Back to the Song Dynasty as a tyrant

This must be celebrated.

I am very happy with the gift Wu Shu gave me for the Chinese New Year.

Next, the Jin Army was stationed by the Yellow River, not daring to approach Tokyo City.

Zhao Ning did not attack rashly again. After all, the main force of the Jin army was not injured last night, only the left wing was defeated.

If I want to fight head-on, the Song army is still not an opponent, or in other words, the time is not yet ripe.

Wushu immediately wrote to Marshal Wanyan Zonghan, telling him that he had besieged Bianjing for a long time.

In my heart, I never mentioned the night attack outside the city of Bianjing.

And asked Zong Han's situation, the implication is that the two sides see if there is any cooperation.

In the third year of Jingkang, on the fifth day of the first lunar month, Zong Han, who was outside Shangdang City, received a letter from Wushu.

After reading it, Zong Han was a little surprised and said to Shi Li'ai: "Wushu besieged Bianliang, what can be done by repeating the old technique?"

Shi Li'ai said: "Wu Shu may want to coerce the capital to make the Hebei Song army go south to support the king and besiege the city to fight for reinforcements. If so, it will be more effective than forcibly besieging the city."

Wanyan Zonghan looked at Shi Li'ai and said, "You mean, we give up Shangdang first and go south to besiege Luoyang, and the Song army of Shangdang will go south to support?"

"This possibility cannot be ruled out."

After thinking about it, Zong Han adopted Shi Liai's strategy.

Because he has been in Shangdang for nearly three months, built two hundred ladders, and stormed several times, but Shangdang couldn't move.

Zong Ying, Zong Ze's son, was the defender of the Shangdang. Zong Ze gave him this order: If the defense line in Hebei is lost, I will fight to the death to apologize. If the Shangdang loses, you must not live alone.

Zong Ying defended the Shangdang. There were 1 soldiers and horses in the city, and [-] people died in battle. The northern wall was even stained red with blood.

Shangdang City was not as strong as Taiyuan City, but the soldiers defending the city were extremely tenacious. No matter how Wanyan Zonghan sent troops up, they were finally thrown down.

It was already the first month of the month, and Zong Han finally compromised, and summoned a large army to go south, cross the Yellow River, and the soldiers pointed directly at Luoyang.

And sent spies near Shangdang to observe the movement of Shangdang Song army.

On the tenth day of the first lunar month, Zong Han sent troops to attack Luoyang.

After entering Luoyang Mansion, Zong Han found that the population here had increased significantly.

So Zong Han attacked Luoyang, while searching and arresting the people all around, and caught them in front of the battle, threatening the defender Zhai Jin.

The real Zhai Jin in history can be regarded as a general who can fight, and even repelled the Jin army, but it is a pity that he died at the hands of bandits like Yang Jin.

Right now Zong Han is arresting people everywhere, causing anger and resentment, but he doesn't care.

This time he went south with all his troops, and he also endured a lot of pressure in the court.

If there is no big harvest, Wanyan Zongwang's faction will definitely impeach him.

The matter involved political factional struggles.

As long as he can win, he can do anything.

On the [-]th day of the first lunar month, Zong Han publicly executed the common people of Song Dynasty outside Luoyang City, and made those common people cry for help tragically.

It made the Song army defending the city all sad.

Someone in the city voluntarily asked for orders to go out of the city to fight the Jin army, but was suppressed by Zhai Jin.

On the [-]th day of the first lunar month, there were mountains of corpses outside the city, but Zhai Jin remained unmoved.

Zong Han attacked again, unable to break through.

So he began to send troops to Ruzhou, and to break Ruzhou, he went to Dengzhou (Nanyang area), and then suppressed Xiangyang.

On the front line of the Yellow River, Zongze was on defense, and he was more than tenacious. Wanyan Zonghan didn't want to waste any more time, and immediately went south in an all-round way.

Intended to penetrate the hinterland of Song Dynasty.

On the 23rd of the first lunar month, Ruzhou fell, and then within three days, soldiers pointed directly at Dengzhou. In just one day, Dengzhou fell.

Wanyan Zonghan divided [-] troops and arrived at the city of Xiangyang.

Once Xiangyang is broken, Jinghu Lake will be in danger.

Jinghu Lake is a land of fish and rice. Although it has not been developed in the Song Dynasty, its farming potential is very great.

Jinghu Road was Huguang Province in the Ming Dynasty. In the Ming Dynasty, there was a proverb that "Huguang is cooked, and the world is full".

This area must be one of the most important places for Zhao Ning to plan land reform next.

On the 23rd of the first lunar month, when Wanyan Zonghan's troops came to Xiangyang, Wanyan Zongfu's army on the eastern front had already advanced to Xuzhou.

The Jin Army's East Route Army and Middle Route Army penetrated into the territory of the Song Dynasty in an all-round way.

In the west, the commander-in-chief Wanyan Loushi attacked the towns in Shaanxi.

At this time, the situation in Shaanxi changed dramatically, and the first event that had a major impact on the overall situation occurred.

Chapter 129 The Building Will Fall (Part [-])

Although the defenses established in Hebei and Hedong have been defended.

But the severity of the current situation is unimaginable.

The Jin army's southward move this time is in full swing.

Speaking of the Eastern Front, since Wanyan Zongfu gave up Cangzhou, he went all the way south, and his troops were divided into multiple routes.

The cities and towns in Qilu did not have time to strengthen their defenses. In the Song Huizong era, they were almost like a bird. Facing the offensive of the Jin army, they were as vulnerable as rotten wood.

In the final analysis, the defense of the eastern front is focused on Cangzhou, and the rest of the defense is almost as if it is empty.

This cannot be blamed on Li Gang, after all, after taking office for a few months, it is impossible to transform into an impenetrable line of defense.

Zongze was different. Zongze had been sent to Hebei since the first year of Jingkang to fight against gold in Hebei and gathered enough prestige and troops.

And the center line is closer to the capital, so any resources can be dispatched faster.

Moreover, there is another important reason for the large-scale loss of Jingdong East Road (Shandong Province): Wanyan Zongfu adopted a strategy of both soft and hard.

Judging from the latest battle report on the Eastern Front that Zhao Ning received, Liu Yu had already surrendered and arrived at Wanyan Zongfu's barracks.

Liu Yu, as the commissioner of Hebei West Road, and a provincial boss, surrendered.

This prompted the surrender of many officials in the heart of the Eastern Front.

Zhao Ning immediately sensed that the situation was not good.

Under normal circumstances, surrendering to an enemy country requires psychological struggle.

Surrender does not mean surrender, officials must first weigh the pros and cons.

Surrender to the past, will it be better than the present?

Since the mix is ​​worse, why surrender?

If you want to mix, with whom?

Everyone is unfamiliar with the Kingdom of Jin, and it is deeply rooted that the Jin people are barbarians and do not respect etiquette.

This makes those officials naturally reject the Jin people psychologically.

In order to dispel this exclusion, the Jinren will definitely support Liu Yu.

That is to say, in history, Liu Yu was supported to establish a puppet Qi.

Liu Yu is a Han Chinese, and an official of the Song Dynasty, and a high-ranking official.

If he forms a puppet regime on the Eastern Front, then the psychological burden on those officials to surrender will inevitably be much reduced.

Just like when you want to switch to a foreign company, before you change jobs, you will worry about whether your future boss has a completely different culture and philosophy from your own, and will target you.

If you find that your future boss is a colleague or even a classmate of your previous company who you have heard of who has similar ideas to yours, your psychological burden will immediately be relieved a lot.

If this is the case, under the intimidation and inducement of the Jin army, I am afraid that there will be more and more surrenders on Jingdong East Road.

Once Jingdong East Road is in the hands of Jinren, Zhao Ning will be cut off with a right arm.

How will you fuck in the future... Oh no, how will you engage in the Eastern Economic Belt in the future?

What's more serious is that Wanyan Zongfu has arrived in Xuzhou.

Xuzhou is the intersection of Jingdong East Road and Jingdong East Road. It is also the place where the east and the north enter the south. It is also a place that has been contested by military strategists since ancient times.

In the Song Dynasty, it was even more important.

Because the Bian River and Surabaya all flow through here.

The place where taxes must pass in the southeast.

And this place is not far from Huainan East Road.

Lianghuai was the richest place in the Song Dynasty, with 9736 million mu of fertile land, and it was one of the places with the most tax and cash income.

Now the situation has entered the most critical moment.

This is no longer a question of defense or not, let alone one or two wars, but the impact on the food and population of the Great Song Dynasty.

Food and population are the foundation of a country.

The so-called truly shaken the foundation of the country is nothing more than this.

The survival of the Eastern Front is related to the wealth of the country.

Once the Eastern Front is occupied, Zhao Ning has only two options:

[-]. Move the capital to Chang'an.

Once the capital is moved to Chang'an, although Guanzhong can be used to defend the city, it means giving up most of the eastern region to the Jin people.

Moreover, Guanzhong had withered in the Song Dynasty, and local taxes could only support a small group of troops.

The Great Song Dynasty, which lost the east and the Central Plains, let alone guarding Chang'an, I am afraid that the roads in Shaanxi will collapse first because of the lack of food and military pay.

In the end, the situation was stabilized, and Zhao Ning could only occupy a small area of ​​the Guanzhong Plain.

[-]. Move the capital to Hangzhou, follow Zhao Gou's old path, use the rivers and ravines in the south of the Yangtze River to block the cavalry of the Jin army, trade space for time, vigorously develop the south, and wait for the opportunity.

In this way, at least there will be fiscal revenue and food revenue.

As long as you have these two things, you can slowly reorganize the army.

If so, the escape route must be opened.

Zhao Ning sighed, he had done his best in such a bad situation.

I have really tried my best, and all the layouts that can be deployed have been laid out, and everyone's key figures are shining in their respective positions.

He doesn't know how to cast immortal spells, he can only wait for the situation to change.

The key lies in the northwest.

So, in such a situation, what kind of person does Northwest need?

A man who is going to keep the building from falling?

Do not!

A resolute main battle is needed, someone who dares to send all the Northwest armies to the battlefield, and use the lives of the Western army to fill this war.

There was no big defeat on the central line, and Cangzhou on the eastern line was still there, but the Jin army had penetrated into the richest place.

What about the Western Front?

The Western Front needs a large-scale battle of unprecedented scale, and whether it is defeated or not, it needs an unprecedented battle.

Because the Western Front is not for defense!

Some people must die, and countless people must die in battle.

Those passionate men of flesh and blood, from the moment they went to the battlefield, were doomed not to be able to return to their families.

Beginning on October [-]th of the second year of Jingkang, Wanyan Loushi's [-] troops marched westward from Taiyuan, and the soldiers pointed directly at the towns in Shaanxi, and the war on the western front began in full swing.

Different from the defense on the central line, and also different from the deep soft and hard tactics on the eastern front, Wanyan Loushi encountered the strongest resistance as soon as he entered Shaanxi.

And it is the resistance of the frontal battle.

From the perspective of tactical command, how powerful is Wanyan Loushi?

In the early days of the Jinliao War, Wanyan Aguda had only 3700 cavalry, all of which belonged to the cavalry.

The Liao Kingdom gathered an army of [-] to crush Wanyan Jurchen.