Smelting and Exploding the Heavens

Chapter 228 The world is in chaos

The Zhongshi first rescued Xiangyang and wiped out the rebel army from Jiangnan West Road. However, when they went down the Yangtze River to capture Jiangzhou, the soldiers in the army were not acclimatized, and suffered heavy casualties.

As a result, the rebel army in Jiangzhou was defeated, so Song Ting had to dispatch another [-] troops to the south to cooperate with the breeding division to strangle the rebels in the Huaihe River and Zhejiang provinces.

The war lasted for nearly a year and a half before the mighty peasant uprising was completely extinguished, and finally went to Guangzhou to clean up the Arabs who had established the so-called communist regime on the separatist side.

The Arabs used the more mature defense engineering in Central Asia, which dealt a certain blow to the Song army.

In the end, seeing the heavy casualties and being unable to defend the city, under the instigation of Yi Ci Leye, he brutally killed all the Han people in the city, plundered the surrounding wealth, and left openly by boat. The Western Army, which lacked a navy, could only watch the pirates go away. , helpless.

However, this group of pirates did not go far, and there were still discussions on the distribution of spoils, so they landed in Qiongzhou to recuperate.

Just when all the sea merchants and pirate leaders gathered to discuss the matter, three knights suddenly came and beheaded all the sea merchants and pirate leaders in the meeting hall.

The crowd fell into a leaderless situation, and serious internal strife broke out for the looted wealth.

The three knights took advantage of the chaos to kill all the Cile industry people, and then went to Leizhou to lead thousands of local bureaucrats and landlords to arm them, cross the sea in small boats and burn many pirate ships.

Maritime merchants and pirates from Central Asia were trapped on Qiongzhou Island, and they were leaderless. They were immediately strangled and killed by angry bureaucrats and landlord armed forces!
Since then, the chaos in Guangzhou has been completely over, but the three knights who have made great contributions have disappeared afterwards.

The local Jianghu people only know that one of them wields an epee, the world-renowned swordsman Duguhong, while the other two wield long knives, but they don't know who they are.

Although the rebellion was completely suppressed, the Song court was also seriously injured, and the financial expenditure was extremely high. Even the rewards for the Western Army who went south to quell the rebellion could not be paid out, which once caused a mutiny.

In this quelling of the chaos, the Western Army did not suffer many losses due to the war, and the main non-war losses were caused by the acclimatization of the environment, as high as 3 people!

What's more, the imperial court didn't reward them, so both vitality and morale were greatly damaged. This also made the Northeast side finally make up their minds to have a big game.

In the past two and a half years, after Jin Guo learned that although Fan Zhuoyuan was not dead, he was wanted all over the world, he began to make full preparations, train soldiers, and integrate politics.

Decided to take advantage of the exhaustion of the Northern Song Dynasty and invade the Central Plains!

Originally returned due to the defeat in the first Song-Jin war, the important officials of the Jin court were unwilling to continue the war with the Northern Song Dynasty. After all, the inheritance of the Liao Kingdom was still very rich, and no one wanted to go head-to-head with the unfriendly Han people in the south. .

However, after Emperor Wanyan Wu Qimai heard about the various firearms developed by the Song people from Wanyan Zonghan, he felt a sense of crisis in his heart.

I know that if the Song people are given a lot of time to continue to develop, and when there are more and more mature types of firearms, I am afraid that they will have to worry about whether they will be wiped out by the Northern Song Dynasty.

After all, it is impossible for a faint king to exist from generation to generation. If we don’t take advantage of the frequent internal problems in the Northern Song Dynasty and the weak military and politics, we will have fewer opportunities in the future.

Therefore, together with the main combat faction Wanyan Zongwang, Wanyan Zongbi (Jin Wushu), Wanyan Yinshuke and others to promote the matter of conquering the Song Dynasty, and prepare for it in two years.

In the past two years, Wanyan Zonghan absorbed the reasons for the last defeat, and together with Wanyan Zongwang vigorously trained the army, and at the same time studied artillery and gunpowder with Liao people and Han craftsmen.

Although there is no major progress, the old-style gunpowder has been purified a lot, and it can already play a preliminary explosive effect, but it is obviously impossible to apply it to cannon fire.

Wanyan Zongbi focused on cavalry training. After seeing the power of Xiaojie cavalry in armor, he also trained a heavy cavalry in horse and horse armor, known as the Iron Buddha.

Since Tiefutu became an army, he has used the Xiaojie army and cavalry as his imaginary enemy. After a military exercise, Wanyan Zongbi once said to Wanyanzong with regret: "It's a pity that the Xiaojie army has been dismembered by the Song court. It's hard to find an opponent."

Famous generals such as Wanyan Zonghan and Wanyan Yinshu, after seeing the power of Tiefutu, all praised them greatly, thinking that they would be able to defeat any cavalry of the Song army!

After two years of full preparation, the Kingdom of Jin not only had complete armor and equipment, but also had enough fine food and soldiers.

I heard that it took a long time for the Song court to put down the rebellion in the south with [-] troops from the west. Now the morale is low and the vitality is seriously damaged. Everyone in Jin Kingdom is celebrating.

Immediately under the call of Jin Emperor Wanyan Wu to beg for money, almost all the young and strong Jurchens were assembled, leaving only 20 to guard the capital, and then matched with auxiliary soldiers from various ethnic groups, a total of [-], to attack the Song Dynasty again in three ways!
The route was basically the same as last time, and at the same time, Xixia was invited to send troops to contain the northwest, and the momentum was extremely large.

The purpose is to occupy Yanyun, and then plunder the Henan hinterland of the Great Song Dynasty. If there is a chance, we will take the opportunity to destroy the Song Dynasty!
Zhao Ji, Emperor Huizong of Song Dynasty, hastily sent envoys there, wishing to increase the New Year's coins and dedicate women for peace.

However, the Jin army came prepared, beheaded the envoy of the Song court, and insisted on attacking.

Since the 15 elite Western troops stationed in Yandi were still walking slowly on the road at this time, there were only [-] Hedong troops stationed in Shuozhou Yunzhong, and there were [-] troops in Yandi, but more than [-] troops were from Hebei, Henan, The forbidden army in Shandong and other places, and the Yan army with strong combat effectiveness were all scattered among them.

Therefore, when the Jin army attacked Miyun Tanzhou and Yuguan, the four sides were in a hurry!
This time the Song court did not use the wrong people, the guards Wang Zhi, Guo Yaoshi, Yang Keshi and others guarded the important places.

It's a pity that their original troops were all transferred and scattered, and they fell into a situation where the so-called generals don't know the soldiers, and the soldiers don't know the generals, and commanding operations is very difficult.

Coupled with the weak combat effectiveness of the forbidden troops in various places, even if the generals are outstanding, it is difficult to defend.

After defending the city for ten days, Miyun was broken!
This one was led by Wanyan Yinshu. He did not directly attack Yanjing, but while blocking the reinforcements sent by Yanjing City, he sent Wanyan's mother to lead the army to attack Jizhou and Zunhua, and then joined Wanyan Zongwang Attack Yuguan from inside and outside.

Yuguan was broken, Yang Keshi died in battle, and tens of thousands of Song troops surrendered.

During this period, Guo Yaoshi intended to lead [-] people to rescue, but was crushed by the [-] iron pagodas led by Wanyan Zongbi, that is, Jin Wushu, and Guo Yaoshi disappeared.

At this point, the Yanshan defense line that the Song court spent two years building was completely broken, and only Yanjing was left alone.

Wang Ting decided to stick to the isolated city, waiting for the western army to go north to rescue, and at the same time organize the people in the city to defend the city.

Many of the common people had been incorporated into the army during the first Song and Jin battles. If they had the equipment, their combat effectiveness might not necessarily be worse than that of the Forbidden Army.

However, at this time, the Jin army had captured more than [-] heavy artillery from Miyun, Jizhou and other cities, and immediately bombarded the city!

Wang Ting defended calmly, but he didn't expect that Li Bangyan, the governor of Yanshan Prefecture, who was dispatched newly, wanted to surrender!
In the original history, this guy was a surrender faction, who advocated the cession of land and negotiated peace, which directly caused the demise of the Northern Song Dynasty.

At the moment, he actually persuaded many soldiers and common people, saying that in order to prevent the Jin people from massacring the city, they can survive by surrendering as soon as possible, and their morale has dropped to freezing point.

However, under the ancestral system of the Song Dynasty, which used literature to control martial arts, Wang Teng couldn't talk to Li Bangyan at all. After three days of fierce confrontation with the Jin army, Li Bangyan ordered him to go to the government to capture him, and then surrendered in Kaesong.

The Jin army commander Wanyan Zongwang was overjoyed and drove straight in. The first thing he wanted to occupy was the blast furnace steelmaking plant and the gunpowder manufacturing plant, and controlled the craftsmen inside.

Only in this way can we make up for the weak siege ability of the Jin army and conquer Song State in one fell swoop!
(End of this chapter)