[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-i-transmigrated-to-the-northern-song-with-them":3,"chapter-i-transmigrated-to-the-northern-song-with-them-i-transmigrated-to-the-northern-song-with-them-chapter-341":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","I Transmigrated to the Northern Song with Them",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2319231,4535,"Chapter 341: The Crown Prince","i-transmigrated-to-the-northern-song-with-them-chapter-341",341,"\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Arriving at the front, Zhao Shou learned many things he had never known before from Zhao Yan and the frontline soldiers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For instance, his father, the Emperor, was respected by all Song Army officers—even those originally of barbarian or Hu descent praised him endlessly—not merely because he was the Emperor of Great Song.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>More importantly, whenever his father personally led campaigns, he always led them to great victories, allowing his soldiers to earn merit and rewards.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Moreover, his father ended the old Song system of civil superiority over military, which had been grossly unfair to soldiers defending the nation; instead, he established an era of civil-military separation, greatly elevating the social status and benefits of soldiers: military personnel and their families received priority medical care, military children were given first choice of schools, and the parents of fallen soldiers received a dou of rice, a dou of flour, and two jin of meat during every festival; propaganda shifted from “good men don’t become soldiers” to “true men must take up arms to defend the nation,” and soldiers were declared “the most beloved people of Great Song.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Furthermore, his father eliminated all worries for Song soldiers, allowing them to fight without fear; if they died in battle, they died honorably, and their parents, wives, and children were cared for by the court.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Additionally, his father broke the military aristocracy’s monopoly, enforced clear rewards and punishments, and gave every Song soldier a chance to rise through merit—a possibility they had never dared dream of before.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Moreover, his father vigorously promoted the military medical system, ordering that wounded soldiers, regardless of rank, be treated with all possible effort to ensure none who could be saved were lost.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Also, since his father’s ascension, the court had never failed in supplying the front; grain, supplies, and equipment were always sufficient, never lacking, and always delivered early, never late.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As for the military pay that had long been delayed by previous courts, it had never been late under his father’s reign; even when the imperial treasury was empty, his father would pay soldiers from his own pocket. As Imperial Consort Li put it: “We cannot let soldiers shed blood and then tears.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All of this granted his father immense prestige among soldiers, earning him deep love and devotion from every Song soldier, standing like an unshakable mountain in their hearts, becoming their most solid support and highest faith, willingly fighting for him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the camp, whether officer or soldier, all held profound respect and admiration for his father—and the older they were, the more so.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only at this moment did Zhao Shou realize that his father’s status among soldiers was not merely unmatched or surpassable—it was beyond comparison altogether, no matter who, including himself, even if he one day succeeded his father as Emperor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And only at this moment did Zhao Shou understand why his father had sent these princes, who sought glory and achievement, to the frontlines to experience war firsthand: many things were far more complex than what books described.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>—Zhao Shou had once believed that as Emperor, one needed only to remain in the palace and issue orders; he had never imagined so much more was required.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Being Emperor is truly not easy!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Realizing this, Zhao Shou’s emotions were complex.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Long ago, Zhao Shou had known that no matter how hard he tried, he might never reach the height of his father, already the greatest Emperor of Great Song; but he never imagined the gap between them was so vast—even that he was unworthy to be mentioned in the same breath as his father.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this moment, Zhao Shou felt overwhelming pressure.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet, on the other hand, Zhao Shou had been meticulously trained by Zheng Xiansu for years; since childhood, he had known he would be the next Emperor of Great Song.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thus, though Zhao Shou now recognized the immense gap between himself and his father, he did not lose heart; instead, he pursued his father’s footsteps with even greater determination.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Precisely because of this, Zhao Shou began actively training his military skills: by day, he deeply studied the army; by night, he thoroughly read military treatises and strategies.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>During this time, Zhong Shidao strictly followed Great Song’s most familiar tactic—shallow advance and fortify—and organized over a dozen small-scale raids, provoking the Jin into full-scale counterattacks. The Jin, enraged by the harassment, assembled a 150,000-strong army to crush all military forces on the Liaodong Peninsula.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhong Shidao personally directed all troop movements and coordinated the various armies.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This prevented the Jin army from breaching the Liaodong Peninsula within days of encirclement.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Crucially, the Song army had Li Lin’s cannons; the Jin dared not launch concentrated assaults.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Most crucially, the Jin soldiers feared being cut off from their retreat by Zhong Shidao and could not plunder anything, forcing them to withdraw empty-handed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing this, Zhong Shidao decisively dispatched Song cavalry to pursue and intercept.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But sadly, the more skilled Jin cavalry repelled them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In this battle, the Jin mobilized 150,000 troops but killed only a few hundred Song soldiers—casualties incurred during their retreat—while the Song, defending from fortresses and using Li Lin’s cannons and Shenbi bows, killed thousands of Jin soldiers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In terms of results, the Song clearly gained the advantage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Most importantly, the Jin were few, while the Song were many; the Song feared nothing more than exchanging lives.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After hearing Zhang Jun’s explanation, Zhao Shou grew even more convinced of Zhao Yu’s brilliance, but he still had a question: “What if the Jurchens refuse to fight?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Jun smiled: “They have no choice but to fight.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Soon, Zhao Shou understood what Zhang Jun meant.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The day after repelling the Jin, Qiu Yu began constructing defensive works toward Liaodong’s capital, securing the route connecting the Liaodong Peninsula to Liaodong Capital.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the same time, Qiu Yu organized road construction toward former Liao and Jin garrison sites.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As roads were completed ahead, railway tracks were laid, directly pushing Great Song’s fortresses to the Jin’s frontline positions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then, the Song army continued launching raids; within just over a month, they engaged the Jin in more than forty battles, driving them to exhaustion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What tormented the Jin most was that the Song’s attacks were deceptive—real within illusion, illusion within reality—forcing the Jin, whose forces were never numerous, to shuttle back and forth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Taking advantage of the Jin’s constant troop movements, Zhong Shidao suddenly launched a major surprise attack on the Jin fortress guarding the road to Chenzhou, seizing the critical pass that connected the Liaoxi Corridor and the Liaodong Peninsula.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before the battle, Zhong Shidao had already prepared construction materials and ordered other forces to feign attacks, diverting Jin attention.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>While the Jin were overwhelmed by Song harassment, the Song took only twenty-two days to secure the advantageous terrain before Chenzhou, then captured the city in one decisive strike.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This city was named Pingjin City by Zhao Yu, implying the destruction of the Jin dynasty.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After capturing Pingjin City, Qiu Yu personally led craftsmen and laborers to reinforce it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The completion of Pingjin City marked the beginning of a series of Song offensives.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Due to Jin retreats, not only did Song forces on the Liaodong Peninsula advance, but Liu Fa’s Song army at Liaozhongjing also built fortresses and roads forward, consuming Jin territory and constructing a series of defensive works within Jin lands.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Song fortresses gradually formed a triangular defensive line, strictly restricting Jin movements; the idea that the Jin could use their mobility to defeat the Song piecemeal had become a fantasy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The standing of Pingjin City was like a steel spike driven deep into the Jin’s Liaodong heartland; unless the Jin removed this spike, the Liaodong Peninsula and Great Song’s homeland would become one continuous territory.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Indeed!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After Pingjin City was built, the Song continued using the “shallow advance and fortify” strategy, organizing dozens of small construction teams of a thousand men each, advancing into the Jin’s interior like silkworms devouring mulberry leaves.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wherever the Song achieved gains, craftsmen and laborers behind them rapidly rammed earth and piled stones, often completing a simple fortress within days as the next forward base.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These fortresses dotted the landscape, connected by newly built roads and even railways, enabling rapid transport of grain and ammunition while forming a mutually supportive defensive network—like a dense, impenetrable net woven across Jin territory.\u003C\u002Fp>",1393,"2026-06-20T15:06:50.687Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","060a1fa595d3b06e7c9ed73a331b1d2d0c8527e33c21c6f887314be169a3dace","i-transmigrated-to-the-northern-song-with-them-chapter-342","i-transmigrated-to-the-northern-song-with-them-chapter-340",348,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fi-transmigrated-to-the-northern-song-with-them-cover.jpg"]