Tumeng: I am a national advisor in the Golden Family

Chapter 497 Alas, the Song Dynasty is about to fall
At this time, Zhao Yun, with tears streaming down his face, looked at the civil and military officials kneeling in the court hall. They knew that the Song Dynasty had really reached its last moment, which was even several times more difficult than when the Northern Dynasty was about to be destroyed.

How many Jin troops were there to attack the Northern Dynasty at that time, and the Guanzhong army outside the city numbered more than 200,000.

Moreover, the Guanzhong army will send some envoys from various places over intentionally or unintentionally, and the news that comes, it’s okay not to tell them! Just don’t say it!

None of it is good news, all of them are news of lost cities and territory. All of them are news that the city of Song Dynasty was captured today and that army was defeated tomorrow. None of them is news of victory.

This kind of news came one after another, which made the emperors and ministers of the Southern Song Dynasty despair to the extreme.

"You are all talking and talking. The Song Dynasty has reached the point of life and death! As the courtiers of the Song Dynasty, shouldn't you serve the country?" Zhao Yun shouted.

The voice seemed hoarse, but also a little pale and weak. At this moment, this was the most helpless cry!
The king of subjugation! The king of subjugation! Is this title going to fall on my head?

What does this mean for me, going to see my ancestors under the Nine Springs! A great country was put into his hands, but he lost it again and again. He lost thousands of miles of country and lost the Qianqiu Night of the Song Dynasty.

"Official! You, you have to take care of the dragon body!" The eunuch standing next to him sighed and said.

Unexpectedly, their generation would destroy their country and their family.

"Officials! We, we also have a rescue army. The armies from all over the country will definitely come in time to relieve the siege of Lin'an Mansion if they know that the emperor is in trouble." A courtier stood up and said.

It's just that these words sounded so desperate and helpless to the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty. Jianning Prefecture, Qingyuan Prefecture, Shaoxing Prefecture, and Pingjiang Prefecture all organized reinforcements to come. What was the result?

They were all defeated by the Guanzhong army. The opponent's cavalry only needed one charge, and their army would be defeated and flee.

When the cavalry attacks the infantry in the field, it is an absolute suppression of force, and the infantry has no resistance at all.

There were indeed many reinforcements sent from other state capitals, but they were all organized as a makeshift militia force, and there were no decent horse farms in the south.

There was no way to form an organized cavalry. The reason why they could survive in the south back then was that they relied on the natural barriers of the Yangtze River defense line and the Huaihe River defense line, which blocked the Jin Kingdom's attack.

But now the Yangtze River defense line and the Huaihe River defense line have been penetrated, and even Wenzhou and Taizhou have been occupied by the Guanzhong army.

Even if the army from the south wants to come to Qinwang, they must break through the obstacles of the Guanzhong army and use infantry phalanx to attack the cavalry phalanx. Are you kidding me? That is a dead end!

Did the King of Guanzhong send the Mongolian army to stop it? There are also 10,000 heavy armored cavalry, just over 30,000 cavalry.

In Chaozhou, Quanzhou and other places in the south, even if they can forcefully gather some troops, they will be scattered by the cavalry troops in several rounds.

Not to mention the Guanzhong army, as well as extremely powerful artillery, as well as the latest musket weapons, which are said to be very powerful in close combat and very easy to carry.

In this case, the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty could not see any hope of victory.

"Is there any news from the Mongolian grasslands? Did our envoy persuade the Mongolian Khan to send troops to attack the King of Guanzhong!" Zhao Yun asked.

Now he also understands that it is impossible to expect his own army to repel the Guanzhong army. Now he can only pray that something can be done on the Mongolian grassland to allow the King of Guanzhong to withdraw his troops.

Otherwise, their Song Dynasty would be completely doomed. Even if they wanted to run now, they would have no place to run. The waterway had been blocked by the Guanzhong army.

Any ship sailing out from Lin'an Prefecture will be directly sunk by the Guanzhong army without mercy.

It is also very difficult to break out of the encirclement on the way. The Kwantung Army has too many cavalry and it is impossible to escape.

He now somewhat understands the situation that Emperor Huiqin was in at that time, when Kaifeng Mansion was besieged. Their situation is similar to our own, and we can still walk by water here.

There is no waterway in Kaifeng Mansion, and being surrounded by cavalry is really a dead end. The sky and the sky are not responding, and the earth and the earth are not working.

If I had known, if I had known the situation today, I should have led the army to rush out of the city and head further south, but now it is too late, the entire Lin'an Mansion has been surrounded, and it is completely surrounded.

In this situation, he couldn't leave even if he wanted to.

"Officials! No news has come back from the direction of the Mongolian grasslands. The Guanzhong army has been operating for half a year. Logically speaking, our envoys should have already arrived on the grasslands." An official stood up and said.

It stands to reason that at the speed of their envoys' travel, they should have arrived at the Mongolian grassland two or three months ago if they took the water route.

The Mongols are still very strict in protecting their envoys. Basically, they will be safely sent to the Hara and Forest, where they will be received by the Mongolian shouts.

But now there is no news at all, which makes the emperors and ministers of the Southern Song Dynasty fall into a kind of despair.

If the strategy succeeds, the King of Guanzhong should be recalled at this time, or the Mongolian army should have been dispatched to attack the Guanzhong area.

"Officials. How can we leave our country's national destiny to outsiders? How can we expect the Mongolian grassland to come to the rescue? The Mongolian grassland cannot come to the rescue." A military general stood up, shook his head, and said.

This is simply impossible. You don’t know the King of Guanzhong, but those of us military generals do. After all, the King of Guanzhong is their main opponent of the Song Dynasty.

When the King of Guanzhong went to the Western Expedition, his power in Mongolia was already very powerful, not even losing to the sons of Genghis Khan.

During his absence, all developments in Guanzhong were arranged. Even during the Western Expedition, there would be letters sent to the Guanzhong area to direct the development of the Guanzhong area.

The King of Guanzhong only came back for a year, and he directly wiped out the Central Plains, Shandong, and recovered the Hebei area.

After a year's rest, they took action against the Song Dynasty. Can the power of the Mongolian grassland really threaten the King of Guanzhong? As far as he knew, the current Great Khan of Mongolia only ascended to the position of Great Khan with the help of the King of Guanzhong.

All the land and all the power this Guanzhong King has. They were all conquered by themselves. The Mongols only sealed it, but the real land was conquered by the King of Guanzhong himself who led his army.

The lands of the King of Guanzhong are completely autonomous, especially the Sichuan-Shu region and the Guanzhong area, and even now the entire Xixia is gradually controlled by the King of Guanzhong.

For this attack, the King of Guanzhong of the Song Dynasty did not even mobilize all the troops, and some reserve troops were not dispatched!
The King of Guanzhong didn't take the Song Dynasty seriously at all. His goals and ambitions were even greater. What he wanted to rebuild was the Han Dynasty, a prosperous age like the Tang Dynasty.

"General, you mean our envoy? Maybe something happened to our envoy?" A civil servant said with a bit of fear.

But nothing happens! If something happens, it will be completely over, and the Song Dynasty will only have an isolated city of Lin'an Prefecture.

"Alas! There has been no news at all for several months. Do I still need to tell you? The King of Guanzhong should already know the news, but we don't know it yet." The general said.

Given the relationship between the Great Khan of Mongolia and the King of Guanzhong, even if the envoys went to the Mongolian grasslands, they would not get any benefits.

What's more, the Mongolian grassland does not have the strength to attack the Guanzhong area, and the Mongolian grassland is not monolithic!

The forces involved are extremely complicated, but these civilized ministers have no idea about this. When their generals want to say something, no one listens.

"Officials! Woohoo!" Many civil servants were already kneeling on the ground and began to cry bitterly.

It was already late at night, and the court had not yet dispersed. No one knew what to say or what ideas to come up with.

But at this moment, all the courtiers vaguely saw a trace of fire appearing in the direction of the outer city.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

The sound of a violent explosion suddenly sounded, even startling the Emperor Zhao Yun of the Song Dynasty who was sitting on the dragon throne.

The whole person could not sit still and fell down, looking extremely embarrassed. "Here, what happened? What is that red thing?" Zhao Yun asked.

All the civil servants and generals had arrived in front of the main hall. At this time, the tower facing the city was already blazing into the sky, and the sound of huge explosions kept coming, like thunder and lightning.

It sounds daunting and frightening, and the huge movement frightened all the civil and military officials of the dynasty.

"Here, what happened? Come here, come and see what's going on?" A general quickly grabbed a running soldier and asked.

"General, the King of Guanzhong, the army of the King of Guanzhong launched an attack. They, they used a weapon called Tianpu, which suddenly flew in from the sky, and then exploded on the ground. There was fire everywhere." A soldier said said.

The soldiers guarding the city tower were also greatly frightened. Although they had been besieged for several months, they had never seen such terrifying weapons before. It's as if heaven's punishment has come to earth.

That huge sound was simply appalling!

"Tell me, General, what's going on?" The leading generals looked at each other, and then collectively frowned.

Since being surrounded, they have only received some results of battle reports, but they really don't know the details of the war, what weapons the enemy used, and how they won the war.

And all this was done intentionally by the Guanzhong Army, in order to paralyze them so that they had no idea what the Guanzhong Army was going to do!
Therefore, weapons such as thunderbolt rockets were only used twice in Xiangyang City and Ezhou.

The previous battle reports from Xiangyang Mansion could still be sent back, but the battle reports that came back said that the Guanzhong army used a kind of divine thunder and sky fire from the sky.

This made all the generals think that the battle report was exaggerated, so they didn't believe it.

But I didn't expect that the Guanzhong Army, the Guanzhong Army actually had such powerful weapons.

What should they do?
"Generals, stop wasting your time and quickly mobilize the reserves and militia to defend the city! If the Guanzhong army attacks the city at night, it will be troublesome." A civilian official said hurriedly.

At this time, why are you warriors asking so many questions? Hurry and defend the city. Hurry and defend the city! You must not let the Guanzhong army come in!

"Generals, please go and defend the city." Zhao Yun also ran down from the dragon chair at this time, came to the outside of the palace, and said.

There is no way, he, the emperor, really can't sit still.

"Guan! Please rest assured. As long as we generals have breathing power and soldiers under our hands, we won't ask a large army from Guanzhong to attack." Several generals nodded helplessly and faced the people in the court. After the civil and military officials, as well as the emperor, knelt down and worshiped, they led their respective troops and rushed up to the tower.

The fifty Thunderbolt rockets were quickly fired. After the Thunderbolt rockets were fired, Zhang Yong immediately mobilized heavy artillery and then began to carry out overnight bombing.
Boom! Boom! The sound of huge artillery fire kept coming.

"Woohoo! Alas, my Song Dynasty, woohoo!" Zhao Yun sat paralyzed on the ground, listening to the sound of artillery fire outside the city, with a look of despair.

That night, no minister dared to leave the hall, and everyone was frightened.

The artillery fire of the Guanzhong army lasted all night and did not disperse until the early morning of the next day.

This night was extremely difficult for them in the Song Dynasty. Ordinary soldiers endured the bombardment of artillery fire and held on all night. All the generals did not sleep all night, and there were even a few generals who did not believe in evil and commanded on the tower. , but was directly blown to pieces by Zhang Yong's artillery.

After the Guanzhong army stopped the artillery attack and retreated, all the guards on the tower breathed a sigh of relief, and then collectively collapsed on the ground, breathing heavily and wiping the sweat from their foreheads.

"Hahaha! Ah! We survived, I'm still alive, I'm still alive! Woohoo!" A soldier first laughed, touched his body, his arms and legs were all there, and then started crying again. stand up.

Last night, he saw too many of his comrades being blown to pieces. Too many of his comrades fell to the ground with missing arms and legs, wailing continuously, and then died.

Even if he was carried into the wounded barracks at the rear, he wouldn't be able to hold on for long. At most, he would be in pain for a few more days and then die miserably.

A feeling of extreme despair began to spread throughout the city tower. The army that had besieged Guanzhong before was only a partial force. There are not too many firearms per se.

But after the main force of the King of Guanzhong arrived yesterday, they saw for the first time how powerful Guanzhong's artillery was, and how powerful this new weapon was!

Is that really a weapon that humans can withstand?

Is that really something they can handle?
In other words, is that really a human weapon?
"Okay, now that you've rested, quickly move the injured brothers down and bring up the defense equipment.

During the day today, we have to be careful of the Guanzhong army coming to attack the city. "After resting for a while, a general stood up, wiped his blood-red eyes and said.

The Guanzhong army had been bombarding them all night. There should be some big action this morning. The city defense battle this morning was also a fierce battle!

"General, general, I don't want to die, I want to go home and farm, I want to go home and farm!"

"General, I still have an old mother at home, and a wife and children to support. Please let this villain live!" Countless soldiers guarding the city from the Southern Song Dynasty knelt on the ground and said.

When the generals heard this, they felt a sharp pain in their hearts when they looked at the disgraced soldiers in front of them, with fear and horror written on their faces.

"Brothers, if we can't hold on, the army from Guanzhong will come in and kill everyone. Your wives, children, and children will all die in their hands." A military commander said.

"General, don't talk nonsense. I have heard that as long as you surrender, the King of Guanzhong will treat all the people in the city well.

As well as ordinary soldiers, only generals like you can, ah! " Before the soldier even finished speaking, a general cut off his head with a knife.

"This is all fake news released by the Guanzhong army. Are you going to believe this nonsense?"

"Everyone go back to your posts. The Guanzhong army will definitely attack today. All of you must cheer up for me."

The other soldiers looked at their comrades who died tragically and did not dare to say any more words, and began to take action sporadically.

Is this really a lie? They have received some news. The Guanzhong army came all the way, but they did not cause any huge killings. The only killings they caused were the massacres of cities that preferred death to surrender.

But they didn't massacre ordinary people and soldiers. The massacres were all your generals and their families!
It's okay if we surrender. It'll be okay if you generals don't surrender, but no one dares to say this.

Just as a group of soldiers were cleaning the battlefield, three people suddenly rode over from outside the city.

"People in the city, listen, we are envoys sent by the King of Guanzhong to ask for an audience. Please put down the hanging basket and let us go up." The leader said.

"Bah! You dare to come here? Shoot the three of them to death." A general said immediately.

But he was stopped by another general.

"Wait a minute! Since the envoy is here, he should be sent to the emperor for a decision. We are just generals guarding the city. How can we take care of these things? How can you kill the envoy without permission?"

They have been at war with Guanzhong for so many years, but although the envoys sent by them from the Southern Song Dynasty were embarrassed, none of them was in danger. It would be bad if they set this precedent first.

"Humph!"

Soon, a hanging basket was lowered, and then the three people were connected to the city.

In the main hall, the frowning Emperor Zhao Yun of the Song Dynasty also received news that an envoy from the Guanzhong Army was coming.

"Since there is an envoy coming, let him come in!" Zhao Yun said.

(End of this chapter)