: "Governor Zhang doesn't have to come to the south gate every day to Zhang Pan. The imperial court, most of the time, will not send reinforcements. ”

"Why?" was told by Chu Tianya's words, Zhang Xiaochun was a little frightened.

"It's coming, it's coming." Chu Tianya shook his head, sighed lightly, and said, "From the time the Taishi was killed to now, half a month has passed. For such a long time, it is enough to raise an army of millions. Since the imperial court did not send troops to help, it really won't come. ”

Zhang Xiaochun's heart suddenly fell to the valley, and there was a look of extreme disappointment in his eyes, and he muttered, "Could it be that the imperial court has given up on our hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians in Taiyuan like this?" Abandoned the territory and gateway to the east of the river and let the Jurchens trample on it? ”

"What we think is important, others may not think so. For example, a toddler will value a piece of caramel as important, but it is not worth mentioning to adults. Chu Tianya smiled, "And so on, perhaps for the official family, his ink treasures and treasures are more important than the country and the people; For many ministers, their possessions and futures were more important than their cities and people. The life and death of Taiyuan City and hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians that Governor Zhang valued in his heart may not be worth mentioning in their eyes. ”

"If it's such a big rebellion, you are the only one who can say it."

When Zhang Xiaochun said this, not only did he lose the momentum of the prefect in the past, his breath was very weak, and his face was dead.

After saying this, Zhang Xiaochun left.

Chu Tianya watched him walk away step by step, and it was easy to read the despair and loss in his heart from his back.

Xiao Linglong approached Chu Tianya's side and said in a low voice: "If a protégé of the Son of Heaven like Zhang Xiaochun, who has been an official for decades, can be completely disappointed in the official family and the court of the Great Song Dynasty, then the day when the Great Song Dynasty will lose the hearts of the people is not far off." ”

"The people's grievances are boiling, and the Great Song Dynasty is gradually losing the hearts of the people; Tong Guan's Northern Expedition was defeated in a row, and the army's morale was scattered; If you lose the support of the hearts of the people again...... Chu Tianya sighed, "Da Song, it's really over!" ”

"Last time you said that the Jurchens would attack the Song Dynasty at the same time. In addition to the Wanyan Zonghan branch that is now besieging Taiyuan, there is also a man from Pingzhou who first attacked Yanshan Mansion, and then went south to take Hebei. Xiao Linglong said, "If this is true, now the soldiers and horses don't know where to fight?" Can the Yanshan Mansion of the Great Song Dynasty be kept? ”

"I don't know." Chu Tianya shook his head, and the rest of the words were not spoken. Don't tell Xiao Linglong that he knows this history well.

"Yanshan Mansion has a lot of soldiers and horses, and it is heavily defended, so I think it should be able to hold it." Xiao Linglong said, "If the Jurchens can be resisted outside the borders of Taiyuan and Yanshan, the situation will not be too bad." The court of the Great Song Dynasty also had plenty of time to respond, and sent troops to help the war and defend the country - but strangely, why has not a single soldier come to the rescue of Taiyuan so far? ”

Chu Tianya looked at the vast and endless snow in the south, shook his head, and the smile on his face was as bitter as Zhang Xiaochun.

"Rotten wood can't be carved, don't count on it!"