Chapter Five Hundred and Two Changes
Wanyan Zonghan's life is also a life of cheating.
At the age of 35, he followed Wanyan Aguda to attack Liao, and in ten years he destroyed the vast Liao Kingdom.
He should be considered the number one hero.
It can be said to be infinity of scenery.
The ministers and military generals of Song Huizong's dynasty were beaten to the point of being beaten by him, and they were afraid of talking.
But what about now?
Just say that ten years ago, he was castrated by Zhao Huan and his temperament changed drastically.
In addition, I have always been excluded in the court over the years and I am even more depressed.
What's even more annoying is that they lost several times in a row.
Wanyan Zonghan’s personality is inevitably a little distorted now.
After confirming that the Song army withdrew, Wanyan Zonghan wrote a surrender letter very excitedly while searching for Wanyan Dan.
He was like a hungry wolf, searching for his prey everywhere.
But no matter how you look, you can't find Wanyan Dan.
Three days later, a news came from the front that made him furious: Wanyan Zongwang withdrew his troops from the border of Goryeo and returned to Chenzhou to help. He was intercepted by the Zong Division halfway. The two armies fought, and Wanyan Zongwang lost his troops and lost his generals.
The battle situation outside the pass is actually very clear, and the Song army almost had an absolute advantage.
Whether it was Yue Fei's defeat of Tiefutu in Fengcheng or the Song army's attack on Chenzhou, it had proved the strength of the Song army.
The military advances of the Central Plains dynasty once again made the barbarians outside the territory tremble. Time seemed to have returned to the beginning of the former Tang Dynasty. The Han cavalry galloped on the vast grassland, and the sharp swords tore open the barbarians' ambitions.
Blood stained the city walls red, and the city outside the pass wailed, prayed and trembled in the anger of the Celestial Empire.
The Han families outside the pass were originally in a wait-and-see state. When they heard that Wanyan Zongbi's entire army was wiped out, they could not sit still.
For example, the Han family and the Korean companies are the first.
The Han family has a great background. The ancestor Han Derang was a big figure in the Liao Kingdom and the lover of Empress Dowager Xiao. He controlled the national affairs of the Liao Kingdom for decades.
When the Liao Kingdom was passed down and the Liao Kingdom was destroyed by the Jurchens, the Han family defected to the Wanyan family.
In order to quickly gain a foothold in the territory of the Liao Kingdom, Wanyan Aguda won over many Han families.
This is the one that the Han family is focusing on.
The head of the Han family, Han Qi, was first the prime minister of the Jin Dynasty and one of the most powerful Han people in the Jin Dynasty court.
After hearing the situation ahead, he no longer hesitated, but said with emotion: The Jin Kingdom has been exhausted and he should lead the investment.
So he quickly wrote a letter to Zhao Huan to express his loyalty first.
It is not just Han Qi who secretly wrote letters?
Wanyan Zongbi's defeat in Fengcheng was passed back to Shangjing, almost shocking the top leaders of the Jin Dynasty.
The retreat of Chenzhou made the nobles unable to sleep or eat.
The so-called millions of troops heading south to Fengzhou was nothing more than Wanyan Tan’s throwing away, struggling to fight to the death, and resisting stubbornly.
Although the inner city of Shenzhou was not broken, the Song army hurriedly withdrew.
But everyone has seen the situation clearly.
Next, the entire Liao area fell into a panic.
After the defeat of the last elite army of the Jin army, Wanyan Zongwang's army, this panic began to spread throughout the Jin Dynasty.
If the Song army had not withdrawn temporarily, the nobles would have come to deliver money and knelt down and beg for mercy.
After defeating Wanyan Zongwang, Zhong Shizhong did not rashly go north again.
There are two reasons.
First, defeating Wanyan Zongwang, the Song army itself also suffered losses.
Second, the sudden withdrawal of the main force of the central army has caused people's hearts to fluctuate.
The Zong Shizhong, who has always been calm and persistent, will never go north again.
He simply stationed in Xianzhou in the south, temporarily hindering Chenzhou.
And what about Yue Fei?
I heard that the central army had withdrawn from the pass, but did not advance rashly, but was stationed in Fengzhou, like a sharp sword, hanging beside the kings and ministers of the Jin Kingdom, making them unable to sleep or eat.
It was soon late August and autumn was already coming.
Autumn outside the pass came particularly early, and you could already see the withered yellow leaves falling.
The autumn clouds were pressing very low, and the sun's light shone through the thick clouds, and the grass that grew tall swayed in the autumn wind, as if the people who died in battle were making the final struggle.
Eagles and crows circling around, and wild dogs were sharing the last few pieces of meat.
Screams and crying came from the village not far away. The men in the village were forcibly recruited by the Jin army, and their resistance was useless.
When they passed by these former battlefields, they shed tears of despair.
No one knows whether they will be alive tomorrow.
When they were escorted to the north, refugees who fled from time to time passed by here.
The fields are already deserted, people are hungry and hard to survive.
A minister wrote to Zhao Huan: Thousands of miles outside the pass, the people were living in poverty, and the people were not covered in their clothes, and they were looking forward to the royal army heading north to regain their hometown day and night.
But the war seemed to have stopped suddenly.
Not long ago, the news that Zhong Shidao died of illness on the battlefield spread back to Tokyo City. Zhao Huan cried loudly in front of his ministers and fainted several times.
The ministers sighed in their hearts: Emperor, your acting skills are better. The postures of fainting are so natural. If you don’t know you are shameless, I really think you fainted because you are too sad.
This is the time to compete for acting skills. The emperor took the lead in crying and was dizzy, so the ministers naturally felt sadder than the other.
It seems that Master Zhong is his father.
Some ministers even hit the pillar with their heads and said sadly: "The heaven has eyes, and I am willing to devote my thirty years to Mr. Zan."
Nothing to say, I’m going to give! Anyway, Master Zhong is dead, and it’s impossible to really give. I want to say whatever I want, haha!
The entire city of Tokyo is in an atmosphere of extreme sadness.
Even the old lady selling embroidered shoes on the street shed tears of sadness.
The Song Dynasty Di Daily News and the Tokyo Express have been publishing the past of Zhong Shidao for ten consecutive days.
And I heard that the entire Youzhou army was even dressed in white.
Ten days later, the emperor personally issued an edict and posthumously conferred the title of Zhong Shidao as the King of Loyalty.
Very few people were not a royal family in the Song Dynasty, except for Wang Anshi and Tong Guan who were named kings, there were basically no one.
And these two are controversial.
Now Zhong Shidao was personally posthumously conferred by the emperor and was worthy of the Taimiao.
What an honor this is.
Even when everyone was silent in grief, some people also submitted a memorial to the emperor that the situation ahead was not stable, and the emperor should choose another good commander to lead the army of the three armies to restore the northern border.
Some people began to make a big splash again, and the commander died of illness. This was an ominous sign, and the emperor immediately withdrew his troops.
Chapter completed!