In ancient times, the central capital was Youzhou, also known as Yanjing, which has always been an important frontier for the Central Plains Dynasty to prevent the northern nomads from going south.

Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures, also known as Youyun Sixteen Prefectures, the word 'You' refers to Youzhou, the so-called recovery of Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures, in fact, is only the recovery of fifteen states outside Youzhou.

Now that the capture of Zhongdu has begun, it can be said that the sixteen states of Yanyun can really return to the Great Song Dynasty and return to the hands of the Han people.

Since it was ceded to the Liao State by Shi Jingjiao in the first year of the Later Jin Dynasty, it became the base for the Liao State to plunder the Central Plains in the south, and it has been in trouble for more than 300 years.

After the founding of the Great Song Dynasty, the emperors of all dynasties thought of recovering the land of Yanyun, and Song Taizong launched two northern expeditions to recover Yanyun, but they were all defeated.

After the Jin State destroyed Liao, and the Song-Jin War occurred in the seventh year of Xuanhe, the sixteen states of Yanyun were taken away by the Jin State, and then it became the imperial capital of the Jin State.

As the second imperial capital of the Jin Kingdom, Yanjing has been operated by the Jin Kingdom for decades, and now the scale of the central capital is comparable to that of Bianjing and Jiankang.

The city wall is tall and wide, and there is a defense river around the city, and the river surface is wide, and it is indeed a fortified city that is easy to defend and difficult to attack. As long as there are enough troops and food and grass in the city, in the environment of cold weapons, I am afraid that even if there is an army of millions, it will be difficult to easily capture the central capital.

However, the equipment of the Song army has begun to enter the age of firearms, and the tall city walls cannot withstand the destruction of artillery fire.

After the city was broken, Wu Ting led the army to clear the remnants of the Jin army in the central capital, and at the same time took the initiative to surrender to Zhongdu, and also made a due iron-blooded response.

The 10,000 captured Jin soldiers, as well as some remaining palace recalcitrants in the city, totaling more than 20,000 people, were all executed in public.

The blood-washed middle capital city is quiet in an instant, and the tranquility makes people feel numb on the scalp, because the streets and alleys are splashed with blood that still has residual warmth.

The tens of thousands of people in the city were all silenced as if they had been spelled, and they all dared not go out to show their faces in their respective homes.

When Wu Ting appeased the people and posted a notice stating that he would only severely punish the rebels and would not massacre the people in the city. At that moment, everyone's hearts were completely relaxed, and the feeling of the rest of their lives after the catastrophe seemed to have passed two lifetimes.

The people in the middle capital thought that the Song army would still adopt the plan of slaughtering the city after entering the city, but they never thought that they would escape this murder.

For the gold and silver property in the imperial city of Zhongdu, Wu Ting ordered the scribe to register it, and then sealed it directly into the warehouse, and did not escort it back to Bianjing.

This move was unusual, but if it was combined with Wu Ting's military order not to slaughter the city, it would be an extremely reasonable thing.

Because this will indicate another problem, that is, the imperial capital of the Great Song Dynasty will once again face the intention of relocation.

The reason for not slaughtering the city is because he doesn't want to move the capital to the central capital, and the city will be bloody and desolate; The property is not escorted, but it is to leave the repair costs for the current ruined capital.

The matter of moving the capital is not child's play, this kind of moving the capital three times and twice, the slightest carelessness will shake the country's foundation, how can Ye Yu, who is in Bianjing, not know, but it is imperative to move the capital to Yanjing.

Zhongdu, Youzhou, Fanyang, Yanjing, Beiping...... These names were changed many times until finally the name Beijing was born!

Since Shi Jingjiao ceded the sixteen states of Yanyun to the Khitan, the vicinity of Yanjing (Beijing) has been outside the control of the central power of the Han court for about 200 years.

If it is counted from the Anshi Rebellion and the rise of Hebei feudal towns, it is even longer, and after the Jingkang Rebellion, the entire North China region has been ruled by foreign races for nearly half a century.

Historians proudly claim that the Jurchen and Khitan are sinicized peoples, but everything has two sides, and they don't mention that while the alien sinicization is at the same time, the Han people are also alienated by the alien race!?

Therefore, if you want to control the whole world and make the Central Plains free from foreign attacks, the most effective way is to move the capital.

Yanjing is located at the northern end of the North China Plain, surrounded by mountains on three sides, overlooking the Central Plains, and its geographical advantages can be described as natural.

After the capital was moved, Yanjing (Beijing) and its surroundings became the core ruling territory of the Song Dynasty, and the Han regime controlled North China to an unprecedented extent.

Only the imperial capital was close to the Great Wall, and the central government could effectively manage and mobilize troops against invasion. At the same time, the momentum of the Son of Heaven on the border made the court more determined to resist in the face of crises.

On the other hand, Bianjing is unsafe, although it is accessible in all directions, but it is also because of this, which makes the defense of Bianjing a major disadvantage of the Song Dynasty.

Therefore, at the beginning of Wu Ting's army, Ye Yu had already instructed to preserve the prosperity of the central capital, and tried his best to repair it for the purpose of moving the capital.

After Wu Ting dealt with all the matters in the central capital, he ordered Xin Qiji to command 100,000 troops to defend the central capital, while he led the remaining 300,000 troops to continue to march north.

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When Wan Yan Yunzhong led a group of civil and military personnel to evacuate the central capital, he did not forget to climb the tower to look at the Great Song army from the south to the north, and he wanted to find a figure from the Song army's 10,000 horse army, a figure that made him fall so far.

Even though he knew that Ye Yu's figure could not appear in the army, the grievances between him and Ye Yu made him resentful.

Ye Yu is his brother-in-law of Wanyan Yunzhong, and he is the person he has as a friend of Wanyan Yunzhong, but this person has made his Dajin enemy country defeat again and again.

Jianghuai was lost, Hebei was also lost, and now the Jin State can only retreat outside the customs and return to the original Shangjing (Harbin) base area.

All of this is due to Ye Yu, every time he thinks about it, Wan Yan Yunzhong feels very helpless, because he feels that he is too indecisive.

When he was in Jingzhao Mansion back then, he shouldn't have imprisoned Ye Yu for his own use, and directly eradicating Ye Yu would not have the evil consequences he had today.

However, what is most lacking in this world is regret medicine, and at that time, he felt that Ye Yu was just a rare talent, but he didn't expect that this underestimated talent would now set off such a big tsunami!

After Yan Yunzhong's harem concubines, those who have children all bring their children. Evacuate to Shangjing Road with the brigade, and if there are no children, they will be given some gold and silver money, and they will be sent home to earn a living.

Among the officials of the Central Capital, those who are willing to withdraw to Shangjing can take their families with them and go with the army, and those who are unwilling will be executed!

In the treatment of concubines and court officials, Wan Yan Yunzhong's attitude is clear, in his opinion, women are innocent, why bother to become victims of war.

As for the centrifugation of court officials, he used thunderous means to execute them one after another, because these people eat the king's money but can't share the worries of the king, which in itself is an inescapable crime, and now the blatant centrifugation is even more criminal.

If a civil servant official talks about the loyalty and righteousness of the saint all day long, then he should share his worries for the king, die for the king, and be martyred for the king!

The army and the baggage evacuated to Jinzhou, where there were royal relatives Wan Yan Yuntang's men and horses to respond, and after passing Jinzhou, it was the Shangjing area of the Jin Kingdom, so when they arrived in Jinzhou, they were almost safe.

However, on the way to Huining Mansion, Wanyan Yunzhong may have been sick from hard work, or he was angry because of repeated defeats, and after the army arrived in Jinzhou, he fell ill in Jinzhou.