Outlaws of the Marsh

Chapter 702 Where is Zhao Gou's concubine? (Please subscribe!)
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Today, Li Yan is in a bad mood.

A very important piece of news just came back from the frontline - Fan Zhixu was defeated by Jin Guo general Wanyan Loushi, and now he is fleeing to Shaanxi.

Fan Zhixu was an old minister of the Song Dynasty, and a Jinshi in the third year of Song Zhezong Yuanyou.

Last year, Fan Zhixu was appointed as the magistrate of Jingzhao Mansion (later Xi'an, Shaanxi) to deal with soldiers and horses in Shaanxi.

Later, Zhao Huan appointed Fan Zhixu as the envoy of Xuanfu of Shaanxi and the envoy of the Five Routes of Shaanxi Province.

At the same time, Qian Gai was also ordered to deal with the soldiers and horses of Shaanxi. He served as the envoy of Shaanxi.

At that time, the West Road Golden Army was besieging Taiyuan, and the sound shook Guanzhong.

Fan Zhixu learned that the West Road Golden Army was besieging Taiyuan, and initially planned to stick to the Yellow River and block the Golden Army on the east side of the river.

Therefore, Fan Zhixu ordered to build a chain of forts along the banks of the Yellow River.

For this reason, Fan Zhixu recruited talents widely.

Fan Zhixu's principle of recruiting talents is that no matter what kind of person they are, as long as they have expertise, they will be given a salary as a supplementary official position.

Therefore, monk Zongyin, Taoist priest Zhang Xiaoqing, etc., all borrowed money as the official of the shogunate.

Zong Yin was born in Xiaoyi County, Fenzhou. His original surname was Zhao. He became a monk and served as the elder of Wanhua Temple.

Seeing the raging flames of war, Zong Yin wanted to go to other places to avoid chaos.

When passing a temple in Hezhong Prefecture (later Puzhou Town, Yongji, Shanxi Province), Zongyin wrote a poem, saying:
"Seventy old monks go west to east, and the township gate is looking at the floating canopy. Daliao is half a year old and nine points old, and the whole Jin Dynasty is empty for a year. Zhou Zhao has died and there is no good government. Although Cai Tong died, there is still wind. Huayin begs for food and goes to Shangshan. , Iwatani is looking for the four old men."

The appeasement envoy Xi Yi happened to read this poem and thought it was very good, so he sent someone to recover Zongyin.

Xi Yi talked with Zong Yin and was very surprised, so he recommended him to Fan Zhixu.

When Zong Yin and Fan Zhixu met, they talked endlessly about how to use soldiers.

Fan Zhixu thought that Zongyin was a strange man, so he ordered him to return to vulgarity, borrowed his official position as Zhongsan doctor, Zhilongtuge, and appointed him as a counselor of the Xuanfu Department and a military horse. Wang Wei, Wang Fang, Li Daofeng, Song Kan and other Western Army veterans must obey his command.

Zong Yin suggested to Fan Zhixu to build the Great Wall, starting from Tongguan and ending at Longmen.

Zong Yin said to Fan Zhixu: "In this way, the Jin people can be blocked from the Great Wall."

Fan Zhixu readily accepted it, and signed an official document, sternly urging all localities to take action immediately.

However, top and bottom officials are not in favor of this.

But Fan Zhixu didn't care, and forcibly carried out Zongyin's plan to build the Great Wall.

So the officials were fooled.

As a result, the Great Wall built was only as high as the shoulders, and it was useless. Jin Bing could jump over the "Great Wall" with a single leap of his horse.

In the end, the Jin army's large troops easily passed Fan Zhixu's Great Wall, and then crossed the Yellow River.

After that, the Jin Army's small force fought with Fan Zhixu's 20 troops (actually only over [-]) around Tongguan.

In fact, Fan Zhixu was just a literati who didn't understand soldiers at all, and he was definitely an outsider when it came to the frontier military revolution.

At that time, some people offered to guard the river in order to get rewards, such as Zongyin's offering to build the Great Wall, which was like a child's play.

But Fan Zhixu didn't notice it, and often ordered to implement according to the law, and the military and civilians as well as the state and county were disturbed.

Fan Zhixu also imitated Zhang Liang's "San Chu Ge" in the Western Han Dynasty, wrote "San Jin Song", and sent people to post it next to the Jinjunzhai, or hang it in the prefectures and counties occupied by the Jin people.

The content of the lyrics is as follows:

Bingwu returned to Dingweichu, and the golden man was like a fish in a cauldron.When the fish dives to the bottom, it lives from time to time, and when the fish is at the bottom, Liang Yuan dies.Northern people are like southern horses, and red sheep, golden rabbits and golden rabbits commit suicide.If Jin kills Jin in the Southern Dynasty, the life of Jinlong will also be wiped out this autumn.Half of the northerners are the people of the Southern Dynasty, and Shilu is the king of the Southern Dynasty.Frustrated, I temporarily resigned from the Lord of the Han Dynasty, and I couldn't bear to miss my relatives when I was hesitant.

but--

Although Fan Zhixu's ability is not good, but he has never forgotten his mission in Shaanxi.

After capturing Taiyuan, the West Road Golden Army quickly went south and easily crossed the Yellow River.

The Song army guarding the river collapsed upon hearing the sound, and Wang Xiang, the head of the West Road, abandoned Xijing and fled south.

The situation changed suddenly, and the capital was in danger.

After Zhao Huan got the report, he appointed Sun Zhaoyuan, a member of the Ministry of Water, as the deputy director of the secret pavilion to compile the West Road, and ordered him to go to Shaanxi to deliver an order to Fan Zhixu, demanding that Shaanxi soldiers quickly enter the capital to serve the king.

Sun Zhaoyuan led three cavalry out of Beijing, recruiting hundreds of defeated soldiers along the way, then entered Shangluo from Nanyang, and finally arrived at Jingzhao Mansion, where he met Fan Zhixu.

Sun Zhaoyuan handed over the soldiers recruited along the way to Fan Zhixu, and joined Fan Zhixu's soldiers, and conveyed Zhao Huan's imperial edict, and at the same time introduced the situation in the capital when he left, and what he heard and saw on the road.

At that time, Qian Gai, the governor of Shaanxi Province, had arrived in Yingchang (later Xuchang, Henan) with [-] King Qin soldiers.

However, Qian Gai and the others fled immediately when they heard that the capital had been broken.

According to this situation, Sun Zhaoyuan believes that Shaanxi must form another Qinwang team.

Fan Zhixu immediately sent a message to all the roads in Shaanxi, demanding that the army be assembled quickly and go to Beijing to serve the king.

The Northern Song Dynasty set up five roads at the junction of Shaanxi and Xixia, that is, five war zones, namely Xihe Road, Qinfeng Road, Jingyuan Road, Huanqing Road, and Yanyan Road. Road, collectively known as Shaanxi Sixth Road.

Each road has an economic and strategic appeasement department, which is in charge of the military and political power of the road. The head is called the economic and strategic envoy, commonly known as the commander-in-chief-this setup is mainly to deal with Xixia militarily.

Once a war broke out with Xixia, the imperial court would send ministers to serve as Shaanxi Xuanfu envoys or Shaanxi Zhizhi envoys to command the Six Route Army in a unified manner.

Fan Zhixu's identity is both the economic envoy of the Yongxing Army and the Xuanfu envoy of Shaanxi.

It stands to reason that Fan Zhixu has the right to mobilize the Shaanxi Sixth Route Army.

However, after Fan Zhixu's letter of call was issued, only Huanqing Jinglue envoy Wang Si and Xihe Jinglue envoy Wang Yi quickly led troops to meet up along the five roads along the border, while Jingyuan Jinglue envoy Xi Gong and Qin Feng Jinglue envoy Zhao Dian and Yan Yanjing made some envoys to Zhang Shen, but none of them came.

At that time, Sun Zhaoyuan was very angry and wrote 28 letters criticizing them.

Only then did Zhang Shen lead the army, and Zhao Dian also sent the general Li An to lead the army.

Zhou Lianghan, a professor of state studies in Qinzhou, once met Zhao Dian and advised Zhao Dian to lead the army in person because the capital was in danger, but Zhao Dian refused to listen.

Xi Gong, the envoy of Jingyuan Jinglue, did not come in the end on the grounds of defending Xixia.

In the end Fan Zhixu gathered six groups of soldiers and horses, and got a total of more than 20 soldiers, claiming to be an army of [-] infantry and cavalry, commanded by Ma Changyou, the training envoy of the Chengzhou Regiment of Youwu Doctor, Xining Prefecture.

Fan Zhixu ordered Zongyin to lead the boat division to march towards Luoyang, the western capital, along the waterway.

Zongyin organized the monks into an army, which was called the "Zunsheng Team" and Xingtong into an army, called the "Net Victory Team".

Most of the monks and Xingtongs in Hedong were incorporated into the army, and there were also some who borrowed as officials.

Zongyin led the boat division down the river and arrived at Sanmenjin in a few days, winning small victories along the way.

Fan Zhixu was very happy when he heard the news, and ordered Zongyin to be appointed as the envoy of Hedong Zhi, ordering him to send troops in order.

At the same time, Fan Zhixu ordered Ma Changyou to purge the army and march towards Tongguan.

After capturing Tongguan, Fan Zhixu ordered to continue eastward, and asked the three armies to leave the pass with drums.

Not long after, Fan Zhixu led his troops out of Wuguan, moved around Mianchi, and then stationed in Qianqiu Town.

In Qianqiu Town, Fan Zhixu finally learned that Zhao Song was dead.

Wanyan Zonghan also sent envoys to recruit Fan Zhixu with the personal letters written by Zhao Ji and Zhao Huan.

Fan Zhixu flatly refused.

(Li Yan also sent someone to recruit Fan Zhixu, but Fan Zhixu flatly rejected him as well.)
Wanyan Zonghan demanded the lives of Zhao Ji and Zhao Huan, as well as the royal family and clan of Zhao Song, and asked Fan Zhixu to let go of the road leading to Hedong that they occupied.

Fan Zhixu made a condition that as long as the Jin people release Zhao Ji, Zhao Huan and all Song people, he will let the Jin people go back to Hedong.

Wanyan Zonghan agreed on the surface, but then he sent Lou Shi himself to lead the main cavalry force of [-] cavalry, and suddenly rushed straight to Qianqiu Town from Yiyang.

Fan Zhixu was unprepared, he was defeated, and then he abandoned his luggage and ran away, half of the people were killed or injured.

The 20-strong army of Shaanxi Zhulu King Qin and the 20 most elite Western Army in the Song Dynasty collapsed like this.

Only the troops led by Fu Yanshuai Zhang Shen and Liu Guangshi were not defeated. They turned to Ruzhou (later Ruzhou, Henan) and went to Songzhou (later Shangqiu, Henan) on the East Road of Beijing, which is Yingtianfu.

In the end, Fan Zhixu gathered up the remaining soldiers and retreated to Tongguan, the gate of Hedong was opened, and the desperate Jinren had a glimmer of life again.

That's all, the key is that Li Yan's recovery of Yanyun has changed since then - if Wanyan Zonghan can bring back the [-] to [-] Jurchen elites, then the Jin Army will have the capital to turn the tables.

In other words, the cooked duck might fly from Li Yan's mouth.

Under such circumstances, it's no wonder that Li Yan is in a good mood.

Li Yan, who was full of evil, asked Xiaoman, the female official on duty today, "Where is Zhao Gou's concubine?"

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(End of this chapter)