At the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, the nomads from the vanguard marched into the capital of the Northern Song Dynasty, and Song Qinzong was as anxious as a cat on hot bricks. After selecting the commander several times, no one can do anything about it.
One day, suddenly a court soldier named Guo Jing volunteered, saying that he knew the "Liujia Method", which could wipe out all the nomads from the army and capture its commander alive. Hearing this, Song Qinzong was overjoyed. Immediately called him into the DPRK, gave him an official title, and gave him tens of thousands of gold and silks.
Guo Jing was ordered to recruit "Six Magic Fighters" in Beijing, and the number of recruits was 7,777, regardless of age or martial arts, as long as their birthdays matched. As a result, the soldiers recruited were not only street hooligans, but also little urchins, who were completely a mob. Guo Jing called these soldiers "Liu Jia Lux" and called them "heavenly soldiers and heavenly generals". Guo Jing boasted that as long as his "elite soldiers" went into battle, they could drive the nomads from Yinshan away. However, Song Qinzong urged him to play again and again, but he delayed again and again. It was not until the nomads from Enemy at the Gates that he agreed to "engage" with the enemy.
In the "battle", Guo Jing also demanded that all the Song soldiers who had been guarding the city be withdrawn, because when the "magic soldiers of Liu Jia" fought with the enemy, it would not be effective if someone watched. Qinzong listened to his words and withdrew the soldiers guarding the city, leaving dozens of walls unguarded.
The battle has begun. Guo Jing sat upstairs on the gate and ordered the "Liu Jia Magic" to leave the city. Just crossing the moat, he was defeated by the nomads from the city. Seeing the nomads from the army climbing the city wall with a ladder, Guo Jing quickly said, "I must do it myself." "Say downtown, led the residual" magic ",fled without a trace. Hui Di and Emperor Qin in the palace were captured, and the Northern Song Dynasty perished in 167.
The background of Liu Jia's magic weapon
The title of "Jingkang" represents the most humiliating period of China Dynasty: Nuzhen, who just annexed Qidan, became ambitious and wanted to March into the Central Plains after seeing the poor performance of Song Jun elite in the battle to recover Yanyun. Even these intruders didn't expect that Song Zhao, a seemingly behemoth, was so vulnerable. 8 Jin J swept across the central Hebei Plain like a whirlwind and easily came to the capital of song dynasty. After the first attack on the city and plundering the land, the Jurchen army, who recruited again, simply broke into the house and took away the second emperor of Qin Hui and countless treasures of gold and silver, aristocratic women of imperial clan and millions of people in the capital of song dynasty.
The fall of the capital of song dynasty is even more dramatic: when the Jin army just attacked the city, there were not many troops, and the other army was still far away in Taiyuan, Hedong. However, the panicked Qin Zong and his "Zaizhi" agreed to the unreasonable conditions of ceding three towns in Hebei. After the withdrawal of Nuzhen, the imperial court began to renege. Not only did it fail to fulfill its promise, but it also sent the residual elite of Xiliang Army and the imperial court to Taiyuan to help this struggling isolated city. However, Song Jun's ministries are in chaos, and their fighting capacity is as low as ever. As soon as he entered the war, he collapsed, and the reinforcements became routed troops. As a result, not only Taiyuan was in a desperate situation, but also the economic division of the imperial court in the north was almost swept away. Therefore, the second time the Jin army surrounded the capital of song dynasty, the momentum was much greater, and the court had to rely on tens of thousands of abandoned imperial troops and a small number of civilian troops to defend the city.
In desperation, the court officials did another wonderful thing: following the advice of the Taoist priest in Guo Jing, they trained a "magic soldier" from the garrison, organized it in the form of six tripods and six armour, and protected themselves with spells. It is said that after reading the spell, you can be as invulnerable as a heavenly soldier. Then Guo Jing led his troops to open the city gate and frantically attacked the array of 8 Jin Army outside the city ... Finally, this magic army was completely annihilated, and the capital of song dynasty also fell. Historians of later generations highly agree on Guo Jing: everyone thinks that he is a buffoon and a big liar, and these absurd things are just cheating officials and cheating money.
The well-read Qin Zongjun and his subjects are obviously anxious to believe in Guo Jing, and they can only hope for the illusory magic weapon. So what kind of person is Guo Jing who can make such an amazing scam? In fact, this person is a native of the capital of song dynasty and comes from the royal family. I usually make a living at home by mixing a little money and some strange activities. At this time, among the hundreds of thousands of imperial troops in the capital of song dynasty, such things are not uncommon, because the price in Beijing is high, and it is difficult to support a family only by paying salaries. I'm afraid it's not true to regard Guo Jing's action of organizing elite soldiers as a quack's trick.
From the historical materials preserved by the Jurchen side, it can be found that when the magic soldiers led by Guo Jing arrived at the nomadic people outside the city, it was really a mess. And Guo Jing, who is old and frail, has been charging ahead, and the magic behind him has forgotten his life, causing a lot of casualties to the nomads from the army. This charge was also the only valuable measure taken by Song Jun in the second battle of the capital of song dynasty, which reflected the blood and courage of the soldiers and civilians in the capital of song dynasty. And Guo Jing is obviously not as simple as a liar. He should borrow the immortal's words, let the imperial court support him to organize warriors, and then take this opportunity to boost morale and strive for a chance to make a desperate assault on the Jin Army. Although his feat ended in failure, it added a touch of light to the shame of Jingkang. It may be a misunderstanding for historians to ridicule him.