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In the Ruisi Hall of the Bianliang Palace, it seems that there will always be a gloomy and bleak atmosphere of decadence.

Behind the gorgeously carved imperial table, sat the Great Song Emperor Zhao Huan with a sad face.

This is a twenty-six or seventeen-year-old young man, although he has inherited the upright and handsome appearance of Song Huizong, but he does not have the vigor and sharpness that a young man should have, his face is blue and white, his eyes are godless, and his body under the crimson robe is thin and dry, and there is no momentum at all. Even worse than his artist father.

In general, Emperor Zhao Huan, who has only recently ascended the throne for only one year, is not a decisive person. He was born in the deep palace and grew up in the hands of women, and what he learned in his life was either poetry and songs, or moral articles. seems to be literary and elegant, but whether it is the judgment of the general trend of the world or the tricks in the ********, it is only the level of a layman - but at the beginning of his accession to the throne, he caught up with this turbulent era that has not been encountered in a century!

- It feels a bit like letting Hu Shi sit in Chiang Kai-shek's position to lead the war of resistance and deal with the onslaught of the Japanese invaders and the betrayal of his own people......

In fact, so much bad news was born in the first year of Jingkang - the ferocious and fierce Jurchen Iron Cavalry, the waste wood officers and soldiers who have been defeated repeatedly, the uncontrollable ministers and scholars, the Emperor Taishang who jumps out from time to time to make trouble, and those younger brothers who are not well-intentioned, have tortured this fragile literati emperor to the point of madness, and just want to stop there, see no one, and don't care about anything...... However, the position of this emperor still has to be sitting.

Therefore, he still had to brace himself and try to cope with the current war situation, which was getting worse every day.

——Since last autumn, the Jin Yu Iron Cavalry, which has been wreaking havoc in the north like a no-man's land, has become the biggest nightmare for the monarchs and ministers of the Song Dynasty.

In October last year, the Jin army went south to the Central Plains for the first time, and Guo Yaoshi, a rebel general of the Liao State who was guarding Youzhou and other places at that time, defected again and defected to the Jin army to fight against the Great Song Dynasty. Immediately afterwards, the Jurchen Iron Cavalry swept Hebei, and quickly destroyed the Song people's defense on the front line with their strong mobility and attack power, and deployed the Song army's military forces east of the Taihang Mountains and north of the Yellow River, and carried out a large-scale annihilation of the formation.

In just two months, from Hebei to Shandong, there was wolf smoke everywhere, rumors were heard, and the entire front line collapsed, leaving only a lonely city in Taiyuan that was still struggling to hold on. The artist emperor Song Huizong, who was famous for his calligraphy and painting, was so frightened that he lost his soul and actually gave way to Song Qinzong and fled south to Jianghuai to avoid trouble. Immediately afterwards, before the procrastinating Great Song Dynasty had time to think of countermeasures, the Jin soldiers had already appeared outside Bianliang City - one can imagine how frightened and helpless these Bianliang people, who had enjoyed a peaceful and comfortable life for hundreds of years, would be frightened and helpless when they saw the foreign army suddenly appear at the door of their homeland.

Fortunately, seeing that the emperor was in danger, it was the best time for the courtiers to show their loyalty. So an army of the king of Zhiqin rushed to Bianliang, quite a concerted effort to chase the Tartar captives, but unfortunately the results were not satisfactory - in the first Bianliang defense battle, the Song Dynasty court took out all the capital, the Western Army, the forbidden army, the righteous army went into battle together, a total of more than 600,000 Song troops rescued Bianliang, but were all defeated by 60,000 gold soldiers in Bianliang as the center, within a radius of 200 kilometers, or were disabled, or were defeated...... In the end, Song Qinzong was completely desperate for the combat effectiveness of the Great Song Dynasty official army, and had to loot property to bribe the Jin soldiers and beg them to retreat, which barely survived the disaster in the early spring of the first year of Jingkang.

Next, the Great Song Dynasty, which had barely recovered its strength, still had some of the arrogance of the Heavenly Empire, and did not admit defeat, but like a gambling stick with red eyes, the military forces that the entire country could gather were thrown into the battlefield - from the northwest to send the seed master Dao, Yao Gu, and seed division to the front line of Hedong and Hebei, and bet all the gambling money at hand, and started a more tragic battle for Taiyuan.

It's a pity that His Majesty, the new emperor of the throne, is still waiting for one fiasco after another.

——In May, Yao Gu led his troops to Weisheng, and when he heard that the soldiers of Muhan were coming, everyone was shocked and there was a great earthquake in Hedong. During this period, the defense line built by the Song army along the Taihang Mountain completely collapsed, and in August, Zhang Hao and the Jin people fought in Wenshui with a visit to Hedong and suffered a heavy defeat. Ding Wei, who no longer attacked the Guangxin Army and Baozhou, did not relent, and then committed the real decision. Wushen, the commander Zhang Sizheng and others attacked the Jin people in Wenshui County at night, and won a small victory. Ji You, Zhang Sizheng led the troops to resume the battle, and the division was defeated in a few moments, tens of thousands of people died, and Sizheng ran to Fenzhou. The division of the capital system can be sought and collapsed in Zixia Mountain. Weisheng, Longde, Fen, Jin, Ze, and Jiangmin all crossed the river to the south, and the prefectures and counties were empty. The Jin people took advantage of the victory to attack Taiyuan again. In September, Taiyuan fell, and Zhang Xiaochun was captured in pacification, and Wang Yu, the deputy governor of the capital, and Fang Ji, the general judge, were both killed. At this point, the situation on the battlefield in Hedong (i.e., modern Shanxi) completely collapsed, and the strategic situation faced by the Song Dynasty was even worse.

With the defeat of the Battle of Taiyuan and the destruction of hundreds of thousands of elite field troops, the imperial capital of Bianliang was completely exposed to the attack arrows of the Jin army. In October, the Jin people fell into Fenzhou, and Zhang Kejian, the governor of the prefecture, and Jia Yan, the prisoner of the soldiers and horses, were killed in battle. The Jin people immediately took advantage of the victory to capture Pingyang Mansion, and then captured important strongholds such as Weisheng, Longde, Zezhou, and Zhending. The Song army's strategic maneuver space was further compressed. In November of the first year of Jingkang, the Jin army crossed the Yellow River again, and the 120,000 Song troops guarding the river were frightened by a war drum and all dispersed.

As a result, Zhao Huan, the emperor of the Great Song Dynasty, had to start the battle to defend the capital for the second time in the first year of his accession to the throne.

However, the situation faced by the Song army defending the city at this time was much worse than the situation in the last Battle of Bianliang in Tokyo ten months ago.

——At this moment, the counties east of the Great Song River have been surrendered or broken, and they have been completely lost, and there is only a group of stragglers left in Hebei. The Song army on the outskirts of Bianliang almost no longer posed any threat to the Jin soldiers. The division of the Quartet Qinwang was sent back by the lord and the traitorous ministers without authorization, and Tokyo Bianliang completely became an isolated city!

Compared with the military defeat, the more fatal problem for the Song army and people was the devastating blow to their confidence.

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In later generations, there was an evaluation: The Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union, which lasted for 40 years, was essentially a psychological war, and when the Soviets lost confidence in defeating the United States from top to bottom, even if their army was still large and strong, it could no longer prevent the internal collapse of the country.

- In the same way, when the monarchs and ministers of the Song Dynasty and the people of the Song Dynasty faced the unprecedented bad news of being invincible for a year, they all played a psychological shadow from top to bottom, and completely lost confidence in defeating the Jin people, no matter how solid the Jingshi Bianliang was, it was difficult to win this defensive battle.

Before the Jin army entered the army, the citizens of Bianliang were quite proud - in any case, the Great Song Dynasty was the richest and most civilized country in the world today. Bianliang is the most prosperous city in the world, and countless literary styles, poems and songs can be seen everywhere in the market...... This huge psychological advantage at the level of civilization is far from the imagination of future generations. Just as the future of America was called the Lighthouse Nation.

Although there is no longer the strong self-confidence of the Han family and the people of the Han dynasty who looked down on the world and looked at the world, the general mentality of the people of the Song Dynasty was far from falling to the pathetic Cheng dù of the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, which admired the foreign and was willing to be lowly - probably more similar to the psychological state of the "old European" people after World War II.

But the problem is that the successive defeats and unprecedented defeats during the Jingkang period have stunned the residents of Bianliang, Tokyo, who had a high regard for themselves in the past, and the Great Song Empire, which looks like a behemoth, has already become an embroidered pillow, which looks like a flower on the outside, but it is just a bag of straw inside.

At the time of the first Kaifeng defense battle, the people also believed that the reason why the Great Song Dynasty lost the battle was only because of the traitorous ministers in the court. The replacement of the old and new emperors, the prestige of the monarch was not revealed, and the government was chaotic, so the Jin people were beaten to the ground, and they were forced to sign the alliance under the city for land reparation.

In short, in the eyes of the Song people at that time, the Jurchen Tartars just seized the opportunity to choose a cheap. Although the battle was lost, the national strength of the Great Song Dynasty was still there, and the loyal ministers and good generals were returned. Once you cheer up, why should the little North slave worry about it? At the beginning, with the strength of the Great Song Dynasty, even if it was led by Tong Guan, a traitor, he could achieve a brilliant victory in the battle of conquering Western Xia. Now that the new monarch has sat on the throne, the court situation has initially stabilized, and there are loyal ministers and good generals such as Li Gang, Wu Min, and Chongshi Dao, who will definitely be able to be ashamed on the battlefield and recast the military prestige of the Great Song Dynasty.

But something unexpected happened. The imperial court poured all its military strength into the rescue of Taiyuan three times before and after, and more than 100,000 elite Western troops were actually annihilated by a member of the Jin Army, a young general, Yinshu, who could use 20,000 soldiers and horses! The seed master was killed, the defeat of the fold can be sought, Zhang was destroyed, the seed master Min was killed, Yao Gu was defeated, the seed master Dao died, and Li Gang, who presided over the military, was exiled - the Great Song Dynasty was defeated! The record has been so bleak that it is impossible to watch!

When the enemy hit under their noses again, the once extremely confident Song people were stunned, and the seemingly powerful and wealthy Great Song Dynasty had fallen to the point of being bullied by others, and it was not a problem that could be solved by killing a few traitors and appointing a few so-called "main battle factions".

No one knew what to do, everyone was confused, and an air of panic and despair hung over the city, as if the end of the world was coming.

- The bustling city of Bianliang in Tokyo, where there is smoke everywhere and the streets are full of commotion crowds...... Hundreds of people dragged their families and frantically rushed towards the city gates. Trying to leave the city before it was destroyed, but was blocked by the imperial court's martial law lockdown order, he could only shout frantically, running between the gates, and the whole city was thrown into chaos.

In the face of the Jin people's arrival in the city again, Emperor Zhao Huan's appearance was not much better - sometimes he was very afraid of the Jin people, hated to move the capital immediately to avoid trouble, and sometimes he contemptuous of the Jin people and threatened to destroy the Jin people...... The whole person seems to have schizophrenia, which is not normal.

Psychologically speaking, he has always wanted to flee away to avoid the army for a while, but if Zhao Huan really abandoned the temple and abandoned the city and ran away, it would be impossible - the family of the Banzhi Forbidden Army around him was in Tokyo, if the emperor forced them to abandon their wives and children to escort them to break through, believe it or not, the whole army would collapse when they landed?

In the midst of the emperor's dilemma and the dismantling of the courtiers and gentry, Bianliang, the capital master, soon crumbled under the onslaught of the Jin army.

A cowardly emperor who has no assertiveness and perseverance is so pathetic, ridiculous and contemptible in this troubled world.

In this atmosphere of despair and helplessness, immortals like Guo Jing suddenly became popular in Bianliang City, and were regarded as a lifesaver by everyone, including the emperor, who did not hesitate to reward and promote them. In this regard, many scholars who claimed to be rational were very worried, and wrote to oppose it: "...... The humble self-cloth is the control, the witchcraft is involved in the scheme, and the merchant is appointed as the general, and its disadvantages are beyond words. The columns are all leading troops to and from the city, which is really child's play. People of insight are quite worried about the court, and foolish people think they have a plan. The people's feelings are worried, and the things that are written and disseminated are not one. There was a commotion between the juniors in the army, and we were very troubled by the court. "It seems plausible and reasonable.

Unfortunately, they underestimated the subtleties of the human heart after all—in the darkest of times, people instinctively grasp whatever they have at hand that can give them hope, even if it is only an illusory hope, from the royal relatives to the common people.

- Despair, despair, either explodes in despair, or perverts in despair: such as a collective becoming a fanatic or something.

As a result, Emperor Zhao Huan of Qinzong still ignored the advice of those "loyal ministers" and put most of his hopes on those immortal Taoism.

In the real history, Guo Jing led the "Liujia Divine Soldiers" to fail in the attack, and finally led to the fall of Jingshi and the birth of the "Shame of Jingkang", but in this time and space forcibly distorted by the traversers, Guo Jing Guo Daxianren, who changed his soul, gave the emperor an unexpected surprise.

“…… Official! Official! Exultation! Great joy! ”

An attendant suddenly stumbled into the main hall and reported good news to Zhao Huan, "...... Guo Zhenren just set up an altar at the East Water Gate to cast a spell, first to disperse the wind and snow, to ask for a sunny day, and then to conjure up a boulder and smash back the Jin army! This is a blessing from God and my Great Song! The people are cheering! ”

“…… Is this true? Zhao Huan stood up from behind the imperial case, and sure enough, he saw that the ground outside the hall was sprinkled with golden sunlight.

- Although the battle situation on the city wall outside cannot be confirmed, the bright sunlight shining on the stone steps outside the temple cannot be faked!

As a result, the only trace of doubt in Zhao Huan's heart disappeared, and he only felt boundless joy filling his chest.

“…… Spread the word! Summons Guo Zhenren! This real person really has great magical powers, and I want to ask him for immortal arts! ”