After Wanyan Aguda died, Wanyan Wu begged to succeed to the throne and became the emperor of the Jin Kingdom. He was Taizong of the Jin Dynasty. After Wanyan Aguda was alive, Wanyan Wu Qimai, Wanyan Nianhan, Wanyan Zongwang and others tried to seize the Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures of the Song Dynasty. Because Wanyan Aguda insisted on returning it to the Song Dynasty, they did not get their wish. After Wanyan Aguda died, Wanyan Wu Qimai and others were no longer restrained, and began to plot to seize the territory of Yanyun's Sixteen Prefectures, but they just had no excuse.
The Song Dynasty accepted Zhang Jue's rebellion, which gave the Jin State an excuse. At first, it used Zhang Jue as an excuse to create trouble. After Zhang Jue was killed by Wang Anzhong and his head was sent to the Kingdom of Jin, although the Kingdom of Jin stabilized for a while, it never gave up its ambition to invade the Song Dynasty and tried every means to find ways and excuses. If you want to incriminate yourself, why bother? The excuse was finally found by the Jin Kingdom. In addition to the Song Dynasty accepting Zhang Jue's rebellion, the Song Dynasty did not follow the agreement and send money to the Jin Kingdom.
How is this going?
It turned out that after returning the down payment from the Six Prefectures of Yanjing, Emperor Huizong was obsessed with the Ten Prefectures of Yunshuo that had not yet been recovered, so he sent Tong Guan to guard Jinyang and take charge of the military and political affairs in the Yanyun area. Yunshuo ten states.
At the beginning of the Fangla Uprising, Tan Zhen served as the envoy of the Zhejiang Province and was first ordered to lead the army to conquer Fangla. After the six prefectures of Yanjing were recovered, Emperor Huizong transferred Wang Anzhong and Tan Zhen to Yanjing, and appointed Wang Anzhong as the Xuanfu envoy of Yanshan Prefecture, in charge of the Yanjing area. Tan Zhen was the Xuanfu envoy of Hebei Province, responsible for the recovery of the ten prefectures of Yunshuo. At that time, the Jin Kingdom occupied the ten states of Yunshuo because Emperor Tianzuo had not yet been captured. Zhao Liangsi negotiated with the Jin State on behalf of the court. After agreeing to wait for the capture of Emperor Yelu Yanxi of Tianzuo, he would return the ten states of Yunshuo to the Song Dynasty, but he asked Zhao Liangsi for 200,000 stones of military rations to reward the army. After Zhao Liangsi asked the court for instructions, he agreed to the Jin Kingdom's request.
Although Emperor Huizong appointed Tan Zhen as the propaganda envoy to the northeast of Hebei Province, the ten states in northeastern Hebei and Yunshuo were all occupied by the Jin Kingdom. In fact, Tan Zhen had no jurisdiction over the territory and only shared office with Wang Anzhong in Yanjing. Zhang Jue led his troops in the three prefectures of Pingluan and surrendered to the imperial court. The area northeast of Yanjing belonged to the Song Dynasty. This put great pressure on Tan Zhen, so he encouraged the generals of Shuo, Ying, and Wei prefectures to surrender to the Song Dynasty. The three governors of Shuo, Ying, and Wei were also Han Chinese. Seeing that Yanjing and Yingpingluan had all submitted to the Song Dynasty, they predicted that in the near future, the ten prefectures of Yunshuo would also belong to the Song Dynasty, so they accepted Tan Zhen's instigation to submit to the Song Dynasty. Song. The Jin Kingdom had just died due to Wanyan Agu's beating, Wanyan Wu had begged to buy a new one, and Emperor Tianzuo was on the run. He had no energy to take care of the Yunshuo ten states, so he agreed to cut off Wu and Shuo states from the Song Dynasty. Tan Zhen then had jurisdiction and moved to Shuozhou to open his office.
In March of this year, the Jin Kingdom regained its composure and began to plan to invade the Song Dynasty. So while asking for Zhang Jue, they sent people to Shuozhou to find Tan Zhen's Xuanfu Envoy Yamen and demanded 200,000 shi of military rations. .
When Tan Zhen heard that the Jin envoy asked for 200,000 shi of rations, he was furious and scolded: "What does the rations of your country's soldiers and horses have to do with our country? How dare you come to the envoy of Xuanfu and ask for 200,000 shi of rations!" This is simply audacious and extremely rude!”
The envoy from the Kingdom of Jin said: "It's not that I came to you to ask for 200,000 shi of rations for no reason, but because your country's Zhao Liangsi personally promised to give our country 200,000 shi of rations as a reward for our army last year."
When Tan Zhen heard this, he thought to himself, Zhao Liangsi had been demoted to Yongzhou, Hunan by the Holy Emperor, so what did he agree to do? Consider it a hammer! Tan Zhen didn't want to give the Jin Kingdom 200,000 shi of military rations, so he said loudly: "I don't know what you are talking about. Now you are saying that Zhao Liangsi promised it last year, but there is no basis for what you say! So, who? Promise, who do you want to ask for, I don’t have even one stone here, let alone two hundred thousand stone.”
The envoy of the Kingdom of Jin became angry and had no choice but to leave angrily.
The envoys of the Kingdom of Jin returned to the Kingdom of Jin and reported the situation to Wanyan Wu Qingbuye. Wanyanwu Qibei was so angry that he became furious. He remembered what happened to Zhang Jue again, so he ordered Wanyan Zongwang to be the commander-in-chief of the East Road and lead his troops. With 60,000 troops, he marched to Yanjing; Wanyan Nianhan was the commander-in-chief of the West Route and led 100,000 troops to march to Yunshuo. The Song-Jin alliance was shattered, and the Song-Jin war began.
Wanyan Zongwang on the east road went all the way south and soon captured Tan and Jizhou, and the vanguard troops arrived at Yutian.
In the city of Yanjing, Wang Anzhong, the envoy of Xuanfu, returned to the capital to report on his duties, leaving only his colleagues Cai Jing and Guo Yaoshi. When he heard that the Jin soldiers were marching south to join Ketan and Jizhou, and that the forward troops and horses had arrived in Yutian, Cai Jing panicked and ordered Guo Yaoshi's Wu Tai army to go and defend against the enemy.
Before Wang Anzhong went to Beijing to report on his duties, he was suspicious of Pharmacist Guo, so he entrusted Cai Jing with all the military and political affairs of Yanjing. In addition, Cai Jing was ahead of Pharmacist Guo in the ranking of Yanshan Prefecture colleagues, so he was Pharmacist Guo's superior.
Guo Pharmacist was ordered to quickly lead Zhang Linghui, Liu Shunren and other generals, commanding 100,000 troops and horses, to Yutian to meet the Jin soldiers led by Wanyan Zongwang.
Strange things happened. Guo Yaoshi and his Wu Tai Army, who were known to be powerful and often formed military formations, faced 60,000 Jin soldiers and horses with a force of 100,000. However, they had no formation or strategy. They were defeated as soon as they came into contact with the Jin soldiers and horses.
Led by vanguard Wanyan Chamu, generals Wanyanchang and Liu Yanzong, the soldiers and horses of the Kingdom of Jin came shouting to kill and rushed into the soldiers and horses of the Wutai army. They cut and picked with swords and spears in a ferocious manner. Wu Taijun could not hold on and moved backward. Guo Yaoshi, Zhang Linghui, Liu Shunren and other Wutai army commanders and generals turned their horses' heads and fled first. Wu Tai's army was instantly defeated. The soldiers and horses were scattered. The Jin soldiers came in pursuit, slashing with swords and spears, and Wu Tai's army suffered numerous casualties.
Part of the Wutai army retreated into Yanjing City. Jin soldiers immediately rushed to the northern suburbs of Yanjing.
In the city, colleague Cai Jing learned that the Wutai Army was defeated and that the Jin Army pursued them to the northern suburbs of Yanjing. He hurried to the mansion of Wutai Army Guo Pharmacist and came to see Pharmacist Guo. He ordered Pharmacist Guo to transfer all troops and horses from the southern suburbs of Yanjing to the northern suburbs, except for A few soldiers and horses were left to defend the outside of Yanjing City, and most of the soldiers and horses were organized to defeat the few with more and fight the Jin army decisively.
At this time, Yaoshi Guo already regarded the Jin army as a tiger and was extremely afraid. After listening to Cai Jing's order, Medical Master Guo looked at Cai Jing and bowed, and said: "Cai Tongzhi, the Jin army is like a wolf and a tiger, and Wu Tai's army cannot resist it. The current plan is to defend the city. .”
Cai Jing said: "Lieutenant Guo, the Jin army is strong but also exhausted after a long-distance attack. The Wutai army can transfer more than 100,000 soldiers and horses from the southern suburbs to the northern suburbs to start a decisive battle with the Jin army. With ease and hard work, they will definitely win. Enter the capital. If the northern suburbs of Yanjing are abandoned and huddled in the city, the Jin soldiers will inevitably station in the northern suburbs of Yanjing, prepare troops and horses, and continue to attack the city. By then, the passive defense of the city may not be able to hold on. What will happen then? "
"At that time, we will have no choice but to open the city gate and surrender to the Jin army."
Pharmacist Guo actually said this.
Cai Jing was shocked when he heard this.
Cai Jing had doubts about Pharmacist Guo and had given secret instructions to Emperor Huizong. He just suspected that Pharmacist Guo was disloyal and would do some corrupt things, pervert the law and prey on the people. For example, General Guo Yaoshi used weapons and armor for folk trade and collected gold and silver treasures, but Cai Jing did not expect that Guo Yaoshi would surrender to the Jin Kingdom. Now, when he heard that Pharmacist Guo was about to open the city gate and surrender to the Kingdom of Jin, Cai Jing was not only surprised, but also furious. He loudly rebuked Pharmacist Guo and said, "Pharmacist Guo! The Holy One has treated you well and granted you the title of military governor and commander of the Wutai Army." Taiwei Jian, the magistrate of Yanshan Prefecture, commanded the soldiers and horses of the six states of Yanjing, and gave you a residence and a concubine in the capital. Now, the Jin soldiers are attacking, just when you are serving the imperial court. How can you say such treasonous words?! Do you intend to betray the imperial court?!"
Pharmacist Guo looked at Cai Jing and said, "Cai Tongzhi calms down. With all due respect, the Jin army has strong soldiers and horses. Even the millions of soldiers and horses of the Liao Dynasty are no match for them. How can a mere 300,000 Wutai army resist the tiger and wolf army of the Jin Kingdom?" Situation is stronger than people! The right way is that those who understand the current affairs are heroes. I hope Cai Tongzhi will assess the situation and make a wise choice."
"Clumsy!" Cai Jing shouted: "That's nonsense! How can the Jin Kingdom defeat tens of thousands of soldiers and horses of the Wutai Army?" After scolding Pharmacist Guo, considering that now he still has to rely on Pharmacist Guo and his The Wu Tai Army resisted the Jin Army and defended Yanjing. Cai Jing's tone was much more tactful, and he said to Guo Yaoshi: "Guo Taiwei, the battle between the two armies is about strength and courage. At this moment, the Wu Tai Army cannot have any Hesitate, only by letting go of the war can we save Yanjing and the Wutai Army, and then we can earn the trust of the court. Taiwei Guo, one mistake will lead to eternal hatred, and Meng Lang's matter must never be done."
At this time, Cai Jing could no longer control Yaoshi Guo, so he could only understand the truth and be moved by emotion, and persuade Yaoshi Guo to be loyal to the emperor and serve the country, lead the Wu Tai Army to fight against the Jin Army, and defend Yanjing.
Pharmacist Guo had already planned to pay the money, and he had already had connections with the Kingdom of Jin before. How could he listen to Cai Jing's words? Pharmacist Guo looked at Cai Jing and said: "Cai Tongzhi. After you were transferred from Hejian, you know how I, Pharmacist Guo, will take you. Now is not the time to act on impulse. Only by surrendering to the Kingdom of Jin can we protect ourselves. Cai Tongzhi, we Let’s surrender to the Kingdom of Jin together?”
Seeing that Yaoshi Guo was determined to surrender to the Jin Kingdom, Cai Jing had no choice but to say: "Guo Taiwei, I can't commit treason and surrender to the enemy. I, Cai Jing, swear to serve the country to the death and will never surrender to the Jin Kingdom." . Since Taiwei Guo is determined to surrender to the Jin Kingdom, I can’t stop him. I only have one request.”
"Say!" Yaoshi Guo said.
Cai Jing said: "You lead your Wu Tai Army to defect to the Jin Kingdom, and leave behind 10,000 elite guards of Yanshan Prefecture. I, Cai Jingshi, will live and die with Yanjing."
"How stupid!" Yaoshi Guo said: "My dear Cai Tongzhi, you have read too much and are stupid. Can more than 10,000 soldiers and horses resist the Jin army? Can you defend the city of Yanjing? How ridiculous!"
Cai Jing said: "So, you want to force me to betray the country and surrender to the enemy, and do things worse than a pig or a dog?"
"The situation dictates!" Yaoshi Guo said.
Cai Jing suddenly took out the sword from his waist and wiped it from Wang's own neck. Upon seeing this, Pharmacist Guo quickly stepped forward and hugged Cai Jing tightly. "It can't be done! It can't be done!" Pharmacist Guo kept saying.
"Let go!" Cai Jing shouted loudly: "Even if I, Cai Jing, die, I will not betray the country and surrender to the enemy."
Pharmacist Guo had no choice but to tie up Cai Jing and lock him in the Yamen of the Wutai Army Jiedushi. Then he took Zhang Linghui, Liu Shunren and other generals of the Wutai Army out to the northern suburbs of Yanjing and surrendered to Wanyan Zongwang.
