Chapter 378: Laying the Nails
Zhang Hao looked at the letter in his hand, his hands trembling. Obviously, the room was very warm, and the braziers in the four corners were burning brightly, which can be seen from the fact that he was wearing only a cotton robe. But at this moment, my heart is like falling into a thousand-year-old ice cave, and it is freezing cold!
A simple letter, only three or two hundred words, is as heavy as a thousand pounds at the moment, and he can't afford it.
Because this is Zhao Gou's handwritten letter!
He never imagined that one day he would receive a letter of persuasion from the Prince of the Great Song Dynasty.
Because he served the Jin people after the Battle of Taiyuan, he had already decided that the Great Song Dynasty could not beat the Jin soldiers, one was the sun was falling, and the other was the rising sun. Zhang Hao made up his mind to follow the Jin people.
In his eyes, Zhao and Song Guoyun are already a remnant candle in the wind, which can be extinguished at any time. Where did I think that when I got the news from the front again, it was a huge shock.
King Kang really did a great thing!
What is to turn the tide and what is to help the building to fall, King Kang is.
And with the flipping of the situation, as the news spreads, the form of Hedong has also changed dramatically rapidly. It seems that many states and counties have changed their colors overnight, and even the states and counties near Lanzhou, Shizhou and other places have re-branded the banner of the Great Song Dynasty.
Xu Huiyan and Sun Ang, the two hard-headed and Zhe Keqiu, the villain who saw the wind and made the rudder, met together, so the strength of the Northern Song Army in the western Jin Dynasty skyrocketed, even if he and the Jin people worked together, they couldn't help it.
Zhang Hao is the son of Zhang Xiaochun, and Zhang Xiaochun is the envoy of Hedong Xuanfu and the governor of Taiyuan Mansion who guarded Taiyuan for 300 days with Wang Yuan.
As the son of Xuanfu Xianggong, Zhang Hao is certainly not a military general, don't look at him repeatedly leading troops, but he is a standard Wenchen. It's just that the Great Song Dynasty has always used literature to suppress martial arts, Zhang Hao has Zhang Xiaochun, the old man, and during the Battle of Taiyuan, it was a plaque erected by the Song Dynasty.
was promoted to Zhizhou first, and was promoted to Hexi in an instant, which was a very grand imperial favor in the Zhao and Song dynasties, and most of it was for the sake of his father Zhang Xiaochun guarding Taiyuan. At that time, there were as many as 50,000 or 60,000 soldiers and horses under the command of Zhang Hao, such as Zhekeqiu, which was under his command.
However, the Zhejia army had suffered a lot of pain at the beginning of the Jin army's southward movement, first the Zhejia family's descendants Zhi Kecun was ordered to garrison in Laoxian County, and the county was captured and taken to Yingzhou, where he was imprisoned by the Jin people for more than half a year before escaping back to Fuzhou, and then died of hatred. The Foldable Quest Department also suffered heavy losses. It was also after that that that I learned the world-famous knowledge of 'turning into battle' without a teacher. In the following time, on the Taiyuan battlefield, the fold can be turned back again and again.
When the Song army rescued Taiyuan for the first time, Zhe Keqiu led the two armies of Yanyan and Linfu, but before the battle, Liu Guangshi's department was missing, and Zhe Keqiu quickly transferred after a small battle with Jin Bing.
The second rescue of Taiyuan, Yao Gu and other troops in the division from the east road Jin soldiers, Zhe Keqiu from the west road to enter the army, and then Zhe Keqiu simply did not go, just because Yao Gu Jiao'an Festival cowardice, attracted the attention of the imperial court, one was degraded, one was cut, and the thunder was replaced by Zhe Keqiu.
Although the imperial court did not ask for punishment, it was clear that it could be transferred twice, so Li Gang rescued Taiyuan for the third time, and specially appointed Zhang Hao as a visiting envoy to He Xilu, hoping that Zhang Hao would be surrounded by his father, and strictly urge the generals under his command to march.
As a result, Zhe Keqiu reported to Zhang Hao a "Yang Zongmin, the governor of Linzhou, suggested that he must be saved when attacking the enemy." I went to Jinzhou under the banner of a general, and the siege of Taiyuan will be solved. The meaning of this passage is to say: Yang Zongmin, the governor of Linzhou, suggested that if you attack the place where the enemy must be rescued, I can ask for a pretense to go to Jinju under the banner of a general, and the siege of Taiyuan can be lifted.
Since then, the Zhe Keqiu Department has lost contact, and when he hears the news of other departments, the Zhe Keqiu army has returned to Fuzhou.
Subsequently, Zhang Hao's army was in turmoil, so he had to lead the army to retreat to Guozha and station, but the Jin soldiers followed closely and killed him. The commander Ji Jing's headquarters broke and fled first, which led to a great defeat of the whole army. Subsequently, in Shuiwen County, the commander Zhang Sizheng attacked Jinzhai, beheaded hundreds, and won a small victory, but the next day the Jin soldiers attacked with 3,000 iron horses, Zhang Sizheng's whole army was defeated, and tens of thousands of Song troops were wiped out. Zhang Hao fled with only a few hundred teeth.
Then Taiyuan fell, and his father was captured by the Jin people, and he was sent to Yunzhong to be imprisoned.
Zhang Hao got a royal approval from Zhao Huan - "Disloyalty and filial piety are like this!" ”
After the news came out, how did Zhang Hao stand in the world?
For the failure of the third rescue of Taiyuan, Zhao Huan punished Li Gang for lifting the Dongxiao Palace and pardoned the crimes of Xie Qian and Liu Yan's defeated army, and only for him, he actually opened Chrysostom and said such an evaluation: "This person is disloyal and unfilial!" ”
By the time Zhang Hao heard this, the evaluation of disloyalty and unfilial piety had spread all over the world. He simply voted for the gold man. "The whole world is disloyal and unfilial, so I abandon loyalty and get filial piety."
Therefore, in a sense, he was also forced to the side of the Jin people by Zhao Huan. Of course, whether this is really 'forced to be helpless' or a fake posture, only he knows it.
But no matter what, Jin Ren still believes in him. Just look at the tens of thousands of soldiers under him, then it can be seen.
These people were all recruited by Zhang Hao to raise the banner of the defeated soldiers of the Song Army and the local youth regiment, which can be regarded as a large force.
Once he moved his mind, Jin Ren was afraid that he would not even have the last glimmer of hope in Hedong.
But Zhao Gou is also a figure who has experienced the ups and downs of the late Ming Dynasty, how could he ask Zhang Hao to make a choice so easily? Zhao Gou didn't put the Song army in Hedong in his eyes at all, his eyes were staring at the sixteen states of Yanyun. Even if it is difficult to take it in the short term, the grain transfer of the Song army is already insufficient.
The Jin army was destined to be unable to succeed in Hedong, and instead of asking people to wait for death in Hedong, Zhao Gou believed that Mu Han would withdraw all the people to Datong.
Zhang Hao's father is in the clouds, that is, on the edge of Datong, and the latter still runs to Datong to make trouble again.
He wrote about this directly in his letter.
A layer of sweat appeared on Zhang Hao's forehead.
This returns to Zhao Song, he is willing. Even if Zhao Huan said that he was disloyal and unfilial, he still identified with the Central Plains Dynasty from the bottom of his heart.
Compared with Zhao Huan, Zhao Gou in front of him is a more ideal refuge object.
Although this is just a prince, didn't Zhao Lao Er also change from a prince to an emperor?
Zhao Gou has a heavy army in his hands, he is righteous, and he has an artifact like earth-shattering thunder that makes the Jurchens frightened, how can the world not get it?
Zhang Hao is not worried at all that after he defects to Zhao Gou, his future is not bright.
But he is worried about his own life, he doesn't want to be loyal to filial piety, if he loses the word filial piety, then he is really disloyal and unjust.
Zhao Gou didn't force him to jump back immediately, and he really sympathized with him.
But if he has 10,000 people in Taiyuan, he will definitely be able to leave no one in the Jinren pit, but if he goes to Datong, everything will be different.
Not to mention how many Jin troops are stationed in Datong, and not to mention whether he can still hold real power when he arrives in Datong, only that there are still a few people left after he runs to Datong, which is all a suspense. The danger naturally rises in a straight line.
"But how difficult the world is!" Zhang Hao sighed.