This month, Zhang Qing sailed north to Liaodong by sea ship and attacked the city of Suzhou on the Liaodong Peninsula. And Taihang righteous Wang Zhongzhi also captured 11 prefectures and counties such as Shizhou on the North Road of Hedong, and Zhao Gou sent a decree to appoint Wang Zhongzhi as the observer of Huazhou, commanding the soldiers and horses of the loyal and righteous societies in the north.

And the Southern Song Dynasty military, Yue Fei, Han Shizhong and other hawkish figures could no longer hold back, and wrote letters demanding that they immediately advance to the north! Han Shizhong's attitude was the strongest, and he reiterated again: I want to go to the most focused place of the war to garrison the army!

At the same time, the northern part of the Jin Kingdom was also under military pressure from the Mongol side. In this month, the Jurchen Wanhu Hushahu went north to Mongolia, but returned without food, but was pursued by the Mongol army all the way to the northwest of Shangjing Prefecture, and was defeated by the Mongol army at Hailing.

Only then did Yan Zongbi's henchman Han Chang sigh to his colleague Gong Yin. At that time, Gong Yin said that the golden soldiers were strong and the southern soldiers were weak, and Han Chang sighed, "You know the past, but you don't know the present." Today's Southern Army, its courage is our army in the past; Our army, its cowardice is the southern army of the past. Fortunately, the south is unknown."

In the 10th year of Shaoxing (1140), Chinese history finally came to this critical year. This is the most turbulent, the most brilliant turbulent, the most magnificent and fierce, the most regrettable doping, the most humiliating and difficult war in the history of the two Song Dynasty in 319, and it will be glorious for future generations! It has a special significance in Chinese history!

In early January, Wanyan Zongbi, the marshal of the Dajin capital, was appointed as the director of the provincial affairs of Xingtai Shangshu, and all the military affairs of Zhuzhou and County were decided by Wanyan Zongbi alone. As for the matter of civil litigation in Qian Valley, Wanyan Zongbi also has the right to participate in the management. At the same time, Jin Xizong Wanyan sent his 18-year-old cousin Wanyan Liang (the future King of Jinhailing), the second son of Taishi Wanyan Zonggan, to Wanyan Zongbi's army to prepare for the upcoming southern invasion for the march of ten thousand households.

At this time, a former Northern Song Dynasty official named Zhang Hui, who lived in seclusion in the north, crossed the Yellow River at night, rushed to Lin'an, and built the Southern Song Dynasty "Wang Shi crossed the river first, and the opportunity to win or lose." "At this time, the goal should not be limited to the Kaifeng area of Henan, but to cross the Yellow River in the north, take the opportunity to recover Hebei, and occupy Yanyun!"

For a while, the government and the opposition were excited, but Zhao Gou was helpless again, where is this? I haven't figured out anything, comrades, what are you fooling around? First of all, the source, such as this Zhang Hui, is he reliable? He was an official of the Northern Song Dynasty. Why did the Southern Song Dynasty not see him return to China for so many years? What was he doing in the meantime? How do you live? If you are brave and loyal, why don't you cross the river and return to participate in national building during the most dangerous and needed time? At this time, seeing that Song Jin had peace in his eyes, he jumped out to incite and advocate war, is this really good for the Song Dynasty?

Comrades, you must be sober-minded and consider the problem, and do not be beguiled by others. Let's go back to the macro perspective, has Jin's policy towards the Song Dynasty changed at this time? Not yet! Therefore, it is wrong and inopportune for the Song Dynasty to provoke a war at this time!

Therefore, Zhao Gou's decision to deal with this matter is: they will change theirs. The Chinese tradition is to respond to all changes with the same! With a heart of peace, we await the friendliness of the Golden Country. Even if the other party was barbaric and was atavulating his ancestors, he would never waver. I believe that the Jurchens will always wake up one day! Then. Peace will come eventually!

In order to implement this concept, on the 9th, the Southern Song Dynasty once again sent General Mo and Han Shu as the chief and deputy envoys to fulfill the remaining terms of the peace contract. Such as welcoming the return of Zhao Gou's dead father and living mother...

In the north, Wanyan Zongbi was a little crying and laughing. He really couldn't understand: was Zhao Gou's brain too happy, or was his own iron-blooded essence not concentrated enough? It's actually this moment. He has killed his own people to the point of bleeding, but Zhao Gou is still engaged in some peace talks! Well, continue to detain the envoys of the Southern Song Dynasty! Let's see if there are many envoys in the Southern Song Dynasty, or if there are many prison cells in the Jin Kingdom!

At this point, Zhao Gou finally despaired, he finally realized: the peace negotiation is not a head for the time being, and he will once again face the threat of the Jurchen cavalry!

The year 1140, which is of special significance in Chinese history, began with the death of a famous minister. Li Gang, the first minister of the friendship between the two Song Dynasty who has the hope of the world, is finally dead...

He died on January 15 of that year. I didn't get to witness the changes in the year. What he hoped for, hated, pursued, and predicted all happened one by one, such as the defeat of the Jin State and the invasion of the south...

Flipping through the annals of history, every time I come to this page, the name of another person will always appear in my mind, Wu Zixu of Wu in the late Spring and Autumn Period. Wu Zixu said before he was forced to commit suicide by Wu Wangfu: gouge out his eyes and hang them on the city gate, he wants to see the soldiers of the Yue Kingdom capture the capital of Wu with his own eyes! Ten years later, his prophecy came true. He was so strong in his efforts to kill Gou Jian and destroy the Yue Kingdom...

I don't know what happened to Li Gang before he died. Looking back on his life, among the countless high-ranking officials of the Song Dynasty, he was just a flash in the pan, a hurried passerby, and only 77 days as the first prime minister of the Southern Song Dynasty. But his position in history and in the hearts of the Chinese is incomparable! He led the first Battle of Tokyo, he supported the Jianyan Group established by Zhao Gouchu, and he judged state affairs countless times, and he was sure to be true in every word, but no one listened to him!

Sad, Li Gang! He confirmed an iron law in officialdom - "The important thing is not what kind of talent you have, but whether you can be used by the leadership" Who made the emperor of the Han nation at this time called Zhao Gou...

On February 6, Zhao Gou finally ordered to send troops across the river to garrison, but the troops sent were incomprehensible...

From the geographical point of view, the closest to Kaifeng is undoubtedly Yue Fei, who is stationed in Ezhou in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River. But Yue Fei stayed quietly in place from beginning to end, never moving, even if the envoy sent by the Southern Song Dynasty to Kaifeng to visit the ancestral tomb passed by his jurisdiction, he applied to lead troops to escort him, and he was also ordered to be quiet! At the beginning of the extremely turbulent 1140s, Yue Fei was pressed to death in Ezhou, without any freedom!

Yue Fei is like this, and so is Han Shizhong! It can be said that the entire Southern Song Dynasty frontier position was silent, and the general sent out was named Liu Qi, and the army led by him was the Bazi Army...

Liu Qi, the director of the Guards Ma Jun Division, was appointed as the deputy guard of Kaifeng and led the eight-character army deep into Henan! I really don't understand what Zhao Gou and Qin Hui are trying to do! And beware: the total number of troops is only 18 thousand! With the vast size of Henan, 18,000 people are just a handful of pepper noodles, sprinkled into such a big pot of soup, you can't see anything...

On the 22nd, Meng Yu, who stayed in Xijing, was reappointed as the prefect of Tokyo and Kaifeng. And Li used Ren Xijing to act as the prefect of Luoyang.

On March 11, Zhang Tao, the new pacification envoy of Chengdu Fulu, arrived in Chengdu, and as soon as he arrived in Chengdu, he met with Hu Shijiang to discuss the response after the Jin people were about to betray the alliance. The two agreed that the monk was in a dangerous terrain. It is the only way to enter Sichuan from Shaanxi, Wu Jue once defended the monk original, and now the elite of the Wu family army should be transferred to the monk plain.

On the 16th, Han Shizhong and Zhang Jun came to the DPRK. Zhao Goute aimed to give a banquet in the palace.

On the 22nd, Zhao Gou issued an order that "once there is a police in the land of Sichuan and Shaanxi, it will dispatch military horses and take money and grain, and if it is not reported in time, it can be entrusted to Hu Shi to deal with it cheaply" On the 24th, Guo Hao was transferred to the Yongxing Army and the prefect of Jingzhao.

In April, the 68-year-old Jurchen invincible warrior Nichukh died. With the death of a number of heroes such as Wanyan Zonghan, Wanyan Zongwang, Wanyan Lou Room, and Nichuhe. Under the 'wise' leadership of the fourth prince Jin Wushu, Crying Langjun Wanyan Sali and others, Jin Bing's combat effectiveness can only be described in three words: weak explosion! This was the best opportunity for the Southern Song Dynasty court to rise up with countless famous generals such as Yue Fei, Han Shizhong, Liu Qi, Wu Lan, Li Xianzhong, etc., but unfortunately...

However, the fourth prince should not think like this, he feels that he is the god of war of Dajin, and Liu Guangshi's former love general Li Qiong's shameless compliments make him full of confidence, so let the cruel war process wake him up...

On May 3, the Jin State was officially defeated. Jin Xizong tore up the first Shaoxing peace conference and brazenly sent a large army to regain the land of Henan and Shaanxi! After the army assembled in the Marshal Mansion of Wanyan Zongbi in Qizhou on the West Road of Hebei, it divided its troops into four routes to invade the south: Xiao Jin and Nie Li went out of Shandong. Li Cheng committed Henan, Wanyan Sali drank from the river to Shaanxi, Marshal Wanyan Zongbi and Kong Yanzhou, Li Qiong, Zhao Rong and others led more than 100,000 main elite soldiers, from Liyang to attack Kaifeng... Both violent and unexpected. Seek truth from facts: Not to mention the civilian officials in the rear, even Yue Fei, Han Shizhong, Zhang Jun, etc. on the front line did not predict this. Nomads always launch an offensive in late autumn or severe winter, when summer is about to begin, and the first thing to do is to challenge whether they will suffer from heat stroke...

13th. Wanyan Zongbi's army came to Kaifeng City, and Meng Yu was left behind in Tokyo to surrender in Kaicheng, and opened the curtain of the Southern Song Dynasty officials' surrender.

After Yan Sali drank in the west of the river mansion to cross the Yellow River. Entering Tongzhou, it went straight to Chang'an City, the capital of the Yongxing Military Road on the south bank of Weishui, 250 miles to the southwest, and many states and counties on the Yongxing Military Road looked down on the wind along the way. Guo Hao, the envoy of the Yongxing Army, was in Yan'an on the Yanyan Road at that time, and Hao Yuan, the acting governor of the capital, opened the gate of Chang'an and surrendered. On the 14th, Wanyan Bao's army came to the city of Guidefu, and Lu Yundi, who stayed behind in Nanjing, surrendered. On the 15th, Hu Shijiang, the deputy envoy of Sichuan Xuanfu in Hechi, received an urgent report from Zhang Sui, the governor of Tongzhou. Knowing that Chang'an had been breached, only Fu Zhongxin and Lu Shimin, who were under the jurisdiction of this road, did not obey, and escaped from the pass, and Wu Qi was defending Shaanzhou. At the same time, Hao Yuan sent someone to send a letter of persuasion from the Jin State, and Hu Shijiang was furious and beheaded the burning of the book. On the 16th, Li Cheng broke through Luoyang City. Li Yong, the acting Xijing guard, and Sun Hui, the deputy governor, all abandoned the city and fled. Only Li Xing, the commander of the Henan Prefecture, led more than 10,000 loyal militiamen he personally recruited to fight to the death with the enemy, and finally fell seriously injured outside the Dingding Gate, woke up again in the middle of the night, and fled to other places again to accumulate strength to fight back...

Regarding the above scene, Song Gaozong Zhao Gou sighed in disappointment and said so

- "Yidi's people, those who don't know faith, and those who don't blame" This is an evaluation of the Jin State's defeated alliance, characterized as ignorant, impolite, and an uncivilized species, like a mental illness, no matter what they do, they will be exempted from responsibility.

- "Scholars can't keep festivals, as for worship, the customs are like this, it's extremely worrying" This is the evaluation of all the left-behind adults, and the scholars are really disappointing on the Immortal Day! It's really worrying that they don't even abide by the basic agreement between the monarch and the minister!

It's gone... Zhao Gou harshly criticized the surrender of others, bypassed his own surrender, and ignored a series of previous missteps. What the? Is this outrageous? No! It's a very clever strategy! In the face of foreign aggression, it is very necessary to maintain the glorious image of the leader!

Now, the Southern Song Dynasty must respond quickly! After analysis, the battlefield is divided into three places: east, west, and center. The western battlefield was faced by General Hu Shi, and Yan Sa left the drink; Han Shizhong's troops in the east took the initiative to attack the area around Jingdong Road. The middle lane battlefield is the most precipitous, facing more than 100,000 heavy soldiers from Wanyan Zongbi, and the two generals Yue Fei and Zhang Jun must work together to meet it! But let's be honest: this is very difficult, the defense area of the two generals is wide, and the more troops and generals are larger, the more difficult it is to assemble. After Yan Zongbi's sudden attack, the Southern Song Dynasty also turned their backs on their horses...

At this time, it is estimated that no one in the Southern Song Dynasty court will pay attention to the fact that a force of 18,000 people has entered the enemy-occupied area of Henan!

Liu Qi, the deputy left-behind guard in Tokyo, led the eight-character army from Lin'an, loaded 900 ships, crossed the Yangtze River by water, and marched to Kaifeng. By the time the Jin army had spread throughout northern China, he had entered the Huai River valley, near the city of Shunchangfu in Yingzhou on the Jingbei Road. It "takes the long Huai, the east is connected with the three Wu, the south leads to Jingru, its water is curved, its land is flat and Shu, the Liang Song Dynasty Wu Chu Chong, the road of Qilu Bianluo, the Huainan inner screen, the southeast pivotal jurisdiction" looks very dangerous, but the actual situation is that the city is small, the wall is short, no ordnance, no manpower, it was a small city back then, and it was more dilapidated after more than ten years of fire!

The multiple-choice question in front of Liu Qi is: Is he entering? Or not?

It is rational not to advance, because with the 18,000 eight-character army, compared with the more than 100,000 heavy soldiers of Wanyan Zongbi, the disparity is too great, which is tantamount to using a mantis arm as a car. The courage of fighting for a moment of blood and courage to lose all the already small army of the Southern Song Dynasty, especially the annihilation of the whole army at the beginning of the war, this is an irreparable blow to morale! Does Liu Qi dare to say that he will win?

This is a reason, and it can be considered on another level: What is sanity? Is it the big picture? There is no big picture where the local part comes from. In the face of aggression, it is necessary to ensure that no one distinguishes between young and old, whether the land is north or south, and every inch of mountains and rivers is bloody, just as every Chinese soldier was determined to die in battle at any time, just as he did when faced with the Japanese imperialist invasion of China a few hundred years later, so that he can withstand the Japanese offensive and protect China's last territory!

The overall situation is considered by the leader, and the part is the duty of the soldier! History will only record the victory or defeat in the decisive battle, but every previous competition is the cornerstone of the decisive victory!

Liu Qi chose to enter Shunchang and defeated the Jin army in the Battle of Shunchang! The date is May 17, 1140. After entering the city, Liu Qi and his eight-character army really felt the two heavens of ice and fire. (To be continued......)