Chapter 208: An Admirable National Hero

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"By the way, I don't know what that old sentence is called?"

"Lao Tong's name is Zong Ze!" The old man said subconsciously.

What? Zong Ze, Grandpa Zong!

Lin Chong was stunned for a moment, he never expected to meet Zong Ze here.

This is one of the few figures in the two Song Dynasty that Lin Chong looks up to and even worships incomparably, second only to Yue Fei's grandfather Zong Zezong!

The name Zong Ze, in the original historical time and space, before Jingkang, Zong Ze was unknown.

But there are always such characters in the history of the Han family, and every time there is a crisis of survival, there are always heroes who stand out, save the sky, make up for the cracks in the sky, continue to survive the luck of the Han family, and inspire and inspire generations of Han family children.

Yue Fei is like this, and so is Zong Ze, and Yue Fei is very likely to be greatly influenced by Zong Ze.

In the first year of Jingkang, Zong Ze was first recommended by Chen Guoting, the imperial historian, to serve as a peace envoy as Zongzheng Shaoqing, and after arriving in Beijing, he immediately "played the right three strategies" to Qinzong, advocating resistance to Jin and opposing peace.

If it was just like that, Zong Ze would just be a clear stream who could only let go of his mouth, but later, he proved that he could do far more than he said!

The Jurchens went south for the second time, Taiyuan was lost, the Jurchen two-way army drove straight in, Zong Ze was appointed as the governor of Cizhou, and when no one else dared to go to the east of Hebei and Hedong to take office, Zong Ze only took up his post with a dozen old and weak soldiers.

He repaired the city wall, dredged the God's Pond, renovated the equipment, recruited volunteers, and trained a military horse in a short period of time.

After the Jurchen sent thousands of cavalry to attack Cizhou, Zong Ze relied on a group of newly recruited militiamen, Zong Ze repelled the attack of the Jin soldiers, and opened the city gate to pursue the army, killing hundreds of Jurchen Tartars, which greatly encouraged the fighting spirit of the Song army in Heshuo.

Later, the Jurchens encircled Kaifeng for the second time, Song Qinzong ordered Zhao Gou to be the generalissimo of soldiers and horses, Zong Ze was the deputy, and King Qin rescued Kaifeng, but Zhao Gou deliberately stopped the troops and did not save them, let alone let other soldiers and horses to save (Song Qinzong was also very stupid and naΓ―ve), Zong Ze had to lead more than 10,000 military horses to rescue Kaifeng, which was surrounded by more than 100,000 Jurchen troops.

Zong Ze led the lone army forward, fought with the Jurchen army thirteen times along the way, broke through the front, won many battles, and entered Kaide Mansion.

Zong Ze's troops were fighting fewer and fewer, there were more and more Jurchen soldiers and horses in front, and the surrounding Song troops were afraid of the enemy and did not advance, and Zhao Gou ran farther and farther with the army...... The ordinary people stopped at this point, and they were already worthy of the imperial court, but Zong Ze was still waving his troops and pointing at Bianliang!

A lone army of more than 2,000 people, all the way to defeat the intercepted Jin soldiers, fighting Nanhua, defending Nannan, and Weicheng, every battle is defeated, and every step is blood.

Weicheng County is not far from Kaifeng, but at this time, Bianliang finally fell, and Jingkang was ashamed, and it was not possible for Zongze's lone army to recover. After Zhao Gou ascended the throne, Zong Ze was first relieved of military power, and then reappointed as Zhikaifeng Mansion.

Zong Ze, an old man who was nearly seventy years old, went to his post lightly again, with high prestige and incomparably sincere heart to serve the country, he single-handedly persuaded hundreds of thousands of rebels to surrender, and recruited them to his command, and defeated the Jurchens who went south several times. And rebuilt Bianliang, ready to welcome Zhao to return to the capital, and connected the twenty-four "Begging Back to Luanshu".

In May of the same year, he sent Guo Xun as the deputy guard of Tokyo, to monitor Zong Ze nearby, and prevent the implementation of the plan to cross the river in June.

Zong Ze's heart was to cross the Yellow River to the north, recover the lost territory, and even go straight to the Yellow Dragon, but his sincerity was exchanged for Zhao Gou's treatment.

Seeing that the Northern Expedition plan he had worked so hard to plan had come to naught, under the grief and indignation, Zong Zesheng died of a carbuncle, and before he died, he still remembered the Northern Expedition, shouting three times "Cross the river!" Crossing! Crossing! "Death of grief and indignation!

The first death before leaving the school, the hero was full of tears, and the sound of crossing the river resounded in the night sky of Tokyo, thousands of years later, it is still moving!

This is Zong Ze, a stubborn old man who Lin Chong admires incomparably, the backbone of the real nation, and the hero he admires the most except Yue Fei.

"Lord, what's wrong?"

Seeing that Lin Chong's whole person was stunned, Wang Dashi and Wei Chibin were also a little stunned, and hurriedly whispered in Lin Chong's ear: "Military master, but what's wrong with our plan?" ”

"Lord, our people are about to be discovered, and now ......"

Lin Chong came back to his senses at this time, calmed down some of his agitated emotions, and said: "Let's do it, pass the order, after rushing into the state office, try to kill as few people as possible, and just knock out!" ”

The two of them said that although it was a little strange, they had to send the arrow at this time, and they didn't have time to ask more questions at the moment, so they hurriedly took the order and left.

I saw that Yu Chibin took out a long cylindrical object from his arms, and then took a fire fold from his companion's hand, lit it, and saw a little spark quickly burning to the end, and then I heard a sound of "boom", and a little firelight flew up to the sky more than ten zhang high with a stream of red smoke.

With a loud thunderbolt on a sunny day, a crimson ball of flame with a diameter of more than three zhang exploded in midair.

The sky is full of sparks, sprinkled like rain.

Everyone was stunned, and at this time, Lin Chong and more than 50 others had already drawn out their knives, and Lin Chong took the lead to kill the state government.

When have a few of the guards seen this kind of stance? was immediately frightened, and when he couldn't figure out the situation, he was disarmed by Lin Chong and others, and then he was stunned by a heavy hand.

At the same time, Shan Shiqi, Wang Dashi and others, who were responsible for liaison and response in the back, also led the war horses to the gate of the state government and tied them up, while shouting loudly, "The Liangshan army has entered the city, don't panic, we will only punish the king!" ”

There was a big chaos in the market, but soon everyone also found out that this group of Liang Shanjun really did not commit any crimes against the people, and even the public guards at the gate of the state government did not kill them, and gradually became less panicked.

After a period of chaos, everyone took the initiative to give way to the middle of the street, or hide in the houses and shops on both sides, or stand on both sides of the road and peek in the direction of the state government, and the whole street fell silent.

At the same time, Li Cheng, Wang Feiyu and others, who were ambushed at the four gates of Dengzhou City, also launched a surprise attack at this time, and the soldiers guarding the gate were stunned when they heard the loud noise and saw the fireball in the sky, and then their small officers with troops were hijacked by the Liangshan army that rushed over, and the soldiers were knocked down or killed, and they all surrendered almost without any resistance.

Subsequently, Li Cheng and Pang Wanchun, who were in charge of seizing the south and north gates, ordered people to light smoke at the city gate, and at the same time sent signals to Luan Tingyu and Dengzhou sailors outside the city.

On the other side, Lin Chong was also led by Ma Ling, and rushed all the way to the back of the state office, blocking Wang Shizhong, who was so frightened that he couldn't walk with weak legs, and then was lifted up by Wei Chibin like a chicken.

At this time, Lin Chong and the others finally encountered strong resistance, of course, mainly referring to momentum.