In the imperial study, Zhao Huan listened to Bai Shizhong's report expressionlessly, nodded half-loudly and said, "I know, Bai Xianggong should step back first!" ”

Bai Shizhong was suddenly a little anxious, they waited for the official family to come out of the palace for nearly half an hour, and now it was less than an hour before it got dark, where was there time to grind again.

"Your Majesty! There is no time left. ”

"I know very well in my heart, stand down!"

"Your Majesty......"

"I'll tell you to step down!" Zhao Huan suddenly scolded angrily.

Bai Shizhong was stunned, so he had to lower his head, "Weichen obeys the order!" He slowly stepped back.

Zhao Huan turned around and went back to the inner palace, his face gradually turned pale, Jin Bing actually wanted all the women in his palace, which made him unbearable.

At this time, Geng Nanzhong was led over by a eunuch, and he bowed and saluted, "See Your Majesty!" ”

"What's going on with the negotiations today? The golden man actually wants my palace maid? Zhao Huan glared at Geng Nanzhong and asked.

No one could have imagined that Geng Nanzhong was Zhao Huan's henchman, although Sun Fu and Wu Min had both been Zhao Huan's masters, and they were also rewarded by Zhao Huan and promoted to Xiangguo, but unfortunately they were too far behind Geng Nanzhong in terms of observation and flattery, Geng Nanzhong had been in the East Palace for many years, and had already figured out Zhao Huan's temperament.

"At the beginning, the Jin people did make this request."

"What do you mean at the beginning, has it changed later?" Zhao Huan asked suspiciously.

"Your Majesty, at the beginning, it was just a gold man asking for a price, just like five million taels of gold, and in the end we could only give one million taels of silver and five million pieces of silk, and the other party also accepted it, and as for the woman, the other party also changed his mind and asked for ten thousand young girls."

Zhao Huan's face suddenly became ugly, "You mean, if you want the women in the palace to talk to themselves in Bai Shizhong?" ”

"It's not exactly, when Bai Xianggong confirmed to the other party, he added a sentence, does it include all the palace maids? Wan Yan Xian also made it clear that among the 10,000 young girls, all the palace maids are also included, if Bai Xianggong does not say much, Wan Yan Xian should not ask for palace maids! ”

"This damn bastard!" Zhao Huan gritted his teeth and scolded.

Geng Nanzhong was secretly proud in his heart, but this knife seemed to be far from enough, and he said in a low voice: "When Bai Xianggong reported on the matter of the Emperor Taishang, there was still a slight discrepancy with the facts. ”

"What?"

"Your Majesty, the Emperor's words of 'all kindness and filial piety come first' are not entirely aimed at Your Majesty."

Zhao Huan frowned, "What did you say?" ”

"The Emperor said that filial piety comes first, and I hope they can understand the suffering of the Emperor in the Golden Camp, what the Emperor said is them, and it should refer to all the princes, not just His Majesty."

"What else?"

"Also, Bai Xianggong was worried that His Majesty would not agree with the palace maid, so he took the initiative to ask Wan Yan Xian to see the Emperor, and he said that as long as the Emperor agreed, His Majesty would not dare not agree."

'Bang! Zhao Huan was finally furious, and slammed his fist on the table, if Bai Shizhong couldn't deal with the matter of the palace maid before, it can also be explained that he was weak and incompetent, and now he deliberately used his father to press himself, which offended Zhao Huan's backlash and made him intolerable.

"Your Majesty, the Jin soldiers have asked us to release our belongings and women out of the city before dusk, what should we do?"

Zhao Huan snorted coldly, "Do you think I will give the palace maid and concubine to Jin Bing to ravage?" ”

Geng Nanzhong was speechless, and Zhao Huan shouted again: "Spread my will, send the imperial meal to the barracks to reward the three armies, as long as you hold the city of Tokyo, the soldiers will be rewarded with 500 acres of land, and the generals will be promoted to three levels!" ”

At this moment, Zhao Huan changed from a compromise faction to a main battle faction.

Not long after, there was a decree in the palace, and when he was promoted to Bai, he was the Taifu and transferred to the Jiangnan Road Xuanfu Envoy.

Bai Shizhong has no obvious handle, of course, it is not good to dismiss the prime minister directly, so Zhao Huan used the means of rising and descending secretly to seize the power of Bai Shizhong.

Zhao Huan immediately issued another decree to promote Geng Nanzhong to the right minister, and to do things with the Zhongshu Sect.

.........

Dusk has quietly fallen, the sun has already set, but the sky has not yet darkened, the sky has gradually turned a dark blue, only in the distance there is still a touch of bright yellow that has not faded, struggling to support the arrival of night.

About three miles away from the capital, 50,000 Jin Kingdom soldiers had already lined up neatly, murderous, waiting for the order to attack, following among them ten giant ladders and twenty siege nest vehicles, Wanyan Zongwang rode on a war horse, looking at this city with a complicated expression, this is the second time he has attacked it, the first time he ended in a crushing defeat, so what about this time?

However, after thorough preparation and several months of operation, he already has strong confidence in himself, and he believes that this time he will definitely be able to break through the capital of the Song Dynasty.

"Marshal Du is here!"

A soldier shouted behind him, and as soon as Wan Yan Zong looked around, he saw that the army had moved out of the way, and Marshal Wan Yan Xian was also slowly riding here under the escort of a thousand cavalry.

Wanyan Zongwang hurriedly stepped forward and saluted with his fists: "See Marshal Du!" ”

Wan Yan Xian also nodded, looked at the capital in the distance, and asked, "Is there any movement in the city?" ”

"If it was a negotiation, there was no movement, but their troops were all in the city, and it seemed that they were ready to fight us to the death."

Wan Yan also smiled faintly, "It seems that you still need to beat them hard, only if you beat them hard, they will listen to me honestly." ”

"Could it be that Marshal Du is really ready to settle the matter through negotiations?"

Wan Yan Xian also glanced at it with some dissatisfaction, "Have you forgotten how I told you?" ”

Wanyan Zongwang was so frightened that he didn't dare to ask more, and Wanyan Xian also said coldly: "Whether it's war, negotiation, or extortion of women's property, it's just a means, our purpose is to make the Song Dynasty surrender to the Jin Kingdom and be completely conquered by us!" ”

"I remembered my humble duties thoroughly."

Wan Yan Xian also looked at the sky again, the last touch of bright yellow on the horizon had disappeared, and the night finally fell, Wan Yan Xian also let out a long sigh, "I was going to be to the bright moon, but the bright moon shines on the ditch, the time is up, attack!" ”

"Attack!" Wanyan Zongwang waved his knife and roared.

'Woo-woo-'

The muffled sound of antlers echoed through the field, followed by the sound of golden drums, and the golden soldiers slashed towards the city like a tidal wave, wrapped in huge nest carts and ladders.

Wan Yan Xian also saw that the army had launched an attack, so he coldly ordered: "Xicheng starts to act!" ”

The battlefield was extremely tragic, the trebuchet on the head of the city kept waving its long arms, throwing the earth-shattering thunder that had been ignited into the dense enemy army, 50,000 golden soldiers were running wildly in the wilderness with shields and swords, when the earth-shaking thunder roared from the overhead, someone shouted, and all the soldiers around fell down one after another, covering their vital points with shields.

After the armistice negotiations in the past few months, Yan Zongwang has not been idle, he has been training the soldiers to deal with the earth-shaking thunder, and he has set up a thunder-watching soldier in each team of soldiers, their duty is to keep an eye on the earth-shaking thunder, once the earth-shaking thunder is thrown, he will shout loudly to warn, if the thunder soldier is killed, there will be a new person to replace him immediately.

The earth-shattering thunder exploded, although the momentum was terrifying, but it was not lethal to the golden soldiers lying on the ground, but more than a dozen people near the explosion point were shocked to death by the shock wave, and the other soldiers were not injured by shrapnel.........

Outside the Xinzheng Gate has long been unrecognizable, all the buildings have been demolished cleanly, the trees are gone, there are no houses, there is a bare patch everywhere, even the headquarters of Baoyan Zhai no longer exists, there are piles of mud and bricks everywhere, there are no people for several months, weeds are growing wildly, and they are almost half a person high.

There was also a Jin soldier barracks stationed here, just on the north bank of Hongqiao, with 20,000 troops, and the army here was obviously not to attack the city, but to prevent the army in the city from breaking through and King Qin's army from entering the city.

At this time, the night was already very deep, the war drums in the direction of the north city wall rumbled, and the shouts of killing shook the sky, but the outside of Xinzheng City was extremely quiet, perhaps the Song army also knew that there were too few garrisons outside Xicheng, and Xicheng would not be the main battlefield, so there were not many defensive troops in Xicheng, only more than 4,000 people.

In fact, Xicheng really couldn't set up a battlefield, mainly because the Bianhe River flowed not far from the city gate, and there was not much open space for the army to assemble on a large scale.

At this moment, a group of more than 100 black shadows quickly approached the city gate under the cover of weeds, and each of them was holding a swarthy sky-shattering thunder in their hands, as many as a hundred.

The defenders at the head of the city did not notice them, and soon they were close to the city walls.

And just a mile outside the west city, a group of 30,000 golden soldiers was ready, hiding in the night, and they could enter the city at any time.