Chapter 27, Three Hundred Warriors of the Song Dynasty On December 12, the first year of Jingkang of the Great Song Dynasty, the Northern Expeditionary Army led by Great Immortal Guo Jingguo walked out of Fengqiu Gate of Bianliang City in an unusually low-key manner. yznn It wasn’t that Emperor Qinzong Zhao Huan was so mean and reluctant to hold a grand opening ceremony for Guo Jing.
The real problem was that this Northern Expeditionary Army was so shabby that it was almost useless: even counting the military men who pushed wheelbarrows and carried burdens.
Coolies, the whole army has just gathered 300 people.
Therefore, instead of letting such a pitifully small army go to the palace to be inspected and awarded flags by the officials of the Song Dynasty, and make people laugh in front of millions of citizens in Bianliang, Tokyo, it is better to let them quietly leave the city with no banners and drums, and wait for everyone to It would be better to carry out war propaganda after you have gone far away.
When the three hundred warriors crossed the river and went to the north, was this a suicide attempt or a show?
Hey, hey, this is the Song Dynasty, not Sparta.
And the three hundred guys who went north to fight were also heavily armored.
They were not the bare-faced gay warriors of the Greeks.
In fact, even the formation of these three hundred soldiers and horses was due to Guo Jing's good luck.
Just as the "Liujia Divine Soldiers" took advantage of the opportunity to get tattooed and fled one after another, Hebei's soldiers and horses were greatly Zongze, the deputy marshal of the Marshal's Mansion, came to Bianliang with two hundred "King Qin's troops".
Then before he could even take a breath, he was given a hat as a Northern Expedition Pioneer Officer by the court and was sent directly to Guo Jing.
In the Song Dynasty, marshal was not a regular military rank, but more akin to a temporary assignment such as a theater commander.
Unlike Zhao Gou, Prince of Kang, the Grand Marshal of Hebei Province, who had a nagging interest in the throne in the Bianliang Palace from the beginning, and Wang Boyan, the Deputy Marshal who hoped to support Conglong, the other Cizhou Marshal was named Deputy Marshal.
Zhizhou Zongze was a die-hard loyal minister with a red heart towards the imperial court.
As early as when he stopped King Kang, Zongze used the prince's banner to gather the remaining Song troops in Hebei and prepare for King Qin.
At that time, the Jin army on the east route adopted the tactic of attacking Tokyo directly.
Most of the prefectures and counties, especially some military strategists, The important towns are still in the hands of the Song Army, and the Jin Army actually doesn't even have the logistics to move south.
The roads could not be maintained, and all supplies had to be plundered on the spot.
When a shocking upheaval came under the city of Tokyo, and the more than 100,000 Jin soldiers who marched south were wiped out in one fell swoop, in order to eliminate the court's doubts, Zongze personally led a small number of cavalry and went south.
He rushed to Bianliang to meet the emperor and wanted to discuss a solution to the aftermath.
In this regard, King Kang Zhao Gou and Wang Boyan had no intention of stopping them.
Even though they had already gathered 40,000 to 50,000 people in Xiangzhou, Hebei, they seemed to have about the same strength as Bianliang.
However, with the Jin soldiers already destroyed, there was almost no chance of winning in a head-on confrontation with the imperial court: Emperor Qinzong Zhao Huan was still the legitimate lord of the world after all.
According to his edict, King Qin's troops were stationed in Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Sichuan and other places.
Come to Bianliang.
As time goes by, Bianliang's military strength will gradually expand until it completely overwhelms Hebei.
Although these King Qin's troops were all temporarily recruited by the local government, and the leaders were not famous generals.
They probably didn't have the ability to fight the Jurchen cavalry, but the Hebei rebels who fought against King Kang were still out of the question.
Do these rabble-rousers in Hebei dare to join King Kang?
It's hard to tell when the road is dark.
You know, in the Song Dynasty, no prince had ever successfully rebelled by force.
In the opinion of the military leaders in Hebei, instead of staking all their wealth on such a gamble with a slim chance of winning, they might as well kidnap Prince Kang and present it to the court in exchange for an official position or something like that.
Although the situation is somewhat similar to the Battle of Jingnan, and Song Qinzong seems to be inferior to Emperor Jianwen, Kang Wang Zhao Gou is even more incomparable to Yan Wang Zhu Di.
Moreover, in the city of Bianliang in Tokyo, there is still the existence of Immortal Guo who is said to be able to communicate with the gods through Taoism and perform magic on the altar to destroy more than 100,000 gold soldiers in one breath.
Since even the fierce and bloodthirsty Jurchen cavalry could only be burned to ashes in front of him, it would be a ragtag group of people with different ideas under Zhao Gou, let alone those who want to rely on this unreliable capital.
If you rebel and usurp the throne, you should just go to sleep.
Therefore, the actual situation in Hebei is far less serious than what Prime Minister He Su and others are worried about.
Even Zhao Gou himself has no confidence in his troops and is more worried about how this mess will end. , instead of making a conspiracy to usurp the throne.
Therefore, after preliminary understanding of the details of the Hebei Military Marshal's Mansion through Zongze, and feeling a little relieved, the court, which lacked moral integrity, sent Zongze out again, and assigned Guo Jing's name to build up his reputation.
Serve as the vanguard of the Northern Expeditionary Army.
Different from the showy Forbidden Army in Bianliang City, these Hebei veterans brought by Zongze, although they were also defeated by the Jin people, at least they were brave warriors who had seen a lot of blood and fought hard on the battlefield.
Once you stand there, this murderous aura makes you feel unusual.
So at the beginning, Guo Jing was a little worried.
He didn't know whether he could suppress these arrogant generals before he found a chance to show his magical powers.
But later he found that this worry was obviously unnecessary.
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In the Song Dynasty, the status of soldiers was so low that It is outrageous that once a person joins the army, he is not allowed to retire.
In fact, he is a soldier for life.
If there are vacancies in the army, priority will be given to by-elections from the children of the military.
If a soldier flees or commits a crime, the punishment under military law is extremely severe, and even relatives and hometowns may be implicated.
In order to prevent soldiers from escaping, each soldier's face must be tattooed like branding a slave.
Di Qing, a famous general decades ago, became the Privy Councilor, but because of the tattoos on his face, he still could not hold his head high among the literati.
Even a prostitute dared to openly ridicule him, which shows the low status of the warriors in the Song Dynasty.
Every soldier has an extremely low self-esteem and is completely inferior in front of the civil servants.
As for Guo Jing, the real protector of the country, although he is not an orthodox scholar-bureaucrat, he is a higher-status "immortal".
He didn't realize that the officials of the Song Dynasty all treated him as a teacher, and those civil servants who came from Jinshi were even more respectful.
He respectfully and respectfully spread the dozens of miles of death on the outskirts of Bianliang.
They have seen with their own eyes the scorched earth and the "New Tokyo", a city in the clouds that hangs in the sky.
They have heard that officials recently thought that the "New Tokyo" in the sky, although it has beautiful buildings and beautiful buildings, is too deserted. , preparing to recruit a group of loyal and reliable people to become "Heavenly People" Such a high status and such destructive power have already filled the hearts of these soldiers with awe.
Now that this real person actually appeared in front of them, they, who have long been accustomed to being lowly and humble warriors, how could they dare to be so arrogant?
In short, at least when they left Tokyo, this small team that had been gathered in a hurry was getting along smoothly with each other.
After the group of people walked out of Bianliang, Tokyo, what they saw was a piece of scorched earth covered with white snow.
Last month, the fully-automatic shaped plasma cannon controlled by Nobita Nobita showed its power on this land, turning more than 100,000 southern Jin troops and the same number of captive coolies into ashes in an instant, and even the bones were burned into pieces.
At this time, everyone was walking on it.
Although they could not see the miserable scene of bones exposed in the wild, the scorched earth of death that had been crystallized by the high temperature made people feel even more heartbroken.
Everyone walked silently through the scorched earth where hundreds of thousands of lives were buried, and they were speechless all the way.
However, when they chose the route to the north, the veteran Zongze, who had always been good-tempered, had a dispute with Qin Hui and the others for the first time.
During the Northern Song Dynasty, if people from Bianliang, the capital, wanted to go north, they usually turned northeast from Fengqiu Gate and crossed the Yellow River pontoon in Yanjin County.
Although the Yellow River Floating Bridge has been burned by the Jin soldiers, it is still the most convenient ferry to Hebei, and the official road also goes there.
It is absolutely true that the Song Dynasty built several bridges on the Yellow River to connect the north and the south, although they were all pontoon bridges.
But Zongze and others insisted on making a circle to the west, crossing the river from Zhengzhou and Zhongmou, and running hundreds of miles more out of thin air.
However, Qin Hui and Guo Jing asked them carefully about the reason.
These northerners couldn't explain it clearly.
They only said that "it's OK for a person to walk alone, but it's not possible for a baggage carriage and horse to pass."
Obviously, they couldn't make the confused listeners understand.
Everyone in Bianliang was satisfied.
In addition, Qin Hui, the censor Zhongcheng who argued with Zongze, had the arrogant tendency of the Song Dynasty bureaucrats and scholar-officials to look at people through their nostrils, and it didn't take long for them to quarrel.
In this regard, Guo Jing, who was also confused, had to smooth things over and suggested that everyone go to the Yellow River Ferry in Yanjin County first.
Then, there, Guo Jing and his party finally understood the reason why Zongze asked them to take a detour.
The Yellow River has stopped flowing oshow7: