Chapter Eighty-Eight: The Beginning of Humiliation

"What should I do now that this has happened?" Zhao Huan burst into tears and asked the ministers in the palace again, but they all drooped their heads one by one and looked at their toes without saying a word.

"What did the widow do wrong..."Zhao Hengda cried, at this moment it was really called every day, and the earth was not working, although what he took over was a mess that was messed up by his father, but things are not inactionable, and he is not a person who does not want to cheer up, but the people who are appointed are mostly rhetorical scholars, and there is no material to govern the world, and the result is ruined in their hands.

"Your Majesty, although the Jin army has captured the outer city, but we still have two lines of defense in the inner city and the palace city, and there are still millions of soldiers and civilians in the city. Uncle Zhang said at night.

"That's it!" Zhao Heng thought for a while and stopped crying and said, he suddenly remembered his second brother who was used to fighting, if he was still in the city, he would definitely be able to come up with a good way, and why did King Kang not move after receiving the order, did he also abandon the widow? He could still see the fire in the city through the palace gates, and thought...

Finally survived a sleepless night, Zhao Huan boarded the Xuande Gate and looked out from the palace, the capital was still surrounded by flames, and thick smoke was billowing. Weeping and shouting to the people under the city: "The widow is here, the widow is here." The people of the capital quickly came here to accept the armor and fight with Jinlu Lane...... so as to tell the people in the city and call on the people of the city to take up arms to defend their homes and defend the country.

The Banzhi in the palace threw their armor and weapons into the city, but the people, who had never experienced war, saw that the army of the Song Dynasty had been defeated. The fighting spirit has long been gone. Many people don't pick up weapons and armor on the ground at all, and some people pick them up. Look at the people on the left and right and don't move, and throw them back to the ground. Just like the story of 'Goose City' reappears, no one wants to die for the emperor anymore.

Seeing this, Zhao Huan shouted several times, but the people still didn't pick up the armor on the ground. Zhao Huan couldn't cry, his body shook a few times, and he almost fell, so he hurriedly supported him left and right. At this time, the people still count on him to be the backbone, and when they see that he is confused, he speaks upside down, and his words do not match the afterword. People can only pull bellows - take care of themselves, ready to slip away.

"Things are already like this, if there is any clever plan to retreat from the enemy, everyone just asks, all the sins lie in the widow!" Zhao Huan shouted again at this time, but all people are always subconsciously trying their best to hide all kinds of embarrassing things, especially those who are in high positions, and at this moment he is the emperor and has to put down his body.

But the people were in a commotion. I couldn't hear his voice clearly, there was a commotion in the city and downstairs, and at this time, a small man came upstairs to ask to see Zhao Huan, and Mao recommended himself and said that he could stop the noise. When he heard that there was such a man in the city. Hurriedly urging it to hurry up and press.

The little man spread his hands, and he was a grass people, and he had no official position. How to act. Zhao Huan understood as soon as he heard it, it turned out that he was asking for an official position. At this time, I didn't care about anything else, so I hurriedly took the pen and paper left and right. He personally named him a servant of the ministry. The man got the errand, and went downstairs happily. Sure enough, it was "no gold and steel drills, no magnetic work", and after a while, the people below suddenly quieted down and listened to the emperor. They demanded the distribution of armor to protect their families and property from being violated.

Because of the high prosperity of the commercial economy in Song City, Bianliang City has already formed a social fringe people who are mainly scoundrels, bankrupt peasants, and proletarians. Although the moon and the moon are dark and the wind is high in the past few days, and the heavy snow is not stopped, but at the height of the four city walls, the Jurchens set fire to the towers and other city defense things, and the city is still as bright as day at night.

To this day, it is still the marginal people who wander at the bottom of society who are the most courageous, the most survivable, the most adaptable, and the most destructive. Most of the people in the system are content with the status quo and only seek food and clothing. Originally, the soldiers and people in the city were already frightened, and they didn't know how to spend this long vigil, these chaotic people openly plundered, and they knew more than ordinary people where there were many yellow and white things.

Those dignitaries, wealthy merchants, and big families became the first targets of their plunder, and the bold people called friends to join forces to commit crimes, and the timid people found another way to lure the Jurchen soldiers in the city and blackmail their own compatriots with their tiger skins. In fact, there is no shadow of a Jurchen soldier who has taken advantage of the chaos to rob and loot until now, and all those who do chaos and evil are rebels and scoundrels in the market.

After agreeing not to deal with Sticky Han, a military order was issued that the Jin soldiers were not allowed to loot in the city, let alone kill people! The Jin army was very strict in governing the army, and those who killed people in the city, set fires, and looted property were all rebellious troops and unscrupulous people in the city. As the victors, these Jurchen soldiers did not dare to slack off, did not dare to rest at night, and were carefully garrisoned, for fear of accidents.

Therefore, the top priority is not to beware of gold thieves but family thieves, because family thieves are difficult to prevent, they are more deceptive, and the destructive power is correspondingly great, and in the past, the Great Song Dynasty had strict restrictions on personal possession of weapons, and the family was not allowed to hide standard weapons, and there was no self-defense, so they could only be bullied by those scoundrels.

Seeing that the people finally picked up the armor and weapons and took them away, Zhao Huan breathed a sigh of relief, fortunately, his face had not been lost, but suddenly he felt that the little people were a little bit of a robbery, and they only did such a little thing and became a servant of the ministry, which is a height that is difficult for many scholars to achieve all their lives. He looked at the faces of the ministers around him and his face was really bad, and he hurriedly made a decree to dismiss the servant of the small people, and give it to the undertaker instead, and suddenly changed from the third grade to the ninth grade...

Although the people received knives and guns, Zhao Huan still had no bottom in his heart, worried that it would be difficult for the people to block the Jurchen tiger and wolf army. Just when he was in a hurry, a waiter suddenly came to report: "Li Ruoshui, the servant of the ministry, has returned from Wanyan Sticky Han's army, and wants to enter the palace to ask to see the Son of Heaven, saying that there is an urgent matter to face." ”

"Announce him in." Zhao Huan hurriedly said, this Li Ruoshui went to negotiate with the Jurchens before the Jurchens crossed the Yellow River, and was left in the army by the Jurchens so far, and he suddenly came back and didn't know what news he brought.

"Your Majesty, the Jurchens have agreed to make peace!" Li Ruoshui knelt on the ground when he entered the hall and said.

"The Jurchens agree to negotiate peace?!" Zhao Huan fainted after hearing this. He didn't expect that after the city was broken, the Jurchens actually agreed to negotiate peace, and it turned out that it was when the offensive and defensive battles between Song and Jin were in full swing. The envoys on both sides are still coming and going, and they are constantly on the way. From the bottom of their bones, the Zhao official family was very afraid of the Jurchens. So he has always wanted to settle things, and if he can exchange money and land for peace, he can accept it.

Even on New Year's Day, the Jurchens have not forgotten, according to the old practice every Spring Festival, the emperor sits in the Daqing Palace, the palace displays the law to drive the guard of honor, the civil and military officials crown the court clothes, and accept the envoys of Liao, Goryeo, Nanjiaozhou, Huifu, Khotan, Zhenla, Dali and other countries. But this year is the New Year in the siege of iron horses, and the prince and prime minister of the Song Dynasty went to the golden camp to congratulate Zhengdan. Thinking about the past, he also accompanied a lot of tears, but he failed to impress the Jurchens, but he didn't expect that he could negotiate peace at this time.

And then Li Ruoshui's words surprised Zhao Heng, the Jurchens actually invited him out of the city to join the alliance, and the Jin people said in the letter that Emperor Zhao would not go out of the city for a day, and the besieging troops would never retreat, and the siege equipment would never retreat. If Zhao Huan goes out of the city, Mu Han and Zhu Li will not ally with him the gift of the courtiers. Then withdraw the siege. If not, don't say they're barbaric on the day the city breaks! If you think the words are rude, please send them again.

This gave the Song court and his ministers a problem, making them in a dilemma. Neither can the official family be put in danger, nor can they categorically refuse to kill the Jin envoy, so they can only send the envoy to the Jin camp to carefully explain the reason why this matter is difficult to accept.

Zong Han and Yu also took into account that this requirement was indeed difficult for some strong people. So the Jurchens retreated. He Li, the minister of the main battle, asked He Li to go out of the city to negotiate peace, and He Li listened. At that time, I was trembling, and I was afraid that Zhao Huan would agree to Jinren. Who knew that Zhao Huan was also indispensable for this minister. After being rejected twice, the Jurchens became impatient this time and issued the most ultimatum to invite Emperor Zhao Ji, the crown prince, the king of Yue, the king of Yun or the ministers to go out of the city to negotiate peace, otherwise they would not send envoys to negotiate peace.

Zhao Huan was stupid after hearing this, although he was the honor of the Ninth Five-Year Plan, he didn't have the reason to take his father as a hostage, wouldn't he laugh at the world; And the son is only a few years old, that is the future of the Great Song Dynasty, and sending him to the barbaric land of the Jurchens will not destroy the future successor; For King Yun, he was even more worried about the fact that if the Jurchens supported him as the emperor and played against him, wouldn't it be bad, then it would be better to give it to King Qin as soon as possible; Thinking about Yue Wang Lao Lao again, he can't stand such a toss, he died in Jinying, and he has to send someone again. I can't get the gist when I think about it.

Seeing that the official family was judging from the performance of the last time, the ministers couldn't help muttering in their hearts, the last time the Jurchens wanted the prince to be hostage, they sent King Kang, King Su, and even King Qin to the front of the army, and sent Zhang Bangchang to the front of the army if they wanted to be a minister, but this time they refused all, and they really thought that the official family had already made a plan in their chests and had a way to deal with it! But I didn't know that Zhao Huan was already in a mess at this time, in a dilemma, and didn't know how to deal with the Jurchens...

"Your Majesty, you still need to make a decision early, if the Jurchens come down to the city, they will be burned!" Li Ruoshui started playing again, interrupting Zhao Huan's contemplation.

"Well, He Aiqing, do you have any good plans, you go and listen to what the Jurchens have to say first!" Zhao Ta nodded, looked at He Su, the right minister, and said.

"Your Majesty, this is a matter of the country, and the ministers are stupid, I am afraid they will not be competent!" He Su felt a chill on his spine when he heard this, the official family was losing the car to protect the handsome, and let himself be sent to death, time has passed, and he has no courage to ask for his life in the street fight that day, so he tried his best to excuse himself.

"Hmm..."Zhao Ta pulled out a long sound from his nose, staring at He Su with a fierce light in his eyes.

"The state affairs are like this, they are all caused by your generation, and now that the society is in danger, how can you still think about yourself?" Seeing that He Su was still hesitant, Li Ruoshui saw it in his eyes and was anxious in his heart, for fear that Zhao Huan would be furious, and he would lose his mind in anger, and he didn't know what kind of stupid trick Lu Dao would make again. Although it is He Li who is unlucky now, but the rabbit and the fox are sad and the same dynasty is a minister, and the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty are all gloomy, and he is also afraid of extraneous branches, so he pretended to come forward to accuse He Lidao.

"I want to go!" He Li also saw that the saint's eyes were sharp and his expression was not good, and he knew that he couldn't help himself this time, he had to go, and if he didn't go, he had to go, so he had to step forward to receive the order. Seeing that He Li reluctantly accepted the order as a last resort, Zhao Huan's face relaxed...

Besides, He Su was ordered by the emperor to go out of the city to negotiate, and when he came to the horse, he suddenly seemed to have a stroke, his legs and stomach were weak, his hands and feet trembled, and he didn't listen to the call, and he couldn't hold the horse's reins, so that he couldn't get on the horse. Seeing this, the bystanders forced a smile. Come and help him onto the horse. Riding on a horse, he became ill again, and rode north from the palace out of the Suzaku Gate. In just one distance, the whip in his hand fell to the ground three times.

I want to be the pillar of the country on that day. Usually talking about Zen and talking about the mysteries, the Jurchen soldiers are still following the demeanor of the Wei and Jin dynasties when they come to the city, entertaining themselves with poetry and wine, and they are calm and calm in their chests, and the courtiers look at him left and right, and they really think that the prime minister has a clever plan to retreat from the enemy. Now that the city was broken, the people of the city were living in fear and anxiety, and the people of the city were in a heavy mood when they saw that he was behaving in a panic. and was in no mood to make fun of him.

After all, He Xiang is a scholar, and he talks about military affairs endlessly like the water of a river, but it is useless to go into battle to kill the enemy, so that everyone can't help but think of the majestic posture and heroism when the King of Qin went out of the city as a hostage, it is really a joke and no fear, but it is a pity that good people do not live long!

He Su came out of the city. When I arrived at the Qingcheng Palace, I thought that this was the place where the Emperor of the Great Song Dynasty was driving, but now it has become the residence of Zong Han, and I saw tens of thousands of soldiers in the camp. Swords and guns are like a forest, the cold light is shining, how not to make people frightened at first sight. Countless Song generals were not engaged in battle with the Jurchen army, and they were about to collapse at the touch of a button. is to look at the wind and escape, and you can imagine how your face looks at this moment. Although he was forced to come, he was able to come as a scholar. You can also forgive one or two!

But He Su entered the camp as the prime minister of a country, not only did he not get the treatment of the commander going out to greet him, but he was called and drunk by the Jin soldiers like a prisoner, and he was forcibly searched to prevent him from coming to see him, but these Jurchens didn't want to think about it, if there was such a prime minister among the ministers of the Great Song Dynasty, who had the courage to sacrifice his life to slash the enemy chieftain, how could they let them fight under the city and break through the capital.

At this moment, He Su did not show any resistance to this insulting insult, thinking that he was under the eaves, he had to bow his head, and he tried to encourage himself with a small intolerable plot, and when he saw Zong Han, his old illness relapsed, as if he was suddenly pulled out of his backbone, kneeling in front of Zong Han's case and crying and asking for death.

If you want to be respected by your enemies, you must first respect yourself. As the minister of the Song Empire, "under one person, above ten thousand", if he can't do anything humble or arrogant, then he must not humiliate the national body, his kneeling not only made the Jurchens see the weakness of the Song people again, but also lost the face of the Han nation...

In fact, the attitude of the Song court has long been in the calculation of the two brothers of Zong Han, they have been attacking the city continuously a few days ago, and they are not a little worried, this time the Song people are almost exhausted but are still desperately resisting, it is not that they have no fear, and the reinforcements are about to arrive, so this time they will return empty-handed, so they sent envoys to be weak and wrong, and wait to move.

Now, although they have broken through the outer city of Tokyo, they only have more than 100,000 horses, of which only 50,000 or 60,000 Jurchen people are elite soldiers, and the other tens of thousands are actually Alixi, they are worried that once the emperor of the Southern Dynasty leads millions of soldiers and civilians to fight in the streets, and fight to the end, although their army is as fierce as a jackal, I am afraid that they may not be able to swallow the elephant in Tokyo.

Also, that is, the Jin army ran a long distance, although some important cities were broken along the way, but most of the cities in Hebei and Hedong were still in the hands of the Song army, although the Song army's combat effectiveness was not strong, but if dozens of cities were fought one by one, they would inevitably suffer heavy losses, and the casualties were very heavy at that time, and it was not self-defeating after the tragic victory!

Zong Han and Han are not both battle-hardened generals who have grown up in the bloody wind, but also the leaders of the second generation of the Wanyan family, of course they will not be willing to do this kind of thankless business, they want to try to surrender without a fight, so they do their best to intimidate the monarchs and ministers of the Song Dynasty, step by step to force them into their trap, and at the same time have some dignity with the Zhao official family, to prevent them from really having a heart, and playing with them would rather be broken than broken!

Zong Han also clearly knew that in the past two days, the Song people in the city have gradually calmed down from the initial panic, and the Song court has also restored control over its subjects, worried that the Jin army will slaughter the city, and the soldiers and civilians in the city have been ready for street battles in the past two days. Street fighting, the Jurchens are unfamiliar with the terrain, and the iron cavalry cannot be used, and the Song army is mostly infantry, and there are millions of soldiers and civilians in the city.

"The Southern Dynasty resisted the crusade of my heavenly soldiers, who is the main battle?" Zong Han Tie asked sharply with a blushing face, in fact, he was secretly happy when he saw He Li in such a situation, but at the same time, he couldn't help but feel a sadness from the bottom of his heart, the opponent was like this, which made him feel a little invincible in his heart. He often boasted that he was far superior to "Sun and Wu" in the use of soldiers, although he thought too highly of himself, but he also knew the truth that the road was to attack the city and the heart to the top. Mentally crushing an opponent is far better than destroying it physically!

"He Li's main battle." He Su looked up at Zong Han and said truthfully, he also looked at the commander of the Jin Army, who was rumored to be a demon by the soldiers and civilians of the Song Dynasty, his eyes widened, his face tightened, and his voice was louder, it was no more terrible than the emperor at home, he actually slowly relaxed from the fear at the beginning, but lost the timidity and panic just now.

"Have you decided to refuse the war?" Zong Han saw that the guy in front of him seemed to have woken up, so he raised his voice again and yelled.

"The discussion of the main battle is all from He Li alone, and it has nothing to do with my emperor." He Li had calmed down at this time, knowing that he had come to carry the black pot for the official family, anyway, now that he has come, he is simply a single person, maybe the official family will remember his own merits today to avoid his loss of the city, so he took care of the road... (To be continued......)