In the second year of Jingkang in the Northern Song Dynasty (1127 AD), the Jin soldiers captured the two emperors Huiqin of the Northern Song Dynasty, and the Northern Song Dynasty was destroyed. Regarding the demise of the Northern Song Dynasty, it is better to say that the Jin

Northern Song In the second year of Jingkang (1127 AD), the Jin soldiers captured the two emperors Huiqin of the Northern Song Dynasty, and the Northern Song Dynasty was destroyed. Regarding the demise of the Northern Song Dynasty, it is better to say that the Jin soldiers have serious problems in the Northern Song Dynasty court rather than saying that the Jin soldiers are extremely powerful.

From the death of the famous general Zong Shizhong of the Northern Song Dynasty, it is not difficult to see the code of the collapse of the Northern Song Dynasty.

1, Paralyzed Northern Song

Northern Song Song Huizong was an emperor who was eager to make achievements. This is different from what many people think. Although Emperor Huizong of Song liked calligraphy and painting, he also advocated achieving military achievements. However, the Northern Song Dynasty during the period of Emperor Huizong of Song Dynasty was like a person who was in the precursor of cerebral thrombosis, but he had the idea of ​​becoming an athlete. In the end, the paralyzed whole body broke the athlete's fantasy - the Northern Song Dynasty was extremely corrupt at that time. In this situation, the Northern Song Dynasty and the Jin Dynasty had an evil relationship, and the result was naturally conceivable.

In fact, there are many elite troops in the Northern Song Dynasty: for example, the combat effectiveness of the Western Army of the Northern Song Dynasty is not weak. At least during the battle between the Northern Song Dynasty and Xixia , the Western Xia army was defeated by the Northern Song Dynasty army many times.

However, in the face of the Jin army going south, it is not realistic for the Northern Song Dynasty to rely solely on the Western Army.

2. The death of Zhong Shizhong

In the first year of Jingkang in the Northern Song Dynasty, the Jin soldiers went south again. In the late Northern Song Dynasty, Zhong Shizhong was considered a famous general among the military generals of the Northern Song Dynasty. Therefore, when the capital is facing a crisis, Zhong Shizhong naturally has to lead the army to support the capital. And in this process, many details illustrate the inevitability of the Northern Song Dynasty.

Originally, Zhong Shizhong should have supported the capital with the other two Song troops. Unexpectedly, during the march, the other two Song troops did not keep up with Zhong Shizhong. This means that the troops in the Zong Division have actually become lonely and the situation is very dangerous. And it is not difficult to see the unbearable coordination of the Northern Song army.

Of course, the angering details are still to come.

At that time, the Northern Song Dynasty Privy Council got a wrong intelligence: the intelligence said that the Jin soldiers in the Yunzhong area planned to retreat. So the Privy Council ordered Zhong Shizhong to immediately drive the army to pursue the Jin army.

Chinese divisions expressed that it was difficult to accept the instructions of the Privy Council: after all, according to his judgment, the Jin soldiers had no intention of retreating. However, under the pressure of the Privy Council, Zhong Shizhong still had to lead the Song army to attack the Jin soldiers. From the details of the Privy Council's random command of front-line soldiers to die based on a piece of intelligence, it is not difficult to see the absurdity of the Northern Song Dynasty in military command.

So Zhong Shizhong had no choice but to contact the other two Song troops to attack the Jin army in Yunzhong. Unexpectedly, the commanders of the other two Song troops were worried that the Jin soldiers were too powerful, so they did not dare to fight with the Jin soldiers, so they found some other reasons to swear by Zhong Shizhong. This led to the fact that after Zhong Shizhong encountered Jin soldiers, he could only lead his own army to fight.

In order to feel the battlefield as soon as possible, Zhong Shizhong chose to go lightly: he didn't carry much food or grass. Therefore, when the Song army in Zhongshi encountered the Jin soldiers, the combat effectiveness of the Song army in Zhongshi had already been greatly reduced: after all, the Song army soldiers were not full even when they had enough food, so where did they get their combat effectiveness?

After learning the news, the intelligence personnel of the Jin soldiers took the opportunity to attack. At first, the Zhong Shizhong could still rely on the Northern Song Dynasty's divine arm bow troops to shoot away the Jin soldiers. But as the battle deepened, the soldiers of the Song army learned that the court's reward had been arrears, and they also had the idea of ​​not giving the Northern Song court their lives, so the army in Zhong Shi scattered. In desperation, Zhong Shizhong had to fight with more than a hundred soldiers and eventually died in a fierce battle.

3, Conclusion

It is not difficult to see from the process of leading the army from the Zong army to the heroic death of the Jin soldiers: the degree of corruption of the Northern Song army and the imperial court is shocking. On the one hand, the generals were incompetent in governing the military, and on the other hand, they dared to lie about military information. They even spared no hesitation to protect themselves and let Zhong Shizhong die. The random command of the Privy Council also ruined the rare army that can fight against type of teacher .

It is not difficult to see how serious the military discipline of the Northern Song Dynasty was corrupted because the rewards were not in place.

In fact, before and after the Jin army destroyed the Northern Song Dynasty, the top leaders of the Jin army also wondered: Isn’t the Song Dynasty known as a army of hundreds of thousands? Why didn’t I see many people really resisting? In fact, many of the hundreds of thousands of troops of the Northern Song Dynasty exist on paper - that is, when is empty-handed and does not exist during war.

So, in this situation in the Northern Song Dynasty, no matter how high the ideal of Song Huizong is, he just causes trouble for himself. After all, ideals require strength to support. Without strength and having ideals will inevitably cause great trouble for yourself.