After the Mid-Autumn Festival, the Song Dynasty began to implement military control from north to south.
Beacon towers were set up in Puzhou, Huazhou, Zhengzhou, Kaifeng Prefecture, Henan Prefecture (Luoyang), Shaanzhou, and the part of Henan that used to belong to Mengzhou. The soldiers patrolling along the Yellow River embankment doubled the number of ships monitoring the other side of the river.
The troops in the imperial camp re-counted their numbers, checked the inventory of ordnance, grain, war horses and other military supplies, and conducted unified inspections and cleanups along the riverside forts.
Along the line of the Yellow River in Henan, families of soldiers, old, weak, women and children were advised to go south to the Nanyang line of the Huaihe River for resettlement.
Envoys and ministers from all walks of life, as well as Yan Xiaozhong, the magistrate of Nanyang Prefecture, received the decree and focused on rectifying the defense and acting accordingly. The other ministers of the military and prefectures in Henan also received decrees and orders issued by the palace and the capital hall.
, let them arrange defense and cooperate with envoys, ministers and ministers in various places. They are not allowed to disobey the will of the central government without permission.
At the same time, the imperial court sent a special edict to all parts of Kansai, emphasizing the absolute power of Yu Wenxuzhong and the special status of Shaanzhou Li Yanxian.
Material transportation in Southeast, Jingxiang, and Huainan is also being urgently deployed.
Things seem to be going in an orderly manner, but here at the center, there are still worries of their own.
After all, no amount of preparation is just preparation. Once the Jin people attack, God knows what will happen? What's more, in terms of military strategy, although the Song army has imperial troops in Henan, which gives them a little confidence,
There are still two huge military holes in front of us, which cannot be ignored.
This is the problem of Kansai and the problem of Tokyo City.
From the Kansai side, the problem is that it was too urgent and too hasty.
You must know that if you want to be well prepared for the military, one naturally needs excellent soldiers, and the other naturally needs complete logistics, and Kansai seems to have no shortage of these... Kansai is recognized by the world as a place with excellent soldiers, and there are also
A ready-made seed force of elite soldiers, that is, the more than 10,000 elite soldiers on the Jingyuan Road (from this perspective, Qu Duan still did some personnel work); and the economic strength of Bashu is beyond doubt, especially Zhang Jun's bold use
Zhao Kai, his financial deputy, led an excellent financial reform, which made Bashu's original financial market of more than 10 million yuan even bigger.
But the problem is that the Kansai Troika general killed Wang Xie in July and unified the military power for only one month. Before the central government made up its mind to raise taxes, a considerable part of Bashu's wealth was simply sent down the river to Nanyang... So
The soldiers and supplies there are really poorly prepared.
But the old opponent here is Wanyan Nianhan's military deputy and the actual deputy military commander of the West Route Army, Wanyan Loushi.
One more thing must be said here, Wanyan Loushi is a figure that cannot be ignored in this era, and a figure that makes all Song soldiers tremble and fear... There is no way, open the one compiled by Wang Yuan and Wang Dutong
Booklet, when you come to the pages of this person, you will find that this person is probably a slave of the Wanyan family or the leader of the servant tribe (the two identities do not conflict). He fought all the way from Liaodong to Henan, and his record is really dazzling.
Eye-catching.
This person was the main force of the Liao Kingdom. After he led his troops to the battlefield to change horses after a long-distance attack, he and Yin Shuke launched nine cavalry assaults on the Liao Kingdom's central army and defeated them in one day. This person was the main force of the 30,000 cavalry in Xixia's support for the Liao Kingdom.
Continuous division of troops and sudden attacks led to continuous collapse; Fan Zhixu's 200,000 reinforcements from the Western Army were dispersed by this person with ten men; in the battle of Taiyuan, he and Yin Shuke defeated the hundreds of thousands of reinforcements one by one.
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It can be said that he participated in almost all the main battles during the rise of the Jin Army, and was always responsible for the toughest and most painful battles, but he was always invincible.
It is truly invincible.
Even Li Yanxian's military miracle in Shaanzhou was accomplished only after he turned to Guanxi and northern Shaanxi; even in such haste last year, he led his army to securely swallow up Yan'an Prefecture and force the surrender of three states outside Hewai.
, can be said to be impeccable.
Han Shizhong and Yue Fei have never met this kind of person in history. It’s hard to say if they have met him. Anyway, among the people currently employed by Zhao Guan’s family, they have met him, such as Zhang Jun, Li Yanxian, Qu Duan, and Yang Yizhong.
They were all his defeated generals... Of course, this statement is not accurate enough. The more accurate statement is that these people were all the remnants of Wanyan Loushi's defeated generals at that time, and they were not worthy of being called his defeated generals.
At that time, the Song Army's tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of troops were defeated repeatedly by the Jin Kingdom's West Route Army, with Wanyan Loushi and Wanyan Yinshuke as their main partners, and they were defeated time and time again. Zhang
The reason why people like Jun, Li Yanxian, and Qu Duan became important military ministers of one party was mainly because Wanyan Loushi withdrew his troops and gathered the defeated troops.
Not only that, this man and his old partner Yin Shuke continued to conquer all the way, capturing King Xi alive, Emperor Tianzuo of Liao State alive, and even Yelu Dashi (who successfully escaped after serving as a guide for the Jin army for a few days).
)... To put it bluntly, if he had not been under the walls of Tokyo during the Jingkang Incident, this person might have achieved an unprecedented achievement in Chinese military history, that is, he had captured four emperors of the great powers.
Who wouldn't be worried about such an opponent, leading the main force of the Golden Army all the way to his weakest point?
As for Tokyo, there is no need to say more. Tokyo is too far forward. Once the Jin army crosses the river, it will be another siege of Tokyo. And the words "Tokyo siege" almost gave everyone in the Song Dynasty a post-traumatic stress disorder.
Therefore, I don't know whether it was knowing that Kansai was not worried, or because it was because of being in it, the entire Song Dynasty Center started to focus on the defense of Tokyo City after entering a state of war readiness, and everyone's focus was on it.
Putting aside the inevitable panic at the beginning, as the city gradually readjusted to military control, Tokyo, which had returned to a population of over 300,000, suddenly developed an unexpected explosive force surrounding city defense construction.
The new prime minister Chen Gui is undoubtedly the defender of Tokyo, the core of the city defense system, and the minister of the Ministry of War. He has basically obtained most of the imaginable authority, so as he issues orders one after another to the central government
With the unwavering cooperation of the officials, the entire Tokyo quickly began to become militarized and fortress-like based on the previous model of Nanyang.
Countless fossil fuels were transported from all over the Central Plains, and most of them were sunk into the newly excavated artificial lake inside the Jinshui Gate of the imperial city. A small amount was sent directly to the brick kilns with non-stop fireworks outside the city.
The brick kiln uses coal and wood from temporarily felled forests around Tokyo as fuel to produce solid bricks day and night.
Of course, this kind of bricks cannot be compared with the material of Tokyo City wall, but it is enough to build a simple and practical sheep and horse wall outside the city, and build countless brick walls inside the city to form a Nanyang-style partition military workshop, and then
Build an archery tower and a dark fort.
The three-layered city wall has all been reinforced and thickened. The city gates with towers everywhere have been completely transformed into military fortresses. At least one capital (a hundred-man team) is permanently stationed. The dozen or so water gates are the focus of defense and have all been installed.
A double-layer iron mesh sluice was built, and soldiers and horses sent by Liang Shanbo assisted in management and disposal.
However, the most eye-catching thing is the three rivers passing through the city... In order to facilitate the entry and exit of reinforcements, and also to continue to properly defend around the rivers after the outer city was destroyed, the Cai River, Bian River, and Guangji River that passed through the city were completely blocked. Dredging, broadening, and deepening, this work has started before, and it has not stopped now.
In late August, when this kind of work reached a climax, even Zhao Guan's family, who had recovered from illness, went up the river to carry earth and dug mud together with Wang De, the Bianjing four-wall defense envoy who led the army back to the city, and also asked Mrs. Wu to There were only a few maids in the palace and a group of robbed cooks from Tokyo who were boiling water and cooking for people on the river embankment.
In this warm atmosphere, the Guangji River, which used to be commonly known as the Wuzhang River because it was five feet wide, was already seven to eight feet wide, and this width was basically equal to the width of the bridges on the river. It was only at the two water gates that it was reduced to five feet again.
Needless to say, there is no need to say more about the Bian River. Looking at the picture of River Walking during the Qingming Festival, you can see how wide the river is. After it was cleaned up, the water is even more sparkling, which is amazing to look at.
According to the conventional setting, the excavated soil was used to build a high dam on the inside of the river, build a brick wall, and set up gun emplacements, which would then form several layers of excellent defense lines that could be defended.
Not to mention that Daxiangguo Temple has been producing artillery carts, earth pellets, stone bullets, and gunpowder bags from the beginning.
I must commend Zhao Guanjia again. This official was not sick every day before, and he did not go to Daxiangguo Temple all day just to get food and drinks from others... A long time ago, with his advice and assistance Now, the counterweighted artillery carts here at Daxianggong Temple have been divided into several fixed models, and each type strives to use unified weights and measures to produce "standard accessories" that meet the "standard" as much as possible.
The benefits of the primary assembly line are self-evident.
One is naturally to improve efficiency, the other is to ensure that artillery vehicles on the battlefield can be repaired quickly, and the other is to facilitate transportation.
This is the Zhao Guan family's main project this year after their initial attempt at artillery failed... It's not high-tech, but it's absolutely practical. The key is that the benefits of doing so can be understood and recognized by everyone.
In short, the whole city is in full swing.
However, as the days pass, the passion wears off little by little, followed by fatigue and numbness.
From the beginning, the Zhao Guan family spent a whole day digging river mud, and then moved a whole day moving bricks... Sometimes, I feel that I am not worthy of being an emperor. I found a job before traveling, and came here before I joined the job. As a result, here we have experienced such a high-intensity work of moving bricks. Who would be more miserable than others?
Moreover, I was so tired that when I returned to Yanfu Palace at night, I had no energy... After eating the snacks sent by Pan Xianfei, I lay on the bed and basically fell asleep smelling Pan Xianfei's body fragrance in no time.
Sometimes he would stay at Mrs. Wu's place, but Mrs. Wu, who was also very tired, would often cry secretly in the middle of the night. She didn't know if she was crying about why she married the wrong person. So she had to spend half of her time boiling water and cooking all year round. Half of the time, he was studying and practicing martial arts... But at this time, Zhao Jiu was completely numb even if he woke up next to him, and he had no energy to comfort him or lose his temper.
But what happens after numbness?
The answer is expectation.
It sounds absurd, but the fact is that August has ended, entered September, and September is about to end... With the successful conclusion of this major city defense renovation activity that Beizhao officials praised as "Forty Days of Work after Autumn", victory has come to an end. When people like Chen Gui couldn't think of a way to add something, others didn't know, but Zhao Guanjia actually started to look forward to it.
Looking forward to the north.
But what disappointed him was that the beacon was never lit and the golden man never arrived.
Moreover, this kind of non-arrival is not false... After Ma Kuo and Ma Zichong fled into the Taihang Mountains last year, they gradually began to move southward to avoid the Jin Army's core ruling areas around Yanjing. However, they filled the gap of Wang Yan's Eight-Character Army and cooperated with Henan
Contact was reestablished, and according to Ma Kuo's latest intelligence, the Jin army had not even mobilized. At least none of the Meng'an and Mouke who had been deployed in Hebei were mobilized.
Entering October, winter has officially arrived. Ma Kuo's latest return is still clear, and the Jin army has made no move.
This is of course a good thing. At the very least, it will allow the Kansai side to use this precious time to organize a large-scale army with Sichuan and Sichuan's autumn grain this year.
However, in order to prevent the Henan side from unnecessary tension and slack due to the long-term high tension, which would lead to the success of the Jin Army's raid, the Zhao Guan family, after discussing with the Prime Minister, the Province, and the Privy Council, decided
He also took the initiative to let go of some of his tense posture, and ordered everyone to increase their priorities while maintaining military control, ensuring that the soldiers could take turns visiting relatives, taking vacations, and ensuring normal life in the city, but beware of spies and raids... and so on.
After the edict was issued, it was unclear elsewhere, but a city as big as Tokyo suddenly fell into a strange state... No one knew what to do.
Winter is undoubtedly the slack season for farming, and there is already a lot of idleness. However, because of the need to prevent spies, both military and civilian supplies are usually delivered outside the city. The entire city is divided into square areas. Although ordinary people are at home, they are very busy.
It is difficult to enter and exit the area easily...those with strong men and sergeants at home can directly receive a ration and a portion of coal (basically all of them are available), but sauces, linen, etc. have to be purchased from the official.
In other words, commercial and trade activities have basically come to a standstill... people will naturally panic when things come and go.
In this regard, the Zhao Guan family could only learn the routines in some high-end Internet articles, and let these people organize Cuju teams according to military workshops, and directly set up Cuju courts on Yudao and Dongxi Street, and let each defense take turns on odd and even days.
Develop and participate in Cuju.
However, this situation lasted for a month, including dealing with reselling sauces at high prices, officials slacking off, Cuju fights and other imaginable and unimaginable things.
By November, there was still no movement from the Jin army.
At this time, in addition to further opening up the city of Tokyo, Zhao Guan's family usually develops several villages connected together, and the entire city is divided into seven or eight independent large areas and small cities for activities... and they can no longer hold back.
In fact, various rumors have been spread at this time. Many people below said that the Jin people did not dare to go south after the battle between Yanling and Changshe last year; but the officials and many Yuanzhou students who stayed in Taixue did not
There were many discussions, and they all said that the emperor's brother died, and the former Taizu Aguda and the current Wolf Lord Wanyan Wu's beggars were fighting for the throne.
There is definite evidence for the latter. As early as August after the Mid-Autumn Festival, the Central Committee accidentally learned this information from a Korean businessman. It was said that the crown prince of the Jin Dynasty, who was familiar with Banbo Jilie and Wanyan Xie, had been ill before.
Heavy, and then Qiu Ri failed to rest and died immediately. Then, the center immediately sent Wang Lun, the young minister of Honglu Temple, to detour to Goryeo and his party to find out the information.
Now, after three months of absence, Wang Lun successfully returned and brought with him exact information, confirming Wanyan Xieye's death and confirming the fact that the Jin people seemed to have internal strife.
But to be honest, Wanyanxie was so important. The Zhao family and several governors were doubtful, and the Jin army had never given up sending troops south in autumn and winter because of the death of important figures or internal disputes.
Relatively speaking, Liu Ziyu, who was appointed as the Privy Council member and also served as the director of the military department, put forward a view. He believed that it was not necessarily just the effect of the Changshe battle last year. It was probably the serious military control implemented by the emperor and Song Dynasty after the Mid-Autumn Festival.
It has the effect of defeating the enemy without fighting.
In short, many people mean that the Jin Army should not come this year.
In this regard, Zhao Jiu and the governors would certainly not relax, but they could not suppress the increasingly active people and the increasingly loose atmosphere below.
Many people have begun to suggest opening up the city on a small scale to restore certain trade flows... Their reasons are very good. During the previous period of strict military control over large areas, many city defense soldiers and handover officials had real examples of lining their own pockets and neglecting people's livelihood. The common people did not
Better off.
At first, Zhao Guanjia and the governors did not agree, but as more and more people petitioned, and due to the slack caused by the closure of the city, there were more and more corruption cases. Some people even suggested that the patrols of the strong men should be lifted and the military workshops should be completely abolished.
Finally, under pressure, the central government temporarily agreed to a plan to open up the city on a small scale and allow reliable caravans to enter the city.
Facts have proved that commercial activities are the key to urban residents. With the opening of the city gates in a small area and the resumption of commercial activities, the city of Tokyo has almost quickly regained its vitality, and the young men and military workshops have become insignificant.
But as the city regained its vitality, some messy things began to emerge again... In late November, an official wrote a letter asking for the establishment of a queen in the name of the special season and to appease people's hearts.
To be honest, Zhao Guan's family is a little confused.