Xiangyang and Fancheng face each other across the Han River, and Lü Wenhuan built a pontoon bridge between the two cities, but the Mongols blew it up with explosives bags. The city of Fancheng was broken, and Lu Wenhuan and the soldiers were in a hurry at the head of the city, but they had no way to help.

However, this heart-wrenching feeling began to be replaced by fear after it was determined that Fancheng had completely fallen. The Mongols sent envoys several times to persuade them to surrender. Lü Wenhuan resolutely refused at first, but after waiting for more than two months, there was no trace of the imperial court reinforcements. Moreover, Mongolia made it clear that if Lu Wenhua was willing to surrender, Xiangyang and the soldiers and civilians in the city could be saved. If they don't surrender, the Mongols will have to attack with all their strength and slaughter the city.

There is no soldier to save, and there is no city to defend. When Lu Wenhuan saw that there was no trace of the reinforcements, his heart had to be shaken. In order to put pressure on Xiangyang, the Mongolian side attacked Xiangyang with explosives bags. This attack not only damaged the city's head, but also the new return cannon had a range of more than 250 steps. The blast directly destroyed many houses. At this time, all the generals in the city had no will to fight again, and they came to ask Lu Wenhuan to surrender for everyone.

Under strong pressure, Lü Wenhuan had to write a letter to the Mongol army asking for a very high price. In his heart, he also hoped that Mongolia would better refuse. In that way, he can make the generals stop for a while. Unexpectedly, Marshal Ali Hague of the Mongolian Army not only agreed to all the conditions, but also expressed his willingness to swear with Lu Wenhuan to protect the peace of Xiangyang. At this time, Lu Wenhuan could no longer stop the generals and had to surrender to Mongolia in early October.

After the fall of Xiangyang, the Mongol army opened the door to the south. Marshal Ashu was the vanguard and led the Mongol army south along the Han River. Bypassing Yingzhou, another fortified town on the Han River, from a narrow channel between the swamps, Ashu led the Mongol army to quickly occupy Hanyang. At this time, the local army did not receive the news of the fall of Xiangyang at all, and was completely stunned by the surprise attack of the Mongols, and was soon conquered by the Mongols. Hanyang was lost, and Ezhou, which had blocked Kublai Khan's personal expedition, had no slightest barrier, and Liu Quan's navy completely broke Xia Gui's navy on the river, and under the attack of return artillery and explosives, Ezhou was quickly lost.

At this time, the Lin'an court knew that Xiangyang had fallen, and the Mongolian army had broken through several natural dangers one after another and entered the Yangtze River. At this time, the entire imperial court fell into a state of complete silence. The people who originally attacked Jia Nidao stopped talking nonsense. At that time, Jia seemed to defend Ezhou and defeated Kublai Khan, and the Great Song Dynasty was safe. Now that Ezhou has been captured, everyone knows that this is not the time to attack each other, and everyone asks Jia Rudao to lead a large army to defeat the Mongol army, recapture Ezhou, and win the battle against Mongolia again.

To everyone's surprise, Jia Rudao actually played the trick of calling him sick. So the ministers in the court were angry, and everyone could understand that Jia Rudao was preparing to blackmail everyone again. At this point, just say what you want, where is the time to play this set!

If he said that he was sick and couldn't say anything to Jia Yidao at this time, he probably wanted to say, 'I regret that I shouldn't have waited so long'!

Logically speaking, Jia Xianggong's life a year ago was far less bad than it is now. From a financial point of view, the cotton business has an income of 120,000 copper coins every month. Because of the elimination of various types of peace, the country's economy has gradually recovered from the state of indiscriminate issuance of currency. In addition to these effects caused by the reform of public land, Zhao Jiaren's outstanding ability led to a significant increase in tax revenue on Fujian Road and Guangnan East Road. The seafaring guilds of the Great Song Dynasty controlled maritime trade, and the outflow of copper coins was completely blocked. No matter how excited the officials and gentry were, the Great Song Dynasty governed by Jia Xianggong was actually thriving.

However, this is the case with human beings, who begin to seek blame whenever they have a choice. Jia seems to be Dao, and Jia Xianggong is now full of remorse in his heart. In fact, even if Zhao Jiaren was asked to lead troops to rescue Xiangyang at that time, at most he would be given a ruling power. Although Zhao Jiaren is cunning like a ghost, he is not a person who does not know how to weigh. In fact, I really went back to look at Zhao Jiaren's efforts so far, and he didn't endure for the country at any time.

It's the desire to blame Jia Rudao! It was precisely because he wanted to straighten everything out and because he wanted to control everything that Jia Yidao failed to transfer Zhao Jiaren early. At this time, it will be too late to transfer, and it will take about a month for the edict to be sent to Guangzhou. Zhao Jiaren received an order to prepare the army and go to the front, which was impossible without half a year.

Jia Yidao fought in the Battle of Ezhou, and he had Gundam under him that year, Cao Shixiong, Xiang Shibi, Lu Wende, Zhao Jiaren, and Liu Quan. Now Liu Quan has committed treason, Cao Shixiong has been exiled, Xiang Shibi has died, Lu Wende has died of illness, Lu Wenhuan has surrendered, Gao Gao has been idle, and Zhao Jiaren is far away in Lingnan. Jia Rudao is already the commander of the light pole.

Zhao Jiaren, the only one who defeated the Mongol army twice, would take at least half a year to arrive. What does half a year mean? At that time, Mongolia probably fought under the city of Lin'an! As the person in charge of the failure, Jia Rudao has only one way to step down.

But you can't help it if you don't attack. Jia Rudao now chooses to call himself sick, which is also the best way he can think of. The official document ordering Zhao Jiaren to lead the army to Lin'an has been sent, and Jia Rudao If he can survive by calling himself sick until Zhao Jiaren leads the army to Lin'an, there will still be a chance at that time.

However, no matter how good Jia seems to think, it is just his wishful thinking. The officials were a little worried about what excessive demands Jia Xiangguild would make, so they did not force him for the time being. The students didn't think so, and they began to publicize the success of Jia Nidao in the Battle of Ezhou, and asked Jia Nidao to go on the expedition in person.

Of course, this request was rejected by Jia Xianggong on the grounds that 'this is a rude matter'. However, this reason was not recognized by the students, and during the Battle of Ezhou, Jia Xianggong was not only the leader of the 'rough people' of the soldiers, but also fought bravely with the 'rough people'. At least Jia Yidao wrote a pamphlet of "Fuhua Edition" in order to brag about his merits in the Battle of Ezhou. In the booklet, Jia seems to describe his own merits.

When the people feel strongly uneasy, they will choose heroes or great men to save them, since Jia Nidao has always described himself as a hero and great man who can save the Great Song Dynasty, at this time, the people naturally want Jia Nidao to come out. After calling himself ill for a month, more catastrophic news came. After conquering Ezhou, the Mongol army did not go down the river, but first went upstream and conquered Tanzhou, the most important city on the south road of Jinghu.

The Lin'an court did not expect the Mongol army to do this, and when they got the news, the officials were surprised. After capturing Tanzhou, the Mongol army cut off the possibility of Sichuan Road down the river to rescue. The Mongol army, which controlled Tanzhou and Ezhou, could receive a steady stream of Mongol reinforcements from the Hanshui River, and attacked Jiangnan down the river.

On New Year's Day, Jia Rudao still said that he was not sick. Zhao Yu, a great Song official who never left the palace, set aside and went out of the palace to visit Jia Rudao. After getting the news, Jia Yidao felt that the whole person was about to collapse. There were also a number of ministers accompanying him during this visit, and Jia Yidao's personality made him really unable to pretend to be sick. The eyes of those ministers were like torches, and they couldn't tell if Jia Yidao was pretending to be sick.

No, Jia Rudao opened the door to greet the official. As soon as he saw the official Zhao Yu, Jia Rudao was stunned. It has always been said that the judge's Zhao Yu is keen on sexual affairs, and Jia Rudao feels that the official Zhao You can't find a way to be an official at all, and the psychological pressure is too great, so he uses sexual affairs to relieve the pressure. However, at this time, the official Zhao Yu was gray and had no energy, compared with Jia Yidao, who was sick, the official Zhao Yu looked seriously ill.

At this time, Jia Rudao didn't have so much nonsense, he simply told the official Zhao Yu that Zhao Jiaren, who was guarding Ezhou with him back then, had a strong ability to command the navy, and if he wanted to turn defeat into victory this time, he had to wait for Zhao Jiaren to come from Lingnan first.

If there is still room for the official Zhao Yu to be fooled, the eyes of the officials of the Great Song Dynasty do not rub sand. It took at least half a year for the army to rush from Lingnan to Lin'an, and everyone allowed Jia Xianggong to be powerful for so many years, because Jia Xianggong was able to solve the problem immediately. Of course, Zhao Jiaren would let him come to Lin'an, but so the officials all asked Jia Yidao to lead the troops to recover the decline first and block the advance of the Mongolian army.

No, Jia Rudao agreed to lead the army. Knowing that Jia Xianggong led the army again, the officials laughed, and the ministers laughed. Soon the news was spread, the imperial court was boiling, Taixue was boiling, and the people who learned about it were also boiling.

Zhao Jiali is also a student, he returned home and excitedly informed his parents of the news. His father looked weird and looked at his mother vigorously. And Zhao Jiali's wife, Mrs. Zhao, looked solemn and did not feel happy at all because of this news. Zhao Jiali, a student who was too student, didn't think so much about his parents' attitude, he just had lunch at home, and then ran out to tell the news to the people around him. Jia Xianggong led the army, and the Great Song Dynasty would turn the corner.

When the second son went out, Mrs. Zhao asked Zhao Zhizhuo, "Do you remember when San Lang suddenly invited us back to Lin'an?" ”

Zhao Zhizhuo nodded, in fact, Mrs. Zhao couldn't help but mention this matter several times in the past few days. Mrs. Zhao frowned, "San Lang never likes to be difficult for others, and he is so smart, how can he not know that we like to live in Lin'an." But when he said that, he was afraid that he already knew that there would be today's events. ”

Zhao Zhizhuo was stunned for a moment, his wife just said that if Jia Yidao was forced to go into battle again, he was afraid that the situation would suffer. I didn't expect my wife to make a basic judgment based on Zhao Jiaren. He couldn't help but say, "Jiaren is only in his early 30s this year. ”

"But Jiaren has been an official for sixteen or seven years this year. Even if he doesn't mention the battle of Ezhou, when will he miss it. Mrs. Zhao replied. But this time her purpose was not to criticize her husband, she lowered her head and thought for a moment, and Mrs. Zhao said: "Now that Dalang is in Jiaxing Mansion, let's go to Jiaxing Mansion." ”

While he was talking, the family came to talk, and Zhao Yong came to the door to ask for a meeting. Although Zhao Yong used to be Zhao Zhizhuo's family, he has been independent for many years now. Zhao Zhizhuo politely invited Zhao Yong in. Seeing the two, Zhao Yong said: "I am ordered by the third prince to invite the two of you to go to Jiaxing Mansion." ”

Zhao Zhizhuo glanced at his wife, turned his head and asked Zhao Yong, "What about the commercial stronghold here?" ”

"Let's move out together." Zhao Yong replied very neatly.

Zhao Zhizhuo glanced at his wife again, and both saw the decision in the other party's eyes.