One Piece of Song Dynasty

Song Qinzong then issued another edict, urging Zhong Shizhong to quickly march to Taiyuan. The edict used the words "teasing" to rebuke Zhong Shizhong. "Tiaocuo" means to avoid the enemy due to timidity. After reading the imperial edict, Zhong Shizhong sighed and said: "It's a shame for the soldiers to kill me. I joined the army and never retreated. Now that I am old, can I bear to do this as a crime?"

Xu Han became even more angry and issued a "letter on the th or th day of the day" with harsh words, accusing Zhong Shizhong of "playing with the enemy by lingering around" and forcing him to send troops immediately. He must atone for his sin by relieving Taiyuan.

Seeing the urgency of the imperial court's pressure, the cultivators sighed: "It's God's fault that things are not going to work. Why would I want to die and not repay the country?"

Zhong Shizhong then ordered the army to leave Jingxingguan from Tumen and march towards Yuci. At the same time, he wrote to Yao Gu and Zhang Hao, agreeing that the two armies should advance in separate directions. In order to speed up the march, Zhongshi also ordered that none of the baggage and rewards for the army should accompany the army. They should all be left in Zhending and the army would advance lightly.

At the beginning, Zhongshizhong's march went smoothly. Just like last time, no Jin soldiers were encountered on the road. From the commander to the soldiers, everyone thought that the Jin people had retreated. Therefore, the military discipline on the march was undisciplined and they marched casually. None of the soldiers wore armor and weapons, and all their combat weapons were handed over to the guards. The entire army was unprepared for battle. Just imagine, wouldn't it be strange if such a carefree team could win the battle?

When the Seed Division was about to arrive at Shouyang Shikeng, they received a report from the former army that they had reached Shiqiao, which was only twenty miles away from Taiyuan. The commander ordered the front army to stop advancing and stay put. The Chinese army had just arrived at Shikeng and before the camp had been built, a scout came to report to the division that the Jin army and horses had set off from the county seat and would arrive soon. This information came very timely, but unfortunately it did not attract the attention of the planters.

Zhong Shizhong said lightly: "This must be the remnant of the Jin people who have returned to the general." He ordered the rear army to go and capture this group of Jin people.

After a while, the Jin cavalry brigade came in like a tide. Wanyan Huonv personally led the army and shouted menacingly towards the Song army. The Song army was unprepared and was caught off guard. They ran to pieces and were killed and wounded, countless men and horses.

Only then did Zhongshi suddenly realize that something was wrong. He immediately organized all the forces at the front, left, and right to fight desperately, and achieved three victories in five battles. Subsequently, the troops led by Zhong Division moved closer to Yuci, the south gate of Taiyuan. Zhong Shizhong believed that if Yao Gu and Zhang Hao's troops could arrive on time for the battle, the battlefield situation would soon change.

When Zhong Shizhong led his troops to Shaxiong Ridge, it was already dark. The army decided to spend the night here, which is about a hundred miles away from Taiyuan. At this time, the soldiers all looked hungry, unbearably hungry and exhausted. Because the army had been starved of food for three days, the soldiers were only given one spoonful of black beans every day.

As for the internal situation of the Song army, the Jin people had already found out from Jiang Bing's mouth. The next morning, the Jin people once again sent heavy troops, first concentrating their forces to launch a fierce attack on the right army of the Song Army. The morale of the Song army was low, their combat effectiveness was very weak, and they were about to collapse at the first touch. The Jin people then attacked the former army. The leader of the former army was Yang Zhi, who had recruited troops from Liangshan. This man actually escaped from the alley without fighting. Former army staff officer Huang You was a good man who died fighting hard.

Zhongshi Zhong personally led the Chinese army to respond tenaciously to the enemy and fought to the death without retreating. The fighting continued from Mao Shi to Si Shi, and the Song soldiers used divine arm bows to repel the Jin soldiers many times. The seed master wanted to reward the divine arm bow archers, but there were not enough silver bowls, only dozens of them, so he had to give up. When the soldiers saw that their merits were not rewarded, they were all resentful and angry. They did not want to continue fighting and fled in all directions.

The Jin Army cavalry quickly rushed up again and surrounded Zhongshi on all sides. The Chinese army has also been defeated, and only a hundred or so private soldiers from the small school remain with the division, willing to continue fighting to the death. The soldiers on the left and right brought a famous horse and asked the breeder to ride on it and quickly break out of the encirclement. Zhong Shizhong refused to leave, and said sadly: "My general, as the matter is at this point, we should not seek survival. You Cao must leave urgently, and there is no way to provoke the thieves."

In the end, Zhongshi suffered from hatred on the battlefield and died heroically for his country. There are also different opinions on how Zhongshi died. Some say he fell off a cliff and died, some say he was hit by a stray arrow and died, and some say he died fighting. Some of the other soldiers who dispersed retreated to the Pingding Army, and some fled to the mountains and forests.

It should be said that the Song army's failure this time has an unshirkable responsibility among the army. As the commander-in-chief of an army and a veteran with actual combat experience, it is really regrettable that he committed such a taboo of underestimating the enemy during the march and was therefore attacked by the Jin army.

However, some people blamed Xu Han for this failure, saying that Xu Han was "a corrupt scholar who didn't know how to fight, had too many delusional ideas, and forced the envoys to come forward, and could not be dealt with."

Later, his nephew Zhong Mian came to the capital with the coffin from Zhong Shi. When Emperor Qinzong of the Song Dynasty learned about it, he burst into tears in the palace and made a memorial text himself, saying: "I am sorry for the tiger ministers, but I have forgotten myself." Emperor Qinzong of the Song Dynasty sent his servant Zhang Shi to offer sacrifices and presented them to the military governor of the township. Promote twenty of his descendants to become officials.

Soon, the imperial court investigated the soldiers and generals responsible for this failure. Wang Congdao, the commander of the Chinese army, was beheaded in Maxing City. The deputy commander Zhang Shi Zhengsheng victorious soldiers were stationed in Daming Mansion. The imperial court secretly ordered Li Mi, the prefect of Daming Mansion, to kill him.

There is another saying about the defeat of Yulin in Zhongshi. It is said that at that time, the imperial court saw that the situation in Taiyuan was critical, so it issued an edict to the generals, ordering them to rush to rescue the siege. Yao Gu and Zhong Shizhong found out that the Jin people did not deploy many troops around Taiyuan. They did not know that this was a deceitful plan of the Jin people. Zhong Shizhong and Yao Gu then agreed to send troops. Yao Gu commanded troops to set off from Hedong and march northward, while Zhong Shizhong commanded troops to march westward from Hebei. They agreed to travel forty miles a day and go to Taiyuan to relieve the siege.

However, during the march, Zhongshi heard that Yao Gu had arrived at the Weisheng Army. He was worried that Yao Gu would go to Taiyuan first and seize the lead, so he ordered the entire army to march eighty miles a day so that he could reach Taiyuan first.

The Jin people found out that the two armies of Yao Gu and Zhong Shizhong had advanced towards Taiyuan, so they divided their forces to fight. They went south with light troops to resist the dangers of mountains and rivers, preventing Yao Gu from advancing. At the same time, he sent a heavy force to the east to fight against Zhong Shizhong.

After defeating Zhong Shizhong, the main force of the Jin people gathered south to face Yao Gu. On May , the Jin people encountered the Yaogu tribe in Pantuo. Soon after the two armies fought, the Song army was defeated and retreated to the Weisheng army.

At this time, General Pi Jiao Anjie and others spread rumors to shake the morale of the army, and urged Yao Gu to retreat to Longde Mansion. After retreating from Longde Mansion, Jiao Anjie advised Yao Gu to take the opportunity to escape. The local people heard the rumors and thought that the Jin people were coming. They were quite panicked and planned to go south.

On May , the day when Zhong Shizhong died heroically in killing Xiong Ling, Wang Yun, the envoy to the Kingdom of Jin, returned to the capital. In order to return to Beijing as soon as possible to report the news, he rode a fast horse day and night. It only took six days to get from Yanjing to Tokyo.

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