Chapter 489: Internal and External Troubles

The battle of Jinzhou came to an end at dawn, the marshal's mansion was breached, the 60,000 defenders in the city were killed and wounded more than 30,000 people, more than 20,000 enemies were captured, and a large number of grain and grass were captured, and the whole city was basically destroyed by the fierce artillery fire of the Song army when attacking the city. What made Gao Pet and others angry was that they spent a long time, but the two big bosses were killed by the guards who had been watching the play, but they also caught Wanyan Bingde and Xiao Zhonggong, who were the supervisors of the Right Marshal's Mansion and later the Left Marshal's Mansion, and finally slightly better than nothing, and they were luckier than Zhao Li's Corps.

Later, the loyal and brave army who sent reinforcements also returned triumphantly, offering the head of the rebel general Li Cheng, who broke through the night for a night, and finally failed to escape the net laid by the Song army, and Li Cheng, who was exhausted at dawn, was killed by the Soushan troops. Most of the 20,000 reinforcements led by him were annihilated, and some fled into the mountains to hide, but the remnants of the enemy who had become frightened birds could no longer pose a threat to the Song army, and Jinzhou was lost, and they would face the fate of being captured and killed sooner or later.

Zhao Tan ordered the whole army to withdraw from the city to rest for two days, open the four gates to let the people in and out of the city, organize manpower to bury the corpses, clean up the ruins, and distribute medicines to prevent the plague. At the same time, Shangshu Province was ordered to send reserve officials to take over the city, pacify the people, distribute relief materials, count the population, distribute land, and restore production; The Privy Council was ordered to organize the state army to take over the defense of the city, protect the territory and the people, and eliminate the remnants of the enemy.

The victory in the Battle of Jinzhou marked the annihilation of the left and right marshals of the Jin State, the opening of the two gates in the west and the north, and the annihilation of more than 100,000 troops under the jurisdiction of the two marshals' mansions, which greatly damaged the military strength of the Jin State. Wushu has been operating painstakingly for many years, and the boundary trench fortifications built at a huge cost cannot stop the attack of the Song army, and the flames of war will be fully burned in the Jin Kingdom. The iron cavalry of the Song army will step into the land of Liaodong for the first time, and the era of the 'great unification' of the Central Plains Dynasty will come again......

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Now the rulers of the Dajin Kingdom are actually two sick people. One is the intermittent neurotic Emperor Wanyan Yan, and the other is the old sick Taishi Wushu who has difficulty even walking. I was shocked to hear that Jinzhou City was broken by the Song army in two days. After the news that the defenders of the city were all annihilated, the commander and the eunuch of the Zuo Shuai's Mansion were killed, and the prison was captured, the emperor cried incessantly, and after the great crime of drinking, he walked around the palace with a sharp knife and killed several chamberlains and palace maids, and scolded several ministers of the clan with a cane. After hearing this, Wushu was furious, vomited three liters of blood, and his condition suddenly worsened, and then he was bedridden. But he deserves to be the pillar of the Dajin Kingdom, and he still struggles to deal with state affairs on the sickbed despite his grief.

Now the Northwest Corps of the Song Army attacked again after annihilating the Right Marshal's Mansion on the bank of the Yazi River and resting for many days, they crossed the river into the grassland, advanced to the southwest, and the front of the troops was directed at Huining Mansion in Shangjing. The terrain of the grassland is flat and there is no danger to defend, and the army can drive straight in, and the Wushu ordered the internal and foreign army deputy commanders to complete Yan Yanying and lead 50,000 troops to the grassland to meet the Song army on the west road, in order to defend the Beijing division. And with the destruction of Jinzhou, the naval army was completely destroyed. The Song army advanced by land and water, but he was afraid that it would not take much time to reach Liaoyang Mansion, and he ordered Wanyan Yong to strictly guard the city, block the enemy under the city, and never let the Song army continue to go north. Meanwhile. Wushu ordered the military department Shangshu and Shi Lie Zhining to arrange a defensive line along the Tongtong River to prevent the Song army from breaking through Yan Yanying's interception and threatening the Beijing division.

The Jin Kingdom has reached the verge of extinction under the step-by-step advance of the Great Song Dynasty, but it is not only external troubles that can make a country truly perish. Accompanied by civil strife, it is only under the action of two forces that a country can completely exhaust the last bit of blood. The rebellion of the Five Kingdoms has lasted from before the establishment of the Jin State to the present day. The toss is getting stronger and stronger now, and now it is cooperating with the Song army to attack the Liaodong Peninsula. And the small rebellions continued. But this year, with the invasion of the Song army, the Khitans, who had been their most powerful allies in the past, also joined the ranks of the rebellion, and it became more and more fierce......

After the destruction of the Khitan tribe in the Liao State, all became the subjects of the Jin State, and the successive emperors of the Jin State in order to manage these Khitan tribes more effectively and safely, the way adopted was to drive these Khitan tribes to the northwest border area and move to the eastern Liaodong region, one can prevent these Khitan tribes from rebelling and threatening the rule of the Jin State, after all, the Khitan people once had a blood feud with the Jin State, and the other is to let the Khitan tribe help the Jin State to guard the border and resist the disturbance of the northern steppe nomads and the Song army.

Originally, the Jin country's treatment of the Khitan tribe was indisputable, the Khitan tribe as a dead nation can survive and continue on the territory of the Jin country, and there is also their own land of one acre and three points of land to be the master, although their life is not brocade and food, but at least they can barely eat and clothe, happy and idle, and have been living peacefully with the residents of the Jin country for more than 20 years.

However, after the Northern Expedition of the Great Song Dynasty, Jin Ting's requisition order finally completely angered all the Khitans, and the Jin State demanded that all Khitan strong men be requisitioned to serve as the main force to resist the attack of the Song Dynasty, which was naturally strongly resisted by the Khitan tribes. The wishful thinking of the Wushu is very shrewd, but the Khitans are not fools, so they will naturally not be fooled, but the emperor's orders cannot but be obeyed, so the leaders of the Khitan tribe began to negotiate with the Jurchens who were in charge of conscription on conscription, of course, their reasons for opposing conscription cannot be too explicit, of course, they also have very reasonable reasons.

The Khitans thought that they had been working hard to help the Emperor of Jin to guard the northwest border for more than ten years, and the relationship with the Mengwu tribe and the Song army in the northern grasslands had been very tense. Doing so is tantamount to driving us Khitans to a dead end. Therefore, please ask the imperial court to explain the actual situation here, and it is best not to recruit the strong men of the Khitan tribe.

To tell the truth, this reason of the Khitan people is indeed a very good reason, for the survival of their own nation, they say all the good things, that is, I hope that Jinting can understand their difficulties, and do not recruit strong men from the Khitan tribe or try to recruit as few strong men as possible. Wushu naturally knew the plight of the Khitans, but now the Song army was pressing forward step by step, and although the population of the tribe had recovered, it was still difficult to meet the demand. If Ding Zhuang is not levied from all ethnic groups, then what awaits the Jin State will inevitably perish; However, if the Khitan tribe is forcibly recruited, it is likely to completely anger the Khitans, and even lead the Khitan to launch a rebellion again.

The left and right are dead, and the Wushu insists on recruiting strong men of all ethnic groups, but the practices of the two marshals are completely different. The servant of the Right Marshal's Mansion was relatively mild, and his attitude towards the Khitans was neither to agree nor to oppose it, and he secretly lowered the standard, adopting the scheme of drawing one from two and drawing two from three; However, Wan Yan Liang of Zuo Shuai's Mansion did absolutely and requisitioned all the Ding Zhuang around Jinzhou, which aroused the anger of the Khitan people in this area, and Sa Liyu used the psychology of the Khitan people to successfully win over all Khitan Meng'an, and was able to escape Wan Yan Liang's calculations.

The fear of being used as cannon fodder by the Jurchens made the Khitan members who had been oppressed and persecuted by the Jin State for more than thirty years point all the anger in their hearts at the Jin State that destroyed them at this moment. The Khitans in eastern Liaodong, who were at the forefront of resisting the Song army, were the first to rise up, which was the first large-scale uprising of the Khitan tribe since the fall of the Liao State. And their army is like igniting the weeds on the grassland, a spark can set the prairie on fire, not to mention a group of Khitan people who were extremely brave in the past, under their influence, Khitan tribes everywhere have responded.

When the whole of Liaodong was in full swing, the Khitans attacked the prefecture and plundered the capital, slaughtered the Jurchens, and threatened their rule in the Liaodong region. In today's situation, the Jin State is no longer able to divide its troops to suppress the rebellion, so Wushu can only shrink the defense line again, abandon those small prefectures and counties, and concentrate on the big cities to hold on to the cities, waiting for the expulsion of the Song army before making plans. But no one had a bottom in their hearts about whether they could defeat the Song army, and for a while, pessimism spread among the government and the opposition, people's hearts fluctuated, and they began to plan for their own future. Because the left minister Xiao Zhonggong sent a few letters back to the Southern Dynasty, there was no news, thinking that he was detained by the Southern Dynasty, so he was promoted to the left minister of Shangshu with the right minister Wanyan Zongben, and Zhang Hao as the right minister, temporarily assisting the Taishi Wushu to manage the government.

Under the internal and external troubles, the Jin State was weak to deal with the large-scale Northern Expedition of the Southern Dynasties, and there was no good idea except passive defense. Under the continuous suppression and bribery of the Song Dynasty, the former allies Western Xia and Goryeo became subject states of the Song Dynasty, and the northern Tatars who could be used as a restraining force, several large tribes were either exterminated or expelled from the country, and the Tatars who were loyal to the Jin State were killed by themselves, and they did not even have a helper when they were in danger.

Under the panic of the people, the voice of the Great Song Dynasty to ask for peace rose again, and this time it was Taizong Wu who begged to buy the five sons who were still alive, Zongben, Zongmei, Zongyi, Zongzhe and Zongya. They said that the left and right marshals of Dajin were defeated, and the troops were greatly damaged, and the Khitans took the opportunity to start an incident, and the imperial court was no longer able to deal with it, and the beggar monks could preserve the national vein as soon as possible. After he retired from the army, he made great efforts to make the country prosperous, and trained elite soldiers in order to make a comeback.

The mention of this proposal immediately aroused great repercussions in the DPRK and China, and it was divided into two factions. Zhang Hao, headed by the right minister, strongly opposed the peace, he thought that the emperor's personal conquest was enough to show that they did not just want to obtain land and coins, but to destroy the Jin State, in order to repay the shame of Jingkang back then, and negotiating with it was just a self-inflicted humiliation, as evidenced by the detention of Xiao Zhonggong's peace talks, and his idea was supported by the Shaozhuang faction led by Taishi Wushu. The other faction is naturally headed by the new left prime minister Zongben, and the two sides quarreled in the court, which provoked the emperor to be furious, and beat the right minister Zhang Hao with a hundred court rods with the strength of wine, showing his attitude with practical actions...... (To be continued......)