Chapter 17 Southern Erosion

The attack of the Jin soldiers was resolute and unstoppable, the army of the Liao people was defeated in the battles again and again, and the fortified cities of the Liao people were captured one by one. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

In fact, the combat effectiveness of the Jin soldiers was not only feared by the Liao people, but even Chen Cheng, who was secretly observing, was also amazed. In the battle he observed, an elite unit of the Jin soldiers, dressed in heavy armor, charged more than ten times in one morning, and crushed the Liao army alive.

Subsequently, the light cavalry and the troops of other ethnic groups in the rear swept up, and the corpses of the Liao army in the rout were scattered all over the field. The Jin Bing's hard-fought fighting style was completely different from the cavalry archery that the Steppe Empire was good at, but it was more brutal and ferocious. After the battle, many of the heavy armor troops of the Jin people who rushed into battle even died because of their lack of strength.

This ferocious fighting power ...... Chen Cheng shook his head secretly, it was definitely not something that the forbidden army of the Southern Dynasty that had not fought seriously for hundreds of years could resist. Well, in addition to the Western Army, which has been fighting with the Tanguts for more than a hundred years, can compete head-on with the Jin soldiers, the best of those forbidden armies in Hebei is just to be able to defend the city.

It's not that there are no heroes and heroes among the Song people, it's just that those officers and soldiers have become corrupt. Those soldiers of the forbidden army can't train a few times a year, and most of the time they are either doing small business, or they are being instructed by military attaches and civil servants from all walks of life to do private work, where can they compare with the fierce men in the north who are killed from the pile of dead?

In the era of cold weapons, an elite field army with a size of 10,000 people may change the strategic situation between two countries. But it's a pity that the Song State doesn't have that kind of elite troops, and there are no generals who can use such elite troops well. It was necessary to wait until they were beaten before they had Yue Fei, Han Shizhong, or later Yu Yunwen, who were killed from the troubled times.

However, at this time, the Song Dynasty, from the emperor to the ministers, never thought that they would not be able to defeat the Jin people. After they saw that the Liao people were no longer good, the first thing they thought of was that this was really a godsend, and the time had come to take revenge and expand their territory!

However, it cannot be said that the Song people were too short-sighted, and the situation in Liao took a sharp turn for the worse in a few years. Xijing was captured by the Jin army, and Emperor Tianzuo abandoned his baggage and fled into Jiashan for refuge with light horsemen (near Daqingshan in Inner Mongolia, it is rumored that this place is very hidden, only the Liao clan knows, and outsiders cannot find it.) Yanjing has effectively become a lonely Liao enclave sandwiched between the Song and Jin states.

When the monarchs and ministers of the Song Dynasty saw this good situation, they rubbed their fists one by one, and they were overjoyed that Yanjing was already within reach, and when would they not take it at this time?

However, even Zhao Ji knew that most of the forbidden troops in Hebei were unreliable, and those who could fight were still those old peasants in Shaanxi. So the Song State mobilized more than 100,000 troops from Shaanxi to Bianliang, preparing to take the opportunity to go on a northern expedition, first seize the sixteen states of Yanyun, and fulfill the long-cherished wish of two generations of Taizu and Taizong.

When Zhao Ji became the emperor, he was very uplifted. Later, he gradually indulged in pleasure, indulging in the "Yu Da Fengheng" proposed to him by Cai Jing, which made Jiangnan Tian angry and resentful. As a result, with the thirty-six major Kou of Shuibo Liangshan, there were several states, and Song Jiang and other water thieves attacked the prefectures and counties, and no one could govern them.

Finally, Zhang Shuye led more than 100,000 forbidden troops to pacify the water bandits in Liangshan, and Fang La, the leader of the Ming Sect in the south, started an even more massive uprising. As a branch of the Demon Sect, the masters of the Southern Ming Sect were like clouds, and they soon opened up a large territory.

Although there are also various muscular brothers and nobles in this, the more reason is that the resentment of the people has accumulated to the point of exploding at a point. The angry people don't necessarily like the Mingjiao, but for the imperial court and the officials who are prey on the common people, they have an attitude of hating not eating their flesh raw.

It was because of the people's participation that they were able to respond to the call and shake the rule of the Song State in Jiangnan.

Song Huizong, Zhao Jixi, flowers, stone and bamboo wood. Set up the "Suzhou and Hangzhou Yingfeng Bureau" in the south of the Yangtze River, send the minions to the southeast to loot the folk flowers, stones, bamboos and rare treasures, transport them to Bianjing with large ships, and form a program for every ten boats, which is called "Huashi Gang" at the time. Qingxi County is prolific with bamboo and wood paint, and it is a key place to be taken by the Bureau. This heavy burden was passed on to the peasants, especially the destitute who lived by selling their labour-power. Suffering from exploitation and oppression, the people were resentful, so they harbored a bitter hatred for the imperial court, and then ignited the fire of the uprising.

In the Western Han Dynasty, the emperor wanted to build a pavilion, but when he heard that it would cost ten families to continue to spend so much money, he immediately dispelled such an idea. Among the previous emperors before the Song Dynasty, there were also queens who personally planted mulberry and silkworm weaving, but Zhao Ji was good, and for his little elegant hobby, he made the people's resentment boiling. On this point, he can only be said to deserve to be arrested in the Five Kingdoms City and humiliated in the future.

When Chen Cheng went down to Jiangnan before, he deliberately went to see Fang La. The Beidou Divine Fist broke the Ming God Martial Arts, almost making Fang La start to doubt his life. After receiving the inheritance of Nandou and Beidou, Sect Leader Fang practiced diligently and finally achieved great success. When fighting with the Song army, Fang La, who was dressed in heavy armor, was unstoppable, and often a single charge broke up the Song army, which looked like businessmen more than soldiers.

After seeing that the situation in Jiangnan had deteriorated to the bottom of the uncontrollable situation, Fang La was the first to jump out, and then responded with a hundred calls, stirring up half of the Great Song Dynasty. In October of the second year of Xuanhe, Fang La led the people to revolt, proclaimed himself the Holy Father, built the Yuan Yongle, set up officials and generals, distinguished the ranks by turbans, and divided them into six grades from the red scarf upwards.

In less than ten days, tens of thousands of people joined the rebel army, defeated and killed the Song general Cai Zun at Xikeng. In November, Qingxi was captured, and in December, Mu and She were captured. conquered Quzhou in the south and killed Peng Rufang, the county guard; The north swept through Xincheng, Tonglu, and Fuyang counties, and forced Hangzhou. The county guard of Hangzhou abandoned the city and fled, and the rebels occupied Hangzhou, killing Chen Jian, the envoy, and Zhao Yue, the envoy of Lian.

Whenever the rebels seized the officials of the Song Dynasty, they would cut off their flesh, cut off their bodies, take their lungs and intestines, or boil them into anointing oil, pierce them with arrows, torture them in various ways, and repay their blood debts, so as to relieve the hatred in their hearts.

Although there are so many conscientious officials in the Song Dynasty, as the saying goes, "Kill them all, there must be wronged, and if you kill one by one, there must be someone who slips through the net."

The people, and only the people, are the promoters of history. Water can carry a boat, but it can also capsize a boat. The people's heart is the heart of heaven...... Well, if the hundreds of thousands of Western troops led by Gonggong Tong hadn't just been ready to go out in Bianliang, it would have been like that.