The Chinese army said that the war would be fought, and the unprepared small court of the Southern Song Dynasty was caught off guard!

Zhao Gou hurriedly ordered Wang Yuan, who was at the forefront of the front, to lead the army to resist, and at the same time ordered Du Chong, Zhang Jun, Liu Guangshi and others to let them guard various key areas, and at the same time wrote a letter to Li Yan begging for mercy.

In the letter written by Zhao Gou to Li Yan, he did not dare to use "Emperor of the Great Song Dynasty" as the letterhead, but used "Song Kang Wang Gou to the uncle of Emperor Dazhong" as the letterhead.

This letter may have come from Qin Hui's hand, and it was written so sincerely.

The letter said: "In ancient times, there was a country and those who were forced to perish, but they only kept and ran, but now there is no one by the code, and there is no land with run, and the four seas are the land of uncles." ”

Zhao Gou meant: "Uncle, you attack me, I only have two choices, one is to defend to the death, the other is to escape, I want to defend to the death now and no one can defend, if you want to escape, there is no place to escape, even the four seas are your uncle." ”

Then he said: "Therefore, I only hope that my uncle will see me and mourn." ”

It means: "My only hope is in your mercy, uncle, and you have mercy on me, and I beg you to stop attacking me." ”

Then he said: "Therefore, the former even sent a letter, and was willing to cut off the old name is between heaven and earth, all of them are large and medium-sized countries, and they are all respected, so why bother to travel far and then be fast." ”

It means: "I have written to your uncle several times before, saying that I am willing to cut off the old name, not to be the emperor of the Song Dynasty, but to be canonized by you, uncle, and the Song Dynasty to be a vassal state of Dazhong, so that there is only one country between heaven and earth, how good it is." ”

After that, he said: "Look at my uncle, the magnificent and far-reaching picture, remember the lonely country, return to the teacher's armor, and give it more than a year." ”

It means: "Uncle, you will be merciful, have mercy on me, so that I can survive for a long time, and you will return to the north." ”

In the end, Zhao Gou also said that he was not sincere in arrears, but that the Southern Song Dynasty was too poor now, but even so, as long as the Chinese army was willing to return to the dynasty, he was also willing to immediately offer ten times the annual coins to make up for the fine of late payment of the New Year's coins this year.

After Li Yan read this earnest letter of plea, he showed the letter to Concubine Wei Xian, Xing Bingyi and others, and said to Concubine Wei Xian: "You gave birth to a good son, you can really stretch and bend, and you can be regarded as a masterpiece of the moment. ”

After reading the plea letter written by Zhao Gou and listening to Li Yan's praise for Zhao Gou, Concubine Wei Xian was silent!

The same is true of Xing Bingyi and others on the side.

Although Concubine Wei Xian, Xing Bingyi and others are all women in the deep palace and are not very knowledgeable about the world, they also understand that Li Yan's attack on the Song Dynasty this time is really moving, and it is not that Zhao Gou wrote a letter of plea and said some soft words, or they pleaded for Zhao Gou and the Southern Song Dynasty, Li Yan would withdraw the army.

Moreover, this time is different from the past, not to mention Concubine Wei Xian, Tian Chunluo, Jiang Zuimei, and even Xing Bingyi have already given birth to a son for Li, and there are people in their families who are officials in the Dazhong Dynasty, like Xing Bingyi's family, there are nearly ten people in the Dazhong Dynasty who are officials, and several women in the criminal family are Li Yan's concubines, in other words, they have been firmly tied to Li Yan and become Li Yan's veritable concubines, in this case, how can they speak for their ex-husbands and their ex-husbands' small court, and it can even be said that they are too late to avoid suspicion.

In the end, only Concubine Wei Xian knelt in front of Li Yan with a "poof", and then kowtowed to Li Yan three times, and said, "Ask the official family to save your life in the future!" ”

After hearing this, Li Yan helped Concubine Wei Xian up, and said: "Concubine Ai, don't worry, I won't want his life, after I capture him, I will change his name to Li Gou for him, and then take care of him, I will let him take a good look, the gap between him and me, not only him, in the future, I will also rescue Zhao Ji, Zhao Huan, Yelu Yanxi, and I will also capture Wanyan Wu Qimai, let them see, how I became the first emperor of the ages!" ”

Hearing Li Yan say this, Concubine Wei Xian was also relieved.

In Concubine Wei Xian's heart, Zhao Gou couldn't fight Li Yan no matter what, and sooner or later he would be defeated by Li Yan, and at that time, as long as Li Yan could spare Zhao Gou's life.

Li touched the head of Concubine Wei Xian's son, Li Wei, and said, "Yu'er, do you want to see your brother?" ”

Li Wei said in a milky voice: "I want to! I really want to see my brother soon! ”

When Li Yan heard this, he smiled and said, "Okay, my father will definitely help you realize this wish as soon as possible!" ”

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At the same time that Yue Fei launched an offensive on the Eastern Front, Wu Jue also launched an offensive on the Western Front.

Wu Jue ordered Zhang Xian and Wang Yan to march out of Shaanzhou and Tongzhou respectively.

Zhang Xian and Wang Yan each led an army of 50,000 into the Guanzhong Plain, using Chang'an as a base to attack Huanqing.

Zhang Xian took Yang Congyi as the vanguard, and Wang Yan took Li Yanqi (Li Yanxian's brother) as the vanguard, and the two attacked Bizhou and Yilu respectively.

The Song army, under the command of Qu Duan, also set up a position and engaged the Chinese army on the front line of Pizhou and Yilu.

The two sides fought the first battle in Pengyuandian.

The topography of Pengyuandian was very favorable to the Song army.

The Song army occupied the place where the plateau must be victorious, and the Chinese army had to attack the Song army from above.

As soon as the battle began, Yang Congyi led the Chinese army to fight to the death.

After a tough battle, although Yang Congyi even personally led his troops to charge in the end, he was still defeated by the Song army, which occupied an absolute geographical advantage.

It can be said that the Chinese army is on the Western Front, and it is not advantageous to send divisions.

After Zhang Xian learned of this, he sent Guo Jin to lead an army of 10,000 to reinforce Yang Congyi, and gave Yang Congyi and Guo Jin a death order: Pengyuandian must be conquered.

At this moment, Qu Duan suddenly ordered the army to retreat for unknown reasons, and immediately retreated from Yilu with his men.

After Yang Congyi learned about this, he discussed with Guo Jinyi, and then Guo Jin detoured to Yilu to surround the frontline troops of the Song army.

As a result, the front-line troops of the Song army were outflanked by the Chinese army, and the troops suffered heavy casualties.

Qu Duan's move was condemned by many Song generals.

Zhang Jun originally planned to rely on Qu Duan militarily, but Qu Duan's bad performance made Zhang Jun feel cold, and then Zhang Jun had a great disgust with Qu Duan, who was accustomed to committing crimes and arrogant talents.

At the same time, Zhang Jun, who learned that the Chinese army had also launched an offensive on the eastern front, had a whimsical idea to organize a general battle in Shaanxi to contain the Chinese army and prevent it from making its eastern front an all-out southern invasion and threatening the small court of the Southern Song Dynasty.

Mr. Zhang's unrealistic, impetuous ideas were met with widespread opposition.

Xuzhou sentenced Wang Xian to Zhang Jun to present two strategies of "Yangwei" and "Hold the Weight", and advised Zhang Jun not to act rashly.

Zhang Junfu smiled and did not accept it.

Zhang Jun convened a military meeting to solicit the opinions of the generals on the battle.

Qu Duan said: "The land of the plains is conducive to the enemy's charge, not conducive to our army's offensive, and China's cultivation has been for a long time, and its vigor is flourishing, and it is difficult for our army to compete with it. ”

Tang Zhong then said: "The high mountains and valleys are conducive to our army's deployment and fortification. Although the enemy army was brave and had heavy armor and iron cavalry, they could not charge in the mountains. We rely on the danger of Saga to hold the place of Guanfu, even if the enemy army is heavily attacked, if we want to fight for this land, it will never be possible! ”

Tang Chong's "Guanfu" is the Guanzhong Plain, that is, people often say "eight hundred miles of Qinchuan", it is bordered by the rolling Yellow River in the east, the towering Qinling Mountains in the south, and the Beishan mountain system composed of Liangshan, Huanglongshan, Yaoshan, Sagashan, Jiuzhi Mountain, Qishan, Qianshan, Longshan and so on in the north.

The "Saga" mentioned by Tang Zhong does not refer specifically to the Saga-Mountains, but to the Beishan Mountains in general.

The cavalry of the Song army was inferior to the Chinese army, and it was indeed difficult to compete with the Chinese iron cavalry in the narrow Guanzhong Plain.

However, as long as the North Mountain was held, the Song army could completely control the Guanzhong Plain from a high position.

The Chinese army did not dare to stay for a long time when it captured Chang'an several times, because it was worried that the Song army would go south from Beishan to cut off the rear route of the Chinese army or divide and encircle the Chinese army anytime and anywhere.

Therefore, Tang Chong's opinion of "relying on the danger of Saga and guarding the place of Guanfu" is extremely insightful.

However, most of the civil officials in the Sichuan-Shaanxi Xuanfu Disposal Department believed that Qu Duan's opinion was too slow, and Tang Chong's opinion was too cowardly.

Tang Zhong argued on the basis of reason and resolutely opposed the battle with the Jin army in the near future.

Zhang Jun couldn't help but be anxious, and snapped Tang Chong's words, saying, "Don't I know this? It was because I saw that the situation in the southeast was now critical, so I had to hold a battle! ”

In the end, the military meeting broke up unhappily.

After the meeting, Zhang Jun found Tang Chong and reiterated his intention to hold a battle, saying: "The Chinese army is now invading Jiangnan, if something unexpected happens, then we will become the sinners of the Great Song Dynasty. ”

Tang Zhong didn't dare to force Zhang Jun's opinion, but he knew that when Zhang Jun left Lin'an, Zhao Gou had told Zhang Jun: "The western horses are withering, and you can't do it big in five years." ”

So, Tang Zhong brought out Zhao Gou to dissuade Zhang Jun, saying, "Don't you remember what the Son of Heaven said when he left? The western army must have five years of training. ”

But Zhang Jun was still stubborn and retorted: "Don't stick to everything, in case the Chinese army attacks Lin'an and something happens, what should we do in the Great Song Dynasty?" At that time, only the unified west was the place of revival of the Great Song Dynasty! ”

Tang Zhong listened to the words and was speechless.

And because Qu Duan always insisted on his own opinions and resolutely opposed the holding of a battle, Zhang Jun forced Qu Duan to hand over his military power and left Qu Duan in Sichuan and Shaanxi to serve as a staff officer.

After a few days, some people slandered Zhang Jun and said bad things about Quduan, which aroused Zhang Jun's suspicions.

As a result, Zhang Jun liquidated Qu Duan's guilt for not sending troops to meet the former army's guilt in the Battle of Pengyuandian, demoted Qu Duan, and placed him in Jiezhou to live idle.

Soon, Zhang Jun was demoted to Qu Duan as the deputy envoy of the Haizhou regiment and placed Wanzhou to live idle.

At the same time, Zhang Jun purged the high-ranking officers of the Jingyuan Army and took the Jingyuan Army into his own hands.

In the end, the matter of holding a general battle in Shaanxi was decided by Zhang Jun alone.

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ps: The above letter written by Zhao Gou to the protagonist is based on part of Yuan Tengfei's "Two Song Songs".

To explain, originally, I only wanted to write literary or translation, but after writing and reading it, I think it is still Yuan Tengfei's way of dealing with classical Chinese, which is more interesting with a slightly witty translation, so I borrowed his writing style and a little content.

If you think it's so inappropriate, I'll delete it tomorrow morning. /12_12048/