One Piece of Song Dynasty

Some people in society like Guo Jing, who had some skills and so on, saw Guo Jing showing off his power and power, so they began to imitate him. There was a monk who returned to secular life, named Fu Zhenglin, people called him Mr. Fu. He offered advice to the court, saying that he had a way to defeat the enemy and wanted to recruit victorious soldiers. The court agreed. There are also some merchants and craftsmen, such as Liu Zhujie, who sells medicine, who also claim to understand military affairs and have strategies to retreat from the enemy, hoping to rally their troops. The imperial court agreed and allowed them to recruit troops separately.

As a result, there was a recruitment craze in the capital. These teams have different names, some are called Six Ding Rikishi, some are called Beidou Divine Soldiers, and some are called Tianguan Generals.

These miscellaneous teams all followed Guo Jing's example and were just a ragtag group of people. Both recruiters and applicants are doing it for fame and reputation. It will soon be proven that they have neither fighting spirit nor fighting ability.

We still have to rely on the regular army to fight a war, and a mob will definitely not work. Song Qinzong and his ministers should understand this simple truth. However, there are nominally regular troops in the city, but in fact there are only about guards available. If we want to defend the capital, the number of troops is obviously far from enough. The regular army outside the city and closest to the capital should be the army led by the four generals. However, Song Qinzong's letter from King Qin had already been conveyed to the four general managers, but there is still no news from King Qin's soldiers. This made Song Qinzong's heart burn.

On the afternoon of November , good news came. He Li excitedly reported that Zhang Shuye, the general manager of the South Road, led troops to serve the king. After a bloody battle, they were now stationed in Yujin Garden.

Song Qinzong was very happy when he heard this and decided to go to Nanxunmen to review King Qin's army in person. Yujin Garden is located just outside Nanxun Gate and is a royal garden.

When Zhong Shidao presided over the work of the Privy Council, he learned that Taiyuan and Zhending had fallen one after another, and he had a premonition that something bad was going on. The Jin people were likely to go south across the river again and besiege the capital. He sent an order to Zhang Shuye and Qian Gai to send troops to Beijing to protect him. At that time, Zhang Shuye gathered a total of troops from the South Jingxi Road and the Jinghu North Road, intending to march to the capital. However, after Zhong Shidao's death, Tang Ke and Geng Nanzhong wanted to negotiate peace with the Jin people and did not want to engage in military confrontation with the Jin people. They suggested canceling the orders Zhong Shidao had issued on the grounds that they had no food to support their troops and did not give the Jin people an excuse to send troops. Order. Therefore, Emperor Qinzong of the Song Dynasty issued an edict, ordering Zhang Shuye and Qian Gai to stop advancing, and the troops that had been assembled were "divided into camps".

Not long ago, Zhang Shuye suddenly received a letter from Song Qinzong, saying that Jin soldiers had arrived in the suburbs of Beijing, and ordered him to quickly lead his troops to serve the king. Zhang Shuye hurriedly gathered his troops, but in a hurry, he only gathered people. Zhang Shuye asked his eldest son Zhang Bofen to lead the front army, and his second son Zhang Zhongxiong to lead the rear army. He himself led the middle army and immediately marched towards the capital.

Zhang Shuye was stationed in Dengzhou at the time. When he marched to Yingchang Mansion, he happened to encounter Wang Xiang, the general manager of the West Road, leading his troops to escape south. Zhang Shu went to see Wang Xiang at night. Wang Xiang asked, "Where do you want to go?"

Zhang Shuye replied: "The Jin people have arrived in Jiaodian. The Lord is uneasy at the table and wants to serve the king with troops."

Wang Xiang said: "The thieves are very strong, so we can't go there."

Zhang Shuye disagreed and urged Wang Xiang to lead his troops to Beijing with him, but Wang Xiang refused to listen.

Zhang Shuye then led his troops from Yingchang Mansion and continued towards the capital. When marching to Weishi County, they encountered the Jin Army's cavalry and immediately started a battle with them, annihilating hundreds of enemies. At this time, the main force of the Jin Army had not yet reached the capital, and the rangers operating in the suburbs were the vanguard of the Jin Army on the East Road. Along the way, Zhang Shuye led King Qin's army to fight the Jin people eighteen times, and finally arrived outside the south gate of the capital on November .

Wu Ge, who was ordered to organize reinforcements in Shaanxi, also returned to the city with Zhang Shuye. He left the city on November , and he kept encountering Jin Army cavalry on the way. People along the way told him that the Jin Army was coming rapidly from west to east on the West Road, and all the roads to Shaanxi were controlled by the Jin Army. Wu Ge then planned to return to the capital. By chance, he learned that Zhang Shuye was leading Qinwang soldiers from Yingchang Prefecture to aid the capital, so he went to join him. Zhang Shuye appointed him as the commander to fight with the army.

In the evening of that day, Emperor Qinzong of the Song Dynasty came to Nanxun Gate and personally inspected King Qin's army. Emperor Qinzong of the Song Dynasty was overjoyed when he saw that King Qin's army was in good order and disciplined.

That evening, Song Qinzong cordially received Zhang Shuye in Ruisi Hall. Zhang Shuye suggested: "The enemy is very fierce. I hope your majesty can temporarily go to Xiangyang like Emperor Ming of the Tang Dynasty did when he avoided Anlu Mountain, and then find a way to go to Yongzhou." After hearing this, Song Qinzong remained silent.

It should be said that the ministers who advised Song Qinzong to leave Tokyo temporarily were all sober-minded, such as Zhong Shidao, Tang Ke, Sun Zhan, etc. Zhang Shuye also had a clear mind and made this suggestion to Song Qinzong as soon as they met. So why did Song Qinzong remain silent? Because the war ministers represented by He Li strongly opposed the move of the capital.

When the Jin soldiers went south for the first time, Prime Minister Bai Shizhong and Li Bangyan advocated leaving the capital to avoid the enemy. Song Qinzong really wanted to go out of the city and was well prepared. But before leaving, they were blocked by Li Gang, who was in charge of the battle. But now, the main war faction holds military power. If they oppose moving the capital, can Song Qinzong be able to leave?

On the other hand, Song Qinzong also harbored a sense of luck and fantasy. What he was lucky about was that the capital city would remain unchanged like last time and the Jin people could not enter the city; what he imagined was that Geng Nanzhong and Nie Chang went to the Jin army to have peace talks and the Jin people would immediately seize the vast land on the north bank of the Yellow River. Stop the march and return home. Or soon, King Qin's army will gather from all directions and form a confrontation with the Jin army.

Song Qinzong did not expect that it was this kind of luck and illusion that led him and the Song Dynasty into a desperate situation.

In recent days, small groups of golden soldiers have been moving around outside the city, but they have not launched an siege. It was obvious that they were waiting for the main force to arrive. The Song army generals in the city also saw this. Qin Yuan, the governor of the capital, proposed to gather armored soldiers and lead them out of the city to garrison, so that he could take charge of his own affairs. Tan Shiji, the Minister of Rites, also suggested that Qin Yuan should be sent to lead his troops out of the city and build four camps to guard the country's gates so that the troops could be connected with each other so that the enemy would not dare to attack the city.

Emperor Qinzong of the Song Dynasty asked the ministers for their opinions. Sun Fu agreed, but Liu Kai, the envoy to the emperor, objected. Liu Ao believed that the Baojia soldiers could not leave the city and should be added to the troops defending the city on the four walls, so Qin Yuan's suggestion was not adopted.

The Baojia soldiers are actually some temporarily organized militiamen. They have no training and no combat experience. They are timid and cowardly and have little combat effectiveness. There were more than five thousand armor-protecting soldiers eating outside Zhaoyang Gate. Suddenly six or seven Jin cavalry galloped over. These thousands of armor-protecting soldiers were so frightened that they abandoned their weapons and ran away. The Jin people knew the Song army's combat effectiveness very well, and they had nothing to fear.