Early in the morning, the military trumpets sounded in the Song army barracks on the north and south banks of the Yellow River. Wake up number, morning exercise number. Zhao Jiaren and the rest of the army began to run and drill. As long as the outside conditions allow, they will go out to run and exercise, not to complete a huge amount of exercise, but to allow commanders and fighters to find their daily benchmark as soldiers.

After the running exercise, it is time to eat, and after eating, the daily arrangement begins. At this time, the work of the troops is to recover from the hard physical labor before, so the grassroots troops do laundry, personal hygiene, games, and outings.

Zhao Taiwei and others did not have this blessing, they had to carry out the work of senior commanders. Zhao Taiwei has studied the course of recovering his body, and to him these management tasks can only be said to be tedious and meticulous, and many senior commanders do not have this concept at all, so it is inevitable that they will be in a hurry and strange in their work.

When encountering this kind of thing, Taiwei Zhao's method is to convene a meeting of the society. The current standard of the members of the society is to first gather those who are willing to learn and educate them. Abuse without teaching is something that even Confucius knew.

After being educated in the theory and knowledge of physical recovery in the society, Zhao Jiaren met with the Mongolian envoys who had arrived. He immediately gave an answer to Kublai Khan's request, "Go back and tell Kublai Khan to return Xiangyang and Luoyang to us, and then we can continue to talk." If not, then we will defeat it ourselves. ”

After listening to Zhao Jiaren's words, the envoy hurriedly said, "Taiwei, why are you so anxious. ”

Zhao Jiaren sneered: "The reason why I am so eager is because I want to make peace with him. If you are arguing over there, you will not be willing to negotiate peace. ”

The envoy had no choice but to ask again: "Taiwei, it is too troublesome for me to wait to cross the Yellow River like this, so it is better to ask Taiwei to send someone to us to have a face-to-face interview with Your Majesty." But it also saves a lot of time. ”

Zhao Jiaren felt that it was okay, so he sent Chen Zaixing of the school to Kublai Khan to negotiate. Before leaving, Chen Zaixing asked with some concern: "Taiwei, what should I say after meeting the Mongols?" ”

"Your responsibility is the messenger, to complete the contents of the microphone." Zhao Jiaren replied bluntly.

Listening to his task, Chen Zaixing showed some regretful expressions, and he replied sullenly: "Oh." ”

Recalling that when he was a child, he also had such a dejected expression because he 'thought he was being underestimated', Zhao Jiaren couldn't help laughing. However, he didn't say anything more, because he really didn't have time to educate in this area. The human mindset is analogy, and many people choose to be results-oriented. Everything is done with a definite purpose, and some worse ones are even carved into the sword, and everything in the world must be some kind of definite repetition in their opinion.

Thinking of this, Zhao Jiaren suddenly felt that peace was a good thing. If we could take advantage of a few years of peacetime to build a society and a bureaucratic team with basic materialist ideas, even if the number of such people was only more than 1,000, the Great Song Dynasty could adopt a complete mode of beating Mongolia.

So Zhao Taiwei added, "Just tell Kublai Khan, whether he takes the initiative to give up Luoyang or Xiangyang, or we take Luoyang and Xiangyang." As long as these two lands are in our hands, and as long as he is willing to negotiate at that time, we can talk about signing a peace treaty again. ”

Chen Zaixing was ordered to go. When crossing the Yellow River, this senior member of the society was still quite disappointed in his heart, he never expected that he would be awarded such a job that looked very important and could actually be performed by a herald.

Crossing the Yellow River, they arrived at Huaxian County, where the Mongol army was stationed. Chen Zaixing, who thought that he would be able to start diplomatic work immediately, was sent to the tent of the reception envoy and guarded strictly, which made Chen Zaixing even more dissatisfied. The Tai Lieutenant gave an inexplicable job, and the Mongol lord was so entrusted, and the high-ranking people on both sides looked very arrogant.

Chen Zaixing was wrong, Kublai Khan really didn't want to deliberately play prestige. Marshal Ashu's body was sent to him, and no matter how much Kublai Khan wanted to negotiate, he had to settle the matter first.

Looking at the corpse of Marshal Ashu, Kublai Khan's heart was like a knife. If Marshal Ashu had been killed on the battlefield by a strong enemy, the Mongol Great Khan might have felt better. However, Marshal Ashu was drowned. Although the search ships sent by the troops on the north shore all saw the marshal, they were unable to save the marshal's life.

A few heroic tears were shed, and Kublai Khan's grief was replaced by anger. The death of Marshal Ashu was a great loss to the Mongol army, and the overall loss of the Mongol army was even more painful to Kublai Khan. Marshal Ashu brought out 40,000 people, more than 10,000 people north of the new channel of the Yellow River, and more than 10,000 people on the south bank of the new channel of the Yellow River. Another 6,000 Mongol troops are either missing or have been confirmed dead. Dozens of generals died, all veterans who had been in a hundred battles.

In addition to these, the plague that had spread among the army sickened the army by several thousand. These people are now vomiting and diarrhea with high fevers, and those who have been tormented by the floods and rain for days are weak and have died. The Song army did not directly attack the Mongol army without directly attacking the Mongol army and caused such heavy losses to the Mongol army that the Mongol Khan Kublai Khan wanted to lead his troops to kill Zhao Jiaren now.

It took a day to arrange things, and Chen Zaixing was received by the Mongol Great Khan on the third day after his arrival on the Mongolian side. Locked in the house with nothing to do, Chen Zaixing, who consumed a lot of physical strength in the construction of the embankment, fell asleep after eating, and ate when he woke up, feeling that his physical strength had recovered to a considerable extent.

After seeing Kublai Khan's Great Khan and giving a simple salute, Chen Zaixing looked up at the Mongolian lord. I saw Kublai Khan's round face and slender eyes as fierce as a wolf. Faced with such an aggressive existence, Chen Zaixing wanted to pick up his gun and shoot at him.

Over the years, Kublai Khan has also met envoys from various countries, and the one opposite him is the first envoy who has no fear of him. Kublai Khan was unhappy, so he asked, "But I don't know what Zhao Jiaren wants you to bring?" ”

Unexpectedly, Kublai Khan called Zhao Jiaren's name, and Chen Zaixing was furious in his heart. Angry for a while, Chen Zaixing said loudly: "Kublai Khan, Taiwei Zhao asked me to tell you that I want to negotiate peace with Taiwei Zhao......"

"Bold! How dare you call the name of the Great Khan! Zhang Hongfan was furious and interrupted Chen Zaixing's words.

Chen Zaixing looked at Zhang Hongfan and asked mockingly: "Who are you who can still be the lord of Kublai Khan?" ”

Zhang Hongfan didn't expect the envoy of the Song army to be so sharp-tongued, and his whole person was trembling with anger. But the envoy of the Song army also said Zhang Hongfan's gaffe, and he didn't dare to show his loyalty too much, and after trembling for a while, he said to Chen Zaixing, "Phew! ”

Chen Zaixing turned a blind eye to this, and he continued to say to Kublai Khan: "Zhao Taiwei said that the premise is that Luoyang and Xiangyang belong to the Great Song Dynasty. Zhao Taiwei said, whether you take the initiative to sacrifice Luoyang and Xiangyang, or our Great Song Dynasty takes Luoyang and Xiangyang, you can start to negotiate peace. ”

Calling Zhao Jiaren's name was originally Kublai Khan's deliberate attempt to humiliate the Song army envoy, but he didn't expect the Song army envoy to call Kublai Khan's name as a counterattack without hesitation. Did you kill this envoy of the Song Kingdom? Kublai Khan thought to himself.

However, according to Kublai Khan's current behavior of the Song army, if he killed the Song envoy, it is likely that the envoys sent to the Song State by Kublai Khan in the future will be killed in retaliation, and the Song army will also retaliate by massacring the Mongolian capital. At least that's how Mongolia used to treat the country that killed the Mongol emissary. Then the Mongol Khan felt that he still had to be a little polite, so he ignored the impudence of the Song envoy and continued to mockingly: "I didn't expect Taiwei Zhao to be so confident that he could take Luoyang." ”

Chen Zaixing replied proudly: "Taiwei Zhao has always been very confident. What he likes to say is not to fight unprepared battles. But I don't know if the Great Khan is fighting or peace? Because Kublai Khan regained his politeness, Chen Zaixing also used the title.

If it was before, Kublai Khan would probably have fought every battle. At this time, he couldn't stick to the tradition, so he just said coldly: "You go down first, and I'll talk to you in a few days." ”

Chen Zaixing strode out of the golden tent, and after leaving the gate, he couldn't help but breathe softly. Originally, he felt that he was being overused, but he didn't expect that it would not be easy to convey the words without ambiguity. As for the insult of counterattacking Kublai Khan at that time, looking back now also makes Chen Zaixing a little afraid.

Looking at Chen Zaixing's straight back, Kublai Khan asked Boyan, "Do you think Zhao Jiaren will attack Luoyang?" ”

"Yes!" Boyan replied decisively.

"When will we march?" Kublai Khan continued to ask.

Bo Yan pondered for a moment before replying: "If it was before, I would think that Zhao Jiaren would have to rest for half a month before marching. With the Yellow River, I think he will march in three days at most. ”

A few days ago, Kublai Khan heard from Boyan that Mongolia underestimated Zhao Jiaren. The Great Khan didn't expect Boyan to make a new judgment on Zhao Jiaren in such a short period of time.

When the Mongol monarchs and ministers discussed the defense of Luoyang, Zhao Jiaren sent troops to attack Luoyang had already arrived at the Tiger Prison Pass.

Tiger Prison Pass, also known as Bishui Pass, Chenggao Pass, Gukun Pass, because King Zhou Mu imprisoned the tiger in this prison and got its name. It is the eastern gateway and important pass of Luoyang, located in the territory of Bishui Town, 16 kilometers northwest of the city of Xingyang City, Henan Province. As the eastern gateway of Luoyang and an important pass, this pass is connected to Songyue in the south, the Yellow River in the north, and the mountains are staggered, which is a natural danger. There is a lot of husband when the pass, and the trend of ten thousand people is not open, and it is a place where soldiers of all generations must fight.

After capturing the Tiger Pass, continue to march westward, passing through Gongyi before conquering Luoyang. Gongyi is the location of the imperial tomb of the Northern Song Dynasty, after the Zhao family moved south, only after the Song Dynasty Lizong and the Mongols jointly destroyed the Jin did they send people to sweep the tomb once.

After the Yellow River embankment was repaired, the Song army originally distributed on both sides of the Yellow River was located on the south bank of the Yellow River, and Zhao Taiwei ordered four of the ten divisions to participate in the battle, and Zhao Taiwei personally led the army westward. The place where the embankment was repaired this time was not too far from the Tiger Prison Pass, and the Song army was not particularly tired when they arrived at the Tiger Prison Pass. Putting down the binoculars and looking at the tense Mongolian army at the pass, Captain Zhao simply ordered: "Attack." ”

On the third day of the eighth month of the fourth year of the Great Song Dynasty, Zhao Taiwei went down to the tiger prison in one day.

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