At the end of March, with Wanyan Lou's raid on northern Shaanxi, war between the Song and Jin Dynasties broke out again.
Let us also say that this war can be said to be unprecedented in terms of the mobilization intensity, breadth and political determination of both sides. In order to fight this war, the Jin State staged a drama of forcing the palace. In order to deal with this war, the Song Dynasty made
The incident of Gongmen Tuogu...and once both parties made up their minds, they no longer paid attention to the bad things behind them.
Mengwuhebulehan, the Great Sage of Dongting Lake, and the Yelv Stone of Western Liao. People and words that we usually have to be cautious about have been completely forgotten by both parties now.
Faintly, both countries are trying to sink their boats.
There is no way around it. For the two countries, the Jin Dynasty and the Song Dynasty, this is a destined battle for national destiny.
It was indeed destined. If Zhao Jiu had only relied on the "experience" of the time traveler, rough guesses, and chaotic thinking, now there was no need to have any doubts:
The all-out war between Song and Jin had lasted for five or six years, but the war in these five or six years was divided into stages.
Among them, in the first two and a half years, the Song Dynasty, which had absolute strength, collapsed again and again, and the Jin Dynasty expanded and expanded again. The so-called quantitative changes led to qualitative changes. This continuous defeat and non-stop expansion eventually led to
The Jingkang Incident almost led to the fall of the Song Dynasty; and in the next three years, the Song Dynasty, which still had most of its body but had just woken up from shock, struggled to survive. After struggling for three years, it finally returned to its old state.
At the same time, the expansion momentum since the founding of the Jin Kingdom was finally gradually suppressed.
At this time, the war had been tempered and accumulated, and entered a new stage. The signs of a stalemate along the Yellow River between the Song and Jin Dynasties were already obvious.
However, at this moment, since both sides have already entered the war machine mode... As long as they still insist on this mode, many things are not based on human will... The battle that should break out will break out sooner or later, and even
The preset battlefields are all destined.
Everyone knows that after three years of hard work in the Song Dynasty, the imperial army and horses became stronger, while the Western Army was still weak. Everyone knows that Guanzhong is a place of physical victory. If you take it, you can conquer the Central Plains, and if you keep it, you can preserve the Central Plains.
This battle is destined to break out, it is destined to break out in Kansai, and it is destined to be affected by the overall situation of each country. Every move, line, and move in daily life, ranging from national strategy and national characteristics to specific details.
A certain government decree and a certain appointment will be tested in this battle.
As for Lou Shi and Zhao Jiu, they were not so much the initiators and greeters of the battle, but rather the sword bearers and shield bearers chosen by the two huge countries, but they did not refuse or evade.
In fact, if Lou Shi hadn't noticed that his body was about to be unable to hold on, it was probably Wanyan Nianhan who came to his senses after half a year due to the slackness in the political dispute, or simply Wanyan Wushu who came to Kansai to do this.
If Zhao Jiu hadn't suddenly discovered that he had real flesh and blood of his own in this era, and then made up his mind early in his heart, then maybe Han Shizhong would have taken charge of the matter... but Zhao Jiu never climbed out of the well.
, isn’t there Zhang Jun who sacrificed everything in Guanzhong to pray for the small southeastern court?
This battle must be fought!
"This battle must be fought, because only by winning this battle can Guanzhong be preserved. You must know that once Guanzhong is lost, the Central Plains cannot be saved. By then, Guanzhong and the Central Plains will end up like Hebei..."
"What happened to Hebei was made very clear before it was published in the newspaper. I have already said it, and your imperial camp is along the Yellow River. I don't believe you have never seen the refugees in Hebei, so you don't know how to ask the Eight-Character Army."
My comrades should also know... Don't think that the obedient people of the Jin people can do anything. The Jin people are fierce and do not regard the local people as human beings. They gamble with each other and grab people from the village as chips.
The man has two chips, the woman has one chip, the old man and the child have half the chips... This is how the Eight-Character Army in the Taihang Mountains got started..."
"But if this battle can be won, Guanzhong can be preserved. Guanzhong can be preserved. With the population, wealth, silk, and ordnance of our Song Dynasty, we will definitely be able to raise an army of 300,000 to the north in three years, and we will be able to revive the two rivers in five years.
Ten years of work may not be enough to destroy gold..."
On the last day of March, in the evening, in front of Sishui Pass, a Song army of about four to five thousand soldiers was setting up camp.
Thanks to the military conflict more than two months ago and the corresponding personal expedition, the Song army was familiar with the road this time. The most intuitive point is that there are large garrison points left over from the last time along the route from Tokyo to Shaanzhou.
This made it much easier for the Song army to set up camp, so much so that the new scholars dispatched from the army were able to convey the decree and explain the imperial newspaper to the capital officials before dinner.
It is said that before Zhao Guanjia's personal expedition again, he tried to let these Jinshi directly enter the capitals (centuries), and then must convey and implement his determination, will, and military orders to the lowest level, but because the number was really insufficient, only
Give up.
But even so, as the officials and the central government expressed an unprecedented harsh attitude, these new scholars and military staff had to increase their direct contact with the officers.
At the very least, it has become a "convention" that these Jinshis must do, and it has become a rope around the necks of these new Jinshis.
In fact, the Dibao system affiliated to Honglu Temple has also entered a so-called wartime state since the palace gate was orphaned. There are supplements almost every day, and the content is no longer limited to the traditional form. At the same time, in order to ensure that the Dibao
Widely spread among the military, hundreds of Taixue students, including hundreds of scholars in Tokyo, whether wealthy young men or booksellers, were uniformly recruited to Taixue and were responsible for transcribing each supplement.
,tidy.
"This is what the supplement to the Di newspaper delivered today looks like."
By the bonfire, after foaming at the mouth, Liang Jiaying, who was born in the same Jinshi class and is only in her twenties this year, looked at the seven or eight heads beside her, two or three of whom were preparing to attack, but she seemed a little bit flinching. "Looking at it,
Dinner is not ready yet. If you have any other needs, feel free to ask. If you don’t understand anything, just ask or write..."
The surrounding soldiers, who could be Liang Jinshi's father and brother, all looked at each other with a look of fear or discomfort.
For Liang Jinshi, he was the second son of a Guangzhou merchant. When he went to Huaibei with his father to collect goods last year, the imperial court issued an order to encourage redeemers and let Enke go. His father took advantage of the situation and took advantage of the situation in Huainan.
, Huaibei spent money to redeem people, and found a way out for the second son, who was afraid that he would not be divided up in the family property in the future, but that he would be a student from another state and return to Guangzhou to work as an official to complement the boss.
Who could have imagined that Zhang Jun, the envoy of Huaidong Zhizhi, and Zhang Taiwei were very efficient in collecting money and doing things. Seeing that this maritime businessman showed great filial piety when redeeming people, he directly gave the money to Jiaying of Guangdong with a stroke of his pen.
Due to his special meritorious service, he was admitted to the imperial college, and finally he was admitted to the imperial palace and was born with the same rank as a Jinshi.
Liang Jinshi prided himself on being self-aware, so he never dared to take himself as a fellow Jinshi seriously. He didn't dare to say anything when he was sent to the army as a clerk, and he was timid even when he read a newspaper. First of all, he knew his Guangzhou accent.
I can't handle Luoyang Yayin, she is indeed a bit tricked, and she seems to be an outlier; secondly, I am a businessman, I know what the immediate interests are, and I know that I am a scholar with two swords who settles accounts, but in the war, in front of the sword, I am actually nothing.
…
Correspondingly speaking, these soldier leaders also felt guilty... They knew that Tong Jinshi was a bit different, but wasn't Tong Jinshi also a Jinshi? It was the same thing as them who were carrying knives? Who dared?
In addition, the strange accent of the other party is also an important reason why they dare not speak... After talking for a long time and repeating it many times, I tried my best to understand the meaning, but it was still intimidating.
Liang Jinshi shouted in a circle, but saw that no one answered. Then he looked at the other bonfires in the surrounding area, and saw only a few other Jinshi accompanying the army, sitting upright and solemn, speaking calmly, and the surrounding sergeants were silent and no one dared to offend;
Or he is familiar and easy-going, chatting and laughing with the surrounding military leaders, which makes people feel like spring breeze; even the admittedly rigid old scholar and Jinshi, at this time, he is just reading slowly and non-stop to Di Bao, with excellent rhythm control...
...and became increasingly embarrassed.
Dinner was estimated to be two-quarters of an hour away. Several military leaders also noticed that something was wrong, but they gradually focused their attention on a general with only one ear.
After all, Liang Jiaying was young, and her eyes turned quickly. When she saw this, she immediately stared at this person nervously... In other words, Liang Jinshi knew that the man with a missing ear in front of him, who was going to be called Hou Dan, was under the command of the commander Qiao Zhongfu.
There are countless senior officers who have always dared to fight. It is said that the ear was cut off by the Jin when Huaishang was fighting against the Jin. Although this man is just a preparation general, he actually controls the two most elite soldiers in Qiao Zhongfu's army.
Du (Central Army), these two are all fully armored, with one hundred men, imitating the Beiwei army formation of Wang De, the deputy commander of the imperial camp, all armed with big axes, and the other one with one hundred men, imitating Han Shizhong in destroying the enemy.
The military organization, all armed with divine arm bows, is the core of the core combat strength of this army.
Basically, they are second only to Qiao Zhongfu's dozens of personal guards.
As for Hou Dan, he was also used to seeing scenes, so although he didn't think about this kind of thing at all, he was helpless when he saw that other Jinshi people had taken the initiative to see it, so he casually said: "Secretary Liang..."
Secretary is the abbreviation of the position of "Jieduzhang Secretary Office" under the commander-in-chief. By extension, it is the honorific title of the person in charge of branch documents in the army.
"Lieutenant Hou, if you have anything to do, just say it..."
Sure enough, when Liang Jinshi heard that the other party called him secretary, he immediately responded with the words "Taiwei" without any pretensions.
However, Hou Dan was pushed by everyone to talk to this Guangzhou Jinshi, but he didn't know what he wanted him to do. After thinking for a long time, he made an unknown request: "I remember that there was a person named Huaihe Water God in the newspaper before.
If the secretary is free and remembers the story, he might as well tell it to us at will..."
Liang Jiaying originally thought that the other party would ask for help in writing letters home, but when she heard this, she didn't care. After all, it was just a matter of catching up and passing the time... Moreover, the story of the fourteen-foot-long sword was from Di Bao.
It was loaded in the first issue after the revision, and he was familiar with it.
So, while the other Jinshi who were accompanying the army were talking about their loyalty to the emperor, discussing the scenery of the country, or saying a few words about the saints, Secretary Liang, a fellow Jinshi who did not know how to make progress and was destined to have no future, simply gave up on himself and used a weird tone to the officers around him.
He spoke some outdated words about strange powers and chaotic gods.
But Hou Dan and the surrounding officers listened particularly carefully with this ear.
After the story was told, dinner was served. Secretary Liang, who had taken care of his errands, was relieved. As usual, these officers also had to go back to dine with their subordinates... There is no need to mention all the cumbersome things in the army. Let's just say that early the next morning, the one-eared Hou
Dan got up to prepare his troops, but received a strange military order, which asked him to lead the two men to stay in the camp and wait for the rear army.
This really surprised Hou Dan, because this kind of thing is usually the task of auxiliary troops. How can the most elite troops do it? What's more, as a senior officer in the army, he already knew from Qiao Zhongfu that the speed of the advance was
To rush into Kansai to join Han Shizhong and Lieutenant Han before the Jin Army's East Route Army gathers south to cut off Kansai...
It should be noted that although he only went to the Chang'an area, which is still far from his hometown, as a Kansai native, he has not been back for five or six years, and Chang'an can be regarded as the place where the local accent is.
However, this time, Qiao Zhongfu did not allow him to play haha and act like a fool. He directly issued a firm military order and set off with his brigade to march westward.
At this time, Hou Dan, who had always been shrewd, discovered a new problem, that is, Secretary Liang actually led a team of auxiliary troops to stay in the camp... In other words, this troop was responsible for handing over the camp, and he was simply
Stayed on purpose.
This made Hou Dan feel a little nervous, but also a little relieved.
Sure enough, in the evening of that day, that is, the evening of the first day of April, he saw a familiar dragon roll rolling along the official road from east to west, but did not enter the Sishui Pass but entered the camp in front of the pass. Hou Dan
Finally relieved.
No matter what, from a psychological point of view, following and protecting the official family is also a good excuse for him to convince himself that he does not need to go home.
But Liang Jiaying and Secretary Liang became more and more panicked... because according to the rules, he had to give people the newspaper tonight, but are the straight heads of the imperial class so easy to fool? Will the central officials come?
Observe?
Will the officials notice my Cantonese? Will I become a joke in the military, the city of Tokyo, and even the whole world?
If I had known earlier, I would have learned more about Henan Yayin!
At this thought, fellow Jinshi Jia Yingzai couldn't help but despair.
ps: After thinking about it, I might as well post half of the chapter. Internet articles have to follow the rules... I've been a little obsessed with plot and plot these days. At noon, I was telling people about the good works of literary young sadists...