One Piece of Song Dynasty

On the ninth day of the eleventh month of the lunar month, the Jin army launched another siege and continued to attack Shanlimen, Tongjinmen and Xuanhuamen. Soon, Xuanhua Gate was in a hurry, and a large number of Jin soldiers stacked bridges on the Hulong River to take the route, with the intention of storming Xuanhua Gate. After Sun Fu learned about it, he ordered Yao Youzhong to quickly lead troops to support him.

Yao Youzhong climbed up to the Xuanhua Gate and saw that the Jin soldiers had already stacked the bridge halfway on the Hulong River. He quickly selected elite divine arm archers and strong crossbowmen, and used bed crossbows and nine oxen crossbows to intensively fire at the golden soldiers. The Song army's arrows rained down like rain, and the Jin soldiers could not resist them. The battle lasted until night, and the Jin soldiers could not advance any further, so they gave up stacking the bridge and retreated.

While commanding the battle, Yao Youzhong also organized forces. He placed many large and small gun seats on the tower and tied up many empty sheds with ropes to strengthen defense facilities. At this time, many Song soldiers came for reinforcements, and "people stood like mountains."

If the Jin army wanted to get close to the city wall and board the city, they must first pass through the city trench, which is the dragon river. The water of Hulong River is deeper. Although it has frozen at this time, the ice layer is not too thick. Therefore, the Jin army chose to build a bridge on the Hulong River.

Their method of building a bridge is to float wooden signs on the water first, then fill them with firewood, straw mats and soil in sequence, and gradually advance. The Song army fired arrows and shelled the city, but they were unable to destroy the bridge. In fact, the Jin people were filling the trench with things to create a road to attack the city.

On the south side of the bridge is the Jinjun camp. Looking over at night, the lights are as bright as day. Standing on the tower of Xuanhua Gate, you can clearly hear the sound of axes and chisels coming from the south. It is the Jin army that is speeding up the production of siege equipment. Its equipment mainly includes fire ladders, cloud ladders, braided bridges, goose carts, tunnels, bumping poles, pocket poles, etc. Among them, fire ladders, cloud ladders, and braided bridges are all as high as the city oars, and some are higher than the city tower. They can be used to burn the towers and oars. The cloud ladders and braided bridges can be relied on the city wall, and soldiers can attack the city from there. These three types of instruments all have axles underneath to push them.

These three types of siege equipment can only be defended with ramrods. The so-called bumping pole is a large wooden pole that can be several feet long, with an iron or iron hook wrapped on the head, used to hit or hook fire ladders, ladders and braided bridges. Since the Jin army attacked the city, Yao Youzhong commanded the Song army to use ramming rods to destroy more than a dozen Jin army fire ladders, ladders, goose carts, and braided bridges in Guaizi City, Tongjinmen.

Zhang Shuye also led troops and participated in the battle of Xuanhuamen on the ninth day of November. Emperor Qinzong of the Song Dynasty paid special attention to Zhang Shuye. On that day, he promoted him to the Privy Council and promoted him to the rank of ruling minister. And asked him to work with Sun Fu to jointly deal with the defense of the four walls. At the same time, he still served as the general manager of the South Road, and the other three roads were also under his control.

Emperor Qinzong of the Song Dynasty issued an edict for this purpose, saying that the country had been peaceful and peaceful for nearly two hundred years, and the military and political affairs were in ruins. "The soldiers had no intention of dying in battle, and the generals had no intention of consolidating the city." They all looked at the enemy and ran away, without any fighting spirit. Emperor Qinzong of the Song Dynasty hoped that Zhang Shuye would do his best to make plans in the temple, control the generals with his resolute personality and charisma, and inspire the inertia of the three armies to defend the capital and the royal family.

It can be seen that Song Qinzong had high hopes for Zhang Shuye.

The next day, the Jin army was probably busy making siege equipment and did not launch a new offensive.

Song Qinzong and his ministers mistakenly thought that the Jin people had agreed to peace talks and had stopped attacking the city. Therefore, Li Chuquan, the water supervisor of the capital, and Sima Pu, the doctor of the right department, were sent out of the city to visit Zong Han at the Jin army camp as a thank you envoy. Unexpectedly, Zong Han refused to meet him. Li Chuquan and Sima Pu had to return empty-handed.

Only then did Song Qinzong clearly realize that the Jin people were probably aiming to destroy the city. So he hurriedly ordered to strengthen war preparations and actively defend the city.

He Li organized and directed the officials and people in the city to transport large quantities of cannon stones to the city wall. Sun Fu asked the four walls of the city to defend various positions and focus on deploying seven cannons. Because the Qishao Cannon has a long range and great power.

On November th, when the capital was actively preparing for war, Si Wenzheng, a Jiaofang music man, suddenly wrote to the emperor, urging that there should be no more war, otherwise once the city was defeated, peace negotiations would be impossible.

He Li was furious when he heard the news. With the approval of Emperor Qinzong of the Song Dynasty, He Li ordered Si Wenzheng to be beheaded immediately, and announced on a notice: "Si Wenzheng sent a letter to Fu Que, his words are extremely unreasonable, and he will be beheaded by imperial decree."

This incident caused an uproar in public opinion, especially among scholars. Fei Duanyou, a Jinshi who was exempted from explanation, wrote in a memorial: "If Si Wenzheng's letter is just unreasonable, he should not be beheaded. Although it is a reckless act, death is not a pity, but it affects people's hearts. Such treatment may block the world's public opinion. Please disclose Si Wenzheng The contents of the letter will make it known to both China and foreign countries what crime he was punished for."

There was no response from the court. It wasn't until the evening that the Kaifeng Mansion responded by posting a notice saying: "Si Wenzheng, a music man from Jiaofang, wrote to Fu Que that he has no monarch. He attempted to hijack the emperor and help thieves harm the country, so he was beheaded."

The Jin army has been besieging the city for more than ten days, but none of King Qin's troops have arrived yet. Song Qinzong was deeply worried. On the th day of the th day of the th month of the lunar month, Emperor Qinzong of the Song Dynasty issued an edict to King Qin of Hebei Road. The edict said: "Look up all the way to Hebei and mobilize all the soldiers and civilians. The defenders will take charge of their own affairs. They will march on both routes. Come at starry night and destroy the bandits." In addition to rewards, the sergeants will be given additional official qualifications, and the common people will be exempted from rent and taxes for five years."

The reason why Song Qinzong ordered King Lu Qin of Hebei alone was mainly because Hebei was close to the capital, and there were many cities in Hebei controlled by the Song Dynasty. In particular, Fan Ne, the envoy of Xuanfu in Hedong, Hebei, and Zhao Ye, the general manager of North Road, were both in Hebei, and they both had troops.

Fan Ne was originally stationed in the Huazhou area to guard the Yellow River. When he learned that the Jin army had detoured across the Yellow River and surrounded Tokyo, he gathered troops to defend himself and did not dare to march to rescue the capital. Later, he actually led his troops south to Yingtian Mansion in Nanjing. Zhao Ye, the general manager of the North Road, was originally stationed in Daming Mansion in Beijing. When he learned that the capital was under siege, he claimed that he was ill and could not leave. Later, he also led his troops south to Yingtian Mansion in Nanjing. The two armies of Fan Ne and Zhao Ye merged into one army in Nanjing and called themselves "Xuan General Division" to the outside world.

It was also the eleventh day of the eleventh month in Run. Geng Nanzhong, who went to Hebei to handle the land delivery, and Jin envoy Wang Rui and others arrived at the boundary of Weizhou. When the local militia heard that Wang Rui was the envoy of the Jin Dynasty, they prepared to kill him. Wang Rui and others saw that the situation was not good and fled quickly. Geng Nanzhong had to ride alone to the gate of Weizhou City.

Xu Qin, the defender of Weizhou City, wanted to go out of the city to meet him, but the people in the city refused to allow him. They said, "Geng's family is traveling with the Jin people, so he is not allowed to enter the city." So they closed the city gate and refused to let Geng Nanzhong enter the city.

Geng Nanzhong was helpless. He suddenly remembered that King Kang Zhao Gou was in Xiangzhou and his son was also in Xiangzhou, so he turned his horse and headed straight for Xiangzhou.

Since Kang Wang Zhao Gou returned to Xiangzhou on November , he has been staying there, quietly observing the situation and waiting for the emperor's orders.