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In November, the 200,000-strong army on the left and right roads led by Li Cun was getting closer and closer to the Yellow River.

And the ministers sent by Zhao Huan to negotiate peace with Li Cun are to go to one, Li Cun will deduct one, go to two, and Li Cun will deduct a pair, so far, none of them can come back.

In this case, Tang Ke, Geng Nanzhong and other Zaizhi who advocated peace said to Zhao Huan: "I am afraid that because the status of the peace envoy sent by my Great Song Dynasty is too low, so the Emperor Daqian cannot pay attention to it, and Fang has not made any contributions, so it is better to send a prince to negotiate peace?" ”

After listening to the suggestions of Tang Ke, Geng Nanzhong and other rulers, Zhao Huan thought of his good brother Zhao Gou, King Kang, who was both civil and military, and felt that only Zhao Gou could make Li Cun stop his efforts to defeat the Song Dynasty.

So, Zhao Huan announced that Zhao Gou had an audience and told Zhao Gou that he wanted Zhao Gou to meet Li Cunyi and make peace.

Zhao Gou, who has been paying attention to current affairs, how can he not know that none of the ministers who were recently sent by Zhao Huan to Li Cun to negotiate peace can come back?

Therefore, Zhao Gou was very clear, and at this time he went to Li Cun to negotiate peace, it was likely that the meat buns were beating the dogs, and there was no return.

Zhao Huan knew very well in his heart that he asked his good brother Zhao Gou to negotiate peace, which was actually similar to letting his good brother Zhao Gou die.

Therefore, in order to let Zhao Gou put down his burden and negotiate peace with Li Cun, Zhao Huan rarely told Zhao Gou a lot as an elder brother, and reassured Zhao Gou that he would definitely help Zhao Gou take care of his concubines.

In addition, Zhao Huan also gave Zhao Gou a large amount of property, and even gave Zhao Gou the jade belt that Zhao Ji gave him when he gave him the throne.

To be honest, even Zhao Gou was unwilling to share his worries about Zhao Huan this time.

First of all, it is natural that it is really too dangerous to negotiate peace with Li Cun this time, and it is not an exaggeration to describe it as "nine deaths and one life".

What's more, Zhao Gou's princess Xing Bingyi is pregnant.

Xing Bingyi is the daughter of Xing Huan, the envoy of the Southern Song Dynasty Qingyuan Army, and the king of An Gong Jian, who is beautiful and dignified and not jealous.

When Xing Bingyi married Zhao Gou, Zhao Gou was still a prince who was not favored by Zhao Ji, and his life was quite simple and unpretentious, with no future at all.

But even so, Xing Bingyi still shared hardships with Zhao Gou, like glue, and got along very well with Zhao Gou's two side clans, Tian Chunluo and Jiang Zuimei.

It's a pity that Xing Bingyi has been married to Zhao Gou for more than four years, but she has never been able to conceive Zhao Gou's child.

Moreover, Tian Chunluo and Jiang Zuimei gave birth to a total of five daughters to Zhao Gou, and none of them gave birth to a son.

Now, Xing Bingyi is finally pregnant, and Zhao Gou is likely to get an eldest son.

So Zhao Gou really didn't want to take the risk of "nine deaths and one life" again.

But Zhao Huan has already found Zhao Gou, and he is both gracious and powerful, Zhao Gou must go and go, and he has to go if he doesn't go.

In this regard, Zhao Gou could only sigh leisurely, regretting that he should not have wanted to fight for his status in the Zhao Song royal family.

When Zhao Gou returned to King Kang's Mansion, he had already learned that Zhao Huan was going to let Zhao Gou go to meet Li Cun's Xing Bingyi, Tian Chunluo and Jiang Zuimei, and greeted them together.

People were far away, and Xing Bingyi asked with great concern: "Has Your Majesty ever taken back his life?" ”

Zhao Gou shook his head.

Seeing this, Xing Bingyi, Tian Chunluo and Jiang Zuimei couldn't help but show sad expressions, and the five daughters of Zhao Gou, including Kang Dazong Ji Zhao Fuyou, either showed the same sad expression as their mother, or they were too young to be ignorant.

Zhao Gou didn't want the atmosphere to be so depressing, he picked up Xing Bingyi's earrings with his fingers, and said with a smile: "Concubine Ai's earrings are so beautiful......"

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Early the next morning, Zhao Gou and Feng Lu, who knew the Privy Council, left Bianliang City in Tokyo with Feng Yu.

On the other hand, Li Cun was afraid that the royal family and clan of the Zhao Song Dynasty would run everywhere like last year, and it would be difficult to catch them, so Li Cun gave him the idea according to Chen Hoop Bucket, and let Wang Yun go back to Bianliang City in Tokyo to tell Zhao Huan that if the Zhao Song Dynasty wanted to negotiate peace, it was not impossible, but Zhao Huan must send the edict of ceding Hebei and Hedong to himself within 15 days, and he would talk to Zhao Huan about peace again, otherwise, after 15 days, he would definitely lead a large army to cross the Yellow River again and come to the city of Bianliang in Tokyo.

As soon as Wang Yun heard that Li Cun had given such a tight time, he hurriedly hurried south to Bianliang City, Tokyo, and asked Zhao Huan to issue an edict to cut the land.

But—

Li Cun's wise man has a thousand thoughts, and he also has a mistake.

What Li Cunwan didn't expect was that just because he wanted to stabilize Zhao Huan, he saved Zhao Gou's life.

After Wang Yunnan went down, he happened to meet Zhao Gou and Feng Lu who were going north.

Wang Yun said to Zhao Gou: "The situation has changed, Emperor Daqian must cede Hebei and Hedong edicts before he is willing to talk about peace again, Wang Yun first goes back to the capital to ask His Majesty to lower the edict of land cession, and the king will go to negotiate peace again, so that it can be done, and there is no intention to go now." ”

As soon as Zhao Gou heard this, he stopped at Dinglin Courtyard in the north of the city, waiting for Wang Yun to ask Zhao Huan for an edict to cede Hebei and Hedong.

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As Wang Yun returned to Bianliang City, Tokyo, the people in Bianliang City soon learned that the Daqian Dynasty was willing to negotiate peace with the Zhao Song Dynasty as long as the Zhao Song Dynasty was willing to cede Hebei and Hedong to the Daqian Dynasty.

This made many people cheer, especially the ministers of the Zhao and Song dynasties, who seemed to have achieved a major victory.

However, regarding Li Cun's official edict that Zhao Huan wanted to cede Hebei and Hedong, the ministers of the Zhao and Song dynasties quarreled endlessly.

There are those who implore Zhao Huan to make a decision and give up Hebei and Hedong in exchange for the peace of the Zhao and Song dynasties.

It is believed that Hebei and Hedong are the barriers of the Zhao and Song dynasties in the north, and once they are abandoned, the Zhao and Song dynasties will never have peace, and Zhao Huan, the emperor, will definitely not be able to sit back and relax from now on.

Zhao Huan asked Tang Ke to help him get an idea - in fact, he wanted Tang Ke to help him recite the pot and this pot.

Tang Ke said: "If you don't give it to Hebei and Hedong, you will come; Give it, and the minister can't guarantee that it won't come. ”

Zhao Huan asked Tang Ke three times, and Tang Ke replied like this.

Zhao Huan was furious: "Qing is the prime minister, why not make a decision!" ”

Tang Ke knew what he said what Zhao Huan wanted to hear, what he represented, and Li Bangyan was his example.

But what Zhao Huan said is not wrong, he Tang Ke is the prime minister of the Zhao and Song Dynasty, and he has to carry some pots.

Therefore, after being silent for a while, Tang Ke said: "There is no mountain danger in the Beijing Division, and there is only one Yellow River that can be defended. However, the generals are incompetent and lack the ability to defend against the enemy. In case a large number of cadres come from the whole country and garrison the city, the ministers are afraid that the worries of the society are not only in Hebei and Hedong. Your Majesty should weigh the good and the bad, and act arbitrarily. Rather lose Hebei and Hedong, and regret not putting the Beijing division in danger. ”

With Tang Ke's words, after thinking about it, Zhao Huan summoned hundreds of civil and military officials and asked them to vote to say that they would not agree to cede Hebei and Hedong.

- Zhao Huan wanted the ministers of the Zhao Song Dynasty to cede the cauldron of Hebei and Hedong with their backs, so that this responsibility would not end up on him.

As a result, 70 officials, including Geng Nanzhong, Fan Zongyin, and Wu Kai, expressed their support for the cession of Hebei and Hedong to the Daqian Dynasty, that is, they advocated abandoning land and negotiating peace. Only more than 30 people, including He Li, Mei Zhili, Sun Fu, and Lu Haowen, believed that Hebei and Hedong could not be ceded.

In addition, there are more than a dozen slippery heads, resolutely not taking a stand.

In this way, the ball naturally kicked to Zhao Huan's feet again.

Zhao Huan didn't want to make this decision, but as the emperor and the supreme ruler of the Zhao Song Dynasty, Zhao Huan couldn't help but make this decision.

There was no way, Zhao Huan could only stubbornly decide to cede Hebei and Hedong to ease the difficulty.

Therefore, Zhao Huan re-dispatched Zhao Gou and Wang Yun to meet Li Cun with gifts, and ceded Hebei and Hedong to ask for peace......

In addition to sending people to negotiate peace, Zhao Huan Junchen made certain deployments militarily.

In addition to the four general governors that had been set up around Bianliang City in Tokyo, that is, the four defense areas in the east, south, west, and north, Zhao Huan Junchen also deployed Xuanfu deputy envoy Zhe Yanzhi to lead a 120,000-strong army to guard the Yellow River in the area of Heyang, and deployed Xuanfu envoy Fan Ne to lead a 50,000-strong army to guard the Yellow River in the area of Huazhou and Junzhou.

Just in case, Zhao Huanjunchen sent Li Hui, a member of the Privy Council, as a patrol envoy to the river, and led 5,000 elite cavalry to inspect the banks of the Yellow River.

Afraid that the soldiers on the front line would not be effective, Zhao Huan took out a large amount of gold and silver treasures under very difficult financial circumstances, and asked Li Hui to take them to reward the Song soldiers guarding the Yellow River.

Zhao Huan Junchen believed that they had built such a comprehensive defense facility, relying on the natural danger of the Yellow River, as long as the 200,000 Song soldiers guarding the Yellow River worked together, they would definitely be able to block the cadres north of the Yellow River......

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In mid-November, Li Cunqin led the left and right cadres to the Yellow River.

The reason why it was delayed for such a long time was that Li Cun ordered all the Song troops in Hebei and Hedong to be cleared of the areas that had been defeated by the Qian's army, and at the same time, Li Cun arranged for the best officials of the Great Qian Dynasty to govern the areas that had been defeated, so that the areas of Hebei and Hedong that had been defeated were completely stable, and in order to completely occupy Hebei and Hedong, Li Cun also arranged a lot of troops to deploy defenses in the key places of Hebei and Hedong.

In this way, it is inevitable that Li Cun will be delayed a lot of time.

Later, Li Cun saw that if he continued to grind like this, he might delay his complete annihilation of the royal family and clan of the Zhao Song Dynasty and overthrow the Zhao Song Dynasty.

Li Cun did not continue to sweep the southern part of Hebei for the time being, and led the army to bypass the heavily defended area of Cizhou where the Song army had arranged heavy defenses, and came to the north bank of the Yellow River in this area of Heyang.

Knowing that Li Cunqin led the army to the Yellow River, Zhe Yanzhi did not dare to defend Heyang anymore, but decisively retreated to the south bank of the Yellow River and joined Li Huixiang, who led 5,000 cavalry to the edge of the Yellow River.

As a result, there was a situation in which the Song army was encamped on the south bank of the Yellow River, and the cadres were encamped on the north bank of the Yellow River, and the two armies faced each other across the river.

At this time, Wu Desi, the pro-army Duwei Mansion and the Military Intelligence Department had already transmitted back all the situation of the Song army.

Based on the intelligence department's intelligence on the south bank of the Yellow River, many cadres and generals believed that the Song army was well prepared and could not easily cross the river.

After Li Zheng read the information transmitted back by Wu Desi, the pro-army Duwei Mansion and the Military Intelligence Department, he educated the generals: "When analyzing intelligence, you must pay attention to details, not one-sided, you need to know that every word on the intelligence you see is obtained by the intelligence officers at the front with their blood and lives." ”

After speaking, Li Cun picked out the information about the source, composition, morale, equipment, and fear of the cadres and soldiers of the Song army transmitted by the Wu Desi, the pro-army Duwei Office, and the Military Intelligence Department, and let the generals see it. I will make a false noise, take the drums of war in the army, and beat them to the end, and their army will change. ”

Li Cundu said so, how dare the cadres and generals disobey orders?

That night, the officers and men of the cadre army, in accordance with Li Cun's order, beat the war drums in the camp all night.

Zhi Yanzhi was worried that the cadres would suddenly kill the Yellow River, so he ordered people to burn down the Heyang pontoon bridge.

At this time, there were still many subordinate officials of the Xuanfu Division of Hebei and Hedong of the Zhao and Song dynasties, as well as the magistrates of Heyang, who did not escape the Yellow River, and the key was that more than 10,000 war horses did not escape the Yellow River, and there were also many gold, silver, and silk silks belonging to the Xuanfu Division that had not had time to be transported to the south bank of the Yellow River - only the property abandoned by the panicked personnel of the Xuanfu Division on the Yellow River beach in Heyang exceeded one million.

Seeing this, the officers and men of the cadres and soldiers made up their minds, and they also admired Li Cun's perceptive gaze more and more.

The next day, as soon as it was dawn, Li Cun asked Wu to send a commando team to cross the Yellow River from a shallow place, and then set up camp behind the Song army.

As early as when he first arrived on the bank of the Yellow River, Li Cun asked Wu Lan to send people from the Qinghe boundary to explore the way to cross the river, and at the same time asked the locals about where there was shallow water to cross the river directly.

As a result, it just so happens that it is the dry season of the Yellow River, and there are many places in the Yellow River where the water is not too deep to wade through.

After Zhang Xian received Wu Lan's order, he quietly found a place where no one was there to cross the river with the enemy army of his headquarters, and then camped behind the camp of the Song army according to Li Cun's instructions.

Just as Li Cun's "analysis", don't look at the fact that Zhi Yanzhi has an army of 120,000 in his hands, but most of these horses are frightened birds who fled south from Hebei and Hedong, and there are also many recruits who have never fought a battle.

The combat effectiveness of these Song army soldiers can be imagined.

Zhi Yanzhi is a veteran general of the Western Army, he is the general who recommended Zhao Huan to the Seed Master Dao before his death, and he can be regarded as the successor of the Seed Master Dao.

Moreover, Zhe Yanzhi was one of the few generals in the Song army who dared to fight the cadres head-on.

But Zhi Yanzhi, who has always been fighting on the front line, knows too much about the current situation of the Song army, and knows that the 120,000 horses in his hands are only an empty shelf, and he can't fight at all.

Therefore, seeing that the cadres were camping behind him, he thought that the cadres had all crossed the Yellow River, and hurriedly led the Chinese army under his direct command to retreat south.

The other Song armies, seeing that the commander had run away, all collapsed without a fight.

In this way, the Yellow River defense line, which was regarded as impregnable by Zhao Huan Junchen, was self-defeating.

Li Hui, who was guarding the Yellow River with Zhe Yanzhi, heard that the cadres had crossed the river, and he also hurriedly fled south.

When Li Cun's feet once again set foot on the land on the south bank of the Yellow River, and saw the flags, grain and grass, baggage, gold, silver and silk silks thrown by the Song army everywhere, Li Cun said domineeringly: "The Jiangshan Sheji of Zhao and Song Dynasty is mine." ”

When the civil and military officials of the Great Qian Dynasty beside Li Cun heard Li Cun's words that made them extremely excited, they shouted one after another: "Long live!" Banzai! Long live our emperor! ”

Seeing this scene, many of the officials of the former Zhao and Song Dynasty who were thrown into the sightseeing group by Li Cun sighed for a long time, and some even felt painful.

These people have been with Li Cun for a while, and they don't know that Li Cun is a person who never speaks wildly, and even usually speaks very conservatively in words and deeds, and rarely talks full, so if it weren't for Li Cun's full certainty, Li Cun would not have been able to say that the Jiangshan Sheji of the Zhao and Song Dynasty was his own.

The key is that it doesn't matter what Li Cun says.

The important thing is that Li Cun brought 200,000 elite troops from the south this time, of which there were almost 80,000 cavalry alone.

In the face of so many elites in a hundred battles, the Song army may not be able to defeat even at its peak, not to mention that the elite of the Song army has been beaten into a frightened bird by the cadre army.

The key is that Tokyo Bianliang City is the only natural danger Yellow River in the north, so easily given by the cadre army, and next, it is the plain area of Pingchuan, if you hurry up, these 80,000 elite cavalry can kill Tokyo Bianliang City in one day.

The Zhao Song Dynasty definitely didn't have a chance......

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