In the second year of Kang's reign, Tokyo was destroyed, the Second Saints hunted in the north, and the Central Plains fell. The iron hoofs of the Jin army crushed the Huaihe River defense line, the Southern Song Dynasty court fled southward in panic, the singing and dancing in Yangzhou city remained the same, and the Hebei and Hedong rebels fought with blood.
Song Yang, a graduate student in the history department who came from nine hundred years in the future, accidentally transported himself into the defeated Western Army primary school outside Tokyo. When he woke up in a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood, he could hear the hoofbeats of the Jin people and the wails of his compatriots. In front of him was the chronic malpractice of the old Song Dynasty: civil servants ruined the country with empty talk, military generals feared the enemy like tigers, the military system collapsed, and the finances were exhausted.
Without the authority of the emperor, there is only a broken spear; without the assistance of the courtiers, there is only a group of scattered soldiers. Song Yang knew very well that what the Song Dynasty lacked at this time was not the complacency of settling in the south of the Yangtze River, but the iron and blood who dared to show its sword; what it lacked was not the "Shao Song" who followed the old tradition, but the "Xing Song" who reformed and reformed.
He collected the broken troops, integrated the rebel army, and erected the "Qing Song" banner at the foot of the Taihang Mountains; he improved ordnance, innovated tactics, and used gunpowder and arrays to resist the Jin army's cavalry charge; he dealt with the Song court, the rebel army, and the warlords, not only to deal with the suspicion and suppression of the court, but also to resist the Jin people's crazy encirclement and suppression, and to break up the internal factional strife.
