Chapter 207: The Next Goal
The battle in Yanjing City has also ended, and Zongfu finally failed to make it out of the West City Gate to join the reinforcements, and hated the city. In the face of hopeless goal, he still fought stubbornly, and was finally forced to a corner of the Imperial Garden, seeing that there was no hope of breaking through. Zhao Ta ordered Zhao Zhong to go to surrender. Everyone was very surprised, before the emperor ascended the throne, he issued two military orders to the Jin army, did not accept the surrender of the Jin army, and annihilated all of them, but this time he took the initiative to make people feel strange.
Zhao Ta's intention to recruit him was due to the current situation. After recovering Yanyun, the Song army's generals pointed their swords at Liaodong, which was the stronghold of the Jurchens, and the resistance would be more fierce and the battles would be more brutal. Recruiting Zongfu can not only divide the royal family of the Jin State, but also make a big fuss about propaganda, win the support of some Jurchens politically, and reduce resistance militarily, which is a good thing to kill two birds with one stone.
Although Zongfu is also a member of the royal family of the Jin Kingdom, he has a very different personality from his brothers, he is kind and generous, forgiving, and honest. He was diligent in governing Yanjing for several years and loved the people, and had a good reputation, and during the attack on the Song Dynasty, he pacified the civil unrest in the rear, so he did not participate in the previous battles of the Song Dynasty, and committed blood debts to the people of the Great Song Dynasty, and the people's anger was small, so it was possible to use it. However, Zongfu rejected the kindness of the emperor of the Southern Dynasty, he chose to retain the dignity of a royal family and soldiers, and led his troops to launch the most powerful charge, falling under the rain of bullets of the Song army.
Wanyan Xiyin was attacked by the Song army when Zongfu went to meet the reinforcements, and realized that the general trend had gone, and the Song army did not clean them up just to keep the things in the city, attract the arrival of Wushu to besiege the city and send reinforcements, and fight them in Yanjing City, so as to settle Yanjing in a battle. Hindsight was useless, and Wanyan Xiyin wanted to live and die with the imperial city. ordered the remnants to set fire to the city, but how could the guards agree. As a result, the remnants of the army were exterminated. Wanyan Xiyin, who wanted to self-immolate and martyrdom, burned himself half to death and was captured.
The Jin army outside the city was defeated, and the Song army pursued for thirty miles before stopping its footsteps. Most of the enemy troops could not escape the encirclement of the dragoons, and could not escape the end of death or capture, and the remnants of the army fled to the northeast, and the inspection battlefield failed to find the vulture, and its whereabouts were unknown. This battle completely annihilated the main force of the Jin army in the Youyan region and recovered the entire sixteen states of Yanyun...
After the battle, Zhao Ta issued several imperial decrees. Yanjing City was changed to Beijing, and the name was reduced to a mansion, and Yanjing Road was set up. Managing Kyushu after Shanhou, Zong Ze temporarily replaced the Yanjing Road Xuanfu envoy, and concurrently served as a left-behind guard in Beijing; ordered Li Gang to quickly select and send capable officials to Yan, appoint officials at all levels in various prefectures, prefectures, and counties, and take over the establishment of local governments; Abolish the fake name of Pingzhou Beijing, change the old name to Pingzhou, set up the Yanjing Road Pacification Division, stationed in Pingzhou Mansion, based on the Hebei West Road State Army. formed the Yanjing Road State Army, with Yue Fei as the commander of the soldiers and horses; Hebei east and west two roads and one road, to really set the road governance; Ordered all participating armies to count casualties and battle results, and reported meritorious service. Meanwhile. Zhao ordered the Hebei Prefecture Army to be stationed in the recovered prefectures and counties to maintain law and order and pacify the people. Wipe out the remnants of the army and track down the whereabouts of the vultures.
And after Sosuke's death. Zhao ordered them to be cremated according to Jurchen customs, and selected a group of Jin army captives to send their ashes back to the Jin Kingdom. At the same time, he ordered to build a shrine outside the east gate of the sub-city. This seems to be a fake buying of people's hearts. However, the Yanjing area is not as good as the Great Song Dynasty, where all ethnic groups are mixed, and it is impossible to slaughter them all, which is also a gesture, and it can be regarded as making the best use of everything!
After rewarding the three armies, each army moved to rest and recuperate, replenished troops, supplies and ammunition, and prepared to counterattack the counterattack of the Jin army. And Zhao Ta, who has been busy for more than a month, has become a shopkeeper again, in addition to condolences to the wounded, visiting the people, and reviewing the urgent reports, he is hiding in the clean imperial city and sleeping. The old man devoted himself to the reconstruction of Yanjing with great enthusiasm, burying the corpses, cleaning the battlefield, cleaning the streets, repairing the city defenses, pacifying the people, transporting materials to resume production, meeting with the officials who went to work, assigning tasks, and there were endless things to do every day!
The Youyan region was successfully recovered under the command of Zhao Ta, and the two main forces of the Jin army, Pingzhou and Yanjing, were annihilated, but the clouds of war did not disperse, and they had to come!
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The news of the loss of Pingzhou and the siege of Yanjing was sent to Zong Han's desk by the messenger through the blockade of the Daodao Song army, and the battle had basically come to an end, but it was still the latest news for them. Zong Han did not dare to slack off, and hurriedly reported to Emperor Wu to buy it. After hearing the news, Wu Qimai, who was already bedridden, was in a hurry, and had a second stroke, unable to lift his hands or speak, and only had one breath left to hang his life on Liaodong specialties!
But someone has to deal with such a big matter, the emperor is no longer good, and the team is still there. So Zong Han convened an emergency meeting of Bo Jilie, asking the Standing Committee members to contribute to the current crisis, there is no objection to sending troops to aid Yan, Jin Guo implemented the strategy of going south after Wu Qimai ascended the throne, the Jin army layout is heavy in the south and light in the north, Yanjing is located in the interaction between Hedong and Hebei, so the strength of Yanjing is the strongest; The land of Liaodong is the important land of Longxing and Gyeonggi, and it is necessary to prevent Goryeo and suppress the rebellion of the Xi and Bohai people, and the army is secondary; Then there are two places arranged in the Beijing Linhuang Road in the south of the Mo and the original Beijing Dading Mansion in Liaozhong to guard against the Tatars and Yelu Dashi. Reinforcements could only be drawn from these places, but there was controversy over where to send them.
Wanyan Zonggan thought that the Song Dynasty naval army that was now attacking the coast of Liaodong had withdrawn after a large number of Jin troops arrived because the weather was getting cold and the coast was frozen, and it was just right to transfer to Nanjing to aid Yan. He also has selfish intentions in doing this, Wushu and Zongfu are both his brothers, and it is also a guarantee that they can ensure that the throne can be inherited by the Taizu line, of course, he is anxious, and the sooner he sends troops, the better.
Zonggan's suggestion was rejected by Wanyan Zongben, his reason was that although the Song Dynasty's naval army had retreated, it was recently reported that its fleet was hovering in the Tatar Sea, which was the base of the Ashu rebels, and if they combined forces to attack Liaodong, there would be no troops available, and Gyeonggi was in danger, so it was absolutely impossible to transfer a single soldier or general. But everyone can hear the subtext, the Shangjing Jin Army is in the hands of Wu Qimai's family, and Wu Qimai's current physical condition is that there is no day left, and he may return to heaven at any time, once the battle for the throne breaks out, he will be at a disadvantage if he has no soldiers available.
Although Zonggan knew the thoughts of the sect of the Dao, he was the supreme commander of the Jin army because he was afraid of 'chaotic government' in the past, and his function of commanding the army was constantly weakened, and he almost became a reputation. However, with the death of Xianye and the capture of Zongxuan, Wu Qimai also realized the crisis in his family, and not only restored his power to the era of Aguta, but also strengthened it to weaken the military power of Aguta's sons and limit the power of the Marshal Mansion in Nanjing. Now that the county officials are not as good as the current management, Zong Ben does not spit out, he will not be able to mobilize a single soldier, and can only look at Zong Han.
Zong Han was happy to see this situation, and he had to maneuver between the two to consolidate his position and gain power. But the loss of Yanjing can be said to be a good thing for anyone, the Song Dynasty has an additional natural barrier, if you want to go south, there will be a fierce war, and you will lose half of the financial revenue, and the Song Dynasty can go out of the customs at any time to enter Liaodong, Shangjing from the hinterland to the frontier, which will be a heavy blow to the Jin State. With his prestige and clever tongue, he quickly made the two princes understand the truth that Yanjing was indispensable.
Everyone understood the reason, but Zong Ben didn't nod yet, he understood that this was a good opportunity to weaken the strength of the Taizu family, and if he went a day late, he could consume a little of their strength. Zong Han, who was born in the military, of course, knows the truth that rescuing soldiers is like fighting fire, and the reinforcements arrive in Yanjing one day early, so he is anxious to do work on both sides, and finally all parties finally reached a compromise. In order to ensure the security of Gyeonggi, the reinforcements dispatched this time were mainly composed of 30,000 troops stationed in Dadingfu in Beijing Province, and Liaodong sent a cavalry team of 10,000 people to cooperate.
The problem is that the aid plan formulated by the Jin State is based on the information obtained many days ago, when Yanjing was not lost, the Wushu army was still there, and it was returning from Juyongguan to reinforce at night, so the total strength of the Jin army was more than 100,000 people, which was better than the Song army. The main force of the Song army must be contained in the Yanjing area, and the main task of the reinforcements is to recapture Yuguan and recover Nanjing, and the 40,000 reinforcements cannot be said to be less. It can never catch up with the changes, the blockage of news, the lack of intelligence, so that the reinforcements have not yet set off, they have fallen into a crisis......
On the other hand, Zhao Ta established his own intelligence system in the early days of his business, starting with collecting economic, human, and geographical information from various places, as well as changes in the political situation in Gyeonggi, and monitoring the hostile situation. As his strength grew, his tentacles began to extend to various places, but only against his potential hostile forces and imaginary enemies, Western Xia. After he took control of the northwest, the intelligence network was fully spread, not only throughout the state capitals of the country, but also into all levels of the enemy country, mastering their political, economic and military situation. After ascending to the throne, he did not relax, but further strengthened his intelligence work, so that he could peep into the entire world world through his other eyes at any time.
The capable and efficient intelligence system provided Zhao Ta with a steady stream of intelligence, so that he could often anticipate the enemy and think of countermeasures in advance to complete preparations. It can be said that in his development and growth, he won one victory after another on the battlefield, until he reached the peak of power, and the Intelligence Department contributed a lot. Now the reinforcements of the Jin Army have not moved, but their battle plan has appeared on Zhao Ta's desk for the first time!
"This is the next target!" Zhao Ta stayed up all night after receiving the information, thinking about how to deal with it, his eyes lingered on the map for a long time, and finally made up his mind to draw a circle on the Dading Mansion with a pen and muttered, he didn't want to let go of this God-given opportunity... (To be continued......)