釋氏稽古略 4.394

4.394

金歸德絕糧。六月戊戌金主自毫遷蔡州。宋十一月遣襄陽太尉江海．襄陽帥孟珙。以兵四萬人攻蔡州駐城南。帥臣史嵩之（彌遠侄也）運糧十萬給南北軍。且置榷場於城南更相貿易。大軍賴之。十二月初九日大軍攻外城克之。十六日大軍併力攻西城弗克。十八日大軍復大至鑿其西城。十九日金主悉出御用器皿賞軍士。二十二日金主微服將馬軍百步軍千夜出東城將遁。及柵不戰而還（金志）。

In Guide of the Jin, provisions ran out. On the day wuxu in the sixth month, the Jin ruler moved from Bo to Cai Prefecture. In the eleventh month, Song dispatched Jiang Hai, the Grand Defender of Xiangyang, and Meng Gong, the Commander of Xiangyang, with forty thousand troops to attack Cai Prefecture, encamping south of the city. The commander Shi Songzhi (nephew of [Shi] Miyuan) transported one hundred thousand [measures] of grain to supply both the northern and southern armies, and established a frontier market south of the city to trade with one another, upon which the Great Army relied. On the ninth day of the twelfth month, the Great Army attacked the outer city and captured it. On the sixteenth day, the Great Army joined forces to attack the western city but failed. On the eighteenth day, the Great Army again arrived in great numbers, breaching its western wall. On the nineteenth day, the Jin ruler brought out all the imperial utensils to reward the soldiers. On the twenty-second day, the Jin ruler, in plain clothes, led one hundred cavalry and one thousand infantry out through the eastern city at night, intending to flee; when he reached the palisade, he returned without fighting (Jinzhi).