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Today, Li Yan was in a bad mood.

The front line just heard a very important news back. Fan Zhixu was defeated by Jin's general Wanyan Loushi and is now fleeing to Shaanxi.

Fan Zhixu was an old minister in the Song Dynasty and was a Jinshi in the third year of Yuanyou of Song Zhezong.

Last year, Fan Zhixu was appointed as the prefect of Jingzhao Prefecture (later generation Xi'an, Shaanxi) and dealt with the troops in Shaanxi.

Later, Zhao Huan appointed Fan Zhixu as the Shaanxi Xuanfu Envoy and the Shaanxi Five Roads Strategic Envoy.

Qian Gai was also appointed as the commander of Shaanxi troops and horses, and he served as the commander of Shaanxi.

At that time, the Jin army on the West Road was besieging Taiyuan, and the sound was shocking Guanzhong.

Fan Zhixu learned that the Jin army on the west route was besieging Taiyuan, and initially planned to defend the Yellow River and block the Jin army in Hedong.

Therefore, Fan Zhixu ordered a chain of fortresses to be built along the banks of the Yellow River.

To this end, Fan Zhixu recruited many talents.

Fan Zhixu's principle of recruiting talents is that no matter who is of any kind, as long as he has any expertise, he will borrow a position to pay his salary.

Therefore, monk Zongyin and Taoist priest Zhang Xiaoqing all borrowed Bu to become the chief officials of the Mu.

Zong Yin was from Xiaoyi County, Fenzhou. His original surname was Zhao. He was a monk and served as the elder of Wanhua Temple.

Seeing the war, Zong Yin wanted to go to other places to avoid chaos.

When passing through a temple in Hezhong Prefecture (later in Puzhou Town, Yongji, Shanxi), Zong Yin wrote a poem saying:

"The seventy-year-old monk returned to the east, and the village was in the west and the gate was in my mind. The Great Liao Dynasty was over for half a year and nine minutes, and the whole Jin Dynasty was empty for a year. Zhou Zhao had no good governance, and although Cai Tong died, there was still a remnant wind. Huayin begs for food to Shangshan, and the rock valley was in secluded to look for the four old men."

The pacifier Xi Yi happened to see this poem and felt it was very skillful, so he sent someone to recover Zong Yin.

Xi Yi had a conversation with Zong Yin and was very surprised, so he recommended him to Fan Zhixu.

When Zong Yin met Fan Zhixu, he talked about the way of using troops and talked endlessly.

Fan Zhixu thought that Zong Yin was a strange soldier, so he ordered him to return to secular life and to re-elect his official position as the Zhongsan official and Zhilongtu Pavilion. He appointed him as the senator of the Xuanfu Department and the control of military horses. Wang Wei, Wang Fang, Li Daofeng, Song Kan and other Western Army generals must obey his command.

Zong Yin suggested to Fan Zhixu to build the Great Wall, which starts from Tongguan and ends at Longmen.

Zong Yin said to Fan Zhixu: "In this way, the Jin people can be blocked outside the Great Wall."

Fan Zhixu accepted it happily and signed the official document, strictly demanding that all localities take action immediately.

However, officials at the top and bottom disagree with this.

But Fan Zhixu ignored it and forcibly implemented the Great Wall-building plan of Zong Yin.

The officials then fooled the matter.

As a result, the built Great Wall was only shoulder-height and did not play any role. The Jin soldiers could jump over this "Great Wall" by leaping their horses.

Finally, the large Jin army troops easily passed Fan Zhixu's Great Wall and then crossed the Yellow River.

After that, the small troops of the Jin army were dealing with Fan Zhixu's 200,000 troops (actually only more than 100,000 troops) near Tongguan. Both sides fought back and forth, and the battle was very lively.

In fact, Fan Zhixu was a literati and did not understand military affairs at all. He was definitely an amateur in the affairs of border defense and military reform.

At that time, some people offered a plan to guard the river in order to obtain rewards, such as the Great Wall offered by Zong Yin, which was like a child's play.

But Fan Zhixu couldn't notice it and often ordered it to be implemented according to the law, but the military, civilians and prefectures and counties were bothered.

Fan Zhixu also imitated Zhang Liang's "San Chu Song" by Zhang Liang of the Western Han Dynasty, wrote "San Jin Song" and sent people to post it next to the Jin army camp, or to hang it in prefectures and counties occupied by the Jin people.

The lyrics are as follows:

Bingwu returns to Dingwei in the beginning of Dingwei, and the Jin people are like fish in a cauldron. The fish dives at the bottom of the water and live, and the fish is lost in the beam. The northern people are like horses in the south, and the red sheep, gold rabbit and gold commit suicide. If they kill gold in the Southern Dynasties, the Jin dragon will die in this autumn. The northern people are half of the Southern Dynasties, and they will eventually become kings in the Southern Dynasties. They are frustrated and temporarily resign from the Han lord, and they are confused and can't bear to miss their relatives.

but

Although Fan Zhixu's ability is not good, he has never forgotten his mission to come to Shaanxi.

After capturing Taiyuan, the Jin army quickly moved south and easily crossed the Yellow River.

When the Song army guarding the river heard the sound, the West Road Chief Wang Xiang abandoned the West Capital and fled south.

The storm changes suddenly, and the capital is in crisis.

After Zhao Huan received the report, he appointed Sun Zhaoyuan, the Minister of Water Affairs, as the deputy general manager of the West Road, and ordered him to go to Shaanxi immediately to pass an order to Fan Zhixu, requiring Shaanxi soldiers to quickly enter Beijing to serve the king.

Sun Zhaoyuan led three cavalry out of Beijing, recruited hundreds of defeated soldiers along the way, then entered Shangluo from Nanyang, and finally arrived at Jingzhao Prefecture, and met Fan Zhixu.

Sun Zhaoyuan handed over the troops recruited along the way to Fan Zhixu, united with Fan Zhixu's troops, and conveyed Zhao Huan's imperial edict, and introduced the situation of the capital when he was leaving, as well as what he heard and saw on the road.

At that time, Qian Gai, the commander of Shaanxi, led 100,000 troops to serve the king, and had already arrived in Yingchang (later generation Xuchang, Henan).

However, Qian Gai and the others heard that the capital had been broken, so they fled directly.

Based on this situation, Sun Zhaoyuan believes that Shaanxi must form a team of kings.

Fan Zhixu immediately sent an edict to the Shaanxi ranks, demanding that the army be gathered quickly and go to Beijing to serve the king.

The Northern Song Dynasty had five roads in the junction of Shaanxi and Xixia, namely five war zones, namely Xihe Road, Qinfeng Road, Jingyuan Road, Huanqing Road, and Fuyan Road. These so-called five roads along the border, plus Yongxing Jun Road, are collectively called Shaanxi Sixth Road.

Each line of the ranks has set up a military and political power, which is in charge of the military and political power of the country. The head of the ranks is called the ranks, commonly known as the commander, and is set up in this way, mainly to deal with the Western Xia from a military perspective.

Once a war broke out with Xixia, the court would send ministers to serve as Shaanxi Xuanfu envoy or Shaanxi commander to unify the command of the six armies.

Fan Zhixu's identity was both the General Strategy Envoy of Yongxing Army and the Envoy of Shaanxi Xuanfu.

In theory, Fan Zhixu has the right to mobilize the six military troops in Shaanxi.

However, after Fan Zhixu's letter of edict was issued, only the Huanqing general commander Wang Si and the Xihe general commander Wang Yi quickly led troops to meet. However, the Jingyuan general commander Xi Gong, Qin Feng general commander Zhao Dian, and Fuyan general commander Zhang Shen, all did not come.

At that time, Sun Zhaoyuan was very angry and wrote a total of twenty-eight letters to criticize them.

Only then did Zhang Shen lead the troops, and only then did Zhao Dianye send general Ang Lee to lead the troops into the aid.

Zhou Lianghan, a professor of prefecture in Qinzhou, once met Zhao Dian and persuaded Zhao Dian to lead the troops in person because the capital was in danger, but Zhao Dian refused to listen.

Jingyuan General Xi Gong did not come in the end on the grounds of defending Xixia.

Fan Zhixu finally joined forces with six troops and received more than 100,000 soldiers, known as the army of 200,000 infantry and cavalry. He was the commander of Ma Changyou, the governor of Xining Prefecture, as the commander of Ma Changyou, the Right Wu Duke Chengzhou Tuanjian.

Fan Zhixu ordered Zong Yin to lead the boat troops along the waterway to advance towards the western capital Luoyang.

Zong Yin organized monks into one army, which was called the "Zunsheng Team"; the Xingtong into one army, which was called the "Zhensheng Team".

Most monks and children in Hedong were incorporated into the army, and some were also appointed as officials.

Zong Yin led the boat troops downstream and arrived at Sanmenjin soon, and won small victory along the way.

Fan Zhixu was very happy to hear the news and ordered the envoy of Zongyin Hedong to send troops in order.

At the same time, Fan Zhixu ordered Ma Changyou to purify his military appearance and march towards Tongguan.

After capturing Tongguan, Fan Zhixu ordered to continue to advance eastward and asked the three armies to go out of the pass.

Soon after Fan Zhixu led his army out of Wuguan, he moved around the Mianchi area and later stationed in Qianqiu Town.

In Qianqiu Town, Fan Zhixu finally learned that Zhao Song had died.

Wanyan Zonghan also sent envoys to take the imperial pen of Zhao Ji and Zhao Huan and personally wrote to surrender Fan Zhixu.

Fan Zhixu flatly refused.

(Li Yan also sent someone to surrender Fan Zhixu, but Fan Zhixu also flatly refused.)

Wanyan Zonghan also took the lives of Zhao Ji, Zhao Huan, and the royal family of the Zhao Song Dynasty, and asked Fan Zhixu to let them open up the road they occupied to Hedong.

Fan Zhixu offered a condition that as long as the Jin people released Zhao Ji, Zhao Huan and all the Song people, he would let the Jin people go back to Hedong.

Wanyan Zonghan agreed on the surface, but then he sent Lou Shi to personally lead three thousand cavalry main force and suddenly rushed straight from Yiyang to Qianqiu Town.

Fan Zhixu was unprepared and was defeated, then abandoned his baggage and ran away, with almost half of the casualties.

The commanding troops of Shaanxi, known as the 200,000 army, and the most elite Western Army of the Song Dynasty, collapsed in just one blow.

Only the troops led by General Zhang Shen and Liu Guangshi were not defeated. They turned to Ruzhou (later Ruzhou, Henan) and headed to Jingdong Road Songzhou (later Shangqiu, Henan), which is Yingtian Prefecture.

Finally, Fan Zhixu packed up the remaining troops and retreated to Tongguan. The gate of Hedong opened, and the Jin people, who were already desperate, had another glimmer of hope.

That's fine, the key is that there will be variables in the matter of Li Yan's recovery of Yan Yun. If Wanyan Zonghan could bring back the 30,000 to 40,000 elite Jurchens, then the Jin army would have the capital to turn the tables.

In other words, the cooked duck may have to fly from Li Yan's mouth.

Under this situation, it would be strange if Li Yan was in a good mood.

Li Yan, who was full of evil spirits, asked Xiaoman, the female official on duty today, who was on duty, as soon as she returned to the harem, "Where is Zhao Gou's concubine?"

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Chapter completed!