The Jin army suffered two defeats in a row, did not dare to act rashly, retreated into Baishuikou and closed the door without fighting, the mountains on both sides of Baishuikou are steep, the canyon is deep, Zhao Yong sent people to explore the road several times in vain, and the Jin army in order to prevent a sneak attack in addition to arranging a large number of troops in the dangerous pass, but also set fire to the mountain and turned several barren mountains around it into a flaming mountain, they all became immortals, living in smoke all day long.

Zhao courage, who was at a loss, had to mobilize artillery to block the door of people's homes and bombard them every day, and now the Jurchens did not come out, and repaired the gate without anything, and finally killed the door with stones, and seemed to have given up going south. But Zhao Ta sighed when he learned about it, he knew that the Dao Jin Jun had learned that the Yinshu Kebu had opened the road to Taiyuan, and quietly slipped away.

After hearing this, Zhao Yong immediately sent someone to check, and sure enough, there was no one in the canyon, and the Jin army really had to run away secretly! Zhao Ta knew that it was time for him to leave, and he understood that the upcoming New Year would be different, and history would open a new page. He pondered what he would do at this moment of great historical change, whether he would be at the mercy of fate, or would he fight back and completely change this period of history.

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Besides, after Han Li did not occupy Yanshan Mansion, the states and counties under Yanshan Mansion saw that the general trend had gone, and they all looked forward to the wind. On December 10, the Jin army occupied all the six prefectures and 24 counties to which Yanshan Prefecture belonged, and the 110,000 Song troops stationed in Yanshan ceased to exist. The rapid progress of the Jin army was largely due to the contribution of Guo Yaoshi to reduce the Jin, and Guo was well aware of the details of the military and political affairs of the Great Song Dynasty, so Jin Taizong specially issued a decree to appoint Guo Yaoshi to stay behind for Jin Yanshan and give him the surname Wanyan. Follow Han to go south to the Song Dynasty.

After a few days of rest, he left Yanshan on December 15. Continue to invade the south. Han Li did not trust Guo Yaoshi, who had just surrendered, and put the Changsheng army in Yanjing City. In case something happens in life, it will not be troublesome for the remaining guards to be unable to suppress the bullets, so he asked Guo Yaoshi to lead the way for the army with a thousand cavalry as the forward commander.

Seeing that his subordinates had the intention of being disintegrated and divided, Guo Yaoshi also started to think, without these little brothers under him, he would not have the capital to settle down, of course, he was dissatisfied with this arrangement, saying that there were too few soldiers. Unable to take on the role of a striker. Han Li reluctantly added another 1,000 cavalry to him, but ordered him not to attack and plunder the front prefectures and counties without authorization.

After leaving Zhuozhou, there was no danger in the vast North China Plain, and on the 16th, the Jin army crossed the Baigou on the border line agreed between the Song and Jin countries. Located in the middle of Hebei, the three important military towns of Zhongshan, Zhending and Hejian were the first to be attacked by the iron hooves of the Jin army. Due to the absence of the sixteen states of Yanyun, the land of the Hebei Plain is not dangerous and the terrain can be defended, and the three towns of Hebei are the last national defense lifeline of the Northern Song Dynasty in the North China Plain!

So the three towns of Hebei became the Great Wall of the Great Song Dynasty, once lost, then from now on to the south to the north bank of the Yellow River, a horse Pingchuan, there is no danger to defend. The iron horses of the nomads are unimpeded. Therefore, the imperial court of successive dynasties attached great importance to the defense of the military fortress of the three towns, which relied on each other, arranged a large number of forbidden troops in the three towns, dug many ponds and lakes, and then took advantage of the characteristics of the terrain. Connecting rivers and lakes and ponds creates a "great wall of water" that makes it impossible to navigate in deep waters. In shallow waters, you can't wade on foot, and large-scale afforestation is done along the edges.

But people are not as good as heaven. 100 years of peace. The people do not know the soldiers, and the military equipment is lax. As a result, the fields were silted, and the water depth had long been unable to reach the depth that could defend the cavalry in the past, and in winter, the river froze, and the Jin State took advantage of the cold winter to attack, so that this defense line was useless.

The goal of the Jin army in the south this time was Bianjing, so it did not adopt the tactics of attacking and fighting, and when it encountered a city, it would be defeated if it could, and it would be bypassed if it could not be defeated, and it would fight while walking. Jin soldiers attack Baozhou Buke; Attacking Zhongshan Mansion again, encountering the Song general Zhan Du to defend, and not down, Han Li did not command the army, bypassed Zhongshan, and turned to the southwest to attack Zhending. A day later, it was really set.

In the following days, the Jin soldiers successively conquered Qingyuan, Xinde, Handan and other strategic places, and most of the cities in the vast North China Plain had fallen into the hands of the Jin soldiers. What's worse is that all the military rations in these lost places fell into the hands of the Jin soldiers, which was enough for them to eat for several years, which not only solved the logistics problem of the Jin army, but also achieved the purpose of feeding the war with war...

In the case of such an unfavorable war on the front line, Zhao Tan tried his best to worry about the country and the people, worried about the future of the Great Song Dynasty, and looked for a way out for himself.

Before the Jin army invaded, Cai Jing, the prefect of Yanshan, wrote a total of more than 170 memoirs, secretly reported the border situation, and bitterly told the Jurchens of the Great Song Dynasty that they might invade the south. But I don't know if Cai Jing's personnel are not good, or if he was promoted too quickly and was jealous, some people in the court thought that he was just making a fuss in order to sit firmly in the position of Yanjing Mansion, and exaggerated the rumors of the Jin army's pressure on the territory and create a tense atmosphere, so they ignored it at all.

And the result was that when the Jin army attacked and the front-line battle reports flew to the imperial court like snowflakes, they still insisted on their opinions, thinking that it was just a skirmish between Song and Jin on the border, and the situation was not very serious. At this time, he caught up with the emperor to hold a suburban sacrifice ceremony, in order not to disturb the emperor's Yaxing, the war report was suppressed, not only Zhao Ji did not know about it, but even the two prime ministers Li Bangyan and Bai Shizhong did not know about it.

Until the fifth day of the twelfth month, the Jin State sent an envoy to Tokyo to ask to see the emperor, which was actually an ultimatum to the Emperor, telling the Great Song Dynasty that if they wanted to cease the war, they would need to cede land and pay compensation. Only then did the two prime ministers, Li Bangyan and Bai Shizhong, know the true situation on the front line, but these two people, like those people, still continued to conceal the situation on the front line, and gave heavy gifts to send the golden envoy away as soon as possible, so as not to let the emperor hear the news.

On December 16, Lianghe Xuanfu made Tong Guan run back to Bianjing from Taiyuan to escape the war, and the lid finally couldn't be covered, but these people were still trying to shirk their responsibilities and how to take their own out of it. Not to mention that they really came up with a way when they met, they only told the emperor that Guo Yaoshi and Chang Shengjun were besieged by the Jin army after the vicious battle, and they were forced to surrender after they couldn't break through the siege.

Don't look at it and change a few words, the nature of the matter has changed, obviously it was their negligence that caused Guo Yaoshi to take the initiative to commit treason and defect to the enemy without taking precautions, and changed a few words not only to cover up the truth of the matter, but also to put all the responsibility on Cai Jing, who refused to surrender and was killed after being captured, there was no evidence over there, everyone escaped punishment It seems that there is nothing to do, but they did not hesitate to throw the Great Song Dynasty to the brink of destruction for their own selfish interests!

The lid was lifted, and there was an uproar in the government and the opposition, but one by one they coaxed the seedlings, but no one had the ability to turn the tide and come up with a solution, and there was no way to face the serious situation. Zhao Ji was also frightened and numb, and asked Yu Qunchen, not to mention that there was really a capable person, and the minister Li Ye wrote a letter willing to send an envoy to Jin Guo to negotiate peace.

At this time, someone stepped forward, how could Zhao Ji not agree, and immediately agreed. But Li Ye put forward another condition and asked to carry 30,000 taels of gold as the cost of the peace negotiation. But at this time, there was not so much gold in the treasury for a while, and Zhao Ji took out two gold urns of five hundred taels each from the inner treasury, ordered the Calligraphy and Art Bureau to melt them and recast them into gold plates, and handed them over to Li Ye to do things first.

However, the Jin army hit Yanjing Mansion, of course he would not take this scattered silver in his eyes, Li Yebai ran and grinded the soles of his shoes for a while, and there was no result. But after spending so much gold, how could he give the emperor an explanation, so Li Ye told Zhao Ji, "Jin soldiers are like tigers, horses are like dragons, they go up the mountain like apes, and they go into the water, their momentum is like Mount Tai, and China is like tired eggs!" ’

These words are vivid and vivid, the metaphor is appropriate, greatly increasing the enemy's momentum, extinguishing his own prestige, and making the government and the opposition angry enough, but Li Ye also won himself the honorary title of 'Six Ru Things' and left his name in the annals of history, but it also frightened Zhao Ji and became even more panicked.

When things developed to this point, Zhao Ji felt that the matter was serious, but everything seemed to be a little late. The Jin people soon sent a letter denouncing him, full of unscrupulous words. Tong Guan consulted with the minister, fearing that Zhao Ji would be sad and dare not play, Li Bangyan proposed that if the document was presented at this time, the emperor could be prompted to make up his mind to issue an edict asking for words.

So the ministers presented the text in the Xuanhe Palace, and Zhao Ji really cried after reading the text, and only said three words: "Hugh, Hugh, Hugh!" "And then... He fainted.

In an embarrassment, Zhao Ji summoned Shi Yu Wenxu of the University of Zizheng Hall to discuss how to deal with it. This honest man actually told the truth, and really got into the set designed by Li Bangyan and others, Yuwen Xuzhong persuaded the emperor to first condemn his own edict, change the evils, in order to return to the will of heaven, conform to the people's hearts, as for the matter of defense, you can entrust the generals to appoint. Everyone knows that when Lu Dao rebelled a few years ago, Tong Guan also wrote the 'guilty edict' on behalf of the royal pen, and he was almost sent home, but everyone held back and didn't mention it, but he mentioned it.

Zhao Ji, who had nothing to do, immediately adopted it, and ordered Yuwen to draft an edict, saying that he had been wrong since he ascended the throne, and ordered the abolition of Huashi Gang and the bureaucracy, and asked the bureaucrats and scholars in the world to speak out about the current affairs, hoping that the towns and counties in the world would lead the division to the king.

Judging from this edict, Zhao Ji has long known about the country's shortcomings, the lack of policies, and his own nonsense, but without the strong blow of external forces, he will never think that he is wrong, and fear is the best clean-up agent! Everything is true, but this edict is still opposed by most ministers, and they criticize Yuwen for being too extreme.

But at this time, the Jin soldiers were getting closer and closer, the alarm flew like snowflakes to the Song court, the Beijing division was rumoring, the grass and trees were all soldiers, the two sides were still arguing fiercely, and the imperial edict was still failed to pass after several revisions. The military situation is critical, and the Privy Council reports that the Jin soldiers are about to arrive on the north bank of the Yellow River! Zhao Ji didn't have time to think about this matter anymore, and the next day he told the whole country that he began to think about his own way out, how to get out of this chaotic situation, of course, the best way is to find a scapegoat... (To be continued......)