The messenger who brought the news had come from Yuezhou, and the regent Zhao Gou had returned to the land, taking Yuezhou as his line.

It turned out that after Yan Wushu occupied Lin'an Mansion in the fourth year of Jianyan, he ordered Ali and Wuyan Puluhun to take 4,000 fine horsemen to gallop to Mingzhou and chase Song Gaozong.

This golden man's partial division has experienced a long journey and has become the end of a strong crossbow. It was Zhang Jun who stayed in Mingzhou.

Zhang Jun wanted to send someone to investigate, but no one dared to respond. There are soldiers who are allowed to survive, and the handsome man said: You can get the fruit and you should be the official. Save and thank you and do not turn your heel to carry the second level and return, with the reality of the gold people.

Jun Da was overjoyed, and the plan of the soldiers and the hermit Liu Xiangru persuaded Liu Bao to be invincible. He ordered Wang Jindang to use Qiu Heng to meet the enemy, and both Heng and Heng were injured. Yang Yi and Tian Shizhong fought again and were not victorious. Li Bao continued to fight hard, and Li Zhi led the classes to help with the boat division. Liu Hongdao led his troops to shoot at the Jin people next to him, but he was defeated and retreated slightly.

Wanyan Wushu (Zong Bi) sent reinforcements, and Zhang Jun hurriedly evacuated Mingzhou.

Although the Jin army occupied Mingzhou, the situation became increasingly difficult. Looking at the East China Sea in the distance, the smoke and waves are slight, and there is no trace of Song Gaozong escaping the sail; Looking back at the northwest, the mountains and rivers are heavy, but there are Yue Fei and other tiger brigades to block it. The dense rivers and lakes are not conducive to the galloping of the cavalry; The humble and damp atmosphere caused the soldiers to be unaccustomed to the water and soil.

Wanyan Wushu finally decided to withdraw his troops. Due to the excessive looting of property, such as retreating directly north according to the coming road, land transportation was inconvenient, so the Jin army made a detour to the Great Yunguan, parallel by land and water, broke Xiuzhou, trapped Pingjiang Mansion, occupied Changzhou, and prepared to cross the river from Zhenjiang Mansion (Zhidantu, now Zhenjiang City, Jiangsu). At that time, there were 641 Song li in the whole process of the Zhexi Canal.

Wanyan Wushu claimed that "the search of mountains and seas has been completed" to cover up his military defeats, and brutally burned to vent his anger.

The first to suffer was Mingzhou, where the inhabitants of the city were almost wiped out, and all the houses were burned to ashes, except for a few Buddhist temples in the southeast corner. The Jin army sent troops out in all directions to search, kill and plunder the entire state border, even the deep mountains and poor valleys that were inaccessible to people were also poisoned.

Then, the Jin army set fire to the city of Lin'an, burning for three days and three nights, and the smoke was endless. At the beginning of the Southern Song Dynasty, Lin'an Mansion went through several wars, and only two-tenths or three-tenths of the household registration remained.

In Pingjiang Prefecture, the fire that spanned more than 100 miles was extinguished in five days.

The killing and plundering of the Jin army, coupled with the harassment of the official army, and the plague in the summer of the fourth year of Jianyan, nearly 500,000 people in Pingjiang Province were killed, and only one-tenth or two-dozen of the population survived.

The area ravaged by the Jin soldiers crossing the river was smaller than that of the West Route Army, about half of the Liangzhejiang Road and a corner of the Jiangdong Road, but this area was the richest barn of the Song Dynasty and the richest area in the world at that time.

In the face of the atrocities of the Jin soldiers, the soldiers and civilians in Jiangnan also put up a brave resistance.

When the Jin army attacked Lin'an Mansion, the governor of Qiantang County ordered Zhu Ji to lead 2,000 township soldiers to challenge a strong enemy. He was seriously wounded, but after still letting the soldiers carry him, he still ordered the soldiers to carry him, continued to command the battle, and finally died heroically in Tianzhu Mountain. The leaders of the archers, Zhu Wei and Jin Sheng, led the rest of the troops to defend Geling. On the rugged mountain road, they covered the bamboos with mud, pretended to be passages, and set up ambushes. When the cavalry of the Jin Dynasty attacked Geling, they were in a mess one after another. The villagers swung their swords and slashed, leaving the enemy dead across the valley. The furious Wanyan Wushu rushed to Geling from the southern foot with large soldiers, and because of the disparity in numbers, Zhu Wei, Jin Sheng and other heroic battles were killed. ⑦

In Tonglu County, Yanzhou, Qian Yu, the Qian brothers, and Fang Geng commanded a militia of 3,000 men and defeated the Jin soldiers at Niutou Mountain.

When the Jin army invaded Yuezhou, Li Yingshi of Yaozhi County recruited thousands of township soldiers and fought against the enemy together with the general Chen Yan. They laid out many banners, confused the Jin army, and triumphantly resisted for a day and night.

In the autumn of the fourth year of Jianyan, when the army of Wanyan Wushu withdrew from Pingjiang Mansion, Chen Sigong, the commander of the Song army, led his subordinates to invite the enemy's rear army to anchor in Taihu Lake in Wujiang County, and also won a victory.

Wanyan Wushu suffered repeated setbacks in Jiangnan, and his arrogance was restrained, and he asserted that the climate in Jiangnan was not suitable, which was not conducive to the long-term occupation of the Jin soldiers. At the end of the fourth year of Jianyan, Wanyan Wushu arrived at Zhenjiang Mansion and planned to cross the river with a load of captive goods, but was stopped by Han Shizhong's army.

The Jin army claimed to be 100,000 people, and Han Shizhong only had more than 8,000 people, and if he wanted to fight with the Jin army on land, he was obviously powerless. Han Shizhong ordered the whole army to board the battleship and meet the army with a naval division, which was indeed based on his own strengths and the shortcomings of attacking the enemy. Wanyan Wushu could only use a small boat to gallop out of the canal and meet the battle on the river in the Jinshan area, but failed repeatedly and was very embarrassed. He asked Han Shizhong to let the Jin army cross the river, but Han Shizhong put forward conditions that he could not accept: return the two emperors of Hui and Qin, and return the homeland of the Song Dynasty.

But Han Shizhong's sea ship had a pointed bottom and a deep draft, so he could not enter the canal. The desperate Jin army retreated to Huang Tiandang and tried to dig a river into the river, but was intercepted by Han Shizhong. Later, with the advice of spies, the Jin army dug another river and was able to bring the ships through the Qinhuai River to the west of Jinling City.

Han Shizhong's army still traced the river to invite the attack. After teaching Yan Wushu, when there was no wind, someone used a small boat to launch rockets at the Song army. Han Shizhong's army was originally preparing for amphibious operations, and its giant ships were also loaded with horses, food, baggage, and military families, and could not sail without wind.

The battle of Huang Tiandang lasted for forty days. Although Han Shizhong was defeated, he was still glorious, and this battle made Wanyan Wushu and others comprehend a simple military common sense, and going back and forth on the river is not a child's play, and there will even be a catastrophe.

Jinling Mansion became the only remaining foothold of the Jin army in Jiangnan, and it undoubtedly had very important military value for going down to Jiangnan and swallowing up the Song Dynasty. When Yan Wushu and Han Shizhong were holding each other on the river, the Jin soldiers of Jinling Mansion built a large village in Zhongshan in the northeast of the city and Yuhuatai in the south of the city, dug two moats, and dug holes in the mountain for the purpose of "summer escape".

The Jin people's "land increases the city fortress and the water builds warships", and the teams that cross the river north from the quarry rock and then return are also endless. Han Shizhong's defeat increased the possibility of the Jin people staying in Jinling to "escape the summer".

It was at this time that Zhao Gou returned from the floating sea. The regent took Yuezhou as his "line". Zhao Gou regarded the Jin army of Jinling Mansion as a sword hanging over his head, but he did not dare to take the initiative to attack the Jin soldiers.

At this juncture, the Zhao Gou Regent's Mansion learned that Huyan Geng was besieged in Pingyang, and Qin Hui and others judged that Luoyang's Wanyan Wushu might not have the energy to reinforce Jinling.

For this reason, they mobilized all the troops that could be mobilized, and appointed Zhang Jun as the envoy of the West Zhejiang Road and Jiangdong Road, "all the generals and the temperance", and took full responsibility for the recovery of Jinling. But the cowardly Zhang Jun would rather let others scold him, and he did not dare to take a step forward in Jinling.

Zhao Gou remembered the loyal and brave Yue Jiajun.

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