Seeing the emperor comforting the soldiers like this, Kang Chengxun and the others could only smile bitterly.

As a military general, he naturally knew that such a performance of the soldiers of the Xiang Army could not form a real threat to the enemy at all. And when I thought of the scene of tens of thousands of elite Jurchen cavalry abandoning their horses and fighting tomorrow morning, rushing towards the city like ants, the generals of several palace front divisions were all trembling, and it was difficult to control the panic in their hearts.

They are not worried about their lives, but they are really the emperor who walks in front of him leisurely, his safety is too important, and when they think that they may become the great sinners of the Song Dynasty's century-old Han people for thousands of years, even if their identity is only a military general, they don't think about the serious consequences of the emperor falling into the hands of the enemy again, or dying in battle.

Kang Chengxun hesitated for a while, and was originally going to persuade the emperor again, but when Zhao Huan got on the royal horse, the front and rear guard of honor were opened, and when he marched towards the palace, the people of Chang'an along the way got the wind and began to bow down and cheer on both sides of the road. The crowds are crowded, and the water in many places is impassable, and at a glance, the dense heads of people are high and low with the arrival of Zhao Huan, which is very spectacular.

In addition to bowing down and cheering, many people were emotional, and invited themselves to go to the city to help the defenders defend the city, and many old people worshiped with tears, praising Zhao Huan for not abandoning the people, and he was a rare heroic lord of the Great Song Dynasty. Among these excited crowds, there are hard laborers who live by hard work, ordinary citizens, and test-takers who come to take the autumn exam.

They tightly surrounded the emperor, flexed their muscles, and begged for battle loudly, begging the emperor to order the government to issue them weapons and let them go to the city to help in the war.

The ragged porter, who was clinged to the shoulders by a well-dressed gentleman, and the thin Confucian quietly removed the Confucian scarf from his head and mingled with a group of village archers who had fled to the city. The emperor did not flee. The incentive effect of being willing to go to the national disaster with the people and resist the enemy was not even expected by its party Zhao Huan. When he saw this situation with his own eyes, not only Zhao Huan was moved, but he repeatedly waved to the people on the horse, Kang Chengxun and others were also moved.

Jingkang five years in the autumn. When the Great Song Dynasty and Chang'an were facing the most severe test, this era was only a hundred years, in fact, the empire that shouldered thousands of years of advanced civilization, while developing highly in civilization and economy, finally under the repeated blows of the enemy, and under the instigation of the supreme authority Emperor Zhao Huan, it began to burst out with the spirit of martial arts and perseverance that was deliberately suppressed in the early days of the establishment of the dynasty.

When this ethnic group first emerged, a small tribe in the Yellow River valley relied on this spirit to defeat strong enemies repeatedly. Finally do the work to dominate the summers. Swept the four yi, and had a strong Han and Tang Dynasty, with advanced civilization and strong force. Complement each other to become one of the few powerful civilizations not only in East Asia, but also in the world.

This civilization, three years before Jingkang, had been lost in the labyrinth of civilization that it had built. Thicker and thicker classics, more and more constraints, more and more prosperous cities, but what brings this civilization is also more and more weak.

Not just its rulers, but a good part of its people. There are fewer and fewer strong factors in the blood, and they are conservative and do not want to forge ahead, preferring to succumb to the iron hooves of foreign races rather than strengthening their spirits and exercising their bodies.

At a certain moment in the third year of Jingkang, the transformation of a chess piece made the entire historical torrent begin to change in another direction.

In the autumn of the fifth year of Jingkang, this change was at an emergency juncture related to the life and death of the dynasty. began to radiate its strange radiance.

After the Chang'an War, not only the status of the soldiers became higher and higher, but also many Confucian scholars and ordinary people began to wear swords and practice riding and archery, and wielding swords and guns, bleeding and sweating, it was no longer a shameful and humiliating thing.

The eldest husband should carry a three-foot sword and calm the world, instead of being a bookworm looking for chapters and sentences, when compared with the heroic and gorgeous, all the so-called sage language and religion are outdated and annoying, and are no longer convincing.

This is a tremendous force that has rebounded from the inner heritage of a nation when it has been oppressed to the bottom, and it is deliberately stimulated by its inner heritage, and such a force is enough to crush any provocateur in the world! Naturally, this was only after Chang'an, and after a skirmish contact with an invading enemy that was not a battle, no one with less extensive military experience dared to have unshakable confidence in whether Chang'an would be able to hold on.

In Chang'an City, there are 8,000 elite forbidden troops in front of the palace, 6,000 box troops who have just been converted into engineering troops, and 1,2084 firefighters, which is a special system of the Song Dynasty, because the city is specially set up because of many fires, but it is only an army establishment, in fact, its main task is only to extinguish the city fire, and is not responsible for the war. In addition to the above-mentioned troops, there are also miscellaneous troops of less than 1,000 people, such as government service, postal service, health quarantine, and grain and grass guards.

The sum of all the military forces in the formation is only the strength of 18,000 people, and more than half of them are only auxiliary troops, and the one who can really fight is the forbidden army of the 9,000-strong palace front division. The Chang'an City of the Song Dynasty was naturally much smaller than the Chang'an City of the Tang Dynasty for more than ten miles around, but such an army was still sparse and sparse when it was deployed at the head of the city, and even the confidence of its own people could obviously feel that such a troop arrangement was very problematic, and it could not be taken into account in many areas.

Moreover, while defending the city, it is necessary to leave a considerable number of reserves, ready to support the tight area at any time. Such an arrangement was inevitable, and the pressure on the city was further increased.

On the opposite side of such a garrison force, there are barbarian cavalry that do not need much logistical support, they started from Liaodong and swept all the way to the south of the Yangtze River, all of which adopted the strategy of subduing the enemy with the enemy, adapting measures to local conditions, and relying on plunder to meet military needs in the territory of the Song and Liao people. It is obviously completely impossible for such an army to adopt the tactic of cutting off the enemy's food routes or holding on to waiting for the opponent's food to retreat.

The morale of the opponent is high, the tactical marksmanship is skillful and sophisticated, and everyone is a bloodthirsty warrior who has been in the sand for a long time. They endure hardships and hunger, are silent and say little, and are the loveliest soldiers in the eyes of every commander, and as long as the military order is issued, they will never die, and there is absolutely no fear and fear.

There is no weakness, no fear, and no pity. They are human beings and beasts.

In the face of such an enemy who was one step ahead in tactics and strategy, and even outnumbered the defenders by twice as many as the defenders, Chang'an garrisoned the Song army, and the only way to defend the Song army was the high fighting spirit and the determination not to die or retreat because of Zhao Huan's performance, and in addition, it was only the lead in the range of bow and arrow strength, and a city wall that was not strong and particularly tall.

After witnessing Han Chang's actions, Zhao Huan did not blame the front-line soldiers. They weren't troops prepared for battle in the first place, and it was just a crazy man's dream to make all the soldiers as good at fighting as the elite troops. It is obviously the responsibility of the Supreme Commander and the senior generals to create a situation in which the auxiliary troops also have to go to the city to engage the enemy, and it has nothing to do with the soldiers.

At the same time, he did not try to change the deployment of front-line generals. Because of the siege of Chang'an, Zhao Huan already felt his insensitivity and incompetence in military affairs, and was determined to change this.

However, everything takes time, and now he just needs to change into a battle armor, go to the city to supervise the army to fight, and then to the specific troops, and at present, it is naturally the front-line generals such as Kang Chengxun who are fully responsible.

After returning to the palace, the emperor ordered that weapons could be issued to the people who were willing to go to the city to help defend them, but the premise was that they should first form and train in formation, and they could not suddenly pull up to the city, otherwise, many people did not mean that the combat power increased, but would affect the Song army at the head of the city because of the disorder and panic of these people.

After this edict was issued, Zhao Huan no longer received foreign officials, but only ordered to prepare a set of battle armor for himself. In addition, he just went to the harem to see Empress Meng once, explaining that he was unwilling to accept the queen mother's hardship of escaping.

In the evening, Zhao Huan only spent the last night of the war in the deep palace under the escort of a few guards, and after tonight, he decided to live near the city gate and not return to the palace.

In the early morning of the fourth day of the ninth month of the fifth year of Jingkang, when the sun slowly rose on the horizon with half cover and half exposed, and a ray of red light was projected on the head of Chang'an City, outside Chang'an City, more than 40,000 golden soldiers only sent a small number of soldiers to guard the war horses after spending half a day and a night of corresponding preparations, and the rest of the cavalry abandoned their horses and began to march out of the camp in the early morning sun, lined up in a huge infantry phalanx, preparing to carry out a strong attack on Chang'an, which seemed to be weakly defended.

The war drums rumbled, and Zhao Huan in the palace had already woken up, and after preparing the simple armor, he immediately rushed to the city.

Within his sight, dozens of neatly arranged phalanxes of infantry, full of murderous aura, stood opposite him. Swords and guns are like a forest, and the cold light is dazzling.

The black armor and helmet gathered into a black ocean, and the strength and determination of the soldiers that stretched for several miles, the majesty and strength revealed by the Baisheng Heroic Division, precipitated and pressed on the hearts of the Song army at the head of the city.

As the procession unfolded, the drums became louder and louder, and in the sound of drums that sounded like thunder, the Jin army began to slowly advance, and after the advance began, all the Jin army generals began to gather together, first under the leadership of a few shamans, begging for success to the heavens, and then dispersed to command their troops.

Seeing that the enemy was getting closer and closer, Kang Chengxun gave an awe-inspiring order and shouted loudly: "Prepare the archers of the Xiang army, prepare the crossbowmen of the bed, and order the people under the city to prepare, once the enemy is approaching, smash me hard, so that these beasts have their lives and no lives to return!" ”