The Jin army besieged the city, and the Song emperor’s daughter died

Chapter 253 Zong Wang returns to the capital
The military reform of the Song Dynasty was peaceful at the beginning.

Except for a few people who attended the "military meeting" in the Imperial Study Room that day, the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty, even those who were sensitive to the situation in the DPRK, hardly felt that a change had begun.

The external rhetoric of forming a new army is to strengthen the defense force around the officials. After all, the Longde Palace incident has been known to everyone in the court. In addition to verbally criticizing the Daojun Emperor, another key point is that the officials can no longer be allowed to In danger.

As for revising the "General Martial Arts" and optimizing military training methods, no one objects. After all, in the Kaifeng War, everyone from the court to the people has deeply felt the terrifying power of thermal weapons. Even the most conservative and ignorant people The stubborn old man will never utter the words "Knowledge, skill and obscene skills" again.

And Zhao Fujin understood that the deep water area of ​​​​military reform was actually a problem of elite soldiers.

Elite soldiers are faced with the need to deal with redundant troops, and once it involves the problem of feeding others, no matter how simple the problem is, it will become extremely complicated.

In March, the spring breeze turns green again, and the waters that have been frozen for several months have already melted.

Even Huining Mansion, thousands of miles away, has already felt the spring breeze, but the atmosphere in the Jin Kingdom's court is as cold as the sky.

The second southern invasion destroyed the Song Dynasty and was defeated again.

And it was a complete defeat. The wealth that the Jin Kingdom had accumulated over decades was destroyed in one battle.

Of the 15 troops from the east and west routes, only less than [-] troops finally returned to Huining Mansion.

Except for Wanyan Zongwang, almost all the generals who followed Jin Taizu to conquer the world have fallen away.

Wanyan Sheng’s heart was as sharp as a knife!
As early as a few months ago, he had received a handwritten letter from Wanyan Zonghan that was urgently sent back from [-] miles away from Kaifeng. Although the letter did not elaborate on the reasons, it clearly stated: If the battle of Kaifeng fails, a detailed investigation will be carried out. Prince.

Now, as expected, the only ones who came back alive were the second prince Wanyan Zongwang and most of the Eastern Route Army.

It is no exaggeration to say that the entire West Route Army was annihilated.

Wanyan Sheng was not in a hurry to meet Wanyan Zongwang, but asked people to inquire about the truth about the Battle of Kaifeng from the side.

How can the lower-level generals and ordinary soldiers know the full truth of this battle? It is just that the Song people were equipped with firearms that could destroy heaven and earth, and there was no way they could fight.

Wanyan Sheng didn't believe such rhetoric.

Wanyan Sheng, who is inherently suspicious, reasoned like this: When he formed an alliance with the Song Dynasty to jointly fight against the Liao Dynasty, the Song army was extremely powerful and could not even defeat the remnants of the Liao Kingdom. Last year, they attacked the Song Dynasty on two fronts, and the east and west routes were even more powerful. , devastating.

How could it take so long for Kaifeng City and Taiyuan City to have such a powerful weapon?
This is obviously unrealistic.

"Your Majesty, this kind of rhetoric is absolutely unbelievable. If there really are such firearms, why was the Western Route Army completely wiped out, while the Second Prince's East Route Army suffered little losses? Could it be that this firearm has eyes?" said the Minister of the Central Committee of the DPRK. Indignation, this was obviously a one-sided statement. It was probably the rhetoric that the second prince deliberately taught to the army on the way back from the defeat.

Wanyan Sheng frowned and said nothing. After a long time, he turned to look at a young man in a long gown.

Although this young man in a long gown is a little stout, he is polite and polite in his movements.

"Alan, your brother sacrificed his life for me. What do you think about this matter?"

Ah Lan, whose Han name was Wanyan Zongxian, was the younger brother of Wanyan Zonghan, and was a rare nobleman in the early Jurchen period.

The nobility mentioned here does not refer to noble status, but to aristocratic temperament.

This person was not good at fighting, let alone killing, but he was extremely enthusiastic about literature and politics. His love and research on Song culture far exceeded that of Wanyan Xiyin, who was a dabbler.

Wanyan Zongxian actually opposed this move south to destroy the Song Dynasty. However, he did not serve in the Jin court. He could only complain to some of his classmates in the school run by Wanyan Sheng: "The culture of the Song Dynasty was at its peak. It is what our Kingdom of Jin needs, why not share it with the world, conquest is useless!" However, his view is completely alien in the current environment of the Kingdom of Jin, where robbery and killing are still the mainstream.

Before the army rose up, Wanyan Zongxian asked his brother to take him south with him. He had only one purpose. First, when Kaifeng was destroyed, he wanted to find a way to save more famous officials. If that failed, then he wanted to find a way to save their books.

Wanyan Zonghan did not agree. After all, having such a younger brother who was incompatible with him would be very embarrassing to have around him.

Fortunately, Wanyan Zongxian was able to stand alive in the Mingde Hall today.

"Your Majesty, why don't you listen to what the Second Prince himself has to say?" Wanyan Zongxian's statement immediately aroused ridicule from some ministers.

Especially Yeluhua, who surrendered to the Liao Dynasty and sent gold: "Commander Zong Han is your brother. He was able to rush back a personal letter to His Majesty eight hundred miles before the war. Doesn't that explain the problem?"

"What does it mean? Does it mean that the second prince colluded with the Song Dynasty people, causing my brother and the entire Western Route Army to be wiped out?" Wanyan Zongxian asked with a sneer.

Yeluhua was speechless for a moment, and after mumbling for a long time he asked, "Isn't it?"

"Do you have evidence?"

Yeluhua puffed his beard angrily and glared: "You guys, why can't you tell the difference between inside and outside? Commander Zong Han is your brother!"

Wanyan Zongxian suddenly smiled, looked at Yeluhua and said with a smile: "If you could distinguish the inside from the outside, you wouldn't have eaten the inside out and paid me a large sum of money."

Jeluhua almost fainted on the spot without being retorted, and pointed at Wanyan Zongxian: "You...you..."

"That's enough!" Wanyan Sheng shouted in a deep voice: "Second Prince Xuan!"

Not long after, Wanyan Zongwang strode to the palace and told the story of that day when Wanyan Zonghan suddenly relinquished his military power and was escorted back to the Qingcheng camp: "In this way, I was lucky enough to escape the disaster."

"Oh? Why is Zonghan like this?" Wanyan Sheng asked again after hearing this.

Wanyan Zongwang further elaborated on the fire at Liangcao Camp: "I think General Zong Han misunderstood me because of this, and thought that I was abandoning my martial arts and colluding with the Song people. So that in the siege of the city, only our Eastern Route Army was allowed to fight." Pretending to attack the three gates in the northwest and east, the West Route Army will be the main siege force of Nanxun Gate, and our East Route Army will..."

"Song people really have firearms?" All the officials in the palace were already frightened.

"Indeed! In the battle of Taiyuan City, the West Route Army was defeated once by firearms."

"What? Lost the battle of Taiyuan?" Wanyan Sheng frowned, remembering the defeat he suffered from the West Route Army, but it was called a great victory in Taiyuan.

If Wanyan Zonghan's battle report to him could be truthful, the disastrous defeat at Kaifeng City might have been avoided!
Wanyan Sheng was heartbroken.

"If that's true...then if the Song people send troops to Beishan, wouldn't it be difficult for me to protect Ning Mansion?" Yeluhua looked panicked.

Wanyan Zongwang glanced at him, and then at Wanyan Sheng, who was frowning on the dragon throne: "Your Majesty, I was deliberately captured into Kaifeng City, and I have already negotiated peace with the female official of the Song Dynasty."

"Did we make peace? How?" Wanyan Sheng's brows did not relax, but instead furrowed even tighter.

Wanyan Zongwang, this is a bit too much!

Before you, the emperor, could say anything, you, Wanyan Zongwang, decided to make peace with Song Dynasty without permission. You didn't take yourself as the emperor seriously!
(End of this chapter)