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Chapter 16, the sad Jin Army

On the evening of the 22nd day of the 11th month of the first year of Jingkang

On the outskirts of Bianliang, the camp of the Jin Army in Qingcheng Walled City.

Since the temperature plummeted again, the heavy snowfall that had lasted for a day and a night has come to an end for the time being, but the clouds in the sky are still heavy. The winter sun is so weak that even at noon, it can't penetrate the clouds, and the whole world is still in darkness.

And it is completely different from today's gloomy weather, Wan Yan Zonghan, the commander of the Dajin West Route Army, stepped on a brisk step, and in the sound of the guards outside the tent, without waiting for the permission of the owner of the big tent, he opened the door curtain and walked into the tent of Wan Yan Zongwang, the commander of the East Route Army.

As the curtain was lifted, Zong Han felt a wave of heat rushing over his face—not only because of the faint blue flame of a pile of high-grade tribute charcoal in the two cooked copper furnaces seized from the suburban villa, but also because the fragrant scenery in the tent could make every man burn from the bottom of his heart.

In the tent that is more than ten steps wide, there are more than a dozen beautiful women of different ages dancing. They were wearing only a few strands of tulle, and their bodies were dancing, and their private places were faintly visible. In the corner of the tabernacle, a beautiful woman was plucking the lute and singing a new tune. Sitting on a soft couch covered with several layers of sheepskin, Wanyan Zongwang was surrounded by five or six stunning women who were half-naked, pouring wine and food for him.

Zong Han glanced at the charming scenery in the tent, and laughed, "You don't have to leave (Zong Wang's Jurchen name), you enjoy it so much!" ”

It's a pity that despite the fact that in the midst of this lively and fragrant faction of warblers and swallows, the owner of the tent, Wanyan Zongwang, is still very depressed...... Seeing Zong Han, an uninvited villain, suddenly came to the door, Zong Wang's face suddenly became even more ugly, and even a little annoyance flashed from the bottom of his eyes, but he was more ashamed - as the leader of the two largest military and political forces in the Jin State, and the two powerful contenders for the throne of the Jin State in the future, Wan Yan Zonghan, the commander of the Western Route Army, and Wan Yan Zongwang, the commander of the East Route Army, have always maintained a not very good rival and partnership. Even when fighting side by side, they never forget to dump and stab each other.

-- In the early days, the Jurchen Wanyan tribe was originally a very loose tribal union, even if it was a brother, once the family property and the people were divided, it was two families, so there were many internal contradictions and many factions.

Among them, the two strongest factions, one is the Aguda and Wu Qimai, but since Wu Qimai ascended the throne, in order to pave the way for his son, there have been many suppressions on Wanyan Zongwang and others after Aguda, so that this faction has gradually shown signs of separation. Before the attack on the Song Dynasty, Zonghan's faction had already controlled the Datong Mansion in Xijing, and had the right to conquer the official conquest by itself, and was known as the Western Imperial Court, and the momentum was extremely prosperous. After that, Wanyan Zonghan repeatedly performed miraculous feats in the war against the Song Dynasty, especially his subordinate general Wanyan Lou Room, with 20,000 people to defeat the Song Dynasty's all-conquering soldiers, in a series of battles such as Xiongling, Yuci, Wenshui, Taiyuan, etc., each battle must be won, annihilating the Song Dynasty's Guanxi Forbidden Army more than 200,000, the brilliance of the war can be called unprecedented, so that Zonghan's Western Route Army further increased its prestige, and it has reached the uncontrollable Cheng Dù.

Therefore, the struggle between the two factions has always been very fierce, and the Eastern Route Army considered itself to be a descendant of the imperial family, but it was secretly suppressed by the emperor Wanyan Wu Qimai, and its strength was relatively poor, and the composition was also mixed with a large number of Han army, Khitans, Bohai people, Xi people, and even Goryeo miscellaneous army. The Western Route Army not only surpassed the Eastern Route Army in terms of combat performance, but also had far more Jurchen elite cavalry than the Eastern Route Army, and regarded itself as a more authentic Jurchen commander.

As a result, the two sides naturally did not like each other, and all kinds of friction never subsided.

According to the original history, not long after the defeat of the Northern Song Dynasty, Zong Wang would have died at the assassination of Zong Han......

Of course, now that Bianliang has not yet fallen, the Song Kingdom still exists, and their dispute has not yet become white-hot, but the full malice of each other is also obvious.

“…… Not as happy as you! Sticky Han (Zong Han's Jurchen name), I heard that you recently got a famous prostitute who sells laughter in Sweetwater Lane in Tokyo City, and all of them are stunning beauties from one in a hundred? Why envy me for this little gain? ”

Zong Wang said lightly as he waved his hand to the women, "...... Go down, all of you. ”

When the women heard this, they hurried to put on their clothes that had been thrown on the ground, and hurried away from their tents—like all the barbarian peoples of this age, the Jurchens were moody, treating women like playthings, and of great worthlessness...... Since the Jin army entered the city of Bianliang, in the Jin army camp of Qingcheng Walled City, hundreds of female corpses that were ravaged and died were thrown out every day!

Although Zong Wang was known for his kindness in the Jin Kingdom and was praised by the Jurchens as the "Bodhisattva Prince", for these Song women who were forcibly captured, he was still like a companion to the tiger, and there was always the danger of misfortune - not to mention that he was in a terrible mood right now.

And Zong Han didn't forget to laugh and pinch a few handfuls on these women's chests or buttocks, taking advantage of them, and then dragged a brocade futon, sat down with a golden knife, and said with a smile, "...... No, has the pickled dirty thing caused by the three-surnamed slave of Pharmacist Guo been cleaned up? ”

“…… It's been disposed of for a long time! It's all a bunch of uncooked wolf cubs! It's so hard to kill them all! ”

Wanyan Zongwang snorted happily, as if he had expected Wanyan Zonghan to mention this unfortunate matter.

Speaking of which, for the sudden rebellion of Guo Yaoshi and Chang Shengjun, whether it was Wanyan Zongwang who was caught off guard or Wanyan Zonghan who gloated, there was an inexplicable, or incredibly strange feeling.

-- In the past, when the Jurchens raised troops, during the Jin-Liao War, the Liao State was defeated one after another, the elite soldiers and strong generals were lost, and most of the land in eastern Liaodong fell. In order to replenish the troops, the Khitan court began to recruit Han and Bohai refugees who fled from Liaodong, and formed a "resentment army", which was later renamed the Changsheng Army, with Guo Yaoshi and other northern Han Haoqiang as generals, hoping to use the grievances of these Liaodong refugees against the Jurchens to create a brave army.

However, this "resentful army", or the Changsheng army, seems to have a backbone in the back of its head from the beginning of the formation of the army, and was scolded by the Khitans as "not resenting the Jurchens, but resenting the national dynasty" -- Guo Yaoshi first led the Changsheng army to surrender to the Song Dynasty, dealing a fatal blow to the crumbling Liao State, and the Song Dynasty rewarded him with a large number of rewards, leaning on the Great Wall of the North, and the Changsheng army also received a large amount of military salaries and baggage, and once expanded to as many as 50,000 people.

The reason why the Song Dynasty was so generous was that it hoped that Guo Yaoshi would be able to repay his kindness and defend the northern frontier for the Great Song Town. Who knew that when the Jin soldiers went south, Guo Yaoshi immediately turned against Yan Zongwang and became the leader of the Jin soldiers' attack on the Song Dynasty, and once again bit the former benefactor...... Since the outbreak of the Song and Jin wars, the Jin army has twice conquered Bianliang in the south, and Guo Yaoshi's victorious army is in the vanguard, burning and plundering all the way, slaughtering villages and burning cities, all evil, the Song people are on the same page with them, and the hatred is as deep as the sea, and they are regarded as white-eyed wolves who will take revenge, and their hatred is probably still above the Jurchens.

If you want to say that such a guy will change his banner and vote for Song, especially at the juncture when the Song Kingdom is about to break, I'm afraid no one in the world will believe it.

――The problem is that under Doraemon's magic prop of the law of cause and effect, "Lies Come True Mouth", nothing is impossible.

In this way, just this afternoon, Guo Yaoshi didn't know what medicine he had taken wrong, and actually gathered his own soldiers and generals, and announced that he was going to defect to the Song Dynasty. The other part of the guys with ghosts in their hearts saw the hope of being at the top...... As a result, before Guo Yaoshi's rebellion could move, he himself was taken down by several dissenting generals and colonels of the Changsheng army, and then, these generals took control of the Chinese army of the Changsheng army and disarmed Guo Yaoshi's own soldiers.

After that, these generals summed up and simply did not do anything, while leading the troops to control their colleagues, and collecting the military power of the Changsheng Army into their own hands, they cut off Guo Yaoshi's head and sent someone to the commander of the Eastern Route Army, Wanyan Zongwang, to ask for merit, in order to be recognized and canonized by the Jin people.

But the problem is that because Guo Yaoshi's rebellion is too nonsensical, completely illogical and unreasonable, Wanyan Zongwang doesn't believe the words of these victorious generals at all, but suspects that they conspired to murder the boss, and then made up a reason to perfunctory themselves...... Obviously, this wind must not rise, if the soldiers and horses of all ethnic groups in the entire Eastern Route Army also follow suit, and the small colonel at the bottom casually fabricated a reason why the pen was not tenable, and cut off the head of his own commander to ask for credit, how can he bring the team of the commander? Just kill each other every day!

- Even if it is a cannon fodder team in the eyes of the Jurchens, they can't be messed up like this!

Therefore, Wanyan Zongwang pretended to praise them for their "merits" in setting things right, and at the same time tricked these guys who killed Guo Yaoshi into the military tent and took them down, and at the same time sent the Jurchen horse team to suppress the camp of the Changsheng army...... After a chaotic battle, Wanyan Zongwang finally stabilized the situation, but the Chang Shengjun had also been detached from morality, and it was basically abandoned. As for whether Pharmacist Guo really wants to rebel, no one can say.

Such an inexplicable riot gave Wanyan Zongwang a headache, and the resulting chaos in the army's morale added a huge variable to the upcoming siege of Bianliang...... It's no wonder that after he cleaned up the mess, he would hide and drink alone.

And after Zong Han heard the news, he didn't forget to come over and make fun of him, an old enemy.

However, no matter how bad the mood is, the current battle still has to be fought.

Therefore, after fighting with Zong Han for a few words, Zong Wang still had a straight face and talked about the next siege plan.

“…… The day before yesterday, I pretended to negotiate peace with the Song people and paralyzed the defenders. At the same time, they gathered troops and horses scattered in Henan and Hebei to prepare for a decisive battle. ”

Pointing to a sand table model of Bianliang City on the table in front of him, Wanyan Zongwang said eloquently, "...... At present, the armies of Luoyang and Hebei have gathered under the city of Bianliang, and the siege equipment has also been completed. This commander plans to take the victorious sergeant as the vanguard early tomorrow morning, and the ants will attach to the city wall and attack Bianliang! Victory will break the city and destroy the Song State in one fell swoop, and defeat can also remove the hidden dangers of our army, and at the same time consume the strength and morale of the Song people......"

“…… That's a good thing! It's the best of both worlds! Zong Han clapped his hands and smiled, "...... It's just that this temporary deployment seems to be waiting to be discussed......"

However, before he could finish his sentence, the two people in the tent felt a violent tremor on the ground at the same time.

The wine jar on the desk fell down with a "snap", and the crisp soju poured out, wetting a large piece of camel hair carpet worth thousands of gold. Zong Han, who was quick to react, immediately held on to the table and was about to stand up, but the table suddenly toppled over, and he fell down together......

When a big crack cracked in the ground and the entire tent collapsed, Zong Han finally heard the panicked shouts outside:

“…… Come on! Everyone, run out! The Floor Flipper! ”