In the third year of Xuanhe and the first year of Jingkang, in April, a comet passed through the sky, its light shining like fire.
Some fortune tellers said: This is a very ominous sign.
The imperial capital of the Song Dynasty has a radius of hundreds of miles, and the forces of the three kingdoms all have their own agendas.
First, the remaining Liao forces, led by Emperor Yelv Chun of Tianxi, took Hebei, crossed the Yellow River, and besieged the Song capital.
The Emperor of the Song Dynasty was frightened, so he opened the Yanmen Gate and let the Jin soldiers enter to help him defend the Liao Dynasty.
The Jin soldiers took Wanyan Loushi as their commander and raided the area along the way. They also recruited strong beams from Taihang and Luliang villages as their wings to attack Zhengzhou.
Seeing that Can Liao was trapped in a pincer attack, the Song Emperor suddenly came up with a plan. He wanted to fake the power of the Jin soldiers and force Can Liao to use his sword to attack Shandong Buchen for him.
Can Liao used his plan to escape the siege and moved to Dongming County to wait and see the situation.
The Jin soldiers also had a big appetite and asked to cut off the east road of the river as reward. The Song Emperor gritted his teeth and refused, and the Jin soldiers were angry and attacked the city.
The Emperor of the Song Dynasty was frightened, so the water-carrying master was lucky to Zhenjiang and gave way to the prince Zhao Huan.
Zhao Huan was in a critical moment and was trapped in the isolated city of Bianjing. The Jin soldiers in the west of the city attacked like a wave. Fortunately, the soldiers and civilians were willing to die and could not be defeated.
However, there were treacherous ministers Yang Jian, Li Yan, Liang Shicheng, Wang Fu, etc., who were worried because the new king wanted to abandon him, so they dedicated the city to Liao.
The Liao soldiers were overjoyed and sent General Wu Yanguang with ten thousand cavalry to enter the city from Chaoyang Gate, whereupon Bianjing fell.
Most of the Liao army arrived soon after, but Zhang Yuanqing, a junior colonel of the Western Army, guarded the suspension bridge alone with his seriously wounded body and a bow.
When the Liao soldiers arrived, they were all surprised to see a Song soldier half-kneeling on the bridge. He was afraid of death and wanted to surrender. When he approached, he heard Yuan Qing shouting: "The Liao dogs want to enter Bianliang City, and they must get past me, Zhang Yuanqing, first!" "
After saying this, he drew his bow and shot. Wang Jing, the general of the Liao Dynasty, "Ghost Golden Sheep", was not on guard and hit his throat with an arrow. He somersaulted and fell off his horse to death.
Yelu Dashi was furious and sent out five hundred troops to attack. Zhang Yuanqing's expression remained unchanged and he fired fifteen arrows in a row, killing thirteen Liao soldiers.
When he was about to shoot again, the arrow was gone and the Liao soldiers had arrived on the bridge.
Yuan Qing stood up with all his strength, and said with a smile: "Do you recognize 'Jianhan Northwest' today?"
After that, he turned over and jumped into the moat, sacrificing his life to serve the country.
Wu Yanguang sent troops to kill the people in the city. Yelu Dashi was shocked when he saw it and hurriedly ordered to stop: "The Jin people are still looking at the outside of the city. Do you want to lose the hearts of the people? Follow me to capture the Song Emperor. That is the right thing!"
He quickly ordered people to put out the fire and take over the city defense, and then joined forces with Wu Yanguang to attack the inner city.
Xiao Qian then entered the city and after hearing Yelu Dashi's actions, he nodded repeatedly: "We have to come to dig the grass valley. From now on, our foundation will be here. We must not lose people's hearts!"
So he sent out his trusted men and horses to stop the rebels from killing and looting, and also captured all the foxes and rats in the city who took the opportunity to cause trouble.
Besides, above the West City, the generals fired cannons at the Jin camp, and saw that the Jin camp was in a mess. They were feeling happy, but unexpectedly, the joy turned into sorrow. The iron cannons reverberated and broke Liu Guangshi's left leg.
When they were calling for help, they suddenly heard a tsunami roaring from the mountains in the city. They were all startled. They all looked back in surprise, only to see the Liao cavalry entering the city, detouring and killing people. Everyone was shocked and shouted in unison: "How are the Liao soldiers doing? Can you come into the city?"
"What else can I do?" After all, Lei Heng was not a serious Song general. His mind was racing, and he jumped on his feet and cursed: "The emperor must be afraid of death, so he surrendered to the Liao Kingdom!"
"Ah!" Liu Yanqing felt sorry for his son and his eyes were filled with tears. After hearing this, he stamped his feet and cried even more: "I am about to fight to the death, why did your majesty surrender first!"
Strangely enough, as soon as Lei Heng saw the Liao soldiers entering the city, he subconsciously thought it was the emperor's surrender, so he said it casually, but none of the generals in the city thought it was inappropriate.
Wang Huan and Kai Zhang, two veteran generals, looked at each other and shed tears one after another: "That's all, the state affairs are like this. We, the generals, are destined to die in the country. How can we follow that unworthy emperor to become Liao ministers?"
After that, everyone took up their weapons and went down to the city to fight to the death.
Lei Heng grabbed them one by one and said sincerely: "Two old generals, the old emperor ran away and the young emperor surrendered. It's really heartbreaking. However, the more this happens, the more we can't despise you! General, please think about it, the emperor can If we surrender to the Liao Dynasty, can our Han family also surrender?"
The two veterans were stunned, and a glimmer of light suddenly appeared in their gray eyes: "General Lei, what do you think we should do?"
Lei Heng pointed outward: "Although Bianliang is difficult to defend, there are still Western troops in the northwest. Instead of dying in vain, we should lead the soldiers to fight out and ask Mr. Xiao Zhong to make the decision and kill the generals to come back to avenge this country!"
Liu Yanqing nodded repeatedly on the side: "That's right! With the state of affairs like this, it's time for our Western Army to turn the tide! The officials have repeatedly urged Mr. Xiaozhong to advance, and counting the time, we may have passed Tongguan by now! Since the city has been lost, We might as well go and meet with his family's army and then take care of it."
Wang Huan opened his mouth and lost all his strength. Hearing this, he nodded repeatedly: "In that case, let's go out."
Yao Xing shouted: "If we want to fight, Yao will be the vanguard! Just fight out of the Jin camp. If the Liao dogs come to chase, let the Jin dogs block it for me."
Lei Hengwu never forgot his original intention and grabbed the stunned Ling Zhen: "Hang Tian Lei, let's go together!"
A few people did what they said, hurriedly lowered the suspension bridge, led the army to rush down the city wall, and opened the city gate. Seven or eight thousand people and horses rushed out in one fell swoop.
Let's say that Lou Shi's camp was in chaos after being bombarded by him. Just as he was getting out of control, he suddenly saw Song soldiers opening the city gate and charging in with a large force.
He couldn't help but said in shock: "That's all! I underestimated the Song people. He was defeated repeatedly, and he even came to attack my camp! In that case, what if I gave up to him this time?"
Whether to give in or not is just a matter of saying something.
Lou Shi himself knew that the soldiers and horses under his command had been demoralized by the artillery fire of the Song Army. How could they put it back together in a matter of seconds? I just never thought that Song Jun would actually dare to take advantage of the opportunity to attack.
He quickly ordered that the Jurchens and veterans of his unit should retreat first. As for the most chaotic loyalist army, they couldn't deal with it anyway, so they simply abandoned it and let the Song army kill them.
If they were lucky, the Song Army would actually get mixed up with the Zhongyi Army, and they might even take the opportunity to order their troops to counterattack and turn defeat into victory.
Fortunately, although the Jurchen soldiers were frightened, they retreated in time with the Liao surrender. When the Song army arrived, there were only tens of thousands of loyal troops in the camp.
Lou Shi stared from a distance, wanting to see if the Zhongyi Army could mess around and trap the Song Army in the formation. Unexpectedly, this Song Army was extremely weird and had no intention of fighting. It went straight through the Zhongyi Army and looked at it. Went to the west. .
The whole room was dumbfounded, with a puzzled look on its face: What do these guys want? Could it be that Bianliang and the others don’t want it anymore?
After all, the manpower is sometimes poor, and there are many plans, such as Lou Shi. It is never expected that the city that he did not even fight to conquer was actually sold to the Liao Kingdom by the Song Dynasty's own family.
He thought for a moment and suddenly sneered: "I see, is it possible that his group of people are just dreaming about killing and seizing Zhengzhou in one fell swoop to cut off the foundation of our army? Ha, ha, ha, he is a silversmith. Isn’t it free?”
It turned out that when Lou Shi entered Yanmen Pass, he led the entire army of 45,000 men, leaving 5,000 to guard the pass. 40,000 people came straight south, gathering bandits along the way to form a loyal army, and gained more than 100,000 troops.
Now that he came to attack Bianliang, he only brought 60,000 troops and horses, and the remaining 80,000 were all in Zhengzhou. He also had generals with great prizes such as Yin Shuke, and thousands of Song troops. How could it be doubled ten times? Succeed easily?
When Lou Shi thought of this, he couldn't help but grit his teeth and secretly hated Li Zhu.
However, it was Kui Xiangyang's second visit to Zhengzhou. The two parties could not agree on terms. Kui Xiangyang secretly found Li Zhu and asked him to try to lead Ji Shanjun to Bianliang.
Li Zhu's 20,000 Jishan army was very elite, and Lou Shi naturally wanted to devour it, so he was very friendly to Li Zhu and Li Huai's uncle and nephew, and allowed him to station alone without deliberately being on guard. The original intention was to reassure him and embody Own sincerity.
Who knew that a veteran like Li Zhu would be so easy-going? On the surface, they were full of sincere words, which made Lou Shi laugh, thinking that they were determined to invest a lot of money. Unexpectedly, one day when they woke up, they found that the Jishan military camp had been emptied, and no one knew where they had escaped with Li Zhu. .
Why did Lou Shi keep his army in Zhengzhou? It was precisely because he was afraid that Li Zhu's troops would come out and cut off his retreat at some unknown time.
Wanyan Loushi thought he had seen through the Song army's plan, and slapped his leg: "It was a mistake! Since he went to attack Zhengzhou, I simply packed up the remaining troops and went to rob Bianliang. There were not many Bianliang defenders left. How much more power can this army have?"
Just when the calculation was successful, he was suddenly startled: but he saw with helpless eyes that the big flags with the word "Song" on the wall of Bianliang City fell down one after another, and the flags with the word "Liao" on them were flying high on the top of the city... …
Lou Shi almost vomited blood outside the city. In Bianliang City, Yelu Dashi and Wu Yanguang also wondered: Although the inner city was broken, the general who guarded the inner city with two or three thousand people withdrew to the imperial city early and defended behind closed doors. , repeated attacks for several rounds, but never took a step forward!
If you want to know who it is that actually defends the imperial city and refuses to give in under such circumstances, let’s hear the explanation next time!
This is exactly what it is: All the Taoists have few policies left, but who knows there are mountains high beyond the mountains. The foreign generals gathered together and watched with a smile as Cao Lang slowly raised his sword.
My son finished his exam today and got out of school early. He said he wanted to eat this and that, so he went to pick him up and take him to eat, but he came back late, so he wrote less.
(End of chapter)
