Yu Yunwen organized resistance to defeat 400,000 Jin troops and won a great victory in quarrying, but Yan Liang wanted to be ruthless but was killed, at this time, Song Gaozong, who had reigned for 35 years, suddenly abdicated.
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Twenty years after the Shaoxing Peace Conference, Yan Liang led the Jin army to invade the south again. Just when the Southern Song Dynasty was carrying out defense adjustment, the main force of the Jin Army had easily driven to the north bank of the Yangtze River.
Yu Yunwen, a Zhongshu Sheren who was ordered to comfort the troops, went to the quarry front, which is now southwest of Ma'anshan, Anhui, and the incompetent king at that time actually left the army without waiting for the handover, and Li Xianzhong, who succeeded him, had not yet arrived at his post, but the 400,000 troops of the Jin state on the other side could cross the Yangtze River at any time.
This is not to mention, Yu Yunwen found that the troops on his side had no fighting spirit at all, and the remnants of the defeated generals were leaderless, and they took off their armor and sat on the side of the road in pairs. When Yu Yunwen saw that this could be done, he gathered the generals together and inspired them to rise up in the War of Resistance and serve the country.
In fact, the generals were angry at the incompetence of the royal power, which made the army loose, and now look at this civilian and military staff officer who came to comfort the troops can bravely shoulder the heavy burden, everyone is also a patriot, and they are immediately stimulated to be bloody, saying that you are all in charge, and we will fight with you to the death.
At this time, someone reminded Yu Yunwen, saying that your task is to treat the troops, you have no responsibility to supervise the battle, ah, now that the battle has become like this grandmother, you still have to carry the pot? Yu Yunwen was furious when he heard this, this is a critical juncture for the survival of the country, am I afraid of taking the consequences and avoiding responsibility?
Yu Yunwen's courageous spirit greatly boosted morale, and he and his generals then assigned subordinates, arranged defenses, and organized many local militia and masses to support the front.
On the side of the Jin army, a high platform was built on the riverside, and Yan Liang personally commanded the Jin army to cross the river with a red flag, and hundreds of large ships full of Jin soldiers drove to the opposite shore. He originally thought that there were no Song troops stationed on the other side, but suddenly found that the Song army had already lined up and waited for him. At this time, it was already very difficult to retreat, and he wanted to simply rely on his powerful forces to crush it.
Just when the Jin army's forward had already landed, the Song army pounced on it and slashed, catching the Jin army by surprise, and on the river, the Song army's water army also pounced on the Jin army's big ship.
The gap between the two sailors is still very large, the Song army's ship is a multi-pedal loach boat, large and flexible, the Jin army's ship is large, but it is very unstable, coupled with the soldiers' training level and tactical play style is generally lagging behind the Song army, the golden army on the water basically only has a share of beatings.
Relying on the superiority of ships, the Song army adopted the tactic of collision and sank countless enemy ships. On that day, the golden warships lost more than half of the battle, but yan liang did not retreat from the battle, and the battle continued when it was almost dark.
At this time, a group of Song soldiers who had fled from Gwangju (Huangchuan, Henan) arrived at the quarry. Yu Yunwen asked them to reorganize their ranks, gave them many battle flags and sermons, waved the flags from behind the mountain, and beat the drums to the riverside. The Jin soldiers on the river heard the drums on the south bank and saw countless flags shaking behind the mountain, thinking that a large number of reinforcements from the Song army had arrived, and fled for their lives.
In this way, the Jin army suffered an unexpected and fiasco, and the anger was so angry that it was thunderous, and it vented all its anger on the soldiers, and ordered the next day to forcibly cross the Yangtze River.
The next day, the Jin army crossed the river from Yanglin upstream, and was attacked by the Song army's water army that had been ambushed in advance, and it was a strong crossbow and a thunderbolt cannon, which defeated the Jin army again.
This was the turning point of this Song-Jin war - the great victory of quarrying.
Yan Liang was not willing to accept defeat, and seeing that the defense of the quarry was too strong, he moved his troops to Guazhou and prepared to cross the Yangtze River from here.
This was also anticipated by Yu Yunwen, who led a force to support the defense of Guazhou and Jingkou, that is, Yangzhou and Zhenjiang. He went to Jingkou to visit the seriously ill veteran liu kun, and Liu Kun praised him: This imperial court has been raising soldiers for more than 30 years, but he did not expect that the great achievement was actually made by you, a scholar.
At this time, more than 200,000 reinforcements from all walks of life had been gathered here, Yu Yunwen was well dispatched, and land and water troops shuttled back and forth to deter the Jin army on the other side.
At this time, the Backyard of the Golden Army was on fire. Since Yan Liang came to power, he has practiced high-pressure rule in the Jin Kingdom, levied tyrannically, and exhausted the military force, and the undercurrents within the Jin Kingdom have long been surging. This time, he took all the troops of the whole country to the south to invade, just to provide an opportunity for people to launch a coup d'état.
Yan Liang's cousin Guan Yan Yong, a survivor of the Massacre of the Imperial Household, was proclaimed emperor in Liaoyang, denouncing Yan Liang's guilt and ordering the Southern Expeditionary Corps to return to China for standby. Finished Yan Yong is Kim Sejong.
Upon learning the news, Yan Liang planned to destroy the Southern Song Dynasty with all his might first, and then turn back to suppress the rebellion, because if the army was withdrawn directly, the Song army would be attacked by the enemy with it behind it. To this end, he ordered that the whole army must cross the Yangtze River within 3 days, otherwise all of them will be executed.
Yan Liang was very brutal, and in the battle of the quarry, he executed a number of soldiers who he thought were not brave in battle, and now that such an order had been given, everyone felt that there was no hope at all. The gap between the water war and the Song army is too big, and this cannot be made up by the will to war, just like the Boxers, no matter how brave, can not do the guns of the Eight-Nation Alliance by relying on large swords and spears and drawing spells.
The generals of the Jin army plotted a mutiny, and at dawn the next day, they broke into Yan Liang's tent and shot him, and then in response to Yan Yong's edict, the whole army retreated.
Objectively speaking, Yan Liang still had a certain role in promoting the historical development of the Jin Dynasty, and the southern expedition he launched also had the hope of success, but he ascended the throne by means of a coup and ruled brutally, which seemed to determine the outcome of his failure. History is like this, it has its inevitability, but the process is full of accidents.
The Jin army retreated north, and the Southern Song Dynasty successively recovered lost land in jingxi, Huaibei, Shaanxi and other places, and even recovered many prefectures and counties in Henan, extremely close to Kaifeng. However, soon, Jin Shizong finished Yan Yong to collect the retreating Jin forces and began to counterattack, and although the Southern Song Dynasty lost most of the newly recovered land, the two sides repeatedly competed in various battlefields and were in a state of stalemate.
At this critical moment, Emperor Gaozong of Song suddenly announced his abdication and Emperor Xiaozong of Song ascended the throne.
Song Gaozong reigned for 35 years, and at this time he was almost 60 years old, and the back and forth between him and the Jin Kingdom for so many years was not light. He devoted his life to peace negotiations with Jin Guo, did not hesitate to seek perfection, and even killed Yue Fei, a banner figure who resisted Jin, although he launched the Qin Juniper Top Cylinder, but everyone knew that he was behind his command. But such a big price, in exchange for not a long-term peace, Yan Liang easily tore up the peace and invaded the south, which was a very big psychological blow to Song Gaozong. He felt ashamed of his face and the courtiers, so he simply said that he was ill and gave the throne to the crown prince Zhao Xuan (shèn).
In fact, he was 56 years old at this time, in good health, and lived for 25 years after his abdication.
Song Xiaozong was the emperor of the Southern Song Dynasty who wanted to make a difference the most, and the only monarch in the Southern Song Dynasty who aspired to recover. In the second month after he took the throne, he formally completely rehabilitated Yue Fei's unjust case, and the people of the government were invigorated.
So in his hands, what kind of deeds will the Southern Song Dynasty do?
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