The fifty-third round of reinforcement Taiyuan troops defeated the three roads

However, it was said that the division was not in the battle, the division returned due to illness, the troops of Yao Gu and Zhang Hao were also defeated and scattered, and none of the three reinforcements could be relied on, and the situation in Taiyuan became more and more severe for the Song army defending the city.

When the news came, the capital was shaken. Song Qinzong urgently summoned his ministers to discuss how to deal with it.

Geng Nanzhong, who was a member of the Privy Council at the time, had the experience of accompanying the crown prince in the East Palace for decades, and now Song Qinzong is no longer the former crown prince, but has succeeded to the throne as emperor.

Geng Nanzhong thought that he should be the first to be the prince's teacher, but to his surprise, it was Li Gang and others who were superior to him. After thinking about it, it is difficult to calm down, so I have to disagree with Li Gang's advice. Li Gang and others thought that they could not make peace with Jin, but Geng Nanzhong strongly advocated it.

Now, he saw an opportunity, so he and the courtiers Xu Churen, Tang Ke and others were on the lookout, planning to exclude Li Gang from the court.

Geng Nanzhong took the opportunity to say to Song Qinzong: "Li Gang raised troops, just send him there." ”

Song Qinzong listened, hesitated for a while, and said: "The way of planting a teacher can be sent, but I am afraid that Li Gang will not know the soldiers." ”

Tang Ke also took the opportunity to say: "The fire is so hot that he can use his own hands, as long as he is blamed for success, Li Gang will be anxious by himself, and Your Majesty must not listen to his words and avoid it." ”

Song Qinzong listened to the words of the two and ordered Li Gang to preach for Hedonghe.

Li Gang bowed, but Song Qinzong stubbornly refused to allow it. Then he asked to be dismissed from his job because of illness, but he did not agree.

The minister of Taiwan admonished that Li Gang could not leave the imperial court, but Song Qinzong not only did not listen to it, but reprimanded him as lobbying for the minister. When the minister heard this, he didn't dare to say anything more.

Someone said to Li Gang in private: "Do you know the intention of sending you this time? In fact, it was not for side affairs, but just to take this opportunity to expel the prince from the court. If you are not in the capital, the people of the capital will have nothing to say. If you are persistent and do not obey orders, the slanderers will be even more vilified. If the emperor is angry, there will be unforeseen disasters, what can he do about it? ”

Li Gang was speechless when he heard this, and Xu Han gave him a banner with a personal book, and when Li Gang opened it to see, he saw that there was only the word "Du Post" on it. When Li Gang saw it, a chill suddenly appeared on his back spine.

Originally, Du Post Pavilion was in the east of Xianyang City, when Bai Qi was reprimanded because of this, received the sword given by King Qin Zhao, committed suicide and died, and the descendants changed its name to Xiaoli Pavilion.

Li Gang had no choice but to accept the order in fear.

Song Qinzong wanted to inspire his heart, and personally wrote "The Biography of Pei Du" and gave it.

Li Gang really had a hard time saying that he had this royal pen, and he said to Song Qinzong: "At that time, Wu Yuanji District Huancai was fighting against the Tang Dynasty, so could he bring about his own destruction? And compared with today's Jin Chief, there is really a difference between heaven and earth. However, the external plague of the strong can be swept away, but the villain is difficult to go to the beetle. If the court is upright and the gentleman is long, although there are external troubles, what is there to fear! So, he also wrote Pei Du on Yuan Zhen, Wei Hongjian's chapter sparse, and wanted to advance, and Song Qinzong called to answer.

At that time, Li Gang's Xuanfu Division only had 12,000 soldiers, and many affairs still needed to be handled. Li Gang begged for a postponement of the trip, and the royal approval thought that it would be postponed. Li Gang sung defended and said: "Your Majesty used to be the dictatorship of the ministers, but now he is the refusal of the ministers, and the commander is sent to relieve the siege of Taiyuan, and the people who are dictatorial and refuse to give orders should really not be!" May the beggar bones be relieved of their responsibilities. ”

After Song Qinzong saw it, he summoned Li Gang again and again, and comforted him: "Qing is guarding the border for me today, and you can return to the court." ”

Li Gang said: "The minister was ordered to go this time, and there is no chance or possibility of returning. In the past, Fan Zhongyan went out to the west as a political participant, and when he passed through Zhengzhou, Lu Yijian went to the west. Lu Yijian said sadly: "How can I return this time when I participated in politics." After that, I was very sad. And then, as he said. Now the minister is strong and stupid and does not tolerate the court, after doing it, if he can die in the hands of the enemy and sprinkle his blood on the battlefield, it is the minister's ambition. In case the court is not strong, the ministers should beg to go, Your Majesty should check the loyalty of the ministers, and take the righteousness of all the monarchs and ministers! When Song Qinzong heard this, he was also moved.

Walking to Heyang, Li Gang looked to worship the tombs of the emperors and sighed with emotion. Then he went up and said: "The chief minister is out, Luo, looking to worship the mausoleum, and he is crying." Gong Wei ancestors have been in business for 200 years, and even Your Majesty. In the difficult autumn, the strong enemy invaded and China was weak. Near the gentleman, retreat from the villain, benefit the solid state, in order to prosper. The spirit of the nine temples of comfort is relied on by hundreds of millions of people, and the world is very fortunate. ”

Crossing the Yellow River and entering Huaizhou, Li Gang received an edict asking him to reduce the troops he had raised. This edict was like a thunderbolt from the blue, which broke his heart and disappointed him.

Li Gang thought about it again and again. Then he wrote again: "The siege of Taiyuan has not been solved, and the situation in the east of the river is very dangerous. Autumn is high and horses are fat, and the enemy will go deep. The safety of the sect and society is unknown. So that the autumn division can be fully used, and it cannot be guarded by the invincible horse crossing the river. The situation of the ministers has not been out of the army, and the court has changed the previous edict. The united soldiers are all reduced. Today, Hebei and Hedong are in danger, and there is no one to go to their needs, and the soldiers who have just gathered are all dispersed, and the ministers are not enough to let this. And use the method of war to raise troops on all roads, and stop with an inch of paper. The ministers were afraid that there would be a call from time to time, and there was no one to respond. After the table was sparse, there was no answer, and the imperial approval was urging to relieve the siege of Taiyuan.

Li Gang then readjusted and deployed his troops, and beheaded Jiao Anjie for the crime of spreading the enemy's situation and shaking the morale of the army. He also deposed Yao Gu and degraded Guangzhou for the crime of staying and not advancing, causing the army in the division to enter alone, and to be defeated and killed. He also appointed Liu Tao, the marshal of Zhending, as the deputy envoy of Xuanfu and stationed in Liaozhou. Dispatched troops to garrison Weisheng Army, with the shogunate Wang Yining and the capital to control Zhe Keqiu, Zhang Sizheng was stationed in Fenzhou, and Fan Qiongtun was stationed in Nanguan and Beiguan. After Liu Tao's special unit led Jia Qiong deep into the enemy's army, he marched from Daizhou, and got in touch with dozens of local volunteer army leaders, received their strong support, and soon captured Wutai County, causing a lot of momentum behind the enemy's back.

At that time, Jin will suddenly close the speed, pull out the speed, and the three of them led the troops to station in Lucheng. When Li Gang arrived in Huaizhou, and Xie Qian led the army to Weisheng Army, the Luzhou defenders who had originally surrendered to the Jin soldiers rebelled together, and the internal and external forces were united, with 170,000 people, and launched a powerful offensive against the Jin soldiers. The speed of sudden closure, the speed of pulling out, Gu Xun and others were all surrounded by the Song army.

Seeing that the terrain was undulating, it was not conducive to cavalry combat, so he ordered the sergeants to dismount and fight, desperately fighting a bloody road, and broke out.

That night, under the cover of night, Bali Su also took advantage of the cover of night to climb over the mountains and break out of the encirclement from the cracks of the Song soldiers. Although there were heavy casualties, fortunately the entire army was not wiped out.

The next day, Tuhesu and Bali Sua joined forces, fought desperately, and tore a crack in the powerful encirclement of the Song army, and rescued the remnants of the bones who had been cornered and on the verge of despair after a day and a night of fierce fighting.

The Jin soldiers suffered heavy losses in this fierce battle, but several commanders did not suffer casualties, and it did not change the overall situation of the battle much.

Almost at the same time, Zhe Keqiu and Zhang Sizheng also launched an attack on the Jin army from the direction of the Fen River, and the two divided their troops and marched into each other's horns. He can ask for Xia Chuan, and Zhang Sizheng is entering Wenshui. Zhang Sizheng attacked Jinying at night and achieved a rare victory. However, it did not inflict much damage on the enemy, let alone change the situation on the battlefield where the state was besieged.

Although Li Gang has the name of moderation, he has no moderation. The generals fought separately and directly followed the command of the imperial court instead of obeying Li Gang's orders, which made it difficult to coordinate with multiple reinforcements. After a long time, it created an opportunity for Jin Bing.

Not long after, Yinshuke and Lou Room organized troops to effectively counterattack the various reinforcements of the Song Dynasty.

Originally, Li Gang's three-way reinforcements deployed in Liaozhou, Fenzhou, and Weisheng Army were all separated from Taiyuan, about a hundred miles away. The three ways went hand in hand, but the generals did not implement the plan as expected.

Liu Tao led his troops to attack first, but was immediately met with strong resistance from the Jin people. The two armies fought fiercely between the key passes of Nanguan, and Yinshu and his younger brother Bali Su and Lou Room and others went all out, aiming to win.

Pull off the speed push forward, cold and unexpectedly flashed out from the side of a member of the Song general, swinging a knife to pull away from the speed. At this critical moment, I suddenly heard a young general shouting, only to see the shadow of the knife flashing, and the Song general screamed, but the wrist holding the knife was cut off.

At this time, another member of the Song General stabbed him with a spear from the other side, and saw that the young general turned around like a whirlwind and cut off the head of the spear with a knife brush.

When Song Jiang saw this, he was shocked and hurriedly abandoned his gun and fled. The youngster is as fast as the wind, chasing and killing.

This young general is none other than the son of Yinshuke, named Wanyan Yiying.

When Wan Yan Yiying was young, he was extremely alert and courageous. When Jin Taizu saw it, he was surprised. At the age of sixteen, silversmith can be given a horse to serve in the army. He is often a pioneer in the army, and his achievements are obvious.

In this fierce battle, Wan Yan Yiying was even more desperate, charging into battle, and he was invincible wherever he went.

The two armies of Song and Jin fought in a melee, and after holding each other for many days, the Song army led by Liu Tao could not resist and was defeated and returned. The army was also defeated by the Jin soldiers, suffering heavy casualties.

After defeating Liu Tao's reinforcements, Yinshuke and Lou Room led their troops to the west, defeating Zhang Sizheng's army in Wenshui and capturing tens of thousands.

The Song capital was also attacked by the Jin army in Zixiashan and was defeated.

Jin general Guo Qizhong was ordered to defend Daizhou, and when he heard that the Song general Jia Qiong led his troops to capture Wutai County, he immediately led his troops to discuss with Di Li, the governor of Tongzhizhou, and successively pacified the righteous army led by Yang Mahu and others.

Guo Qizhong's character Yuan Bi is after Guo Ziyi, the king of Tang Fenyang, and the town is in the north from generation to generation. During the Tianfu period, among the golden soldiers, Guo Qizhong surrendered.

At this time, Jia Qiong also got the news of the defeat of the Song army on the South Road, and expected that it would be difficult for the lone army to last, so he took the initiative to evacuate Wutai County.

At this point, all the Song armies led by Li Gang failed, and the rescue of Taiyuan once again failed.

Li Gang knew very well that the main reason for the failure of this military operation was that he was not dedicated, and he was so disrespectful that he was sloppy.

However, the main peace faction led by Tang Ke, Chen Guoting, Nie Shan and others had already occupied a dominant position in the imperial court at this time, and Li Gang's Zhang Shu was set aside. Li Gang sighed when he learned about it, helpless, he was already expected to be difficult to make a difference.

Sure enough, Song Qinzong appointed the Privy Councillor and the Xuanfu envoy to the Privy Council, and recalled Li Gang. He successively served as a bachelor of the Guanwen Palace and the prefect of Yangzhou, and Li Gang resigned. Shortly thereafter, Li Gang became a pitiful scapegoat again. He was first dismissed from the Mingdao Palace in Maozhou on the charges of being in charge of the war and losing his teachers and wasting money, and was appointed as the deputy envoy of the Baojing Army and the placement of the Jianchang Army. Then Ningjiang.

At this point, in the ****** of Song Qinzong, a minister who was the only minister of the main war was expelled from the capital, and was degraded again and again, and sent to a remote place. When a group of ministers of the Lord and the faction were circling around him, the tragedy that followed became inevitable.

At the beginning, when Zongwang returned from Bianjing, he arrived at the bank of the Yellow River, and did not act with an alliance between the two sides to send King Su back, but plundered him to the north. The monarchs and ministers of the Song Dynasty thought that this was a great shame and humiliation, and they have always been haunted by it.

In the fourth year of Tianhui, Xiao Zhonggong, the envoy of the Jin State, went to Bianliang, and as a means of revenge, the Song people kept Xiao Zhonggong behind.

Xiao Zhonggong's mother was the daughter of Emperor Daozong of Liao, so he had a special relationship with Emperor Tianzuo. During his last very difficult years of displacement, he remained by his side. Later, together with Emperor Tianzuo, Jin Taizong Wu begged to buy his loyalty to his lord and treated him with special courtesy. Xiao Zhonggong stayed in Bianjing for more than a month, knowing the meaning of the Song people, but he handled it calmly, and did not take his personal life and death to heart, but his deputy envoy Zhao Lun's mood became more and more heavy. As an envoy, he keenly felt that the relations between the two countries were in an extremely delicate state, and any unexpected incident could occur at any time. As long as they don't leave Bianjing, danger will always be with them. Therefore, he was thinking about how to gain the trust of the Song people and get out of the danger he was facing as soon as possible.

At that time, the embassy envoy who was specially assigned to deal with Xiao Zhonggong and Zhao Lun was Xing Liang. When the two armies of Song and Jin were facing each other, there were no substantive issues to talk about between them, and Xing Liang's daily routine was to accompany the envoys of the Jin State to the outside of the city to see the ancient monuments, and sometimes accompany them to the south and the north of the world to pass the time.

On this day, it happened that Xiao Zhonggong was not there, Xing Liang and Zhao Lun chatted, but turned the topic to Xiao Zhonggong, Xing Liang said intentionally or unintentionally: "Xiao Zhonggong is from Liao, I don't know if this is true?" ”

Zhao Lun listened and said, "Yes, it's true. Xiao Zhonggong is not only a native of Liao, but also a person around the emperor of Liao! ”

Xing Liang said: "I see, your envoy doesn't say anything, how can you know!" May I ask what he has to do with Emperor Tianzuo? ”

Zhao Lun said: "Xiao Zhonggong's mother is the stepdaughter of Liao Daozong, and she is a compatriot of Emperor Tianzuo, and she is still the nephew of Emperor Tianzuo!" ”

Xing Liang listened and said: "The two countries of Jin and Liao are feuds, and your emperor can use the clan of Liao so freely, and the magnanimity of his belly is rare in the world." It is admirable to have such courage in employing people. ”

Zhao Lun said: "What I said is that the appearance of the sea can accommodate all rivers. If the Emperor of the Jin Kingdom did not have such a broad mind, he would not have been able to create such a great cause today. ”

Xing Liang is the speaker is unintentional, but Zhao Lun is the listener's intention. Since this casual conversation, he pondered Xing Liang's words, and suddenly had an idea, and realized that he could use tactics to find a second way to save himself.