At the end of November of the leap year of Jing Kang, with the help of the Jiancheng cannon plus the popular will of the military and the people, as well as the continuous arrival of the Qinwang army from all over the country, the second defense war of Kaifeng was expected to be won.
Even if you can't repel the Jin soldiers as before, you can at least stalemate with the Jin army inside and outside the city, as long as you can stalemate, there is a possibility of victory.
However, to the expectation of all the military and civilians, this time the city of Bieliang was besieged for more than a month, and it was easily breached by the Jin people.
To be precise, more than a dozen golden soldiers attacked the outer city of Kaifeng, completely opening the prelude to the shame of Jing Kang.
And all of this stems from an old god stick- Guo Jing, the leader of the Divine Soldier who claims to be able to use the "Liujia Divine Soldier" to repel the Jin Army, who is also the Master of Wuluo and the Head of the Yanzhou Assassin History.
What about Guo Jing and the Rokkaku Divine Soldier? Why was the Jin Bing able to easily break through the Beams? What about the fate of the god stick Guo Jing?
1. Veteran Guo Jing came into being?
Guo Jingneng appeared in great detail before and after the Jingkang Revolution and left a detailed record, thanks to a poem with a prophetic nature.
Guo Jing was very mixed up before compiling the "Liujia Divine Soldiers", he was an ordinary soldier of the Dragon Guard Army, the forbidden army stationed in Bieliang City, or more precisely, a veteran soldier.
At least fifty or sixty years old.
"Kyo, the old man also." (Compilation of the Three Dynasties Northern League, vol. 69)
According to the normal course of history, no one will pay attention to this veteran, how many princes and generals have not left many records, who will care whether Guo Jing is dead or alive?
It was not until the Second Time that the Jin People went south to the front to direct the compilation, rumors of panic in the Beijing Division, especially a prophetic poem suddenly circulated.
"Guo Jingyang is suitable for Liu Wujie, and lies in the white clouds to the southeast."
This is a poem by Emperor Renzong of Song, the Great Confucian, the Yi scholar, and the mathematician Qiu Mao in his own book "Poetry of Guan Shi Sentiments", which does not have much significance in itself.
However, due to his identity as a Yi scholar, coupled with the rumors of various salvation gods in the Beijing Division, Sun Fu, the Shangshu of the Bingbu Department, believed that this poem was the only way to break the enemy this time.
In particular, guo jing, Yang Shi, and Liu Wuji in the poem are obviously three personal names, and they must be the key figures who survived this military raid, so they began to unite with some imperial court officials to begin to search.
As a result, in the roster of the Dragon Guards, an old pawn named "Guo Jing" was found, and Sun Fu and others happily explained their intentions to Guo Jing.
If it is a normal person, he must resign, this is a lifelong soldier who has not mixed with a low-level military general, where does he have the ability to break the golden soldiers?
But Guo Jing obviously took this as an opportunity, and in line with the principle of taking advantage of the opportunity not to miss the time, Guo Jing really bragged to them that he knew magic.
"Falsely claiming to have Li Yaoshi technique." (Jing Kang ZhiLu)
He also said that he would know the Liujia Technique, and he said that he would sprinkle beans into soldiers, and he said that he could kill the enemy stealthily, and anyway, he blew himself into the sky.
The point is that Sun Fu and others really believed it.
Therefore, Guo Jing was promoted to Cheng Zhonglang, and soon promoted to Wu Yi Dafu, and finally appointed as the deputy capital of Gongsheng, and was recommended to Song Qinzong by the palace marshal Wang Zonghao.
However, the prime minister at that time was He Ke, and after he saw Guo Jing, he sarcastically said:
"Veterans play, can you really do it?" (Three Dynasties Northern League, Vol. 65)
Guo Jing blushed and couldn't answer, but he did miss a hand in front of Song Qinzong and the courtiers, of course, not magic but juggling.
He brought a cat and a mouse, drew a field for them to fight, opened gaps on both sides for the way of life and death, and let the mouse and the cat enter through different gaps.
If the cat enters from the path of life and the mouse enters through the path of death, the mouse will be bitten to death by the cat; if the mouse enters from the path of life, and the cat enters through the path of death, the cat will not catch the mouse no matter how much it bites.
Then publicly boasted:
"If you use soldiers like this, the thief can't see it in the way of entering life, and you can win it!" (Three Dynasties Northern League, Vol. 69)
Therefore, Guo Jing once again added the official to the knighthood, and was made a martial arts doctor by Emperor Qinzong of Song, a yanzhou assassin, and a commander, and ordered him to form a liujia divine army to break the enemy.
2. The city of Bieliang is full of divine soldiers and heavenly generals
In fact, clear-eyed people know that Guo Jing is fooling people, but anyone who has read the Four Books and Five Classics will not believe it, but why is Guo Jing still reused in the end?
Because Song Qinzong and his subjects faced the besieged Jin soldiers, they really couldn't think of any good idea of retreating from the enemy as soon as possible, so let's just use the dead horse as a living horse doctor.
The key is that Wang Zonghao, Sun Fu, He Xiao, and other people who recommended Guo Jing are in high positions of power, and generally knowledgeable bureaucrats are not useful for speaking. Originally, Prime Minister He Ke was resolutely opposed.
But He Ke soon did not resign.
He Yu, who succeeded him, was even more fanatical in worship of Guo Jing:
"The group of ministers had different discussions, and after a few days of resignation, they used He Yu as the prime minister, and Sun Fu's ministers were also fortunate that their techniques were available." (Three Dynasties Northern League, Vol. 69)
Therefore, Hu Guojing was appointed by Song Qinzong, and in the case of such a poor and urgent situation as the Beijing Division, he also allocated hundreds of thousands of dollars to him to recruit divine soldiers.
We mean that Guo Jing can also deal with this person, he takes the money of the imperial court to really do things for the imperial court, not to save the wool of the imperial court without discipline, that is really to form a divine soldier as a mission to complete.
In fact, it can be said that he flickered and fooled himself into believing.
He put up a recruitment flag in the street market and began to recruit soldiers openly, at that time, the resistance of the people of the Beijing Division was very high, and soon some people came to sign up to join the army.
Because after the rendering of the ministers in the imperial court, everyone heard that Guo Jing was a great immortal who could perform the Liujia Divine Arts, and could he suffer losses if he fought with the great immortals?
Besides, joining the army now is not only to share the worries of the imperial court, it really belongs to the defense of the family and the country, that is, the Bieliang was attacked by the Jin soldiers, and everyone had to break their homes and die.
"The people who live in the capital, no matter whether they are noble or lowly, are all happy to jump, and the people who speak the language of the people and the people of Beijing, and those who raise their foreheads with their hands, are called Xianggong." (Three Dynasties Northern League, Vol. 69)
The big guys really believed in him.
However, Guo Jing's requirements for the Divine Soldier are also really high, and the most basic requirement is one, that is, whether your birthday year is auspicious, and if it is auspicious, you can be directly admitted.
Even the better the birthday, the more he can be appointed as a general, such as a small trader who sells silk threads, who is setting up a stall and is targeted by Guo Jing, after learning that his birthday is auspicious.
He was appointed as a general of the Divine Soldier on the spot.
On the contrary, if the birthday is not auspicious, even if you are really capable of martial arts, Guo Jing will resolutely not open the back door for you.
"There are martial ministers who want to be partial, and The capital does not allow it: Although the gong is a martial artist, he is afraid that he will die in the first month of the Ming Dynasty, and I am afraid that I will be tired." (Jing Kang ZhiLu)
Some warriors prepare to defect to him, but are turned away by Guo Jing's insistence on principle, because his birthday is too unlucky, and his life expectancy will soon come to an end.
Isn't that embarrassing yourself?
In the end, Guo Jing successfully recruited 7,770 people, called "Liujia Divine Soldier" or "Liujia Zhengbing", in addition to the 5,000 "Strange Soldiers" recruited by Sun Fu.
It was also under the command and dispatch of Guo Jing, so the total number of divine soldiers was more than 12,000, but in fact, most of them were rogues in the city, and there was no combat effectiveness at all.
"The recruiters are many of the disciples of the city well... They all lead troops to and from the city, which is really a child's play. (Jing Kang Jiwen)
Although Guo Jing was born as a dragon guard, he was actually a soldier, and he was neither capable of commanding tens of thousands of horses nor training them.
So it's just a bunch of rabble-rousers, the combat effectiveness is basically zero, really pulled to the battlefield and waited for the whole army to be destroyed!
In addition to Guo Jing's Liujia Divine Soldiers, many people in the city followed Guo Jing's "sudden wealth" and raised a variety of "Divine Soldier" teams:
"Yan Bingji retired from the enemy to recruit troops, and there were many generals, or liu ding lishi, or big dipper divine soldiers, or tianguan generals." ("Song Chronicle of the End of the Chronicle of the Jin People's Invasion of the South")
For a moment, the cow ghost snake gods all came out and hissed.
3. The Liujia Divine Soldiers could not save the Great Song Dynasty
After the formation of the Divine Soldiers, Guo Jing always boasted to people that it was a trivial matter for me to fight back the Golden Soldiers, and you would wait for me to bring them home.
"Choose the sunrise master, and if you choose the sunrise master, you can go to Taiping in three days, and you will reach the Yin Mountain!" (Jing Kang ZhiLu)
Subsequently, he planted the banner of the Divine Soldier on the side of the city, and then created the statue of the Heavenly King, the Banner of the Heavenly King, and other sacred objects, and placed three sides on each wall that were said to be able to ensure peace.
On November 25, the first year of Jing Kang's leap year, Guo Jing's divine soldiers, under the repeated urging of Sun Fu, finally wanted to go out of the city to fight with Jin Bing to the death.
In fact, before the Divine Soldiers went to war, the Song Army and the Jin Soldiers repeatedly engaged in bloody battles of attack and defense, and although the Song Army could not completely repel the Jin Soldiers, the Jin Soldiers could never break through the outer city.
Moreover, the casualties of the golden soldiers in the continuous tug-of-war are not small.
Under normal circumstances, as long as the Song army is stable and not waves, at least it can be delayed for another month or two, and there should be no problem, waiting until the Qin Wang army arrives or the Jin soldiers lack logistics.
You will be able to win the second battle of Kaifeng.
However, on the 25th day of the leap month, Guo Jing ordered the long-closed Xuanhua Gate to be opened and commanded the Divine Soldiers to go out of the city to fight with the Jin Soldiers head-on.
He himself sat at the head of the city with the famous minister Zhang Shuye to supervise the battle.
In peacetime, the Song army would not take the initiative to go out of the city to attack the Jin soldiers, because the Song army was ravaged by the Jin cavalry, and going out of the city in the field was equivalent to finding death.
To be able to hold the city wall and not let the Jin people enter the city is a victory.
Even if they felt that there were fighter planes to go out of the city to fight or sneak attacks, the Song army would prepare sufficient bows and crossbows at the head of the city to defend themselves, and once they lost the battle out of the city or the Golden Soldiers counterattacked.
They will be able to use crossbows to repel them and avoid taking advantage of the opportunity to enter the city.
"Every division is out, and the city is full, and when our division is a little bit gone, that is, it will shoot with both forces and use this to retreat from the enemy." (Jing Kang ZhiLu)
However, before Guo Jing let the Divine Soldiers open the door to go to war, he withdrew all the Song troops guarding the city, don't ask why there was such a brainless operation.
The question is that some of the above are divine soldiers waiting for the pillow, but they are invisible to mortals such as stealth, and when the Golden Army attacks the city, they will kill all four sides.
It's actually nothing.
After finishing the matter, more than a thousand divine soldiers opened the Xuanhua Gate and rushed out, and then they were blocked by more than two hundred Golden Army cavalry, and the two hundred cavalry surrounded them in two ways.
Directly kill the divine soldiers to the point of crying wolves and corpses all over the field.
The divine soldiers who rushed to the front became cannon fodder, and the divine soldiers who followed behind immediately returned to the city when they saw that the situation was not right, and as a result, most of them were crowded and trampled and drowned in the moat.
Because the suspension bridge is full of the dead bodies of the divine soldiers, the suspension bridge in the city cannot even be dragged up, fortunately, the city gate was closed urgently after finding that the situation was not right, otherwise the golden soldiers would have directly killed the city.
"The suspension bridge has been crushed by corpses and cannot be held. The devastation is exhausted, and the cries of wailing cannot bear to be heard. (Three Dynasties Northern League, Vol. 69)
Soon Jin Bing rushed to the city gate, and as a result, Guo Jing's divine operation came again, and he said to Zhang Shuye, who was supervising the battle together, that it seemed that Jin Bing was still a little capable.
I had to go down and do it myself to repel them.
The result?
As a result, Guo Jing did not do anything after he went down to the city, but directly took the remaining divine soldiers and sneaked away from other city gates to escape south.
Guo Jing's escape did not matter, the defending imperial officers and soldiers outside the city of Bieliang, people's confusion collapsed in an instant, from the original oath of death to lose their armor and flee for their lives.
"Although Ban Zhi and the officers and soldiers were in a well-woven arrangement, none of them had a mortal enemy, so they all went down to the city and fled." (Three Dynasties Northern League, Vol. 69)
The Jin soldiers took the opportunity to attack Xuanhua Gate, Nanxun Gate and other places, and more than a dozen Jin soldiers passed through the ladder and climbed to the head of the city without encountering any resistance.
It was announced that the outer city of Bieliang had been breached by Jin soldiers.
"The iron horse went up the city, and there was only one ladder, which could control fifty people. At the beginning, more than ten people climbed the fort, and none of the officers and men used their lives, and the city fell. (Jing Kang Essentials)
The outer city was besieged by Jin Bing for more than a month without incident, and as a result, it was successfully delivered to Jin Bing in less than a morning by Guo Jing's divine soldiers.
Thus there was the shame of Jingkang later.
As for Guo Jing, who pits the dead and does not pay for his life, he successfully fled south to Xiangyang under the protection of the divine soldiers, and he did not leave the old line of pretending to be a ghost along the way, pretending to be able to summon rogues and remnants of the army.
After arriving in Xiangyang, he began to die, originally Emperor Gaozong of Song had already ascended the throne, but as a result, he wanted to establish other clans as emperors, after being unsuccessfully protested by his subordinates.
Liaison officers and soldiers beheaded him.
This result is really too cheap this old god stick.
(A word of family, seek common ground while reserving differences, thank you for reading)