This month, Zhang Qing took a sea boat to Liaodong to capture Suzhou City on the Liaodong Peninsula. People in the Central Plains were looted to Liaodong and responded. The Taihang righteous man Wang Zhongzhi also captured 11 prefectures and counties including Shizhou, Hedong North Road, and Zhao Gou issued an order to grant Wang Zhongzhi the Huazhou Observation Envoy and commanded the troops of Zhongyi Society in the north.

The Southern Song army, Yue Fei, Han Shizhong and other hawkish figures could no longer hold back and wrote letters to advance to the north immediately! Han Shizhong's attitude was the strongest, and he reiterated again: He wanted to garrison troops at the most focus of the war!

At the same time, the northern part of the Jin Dynasty was also under military pressure from the Mongolian side. This month, the Jurchens, Hu Shahu, the Hu, who was in the north to fight against Mongolia, returned without success, but was chased by the Mongolian army all the way to the northwest of Shangjing Prefecture, and was defeated by the Mongolian army in Hailing.

This is why Wanyan Zongbi's confidant Han Chang sighed to his colleague Gong Yin. At that time, Gong Yin talked about the strength of the Jin army and the weakness of the southern army. Han Chang sighed, "You know the past and do not know the present. The bravery of the southern army is our army in the past; our army is our cowardice and the past. Fortunately, the south is unknown."

In the 10th year of Shaoxing (1140), Chinese history finally reached this critical year. This was the most turbulent, glorious and turbulent in the history of the Song Dynasty in 19 years, the most turbulent, the most intense, the most regrettable, the most humiliating, and the year of war that shines on later generations! It has a special significance in Chinese history!

In early January, Wanyan Zongbi, the Marshal of the Great Jindu, was appointed as the head of the Shangshu Provincial Affairs Office, and all the military affairs of the prefectures and counties were decided by Wanyan Zongbi alone. Wanyan Zongbi also had the right to participate in the management of the civil lawsuit against money and valleys. At the same time, Wanyan Dan, the second son of his 18-year-old cousin, Wanyan Liang (the future King of Jin Hailing), sent to Wanyan Zongbi's army to prepare for the upcoming southern invasion for thousands of troops.

At this time, a former Northern Song official named Zhang Hui crossed the Yellow River at night and rushed to Lin'an. He suggested that the Southern Song Dynasty "the king's army crossed the river first, and the chance of victory or defeat lies in the order of crossing the river." At this time, the goal should not be limited to Kaifeng, Henan, but to cross the Yellow River north, take the opportunity to recover Hebei and occupy Yanyun!

For a moment, the government and the people were excited, but Zhao Gou was helpless again. Where did this go? I didn’t figure out anything. What are you doing? Comrades, why are you making trouble? First of all, the source of information, such as Zhang Hui, is he reliable? He was an official of the Northern Song Dynasty. Why didn’t he return to his country for so many years in the establishment of the Southern Song Dynasty? What was he doing during this period? How did he live? If you are loyal, why didn’t you cross the river and return in the most dangerous and needed time to participate in national construction? At this time, seeing that the peace of Song and Jin was expected, he jumped out to incite and promote war. Is this really good for the Song Dynasty?

Comrades, you must be clear-headed and consider the problem, and don’t be easily bewitched. Let’s go back to the macro perspective. Did the Jin Dynasty’s policy toward Song change at this time? Not yet! So it was wrong and inappropriate to provoke the war by the Song Dynasty at this time!

Therefore, Zhao Gou decided to deal with this matter: they changed theirs. The Chinese tradition is to respond to changes with the same change! With a peaceful heart, he waited for the friendship of the Jin Kingdom. Even if the other party was once barbaric and was returning to his ancestors, he would never waver. I believe that the Jurchens will always wake up! At that time, peace will eventually come!

In order to implement this concept, on the 9th, the Southern Song Dynasty sent General Mo and Han Shu as the chief and deputy envoy to fulfill the remaining terms of the peace agreement, such as welcoming Zhao Gou's dead father and living mother's return...

In the north, Wanyan Zongbi was a little amused. He really couldn't understand: Is Zhao Gou's brain too funny, or is his iron blood concentration not enough? At this moment, he killed his own tribe and blood, but Zhao Gou was still in the process of peace talks! Well, continue to detain the envoys of the Southern Song Dynasty! Look at it, there are many envoys from the Southern Song Dynasty, or are there many cells in our Jin Dynasty!

At this point, Zhao Gou was finally desperate. He finally realized that peace talks are not in trouble for the time being, and he will face the threat of the Jurchen cavalry again!

The 1140 year of special significance in Chinese history kicked off with the death of a famous minister. Li Gang, the first prime minister of the Song Dynasty who was in the hope of the world, finally died...

He died on the Lantern Festival on January 15th of this year. He failed to witness the changes in the year with his own eyes. What he hoped, hated, pursued, and predicted happened one by one, such as the defeat of the Jin Dynasty and sent troops to invade the south...

Whenever I read the history books, another person's name always comes to my mind. Wu Zixu of Wu in the late Spring and Autumn Period. Before being forced to commit suicide by King Fuchai of Wu, Wu Zixu said: Dig out his eyes and hang them on the city gate. He wants to see the soldiers of Yue capture the capital of Wu! Ten years later, his prophecy came true. He strongly suggested killing Goujian and destroying Yue...

I don’t know what happened before Li Gang’s death. Looking back on his life, among the countless prime ministers of the Song Dynasty, he was just a flash in the pan, a hurry passerby, and he only served as the first prime minister of the Southern Song Dynasty for only 77 days. But his position in the hearts of the Chinese in history is incomparable! He led the First Tokyo Defense Battle, and he helped up the Jianyan Group established by Zhao Gouchu. He judged state affairs countless times, which was called a destiny, but no one listened to him!

Sadly, Li Gang! He confirmed an iron law in the officialdom - "What matters is not what kind of talent you have, but whether you can use it for your leaders." Who made the emperor of the Han nationality at that time called Zhao Gou...

On the 6th of the month, Zhao Gou finally issued an order to send troops across the river to garrison, but the troops sent were incomprehensible to people...

From a geographical perspective, the closest to Kaifeng is undoubtedly Yue Fei stationed in Ezhou, the middle reaches of the Yangtze River. He is ranked by his military performance. But Yue Fei stayed quietly from beginning to end and remained motionless. Even if the Southern Song Dynasty envoy sent to Kaifeng to visit the ancestral tombs passed by his jurisdiction, he applied to lead troops to escort him, and was ordered to be quiet! In the extremely turbulent early 1140, Yue Fei was pressed to Ezhou tightly without any freedom!

Yue Fei is like this, and Han Shizhong is like this! It can be said that the entire frontier position of the Southern Song Dynasty was silent. The general sent out was named Liu Qi, and the army led by the Eight Characters Army...

Liu Qi, the head of the Ma Army Division of the Guard, was appointed as the deputy guard of Kaifeng, and led the Eight Character Army to Henan! I really don’t understand what Zhao Gou, Qin Hui and the others meant! And it should be noted that the total force is only 18,000! With the vast territory of Henan, a mere 18,000 people are just a small handful of pepper noodles, sprinkled into such a large pot of soup, and nothing can be seen...

On the day, Meng Yu, the left-behind leader of Xijing, was renamed as the prefect of Tokyo and Kaifeng. Li Yong was appointed as the acting left-behind leader of Xijing and the prefect of Luoyang.

On the 11th of the month, Zhang Tao, the new Chengdu Prefecture Pacifier, arrived in Chengdu. As soon as he arrived in Chengdu, he met Hu Shijiang and discussed the response of the Jin people's upcoming alliance. The two agreed that the terrain of the Monk Yuan was dangerous and was the only way to go from Shaanxi to Sichuan. Wu Jie had defended the Monk Yuan to death, and now he should still transfer the elite troops of the Wu family army to defend the Monk Yuan.

On the 16th, Han Shizhong and Zhang Jun came to the court. Zhao Goute issued an order to give a banquet in the palace.

On the 4th, Zhao Gou issued an order that "if there is a police officer in Sichuan and Shaanxi, he will dispatch military and horses and deal with money and food. If he fails to report it, he can be entrusted to Hu Shizong to deal with it at a cheap price." On the 4th, Guo Hao, the governor of the Fuyan Road, was transferred to Yongxing Army Road, and the governor of Jingzhao.

In April, the 68-year-old invincible Jurchen general Nichhuhe died. With the death of a group of heroic generals such as Wanyan Zonghan, Wanyan Zongwang, Wanyan Loushi, and Nichhuhe, under the leadership of the fourth prince Jin Wushu and the crying man Wanyan Salihe and others, the combat power of the Jin soldiers was only three words to describe: weak! This was the best opportunity for the Southern Song court, which had countless famous generals such as Yue Fei, Han Shizhong, Liu Qi, Wu Lin, Li Xianzhong, etc., but unfortunately...

However, the fourth prince should not think so. He felt that he was the God of War in the Great Jin Dynasty. Liu Guangshi's former favorite general Li Qiong made him more confident. Then let the cruel war process wake him up...

On May, the Jin Kingdom officially defeated the alliance. Jin Xizong tore up the first Shaoxing peace talks and boldly sent a large army to capture Henan and Shaanxi again! After the army gathered at the Marshal's Mansion of Wanyan Zongbi in Qizhou, Hebei West Road, he divided his troops into four groups to invade south: Bo Jin Nie Li went out of Shandong, Li Cheng invaded Henan, Wanyan Sali went from Hezhong to Shaanxi, Marshal Wanyan Zongbi and Kong Yanzhou, Li Qiong, Zhao Rong and others led more than 100,000 main elite troops to attack Kaifeng from Liyang... It was both fierce and unexpected. To be honest, let alone the civil officials in the rear, even Yue Fei, Han Shizhong, Zhang Jun and others on the front line did not predict this. The nomadic people always launched an offensive in late autumn or severe winter, and it was summer soon. When war, we must first challenge whether there would be heatstroke...

On the 1st, Wanyan Zongbi's army came to Kaifeng City, and the remaining troops in Tokyo, Meng Yu Kaicheng surrendered, which opened the curtain for Southern Song officials to surrender.

Wanyan Sali crossed the Yellow River in Hezhong Prefecture and entered Tongzhou. He went straight to Chang'an City, Jingzhao Prefecture, the capital of Yongxing Jun Road on the south bank of the Wei River. Many prefectures and counties on Yongxing Jun Road were surrendered. Guo Hao, the governor of Yongxing Jun Road, was in Yan'an on Fuyan Road at that time. Hao Yuan, the acting chief manager, opened the gate of Chang'an to surrender. On the 14th, Wanyan Bao's army came to the city of Guide Prefecture, and Yundi, left behind in Nanjing, surrendered. On the 15th, Hu Shijiang, the deputy envoy of Sichuan Propaganda and Fufu in Hechi, received an urgent report from Zhang Xun, the governor of Tongzhou. He learned that the chief

An had been broken, only Fu Zhongxin, Lu Shimin and others refused to obey, and they broke into the pass and fled, while Wu Qi was defending Shanzhou. At the same time, Hao Yuan sent someone to send a letter of persuasion from the Jin Dynasty. Hu Shijiang was furious and killed the envoy to burn the books. On the 16th, Li Cheng broke through Luoyang City. He acted as the remaining guard of Xijing, and Sun Hui, the deputy general manager, all abandoned the city and fled. Only the Henan Prefecture Army's army, led Li Xing, who had personally recruited, to fight to the death with more than 10,000 Zhongyi militias he recruited, and eventually fell seriously injured outside Dingding Gate. He woke up again in the middle of the night and fled to another place to accumulate strength to fight back...

Regarding the above scene, Song Gaozong Zhao Gou sighed in disappointment and said this

——"The barbarians do not know the faith and righteousness, and are not surprising." This is an evaluation of the defeated alliance of the Jin Dynasty. It is characterized as an ignorant, impolite, and an uncivilized population. Like a mentally ill person, no matter what he does, he will be exempted from liability.

——"Scholars and officials cannot uphold their moral integrity. As for the worship, the customs are so worrying." This is an evaluation of all left-behind adults. It is really disappointing for the scholars and officials to die in the face of difficulties! It is really worrying!

There is nothing below... Zhao Gou criticized others' surrender harshly, bypassed his own surrender, and ignored all the series of mistakes that had occurred before. What? Is this shameless? No! This is a very clever strategy! It is very necessary to maintain the glorious image of the leader when foreign enemies invade!

Now, the Southern Song Dynasty must respond quickly! After analysis: the battlefield is divided into three parts: east, west and middle. The western battlefield is dominated by general Hu Shishi fights Wanyan Sali; the eastern Han Shizhong's troops take the initiative to attack the Jingdong Road area. The middle battlefield is the most steep, facing more than 100,000 troops from Wanyan Zongbi, and the two generals Yue Fei and Zhang Jun must fight together! But to be honest: this is very difficult. The defense zone of the two generals is wide, and the more soldiers and the wider the land, the more difficult it is to gather together. Wanyan Zongbi's sudden attack made the Southern Song Dynasty fall...

At this time, it is estimated that no one in the Southern Song Dynasty would pay attention to a 18,000-man army that had entered the enemy-occupied area in Henan!

Liu Qi, the deputy left-behind Tokyo, led the Eight-Character Army to set off from Lin'an, loaded 900 ships, crossed the Yangtze River by water, and headed towards Kaifeng. When the Jin army cavalry spread throughout Northern China, he had entered the Huaihe River Basin, close to the Shunchang Prefecture of Yingzhou on the northwest road of Jingzhou. It "brings with Changhuai, connecting the three Wus in the east, leading Jingru in the south, its water whirlwind, its land was flat and down, its Liang Song Wu Chu clashed, Qi Lu Bianlu Road, Huainan Inner Screen, and the southeast pivotal control." It looked very dangerous, but the actual situation was that the city was small, its walls were short, there was no military equipment, and no manpower. It was a small mansion at that time. After more than ten years of war, it was even more dilapidated!

The multiple-choice question in front of Liu Qi is: Should he enter? Or not?

It is rational to not advance, because the 18,000 Eight-Character Army is too different from Wanyan Zongbi's more than 100,000 troops, which is like a mantis armed with a mantis arm. He has worked hard for a while and has lost all the troops in the Southern Song Dynasty, especially when the war begins, the entire army is wiped out. This is an irreversible blow to morale! Does Liu Qi dare to say that he will win?

This is a truth, but we can consider it from another level: What is reason? Is it the overall situation? Where can there be no part? When facing invasion, we must ensure that people are not divided into young and old, and the land is not divided into south, and every inch of mountains and rivers is one inch of blood. Just like when facing Japanese imperialist invasion of China hundreds of years later, every Chinese soldier is determined to die at any time in order to withstand the Japanese offensive and protect China's last land!

The overall situation is considered by the leader, and the part is the responsibility of the soldier! History only records the outcome of the decisive battle, but every previous competition is the cornerstone of the decisive victory or defeat!
Chapter completed!