After abandoning Pingjiang and retreating to Yuhang, Wen Tianxiang was appointed as the prefect of Lin'an, focusing on how to defend Lin'an, he discussed with Zhang Shijie and Chen Yizhong endlessly, and came up with a long-lasting anti-Yuan military plan.

However, in despair of watching the Yuan army wash Changzhou in blood, and the imperial court had no soldiers to send back to heaven, the empress dowager took pity on the world, and did not want to see the people of the Great Song Dynasty suffer again, so she decided to give up the army that resisted Boyan, and rejected the battle plan of the two important ministers Wen Tianxiang and Zhang Shijie to guard Lin'an.

Before the New Year, Prime Minister Chen Yizhong had sent someone to see Boyan to ask for peace, but was reprimanded by Boyan and returned, and then sent Shaoqing Lu Xiufu to put forward the idea of paying tribute every year, but it was also rejected by Boyan with a cold face.

The ministers who spent endless court discussions all day long, and the ministers who quarreled to the point of red-faced could not make up their minds about how to surrender with dignity, but no one could come up with a better way. Just when discussing with the Queen Mother how to surrender, Boyan sent someone to spread the word that he wanted to surrender and talk directly to the prime minister, and if the others came again, they would break their legs and blast back.

Late at night on the eighteenth day of the first lunar month, Chen Yizhong only took a dozen entourages out of Lin'an and fled to Wenzhou alone by boat. Immediately afterwards, the princes and ministers fled from Lin'an by water, and the two princes of the royal family and a large number of royal relatives, together with Zhao Youxue and Lu Xiufu, arrived in Wenzhou in batches, and went to Fujian with Chen Yizhong and others.

After Chen Yizhong left, there was no suitable candidate to negotiate peace with Boyan, and the queen Feng Wen Tianxiang was the privy envoy, and in order to negotiate in line with Boyan's requirements, he was added as the privy envoy of the right prime minister. As an envoy to the Yuan army to negotiate peace, before leaving for Gaoting Mountain, Wen Tianxiang met Mu Chenglin alone in the inner house.

"Mr. Mu, you originally had a merit in exchanging a new weapon, but I haven't had time to reward you, and now I'm going to trouble you again. I can't promise you the reward now, if I can meet again, I will have three drinks with Mr. Mu! ”

Mu Chenglin hurriedly saluted and said: "Why did Lord Wen say this, if there is anything to do, just give orders, I will definitely try my best to do it." ”

"Time is pressing, I only ask you for one thing, to return the thunder transported from Quanzhou to its original owner, and not to fall into the hands of the Yuan army, then I will become a greater sinner."

Mu Chenglin was stunned for a moment, although he knew that Lin'an was in danger, but these people who stayed behind had already prepared to die and break the net, and they didn't know that the royal family had made up their minds to surrender.

"It's not just this matter, Du Hu brought four thousand soldiers to come to King Qin with me who sacrificed their lives and forgot to die, and now it is seven or eight out of ten, and there are still eight hundred warriors left for you to take with you. Finding that Zhao Jiaotou and handing over Du Hu and the others to him, I have a feeling in the dark, this is more than lucky, I don't want to leave regrets. ”

Wen Tianxiang stroked his beard and sighed, and handed over a written letter to Mu Chenglin for safekeeping, Du Hu wept angrily on the side, bowed down and was reluctant to leave.

"Let's go, take these Gannan sons to where they should go, the queen is not going to surrender for herself, but to protect the people on this side. Under such righteousness, I just don't give up, isn't it just a little boy, wait for me to scold him a few words. ”

Wen Tianxiang has made up his mind, and tomorrow's envoy does not want to have a good death, and he can't bear to follow the 800 people who are displaced in Lin'an, and he is worried that the thunder will be captured by the Yuan army, and it is not a great sin to use it on the Song army.

Mu Chenglin was ordered to bow down with tears in his eyes, and together with Du Hu, he took 800 soldiers from southern Gansu, divided into three fast boats, carried the untouched thunder, and went south to Quanzhou overnight.

Boyan ordered Zhu Qing and Zhang Xuan's army to block the waterway, but left a few openings to the south of Lin'an, deliberately letting them live, which was also a strategy to divide the Song family in Lin'an. Boyan killed more than 10,000 people in Changzhou, which had made Kublai Khan very dissatisfied, and he had promised the Song Dynasty that the Manchu Dynasty would surrender to the generals and would not slaughter the city again. Wouldn't this be embarrassing, so Kublai Khan issued a decree and told Boyan to refrain as much as possible and not to have another large-scale massacre.

In fact, according to the custom of the Mongol army in the past to fight in the south and the north, anyone who dared to fire an arrow at the head of the city would slaughter all the young and strong men in the city, and whoever resisted with weapons would slaughter the whole city without leaving a single one. Kublai Khan had participated in the Western Expedition earlier, and Boyan was also the general of the three armies at that time, and he did not do anything less to slaughter the city.

But that's where you go, a city that never looks back, and after burning and looting, it never comes back, which is a one-time act. But now it's different, Kublai Khan wants a stable country, they want to get off the horse and become officials, and they want to rule these Han people. If they are all killed, not only will they consume their troops, but who will plough the fields and who will plant the crops in the future, where will the food come from to eat, and who will graze the horses?

This is also the main purpose of Kublai Khan's southern invasion, the fertile land in the south of the Yangtze River, and the prosperous economy of the coastal ports all made Kublai Khan salivate. How can he use the method of slaughtering the city to destroy all the good things, and besides, aren't the people he kills all his future people and slaves, if he really wants to kill, he has to wait until he takes all the country! At that time, I was a sword warrior, and the entire territory of Jiangnan was fish and meat, a nomadic people on horseback, with a vast territory, the largest territory in the world, wouldn't it be a great joy in life!

Wen Tianxiang led the envoy group to the Yuan army of Gaoting Mountain as the prime minister, and asked to see Boyan, the left prime minister of the Yuan army. Boyan's original intention was to humiliate the officials of the Song Dynasty and coerce them to surrender unconditionally, anyway, he was not in a hurry, and it only took a finger to take Lin'an. But this time, we have to follow the will of Kublai Khan, the ancestor of the Yuan dynasty, what we want is the gold and silver treasures of the Southern Dynasty, as well as the fertile land and obedient slaves, all of which are killed and burned into a scorched earth, what is the use of getting it.

However, for Wen Tianxiang, Boyan still has more respect, and he didn't ask for peace like the Song Dynasty officials sent at the beginning, but he scolded all the way, and he had to be kicked twice if he walked slowly.

In the big tent of the Chinese army, Boyan received the peace mission sent by the Song Dynasty. After a few words, Wen Tianxiang quarreled with Boyan, slammed the teacup on the table, and pointed at Boyan is scolding. Boyan was angry, and ordered the sergeant to take down Wen Tianxiang, and imprisoned him with Wu Jian, the left prime minister, Jia Yuqing, the right prime minister, and other officials, and sent them to Zhenjiang.

In Lin'an City, desperate again, the Queen Mother sent someone to send the jade seal of the country to the Yuan army, as long as the Yuan army did not hurt the lives of the people in Lin'an City, and was willing to surrender unconditionally. and gave up the Jiangshan Sheji of the Great Song Dynasty, and no longer mentioned the matter of paying tribute, directly gave up the imperial throne and handed it over to the Yuan army.

Boyan was happy, from the day he led the southern invasion of the Song Dynasty, his biggest dream was to attack Lin'an, pull the emperor of the Song Dynasty down from the Jinluan Treasure Palace, and tie him behind the horsetail as a prisoner of war. Now that the goal has finally been achieved, he immediately sent his subordinates Dong Wenbing, Lu Wenhuan, and Fan Wenhu of the Song Dynasty into the city to pacify the people, and prohibit the soldiers from burning, killing and looting.

The Lin'an royal family surrendered to the Yuan soldiers, and the Song Dynasty was considered to have lost more than half of its deaths, leaving only a few royal concubines wandering outside, not knowing where to return.