Song Yichang knew that the Mongols had been attacking and plundering in the Central Plains for more than 20 years, and the Jin people were discouraged. Many of the cities of the Kingdom of Jin were burned with copper and iron and poured juice on the city gates to completely seal the city gates. As for how the people in the city came out after the siege was lifted, they had to climb down from the city walls.

Song Yichang was hoisted to the head of the city by a huge basket, and was escorted by several defenders to the Marshal's Mansion, where he saw houses smashed by artillery, corpses pierced by Mongol arrows lying under the city walls and on the streets, wounded soldiers screaming and groaning everywhere, and people with yellow faces and thin muscles everywhere. The city had reached its last moment, and the Mongols could completely tear down the city with a single push, not to mention an all-out onslaught.

Those soldiers didn't mind Song Yichang looking around, anyway, everyone knew about the predicament of Huizhou City, but no one dared to say with confidence that the next strong attack would break Huizhou, just because there was still the most courageous general of the Jin State - Marshal Guo Xitoad, the Marshal of the Soldiers and Horses of Huilan River.

The marshal's mansion in Huizhou City was rebuilt from the Huizhou Soldiers and Horses Administration's Mansion, the northwest land was barren, the people were poor, and the scale of the Marshal's Mansion was much smaller than Zheng Yunming's Jing'e Deputy Capital Commander's Yamen, and even the Huguang Commander-in-Chief Yamen, who was in charge of the Jinghu army, horses, money and grain, was not comparable.

But the generals in the inner and middle boxes are all murderous and fierce-looking, and they are obviously all veterans who have experienced a hundred battles.

Guo Xiatoad, the marshal of the Taodu of Huilan River, sat on the chair in the middle of the capital hall and looked coldly at Song Yichang under the hall.

Song Yichang looked up, the person in Xiliang had a broad nose and thick lips, thick eyebrows, a slightly curly beard, and a little heroic spirit in his eyebrows. This is the appearance of the man in one of the strongest places of production in the Central Plains, and since the Han and Tang Dynasties, the Qin soldiers and horses have been used as the pillars of the country. However, after the invasion of Yidi, the entire Yongliang Longxi fell into the hands of the enemy, and there was no strong soldier of this kind to serve the Great Song Dynasty.

Guo Shrimp Toad asked coldly: "You said that you have news of Bi Xuancha, I only know that he was unfortunately captured by traitors a long time ago and died in the chaos, a person who has been dead for many years, what news can you have?" ”

Song Yichang said loudly: "The marshal only knows one thing, but he doesn't know the other, Bi Zilun didn't die at that time. Instead, Shi Qing, who was returned to the Southern Dynasty, was sent to the Yanjiang Envoy and imprisoned in the prison for many years, until he heard about the funeral of the golden lord, and then surrendered to the Southern Dynasty. ”

"Hmph, did he surrender too?" Guo Shrimp Toad sneered: "The wind knows the strength of the grass, and the board knows the Chengchen." That's it, it's enough to be able to spend so much time for Daikin to celebrate the festival. But you didn't take the risk to enter the city just to inform me of the news, did you? ”

Song Yichang said: "The steel is easy to break, and the moon is profitable, this is the eternal truth, Wanyan is from the white mountains and black waters in the northeast, but it is just a border savage who plays with bows and arrows, grazing pigs and sheep, all because the Yelu clan and Zhao Song have exhausted their qi, so that they can get the opportunity to enter the Central Plains and steal from Shenzhou." Now that the Wanyan clan is in charge of the artifact, it has been a hundred years, and its luck is weak, and it really can't bear the weight of Jiuding. Genghis Khan rose from the desert north, more than 20 years swept away thousands of miles of land, not he is really brave, but is destined to be the co-lord of the world, now your Excellency disobeys the way of heaven, does not pay attention to the number of fate, insists on going against the sky, empty talk about the name of loyalty, in fact, in addition to the city of Philadelphia so many soldiers and people for your funeral, what are the benefits? ”

Guo Shrimp Toad looked up to the sky and smiled, and said sharply: "I just say what kind of fresh words can you say, it turns out to be this old-fashioned rhetoric of luck, to tell you, don't say that after the Mongols claim to be dogs and sheep, even if the real dragon comes into the world, it can't shake the determination of the soldiers of our state to be loyal to His Majesty!" ”

He slapped his big hand on the table, and was about to give the order to push Song Yichang out and behead. Suddenly, Song Yichang smiled and threw the folding fan in his hand towards Guo Shrimp Toad. Scolded loudly: "Stubborn, stubborn!" An arrogant person like you who is so strong and rebellious deserves to be crushed by my Mongolian army under the hooves of horses! ”

Guo Shrimp Toad was furious, and he got up to personally step forward to teach this rebellious Mongolian envoy a lesson. Suddenly, a voice behind him said, "Stay handsome." ”

Guo Shrimp Toad doesn't need to turn around to know who is talking, this is the henchman of Gong Changxing Zhongshu Province who was killed by Wang Shixian, and he is also the head of the local intelligence affairs of the Jin State in Guanlong, although no one has heard of his name, but the marshal's mansion calls him in awe with the title of "Secretary Lang", if there is no excellent means under his display to help defend the city, Huizhou City will not still stand in the west three years after the fall of the Jin State.

Secretary Lang stepped forward and picked up the folding fan dropped by Song Yichang, and said to Guo Xiato: "There are more important things to consider now, we can't afford to fight with such a villain, so we will detain him for the time being, and then we will take care of him when we are done with our business." ”

Guo Shrimp Toad will never disagree with this secretary Lang's opinion, even on some matters related to life and death. He waved his hand at the guards in the hall, and several guards stepped forward to escort Song Yichang down. He was imprisoned in a small, dark cell in the Huizhou Prefecture.

Song Yichang didn't look anxious and depressed for half a minute, and when he saw the other party picking up the folding fan, he understood that he had met someone who understood him with this risky throw.

In the middle of the night, the door of the cell suddenly opened, and the two people who walked in were none other than the most powerful Marshal of the Soldiers and Horses of the Jin Kingdom and the secretary Lang, who was probably the most powerful intelligence chief.

Secretary Lang walked up to Song Yichang, held the folding fan in his hand and asked, "Where did you get this fan?" ”

Song Yichang raised his head and smiled: "Come from where you should be." ”

Secretary Lang smiled slightly, and then asked, "Why do you think that we will believe you just by relying on this fan?" ”

Song Yichang said: "Whether you believe it or not, you only have this one chance, since the left and right are dead, why not take a risk?" ”

The secretary Lang did not answer, but just unfolded the folding fan. Originally, Song Yichang's folding fan should have been blank and wordless, but at this time, in the hand of the secretary Lang, there was brown handwriting.

"Squeeze the juice of Li Meng, and then use a brush to dip the juice in the white paper to write, and when the juice is completely dried, it looks like a wordless white paper. However, a little baking on the candle flame can make the handwriting instantly visible. Secretary Lang said to Guo Shrimp Toad: "We and the Song people know this trick, and we can't hide it." ”

He stroked the gold pendant on the handle of the fan and said: "You should be familiar with this thing, this is unique to the inner court, it was originally used to reward some high-ranking officials above the level of the Jiedu envoy, he came over with this thing, obviously to say that he was entrusted by Bi Zilun to tell him about confidential matters." ”

Guo Shrimp Toad turned out to be fan-watched, and there were only a few small words written on it, "Huizhou is dead, why don't you go quickly".

He lowered his voice and asked, "What do you mean, sir?" ”

Song Yichang said: "Mr. Bi asked me to bring a word to the marshal, now that Sheji has overturned and the mountains and rivers have changed color, it is better to temporarily support the Southern Dynasty and wait for the opportunity." The public is erudite and knowledgeable, and he should have heard the story of Jiang Boyo during the Three Kingdoms. ”

Guo Shrimp Toad smiled: "He is kind, the land of Sweet Cool is thousands of miles away from the Southern Dynasty, and there are lofty mountains and mountains in the middle, how can I lead thousands of soldiers and horses across so many mountains and rivers to reach the Southern Dynasty?" ”

He said that it was indeed the truth, and it would take hundreds of miles of mountain roads to reach Wenzhou, the westernmost border of the Song Dynasty, from Huizhou, and directly facing Gongchang, the base camp of Wang Shixian in Longnan, and it was almost impossible to fight a bloody way to reach the Southern Dynasty in the midst of ten thousand troops.

"Thousands of people walking together, that's impossible." Song Yichang said: "The most I can do is to let the marshal go alone, and at most let the marshal and his family go." ”

Guo Xiatoad's expression was solemn, and he said in a deep voice: "Let me throw the generals in the city and escape alone?" The Southern Dynasty may be able to do it, but it is impossible for my Dajin soldiers to do so! ”

Song Yichang shouted: "Since the Shandong Red Turban Disaster, hundreds of thousands of people who surrendered to the Southern Dynasty have no worries, and what do they say about the spirit of the lonely city, in order to revitalize the society, can they still take care of their own reputation!" ”

Secretary Lang said: "Even if the marshal can successfully reach the Southern Dynasty, there are no generals around him, what else can he say to reorganize the rivers and mountains?" ”

"Pedanc, there are still more than 100,000 people in the old Jin army who surrendered to the Southern Dynasty, and there are many Jin troops in the north who are attached to the Mongols, how can these people not have grievances? As long as it is well managed, it is a force that can be used, so Bi Zilun has only been in Jinghu for a year, and there are already thousands of people in his hands who can use it, is Marshal Guo not as good as him? Song Yichang said: "After the collapse of the temple, it was a difficult and dangerous thing to renovate the mountains and rivers, Yelu Dashi was handsome and 200 fine horses to go away to the Western Regions, and how much suffering was suffered in the middle, and finally was able to restore the country successfully, and open up a world in the west. If Marshal Guo had difficulty recovering the country and would die with one heart, then Song would only come to this state for nothing. ”

Guo Shrimp Toad just shook his head with difficulty: "I am not loyal to the Jin Kingdom, but also have the responsibility of defending the land, Huizhou is my land of Sangzi, how can I abandon thousands of hometown fathers and elders to wander in the Southern Dynasty?" If that's the case, it's better to fight the Mongols here and die a good death. Sir, needless to say, if you want me Guo Shrimp Toad to leave Huizhou, unless you carry my corpse out of the city. ”

Song Yichang was anxious in his heart, he took such a big risk to enter the city to save him, but he was a fool and stupid man who was bent on coexisting with the city. He didn't care about it like this, he was afraid that Bai Yijie's idea of the military horse would be lost.

He was ready to continue to lobby hard to not let this matter end like this. But I heard Guo Shrimp Toad say: "I don't have to go, I just hope that Mr. can save two people for me." ”

Song Yichang's eyes lit up, he couldn't save the owner, he was able to have a delivery of goods, and finally gave an explanation to Bai Yijie, but I don't know what the two roles that Guo Shrimp Toad sees as more important than himself come from?