discussed with the two brothers of the Zhe family, and the next morning, Zhao Ta invited Li Gang and Zhang Xiaochun to go to the Zhejia family to propose marriage, and the time was in a hurry. Zhao Ta didn't have time to prepare a dowry, so he simply issued a silver ticket of 100,000 yuan and sent it, even if he decided on this family business, he would wait for Zhe Meiluan to discuss marriage after his filial piety.

But whoever follows the prince is less and more separated, Zhu Shuzhen has been alone in Beijing for three years, and Zhao Xin and Yu Liyan are also the days of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl, and they can only get together occasionally. Now Zhe Meiluan is also this fate, the two have not seen each other for many years, it has just been hot for a month, and it is a day of separation!

On the tenth day of August, the loyal army returned to the river, and Zhao Ta also embarked on the journey back to Beijing. Li Gang was very thoughtful, worried that the people of Taiyuan would block the road and petition to keep the prince, so he saw off the prince in the ten miles long pavilion outside the south of the city.

"This king has stayed in Hedong for ten years, and I don't know when I will return today, and the people of Hedong will entrust it to you!" Zhao Ta Chong Li Gang and others gave a deep salute, tears glittered in his eyes, he took charge of Hedong with a weak crown boy, created a foundation here, laid a world, it can be said that Hedong is the second starting point of his life, this feeling can be imagined.

"There is no feast in the world, don't be sad!" Li Gang waved his hand, and the entourage served a farewell wine, "Xiaguan and others wish the prince to return to Beijing to make great achievements and make new achievements!" ”

"Then I'll borrow your auspicious words!" Zhao Ta drank all the wine in the cup, "Governor Zhang, General Wang, Taiyuan is the key to the Central Plains, so please leave it to the two!" ”

"Don't worry, the prince is in the city, and the city is ruined. As long as there is a breath of air, Taiyuan City will never fall into the hands of the enemy! Zhang Xiaochun arched his hand and said.

"In Lanzhou, there are still 50,000 stone grain and grass saved by the Hezhong Army. The two adults should be transported back as soon as possible in case of emergency! Zhao Ta whispered to the two of them, he knew that the Tao was in the second siege of the Jin army. Taiyuan soldiers and civilians rely on cooking saddles, leather armor, bowstrings to satisfy hunger, the most reluctant to the point of cannibalism still stick to the city, when the city is broken, the sergeants are already so hungry that they can't hold knives and guns, otherwise Taiyuan will not be lost, as for those forbidden soldiers Zhao Ta thinks it is unreliable.

"Thank you, Lord Wang!" The two of them were overjoyed to hear that the Jin army was grazing horses in the fields during the siege of the city, which caused the crops to fail, the price of grain soared, and money could not buy it. How can the prince not be grateful for leaving them so much food before leaving, "The prince is gracious to Hedong, and the lower officials will respect the prince with a glass of wine on behalf of the people, and Taiyuan will not forget the prince's kindness!" ”

"It should be the king of the two of them, without the persistence of the two, Taiyuan would have fallen into the hands of the enemy a long time ago, and the golden thief herded the horse in Gyeonggi!" Zhao Ta raised his glass and the three of them drank together.

"The future is difficult and dangerous, the situation is changing, take care of the prince!" Li Gang didn't look at the time early. stepped forward and said.

"Looking back at the dust, only this green mountain does not change!" Zhao Tayao pointed to the towering mountains and said, after saying that, he took another drink, and pedaled away. Embark on an uncertain and dangerous path!

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All the Hezhong troops withdrew from Hedong, and Prince Yan also set off to return to Beijing, and Zhao Huan was satisfied. At this time, there was a report from the Taishi Bureau: Huixing appeared in Ziweiyuan, several zhang long. Blowing north to the emperor's throne and sweeping over the Wenchang star. A sign of the imminent weakening of the Jin people is not a bad sign in China. The emperor was overjoyed and ordered Li Gang to quickly send troops to recover Daizhou and completely expel the Jurchens from Hedong.

When Li Gang was ordered to aid Taiyuan, he also spent a lot of time thinking about how to fight against the Jin Army's iron cavalry. He believed that the infantry could not match the power of the chariot when they were in battle; The Jin people rushed with iron horses, and they could not be controlled by non-chariots. One of his subordinates named Zhang Xingzhong made a chariot pattern according to this idea. This kind of chariot, two poles and two wheels, the front is covered with leather, it is very convenient to use knives and guns on the chariot, each chariot with twenty-five armor soldiers, holding bows, spears, shields, standing on both sides to fight the enemy. The chariots marched in formation, and the iron cavalry of the Jin army fled when they encountered it.

Li Gang saw that this thing was easy to use, so he ordered to build more than 1,000 vehicles, and urged the sergeants to practice every day, and they were already proficient in using it, but the siege of Taiyuan was relieved by Prince Yan, and it has not been used, so this time it is just a good try. He learned from the experience of the Song army's several failed rescues of Taiyuan, and believed that their failure was due to the division of ways and the joint attack, which was broken by the Jurchens.

Joining forces in one place, even if there are many people and the amount of strength is not large, but gathering in one place will be brave enough to fight, and Prince Yan successfully broke the siege and defeated the Jin army is this tactic, which has a successful precedent. So Li Gang sat in the Chinese army, took the lead in the chariot formation, and went out of Xinkou Village to enter Daizhou.

The chariot formation is a good thing, but its advantage is not conducive to attacking, Li Gang used it as a weapon to attack the enemy, and Daizhou is mountainous, the rivers are vertical and horizontal, and the chariots that go hand in hand slowly become columns, and they have just entered Laoxian County and encountered a surprise attack by the cavalry of the Jin army, and they cannot form a formation at all due to the limitations of the terrain, and the chariot is clumsy and slow, and the maneuver is not in a hurry, and it is divided into several sections by the Jin army in an instant, and it falls into a melee.

Zhao Ta dared to attack all the way because he could command the whole army and had strong soldiers in his hands. As soon as he saw that the car array was destroyed, Fan Qiong ran first, it didn't matter if he ran, everyone ran away, Li Gang couldn't help but be coerced and retreated. Not only did Daizhou not be captured, but even Xinzhou was lost, and the car was stopped only when it entered Shiling Pass. Li Gang remembered Zhao Ta's words again, gathered the remnants of the army and guarded the two passes to resist the Jin army, and at the same time played the court to ask for guilt...

The attack failed, the Jin army approached Taiyuan again, the Hedong earthquake was great, and the people of Weisheng Army, Longde Mansion, Fenzhou, Jinzhou, Zezhou, and Jiangzhou fled south across the Yellow River one after another. The reply of the imperial court soon came down: stop the march, prepare to negotiate peace, summon Li Gang back to Beijing, and use the seriously ill seed master Dao as the Xuanfu envoy to Hedong and Hebei.

And the ministers of the central government also had serious differences of opinion again, Dazai Xu Churen, Tongzhi Privy Council member Xu Han was the main battle, Geng Nanzhong was the main peacemaker, and Shaozai Wu Min also saw through Zhao Huan's mind because of Li Gang's defeat, and fell to the main peace faction. Whether it is war or peace, the two factions are arguing endlessly.

Zhao Huan didn't dare to fight anymore, so Xu Han, who insisted on the main battle, was dismissed from the post of Privy Councillor, demoted to a magistrate, and went out of Bozhou. The day after Xu Han was deposed, Xu Churen and Wu Min had a fierce argument in front of Zhao Huan, and Xu Churen was very angry at Wu Min's fall to the Lord's peace faction, and his words and actions lost control during the argument, and the literary fight turned into a martial fight. Geng Nanzhong, who was trying to squeeze them out, and Tang Ke and Nie Chang, who wanted to replace them, found an opportunity, and they secretly instructed Yushi to impeach these two prime ministers who "hurt the national body".

Zhao Huan dismissed the two prime ministers at the same time, and appointed Tang Ke as the young ruler and Zhongshu Shilang, He Li as the Zhongshu Shilang, Chen Guoting, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, as the right secretary of the Shangshu, and Yin Niechang of Kaifeng Mansion as the Privy Council. When Li Gang heard the news, he looked up to the sky and sighed: "There is nothing to do!" "I wrote again and asked for my resignation. (To be continued......)