Chapter 276: Peace Talks Again

However, it is a major event to move the capital, and it is not so simple, but Jinling has been the face of the king since ancient times, which plays a vital role in the future of the Great Song Dynasty to focus on the ocean.

Moreover, Jinling not only radiates two Zhejiang roads, but also the center of the two roads in the south of the Yangtze River, and is also an important textile base of Richanglong, in addition to Hangzhou, the southeast five roads are the most prosperous in Jinling City, there are mountains and rivers in the city, and there are countless scenic spots in the dragon garden, not only the scenery is excellent, but also quite aura!

Xiao Ming needed to find an opportunity to propose to Zhao Gou to move the capital, before that, he needed to cater to the public opinion of the national anti-Jin Northern Expedition and carry out an all-round mobilization and troop deployment, but at this time he realized that there was still factional struggle in the army of the Great Song Dynasty!

Although the original forbidden army system was broken by the invasion of the Jin soldiers, some generals relied on their own net worth and local township party training to form their own army, which is most obvious in one side of the Jiedu envoy and Xuanfu envoy, the original Western Army was the most effective army in the Song Dynasty, but now it is indeed divided.

When Zhang Jun was a privy envoy, he organized the regimental training in various parts of Jingxiang, plus the Fan troops from all over the Qin and Han dynasties, and the barely raised Five Route Army was lost in the Battle of Fuchuan, but only the elite of the Western Army collected by Wu Jue and Wu Lan brothers remained, and a large part of this batch of Song soldiers belonged to the Qiang soldiers.

It turned out that the Qiang land in Xining Prefecture on Qinfeng Road was always harassed by the Western Xia, and the Great Song Dynasty recruited a lot of strong Qiang soldiers from where, this part of the army was very strong in combat, but it was, the equipment was very poor, Shaanxi Xuanfu made Zhang Jun take away the Central Plains Forbidden Army he organized in Yangzhou when he left, this part of the army should be the real Great Song Forbidden Army.

There is also the army of the original Gubei Army, this part of the army was led by the original Tan Shen, among the generals, Liu Yanqing handed over the military power to his son Liu Guangshi, and the army led by Yue Fei was the soldiers of the Central Plains Xiang Army sent to him by Zongze who stayed in Tokyo.

With the fall of the Central Plains, the original armies and rebels from all over the country actually threw themselves into Liu Yu's puppet Qi, and those backbone rebels retreated to Shandong in addition to a large part, and some also retreated to Jiangnan, but these horses were not accommodated by the orthodox forbidden army, and were often squeezed out to some remote places to garrison, and the treatment was also very poor.

But this part of the army was targeted by Xiao Ming, these people were the most basic source of soldiers for his Great Song Dynasty Imperial Guard, so he ordered to assemble the original rebel troops in Luzhou and Shezhou on Jiangnan West Road, and at the same time let all the rebels who retreated to Shandong go to Weihai base to assemble.

After all the men and horses were assembled, Xiao Ming organized them all into the sequence of the Great Song Dynasty Royal Guards, and all the latest organizational forms were used, and everyone was very excited, why? It turned out that becoming a member of the Royal Guard meant becoming the most powerful armed force, not only well-paid, but also well-equipped.

And in fact, Xiao Ming did this, the rebels were very patriotic firstly, and secondly, these people were all relatively strong farmers and small businessmen, and they had a deeper understanding of the hatred of the country and the family, although the combat effectiveness was low, but the fighting spirit was very high, although it was not accommodated by the orthodox forbidden army, but as long as it was trained, it was definitely a very capable army.

And Xiao Ming is armed with at least five or six divisions, nearly sixty or seventy thousand people, of course, all the weapons cannot use rifles, but bows and crossbows and sabers are standard weapons, these people and horses need to be brought by the famous future, he plans to hand over these people to Wu Jue and Yue Fei to command.

But in the Weihai base gathered which twenty or thirty thousand rebels, Xiao Ming is of great use, to a certain extent, Xiao Ming is extremely short of people, but with his financial resources, he can only maintain five divisions to six divisions, and now the three divisions and the Tiger Guards have made him very difficult, so that Han Shizhong's Tiger Division has been assigned to the sequence of the Royal Guards, and he will eat the imperial court's fortune.

Han Shizhong is now a tiger general in the eyes of Gaozong, and he attaches great importance to him, and mentioned his exploits in quelling the rebellion in front of Xiao Ming several times, so Xiao Ming naturally handed over the newly established Great Song Dynasty Royal Guards to Han Shizhong to command, so Han Shizhong should now be the most powerful general.

In 1132 AD, Han Shizhong led more than 30,000 people of the Royal Guard Tiger Division to advance along the line of Yanzhou and Qingzhou to the Yellow River, preparing to cross the river to fight, but Yue Fei's army was transferred back, and Xiao Ming handed over more than 30,000 people of the Royal Guard who had been trained for half a year to his commander.

After a period of running-in, Yue Fei led his army to the north to prepare to attack Liu Yu and Pseudo-Qi, and won three battles in Caizhou and other places, and entered Yingchang Mansion. At the same time, Wu Jue also received nearly 20,000 royal guards, equipment and weapons were replenished, and Xiao Ming needed him to cooperate with a special attack.

This peculiarity is that Yang Qizhong who went south from Western Xia, Yang Qizhong led the heavy cavalry of the Yellow Legion, which had a fine tradition, and the 150,000 Yongxing army he brought to Western Xia has become a very formidable force under the armed force of Western Xia's powerful gold wealth.

Not only that, Yang Qizhong also has artillery, which is nearly twenty artillery pieces specially left by Xiao Ming, but due to the lack of ammunition, Yang Qizhong cried to Xiao Ming several times through the flying kite, no way, Xiao Ming continued to replenish ammunition to him through hot air balloons, although there were not many shells brought over at one time, but with continuous support, Yang Qizhong's artillery was finally considered to be sufficient ammunition.

At the end of the summer of the third year of Jianyan, Xiao Ming finally launched the second phase of the Northern Expedition he had planned, the first stage should be the battle of Jingdong Road that he personally fought, which recovered Shandong and consolidated an area that secured the coastline and Weihai base, and the second phase of the campaign was to restore the Song-Jin strategic confrontation stage before the Jin soldiers crossed the Yellow River.

The war is in need of money and grain, the Great Song Dynasty, which has accumulated for more than a year, not only formed the Royal Guards but also stored a large amount of money and grain, not only the two roads in the south of the Yangtze River and the two Zhejiang roads, but also the grain in the two roads of Guangnan has also been transferred to the front line area, and this year the drought in the north of the Yellow River and the grain harvest have failed, which also makes the form of the Jin State even worse.

Whoever bears the brunt of it is the army of the pseudo-Qi, after Liu Yu became the emperor of the Great Qi State, in addition to sparing no effort to loot wealth, he followed the instructions of the Jin State to collect a large number of troops, and constantly ate the territory of the Great Song Dynasty, but such a force in the cracks, both the Song and Jin sides are not optimistic, Liu Yu relied on Jin Taizong to establish his position, but he may not necessarily be recognized by other princes and nobles of the Jin State, and there are certain contradictions in this.

But Yue Fei's army was very fierce, and the puppet Qi army obviously couldn't beat it, under the continuous defeat, Jin decided to help the puppet Qi army, and the generalissimo of the South Road, Wanyan Zongbi, also known as Jin Wushu, led 50,000 cavalry to assist the puppet Qi's 200,000 troops to deal with Yue Fei's 60,000 troops! This was the beginning of Yue Fei's direct head-to-head conversation with Jin Wushu.

Yang Qizhong sent troops from Western Xia, and soon recovered Yan'an Mansion and Qingzhou to the Jin soldiers who were still in Weizhou, and Wu Jue led the army west out of Jingzhao Mansion to Dasanguan, coerced Fengxiang Mansion, and forced the Jin soldiers in Qinzhou to retreat.

After crossing the Yellow River, the two armies of Han Shizhong's troops on the eastern front rushed west along the Yellow River to seize the ferry, and went straight to the Daimyo's Mansion on the East Road of Hebei.

At the same time in Liaodong, in order to prevent Xiao Ming from Liaodong going north, the Jin soldiers deployed 100,000 heavy troops in Tongzhou on the periphery of Shenzhou, which also made the Central Plains insufficient troops, and the Dajin court discussed what to do many times for this, and the attack on the Central Plains is now mired in a quagmire and cannot extricate itself, and their nests are threatened, and the courtiers are considering whether to withdraw their troops.

Wanyan Zongwang and Wanyan Chang proposed that it was better to withdraw all the troops from the Central Plains, and then go all out to deal with Xiao Ming's Liaodong forces, but Wanyan Zonghan raised objections, he believed that at this stage, the Song army in the Central Plains was not difficult to deal with, and the territory there was vast and rich, and the Dajin State should run the Central Plains region and abandon Liaodong.

Speaking of Xiao Ming, these people in the Jin Kingdom hated it incomparably, and they all said that this person was really the number one natural enemy of the Great Jin Kingdom, and they scolded him one after another, but they all felt that it was a major mistake of the Great Jin Kingdom to let this person stay in the world!

At this time, Jin Taizong was already seriously ill, he shook his head and said to everyone: "He was originally the king of the Southern Courtyard of the Great Liao Kingdom, we destroyed the Liao Kingdom, and he became the king of Dongdan again, but we destroyed Dongdan again, and now he is the first prime minister of the Great Song Dynasty, we have no ability to destroy the Great Song Dynasty again!" However, the existence of this person is indeed an obstacle to my Dajin's unification of the world, and I need to find a way to get rid of it! ”

Wanyan Zong said: "This person's skills are really good, even if we send killers, we can't do it!" ”

Wanyan Zongqing said: "Why don't we negotiate with the Great Song Dynasty, how about we give up part of the land in exchange for the Great Song Emperor to get rid of this person?" ”

Wanyan Zongwang shook his head and said: "During the last peace talks, we had already used this trick, but now we have captured two emperors, this is a feud, and the current emperor of the Great Song Dynasty is bound to take revenge!" If we return the captives to them, they will not care about it, and the offensive will be even more fierce! So those people are kind of a hostage."

Wan Yanchang said: "I am in favor of peace talks, now we are short of food and grass, the fat of the war horse has fallen out badly, we need to recuperate for a while, but Xiao Ming does not get rid of this person, our defense is unstable, how is this good?" ”

Jin Taizong said strongly: "Let's talk about peace first, we don't have the strength to go south now!" ”

So the prelude around another Song-Jin peace talks opened again, this time the peace talks also interrupted Xiao Ming's second phase of the Northern Expedition offensive, not only the Jin army in the west began to withdraw to the east, even the Jin soldiers in the east began to compress the defensive line, Yang Qizhong led 100,000 iron cavalry directly into Guanzhong.

At the same time, Yue Fei was caught in a boat in the confrontation with the Qi army, and when he heard that the imperial court was going to negotiate peace with the Jin State again, he couldn't help but write a letter to express his resolute opposition, and he was extremely indignant, so he made a poem full of Jianghong to express his heart:

Angry hair rushed to the crown, relying on the place, Xiaoxiao rain rest. Raise your eyes, look up to the sky and roar, strong and fierce. Thirty fame, dust and earth, eight thousand miles of clouds and moons. Don't wait, the young man's head is white, empty and sad.

Jing Kang is ashamed, and it is still snowing; The courtiers regret when they will be destroyed. Driving a long car is broken, and Helan Mountain is lacking. Zhuangzhi is hungry for Hulu meat, laughing and thirsty for Hun blood. To start from the beginning, clean up the old mountains and rivers. Chaotianque.

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