Chapter 23: The Warrior Dominates

Tong Guan is a eunuch, but he has achieved the highest commander of the army, the privy envoy of the Privy Council, he has no shortage of money, no shortage of power, and the only thing missing now is reputation.

Tong Guan naturally wants to live for a hundred years, and there is an excellent opportunity in front of him, that is, to recover the sixteen states of Yanyun, so he has been beguiling Zhao Ji and the Jin State to unite and send troops to recover the sixteen states of Yanyun.

"Duff, when you say this, you really have a lot of ambition and destroy your own prestige." The Privy Council is in charge of the Great Song Army, Tong Guan naturally can't let others say that the army is bad, otherwise it will be his dereliction of duty as a privy envoy, so he said: "The Great Song Dynasty has millions of soldiers, and after recovering the sixteen states of Yanyun, how can he be afraid of the Jin people?" ”

"In this case, now that the Liao army of 50,000 troops is coming to the city of Fuzhou, how should the DPRK and China deal with it?" Taichang Siqing Li Gang retorted, no matter how fanciful you are Tong Guan, but now the Liao army is pressing the border is an indisputable fact, how should the situation in front of you be solved?

Tong Guan was speechless, the defenders of Fuzhou City were only more than 20,000 people, and in the face of the menacing Liao army, Tong Guan honestly did not have much confidence to ensure that Fuzhou would definitely be able to hold it.

"Official, once Fuzhou is lost, the Liao army can enter the Central Plains from the west, and then Bianjing City will be in danger." Li Gang said in a deep voice.

Zhao Ji listened to the arguments of many courtiers, and was originally a little sleepy, but at this time, he suddenly heard Li Gang say that it would endanger Bianjing City, so he was clever and said with some surprise: "The Liao army is coming?" ”

Tong Guan hurriedly said: "Li Gang, you are a little alarmist when you speak like this, Fuzhou City has thick walls, and it should be able to be defended." When he said this, Tong Guan was very lacking in confidence, as a privy envoy, he was very clear about the combat effectiveness of the Great Song army, and he did not have much confidence in resisting the Liao.

"Should? How can it be said that the two countries should be at war, and if they are defeated, what should they be? Li Gang asked step by step, Li Gang has a lot of dissatisfaction with the things in the army over the years, and has written to Zhao Ji many times to ask for the reform of the military system, but he has not received a response.

Tong Guan was angry in his heart, but at this time he didn't dare to pack the ticket and say that Fuzhou was fine, at this time, a little eunuch hurriedly ran over from outside, and shouted from afar: "Official, Fuzhou is urgent." ”

Zhao Ji's personal eunuch Li Yan hurriedly greeted him, received the urgent report from the little eunuch's hand, and trotted all the way to Zhao Ji.

Li Gang glanced at Tong Guan, his eyes were full of sneers, he just got the news two days ago that it was the Liao army pressing the border, and now this urgent report has come, Fuzhou City is probably in danger.

Tong Guan's face was a little unsightly, he was still insisting just now that there would be no problem with Fuzhou City, if the news of Fuzhou City was broken at this time, then it would really be a slap in the face of Chi Guoguo.

Zhao Ji took the song, opened it, and couldn't help laughing: "Hahaha...... Okay, Fuzhou won a great victory, and Zhe Keshi led the army to annihilate more than 10,000 Liao troops, so ......"

Tong Guan didn't expect it to be such a result, the mood was like a roller coaster, and he hurriedly stood up and said: "Official, the Zhe family has made a great contribution this time and should be rewarded." ”

Zhao Ji was about to agree, but when he saw the following content, the laughter stopped abruptly, and his face was a little cloudy.

The courtiers saw that Zhao Ji's face had changed a little, but they didn't know what the content behind the song was, and they couldn't help but be a little curious, since it was a great victory, why did they suddenly have a serious face?

After reading it, Zhao Ji took a deep breath, handed the song to Li Yan next to him, and said, "Read it out to everyone." ”

Li Yan took the note and read it: "...... The Liao general Yelu Dashi led an army of 50,000 to besiege Fuzhou, and the trebuchet broke a gap in Fuzhou City, and the Liao army wanted to attack Fuzhou City from the gap......

When everyone heard this, they couldn't help but sweat for Fuzhou City, thinking that the situation at that time should be very dangerous.

“…… At the critical moment, Sun Anbei, the son-in-law of the Zhe family, led 2,000 cavalry disguised as the Liao army and galloped to the aid of Fuzhou......"

Hearing this, Tong Guan couldn't help but shout: "Good man! "Tong Guan is indeed happy, thanks to this Sun Anbei, otherwise Fuzhou City may really have been broken by the Liao army, so today's recital should be a slap in the face.

“…… Sun Anbei ordered people to collect the corpses of the Liao army and built the Jingguan ......"

"Shhh Hearing this, all the ministers present gasped, this person actually built the Jingguan.

Zhang Bangchang, the superintendent of the imperial history, couldn't help but stand up and said: "The official family, the ministers impeached the broken family, and it is too cruel to use the corpses of the enemy to build the Jingguan, I am afraid that it will cause dissatisfaction among the Liao people, and it should be severely punished." ”

The Great Song Dynasty has been afraid of Liao for a long time, from the beginning of the Yuanyuan Alliance, the Great Song Dynasty has been deeply caught in the fear of the Liao State, in order to resist the Liao people, they came up with the absurd plan of planting paddy fields in the north, in order to resist the cavalry of the Liao army, they even diverted the Yellow River several times, flooded thousands of acres of fertile land, and hundreds of thousands of people were displaced, just worried that the Liao people would take a boat along the Yellow River to Bianliang.

For a time, the officials who impeached the family came out one after another, and they all advised that the family should be severely punished.

"The official family, the Fold family has meritorious service in guarding the prefecture, if it is severely punished at this time, won't it chill the hearts of the soldiers?" Li Gang was worried that Zhao Ji's head would be hot, so he would really punish the folded family, so he hurriedly stood up and said.

Tong Guan also stood up at this time and said: "Official, the Liao people are already at the end of the strong crossbow, this is the best time to join the Jin to resist the Liao and recover the sixteen states of Yanyun, you are all worried that the Jin people will destroy the Liao State and take advantage of the situation to wave the army south, and now there is the Jingguan of the Great Song Dynasty to defeat the Liao people, but it can raise the prestige of the Great Song Dynasty army, deter the Jin people, and break the family, which is a great achievement." ”

Tong Guan advocated uniting with the Jin State to recover the land of Yanyun, and there were many objections between the DPRK and China, and now this big victory in Fuzhou is that the sleepiness is coming to send a pillow, aren't you worried that the Jin State will take the opportunity to go south? The army of the Great Song Dynasty is so powerful, do you still need to worry about the army of the Jin Kingdom?

"But the Zhe family actually built the Beijing Temple privately, and the martial artists are domineering!" Zhang Bangchang once again stood up and said that the martial artists had a low status in the Great Song Dynasty, and they dared to build a Jingguan, so they had to be suppressed.