Just when Zhang Yong was about to brave the scorching summer of 4,000 infantry to aid Jinghu with a selection of 4,000 infantry, the secret intelligence department in Changsha City used flying pigeons to send out a shocking news: Zong Ze died.

"Bang"! When Yue Fei saw the news on the paper roll, he smashed the solid wood case in front of him with a punch. "Zhong Xiang, Yang Qi, Du Chong, Wang Boyan, Huang Qianshan, Zhao Gou, you group of dog thieves who forced the sect commander to death, Yue will not let go!"

Xue Bi took the scroll of paper in Yue Fei's hand, looked at it carefully, and said with great sadness, "The only capable minister in the Great Song Dynasty died under the suspicion of the king and the jealousy of his colleagues, I am not worthy of the sect marshal." ”

It's not just that Xue Bi is not worth Zong Ze, but even in Huaxia after a thousand years, there are still many people who complain about this old man who is unpaid for his ambitions. In another time and space, this great old man who had a bad career for most of his life and fell into his subordinates almost saved the sky with one hand during the Jingkang period when the building was about to fall. He first stopped Zhao Gou, who wanted to make peace with Jinying, and kept the only bud of the Zhao and Song royal families, and then gathered the righteous army, and when the Song army of all roads was watching from afar, he fought all the way from Cizhou on the West Road of Hebei to Bianliang City, with less than 10,000 military horses, and defeated the Jin Dynasty in a row.

After the Jingkang Rebellion, Zong Ze sat in Bianliang, recruited the people's army, and fought to the death when Zong Han's army went south, with a million rabble, held Bianliang and Luoyang, as well as Huazhou on Hebei West Road, and when Zong Han retreated in the hot summer, he waved his army to pursue and recovered most of the cities on Hebei West Road in one fell swoop. When resisting the Jin soldiers, Zong Ze did not forget to urge Zhao Gou, who hid in Yangzhou, to return to Bianliang, and even received twenty-four letters of persuasion to return the capital, but he still couldn't persuade the timid Zhao Gou back.

Not only that, Zhao Gou was also worried that Zong Ze would be big in Bianliang, so he sent-stirring sticks Du Chong and Guo Xun to Bianliang to disrupt the situation and repeatedly sabotage Zong Ze's river-crossing attack. In the end, Zong Ze, who was over seventy years old, became ill with grief and anger, and finally died of grief and anger in the Bianliang Mansion. When he was dying, there was no language or family affairs, but he encouraged everyone around him to focus on resisting gold, and pointed to the north, shouting three times to cross the river and die. After his death, Yue Fei and Zong Zezi Zong Ying helped the coffin to Zhenjiang for burial.

In this time and space, because of Yue Fei's sudden rise in Yingtianfu, the imperial court was even more suspicious of Zong Ze. Without waiting for the Jin soldiers to go south, he ordered Du Chong to take Zong Ze's position, and extremely insidiously only gave Zong Ze hundreds of thousands of civilian troops to Luoyang to resist Zong Han's middle route army. The imperial court originally wanted to use the knife of the golden soldier to kill this old man with great prestige in the world, but he did not expect that Yue Fei would lead most of the people's army to rush to the aid of Yanshi City, not only successfully annihilated the Jin Bingsha Ancient Essence Department who crossed the river, but also directly crossed the river and beat Zong Han's middle route army to the point that it was difficult to advance an inch.

Just when Yue Fei led the Protector Army on the north bank of the Yellow River, the imperial court left Zong Ze's Luoyang behind and resigned him to Jinhua on the East Zhejiang Road. Zong Ze was already seriously ill once in Yanshi City, if it wasn't for Doctor Pang Shen to take the medicine and be affected by Xue Bi, he might have passed away a long time ago. Even so, his body, which is nearly seventy years old, has already been planted. From Luoyang to Jinhua, thousands of miles away, coupled with loyalty and suspicion, depression and incomprehension, Zong Ze was already ill when he first arrived in Jinhua.

Zhong Xiang Yang Qi led Amitabha Buddhism to raise troops on the shore of Dongting Lake, but in January, it swept most of Jinghu South Road. Zhao Song's harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes made the people of Huguang miserable, and the hundreds of thousands of troops who crossed the river with Zhao Gou may not be able to fight the war, but they are the top masters in the scourge of the people.

At this time, Zhao Gou remembered Zong Ze again, so he gave Zong Ze another urgent order to let Zong Ze rush to Changsha. Zong Ze got up from illness, from Jinhua to Changsha, and was relegated to this place of the former Hebei West Road Recruiting Envoy, the famous general Zhang Suo, together with the more than 10,000 people's army, with Changsha Jiancheng, began a long battle to defend the city. If it weren't for the persistence of Changsha City, maybe Zhong Xiang Yang Qi would have swept Jingxiang long ago.

Zong Ze's mentality of sticking to Changsha is different from sticking to Bianliang. In Bianliang, he fought the golden soldiers, fought with dignity and courage, and fought magnificently. But in Changsha City, he fought the Song people. Seeing countless people wrapped in red scarves every day brave the arrows and stones to attack Changsha City, and then be killed above and below the city, Zong Ze felt sad and helpless in his heart. He also understood that most of these people, except for some Amitabha Buddhists, were forced by the government to have no way to live. Typical official coercion and civil rebellion.

But no matter how sympathetic Zong Ze was to these people, it was impossible for him to let Zhong Xiang Yang Qi sweep through Jingxiang. Because although the court is not moral, those believers with red scarves on their heads are even more terrifying. They are like locusts, and wherever they kill, they will be in ruins. Zong Ze didn't think that these followers could save the world.

Zong Ze was already sick, and he stuck to the city every day, and his illness was worse day by day. What's even worse is that the reinforcements promised by the imperial court have not been killed for a long time. Han Shizhong was entangled by Li Qi on Jiangnan West Road, but Lu Yihao led an army of 30,000 to help, but as soon as he arrived in Yiyang, he was defeated by Yang Qin, a fierce general under Zhong Xiang. Yang Yizhong's army was stopped by a Zhuang rebel army in Changde. The name of the Zhuang rebel army is also Yang Zaixing, and it is extremely brave, even if it is not as good as Yang Zaixing in Xiangzhou, but compared with Yang Yizhong, it is not lagging behind. Although the combat power of the righteous army is not as good as that of the imperial army, with the terrain, it is also on par with Yang Yizhong. In fact, in order to defeat Zhong Xiang Yang Mi, Zhao Gou sent more than a dozen reinforcements to Jinghu South Road. However, some reinforcements were afraid of Zhong Xiang's military momentum and did not dare to go at all. Although some of them went, they were stopped by the five tiger generals under Zhong Xiang Yang Qi. As a result, Changsha City held out for nearly four months, and still did not see a single reinforcement from the imperial court.

Zong Ze's body couldn't hold on, and finally when he inspected the city at dusk, he vomited a mouthful of blood and fell unconscious. Zhang Suo was shocked, he knew that the reason why Changsha City was united was precisely because of Zong Ze, the Optimus Prime. If this pillar falls, Changsha City will fall in a blink of an eye.

It was precisely because of this that Zhang Suo had been concealing Zong Ze's condition. Zong Ze lay in the Changsha Mansion for three days, feeling that the oil was running out and the lamp was dry, so he immediately called Zhang Suo and Hu Yan Cisheng, and a middle-aged man who looked like a businessman to the bed.

The three of them saw that Zong Ze was so thin that he was out of shape, and they couldn't help but cry. Zong Ze said with a smile, "Life is rare for seventy years. The old man is sixty-nine years old this year, and he can be regarded as enjoying his old age. The only regret is that he failed to lead the army to repel the Jin soldiers, recover the old land of our emperor and the Song Dynasty, and rescue the second emperor to return to China. Zhang Suo, Hu Yan Cisheng, now Changsha City is running out of food, arrows are about to run out, and it can't be held for too long. After I die, you will cover the soldiers and civilians of the whole city and retreat to Yueyang. The Amitabha Buddhists have suffered heavy casualties in the past few months, and they have already been killed, and if the city is broken, more than 100,000 people will have no Jiao! ”

Zhang Suo and Hu Yan Cisheng nodded resolutely, and said categorically, "If you can't protect the people to leave, you will die with the people, and you will never steal your life." ”

Zong Ze nodded and turned his gaze to the middle-aged man who looked like a businessman. "Zhao Wanguan, I have a few words, please pass them on to Pengju. Pengju has broken the three-way army of Jingou for several months, not only keeping the city of the Central Plains, but also killing the horse Pucha Shijia slave of the Jin State. Now although there is an undercurrent in the Central Plains, the overall situation has been decided, as long as the Protector Army does not make big mistakes, I am afraid that neither the Zhao Guanjia nor the Golden Dog Army will want to get involved in the garrison of the Protector Army. But please tell me what I said, and ask him not to forget his military number. Tens of millions of people are wandering in troubled times, please Pengju to think of the common people in the world. Regain the hometown of the Emperor and Song Dynasty as soon as possible, and finish my golden ou. ”

Zhao Wanguan nodded and said, "Zong Shuai rest assured, Yue Shuai is here to remember not only the hometown of my emperor and Song, but also the old land of Yanyun. The last general believed that in less than five years, the banner of our people's army would fly on the Great Wall, making the souls of the Hus fearless. ”

Zhang Suo and Hu Yan Cisheng glanced at each other, and then realized that this big businessman who often came to the government was actually the head of the secret affairs department of the Protector Army. The Protector Army and the imperial court are now on the same page, but I didn't expect Zong Ze to dare to shout out Zhao Wanguan's identity in front of the two. Of course, neither Zhang Suo nor Hu Yan Cisheng would ever sue the court about this matter.

Zong Ze suddenly laughed, laughing so much that his face was full of tears, and he was out of breath with laughter. Laughing, he said, "Okay! Sure enough, it was a general taught by Pengju, and he was full of pride. I believe that one day, the flag of the Protectors will be flying on the Great Wall. I also believe that Peng Ju will be able to break through the Huanglong Mansion, destroy the golden dog, save the second emperor, and snow the shame of Jingkang. ”

At this time, Zong Ze's dead gray face suddenly returned to brilliance. The three of them looked at each other sadly, and they all understood that this was a sign of a return to light. Zong Ze closed his eyes for a while, as if he had finally made up his mind, and then said loudly, "Zhao Dutou, please remember my following words." Although Huizong is absurd and Qinzong is cowardly, today's official family is also a weak king, which makes the people of the world suffer a lot. But they are all kings after all. If Pengju has one day to pull Ma Jiangnan, please spare the current official family no matter what. Killing the monarch is ominous. ”

Zhao Wanguan was stunned for a moment, obviously he didn't expect Zong Ze to believe that the Protector Army would win the world. You must know that although the Protector Army at this time is powerful in the world, it only occupies half of the territory of the Central Plains, with hundreds of thousands of imperial army and hundreds of thousands of golden soldiers, but they are all eyeing the Protector Army. However, Zhao Wanguan also believes that Yue Fei will definitely become an unprecedented Mingjun.

Zhao Wanguan nodded, choked up and said, "Zong Shuai, the last general will definitely transfer Zong Shuai's words to Yue Shuai." Yue Shuai regards Zong Shuai as his father, and he will not go against Zong Shuai's words. ”

Zong Ze was already in his mind, and suddenly said in a long voice, "Ambition dies before it is rewarded, and the hero will be full of tears!" Alas! After a heartbreaking sigh, Zong Ze died in the Changsha Mansion.

Zhao Wanguan kowtowed to the ground and said loudly, "Zong Shuai rest assured." Your last wish, Yue Shuai will definitely fulfill it for you! ”

Yue Fei soon received several flying pigeon summons from Zhao Wanguan in Bianliang. It turned out that as soon as the news of Zong Ze's death spread, the Heavenly King Zhong Xiang not only did not take the opportunity to attack the city, but unexpectedly stopped the attack, and let tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians in Changsha support Zong Ze's coffin to calmly go out of the city.

Zhong Xiangyan said, "Zong Shuai is a loyal minister and a great hero of the anti-Jin resistance, although I, Zhong Xiang, am an enemy of Zong Shuai, but I respect Zong Shuai." Those who dare to intercept the coffin of the sect commander will be beheaded by the whole clan. ”

Yue Fei saw that Zhong Xiang had such respect for Zong Ze, and couldn't help but sigh, "You are a beautiful woman, why should you be a thief!" But since you didn't do it all, I will spare your life in the future. ”