Chapter 2: The Tragedy of Chinese Civilization
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In the first year of Jingkang of the Great Song Dynasty (1126), late at night on the ninth day of the leap eleventh, the capital of the Northern Song Dynasty, "Tokyo" Bianliang (i.e., Kaifeng).
In the midst of the blowing wind and snow, this great city with a population of one million is in the midst of a miserable beacon war.
In Bianjing City, which is shrouded in night, every house turns off the lights and closes its doors. The Zhouqiao Night Market, which was once as bright as the Milky Way, and the Fan Tower, where the sound of singing and dancing all night long, were all hidden in the darkness. Only the light of the fire on the city wall reflected the shadows of the trees in all directions, casting on the lifeless houses.
Except for the occasional night watchman, the once-brightly lit metropolis of the East is as silent as a dead city.
-- No one would have thought that just two years after the destruction of the Liao State, the old enemy in the north, and the recovery of Yan Yun's hometown, this splendid Song Dynasty, which was rich and prosperous, would actually follow in the footsteps of the old enemy Liao, and in the blink of an eye, it would fall to the point where the territory was shattered and the national capital was in danger!
And this qiē was born from more than ten years ago, between the white mountains and black waters, an obscure border barbarian small tribe.
In the spring of 1114 AD, the Jurchen chieftain Wanyan Agu could not bear the oppression of the Khitan court, and raised troops against the Liao, repeatedly defeating the Khitan official army.
In 1115 AD, Emperor Tianzuo of Liao devoted all his troops to the Jurchen rebels. Unexpectedly, in the battle of the Foot Guard, the whole army of the Khitan people collapsed, the corpses were hundreds of miles, the Tianzuo Emperor fled in a hurry, fled from place to place, and the tribes in various places betrayed one after another, and the eastern territory of the Liao State was eroded out of control.
Seeing such a rapid new force rising in Haidong and shattering the old enemy Liao, the Great Song Dynasty couldn't help but celebrate, thinking that they could take the opportunity to contact the Jurchens and attack the Khitans in the north and south, so as to realize their long-cherished wish to recover the sixteen states of Yanyun.
Soon after, the Song and Jin countries signed the "Maritime Alliance", agreeing that the Jin army would march westward and the Song army would expedition north, and the Liao State would be carved up together.
However, although the Jin army's offensive was unmatched, it successively conquered Shangjing, Zhongjing and other places in the Liao State. The Northern Expedition of the Song Army was extremely weak, the commander Tong Guan was incomprehensible, the command was absurd, and the generals of the various departments were also full of contradictions. In the end, it was the Jin army that took the lead in knocking south and attacking Yanjing, making the Northern Expedition of the Song Dynasty a complete joke.
In order to cover up the military defeat, the Song Dynasty had to send envoys to negotiate, spent a large amount of money and cloth, and ransomed Yanjing City from the Jin army.
However, just when Song Huizong, who was swollen and fat, held a ceremony to worship the heavens in the southern suburbs of Bianliang, boasting to his ancestors about his "great martial arts" of directly recovering Yanyun's hometown, he didn't know that he was about to become the next prey of the Jurchen Iron Cavalry.
In the spring of 1125 AD, Emperor Tianzuo, the last monarch of the Liao State, was captured by Jin soldiers in Yingzhou, and the Liao State was officially destroyed. However, before the monarchs and ministers of the Great Song Dynasty had time to celebrate the defeat of their old enemy, they were shocked to see that after the Jurchens eliminated the Liao Dynasty, they immediately turned the target of invasion to the Song Dynasty without stopping!
In October 1125, the Jin Kingdom invaded south from the east and west. The Western Route Army was led by Wanyan Zonghan (Sticky Han) and advanced to Taiyuan. The Eastern Route Army was led by Wanyan Zongwang (斡立不) to advance to Yanjing. The two Jin soldiers planned to meet in Bianliang, Tokyo, the capital of the Song Dynasty, so as to destroy the Song Dynasty in one fell swoop!
Zong Han's Western Route Army had a bad start, although it went all the way to Taiyuan City, but the Taiyuan City that Zhang Xiaochun and Wang Yu led the crowd to hold on to became an obstacle in the eyes of the Jin people, and it was difficult to attack for several months. However, Zongwang's Eastern Route Army was overwhelmed - as soon as Zongwang arrived in Yanjing, the Song Dynasty defenders immediately surrendered. The Jin soldiers took the opportunity to drive south and sweep Hebei, and hundreds of thousands of Song troops were attacked by tens of thousands of Jurchen soldiers, either desiring the wind or crushing at the first touch. In the midst of successive victories, the Jin Army made great strides towards Bianliang, Tokyo, with an astonishing degree. The cowardly Emperor Huizong panicked when he heard the news, and even wanted to abandon the country and flee south. Most of the courtiers, however, strenuously opposed the escape, advocating the appointment of prestigious officials and sticking to them.
In the midst of this chaos, Huizong passed the throne to the crown prince, and he retreated to the second line. In December, the crown prince Zhao Huan (Qinzong) ascended the throne and changed the name of the next year to Jingkang. Huizong abdicated, called "Emperor Daojun", called "Emperor Taishang", and fled from Beijing to Jiangnan.
At this time, due to the chaotic defense of the alternating powers, the Jin army crossed the Yellow River almost without resistance. In desperation, Song Qinzong, who had just ascended the throne, ordered Li Gang, the minister of the main battle faction, to arrange the defense of Tokyo City. Li Gang, who was ordered to be in danger, used the "100-step method" to divide troops and prepare for the defense at the four walls of the capital, with 12,000 regular soldiers on each wall, 40,000 people in the front and rear of the horse infantry army, and 8,000 people in each army. It was also equipped with all kinds of defensive weapons and tools, and the preliminary preparations for war were completed within four days.
At this time, Wanyan Zongwang's Eastern Route Army had arrived at the city of Tokyo, and while wantonly plundering the villages and towns on the outskirts of Beijing, it sent a group of Jin soldiers down the river with dozens of fireboats to attack Xuanzemen. Li Gang took 2,000 brave soldiers, laid out the city, used a long hook to ride the enemy's ship, and threw stones to attack. He also arranged the sticks in the middle of the stream, carried the rocks in Cai Jing's house, and blocked the doorway. In this battle, the Song army killed more than 100 Jin soldiers in the water, and finally temporarily defeated the arrogance of the Jin soldiers.
Next, the soldiers and horses of the Qin King from all over the Song Dynasty continued to come to aid Tokyo. There are more than 200,000 in total, including top famous generals such as the commander of the Western Army, and the total number of Jin soldiers around Bianliang is only 60,000.
Zong Wang saw that the Song army was crowded, and Bianjing was difficult to attack, so he had to retreat the military camp to the north and did not dare to move lightly. However, Emperor Qinzong, who was also very weak, did not take the opportunity to break the enemy to establish power, but proposed to cede the three towns of Taiyuan, Hejian and Zhongshan to sue for peace.
-- No matter how ugly the battle was, the Northern Song Dynasty finally survived the first battle of Tokyo and won a period of respite.
However, in the following year, Song Qinzong and his cronies fully expressed the bad habits of the insiders in the civil war and the outsiders in the foreign war, and further played the already dismal bad cards to the point where they could not be cleaned up at all-ignoring the relationship between father and son at home, brazenly imprisoned the emperor, provoked large-scale party disputes and civil and military discord, and scattered the people of the court; Externally, he couldn't make up his mind between war and peace, and tore up the peace treaty for a while, driving the Song army to counterattack; After a while, he sent messengers to beg the Jin people for mercy and peace, and cut the land and bribe...... The result was that it not only angered the Jurchens, but also chilled the hearts of the Great Song soldiers, and in a series of unconscionable battles, Yan zhòng consumed the living strength of the Song army and greatly weakened the defense of the capital.
In August of the first year of Jingkang, Jin Taizong once again launched a large army to attack the Song Dynasty after a lapse of ten months. The Jin army of the Second Southern Expedition still had Wanyan Zongwang as the left deputy marshal and Wanyan Zonghan as the right deputy marshal, and marched in two ways, east and west. At the beginning of September, Taiyuan, which had been besieged by the Jin soldiers for 250 days, was finally captured by the Jin army when foreign aid failed and there was no food and grass inside.
After the fall of Taiyuan, Zong Han had no worries, so he divided his troops to occupy Fenzhou, Jinzhou, and Shouyang. Zong Wang also defeated the troops under the command of Min and Yansong, and then returned to capture Zhendingfu (present-day Anyang, Henan) in early October, basically destroying the resistance of the Song army in Hebei.
Seeing the complete collapse of the Hebei and Hedong fronts, the opening of the gate of Bianjing City, and the resurgence of the Jurchens, the monarchs and ministers of the Song Dynasty panicked and hurriedly gathered 120,000 troops and handed them over to the famous general Zhi Yanzhi, asking him to guard the crossing of the Yellow River, in an attempt to resist the enemy with the danger of the Yellow River.
In order to compete with Zongwang, Wanyan Zonghan led a small number of vanguard troops to the north bank of the Yellow River, and saw that the Song army on the opposite bank was not only prepared, but also seemed to be very powerful, and was worried that he would break the strength of the troops by crossing the river rashly, so he decided to camp first to confront the Song army in the river. In view of the small number of soldiers on his side, in order to prevent the sneak attack of the Song army, Wanyan Zonghan designed a bluff and carried all the drums in the military camp to the bank of the river, and let the sergeants take turns to beat them all night......
Who knew that just this drum beat frightened the 120,000 Song troops, and the "famous general" Zhi Yanzhi took the lead in abandoning the army and fleeing for his life, and more than 100,000 Song troops scattered in a hurry at night, trampling on each other and killing countless people, and countless grain and grass were cheap for the pursuing Jin soldiers.
A drum beat broke through the 120,000 army...... The officers and soldiers of the Great Song Dynasty once again left a page of "brilliant" records in the history books that could not be surpassed by later generations.
In late November, a large number of Jin troops broke through the Yellow River defense line without a battle and arrived again in Bianliang, Tokyo, and the national capital was already in great danger. At that time, the division of the Quartet Qinwang did not arrive, and the Beijing division was all shocked, and those who fled to Jiangnan and Bashu were connected to the road.
-- Tang Ke and Geng Nanzhong, who were in power in the imperial court, were bent on seeking peace, and they were in collusion with Nie Changxin, who was in charge of the affairs of the Privy Council, and actually stopped the soldiers of the kings from all walks of life: according to the views of these scholars, first, if the reinforcements from all over the country were so large that people would eat and chew, there would be no way to supply and guarantee Bianjing; Second, since we have decided to sue for peace, we should show due sincerity, and we should also put a large army outside the city. If you give authority to others, how can peace be accomplished? The Song Dynasty let such pedantic scholars and doctors take charge of national affairs at a critical juncture, and it is simply unreasonable for the country not to die!
As a result, the local government learned that the military situation in Beijing was urgent, and they successively raised troops and horses to come to Bianliang. I didn't know that I had only reached the halfway point when I received an order from the DPRK and the central government -- the stragglers were divided into various places and each was on standby! So these loyal ministers were greatly defeated and returned in despair.
It was not until the eve of the second Kaifeng defense battle that Song Qinzong finally found out in horror that the forbidden army in Bianjing City was either killed or wounded or fled, or went out to other places after these years of use, and only 70,000 soldiers were left in the city at this time. The soldiers and horses of the king of Qinwang in the field were nowhere to be seen, but more than 100,000 Jin troops from Hedong and Hebei continued to join forces in Bianjing City...... Seeing that the city was about to collapse and the country was about to fall, Emperor Qinzong suddenly woke up, and quickly deposed a cadre and sent traitorous ministers, and replaced the minister He Li as the prime minister of the main battle faction, and presided over the second Kaifeng defense war.
However, although this new Zaifu, who was born in the champion, is rich and wealthy, he is not good at military affairs, and in the face of the disparity in military strength, it is difficult for a clever woman to cook without rice. In a hurry, the prime minister and his cronies had no choice but to turn to the side door...... As a result, several masters from outside the world suddenly came out of nowhere and made their debut!
-- Sun Fu, the secretary of the military department, read the "Sentimental Poem" one day, which was a popular poem at that time that was said to be able to prophecy (a bit like pushing back pictures and burning cake songs), and saw that there was a saying "Guo Jing Yang Shi Liu Wuji", from which he got inspiration, ordered a search of the whole city, found a citizen named Liu Wuji in Bianliang Fang, and found a deputy capital head (military position) named Guo Jing from the Silong Wei camp in front of the palace. Hearing some good deeds say that this Guo Jing is good at the art of inviting gods in Liujia and can scatter beans into soldiers, Sun Fu was overjoyed when he heard this, and immediately sent a message to the court, asking to be entrusted with a heavy task, hoping to use him to capture Zong Han and Zong Wang.
Although this matter sounds very ridiculous, but in the panic situation of the Jin soldiers besieging the city, everyone in Bianliang City is looking forward to grasping a life-saving straw, so not only the emperor believes it, Zai believes it, but most of the citizens of Bianliang also believe it. And Guo Jing also has a superior style just looking at his appearance, saying that as long as he chooses a day to send troops, his backhand can lead to peace, and he will definitely drive the Jin people straight to Yinshan.
So the court did not doubt Guo Jing's false words, and specially approved tens of thousands of money and silk to let Guo Jing recruit troops in the city. And Guo Jing also declared that he would form a "divine army" of 7,777 people to go out of the city to meet the Jurchens, and he was bound to be able to defeat the enemy in one battle. As soon as this case was opened, the three religions and nine streams in the capital, such as selling medicine and killing pigs, appeared one after another, and they talked about military affairs every day, and it seemed that the small people in the city all had "the brightness of Kongming, the brightness of Zhuge ".
Up to this point, the trajectory of a qiē is no different from that in history. The failure of Guo Jing's 7,000 so-called "divine soldiers" will soon become the last straw that crushes the camel's back, causing the Northern Song Dynasty to collapse in an absurd drama that transcends the lower limit of ordinary people's thinking.
-- The "shame of Jingkang" that has made countless Han men strangled will soon be staged in this prosperous and splendid Bianliang City.
…… However, some guys who do not belong to these times have quietly replaced the identities of some people under some inexplicable force.
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In the city of Bianliang, Tianqing Temple, the residence of the "immortal" Guo Jing
Under the dim oil lamp, Guo Jing, who was wearing a cyan robe, held a cup of hot tea and sat cross-legged alone. On the table next to him, there was the emperor's holy decree that he was canonized as "Doctor Wu Liu, Yanzhou Assassin History" - this is much more bullish than the "Wudu head" of the tiger hero Wu Song.
However, this Guo Jing Immortal turned a blind eye to this holy decree that showed supreme glory, and just looked at the black Lord God watch in his hand, and sighed uncontrollably, "...... What the hell, what can I do now? What should I do to fool the Emperor? And how to defend against the Jinren? ”
――Seeing this, everyone must understand that this Guo Jing Guo Daxian, who was regarded as the savior by the Great Song Dynasty, has actually been replaced a long time ago.
The current Guo Daxian is no longer the deputy head of Guo Jing of the Northern Song Dynasty Forbidden Army, but the political commissar of Guo Jing with the same name and surname in the 21st century.
But the problem is that Guo Jingxian at this time, or Guo Jing's political commissar from the twenty-first century, since he woke up, in addition to not only showing himself through a thousand years of time, but also changing his identity, there are more incredible things:
“…… Is this what the novel is talking about as 'crossing'? But what about this watch? And the message that came to mind ...... "Infinite Terror"...... Damn it! Where are those veterans? And what is the task this time? Which team am I on? ”
Political Commissar Guo muttered with a tangled face, only feeling that his brain hurt for a while.
He had been reawakened for most of the day in this strange time, but he was very confused about his current situation.
-- I had a strange watch in my hand, and I had a lot of memories in my mind that didn't belong to me, and I was suddenly able to understand the words of the people of the Song Dynasty...... This made him think that he had been thrown into some terrifying gladiatorial arena, followed by endless death fights and intrigues......
But the problem is that when Political Commissar Guo finally fused the memories of the god stick Guo Jing and woke up in this distant time and space, there were no veterans who should have been saved, nor any traces of other newcomers, and the watch in his hand did not give any tasks, and even some information about the "main god" that he leaked intentionally or unintentionally did not cause any systematic punishment...... But it was also not understood by the Song Dynasty.
Thinking of this, he couldn't help but sigh, then raised his hand and looked at his arm. There, the watch, which represents the main god's space, still exists, but there is nothing on the screen of the watch, not even the most basic time.
What the hell is going on? What kind of "main god" is having a convulsion? Or is there something special about me?
Could it be that for some special reason, this has turned into an "ordinary" crossing?!
But even if it is just "ordinary" to travel to the second Kaifeng defense battle in the late Northern Song Dynasty, it is enough to make people feel like a fight.
-- The brutal Liaodong barbarians are about to crush the century-old prosperity of Bianliang into mud, and neither Guo Jing's divine stick before the shell change nor Guo Jing's political commissar after the shell change has prevented this tragedy...... Not to mention that he was a staunch believer in atheism!
Isn't it as ridiculous to ask a political commissar to ask God to do it as it is to ask a Catholic priest to go to a mosque to conduct prayers?
But just before he crossed over, Guo Jing's "predecessor" had already patted the emperor's chest and made a package ticket, saying nonsense that the gods descended from heaven to help the Great Song Dynasty, not only Bianliang City could be safe, but also led the divine soldiers to chase and kill the Jin people until Yinshan and capture the two commanders of the Jin army alive.
The imperial court even issued a public decree for the carpenters in the city to make wooden cage prisoner carts, ready to load these invading enemies.
-- The Song people once again showed the world their foresight in preparing for a rainy day: the effect of tying up ropes and parading prisoners of war in the streets is estimated to be far worse than loading them in prisoner cars, so as to deter the four people and let them know the consequences of becoming enemies of the Great Song Dynasty!
Despite the battlefield situation at this time, it was precisely the Great Song Dynasty that was besieged by the Jin Corps in the city of Bianliang, which had become a prison!
“…… The golden soldiers besieged the city, and there was no way to escape...... Alas, is this crossing just for my death? Political Commissar Guo muttered depressedly.
“…… Don't be so frustrated, comrade newcomer! Aren't we here to help you figure it out? Huh? Professor Guo?! ”
Hearing the voice coming from the shadows of the room, Political Commissar Guo turned around in astonishment, and then was even more surprised to see a young man in casual clothes, who seemed to be a little familiar. There was also an elementary school student in undershirt shorts, as well as a ...... A blue and round machine cat?!!
So, with the "Smack! It was as if the sound of something breaking sounded from Comrade Guo Jing's mind.
Suddenly, Political Commissar Guo felt that the worldview in his mind had collapsed again.