Stupidity, everyone has to pay for their stupidity, without exception. This time, Tong Guan gave up entering the Dacheng Zhending Mansion and chose to enter the small city of Xinde Mansion, which was destined to be a stupid decision, and he would also pay the price for his stupidity.

Sindh House is a small city that cannot be smaller, and after the 30,000 victorious troops entered, it can be said that it was very nervous. Fortunately, the people in the city had long run out, otherwise they would not have been able to accommodate these 30,000 troops.

Tong Guan was reluctant to enter the Zhending Mansion, because Pan Ji, the prefect of the Zhending Mansion, was a child of the Pan family, and he and Liu Zhenglong were mortal enemies, how could he provoke the Pan family? And the soldiers and horses of Xinde Mansion are the fake sons of Tong Guan, which is equivalent to Tong Guan's territory, and he comes to his own territory.

After Yan Yan's mother knew that Tong Guan had entered Xinde Mansion, she immediately had an idea, and he quickly sent a large army to besiege Xinde Mansion, but the defense line was relatively outward, and it did not approach this small city, and did not give the other party too much oppression.

Encircled the point to send reinforcements, this time Wanyan Yanmu wanted to surround Xinde Mansion, and then intercept the Song army who came to the rescue from Zhending Mansion halfway. In his opinion, Tong Guan was the king of Guangyang County of the Great Song Dynasty, the privy envoy, and the Xuanfu envoy of Hebei Road, as long as he was trapped in the city, Zhending Mansion would definitely send a large army to rescue him.

Soon after Tong Guan entered the city, he knew that the Jin army was besieging the city, but he was not nervous, he was here to negotiate, not to fight, and he believed that the Jin State would not embarrass himself.

Negotiating, should you send someone over, or invite the Jin people into the city? Tong Guan couldn't make up his mind for a while, but in the end, at Tong Chuici's suggestion, he still decided to send someone to invite Jin Guolai to talk to him.

Tong Chai Ci's point of view is that it is easy to seize the initiative in negotiations on his own territory, and now that there are 30,000 more troops in the city, he is not afraid of the Jin army.

Negotiation, Yan Yan's mother smiled, he didn't expect that at this time, Da Song was still thinking about negotiation, but what to talk about and what conditions to propose? Wanyan Yan's mother, who couldn't get an idea for a while, could only ask Wanyan Zongwang in the end.

Wanyan Zongwang didn't expect the Great Song Dynasty to be so stupid, so he personally sent the envoy Wu Xiaomin to Xinde Mansion to negotiate. It doesn't matter whether you can talk about the result or not, the main thing is that it can deter the Song State and win time for a large-scale attack later.

Wu Xiaomin is a Han people of Liao, a jinshi of the Liao State, very strategic, eloquent, after the fall of the Liao State, he defected to serve under Wanyan Zongwang.

Before leaving, Wanyan Zongwang told Wu Xiaomin the bottom line of the negotiation, and this guy just needs to play the trick.

Wu Xiaomin and his entourage of seven people entered Xinde Mansion.

Tong Chai gave a banquet to entertain the envoys of the Jin State.

At the beginning of the negotiations, in order to grasp the initiative, Tong Guan took the lead in asking: "Jin and China are alliance countries, and there has been a maritime alliance. has always been peaceful, why do you send troops to occupy my country's Hebei Road now?"

"No, no. I, the Dajin Iron Cavalry, have never occupied Hebei Road. Wu Xiaomin's face was disdainful, and he said unhurriedly: "It was Pharmacist Guo and others who dedicated these states and counties to me with great gold." The emperor of our country paid taxes lightly and gave the people a lenient policy. The people here are willing to be subjects of Dajin, not to be courtiers of your country. The magistrates and generals of these prefectures and counties have surrendered one after another, and our country has just taken all the orders, so how can it be said that troops are sent to occupy them? ”

Negotiation is originally a back and forth, especially before the war, at this time the so-called argument is actually useless, the negotiation between the jackal and the little sheep, no matter how good the little sheep's eloquence is, will still be eaten in the end, even if the jackal is dumbfounded by the question, it will not change anything.

Tong Guan obviously knew that the problem could not be solved through a battle of words, so he did not interrupt the question of right and wrong entangled with the other party, he said speechlessly: "The maritime alliance is an agreement between you and us, you Jin Guo will not tear it up, and your envoy will not deny it!" ”

"No, of course not." Wu Xiaomin already had the bottom line of the negotiation before he came, and he didn't plan to do any verbal dispute at all, nor did he plan to delay it for too long, he said with a smile: "Our Dajin Kingdom has always abided by the covenant, and we must believe in our words and be fruitful in our deeds. It is not like you who claim to be a ceremonial nation, but you tear up covenants at every turn. The front foot and the Liao State had an alliance with the Yuanyuan, and the back foot tore it up without authorization and declared war on Liao. This kind of untrustworthy act will never be possible for our Jin country. ”

Tong Guan didn't want to get entangled, he said coldly: "Since your country abides by the Maritime Alliance, you should know that Hebei Road is the land of our Great Song Dynasty, and Yanshan Mansion should also be handed over to us as agreed." Now that I occupy Yanshan Mansion and Hebei Road without authorization, is it considered a breach of contract, and should it not be returned to us? ”

Wu Xiaomin shook his head, and he said in an extremely sarcastic tone: "I have already said just now, Guo Yaoshi handed over Yanshan Mansion to us, and the same is true of those states and counties on Hebei Road. You've been pulling it over here, what's the point. ”

"Okay, even if you don't breach, what should you do to return it to us?"

"Of course we didn't breach the contract, the question now is your breach of contract, how to compensate us Dajin."

Tong Guan didn't expect that the other party would shout to catch the thief, he said angrily: "Your country occupies our Yanshan Mansion and Hebei Road, why do you bite back now and say that we are in breach of contract?" ”

"According to the Sea Alliance, the two of us are allies, there should be a common enemy, Zhang Jue betrayed our Dajin, how can you take it in without authorization, this is undoubtedly a provocation to our Dajin country, a declaration of war, and an act of hostility, which disgraces our Dajin country, and His Majesty the Emperor is very angry." Wu Xiaomin's tone suddenly increased, and he almost roared: "Any provocation against the Dajin Kingdom will have to pay a price. Emperor Dajin does not want to provoke a war, but your country must give corresponding compensation, otherwise, the iron cavalry of the Jin Kingdom will go to Bianliang City to reason with your Emperor Majesty. ”

"You, what do you want?" Tong Guan suddenly found that things were more complicated than he imagined, and it seemed that Jin Guo was ready to invade the Song Dynasty, and he was a little flustered at this time.

"Cedion Hebei Road, Hedong Road belongs to our Dajin, and the two countries are bounded by the Great River."

"Shameless, how can you open your mouth like this?" Tong Guan originally thought that at most one million guan could solve the problem, but he didn't expect that the other party would cede Hebei Road and Hedong Road, this kind of loss of power and humiliation of the country, once he agreed, wouldn't he become a sinner of the Great Song Dynasty.

"Oh, I forgot to say just now, if the king of Guangyang County does not agree, this envoy will go to Bianliang City to negotiate with the emperor of your country, and when the time comes, I will escort you Tong Guan, Tan Zhi, and Zhan Du over, so as to use your heads to draw a successful end to the Zhang Jue incident."

Arrogant and shameless, Tong Guan said a little violently: "What if we don't agree? ”

"If you don't agree, the iron cavalry of the Jin Kingdom will be in Bianliang City, and it's hard to say whether the Zhao family's Jiangshan Sheji can be kept." Wu Xiaomin's face showed a look of disdain, and he said coldly: "How is your country's army better than the Liao army, the million Liao army has not been annihilated by our Jin country's iron cavalry, how long can you fight?" ”

Wu Xiaomin stopped talking, turned around and left, and said coldly as he walked: "Within three days, if there is no reply, our army will conquer Sindh Mansion, and it will be difficult to say if your head is not there then." ”

Looking at Wu Xiaomin's back, Tong Guan didn't get angry, as if his soul had been drained, the whole person was dumbfounded, and he didn't know what to do for a while.

Tong Chai Ci said cautiously: "Father-in-law, no matter what happens in the end, you better hurry up and leave, once the Jin army attacks the city, such a small Xinde Mansion will not be able to hold it." ”

"Go, I can't go, since the Jin army is overwhelmed, how can I be let go." After all, Tong Guan had led soldiers, and he knew that the Jin army had laid heavy troops outside, and it was not easy to leave.

"What then?"

"You send people to Zhending Mansion to ask for help, so that they can hurry up to meet us, and the fifth watch in three days must attack the Jin army camp from the west, otherwise they will not be spared. Only then will we be able to relieve the pressure and prepare for the fight. ”

Tong Guan is not stupid, if the Jin army attacks with all its might, this Xinde Mansion will hold out for three days at most, and the premise is that he brought 30,000 victorious troops, otherwise, he will not be able to hold on for half a day. He can't take care of Sindh Mansion now, and he can't take care of this fake son, for him, as long as he can save his life, then it is worth the sacrifice.

There are three days, since the Jin Kingdom has given three days, then there is enough time to escape, Tong Guan's idea is very simple, that is, to take advantage of the Zhending Mansion to come to the rescue, and lead the 30,000 Shengjie army to break through.

After making up his mind, Tong Guan secretly summoned Zhang Jin, Wang Feng, and Chen Bin, the three commanders of the Shengjie Army, and directly avoided Tong Chai and gave him away.

The situation is urgent, Tong Guan is not ready to go around in circles, he said straight to the point: "The Jin army is besieging Xinde Mansion, this king is preparing to break through, in the past two days, Zhending Mansion will definitely come to the rescue, and the time when they send troops is the time for us to break through, that is, the fifth watch day after three days." ”

"Listen to the prince's orders."

"Zhang Jin, you lead the troops and horses of your headquarters to attack from the west gate, at any cost, you must meet with the reinforcements of Zhending Mansion, and then fight your way out of the siege." Tong Guan's decision foreshadowed the abandonment of Zhang Jin's 10,000 soldiers and horses, and he continued: "Wang Feng, you lead the troops and horses of your headquarters to attack from the east gate, for an hour, it is best to go out, and if you can't get out, you will withdraw to cooperate with Tong to chase and give the Faithful Mansion." The soldiers and horses of Chen Bin's headquarters were divided into two parts, one part broke through from the south gate, and the other part broke through from the north gate. ”

"Lord, where did you go from?"

"Don't ask, you'll find out when the time comes." Tong Guan didn't want to leak his whereabouts in advance, so he finally said: "Let the brothers eat more meat these days and be prepared for the impact." ”

Zhang Jin was silent for a moment and then said, "King, what if the Zhending Mansion doesn't come to the rescue?" ”

"Don't worry, this king is still a privy envoy, an envoy of Hebei Road Xuanfu, and at the same time an envoy to the Jin Kingdom on behalf of His Majesty, if Pan Ji dares not to come to the rescue, then the Pan family is waiting to be destroyed, and no one can stop it." Tong Guan is familiar with the rules of officialdom, no matter what, Pan Ji will come to save him. If you lose Zhending Mansion, at most, Pan Ji will lose her head alone, and with the power of the Pan family, it is very likely that he will lose his official position in the end, and he will not lose his head. But if you don't come to the rescue of Qincha, it is a big crime to exterminate the clan, and if the envoy of Hebei Xuanfu is sacrificed in Xinde Mansion like this, then the civil official group will definitely attack it en masse, and no one can save the disaster of the Pan family at that time.

"What if the letter can't be delivered?" Wang Feng still raised his own question, since the Jin army wanted to arrest Tong Guan, how could he let the soldiers go out of the city to ask for help?

Tong Guan laughed, he smiled and said, "If you want my head, what good will it do to Jin Guo." The ultimate goal of the Jin Kingdom is Zhendingfu, which is a big city, and if you forcibly attack the city, you will suffer heavy casualties. However, besieging Sindh Mansion and forcing Zhending Mansion to ask for help, this kind of encirclement is the strength of the Jin Army, and it will definitely be used this time, so it will definitely be rescued. ”

Sure enough, after Pan Ji received the letter asking for help, his head was as big as a fight. Since the Jin State wants to besiege Sindh Mansion and capture Tong Guan alive, how can he allow the soldiers to break through the siege and deliver letters?

Encirclement and reinforcement, obviously the Jin army is encircling and reinforcing the point, this is a yang scheme, knowing that it is a pit, but it can't be jumped. Pan Ji is the leader of the younger generation of the Pan family, and his ability is far above Pan Feng and Pan Yue. Despite this, the prefect of Zhending Mansion and the capital of soldiers and horses who can be mixed into the six products is the embodiment of ability.

In fact, it is not that the Pan family does not attach importance to Pan Ji, but that Liu Zhenglong repeatedly told the Pan family that Pan Ji must be nailed to the position of Zhending Mansion and cannot be easily transferred.

Zhending Mansion is the two major military towns in Hebei, stationed 30,000 forbidden troops, and the location of Zhongshan Mansion is as important. Of course, the important thing is only the military status, and the political status is not good, far from catching up with Jingzhao Mansion, Chengdu Mansion, Jiangning Mansion, and Taiyuan Mansion.

Pan Ji did not dare to be careless, and he summoned all three army commanders in the city.

After Zhou Chong, Han Bin, and Su Zhanji's three army commanders arrived in Qi, Pan Ji said straight to the point: "Tong Guan is trapped in Xinde Mansion and sent someone for help, what do you think?" ”

Zhou Chong was anxious, he hurriedly said: "My lord, this is clearly a trap, the Jin army is besieging the city, there are powerful cavalry patrols, how can there be a fish that slips through the net to deliver the letter?" This is a siege point to send reinforcements, if we send troops to help, they will definitely come back to capture Zhendingfu. Xiang Zhuang dances the sword, which is intended for Pei Gong. What is the use of the Jin army to capture the king of Guangyang County, and what is the use of the small Xinde Mansion to conquer it. The purpose of the Jin army is our Zhending Mansion, once the Jin Army takes Zhending Mansion, then Zhongshan Mansion will become a lonely city, and Hebei Road is in danger. ”

Pan Ji waved his hand and said: "Although I am a civil official, I am from the Pan family after all, and I understand all these truths." Tong Guan and our Pan family have always been at odds with each other, and even sworn enemies. But Tong Guan is not only the king of Guangyang County, the key is that he is also a privy envoy and an envoy of Hebei Road. There is also the most important thing in this, that is, he is the chaplain appointed by His Majesty, representing the imperial court. If he doesn't help, I can't help, but. If you don't help, the Pan family will suffer a catastrophe, so you must go to the rescue. ”

One of the three army commanders is a member of the Pan family, one is the Cao family, and the other is a member of the Shi family, of course these three people know what the disaster of the Pan family means, it is not the problem of the Pan family, it is the disaster of the entire meritorious family, so the three of them are not silent, and who will not dare to be the master at this time.

"Save, must be saved, Zhending Mansion must be defended." A voice came from outside, and as soon as the door opened, an ordinary-looking, inconspicuous soldier walked in, and as soon as he entered the room, he said, "The envoy of the Dragon Soul Society has invited you to see the prefect. ”

"You're hiding deep enough, okay, tell me about your plan."

The commanders of the three armies did not know the existence of the Dragon Soul Society, after all, this was the forbidden army of the imperial court, not the Liu family's army, and the Dragon Soul Society was still a top secret. But Pan Ji knew, and of course he knew that if he hadn't been in Zhending Mansion, the Dragon Soul Society wouldn't exist. At most, the members of the Dragon Claw group exist in the Zhending Mansion, for example, Zhongshan Mansion only has the Dragon Claw, but there are absolutely no members of the Dragon Soul Society.

Pan Ji said unhurriedly: "There are 30,000 forbidden troops in Zhending Mansion, and there are 10,000 township soldiers. There were 10,000 township soldiers who put on the clothes of the forbidden army to rescue, even if they gave an explanation to Tong Guan, and the defense of Zhending Mansion did not decline significantly. ”

"However, the 10,000 villagers were sacrificed." After all, Pan Ji is a civilian official, and it is indeed a bit unbearable to let 10,000 township soldiers go to death.

"At the beginning of the war, it was doomed to be a river of blood. Governor Pan should actively prepare for war, and defending Zhending Mansion is the last word. This time, the task of our family master bus is to stick to it for more than a year, and we must not lose Zhending Mansion. Feng Li please know that this treasure is not close to people, but there is really no way, he said: "We, the members of the Dragon Soul Society, lead the team to reduce unnecessary casualties as much as possible. ”

"Well, that's all there is to it. If nothing else, the day of Tong Guan's breakthrough was when the Jin army attacked Zhendingfu. "Pan Ji knows that the task of defending the city is arduous, and now is not the time to be hypocritical.

Breaking through, how can it be so simple! Tong Guan was prepared to sacrifice 30,000 victories to save his life this time, and he finally called Chen Bin to the room.

"Chen Bin, you were brought out by me, you are my confidant, and this king will not go around in circles with you today. This breakthrough is more auspicious than lucky. At the beginning, I said that your 10,000 soldiers and horses were divided into two ways and broke through from the north and south gates, but I just said it to everyone. In fact, you asked the deputy commander Liu Qi to lead 9,000 soldiers and horses to break through from the south gate. Then you lead a thousand elite soldiers and five hundred of my own soldiers to break through from the north gate, and the speed must be fast, and there must be no delay. In addition, those 1,000 elite soldiers were sent to death, and only my own soldiers had war horses that really covered our breakthrough. After returning to the capital, you will be promoted to three levels in a row, and you will be rewarded with 30,000 taels of silver and 5,000 taels of fertile land. ”

"Don't worry, even if you fight all the soldiers and drain my Chen Bin's blood, you will definitely protect the prince to break through."

After explaining to Chen Bin, Tong Guan was relieved.

Wanyan Yan's mother was very unimpressed with Wu Xiaomin's report, so the lion opened his mouth, and Tong Guan would be a hell if he agreed. However, for him, these are not important, the most important thing is to encircle the point and send reinforcements, trap Sindh Mansion to the death, and then annihilate the reinforcements on the side of Zhending Mansion.

The messengers who had gone out of Sindh were released in this way, and it would have been almost impossible to rush out if it had not been for the Jin army deliberately releasing water.

The Jin army trapped Sindh Mansion to the death, and the heavy troops were placed outside Xicheng, which was the direction of the arrival of reinforcements from Zhending Mansion, and there were also deployments on the other three sides.

On the third day, at the fourth watch in the morning, the 30,000 Shengjie army in Xinde Mansion was ready to go, and at the third quarter of the fourth watch, the north gate was the first to open, and Chen Bin led 500 cavalry and 1,000 infantry to escort Tong Guan out of the city gate carefully. Stop at the back of a small hill, and over the hill is the camp of the Jin army.

Wait, Chen Bin is waiting, waiting until the fifth watch, the whole Shengjie army will break through before acting, so that there is a breakthrough on all sides, so that the Jin army can't distinguish the direction, so that it can break through smoothly.

There is a reason why the May Watch Day was chosen to break through, most of the people who fought in that era had night blindness, and it was not clear to see clearly at night, and on the May Watch Day in August, the day was just dawn, and the soldiers had not yet eaten breakfast, and it was the most appropriate to break through at this time.

On the fifth watch, the breakthrough operation officially began, the bravest belonged to the west of the Shengjie army, the commander Zhang Jin took the lead in the front, at this time, there was no tactics, there was no strategy, it was just blindly rushing forward, others did not know, but he knew that he and the 10,000 Shengjie army were sent to death, only to send them to death, only to make the action bigger, to attract the attention of the main Jin army.

Zhang Jin is a tendon, he simply thinks that he is leading the army to break through to cover the king of Guangyang County, as for where Tong Guan broke through, he doesn't think about it, and he doesn't want to pay attention to it.

Not only Zhang Jin, Wang Feng is still in this situation, but this guy is a little more flexible, his soldiers act a little later than the scheduled time, before the action, send scouts to solve the barricades and sentry posts of the Jin country, and then rush to kill.

The words brave and brave are the best words to describe the victorious army. In terms of combat effectiveness, it was second to none in the Great Song Dynasty, more powerful than the Western Army, and was called the New Western Army. However, on such a night, if there is one word to describe this army, it is tragic.

The Jin army had already waited for the Song army to break through, and the dense arrows rushed in, and countless Shengjie soldiers fell, the people in front fell, and the soldiers behind quickly followed. Layers of soldiers are lost, and it can be said that rivers of blood are flowing and corpses are everywhere.

The brave victorious army was fearless, and one group died, and another group was pressed up. But this kind of death is a bit too tragic, and the 30,000 army fell batch after batch under the encirclement and suppression of the Jin army, and the degree of tragedy is not recorded in the history books.

The death of the Shengjie army is the death of the martyrs, and the 10,000 township soldiers who rushed out of the Zhending Mansion died in obscurity, and it will not appear in the battle report, nor will it appear in the credit book of the Privy Council.

In the end, whether all the 10,000 township soldiers were killed in battle, or some of the successful breakthrough is unknown to the outside world, there is no written record, as if they never appeared, this battle record is only the bloody battle of Sindh Fu 30,000 victories The army was almost completely wiped out, and the breakthrough success was only a few hundred. The 10,000 forbidden troops who came to the rescue from Zhending Mansion were all killed.