During the Jingkang period of the Song Dynasty, the Jurchen (Jin State) entered the then Kyoto Yikaifeng, burned and plundered, and thus ended the rule of the Northern Song Dynasty, and northern China fell into the hands of the Jurchens.
The two generations of emperors of the Song Dynasty, Huizong (Zhao Ji) and Qinzong (Zhao Heng), were captured by the enemy this time, and at the same time, there were also royal relatives and nobles, court ministers, more than 2,000 men, women, and children, who were also captured by the Jurchens. This is the famous national shame in the history of our country, "Jingkang Difficulty".
The Jurchens captured the Song Dynasty monarchs and ministers, plundered a large amount of property, and soon evacuated Kaifeng and returned to the north. Zhao Heng's younger brother Zhao Gou, only then led a group of men and horses from the north bank of the Yellow River and secretly detoured to Henan to Guide and became the emperor, which was the Southern Song Dynasty.
Zhao Gou became the emperor, and he didn't want to restore the lost land and rescue the people, he just wanted to run farther away from the enemy so that he could have fun. Therefore, he repeatedly moved from Guide to Yangzhou and then to Lin'an (Hangzhou). did not hesitate to kill the national hero Yue Fei, and sent the traitor Qin Hui to the Jin State to seek peace, so as to maintain a temporary partial security situation.
When the Jin Kingdom invaded the south, the people of Hedong and Hebei were the first to be devastated, and people formed guerrilla groups to attack the enemy fiercely. Other large landlords and gentry fled south one after another before the enemy arrived, moving to places where there was no war for the time being, or to the Jianghuai region farther away.
At this time, on the outskirts of Jinan, Shandong, in a place called Sifengzha, there lived an old man named Xin Zan. His ancestors had made military achievements, and he also inherited military positions. In fact, he was originally a literati, but because he suffered from the burden of his family's many families and did not have much savings, he was unable to retreat to the south.
After the fall of Jinan, Xin Zan was originally born in a bureaucratic landlord family, and gradually grew old, and had no skills to make a living. He is very conflicted and painful in his heart, and he always wants to find an opportunity to do it anyway.
His son, Xin Wenyu, died after the fall of his hometown. Grandson Xin Qiji, although young, is extremely smart. Because of this, he pinned his wishes on this junior, and often told him some patriotic stories, such as how Yue Fei broke Zhu Xianzhen and so on.
Sinzan also often talks about the crimes of the enemy. For example, when the Jin soldiers invaded the south, they captured the city, killed people when they saw them, and burned all the houses. What is especially tragic is that there is not even a baby left behind, and after more than ten years, some people return there from other places, and there is not a single old resident in the whole city.
After the Jin people completely ruled northern China, they organized a large number of Jurchen people into the Tuntian army, moved to North China and the Central Plains, and forcibly occupied a large area of fertile land and pulled it out to the Tuntian army. Cattle, sheep, offal, and livestock furniture are even more arbitrarily seized.
He also ordered Han people to shave their hair and wear braids, and change to Jurchen clothing. They also often captured large numbers of working people and went to the north-east or north-west to sell them as slaves or to barter horses. It's really an indescribable pain of losing the country... All this, in Xin Qiji's young heart, has secretly planted the fire of revenge.
Xin Qi's illness gradually grew, and Xin Zan specially led him to the Song Palace in Bianjing (Kaifeng). Looking at the waste pond and grass, the eyes are full of desolation, counting the prosperous days of the Song Dynasty in the past, comparing the current situation of partial security, and thinking of the people in the occupied areas who are trampled by the enemy and count on the restoration of the country every day, they can't help but shed tears.
In his ordinary leisure days, Xin Zan often took Xin Qiji to climb the steep slopes and towering city towers, watched the magnificent mountains and rivers of the motherland, pointed out to him certain places, a certain terrain, which is an important place for soldiers to fight, how to attack and defend, and often instilled in him some military common sense.
When Xin Zan was a county official in Qian County, Bozhou, he sent Xin Qijian to study with Liu Zhan, a famous local scholar. Liu Zhan is a famous contemporary pastoral poet, and many of his students, ordinary literati, want to seek advice, among which the smartest and most talented is Xin Qiji. Therefore, Xin Qiji was especially instructed and appreciated by Liu Zhan.
Because of Xin Qiji's extraordinary talent, he studied hard Xi and received a recommendation from his hometown at the age of seventeen. The following year, Xin Zan sent people to accompany him to Yanjing to take the Jinshi examination, in an attempt to penetrate deep into the political center of the Jurchens and spy on the enemy's military deployment and political situation. Before leaving, Xin Zan gave him a detailed advice.
Xin Qiji firmly remembered his grandfather's teachings, and wherever he passed, he first paid attention to the situation of the mountains and rivers, and noted down the location and direction of the official warehouse and temple, and also listened to the enemy's military horses, and also visited some people to ask about their suffering.
Passing by Dongliu Village, this is the place where Zhao Ji and Zhao Heng were captured north and stopped on the way. The villagers described to him how the two captive emperors had been mistreated by their enemies, and this humiliation of the country and the people made him feel so bitter that he wrote one of the earliest poems of his time on the wall of the village.
The first time he went to Yanjing, Xin Qiji did not pass the exam. Three years later, he went to Yanjing for the second time, so he had more opportunities to make a more detailed and in-depth investigation of the enemy's situation. This time, he had already passed the Jinshi examination, so it was more convenient for him to spy on the internal contradictions and political ups and downs of the Jurchen rulers.
He killed more than 300 people from his mother, the royal family, and the descendants of meritorious heroes, and also included his aunts, sisters-in-law, cousins, and nieces into the harem as little wives.........They are killing each other internally, and this situation must not last long.
Although Xin Qiji has been admitted to the Jinshi, "the drunkard's intention is not to drink", he did not become an official of the Jin State, and still went home to make some friends in the rivers and lakes in the name of his grandfather who was old. Because the internal contradictions of the Jurchens are getting bigger and bigger, he is making all preparations under the guidance of his grandfather to revolt when the time comes.
The brutality of the financier Wan Yan Liang aroused the opposition of many people within the ruling group. Therefore, he wanted to use the conquest of the Southern Song Dynasty to increase his prestige and stabilize his rule. So he ordered a nationwide conscription, and all men between the ages of twenty and fifty were exempt. formed an invading force of more than 500,000 people.
In addition, a large number of ** were requisitioned from the people, and warships were built in Tongzhou;He also did not care about the people's livelihood and forcibly collected a large amount of grain from the people.
And that's not all, and a large number of horses were requisitioned from the country. He stipulated that only one horse could be kept if there was more than seven grades, and the rest would be levied for military use. The roads were full of requisitioned horses, day and night. The horses were short of food, so they ate the crops, which once again caused the people to live poorly.
This harsh decree and harsh looting caused chaos among the people and resentment of everyone, which naturally angered the promising young people to abandon the disease. He couldn't help but ponder: Grandpa's long waiting period has indeed arrived, but he has died, and the burden of revenge should naturally fall on his shoulders.
In such a situation where the people are struggling to make a living and the masses are angry, it is natural that they will respond in groups as soon as they call out from the heights. Therefore, in the year of Yan Liang's southern invasion, Xin Qiji had gathered an uprising team of more than 2,000 people in the Nanshan area of Jinan. At this time, he was just a young man who had just turned twenty-two years old.
On the mountain not far from Xin Qiji's garrison, there was a monk named Yiduan, who also gathered more than 1,000 people to revolt. In order to be able to deal with each other, Xin Qiji often corresponded with him and made some plans to fight the enemy together.
In addition, there were many people who gathered people to revolt in Shandong, such as Dadao Wei Sheng, Kai Zhao, Ming Chun, Li Ji, Zheng Yun, Wang Shilong, Geng Jing, etc. They all have ties with each other, among which Geng Jing is the most powerful.
Geng Jing was originally a peasant in Jinan, and at first he couldn't live because he hated the harassment of the Jin people's levy, so he entangled six people to revolt, and then gradually gathered dozens of people to capture the Tai'an army in Laiwu County, and the team expanded to more than 100 people.
At that time, Jia Rui, a native of Laizhou, brought dozens of people to join Geng Jing. He advised Geng Jing to divide into several teams and recruit the broad masses of people everywhere in an attempt to recover. Geng Jing was overjoyed and immediately complied.
More and more people rebelled, and Geng Jing gathered about 250,000 people. He guarded Dongping Mansion (Tai'an, Shandong), proclaimed himself the envoy of the Tianping Army, controlled the loyal and righteous army in Shandong and Hebei (this is the common name of the people's uprising team), and took Jia Rui as the leader of all the armies.
In order to concentrate his forces against the national enemy, Xin Qiji also led his people to join Geng Jing's uprising. He was the only famous literati in the ranks, so he served as the "chief secretary" of Geng Jing's army (in charge of the proclamation of the whole army) and helped Geng Jing plan the military.
At the same time, Xin Qiji persuaded the monk Yiduan to also come to Geng Jing. Since then, the momentum of this loyal army has become even stronger day by day.
The discipline of the Tianping Army is strict, and it is restrained at all levels internally, and "does not commit any offences" externally. However, the righteous speculators, who have always been "self-respecting" and accustomed to being free and loose, have gradually felt constrained and become inconvenient everywhere. So he consulted with some old subordinates and plotted to rebel, but the subordinates did not approve of it.
The plan to pull away the team could not be carried out, and Yiduan did not give up, so he tried every possible way to satisfy his desire for enjoyment. One night, he stole the seal of the Tianping Army and fled secretly.
After the incident was discovered, Geng Jing was furious. Yiduan was introduced by Xin Qiji, so he wanted to use Xin Qiji's illness to atone for his crimes. Xin Qiji asked to give him a three-day deadline, and if he couldn't catch Yiduan at that time, he would rather die, and Geng Jing agreed to him.
Xin Qi's judgment must have taken the military seal as proof, went to tell the enemy the truth of the party, surrendered and asked for merit, in exchange for status. So he rode on a fast horse without hesitation, whipped him fiercely, and went straight to the direction of Jinying to chase after him.
As expected, he chased Yiduan halfway and caught the traitor. The cunning Yiduan also wanted to deceive him with nonsense, but Xin Qizhi ignored it and cut off his bald head.
That night, before dawn, Xin Qiji had rushed back and dedicated the seal letter and head to Geng Jing. Geng Jing was very surprised, and since then he has paid more attention to and trusted him.
At this time, the Jin soldiers who invaded the south led by Wan Yanliang were attacked by the Song soldiers and the growing Central Plains Righteous Army, and everyone's fighting spirit was shaken. In addition, Wan Yan Yong, who stayed in Liaoyang, had taken the opportunity to establish himself as the emperor and stationed in Yanjing, so the Jin rebels killed the brutal Wan Yan Liang, made peace with the Southern Song Dynasty, and then withdrew his troops to the north.
After Yan Yong entered Yanjing, he immediately began the "stabilization work" in the Central Plains and Shandong in order to consolidate the occupied areas. On the one hand, he ordered an amnesty, saying: "Those who are in the mountains are thieves, and those who go down are good citizens." "Trying to divide and disintegrate the loyal and righteous army in the mountains and water villages.
On the other hand, they mobilized a large army to break the loyal and righteous forces that continued to resist. Geng Jing led the largest contingent of the rebels, and of course became one of his first targets.
The spy staff hurriedly reported the news to Xin Qiji, in fact, he had already seen this. He knew very well in his heart, knowing that although the Tianping Army had a large number of people, it had not been formed long ago, and it also lacked combat training, and if it fought independently with a large group of Jin soldiers who had been used to fighting for a long time, it would be difficult and dangerous. He has already thought of a countermeasure to this.
Therefore, Xin Qiji explained the current situation to Geng Jing, and analyzed the shortcomings of the peasant rebel army: "It is easy to gather without scheming, and it is afraid of defeat and underestimating the enemy." "You can't fight hard for a long time, and it's hard to clean up once you lose. It should be attached to the ** moderation as soon as possible, and the officers and soldiers of the Southern Song Dynasty should cooperate in the battle.
Geng Jing agreed with Xin Qiji's excellent suggestion, so Xin Qiji drafted a letter and contacted the Southern Song Dynasty to join the imperial court. For the sake of prudence, he sent people to the nearby leaders of the rebel army, Wang Shilong, Zhang Anguo, and other places to see, and they all agreed, and they all signed the seal.
Then Geng Jing sent Jia Rui as a representative to contact the Southern Song Dynasty. In the Tianping Army, Jia Rui's status was second only to Geng Jing, but he was also a peasant, and he did not know some etiquette for visiting the emperor and ministers, and he was afraid that the emperor would not be able to answer what he asked, so he asked Geng Jing for permission and sent Xin Qiji to go with him.
This time, I went south, with a total of 11 people and an entourage, and arrived in Jiankang after the Lantern Festival. It happened that the Southern Song Dynasty Emperor Zhao Gou was here to work the army, summoned them on the same day, commended them, and awarded Geng Jing Tianping the military festival envoy, and awarded the official title of "picking up the school and major protection", and all the following generals were also awarded. This time, more than 200 people were replaced.
Zhao Gou also ordered the Privy Council to send two envoys, bringing Geng Jing and other official edicts, Jieyue, Yin Xin, and confessions, etc., to Shandong with Jia Rui and Xin Qiji, and conveyed the will of the imperial court. So Xin Qiji and his entourage embarked on the way home full of honor and happiness.
I don't want them to get an unexpected news as soon as they return to Haizhou, and they get an unexpected news at the local military general Tokyo to recruit Li Bao. For them, it was a thunderbolt.
Li Bao continued to tell the details of Geng Jing's killing: It turned out that after Jia Rui and Xin Qiji returned to the south, Zhang Anguo hooked up with Jin Guo, and Jin Guo promised him ** Houlu, so he bought Geng Jing's cronies and poisoned him.
Since Zhang Anguo had achieved his goal, he took a part of the Tianping army hostage and surrendered to the Jin. The rest of the Tianping army was reluctant to surrender to the enemy, so they all broke up.
Xin Qiji was very sad when he heard that Geng Jing had been killed and the rebel army was scattered. He thought: I wanted to increase the strength of the country, so I returned to the court as the commander, but the incident happened halfway, how would I get back to my life?So he decided to go and capture Zhang Anguo in person, avenge Geng Jing, and uphold national justice.
Li Bao wanted to send a large army to follow him to arrest the traitor, but Xin Qiji thought about it for a while, thinking that this would "startle the snake" and make the enemy on guard or flee in advance. It was decided to make an appointment with Wang Shilong, the commander of Haizhou, and Ma Quanfu, a loyal soldier, with only 50 people, and went straight to the golden camp of 50,000 people.
Xin Qiji made proper arrangements for fifty horsemen, and on the way back, one or two horses were placed every dozen miles, so that they scattered all the way, so that they could spread the news of the Southern Song Dynasty's official army marching north. But he and Wang Shilong only rode two horses to the golden camp.
After the rebel general Jang Anguo surrendered to Jinguo, he was sent to serve as the governor of Jeju, and he was eating a celebratory banquet every day, dreaming of going to Jeju on a business trip. In such a drunken dream, I never imagined that anyone would dare to attack.
At this moment, Xin Qiji and Wang Shilong's two fast horses rushed into the camp as if they were in a no-man's land. Although Zhang Anguo woke up immediately, it was already too late and he had already been dragged onto the horse. The people around them were stunned, not daring to move.
By the time General Jin sobered up from his fright, and was ready to chase after him, this heroic commando had already gone far, far away, and was nowhere to be found.
They gathered all the men and horses along the road, day and night, endured hunger and thirst, did not eat or sleep, and kept running away with horses, getting rid of the danger of the enemy's pursuit, reaching the bank of the Huai River through Guanxi, and entering the defense of the Song army.
At this time, the old department of the Tianping Army, which was held hostage by Zhang Anguo and invested in gold, heard that Xin Qiji was coming, and about 10,000 people, all of them immediately went right. In addition, the Tianping army, which had been scattered in the past, left the north one after another, rushed to the edge of the Huai River, defected to abandon the disease, and followed the south.
In one night, Xin Qiji led countless men and horses, sat in groups of ships, crossed the Yangtze River, and threw himself into the arms of the motherland.
Arriving in Lin'an, the traitor Zhang Anguo received the punishment he deserved - beheading to show the public. This incident caused a stir for a while, and no one did not admire Xin Qiji's wit and bravery, and regarded the story of Xin Qiji's iron riding across the river as a myth and legend.
Even Zhao Gou, who compromised and retreated, praised Xin Qiji's heroic behavior and left him as an official in the Southern Song Dynasty. From then on, this all-round national hero left the northern guerrilla zone and started a new life, and in the following periods, he wrote different glorious achievements.