Li Ziqian chose to take risks in despair. Wanyan Sheng ruthlessly rejected his request for help, only expressed his willingness to accommodate his army and appointed him as King of Goryeo.

This made Li Ziqian feel pain of being abandoned after being used. He contributed 100,000 Korean cavalry to the Jin soldiers, and 100,000 elite soldiers built by the whole country. In the end, none of them came back and all were buried in the Song Dynasty. However, the Jurchens only returned the light sentence, "Understanding the difficulties of Goryeo, the Jin Kingdom had no time to send troops to help."

This sentence made Li Ziqian feel uncomfortable as if he was cut by a knife, and made him completely desperate.

But at this moment, an emergency information made him see a glimmer of hope in despair. The Song army launched a large-scale attack on all parts of Goryeo, and the current Kaijing troops had only 15,000 troops.

Li Ziqian suddenly saw the opportunity. He was afraid that the Song army reinforcements would come, so he immediately ordered to leave 3,000 people to defend Xinyi City, and the remaining 40,000 troops would rush to Kaijing with light equipment, and he would definitely retake Kaijing before the Song army reinforcements came.

Forty thousand troops were running on the narrow official road. Each soldier only carried dry food for seven days. Li Ziqian was desperate. If he could not take Kaijing back within two days, he would no longer have to consider restoring the country and turn around and go to the Jin Kingdom.

At noon, a 40,000 army arrived at the Kaijing City. At this time, the Song army was firmly in the walls and cleared the fields. There was no family within a hundred miles outside the city, and the Goryeo army could not even find a grain of food.

Li Ziqian looked at the familiar city and turned around and shouted to the 40,000 army: "You parents, wife and children are in the city. If you want to retake the city, there is no second way to go except for bloody battles!"

Forty thousand troops raised their arms and shouted, "Snatch the city! Snatch the city! Snatch the city!"

After shouting the slogan, the most realistic thing was placed in front of Li Ziqian. They did not have weapons to siege the city, so what could they use to seize the city?

He immediately sent 10,000 troops to cut trees and build ladders in nearby forests, while the rest of the troops were resting and preparing for battle. Zhang Shun stood at the city wall and looked at the busyness of the Goryeo Army, sneering in his heart. If the time to build ladders was deducted, then the time left for the Goryeo Army to siege was only one and a half days. Can the 40,000 troops take the capital in one and a half days? It would be too easy to think about it.

In fact, the Song army dispatched 3,000 people from Dong'an Island yesterday, increasing the city's troops to 18,000. Except for the three thousand people maintaining order in the city, the remaining 15,000 people were all put into the city guarding.

Of course, they also need to be wary of someone in the city cooperating with the army outside the city to seize the city, so the Song army guarded the four city gates with a strict guard. At least one thousand soldiers were deployed on each city tower. Even at night, they would be highly vigilant and not allowed to approach the city gate.

At this time, Ruan Xiaoqi suggested: "President, it is better to keep a move when the enemy is tempted to attack, and then use the thunder to deal with them with the thunder in full attack!"

Zhang Shun shook his head, "Their real threat is not us, but their food. You don't have to leave any hand, and you will attack with all your strength when you test the attack!"

"Abide by the order!"

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The next morning, the Goryeo Army beat the war drum, and ten thousand troops quickly gathered in Nancheng. They spent a night building hundreds of simple siege ladders. Li Ziqian decided to attack tentatively and explore the reality of the Song army.

"Attack!" Li Ziqian waved his sword and shouted loudly.

"Woo--"

The horn of the attack sounded, and ten thousand troops carried hundreds of siege ladders and rushed towards the city like a tide.

Forty medium-sized catapults on the top of the city began to squeak, forty giant thunders were placed into the pole, and the Song soldiers also raised their divine arm crossbow.

The dark Goryeo soldiers came overwhelmed by the army on the city wall. The army on the front of the city was still waiting patiently for the order to shoot. In just a moment, the Goryeo army had rushed to about a hundred steps, and the commander Zhang Shun issued the order to launch.

The sound of clappers on the top of the city suddenly rang, and five thousand divine arm crossbows were fired at the same time, and dense arrows were shot at the Goryeo soldiers. The soldiers under the city raised their shields to greet them. At this moment, forty catapults also made a bang, and forty giant thunders leaped into the air and flew over the head of the Goryeo army.

"What is that?" Li Ziqian asked in surprise at the little black dot in the air.

"It should be a huge rock shot out by the trencher." A general discovered the trencher on the top of the city.

“There are too few!”

Li Ziqian shook his head gently: "It's not effective!"

As soon as he finished speaking, a series of earth-shaking explosions came from the crowd. All the soldiers covered their ears, and their faces showed a look of pain. The strong shock made their ears buzz, black smoke covered the earth, and the crossbows at the top of the city stopped shooting.

After a while, when the black smoke dissipated, the remaining Goryeo soldiers turned around and ran wildly. They were already scared. Forty thunders exploded in the dense crowd, and none of them survived within a radius of more than ten feet. More than 3,800 people died from direct bombing, or were shock waves, or were hit by iron sheets. Hundreds died under the shooting of the Divine Arm Crossbow, and only more than 5,700 people escaped.

Li Ziqian's face was pale. Only then did he remember the thunder sound mentioned by the first time the news reported. It turned out that the Song army actually had such a powerful firearm.

The courage in Li Ziqian's heart was completely lost at this moment, and he realized that he could not take back the capital.

That night, Li Ziqian led more than 30,000 people to retreat to the Yalu River. After obtaining supplies in Xinyi City, they will cross the Yalu River to the Jin Kingdom.

But what Li Ziqian never dreamed was that the Song army had seized Xinyi City from the sea and burned down two cross-river pontoon bridges.

At this time, there was also serious division within the Goryeo Army. More and more generals and soldiers were seriously dissatisfied with Li Ziqian, and hatred and anger continued to grow, and a storm was coming.

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In the past few days, Wanyan Sheng, the wolf lord of the Jin Kingdom, was extremely worried. A series of bad news came one after another. First, Wanyan Zongbi led 30,000 cavalry to chase the Khitan Yelu tribe and the Xiren Sugu tribe, and was intercepted by 60,000 Khitans and Xiren joint cavalry.

The two sides fought fiercely on the south bank of Huangshui. The fierce battle lasted for two days and two nights, but the end result was both defeated. Nearly 30,000 Khitan and Xi people were killed, and nearly 20,000 Jurchens were killed. Wanyan Zongbi returned to Shangjing for defeat.

Wanyan Sheng was furious and wanted to kill Wanyan Zongbi. The generals begged to avoid death. Wanyan Zongbi was beaten with a stick and beaten with a hundred military sticks.

The second thing is the iron ore in Liaoyang Prefecture. Since the mines and blast furnaces were destroyed, they had to re-open and build furnaces. At the same time, 100,000 miners and smelters and one or two years were invested to barely restore to half of the original output.

If you re-open a mining, build a furnace, and recruit people, you will need to invest millions of taels of silver. The financial resources of the Jin Kingdom have been exhausted and cannot be supported at all.

Taking a step back, even if there is money in the treasury, the most serious problem now is that there is no one. There are not so many miners in the Jin Dynasty, the Khitan and the Xi people fled, Goryeo was captured by the Song army, and most of the Han slaves in the Liao Dynasty in various tribes were mainly women, and there were some children. The young and strong men who were urgently needed by Wanyan Zongwang did not have them.

Helplessly, Wanyan Zongwang had to recruit miners among the Jurchen civilians. After half a month of recruiting, less than 10,000 people were recruited, which really disappointed Wanyan Zongwang.

The lack of guaranteed supply of pig iron will seriously affect the Jin Dynasty's combat readiness and prevent the Jin Dynasty from recruiting troops on a large scale. In the past two years, in order to conquer the grasslands in the desert, the Jin Dynasty has exhausted its national reserves. War horses, armor, tents and other strategic materials have been exhausted, and almost all warehouses are empty.

Pig iron is the top priority. It was not until this time that Wanyan Sheng realized how important Goryeo's pig iron supply was to the Jin Dynasty, but it seemed that it was too late to change the course and withdraw it.

Wanyan Sheng had just received a message from a spy from Xinyizhou spies. Li Ziqian's army cut off food and an internal strife occurred near Xinyizhou. The army broke out in large-scale killings to steal hundreds of prey, killing 7,000 people. Li Ziqian was also killed in the internal strife. More than 20,000 troops lost their leaders and fled overnight.

Another news was that the Song army burned down the floating bridge, the powerful navy blocked the Yalu River, the Jin soldiers were unable to cross the Yalu River, and the supply of pig iron in Goryeo was completely cut off.

At this time, the Song Dynasty heard that the Song army had recruited 400,000 troops, and the Song Dynasty received 150,000 war horses from the Hexi grassland. These two news particularly hit Wanyan Sheng a heavy blow.

Anxiety and concerns about the future of the Jin Kingdom made Wanyan Sheng exhausted. When the first winter snow came, Wanyan Sheng, the wolf leader of the Jin Kingdom, could not get sick.

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Winter is gone and spring comes, and the spring of the second year of Song Xing has arrived.

On the seventh day of the third month, news came from Jin Kingdom's visit to Beijing that Wanyan Sheng, the wolf lord of Jin Kingdom, finally died of illness after a winter.

Wanyan Sheng left a decree, and Wanyan Dan, the twelve-year-old Wanyan Aguda, inherited his throne, but Wanyan Sheng had no time to reconcile the increasingly intensified conflicts among the upper class of the Jin Dynasty.

When Wanyan Dan ascended the throne, a fierce power struggle broke out in the Jin Dynasty. Wanyan Zonghan, who had the most hope of inheriting the position of Wolf Lord, was eliminated first, was removed from his official position and was placed under house arrest in Shangjing's mansion.

The Jin Kingdom soon formed two major factions, one was led by Wanyan Zongpan, Wanyan Zongjun and Wanyan Xi Nilie. They controlled the power of the court, and Shangjing Road was their sphere of influence. The 80,000 Jin soldiers stationed in Shangjing were commanded by Wanyan Zongjun and Wanyan Xi Nilie.

Another faction was headed by Wanyan Zongwang and Wanyan Zongbi. Wanyan Zongwang led 70,000 troops to defend Linhuang Prefecture, Zhongjing Road, and Wanyan Zongbi led 50,000 troops to defend Liaoyang Prefecture, Nanjing, and Wanyan Zongwang formed an alliance.

In order to stabilize Wanyan Zongwang and Wanyan Zongbi, the Jin Dynasty court appointed them as the National Lulubo Jilie and the National Luluo Zuobo Jilie, which was equivalent to the Shangshu Ling and the Left Prime Minister.

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The three of them formed an alliance and held the power of the Jin Dynasty's imperial court.

In mid-March, the 25th army of the Grassland Alliance held a military dispatch ceremony in Kedun City and began to attack the Jin Kingdom. At the same time, the Song Dynasty also assembled 600,000 troops in Yanshan Prefecture.

Since the melting of the river ice in February, the Song Dynasty began to transport food and supplies to Yanshan Prefecture on a large scale. They transported the river and sea intermodal and went north along the canal. The destination was Lu County, 50 miles east of Yanjing City, and the Lu River directly connected to the Yongji Canal.

This was once the transfer point for the material and grass for Emperor Yang of Sui to conquer Goguryeo, and it was also a logistics center for the Liao Dynasty and the Song Dynasty. The Liao Dynasty once built hundreds of large warehouses along the Lushui coast, and later used them by the Jin Dynasty and now it has become a logistics center for the Song army.

The other way is to go north by sea. Hundreds of sea boats set off from Lin'an Prefecture with full loads of food and supplies, and arrived in Luzhou in the northern part of the Bohai Sea. They changed boats at the mouth of the Rushui River. The boats went north and could directly reach Lulong County, Pingzhou. This place is less than a hundred miles away from Yuguan confronting the Song and Jin Dynasties. The main camp of hundreds of thousands of Song troops was stationed here.

The Song army's food and grass materials transported for a full month and a half, transporting 1.2 million stones of grain and 500,000 dan of grain and grass to Yanshan Prefecture, and also a large amount of various military funds. At the same time, 50,000 large trucks and 200,000 civilians went north on Hebei Road, Hedong Road and Central Plains prefectures to help the Song army transport supplies.

On March 20, the head commander of the Song army, Li Yanqing, arrived at the main camp of the Song army in Lulong County, Pingzhou by boat. Hundreds of young civil servants were also present with Li Yanqing, who would be responsible for taking over the land occupied by the Jin Dynasty.

The battle is getting closer and closer.

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[In history, the internal strife in the Jin Kingdom was very serious. The decline of the Jin Kingdom from prosperity was because internal strife greatly damaged its vitality. In this book, the Jin Kingdom had no financial support from the north of the Song Dynasty, once internal strife broke out, the consequences would be even more serious.

Moreover, the Jin Dynasty has not yet transformed into a landlord class's rule, and is still in the main way of plundering the grassland. This way of rule will be rapidly powerful as long as it can plunder the property and population, but once the property and population cannot be plundered, it will quickly decline.

This is why the rapid decline of the Jin Kingdom in this book is because of this, so the Song Dynasty was able to fight a protracted war with the Jin Kingdom, but the Jin Kingdom could not fight a protracted war with the Song Dynasty. Just like the Xiongnu and Turks, they either flee far away or die if they cannot escape far away.]

The book is over. This is Lao Gao's usual style. If you destroy your opponent, you will end.
Chapter completed!