One Piece of Song Dynasty

In February of the Jianyan year, Wanyan Zongbi, Shaanxi economic envoy Sa Lihe, and puppet Qi Sichuan envoy Liu Kui gathered more than infantry and cavalry in Fengxiang Mansion, Baoji and other places, determined to break through the pass and enter Shu.

On the st, the Jin army set up more than camps in Jiajian to confront the Song army.

On the th, the Jin army began to attack. Wu Jie used ten thousand people to fight against the danger. After repeated fierce battles, the Jin army was driven back. Two days later, the Jin army set up dozens of cannons to attack the Song army. Wu Jie ordered his soldiers to defend the Song army with bows, arrows, cannons and stones, making it impossible to defeat them repeatedly. The next day, Wanyan Zongbi ordered the Jin army to set up more than ladders to storm the Song army's camp. The Song army destroyed the ladders with cannon stones and ramming poles, and assassinated the Jin army with long spears. Zong Bi was unable to attack for a long time, so he divided the entire army into two formations. He led his elite troops to form in the east, and ordered Xiao General Han Chang to form in the west, in an attempt to attack the Song army from a flank. Wu Jie ordered Wu Lin and others to lead his troops to charge back and forth between the two formations of the Jin Army. After killing a large number of Jin troops, they retreated to the second pass. The Jin army came one after another, wearing two armors and connected with iron hooks. They came forward one after another, one after another. The Song army relied on the dangerous passes and strong fortresses, used powerful bows, crossbows, and tiger squatting cannons to fire in turns, repelling many attacks by the Jin army.

On the first day of March, Wanyan Salihe gathered troops to attack the northwest tower of the Song army's camp and burned its pillars. Wu Jie ordered his general Yang Zheng and others to urge his subordinates to hold long knives and axes to repel them.

After several days of tenacious resistance, the Jin army's vigor was seriously frustrated. On the first night of March, Wu Jie took advantage of the Jin army's fatigue from long battles and launched a counterattack. Wang Xi, Wang Wu and other generals led the elite troops and broke into the Jin camp in two teams. Han Chang was injured by an arrow, and the Jin army was shocked. Wu Jie ordered Zhai Jin to lead cavalry to attack the defeated Jin army. The Jin army suffered tens of thousands of casualties and escaped overnight and returned to Fengxiang Mansion.

In this battle, more than half of the Jin army suffered casualties, while the Song army also suffered more than casualties. When the news reached Lin'an, it was already March. On this day, Li Xin was reading memorials from various places. Xiao Dezi ran in with the memorials and shouted: "Your Majesty, good news from the northwest."

After receiving the victory report, Li Xin read it carefully and laughed and said: "Okay, the West Route Army fought well. Xiao Dezi went to call Mr. Zhao."

After a while, Zhao Ding came. Li Xin handed the good news to Zhao Ding and said: "Mr. Zhao, the West Road Governor's Mansion once again thwarted the Jin army's attempt to enter Sichuan."

Zhao Ding looked at it and said: "Okay, now Sichuan and Shu are completely stabilized. I think the Jin people will not dare to attack Shu easily again after several failures."

Li Xin said: "I sent a decree to commend the entire army of the West Road Governor's Mansion and send a reward of one billion Chinese dollars to the West Road Governor's Mansion. Mr. Zhao, how is the situation on the middle road?"

Zhao Ding replied: "Qu Duan has repelled the invasion of the puppet Qi Li Cheng and Kong Yanzhou tribes, and saved the two states of Deng and Tang."

Li Xin nodded and said: "Then we will also send a reward of million Chinese dollars to the middle road. After this defeat, I think it is time for the Jin people to return to the negotiating table."

Zhao Ding said thoughtfully: "It depends on how the Jin man moves."

Li Xin said: "Of the newly trained people, will be given to Liu Qi, will be given to Yue Fei, and the remaining will be given to the central and eastern governor's offices, with each, and then we will recruit troops from across the country."

Zhao Ding said worriedly: "Our army currently has soldiers in the forbidden army. Will it be too much financial pressure to recruit another people? Besides, in addition to the forbidden army, we also have soldiers and navy troops."

Li Xin waved his hand and said, "It's okay. If you don't have enough money, why don't you still have me? Besides, with the steady development of Jiangnan in the past few years, I will definitely not be short of money in the future."

Zhao Ding smiled bitterly and said, "Yes, Your Majesty."

Li Xin said: "In addition to the imperial army, shipyards in various places are ordered to build more large ships. The size of the navy will be expanded to in the future."

Zhao Ding nodded and said, "I understand."

After discussing the matter with Zhao Ding, Li Xin sent a letter to Xinghan, asking the shipyard to wait for the Dayu II type to be finalized before building fifty ships. In addition, Li Xin asked Old Man Liu to send someone to find Zhao Fei and inform Zhao Fei Establish another large shipyard in Quanzhou to fully produce two large armed transport ships, the Flying Shear Type and the future Flying Shear Type , and finally allow Ruan Xiaoer to come to An quickly.

After the third Battle of Monk Shang Yuan, everyone in the Jin Kingdom generally realized that it was too difficult to destroy the current Southern Song Dynasty, and they had to consider how to live in peace with the Southern Song Dynasty. However, negotiating peace right after the defeat would greatly damage the face of the Jin Kingdom, so Wanyanchang hosted a banquet for Puyali, a wealthy Persian businessman who was passing by from the Western Regions, and wanted him to be his secret envoy for the peace talks.

At the banquet, Wan Yanchang saw Wu Shu showing an unprecedented tiredness and dejection. He poured himself a drink in a lonely manner and said deliberately: "Liu Yu of Qi State suggested that our army board the ship from Mizhou. If the wind is favorable, On the night of five days, we arrived in Changguo, then entered the Qiantang River and arrived at Lin'an. Li Xin was captured in one fell swoop, but my nephew didn't seem to be interested."

"It's raining heavily in the south of the Yangtze River and it's humid. Our army has just retreated from Shaanxi. We are trapped and lack horses. I'm afraid we won't be able to succeed." Wu Shu's will was completely gone at this time. Wan Yanchang asked knowingly: "There is a proverb in the Song Dynasty that every arrow must be avenged. Doesn't the good nephew not want to take revenge?"

"People in the Song Dynasty also said that this moment is the same as that moment." Wu Shu's voice became smaller and smaller. Wanyanchang secretly laughed. In order to achieve the goal of making Pu Yali willingly go to the Song Dynasty to serve as his special envoy, he turned around and brought a pot of Song Dynasty shochu for Pu Yali, who had a tall nose and a deep nose, to taste it. Puyali was not only the richest man in Persia, but also probably the richest man in the world at that time. His business spanned Europe and Asia, and he had more than large merchant ships of various types. Pu Yali took a sip of wine and choked out: "What kind of strong wine is this? I have traveled all over the world and have never drunk such a strong wine. This kind of strong wine will definitely be welcomed by drunkards all over the world."

"The stuff from the Song Dynasty is definitely good. The emperor has ordered people to study the brewing process of this kind of shochu in Yuquan, Shangjing." Wu Shu also took a sip and praised bitterly. As expected, Pu Yali said with great interest: "Shochu, with this kind of wine, you can see that the Song Dynasty is a great country. I want to go to the Song Dynasty."

"Song State will definitely welcome you." Wan Yanchang assured him. Wu Shu didn't understand, and said gloomily: "Since you are going to the Song Dynasty, why do you come to my country?"

"My Puyali family's business has spread all over the world, all thanks to the Silk Road that has existed for centuries. However, due to years of war, the Silk Road has been cut off for a long time. The purpose of my trip is to reopen the Silk Road." Pu Yali ambitiously stated his business plan. Wu Shu didn’t believe it: “It’s up to you, a businessman, to reopen the Silk Road.”

Pu Yali said: "Whether it is for my personal consideration or for the Jin Kingdom, the benefits gained from the truce between Song and Jin will far exceed the wealth brought by the war."

Pu Yali's words played into Wanyanchang's heart. He stroked his beard and listened with interest. Unexpectedly, Wu Shu lowered his face and said, "You've finished speaking."

"Succinctness and conciseness are the characteristics of my speech." Pu Yali was polite. Wu Shu pointed to the door: "Go out, walk out through this door for me. How dare a businessman come to our Kingdom of Jin and start gesticulating?"