Chapter 126: Reflection
In stark contrast to the victory of the Western Army, it was the rout of the troops of the Eight Prefectures on Yanyun Road.
Seemingly colluded, the Jin army launched an onslaught against the Song army in the same season as the Xia army. However, the Song State only had a western army, deployed in the northwest, and the northeast would be helpless.
Wanyan Aguta tore up the peace treaty with the Song State, and then sent Wanyan Lou Room to attack the Song army.
Wanyan Lou led 100,000 Jin troops, entered from the Gubei Pavilion where Tang Ning defeated him, and killed him in Danzhou.
The governor of Danzhou led 8,000 troops to resist hard, but there was a huge disparity in strength. The siege of the city for ten days, day and night, the siege continued, and there was no one in the city who could fight.
Fan Ding, the general of the Xiang army, led 50,000 troops to support, but he was afraid of the Jin army and stalled halfway. Wanyan Lou then conquered Danzhou, and his subordinates slaughtered the city for three days, the people in the city were killed and injured countless times, and the body of the governor of Danzhou was hung on the city gate tower for three days.
He didn't bat at the eye, and looked south with wide eyes, as if he was looking in the direction of Fan Ding.
Then Wanyan Lou Room divided the troops into two roads, one to Shunzhou, the other to Jizhou, to wait for the two states and counties to break, and then converge in Youzhou.
Halfway through, the main army led by Yan Lou encountered Fan Ding's wandering reinforcements, and Fan Ding's troops collapsed at the touch of a button, and he himself saw that the general trend had gone, so he surrendered very simply.
Yanyun Road made Chen Huai'an so angry that he vomited blood, and he couldn't afford to be sick, and the Song army, which had lost its overall planning, fought on its own, and Yanyun Road fell into a crisis all of a sudden.
At the end of November, Wanyan Lou Room conquered Shunzhou. When Jizhou was besieged, he heard the news, and Zhizhou immediately surrendered. Subsequently, the two sides converged in Youzhou.
Hu Qi, the governor of Youzhou, resisted desperately, and Wanyan Lou's room was not in a hurry to attack, erected a fence and built a fortress, and besieged Youzhou City.
The two armies have been holding each other for a long time, and there is not much food and grass in Youzhou City. Hu Qi led the crowd to break through six times, but was repelled by Wanyan Lou Room.
The deputy envoy who took over Chen Huai'an's duties sent 30,000 reinforcements, but unexpectedly the news leaked, and he encountered an ambush by the Jin army on the way. But these 30,000 reinforcements are not soft persimmons, and they fought fiercely with the Jin army from dawn to sunset, and finally although they were defeated and retreated, they also bit off a piece of meat from the Jin army.
At the beginning of January, Hu Qi hanged himself, and his lieutenant opened the city gate to surrender, but Wanyan Lou beheaded the lieutenant general and continued to slaughter the city for three days.
This move caused the people of the Great Song Dynasty to be angry, but there was nothing they could do.
In mid-February, the Jin army pressed the border, and the governor of Zhuozhou surrendered. In April, the remaining Mozhou and Canzhou surrendered one after another. At this point, Yanyun Road existed in name only, and Zhao Xu, Tang Ning and others worked together, and half of Yanyun, which had been laid down with hard work, completely fell into the hands of Jinren.
This result completely ignited the people's dissatisfaction with the imperial court, and for a time there were rebels.
And the rebels were silent for half a year, and suddenly stood up again. At this time they are no longer the same as before, because
They gained a powerful and reliable ally, the White Lotus Society.
If the rebel army was the strongest military force among the rebels in the entire Song Kingdom, then the White Lotus Society was the greatest force of wealth.
Since the end of the Tang Dynasty, they have begun to take shape, and have accumulated wealth for more than 200 years. The influence of connections is all over the world, and it can really be said that it is a carp, waiting for the opportunity to leap into the dragon gate.
And the rebels are the best help to support them to jump over the dragon gate, although they have money, but they have no experienced warriors. Although the rebels had experienced warriors, they did not have the money to equip them with good armor and weapons.
This is a couple made in heaven, and when they find out about each other's existence, they don't need to say anything at all, they both know what they should do.
So the rebels who received financial assistance were strengthened, and don't forget, Fang La knew how to make gunpowder.
The gunpowder used by the rebels in the past was not lethal because they had no money and could not buy enough materials, so they could only dilute the proportion and win by quantity.
But now that they have the money, it's time for them to fight back.
Like a storm, the rebel army instantly entered Shuzhong, setting off another rebellion in the Bashu region since Wang Xiaobo and Li Shun.
After this, the rebel army turned to Kaifeng with great momentum, preparing to directly enter the capital and kill Zhao Ji.
The rebel army swept 200,000 people and killed them in a mighty manner, and all the officials and people in Kaifeng Mansion were panicked. This should be the largest uprising in the Great Song Dynasty since the founding of the country.
Fang La's stay by Tang Ning's side for so many years was not in vain, he learned a lot of truths from Tang Ning.
For example, there is no love and hate for no reason in this world, and any love and any hatred is the result of a long period of planning.
In the era of Zhao Xu, because of the end of the Yuanyuan Alliance, Zhao Xu also became rich to the people, reduced taxes, and allowed the people to recuperate.
And after Zhao Ji succeeded to the throne, he was not satisfied with the narrowness of a palace, so he wanted to expand this palace.
As an emperor, this was not a big deal. If an emperor doesn't even have the qualifications to expand the palace, then he should think about why he is sitting on this dragon chair.
But Zhao Ji's mistake was that he shouldn't have handed over this matter to Tong Guan, Yang Jian, and Cai Jing to do.
These three people are the lords of the country and the people, and they took Zhao Ji's chicken feathers as arrows, saying that they were collecting the world's treasures for Zhao Ji and putting them in the palace, but in fact, they privately increased the people's taxes, and looted all the savings that the people had just accumulated into their pockets.
There are policies at the top, countermeasures at the bottom, and money is discounted, these are all eternal truths.
These three people are still in high positions, let alone at the bottom
How hard they worked.
Under layers of exploitation, how can the people afford such a heavy burden?
Coupled with the party struggle that started as early as the Renzong Dynasty, the imperial court almost changed its order overnight. Wang Anshi is not a mature change, although the idea is very good, but he forces the people to get familiar with his change, rather than letting the people adapt to it themselves.
So the discontent had been brewing in their hearts for a long time, until the storm of the rebels completely swept them in.
At this time, Zhao Ji didn't understand why things were like this, he was very aggrieved, he felt that people all over the world looked down on him. Otherwise, why didn't they rebel when Zhao Xu was there, but after they came up?
Obviously, Yanfu Palace has not been expanded yet, no matter how you say it, will it not be possible to rebel after the expansion of Yanfu Palace is completed? Now I'm depressed like something, but I can't even find a place to relax, which is too bullying!
Repression! It must be suppressed! They must know that they are the ones they can't mess with!
In April, the mighty rebel army came to Kaifeng Mansion. Zhao Ji sent Yang Jian as a supervisor and led the forbidden army of 100,000 to fight against the rebels.
At the same time, the total number of bandits and robbers who were recruited was almost 50,000, and the two sides joined forces and launched a large-scale battle with the rebel army led by Fang La near Yingtianfu.
The whole battle lasted for almost a week, and both sides really threw their heads and spilled blood here.
However, although the fighting enthusiasm of the rebels was high, after all, before that, they were all farmers who cultivated the land. Therefore, in the face of the regular army, it is inevitable to fall into the upper hand.
But the forbidden army is not much better, Yang Jian is a eunuch who doesn't understand anything, loves to command blindly, and is even more unwilling to be disobeyed by others.
Therefore, the forbidden army had many opportunities to expand its advantages but did not grasp it, and Zhao Yan was eager to take a straw man instead of Yang Jian, and then poke his head with a needle.
It's a pity that he is the prison sent by his younger brother who has strong self-esteem, otherwise, Zhao Yan really wants to hack him to death with a knife.
He doesn't think he's a good fighter, and he hasn't learned a reason after learning from Tang Ning for so long, but in many cases, he knows that he can use this to expand his advantage, but this bastard doesn't do it every time, and even hinders those who want to do it......
Zhao Tong didn't know whether he was on the side of the court or the rebels......
As soon as he thought of this, Zhao Yan jumped to his feet in a hurry, and he played the impeachment of Yang Jian, but he never replied like a stone sinking into the sea.
And the current coach is still Yang Jian's dogleg, and he obeys Yang Jian's orders. But if you let yourself be the coach, you won't be like this,
Every time at this time, Zhao Yan would think of that person.
Danyang Hou, what are you doing now......