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Cai You left the capital on May 18 and arrived in Xiongzhou on June 13.

This is only a thousand-mile road, and it takes a maximum of three days to speed up the journey, and Cai You actually walked for twenty-five days.

Along the way, Cai Youfeng bowed down in the temple, burned incense when he saw the gods, and it is said that a whole carriage of incense was used.

Whether facing the Buddha or Guanyin Bodhisattva, Cai You put incense in his hands, closed his eyes and prayed, and recited words in his mouth, begging them to bless him.

When he walked to the Daimyo's mansion, Cai You learned that the Song army was defeated in Baigou, and he suddenly fell ill and was bedridden.

The Daimyo's Mansion stayed behind and quickly found some beauties to take care of him day and night, and Cai You gradually recovered.

When Cai You arrived at the Xuanfu Division in Xiongzhou, the edict issued by Zhao Ji to withdraw the troops had just arrived.

After receiving the order, Tong Guan planned to retreat to Hejian Mansion first, where he waited for the opportunity.

And Cai You really wanted to return to the Daimyo's Mansion and continue to recuperate.

Everyone is preparing for the withdrawal.

Only Zhao Liangsi, the initiator of the recovery of Yanyun, was very unwilling to fail like this - if they went back like this, he would definitely be looked at and ridiculed by his ministers, and more importantly, his political life would also come to an end.

Zhao Liangsi once heard Ma Kuo say that Li Chuwen is now the prime minister of Ye Luchun and holds great power.

Many years ago, Zhao Liangsi and Li Chuwen had become close friends, so he wanted to write a letter to Li Chuwen to persuade him to make internal responses and persuade Yeluchun to surrender.

Zhao Liangsi came to the Xuanfu Division and said to Tong Guan: "I used to form a good friendship with Li Chuwen in the Liao Dynasty, Li Chuwen saw that Emperor Tianzuo was immoral, and wanted to go south to the Great Song Dynasty with me. ”

Tong Guan's eyes lit up when he heard it!

In fact, Tong Guan and Zhao Liangsi's situation is the same, or even worse - if they go back like this, then Tong Guan will not only end his political life, but also have to carry the shame of this defeat all the way to the coffin.

Therefore, hearing that Zhao Liangsi said that there was still Li Chuwen's hope, Tong Guan immediately ordered Zhao Liangsi to write a letter to Li Chuwen.

In the letter, Zhao Liangsi wrote:

Stealing that the sky is tired of the Khitan, self-subversion, the soldiers are in trouble, and when the old man is over, the old monarch has not returned, and the new monarch is isolated......

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After Li Chuwen received Zhao Liangsi's secret letter, he read it several times, and he was full of emotion, and he also moved the idea of descending to the Song Dynasty.

But Li Chuwen felt that it was unlikely that he would succeed in persuading Yeluchun to surrender.

Because Xiao Gan and Yelu Dashi defeated the Song army, the Liao army thought that the Song army was vulnerable, so they all demanded a decisive battle with the Song army to the end.

In addition, among the Hanchens, people like Zuo Qigong and others also made it clear that they would rather lower Li Yan and Jin than surrender to the Song Dynasty - they were angry with the Great Song Dynasty, thinking that the Great Song Dynasty had broken the century-old covenant, reversed its word, was very dishonest, played cautious, and was unreliable at all.

What Li Chuwen was most anxious about was that he was not armed in his own hands.

The Liao army is now divided into several pieces.

Except for the Liao army that defended Juyong Pass, Bauhinia Pass, Gubeikou and other important places, the rest of the Liao army was roughly divided into four parts.

Part of it is in the hands of Xiao Gan, mainly stationed in the area of Fan Village.

Part of it is in the hands of Yelu Dashi, mainly stationed in the area of Xincheng and Baigou River.

Part of it is in the hands of Guo Yaoshi, mainly stationed in the Zhuozhou area.

Another piece is the army defending Yanjing, which was originally in the hands of Yeluchun, but because Yeluchun was seriously ill, it was actually in the hands of Xiao Puxian and her daughter Yelutari.

None of it was in the hands of Li Chuwen.

And without armament, there will be no power to influence the situation, and the confidence will be insufficient.

Li Chuwen believes that the most urgent task at the moment is to build up an armed force of its own in case of emergency.

But building an army doesn't happen overnight.

Fortunately, Li Chuwen had a sum of money in his hand, which Ye Luchun gave him to recruit troops to defend against the Jurchens.

Lee was ready to use the money to recruit warriors and build his own arm.

Soon, Li Chuwen asked his son Li Zheng to write a reply to Zhao Liangsi, introducing the situation in Yanjing.

In his reply, Li Zheng said:

Since the past, the sound is gone, the ears can be heard, but the eyes cannot see. As for feasting, drinking, talking and laughing, every thought thinks about it. At that time, it is an oath to wait for the system to be destroyed by a few words. In recent years, inside and outside, thieves competed, although divided into five roads, has been trapped in four Beijings, although there are Youyan, lonely and dangerous, more than tired eggs, no way to solve its difficulties, cover the number of will be exhausted.

Since entering the cardinal court, the prince has suddenly become white-headed, and he has been dreaming of the night, with the fear of being thin and deep, and he has been deeply involved in the recent days, and he has gone deeper, worrying about the difficulty of being punished by the clan, not thinking about the past wrong, but thinking about today's blame.

Foolish and meticulous and then help, the soldiers win with tricks, the Great Song Dynasty has not done anything, the first form is outside, if the division is discussed, it is advisable to be dense and fast, and I am willing to save the people of Yanxiang without telling them.

The establishment of the new monarch is all the same as the Xianggong and the Northern Pivot Xiao Gong and Li Zhuneng. Today, Xinjun is sick, Yanjing is in chaos, and people are panicking. Xiao Gan, Yelu Dashi and Concubine Xiao De held heavy soldiers and were murderous. There are also quite a few comrades who want to return to the south, and they will discuss with them. Xianggong also thought deeply and chose the opportunity to act. The stakes are so high that they have to be kept secret. I can't sleep at night, although Xiongzhou is close at hand, but I can't talk to each other immediately, and I want to talk about it in the future.

After reading Li Zheng's reply, Zhao Liangsi was very excited.

Zhao Liangsi couldn't help but recall the scene when he spilled wine and swore an oath at the Yanjing Arctic Temple with Li Zheng, Ma Rouji and Liu Fan many years ago.

At that time, they saw that Emperor Tianzuo was increasingly losing the support of the people, so they secretly plotted many times in order to get rid of the Khitan rule over Yanjing and restore the Han family.

After so many years, Zhao Liangsi really doesn't know if they still have the enthusiasm they had back then? Now, after reading Li Zheng's reply, Zhao Liangsi felt very relieved, and then had great confidence in them.

Ma Rouji and Liu Fan are now both serving in the Liao army, and Ma Rouji is Zhao Liangsi's brother.

Therefore, Zhao Liangsi wrote another letter to Ma Rouji, hoping that he would "marry a righteous man, open the city gate to welcome surrender, detain the Khitan, and turn disaster into blessing." ”

Subsequently, Zhao Liangsi told Tong Guan and Cai You about Li Zheng's reply and his plan.

Tong Guan and Cai You had great hopes for Li Chuwen and Yanjing's anti-Liao righteous men - they both believed that it would not be long before there would be internal changes in Yanjing.

Tong Guan and Cai You are not guessing, their staff have already analyzed for them, Ye Luchun is now facing a lot of pressure, both from Li Yan and from the Jurchens, and now with a pressure from their Great Song Dynasty, Ye Luchun must not be able to support it for long.

Moreover, Ma Kuo also told Tong Guan and Cai You that Yeluchun is now seriously ill and bedridden, and it is estimated that his life is about to come to an end.

Therefore, Tong Guan and Cai You did not leave Xiongzhou in the end, but sat in Xiongzhou and waited for the internal incident in Yanjing to happen.

Really!

It didn't take long for Li Zheng to send news to Tong Guan that Ye Luchun had died, and Northern Liao was changed to Xiao Puxian's daughter.

Tong Guan and Cai You were overjoyed, and hurriedly told Zhao Ji the good news, and at the same time paid close attention to the further development of the matter, that is, waiting for Li Chuwen and the righteous people in Yanjing City to sacrifice Yanjing City.

But Tong Guan and Cai You waited and waited, but they waited for a bad news - Li Chuwen was given death, and Li Zheng was beheaded by Ling Chi.

It turns out -

At the beginning, Li Chuwen, who supported Yeluchun with Li Chuwen and Li Zheng's father and son, felt that Li Chuwen's practice of collaborating with the enemy in private was too dangerous, so he hid in the temple and became a monk, and resolutely did not participate in the dedication of Li Chuwen and his son.

Li Chuwen was unhappy about this, and at the same time realized that he could not procrastinate any longer, and he had to act as soon as possible.

Therefore, Li Chuwen urged his son Li Zheng to say: "You must hurry up the formation of an army and speed up the pace, the sooner we will be more active, and the later we will be more passive." ”

Li Zheng nodded in agreement, and then summoned his main helpers Ye Luce, Gao Xian, and Ma Ge to discuss.

Yeluce was a palace guard, Gao Xian was a military chief, and Ma Ge was a secretary and young eunuch, and they were very enthusiastic about Li Chuwen and his son's preparation to dedicate Yanjing City to the Great Song Dynasty.

After discussing and discussing, Li Zheng, Ye Luce, Gao Xian, and Ma Ge decided to kidnap Xiao Puxian, and then forced Xiao Puxiannu to sacrifice the city.

Of course, the premise of wanting to kidnap Xiao Puxian is that they have to have an army of their own.

So, Li Zheng, Ye Luce, Gao Xian, Ma Ge and others contacted separately and secretly recruited warriors with a lot of money, preparing to raise an army of 3,000 people.

Everything is going on quietly and intensely.

On this day, that is, the seventh day after Ye Luchun's death, Zhuozhou's remaining and Chang Shengjun were in charge of Guo Yaoshi, and they came to Yanjing from Zhuozhou to mourn Ye Luchun.

Guo Yaoshi is a native of Tiezhou, Bohai.

Six years ago, Gao Yongchang, a native of Bohai, rebelled, killed Xiao Baoxian, who was left behind in Tokyo, and established himself as the emperor of the Great Bohai Kingdom, controlling more than 50 prefectures in eastern Liaodong.

Emperor Tianzuo sent Zhang Lin, the prime minister at the time, to crusade.

As a result, Zhang Lin was defeated by the Jurchens in Shenzhou.

Later, Emperor Tianzuo granted the position of Marshal of Yelu Chundu, the then King of Yan, and ordered him to go to conquer Gao Yongchang.

Yeluchun recruited hungry people in Liaodong and formed an army, known as the "Grievance Army", which means the army that complained about the Jurchens.

This contingent totals more than 28,000 people, and is divided into eight battalions: Qianyi Battalion, Houyi Battalion, Qianjin Battalion, Houjin Battalion, Qianxian Battalion, Qianxian Battalion, and Yanzhou Battalion.

After the establishment of the resentment army, rebellions occurred one after another, especially in the first month of last year, the general of the resentful army, Dong Xiaocun, because of the unfavorable conquest of Lizhou, feared that he would be punished, and a rebellion occurred, and was finally suppressed and executed, and his subordinate general Luo Qinghan and others then led the army to rebel and attack Jinzhou.

Pharmacist Guo saw the opportunity to strike in time and killed Luo Qinghan and other rebels, and his meritorious service stood out.

Later, Xiao Gan and Yelu Yujian led an army to quell the rebellion, and were ordered to completely solve the problem of the rebellion of the resentful army.

Yelu Yu suggested to Xiao Gan that he kill all the resentful soldiers.

Xiao Gan disagreed, thinking that there were still some loyal people in the resentment army.

Xiao Gan then carried out a large-scale reorganization of the resentful army, leaving only 2,000 men and horses, organized into four battalions, which were led by Guo Yaoshi, Zhang Linghui, Liu Shunren, and Zhen Wuchen, and the rest of the men and horses were scattered and dispatched to various forbidden armies.

Judging by the short history of the Resentment Army, this is a team with a tradition of rebellion.

After Yeluchun was proclaimed emperor, Xiao Gan recommended Guo Yaoshi to come to Yanjing to serve as the emperor's palace zhi, that is, the emperor's attendant.

Yeluchun renamed the resentful army as the Changsheng Army, promoted Guo Yaoshi to the general of Weishang, and took charge of the Changsheng Army, and stayed behind in Zhuozhou.

Judging from the rapid rise of Pharmacist Guo, it is not an exaggeration to say that Xiao Gan is Pharmacist Guo's benefactor.

Xiao Gan heard that Pharmacist Guo had come to the palace to mourn Ye Luchun, so he wanted to take the opportunity to further win over Pharmacist Guo - the current Changsheng army had been expanded to more than 8,000 people by Pharmacist Guo, who was very good at expansion.

For Northern Liao, which was seriously short of soldiers and horses, the Changsheng Army was now a force to be reckoned with.

Pharmacist Guo has a keen sense of politics.

As soon as he entered the palace, he felt that the atmosphere in the palace was tense and the situation was very secret.

Therefore, as soon as the condolence activities ended, Guo Yaoshi immediately left the palace, and without even returning to his residence in Yanjing, he went out of the city directly, and then returned to Zhuozhou.

After Xiao Gan entered the palace and didn't find Pharmacist Guo, he went to Pharmacist Guo's house in Yanjing to find it.

But there are only a few entourages in Pharmacist Guo's family, how can there be Pharmacist Guo?

As soon as Xiao Gan got angry, he called Pharmacist Guo's entourage to interrogate them one by one.

In all fairness.

Xiao Gan has a hideous appearance and a great reputation, and he is in a bad mood if he doesn't find Pharmacist Guo, so when he was interrogated, his tone was a little scary, and he was a little bit like fighting and killing.

One of Pharmacist Guo's entourage, named Fu Zun, was afraid that Xiao Gan would beat him, so he reported him, "Xiao ...... The villain knew that Taiwei Li Chuwen had sent secret messages back and forth with Tong Guan of the Great Song Dynasty Xuanfu, and Li Chuwen tried to ...... attempted to hijack the Empress Dowager Nacheng to the Song Dynasty. The person who delivered the secret message to them was...... It was Zhao Luren and Liu Yao, Zhao Luren had been awarded the title of Chaosan Doctor by the Great Song Dynasty, and Liu Yao had been awarded the Junzhou Regiment Training Envoy, and they were now both waiting to take office in the Xuanfu Division of Xiongzhou. ”

When Xiao Gan heard this, he was shocked, and hurriedly went to tell Xiao Pu about the matter.

Xiao Puxian's daughter ordered Xiao Gan to immediately and secretly arrange people to control Li Chuwen's father and son and their comrades, and not let them escape from the city.

Li Chuwen and his son were actually almost ready at this time, and Li Zheng had even agreed with his subordinates that Ye Luce was responsible for holding Xiao Puxian in the palace, Gao Xian was responsible for closing and controlling the gates of Yanjing, Ma Wei was responsible for contacting and persuading the ministers to surrender, and Li Zheng was responsible for contacting the Song army, and as soon as the Song army arrived, they immediately opened the city.

But at this last moment, Li Chuwen and his son and their henchmen were arrested by Xiao Gan.

Xiao Gan found a total of 3,000 military equipment such as armor and saddles, more than 70,000 yuan of money, as well as a large number of gold, silver, jewelry, and exquisite porcelain and jade from Li Chuwen's house.

Everyone got the stolen goods, there was nothing to say, Xiao Puxian immediately ordered: "Li Chuwen once made meritorious service to the country, leave a whole corpse, and Li Zhengling will be beheaded." ”

Knowing that Li Chuwen and his son fell short at the last moment, Tong Guan and Cai You regretted it, and then quickly told the news to Zhao Ji and Wang Hao.

Zhao Ji and Wang Hao also felt very sorry for the failure of Li Chuwen and his son at the last moment.

(Later, after the Northern Song Dynasty recovered Yanjing, Zhao Ji issued an edict posthumously crowning Li Chuwen as the king of Guangyang County, and Li Zheng as the envoy of the Baoning Military Festival, and ordered the Yanshan Mansion to change Li Chuwen's mansion into a temple to commemorate the sacrifice made by the father and son for the Great Song Dynasty to recover Yanjing.) ）

Although Li Chuwen's father and son's dedication to Yanjing did not come to fruition, Zhao Jijunchen learned through Li Chuwen and his son that Yeluchun was dead, and Northern Liao was ruled by a female streamer, and the Yandi people thought about Song, and there were many internal contradictions.

This made Zhao Ji think of sending a large army to recover Yanjing again.

In fact, Zhao Ji can't recover Yanjing - if he doesn't recover Yanjing, then Li Yan will inevitably go to seize Yanjing, in that case, Li Yanke will escape from the clouds and enter the sea, and at that time, their Song Guoke will be in danger.

Therefore, it was imperative for the Song State to recover Yanjing.

But to send a large army north again, Zhao Ji faced two problems:

1. Where does the money come from?

2. Who will lead the troops?

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