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Zhe Yanzhi once served as an official business in the Xuanfu Department, and together with the deputy envoy Jie Qian, the deputy envoy, sent troops from the Weisheng Army to the north. He fought with the Jin people in Nanguan for four days, and finally returned after defeat.

After Zhong Shidao replaced Li Gang as the Xuanfu Envoy, he promoted Zhe Yanzhi to the General Staff Office of the Xuanfu Office.

Later, Zhong Shidao was ordered to return to Beijing due to serious illness. Before leaving, he recommended Zhe Yanzhi as deputy envoy of Xuanfu to the court.

During the period from Zhong Shidao leaving Xuanfu Division to Fan Ne taking office, Xuanfu Division was actually represented by Zhe Yanzhi.

Zhe Yanzhi was a Jinshi of Chongning. Zhe was the seventh-generation grandson of Ruan. Zhe Keshi was the second son. The tenth-generation general of the Zhe family was originally a civilian official during the Huizong period. Due to the invasion of the Jin people, he resolutely joined the army in the time of crisis.

Zhe Yanzhi was originally a general behind the sect, and he was also very talented, but although he dared to fight against the Jin soldiers, he rarely won.

As for the matter, this is not a fault with Zhe Yanzhi. At this time, the Song army was actually scared by the Jin army. Even if Yue Fei and Han Shizhong were replaced, it would be difficult to win the battle.

After Zhe Yanzhi replaced Zong Shidao as the deputy envoy of Propagandao on Hedong Road, Hebei, he actively organized defense lines in the Hedong area.

However, in a hurry, Zhe Yanzhi could only set up two generals of the East and West, namely the Longde Mansion and the Pingyang Mansion, hoping to use these two generals of the General Mansion to stop the Jin army from moving south.

However, the two generals' mansions, which were highly anticipated by Zhe Yanzhi, were soon captured by the Jin army.

Here are subjective reasons such as the fear of enemies and war.

For example, the Pingyang Prefecture Manager Lin Jiren and others fled before the battle.

There are also objective reasons such as insufficient troops and lack of food and grass.

For example, the return to Niuling was as steep as a wall. The Song army could have controlled the place to fight a victorious blocking battle. However, due to the lack of food, soldiers could only eat two liters of peas or chen mai every day, so they were unwilling to work hard. The soldiers often said, "How about military food like this, and I'm fighting?"

When the Jin army came to Huiniuling, they looked up at the steep top of the mountain and said, "If they attacked from top to bottom with arrows and huge rocks, we would be seriously injured. What should we do?"

Therefore, the Jin army hesitated at the foot of the mountain and was reluctant to launch an attack.

However, soon, the Song army on the mountain dispersed automatically.

The Jin army easily crossed back to Niuling, advanced towards Pingyang Prefecture, and then conquered Pingyang Prefecture.

The fall of Pingyang Prefecture marks that the Song State's defense in the Hedong region has collapsed across the board.

Soon after, the Jin army on the west route arrived at the Yellow River.

In the Hedong War Zone, the Jin army on the West Road was fierce and unstoppable. The Song army had collapsed across the board and poured into a huge spill.

In another war zone, the Hebei War Zone, the Jin army on the east road was even more thrust and freely. Although important towns such as Zhongshan and Hejian were still in the hands of the Song army, they have become lonely cities and the situation is in danger.

The highest decision-making level of the Jin Dynasty was far away from the northeast, so it was unable to grasp the dynamics of the Hedong and Hebei fronts in time. Therefore, regarding the advancement of the east and west armies, Wanyan Wu Qimai could only order the Marshal's Office to take measures based on actual conditions, without asking for instructions in everything.

The marshals of the two armies were nominally Wanyan and Wu Qimai's younger brother Wanyan Xie, but Wanyan Xie also stayed in Shangjing to serve as Anbanbo Jilie, and governed the national affairs with Wanyan Zonggan.

Therefore, the Marshal's Mansion was actually located in Wanyan Zonghan's army.

Therefore, Wanyan Zonghan actually became the supreme commander of the two armies of Jin and East China.

Before sending troops, Wanyan Zonghan summoned senior generals of the Jin army to hold a meeting at the Marshal's Office of Yunzhong to discuss the policy issues towards Song.

At that time, Wanyan Zonghan decided to implement the peace agreement reached by Wanyan Zongwang on behalf of the Jin Dynasty and the Song Dynasty, that is, if Song State could cede the land of the three towns and pay compensation, the Jin army would stop moving south, and if Song State did not cede the three towns, they would seize it by force.

In other words, even if the second troops were sent, Wanyan Zonghan actually had no intention of crossing the Yellow River. His ultimate goal at that time was to govern the Song Dynasty with the Yellow River as the boundary.

However, after successfully conquering Taiyuan and Zhending, Wanyan Zonghan combined the situation of the Hebei battlefield in Hedong and Hebei and believed that the Song Dynasty's army was vulnerable, so he made a new arrangement at the meeting of senior generals of the Punishing Army, changing the combat goals of the east and west armies to joining the city of Bianliang.

In other words, the Jin people were no longer interested in cutting the three towns at this time. They had a great appetite and tried to annex more territory of the Song State and plunder more wealth and beauties. The nature of the robber was completely exposed.

When Zhao Huan learned that the Jin army was about to cross the Yellow River, the king and his ministers were panicked. On the one hand, they quickly sent a peace envoy to Taiyuan to discuss the matter of cede land and discuss peace. On the other hand, they organized strengthening their defense and defending the capital.

The former had nothing to say. The envoys who sought peace went to the Jin army to beg for surrender, not to mention the fact that the state of Song was disgraced. The key was that they were also used by the Jin people, which numbed the Song court.

the latter.

Zhao Huan, the king and his ministers have made clear arrangements:

1. Four general managers were set up around the capital, namely the north, south, west and east defense zones, respectively, authorized to Zhao Ye, the prefect of Daming Prefecture, Wang Xiang, the prefect of Henan Prefecture, Zhang Shuye, the prefect of Dengzhou Prefecture, and Hu Zhiru, the prefect of Yingtian Prefecture, so that they were fully responsible for all matters in their respective defense zones.

2. The Xuanfu Department was deployed to guard the Yellow River. The Xuanfu Deputy Envoy Zhe Yanzhi led 120,000 troops to guard the Heyang area to block the Jin army on the west route; the Xuanfu Envoy Fan Ne led 50,000 troops to guard the Huazhou and Junzhou areas to block the Jin army on the east route.

3. Li Hui, the head of the Privy Council, was sent as the inspector of the Dahe River, and led 5,000 cavalry to inspect the bank of the Yellow River. In the face of financial difficulties, he took out a large amount of gold, silver and wealth, and asked Li Hui to take it to reward the soldiers guarding the river.

From the deployment of Zhao Huan and his ministers, it is not difficult to see that Zhao Huan and his ministers are deployed with the defense of the Yellow River natural danger.

Zhao Huan, the king and ministers thought that more than 100,000 soldiers would be able to block the Jin people on the north bank of the Yellow River, and then slowly negotiate with the Jin army.

When the Jin army vanguard Wanyan Loushi led his troops to the north bank of the Yellow River near Heyang, Zhe Yanzhi had already led his troops out of Heyang, retreated to the south bank of the Yellow River, and joined forces with the 5,000 cavalry brought by Li Hui.

The Jin army was on the north bank of the Yellow River, and the Song army was on the south bank of the Yellow River, and the two armies were camping along the river.

Wanyan Zonghan was very worried about the vanguard's army crossing the river, and sent more than a dozen explorers to inquire about the river defense of the Song army.

The horse explorers successively replied: "The southern army is very strong and cannot be easily passed."

Wanyan Zonghan then summoned the generals to hold a meeting to discuss the issue of crossing the river.

At the meeting, someone suggested taking a few days off before fighting.

Wanyan Loushi disagreed and said, "Although there are many soldiers in Song Dynasty, it is not worth fearing. If you fight with them, the outcome will be unknown. It is better to add false sounds and take all the war drums in the army and hit them to the end of the day to observe the changes."

All the generals agreed.

At night, the Jin army's war drums continued to ring all night.

(It is said that later, when the Jin army soldiers were tired of beating, they tied the sheep to the drum and asked the sheep to beat the drum.)

The Song army on the south bank of the Yellow River heard the sound of the Jin army drums so intensely, and was worried that the Jin army would use the floating bridge to attack, so they set fire to burn the Heyang floating bridge.

At this time, on the north bank of the Yellow River, there were still 200 officials from the Xuanfu Department, many local officials, as well as many people fleeing, and about 10,000 war horses, but they didn't have time to cross the river.

Looking at the raging fire on the surface of the Yellow River, the crying sounds on both sides of the river were drying the sky.

In addition, Xuanfu Department also had many gold, silver and silk, but they didn't have time to transport it to the south bank. There were about one million guan just abandoning it in the Yellow River Beach in Heyang.

At dawn the next day, Wanyan Loushi heard that the Song army on the south bank of the Yellow River had disappeared, so he sent Yin Zhu Bojin to lead three thousand troops and Zhang Kezu, the former magistrate of the Weisheng Army, set off from the Qinghejie border and went to explore the way to cross the river.

Yin Zhubojin and Zhang Kezuo came to the edge of the Yellow River and found that the river was not too deep, so they led their troops to wading by the water and then quietly camped behind the Song army camp.

Although Zhe Yanzhi claimed to have 120,000 soldiers, most of them were defeated troops gathered in Taiyuan's rescue battle, and some were newly recruited militias.

These people are all like frightened birds, and their combat effectiveness can be imagined.

Zhe Yanzhi still knows his team and knows how vulnerable this temporary unit is.

Therefore, seeing the Jin army camping behind the back, Zhe Yanzhi thought that all the Jin army had crossed the river, so he hurriedly led the central army to retreat south.

When the other armies saw that the commander had retreated, they all collapsed without fighting.

The collapse of more than 100,000 people was out of control once they ran out of control.

As a result, it led to an irreversible defeat.

When Li Hui heard that the Jin army had crossed the river, he hurriedly fled south.

When he ran to Xiaoyi Bridge, Li Hui left his soldiers here to defend the enemy, and he fled along the mountain road to Yingchang Prefecture, and then drank and enjoyed himself all day long.

With the enemy in front of him, Li Hui actually had a banquet with Wanguan in Yingchang Prefecture.

The accompanying officials and soldiers were both angry and wanted to find an opportunity to kill Li Hui.

The main force of the Jin army's cavalry came to the north bank of Heyang and was overjoyed when the Song army collapsed without fighting!

While ordering the army to cross the river quickly, the Jin army drove the residents of Heyang City out of the city and asked them to dig out various gold, silver and silk that fell on the river beach.

The Yellow River natural danger, which was highly expected by Zhao Huan and even believed to be foolproof, was crossed by the Jin army, and then the two armies of Jin and East China went straight to Tokyo like two steel knives...
Chapter completed!