The Richest Man in the Heavens Starts from Outlaws of the Marsh

Chapter 127
Du Yu personally supervised the battle, and the morale of the Wei army was high.

However, Xu Guanzhong was still stable and stable, and he did not use the blood of his brothers to stain his official robes red. He still used the counterweight trebuchet as a siege weapon to seize the opportunity before letting his subordinates attack. This method is deeply respected and loved by the brothers in the Wei army.

Du Yu also greatly appreciated this, and a general who cherishes his soldiers is a qualified general.

The Wei army did not disappoint him either. After smashing down the wall of Wengcheng, they defeated the Song army defending the city within an hour.

After the trebuchet approached, the old trick was repeated, still bombarding the city wall every day, but everyone in Bianliang City knew what would be faced once the city was broken.

At this time, a fierce debate was going on in the Great Song Dynasty Hall.

The prime ministers Bai Shizhong and Li Bangyan said that the capital could not be defended and had to be avoided.

Li Gang retorted: "Which city in the world can be as strong as the capital? And the ancestral temple, the shrine, the officials, and the people are all here, how can they be lost! Today's plan is to rectify the army and horses, unite the army and the people, stick to the capital, and wait for the king's division. .”

"Now that the Wengcheng has been broken, don't you think it's ridiculous that Mr. Li is still waiting for the illusory Master Qin Wang?" Bai Shizhong sneered.

"Yes, Your Majesty, the Wei army is attacking the city day and night. I am afraid that the city walls of Bianliang will not last long. Can your majesty keep the ancestral temple and the community? Yichen thinks that your majesty might as well follow in the footsteps of the Supreme Emperor and go to the south of the Yangtze River to avoid it first." Let’s wait and see how things develop.” Li Bangyan said.

Zhao Huan could hear the sound of stones thrown by Wei's trebuchet hitting the city wall in the palace, and he had long since lost his belief in defending the city.

Li Gang was about to say something.

A servant came out from the palace and said, "Your Majesty, the queen is ready to leave."

Zhao Huan's expression changed after hearing this, and he immediately said: "Bai Xianggong and Li Xianggong are right. If I don't leave, I will only fall into the hands of the Wei people, and the country and society will also be lost."

Li Gang burst into tears after hearing this, and Bangbang kowtowed to keep Zhao Huan in death.

After a while, Zhao Huan calmed down a bit, and said to Li Gang: "I accept Qing's request to stay here, and you are fully responsible for managing the army and defending against the enemy. You must not be negligent."

Li Gang kowtowed his head to thank him, and hurried back to straighten out his armaments, encouraging the army to defend Bianliang City to the death.

How did Li Gang know that as soon as he left, Bai Shizhong and Li Bangyan came to persuade Zhao Huan to leave the place of right and wrong immediately.

Zhao Huan made a decision immediately, and left Bianliang with his family the next day.

Du Yu didn't know the changes in the palace, but he was very clear about the situation in the city, because Shi Qian had already made arrangements, and now there are many spies from the Wei army in Bianliang city.

He soon learned that Li Gang served as the left behind in Tokyo, responsible for defending Bianliang in Tokyo and resisting the Wei army.

Du Yu immediately thought of a scene that happened in real history. The process of negotiating peace between Zhao Huan and the Jinren can be called the essence of human stupidity.

But the world of Water Margin is not real history after all, the current situation is somewhat similar, but the details are quite different.

However, he can still try to take advantage of the opportunity of the peace talks to take down Bianliang City. It would be a pity if the first city in the world is destroyed by war if he is not good at war.

So, he went to Xu Guanzhong's Chinese military tent to discuss with him.

The information about the peace talks that night appeared on Li Gang's desk. Of course, several such leaflets were also thrown into the houses of Bai Shizhong and Li Bangyan.

The two were overjoyed when they saw that they could negotiate a peace, so they went to the palace to see Zhao Huan that night.

Zhao Huan became interested when he heard that peace could be negotiated, and he was willing to pay any price if he could keep the throne.

The next day, seeing that the Wei army stopped bombarding the city wall, he really gave up the idea of ​​fleeing, and instead summoned the monarchs and ministers to discuss the matter of peace.

Those idiots in Bianliang City have long been frightened by the momentum of the Wei army, and the real main fighters are only a few people such as Li Gang.

The minority obeyed the majority, and the officials wanted to negotiate a peace, so Li Gang had no way to object, so he proposed to Zhao Huan to send him to the Wei military camp.

Zhao Huan said: "The Qing family is responsible for guarding the city, and the country's security depends on Qing. How can you leave? Let Li Yan go."

Just like that, Li Yan, the famous softie in history, went out of the city and came to meet Xu Guanzhong in the Wei army camp.

Because of his unequal status, he didn't even see Du Yu's face.

According to the results of last night's discussion, Xu Guanzhong proposed several terms, including: giving the Wei army 500 million taels of gold, 5000 million taels of silver, 100 cattle and horses, and [-] million pieces of silk, and recognizing the state capital currently occupied by the Wei army as the territory of the Great Wei. In addition, the prime minister and the prince should be sent as hostages to the Wei army camp.

Hearing such terms, Li Xun was dumbfounded, but when he entered the camp of the Wei army and saw a forest of spears in the camp, that softie was just like in real history, and ran back to deliver the letter without even daring to say a fart.

"Your Majesty, can the Zhao family really agree to such terms?" Xu Guanzhong said, in fact, when he heard Du Yu talking about it yesterday, he thought it was too outrageous.

"I guess, yes." Du Yu said.

What he wanted was similar to what the people of the Kingdom of Jin had asked for in real history. This guy wanted to see if there was a man in the old Zhao family who dared to stand up.

Zhao Huan also had a headache after hearing the terms of peace brought back by Li Yan, but both Bai Shizhong and Li Bangyan persuaded him to accept it.

Only Li Gang argued with reason, saying: "The gold and silk demanded by the Wei army can't be satisfied with all the wealth in the world. How can we establish a country if we admit that the land occupied by the Wei army is the territory of the Wei state? As for the hostages, the prime minister can go. People who are eloquent and eloquent, go to discuss terms with Wei Jun, and explain what can be agreed and what cannot be agreed."

Zhao Huan remained silent.

Upon seeing this, Li Gang said again: "As long as the negotiation delays for a few days, King Qin's army will definitely arrive. At that time, the terms proposed by Wei Jun cannot be realized. Even if they do not retreat and negotiate with him at that time, he will not dare to despise us. Only a peaceful situation can be achieved. long."

Bai Shizhong and Li Bangyan argued fiercely with him, but the rightful master Zhao Huan remained silent.

Li Gang immediately understood something in his heart, and immediately asked to resign in tears. He turned around and left, and Zhao Huan immediately agreed to Dawei's peace negotiation conditions.

With the present treasury of the Great Song Dynasty, there is no such a large amount of goods at all, Bai Shizhong immediately offered a plan to ask Zhao Huan to search the people in the city to gather wealth to meet the other party's request.

Zhao Huan, who was bent on negotiating peace, accepted it all, and handed over the task to Bai Shizhong and Li Bangyan.

There was a sudden burst of chaos in Bianliang City, and the people in the city were tortured unspeakably.

However, Zhao Huan was not at ease at this time, because Wei still wanted a prince to go to the military camp as a hostage.

Fortunately, there really is a man among Zhao Ji's descendants, Kang Wang Zhao Gou volunteered to go to the Great Wei Army Camp as a hostage.

In this way, Zhao Gou came to the Great Wei barracks to meet Du Yu.

Du Yu originally admired Wan Yangou's courage, but the communication between the two after meeting made him want to say he, tui.

Zhao Jiumei's first sentence was that the official Zhao Huan hoped that Wei would give him more time so that they could get together the more than 500 million taels of gold.

Du Yu's expression was very rich, with anger, contempt, happiness and sadness, it was really tasteless.

Xu Guanzhong looked at him from the side, and thought to himself that perhaps this was the reason why His Majesty formed a rebel army to replace Zhao Song. After all, he was a descendant who hated Song's history of humiliation very much.

After Zhao Gou finished speaking, he saw that Emperor Wei remained silent for a long time, and the arrogance in his heart was swept away immediately, and he no longer had the determination to die generously like before he came here.

"Xu Shuai, put him in the barracks first, and continue to follow the plan." Du Yu said.

He suddenly lost the joy of victory, and went back to his military tent to adjust his emotions in a complicated mood.

Zhao Jiu didn't know why, but he didn't dare to make mistakes in the enemy camp and could only let the Wei army be at the mercy of the Wei army. Fortunately, the Wei army soldiers were not from the Kingdom of Jin, so they still gave him the face of a prince.

With the prince as a hostage, the monarchs and ministers of Song Dynasty got another ten days of respite.In order to collect the goods that Wei needed as soon as possible, Bai Shizhong and Li Bangyan really worked hard.

The common people and wealthy merchants in the city suffered a lot. In fact, not to mention them, even the properties of those low-level officials were confiscated and collected.

Many of them were members of the Forbidden Army of the Great Song Dynasty. Under the encouragement of Li Gang, the Sixth Army who defended the city had decided to stick to Bianliang City to protect the parents and relatives behind them.Being dealt with like this not only demoralized, but also aroused the indignation of many soldiers, and some even planned to defect and surrender.

This is what Du Yu's strategy of reconciliation wanted, even though it cost hundreds of millions of dollars.

(End of this chapter)