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The Chinese army and the Jin army formed a confrontation in Taiyuan Prefecture.
Zheng Fei left Lu Zhishen, Wu Song and others to lead 200,000 Chinese troops to defend Taiyuan Prefecture and block the Jin army. Yue Fei was also left there together. Then he personally led 400,000 troops to continue south.
Wanyan Zongwang was overjoyed when he learned about it and immediately led the Jin army to make a comeback. However, the Chinese army was defending and did not fight. Moreover, the Chinese army's weapons and equipment, especially heavy weapons, were extremely powerful, causing heavy losses to the Jin army's offense, but they had not even encountered the Chinese army's border. Wanyan Zongwang was very angry, but he had no choice but to change the direction of the attack and advance westward, intending to revolve with the Xia army.
Unexpectedly, as soon as he led his main force to leave Taiyuan, the Chinese army took the initiative to attack and chase him. He led the army to counterattack, and the Chinese army retreated back to Taiyuan. Such an almost rogue fighting style made him feel troubled and wanted to vomit blood, but he was still helpless and fell into an embarrassing situation where it was neither right to advance nor retreat.
Let’s talk about Zheng Fei leading his army southward. The news spread. Rebels from all over the country moved with the wind and raised their flags to attack. In just a short time, Zheng Fei’s 400,000 army developed to one million people, and attacked the Yellow River with unstoppable momentum, only a dozen miles away from Kaifeng.
When Zhao Huan heard the news, he wanted to escape from Tokyo immediately, but he couldn't bear to leave the wealth in the palace. He thought that he still had tens of thousands of imperial guards guarding the Yellow River. With them, the Chinese army could not cross the Yellow River for a while, so he decided to seize the time to clean up the wealth in the palace at night, so he didn't want to fall into the hands of the Chinese army. He would go out of the city and flee to the south tomorrow to make a comeback. But he did not expect that when the tens of thousands of imperial guards saw the overwhelming Chinese army coming, they ran away overnight, allowing Zheng Fei to lead the Chinese army to cross the Yellow River smoothly and surrounded the city of Tokyo directly. He couldn't run away even if he wanted to.
Here, Zheng Fei sent Li Gang, Liu Fa, Zhong Shidao and Yao Gu to lead 200,000 Western troops to continue to fight the Xia army, and he led the remaining troops to continue to surround Tokyo and make a stance to break the city.
When Zhao Huan learned about it, he was panicked. The Prime Minister Zhang Bangchang and others quickly made suggestions and persuaded Zhao Huan to negotiate peace with the Chinese army, and ceded the country in large areas and surrendered to the vassal in order to protect them.
Zhao Huan agreed all of them, so he sent an envoy out of the city to seek peace, but Zheng Fei ignored them and continued to surround Tokyo City.
On the seventh day of surrounding Tokyo, people in Tokyo rose up, opened the city gate, and let the Chinese army enter the city. After only half a day, the Chinese army controlled the entire Tokyo city except the palace.
Under Zheng Fei's strict order, the Chinese army was still disciplined and did not violate the people in Tokyo. They only searched for the list of corrupt officials and bullies investigated by the secret spies. All the people in the city were moved and greeted the Chinese army.
On that day, the Chinese army launched an attack on the Song Dynasty Palace. Halfway through the attack, someone came to report that he had captured Emperor Zhao Huan of Song.
It turned out that when Zhao Huan was desperate in the palace, he suddenly remembered the secret passage that his son Zhao Ji used to secretly leave the palace to meet Li Shishi. He took off his dragon robe and hid it from everyone in the palace, only Zhao Ji, his own queen, several children and several eunuchs and palace maids. He wanted to sneak out of the palace from the secret passage and then find a way to go south after leaving the city.
Their actions were originally flawless, and they escaped from the palace without knowing it. Unexpectedly, Zhao Ji retraceed the secret passage and went to Li Shishi's boudoir to see things and thought about his "miserable" experience. When he thought of his "miserable" experience, he cried so sadly that he could not hide it. After leaving the boudoir, the waiter discovered something abnormal. At this time, the soldiers of the Chinese army came to patrol. The waiter secretly reported the matter. The soldiers of the Chinese army realized that something was wrong and immediately took down Zhao Huan and others. After a little scolding, one of the eunuchs was recruited. Only then did the Chinese army soldiers realize that they had caught such big fish inadvertently!
With Zhao Huan's arrest, there was no need for the people in the palace to continue to defend themselves. On that day, the palace gate was wide open, and the Song Dynasty royal family and all officials hiding inside surrendered. Almost none of the direct lineage of the royal family and the main officials in the court escaped. But then there was news that 18 ministers including Ouyang Xun, Sun Fu, Li Ruoshui, etc. hanged themselves in the palace.
When Zheng Fei learned about it, he was deeply saddened and announced that the eighteen loyal ministers of the Song Dynasty were buried with the courtesy of the national ranks, and their families were also properly treated.
Afterwards, Zheng Fei issued an order to dismiss Zhao Ji and Zhao Huan from the throne of the Supreme Emperor and the Emperor, and demoted them to common people, and took them to farmlands in the suburbs of Beijing to work for three years, be self-sufficient, and pay taxes and food according to the tax amounts stipulated by them, so that they could experience how difficult it is for the people to live under their governance.
As for the subsequent public trial of corrupt officials of the Song State captured, it is no problem to give the people justice and so on.
Soon, news came from the west that Li Gang, Liu Fa, Zhong Shidao, Yao Gu and others led the Western Army to Luoyang, and joined the remnants of the Western Army and the rebels who were retreating there. After three rounds of decisive battles, they successfully defeated the main force of the Xia army and chased the Xia army for 300 miles westward. The Xia army suffered heavy losses and was no longer a threat.
Ten days later, Hua Rong and Pang Wanchun led their troops from Nanjing Road to Xijing Road according to the plan. When Wanyan Zongwang learned about it, he was shocked. In order to prevent Xijing from falling and the retreat was cut off, he had to leave 50,000 of the original Liao surrendered troops, and he led the main force of the Jin army back to Xijing for rescue regardless of everything.
These former Liao surrendered troops certainly understood that they were staying for death, and they hated the Jin people very much. As a result, they collectively surrendered to the Chinese army after only one day of defense. The Chinese army chased the Jin army fiercely, and Wanyan Zongwang dared not fight. He was chased by the Chinese army and retreated back to the Western army. The Chinese army also took this opportunity to regain most of the territory occupied by the Jin army. Yue Fei, who was entrusted with important tasks by Zheng Fei, also showed his extraordinary ability in this series of battles, deeply impressed the generals of the Chinese army.
By the end of November of the fourth year of Dahua, under the counterattack of the Chinese army and the rebels from various places, the Jin and Xia armies had retreated to Xijing Road and Xia Kingdom respectively. The two northwest routes of the Song Dynasty, the third routes of Hebei, Tokyo, Xijing, Beijing and other places had all been included in the territory of Dahua Kingdom.
In early November, after careful arrangements, with the support of the Liao surrendered army of the Central Plains of the Jin army and the peasant uprising army of the Liao Dynasty who was surrendered by the Jin army, the Dahua army divided into two groups, with a total of 500,000 people, and launched an attack on the Jin army on Xijing Road.
A month later, after paying a huge price of casualties and causing greater casualties by the Jin army, the Chinese army successfully recovered Xijing Road and captured the deputy commander of the Jin army, Wanyan Zonghan, and the head commander of the Jin army, Wanyan Zongwang, were seriously injured by the ravage arrow in the battle of Xijing. Later, he died on the way back. This battle completely broke the myth of the Jin army's undefeated.
In May of the fifth year of Dahua, Emperor Zheng Linfeng of Dahua and Emperor Yelu Caijie of Liao jointly announced that Dahua and Liao merged, the empress abdicated, and the crown prince of Liao Zheng (Yelu) Anbei was named King of Liao.
On the same day, Emperor Dahua Zheng Linfeng issued an order to abolish Nanjing Road and Xijing Road, and merge the two places into the new Yanyun Province.
From the end of the fourth year of Dahua to the end of the sixth year of Dahua, after nearly two years, the Dahua Kingdom completely captured the remaining entire territory of the Song Kingdom. In June of the fifth year of Dahua, the Jin Emperor Wanyan Aguda suddenly died of illness, and the Jin Kingdom was also in chaos due to the unexpected death of Wanyan Zongwang. In the same month, Zheng Linfeng announced the establishment of the Western Expedition Army, with Li Gang, Zhong Shidao, Liu Fa and others leading 400,000 New Western Armys to attack the Xia Kingdom. By November of the sixth year of Dahua, the Western Expedition Army captured the capital of Xia Kingdom, and Emperor Xia Li Qianshun committed suicide and died for the country, and Xia was destroyed.
In March of the seventh year of Dahua, Emperor Zheng Linfeng of Dahua announced the establishment of the Northern Expedition Army, with Hua Rong as commander-in-chief and leading an army of 600,000 to the north to attack the Jin Kingdom. At this time, Yue Fei, who had grown up, also served as the commander of the Northern Expedition Army. After three years of hard and heroic battles, in May of the tenth year of Dahua, the Northern Expedition Army captured the Jin Kingdom Shangjing, captured almost the entire Jin royal family, including the Jin Emperor, and took them to Dahua Shangjing. This was also a landmark event recognized by the destruction of the Jin Kingdom, which was recognized by later generations.
Then, Hua Rong and Yue Fei took advantage of the victory and launched an attack on Goryeo. They won consecutive victories. The King of Goryeo asked for peace and was willing to be a vassal state. Emperor Dahua Zheng Linfeng ignored it and continued to order the attack. Three months later, the King of Goryeo surrendered and Goryeo destroyed the country.
At this point, Zheng Linfeng issued an order to include Goryeo in the territory of Dahua, becoming Dahua's fourth province in the Northeast, and comprehensively implement Dahua's education, learn Chinese, and practice Chinese customs.
By the twenty years of Dahua, after the war, the Dahua Empire had formed a huge empire on land.
However, Emperor Zheng Linfeng, who was nearly 60 years old, was not satisfied. In April of the 20th year of Dahua, the Dahua Navy launched an attack on Japan. After five years of battle, the Japanese royal family was completely destroyed in the 27th year of Dahua and established four provinces in Japan.
In June of the 30th year of Dahua, Emperor Zheng Linfeng of Dahua suddenly had a whim and wanted to go to Wutai Mountain to ginseng Buddha, and brought Li Qingzhao, Li Luoling, Hu Sanniang, Yelu Caijie, Crown Prince Zheng Anguo, Han Zheng Anbang, Liao Zheng Anbei and others to the day they arrived at Mount Wutai, Zheng Linfeng led everyone to a dilapidated courtyard in Wenshu Courtyard. He ordered people not to follow him and enter the Buddhist temple alone until late at night. Seeing that he had not come out for a long time, Li Qingzhao and others were worried and were about to resist the order to enter the Buddhist temple to find out, but they followed Zheng Linfeng's three hearty laughters from the temple and said loudly, "So that's it!"
Everyone was shocked and was about to push the door in, but they heard Zheng Linfeng's voice coming from inside, calling on the prince, the King of Han, the King of Liao, Zhu Wu, Hua Rong, Yue Fei, Li Gang and other ministers to enter.
Everyone entered the Buddhist temple and came out for a long time, with strange expressions. Li Gang immediately announced that His Majesty had been rumored to be located in the Crown Prince Zheng Anguo.
Everyone was shocked, and they heard Zheng Linfeng's voice coming out, asking Li Qingzhao, Li Luoling, Hu Sanniang and Yelu Caijie to enter, and the rest of the people were not allowed to follow.
Li Qingzhao and others also entered the Buddhist temple, but for a long time, no movement in the Buddhist temple came out.
The prince and others were worried and were hesitating whether they should go in and take a look. Suddenly, Mount Wutai was shaking, and golden light appeared in the Buddhist temple. Everyone stood still and fell to the ground. After a while, the world returned to peace. Everyone hurriedly entered the Buddhist temple, but they saw that there was no one in the Buddhist temple.
When the news came out, the whole world was shocked. Everyone said that Emperor Huawu was a god in heaven. He saved the people in the next life. Now that he has achieved great merit, he has brought several fairy couples back to the Pure Land in heaven.
Soon, Prince Zheng Anguo held the Hall of Ascension and officially became the second emperor of the Great China Kingdom. He was enlightened and brave, and had the spirit of his father. The prosperity and stability of the Great China Kingdom were continued.
One day, Zheng Anguo suddenly summoned the founding old minister who was already 80 years old, and his father-in-law Zhu Wu, and asked him that the late emperor summoned us to the Buddhist temple on Mount Wutai that day. You were the last one to come out. What did the late emperor say to you?
Zhu Wu pretended to be deaf and did not answer at all. There was only a deep smile hidden in his eyes, as if he had recalled something...
Is the story over?
Of course not...
Chapter completed!