In the eleventh year of Shaoxing, the Southern Song Dynasty signed a peace treaty with Jin and reached the Shaoxing Peace Agreement.
As a result of the peace talks, Yue Fei was unjustly killed, and the main war faction of the Southern Song Dynasty was purged, and the main peace faction controlled the power of the government.
The rulers of the Southern Song Dynasty, represented by Emperor Gaozong of Song, were in a corner of peace, indulged in the beauty of Jiangnan, and sang songs every day, thinking that the world was too peaceful, and did not know that great calamities were coming.
The Jin people negotiated peace with the Southern Song Dynasty, but because the main war faction of the Southern Song Dynasty represented by Yue Fei was powerful, it repeatedly defeated the Jin army and recovered a large amount of lost land, and it was impossible to destroy the Southern Song Dynasty in a short period of time.
However, as soon as the Shaoxing peace talks came out, Yue Fei was unjustly killed, Han Shizhong removed the military power, surrendered and sent Qin Ju to become the prime minister, and the southern Song Dynasty's decades of efforts were in vain.
In the eighth year of the imperial reign (1148), Jin Wushu died, and his successor was King Yan Liang of Hailing. Yan Liang was greedy and arrogant, and he launched a coup d'état to establish himself as an emperor, bent on destroying the Southern Song Dynasty and enjoying the prosperity of Jiangnan.
In order to achieve the goal of destroying the Southern Song Dynasty, Guanyan Liang continued to move the capital to the south, strengthened his rule over the Central Plains, and built warships to prepare for war.
The military mobilization of hundreds of thousands of people, on a huge scale, in order to keep it secret, yan liang posted the imperial list: dare to say that the Jin army will go south, no matter who beheads.
Yan Liang's behavior was tantamount to no silver in this place, and there were also people in the Southern Song Dynasty court who saw the movement of the Jin Kingdom, and He Jin Zhengdan made Sun Daofu report to the imperial court that the Jin army had the intention of invading the south, but was relegated from the capital by Tang Si, a member of the Qin Juniper. The Jin Dynasty Congratulated Song Zhengdan and made Shi Yisheng look down and euphemistically revealed Jin Guo's intentions, but Zhao Zhuo still did not believe it.
It was not until the emissaries of the Jin people came to the Southern Song Dynasty, scolded Zhao Shuo in the main hall, and threatened to start a war without cutting the ground, that Zhao Shuo realized the seriousness of the problem.
However, by the time Emperor Gaozong of Song began his defensive deployment, Yan Liang had already completed the assembly of his army, and he had mobilized more than half a million soldiers and 600,000 military horses, as well as 30,000 water troops and hundreds of large warships.
After Yan Liang's personal conquest, a total of 600,000 troops marched south from the Jin Dynasty and attacked the Southern Song Dynasty in four ways.
And what was Emperor Gaozong zhao of Song doing at this time?
On the one hand, Zhao Zhuo was busy deploying generals for defense, and on the other hand, he made Zhao Yu the crown prince, so as to emulate his father Huizong and throw the heavy task of resisting Jin to Zhao Huan. If it weren't for the minister of the main war faction who stopped him and wouldn't let him go, Zhao Zhuo would have fled to the sea.
The emperor was still like this, not to mention the civilian generals below, one by one, who were greedy for life and afraid of death. Yue Fei had been wrongfully killed, Han Shizhong had long since died, the Southern Song Dynasty had no more enemies, and the only veteran general, Liu Kun, was seriously ill and had been lying on his sickbed.
In fact, at this time, the combat effectiveness of the Jin army was no longer what it used to be, but the Song army that had lost Yue Fei had lost its leader, the generals were in a vegetarian position, and the soldiers were scattered.
After the Jin army went south, the Song army fled along the way, and the Jin army did not encounter any effective resistance, and within a month it advanced to the north bank of the Yangtze River, across the river from Jiankang.
Liu Kui dragged his sick body to command the troops into Yangzhou, and sent troops north to prepare for the enemy. However, the king in charge of the defense of Huaixi was afraid of the enemy like a tiger, and did not dare to come forward for a long time, resulting in the opening of the huaixi gateway, and the Jin army easily crossed the Huai River.
Hearing that the Jin army had invaded Huaixi, the Song army in the front was self-defeating without a fight and prepared to flee, and everyone in the imperial court in the rear was in danger, and the officials sent their families away, ready to "float the sea to avoid the enemy" again.
If no one had come out of nowhere, the Southern Song Dynasty would most likely have ended like this.
This man's name was Yu Yunwen, and his official position before the war was that of a Zhongshu Sheren, who had neither power nor fame, and was a scholar who had never been on the battlefield.
However, when the generals of the Southern Song Dynasty fled one after another, it was this scholar who stepped forward and turned the tide of the tide.
Yu Yunwen was not responsible for resisting the Jin army at the front, and the general Li Wenzhong was responsible for taking over the quarrying of the Yangtze River Pass in Wang Quanzhen. However, Li Wenzhong moved slowly, resulting in the Song army in the quarry having no generals, the army was scattered, and most of the people were ready to flee.
After Yu Yunwen inspected, he resolutely decided to stay in the quarry and lead the army to resist Jin. Some of his subordinates advised Yu Yunwen not to carry this black cauldron, but Yu Yunwen said that when the country was in danger, PiFu was responsible.
In fact, Yu Yunwen was not a genius from heaven, he was just a scholar, he had never fought a battle, he had never led a soldier, but he boosted the morale of the whole army with his enthusiasm.
In the place of quarrying, the army could not play a role, and could only fight with the water army, while the Song army had strong combat effectiveness. Yu Yunwen took advantage of this and specialized in water battles with the Jin army.
At this time, Yan Liang was also very anxious, and when he attacked the Southern Song Dynasty, the backyard caught fire, and Jin Shizong killed his henchmen and established himself as emperor, and raised a banner to fight against Yan Liang.
In order to hurry back, Yan Liang sped up the pace of the attack. However, the shortcomings of the Jin army's poor water warfare were exposed at this time, and their warships were extremely bulky and difficult to defeat the flexible Southern Song warships. Moreover, the Song army defending the quarry was greatly demoralized under the command of Yu Yunwen, and it was no longer as easy to defeat as it had been at the beginning.
After several battles, not only did not take the quarry, the Jin army also lost soldiers, and the violent Yan Liang wanted to emulate Xiang Yu, and he ordered the whole army to take the quarry within three days and execute all of them.
Yan Liang's brutal military orders made the soldiers under his command chill, especially Jin Shizong in the north was preparing to fight Yan Liang with great fanfare, which inevitably affected the hearts of the army. In the end, Yan Liang was killed by his men, and the Jin army broke out infighting, suffered heavy losses, and withdrew from the quarry.
In order to consolidate his rule, Jin Shizong once again negotiated peace with the Southern Song Dynasty, and the Southern Song Dynasty won a breathing opportunity, and the Jin State gradually lost the ability to destroy the Southern Song Dynasty.
However, the Battle of Quarrying was also a disgrace to the Southern Song Dynasty, and Zhao Zhuo and Qin Ju created unjust cases throughout the ages, killed Yue Fei, deprived Han Shizhong and others of their military powers, and bowed their knees to the Jin people, so that when the Jin army went south, the Southern Song Dynasty did not have a good general who could be of great use, and it was so sad that Yi Shusheng saved the country.