I have a daughter who has not yet escaped the stench of milk, do you want to abandon her into the desert? Moreover, what is the intention of sending the country's financial resources to raise troops to Hu Lu? ”

Li Song Lu Qi was very frightened, sweating profusely, and said: "The original intention of the ministers is to do everything possible to serve the country, not to plan for Hu Lu, I hope Your Majesty will see clearly. The two thanked and begged for forgiveness countless times, and Li Congke kept accusing.

Lu Qi was exhausted, and after a slight pause in bowing, Li Congke said: "Lu Qi is stubborn, are you still willing to regard me as the master?" ”

Lu Qi said: "We are not doing well, we are willing to ask Your Majesty to punish the crime, what is the use of worshipping more!" Li Congke's anger eased slightly, stopped them from bowing, gave each of them a glass of wine, and let them leave the palace, and from then on, the ministers did not dare to make any more suggestions for peace.

Previously, in order to test Li Congke, Shi Jingjiao had repeatedly said that he was weak and asked to be relieved of his military power in order to retire his old age. At this time, Li Congke pushed the boat down the river, agreed to his request, and moved him to Yunzhou.

Li Song, Lu Qi and others all tried their best to advise, thinking that in this way, Shi Jingjiao would rebel, and Li Congke hesitated for a long time.

On the night of the second day of the fifth month, Li Song asked for leave because of urgent matters, Xue Wenyu was on night duty alone, Li Congke discussed with him about the matter of Hedong, Xue Wenyu said: "As the saying goes: 'Build a house in the middle of the road, you can't build it in three years', this kind of thing can only be decided by the will of the Lord." The ministers each plan for their own interests, how can they say anything!

In Yichen's opinion, the matter of Hedong is also reversed if the town is moved, and it is also reversed if it is not moved, but it is only a matter of time sooner or later, so it is better to go ahead and solve him first. ”

Previously, a warlock had said that the country should be assisted by a sage this year to come up with a strange plan. Stabilizing the world, Li Congke heard Xue Wenyu's repeated surprises, thinking that he was this idler like Jiang Ziya Zhuge Liang, he couldn't help but pat his thigh and said happily: "Aiqing's words made me suddenly enlightened." Whether I succeed or fail, I am determined to do it. ”

Immediately ordered Xue Wenyu to write a proposal for conferring an official position and handed it over to the Academy to draft the appointment system. On the third day of the first month, Shi Jingjiao was appointed as the envoy of the Tianping Festival, and the commander of the Ma Jundu and Song Xianqian were appointed as the envoy of the Hedong Festival.

Zhang Jingda mobilized the Huaizhou Zhangsheng Army to defend the north mouth of the tiger, and the commander of the army made Zhang Wandi lead 500 cavalry to defect to Hedong. Shi Jingjiao sent an envoy to ask for help from the Khitan from a remote road, and asked Yelu Deguang to serve him with the etiquette of treating his father, and agreed on the day when the matter was completed. Cut Lulong and the states north of Yanmen to the Khitan.

Liu Zhiyuan persuaded him: "It's okay to be a minister, it's too much to treat him with father's etiquette." Bribing him with rich gold and silver treasures was enough to prompt him to send troops, and there was no need to promise to divide the land, otherwise it would be a great disaster for China in the future, and it would be too late to regret it. But Shi Jingjiao didn't listen.

After the seal was delivered to the Khitan, Yelu Deguang was very happy and told his mother, the Empress Dowager Shulu, that "the child recently dreamed that Shilang had sent a messenger to come. Now that it's really here, it's really providential. He wrote a reply to Shi Jingjiao. promised to wait until mid-autumn to mobilize the whole country to support him.

In September, Yelu Deguang led 50,000 cavalry to march south from Yangwu Valley in Daizhou, and the banner continued for more than 50 miles.

Zhang Lang, the assassin of Daizhou, and Ding Xianqi, the assassin of Xinzhou, surrounded the city to defend themselves, and the enemy cavalry passed under the city. I didn't embarrass him, but went straight ahead.

On the 15th, Yelu Deguang arrived in Jinyang and lined up his soldiers and horses at the Hubeikou in Fenbei. First sent someone to Shi Jingjiao and said, "I plan to attack the thieves today, okay?" ”

Shi Jingjiao replied: "The strength of the Southern Army is still very strong. Don't take it lightly, and it's not too late to wait until tomorrow to discuss how to go to war. ”

Before the envoy arrived at the Khitan military camp, the Khitan soldiers couldn't hold their breath, and they had already fought with Tang Gaoxingzhou and Fu Yanqing, and Shi Jingjiao hurriedly sent Liu Zhiyuan to help them.

Zhang Jingda, Yang Guangyuan, and An Xianqi lined up with infantry at the foot of the northwest mountain of the city, and the Khitan sent 3,000 light cavalry, without armor, and went straight to the Tang soldier array. Tang soldiers saw that the Khitan soldiers were thin, and they rushed to drive them away, and when they arrived at the song of Fenshui, the Khitan soldiers waded away.

The Tang soldiers marched north along the river bank, and suddenly the Khitan ambush surged from the northeast, impacting the Tang soldiers, cutting the Tang soldiers into two sections, most of the infantry in the north were killed by the Khitan, and the cavalry in the south retreated to the Jin'an camp.

The Khitan let go of the soldiers and horses to attack in chaos, and the Tang soldiers were defeated, and nearly 10,000 infantry died. Zhang Jingda and others collected the remnants to surrender to Jin'an, and the Khitan also led his troops back to Hubeikou.

On the 16th, Shi Jingjiao led the soldiers and horses to meet the Khitan soldiers and horses to surround the Jin'an village and set up a camp in the south of Jin'an. At this time, Zhang Jingda's soldiers still had 50,000 soldiers and nearly 10,000 horses, but the people were panicked and looked around, not knowing where to go. On the 18th, Zhang Jingda sent an envoy to report to the imperial court that the battle had been lost, and there has been no news since then.

Li Congke was extremely frightened, and sent Fu Yanrao, the commander of Zhangshengdu, to lead the Luoyang infantry and cavalry to camp in Heyang, and at the same time issued an edict to order Fan Yanguang to lead 20,000 Weizhou soldiers from Qingshan in Xingzhou to Yuci, and Lu Longjiedu envoy, Northeast Envoy and Zhongshu ordered Zhao Dejun, King of Beiping, to lead Youzhou soldiers to attack from behind the Khitan army array.

The defense of Yaozhou made Pan Huan and the soldiers guarding the West Road from Liangluling between Jinzhou and Jianzhou to Cizhou and Xizhou to jointly rescue Jin'an Village.

On the 21st, Li Congke issued an edict announcing his personal conquest. Li Chongmei, the king of Yong, said: "Your Majesty's eye disease is not yet cured, and you can't trek to the land of wind and sand, although the minister is still in his childhood, he is willing to go to the north on behalf of His Majesty." ”

Li Congke didn't want to go north in the first place, but he was very happy to hear these words. However, Zhang Yanlang, Liu Yanhao, and Liu Yanlang, the envoy of the Southern Court of Xuanhui, persuaded Li Congke to go to the expedition in person, and Li Congke had no choice but to set off from Luoyang on the 22nd and said to Lu Wenji: "I have always heard that you have the talent of the prime minister, so I ruled out the public opinion and appointed you first. ”

Lu Wenji just thanked him, but he couldn't come up with a countermeasure. On the 13th, Li Congke sent Liu Yanlang to supervise the guards and infantry troops to command Fu Yanrao's troops to Luzhou to provide backup for the army of Jin'anzhai on the front line.

Since Feng Xiang pushed Li Congke, the Zhulu army has become more and more arrogant and disobedient to commands, and Fu Yanrao is afraid that they will make trouble and dare not restrain them.

Zhang Jingda set up a long siege fortification to attack Jinyang, and Shi Jingjiao appointed Liu Zhiyuan as the commander of Ma Budu, and subordinated An Chongrong and Zhang Wandi's troops to him.

Liu Zhiyuan acted according to the law, had no personal malpractices, and treated the military and civilians equally. Therefore, people are obedient to him, and there is no second heart.

Shi Jingjiao personally went to the city to inspect the soldiers, and Liu Zhiyuan said: "Seeing that Zhang Jingda and these people have built high forts and deep ditches, and want to make long-term plans, they have no other good methods, so there is no need to worry. I ask you to send emissaries to all parties. Handle external affairs.

Defending the city is easy, and I can handle it alone. Li Congke heard that the Khitan promised Shi Jingjiao to send troops to support him in the mid-autumn season, and urged Zhang Jingda to step up the attack on Jinyang several times, but he could not capture it each time.

Strange to say, whenever Zhang Junying built fortifications, he often encountered wind and rain weather, and the long siege fortifications were destroyed by flooding, and they could not be closed. At this time, the city of Jinyang was also increasingly embarrassed, and the grain reserves could not be fully supplied due to soaking.

Li Congke went to Heyang. Afraid of going north, he summoned the prime minister and privy envoys to discuss the strategy of marching into the army, Lu Wenji catered to Li Congke's intention and said: "Most of the foundation of the country is south of the Yellow River.

The Khitan Hu soldiers came and went suddenly, and they couldn't stay for a long time; Jin'an's Dazhai is very strong, and Fan Yanguang, Zhao Dejun, and Pan Huan have been sent to the rescue. Heyang is the main road of Jindu in the world, and the main chariot should stay here to guard it to pacify the south and north.

As for the front line, you can temporarily send close ministers to supervise the battle. If the siege cannot be resolved, it is not too late to move forward. ”

Zhang Yanlang also wanted to find an excuse to relieve Zhao Yanshou of his cardinal duties. Then he said: "Wen Ji's opinion is right. Li Congke asked others, and no one dared to say anything else. At this time, Liu Suining, the assassin of Zezhou, secretly corresponded with Shi Jingjiao, and took the opportunity to say: "Cars cannot cross Taihang Mountain." ”

Therefore, Li Congke consulted with them about the people among the close ministers who could be sent to the north. Zhang Yanlang and Hanlin Scholar He Ning and others all said: "Zhao Yanshou's father, Zhao Dejun, brought Lu Long's soldiers and horses to King Qin, and Zhao Yanshou should be sent to meet him." ”

And so on the twenty-fourth. Li Congke sent Zhao Yanshou to command 20,000 troops to Luzhou. On the 25th, he ordered Kang Sili, the commander of the right Shenwu army, to be the commander of the horse army in the north, and led the Hucong cavalry to the Tuanbai Valley.

Li Congke was worried about Jin An's comfort and asked the ministers about countermeasures, and Long Min, the servant of the ministry, suggested that Li Zanhua be appointed as the lord of the Khitan state. Ordered Tianxiong and Lu Long Erzhen to divide troops to send him back to the country, from Youzhou to the West Tower, and then the court revealed the news, Yelu Deguang will have concerns, and then send an elite attack, and he will definitely win a big victory.

Li Congke thought that this opinion was very correct, but the ruling people were worried that they would not succeed, and they could not make a decision for a while.

At this time, Li Congke began to become negative, just drinking sad songs from morning to night, and some of the ministers persuaded him to go north to the battle, and he said like a lost soul: "Don't talk about this, Shi Lang has made my heart fall to the ground!" ”

On the seventh day of the first month of October, the imperial court issued an edict to collect the world's generals and civilian horses, and mobilized the people to serve as soldiers, and every seven households sent out a husband, and prepared their own armor and weapons, called the "righteous army", but only got 2,000 horses and 5,000 husbands, which was really useless, but the people were greatly harassed.

At first, Zhao Dejun secretly had different ambitions and wanted to take advantage of the turmoil to seize the Central Plains, so he took the initiative to ask to rescue Jin'an Village, Li Congke ordered him to go out of Daizhou from the Flying Fox Road, go around to the Khitan, and copy its tribe.

Zhao Dejun asked for the 3,000 cavalry of the Yin'an Khitan straight set up in Youzhou with Khitan soldiers to march west from Tumen Road, and Li Congke allowed him.

Passing by Yizhou, he ordered Zhaozhou to assassinate the history and command Liu Zaiming to follow him with soldiers and horses, and when he arrived in Zhenzhou, he appointed Dong Wenqi as the deputy envoy and invited him to move forward together.

Then he went to the court and said that he had few soldiers and must meet with Zelu's troops, and then marched from Wu'er Valley to Luzhou, and on the 18th, he arrived at Chaoliu.

At that time, Fan Yanguang received an edict to command 20,000 soldiers to be stationed in Liaozhou, and Zhao Dejun asked to join Wei Bojun, Fan Yanguang knew that Zhao Dejun had gathered all the troops, and his intentions were difficult to measure, so he went to the court to claim that Wei Bobing had entered the realm of thieves and could not march hundreds of miles south to meet Zhao Dejun.

In November, Zhao Yanshou met Zhao Dejun in Xitang and attributed all the soldiers and horses under his command to Zhao Dejun. Li Congke sent Lü Qi to give Zhao Dejun an edict, and rewarded the army to let Zhao Dejun advance.

And Zhao Dejun's intention was to annex Fan Yanguang's army, so he stayed and refused to advance, and the imperial court repeatedly issued edicts urging him, so he led his troops to the north and camped at the mouth of Tuanbai Valley.

Yelu Deguang said to Shi Jingjiao: "I have come from three thousand miles away to help you solve the crisis, and I will surely win." Observing your appearance and knowledge, you are really the lord of the Central Plains.

I want to erect you as the Son of Heaven. Shi Jingjiao excused himself several times, and the general repeatedly persuaded him to enter the big position, so he reluctantly agreed.

Jerod made the instrument of canonization. Appointed Shi Jingjiao as the emperor of the Great Jin Dynasty, took off his clothes and crowned him, and built an altar in the willow forest, on this day, Shi Jingjiao became the emperor.

In order to show his gratitude to Yelu Deguang, Shi Jingjiao ceded the sixteen prefectures of You, Ji, Ying, Mo, Zhuo, Tan, Shun, Xin, Fei, Confucian, Wu, Yun, Ying, Huan, Shuo, and Wei to the Khitan. He also promised to pay 300,000 horses of silk every year. On the 14th, Shi Jingjiao changed the seventh year of Changxing to the first year of Tianfu and implemented a general amnesty.

Although Yelu Deguang stationed his army in Liulin, the baggage of the army and the old and weak soldiers were stationed at Hubeikou, so that they could escape when the battle situation was unfavorable, and Zhao Dejun wanted to rely on the Khitan to seize China, and arrived at Tuanbai for more than a month, and did not move.

Zhao Dejun repeatedly prayed for his son Zhao Yanshou to be appointed as the envoy of the Chengde Festival, and he said: "The minister is now on an expedition. The situation in Youzhou is lonely and weak, and if you want to let Yanshou stay in Zhenzhou, it is convenient to respond to it to the left and right. Li Congke said: "Yanshou is fighting with the thieves, how can I have time to go to Zhenzhou!"

After waiting for the thieves to be pacified, they can do as requested. Zhao Dejun begged endlessly, and Li Congke said angrily: "What does it mean that Zhao's father and son insist on getting Zhenzhou?" If you can repel Hu Ko, even if you want to replace it

My position. I am also willing to play with the soldiers to coerce the monarch. I'm afraid that the dogs and rabbits will be killed. When Zhao Dejun heard this, he was very unhappy.

In the leap November, Zhao Yanshou offered gold treasures and treasures to Yelu Deguang and said: "If you make me the emperor of China, ask to use the existing soldiers and horses to pacify Luoyang in the south, and make a brotherly country with the Khitan, and still allow Shi Jingjiao to Changzhen Hedong." ”

Jerod thought he was deep in the enemy's territory. Jin An was not captured, Zhao Dejun's troops were still strong, Fan Yanguang was in his east, and he was worried that the states north of Taihang Mountain would block his way back, so he wanted to agree to Zhao Dejun's request.

Shi Jingjiao heard about it. He was very frightened, so he hurriedly sent Sang Weihan to see Yelu Deguang and persuaded him: "Your great country has sent volunteers to rescue the orphans, and the Tang soldiers have collapsed in one battle, and after retreating to a fence, the food has been exhausted and the strength has been exhausted.

Zhao Dejun and his son are not loyal to the Tang Dynasty and do not believe in the Khitan, but they are afraid of the strength of the great country, and they have different ambitions, and they do not move to spy on the changes, not the people who die to die for the country, what is so terrible about such people?

How can you, by believing his nonsense, be greedy for a small profit, and discard what you are about to accomplish? And if the Jin State is allowed to win the world, it will have to exhaust China's wealth to dedicate to the big country, where are these small profits comparable! ”

Jerod said, "Do you see a rat catcher, if you don't guard against it, you may even bite your hand, let alone a great enemy!" ”

Sang Weihan replied: "Now that the great power has stuck its throat, how can it bite again!" Yelu Deguang said: "I don't want to change the previous agreement, but I can't help but use the power of the army." ”

Sang Weihan said: "The emperor used faith and righteousness to save people's difficulties, and people all over the world noticed this matter, how could it be suddenly like this, suddenly like that, so that the righteousness could not be carried out throughout, and the ministers privately thought that the emperor could not do this!" And when he had finished speaking, he knelt before the tent, and wept and argued from morning till night.

Yelu Deguang was deeply moved, so he complied, pointed to the stone in front of the tent and said to Zhao Dejun's messenger: "I have promised Shilang that this stone will not be changed unless it is rotten." ”

Long Min said to Li Yi, the former defense envoy of Zhengzhou: "You are a close relative of the lord of the country, now that Sheji is in such danger and is about to perish, don't you have worries?" Li Yi analyzed for him the situation that Zhao Dejun would definitely be able to defeat the enemy army.

Long Min said: "I am from Yandi, I know Zhao Dejun's personality, he is timid and strategic, he just has a slight advantage in defending the city." What's more, he is now plotting in his heart, how can such a person rely on it?

There is a presumptuous plan below, but I am afraid that the court will not do that. Now there are still 10,000 soldiers and nearly 5,000 horses following the holy car, if 1,000 elite cavalry are selected, let me and Lang Wanjin command, set off from Jiexiu Mountain Road, take advantage of the night to break through the thief formation and enter Jin'an Village, as long as half of the people can enter, things will be easy to do.

Zhang Jingda and the others are now under siege, and they don't know the information of the imperial court, if they know that the army is close to Tuanbai, then even if there is an iron barrier, they can break through, not to mention the array of captives! Li Yi reported this opinion to Li Congke, and then Li Congke was discouraged and died, saying: "Long Min's ambition is extremely strong, but unfortunately it is too late to use this method now." (To be continued......)