Chapter 432 Jin Loushi's winning streak
After Zhao Gou finished reading, Huang Qianshan and Wang Boyan were by his side, so he handed them to them. Before he could finish reading, Huang Qianshan asked Zhao Gou, "Is this really written by King Xin? I'm afraid it's fake." Zhao Gou said, "This is indeed a handwritten by King Xin. I recognize his handwriting." Wang Boyan said, "Your Majesty must be careful." After hearing this, Zhao Gou summoned Ma Kuo and asked everything clearly. It was certain. Zhao Gou immediately appointed King Xin Zhao Zhen as the Marshal of the Hewai Army and Ma Du, and ordered Ma Kuo to be the support envoy of Hebei to repay King Xin.
After Ma Kuo retreated to the court, Huang Qianshan said to him: "King Xin has already gone north to the Jin Kingdom, how could it be true? You must be careful to spy on this trip, and do not fall into the cunning scheme of a traitor, and commit the serious crime of deceiving the king!" Ma Kuo repeatedly debated, and Huang Qianshan proposed the word "secret order" and suppressed it. He also said that in the secret order, it also made you obey the control of all the ways and did not violate it. Ma Kuo did not dare to argue with him, and left in a bad mood.
Ma Chao arrived at Daming Mansion, and expected that the matter would be difficult, so he stayed for several days. Jin general Eliduo discovered this matter, and was afraid that Ma Kuo would ask to send troops to reinforce Zhao Zhen, so he hurriedly led his troops to attack the Wumashan camps, and at the same time sent people to date the army that had been stuck and drunk, so he quickly came to pick him up. When King Xin Zhao Zhen heard that the Jin soldiers were coming, he hurriedly led his troops to defend. Unexpectedly, the water source was cut off by the Jin soldiers, and the people of the villages had no water to drink, and they were immediately disastrous. Eliduo took advantage of the chaos and killed all the camps, and all the camps were captured. King Xin Zhao Zhen fled in a hurry, and he was not sure where to end.
Ma Kuo learned of the alarm and recruited troops and rushed to help in an emergency. It was too late. Instead, he was intercepted by the Jin soldiers and suffered a great defeat, so he had to retreat to Hezhou.
Besides, Jin Loushi was defeated by the Song army and retreated to Xianyang. He saw that there were Yi soldiers everywhere in Weinan, so he did not dare to cross the box; but marched east along the river. Wanyan Loushi's name was Wuliyan, and he was brave and righteous, and proficient in military and magical soldiers. At the age of 21, he took his father as the Minister of the Seven Waters. He followed Wanyan Aguda to attack the ancient city of Dalu, and led his cavalry to the backbone of the Liao army and defeated the Liao army. In the sixth year of Tianfu, he followed the commander to defeat the Liaozhongjing as well as the commander.
In the third year of Tianhui, Xiao Jielu, the leader of Dangxiang, sent someone to take over Emperor Tianzuo. In order not to be discovered by the Jin army, Tianzuo led his army westward to flee into the desert. Lou Shiwei chased him. Emperor Tianzuo finally escaped, but his troops were about to be lost. Emperor Tianzuo was frozen and smoke was not raised. A commoner recognized him and received him at home for several days. Emperor Tianzuo wrote a note as a quotation, named him the governor, appointed Xiao Jielu as the Southwest Recruitment Envoy, and the Prime Minister's Military Affairs. Seeing that Emperor Tianzuo had no soldiers, Xiao Jielu secretly told the Jin army to the whereabouts of Emperor Liao in the name of exploring the way. Lou Shi led elite soldiers and cavalry to chase Emperor Tianzuo along the traces after the heavy snow stopped, and captured him alive.
In October of the third year of Tianhui, the Jin Kingdom sent troops to attack Song on the grounds that the Song Dynasty had accepted the rebellion and defeated the alliance. Lou Shi followed Zonghan and Xi Yin's western army into Taiyuan from Xijing, and Zongwang and others. Lou Shi was the vanguard and captured Mayi, defeated the Song army at Yanmen, and conquered Daizhou. Li Siben, the garrison general of Daizhou, surrendered, and the nearby Xinzhou prefect He Quan and others also opened the city gate to surrender to Jin. The defender Geng Shousi and others also surrendered, and the Jin army arrived at the city of Taiyuan.
Taiyuan was surrounded, and Song repeatedly sent troops to gather around Taiyuan. Yinshu could not stop it. Zonghan sent Lou Shi to assist Yinshu Ke's troops to defend the enemy. The Lou Shi army first captured the 100,000 rescue army of the Song Dynasty. Liu Zhen, the commander of the Song Dynasty, also led 10,000 troops to attack. Lou Shi avoided his edge and retreated at the beginning of the battle. When Song reinforcements were introduced into the encirclement, ambushed up everywhere. Lou Shi returned to his horse and fought again, and then annihilated Liu.
Zhen’s army was in Shouyang.
He killed Sun Yi, the Song Zhishuo Ning Prefecture, and his reinforcements in the suburbs of Taiyuan. Then he defeated the 20,000 reinforcements from the Song general Zhe Keqiu, killed the Song army, Han Quan, the commander of the Jinning Prefecture, Luo Cheng and other tens of thousands of people. The Lou Shi army continued to grow in the battle, so he went straight to the strategic location of Fenzhou. He attacked Pingyao, Jiexiu, and Lingshi troops along the way, and quickly attacked Fenzhou. The Lou Shi army's heroic cavalry swept across the Central Plains, and was famous all over the world with its undefeated record, causing Shizhou and other counties to surrender without fighting.
In February of the fourth year of Tianhui, while "surrounding Tai and attacking aid", Lou Shi divided his troops to capture various places in Shanxi. Zonghan's army took Lou Shi as the vanguard and captured Longde Prefecture and Gaoping. The army from Jin East Road went straight to Song Capital and formed an "union under the city" with Song and returned.
Song general Zong Shizhong led an army of 100,000 to escape the siege of Taiyuan. He was defeated by Lou Shi. His daughter and son were defeated. Zhong Shizhong was beheaded in Xiongling battle formation. He defeated Yao Gu's rescue army of 60,000, and Yuci. The elite troops of the Song army were defeated when they encountered Lou Shi. On June 6, the Song Dynasty ordered Jie Qian, Zhe Yanzhi, Zhang Hao and others to lead their troops to rescue Taiyuan. In early August, Zong Han's army defeated Jie Qian in Taiyuan Nanguan, Lou Shi defeated Zhang Hao in Wenshui County for 50,000 reinforcements, and several other Song troops fled. At this point, the Song court's operation to rescue Taiyuan was completely failed.
The Song Dynasty turned to peace again. On August 20th, the Song Dynasty sent Li Ruoshui to seek peace, but the Jin Dynasty issued an edict on August 15th to attack Song for the second time. In September, he was besieged by Taiyuan City, which was nearly nine months old, and was eventually trapped because there was no food and grass inside and no rescue troops outside. In October, Loushi conquered Shizhou and other places, surrendered to Pucha to Shouyang, and surrendered to Liaozhou, Yushe, Liaoshan, and Heshun counties.
When the western army led by Zonghan again marched south, he took Loushi's son, Living Daughter as his vanguard and quickly attacked Luoyang. After fleeing south of the Yellow River, the Song army demolished the Yellow River Bridge. The Living Daughter led his troops against the river for thirty miles and crossed the river in the shallow water. The Song army saw that he thought it was a god, and everyone said that this was the son of Loushi, so he collapsed without fighting. Zonghan then took Luojing, Zhengzhou, and joined forces with Loushi's troops. The cavalry rolled south and surrounded Bianjing with Zongwang's army.
Lou Shi was ordered to join the besiege of Bianjing, the capital of the Northern Song Dynasty. On November 25, the Jin army conquered Bian. At that time, Zonghan sent Lou Shi and others to go to Henan from Pingyang Road. Lou Shi went to Zezhou, and joined forces with Saili, Polu Huo, Ci Bushui and others to defeat the Song army in Xiangyuan. Lou Shi was supervising the battle. On the way, he encountered an ambush. Seeing that the Song army was invincible, he avoided the attack and retreated. However, he ordered the living woman to block it with elite troops. He took advantage of the chaos of the enemy's army to return to the horse and fight again. His hand was shot by an arrow, but he was fully brimming with his gun and was ready to attack. The Song army was defeated and rushed to the city. As soon as the city gate opened, Lou Shi took advantage of the opportunity to enter. The Jin army became more and more brave and conquered the Song army's general's mansion, relieving the worries of Zong Han and Zong Wang's army when they surrounded Bian.
In April of the fifth year of Tianhui, Zonghan's army encircled the two emperors to the north and ordered Loushi to conquer Shaanxi and to pacify prefectures and counties east of the Yellow River. Loushi led his army to march straight in and met with the king-supporting army of Song general Fan Zhixu. He defeated the 300,000 Song army in Mianchi with a combination of attack, encirclement, division and ambush. The Song army died in Yinggou, and Fan Zhixu fled with more than ten cavalry and captured Shaanxi Prefecture in Loushi's army.
He led his army to cross the Yellow River, defeating 20,000 enemies, forcing the Song army in Jiezhou to surrender. The Jin army approached Hezhong Prefecture, Puzhou City was strong, and the Song army defended. Lou Shi ordered his younger brother to climb the city with cloud ladders with defense facilities, and then ordered three armored heroes to reinforce him. The four of them climbed the city to fight, and they were brave enough.
Lou Shijun flocked one after another,
The city was destroyed and the Pu people fled west. Loushi divided its troops to chase them. The Song army that fled first burned the river bridge, and the desperate Song soldiers drowned in the turbulent river water. Seeing this, Loushi ordered the Jin army to be placed on both sides of the river and tried its best to rescue the fallen soldiers, so that more than 500 Song soldiers were rescued. So Loushi was given the title of kindness.
In order to further win the hearts of the people, Loushi implemented the strategy of "using Han people to govern Han people" while fighting, and using both kindness and power to consolidate the western territory. He resettled Pu and Xie prefecture institutions of the two prefectures, used Han Jinshi as the chief ministers of the county, and vigorously recruited and persecuted the people, especially the Han people, to weaken the resistance consciousness of the people, especially the Han people. He led his troops to Ermeng'an with his son and daughter, and stayed in Beijing. Loushi led his heroic troops to advance and subdued Yi, Ci, Xi and Shi.
At the beginning of the seventh year of Tianhui, the Jin army had occupied all the land of the Lianghe River and easily captured the city of Bianjing. The territory of the Jin Kingdom extended from the Yellow River Basin to the Jianghuai region. At that time, Zhao Gou fled before the battle and abandoned a large area of the Central Plains. Faced with a very favorable situation in the Jin Dynasty, the general of the Eastern Army led by Zong Fu and Wu Shu, advocated that Zong Han's army abandoned the management of Shaanxi and joined forces to go south, captured Zhao Gou in one fell swoop, and destroyed the Northern Song Dynasty. The Western Army led by Zong Han, Lou Shi and Yin Shuke advocated that Shaanxi should be settled first, subdued Western Xia, and then used the joint efforts of Jin and Xia to destroy the Song Dynasty.
The main representative of the second opinion was Wanyan Loushi. The two sides were strife and they could not stand up, so they returned to Shangjing, and told Emperor Taizong of Jin to make a final decision. In this way, Loushi returned to Shangjing as the representative of the West Route Army. Emperor Taizong of Jin thought about it again and again, believing that it was a good opportunity for the destruction of the Song Dynasty when the people of the Central Plains were fluctuating. However, after hearing Loushi's words, he felt that "the land of Shaanxi right cannot be settled and not taken." As the commander of the Jin army, Zong Han had to follow the order of Emperor Taizong of Jin and advance southward with the Eastern Route Army.
Lou Shi was ordered by Emperor Taizong and Daizong Han was the commander of the Western Army. Due to Zong Han's attack in the south, the army led by Lou Shi was only 10,000 in total, but he had always believed in the assertion that "the Jurchens are 10,000,000, and he believed that these troops were enough to run rampant in Guan and Shaanxi. So he led his troops to cross Henan and advance south by the Song army, and met Fan Zhixu's 160,000 army, and won a great victory. The Song army guarding Tonghua also surrendered after hearing the news.
The Lou Shi army then broke through heavy troops at Tongguan and captured many places in Jingzhao. In Changlepo, the Lou Shi army's ambushings rose up and wiped out all the tens of thousands of Song soldiers who supported Jingzhao. He quickly captured Jingzhao Prefecture and captured its commander Fu Liang alive, and then subdued Fengxiang, Longzhou and other places. Soon, Fengxiang rebelled against the Jin Dynasty due to the secret instigation of the Song court. Lou Shi believed that the Song court would send troops to reinforce, so he set up ambushings on the important road leading to Fengxiang in advance, and then led his army to the city of Fengxiang.
Lou Shi first defeated more than 100,000 reinforcements from the Song army. In the third year of Tianhui (1125), Xiao Jielu, the leader of the Dangxiang clan, sent someone to take over Emperor Tianzuo. In order not to be discovered by the Jin army, Tianzuo led his army westward to flee into the desert. Xiyin ordered Lou Shiwei to chase him. It was snowing heavily in the sky, and the marks of the people and horses were left on the ground. Emperor Tianzuo finally escaped, but his troops were about to be lost. Emperor Tianzuo was frozen alone and smoked in the cooking stove was not raised. One hundred people recognized him and received him at home for several days. Emperor Tianzuo wrote a note as a quotation, named this man as the governor, appointed Xiao Jielu as the Southwest Recruitment Envoy, and the Prime Minister for Military Affairs. Seeing that Emperor Tianzuo had no soldiers, Xiao Jielu secretly informed the Jin army of the whereabouts of Emperor Liao in the name of going out to explore the way. Lou Shi led elite cavalry to follow the traces of the heavy snow, and chased Emperor Tianzuo in Yujiu, captured him alive and attacked the city.
Chapter completed!