Before talking about things, we must first recall that what happened in August of the first year of Song Jingkang (AD 1126) is a heart disease of the Chinese people. If we don’t tell the beginning and the end clearly, it will not be convincing. There are 10,000 Chinese people, and there are 10,000 Jingkang first years. What's more, the essence of Chinese culture lies in "tracing back". A series of ancient sayings and master sayings have created the spiritual core of our nation.So, let’s go back to history first. Between Song and Jin, who is right and who is wrong, and who is ignoring it?

People in the Song Dynasty would accuse the Jurchens of being vulgar, savage, greedy, and full of blood, the cancer of this era, destroying the splendid and long-standing Liao culture, and further destroying the splendid and splendid Han culture.In particular, there was enmity between Liao and Jin, but there was no enmity between Song and Jin. Why did they come here to kill and set fire? Is it because your arms are thick and powerful?If so, then Jin Guo is a bandit country. The above should be the aspirations of the Song Dynasty people and even the Han people in the next few hundred years.Then, one by one, put all the things that happened between Song and Jin in these years on the table, and see what happened.

Let me talk about contact first. The Jurchens showed their big arms to the Liao people in full swing in the primeval forest. There was nothing wrong with the Song Dynasty.On the question of who took the initiative, there is no second argument. People in the Song Dynasty made mistakes first. Let's talk about cooperation and breach of contract. Song and Jin agreed to partner up and destroy Yelu's family. The Song Dynasty won the sixteen prefectures of Yanyun, and the rest belonged to Jin.This is already very unequal, Jin Guo also made a series of cheating, first only gave it to a few states, and then emptied the most important city of Youzhou before handing it over, and extorted tens of millions of taels of gold and silver in the middle, It is tolerable or unbearable!But... the contract is clearly written, the Song Dynasty only wanted Yanjing, written by Song Huizong himself, black and white on yellow paper.

Except for Youzhou, Jin Kingdom should have been alone. Not to mention that the Song Dynasty did not send troops when the deadline was due, and then killed them first to eat alone. All of these, what is the Song Dynasty that makes people look at it?In all fairness, it's ugly and clumsy! People in the Song Dynasty were wrong again. Between the split of the spoils and the first invasion. During this period of time, the Kingdom of Jin was very peaceful. It single-mindedly pursued and killed the last emperor of the Liao Kingdom, plus it held a funeral for its founding emperor. During the peaceful days, increase the national feelings.But the Song Dynasty has been making small moves, quietly expanding its territory, whether it is Zhang Jue or Guo Yaoshi, all of which have brought huge losses to the Kingdom of Jin.

Thinking in another place, if it is the Song Dynasty, can you bear this? What?It is said that the Yanyun sixteen prefectures belonged to the Han people, and taking it back is not only a matter of property, but also a matter of safety, and even a matter of dignity... Sorry, this cannot be said to the Jin people. This is a deal between the Shatuo people and the Khitan people. The people of the Song Dynasty kept it for more than 170 years, so why did they go early instead of grabbing it back? The people of the Song Dynasty were wrong again. Before the first invasion to the second invasion. The Song Dynasty was forced to sign the alliance under the city. After the Jin army retreated, all those who could repent, including the cession of the three towns in Hebei.Although in history, no one would abide by this kind of contract except for Shi Jingtang, but the Song Dynasty did go back on its word once again regardless of feelings and reality, and the Song Dynasty also entrusted the ambassador of the Kingdom of Jin to give a contract. General Jin Guo brought a letter, blatantly instigating rebellion.With all these things, if the Kingdom of Jin does not respond, will it be considered a country of cowards?

The Song Dynasty was also wrong. So far, everything that can be analyzed has been analyzed, and the Song Dynasty is simply wrong to the extreme.Yes, everyone knows that such an analysis does not help the course of history.Even if the Song Dynasty did everything right, the Kingdom of Jin would also kill them. This is determined by the nature of the society that has just escaped from the primitive society and evolved into a slavery society.It will expand wildly to neighboring countries to plunder, destroy, kill and set fire, only in this way can it maintain its vitality.To put it bluntly, it can do nothing but these.

However, this is not an excuse for the complete failure of the Song Dynasty's national policy, just like even if the Song Dynasty did everything wrong, the people of the Jin Kingdom have no right to do bad things. The above will make every child of the Han family feel depressed, disappointed, resentful, humiliated, and even feel powerless.After all, this is the ancestor of the ethnic group, how could it be so mentally handicapped, so ridiculous? For those who feel this way, I just want to remind you: Zhao Ji and his son, the Six Thieves and others, can they represent you?Can it represent the Han people?

If you think you can't, nobility, dignity, civilization, and integrity are still there and shining; if you think you can... die, suffer humiliation, regret, and wail. In August of the first year of Song Jingkang (AD 1126), the Kingdom of Jin invaded south for the second time.The deployment of troops and the division of labor between marshals are the same as last time. Wanyan Zonghan is the left deputy marshal, leading the West Route Army, starting from the former Liaoxi Jing (now Datong, Shanxi); Wanyan Zongwang is the right deputy marshal, leading the East Route Army, from Baozhou (now Baoding, Hebei) set off, and the soldiers pointed directly at Kaifeng.

They are all familiar with the way, and there is no need to change it. Ordinarily, the East Route Army was the main force. After all, the last time the West Route Army was blocked, it was Wanyan Zongwang who killed Kaifeng alone, and accomplished what the Khitan people went to the whole country and the Empress Dowager Xiao personally went to battle. But this time, the focus was on the West Route Army because of Wanyan Zonghan and Taiyuan City.To be fair, Wanyan Zonghan at this time was the number one military strongman on the East Asian continent. Since the rise of the Jurchen, he has destroyed powerful enemies and destroyed famous cities, and his record is very shining.

Zhao Kuangyin, Chai Rong and others were far behind him, and the only person above him was Jin Taizu Wanyan Aguda. What does such a fierce man have to do with a city of the Han people?The city should only be his medal, to decorate his glory.But Taiyuan City is different. Looking at the long river of history, I don’t know how many famous generals have been humiliated in front of it, even Wanyan Zonghan at this time is no exception. Since December last year, Taiyuan has been besieged. It has been almost nine months now, and basically all the tricks that the Jin army can use have been used.For example, a famous general attacked the city, and the person who attacked the city was Yin Shuke, the strongest general in the Zonghan Department. In the entire Jin Army system, he was only slightly inferior to Wanyan Loushi, who was known as the ever-victorious general; In fact, for more than two hundred and seventy days, the Jin army did not allow a single reinforcement from the Song Dynasty to arrive at the city; for example, in terms of supplies, Taiyuan City was initially raided, and there was no time to hoard war equipment and food, and the consumption of the soldiers and civilians in the city in a day amazing.

Adding all these together, Taiyuan City is still standing still.Theoretically speaking, the last move Jin Jun can make is Wanyan Zonghan himself. Wanyan Zonghan went to battle in person, and the troops and war equipment he brought were completely different from before. Most importantly, he also brought his own brain, and the experience in it was another cutting-edge weapon. Throughout the history of the Song Dynasty, there were countless wars, famous generals, and battles dotted around. It can be said that in the heart of every history reader, there is a ranking list of his own, which ranks the strongest generals and the most glorious battles he believes. But one thing is recognized by everyone. Between the Song Dynasty and the Song Dynasty, there were two famous cities whose military exploits lasted through the ages and remained unchanged forever.One is Diaoyu City at the end of the Southern Song Dynasty, and the other is Taiyuan City at this time in the Northern Song Dynasty. The former records brilliance, while the latter carries the spirit of perseverance. Wan Yan Zonghan attacked the city, the first wave was a long-range attack.He brought a lot of cannon, that is, huge catapults.With an order, the soldiers threw large stones into the city, hitting them very accurately, after all, they often do this job.It's a pity that because it was too accurate, it was all in vain. Song Jun set up many false fences on the top of the city. From the outside, it looks like a city defense facility, but it is actually empty.If a stone hits it, it will break if it breaks.In case something is broken, there are many cloth bags full of chaff next to it, which can be repaired immediately after piled up. The second wave is to cross the river. Next to Taiyuan City is the Fen River. This big river was once opened up by Zhao Kuangyin, turning Taiyuan into a water city, but nothing happened, and it still couldn't get in.This big river determines that the moat of Taiyuan is wide and deep, and the water flow is quite large.To reach the city wall, the river must be filled.How to fill it? Everyone held up shields to guard against arrows, and then used shovels to dig soil and fill ditches?joke!When it is filled up, the East Route Army has already rushed to Kaifeng City to eat alone.Wanyan Zonghan has a new method.He first prepared fifty cars.There are wheels on the bottom of this kind of car, and the shape of a house is built with huge logs on the top, wrapped tightly with raw cowhide, and then inlaid with iron leaves. In this way, even the divine arm bow cannot be broken. The inside of the car is divided into upper and lower layers, the lower layer is for people who push the wheels, and the upper layer is filled with things to fill the ditch.Things are composite, divided into three layers.The bottom is a frame made of big branches, the middle is a layer of straw mat, and the top is soil.Push these three layers of things into the moat at one time, and they will sink slowly without falling apart.Immediately afterwards, push down another set of the same thing, and so on, until the river is filled. This filling method should be unsolvable! There are solutions, just take a risk.The beauty of this filling method lies in the second and third layers. The straw mats and branches inside can be burned. As long as people are sent out of the city in time to lie in ambush by the moat and light a fire, they can be burned, and the remaining layer of soil, Just relying on them falling into the river is like digging and filling ditches with a shovel. After that, the Jin army sent out siege vehicles, catapults and other equipment to attack in turn. Seeing this, a problem arises.Throughout the ages, the Jin Army has been underestimated by people.It is believed that they are newly enlightened Jurchens who only wield unsharp axes with brute strength to chop people.Compared with the Song Dynasty, their war equipment, strategy and funds are inferior to others, and the only advantage is that they can produce horses. The scene under the city of Taiyuan proved that this was wrong.The rise of the Jurchens has been going on for almost ten years, and Shibie will look at them with admiration for three days, let alone such a new nation that wiped out the largest country in East Asia?They supported war with war, swallowed Liao, and digested Liao.At this time, whether it is war equipment, strategy, or funding, the Kingdom of Jin is above the Song Dynasty. There is no doubt about this. Even so, Taiyuan City, which had been besieged for more than 270 days, still persisted.The Jin army, which was able to break through the five capitals of the Liao Kingdom, was helpless under the city.At the same time, Kaifeng City finally reacted a bit. The Song Dynasty ordered Fuzhou (now Fugu, Shaanxi) guard general Zhe Keqiu to lead 20,000 soldiers from Linzhou (now Shenmu North, Shaanxi) to cross the Yellow River to rescue Taiyuan.The Zhejia Army is the unit of Zhang Jie, the fierce general who fought against Xixia back then.They will leave Tianmenguan from Kelan (now Kelan, Shanxi) and Xianzhou, attack Taiyuan, and challenge Yan Zonghan. Ming Zhong Shidao went out to Jingxing (now north of Jingxing, Hebei) to challenge the Eastern Route Army of the Kingdom of Jin. Zhe Yanzhi was appointed as the deputy envoy of Xuanfu in Hebei Province, and he led 120,000 heavy troops to garrison the south bank of the Yellow River; Li Hui was the envoy to guard the river, and led 10,000 cavalry to assist the mobile force. Strengthen the defense of Zhending Mansion and Zhongshan Mansion. The above are just routine methods. The big shots in Kaifeng City were deeply impressed by the last defense of Tokyo. In order to prevent history from repeating itself, they made an unprecedented initiative. The Song Dynasty entered a state of emergency fighting, and divided the 23rd Road into four roads. Zhao Ye, who knew the Daming Mansion, was in charge of the North Road, Wang Xiang, who knew the Henan Mansion, was in charge of the West Road, Zhang Shuye, who knew Dengzhou, was in charge of the South Road, and Hu Zhi was in charge of the Yingtian Mansion. Ru is in charge of the host. They are unified and responsible to the Governor's Mansion in Dengzhou. In their own Dao, they can decide on their own military and political affairs, use the financial revenue for their own use, appoint officials at all levels, and punish and reward the soldiers under their jurisdiction. What is this, this is a country within a country, a vassal town that disrupted the world in the late Tang Dynasty, and it was the biggest taboo that the Song Dynasty tried to prevent at the beginning of the founding of the country, using a series of methods even self-castration. However, under the threat of war, Kaifeng City endured it. After paying such a high price, it only required that the four troops be able to rush to the capital Qinwang as soon as possible when the country was in crisis. History is repeating itself. It is foreseeable that unless the Jin army is quickly defeated and the Jin country is further destroyed, otherwise, as the war progresses, the forces of these four paths will become stronger and stronger. From the initial dependence on the country, to the later Instead of customers, become the master of the country.This is purely drinking poison to quench thirst, but there is no other way, no matter what, we have to pass this level first. And these, the most ideal result is to keep the first line of defense - Taiyuan. Back at the foot of Taiyuan City and on the banks of the Fen River, Jin Jun finally showed his cards. Wanyan Zonghan added his army and ordnance, but none of them worked.There are two paths in front of him: either continue to waste here, maybe there will be a day of breakthrough, but who knows where the deadline is?Either drive straight in, leave Taiyuan City behind, and attack Kaifeng, after all, that is the royal city of the Song Dynasty. However, if it still fails to break through, the way back will still be blocked by the three northern towns. No matter how you think about it, it feels awkward. At this time, Wanyan Zonghan's brain finally worked, and he decided to wait two more days.In the dark, he didn't know what he felt, and he still had a fluke mentality. In the last few days, he really became the life-saving straw that overwhelmed Taiyuan City.Taiyuan City was breached. After the Jin army entered the city, they found that it was an empty city with many bones, no horses, cows and mules, no bows, crossbows and leather armor.Pingshi, chaff, and bamboo shoots were all eaten by the soldiers and civilians defending the city. Taiyuan City was starved to the ground.The siege of more than two hundred and seventy days, without the assistance of a single soldier, even if Wan Yan Zonghan took a step earlier, could give them a chance to breathe, or break out of the siege or grab food, which can be somewhat variable.It's a pity that the war was cruel, and Taiyuan City still fell. Taiyuan City is respected by the people of the Kingdom of Jin.After the city was broken, Wanyan Zonghan did not rush to grab things, but surrendered. He offered generous conditions, hoping that Zhang Xiaochun, the prefect of Taiyuan, and Wang Ting, the deputy governor, could work for the Kingdom of Jin. Zhang Xiaochun surrendered. I feel a little sorry for this, but I can't get angry anyway.Can there be any higher request?Cannibalism has already appeared in Taiyuan City!At this point, there is no reason to criticize Zhang Xiaochun why he didn't die in the city. Wang Ting chose to fight to the end! Wang Ting is the person in charge of Taiyuan's city defense. He has done everything he can for more than nine months and more than two hundred and seventy days.At this time, the city was broken, and he led the exhausted army to fight to the death, breaking through the encirclement one by one.God bless the brave, in the end, he actually broke through the siege and killed outside the city.Hope flashed again, but it was a pity that the Fen River was not far away... They were still disappointed, and the Jin Army chased after them. Wang Ting jumped into the Fen River, preferring to drown rather than fall into the enemy's hands.When his body was salvaged, people found that he was carrying a portrait on his back. When he unfolded it, they found that it was the imperial portrait of Song Taizong Zhao Guangyi. Expanding the map of the Song Dynasty, we can see that in the north of Kaifeng City, after crossing the Yellow River, there are three roads side by side. From west to east, there are Hedong Road, Hebei West Road, and Hebei East Road.Simply put, Wanyan Zonghan was in charge of Hedong Road, Taiyuan fell, the entire Hedong Road collapsed, and a series of famous cities, such as Pingyao, Lingshi, Xiaoyi, and Jiexiu, all surrendered without a fight. Wanyan Zonghan went straight to the north bank of the Yellow River. On the other hand, Jin Guo's East Route Army will always be the focus.Wanyan Zongwang was doing the most important thing in his life.His luck was much worse than that of the eldest prince. He was in charge of the west and east fronts of Hebei. In terms of probability, the difficulty was many times greater than that of the west army. First, he had to break through the Zhongshan Mansion. The three towns in the north - Taiyuan, Zhongshan, and Hejian, these three cities lined up in a row, forming a line of defense on the northern land.Hejian is at the easternmost point, it is too far away, and has nothing to do with this war.Zhongshan's position is the most critical, it is in the middle, if it is stable, it will put the Jin army in a dilemma. Zhongshan Mansion fell quickly, and it didn't even delay Wanyan Zongwang's marching speed.The commander of the East Route Army of the Kingdom of Jin drove straight in, forcing Zhong Shidao to travel day and night to come out of Jingxing to fight with him. Thinking about the military strength of Zhong Shidao, he was expelled from the capital, which is equivalent to being sent down in disguise. Li Gang didn't even have thousands of troops at hand, so what else would he use to fight the second prince of the Kingdom of Jin? He was even more tragic than his younger brother Zhongshi Zhong. The famous Zhongjia army was pushed to the front line as a human shield.This is not a battle, it is purely death.Time stayed in October of this year, Jingxing, cultivating the teacher's way, was defeated. The Zhong Family Army moved towards dusk, and the legendary army established by three generations of their grandparents weaved a legendary past.Let us revisit their names: Zhong Shiheng, Zhong Gu, Zhong Er, Zhong Yi, Zhong Pu, Zhong Shidao, and Zhong Shizhong. They have had success, failure, and loss, but never Betrayal and cowardice! In any era, they are excellent soldiers. Back then, Zhong Shidao did not die in Jingxing, he survived.The Song Dynasty sent him to Heyang (now Meng County, Henan Province) as a military governor.Here, Zhong Shidao sent a letter to Zhao Huan, and put forward two suggestions: one is to ask the chief management department of the four ways to immediately order the south and west two ways to send troops to serve the king without delay; He fled Kaifeng immediately and took refuge in Chang'an.This time, the Jin army is coming fiercely. It is no longer a temptation, but intends to destroy the country. Sitting in a dangerous city will become a desperate situation. History is about to prove how correct his words are.It's a pity that this is what he said. With his status in the Song Dynasty, will anyone listen to his words?So, he was ignored. He died of illness not long after, at the age of seventy-five. Wanyan Zongwang approached the Zhending (now Zhengding, Hebei) mansion. This is a hard bone, and after that, there will be the Yellow River natural danger and 130,000 heavy soldiers.Thinking of this, Wanyan Zongwang felt a little headache. He thought about it and came up with an old method. negotiation. The Jin army sent envoys to Kaifeng to discuss the Heshuo area and the three towns with the Song Dynasty.In this way, on the one hand, it can give the Song Dynasty some hope, and they will not fight desperately if they have hope; on the other hand, they can also take the opportunity to go deep into the Song Dynasty and witness the defense measures of the Song Dynasty with their own eyes. The effect is better than that of spies, so why not do it? ? It's just that they didn't expect that this incident was the most and only failure in their plan to invade the Song Dynasty. Its consequences were serious enough to revive the Song Dynasty and almost make the Jin Kingdom fall short.