The Jurchen nobles of the Great Jin Kingdom have always been selfish. Pusan Anzhen himself was involved in the political dispute between Emperor Zhang Zong and the king, and after suffering a heavy setback in his official career, he climbed to such a high position step by step. Like most of the Jurchen dignitaries in the court, even in the final stage Even in a harsh environment, one's own interests will not be harmed even a little bit.
But Pusan Anzhen was indeed loyal to Daijin, and he really wanted to do his best to save the declining Daikin and maintain the increasingly shaky rule of the Jurchens in the Central Plains.
Therefore, he gave up fighting for military and political power with Shuhu Gaoqi and his like in Zhongdu very early, and instead sought to go abroad in order to integrate local military and political power and maintain a base with sufficient strength in the rotten Daijin territory.
Hebei is his best choice. At first, Pusan Anzhen believed that as long as he controlled this base area, and then moved north to influence the court situation, and moved south to annex the prosperous Shandong, he would suddenly become the largest powerful faction in the Jin Kingdom. After that, all he had to do was maneuver between the emperor and King Sui, and he would naturally continue to accumulate strength. When he had three thousand miles of mountains and rivers and one hundred thousand troops, no matter how ferocious the Mongols were, Pusan Anzhen would always have a way to deal with it.
At that time, if you advance, you can become the pillar and support of the imperial court and build achievements like those of Yin Yin and Huo Guang. If you retreat, you will not lose the wealth and honor of a feudal town, and you may even have the opportunity to build the Yelu Dashi.
However, since taking office as the Xuanfu envoy of Hebei, the local difficulties have been ten times or a hundred times more than Pusan Anzhen imagined!
For many days and nights, he was exhausted and unable to sleep. I don’t know how many hard and soft means were used, and after untold hardships, Hebei was finally stabilized. But in the south, King Sui had already managed the entire Henan province like an iron barrel. In the Shandong direction, in just one year, another Dinghai navy emerged, and its momentum was simply unstoppable.
This situation, coupled with the Mongols' repeated attacks southward, makes it overwhelming. Pusan Anzhen is familiar with the classics and history of the Han family and knows how dangerous this is, and the various chaos in Zhongdu are like those apocalyptic situations recorded in history books.
This can be said to be a continuous blow to Pusan Anzhen. Although he always acted confident in front of others, secretly he was inevitably shaken and frustrated.
Seeing that his dream of reviving the Great Jin Dynasty was becoming increasingly difficult to realize, Pusan Anzhen never expected that at this critical moment when the Mongolian army besieged Zhongdu, Guo Ning, a rebel, would actually choose to fully support the imperial court?
When Pusan Anzhen led his troops to be stationed at Yijin Pass in Bazhou in an attempt to stop the Mongolian army from moving south, Guo Ning first started a fierce battle in Liaodong, and then sent elite troops by sea to the Lushui River to try his best to protect Zhongdu. Material supply.
Yijin Pass is not far from Zhigu Village. The two places are only separated by the Wozikou Military Village, which is occupied by Bohai native You Xingge and his troops. Therefore, the repeated fierce battles between the Ding Navy and the Mongolian army along the Lushui River broke out under the eyes of Pusan Anzhen.
When the imperial court is in crisis, the one who is really working hard and sweating is an obvious rebel?
This situation is extremely absurd.
As Pusan Anzhen witnessed this situation, he felt more and more on pins and needles when he thought of his status as one of the same countrymen for generations.
Just as he was wandering around uncertainly, another news came: An important figure in the Ding navy had moved Chu Cai and brought three or five followers to Yijin Pass to ask for a meeting.
When Pusan Anzhen was in Zhongdu in his early years, he was very close to Tu Danyi, and Yilan Chucai was a rising star that Tu Danyi was optimistic about, and was regarded by Tu Danyi as his junior. Therefore, the two people not only recognized each other, but also had some friendship on the scene. It's just that two years ago, he went crazy when he tried to assassinate Chu Cai. He gave up his promising future in the Zhongdu court and defected to the rebel Guo Ning. Pusan Anzhen had nothing to do with him anymore.
However, he moved Chu Cai to serve under Guo Ning and served as the magistrate of Xuanfu. He was the general person in charge of the government affairs of dozens of military states in Shandong and Liaodong. Guo Ning relied on him as his right-hand man, and he seemed to be a loyal minister of the political power... Pusan Anzhen knew it clearly.
So Yiza Chucai suddenly asked for an audience, which surprised Pusan Anzhen. He hurriedly went out to meet them and found out that the Ding navy was not only fighting against the Mongolian army in Lushui, but also allocating an extremely large amount of supplies from Shandong and forming a militia team, preparing to send them to Zhongdu via the land route in Hebei!
How could Ding Hainan do this?
Who are they? He is a rebel who just needs to show off his skills! But when the Mongolian army goes south, the rebels can still do this... What about people like Pusan Anzhen who claim to be loyal ministers? This is simply embarrassing!
According to Yila Chucai, Du Shisheng, another magistrate of the Dinghai Navy, had already contacted powerful generals in Zhongdu and came out of the city to meet them. Therefore, the huge team of food and supplies from the Dinghai Navy had already set off. What they asked Pusan Anzhen to do was to try their best to ensure the safety of the short distance north of Yijin Pass and to try their best to protect the food and supplies as close to the central capital.
When we arrived around Zhongdu, there were naturally soldiers and horses from Zhongdu to support us. Pusan Anzhen just retreated and there was no need to stay any longer.
In response, Pusan Anzhen did not immediately agree.
This request requires Fusan Anzhen to take a big risk. The last time the Mongolian army went south to invade, apart from the defenders of the northern border trench, the most tragic casualties were the soldiers and horses trying to go to Zhongdu King Qin. Pusan Anzhen remembers that among the senior generals who died directly on the battlefield, there were Wugu Sunwutun and more than ten people.
If Pusan Anzhen left Yijin Pass, where his family had been running for a long time, and sent troops northward, who knows whether he would be attacked by the Mongolian army and end up like those who work hard for the king?
That's not all that makes Pusan Anzhen doubtful.
The loss he suffered at the hands of Guo Ning half a year ago was so tragic. How could this not make him extremely frightened? He really didn't know what kind of losses he would suffer if he had to deal with this cunning thief again!
Therefore, after Pusan Anzhen talked with Yi La Chucai, he politely left Yi La Chucai lingering at Yijin Pass, and actually detained him as a hostage. Then he sent two teams of capable people to investigate separately.
A manned force flew all the way to Shandong to monitor the Dinghai navy civilian militia assembled in the Dizhou area.
This passerby quickly reported that the people of Ding'an were fully responsible for allocating supplies, food and fodder within the Dinghai Navy, and had mobilized tens of thousands of people, thousands of livestock, and three to five thousand heavy-duty vehicles to meet the needs of the capital. The scale of this civilian militia team is huge, and it is definitely not fake.
The spies sent by Pusan Anzhen were very capable, and they secretly arrested a few civil servants and tortured them about the inside story of Shandong. After asking, I found out that after Guo Ning sent orders to various places to raise grain, the process of corresponding allocation and transshipment caused some disturbances in Shandong.
This is all due to the continuous fighting in Shandong. Even if there are maritime trade channels to supplement it, the family's financial resources are not actually strong. Since the navy officials had never cared about the imperial court, the military government forcibly transferred a large amount of materials to supply the central capital, which immediately made military and political officials in many places dissatisfied.
What's more, the food that Zhongdu needs is never a small amount. In the past, there was sea transportation. It was not difficult for a ship to carry thousands of stones of grain and grain. It was not difficult for hundreds of ships to carry one hundred thousand stones. But now the fighting is going on at Zhigu Village. Once the grain ship arrives there, it is impossible to go north, so we can only take the land route.
If we take the land route, we will have to recruit a large number of people and animals. How will the rewards, money and rations needed by these people on the road be provided?
If we deduct the grains from the transported grains and the horse chews eaten by people along the way, I don’t know how much grains will be left in this batch of grains when we get to Zhongdu. If additional levies are recruited from the local area, such a large number will truly comply with what the Art of War says: the people's expenses will be reduced to seven out of ten; the public expenses will be reduced to a car or a horse!
That is to say, Jing'an Min has seniority, fame and ability in the army. For others, the prestige is not enough, or he is not capable enough. I am afraid that at this time, he is still busy dealing with the commotion in various places, and he simply cannot gather such a force. The baggage team is coming.
After the news along the way was confirmed, those who inquired about the battle situation along Zhigu Village and Lushui also returned one after another.
They all said that the Mongolian army, with no less than 40,000 to 50,000 soldiers and horses, was tightly blockading the area along the Lu River to Zhigu Village, and the fighting with Ding Haijun continued continuously. During this period, the main focus of the battle was at Zhigu Village. Ding Haijun continued to increase troops to Zhigu Village, and the Mongols also used elite auxiliary troops from Beijing Road, including the famous Black Army, and Bohai Both the people and the Khitans also participated in the war.
One team of explorers was particularly bold. They traveled all the way at dawn and stayed overnight, bypassing the strongholds controlled by the Mongols such as Anci and Wuqing, and arrived at Miaoyin County on the north bank of Lushui River. They also saw with their own eyes the Mongols intimidating the people and destroying the Ding navy. This is the construction of a large fortress.
They also grabbed their tongues and tortured them. From this, we learned that the Dinghai navy and the Mongolian army fought repeatedly along the Lushui River several times in ten months. This fortress outside Miaoyin County changed hands four times. , this made the Mongolian nobles become so cruel that they had to completely burn it to the ground.
By this time, Pusan Anzhen was finally relieved of his suspicions, and his loyalty to the court and his expectation of making achievements took over again.
A good man who grew up among white mountains and black waters, and lives in such a world, can he really be overwhelmed by a man like Guo Ning in terms of responsibility and courage? Guo Ning dared to repeatedly strangle the Mongols to this extent. Do I, the servant San Anzhen, have to look forward and backward even when I send troops to protect him for a short distance?
Five days ago, the baggage team organized by Ding Haijun passed through Cangzhou and Qingzhou and arrived at Yijin Pass. Pusan Anzhen finally made up his mind, and immediately ordered the elite Meng'an army to defeat more than 10,000 people, leading the baggage team. The tone reached Liangxiang County to the west of Daxing Prefecture.
For Pusan Anzhen, this was considered a military adventure. Being able to arrive here safely showed his loyalty to the court and his wish was enough. Next, it was time for Zhongdu's troops to leave the city to pick up the baggage, and their own army to regroup safely.
Yi La Chu Cai insists on saying anything about entering Zhongdu, which is a bit provocative. Even if it is an old friend's words, it is too harsh.
