The Great Song Dynasty looked down on the Western Xia that occupied the land of the northwest projectile, and the surname Li of the Western Xia royal family was still given by the Great Song, but the Western Xia army that came out of such a poor and small place beat millions of Song troops, forcing the Great Song to buy peace for silk, tea, and silver. Emperor Taizu of Song Zhao Kuangyin completely castrated the Song army with the brainless military ancestral system of civilian officials leading troops and separating soldiers, and terrible disasters were striking the Great Song step by step.
Wang Anshi prescribed a strong medicine to the Great Song Dynasty, in order to rapidly improve the combat effectiveness of the army, the army wanted to abolish the ancestral system of civilian officials leading troops and separating soldiers and generals, and also engaged in weapon research and development, as a result, these good things that could help the Song army to be reborn from the ashes were all scrapped by the old guard, dooming the Song army to continue to be beaten to a tragic fate. The Song army could not even defeat Western Xia, let alone the Khitan army in the north, and the two sides could maintain peaceful coexistence for hundreds of years, all relying on the continuous support of the Great Song silver. When the Jurchen army violently pounded the Khitan legion, which had only one breath left, Emperor Huizong of Song adopted Ma Zhi's suggestion and united with the Jurchens to beat his ally Khitan eldest brother to death. Ma Zhi originally wanted to use the Jurchens to recover the Sixteen Prefectures of Youyun, which had been occupied by the Khitan for hundreds of years, but unfortunately he did not expect that the Great Song army was stretched beyond his own understanding!
The Jin and Song dynasties signed a military secret treaty in Linhuang to attack Liao in the north and south, and the first task of the Song army was to attack Nanjing and Yanjing in Xialiao in the north. Prince Yelüchun, the uncle of the late Liao emperor Yelü Yanxi, saw that his nephew was so frightened that he fled to the Yin Mountain area of Inner Mongolia, and he himself became emperor in Yanjing. The Song army reneged on the covenant and was attacked by the eunuch Tong Guan, and the Khitan soldiers, who had only one breath left, were forced to meet the battle, and actually quickly repelled the two armies of the Great Song. The Liao general Guo Yaoshi turned against the water and presented the chassis of two states to the Great Song Dynasty, and the Song army regrouped, and Tong Guan made the second Northern Expedition. Prince Yeluchun was dead, and Empress Xiao sent Shiji to ask for peace, willing to be demoted to a vassal of the Great Song. Tong Guan did not urinate, sent troops to attack Yanjing, the two armies fought again at the Lugou Bridge, and the 200,000 troops of the Song army were quickly rushed by the iron horse amid the ridicule of the Khitan soldiers, and the deaths and injuries were completely miserable. When the Jurchens got the news of the defeat of the Song army, it was simply incredible, and they instantly understood that the weakest lamb to be slaughtered was not the Liao soldiers, but the more stretched allied army of the Great Song. Yanjing eventually fell under a slight attack by the Jurchen Corps, and the Great Song immediately became the next target to be destroyed.
When the commander of the Jurchen Eastern Road drove his troops to the city of Kaifeng, the ministers put the blame on Emperor Huizong of Song and asked Emperor Huizong to abdicate and apologize, and Emperor Huizong had no choice but to cede the throne to his son Zhao Huan, who was the late emperor of the Northern Song Dynasty, Emperor Qinzong of Song. Emperor Qin ordered 20,000 Song troops to protect the last blockade, the Yellow River Crossing Bridge. The laughable scene came, the Song army finally climbed on the back of the horse, but the hand was holding the saddle and did not dare to let go, and the people of Kaifeng who sent them to meet the enemy were extremely shocked, and the incompetence of their own army broke through the bottom line. As soon as these soldiers saw the banner of the Jurchen army, they scattered and scattered. The defenders of the south bank were the bravest, and they did not forget to light a torch to burn the bridge before running. When Emperor Huizong of Song learned of this, he quickly led his henchmen out of the city and fled south. Among the courtiers, only Li Gang insisted on sticking to it. Fortunately, all kinds of reinforcements arrived, which made the Jurchens accept the Song land cession to negotiate peace, and Emperor Qinzong clearly ordered the Song army not to raid during the retreat of the Jurchen army, otherwise it would be punished as rebellion. No one in the Song army dared to take any defensive measures, for fear of angering the enemy.
The supreme ruler Song Qinzong was making small moves, one to support the Jin State general Yelu Yujian in launching a mutiny, and the other was to send people to unite with the Western Liao, which had long fled west to the Khitan royal family, in a vain attempt to attack something. The most brain-dead thing was that the secret of uniting with Yelu Yujian to launch a mutiny actually asked Xiao Zhonggong, an envoy from Jin Guo to collect money, conveyed it, and bribed this person with a lot of money. As soon as Xiao Zhonggong returned, he reported to his master, and the Jin people had an excellent excuse to destroy the Song. The Jurchen army attacked Kaifeng in two ways, east and west, and the 300,000-strong army of the Great Song Dynasty really did it with fear, and as soon as they heard the war drums of the golden people, they scattered birds and beasts, and the Jurchens occupied hundreds of thousands of square kilometers of land in northern China in two months, and then the two armies met in Kaifeng. Song Qinzong was supposed to accept the unequal treaty cede to the entire region north of the Yellow River, but he listened to the nonsense of the scoundrel Guo Jing.
Guo Jing said that he could do it, using the immortal art Liujia method to defeat the gold soldiers and capture the enemy's head alive. The method is to select 7,779 strong men and defend Kaifeng through methods to make them invulnerable. The senior leaders of the Great Song army all applauded, and Song Qinzong gave up the idea of signing a contract to surrender and decided to resist to the death. Guo Jing first let all the defenders on the original city withdraw, and then opened the city gate and ordered the divine soldiers to attack on all lines, and all of them were used as cannon fodder. Fortunately, the defenders closed the city gates, and Guo Jing fled down the city. The Jin soldiers quickly climbed the undefended gate, and Kaifeng, the strongest city of the Great Song Dynasty, soon fell, and the shame of Jingkang, after Emperor Hui Qin was captured alive and detained in the north, finally came.