Rebirth: Overthrow Song Dynasty

At this moment in Chang'an City, there is no news from Tongguan yet!

The sky was getting dark, Zhao Chen and Wang Shu were standing on the city wall, they let the heavy snow fall on them, and they were discussing the issue of the Jurchen army! They just got the news from Fuping that the Battle of Fuping ended two days ago and Jurchen was defeated. At this moment, Yue Fei is leading the imperial army to pursue Jurchen!

At this moment, there was a sound of shouting outside the city gate!

Zhao Chen looked down and said in surprise, "It turned out to be Yu Yunwen!"

At that moment, Zhao Chen hurriedly asked people to open the city gate, only to see Yu Yunwen strode up the city wall with a few people, and came in front of Zhao Chen!

"My minister sees Your Majesty!" Yu Yunwen knelt down and said.

"Get up quickly! Aren't you in Wugong County? Why come to see me at this time?" Zhao Chen said.

"When I heard the news that the Jurchen army had landed at Longmen, I was a little confused, so I came to pay my respects to Your Majesty!" Yu Yunwen said as he stood up.

"What doubts do you have in your mind?" Zhao Chen asked.

"Your Majesty, I am worried that the army of the traitor Zhao Gou will invade from Tongguan!" Yu Yunwen said.

"What?" Zhao Chen was taken aback, and said, "How did you come to such a conclusion?"

"Your Majesty, when the Jurchen army went south last year, Liu Guangshi and Zhang Jun were in the south of the Yangtze River and did not go to Kaifeng at all! At that time, Zhao Gou relied on Zongze's rebel army to block the Jurchen army! But this time, Liu Guangshi and Zhang Jun led A 200,000 army came to the Kaifeng area. I heard that they are still marching north! Why is Zhao Gou’s behavior so different this time from the last time? I have been thinking hard these days until the Jurchen invaded Longmen two days ago When the news came, Weichen faintly came to a conclusion! Perhaps Kang Wang's rebels have teamed up with Jurchen! Jurchen attacked us from Longmen, and Kang Wang's rebels invaded from Tongguan! The two of them are probably joining forces!" Yu Yunwen said.

"This..." Zhao Chen was startled, and immediately thought about it!

"Your Majesty, the reason why King Kang's rebels sent Liu Guangshi, Zhang Jun and others to the north was not to guard against Jurchen, but to deal with us!" Yu Yunwen said.

Zhao Chen was in a state of confusion, he had never thought about this question before! On the one hand, the current situation is very different from the historical situation. He still regards Jurchen as his main enemy and dismisses Zhao Gou! On the other hand, he thought that Jurchen was a foreign race, and Zhao Gou was a member of the same clan after all. He never thought that the two families would join hands!

"That's right! It's very possible! Liu Guangshi, Zhang Jun and others are probably here to deal with us! The two of them have 200,000 troops under their command, and Zong Ze has countless rebels under him! They may all be dispatched this time. No! We have to go to Tongguan immediately to support Tongguan!" Zhao Chen said.

"Yes! Your Majesty is right!" Yu Yunwen said.

They were talking here, and there was a sound of horseshoes in the distance, and more than a dozen cavalrymen were running towards here!

These cavalrymen held the emergency tokens of the army in their hands. When they came to the gate of the city, they learned that Zhao Chen was above, and immediately ran towards it!

When they ran to the top, they were all panting!

At this moment, they all knelt down on the ground, and a leading corporal took a few breaths and said, "Your Majesty, something is wrong...someone...someone attacked Tongguan! It seems to be the subordinate of King Kang's traitor!"

He has been on the road until now, and now he speaks in such a hurry that he can't help coughing!

"What? How many soldiers and horses do they have?" Zhao Chen asked hastily.

"At least more than 200,000!" The Wuchang said.

"This... is actually true?" Wang Shu had an unbelievable expression on his face!

Hearing Yu Yunwen's analysis before, Wang Shu didn't take it seriously, but now he knows it's true! Yu Yunwen, a seventeen-year-old young man, guessed everything right! Kang Wang and Zhao Gou really joined forces with the Jurchens, and they attacked the Hanzhong regime together!

"There are only 10,000 defenders in Tongguan, so they will definitely not be able to stop King Kang's army of rebels! We must rush there!" Zhao Chen said.

"Your Majesty, it's already too late! It's too late! It has been at least two days since the soldiers who reported the news came from Tongguan, and it will take us two days to rush there! In four days, King Kang's subordinates may have already conquered Tongguan." It's useless for us to rush there!" Yu Yunwen said.

"Then what do you say?" Zhao Chen asked anxiously.

"Your Majesty, the number of defenders in Chang'an City is extremely limited now! There are only a mere 2,000 soldiers, and even if the imperial battalion is included, it is only 7,000 soldiers! How can these 7,000 soldiers guard Chang'an? Come, Chang'an will be lost! We must withdraw from Chang'an!" Yu Yunwen said.

Zhao Chen stayed there, he couldn't believe the situation before him!

He stood at the top of the city, looking at the heavy snow all over the sky, and at the clear white land in the distance, his heart was in a mess! This sudden news made him feel extremely stressed!

However, he is a king who has experienced countless hardships, which is very different from ordinary peaceful kings! In a short time, his heart had calmed down, and he began to analyze whether what Yu Yunwen said was right or wrong!

In the end, he had to admit that what Yu Yunwen said was completely correct!

He can't save Tongguan at all! Even if he rushed over now, Tongguan might have fallen! Moreover, if the number of enemies really reaches hundreds of thousands, even if the quality of the army is extremely poor, it may not be very difficult to conquer Chang'an!

"Your Majesty, we must withdraw from Chang'an now!" Wang Shu said.

Zhao Chen nodded with some difficulty!

"Immediately send someone north to inform Yue Fei! Tell Yue Fei that Tongguan is lost, and Chang'an is about to fall too! Tell him to immediately lead the forbidden army to the south! Now it is no longer important to eliminate the Jin soldiers. In the north there are Jingyuan Army, Huanqing Army, and Northern Shaanxi Forbidden Army. They can stop the golden soldiers! Also, Yu Yunwen, I want to ask you, can you use the Production and Construction Corps? Can you fight on the battlefield?" Zhao Chen calmed down, looked at Yu Yunwen and said.

"The production and construction corps has been established for less than four months. They mainly focus on production and construction on weekdays. However, after winter comes, they have nothing to do, so the amount of training has increased! But even so, they are not regular troops. I think If we want to fight the rebels head-on, I'm afraid it won't work! However, the ministers have already laid down layers of defense before they came, and they rely on the terrain to defend, so they should be able to stop the rebel army!" Yu Yunwen said.

"Very good! Yu Aiqing is the pillar of the country. After this battle, I will definitely take care of you! Inform the people in Chang'an City to evacuate Chang'an immediately and head towards Wugong County! Also, the food, supplies, weapons stored in Chang'an City You must take them all away, and you must not leave anything behind for the enemy! For a long time, I will give you half a day, and you must withdraw everyone from Chang'an! I will personally lead the Queen of the Imperial Battalion!" Zhao Chen said.

"Your Majesty, you must leave here first!" Wang Shu said immediately.

"Your Majesty, Lord Wang is right, you must leave Chang'an first!" Yu Yunwen said immediately.

"I have made up my mind! Carry out my order immediately!" Zhao Chen said flatly.

Now that he has absolute authority, no one dares to say anything about his refusal so lightly! Immediately, Wang Shu and Yu Yunwen got busy, and they sent troops to inform the people in Chang'an City to leave their hometown and head towards Wugong County!

The people in Chang'an City just got up at this moment, and after receiving the notice from above, they all couldn't believe it!

"This is His Majesty's order! Your Majesty tells you to leave Chang'an immediately! Kang Wang's rebels and Jurchen have joined forces. They have mobilized hundreds of thousands of troops. Your Majesty tells us to stay out of the way!" Those soldiers are doing emergency mobilization work!

"What? King Kang's traitor is so rebellious? He actually teamed up with the Jurchen barbarians? Didn't he know that the Jurchen barbarians had kidnapped the two Supreme Emperors? One of the two Supreme Emperors was his father and the other was his elder brother. How could he join forces with the Jurchen barbarians? ?” An old man couldn’t believe it.

"That's right! King Kang's rebellion is extremely extreme! Even His Majesty never expected such an unbelievable thing to happen! Now that the imperial army has gone to the north, we must first withdraw from here, and then eliminate these traitors and ghosts!" The soldier said.

After the war in northern Shaanxi, the local family forces have almost disappeared, and the work of the Propaganda Department here is the best! This is also the reason why almost all the people of Hancheng died with the Jurchens when the Jurchens took down Hancheng! As the center of Guanshan, Chang'an is also the center of the Propaganda Department in Guanshan, and the propaganda work here is particularly prominent!

The people here have almost unconditional trust and support for the court and Zhao Chen. Under the persuasion of the soldiers and officials of the Propaganda Department, the people in the city left their homes one after another and went outside!

They had just been rescued last year, and they didn't have much property in their family. It's pretty good to have ten or twenty taels of silver in the family! Therefore, they have nothing to clean up and miss. At this moment, the soldiers and officials of the Propaganda Department hardly encountered any resistance, and all the people went outside one after another!

From the morning of the ninth day of the first lunar month, countless people had left their homes and came to the city gate. By noon, almost all the 100,000 people in Chang'an City had come out!

They dragged their families and headed west!

It was snowing heavily, and their speed was a bit slow!

And behind them, the defenders of Chang'an City are transporting out the food, grass and baggage in Chang'an City!

Until the afternoon, all this is considered complete!

The 5,000 people in the imperial camp still did not leave. They were cavalry, which were different from ordinary defenders!

"Your Majesty, the city of Chang'an should not be left to them either! Just burn down the city of Chang'an! In this way, their army will have no place to live and can only live in the wilderness! In this severe winter, their combat power will inevitably be affected. Impact! Let's burn all the places we pass by! The real fortified walls and cleared fields! They have no shelter, no food, and they will leave soon!" Yu Yunwen was also riding on the horse at the moment, said.

"No!" Zhao Chen froze there for a long time, and said.

"Your Majesty, don't have the kindness of a woman!" Wang Shu said.

"Women's benevolence? After many years, someone finally said that I am a woman's benevolence!" Zhao Chen smiled wryly.

"Think twice, Your Majesty!" Yu Yunwen said.

"This Chang'an city is the ancient capital of all dynasties, and I can't bear to have it destroyed in my hands!" Zhao Chen finally said his reason!

"Your Majesty!" Yu Yunwen said anxiously.

"Let's go! We will fight back after all! In the future, do we still have to rebuild Chang'an City? Rebuilding a city from an empty lot will cost too much and take too long! Forget it, leave it to them !” said Zhao Chen.

Yu Yunwen couldn't help but want to burn Chang'an City secretly, but he sighed after all! It is also difficult for him to make up his mind to destroy the ancient capital of these dynasties! However, he felt that Chang'an could stay, and the remaining villages and towns must be burned! In short, he must persuade Zhao Chen to implement the policy of strengthening the walls and clearing the wild!

From Yu Yunwen's point of view, King Kang's army must have food problems! The current Henan is different from the pre-war Henan. After the Jurchen ravages, most places in Henan are empty, and the food production there is extremely limited! The grain and grass of King Kang's army needs to be transported from Jiangnan to Kaifeng first, and then transported here! If there is a problem with the enemy's food and grass, the best solution is to fortify the walls and clear the fields!