Rebirth: Overthrow Song Dynasty

On the morning of May 23, the 150,000 Jingyuan army led by Zhao Zhe passed through Chang'an and came to Tongguan all the way.

At this moment, the gate of Tongguan was opened, and the soldiers passed through Tongguan one after another.

All the soldiers are valiant and high-spirited, with high morale.

They were all robust young men with dark skin. In Guanshan these years, they have been training every day, and they naturally became like this.

Although they are marching, their formation is also very neat. The discipline of the army is as high as a mountain, no one dares to leave the army at will, no one dares to whisper, they just move forward along the way, constantly watching the surrounding scene.

Once, Tongguan was under the control of Guanshan, but later Zhao Gou and the Jurchens joined forces and suddenly invaded, and they lost Tongguan. Now, at least in name, this place belongs to Guanshan again, and they can pass through here freely.

Among the 150,000 troops, 20,000 are cavalry, the remaining 80,000 are infantry, and 50,000 are crossbowmen. Although Guanshan has captured Xixia and obtained many war horses, a large part of these war horses were provided to the imperial army. The imperial army has one man and two horses, and the number of horses needed is extremely large. The land of Hetao in Xixia is a traditional place for raising horses in China. They can also provide more war horses, but unfortunately it will take time. So now the Jingyuan Army is still dominated by infantry and crossbowmen.

At this moment, all the soldiers had excited expressions on their faces, they were about to enter the Central Plains! When they were in Guanshan in the past, they hoped to enter the Central Plains every day, and now this wish is about to come true! They believe that as long as they enter the Central Plains, they will take back these places and completely expel and wipe out the Jurchens there!

At this moment, on the city wall of Tongguan, Zhao Zhe was standing here, and a man was standing beside Zhao Zhe, it was Wang Yan.

Looking at the army passing by below, Wang Yan secretly admired in his heart, he thought that the strength of Guan Shan's army was far better than that of Jiang Nan. The Jiangnan army definitely does not have the momentum and discipline of the army below, and the combat power of each other is very different.

"I also want to follow you into the Central Plains, but I can't do it for the time being. We have 600,000 rebels here, and more than 200,000 of them will return to Henan. I need to arrange my brothers before I can go to the Central Plains." Wang Yandao.

"I understand! By the time you go to the Central Plains, most of the Central Plains should have been recovered by us." Zhao Zhe said.

Wang Yan nodded slightly.

He felt a little regretful, he actually wanted to enter the Central Plains now, but he knew that Guan Shan's staff headquarters would definitely not feel at ease letting them enter the Central Plains. No one knows what will happen after they enter the Central Plains. There may be generals rebelling, and some rebel leaders may take over the mountains and become kings. It will be troublesome at that time. Therefore, Guan Shan's staff headquarters would rather send only his own direct descendants into the Central Plains.

"By the way, you are going to Hebei, but someone can help you." Wang Yan said.

"I don't know who it is?" Zhao Zhe said.

Wang Yan beckoned, and then a middle-aged man in armor came over, knelt down in front of Zhao Zhe, and said, "Wang Ze of Hebei pays his respects to the general!"

It turned out that this person was Wang Ze, the leader of the Hebei Rebel Army who entered Chang'an from the south of Hebei! He originally wanted to rely on Zhao Gou, and he thought that Zhao Gou would definitely win, but now that the situation has changed drastically, he has no choice but to go with Guan Shan.

"Get up quickly." Zhao Zhe said.

Liu Ze stood up and said with a smile: "General, I have been in Hebei for many years, and I am very familiar with the terrain of Hebei! We still have 20,000 to 30,000 brothers, and we can also enter Hebei with you."

Zhao Zhe nodded and said, "Okay!"

The army passed through Tongguan and walked forward for another half an hour. They came to the bank of the Yellow River.

However, the pontoon bridge has already been erected here, and Zhao Zhe led an army of 150,000 to pass the pontoon bridge and head towards the opposite side of Henan. They will march in Henan for a while, and then enter Hebei from the direction of Liyang. When the Jurchens went south for the first time, they entered Liyang from Hebei and then went to Kaifeng. They did the opposite.

The morning sun was red, and Zhao Zhe was already drenched in sweat as he rode on the horse, as were the soldiers beside him, but no one asked to stop, they just kept on their way.

There is an empty space in front of you, and you can't see the side at a glance!

This is the once prosperous Central Plains land, but now there is nothing here, only weeds!

They had traveled tens of miles, but they did not see a single village, nor a piece of fertile land, nothing but weeds.

"Hey! There is a village ahead!" At this moment, a cavalryman suddenly shouted from a distance of more than a hundred meters.

"Go, go and have a look!" Zhao Zhe said.

Now Zhao Zhe led a group of cavalry towards the village, but when he got to the village, he already knew something was wrong, there were no crops here, and weeds were overgrown. The village was quiet, and there was no sound at all. There were countless corpses at the gate of the village. Zhao Zhe led a group of soldiers into the village. There was nothing but weeds and bones in the village!

"It seems that this is a deserted village!" Zhao Zhe sighed softly.

They didn't stop here and continued to move forward.

After walking for another half an hour, they saw the village again, but after entering the village, it was still empty and there was no one at all. It seems that this village has also been abandoned for many years.

They kept going forward like this, passing through seven or eight villages, but there was no one there.

When the sun was setting, Zhao Zhe and others came to another village, where they finally saw a figure!

There were people plowing the land outside the village, but when they saw the army coming, those people seemed to have seen the most terrifying thing in the world. Countless people ran towards the village with all their strength!

The army had already arrived outside the village, it was getting dark, and they were stationed here.

"Go get the people from the village out! I want to ask them how the situation here is?" Zhao Zhe said.

At present, dozens of soldiers entered the village, and after a while, more than a dozen villagers were "invited" out! In fact, none of the villagers dared to come out, and the soldiers had to force them to come out to meet Zhao Zhe.

Some of these villagers are in their sixties or seventies, with white hair and tattered clothes, and two or three people are fourteen or five years old, and their clothes are also extremely tattered. Some of them are middle-aged people in their thirties and forties, and their looks and clothes are also very embarrassing.

"The grass people see the general!" When they came to Zhao Zhe, they all knelt down, their bodies trembling, obviously extremely terrified.

"Help them up quickly!" Zhao Zhe said.

A dozen or so villagers stood up, but they were still terrified, not daring to speak or move.

"All you folks, sit down! Have you eaten yet? Come and fetch the meals from our army, and let the folks eat together." Zhao Zhe said.

After the army was stationed, they were lighting a fire and cooking, and the food was quickly delivered to everyone.

"Let's eat first," Zhao Zhe said.

As a general, Zhao Zhe ate exactly the same food as ordinary soldiers. He started to eat, and the villagers looked at each other, and finally picked up the food and started eating. These villagers obviously haven't had a full meal for a long time. They gobbled up one by one, and wiped out the food in their bowls in just a moment. The soldiers next to him were stunned at the moment, and someone came to fetch food again, and the villagers started eating again.

Each of them ate the food of three ordinary soldiers before stopping.

"Master, how many people are there in the village now?" Zhao Zhe had already stopped, and he said to the oldest man in his sixties.

"General, there are more than seventy people in our village." The old man said.

"Are there other villages and towns nearby?" Zhao Zhe asked again.

"Twenty miles to the south, there is a village with more than 200 people in it," said the old man.

"It seems that your life is very difficult." Zhao Zhe said.

"Yeah! It's been more than six years, and I haven't had a full meal! The Jurchens often go south, and the people in the surrounding villages are all dead! The food we planted has been destroyed many times! In the earliest days, some rebels came over, but those rebels It is also burning, killing and looting! When we saw you coming before, we thought it was a rebel army! Now it seems that it is not." The old man said.

"We are the subordinates of Emperor Xuanwu." Zhao Zhe said.

"Emperor Xuanwu? Who is that?" the old man asked in surprise.

Surprised expressions appeared in the eyes of the surrounding villagers.

"Emperor Xuanwu is the original crown prince! After the city of Kaifeng was destroyed, he fled from Kaifeng to Hanzhong, where he succeeded him as Emperor Xuanwu!" Zhao Zhe said.

These villagers have obviously been isolated from the world for too long, and they don't know the current situation in the world at all. After hearing this, they stayed there one by one.

"How many troops does Emperor Xuanwu have under his command now? Are you here from Hanzhong?" The old man was the quickest to react and asked immediately.

"Emperor Xuanwu has millions of troops! We didn't come from Hanzhong, but from Guanshan." Zhao Zhe said.

"One million troops? Great! Guan Shan? Isn't Guan Shan occupied by the Jurchens?" the old man said in surprise.

"Of course Guan Shan was not occupied by Jurchens! In the beginning, there were indeed Jurchens in Guan Shan, but we drove them out soon!" Zhao Zhe said.

"Can you drive away the Jurchens?" the old man asked in disbelief.

"Of course we can drive them away! This time we will enter the Central Plains, drive out the Tartars, and restore China!" Zhao Zhe laughed.

"Did I hear correctly? Master Wang has entered the Central Plains?" The old man looked at the other villagers around him and asked with a puzzled expression.

"His third uncle, you heard me right." Another older man next to him said.

"Is this true? In my lifetime, I could actually see Master Wang enter the Central Plains and drive out the Tartars?" The old man was so excited that he burst into tears after a while.

The Central Plains is occupied by Jurchen, and the people all over the world are looking forward to conquering the Central Plains! Especially the people in these occupied areas, they are even more eager for the arrival of the imperial army! They thought that the court no longer existed, the emperor no longer existed, and they were already desperate! Who knew that the court was still there, the emperor was still there, and the army was still there.

"The Jurchens are very fierce. Back then, the 800,000 imperial guards were no match for the Jurchens. How could you defeat the Jurchens?" the youngest young man suddenly asked.

"Haha! Forbidden Army! What is the Forbidden Army? Back then, the Bianliang Forbidden Army claimed to have 800,000 troops, but it was actually vulnerable! Our Jingyuan Army only needed to dispatch 20,000 cavalry to defeat all the old Forbidden Army." Zhao Zhe laughed.

At the beginning, 800,000 forbidden troops were stationed near Bianliang, but those 800,000 forbidden troops were a miracle in Chinese history. When the Jurchen invaded, the 800,000 forbidden troops did not play a single role! The forbidden army is already rotten, and the 800,000 forbidden army is not even as good as the 800,000 civilians! Hearing the arrival of the Jurchen army, the 800,000 forbidden troops fled in anticipation, and they have already been annihilated in history!

"Can you really defeat Jurchen?" Some villagers didn't believe it.

"Don't worry, you just wait here for our good news! The situation in the world is good now, and it will only take a year or two to eliminate the Jurchens! I will lead an army of 150,000 to Hebei, and General Qu Duan will lead an army of 150,000 to Hedong. Li Xianzhong The general has led an army of 150,000 to Yanyun, and will soon enter Shandong. There are only 200,000 Jurchens left in the Central Plains. Our army of more than 400,000 will surround them and eliminate them without any problem! Moreover, in Datong there are still There are more than 100,000 Huanqing troops, and there are 80,000 elite cavalry led by two generals Yue Fei and Liu Kai on the grassland. These many soldiers and horses may go south to encircle the Jurchens! There is no problem in capturing the Central Plains." Zhao Zhe said.

After Zhao Zhe finished speaking, the villagers were still skeptical.

Zhao Zhe laughed out loud and said no more.