On the fourth day of the first month of the first month of the first year of Jingkang, Chen Guoting and Chen Dong returned to Bianjing under the escort of a team of guards, they were sent by the prince to congratulate the new emperor on his accession to the throne, but Taiyuan was surrounded, and the two rivers were lost, they could only detour to Shaanxi to return to Beijing, and the day and night rush still failed to arrive before the year.

As soon as a group of people arrived at the edge of the city, they found that the city gate was full of traffic, in fact, this scene was very common in Bianjing, but in the past, it was pulled from outside the city to the city, but today it is pulled out of the city, and one is more bullish than the other, either Shangshu or Shilang, out of the city in groups, at first the two thought it was the New Year to play outside the city, but everyone was scared one by one, there was no festive energy at all, and then looking at the things on the car was simply moving.

When they entered the city, there was no longer the lively scene of the old lights, the faces of the people were more confused and frightened, and the streets were full of patrolling sergeants. You don't need to ask them to understand, the war is coming, the Jurchens are approaching Kaifeng, the two of them inquired after arriving at the post house, and sure enough, the war situation in Hebei has deteriorated, and the Yellow River is in danger of being lost...

After Zhao Ji ascended the throne, the New Year is about to begin, and it is time to change the year name, Zhao Ji according to the sentence "Sun Jing Quartet, Yongkang Zhaomin" in the "Poetry Zhou Song I General", respectively, take a word, together it is "Jingkang", a good mouthpiece, but good luck does not seem to accompany him.

Zhao Ji sent Liang Fangping to lead 40,000 forbidden troops to garrison Junzhou on the north bank of the Yellow River, and He Guan to defend the south bank of the Yellow River. And Liang Fangping, who is neither male nor female, went there for the New Year, did not take any measures to actively respond to the enemy, and just drank and had fun with his subordinates all day long. On the second day of the first month, Liang Fangping received a report that the Jin soldiers were approaching the city.

Liang Fangping didn't expect the Jin army to come so quickly and climb to the top of the city. When I looked at it with fear, I saw dust flying in the distance. The fierce Jurchen cavalry was rushing towards this direction, and they were terrified. Regardless of how many enemies came, whether there were follow-up troops or not, he left his men and fled out of the city in a hurry and fled south.

When he crossed the river, in order to prevent the Jin army from pursuing, he set fire to the river bridge, and the defenders in the city saw that even the commander had run away, and they all rushed to abandon the city and flee, but because the bridge was destroyed, the Song army stragglers could only flock down the river in the hope of swimming to the other side. However, the cold weather and cold water and the Jin army chasing and killing behind caused thousands of Song troops to freeze to death and drown on the bank of the river, while the Jin army only killed three people in this battle.

He Guan on the south bank saw a large number of deserters running on the other side, and knew that Junzhou had been lost, so he hurriedly ordered all the deserters to be incorporated into his own troops. He estimated that his troops were no match for the Jin army at all, so he ordered his troops to retreat to Bishui Pass to defend. After the Jin army got the news, they followed the rear of He Guan's army and rushed to Bishui Pass. When He Guan's army finally ran to Bishui Pass, he just wanted to breathe a sigh of relief, but suddenly found that the Jin army had caught up. The Song army, from the generals to the soldiers, was so frightened that they fled desperately to the rear. The Jin army followed behind and desperately pursued and killed, the Song army suffered countless casualties, and He Guan ran back to Bianliang, Tokyo with a group of remnants of the defeated generals.

When He Guan reported the battle situation to the imperial court again. attributed all the reasons for the defeat to Liang Fangping who fled without a fight, and informed the imperial court that the Jin army was now in the vanguard of Guo Yaoshi. I'm about to get to Tokyo City. This news was like a bombshell, which shook the whole country of the Song Dynasty. Every Song person suddenly realized that the Great Song Dynasty was in danger of losing the country.

On the third day, Qinzong issued an edict to pro-conquest, with the new military squire Li Gang as the pro-conscription camp envoy, and he simulated the story of Zong Yuanyuan, as if he wanted to live and die with Sheji.

Although Zhao Huan decided to stay in the capital temporarily, but the Emperor Zhao Ji had already decided to flee south, he issued an edict saying that he was ready to go to the Taiqing Palace in Mizhou to enter the incense, the reason was that he had contracted a few days ago and had now recovered, so he went to burn incense to thank God for his favor. After the edict was issued, Taishi, who was in charge of the etiquette in the palace, said that the second day, that is, the fourth day of the first month, was a suitable day for travel.

Originally, Taishi chose the time to set off on the fourth day of the first month of the first month of Jingkang, but Zhao Ji did not dare to delay for a moment, and he couldn't wait for dawn, just after the second drum time, he went out of Tongjin Gate in the dark and went east by boat, and only Cai You and more than a dozen inner guards fled with him, and even the queen and her children did not have time to lead. Empress Taishang then took the children to chase after him.

Tong Guan has a very bad relationship with the new emperor, and he has already offended. Zhao Huan came to power, and Tong Guan hurried to curry favor, but it was not good to hold Buddha's feet temporarily, so he was closed. So he thought that Zhao Ji would inevitably settle accounts after the autumn, and it would be safer to follow his old club, so Tong Guan led the three thousand elite Shengjie army to hurriedly chase Daojun and come to escort him. Gao Yu had similar thoughts to him, and also led the three thousand forbidden troops to follow.

As soon as the emperor left, all the officials in the city heard about it, and almost all of them fled the capital to avoid trouble, and the Zongmiao Sheji and others were all handed over to the new emperor. In this way, Zhao Huan, a young man who had never been assertive, was even more caught off guard, so Zhao Huan summoned his ministers to Funing Hall to discuss how to deal with the current crisis.

At this time, Zhao Huan was cowardly and suspicious, and his shortcomings in lack of experience were immediately revealed, forgetting the promise he made yesterday to live and die with Sheji, and decided to temporarily avoid the enemy and tour Xiangyang in the west. There was a rush in the palace again, but it was more fully prepared than Zhao Ji, the god of Taimiao invited him to come out to temporarily house Taichang Temple, the gold and silver were packed in boxes, and the palace guards were also neatly dressed, and they were ready to wait for the emperor to leave the palace.

In fact, the information obtained by the imperial court that the Jin army had crossed the Yellow River was not accurate, and the Jin army had just begun to cross the river on the third day. The Jin army searched up and down the river bank, and barely found more than ten small boats, each small boat could only carry six or seven gold soldiers across the river at a time, and many Jin soldiers were drowned because of capsizing halfway. Later, the Jin army found a few more large boats and began to arrange cavalry to cross the river, and even if the Jin army used boats to transport troops day and night, it would take several days to transport all the troops to the south bank...

Chen Guoting and the two quickly inquired about what had happened in the past few days, and they couldn't help but be worried, they didn't expect that the seemingly strong Great Song Dynasty was so weak, they thought that after the new emperor ascended the throne, the court and China would have a new look, but they didn't expect that the reality was so cruel, and their illusions were shattered.

"I wonder if the prince's congratulatory watch can still be delivered to the saint?" Chen Dong said with a wry smile, how could the emperor take care of reading a congratulatory note when he was about to leave, it seemed that the two of them were going to run for nothing.

"Mount Tai collapsed in front and did not change, and the elk flourished on the left and did not look instantly! Words are easy to say, but hard to do, the only one who has the ability to turn the tide without falling down is the prince! Chen Guoting's answer was not what he asked. (To be continued......)