Li Yanqing said unhurriedly: "Your Majesty, Weichen sent a cavalry of about 3,000 people out before the siege of the Jin soldiers, according to the news obtained by the humble position, they attacked the scattered Jin soldiers in Hebei, and repeatedly succeeded, making the logistics of the Jin soldiers extremely passive, and now the Jin soldiers can't spare the barracks to deal with this Song cavalry for a while, and I believe that Wanyan Xian will definitely transfer some Taiyuan Jin soldiers to Hebei." ”

"But there are 100,000 Jin soldiers in Taiyuan, and we count him as 20,000 casualties when we capture Taiyuan, so among the 80,000, I estimate that a maximum of 20,000 people will be transferred to Hebei, and what about the other 60,000 Jin soldiers?" This is Wu Min refuting Li Yanqing on the side, and peace negotiation is his proposal, he naturally doesn't want Zhao Huan to be persuaded by Li Yanqing.

Li Yanqing said lightly: "I also said just now, the Jin soldiers captured Taiyuan City, and the morale of the Jin soldiers besieging Tokyo will inevitably rise, this is not as simple as a news, and the Jin soldiers on the West Road will rush to join the East Route Army, with the support of the army, the morale of the Jin soldiers will of course rise." ”

Wu Min's face turned cold, and he shook his head disapprovingly and said: "Li Dutong's words are a little taken for granted, you are not the commander of the Jin soldiers, how do you know that the Jin soldiers on the West Road will definitely come to support?" ”

"Although I am not the commander of the Jin soldiers, but the marshal of the Jin soldiers is outside the city, and he is not good at attacking the city, of course he will let the Jin soldiers on the west road come to support."

Wu Min wanted to refute again, but Li Gang bowed down to Zhao Huan and said, "Your Majesty, since Li Dutong is so sure, then we might as well wait for a few more days." ”

Li Gang belongs to the centrists, he is not against peace, but he hopes to maximize the protection of the interests of the Great Song Dynasty, it is best that the Jin State take the initiative to propose peace, now the Jin soldiers obviously can't capture the city, and after a while, the Yellow River should be thawed, he thinks that the Jin soldiers will definitely make a decision to fight or make peace before the Yellow River thaws, so Li Gang considered delaying as much time as possible, so that Jin Bing took the initiative to propose peace.

Zhao Huan pondered for a moment, he understood that Li Yanqing was a resolute main battle faction, in this matter, it was not good for him to turn his face with Li Yanqing, and the plan proposed by Li Gang was also a compromise plan, wait a few days before talking.

"Alright! Just wait a few more days. ”

........

Coming out of Ziwei Palace, Li Yanqing's face was gloomy to the extreme, he finally couldn't help but have a seizure, he gritted his teeth and said hatefully: "Bastard, Lao Tzu has to kill that surnamed Wu!" ”

Li Gang caught up from behind, but he happened to feel Li Yanqing's anger, he was startled, and hurriedly said: "Li Dutong, please stop your anger!" ”

Li Yanqing Huo Ran turned around, stared at Li Gang's eyes and asked, "When did this matter start?" ”

Li Gang's eyes flickered a little, avoiding Li Yanqing's sharp gaze, and after a while, he sighed and said: "This matter is not just Wu Min's meaning, he is just the leader, this is actually the will of the courtiers, at least the Zhizheng Hall unanimously agreed." ”

Li Yanqing's eyes narrowed, but his gaze was sharper, "Then I don't know what?" ”

"This month, Li Dutong didn't care about the government! In the five meetings of the Zhizheng Hall, Li Dutong only came for the first time, and he didn't participate in it later, so it is normal not to know about this matter. ”

"I don't believe it, all the courtiers agree?" Li Yanqing's eyes became a little puzzled.

Li Gang shook his head, "This matter is divided into three factions, there are those who advocate taking the initiative to propose peace, which are called the positive discussion and peace faction, those who advocate waiting for Jin Bing to propose peace, which are called the anti-discussion and peace faction, and those who advocate resolutely fighting with the Jin soldiers, called the main battle faction, the main discussion and peace faction has the largest number of people, accounting for seventy percent, followed by the anti-discussion and peace faction, which probably accounts for more than two percent, represented by me and Zhang Shuye, and the main battle faction has the smallest number of people, only a few people. ”

"Who are the representatives of the main battle faction?"

"Zong Ze, or add you."

Li Yanqing shook his head, "I really don't understand, we are strictly defending, the Jin soldiers can't attack the city for a month, and they are helpless, obviously we have the upper hand, why are there so many lords and factions?" ”

Li Gang smiled bitterly and said: "After more than a month of suffering, everyone is a little unable to support it, after all, they are all civil ministers, not as determined as you, in fact, the official family is almost unable to hold on, otherwise today would not be such a gaffe." ”

"It's just an excuse!"

Li Yanqing dropped a sentence and walked away, Li Gang looked at Li Yanqing's distant back, and couldn't help but sigh long, what he was most worried about was still unavoidable, I am afraid that there will be a rift between Li Yanqing and the official family.

..........

Suddenly there was a drum sound in the camp of the Jin soldiers, this kind of drum is very familiar to the Song army at the head of the city, this is the victory drum of the Jin soldiers, every time the Jin soldiers attack the end of the city, they beat the victory drum back to the camp to cover up the defeat of the siege.

But this time it was a real victory, and Wan Yan Xian had already received the news of the capture of Taiyuan, which made him ecstatic, and immediately ordered the drum to celebrate.

In the big tent, Wan Yan Xian was really pacing back and forth, his face was still angry, he looked at Wan Yan Zong, who was standing on the side with his head bowed, and said: "What is the first in your hearts, is it my Dajin's career, or your personal grudges?" ”

Wan Yan Xian only turned from joy to anger, the reason was that he wanted to transfer Wan Yan Zonghan's army to Kaifeng Mansion to assist in attacking Song Jing, but Wan Yan Zongwang strongly opposed it, which caused Wan Yan Xianye's monstrous anger.

He waved his arms and shouted: "I don't care if you have any bullshit grudges, I just look at the result, Wanyan Zonghan captured Taiyuan, and what about you?" In the past month, you have lost countless soldiers, but you still can't capture a city gate, are you embarrassed to compare with him? ”

Wanyan Zongwang gritted his teeth and stiffened his neck and said: "That's because he didn't meet Li Yanqing this time, he failed miserably in Taiyuan last time, it's just his luck, what does it have to do with his ability?" ”

Wan Yan Xian was also furious, slapped the table fiercely, and glared at Wan Yan Zongwang angrily, "In that case, what are you afraid of him?" If you don't let him come, isn't it just admitting that you are inferior to him? ”

Wanyan Zongwang was stunned, and after a while, he nodded, "Since Marshal Du thinks that he can capture Song Jing, then I don't have any opinion, everything is up to Marshal Du!" ”

Wan Yan also glared at him fiercely, turned around and walked out quickly.

..........

Liyang County, Weizhou, since the Sui and Tang Dynasties, here is one of the most important granaries in the Central Plains, the pattern of Liyang County is two cities, one is the county seat, the other is the grain city, the distance between the two cities is only 500 steps, there is a narrow moat in the middle connected by the water gate, but the river freezes in winter, and this waterway also loses its effect.

At present, there is no grain storage in Liyang County, but the Jin soldiers have used the granary of Liyang County to hoard forage, more than 1 million loads of forage are piled up in Liyang Cang, which is another supply place for Jin Bing in addition to the Daimyo Mansion, the importance of forage to Jin Bing is self-evident, Jin Bing also deployed 10,000 heavy troops in Liyang Cang, plus Liyang Cangcheng is dangerous, there is no army of more than 50,000, it is basically impossible to capture Liyang Cang.

However, the defense of Liyang County is far behind, only 2,000 Jin soldiers are guarded, perhaps because of the more important reason of Liyang Cang, the Jin soldiers did not sack Liyang County, and the Jin Han army did not dare to attack the idea of Liyang County, so that Liyang County rarely maintained the prosperity of the old days.

At noon, there was a bustle in front of the north city gate of Liyang County, a group of vegetable farmers carried the burden into the city to sell vegetables, dozens of soldiers guarded the north city gate, and kept pushing the vegetable farmers who were scrambling to enter the city, one of the soldiers used too much force, and overturned the burden of a vegetable farmer, and dozens of radishes fell on the ice of the moat.

The vegetable farmer was annoyed in his heart, and hurriedly went down to pick up the radish, scolding and scolding in his mouth, "People who have no eggs are embarrassed to be arrogant, surrender to the Jurchens, and the ancestral grave will be chopped up by God!" ”

The soldier was furious when he heard him scolding viciously, and rushed up with his old fist to fight, but was hugged by the soldier next to him, "Liu San, forget it, forget it, what do you care about them, these countrymen's words are regarded as farts!" ”

The vegetable farmer was also a little frightened in his heart, and hurriedly picked up the vegetables and ran into the city quickly, at this moment, a caravan came from a distance, about a dozen people, leading more than a hundred donkeys, and the donkeys were carrying heavy goods.

"Stop!"

The soldiers defending the city stepped forward quickly, "Where did the caravan come from?" ”

In the past, no one would have paid attention to a caravan, but now caravans are a rarity, and naturally the soldiers are the object of attention.

The young businessman at the head bowed and saluted, "Ladies and gentlemen, the villain is from the Daimyo Mansion, come to Liyang County to make some money." ”

The young merchant spoke the local dialect of the Daimyo's Mansion, which was somewhat similar to the accent on Liyang's side, and the leading soldier stepped forward to examine the goods on the donkey, and asked, "What's inside?" ”

"It's a little .... Salt! ”

The soldiers looked at each other and laughed, "Boy, you can make money!" ”

These days, there is a serious shortage of salt in Liyang County, and salt was originally sold by the government, but the salt supply system has been destroyed, resulting in no source after the salt in stock is eaten, so the price of salt has risen sharply these days, and I didn't expect the smuggler to smell the business opportunity so quickly.

The soldier searched his body and confirmed that there were no weapons, so he waved his hand, "Enter the city!" ”

The merchants drove their donkeys into the city in a hurry.