Chapter 278: The Clash of National Fortunes (1)

In the first battle of Taizhou, Yue Fei achieved his strategic goal and successfully covered hundreds of thousands of people to cross the river and prevent them from being captured by the Jin soldiers and taken to the north.

However, Yue Fei was indeed forced to withdraw from his defense area by Jin Bing. Therefore, as soon as Yue Fei crossed the river, he played "Treat the Crime" to the Jianyan court.

In the early Southern Song Dynasty, when "fleeing without a fight" was the mainstream, Yue Fei's behavior was already very commendable, so the imperial court also understood his situation and did not punish him, but only ordered him to "take food" in the Jiangyin army, defend the river bank, and "not leak" the Jin army

Wan Yanchang spent a lot of effort, but he couldn't get anything, just occupied a few empty cities.

Just when Yan Chang was annoyed and angry, he suddenly received a golden order from the gold lord Wu begging to send the army to the northwest battlefield as soon as possible and fight a decisive battle with the Song army on the Shaanxi Road.

Military orders are like a mountain, and there is no time to delay.

Wan Yanchang had to leave 10,000 Jin soldiers to stay on the north bank of the Yangtze River to continue to clear the Song army, and the rest of the Jin soldiers set up camp on the same day and hurried to Shaanxi Road

Emperor Gaozong has been in power for four years. During these four years, Gaozong was chased everywhere by the Jin soldiers, like a lost dog, and was chased around by the Jin soldiers.

From Nanjing Yingtianfu to Yangzhou, then from Yangzhou to Hangzhou, then from Hangzhou to Mingzhou, and finally chased out of the vast sea.

This kind of life of wandering and hiding everywhere, Emperor Gaozong was really tired of it.

At this time, a master appeared and told Emperor Gaozong that the reason why Emperor Gaozong was chased by Jin Bing was because the name of the country was wrong, and the name "Jianyan" was very unlucky.

Gojong asked why.

The master replied, "The one who built the flame." It's to light a fire in your ass. I can't leave. ”

Gaozong hurriedly asked for a solution.

The master replied: "It is enough to change 'Jianyan' to 'Shaoxing'; ”

That's it. A.D. 1131 became the first year of Shaoxing, not the fifth year of Jianyan

The study of Kanyu is really wonderful, Emperor Gaozong has just changed the name of the era, and immediately ushered in a very important victory.

In March of the first year of Shaoxing, more than 6,000 elite soldiers attacked Zhang Rongshui's division who retreated to the lake in Shrink Head by boat. At this time, the identity of Zhang Rong's troops was only a civilian rebel army, and he had no half-dime relationship with the Southern Song Dynasty.

Zhang Rong's sailor army was born in the famous Shuibo Liangshan in Shandong. When it comes to operations on the water. Its water nature is high and strong, and its playing style is flexible, which is unmatched by the golden soldiers.

As a result, Jin Bing's ship was lured into a quagmire in shallow water, unable to advance or retreat. In the end, only a small number of Jin soldiers escaped from the lake; Most of the Jin soldiers trapped in the lake, Zhang Rong's rebels spent two or three days capturing and killing them all.

In this battle, the Jin general Wan Yan Teli was killed, and Wan Yan Chang's son-in-law, the commander of ten thousand horses, Puchahu Balu, was captured; Of the more than 6,000 Jin soldiers, less than 2,000 were able to escape.

Zhang Rong took advantage of the victory and regained several state capitals, including Taizhou; And the rest of the golden soldiers fled in disarray. It was only to the north of the Huai River that it stopped.

That's it. Most of the prefectures and counties on Huaidong Road returned to the control of the Song Dynasty. And the invasion of Wanyan Wushu in the fourth year of Jianyan also failed.

After Zhang won the victory, Liu Guangshi urgently crossed the river and soon recruited Zhang Rong's rebel army.

From then on, Zhang Rong was under the command of Liu Guangshi, and was appointed as the commander of the loyal and brave army, and the governor of Taizhou, and his subordinates 4,0029 meritorious soldiers also entered the palace to be rewarded. After shrinking the head of the lake, it was also renamed Desheng Lake.

Liu Guangshi's series of actions made Emperor Gaozong and other ministers stunned and dazzled

If you look back from the Jiangnan region and look at the map of the north, it is easy to find that the situation in Dajin is a little different from that of a few years ago.

The first is the northwest direction.

The Liao State was destroyed, and Yelu Dashi, the last marshal of the Liao State, led his troops to the northwest and arrived at Kedun City, that is, in the upper reaches of the Tula River, the former northwest road of the Liao State was stationed.

The Jin army destroyed almost all the military towns in the Liao State, but this part was always ignored because it was too remote and irrelevant to the overall situation. History has proved that the Jurchens were wrong, irretrievably wrong.

Yelu Dashi led more than 200 cavalry to arrive here, convened a meeting of the governors of the seven prefectures and the leaders of the eighteen tribes, and under his inspiration, the Liao State was re-established, known as the Western Liao in history.

The surrounding area of Kedun City is lush with water and grass, and livestock is abundant, and it is thousands of miles away from the Jin Kingdom. It only took a few years for the Western Liao's forces to regather to tens of thousands.

In 1129 A.D., that is, in the third year of Jianyan, Yale Dashi sent troops to raid the northern camp of the Jin Kingdom, and actually succeeded in the first battle and recaptured two camps.

In the fourth year of Jianyan, the Jin State decided to send heavy troops to cut down the grass and eradicate the roots and exterminate the remaining Khitan veins. However, Wanyan Wu Qimai suddenly found that there were no soldiers available in the court, and most of the Jin soldiers were in the territory of the Great Song Dynasty.

In desperation, the Jin State's conquest of the Liao State was over.

Jerodashi was given a more relaxed environment. Soon after, he embarked on a magnificent expedition to the west, starting from the city of Kedun, to conquer an infinitely distant territory almost as vast as the territory of the former Liao State.

With the gradual recovery of Western Liao, the pressure on the Jin State is also increasing

In the north of the Dajin Kingdom, there is an endless desert and grassland.

The tribes that lived above were more fierce and unruly than the Jurchens, and often gave the Jurchens hardships. Fortunately, these steppe tribes are not united, and they are still fighting each other. This gave the Jurchens a chance to rule this place.

Therefore, the Jin State must set up heavy defenses in the north, and also send troops to the desert every year to help these tribes on the grassland "reduce the number of Ding", so as not to increase the number of them and increase the incident.

To the west of the Dajin Kingdom was the Western Xia, where there was no distinction between friend or foe.

These hateful party members have the same temperament as the hyenas of the steppe, and if you ignore them, they will come out and bite you; Send troops to fight, and it will shrink back and defend it to the death. It's a headache.

And in the southwest of the Daejin Kingdom. That is, the Shaanxi Road and Shuzhong area of the Song Dynasty.

Over there. The Song Dynasty quietly organized a powerful armed force to prepare for a counteroffensive against the Jin soldiers.

In short, the situation of invincibility and expansion of territory everywhere when the Jin State rose more than ten years ago has stagnated, and various undercurrents at home and abroad have begun to stir.

It can be said that today's Dajin country is in a turning point in its national fortunes. If handled properly, the Kingdom of Gold will continue to rise; If not handled properly, the Kingdom of Jin may begin to sink.

Under these circumstances, the monarch of the Jin Kingdom, Wanyan Wu Qimai, decided to concentrate the country's forces in the Shaanxi region and fight a decisive battle with the army of the Song Dynasty.

If victorious, the Jin soldiers will take advantage of the victory to pursue, completely annihilate the Southern Song Dynasty, and continue the upward momentum of the Jin State.

What if it fails? The consequences are too serious and a little unimaginable!

It's just that for the war with the Song Dynasty. Do you need to think about failure?

The Qinchuan region of the Song Dynasty was also called Hedong (east of the Yellow River) and Guanlong in ancient times. Here for the Southern Song Dynasty. It has multiple meanings.

First, the people here are strong and brave to fight, and it is the best place to recruit soldiers.

Some of the indigenous castes in these areas, such as the Zhejia, the Chongjia, the Yang family, the Liu family, and so on, from the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period to the Northern Song Dynasty, are all known for their generational generals.

Therefore, although the Song Dynasty had moved south, if it wanted to build a strong army that could resist the Jin army, it was necessary to preserve this best source of troops as much as possible.

Second, this area was a very important money and grain base for the Song court.

Shu was the last safe haven for the Han Chinese. Whether in ancient or modern times, every time the Han people faced a catastrophe, the hinterland of Sichuan, the hinterland, would have a role. It can not only take refuge, but also provide money for repatriation.

Third, this area is the upper reaches of the Yangtze River. Once this place is lost, the Jin soldiers can take a boat down the Yangtze River, and the Jiangnan region in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River is bound to be difficult to resist and defend.

It is no exaggeration to say that the successive major battles that are about to take place in the Sichuan-Shaanxi region are actually a major collision of the national fortunes of the Jin and Song dynasties

In this big drama of national fortune confrontation, the Privy Council and Qin Chuan Xuanfu made Lord Zhang Jun the protagonist in the first half, because he single-handedly led the process of the early stage of the war.

In the third year of Jianyan, when the imperial court had just quelled the rebellion of Liu and Miao, Zhang Jun, one of the heroes of the counterinsurgency, proposed to Emperor Gaozong that the land of Qinchuan was the foundation of the imperial court and needed to be planned in advance.

Zhang Jun was able to predict the military trend of the Jin and Song dynasties at this moment and put forward correct opinions to Emperor Gaozong in advance, which is indeed commendable and unique.

In this way, Zhang Jun did not bring a single soldier, nor did he apply to the imperial court for money and food, but only took a few accompanying subordinates and rode into the northwest, starting a magnificent and bizarre experience.

It's not that Zhang Jun didn't want to apply, but with the embarrassment of the Jianyan court at that time, it was useless to apply.

Of course, Zhang Jun didn't bring nothing, he brought five big characters inscribed by Emperor Gaozong to his imperial pen: "Xu cheap act".

These five words are said in the vernacular, which means "do whatever you want, and make your own decisions." ”

In fact, the five big characters given by the emperor are even better than Shang Fang's sword

The so-called preparation for war, to put it bluntly, is just two words: "money and soldiers".

As for "money", Zhang Jun used a very simple method to solve the problem: "issuing public bonds".

As soon as Zhang Jun took office, he immediately appointed a Sichuan man named Zhao Kai to return to his hometown, and forced the Sichuan people to buy a large amount of treasury bonds, almost all the cash in the hands of the Sichuan people.

It is uncertain whether Zhang Jun is the inventor of "government bonds". But nearly a thousand years ago, Zhang Jun actually had such a flexible modern financial mind, which is amazing.

With this money, Zhang Jun hoarded a huge amount of military supplies, including food.

Then, with these materials, Zhang Jun began to reorganize the army in the northwest...... (To be continued......)

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