Song Jun besieged the city day and night. It is said that in the Northern Han Dynasty, only Song Jun received millions of arrows shot into Taiyuan, and the isolated Taiyuan city was hard to support, but the foot soldiers residents still stubbornly resisted. However, under the heavy pressure, the Northern Han ruling group began to split. Some people are afraid to fight again for fear of death. Some people are worried about the Song Jun Massacre after the city was broken, and they also want to defect. Others are not afraid of death and will fight to the last minute. Liu Jiyuan, the ruler of the Northern Han Dynasty, was incompetent and naturally chose to give in. More shamelessly, after Zhao Guangyi entered the city, he even said that he would submit, and the resistance was instigated by others, killing some rebel officials loyal to the Northern Han Dynasty.
Surprisingly, after Liu Jiyuan surrendered, the residents in the city still refused to submit. Yuan Haowen said in his poem: "When Wang Xue comes out, the people will not fall, and the roof tiles will fly like arrows." He continued to resist. I think this reason is not only the anger of Taiyuan citizens over the separation of flesh and blood caused by Song Jun's repeated looting of people's families in the south, but also the heroic blood forged by various wars since the Millennium! Taiyuan city is broken, but it's not broken yet. This heroic city is worthy of its history.
Nailed and died in the state canal.
Although the city was captured, Zhao Guangyi was contemplating the aftermath besides conferring meritorious deeds. Taiyuan's precedent of "prosperity is clothing, decline is chaos" disgusted him. The stubborn resistance of Taiyuan soldiers and civilians made him angry. The frequent history of Emperor Taiyuan frightened him, and the geographical location of Taiyuan from Kaifeng, the capital, worried him even more. He thought, what should the city do?
After thinking, he can't entrust such an important town to outsiders, let alone ignore it and just set it on fire!
Zhao Guangyi decided to demote Taiyuan to the normal state and move to Yuci, and built a new city east of Fenhe River, named "Ping Jin", forced Taiyuan residents to move, and then set fire to the city. The city was in chaos, and people rushed out and trampled on each other. The number of the dead is unknown, and countless people who are old, weak, sick and slow to move died in the fire. In the second year, water and gold flooded the city. The thousand-year-old city was in ruins after the fire spread.
In order to destroy the so-called "Long Mai" and "Tianziqi" of Taiyuan City, Zhao Guangyi changed all the streets of the newly-built Taiyuan City into a "D" shape, thinking that it could "nail" Long Mai; And the top of Zhoushan outside the city was flattened, indicating that the "faucet" was cut off. In this way, it seems that his country of Zhao can live forever.
Zhao Guangyi was wrong. His short-sightedness and narrow-mindedness made him lose a strategic border town. The northern border was always the biggest worry in the Song Dynasty, not to mention the Liao people had been invading the border. Later, the Jin people made a massive expedition to the south, and the Mongolian Yuan destroyed the Song Dynasty, which was also a long drive south to sweep the Central Plains. No wonder Zhao Guangyi's atrocities and short-sightedness were satirized by Yuan Haowen: "Guanjie was changed to a T-shape, and the Bingzhou Canal was nailed!" ■