Chapter 1: Dead Gold
After October, the weather gradually cooled down, and the plague that raged in Bianliang City for three months gradually began to subside, and the poor huge Bianliang City, after experiencing this plague, the population of nearly one million people in the city was less than four or five hundred thousand left, and the population decreased by more than half, and the city was already a bleak and lifeless. The last vitality of the Pen, Fun, and Pavilion www.biquge.info Jin Kingdom was also exhausted, and there was no longer any strength to confront the Song army.
Hundreds of thousands of gold soldiers who were originally gathered around Bianliang, after the plague began, fled to death, and then were hit by the fierce blows of the Zhao Mansion Department, hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses, at the end of October, only less than 10,000 people retreated into the city, trapped in Bianliang City.
Poor Wanyan Shouxu At this time, the remnants of the generals under his command were only left with Wuxian, and Tu Shan Wudian was hit by the Song army's artillery in the east of the city a month ago, and was seriously injured and retreated, and died on the way before he could withdraw to Bianliang, and there was also a Wanyan Chongxi who was repulsed by Zhou Jun's troops from the direction of Guide Mansion, and also fell seriously ill and died in the army. . .
Wanyan Shouxu was not infected with the plague, but at this time, he looked as if he had suddenly aged by more than ten years, in his thirties, his black hair had turned nearly half white, and he was sitting in the empty hall in a daze, and now even in his palace, most of the palace maids and eunuchs were sick and dead, and there were not many people left.
"Qi Shengshang, and the Song army drove all the way to the outside of the city, this time it was Gao Huaiyuan, the commander of the Song army, who had already ordered someone to shoot a letter into the city, asking us to open the city immediately and surrender, otherwise the Song army outside the city will start attacking the city tomorrow" A minister came from under the hall, and after kneeling tremblingly, he held a letterhead in his hand and said to Wanyan Shouxu. "What can I do if the heavens want to die? Surrender? I am determined that I will not surrender, and everyone will disperse, and whoever wants to surrender will surrender
Why? Why does Heaven treat me like this? I think that I have been diligent in government and love the people since Yan Shouxu ascended the throne, and I have never done anything that hurts heaven and reason, why do I want to die in the sky" After Yan Shouxu listened, he looked up to the sky and sighed, and suddenly beat his chest and cried, he remembered these words again.
The people in the hall were silent, and no one stepped forward to comfort Yan Shouxu...
But Bianliang City in the time specified by Gao Huaiyuan, still did not open the city to surrender, Gao Huaiyuan stood outside Bianliang City silently stared at this once glorious capital, and his heart was also full of emotion, Bianliang City used to be the capital of the Song Dynasty, but now it is the capital of the Jin State, and here for more than a hundred years, it has gone through war, and now the towering city wall a hundred years ago has long been mottled and dilapidated.
Thinking about the year of Jingkang, how majestic the Jin State was, tens of thousands of troops besieged the city, forced the Song people to open the city gates, kidnapped the second emperor of Huiqin, swept away countless women, and transported away an unknown amount of gold and silver, but what about today?
He finally led the Song army back here, about to wash away the shame of a hundred years ago for their Han people, and then look at the Jin country, which is now only a nominal country, cowering in this city, there is no possibility of returning to the light. He didn't know whether to admire the tenacity of the golden people in the city or to laugh at their stupidity, but he insisted until the end and refused to go out of the city to surrender, so what next?
"The army of the commander has all been prepared, just waiting to start the siege" Meng Hui still hung his left arm, but the other injuries had basically recovered, and the one with the armor came to Gao Huaiyuan, and reported loudly to Gao Huaiyuan.
Gao Huaiyuan glanced at the walls of Bianliang City again, took a deep breath, and shouted loudly: "The whole army is attacking"
On the third day of November in the fifth year of Shaoding, 90,000 Song troops gathered outside the city of Bianliang in Jinzhong, launched the last battle against the Jin State, conquered the city of Bianliang within three days, nearly half of the Jin army defending the city was killed, and the rest surrendered to the Song army, the emperor of the Jin State hanged himself in the palace, and dozens of ministers of the Jin State committed suicide by throwing themselves into the water, since then the Jin State has completely perished, and the old capital of the Song Dynasty has also returned to the hands of the Song people. . .
The news was transmitted back to the south of the Yangtze River, the whole country of the Song Dynasty was thunderous, countless people poured into the streets, ran to tell each other, suddenly all parts of the Song Dynasty were boiling, everywhere there were gongs and drums of celebration, some people bought firecrackers, set off firecrackers on the streets all night to celebrate, many people stayed awake all night, regardless of the cold, gathered on the street to drink and sing excitedly.
There are many people kneeling on the ground and kowtowing to the north, many of them are ancestors of the Central Plains, forced to move south when the Northern Song Dynasty perished, and now they are finally waiting for the time to recover the Central Plains, some old people can't help but kneel on the street and cry. There are many people gathered in the tavern, drinking heartily, whether they know each other or not, just get together to talk and laugh, and the whole Jiangnan is completely intoxicated with the joy of victory.
Almost everyone in the Southern Song Dynasty spent the most exciting New Year in a joyful atmosphere.
At this time, Gao Huaiyuan also braved the falling snow in the Central Plains and embarked on the road back to Beijing after dealing with the affairs of Bianliang City.
The Jin State has been destroyed, the Wokotai army was defeated and fled back to the Mongolian steppe, the Song army in Hebei led by Hua Yue before the weather cooled down, divided the troops and conquered more than a dozen prefectures and counties on the Hebei Road and Hedong Road one after another, and basically drove the Mongolian forces in these places out of this area, and at the same time, Yue Kun's Lizhou army cavalry also swept away some areas in the original Western Xia and drove away the Mongols there, making the entire area of the Song Dynasty greatly exceed the area of the original Northern Song Dynasty in its heyday, and the entire control of the hinterland of the Central Plains. . .
The Jin people in Hebei and Hedong, who originally defected to the Mongols, fled back to the Mongolian steppe like a mountain after seeing the defeat of the Wokotai army, and the Jin country had been completely wiped out by the Song army, so they also rebelled against the Mongols under the command of the Song army, killed the Mongolian officials who supervised them, and switched to the Song army, so that the Song army saved a lot of effort when recovering the area north of the Yellow River.
But now the Song army can only do this, with nearly a year of fighting, the armies have been exhausted to the extreme, and the loss of a considerable number of generals, the expansion of the occupied area, but also made the Song army have to divide the troops to station, so that the original abundant troops have become overstretched, more on these newly recovered states and counties There are still a lot of remnants of the Jin and Mongol remnants, and they are constantly making trouble, so they also contain a lot of troops of the Song army, and even more with the cold weather, In addition to some of the soldiers of the Jingdong Army can also adapt to the climate in the north, the soldiers of the Jiangnan army are very unsuitable for such a climate, due to the initial lack of preparation, so that for a time the south can not supply a large number of cold clothes to the northern front army, the officers and men in the army began to have frostbite, as a result, the Song army's northern expedition offensive, also had to stop, including a large number of sailors who had gathered in Banqiao Town, Mizhou, also stopped the northward operation, temporarily stationed in Mizhou for trainingใใใใใ
And for such a situation, Gao Huaiyuan has no better way, after all, this year's time, the Song army can reap such huge results, it has exceeded his initial battle plan a lot, and it can even be said that it is beyond his expectations, he first agreed with Hua Yue and other generals on the Northern Expedition, based on the first to contain the Mongol army to the south, and then preemptively destroy the Jin State, and finally turn around to deal with the Mongol army
As a result, with the development of the war situation, the war began to deviate from the original plan, so that he never calculated that with the change of the war situation, he actually used the battle of Xuzhou to consume the main force of the Mongol army, so that the war situation was reversed in an instant, and he successfully recovered a large area north of the Yellow River...
This has already exceeded the psychological expectations of Gao Huaiyuan and the generals, under such circumstances, not only may they not be able to achieve better results if they continue to fight, but they may spit out the fruits of the war that they have harvested again for many reasons.
And for the Song Dynasty in China, it is indeed necessary to digest such a big victory, return it to the rule of the Great Song Dynasty, and send officials to take over these places, all kinds of affairs are complicated and chaotic, which will take a certain amount of time.
Moreover, the consumption of the war was huge, and it far exceeded Gao Huaiyuan's preparations in previous years, so that all kinds of materials originally prepared were exhausted in the offensive of this year, and he had to take advantage of this time to collect war materials again.
Therefore, after capturing Bianliang City, Gao Huaiyuan recruited Huayue to Bianliang, renegotiated and determined a new plan, decided on a temporary truce plan, and suspended the pace of continuing to attack north.
Hua Yue temporarily stayed in Bianliang to sit in the town, serving as the envoy of Hebei Jiedu, responsible for monitoring the dynamics of the Mongolian army, and at the same time, he also had to take advantage of this winter to reorganize and replenish the soldiers of the various armies, and at the same time, he also took advantage of this winter to gradually reorganize and incorporate the Jinmeng troops who surrendered to the Song army into the Song army sequence, and strengthen their training, so that they could be put into new operations in the coming year.
These things gave Hua Yue quite a headache, but Gao Huaiyuan still threw these things to Hua Yue, letting him and Meng Hui, Yue Kun, Huang Yan, and Zhao Futang have a headache, and he himself finally got out of the war, left Bianliang City, and embarked on the road back to Lin'an.
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