One Piece of Song Dynasty

Previously, Zongze had sent a message to Zhao Ye and Fan Ne, ridiculing and ridiculing them for shrinking from the enemy, and asking them to immediately lead their troops to join forces with him under the city of Tokyo. Zhao Ye and Fan Ne looked down upon Zongze, thinking that Zongze was too arrogant and did not answer or send troops. Zongze then discussed with the generals that he was willing to fight alone against the Jin army.

Chen Que, the commander of the capital, suggested: "The enemy is fierce and cannot be attacked lightly."

Zongze was furious when he heard this and wanted to kill Chen Que on the spot. The generals hurriedly bowed and begged Chen Que to spare his life so that he could make meritorious deeds.

Before sending troops to Nanhua this time, Zongze said to Chen Que: "You should go ahead with the generals to atone for the mistakes of the day before."

Chen Que replied: "I am willing to do my best." Chen Que led the troops and met the Jin soldiers less than ten miles forward. Chen Que took advantage of the enemy's unpreparedness, led a fierce attack, defeated the Jin army, and quickly occupied Nanhua County.

Although Zhao Ye, Fan Ne, and Weng Yanguo also received orders from the Generalissimo's Office, they were still waiting in Nanjing or wandering around Sizhou. They seemed to have no plans to send troops to move closer to Tokyo City.

On this day, Duke Jia, the magistrate of Sizhou, came to see Weng Yanguodao: "The capital has reported very bad news, and the emperor is looking for Zhongcheng to rescue him day and night. Now that we are staying here and not entering, how can we rebel against Si Xiaolei? We have run out of money and food, and we will never come back again." It is appropriate for the Duke to kill the Duke in order to express his gratitude to the army. I am afraid that the imperial court may not be able to lend the Duke a loan someday." Weng Yanguo felt ashamed after hearing this, and led his troops to Huaixi the next day.

At this time, most of the Qinwang teams organized by various places were on the road. Among them, the Shaanxi Fifth Route King Qinbing, whom Song Qinzong placed the greatest hopes on, was still far away from the capital. The leader of this team was Fan Zhixu, the envoy of Zhi Yongxing Army who compiled the Five Routes of Shaanxi Province at Jiying Palace. During their march, they were strongly blocked by Lou Shi's gold army. Since the first month of this year, they fought hard for more than ten times and suffered many casualties. They captured Tongguan on the rd of the first month and are advancing eastward.

Fan Zhixu is an old minister and a Jinshi scholar in the third year of Yuanyou, Emperor Zhezong of the Song Dynasty. In March last year, he was appointed to succeed Ren Liang and serve as the prefect of Jingzhao Prefecture to deal with the Shaanxi soldiers and horses. Later, Emperor Qinzong of the Song Dynasty appointed him as the Xuanfu envoy of Shaanxi and the Five-Road economic envoy of Shaanxi. Qian Gai was also ordered to handle Shaanxi's troops and horses, and was appointed as Shaanxi's envoy.

At that time, the Jin Army on the West Road was besieging Taiyuan, and the sound shocked Guanzhong. Fan Zhixu "made great efforts in war and defense". He initially planned to stick to the Yellow River and ignore the east side of the river, so he ordered the construction of a series of forts along the banks of the Yellow River. He recruited talents from all walks of life, and as long as they had expertise, they were all given official salaries through supplementary official positions. For example, the monk Zong Yin, the Taoist Zhang Xiaoqing, etc. were all appointed as subordinate controllers.

Zongyin was a native of Xiaoyi County, Fenzhou. His surname was Zhao. He became a monk and served as the elder of Wanhua Temple. Seeing the raging war, he wanted to go somewhere else to avoid the chaos. When passing a temple in Hezhong Prefecture, he composed a poem, which said: The seventy-year-old monk returns from the west to the east, and his hometown gate is filled with fluttering thoughts. The Liao Dynasty is half a year old and nine points are empty, and the whole Jin Dynasty is a thousand miles empty in a year. Zhou Zhao is dead and there is no good governance. Although Cai Tong is dead, there is still hope. I went to Huayin to beg for food in Shangshan, and I looked for four old men in the valley.

Xi Yi, the pacifier, happened to see this poem and thought it was very good, so he sent someone to recover the Zong's seal. Xi Yi had a conversation with Zong Yin and was greatly surprised, so he recommended him to Fan Zhixu.

When Zong Yin met Fan Zhixu, they talked endlessly about the use of troops. Fan Zhixu thought that Zong Yin was a rare scholar, so he ordered him to return to secular life and fill the official positions of Zhongsan Dafu and Zhilong Tuge. He also appointed him as the counselor of the Xuanfu Department and the commander of military horses. Generals such as Wang Wei, Wang Fang, Li Daofeng, and Song Kan were all under his command.

Zongyin suggested building the Great Wall, starting from Tongguan and ending at Longmen. In this way, the Jin people can be blocked from the Great Wall.

Fan Zhixu adopted it and signed an official document, sternly requiring all localities to take immediate action. However, officials at all levels disapproved of this and "just followed orders." As a result, the Great Wall was only shoulder-high and served no purpose.

In fact, Fan Zhixu was a literati who "didn't know how to fight" and was very unfamiliar with border defense and military revolution. At that time, some people's attempts to guard the river were child's play in order to obtain rewards. However, Fan Zhixu failed to notice it and often issued orders to be implemented according to the law. As a result, "the military and civilians, as well as the prefectures and counties, could not bear to be disturbed."

Fan Zhixu also imitated Zhang Liang's San Chu songs in the Western Han Dynasty and wrote San Jin songs, and sent people to post them next to the Jin army's stronghold or in the counties occupied by the Jin people. The content of the lyrics is as follows: Bing Wu returns to Ding Weichu, and the golden man is like a fish in a cauldron. The fish is always alive when it dives to the bottom, but the fish Chuliang is dead. People from the north are like horses from the south, red sheep, gold, rabbits and gold commit suicide. If you go south to kill gold, the golden dragon will be destroyed this autumn. Half of the northerners were citizens of the Southern Dynasties, and the Southern Dynasties eventually became kings. Frustrated, he temporarily resigned from the Han Dynasty. He was so hesitant that he couldn't bear to miss his relatives.

Fan Zhixu has never forgotten his mission to Shaanxi. In his poem to Sang Jingxun, the transshipment envoy, he wrote: Shen Qijingyue came out of the Western Qin Dynasty to unite the princes and pay the old ministers. The wind leads the flags to Wei Que, and the sky is clear and the tigers guard the demon dust. Mingwei suddenly shows Hu Chufeng, Yanyun Fanglong temple slightly deity. I have seen the head falling from the sky, begging for my body and rejoicing in this spring.

Judging from the poem, Fan Zhixu was still very optimistic about the situation at this time.

However, the Jin Army on the West Route quickly moved south after capturing Taiyuan and easily crossed the Yellow River. The Song army guarding the river collapsed upon hearing the news, and Wang Xiang, the general manager of the West Road, abandoned Xijing and fled south. The situation has suddenly changed, and the capital is in danger.

After receiving the report, Emperor Qinzong of the Song Dynasty appointed Sun Zhaoyuan, a member of the Ministry of Water Resources, as the deputy general manager of the West Road of Secret Pavilion, and ordered him to immediately go to Shaanxi to deliver a message to Fan Zhixu, asking Shaanxi soldiers to quickly enter Beijing to serve the king.

Sun Zhaoyuan led three cavalrymen out of Beijing and recruited hundreds of broken troops along the way. He entered Shangluo from Nanyang and finally arrived at Jingzhao Mansion and met Fan Zhixu.

Sun Zhaoyuan handed over the troops he recruited along the way to Fan Zhixu, and the troops were united. He conveyed the emperor's imperial edict, introduced the situation in the capital, and what he heard and saw on the way. At that time, Shaanxi's envoy Qian Gai led Qinwang soldiers and arrived in Yingchang. However, they actually "ran away after hearing that the capital was destroyed." Sun Zhaoyuan believes that Shaanxi must form a separate Qinwang team. Fan Zhixu immediately sent a message to all the people in Shaanxi, asking to quickly gather troops and go to Beijing to serve the king. The appeal was written by Fan Zhixu himself. "The words are generous and touching to those who hear them."

In the Northern Song Dynasty, there were five roads, that is, five war zones, at the junction of Shaanxi and Xixia. They were Xihe Road, Qinfeng Road, Jingyuan Road, Huanqing Road, and Yanyan Road. These were the so-called five roads along the border. Together with Yongxing Military Road, it is collectively known as Shaanxi Sixth Road. Each road has an economic and strategic pacification department, which is responsible for the military and political power of the road. The leader is called the economic and strategic envoy, commonly known as the commander-in-chief. This setting was mainly to deal with Xixia militarily. Once a war breaks out with Xixia, the imperial court will send ministers to serve as Shaanxi Xuanfu envoys or Shaanxi Zhizhi envoys to uniformly command the six armies.

Now, Fan Zhixu's identity is both the military envoy of Yongxing Army and the envoy of Shaanxi Xuanfu. It stands to reason that he has the right to mobilize the Shaanxi Sixth Route Army. However, after the letter of appeal was issued, only Wang Si, the envoy of Huanqing Jinglue, and Wang Yi, the envoy of Xihe Jinglue, quickly led their troops to the meeting. However, Xi Gong, the Jingyuan Jinglue envoy, Zhao Dian, the Qinfeng Jinglue envoy, and Zhang Shen, the Jinglue envoy from Fuyan, "none of them arrived."