As soon as the war began, the Jin soldiers suffered defeat on both the upper and middle roads, and the angry Wan Yanliang decided to make a desperate bet, trying to fight group battles and sports battles on the lower road, and if he wins, he can give the Southern Song Dynasty court a fatal blow, after all, Lin'an is not far away.

The main force led by Wan Yanliang personally broke through the lower road and captured the Naturalized Army, Jiangzhou, Xinyang Army, Hezhou and other places in the Southern Song Dynasty. The Jin army took advantage of the situation to cross the Huaishui and stationed at a place called Quarry Rock by the Yangtze River.

The Song army was responsible for the defense of the old general Liu Qi, who had broken more than 100,000 gold soldiers in Shunchang, and now he was over the age of sixteen and was seriously ill, and he couldn't even walk. The Song army retreated to Yangzhou after fighting for a while, and the Jin soldiers drank the Yangtze River and could cross the Yangtze River at any time, and the situation was precarious.

Zhao Gou in Lin'an City learned that the Jin soldiers were not good, so he urgently convened the prime minister and his cronies to discuss countermeasures.

Thirty-six plans to go as the upper plan, dismiss hundreds of officials, flee to the south, the big deal is that I will run again and drift on the Wenzhou Sea for a few months.

"Running away again?"

The ministers didn't expect that Zhao Gou was still as timid as a mouse at this time, and his courage did not grow with the passage of time, and they sighed one by one.

Yang Xiaoer, the general of Zhenguo, said: "Your Majesty, the purpose of Wanyan Liang's trip is different, decades ago, Jin Bing just wanted to grab something in Jiangnan, and he left after grabbing it, this time people want to unify the world, and they will not leave." ”

Zhao Gou was silent, and only looked at the people of His Highness.

Yang Xiaosan said: "Jiangnan has fallen, the territory has been lost, where are you going, Your Majesty!" Go to the South Seas, or do you want to go through a little stream? Even if I fight thousands of soldiers of the Yang family to the last man, I will never run away! ”

Seeing that the Yang family general group came forward and dissuaded Zhao Gou not to escape, the other ministers all stood up and asked Zhao Gou to stick to Lin'an in order to calm the army.

"Okay, if you are loyal to the country, I will temporarily defend Lin'an, stabilize the morale of the army, and kill the Jin soldiers." Zhao said, but the confidence is not yet full.

Under the supervision of Wenchen and military generals, Song Gaozong reluctantly decided not to run, and for the next few days he restlessly restless in the palace, pacing back and forth, anxiously waiting for the battle report from ahead.

Zhao Gou, who had been trembling in his heart, was tired, and took a nap in the main hall for a while, and suddenly probed the Malay newspaper-

"The royal power of Jiankang Mansion saw that the Jin soldiers were menacing, and they actually slipped away."

"The royal power that is greedy for life and afraid of death, disturbs the morale of the army, and causes chaos without a fight, I want to punish your nine clans!" Song Gaozong was shocked when he heard this, and the case was taken.

Zhao Gou hurriedly issued an edict: "The former division of the Xuandian Palace, the Feng Army, will control Li Xianzhong, and quickly go to Jiankang Mansion to take over the royal power." Yu Yunwen, a scholar from the middle school, went to comfort the soldiers. Yang Xiaoer, Yang Xiaosan, you go to the front line for reinforcements quickly, there must be no mistake, hurry! ”

Yu Yunwen was ordered to go to the front line of Quarshiji, and saw the defeated soldiers of the royal power sitting on the ground in twos and threes, with their weapons in a mess, and the soldiers were extremely low. And the dignitaries and dignitaries in Lin'an City were very busy, sending their families and property to Fujian and Guangzhou.

The front line and the rear are in chaos, and the Jin soldiers have not yet crossed the Yangtze River. At that time, the enemy had 400,000 soldiers, and the Song army was only 18,000. The attendant said: "If the public is ordered to punish the teacher, and if he is not ordered to supervise the battle, he may incur the disaster of death." ”

Yu Yunwen generously stated: "If it endangers the community, I will avoid it!" Even if the saint blames it, I will carry it alone! Under his inspiration, the generals were high-spirited, and immediately said that the generals would obey the order and listen to the command. The 5,000 Miao soldiers led by Yang Xiaoer shouted one by one, they were good at land and water warfare, and the opportunity to kill the enemy and make meritorious contributions had arrived.

And Wan Yanliang on the other side was also thinking about crossing the river, and it happened that there was infighting in the base camp of Jinguo. Wan Yan Yong (Wulu), the Duke of Cao Guo, who served as the guard in Tokyo, launched a mutiny, claiming that the emperor changed the Yuan Dading in Liaoyang, abolished Yan Liang, and cut off his back road.

Wulu once took a fancy to his wife because of Wan Yan Liang, and he did not have many troops in his hands, so he had to send his wife to the palace to offer Yan Liang's lewd pleasure, and his wife committed suicide halfway to save her life and innocence. For this reason, Wulu took the opportunity of Yan Liang to lead the troops outside to obtain the legal status of the emperor of the Jin State, making this inferior king of Hailing homeless, and at the same time avenging his wife, killing two birds with one stone.

A fire broke out in the backyard, and the troops were withdrawn back to Biandu (Kaifeng) to quell the civil strife, but they returned in vain, and they were very faceless. There is no way out, let's kill Zhao Gou first, and then talk about it, and Wan Yanliang continues to advance south.

When the sailors led by Su Baoheng arrived at Chenjia Island in Jiaoxi, they were suddenly attacked by the Song general Li Baoshui. The Song army's artillery fire volleyed and hit the ships of the Jin army, the ships were all on fire, and the explosions continued, burning the Jin army with nowhere to escape, and the soldiers who were on fire jumped into the sea to escape.

The Song army took the opportunity to fire feather arrows at a large number of Jin troops floating on the sea, and the arrows flew like locusts, and the Jin soldiers who fell into the water became targets one by one. The screams of ghosts and wolves continued endlessly, the sea near Chenjia Island was stained red with blood, the corpses floated all over the sea, and the Jin soldiers and sailors were almost wiped out. Su Baoheng grabbed a boat, and under the desperate protection of his subordinates, he escaped from the encirclement and picked up a life.

In November, the sailors suffered all the casualties, and the plan for a sea attack was in vain, so he gathered hundreds of thousands of troops near Quarry Rock and ordered his soldiers to erect pontoon bridges in an attempt to cross the Yangtze River.

The north is whistling, the water of the Yangtze River is cold and biting, and many Jin soldiers are physically exhausted in the water, and they are washed away by the rapid river without a trace. The warships of the Song army rushed back and forth, and the Jin army's plan to cross the river ran aground.

At night, Wan Yan Liang sent more than 20 sailor soldiers with super good water to smuggle across the Yangtze River, and an hour later, they found a section of the river with relatively shallow water level and gentle current, and reported the situation to Wan Yan Liang, this section of the river is a blind spot for the Song army's defense, which is very safe and suitable for forced crossing.

However, they didn't know that this was the garrison of Yang Xiaoer and Yang Xiaosan, and the brothers retreated the soldiers to the nearby reeds and grasses to hide.

Wan Yanliang was ecstatic: "God help me, send an order to the three armies, immediately erect a pontoon bridge!" The generals drove thousands of sailors down into the water, carrying wood on their shoulders, laying them section by section, and after working for most of the night, a rickety pontoon bridge finally stretched to the south bank of the Yangtze River.

The Song army on the other side waited for work, slept well, and waited for the golden soldiers to come and die.

"The first team is ready to cross the river!" Wan Yan Liang held a torch and shouted loudly with a sword in Jiangbei.

So a thousand gold soldiers rushed onto the pontoon bridge, there were too many people, the pontoon bridge swayed from side to side, and many people fell into the river. When the first team arrived on the other side, there were less than 500 people, while the Song army was 5,000, and they did not plug their teeth.

The moonlight is hazy and the river is long.

As soon as the 500 golden soldiers stepped on the beach, the commander shouted: "This is no man's land!" The Song army fled. ”

"Hula-"

A large group of Song soldiers and horses appeared on the bank of the river, led by Yang Xiaosanshou, who patrolled here, carrying the bright Yang family gun, and led 1,000 people to kill the generals. I saw him slash through the silver spear, and the Tianling cover of the hundred households where the Jin Army was at the forefront was cut off, and then one "fell into the well", knocking down a large piece.

These Jin soldiers were stunned by the sudden Song Army, and they didn't have time to fight back, and they were cut down by the Miao soldiers one by one, either their heads or their arms were cut off, and they fell to the ground one after another, and in less than five minutes, the 500 Jin soldiers were wrapped in dumplings and all were wiped out.

Wan Yan Liang on the north bank didn't know anything, the second and third teams rushed across the pontoon bridge again, these golden soldiers did not have time to set up, under the fierce attack of the Song army, they were quickly routed and retreated to the pontoon bridge. The fourth team returned to the pontoon bridge, and for a time the people and horses were crowded, and the Jin army was in chaos.

Yang Xiaoer ordered the archers to launch rockets and fireballs, and in an instant, the pontoon bridge burst into flames, and the fire took advantage of the north wind to burn more and more, illuminating the entire river.

The pontoon bridge could not bear the weight of the people and horses, and it was broken into two sections with a "click", and the golden soldiers who fell into the river were drowned, and those who did not fall into the water were also shot on the bridge deck by random arrows.

As soon as he saw that the pontoon bridge was burned, Wan Yanliang jumped like thunder, beheaded all the spies of the navy who fled back, and threatened that as long as he crossed the Yangtze River, the first thing to deal with was the Song army troops who burned the pontoon bridge. After dawn, the Jin army had to temporarily collect some civilian boats from the vicinity and put them together to prepare to forcibly cross the river again.

As soon as the war began, the Song army's warships relied on their huge bodies to eat their opponents, and they sank many Jin army ships one after another. Under the impact of the Song army's big ship, the Jin army suffered heavy losses and reluctantly retreated to Jiangbei.

The next day, Wan Yanliang, who had taken a short rest, attacked again, and Yu Yunwen, the general of the Song army, ordered the warships to anchor in the middle of the river, prepare strong bows and crossbows, and wait for the Jin army to cross the river.

With yesterday's lesson, the Jin soldiers did not dare to rush, and kept retreating together, the Song army's rockets and artillery volleys, and all the Jin army's warships were burned by the Song army.

The commander Li Xianzhong's troops finally arrived, and Yu Yunwen handed over the command to him, and at the same time borrowed more than 10,000 troops to go to Zhenjiang to continue to guard against the attack of the Jin soldiers.

Wan Yan Liang was annoyed and angry, and led his troops back to Hezhou (now Hexian County, Anhui), approached Yangzhou, and planned to forcibly cross the river from Guazhou Ferry (now south of Yangzhou, Jiangsu). In a dilemma, his temper became more and more irritable, and he whipped the generals at every turn, wantonly killing his subordinates, and the resentment of the Jin soldiers increased day by day.

On the 26th, Wan Yanliang issued a death order to the generals: "You can't cross the river for three days, and all the generals and ministers with the army will be beheaded." ”

Wan Yanliang is cruel and ferocious, and when he says it, all the generals know that he may not be able to escape this catastrophe. It's better to have a fish to die and break the net, the soldiers and horses of western Zhejiang are all under the control of Yan Yuanyi and his son Wang Xianghe, the chief steward of the capital Shan Shousu, Meng'an Tang Kuo Wuye and other generals and the soldiers of the guards of Wanyan Liang gathered together in the middle of the night to discuss the way out.

Wanyan Yuanyi said: "I heard that on the second day of the first lunar month, the new emperor has succeeded to the throne in the north. Rather than sit and wait to die, we should take advantage of the opportunity of (Wanyan) Liang to fall asleep, slaughter this ruthless fellow, and present a gift to the new emperor in the north, otherwise we will not survive tomorrow. ”

After Yan Yuanyi finished speaking, all the generals raised their hands in approval. So, the plan to assassinate Yan Liang was completed, and everything was going on quietly.