Zhong Shidao died at the foot of Kaifeng City, much earlier than the time of his death in history.
Historically, he suffered a lot of grievances and helplessness in Kaifeng City, and finally died in depression. Although he never saw the demise of the Northern Song Dynasty with his own eyes, he didn't know how much helplessness he felt in his heart.
Now Zhong Shidao died in front of Zhao Huan, and Zhao Huan remembered all his advice.
"Whether what you said, old husband, is true or false, I will keep these words in my heart. The Song Dynasty will have its own courage and will recreate the prosperous times of the Han and Tang Dynasties and even surpass the Han and Tang Dynasties."
Zhao Huan stood up again and personally helped Zhong Shidao, who had lost his breath, in front of everyone.
"Please old husband, come back to the city!"
With a loud roar, Zhao Huan took the old prime minister of the Song Dynasty, Zhong Shidao, back to Kaifeng City in Bianjing of the Song Dynasty.
Zhao Huan took out the royal treasury from the palace to reward many soldiers, including Yao Pingzhong and Ma Zhong. He did not blame him at all and gave them real rewards.
Including the soldiers who went on this expedition, they all gave out rewards in front of everyone.
Although their performance this time could not be said to be good, Zhong Shidao reminded Zhao Huan that this was not a sentence in the history books, and the Song army was weak.
This is a fact. It is a result of hundreds of years of recuperation and ignorance of the consequences of military confrontation.
Unless there is another sheep-raising ceremony and most of the Central Plains is given away, this matter will definitely continue.
"Unfortunately, my old husband was injured. He was given the posthumous title of Zhongxian. He was given a gift to the Third Division of Yitong in Kaifu and was given the post of Shaobao!"
This was the feeling after Zhongshi Dao's death. Of course, the rewards had not stopped yet, and Zhao Huan continued to ask.
"Where are the descendants of Mr. Zhong? Let them come and receive the reward..."
Zhao Huan wanted to make up for it with the descendants of Zhongshi Dao, but when he talked about ordinary things, he saw that the faces of Zhao Ding and others were a little unnatural, and he felt that something was wrong.
"The descendants of the old husband..."
"Zhong Gong had two sons and two grandsons. Zhong Hao was an official, Di Gonglang, and Zhong Xi was a noble prince. However, Zhong Hao died on the battlefield of the Northern Expedition to Liao Kingdom, and Zhong Xi died while fighting the Xixia people. On the battlefield.
The breeder also had two grandsons, Yan Song unfortunately died early, and the other grandson Yan Chong... has died on Hedong Road! "
When he said this, Zhao Ding couldn't help but glare at Tong Guan.
"During the first battle in Taiyuan, Tong Guan was afraid of battle and death, and refused to protect Taiyuan. He ignored the persuasion of Wang Zhen and the prefect Zhang Xiaochun and fled back to Kaifeng. Later, Jin general Wanyan Zonghan raided Hedong Road.
In this battle, our Song Dynasty suffered heavy losses. Mr. Zhong’s only grandson died under the city of Taiyuan in order to block the Jin’s attack. "
After Zhao Ding finished speaking, Tong Guan also knew that he had become the target of public criticism again, so he huddled up and retreated into a corner, for fear of attracting fire again.
"Tong Guan, go and keep watch for Mr. Zhong... That's all. I will personally keep a vigil for Mr. Zhong all night, carry the coffin for him in person, and invite people from the Zhong clan to come and take care of Mr. Zhong." Send him back to his hometown for burial.”
Zhao Huan said that he would decide to do it himself in the end. After all, Tong Guan had indeed done a great job for him. He couldn't just kill the donkey at this time, but let him guard the body and apologize. Stable.
After settling things here properly, he called Liu Qi over again.
"I have given up preparations to immediately rush to the aid of Hedong Road, but I must reorganize our weapons. I will hand over all the imperial troops in Kaifeng City to your hands.
I want you to train an army that can fight the Jin people head-on. Do you understand? "
"The last general takes command!"
After giving many instructions again, looking at Liu Qi's leaving figure, Zhao Huan called Zhao Ding to his side, and then began a series of arrangements and discussions.
This time, even Zhao Huan's two confidants Yao Pingzhong and Tong Guan didn't know what they said. They only knew that this matter was very, very important. It was so important that Zhao Ding could speak loudly to Zhao Huan regardless of his manners. .
In the end, Tong Guan and Yao Pingzhong, who were guarding outside, didn't know who persuaded whom. They only knew that Zhao Huan's orders were continuously passed on to various battlefields.
Zongze, who was stabilizing Cizhou on Hebei Road, held Zhao Huan's order in his hand. Behind him were all the soldiers and horses gathered on Hebei Road, and in front of him were his enemies.
Wanyanchang, who had fought against him before, had retired to the position of deputy general. The chief general at this time was Wanyan Zongbi, another son of Wanyan Aguda.
Wanyan Zongbi also had a Jurchen name, the famous Jin Wushu in later generations. He was indeed one of the most valued sons of Wanyan Aguda. He made a real operation as soon as he appeared.
Previously, Wan Yanchang was forced to move under Cizhou City by Zongze.
As soon as Jin Wushu took action, his army went straight to Zongze's headquarters. At the same time, he collected a large number of victims from the Hebei Road, gathering hundreds of thousands of refugees and sent them directly to the battlefield.
The people were driven to attack, forcing Zongze to take the lead in fighting them at the foot of Cizhou City in order to ensure the lives of the people.
At the time of the entanglement, Jin Wushu ordered Wan Yanchang to lead an army of 50,000 to bypass the battlefield and attack Xiangluo Prefecture in the rear.
The commander-in-chief of Xiangzhou is Yue Fei's old boss, Wuyi doctor Liu Hao, who fought to the death to protect the city when the Jin invaded. However, the troops under his command cannot be compared with the Jin.
After a day and night of continuous fighting, Wan Yanchang broke through the city gate and rushed in. Liu Hao was forced to fight to the death to cut off the people in the city so that they could escape.
This battle lasted for half a day, and Liu Hao's more than 10,000 soldiers and horses died on the battlefield without leaving a single one alive. The order Wan Yanchang received was that no one should be left alive and there was no need to be afraid.
After strangling Liu Hao's Xiangzhou garrison, the army moved forward, including Yue Fei's hometown of Tangyin, all of which were defeated by Wan Yanchang.
No one was spared wherever he passed, and one city after another was slaughtered.
Not a single person escaped, and even the family members of Yue Fei and others disappeared without a trace.
Compared with Xiangzhou, the situation in Luozhou was even more bleak. Because Liu Hao had many connections with Zong Ze, he already knew about it when Jin Wushu took action.
The garrison in Luozhou didn't even think of talking to Zongze. After the Jin troops came to the city, the prefect Zheng Dafang even wanted to open the door and surrender to save the people of Luozhou.
But the consequence was that nearly a million people in several cities in Luozhou were all turned into corpses!
The massacre broke out in Luozhou without any mercy. The Jin man seemed to vent all the grievances he suffered from Zongze on the people of Xiangzhou.
In fact, the Jin people threatened their lives and forced nearly a thousand people to go to Zongze's camp, angrily blaming Zongze for why he wanted to stop the Jin people, causing the Jin people to massacre the city in anger!
After these words reached Zongze's ears, the sixty-five-year-old man almost fell unsteadily to the ground.
His deputy general Wang Shan was angry and wanted to kill all the people talking nonsense, but was stopped by Zong Ze.
"This is a heart-wrenching strategy of the Jin people. They have given us and others a dilemma. If they don't say so, their families will die in the hands of the Jin people. If they say so, then we will." Caught in a dilemma.
Kill them and lose the morale of the people, spare them and mess up the morale of the army! "
"Then they can survive by saying this to their relatives!"
"Of course they can survive. How many relatives they have, it doesn't matter whether they are killed or not, but their lives can be used to exchange for our failure. What a bargain!"
After hearing Zongze's words, Wang Shan's face turned ugly. Looking at the people who were crying and howling, Wang Shan was a little reluctant to take action.
Not only because of pity, but the most important thing is that now almost all of their subordinates are bandits who were his former subordinates or common people from Hebei Road.
These people have gathered together because they have no hope. If they kill them today, what will these people think? What will happen if the rabbit dies and the fox is sad!
"The golden man is extremely cunning!"
Angry scolding could not change anything, and it could not even make the Jin people let go of any common people. Jin Wushu continued to force the people on Hebei Road to enter Zongze's camp.
Even now he will not take the initiative to attack Zongze.
Wan Yanchang did not attack Kaifeng or attack the important towns of the Song Dynasty. Instead, he continued to wreak havoc on Hebei Road, displacing more and more people and forcing them to enter Zongze's camp.
This made Zongze's strength even more dispersed, and more soldiers and horses had to be allocated to control the people and maintain the order of the people. All food, drink, and toilets had to be maintained by the people.
Hundreds of thousands, nearly a million or even millions of people are rushing to fill the camp, and the amount of food consumed every day is simply astronomical.
Now that Hebei Road's baggage inventory had been hit, Zongze didn't have much food and baggage in hand. Add in the food and drink of these people, and he immediately felt real pressure.
"Wang Shan has 700,000 rogues under his command, Yang Jin has 300,000, and there are also tens of thousands of Hedong heroes, large and small, who have surrendered.
Now add these more than one million refugees, I... Hey! "
Zongze, who had calculated the accounts again, felt a splitting headache and a painful blockage in his heart.
"Commander, how long do you have enough food and grass?"
Wang Shan on the side also sighed in his heart after seeing this scene, knowing that this would definitely not be good news.
But you still have to ask.
"If all the people eat one meal a day, they can last for almost seven days... The scouts sent to the court have already gone, but as far as I know.
The food and grass I had accumulated in the Song Dynasty had been destroyed in Liu Yanqing's hands.
The Jin people are now blocking our way back, just to force us to fight decisively, or to allow us to evacuate.
Just be prepared. "
