20. Is it useless to resist gold?
"Good!"
The second condition is that you must live in this Shaoxing Palace forever in the future, and you must not leave the palace for half a step.
"Would you like to?"
Xu Xian mentioned the second condition.
"Are you going to lock me up in this Shaoxing Palace forever?"
"Good ......!"
"I... Yes! ”
Zhao Gou knew that he had no room for bargaining now.
In order to let His Royal Highness the Crown Prince concentrate on the front line to command the war against Jin, you now need to write a letter to your family, and I will hand it over to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince for you.
Xu Xianti this third article is nothing more than to draw a clear line between himself and the crown prince in front of Zhao Gou, so as not to implicate the crown prince if something happens in the future.
"Good!"
"I say yes!"
"Promise!"
Zhao Gou nodded.
"Good!"
"Since the Holy One has agreed!"
"Come on, take paper and ink, and let the saint sign it!"
Of course, Xu Xian didn't believe Zhao Gou's verbal promise, and he had to sign it to keep the proof.
Subsequently, Xu Xian ordered Zhao Gou to find several palace maids and eunuchs to serve him, and even entrusted Yue Zhen to lead the forbidden army to strictly guard him.
After dealing with the affairs of Emperor Zhao Gou, Xu Xian took a part of the forbidden army and the 40,000 troops that had just been recruited recently, and began to rush to the front line to participate in the anti-Jin war.
Jiankang Province.
"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince!"
"Now the Tartars have successively captured most of our army's Xingyuan Mansion on the Western Front, Xihe Prefecture, Xingzhou, Lizhou, and Bazhou have fallen one after another, and Liu Chengcheng, the magistrate of Dazhou, has abandoned the city and fled, and he doesn't know where to go, and Tongchuan Mansion is also in danger!"
"If Tongchuan Mansion is lost, then the Tartars will probably continue to move south, and the entire land of Chengdu Mansion will become an island, and sooner or later it will be lost in the hands of the Tartars!"
"Therefore, Shen Tianhua, the envoy of the Southwest Jiedu, has already sent three envoys to ask Your Highness for reinforcements!"
Yu Yunwen, a scholar from the middle school, reported to Zhao Tuan.
"My Great Song Dynasty garrisoned troops in Chengdu Mansion and other places in the southwest, but there were nearly 200,000 of them, and the invading Tartars were only 100,000, how could they be beaten into such an embarrassment?"
"It's infuriating... Angry! ”
After Zhao Tuan heard the report on the war on the Western Front, his face was displeased.
"Now there is news from the middle line that although the 70,000 Tartar army has captured Junzhou, our army, under the command of Zhou Dingying, the prefect of Xiangyang, gave the Tartars a blow to the head and killed a Wujie general of the Tartars, making the Tartars retreat, and they dare not attack our army's Xiangyang Mansion for the time being!"
"So now the prefect of Xiangyang, Zhou Ding, in order to defeat the Tartars as soon as possible, is asking His Highness to increase your troops in Xiangyang, and use Xiangyang as a breakthrough to block the delusion of the Tartars to invade the south again!"
Yu Yunwen continued to report.
"Zhou Ding really lived up to the expectations of this palace!"
"You have to give it a good reward!"
"It seems that the Tartars are not invincible anymore!"
When Zhao Tuan heard the news, his displeasure just now was swept away.
"The eastern front is also the direction in which the Tartars are attacking our army now, and the Tartar Emperor Wanyan Liang has already sat in Shouchun, and his troops on the eastern front are probably nearly 500,000!"
"And our army Huaixi is under the control of the king, and when I heard that the Tartar army was approaching, I have disappeared, and now Luzhou and Hezhou have been occupied by the Tartar army one after another!"
"The Tartar army is already close to the Yangtze River, and our army has been forced to retreat to the north of the river for the final defense due to the lack of a commander and low morale!"
"Commander Zhang Zhen is now asking His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, you allow the army from Jiangbei to cross the river and withdraw to the south bank, and use the Yangtze River as a moat to organize the defense of the Jin people!"
Yu Yunwen continued to report.
"What?"
"The royal power of the capital actually escaped from the battle?"
"This animal, this livestock, this bastard, this account thing!"
After Zhao Tuan heard the news of the Eastern Front, he gritted his teeth again.
"And the sailors!"
"Originally, our army had an absolute advantage over the Tartar army in terms of sailors!"
"However, due to the disuse of our army's armament in recent years, especially the abandonment of the training of the sailors, the general quality of the soldiers is low, and the combat power is no longer as good as that of Song Jinyi and the previous Sancheng!"
"On the contrary, in the past 20 years, Tatar has taken the opportunity of shipping convenience in Haizhou, Huaisi and other places to recruit the old sailor division who defected from my Great Song Dynasty and vigorously develop its sailor!"
"Now the strength of the Tartar sailor is not inferior to our army, so the Tartar sailor is now moving south from Chuzhou, all the way without resistance, and even Yangzhou, the only important town in our Jiangbei now, has begun to die!"
After Yu Yunwen finished speaking, his expression was also very solemn at this time.
"What?"
"Even our army's sailors are not as good as the Tartars?"
"That'...... Then how can our army rely on this Yangtze River moat to defend against the Tartar attack? ”
Zhao Tuan was shocked when he heard that the sailors that he had always been proud of in the Great Song Dynasty had actually been defeated in the hands of the Jin people.
"How's that going to be?"
"The western front needs reinforcements, the central front also needs reinforcements, and the eastern front is even more lacking in troops to defend it!"
"How does this make this decision?"
"If Xu Qing is here, he will definitely have an idea!"
"What about Xu Qing?"
"When will Xu Qing come to the front line to help the palace fight against gold!"
Zhao Tuan couldn't help but look a little at a loss.
"Your Highness!"
"Your Highness, the minister is willing to recommend himself to Jiangbei and receive the army of the royal power to resist Jin!"
Yu Yunwen suddenly recommended himself.
"Yu Qing, you are a scholar who doesn't know anything about military affairs, how can you command the battle against Jin?"
"You better stay by the side of the palace, stay and report the news for the palace, and give advice!"
"This palace has already thought of replacing the king's general!"
Zhao Tuan naturally didn't dare to trust Yu Yunwen, who had never fought at all.
"Then I wonder who your Highness is the general in your heart to replace the royal power?"
Yu Yunwen immediately asked.
"Li Xianzhong!"
"What do you think?"
Zhao responded.
"This Li Xianzhong is indeed brave and excellent in martial arts, but after all, he is a "three-surname slave", who has taken refuge in Tartar, Western Xia, and now in our Great Song Dynasty! ”
"Although it has defeated the invasion of the Tartars many times, but let it take over the army of the royal power, Your Highness, you are not afraid that when the time comes, this Li Xianzhong will accept the benefits of the Tartars, lead the army to take refuge in the Tartars, and rebel against our Great Song Dynasty?"
"If the army of the royal power in Jiangbei takes refuge in the Tartars, then the Tartars will drive straight in, and our entire Great Song Dynasty will probably fall into the hands of the Tartars!"
"So Your Highness, if you want to reuse this Li Xianzhong, you must be cautious!"
Yu Yunwen naturally heard about Li Xianzhong.
"Since Yue Fei died unjustly, the heir's family was destroyed, Han Shizhong abandoned Wu Congwen and went into hiding, Liu Guangshi and Zhang Jun died one after another, none of these two generals' heirs can take on a big responsibility, and my Great Song Dynasty has already faced a situation where there are no generals available!"
"If you don't reuse Li Xianzhong, how can I use my Great Song Dynasty?"
At this time, Zhao Tuan's resentment against the lack of generals was already floating on his face.