One Piece of Song Dynasty

Chapter 277 Rebellious Army

Although Jin Taizu promised to return the land behind the Taihang Mountains to the Song Dynasty, he died before he could complete the delivery. When Wu Qimai succeeded to the throne, he believed that "the previous emperor had promised him, so he should accept it." However, Zonghan, who was in charge of both the southwest and northwest routes, wrote a letter to express his opposition. He even returned to Shangjing in person to state his opinion to Jin Taizong Wu Qimai in person. Zong Han said: "The first emperor wanted the Song Dynasty to join forces to attack the Liao Dynasty, so he promised the territory of Yan. After the Song people formed an alliance, they added more coins to ask for the towns in Shanxi. The first emperor resigned from his coins and returned to them. The alliance said: No hiding and fleeing, no disturbing the border people. . Now in the Song Dynasty, several rebels have been recruited, and many of them have been asked for their names, but they are not willing to send them. The alliance has not expired for a year, and this is the case now. If we keep the promise for eternity, we can hope that the West will not be peaceful, and we will cede it to the counties of Shanxi. If the garrison loses its garrison, it will have its own strategy, and it may not last long, so don’t let it go."

Jin Taizong felt that what Zong Han said was very reasonable and strategic, so he changed his mind and sent an envoy to the Song Dynasty, promising to cede only Wu and Shuo states.

When Wanyan Zonghan left Yunzhong and returned to Beijing, Han Zheng, the governor of Shuozhou, Su Jing, the governor of Yingzhou, and Chen Yi, a local tycoon in Yuzhou, secretly sent people to Taiyuan to contact the Xuanfu Division and expressed their willingness to accept the land and return to the Song Dynasty. . Tan Zhen was overjoyed and "recruited him to surrender". The three states then "competed to rebel against the Jin" and surrendered to the Song Dynasty.

Song Huizong was very excited when he heard the news. He immediately changed the names of Shuo, Ying, and Weizhou to Shuoning Army, and ordered Tan Zhen to quickly send troops to guard them. Tan Zhen sent Hedong generals Li Siben and Geng Shouzhong to lead their troops to defend.

In this way, without any effort, Tan Zhen recruited the defenders of Shuo, Ying, and Wei to surrender, and took back all the land in these three states, which made him feel very proud.

However, the situation in the Yunzhong region at this time is very complicated. The Jin army has expanded to the border of Xixia. Xixia Emperor Li Qianshun felt that he was facing a serious threat and he did not dare to continue to take in Emperor Tianzuo. Emperor Tianzuo then left sadly and returned to Jiashan, still planning to organize an army to make a comeback. In order to protect himself, Li Qianshun decided to declare vassal status to the Kingdom of Jin, and the Kingdom of Jin agreed.

After Xixia became a vassal, the Jin Kingdom promised to cede to Xixia a large area of ​​land north of Xiazhai, south of Yinshan Mountain, and west of Yishilatululu. Xixia promised not to rescue Emperor Tianzuo again, "If Emperor Tianzuo comes to his territory, he will be escorted immediately."

In order to further implement the peace agreement with Xixia, Zonghan sent Salumu secretly as an envoy to Xixia and detailed the land promised to be ceded to Xixia as follows: Tiande, Yunnei, Wuzhou, and Douda, Sila, and Huodong in Hedong. , Yeque, Shenya, Yulin, Baoda and Yumin Eight Halls, as well as the Jinsu and Heqing armies in Hexi. The condition Zong Han put forward was that Xixia must send troops to attack Shenmu, Linzhou, now Shaanxi, in order to contain the power of Hedong. The purpose of Zong Han's deployment was to set up a net to capture Emperor Tian Zuo.

The Song Dynasty did not know about these secret transactions between the Jin Kingdom and Xixia. In fact, the Jin Kingdom has promised to cede part of the land in Yunzhong to Xixia. However, Tan Zhen did not focus mainly on the delivery of Yunzhong. His thoughts were mainly on the country. Not long after he took office, he heard many negative questions about Chang Shengjun and Guo Yaoshi, and he immediately reported them to Song Huizong. As the ever-victorious army expanded day by day, they gradually occupied large areas of land and major passes in Yanshan. As the commander-in-chief of the ever-victorious army, Guo Yaoshi was domineering, bullying superiors and deceiving subordinates, and often disobeyed Yanshan Mansion's control. People are talking privately that if it is allowed to develop, it may become the second Anlushan.

This issue aroused further vigilance and uneasiness among Song Huizong. In fact, Zhan Du had secretly reported many times that Medicine Master Guo was of low character, had ulterior motives, and was very unreliable. Song Huizong also wanted to solve it for a long time, but he always struggled with no good plan.

After some investigation and thinking, Tan Zhen suggested to Song Huizong to form another team of about people in Hedong, mainly recruiting Han people from the Yun and Shuo areas, and let them garrison in key places in various states and counties, named Yiyi. The victorious army, let Li Siben and Geng Shouzhong serve as the chief and deputy commanders, so as to compete with the ever-victorious army and also make Guo Pharmacist fearful. Song Huizong thought Tan Zhen's suggestion was very good and quickly approved it.

Li Siben and Geng Shouzhong were both Hedong generals, and they were familiar with the terrain, population, and other conditions of the Yunzhong area. After receiving the order, they immediately started recruiting troops. They selected young men from among the "returnees", registered their names, established military status, and paid them military salaries.

In the Song Dynasty, there were the so-called "Gui Zheng people", "Gui Ming people" and "Gui Dynasty people". These people were all special groups formed by the Song Dynasty in dealing with the relations with surrounding ethnic minorities and their state power. A "returner" refers to a person who was originally from the Central Plains, later fell into foreign countries, and later returned to the Central Plains. He is a person who has returned to the righteousness after committing evil. People who return to the Ming Dynasty refer to people who are not from the Central Plains but are ethnic minorities outside the Central Plains. Those who come to the Central Plains to return to the Ming Dynasty are people who have returned to the Ming Dynasty from darkness. Returnees refer specifically to those who were originally Han people from the Yanyun area and returned to the Song Dynasty.

Due to years of war, a large number of refugees have emerged in the Yanyun area. They are now basically "returnees" and meet the recruitment conditions. So, they all came to sign up one after another and join the Rebel Army. The generous treatment given to the soldiers of the Rebel Army even attracted many soldiers of the Victory Army to secretly join the army.

Pharmacist Guo was very panicked about the establishment of the Yi Sheng Army, especially because sergeants in his own team kept secretly defecting to the Yi Sheng Army, which gave him a headache. In order to prevent the situation from escalating, he ordered that all soldiers' faces be carved with the symbol of the victorious army to prevent them from escaping. This approach aroused dissatisfaction among the soldiers of the Ever Victorious Army, causing everyone to complain and the morale of the army to be unstable.

The ever-victorious army is mainly composed of three people: one is the Han people from Tokyo, the former Liao Kingdom, the other is the Bohai people, and the third is the Han people from Nanjing. The Yisheng Army was mainly composed of Yanyun Han people.

The generous treatment of the Yisheng Army not only dissatisfied the Changsheng Army, but also greatly dissatisfied the officers and soldiers of the Song Dynasty. As "returnees" to the imperial court, the Han people in Yanyun were still regarded as "Barbarians" and "Han children" in the eyes of Song officers and soldiers. They were often looked down upon by Song officers and soldiers. At that time, according to the imperial policy, the monthly rations and clothing of the Yisheng Army were twice that of other officers and soldiers. Moreover, the officers and soldiers ate old food, while the Yisheng Army ate new food. The officers and soldiers were very unbalanced. When the officers and soldiers met the soldiers of the Yisheng Army on the road, they often insulted them: "If you, the people of Rufan, eat new food, our officers and soldiers will also eat old food. I am not as good as the people of Fan, and I will punish you." These Yanyun "Haners" "heard fear".

The officers and soldiers of the Song Dynasty often insulted the Yanyun Han people in person as "Fan people". They never regarded them as fellow tribesmen and considered them "not my race." What was the result of this? The Han people in Yanyun could not find recognition from the Song people. They must have "beneficial interests and take action when provoked". In the subsequent Song-Jin war, they betrayed the Song Dynasty and surrendered to the Jin army. It's not surprising.