[Always fear those who die for your own sake!] - Chu Tianya]

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At the turn of Chunxia in the second year of Guangxing, the war between Song and Jin has lasted for 16 months, and the battle for Yanshan Mansion has still not been distinguished, and the soldiers on both sides have been killed and wounded innumerably, and they are tired of living.

When the war is fought to this extent, it is no longer possible for the strategy of the commander and the bravery of the soldiers to completely determine the outcome of the war. Both countries have done their best to fight this war, and the protracted fierce war is to fight soldiers, horses, money and food, and to fight for the combination of national strength!

The reason why Chu Tianya endured for seven years before deciding to fight this battle was because he had long determined that the final outcome of the war should be decided by combining national strength. The reason why he took the emperor to quell the rebellion of King Kang in Jiangnan was that he wanted to solve the internal troubles in the shortest possible time and then work together to fight against external troubles.

Facts have proved that Chu Tianya's moves are still right.

The battle of Yanshan was protracted, and the territory of the Jin Kingdom was poor after all, and it could not compete with the rich Central Plains and the Great Song Dynasty in the south of the Yangtze River. They smashed pots and sold iron and gritted their teeth to resist, and the family business accumulated over the years by plundering the Quartet and overthrowing the Liao State was soon burned in the battle of Yanshan. In contrast, the country of the Great Song Dynasty was generally peaceful and peaceful, and the taxes and imperial grain for this year alone were enough to support Yue Fei's Northern Expeditionary Army for another three years!

If it weren't for the "genius" of Jin Wushu, who resisted the encirclement of Yue Fei and Ma Kuo in Yanshan Mansion with all his might, the Jin Kingdom would have been defeated and collapsed!

As time passed, the balance of victory and defeat tilted in favor of the Great Song Dynasty.

As far as the soldiers on both sides of the front line are concerned, more than a year of selection and fighting have long since made them lose their initial fiery passion. Until now, I have been gritting my teeth and persevering. The Great Song Dynasty's "Edict on Recruiting Warriors" was revoked after half a year, and too many young and strong people came to join the army, and the imperial court could not settle all of them and generalize them. Within half a year, the three towns of Hebei and Taiyuan Yunzhong each added more than 100,000 reserves. Coupled with the more than 300,000 troops who went out, the Great Song Dynasty has invested nearly 600,000 horses in this war!

On the other hand, on the Jin side, they invested 400,000 troops from all over the country, and successively requisitioned more than 100,000 reinforcements from other vassal tribes and neighboring countries, and the total number of troops invested was nearly 600,000.

More than one million troops on both sides fought in Yanshan, which was unprecedented.

Every time he learned that the Jin State had increased his troops, Chu Tianya was not only worried, but secretly happy. Because he knew that the more troops the Jin State invested in Yanshan Mansion, the faster their national strength would be depleted, and the more difficult it would be to ensure logistics. At the same time - they are even more empty inside and behind!

Although the Great Song Dynasty was about to be overwhelmed by this war, the advantage of the Great Song Dynasty was that the family background was strong and the territory was broad, and the area south of the Yangtze River had not suffered any wars for so many years, and there were countless money and grain accumulated by the Great Song Dynasty since the founding of the country. This is the right time to put it into combat readiness!

In May of the second year of Guangxing, the veteran Zong Ze, who had disappeared from people's sight for a long time, suddenly "came out", he was assisted by Zhang Shuye, Shi Liai and others who had previously pacified Jiangnan, and led a Great Song Dynasty army that had never appeared openly, and quietly set off from Dengzhou across the Bohai Sea to take the Jinguo Tokyo and Liaoyang Mansion!

The Jin Kingdom was not unprepared, they had long expected that the Great Song might attack from the waterway. However, after all, the Jurchens are a horse nation that started between the white mountains and black waters, and they swept Hebei with cavalry to level the Liao State, when will they really pay attention to the coast? Even if there is a naval army, how much combat power can they have?

Like Yue Fei, veterans Zong Ze and Zhang Shuye have been in obscurity for too long. Even if Hebei was in full swing, they also abided by Chu Tianya's orders as in the past, did not dare to invite battles or swagger, and practiced with peace of mind.

Until Chu Tianya felt that the time was ripe, and with an order, the Great Song Water Army, which had long been unable to hold back, was like a fierce beast out of the box, directly from Dengzhou across the sea and pounced on Liaoyang, tearing a bloody hole from here, and forcibly opened up the second battlefield of the Song and Jin War!

With the successful landing of Zong Ze and Zhang Shuye in Liaoyang, the balance of war was completely broken. Liaoyang Mansion, as the capital of Tokyo in the Jin Kingdom, can be said to be the last bulwark of their old Huining Mansion. The naval army led by Zong Ze and Zhang Shuye suddenly appeared here, causing the entire Jin Kingdom to fall into an unprecedented panic!

If they capture Tokyo, then they will directly face the Huining Mansion, and they will be able to directly destroy the heart of the Jin Kingdom and capture their emperor Wanyan Wu begging alive! At that time, even if the Golden Vulture won in Yanshan Mansion, what would it do? The entire Jin Kingdom will perish, and the Golden Vulture is about to become a lost dog without roots! - Moreover, as long as Yangliao Mansion falls, the grain route and support of the Golden Vulture in Yanshan will be completely cut off, and it is impossible for him to defeat Yue Fei on this!

The landing of Yangliao was like the last straw that crushed the camel - the Jin Kingdom, the defeat was like a mountain!

Jin Wushu had to give up Yanshan Mansion, the bridgehead of the country, and wave his army to help. Yue Fei took advantage of the situation to take Yanshan, and joined forces with Ma Kuo and others to pursue the victory all the way, expanding the territory for thousands of miles like breaking through a bamboo, and reaching Liaoyang!

At this time, Yue Fei finally realized his unfulfilled words in history - go straight to the Yellow Dragon and drink bitterly with the monarchs!

At this time, no matter how amazing the golden vulture is, it is impossible to support the general of the building and turn the tide of danger with his own strength.

The Jurchens quickly lost Liaoyang Mansion, retreated again and hid thousands of miles between the white mountains and black waters, guarding their last old suppression, Huining Mansion.

At this time, the harsh winter has arrived. The winter in Liaodong is not as cold as the soldiers of the Great Song Dynasty can match. Heaven is like this, and it is beyond the power of man. Therefore, the Northern Expeditionary Army of the Great Song Dynasty did not pursue deeply, but raised troops in the area of Yanshan Mansion and Liaoyang Mansion to rest in accordance with the orders of the imperial court, in order to fight again in the coming year.

By this time, the battle between the two countries had actually been won. Jin not only spit out all the territory of the Liao State that it invaded that year, but also lost all the capital. From the moment Jin Wushu was forced to flee to Yanshan Mansion and return to Liaoyang Mansion, they were all inferior in momentum and fighters. Yue Fei and Zong Ze took advantage of the victory to pursue all the way like chopping melons and vegetables, recovering countless cities and people, not counting, but also killing more than 100,000 soldiers and horses of the Jin Kingdom!

Retreating to Huining Mansion to hide between the white mountains and black waters, and once again returning to the barbaric state before the founding of the Jin State was a choice that the Jurchens had no choice.

At this point, the Northern Expeditionary Army of the Great Song Dynasty also became the end of the crossbow. From Hebei, Taiyuan, Yunzhong and Dengzhou, all the way to Liaodong, where the weather was cold and frozen, the soldiers of the Great Song Dynasty were also so tired that they couldn't do it. There are also many people who have been suffering from diseases for too long, and many diseases are not adapted to the water and soil.

Chu Tianya and the others, who were far above the court, also knew in their hearts that it was unrealistic to want to run between the white mountains and black waters to destroy the Jurchens safely. Even if they really put their power in one pot, it is impossible to exterminate the race. In the past two years, under Chu Tianya's single-handed planning, the Great Song Dynasty, who had just recuperated for seven years, "exhausted the army", and soon emptied his family again. The people have already complained a lot. If you continue to spend like this, you may be able to win, but it is difficult to ensure that there is no chaos within the Great Song Dynasty.

Chu Tianya knew that the time had come to accept it when he saw it. According to the current scenario, it is rare for the Jurchens to turn over with salted fish again in 50 years - what will happen in 50 years? That's for the children and grandchildren!

So, the victorious Song Dynasty took the initiative to propose a peace alliance to the defeated country Jinguo!

A weak country has no diplomacy, and a defeated country has no diplomacy at all. The diplomatic peace alliance proposed by Chu Tianya this time is far from what it used to be. The Great Song Dynasty forcibly ordered the Jin Kingdom to remove the "Jin" country name, return to the original "Bohai State" country name, go to the emperor, and change the king - from then on, it became a vassal state of the Great Song Dynasty!

At the same time, it is necessary to hand over several important war criminals led by Jin Wushu, and other things such as paying New Year's coins are naturally not a problem.

At first, of course, the Jurchens refused to obey. After three months of negotiations, there was little real progress.

The three-month negotiations gave the Song army enough time to resupply and recuperate. Soon, an army of 400,000 gathered in Liaoyang Mansion and under the command of Yue Fei, ready to launch a "final blow" against the Jurchens.

The last general of the Jurchens, Jin Wushu, gritted his teeth and fought a bloody battle with Yue Fei in the area of Songwa River in Jeju.

This was the last war between the Great Song Dynasty and the Jin Kingdom.

In fact, in terms of strategy and combat power alone, the Song army at this time may not really be much stronger than the Jin army. But the Golden Vulture was defeated. In the final analysis, the Jurchens are already discouraged and have no fighting spirit, and the internal divisions of the Jin State have long been born, and the voice of the Lord and the faction is getting louder and louder.

As the battle progressed, the pressure on the Golden Vulture shoulders grew. Because the Great Song Dynasty named and said that he wanted to "hand over the war criminal Wanyan Zongbi", many people thought that he did not surrender until now because of his own selfishness. Every day he doesn't win, the more pressure and complaints he bears.

Finally, the Golden Vulture was defeated by Yue Fei. In other words, it was defeated by the super combined national strength of the Great Song Dynasty, and lost to the distrust from within the Jurchen clan!

In the battle of Songwahe, the Golden Vulture was completely lost. Of the 200,000 troops he brought out, almost half of them died, and the rest were either wounded and captured or escaped from the battle.

The scene in front of me is exactly what the sentence is like a mountain defeated.

Golden vultures, draw your sword and kill yourself. The last general of the Jurchen tribe was killed.

Only three days after the Battle of Song Wahe, Emperor Wu of the Jin State walked out of Huining Mansion with his civil and military ministers and the queen's heirs, and surrendered to Yue Fei's camp.

At this point, the invincible Dajin country, which has swept thousands of miles after more than ten years of founding of the People's Republic of China, has been declared extinct. Wanyan Wu begged for purchase and a cadre of people who came to surrender were escorted to Luoyang. The remaining Jurchens were placed under the rule of the Bohai State and ruled by Wan Yanchang, the puppet king and former Jurchen surrender prime minister.

In the third year of Guangxing, the Great Song Dynasty ushered in peace in the true sense.

Chu Tianya accompanied the Emperor of the Great Song Dynasty and met with Wu Qimai and others in the Luoyang Palace. Wu Qimai was named the king of Shande County, and he was given a house to live in Luoyang forever, and it was impossible to return to his white mountains and black waters.

There are no more vigorous Jurchen iron cavalry there, only the Bohai State that implements cultural rule. Even the successor to the throne of the Bohai State is not up to them, but must be appointed by the suzerain, the Great Song.

The Great Song Dynasty version of "one country, two systems", under the single-handed planning of Chu Tianya, made its debut.

Interestingly, the Great Song Dynasty had already pacified the Kingdom of Jin. However, on the side of the Western Regions, between Yelu Dashi and the Western Xia Kingdom and the countries of the Western Regions, there was a quarrel between water and fire, and the beacon fire was endless. These countries sent envoys to Luoyang from time to time to visit Chu Tianya, with a handful of tears and snot, "Please ask the King of Wei to uphold justice." ”

So, King Wei is still very busy. In addition to dealing with many national affairs, he also has to mediate with many younger brothers in the Western Regions, and he also has to give instructions on various important matters of Zong Ze and Yue Fei in the occupied areas.

Back at home, King Wei was busier. He is already the husband of a dozen women and the father of seven children.

In the fifth year of Guangxing, Chu Tianya came to Taiyuan to worship his ancestors. This time, in addition to the same people as last time, Xiao Linglong and Jiao Wentong and others, there were also seven more children from Emperor Roufu, Princess Xianfei and Chu Tianya.

The eldest son, Chu Kejie, the king of Longcheng County, was thirteen years old and could ride a horse and bend a bow and recite poems against each other.

The group came to Taiyuan City, the north gate.

Chu Kejie looked at the vast Taihang and leisurely Jinshui in front of him, and asked, "Father, was it here to fight against the Jin people back then?" ”

"Yes." Chu Tianya squinted his eyes, as if he had returned to the days when the beacon fire was flying and the corpses were full of blood. Glancing around, Xiao Linglong's face had the same smile as him.

"In Taiyuan City back then, was there really anyone who ate people?" Chu Kejie asked, "Is the marksmanship taught to his father by Wang Lao Linggong (Wang Yu) the long-known Wang family gun?" There is also Meng Qibo, who his father often misses and never forgets, can the child see him? ”

Xiao Linglong smiled dumbly and pulled Chu Kejie aside, "You have too many questions. ”

"Yes, mother, the child knows that he is wrong." Chu Kejie has always been very filial and knowledgeable.

"Princess, these things that Kejie asked are all things he should know." Chu Tianya said, "Don't forget the past, the teacher of the future." I don't want our descendants to only know the wind and the moon, but they don't understand the difficulty of starting a business. Kejie, your fiefdom is in Taiyuan, and you are alone in staying here for half a year after this ancestor worship, and you will have a long experience. The most important thing is to learn more about the situation of the Battle of Taiyuan that year. ”

"The child obeys!" Chu Kejie happily agreed, his eyes flashing with excitement. The son of the Wei Wang family has always been disciplined very strictly, and in addition to literature and martial arts, he has to learn far more than ordinary children. Being able to spend half a year alone outside to "further study" is like a bird coming out of the cage for him.

Xiao Linglong wanted to stop it, but gave up after hesitating for a moment. First, no one can change the things Chu Tianya decides; Second, it is not a bad thing for children to learn a little more and learn more about history. It can be seen from Chu Tianya's arrangement this time that he has high hopes for Kejie, the eldest son, and hopes that he will become a talent.

"If you don't understand, go to Qingyun Castle to find someone to ask for advice." Chu Tianya suddenly said, "Go there, put down your shelf, and forget what kind of prince you are." Just remember – you're a student! A survivor of a bloody battle! There are many people buried there who have died for your life! - You have to have a heart of awe and visit Qingyun Castle! ”

"Remember, child!" Chu Kejie carefully agreed. He rarely saw his father, who gave him such a serious and stern order that he was a little "incomprehensible".

"Awe!" Chu Tianya muttered to himself, took a deep breath and exhaled a long breath, "Always remember these two words!" ”

"Yes......" Chu Kejie was even more at a loss.

Xiao Linglong patted his son on the shoulder, "You have to be like your father, and you must be in awe of everyone who dies here, whether it is a comrade or an enemy!" ”

"I am in awe of everyone who is trying to maintain the peace of the Great Song Dynasty such as today, and people with lofty ideals!"

"Reverence for every inch of your land! Because for sure, it was bleached with blood! ”

"Reverence for this part of your history! Because every moment, it has the potential to become a legend! ”

"The most important thing to remember is to always fear your Father! - because he is the most magnificent man in the Great Song Dynasty! ”

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