And the Jin army on the other side was overjoyed, they didn't know what was going on, but it didn't prevent them from taking advantage of the fire to rob...

More than 100,000 Jin troops are approaching the city wall and want to put the Song army to death! At this time, the special ability of the Song army came in handy, the Han people were all animals living within the city walls, and the armies of each dynasty were very proficient in defending and attacking the city, especially the Song army, and their kung fu of climbing the wall absolutely made the Liao, Jin, Xia and even later Mongol armies out of reach...

The Jin army only had time to release arrows and shoot some Song soldiers who were climbing the wall, and watched the Song army collectively climb the Suzhou city wall. And then when they start to climb up, the situation becomes dangerous...

A generation of celebrities is furious! The battle has come to this point, this is simply a shame for his life! After entering the city, he immediately began to defend, and at this time his troops were less than before, but with this city wall, it was enough to smooth out the disadvantage just now!

He still rushed to the front line, holding a broadsword in his hand, and continuously cut off the siege ladders of the Jin army. What his troops need most at this time is inspiration! He will set an example, and the more courageous the generals, the calmer they will be!

As he expected, the Western Route Army gradually recovered, and that night they repelled the Jin army's tidal attack, and when the battle was over, the corpses of the Jin army under the city wall were piled up almost equal to the city wall in some sections...

Late at night, the Jin army temporarily retreated, and Li Xianzhong finally saw Shao Hongyuan! It's a classic scene! The blood-stained and exhausted men stood up straight and demanded a decisive battle with the enemy. The armor is bright, and the fan is shaken for a whole day to cool off, but the one who has nothing to do withered and doesn't agree to anything!

Okay, so can you help defend the city together?

Still won't work! The scum in the army Zhen Zhen said, "Jin Tiansheng has 200,000 soldiers, if our army does not return, I am afraid that something will happen" This person will definitely escape, and he will escape with confidence! 200,000 Jin Guo's new force, even if the emperor is in front of him, this reason is just!

Li Xianzhong was furious. Is there anything uglier than this? He could no longer control it, and said the following words like venting: "If the armies are in harmony with each other and cover from outside the city, the enemy soldiers can be exhausted, the golden commander can be captured, and the land of Henan can be restored in the near future" This is his grievance and the controversial point of this Longxing Northern Expedition. Just outside the city of Suzhou, the Henan army that annihilated the Jin army, is this an impossible task? When the war is fought, everyone knows that a generation of famous generals will definitely be able to do it! As long as there are a little more troops, it will be done!

And the entire Eastern Route Army has been sitting idly by. This is no longer dereliction of duty, but treason! As a senior military officer, Shao Hongyuan wouldn't have been unaware, but he just did it! Oh yes! His son did it before him!

In the face of such a father and son, what can Li Xianzhong do? Can he enforce battlefield discipline? Kill this pickled prankster immediately and take the military power of the Eastern Route Army for yourself? This kind of thing has never happened in the entire history of the Song Dynasty!

Li Xianzhong could only look up to the sky and sigh: "The sky is not peaceful, the Central Plains? He obstructed this" All he can do is to let reason return quickly, and take advantage of the gap between the battlefields to immediately lead the army to retreat!

The Jin army outside Suzhou reached 100,000, and the Song army in the city was at least forty or fifty thousand.

23rd. Li Xianzhong fought fiercely again in Suzhou City for a day! Behead more than 2,000 Jin troops, and then immediately arrange a night escape! Suzhou was immediately recovered by Fushi Lie Zhining!

The retreat direction of the Northern Expeditionary Army was Fuli, where there were a large number of supplies and baggage. First, it must be taken away, and second, it can be resisted a little by virtue of it. This was theoretically the best option at the time, but it was only when it was realized that it was a bigger mistake when it was executed!

The Western Route Army was tired and weak after a long battle; The Eastern Route Army was all soft and collapsed. If such an army wants to get out of danger, it can only survive if it runs away at full speed without stopping for a moment! As for baggage and defense, will Fu Li be more advantageous than Suzhou?

24th. The Jin army and the Northern Expeditionary Army rushed to Fuli after their feet. In a hurry, a generation of famous generals only had time to organize some weak defensive lines, and the Jin army took advantage of the situation to surround it on all sides. Surround the charm and leave it to the water!

It only lasted one day, and when night came, the limit of the Northern Expeditionary Army arrived! In fact, as early as the Battle of Suzhou, the limit of the Northern Expeditionary Army had already arrived, and it was able to support it until this time entirely because of the personal charisma of a generation of famous generals Li Xianzhong! And when it came to Fuli, in a desperate situation, Shao Hongyuan's Eastern Route Army not only failed to survive from death, but burst out of resistance before death, but once again shook the position of Li Xianzhong's Western Route Army! The gang continues to run away first!

In the dark, the whole army of the Northern Expeditionary Army was scattered, the generals threw down their troops and escaped alone, the soldiers lost their armor and abandoned their armor, how convenient and how to escape, one by one, "fighting with empty fists, waving their bare arms, scattering and escaping, ravaging the starvation and the dead are incalculable" After dawn, the battlefield was a mess!

The Northern Expeditionary Army was all gone, and 130,000 people, including the accompanying soldiers and civilians, were swept away by the Jin Army and lost everything! The large number of weapons and materials stored by Fuli include 12,000 horses of silk, more than 60,000 stone grains, 170,000 cloth bags, 50,000 cash, tens of thousands of taels of gold and silver, and 30,000 pairs of military clothes and armor... All captured by the Jin Army! And the two main generals of the Northern Expeditionary Army, Li Xianzhong and Shao Hongyuan, escaped safely and were not captured by Jin Junsheng...

This is the end of the Longxing Northern Expedition! The Southern Song Dynasty lost all the qiē! This is different from the loss of the two Huaizhou on the Jin side, when the Jin army had a huge depth space to retreat, and there was a well-organized new army, and the Northern Expeditionary Army of the Southern Song Dynasty had lost everything so far, and there was no chance to turn over! Known as the "Collapse of Fuli"

At this time, only 7 days have passed since the victory in Suzhou! Such a huge turn, the parties can't predict it, and the people in the rear can't believe it!

The news reached Xuyi on the south bank of the Huai River, and Zhang Jun, who was supervising the battle on the front line, confirmed it as soon as possible: This is a rumor! He unswervingly refused to believe!

But that night, the remnants of the defeated army fled back, especially Li Xianzhong appeared in front of him and told him the battle in person... Zhang Jun is at a loss! People who have experienced the Fuping fiasco and the Huaixi military mutiny in their lives are psychologically enough to withstand any blow. But it's inevitable to be lost! In his later years, his last carefully planned Northern Expedition was such an iron-blooded and absurd failure?

Too surreal? It's ridiculous, isn't it? But the facts are in front of you! He had no choice but to appoint Liu Bao as the commander of all the armies in Zhenjiang and hold the Yangtze River defense line. After comforting the soldiers in Sizhou, he returned to Yangzhou, and then went to the self-impeachment and wrote a chapter to ask Lin'an for his guilt. This is a must, as the leader of the Longxing Northern Expedition, he must be responsible for the failure!

Zhang Jun clearly understood: at this time, the battlefield had shifted from the front to the rear! Those damned lords and factions will go to great lengths to wreak havoc and settle old grudges. Betraying the interests of the country to continue to live like maggots... Thinking of this, Zhang Jun couldn't help but muster up his fighting spirit, he really didn't want to stop there! Imagine that on the one hand, he resigned to take responsibility for the failure, but on the other hand, he lost the battle and left, leaving a mess for the emperor to clean up... How can a name be as loved as he is?

On May 25, the day after the defeat of Fu Li, there was no evidence to prove whether Song Xiaozong Zhao Yan knew the latest battle report from the front, and he issued an edict on this day!

27th. Song Xiaozong named Fucha Temo, Da Zhouren, and Xiao Qi, the three generals of the Jin Army who surrendered, as the envoys of the Datong Army, the Zhangguo Army, and the Weisai Army.

On June 4, Wang Dabao impeached Wang Che's supervisor Jing Xiang, who could not be restrained and sat back and watched the failure of the Northern Expedition. So Wang Che was dismissed from the governor's office.

As for Zhang Jun's question, the emperor's response was not to mention responsibility, but to refute the rumors. It was made clear that Zhang Jun was still solely responsible for the current border war, and the emperor and Zhang Jun advanced and retreated together, and they were always the same. Don't hesitate without fear of words. At the beginning of the day before yesterday. I and Qing let it, and today I must also end up with Qing" Zhang Jun is both ashamed and ashamed, so far he can only go forward desperately and promise the country!

Zhang Jun ordered Wei Sheng to guard Haizhou, Chen Min to guard Sizhou, Qi Fang to guard Haozhou, and Guo Zhen to guard Zhenzhou's Liuhe. Heavy troops were deployed in Gaoyou Army on Huainan East Road and Chaoxian County on Huainan West Road, and Chuzhou's natural danger Qingliu Pass had to be defended. The navy assembled in Huaiyin, and the cavalry assembled in Shouchun. All the defenses in Huainan are mobilized!

If that's how things go, that's not bad. Even if the battle is lost, the monarch and the minister can get through the difficulties together. But Zhang Jun looked down on the officials of the Lord and faction after Qin Hui's training, and these people had already surpassed the predecessors of the Northern Song Dynasty. Compare to them. Even Cai Jing's generation is outdated...

The wind of rumors in the history of the Song Dynasty has been since this time! The previous rumors have also made some classic episodes, such as the good and evil of Song Shenzong, Wang Anshi, Sima Guang, Empress Dowager Gao and others. But they all have a unified feature - rumors after the fact! Even if it is a big rebellion, even if it is confused. It's all behind the scenes, and it's all nonsense made up later...

But what is popular in the officialdom of the Southern Song Dynasty now is - rumors are now in progress! Spread rumors to your face! The results of Qin Hui's 20 years of careful transformation are huge! The officials of the Southern Song Dynasty would definitely use a single means when they wanted to achieve certain goals! History proves it: it is light to spread rumors in person, and it is not a problem to spread rumors about ministers at all, and when necessary, even the emperor is a small dish!

This time Zhang Jun won the lottery! The lords and factions in Lin'an City spread the news behind the scenes: after the collapse of Fuli, the two Huai were empty, and the Jin army commander drove straight in, and Zhang Jun was about to be captured alive. So Zhang Jun, who was afraid of death, shamelessly forged the holy decree, saying that he was willing to surrender to the Jin State and return to Shaoxing for peace...

Zhang Jun will be to death in more than 15 months! To be fair: Zhang Jun has countless shortcomings, but the hardness of this person's bones cannot be questioned! From this point of view, the fiasco of Fuping did hurt the bones of the Song Dynasty, and directly led the curtain call of the Western Army and the fall of Shaanxi, but Zhang Jun at least tried with all his might... The Huaixi military mutiny is indeed excessive, but the most condemning crime is only that Zhang Jun is too greedy, and his desire to seize military power is higher than the interests of the country, which is not in line with the soft bones of defecting to the enemy and betraying the country!

After Qin Hui's dictatorship, Zhang Jun was uncompromising, even if he degraded Lingnan for 20 years, he never changed his ambition slightly! This qiē proves that even if he is really captured alive by the Jin army, he will die like a martyr... There is no doubt about that!

The whole Southern Song Dynasty believed this, and Zhang Jun himself was even more proud of it, he was the backbone of the Southern Song Dynasty! How can such slanderous rumors be tolerated! Zhang Jun immediately questioned Lin'an in fierce words, and strongly demanded to resign...

It's impulsive and angry, but in officialdom, everyone knows it's a procedure. There are such rumors, he must take the initiative to resign, show his heart, and prove his character, and what the emperor has to do is to continue to support and retain him with greater strength, so that he will prove it for Zhang Jun. The emperor believes it, but who doesn't believe it? So the emperor said to Zhang Jun's son, Zhang Yan, "I treat the Duke of Wei well, although I beg to go to the chapter of the day, I will never allow it"

But after a few days, this qiē has changed!

On the 8th, the Lord and the faction quickly recovered, and Tang Sihui, the veteran prime minister of the Qin Hui period, (as soon as you hear this name, you will know the nature of this person: thinking about retreating... After two years of leisure, he was recalled to Lin'an, and subsequently, a large number of lords and factions returned to power! On the 9th, the emperor summoned Yu Yunwen and promoted Zhou Kui, the chief general of the main and faction of the main army and the squire of the military department, to participate in political affairs! On the 14th, Yin Sui immediately attached himself to Tang Siwei and wrote a letter to impeach Zhang Jun! The strange thing is: this time, the emperor actually approved!

Zhang Jun was dismissed from his post in the Governor's Office and demoted to Xuanfu Envoy. It still retains public office and has exclusive authority over the surrounding jurisdictions, but it has lost its previous unified command! (To be continued......)