In 1206, the 6th year of Taihe, Jin Zhangzong was still intoxicated with the prosperity brought by his grandfather's "rule of Dading", and Jin Zhangzong usually boasted of being the "son of heaven of the Han family" and did not regard himself as a Jurchen. The feudalization of the Jin State was completed in the era of Jin Zhangzong, and even the emperor spoke Chinese and did not know what the Jurchen language was.
The Jurchens are less than 10,000, they can't fight, and the brave and good fighting of the ancestors in the past no longer existed in the era of Jin Zhangzong. Jin Zhangzong enjoyed the hundreds of thousands of coins sent by his "nephew" Southern Song Dynasty on time every year, and his life was very nourishing, he didn't want to break this tranquility, so he lived his best.
Jin Zhangzong hoped to maintain the original relationship, and the two sides began economic and trade exchanges, each taking what he needed. However, the Southern Song Dynasty was unwilling to accept this humiliation. Song Ningzong did not want to stand up and accept the "edict" of the Jin State, and also hated his ancestors for being captured by the Jin army, and vowed to take revenge.
Han Yanxuan, the prime minister of the Southern Song Dynasty, had the idea of sealing the wolf Juxu, and strongly advocated the Northern Expedition. For this reason, Han Yanxuan restored Yue Fei's glory, deprived Qin Hui of all titles, reused Xin Qiji, Lu You, Ye Shi and other main battle factions, and created public opinion in China to prepare for the Northern Expedition to the Central Plains.
The Southern Song Dynasty planned the Northern Expedition, and Jin Zhangzong was aware of it and hurriedly sent an envoy to Hangzhou, hoping for peace talks. Jin Zhangzong is willing to make concessions on etiquette, and he can also reduce some of the coins. The Jin State compromised, but the Southern Song Dynasty did not accept it, and also sent envoys to the Jin State to raise the "price code".
On the Yen Ching Restaurant Hall, the envoys of the Southern Song Dynasty were full of confidence and were not afraid of the Kingdom of Jin at all. The envoy of the Southern Song Dynasty directly told the people of the Jin Kingdom: Aren't you afraid that we will join forces with the north and attack the Jin Kingdom together? The implication is that the rear of the Jin State is unstable, and to recognize the reality, the Minister of the Jin State has nothing to say.
Jin Zhangzong did not want to fight, the reason is not difficult to understand, in addition to the Mongolia threat, the main thing is that the generals of the Jin State withered, and the famous generals such as Servant Sanyu and Yan Zonghao left by his grandfather Yan Yong were dying. In addition, the Jin army was decaying and declining, the soldiers were unwilling to fight, and the imperial court was financially constrained, making it unsuitable for war.
In the face of the provocation of the Southern Song Dynasty, Jin Zhangzong chose to tolerate it, and he let the servants sit in Kaifeng, focusing on the defense of the Yellow River and the Central Plains. Jin Zhangzong seemed to be able to hold Kaifeng and keep the north of the Yellow River, but the two Huai forces were inadequate, so they did not take the initiative to attack.
In 1206, the Southern Song Dynasty sent troops to the Northern Expedition, Huang Fubin, Wang Dajie, Guo Ni, Wu Xi and other separate ways to attack, the Song army totaled more than 20 thousand, the momentum was huge, and the history was called the "Kaixi Northern Expedition".
At first, the progress of the Southern Song Dynasty was okay, but after Jin Zhangzong began to counterattack, the Song army was exposed. In particular, the main force of the East Route Army was even more miserable, and Huangfu Bin of the Middle Route fled directly, and Jinghu and Lianghuai were defeated.
The Eastern Route Army is undoubtedly the most distressing. Guo Zhuo, Li Ruyi, and Tian Junmai conquered Sizhou, killed Suzhou, tried to enter Henan, seize Guide and Kaifeng, and join the Central Plains with the Middle Route Army to recover the lost territory.
In the battle of Suzhou, the two Huai loyal rebels revolted one after another, took the initiative to assist the Song army, and took the lead in climbing the city. The loyal and righteous army is not afraid of death, braving the rain of arrows and arrows of the golden army, and is about to climb the city tower. At this time, Guo Zuo and Li Ruyi will be bad.
Guo Zuo and Li Ruyi thought that the Jin army was easy to fight, and they did not want the loyal and righteous army to snatch the credit. To this end, Guo Zuo ordered the Song army to shoot arrows, kill the loyal and righteous army, and attack his own allies. The loyal and righteous army was very annoyed and simply assisted the Jin State in defending the city.
The Jin army and the loyal and righteous army joined forces, and the Song army lacked offensive weapons and could not take Suzhou, so they camped on the spot and prepared to besiege the enemy. At this time, Fu Sanhua led the main force to kill, and unfortunately it rained heavily for several days, flooding the Song army camp, Guo Zuo had to retreat, and the Jin army launched a pursuit.
The Song army was defeated in successive battles, retreated to Qi County, and was surrounded by servants. The servant gave the condition: It was Tian Junmai who provoked the battle, and if you kill him, I will retreat and give you a way to live. Guo Zuo and Li Ruyi were very happy, and in order to escape from the encirclement, they "gifted" Tian Junmai to the Jin army.
Fu Sanhua really let go of a road and let the Song army break out, but set up an ambush halfway, Guo Zhuo and Li Ruyi were only spared, and the east road was defeated. As for Bi Zaiyu, the so-called Lian Zhan Lian Jie, this old veteran is only an intermediate general, and it is useless to win a partial, not a big war.
Wu Xi failed in the battle on the West Road, had no enthusiasm, and was worried about being held responsible, so he simply surrendered to the Jin State and sacrificed the Guanwaizhou County, and the Jin army captured the Monk Yuan and Dasanguan, and the Sichuan portal was opened. Wu Xi rebelled and became king, Sichuan and Shu were in civil strife, and the Song army was too busy to take care of itself, so it was impossible to talk about attacking the Jin army.
After a series of failures, Han Qian panicked and hurriedly sent envoys to negotiate peace, but no one was willing. For this reason, Han Yanxuan found the county commander Fang Xinru and asked him to send an envoy to Jin Guo to discuss the terms of peace. At this time, Fu Sanyu died of illness, and Wanyan Zonghao was in charge of military affairs, humiliating Fang Xinru halfway.
Jin Guo proposed five peace terms, including indemnities in various places, as well as compensation for military expenses, and also to get Han Yan's head. Fang Xinru came back and told Han Lixuan that Jin Guo wanted to "get the head of the Taishi", and Han Lingzhou had no way to retreat, so he could only continue to fight.
Jin Zhangzong didn't expect the Southern Song Dynasty to pull his hips so much, and he wanted to fight a defensive war, but it turned into an offensive war, so he simply launched the "Taihe Southern Expedition" and took the initiative to attack the Southern Song Dynasty. However, Wanyan Zonghao was also old and died of illness in the army, so Jin Zhangzong put Wanyan Kuang in charge of the Southern Expedition, he was just a second-rate general.
The Northern Expedition of Kaixi turned into the Taihe Southern Expedition, the Jin army drank the Yangtze River, took Yangzhou and Yizheng, threatened to cross the Yangtze River, conquered Jiangning and Hangzhou, and captured Song Ningzong. In this way, the internal contradictions in the Southern Song Dynasty were acute, and Empress Yang and Shi Miyuan joined forces to execute Han Yanxuan, and sent the head to the Jin State to accept the peace proposal.
In 1208, seeing the defeat of the 200,000 Song army, Song Ningzong was disheartened and said to the minister: "Everyone wants to restore the Central Plains, but unfortunately the strength is not good", accepted the conditions proposed by the Jin State, and reached the "Jiading Peace Conference".
In the Jiading Peace Conference, the Southern Song Dynasty increased the annual currency by 100,000 taels, and also paid 3 million taels of silver for the "Taihe Southern Expedition", and the two sides changed from the country of uncles and nephews to the country of uncles and nephews. After a battle, Jin Guozhangzong changed from an uncle to an uncle, although he didn't want to fight this battle.
Tai and the Southern Expedition, Jin Zhang was worried that he would not win, and he also changed the coach 3 times, who knew that the Southern Song Dynasty was even worse. After the Jiading Peace Conference, Jin Zhangzong soon died of illness. Three years later, Genghis Khan sent his troops to the south and defeated the 450,000 Jin army at Yehuling.
If the Southern Song Dynasty knew how to accumulate strength and did not easily launch the Kaixi Northern Expedition, and when the Jin army and Mongolia sent troops to the Central Plains during the fierce battle at Yehuling, they should be able to recover the lost territory.