Song Jin goes to war

At that time, the real power of the Wang family's Goryeo Kingdom had fallen into the hands of the powerful minister Choi Chung-shang. The Khitan army fought with its back to the water and repeatedly defeated the Goryeo army.

This year, the earthquake in Sichuan seems to indicate the fate of the future Sichuan land Jinge Iron Horse: on February 29, the east and west Sichuan earthquakes. On March 2, another earthquake struck. On the 11th, there was another earthquake. The landslide of Mahu Yijie is 80 miles, and the river is impassable. On the 14th, there was another earthquake. On the 19th, there was another earthquake. On June 9, the Nishikawa earthquake. On the 10th, there was another earthquake. On the 13th, there was another earthquake. Lizhou landslide. On October 14, the Nishikawa earthquake. On the 15th, there was another earthquake.

On January 5, the 10th year of Jiading (1217), Chen Bozhen, an envoy of the Southern Song Dynasty, sent an envoy to return to the Kingdom of Jin. Jin Xuanzong summoned the ministers and said, "I heard that there have been hungry people on both sides of the Huai River recently, but I don't know if it is the official act of the Southern Song Dynasty." At the beginning, Jin Xuanzong was still sober, "I can keep the ancestral foundation enough, and I can ask for peace from the outside"

On the 27th, the Mongol army attacked Guanzhou.

This month, Jin Xuan's sect leader Tumen Hutuk led 35,000 troops to the west. Shangshu Zuo Chengxu Ding hurriedly stopped on the front line, "the current plan should be to guard against the north-south attack of Mongolia and the Song Dynasty, and the westward expedition must not be stopped".

On February 15, Shangshu Province played: Due to military attrition, the reserves are not continued, and all students in the state capitals are requested to be abolished. Jin Xuanzong disagreed, "Since ancient times, both civil and military have been used, and the middle school has been besieged, so difficult." There are scholars in the city, and they have not been abolished, but today."

At such a time of chaos in the world, the Jin Kingdom, the Southern Song Dynasty, Mongolia... They all set their sights on the same nature of armed forces - the rebels!

At that time, except for the Southern Song Dynasty, which had been stable south of the Yangtze River, the people in the north were at a loss. The national border is changing at any time, the government will change people at any time, they run away with braids on their heads after shaving, and those wearing felt hats and leather robes are coming, which makes them precarious and frightened... If you want to survive, there is only one way: pick up a knife and gun and form an association to protect yourself!

The more difficult and difficult it is, the stronger the strength that grows up. Although they are folk, history proves that the grassroots are always the best! They grew rapidly and formed a terrifying force that made the Mongols, Jin, and Southern Song all rush to rush over... Please!

Feng Guan made a wish, won the favor, and let the rebels see the benefits, so that they could be used for it!

To be honest, the Jin and Song countries have lagged too far behind in this matter, and the Mongols have been operating it for several years. The Mongol god of war Mu Huali has only 15,000 descendants, and Genghis Khan is about to leave him to go west. What he needs to govern is all the Central Plains land south of Taihang Mountain, and reality forces him to unite a possible force to deal with the Jurchens who still have half of the country!

Of course, Mu Huali has natural advantages. The vast majority of the rebels were Han Chinese, and they had a century-old enmity with the Jin State. And the rise of the Mongols is a threat and an opportunity for the Han rebels!

So the Hebei Righteous Army swarmed, and the largest of them was Miao Daorun, who was known as the captain of the Hebei Righteous Army! But Miao Daorun was not tempted by the Mongol Mu Huali. After careful analysis, he felt that the salary of taking refuge in Jinguo was higher. So this rebel army helped to fight against Mongolia!

And in Miao Daorun's volunteer army, there is one person who must be highlighted: the famous Mongolian Han general, the first to recommend Shi and Zhang! The development of the Shi family is smooth sailing, and the Zhang family will have some twists and turns. Because they first took refuge in the Kingdom of Jin. That is, Miao Daorun!

Zhang Rou was born in 1190. Generations of farming. He is a horse and archer, a Shang Qi Festival, a ranger, and has been restless since he was a child... This is a very good character in troubled times! He and Shi Bingzhi have a common characteristic, that is, his son is stronger than Lao Tzu. Zhang Rou's son is more brilliant than Shi Bingzhi's son Shi Tianni. So much so that it left an eternal mark on the history books - Zhang Rou's son is named Zhang Hongfan!

In March, Jin Xuanzong allocated the Shandong Army, which had just completed the task of suppressing the uprising of the Red Jacket Army, to Miao Daorun, the commander of the Hebei Volunteer Army, who had been recruited, and ordered him to recover the central capital. The first step was to pacify Shi Hai, the rebel general of Zhending Mansion. Niu Huluzhen, Guo Wenzhen, Wu Xian and others were ordered to lead the elite of the department. and Miao Daorun's Dongping Army are fighting each other. In the end, Shi Hai and more than 200 of his subordinates were killed by Wu Xian. Ge Zhong, Zhao Lin, Zhang Li and other troops surrendered. Wu Xian was appointed as the acting prefect of Zhending.

In March, Jin Xuanzong reinstated Zhang Xingxin as a political counselor. At that time, the first minister, Shuhu Gao Qi, leaned towards the government and the opposition, and only Zhang Xingxin was the only one among the courtiers who could repeatedly cite the old system and denigrate it.

It is said that the Jin State was riddled with holes under the Mongol attack, and its vitality was completely lost, and now it abandoned the whole of Hebei and retreated to the south of the Yellow River. With the big river as the moat and the Tongguan as the fence, theoretically speaking, it is enough to support it for many years again? But this must be based on one premise - money!

Without money, how can the country support or even rejuvenate? So where does the money come from? How can we talk about defense spending, when most of the people have been killed, most of the land has been lost, and even food has become a problem? So the Jurchen people's brains spun rapidly and came up with a good idea - the New Year's coin of the Southern Song Dynasty!

Since the start of the Mengjin War, the Southern Song Dynasty has not given New Year's coins for many years! Together, that's a lot of numbers. The Jurchens looked at the accounts, and their eyes flashed with countless Venus - it was all money!

As a result, a super powerful logic was generated: the Mongols inflicted huge losses on the Jin State in the north, and the Jin State could be recovered from the Southern Song Dynasty! That is, the so-called 'lost in the north, gained in the south' in the name of waging war against the Southern Song Dynasty!

In the north and south of the Yangtze River, the Song and Jin countries went to the battlefield to prepare to cut people, and at the same time launched an unprecedentedly fierce debate in China: Is it right to go to war? Is it really right... The war is on, and the argument continues!

There are two voices in the country, like whether to move the capital before, the two sides are incompatible. One side proposed a truce, tried its best to smile at the Southern Song Dynasty, won favor, won trust, and won the two sides to join forces to resist Mongolia, which is the most important way to survive at the moment. The other side scoffed and replied with four words - daydreaming! The feud between the Song and Jin Dynasty was deeper than that of the Liaojin feud of the year, and the Liao State only collected a few catties of Dongzhu every year, plus eating and sleeping in vain, which was more than the Jin State exterminating the Northern Song Dynasty, capturing its clan, humiliating its emperor and concubine, and charging a huge amount of protection fees every year... How? It's a mortal enemy who never dies! Still thinking about joining forces? Be careful that Song Meng joins forces and kills the Jin Kingdom together!

What's more, far water does not quench thirst, the most important thing at the moment is money! can only plunder to the Southern Song Dynasty! It is also necessary to be quick, and only when the military strength is still there and the atmosphere of a great power is still dissipating can it be successful!

The quarrel was inconclusive, and the Emperor of the Jin State, Wan Yan Xun, did not say a word. It was the first minister who spoke, Shuhu Gao Qi!

This is the age of a powerful minister! Shuhu Gao Qi, a powerful minister in the north, said "go to war", and Shi Miyuan, a powerful minister in the south, said "should fight", so both countries devoted themselves to the war!

This war has been fought for almost 5 years! Standing on the big sky of history, you will find: Genghis Khan's expedition to the Western Regions, the unprecedented emptiness of Mongolia's military power in the Central Plains, at this extremely rare and important moment, Jin, Western Xia, Southern Song Dynasty... Not only did they not join forces to protect each other in order to survive. Instead, they fought each other further, scrambling to dig a pit for the Mongols, and then automatically jumped into it...

Does this give the impression that all races except the Mongols have gone mad? In this way, is there any other way to go besides perdition?

But put yourself in their shoes: it is true that Song Jin joins forces, and the chances of survival can be greatly increased, but is it possible for Song Jin to join forces? For example, from the standpoint of the Southern Song Dynasty, there is no way to blame any problems with the previous national policy! There was chaos in the north, and the barbarians killed each other. Then kill well, the harder you fight, the more you die, the better! If all the north of the Yangtze River were to die, the territory of the Great Song Dynasty would be naturally restored, wouldn't that be the most ideal? Do we want to regulate them and promote world peace? Or do you force your hand in, and when you are in chaos and you are quiet, choose an ally and throw yourself into the bloody turmoil?

Therefore, history cannot be rational and indifferent. It is written by people. If you are a human being, you have feelings, and you are constrained by the temptations of all sides! There is no way to be truly calm, rational, and completely from the perspective of interests. Even if they are wise themselves! Everyone in history is just up and down in the tide of history, avoiding big fish and hunting small fish in the waves of the sea, trying their best to survive. What can be relied on is not intelligence or courage at all, but fate, or luck!

Got it. Only then can we take a fair look at the history that happened later. On the contrary, it is inevitable that they will sneer with disdain while watching...

A person named Wang Shi'an offered the strategy of taking Xuyi and Chuzhou, and Jin Xuanzong was overjoyed. He was appointed as the Huainan Envoy. This month, Wugu Lun Qingshou and Wanyan Sabu led their troops to cross the Huai River and began to invade the south! In April, he attacked the town of Zhongdu in Gwangju, Huainan West Road, and Sheng Yunsheng, an official of the Southern Song Dynasty, was killed. Subsequently, Wugu on Qingshou divided his troops, attacked Fancheng in Xiangyang Mansion on Jingnan Road, and besieged the Zaoyang Army and the Guanghua Army. He also sent Yan Alin to attack Dasanguan and attack Xihe, Jie, Cheng, and Fengzhou on the West Road of Lizhou... In this way, the war started on the three fronts of Lianghuai, Jinghu, and Sichuan-Shaanxi at the same time!

The Southern Song Dynasty also reacted in a timely manner, and quickly issued an edict to Zhao Fang, the envoy of the Jinghu system, Li Jue, the envoy of the Jianghuai system, and Dong Juyi, the envoy of the Sichuan system, on the front, giving them the right to act cheaply.

A war has been fought for almost 5 years, and time alone speaks for itself! For so long, the long-distance running of love will be out of strength, not to mention the national conquest, and every day Jinshan and Haiti throw military spending...

The protracted fight has only been caused twice. Once at the beginning of the war, the Jin army suddenly attacked, the Southern Song Dynasty was caught off guard, and suffered a small loss on three fronts, and then counterattacked with all its might, and the battle situation burst into sparks!

One of the most dazzling flowers is surnamed Meng, called Meng Hui! Born in 1195, great-grandfather Meng An, grandfather Meng Lin were Yue Fei's generals, father Meng Zongzheng emerged during the Northern Expedition of Kaixi, to Meng Heng's generation has been in the army for four generations, is the Southern Song Dynasty's generals! When this war broke out, 23-year-old Meng Hui was guarding Xiangyang Mansion, the capital of Jingnan Road, with his father Meng Zongzheng!

Meng Heng had a plan, he expected in advance that the Jin army would attack Fancheng, a sub-city of Xiangyang, first, and his father would cross the Jihe River in advance to ambush. Sure enough, the Jin army attacked, and Meng Zongzheng took advantage of the fact that he had not crossed the river for half a time, and won a complete victory, beheading more than half of them. Meng Heng is brave, father and son are trapped in the enemy's formation, in the conflict of ten thousand horses, he found that there are people in white robes and white horses in the siege, he shouted "This father also" jumped into the battle to save his father from danger...

But now, no one can predict how far Meng Heng will grow in the future! History will eventually tell! In my opinion, Meng Hui surpassed Cao Bin, Pan Mei, Yang Jiajiang, Di Qing, Guo Kui, Wang Shao, Chongjiajun, Yao Jiajun, Zhejiajun, Yue Fei, Wang Yan, Han Shizhong, Liu Qi, Wu Jiajun, Li Xianzhong, Bi Zaiyu, Yu Jue, Wang Jian, Lu Jiajun... Wait for everyone, who led all the generals of the two Song Dynasty in 319! He is a well-deserved God of War of the Great Song Dynasty!

The Jin army invaded the south, and Zhao Fang summoned his sons Zhao Fan and Zhao Kui, and said to them, "The court and the war are undecided, but I have only one choice: raise troops to the border, and serve the country in a decisive battle" So he personally went to Xiangyang to supervise the battle, and ordered the defenders in the city Hu Zaixing, Chen Xiang, and Meng Zongzheng to strengthen the defense, and at the same time strengthen the defense of the Guanghua army in the north, the Xinyang army in the east, and Junzhou in the northwest. The Jin army came from Tuanshan overwhelmingly, and the three generals Hu, Chen, and Meng each led an ambush and waited for the battle. The Jin army was killed, Hu Zaixing's Chinese army was defeated first, and the Jin army was introduced into the ambush circle, Meng Zongzheng and Chen Xiang's left and right wings ambushed together, and the Jin army was attacked on three sides, defeated, and the flesh and blood pillowed in the valley.

After that, the Zaoyang army was in a hurry. Meng Zongzheng led the army to set off from Dashou at noon, non-stop, and arrived in Zaoyang in the evening. The Jin army was horrified and immediately fled. Zhao Fang immediately appointed Meng Zongzheng as the acting governor of Zaoyang.

Soon, Wang Xin defeated the Jin army in Guangshan County in Gwangju and Liu Shixing in Suizhou.

This month, the remnants of Liu Erzu's Red Jacket Army in Shandong resurged. It is raging in Jinan, Tai'an, Teng, Yan and other prefectures. Wan Yan Ting was ordered by Hou Zhi to lead the army out of Xuzhou from the Qinghe River and break the thief army. Huo Yi was beheaded, Shi Jue, and Xia Quan surrendered.

On May 27, Zhao Fang played the imperial court: Please tell the world with the edict of war! On June 12, Song Ningzong officially issued an edict "I will be refined and reformed, and I will be determined to calm the people." I don't know that there is an opportunity to take advantage of, and the shame has not been restored. Nian Fu affirmed the oath, and it really started from the end of the army. How can it be called an enemy, forgetting the great virtue, the emperor's reins are sent to the court, and the white bag is heard at night. The rebel pawn is Zhang, and the leader is like a forest. Hungry rabble, driven as a wheat master. In addition to the army, we should be vigilant, and the enemy will be defeated in the future. Once the back is good, who will do it! In June, it was a last resort. Forgive me for knowing the principle of straight and backward, and there is no passionate thinking! The teacher is unknown, and he is self-defeating. The one who responds to the battle wins, and Erli is in a hurry to go to the opportunity. If you can make extraordinary contributions, you will also have a reward."

On July 8, Li Ce, the assassin of Suizhou on the northeast road of Jin Guohe, was driven by his subordinate Ma Kuan, who rebelled in the city, and Jin Xuanzong sent people to surrender. Ma Kuan surrendered, but immediately rebelled again. Such capriciousness was unbearable for anyone, so Ma Kuan's family was killed by the state officials.

This month, one of Yang An'er's original subordinates first came to Shanyang County in Chuzhou, Huainan East Road, Southern Song Dynasty, and met Ying Chunzhi, the governor of Chuzhou. It was reported that the heroes of the righteous army in Shandong all had the intention of submitting to the Southern Song Dynasty. (To be continued......)