One person said that if we seek peace through struggle, we will survive peacefully, and if we seek peace through compromise, we will die peacefully.

Jia Xianggong hoped to negotiate peace with Mongolia during the Battle of Ezhou, and the Great Song Dynasty won at that time, so the conditions for peace were naturally not to cede land, not to be a minister, and not to pay tribute. It's just that the two countries have become brotherly states.

Jia Xianggong, who sent troops in the eighth year of Xianchun, completely forgot the past, and in addition to continuing to send envoys to let Zhao Jiaren enter Beijing, Jia Xianggong chose to sue for peace with the Mongolian commander Boyan. sent someone to send gifts to Prime Minister Boyan, and Jia Rudao asked for compensation for the land cution.

Of course, Jia Nidao felt that this was a delaying tactic, but Jia Nidao didn't expect that he was using the mentality of a weak person to trap a strong man like Boyan. For Boyan, what he can get on the battlefield, why spend a lot of precious time talking about it?

After the Mongol army captured Ezhou and Tanzhou, the left prime minister of Jinghu Province, Boyan, led more than 100,000 troops of water and infantry, with the Song general Lu Wenhuan as the vanguard, and marched east along the Yangtze River. The generals along the river of the Song Dynasty, most of whom were the old troops of the Lu family, and the Yuan army, all surrendered to the wind.

At the beginning of the first month, the Mongolian army went to Huanggang, Hubei, and set up the deputy envoy along the river to know that Chen Yi of Huangzhou surrendered.

On the 11th, Qizhou (now northeast of Qichun, Hubei) guarded Guan Jingmo.

On the 13th, Song raised Jiangzhou Xingguo Palace, Lu Shikui, Jiangxi pacification envoy, and Qian Zhensun, Zhijiangzhou, sent people to welcome the Yuan army.

On the 14th, Boyan led the army to Jiangzhou, and Ye Chang, the Kangjun army of Song Zhinan, surrendered to the city.

On the 16th, Fan Wenhu of Zhi'an Qingfu sent people to Jiangzhou to meet the Yuan army with wine and food.

On the first day of the second month, Boyan led his army to Anqing Mansion (now Anqing, Anhui), and Fan Wenhu surrendered to the city.

During the banquet, Liu Quan, a member of the water army, had complicated emotions about Fan Wenhu's servile face, and he couldn't help but mention Fan Wenhu's nephew Fan Tianshun. There was a brief silence at the table.

After the Mongol army conquered Fancheng, they slaughtered the city, and when they entered the garrison's mansion, they saw Fan Tianshun, the general of the defending army who committed suicide, and the one who wrote in Fan Tianshun's own blood 'Born as a Song minister, died as a Song ghost'! Even if it was an enemy, the Mongols admired such a man. Maybe he saw the generals of the Song army who committed suicide at the end of the battle, and Zhang Hongfan, who was in charge of slaughtering the city, even spared the people in Fan Tianshun's mansion for this.

Now that the rebel general Liu Chuan mentioned this to Fan Wenhu, who had surrendered, the senior officials of the Mongol army and the senior officials of the Han army found it difficult to describe their feelings.

When Fan Wenhu heard his nephew mentioned, he asked with a surprised expression, "Has my nephew already returned to the imperial court?" ”

Liu Cheng told Fan Wenhu about Fan Tianshun's ending with a sarcastic expression. Just when everyone thought that Fan Wenhu would be annoyed and angry, they saw that Fan Wenhu actually said with a straight face: "My nephew only knows how to be foolish." The imperial court did not blame our Fan family for this, this is really the emperor's grace...... I...... I ......" Fan Wenhu was already choked up, "I really don't know how to be grateful!" Woohoo......"

The Mongolian nobles and the high-ranking officials of the Han army were dumbfounded and watched Fan Wenhu's performance, and even Liu Quan subconsciously opened his mouth half-open and was speechless. Fan Wenhu's performance really shocked everyone, such a brazen person is something this gang has never seen.

Bo Yan has always been cold and doesn't talk much, but when the generals were dumbfounded, he opened his mouth instead, "Fan Tianshun swears not to surrender, why did you surrender so easily?" ”

Listening to the marshal's question, Fan Wenhu immediately put away his crying and immediately replied: "Jia Rudao is in power, he always treats scribes favorably, and despises military generals. I have been unhappy in my heart for a long time, and I have been separated from Jia Rudao. That's why I want to send money! ”

This is a well-organized and substantiated statement. If you hadn't seen Fan Wenhu's previous performance, just looking at his current response, you would probably think that Fan Wenhu was a person with a strong sense of morality and self-esteem. Without waiting for the Mongolian nobles and the Han army to come up with a suitable reaction, Fan Wenhu raised his head and glanced at Liu Quan, who had rebelled against the Song Dynasty, and continued in a firm tone: "Liu Wanhu took refuge in the imperial court before, and I am very envious of Liu Wanhu's free and resolute determination. It's just that if I followed the footsteps of Wanhu at that time, Song Guo would kill my whole family. Now that the imperial court is crusading against the thief Song, I can finally go to the imperial court in a bright and bright way, and I am really overjoyed, I am really overjoyed! ”

Liu Quan didn't expect that his previous mouths would actually pull the conversation back to him again, his face was red and white, but he couldn't speak. The Mongolian nobles and the Han army marquis had already been made by Fan Wenhu to the point that they didn't know how to react, but now they finally have something in common. laughed out loud because of Liu Quan's embarrassment of throwing himself into the net. But apart from laughing, they still didn't know how they should react to this Fan Wenhu.

On the sixth day of the second month, Boyan led his army to Chizhou (now Guichi, Anhui), and all of them controlled Zhang Lin to surrender to the city.

On the 16th, Boyan led his army to Dingjiazhou, a few miles away from the Song army. Jia Xiangdao and Jia Xianggong supervised 130,000 Zhulu troops and 2,500 warships in the river. Seeing the position of the Song army, Boyan was outnumbered, and he should win. He summoned the generals to give them a strategy, ordered the army to make dozens of rafts, put firewood and grass on them, and pretended to burn the Song boats, so that the Song army was strictly prepared day and night and the soldiers were tired.

On the 21st, Boyan Dubu's cavalry attacked along both sides of the river, causing the warships to synchronize with the cavalry to attack the Song army, and bombarded Sun Huchen's army with huge cannons. Song Qianfeng engaged Jiang Caifang with the Mongol army, but Sun Huchen abandoned the battle and fled first, and the armies were defeated. The Mongolian Pingzhang political affairs Ashu led thousands of warships, rode the wind and rushed forward, broke into the Song formation, and attacked the Song ships. Xia Gui was afraid that Jia Rudao would win, and was blamed for the defeat of Ezhou, and fled without a fight.

The Song army lost its command and broke down the river. Ashu supervised the boat division to pursue, and boarded the boat to take the helm of the Song boat, commanded He Wei, Li Ting and other generals to pursue the boat with a small flag, and Boyan ordered the foot to ride left and right to attack, chasing and killing more than 150 miles. The Song army suffered many casualties, many battleships sank, and the Mongol army obtained a large number of military equipment and advanced eastward with victory.

The Battle of Dingjiazhou was a turning point in the Song army's war against the Mongols, in which most of the elite of the Song army was wiped out. Even though the population of Mongolia was only 20 million at this time, and the population of the Great Song Dynasty was 80 million, the Mongol army still gained an advantage in strength.

Jia Rudao never understood why he was defeated so easily in Dingjiazhou, he originally thought that he could use all means to delay until Zhao Jiaren's reinforcements arrived, and the defeat turned into victory.

But facts are facts, and there is no such thing as 'close your eyes and it's dark'. After the defeat, Jia Rudao had to flee back to Lin'an. The Lin'an court unanimously demanded that Jia be killed as a thank you to the world. Although Zhao Jiali, a student of Tai, was also indignant at this time, he felt a kind of fear even more. Zhao Jiali was very jealous of his third brother Zhao Jiaren, but after all, after more than ten years, he slowly got used to these. When Zhao Yong sent someone to invite Zhao Jiali to go south to reunite with his parents, Zhao Jiali agreed to this request without hesitation.

The reason why Zhao Yong sent people here was not to take care of Zhao Jiali's face, but that he was really busy flying at this time. Before Jia Xianggong was defeated, those money houses in Lin'an thought that the Great Song Dynasty should be fine, and they didn't care about Zhao Yong's invitation to go south.

When Jia Xianggong fled back to Lin'an, the people of Qianzhuang determined that something big had happened, and the Mongols were really going to fight Lin'an. So many people began to urgently ask to see Zhao Yong, asking how to go south and what Zhao Yong wanted.

Zhao Yong told them to take all the valuable things with them and take the whole family with them. The proprietors of these banks objected at the time. They have a lot of debts that they haven't had time to collect, and if they run so cleanly, each bank will have a lot of losses.

For such a guy, Zhao Yong didn't bother to talk nonsense at all. He can still remember how arrogant the people of Qianzhuang were when he went to Qianzhuang with Zhao Jiaren and Bu Ruyan. Anyway, Zhao Yong has already said that the life or death of these people has nothing to do with Zhao Yong.

Geisha are easy to get around in Jiangnan, although Bu Ruyan once went to Fuzhou for a short time after leaving Lin'an, and she has already arrived in Gusu at this time. Zhao Yong sent someone to Gusu to contact Bu Ruyan and asked her to hurry south. Bu Ruyan is not as hypocritical as the people of Qianzhuang, and after learning the news, she immediately packed up everything and began to go south.

When I arrived at Jiaxing Mansion, I saw that the port was already crowded with people. Most of these people were related to Zhao Jiaren, and after learning of Ding Jiazhou's defeat, they chose to flee at the invitation of Zhao Jiaren. Bu Ruyan looked at so many people, and for a while he was quite worried that he would not be able to squeeze into the boat at all.

What she didn't expect was that there were big ships waiting for people in the harbor from morning to night. The enthronement of a person with a nautical guild in the port registry can be determined by comparing them with the register. Then they were put on board.

As Liu Yong's 'best friend', it is not surprising that she feels that she is on the list. However, it was a surprise that so many people she had seen were on the list.

got on the big ship, condescendingly looking down at the port, and was even more surprised in my heart. There were probably tens of thousands of people gathered in the port. In the distance, there is also the meaning that people continue to pour in. A lot of people had already been sent out, but now that it looks like this, there must be 100,000 or more people going south.

Such a huge capacity is already shocking, and those rosters make Zhao Jiaren feel unfathomable.

Even Buru Ruyan can think of this, others can also think of it, and Zhao Jiaren can also think of it. But Zhao Jiaren doesn't care anymore. In the general retreat plan, the defeat of Jia Rudao is a landmark node. It means that the Great Song Dynasty is irretrievable. What about being scolded for being ill-intentioned at this time? Without the help of the ill-intentioned Zhao Jiaren, these people would have only fallen into the hands of the Mongols.

The first wave of refugees lasted for about a month, with 150,000 people leaving Jiangnan by boat and heading for Quang Nam East Road and Jiaozhi. At this time, the Mongols continued to advance eastward, and the troops were directed at Lin'an. Just when the Lin'an Imperial Court continued to forcefully demand that the official family order the execution of Jia Nidao, who was closed, the official Zhao Yu fell ill and soon entered the critical stage.