The struggle of the reborn prince

The battle of Jinzhou came to an end at dawn, the commander's mansion was breached, the [-] defenders in the city killed and wounded more than [-] people, captured more than [-] enemies, killed ten thousand Fu Changshulie, Tu Danzhen, and Pusan ​​Houtu, and captured A large amount of food and grass, the whole city was basically destroyed by the fierce artillery fire when the Song army attacked the city.What frustrates Gao Chong and the others is that they spent a long time trying, but the two big bosses were killed by the guards who had been watching the show. The army's Wanyan Bingde and the left minister Xiao Zhonggong were finally slightly better than nothing, luckier than Zhao Li's corps, they ran away and lost their loyalty, but the supervisor was caught by them.

Later, the loyal and brave army who came to aid also returned in triumph, presenting the head of the rebel general Li Cheng. He wandered around in the dark all night, but finally failed to escape the net of the Song army. At dawn, Li Cheng, who was exhausted, was searched. Troops killed.Most of the [-] reinforcements he led were wiped out, and some fled to the mountains to hide. However, the remnant enemies who had become frightened could no longer pose a threat to the Song army. Once Jinzhou was lost, they would face the fate of being captured and killed sooner or later.

Zhao Tong ordered the whole army to withdraw from the city to rest for two days, open the four gates to let the people in and out of the city, organize manpower to bury the corpses, clean up the ruins, and distribute medicines to prevent the outbreak of plague.At the same time, the Shangshu Province was ordered to send reserve officials to receive the city, appease the people, distribute relief materials, count the population, allocate land, and resume production; ordered the Privy Council to organize the state army to take over the city defense, protect the environment and the people, and wipe out the remnants of the enemy.

The victory in the Battle of Jinzhou marked the annihilation of the left and right commanders' mansions of the Kingdom of Jin, and the opening of the west and north gates.Wushu has worked hard for many years, and the boundary trench fortifications that cost a lot of money to build can't stop the attack of the Song army, and the flames of war will be fully burned in the Kingdom of Jin.The iron cavalry of the Song Army will step into the land of Liaodong for the first time, and the era of "great unification" of the Central Plains Dynasty will come again...

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Now the people in power in the Dajin Kingdom are actually two patients.One is Emperor Wanyanquan who suffers from intermittent neuropathy, and the other is Taishi Wushu, an old patient who can hardly even walk.It was shocking to hear that Jinzhou City was breached by the Song army in two days.The entire army defending the city was annihilated, and the commander and supervisor of Zuo Shuai's mansion were killed. After the news of the prisoner's capture, the emperor Wanyan Quan burst into tears. The servants and maids of the palace were in charge of several clan ministers.After Wu Shu heard this, he became very angry and vomited three liters of blood. His condition suddenly worsened and he became bedridden.But he is worthy of being the pillar of the Dajin Kingdom, and he endured grief and still tried his best to deal with state affairs on the sick bed.

Now the Northwest Corps of the Song Army launched an attack again after annihilating the Youshuai Mansion by the Yazi River for many days.The Qianli grassland is flat and has no danger to defend, and the army can drive straight in. Wu Shu ordered the deputy commander of the internal and external armies, Yan Yuying, to lead [-] troops to the grassland to face the Song army on the west road and defend the capital.And as Jinzhou was breached, the navy was completely destroyed.It might not take long for the Song Army to advance by land and water and reach Liaoyang Mansion. He ordered Wan Yanyong to guard the city strictly to block the enemy from below the city, and he must not let the Song Army continue to go north.at the same time.Wu Shu ordered the Minister of War He Shi Lie Zhining to deploy a line of defense along the Huntong River to prevent the Song army from breaking through Wanyan Yuying's interception and threatening the capital.

Under the pressure of the Great Song Dynasty, the Kingdom of Jin has reached the verge of subjugation, but it is not just foreign aggression that can make a country truly perish.It is also accompanied by civil strife, and only under the action of two forces can a country completely exhaust its last bit of blood.The Wuguobu rebellion lasted from before the founding of the Jin Kingdom to today.The toss has become stronger and stronger now, and now it is cooperating with the Song Army to attack the Liaodong Peninsula.And small rebellions continued.But this year, with the invasion of the Song Army, the Khitan, who had been their most powerful ally in the past, also joined the rebellion, and it became more and more fierce...

After the demise of the Liao Kingdom, the Khitan tribes all became subjects of the Jin Kingdom. In order to manage these Khitan tribes more effectively and safely, the successive emperors of the Jin Kingdom drove these Khitan tribes to the northwest border area. And moving to the Liaodong area, one can prevent these Khitan tribes from rebelling and threatening the rule of the Jin Kingdom. After all, the Khitan people once had a bloody feud with the Jin Kingdom, and second, the Khitan tribes can help the Jin Kingdom guard the border and resist the nomads of the northern grasslands. And Song Jun's harassment.

Originally, the Jin State’s treatment of the Khitan tribe was undisputed. As a subjugated nation, the Khitan tribe could survive and continue on the Jin State’s territory, and they still had their own one-acre three-point land to be the masters. Life can't be said to be full of fine clothes and fine food, but at least it can barely eat and wear warmth, and enjoy leisure. For more than 20 years, it has been peacefully coexisting with the residents of the Kingdom of Jin.

However, after the Northern Expedition of the Great Song Dynasty, Jin Ting's recruitment order finally completely angered all the Khitan people. The Kingdom of Jin demanded that all Khitan strong men be recruited to serve as the main force against the Song Dynasty's attack, which would naturally be strongly resisted by the Khitan tribe.Wu Shu's wishful thinking was very shrewd, but the Khitan people are not fools, so naturally they would not be easily fooled, but the emperor's orders had to be obeyed, so the leaders of the Khitan tribe began to negotiate with the Jurchen who was in charge of the conscription work. Negotiations, of course their reasons for opposing conscription cannot be stated too explicitly, of course they also have very reasonable reasons.

The Khitan people thought that they had worked hard for more than ten years to help the emperor of Jin guard the northwest border, and the relationship with the Mongolian tribes in the northern grassland and the Song army had always been very tense. If all the young and middle-aged men of our tribe were recruited to the battlefield, then only How can the old and weak children of the remaining tribes resist the attack?Doing so is tantamount to driving us Khitans to a dead end.So I ask the imperial court to explain the actual situation here, and it is best not to recruit strong men from the Khitan tribe.

To be honest, the reason given by the Khitan people is indeed a very good reason. For the survival of their own nation, they have everything to say, that is, they hope that Jinting can understand their difficulties and not recruit young men from the Khitan tribe or recruit as few young men as possible. .Wu Shu is naturally aware of the difficulties of the Khitan people, but now the Song army is pressing harder and harder, and although the population of the tribe has recovered, it is still difficult to meet the needs.If they do not recruit young men from all ethnic groups, then those who are waiting for the Jin Kingdom will surely perish; but if the Khitan tribe is forcibly recruited, it is likely to completely anger the Khitan people, and even cause the Khitan to launch a rebellion.

Left and right are dead, Wushu insists on recruiting young men from all ethnic groups, but the methods of the two handsome mansions are completely different.The servant San Zhongyi of Youshuai's Mansion is relatively gentle. He neither agrees nor opposes the Khitan people, and secretly lowers the standard, adopting the plan of drawing one out of two and two out of three; However, he did it absolutely and expropriated all the young and strong people around Jinzhou, which aroused the anger of the Khitan people in this area. It was precisely with this mentality of the Khitan people that Sa Liyao successfully wooed all the Khitan Meng'an and was able to escape. Wan Yanliang's calculation.

The fear of being used as cannon fodder by the Jurchens made the Khitan members who had been oppressed and persecuted by the Jin State for more than 30 years at this moment point all their anger at the Jin State that destroyed them.The Khitan people in Liaodong, who were at the forefront of resisting the Song army, revolted first. This was the first large-scale uprising of the Khitan tribe since the fall of the Liao Kingdom.And their uprising is like igniting the weeds on the grassland. A single spark can start a prairie fire, not to mention a group of Khitan people who were extremely brave in the past. Under their influence, Khitan tribes all over the country responded one after another.

The entire Liaodong area was full of wars, and the Khitans attacked the state and plundered the mansion, massacring the Jurchens, which seriously threatened their rule in the Liaodong area.But under the current situation, the Kingdom of Jin was no longer able to divide its forces to suppress the rebellion. Wushu could only shrink the line of defense again, abandon those small counties, concentrate on the big cities, and wait for the expulsion of the Song Army before making plans.But no one had any idea about whether they could defeat the Song army. For a while, pessimism spread from all over the government and the opposition, people's hearts fluttered, and they began to plan for their own future.Because the left minister Xiao Zhonggong sent a few letters back to the Southern Dynasty and there was no news, thinking that he was detained by the Southern Dynasty, he promoted the right minister Wanyan Zongben to Shangshu Zuoxiang, Zhang Hao as the right minister, and temporarily assisted Taishi Wushu in managing the government.

Affected by internal and external troubles, the Kingdom of Jin was unable to cope with the large-scale Northern Expedition in the Southern Dynasties, and had no good ideas other than passive defense.Under the continuous suppression and bribery of the Song Dynasty, the former allies of Xixia and Goryeo became the vassal states of the Song Dynasty. They could be used as the northern Tatars to contain the power. The Tatar people in the country were played to death by themselves again, resulting in no helpers in times of crisis.

Amid the panic among the people, the voice of appealing to the Song Dynasty for peace revived. This time it was Taizong Wu Qimai's five surviving sons Zongben, Zongmei, Zongyi, Zongzhe and Zongya who took the lead this time.They said that the left and right commanders of Dajin were defeated, and their military strength was severely damaged, and the Khitan people took advantage of the opportunity to revolt. The land in the south of the mansion, the west of the Yazi River, and the Liaodong Peninsula will be proclaimed as a vassal to it, and the conditions such as paying the old currency will be paid.After he retreated, he made great efforts to govern and trained elite soldiers in order to make a comeback.

As soon as this proposal was mentioned, it immediately aroused great repercussions in the court, and it also split into two factions.Zhang Hao, headed by the right minister, strongly opposed the summation. He thought that the emperor's personal conquest was enough to show that they not only wanted to obtain land and old coins, but also wanted to destroy the Jin Kingdom in order to avenge the shame of Jingkang. It's humiliating, Xiao Zhonggong's detention of the peace agreement is a clear proof, his proposition has won the support of the young and strong faction headed by Taishi Wushu.The other faction is naturally headed by the new Zuo Xiang Zongben, and the two sides had a dispute in the court, which caused the emperor Wan Yanquan to go crazy, and used the strength of wine to beat the right minister Zhang Hao with a hundred court rods, showing himself with practical actions attitude... (to be continued...)