Qian Song

Chapter 259 Li Cun: Zhao Song is Mine (Ask for a monthly ticket!)

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In November, Li Cun led a total of 20 troops on the left and right, and they were getting closer and closer to the Yellow River.

And the ministers Zhao Huan sent to negotiate peace with Li Cun, if he went to one, Li Cun would deduct one, and if he went two, Li Cun would deduct one pair. So far, none of them can come back.

Under such circumstances, Tang Ke, Geng Nanzhong and other Zai Zhi, who advocated peace talks, said to Zhao Huan: "I am afraid that the status of the peace talks sent by me in the Song Dynasty is too low, so the emperor will not pay attention to it. Fang has not made any contributions. Why not?" Send a prince to negotiate peace?"

After listening to the suggestions of Tang Ke, Geng Nanzhong and other Zaizhi, Zhao Huan thought of his good brother Kang Wang Zhaogou, who is both civil and military, and felt that only Zhao Gou's negotiation of peace could stop Li Cun from attacking Song Dynasty.

Therefore, Zhao Huanxuan and Zhao Gou had an audience, and told Zhao Gou that he wanted Zhao Gou to meet Li Cunyihe.

How can Zhao Gou, who has been paying attention to current affairs, not know that none of the ministers sent by Zhao Huan to Li Cun's peace talks recently came back?
Therefore, Zhao Gou was very clear. At this time, he went to Li Cun's place to negotiate a peace.

Zhao Huan knew very well in his heart that he asked his good brother Zhao Gou to negotiate a peace, which was almost the same as letting his good brother Zhao Gou go to die.

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

The other Song armies from all walks of life saw that the commander had run away, and they all collapsed without fighting.

The civil and military officials of the Daqian Dynasty around Li Cun heard Li Cun's words that made them extremely excited, and they all shouted: "Long live! Long live! Long live my emperor!"

These people have been with Li Cun for a while, and they are all clear. Li Cun never speaks wildly, and even his words and deeds are very conservative in his usual words and deeds. It is impossible to say that the country and society of the Zhao and Song Dynasties are their own.

Some people think that Hebei and Hedong are the barriers of the Zhao Song Dynasty in the north. Once they are abandoned, the Zhao Song Dynasty will never have peace, and the emperor Zhao Huan will definitely be able to rest easy from now on.

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

In the early morning of the next day, Zhao Gou left Bianliang City in Tokyo together with Feng Yu, a member of the Privy Council, and others.

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

Wang Yun said to Zhao Gou: "The situation has changed. The Emperor Daqian must cede Hebei and Hedong edicts before he is willing to discuss the matter of peace. Wang Yun returns to the capital first and asks his majesty to issue an edict on cession, and then the king goes to discuss peace. Only then can things be done. Go now No intention."

Li Hui, who guarded the Yellow River with Zhe Yanzhi, also fled south in a hurry when he heard that the Qian army had crossed the river.

In addition, there are more than a dozen tricksters who are determined not to express their views.

The point is, what Li Cun said is not important.

Just in case, Zhao Huanjun and his ministers sent Li Hui, a member of the Privy Council, Tongzhi, as an envoy to patrol the river, and led [-] elite cavalry to patrol the banks of the Yellow River.

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

Zhao Huan was furious: "Qing is the prime minister, why don't you make a decision!"

In addition to sending people to negotiate peace, Zhao Huan and his ministers made certain military arrangements.

After Wang Yun went down, he happened to meet Zhao Gou and Feng Xie and his party who were going north.

It's a pity that Xing Bingyi has not been able to conceive Zhao Gou's child in the four years since he married Zhao Gou.

Zhao Huan asked Tang Ke to help him come up with an idea—in fact, he wanted Tang Ke to help him back the pot.

Knowing that Li Cunqin led an army to the Yellow River, Zhe Yanzhi did not dare to guard Heyang anymore, but retreated decisively to the south bank of the Yellow River, and joined Li Hui who led [-] cavalry to the Yellow River.

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

Based on the information of the Song army on the south bank of the Yellow River ascertained by the intelligence department, many generals of the dry army believed that the Song army was well prepared and could not cross the river easily. They suggested that Li Cun let the soldiers of the dry army who had been fighting for a long time rest for a while. Then think about the long term.

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

At this time, many subordinate officials of the Hebei and Hedong Xuanfu Divisions of the Zhao and Song Dynasties and the local officials of Heyang did not escape the Yellow River. The key point is that more than 1 war horses did not escape the Yellow River. The large amount of gold, silver, silk and silks that were collected did not have time to be transported to the south bank of the Yellow River—only the property abandoned on the Yellow River beach in Heyang by the personnel of the panic-stricken Xuanfu Division exceeded 100 million strands.

After finishing speaking, Li Cun picked out the information about the source, composition, morale, equipment, and degree of fear of the soldiers of the Song Army from the Wu De Division, the Pro-Army Duwei Mansion, and the Military Intelligence Department, and asked the generals to Look, at the same time he said convincingly: "Although the Song army is numerous, most of them are frightened birds, and they are not to be feared. I will make false noises and take all the drums from the army. If they hit the drums, their army will definitely change."

——As early as when he first arrived at the bank of the Yellow River, Li Cun asked Wu Lin to send people from Qinghejie to explore the way to cross the river. At the same time, he asked the locals if there was any place with shallow water to cross the river directly.

Regarding this, Zhao Gou could only sigh leisurely, regretting that he should have wanted to fight for his position in the royal family of Zhao Song.

The reason why it took so long is that Li Cun ordered to wipe out all the Song troops in Hebei and Hedong areas that were defeated by the Qian army. At the same time, Li Cun arranged for the best officials of the Dagan Dynasty to manage the defeated In order to completely stabilize the beaten areas of Hebei and Hedong, and in order to completely occupy Hebei and Hedong, Li Cun also deployed many troops to deploy defenses in the key areas of Hebei and Hedong.

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

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

Seeing this scene, many officials of the former Zhao and Song Dynasty who were thrown into the sightseeing group by Li Cun sighed, and some of them were even in pain.

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 again.

That night, according to Li Cun's order, the generals of the Gan army beat the drums in the camp all night.

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

The people were far away, so Xing Bingyi asked with great concern: "Has your majesty ever withdrawn his order?"

In addition to the four general managers that have been set up around Bianliang City in Tokyo, that is, the four defense areas of east, south, west, and north, Zhao Huanjun and his ministers also deployed Xuanfu Deputy Envoy Zhe Yanzhi to lead an army of 12 to guard the Heyang area. On the Yellow River, Xuanfu Envoy Fan Ne was deployed to lead an army of [-] to guard the Yellow River in Huazhou and Junzhou.

After Zhang Xian received Wu Lin's order, he took the enemy-breaking army of his headquarters to quietly find a place where no one was around to cross the river, and then set up camp behind the Song Army's camp according to Li Cun's instructions.

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In this way, the Song army camped on the south bank of the Yellow River, and the Qian army camped on the south bank of the Yellow River, and the two armies faced each other across the river.

Orihiko is a veteran general of the Western Army, and he was the general recommended to Zhao Huan before Zhong Shidao died, and he can be regarded as Zhong Shidao's successor.

Li Cun said so, how dare all the generals dare not obey orders?

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

When Zhao Gou returned to Prince Kang's mansion, Xing Bingyi, Tian Chunluo and Jiang Zuimei, who had already learned that Zhao Huan was going to ask Zhao Gou to meet Li Cun, came up to meet him.

When Xing Bingyi married Zhao Gou, Zhao Gou was still a prince who was extremely unfavorable to Zhao Ji. His life was quite simple and unpretentious, with no future at all.

With Tang Ke's words, after thinking about it, Zhao Huan summoned all civil and military officials and asked them to vote whether they agreed to cede Hebei and Hedong.

Later, Li Cun saw that if he continued to dawdle 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.

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

Moreover, Orihiko was one of the few generals in the Song army who dared to fight the Qian army head-on.

——Zhao Huan wants the ministers of the Zhao and Song Dynasty to cede the cauldron of Hebei and Hedong together, so that all the responsibility will not fall on him in the end.

The combat effectiveness of these Song Army generals can be imagined.

In addition, Zhao Gou's concubine Xing Bingyi is pregnant.

Orihiko was worried that the Qian army would suddenly kill the Yellow River, so he ordered people to burn down the Heyang floating bridge.

Zhao Gou shook his head.

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

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.

Seeing this, Xing Bingyi, Tian Chunluo, and Jiang Zuimei couldn't help showing sad expressions. The five daughters of Zhao Gou, including Kang Dazongji Zhao Foyou, either showed sad expressions like their mothers, or they were too young. At a loss.

Some implored Zhao Huan to make a quick decision and give up Hebei and Hedong in exchange for the country and peace of the Zhao and Song Dynasties.

In addition, Zhao Huan also gave Zhao Gou a lot of property, and even gave Zhao Gou the jade belt that was given to him when Zhao Ji gave him the Zen throne.

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First of all, of course, going to negotiate peace with Li Cun this time is really too dangerous, and it is not an exaggeration to describe it as "near death".

Just like Li Cun's "analysis", although Zhe Yanzhi has 12 troops in his hands, most of these troops are frightened birds who fled south after being defeated from Hebei and Hedong. In addition, many of them have not fought a single battle. past recruits.

Seeing this, the generals of the Qian army were determined, and they admired Li Cun's insightful gaze even more.

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At this time, Wu Desi, the pro-army Duwei Mansion and the Military Intelligence Department have sent back all the information about the Song Army.

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

In this way, the Yellow River defense line, which was regarded as impenetrable by Zhao Huan and his ministers, collapsed without attack.

But Orihiko, who has always been fighting on the front line, knows the current situation of the Song Army very well. He knows that the 12 horses in his hands are nothing but empty shelves, and he cannot fight at all.

What Li Cun never expected was that because he wanted to stabilize Zhao Huan, he actually saved Zhao Gou's life.

As soon as Wang Yun heard that Li Cun had given him so little time, he hurried south and went south to Bianliang City in Tokyo to ask Zhao Huan to issue an edict to cede the land.

But what Zhao Huan said was not wrong. He Tang Ke was the prime minister of the Zhao Song Dynasty, and he had to bear some blame.

When Li Cun set his feet on the land on the south bank of the Yellow River again, he saw the flags, food and grass, luggage, gold, silver and silk thrown down everywhere by the Song army. It's gone."

So, Zhao Huan sent Zhao Gou and Wang Yun to meet Li Cun with gifts, and ceded Hebei and Hedong to make peace...

After Li Cun had read the information sent back by Wu Desi, the Pro-Military Duwei Mansion, and the Military Intelligence Department, he educated the generals: "When analyzing information, pay attention to details and not be one-sided. You need to know that the information you see Every single word of this is the blood and life of the intelligence personnel at the front in exchange for it."

The most important thing is that Li Cun brought 20 elite troops to the south this time, of which there were almost [-] cavalry alone.

Li Cun did not continue to sweep the southern part of Hebei for the time being, and led the army to bypass Cizhou, an area heavily defended by the Song army, and came to the north bank of the Yellow River in the area of ​​Heyang.

In this way, it was inevitable that Li Cun would be wasted a lot of time.

Tang Ke knew what it meant when he said what Zhao Huan wanted to hear, and Li Bangyan was his lesson.

Li Cun is a wise man with a lot of worries, but also a loss.

Zhao Huan asked Tang Ke three times, and Tang Ke always answered this way.

There is no way, Zhao Huan can only bite the bullet and decide to cede Hebei and Hedong to ease the difficulties.

So Zhao Gou really didn't want to take the risk of "near death".

Fearing that the soldiers on the front line would not be effective, Zhao Huan took out a lot of gold and silver and asked Li Huidai to reward the soldiers of the Song Army guarding the Yellow River when the finances were very difficult.

But Zhao Huan has already found Zhao Gou, and he has shown both kindness and power. Zhao Gou must go if he wants to go, or if he doesn't go, he has to go.

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

Facing so many elites of hundreds of battles, the Song Army may not be able to defeat even at its peak. What's more, the elites of the Song Army have been beaten into frightened birds by the Gan Army.

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. Therefore, Li Cun let Wang Yun go back to Bianliang City, Tokyo according to Chen Kuutong's advice. Go and tell Zhao Huan that if the Zhao Song Dynasty wants to negotiate a peace, it is not impossible, but Zhao Huan must send the edict of ceding Hebei and Hedong within [-] days before he can discuss peace with Zhao Huan again Otherwise, after [-] days, I will lead an army to cross the Yellow River again and approach the city of Bianliang in Tokyo.

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

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 and can be waded through.

Therefore, after being silent for a while, Tang Ke said: "Today, the capital has no strong mountains and passes, and only one Yellow River can be used as a defense. However, the general is incompetent and lacks the power to defend the enemy. I am afraid that the country's worries will not only be in Hebei and Hedong. Your Majesty should weigh the weight of disasters and blessings, and act arbitrarily. It is better to lose Hebei and Hedong than to put the capital in danger and regret it."

Zhao Huan and his ministers believe that they have built such a comprehensive defense facility, relying on the natural danger of the Yellow River, as long as the small 20 soldiers of the Song Army guarding the Yellow River work together, they will definitely be able to block the main army to the north of the Yellow River...

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Xing Bingyi is the daughter of Zhao Qinglang, Jiedu Envoy of Qingyuan Army in the Southern Song Dynasty, and Wang Xinghuan of An Gongjian. She is beautiful, dignified and not jealous.

The key point is that the Yellow River, the only natural danger in the north of Bianliang City in Tokyo, was easily brought over by the dry army. Next, it is the plain area of ​​Yimapingchuan. If the horse is quick, the [-] elite cavalry can kill Tokyo in a day Bianliang City.

The Zhao Song Dynasty definitely has no chance...

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