Chapter 528: Peace and Battle
After Yan Yan has been a shopkeeper for many years, it is really uncomfortable to suddenly let him change his mind and be a new person, especially those trivial things, but his own emperor is the heart of the prefect, but who let him lose the country almost cleanly, so there is so little left for him to take care of!
Because of the troubles caused by the troubles of the military and people in the city, they all went to the palace to petition, and seeing that there was about to happen because of this, Wan Yan had no choice but to personally deal with the two petty officials who first killed people, and dismissed the household officials who presided over the matter, and immediately stopped the kuli, opened the granary, and rescued the victims, so as to stop the spread of this terrible phenomenon in time.
But before Yan Yan could catch his breath, he received a report that the Song army had begun to besiege the city and build a camp, as if it was preparing for a long-term siege. According to the report of the spies, the grain and grass in the Song military camp were piled up, and before the arrival of the cold winter, the required winter clothes had been distributed to the soldiers. After hearing this, Yan Kang's head was clouded, they wanted to wait for the cold winter to come, and the Song army had the opportunity to launch a counterattack when it was difficult to transport grain and grass, but now the people have already stored a large number of materials and are ready to hold on for a long time, just to trap them in the city, then their plan will eventually fail, which made him have the idea of abandoning the city and fleeing again.
Sitting and waiting to die in the city, he could only wait for the Song people to help him collect the corpse and bring his head back to the Central Plains as a trophy. And back then, Zhao Er fled Bianjing City before the second Jin State went south, went to his own base and led the army back to the Central Plains, so that the Southern Dynasty could prosper, so he could also follow his example. After leaving the city, he gathered the scattered tribesmen and the old tribes in various places to wait for the opportunity to recover the old land and rebuild the Dajin Kingdom.
When Wan Yan convened his ministers and put forward the idea of driving out to join the army, it was widely opposed by officials in the DPRK and China. In particular, a group of clans were unwilling to give up the ancestral residence and asked the emperor to continue to hold on to Huining City. But at this time, Wan Yan Yan had no patience to explain to the officials of the DPRK and China. Because the camp of the Song army will become stronger and stronger, it will be more and more difficult to successfully break through. Hesitation will only delay big things. And he didn't want to give up Ningcheng to Zhao Er, so even if he fled, he had to stay and hold on.
Now a very real problem has arisen again, the emperor has no heirs, and his own two imperial brothers have also been killed, and there is no suitable person to be in charge of the country. But this is difficult to Wanyan who wants to leave, and he ordered the etheric master to supervise the country and stick to Huining City. And this arrangement, first, the vulture is already terminally ill, and it is difficult to travel long distances; He knew that there was a master by his side. I can only be a puppet forever, and I will be elbowed everywhere, so it is better to free everyone from this.
And then Wan Yan made some arrangements, so that the right minister Zhang Hao and the deputy commander of the army Su Shi Lie Zhining followed, and the military department was promoted to the left commander to lead the army and the people in the city to defend the city. As for the queen mother and harem concubines, they all stayed in Beijing, because fleeing with them would only increase the burden, and in order to continue the life of the Jin Kingdom, Wanyan decided to sacrifice them, which was also necessary.
As for where to flee. Wan Yan chose the northeast direction, because it was the only Huli diversion road that had not yet been fired, and it could be used as a base for his own rise, and the mountains and forests were dense there. It is convenient to hide and avoid the pursuit of the Song people. In addition, there are still a large number of Jurchens living in the Northland, and those people still maintain the nomadic customs of the past, and their temperament is fierce. Fierce and aggressive, with high combat effectiveness. As long as they are appeased, they are a good source of soldiers......
A qiē was ready, the day before the departure of Yan Yan. Suddenly, I got the good news that was not too good, and the Southern Dynasty agreed to negotiate peace, and everything could be discussed. It's not good because of peace talks with them, and in the current situation, the Song people will definitely open their mouths, and the already difficult economy of the Jin country will be even worse. It is said that it is good because since the Southern Dynasty accepted the peace talks, it shows that it no longer wants to fight, and it pays a price, but it can keep the national line. And the escape is unknown, maybe he can successfully restore the country, or he may be like Ah Shu can only spend his life in the mountains and forests.
Compared with the two sides, peace talks are of course more attractive to Wan Yan Ling, but he has already recognized Zhao Er's true temperament, conspiracy, trickery, cruelty, ruthlessness, Dajin Kingdom fell to such a point because of him, and his hundreds of thousands of troops were fooled and played to death by him. Therefore, Wanyan Nanchao's sincerity was a little vague, but his ambiguity didn't matter, delaying his escape, but he also waited for good news.
Before the Song army besieged the city, he sent an envoy to contact King Qin to escape the pursuit of the Song army and enter the city, and he reported that he had successfully persuaded several Khitans who had rebelled in Liaodong, promising that as long as they helped the Jin State to drive out the Song people, then they could give them the Khitan ancestral land east of the Liao River, and they could restore the name of Fù. Now they have gathered 20,000 horses and horses, and are marching towards Huining City under the banner of recovering Liao Baojin, and they will reach the city in a few days.
Although there are not many Khitan people who come to aid, it is of great significance. They played the banner of recovering the country, and respected the deposed emperor Yelu Yanxi, who was still imprisoned in the head city of the Five Kingdoms, and the Khitans everywhere would definitely rise up against the Song Dynasty, and they would become a force that could be used for themselves. This news was like a shot in the arm, which made the depressed Wan Yan Kang cheer up again, he decided not to leave, and ordered to send envoys to negotiate peace with the Song Dynasty to delay time and wait for the arrival of King Qin's army.
The emperor decided not to leave again, and all the previous arrangements were overturned. Wan Yan Yan once again made personnel adjustments, and he concurrently served as the commander-in-chief of the city defense, the generalissimo of the soldiers and horses of the Jin State, and all the senior cadres also implemented the responsibility system. Taishi Wushu naturally assisted himself in commanding as the chief of the general staff, Taibao Wanyan Zongmin was responsible for guarding the southern city, Taifu Wanyan Zongxiong was responsible for guarding the northern city, the deputy capital commander Su Shi Lie Zhining was responsible for protecting the imperial city, and the military department Shangshu Sanzhong was the commander of the defense of Huining City to command the army to defend the city. The right minister Zhang Hao was responsible for forming a negotiation team and going out of the city to negotiate peace with the Southern Dynasties.
Wan Yan immediately ordered to urgently recruit soldiers again in Huining City, and the final effect was quite good, and recruited 40,000 righteous soldiers and more than 20,000 strong men, all of which were used to arrange the defense of Huining City, so that the army in the city reached as many as 150,000 again, but people found that there were many old men with white beards and young men who were not much taller than swords in this army, and everyone understood that they were mainly to solve the problem of eating, and only God knows whether they could go into battle and kill.
Everyone also knows that it is not enough to rely on Huining City to save itself, and it is necessary to find assistance from outside the city to break the blockade of the Song army. Although the Khitans agreed to send troops, it didn't seem so safe, and it was very likely that they would turn around and become new enemies after the war. So Wanyan sent many people with secret intentions, with a heavy amount of money messengers sneaked out of the city, to recruit troops in various places, those who are willing to come to the king of Qin, arrived under the city of 100 people to seal Meng'an, thousands of people to seal 10,000 households, 10,000 people directly crowned the king, give hereditary territory.
But everyone knows that there are very few people who can be crowned kings, nearly 200,000 people in the Wanyan Yanying army have been annihilated, there are no tens of thousands of troops around Huining, and most of the territory of the Jin State has been occupied, and the number of armed regiments with rescue capabilities is only a handful. At this time, there are roughly two types of Jin that are capable of rescue:
The main task is to prevent the rebels of the Five Kingdoms, and they have fought with them for many years, with strong combat effectiveness, which is equivalent to the Western Army of the Great Song Dynasty of the year, and the main general is the son of Wanyan Zongqiang, the eighth son of Taizu Aguda, who is also considered a descendant of the clan, and the country should come to King Qin if it is in difficulty. But they were far away in Liaodong, and if they wanted to come, they had to not only walk through thousands of mountains and rivers, but also pass through the Khitan rebels' control area and break through the blockade of the Song army.
The other is the Wanyan Pujia slave regiment of Pu and Lu, they are stationed on both sides of the black water, one is Tuntian, and the other is to prevent the northern nomads from invading Huining Mansion in the south, under the jurisdiction of three thousand households and two Meng'an, because they are in the extreme north, there are few people, and they have not been recruited to participate in the war for many years, and the soldiers have become croppers. And the main general Wanyan Pu Jianu is also very familiar to everyone, he was beaten by Zhao Ta to become a psychotic before he was transferred here to take charge of things, but he also became a national treasure-level general, and most of his people in the same year died in battle.
Although he knew that it was difficult for the soldiers of these two routes to come to the rescue, Wan Yan did not give up, and now whether it is straw or wheat straw, as long as it is possible to save the fate of the Jin Kingdom, he must do his best to firmly grasp it......
At the same time that the Dajin Kingdom was actively preparing for war, peace talks had also begun, but it did not go well. Jin Guo presided over the peace talks by Zhang Hao, the right minister, he was originally a main battle faction, and he was also given fifty court rods for this, do you want him to negotiate to have a good result? And the peace talks on the part of the Great Song Dynasty were also perfunctory, and there was not much sincerity at all, so the price offered was not low. The state of Jin was required to pay one million taels of silver per year; The state of Jin proclaimed himself a vassal to the Song; ceding all land south of the lower reaches of the Tongtong River; And when withdrawing the army, he took out 500,000 taels of gold and 10 million taels of silver for military expenses.
Zhang Hao felt angry and blood gushing up at a glance at the peace conditions proposed by the Song Dynasty, but first of all, he didn't feel that the price was too high, but that he was ashamed. He is also an old minister of the Three Dynasties, Taizong is serving as the 'Chengying Imperial Text', that is, the secretary in charge of the text for the emperor, how could he not know the conditions of the Song and Jin Dynasty when they negotiated peace, and now the Song Dynasty is proposing a copy of the agreement of that year, and Zhao Er is doing this to humiliate them.
Shi can be killed, Zhang Hao really wants to drop the plate and leave, but now 'gold is fish and meat, Song is a sword', he has to swallow the bitter fruit that has been planted thirty years ago, and bear the shame of defeat, and maybe this is just the beginning... (To be continued......)