Chapter 128 Never Lose

The spring of the first year of Jingkang came late in the rare winter cold. What happened during this period is enough to change the fate of a country and a nation, and it is destined to go down in history.

Just when the Taiyuan people fought desperately with the Jin soldiers, the new court of the Song Dynasty was also extremely unstable. Zhao Huan, a newly ascended official of the Song Dynasty, is not a talented and wise master. He has just taken over this messy stall from his father of the emperor of calligraphy and painting. It can be said that he is at a loss. In addition, the golden soldiers under the city had just been withdrawn, and he was often afraid of being scared day and night. For these civil and military ministers who fought separately in the court, Zhao Huan also lacked a clear understanding and sufficient control ability, so that now at the critical moment of the country, the old party on the court is still fighting with each other. The main war faction and the main faction are bit together, and the chickens and dogs are inseparable all day long.

In fact, recently, the focus of the debate between the two factions is on Taiyuan!

Li Gang of the main war faction, Zhong Shidao and Zong Ze, a veteran who had just been recalled to the court, agreed that the Song Dynasty could never give up Taiyuan, a military town. Although the Jin soldiers were temporarily withdrawn, the movement of Wanyan Zonghan's fierce attack on Taiyuan can show that they are definitely not ambitious. They want to open up the Hedong Corridor to the Central Plains after taking down Taiyuan to facilitate the invasion of the south in the future!

The Lord and the faction believe that since Taiyuan has been ceded to the State of Jin, if they send troops to interfere in the matter of Taiyuan now, they will lift a stone and smash their own feet, and take the initiative to anger and offend the Jin people. Don't violate the taboo of diplomatic relations between the two countries because of the gains and losses of a small projectile city!

The two factions argued endlessly. Zhao Huan lacked his own opinions and inexperienced. In addition, he suffered from congenital "political childishness" like his father, so he was completely unable to make a decision.

If the new king Zhao Huan can be a little decisive at such a jux, the war in Taiyuan will not be so difficult.

Finally, just when Wanyan Zonghan made the decision to "fight for the last ten days", Zhao Huan finally bravely neutralized the opinions of the main war faction and the main peace faction, and decided to "send troops" to Taiyuan. The previous siege of the golden soldiers scared the courage of the Zhao and Song official family. This time, he finally got the courage to decide to send troops, but he was afraid that the "nameless division" would anger the Jin people. Therefore, he did not forget to repeatedly confide the generals who led the troops to the expedition, and asked them to declare to the Jin people that they were "not here to fight against the Jin Kingdom for the enemy", but to "mediate" the struggle between the Jin Kingdom and the original stationed troops of the Song Dynasty in Taiyuan, aiming to help the State of Jin "collect" Taiyuan and "clean up the door"!

In this move alone, the cowardice, short-sightedness, deception and meanness of the Song Dynasty made many ministers and generals chills - the king of Taiyuan and others are desperately protecting the city of Zhao and Song, but you threaten to "help the golden people collect the city" and "clean up the door", which is more chilling than this. What's the matter?!

Even so, in order to rescue the military town of Taiyuan in the overall situation, Xu Han, who has always been famous for his loyalty and uprightness, still led three soldiers and horses to Taiyuan together with the generals of the Western Army, Zhong Shizhong, Yao Gu, and Zhang Hao, the son of Zhang Xiaochun, the governor of Taiyuan, and others!

The situation, which seemed to have undergone a sudden reversal, began to become beneficial to the Song Dynasty and Taiyuan City.

At this time, Wanyan Zonghan fully reflected the true nature of his generation of heroes, and also showed his outstanding military talents to match him!

When detecting that the three armies sent by the Southern Dynasty came to Taiyuan from Henan, Hebei and other places, Wanyan Zonghan immediately angrily scolded the Southern Dynasty for treachery and scolded Xu Han and others. Although Xu Han is a strong point for a literati full of poetry and books, he also seems to have determined that the Song Dynasty is indeed unreasonable in this matter, so he can only take out the official teaching rhetoric and state to Wanyan Zonghan that he is here to "mediate the fight" for Jin Guo and Taiyuan.

Wanyan Zonghan laughed when he heard it. This sentence was enough to show the cowardice and lack of confidence of the Southern Dynasty, as well as the hesitation of the generals in front of the Song army. Therefore, Wanyan Zonghan sent people to fool Xu Han about the theory, and on the other hand, he stepped up the general Wanyan Valley God and others to divide the troops to defend. Just as Xu Han racked his brains to "continue to argue" with Wanyan Zonghan, Gu Shen and others launched a surprise attack on Xu Han's army first!

The result can be imagined that Song Bing was defeated and defeated for dozens of miles!

After beating Xu Han fiercely, Wanyan Zonghan did not forget to send someone to ridicule the reinforcements of the Southern Dynasties - your monarchs and ministers of the Southern Dynasties are capricious and have repeatedly done these untrustless villains, and you always have to pay a little price!

When it comes to this, it is obvious that it has torn the face!

Although Xu Han is a literati, he is straightforward. He has a bit of book business and bachelor courage. When he encounters such deception, fiasco and humiliation, he can't care much - he ordered the three armies to go hand in hand and fight with Wanyan Zonghan!

But after the deception a few days ago, the best fighter has been lost. Wanyan Zonghan has already set up a "locked city" fortification like a copper wall and an iron wall in the hundreds of miles outside Taiyuan, which has long prevented the rescuers from the periphery of the Southern Dynasty. Now he has also strengthened his precautions. The field battle was originally the strength of the Jin cavalry. They are simply looking for it. How can Xu Han fight in? After only three days of fierce fighting, Xu Han, a literary minister who did not know the military but had been in a hard command, did not get any advantage of the loss of soldiers, so he had to temporarily withdraw from the camp and rest. At the same time, he wrote to the court for the "next order".

This is a typical "war method" of the Song Dynasty. The army on the front line thousands of miles away should also follow the command of officials. In particular, literati like Xu Han are even more obedient to lead troops, and they will never take half a step over the thunder pool!

The life and death of Taiyuan is "helpful" in the eyes of Xu Han and others, because they feel that they have "do their best"!

Tens of thousands of troops failed to enter within a hundred miles of Taiyuan. Therefore, Wang, Chu Tianya and others in Taiyuan City know almost nothing about what happened.

Wanyan Zonghan's outstanding military talent is undoubtedly revealed. The more tense the situation is and the more tense the war is, the more he commands everything. His Zurman's army has gained a lot of trophies after several field battles. Not to mention the bottoming out and rebounding, at least the military experience has stabilized a lot. Now Wanyan Zonghan seems to have trained three heads and six arms. He has to attack Taiyuan and resist Xu Han's three-way army on the periphery, but also to prepare for the surprise of the rebels on Taihang Mountain, but he is flexible and calm.

While resisting Xu Han's army with attack instead of defense, Wanyan Zonghan's offensive against Taiyuan became tighter and tighter. Although he despised the Southern Dynasty and Song Bing from the bottom of his heart, this does not mean that he will really be arrogant and underestimate the enemy. He knew that if the battle was put off, it would only be bad for him. Only by taking Taiyuan as soon as possible and creating this established fact can the small calculation of the Southern Dynasties be completely shattered, and Xu Han's army will also retreat without fighting!

As a result, Taiyuan faced a greater dilemma - the maiden who was attacked on the periphery attacked Taiyuan more fiercely!

It can be said that the "send of troops" of the Song Dynasty against Taiyuan this time, because of the party struggle and policy of the court, and the officials are also guilty and afraid of being a thief, the front-line generals also lack of confidence and hesitation, which directly led to the loss of fighters and the defeat of the battle. Instead of alleviating the tension in Taiyuan, this made Taiyuan fall into greater danger!

The square city gate is almost broken; the bullet city is shaky!

When the battle comes to this point, it is the will and faith that is completely fought. Taiyuan soldiers and civilians who lack food and clothing only have one idea in their hearts: after the city is broken, they will be slaughtered by the golden soldiers! Instead of becoming a prisoner and being executed, it is better to fight to the end and die vigorously!

When people are in a desperate situation, they can often inspire extraordinary power.

The population of Taiyuan City has shrunk by nearly half compared with that before the lockdown. But now, more people have participated in the defense of the city - the elderly, women and even children have entered the battle!

No one is mobilized, and there is no need for mobilization; in the face of the threat of death, people have the instinct to survive - Taiyuan, finally united!

In the face of the crazy attack of real women, Taiyuan soldiers and civilians returned a more crazy counterattack. As long as there are people in the city who can move, they are all involved in the defense of Taiyuan. The old, weak, women and children helped search for food in the city and took care of the wounded. Even children under the age of ten broke through the ice in the river in the city to catch fish and shrimp to sponsor military food, or simply picked up the knives and guns of the fallen soldiers and joined the battle to defend the city.

Such a scene can always be seen above the head of the city. The old man who climbed up the head of the city with a crutch, saw a golden soldier attacking the top of the city, threw a crutch and rushed up, and fell down the city with the golden soldier with him - they even spontaneously formed such an organized team to do this kind of thing of death, known as "old and old". When he dies first, he calls himself "the old army".

There is also a group of widows of fallen soldiers who, together with other women, spontaneously formed a "women's army" of thousands of people, and took the initiative to join the command of Xiao Linglong, the famous "Rose Night Fork" in Taiyuan City. Day and night training is extremely hard to be better than men. At first, they were only temporarily integrated into the army patrol to be responsible for the public security in the city. Later, the city defense was tight and they also threw themselves into the battle. In the life-and-death battle, they killed a resounding name of "Yecha Army".

The old army, the Yecha army, the Boy Scouts... In Taiyuan City, all the people are soldiers!

The blood of the dragon city, which has been lurking for a hundred years, wakes up passionately before the end of the world.

Chu Tianya used his pen to fully record everything that happened during this period.

Too many feelings and too many shocks made him feel the weakness of his strokes and the lack of words. He felt that the little bits and pieces that happened under the narrow sky of Taiyuan in just a few days were enough to constitute a magnificent national epic!

On the title page that has been left blank, Chu Tianya wrote this sentence with a trembling pen——

"There may be a break in the city, and there will be a death in the end; only the fierce dragon soul will never be defeated!"