In the fiftieth round, the Song monarchs and ministers and the two ends of the war

After Li Ze and Zongwang's envoys entered the city, they came to see Song Qinzong.

Song Qinzong couldn't help frowning when he learned that the Jin people had put forward so many harsh conditions, but Li Bangyan strongly persuaded Song Qinzong to obey the wishes of the Jin people. Song Qinzong set an example and avoided the temple to reduce meals. However, the gold and silver of the capital were plundered, and even the property of the prostitute family was counted, and only 200,000 taels of gold and 4 million taels of silver were obtained. Although the people have been looted, it is still far from the huge appetite of the Jin people.

Li Gang said: "The gold people are insatiable, and the gold coins and silver coins they ask for, even if they search the world, they still can't make up enough numbers, not to mention that they are just a capital. The land of the three towns that the Jin people want is actually the shield of the country, if it is cut with gold, how will it be established? As for asking for hostages, the prime minister can go, but the prince should not. Now is the time to send a man of good speech to meet with Zongwang and discuss with him whether it is okay or not. If it is delayed for a few days, the GI will be four. The Jin people went deep alone, and although they did not agree to the conditions they proposed, they had to withdraw their troops and return. At this time, if you form an alliance with it, you will not dare to despise our court, and the alliance can be maintained for a long time. ”

Li Bangyan and others said: "The capital is broken overnight, how can we take care of the three towns? And the number of gold coins is not enough, I hope Your Majesty will not doubt it. “

Song Qinzong was silent when he heard this.

Li Gang saw that he couldn't take the matter, so he begged to go. Song Qinzong said comfortingly: "Qing still goes to reorganize the armament in order to defend." These things are to be figured out slowly. ”

Li Gang just left, but the oath had already been written. Its title is as Zong Wang said, called "Emperor Bo Dajin" and "Emperor of the Great Song Dynasty", all gold coins, land cutting, pledges, alliances, one according to the words of the Jin envoy. and sent Shen Hui to meet Zongwang first with an oath, and showed it with a map of the three towns.

When Zong Wang saw it, he and Guo Yaoshi looked at each other and smiled, thinking that the monarchs and ministers of the Song State were cowardly and brave, and thought that they could make an alliance and withdraw their troops as soon as possible.

While Zong Wang was immersed in ecstasy, the situation was slowly changing.

First, Ma Zhong, the commander of the Song army, recruited troops from western Beijing and attacked the Jin army outside the Shuntian Gate. The Jin army was defeated and retreated, slightly reined. The road to the western part of the city was also opened, and reinforcements were finally able to reach the city. Then, the seed master Dao supervised Jingyuan and Qin Feng's troops to aid the capital.

When he arrived in Luoyang, he heard that the Jin general Zongwang had already stationed troops under the city of Bianliang, and someone said to him: "The thief is strong, and he should temporarily stay in Bishui and plan for everything." The planter replied: "I don't have many soldiers, if I don't stay, and when I see the feelings, I can only humiliate the enemy." Now that the drum is marching forward, how can the golden people know my reality and reality? The people of the capital heard that the reinforcements had arrived, and their morale was boosted, what was there to fear from the golden chieftain! Then he unveiled the list along the way, declaring that "Chong Shaobao led a million western soldiers to aid the capital." Then he arrived in the west of Beijing, approached the south bank of Bianshui, forced the camp of the Jin soldiers and set up camp.

Zong Wang learned that the reinforcements from the Northern Song Dynasty West Road had arrived, and the army was very strong, so he didn't know the truth and was quite frightened. Discussing the plan of war with Guo Yaoshi, Guo Yaoshi said: "The seed master Dao is a famous general in western Beijing, and he is known as the "old seed". Today, lead the soldiers to help, and do not underestimate the enemy. It should be a deep ditch and a high base, in order to defend, and the best policy is the party. Zong Wang then ordered that the army should not be allowed to go out privately, and increase the base to fortify itself, and only hold one place in the Muhuogang District.

Song Qinzong heard that the seed master Dao led the reinforcements to arrive, and he was really overjoyed as if he had been in a drought for a long time. At that moment, Li Gang opened the door and went to Yinglao.

The deployment of the Seed Master Dao has been completed, and he entered the city to see Song Qinzong, Song Qinzong asked: "Today's matter, I don't know what Qing's opinion is?" ”

The seed master said: "In the opinion of the minister, it is the best policy to negotiate peace. The Jurchens did not know the art of war. Is there a lone soldier who goes deep into the enemy's territory, and he who can return well? The minister is in the western soil, and he has never known what the capital is like. The minister is looking at the capital today, and the surrounding area is more than 80 miles, how can it be surrounded? The city is dozens of zhang high, and it can be used for several years. Such a strong city is really impossible to attack. Build a fortified fort and set up camp in the city, and the soldiers in the city will refuse to defend it, so as to wait for the army of the king. Within a few months, Jin Yu would be exhausted and sleepy. When they retreat, they will fight a decisive battle and win a complete victory. As for the land of the Three Towns, it cannot be ceded to them. ”

Song Qinzong said: "Now peace has been made. Hearing this, the planter said: "The minister is concerned with the military affairs, and other matters are not known to the minister." ”

The planter said that he was old at that time and was sick, and Song Qinzong gave up his kneeling ceremony and allowed him to sit on his shoulder and enter the court.

The envoy of the Jin State, Wang Xiao, was in the court, arrogant and stubborn. As soon as he saw the planter's way, he also restrained himself, and kneeling was a little like etiquette, Song Qinzong smiled and said: "The reason why he is like this is because of Qing." ”

Since the arrival of the Jin soldiers, all the city gates have been closed, and there are no paid vegetable sellers in the city. Please open the southwest wall, let the people come in and out, and the people's hearts will be at peace. The Taoist of the Seed Master has repeatedly offered advice to Song Qinzong, please delay the gold coins in gold, and wait until it is difficult to return, strangle it in the river, gather and annihilate it, it is the best policy. Song Qinzong listened to it and ordered the seed master to discuss it in the political affairs hall.

The seed master saw Li Bangyan and asked bluntly: "The capital is strong and towering, and it is more than prepared, why did the prime minister want to make peace at that time?" ”

Li Bangyan said: "This is because the country has no troops to defend, so it has to do this. ”

The seed master said: "This is not true. Fighting and defending are two different things, and they should not be confused with each other. War may be insufficient, but the code is more than enough. There are millions of people in the Kyoshi, and if they want to defend, they will become fierce fighters. ”

Li Bangyan said: "I don't practice martial arts, so I don't understand this. ”

The seed master sighed when he heard this: "Although Xianggong doesn't know about soldiers, doesn't he know about defending the city in ancient times?" And he said, "It is a great miscalculation to hear that all the inhabitants of the city have been plundered by thieves, and that there is a great deal of livestock, and that all of them are owned by thieves." At that time, when they heard that the thieves were coming, they should have ordered the people outside the city to evacuate their houses and move their livestock into the city. Why is it that the livestock is now left behind closed doors to the golden captives? ”

Li Bangyan said: "In a hurry, there is no time to do this. The planter smiled when he heard this: "I'm so in a hurry, I can't even take care of these big things." ”

The ministers on the left and right laughed when they heard it. At that time, everyone had similarities and differences, only Li Gang and Seed Master Dao had the same opinion, but Li Bangyan was stubborn.

Zongwang garrisoned troops outside the city, sent people to ask for gold and silver coins every day, and sent troops to loot everywhere for military supplies. Li Gang saw that the divisions of the Quartet Qinwang had arrived one after another, so he played to Song Qinzong: "The Jin people are greedy and insatiable, and their ferocity is becoming more and more fierce, and their momentum is indispensable to use teachers. The enemy army is said to be 60,000, and the army of our King Qin is still more than 200,000 gathered under the city. The Jin people went deep into the heavy land with a lone army, like a tiger and a leopard throwing themselves into a trap, and they should be taken by a plan, rather than having to fight with them overnight. If you send troops to hold Hejin, cut off its grain routes, and then divide your troops to recover the Zhuyi of Hebei, and force the enemy camp with heavy troops, do not fight, and make it trapped, this is the strategy adopted by Zhou Yafu to quell the rebellion of the Seven Kingdoms during the Han Dynasty. Wait until they are exhausted of food, and then take an oath to restore our three towns, and then return to the north, and attack them halfway through, which is a sure victory. ”

When Song Qinzong heard this, he thought it was true, and made an appointment with him to do things at a time.

At that time, among the generals of King Qin's division, there was Yao Pingzhong, the son of Yao Gu, the envoy of the Xihe Road. Yao Gu and the brother of the seed master Dao, Qin Feng Lu Jing slightly envoy the seed master Zhong and Zhi Yanzhi and others all raised the army to the king, and the seed master Dao and Yao Pingzhong led the troops first. Song Qinzong appointed the Seed Master Dao as the Privy Council of Tongzhi and the post of Xuanfu envoy of Gyeonggi, Hebei and Hedong, and appointed Yao Pingzhong as the post of Du Xiao. This kind of appointment caused Yao Pingzhong great unease.

It turned out that the Chong clan and the Yao clan were both Shanxi giant clans, and the children of the two families were incompatible and had great prejudices. Yao Pingzhong saw that Song Qinzong relied on the Dao of the Seed Master. Trying to use his strength to break the enemy, he was afraid that the credit would go to the seed clan alone, so he threatened everywhere: "It has been so long since King Qin's soldiers arrived in the capital, but the soldiers thought that they could not fight quickly and complained. ”

These words reached Song Qinzong's ears, and then he relayed them to Li Gang. Li Gang supported Yao Pingzhong's views, and ordered all the soldiers in the city to obey Yao Pingzhong's dispatch and command.

Song Qinzong sent people to urge the seed master to go to war almost every day, according to the meaning of the seed master dao, he wanted to wait until his younger brother the seed master led the army to arrive, because the song could be attacked after the spring equinox.

At that time, there were only eight days before the spring equinox, and Song Qinzong still thought it was too slow. But Yao Pingzhong wanted to make a contribution first, so he asked to send troops to attack him in advance.

Zong Wang saw that the army of King Qin of the Song Dynasty had arrived one after another, and the number of people had increased greatly, and he was quite worried in his heart. In addition to doubling the defense, patrols and reconnaissance at night were intensified.

At nightfall in February, the Jin soldiers found that the lights in the Song camp were bright, and they were suspicious. Ascending to Wangzhi, and seeing the frequent transfers, he hurriedly returned to the camp and reported this strange situation to Zongwang.

Zong Wang smiled when he heard this: "Recently, I feel that the atmosphere is a little wrong, and I expected that the Song people may be emboldened because of the increasing number of soldiers of King Qin, and they will take action against us." Well, then let him come. "After that, he ordered all the generals to make preparations for the coming enemy. As soon as the deployment stopped, I heard that the scout cavalry came to report that the Song soldiers had left the village and killed them directly towards the Jin camp.

Yao Pingzhong personally led the cavalry and cavalry, planning to attack the Jin camp at night, hoping to capture Zongwang and capture King Kang. In the middle of the night, Song Qinzong sent an envoy to inform Li Gang: "Yao Pingzhong has already raised the matter, and Qing quickly deployed troops to reinforce them." Li Gang heard this and immediately led his troops out.

Yao Pingzhong led his troops to the gold camp, and when he saw that there were no lights in the gold camp, everything was silent, and he couldn't help but be overjoyed: "Today's great work is done." ”

Before arriving at the gate of the wall, I suddenly heard the sound of golden drums, which shook the earth, and saw nearly 10,000 lights lit up together, and the illuminated heaven and earth were bright. Jin Bing shouted in unison: "The Song people are fooled, the Song people are fooled." ”

Yao Pingzhong saw that the Jin people were ready, and hurriedly ordered the army to retreat.

At this moment, in the golden camp, ten thousand crossbows were fired in unison. In an instant, the arrows shot like flying locusts, and countless Song soldiers were shot off their horses. Song Bing was taken by surprise and fell into a panic in an instant.

The Jin generals Aru Bu and Chi Zhanhui each led their iron cavalry to fall from the sky and rushed towards the Song soldiers from all directions. The Song soldiers were immediately in chaos and fled.

Yao Pingzhong saw that the surprise attack failed, but was defeated, and did not dare to return to the city, so he fled and lived in seclusion. Later, it is said that someone saw him in Lushan.

In this night attack, the Song soldiers suffered heavy casualties, the generals Chen Fu and Chen Kai were killed in battle, and after Yang Kesheng was captured, he was killed unyieldingly.

The Jin soldiers took advantage of the victory to pursue, went to the curtain Tianpo, and met Li Gang's reinforcements. Li Gang ordered all the soldiers to shoot them in turn with a divine arm bow. Seeing this, Zong Wang hurriedly ordered a retreat and returned.

The seed master heard that Yao Pingzhong's attack on the camp had been defeated, so he offered another advice: "The use of soldiers lies in the use of strange, and now the robbery of the village has been mistaken, but if it is taken by surprise, it can still turn defeat into victory." If we can send troops to attack them tonight, we will be victorious. If he could not win again, he would send thousands of people to disturb him every night, and within ten days, the golden captives would flee and return. At this time, Li Bangyan and the others were already afraid of the enemy like tigers, and they didn't dare to use it.

After Yao Pingzhong led the crowd to attack the Jin camp at night and suffered a heavy blow, Zongwang immediately summoned Zhang Bangchang, the envoy of the Song Dynasty, to condemn him for violating his oath with his troops.

Zhang Bangchang saw that he was full of anger and his voice was violent, and he couldn't help but cry and was terrified.

King Kang Zhao Gou stood with his head held high, unmoved, and Zong Wang saw it differently. He also sent Wang Ne as an envoy to rebuke him, and asked him to exchange other princes as hostages.

Li Bangyan accepted his intentions and put the responsibility on Li Gang and Yao Pingzhong, and said to Wang Ne: "The use of soldiers is the intention of Li Gang and Yao Pingzhong, and the court does not know about it. ”

Song Qinzong then used Li Bangyan's words to ****** the outline and revoked the new expedition envoy. And Su Wang Zhao Shu replaced Kang King Zhao Gou as a hostage.

At this time, Song Qinzong wanted to send an envoy to visit Zongwang to justify the attack on the camp. Who knew that among the ministers, there was no one willing to serve as a messenger. When he was in a dilemma, he saw a person come forward and was willing to send an envoy to the gold camp. Everyone regarded it as none other than the senior scholar of the Imperial Palace, who was the former Xuanfu of the army.

It turned out that Yuwen Xuzhong was ordered to recruit the soldiers of the king of Qin, and sent the superintendent to recruit Yao Gu, Chongshi Dao and other soldiers, and ordered them to drive directly to Bianjing to help. At the beginning, Zong Wang did not care about the Song soldiers, and sent troops to sweep around, as if entering a no-man's land. The Jin soldiers of the West Road once reached the city of Zhengzhou, but were defeated by Ma Zhong, so they were collected into one, and they did not dare to disperse. As a result, the West Road was opened, and King Qin's soldiers were able to reach the capital in a steady stream.

Since Yuwen Xuzhong completed his mission, he also galloped back, collected scattered soldiers along the way, and got reinforcements from the southeast, totaling about 20,000 people, and appointed Li Miao as the commander and stationed troops on the bank of the Bianhe River. Yuwen entered the city in the void and came to see Song Qinzong. At a time when there was no one to serve, he did not care about the servants and the dust, nor did he avoid danger, and he agreed.

Yuwen Xuzhong was ordered by Song Qinzong to come to Dutingyi immediately, meet with Wang Ne, the envoy of the Jin State, and then go to the Jin camp to negotiate peace.

As soon as I crossed the Hao Bridge, I saw that the armor rode like a cloud, the ladder and the goose hole covered the ground, and he walked with his head held high and walked with a sharp edge. When I arrived at the gold camp, I sat in the dust, and from morning to afternoon, I didn't see the gold people coming to greet him. But he saw that the golden soldier showed his blade, and surrounded him layer by layer with three layers inside and three layers outside. After waiting for a long time, he was led to the army to see King Kang.

The next day, Wang Ne led him to the Jinren Recruiting Mansion and met the second prince Zongwang. Zongwang's etiquette is arrogant, and his words are not inferior. It was not until the twilight that Wang Ne was sent to return to the city with Yuwen Xuzhong by the same route, asking for King Yue, Li Bangyan, Wu Min, Li Gang, Cao Sheng, gold, silver, mules and horses, etc., and also proposed to set the boundary of the three towns in the imperial pen.

Wang Ne proposed that only after agreeing to these conditions would he withdraw from the army.

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