Guide to Traveling through the Northern Song Dynasty.

Chapter 349 0344 [Song Jun returns to Beijing]

Even Xixia was involved in the war in the north.

First, five thousand Xixia elite soldiers helped Liao defend Xijing (Datong).As a result, when he was halfway there, the emperor of Liao Kingdom ran away, and the defenders of Xijing also surrendered to the Jinren.

These five thousand Xixia soldiers and horses had no choice but to turn to the grassland and follow the emperor of the Liao Kingdom.

Then, Li Liangfu, a general of the Western Xia Dynasty, personally led [-] troops to rescue the Liao Lord, and ran into the Jin soldiers of Wanyan Loushi on the grassland.

In order to chase the emperor of the Liao Kingdom, the Jin army ran out of touch a long time ago.

Li Liangfu first ate the [-] golden cavalry, and then ambushed another [-] golden cavalry. The entire army of hundreds of golden cavalry was wiped out, and only Atuhan, the golden leader, escaped alone.

Li Liangfu took advantage of the victory to attack, Wanyan Loushi pursued the Liao Lord too deeply, and only had a thousand cavalry under his command.

Just this thousand Jurchen cavalry launched a surprise attack on the [-] Xixia troops.After hastily meeting the enemy, Li Liangfu took the initiative to retreat and set up camp across the river for defense.

Wanyan Loushi left [-] cavalry to defend the mountain pass, led [-] cavalry to cross the river, and then charged the [-] Xixia army.

The Jurchen cavalry suffered heavy casualties, overlapping to cover their retreat.

Thousands of Xixia cavalry pursued them, but were repulsed by hundreds of Jurchen cavalry many times.Every time the Xixia cavalry retreated, they brought more troops to pursue again, and brought more and more Xixia infantry out of the camp.

Confused, the Xixia army was led into a narrow battlefield.

The 2 Jurchen cavalry who had been stationed here for a long time, and the hundreds of friendly troops who lured the enemy back, launched a surprise attack on more than [-] Xixia troops at the same time.

Due to the narrow terrain, the Xixia troops were unable to deploy, and they were killed by less than a thousand female true cavalry, and the entire army was defeated on the spot.

The Xixia army withdrew from the Liao and Jin battlefields with over ten thousand casualties.

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Xiongzhou.

Yang Keshi knelt in front of the tent to plead guilty, Tong Guan was so angry that he wanted to kill him on the spot.

Guo Yaoshi, the surrendered general of the Liao Kingdom, offered a strategy to bypass the main force of the Liao army and raid Yanjing with light cavalry.

The strategy has been successful, and the Song army has entered the city of Yanjing.

However, Yang Keshi, Gao Shixuan and other generals not only failed to appease the people, but ordered to kill all the Khitan and Xi people in the city.

Originally it was just slaughtering aliens, but the discipline of the Song army was so poor that it developed into indiscriminate looting.

Not to mention the looting by soldiers, before the city was completely taken, the Song army rushed into restaurants and houses to vent their drinking.

Drunk soldiers, not to mention other atrocities.

The angry people of Yanjing were forced to resist and started street fighting with the Song army. The Liao general Xiao Qian led [-] cavalry back to help.

More than 8000 Song troops were attacked internally and externally.After three days and nights of hard fighting, only Guo Yaoshi and Yang Keshi fled back with hundreds of remnants.

Tong Guan has enough reasons to be angry, the one who regains Yanjing can be crowned king, and the prince who eats his mouth is gone like this!
There was no need for the imperial court to order troops to be dispatched, Tong Guan himself had to withdraw his troops.

Of the 30 Liao army, there are now less than [-] left, including Hebei township soldiers.Moreover, there was not much food and supplies left, and most of them were lost in the defeat.

Not all of the disappearing troops were killed, most of them were scattered in the wilderness.Some fled back to their hometowns, some became bandits, and some joined the Hebei Uprising Army.

"Duke Chu, the imperial court has sent an urgent order!"

"bring here."

Tong Guan read the official document carefully, feeling happy while worrying.

The worry is because there is not enough food, grass, ordnance, and the squadron has to slowly raise money when returning to the court.

I am happy because I can make meritorious service to atone for my sins. I really can't beat the Liao army, so can't I beat the Zhu thief's rebel army?Fa Liao failed to find a bunch of generals to blame, especially those generals who died in battle.If I lead my own troops to level Zhu thief, all crimes will be offset, and maybe I will be able to increase the rank and rank.

Thirty thousand Hebei troops were left to defend the border cities, while Tong Guan led an army of [-] to escape.

Tens of thousands of soldiers of the Song Army were all frowning.

Many people were empty-handed, not even armored, and had already been discarded in the rout.

Deserters kept appearing along the way. First, there was not enough food, and the soldiers at the bottom were not full; second, they were full of resentment and did not want to fight for the court.

Generals can't restrain them at all, because they need to replenish food and grass, they can only condone the troops to plunder places.

Many soldiers who went to the countryside to gather food fled after rushing, and turned to seek refuge with local bandits, or took over the mountains and became kings themselves.

The people in Hebei who had been exploited and looted many times were ransacked by these officers and soldiers again.Whenever officers and soldiers go to a place, bandits will appear after they leave.The people who couldn't survive gathered together to rob the rich, and even rushed into the county town to kill officials and rebel.

"Brother, let's go back to Shandong too, don't work for the imperial court anymore!" Wu Song suggested.

Shi Bin also said: "It's better to go back and be a thief than to stay in the army and suffer anger."

Li Kui said: "The officers and soldiers have nothing to be afraid of. This time when we return to Shandong, we simply raise the flag to rebel."

All the brothers urged, Song Jiang's expression became more ferocious, he gritted his teeth and said, "Let's go now, I won't go back to the camp!"

Song Jiang in history, the direct reason why he surrendered and rebelled and was killed was that he was deprived of military merits.

Moreover, the general who took Song Jiang's military merits and the general who took Han Shizhong's military merits were both Tong Guan's confidant and beloved general Xin Xingzong.

At that time, more than half of Song Jiang's troops were killed or injured, and they made great contributions to the attack on Hangzhou, but they didn't get any farts.Coupled with being bullied by the general, how could he bear it?It's the opposite when you go back.

In this time and space, although Song Jiang was not taken to fight Fang La, Song Jiang was brought to Hebei to fight against Liao.

He didn't fight any decent battles, and the brothers under his command lost most of their losses in a daze.Wu Jialiang, Li Hai, Gongsun Sheng, Zhang Shun and others were all separated during the rout, and no one is alive or dead until now.

But it is said that Song Jiang took hundreds of remnant soldiers, took advantage of the opportunity to go to the countryside to collect food, and fled all the way back to Qizhou (Jinan).

Hearing that an old acquaintance, Zhang Shuye, was working as the governor of Qizhou, Song Jiang was so frightened that he ran away and went to Zizhou next door with oil on his feet.

Because he was too close to Zhang Shuye, Song Jiang didn't dare to rebel directly. He plundered wealthy households along the way and went south, and his army quickly expanded to thousands of people.

Fleeing all the way to Yanzhou, Song Jiang made a surprise attack on Zhoucheng and won it without any effort.

"Brother, I caught a spy from the government. I was sneaking around outside the state office and found many things on him." Dai Zong came over with a beggar under his escort.

Song Jiang could recognize a few big characters, but not much. He asked subordinate officials to identify them, and he understood the content of the call to action.

Song Jiang asked, "What's your name?"

The beggar knew he couldn't pretend, so he stood tall and said, "My name is Ding Yong, and Mr. Zhu gave me the word Wenshuai."

Song Jiang asked again: "But Zhu Xianggong who was the prefect of Puzhou?"

Ding Yong replied: "That's Zhu Dalang, Zhu Xianggong is Zhu Dalang's father."

Song Jiang said: "I used to go to Puzhou to plunder, and I heard that Zhu Dalang was a good official. I never thought that a good official also rebelled these days, but why did you come to Shandong?"

Ding Yong said: "Post up proclamations along the way to inquire about military news."

Song Jiang asked again: "Do you do much work like this?"

Ding Yong bragged and said: "Like me, Zhu Xianggong sent hundreds of people, there are all over the country, and everyone can read and write!"

Song Jiang asked: "They are all rebels. Why did Zhu Xianggong say that Fang La and I are disasters in the essay?"

Ding Yong said: "My family's husband and lord never plundered the people. Every time they captured a city, they appeased the hearts of the people and severely punished those who rebelled. No matter the gentry, merchants or ordinary people, they all admire my family's husband. , Send the money and food to the labor force by yourself."

"I don't believe it, you must be telling lies." Song Jiang laughed.

Ding Yong said: "Believe it or not."

Of course Song Jiang didn't believe it, but it didn't prevent him from doing things under the name of the Zhu family and his son.

His reputation in Shandong is too stinky, like a rat crossing the street, everyone shouts and beats him.It didn't matter to be a bandit in the past, but now you have to occupy the city as a bandit, you have to change your face to do things.

Song Jiang said: "Since you can read and write, you will stay and be my military advisor."

Ding Yong couldn't refuse.

Song Jiang asked subordinate officials to copy the proclamation and spread it among the counties in Yanzhou. He claimed to be the general under the command of Zhu Guoxiang, the Chuanxia Economic Strategy Envoy, and Shandong Du controlled Song Jiang.

If Zhu Guoxiang, Zhu Ming and his son knew about it, they would probably be disgusted enough.

Although Song Jiang tried his best to restrain the troops, he was much more restrained than before, but it was not much better.Forcibly conscripted the young and strong in Yanzhou City to serve as soldiers, and forced the rich households to give money and food, declaring to the public that those wealthy households volunteered to contribute.

Then quickly sent troops to occupy Rencheng (Jining) and Gong County (Ningyang), and then returned to Liangshanbo to recruit fishermen to build a navy.

In Shandong and Hebei, not only Song Jiang's family rebelled.

Adding up all kinds of things, there are no fewer than 5 bandits.Many of them were soldiers who had fled from the battlefields of the Liao Dynasty. They each occupied the mountains as kings, recruited local refugees as soldiers, and plundered while farming.

The few thieves and bandits who have obtained the call to action, like Song Jiang, acted under the name of Zhu's father and son.

This caused Hebei and Shandong to be full of Zhu thieves and generals.

Chen Ziyi returned to Tokyo with the army, and got news on the way that his old friend Zhu Ming had rebelled.

Regarding this, Chen Ziyi was a little numb, he had already lost his soul in Hebei.

This kind of despair is a common phenomenon in the military.

The Song army fought five big battles with the Liao army, and the morale was exhausted after five defeats and five defeats.At the end of the fight, they ran away when they saw the Liao army, and the generals couldn't restrain the soldiers at all.

The Western Army and the Forbidden Army have had their backs broken!

Besides, when Tong Guan arrived in Tokyo, he blamed the generals for his crimes. Sure enough, he was not punished by the emperor, but was reprimanded face to face.

In order to cover up the defeat, and for the sake of the emperor's face, the imperial court declared a great victory in the war against Liao, and rewarded Tong Guan with an official reward.

At the same time, he also ordered to reward the whole army.

There are quite a few soldiers who have been promoted, but for small soldiers, these are all false.The rewards promised by the imperial court were not even a penny, and they were all owed first.

Due to financial embarrassment, the payment of food and salaries continued to be in arrears, and they did not even receive the normal military salary.

It was already the twelfth lunar month of winter, the sky was snowing heavily, and all kinds of heating materials were in short supply.Not only do they have to starve, but they also have to suffer from the cold. I heard that after the beginning of spring, they will go to exterminate the Zhu thieves.

Chen Ziyi has also been promoted. He has dozens of cavalry under his command and was incorporated into Xin Qizong's troops in Xiongzhou, that is, the Shengjie Army.

The Shengjie Army is an elite pro-army created by Tong Guan. Three of the five Xin brothers belong to the generals of the Shengjie Army.

Chen Ziyi made great contributions in the southeast, but he didn't get any benefits.

In the battle in Hebei this year, the whole fight was a mess, but he was inexplicably promoted to the cavalry commander of the Shengjie Army.

On paper, he can command 170 cavalry, but there is a lack of horses and knights, and there are only more than [-] people when they are patchwork.

This is a common phenomenon. All troops are not well organized and must be reorganized before they can be pulled out to fight.

(End of this chapter)