Chapter 10: The Sun Rises
The eagle flaps its wings and flies a thousand miles a day.
Except for Zhao Jiu, almost all the civil and military officials of the Song Dynasty believed that the Jin army, which had just returned a few months ago, would not invade the south again in the short term. They had various reasons, such as fatigue after a long time, insufficient logistics, the death of the Grand Marshal and the Second Prince, and internal power struggles... But in the final analysis, they were all using their own views to trick the other party.
Little did people know that since Jin Taizu Wanyan Aguda started his rebellion against Liao thirteen years ago, the Jurchens have repeatedly defeated the larger force with the smaller one. They swallowed up Liao and destroyed Song, and from a mere corner of Liaodong, they spread their military power to the Central Plains in thirteen years and shocked the world. The army of this fishing and hunting nation was probably at the peak of the cold weapon army of the old era.
A general of the Western Army described the Jurchens, saying that in previous battles between the Song Dynasty and the Western Xia, both sides would often fight for supremacy, and would collapse if one side lost the support. However, when fighting against the Jurchens, their side would still collapse after one defeat, while the other side would be able to disperse and reunite, and go away and come back again, and often they could not defeat the other side after a whole day of fighting. Even the Jurchens themselves boasted that if the cavalry could not charge back and forth a dozen times in one battle, how could they be qualified to be called cavalry?
This kind of sharpness and organization is simply unimaginable for the Song Dynasty's imperial guards, who would disintegrate without any reward... Think of the classic example of a famous general of the Western Army whose subordinates dispersed in a hurry just because they didn't get any reward after a round of shooting with the Divine Arm Bow. This could probably only happen in the Song Dynasty army, right?
In addition, the Jurchens started out as a fishing and hunting tribe and had won battle after battle for thirteen years. Naturally, they plundered the spoils in the most brutal way, which can be described as fighting to support the war. This army kept learning military technology while also using the spoils to supply logistics and arm themselves. How could they worry about logistics?
As for the internal power struggle, this is an objective reality. The actual interests of the factional struggle within the Jin Dynasty are almost the same as those in the Song Dynasty. It can be seen at a glance.
However, the problem is that, firstly, Wanyan Wuqimai (Wanyan Sheng), the King of Jin and Aguda's brother, was quite prestigious and could still make decisions; secondly, with constant seizure and expansion, what internal contradictions were worth mentioning?
In other words, it is precisely because of the internal conflicts that it is necessary to send troops south to plunder the incompetent Song Dynasty, and to ease the conflicts with one victory after another, countless wealth and the atomic maidens in the Central Plains!
In fact, a few months ago, the second most important figure in the Jin Dynasty, the second prince Wanyan Wuliebu (Wanyan Zongwang), who actually presided over the destruction of the Song Dynasty, died of illness as soon as he returned to the north. After his death, the military and political power of the Jin Dynasty was quickly reorganized into the hands of three factions.
The first is naturally the leader of the Jin Dynasty, Wanyan Wuqimai (Wanyan Sheng), who was later called Jin Taizong. He was Aguda's younger brother. Around him were Aguda's other brothers and cousins, such as Wanyan Talan (Wanyan Chang).
Secondly, there was the great contributor to the Jin Dynasty, the Marshal Wanyan Nianhan (Wanyan Zonghan), who had been competing with the Second Prince Wanyan Wuliebu (Wanyan Zongmou) since the time of the Second Prince.
Moreover, this person was far away from Aguda's line, but he was a member of the majority of the Jin dynasty. All of them were Bogile (similar to the prime minister, with the flavor of clan politics in primitive society, and his power was far greater than that of the prime minister). He was the commander of Aguda's right army when the Liao dynasty was destroyed, and the commander of the western army when the Song dynasty was destroyed. His qualifications and achievements were the best in the entire Jin dynasty after Wanyan Wuliebu died of illness.
At this time, this man not only supervised the Jin Dynasty's ever-victorious general Wanyan Loushi's troops and was responsible for the Hedong war zone, but also actually controlled most of the newly occupied areas in Hebei after Wanyan Wulibu's death. He was arguably the most powerful man in the country.
However, no matter what, neither Wanyan Wuqimai nor Wanyan Nianhan could deny or infringe upon the authority of Wanyan Aguda and his direct lineage. Therefore, after Wanyan Aguda's death, Wanyan Wuliebu became the commander-in-chief of the Jin Dynasty, and was above Nianhan. Now that Wuliebu was dead, after a short period of competition and communication, Aguda's three remaining eldest sons each gained something, and one of them took the lead and quickly inherited Aguda's direct lineage's prestige and part of the military power in the Eastern Route Army.
This person is Wanyan Zongbing, the fourth son of Aguda, Wanyan Wushu!
As for Wanyan Wushu, since he was in power as an important official of the Jin Dynasty and was naturally the direct leader of Aguda, he found that he was simply unable to compete with Nianhan in Hebei, and it was even more difficult for him to go to Youyan and Liaodong to find fault with his uncles and brothers. Therefore, according to the simple thinking of the primitive tribe, he almost instinctively gave up the internal strife and instead naturally proposed a military strategy of going south again to plunder the Song Dynasty.
Their original intention was to attack the northwest of Beijing (Shaanxi-Luo area) and the east of Beijing (Shandong area), which were of strategic significance to the Central Plains, and finally see if they could take advantage of the situation to attack the Central Plains, defeat the new Zhao Song officials, and plunder wealth, children, craftsmen, and military equipment.
If possible, he actually wanted to occupy the Central Plains in order to compete with Nianhan in Hebei!
Even if the plan to take over the Central Plains fails this time, after controlling the two wings, they can turn around and launch a large-scale security war against Hebei and Hedong, and completely digest these two fertile lands that are the foundation of the country.
Therefore, this wave of invasion is actually inevitable!
No matter what, since Jin Wushu had this idea, although the Jin King Wanyan Wuqimai and the Marshal Wanyan Nianhan had their own considerations and had some arguments, they finally quickly reached a mutual compromise... In other words, just a few months after returning to the north, the top leadership of the Jin Dynasty had already approved the strategy of a third main force marching south to invade the Song Dynasty.
According to the plan, Wanyan Nianhan was nominally the chief commander, but it was Wanyan Loushi, the ever-victorious general of the Jin Dynasty, who led the original western army that invaded the Song Dynasty and marched south again. A total of 100,000 Jurchen soldiers, Liao surrendered soldiers, and even Song surrendered soldiers crossed the river to the south to attack Luoyang and Shanzhou!
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