Chapter Twenty-Eight: The Fall of the Northern Song Dynasty

The Great Song Dynasty was defeated and returned, and he was no longer able to look north, let alone recover the sixteen states of Yanyun, Liu Yanqing naturally became a scapegoat. Tong Guan was still prestigious in the DPRK because of his meritorious efforts in recruiting Zhuozhou and Yizhou, and won the trust of the officials.

Under Tong Guan's maneuvering, Guo Yaoshi became the defender of Zhuozhou, because there were no more soldiers in the north of the Great Song Dynasty, Guo Yaoshi had actually controlled a large area in the north of the Great Song Dynasty at this time, and Li Er also became the defender of Yizhou because of his merits.

For a period of time, the Great Song Dynasty did not move again, but had close contacts with the Jin State, and it was rumored that it would cost a lot of money to buy the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun from the Jin State. At this time, the Liao State, under the repeated attacks of the Jin State, had begun to retreat one after another.

In the following three years, the Great Song Dynasty really spent a lot of gold and silver to buy some cities in the sixteen states of Yanyun from the hands of the Jin State. Under the continuous attack of the Jin State, the Liao State has lost a large amount of land, and the death of the country is just around the corner.

In the past three years, Lu Yi has been developing silently. Because of Tong Guan's existence, the scale of private salt has increased countless times, and he can accumulate countless wealth for Lu Yi every month. Lu Yi didn't let this wealth go, and spent all of it on army building, but all this was done in secret.

"Emperor Tianzuo has been caught, Xiao Wansheng wanted to assassinate the Emperor of the Jin Kingdom, Wanyan Wu Qimai, but he was also killed by the rebels, and Da Liao is completely dead." Yang Xiyan came to Lu Yi's study and told Lu Yi the amazing news he had just gotten.

"I originally thought that with our secret support, the Liao State would be able to resist a little more time, but I didn't expect the Jin State to be so strong!" Lu Yi sighed, the Liao State was destroyed, and soon it was Lu Yi's turn to face the Jurchen clan.

Over the years, Lu Yi has been secretly supporting the Liao State, whether it is grain, grass and armament, or military intelligence. Although Lu Yi also earned a lot of wealth in the Liao State because of this, Lu Yi's fundamental purpose was to make the Liao State resist for a while longer.

It's just that, firstly, the Liao State has long been weakened, and secondly, the Jin State is indeed strong. Now, three years have passed, and the Liao State has finally fallen. Next, as long as the Jin State straightens out its domestic affairs, it will gradually turn its attention to the Great Song Dynasty.

The Song Dynasty spent a lot of gold and silver to buy the cities of the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun, which had already made the Jin Kingdom covet the wealth of the Great Song Dynasty. What's more, the Jin State destroyed the Liao State, and it was when the soldiers were strong and strong, how could they let go of the weakened Great Song Dynasty.

There is not much time left for Lu Yi, and within a year at most, the Jin army will inevitably go south. Fortunately, Lu Yi has been secretly accumulating strength in the past three years, not to mention Jin Guo, even Yang Xiyan doesn't know how much strength Lu Yi has accumulated.

Later, Lu Yi called Guo Yaoshi and Li Er to inform them of the news that the Jin army was about to go south. Although the two didn't know why Lu Yi concluded that the Jin army would go south, because of the trust they had always had, neither of them dared to be careless, and began to plan carefully to prevent the Jin army from going south.

Sure enough, a year later, the Jin State sent Bo Jilie Wanyan Xian to be the marshal of the capital, sent 100,000 troops, and divided the troops into two routes from Shanxi and Hebei to the south. Both armies were directed at Bianliang, and it was obvious that the Jin army wanted to destroy the Great Song Dynasty in one fell swoop.

The Kingdom of Jin was divided into two routes, east and west, and the army of the eastern road was directed at Guo Yaoshi. As early as a year ago, under Lu Yi's arrangement, Guo Yaoshi and Li Er began to shrink their forces, and the main forces were stationed along Zhuozhou City and Yizhou City.

Historically, the Jin army attacked the Great Song Dynasty twice, the first time in vain, and the Great Song ceded a large number of cities in the north. But only ten months later, the Jin army went south again, this time without giving the Great Song any chance, directly destroying the Great Song Dynasty and occupying the northern land.

The Jin army went south, all the way like a bamboo, and soon came to the city of Zhuozhou. As long as the Jin army breaks through Zhuozhou along the way, there will be no more obstacles to the south, and there will be no more soldiers to stop the Jin army in the entire northern part of the Great Song Dynasty.

The Jin army was aggressive and wanted to capture Zhuozhou City in one go. However, soon the Jin army discovered that Zhuozhou City was not as easy to attack as they imagined, and under the defense of Guo Yaoshi, Zhuozhou City was as stable as Mount Tai.

For a month, the Jin army attacked endlessly, but it never threatened Zhuozhou City, and as a last resort, the Jin army could only divide its army to the south and attack Yizhou City instead. But soon, the Jin army found that under Li Er's defense, Yizhou City was no easier to attack than Zhuozhou City.

The Jin army was attacking for a long time, seeing that it could not break through the two cities of Zhuozhou and Yizhou, and finally only left a small number of troops to contain Lu Yi and others, and then the large army turned south and rushed straight in the direction of Bianliang.

"Why don't you stop the Jin Army?" Yang Xiyan was in Zhuozhou City at this time, seeing the Jin army heading south, Yang Xiyan couldn't help but be a little curious, but she knew that Lu Yi's strength was not only like that.

"Why should I stop it?" Lu Yi naturally has his own plans, otherwise with these golden troops in front of him, Lu Yi naturally has the means to annihilate them all.

Yang Xiyan pondered for a moment, her eyes were full of shock when she looked at Lu Yi, she already somewhat understood why Lu Yi didn't stop Jin Jun, obviously Lu Yi's appetite was even greater than she imagined.

The other Jin army was also overwhelming at the beginning, but it was blocked under Taiyuan City, and could only besiege Taiyuan City, which was still in a stalemate for the time being. And the Jin army, which bypassed Lu Yi, went all the way south, but it was like a bamboo, and soon arrived at the foot of Bianliang City.

Bianliang City was finally held, but the price was very great, and the Great Song Dynasty was forced to cede the three towns of Taiyuan, Zhongshan, and Hejian, and compensate countless gold and silver to negotiate peace, and then went all the way south to loot countless treasures before the Jin army retreated.

At this point, this time the Jin army's southward movement is temporarily over, but this is only the beginning, and when Taiyuan City falls, the Jin army will definitely go south again, and then it will be the time when the Great Song Dynasty has not perished.

At this time, Zhuozhou City and Yizhou City, which were still occupied by the Song army, had actually become the territory of the Jin State. It didn't take long for the imperial court to send Qin to accompany the Jin army, asking Guo Yaoshi to hand over Zhuozhou City and Yizhou City to the Jin army.

I'm afraid that only a strange dynasty like the Great Song Dynasty would act like this. Lu Yi naturally would not obey such an order, and was threatened by the Jin army with the Qin mission, and the holy decree was a fake refusal to hand over Zhuozhou City and Yizhou City to the Jin army.

The Jin army naturally refused to give up, but for a while, Zhuozhou City and Yizhou City were helpless, so they could only besiege but not attack. Long before the Jin army went south, Lu Yi prepared a lot of grain and grass and made a lot of back-ups, even if the Jin army was besieged for two years, Lu Yi was not afraid at all.

Soon in September, the Jin army moved south again. This time, the Jin army did not forcibly attack the city, but bypassed Zhuozhou City and Yizhou City and went all the way south. This time, the Jin army was still overwhelmed, and soon defeated the defenders from all walks of life and rushed straight to the city of Bianliang.

The other army finally captured Taiyuan City, and then went all the way south to join the Jin army on the east road. This time, the Jin army did not give the Great Song Dynasty a chance to negotiate peace, and the two armies directly captured Bianliang and captured the two emperors of Huiqin, which was known as the shame of Jingkang in history.

Subsequently, the Jin army established Zhang Bangchang as the emperor in Bianliang City, with the country name "Great Chu", and supported the puppet regime in several other places, and the entire Great Song Dynasty officially perished. Only Zhao Gou, the king of Kang, escaped in the Great Song Dynasty, and soon after he would proclaim himself emperor in the south and establish the Southern Song regime.

"Now that the northern part of the Great Song Dynasty has fallen, although there is still half of the country, it will happen sooner or later when it will perish, how are you going to act now!" Yang Xiyan didn't expect that the dignified Song Dynasty would be so vulnerable. It's just that the Great Song Dynasty was destroyed, and Lu Yi has become a lone army, which is basically a mortal situation.

"The Great Song Dynasty has long been decayed, and the so-called is not broken and not established. For thousands of years, our Han nationality has been reborn in the ashes again and again. You see that Jin Jun is fierce, but I regard it as a grasshopper after the autumn, and it can't be bounced for a few days! "The Great Song Dynasty perished, Lu Yi no longer has any worries, and he can finally let go of his hands and feet.

"Although your strength is very strong, the Jin army is now unstoppable, what do you use to destroy the Jin country?" Yang Xiyan was shocked, although she knew that Lu Yi had hidden a lot of strength, how could she be the opponent of the Jin Army.

"Pass my military order and let Pharmacist Guo and Li Er come to discuss matters!" Lu Yi did not answer, but asked people to gather his subordinates, and now that the Jin army is about to return to the north, it is time for Lu Yi to give the Jin army a head-on blow.

"Big brother, are you going to start acting?" Li Er strode up to Lu Yi, his words full of excitement.

"Now that half of the country has fallen, the Jin army is about to return to the north, and the Jin army will definitely not let go of us, a thorn in the flesh, and we have to strike first!" Pharmacist Guo also happened to arrive at this time, and when he heard Li Er's words, he couldn't help but speak.

"We've endured it for so long, it's time for the world to see what we're capable of! Are you all ready? Lu Yi is also in high spirits at this time, and after planning for so long, it is time to settle the battle in a battle.

"Big brother, now there are 100,000 troops in Yizhou City and Zhuozhou City, all of them are elite, even if I fight with the Jin army, I can win the battle!" Li Er is full of confidence, these armies are all trained by Li Er, and no one knows the combat power of these armies better than Li Er.

"Although the Jin army is fierce, our army is all elite, as long as you prepare in advance, it is not difficult to defeat the Jin army in a battle!" For Li Er's method of training the army, Guo Yaoshi was also amazed.

"We not only have to win this battle, but also completely annihilate the Jin army, so that the Jin army will not have the strength to go south for at least three years!" Lu Yi's appetite is bigger than everyone else's.

"Although our army is all elite, if we want to annihilate the Jin Army, I'm afraid it's a little difficult!" Guo Yaoshi hesitated a little, now that the Jin army had just destroyed the Great Song Dynasty, and the morale was booming, it was difficult to annihilate the Jin army in one fell swoop.

"I've already arranged this, and this time we're going to split into two ways. Guo Yaoshi, you will lead an army of 50,000 with me to deal with the army of the East Road of Jinguo, and Li Er, you will lead an army of 50,000 to deal with the army of the West Road of Jinguo. Our goal is to completely annihilate the Jin army before it leaves the Great Wall! Lu Yi quickly issued a military order, and no one should question it.

Pharmacist Guo wanted to speak and stopped, and in the end he could only obey the military order. Although I don't know why Lu Yi is sure to annihilate the Jin Army, the military order is as heavy as a mountain, and Guo Yaoshi has to obey the order.

Then Lu Yi specially left Li Er behind and gave a special explanation. On that day, Lu Yi's soldiers divided into two routes and ambushed the Jin army's northern return road in advance, preparing to annihilate the Jin army in one fell swoop.