In the Southern Song Dynasty, I competed with Mongolia for the world

Chapter 427 Who killed the Song emperor?

After seeing the artillery that day, Wo Kuotai's confidence greatly increased, and his desire to conquer the Song Dynasty surged again.

Originally, he admired the Song emperor Zhao Yurui for daring to risk his life to come to Baozhou to negotiate peace with him. Although many Mongolian nobles strongly requested to take the opportunity to kill Zhao Yurui, he did not immediately agree.

But he always wanted to attack and destroy the Song Dynasty to avenge Xixia.

Now that Mongolia has obtained sharp weapons and artillery, Wokuotai is full of confidence, and the murderous intention hidden in his heart is also surged.

However, he considers himself a warrior on the grassland. Zhao Yurui went to your Mongolian territory to negotiate peace, but he was embarrassed to kill people.

At this time, Wokuotai considered finding an excuse to refuse peace talks with Song Dynasty, so that he could attack Song Dynasty again.

He returned to his residence thoughtfully. When the nobles dispersed, he looked up at everyone and motioned for Yelu Chucai and his son Heshu to follow him in.

Guiyu and Hedan went to the west, and Kuoduan was in Xixia. Kuochu died of illness the year before last, and his youngest son Mieri was in his territory. Now he has Heshi and Hacha Laer by his side.

After the three people entered the room, Wo Kuotai did not speak, but was silent for a while. Yelu Chucai saw his intention and knew that the Great Khan wanted to destroy Song Dynasty, but did not want to kill Zhao Yurui in Baozhou.

The best way is to overturn the peace negotiation.

But Wokuotai had promised before, and Baozhou, Hejian, Cangzhou, Dezhou and other places were also making arrangements to welcome and escort Emperor Zhao Yurui of the Song Dynasty.

"Is Hehan in trouble?" Yelu Chucai asked at this time.

Wokuotai nodded silently.

The five sons beside him immediately said: "What's wrong with Father Khan? In that case, it's better to simply kill the Dog Emperor of the Song Dynasty."

When he spoke, his mouth was filled with the smell of wine, which made Wo Kuotai frown and take half a step back in broad daylight.

Heshu was very addicted to alcohol and later died from drinking. Wogotai actually liked Heshu, but he hated his shortcoming of being an alcoholic.

"Damn it, as a Hehan, how can I do such a thing?" Wo Kuotai said angrily.

Heshu immediately added: "Zhao Yurui is despicable and has no bottom line in his work. Shi Miyuan helped him get the position. After he took the position, he immediately excepted Shi Miyuan. How can such a person be moral?"

He Shi said again: "Back then, he used the road to conquer the Jin, and then he joined forces with the Jin to attack Mongolia, and finally he beat the Jin people behind the Jin Kingdom. Zhao Yurui did so many things that violated the faith, and my father was sweating. Don’t be fooled by him.”

Many people have said this to Ogedai before.

Zhao Yurui did have too many bad deeds before.

But from Wokuotai's point of view, as an emperor, he should not stick to trivial matters. The unethical things Zhao Yurui did were indeed beneficial to the Song Dynasty court and the officials and people.

Zhao Yurui's other credit is quite good. He has not used any troops in the past five years since he negotiated peace with Mongolia. He earns a penny every year.

There are benefits to both sides from doing business.

But the biggest problem is Ogedai's face.

As the Great Khan of Mongolia, can he do this? If my father was here, would he do it?

He couldn't help but think of his father, Genghis Khan. If Genghis Khan was here and Zhao Yurui dared to come over, would Genghis Khan kill him?

Genghis Khan will definitely not kill.

"Let me think about it again." Wo Kuotai had no choice but to drag it out a little longer, his brows knitted together.

At this moment, someone outside reported that the fourth prince of the Great Khan, Harachar, was back.

Haraza'er and his elder brothers Guiyou and Kuochu were all born to Naima Zhen.

However, Ma Zhenshi did not like Hara Chaer and Kuo Chu, and only preferred Gui You.

Among his sons in Wokuotai, his presence is also quite low, and there is no record of him in history.

Harachal came back and reported to his father Khan that Zhao Yurui, the emperor of the Song Dynasty, had arrived in Dezhou by boat and was heading to Cangzhou.

Dezhou Zabili's eight-hundred-mile fast cavalry came back to report as soon as possible.

The Mongolian army's Shi Tianlu tribe, with 5,000 cavalry, followed the Song army's ships along the coast, all the way to Cangzhou.

"The Song army had more than 20 large and small ships, about 2,000 people, and hundreds of carriages."

"So fast?" Wo Kuotai didn't expect that Emperor Zhao Yurui of the Song Dynasty would come as soon as he asked.

It was only early July. The two sides had agreed to negotiate peace in Baozhou in August. According to the previous itinerary, it took two days by water and five days by land. In early to mid-July, Zhao Yurui would be able to arrive in Baozhou, which was ahead of schedule.

"Song Dynasty envoy Zhao Gong said that Emperor Zhao Yurui misses his hometown and wants to visit various places. He may be slow to come and go."

Hara Cha'er heard from Zhao Gong, the Song envoy, that Zhao and Rui missed the northern territory. Everywhere they went, they would grab a handful of soil outside the local city and take it away.

It is said that he also went ashore in Dezhou, then walked around outside the city of Dezhou, grabbed a handful of soil, and brought it back to the ship, saying that he missed his homeland.

"Hahaha." Heshi laughed on the spot.

While smiling, he felt something was wrong in the atmosphere.

Everyone in the room looked at him, but he was the only one laughing. Everyone didn't know what he was laughing at.

What's so funny about this?

Isn't it normal for Zhao Yurui to grab a handful of soil outside Dezhou City and bring it back?

He Shi suppressed his laughter and said in a deep voice: "It can be seen that Zhao Yurui is very determined. He definitely wants to take back these Song lands. We should kill him as soon as possible."

Wokuotai had an even worse headache. Just now he was thinking about how to regret negotiating peace with Song, but now Zhao and Rui were on the way.

At this time, Yelu Chucai had no choice but to say: "If you really don't want to negotiate for peace, you can wait until Zhao Yurui arrives and humiliate him in public to force Zhao Yurui to repent. In this way, it will have nothing to do with our Mongolia."

Yelu Chucai was also a talented person and put forward new suggestions.

He saw that Wokuotai was really uncomfortable, and he neither wanted to get along with him nor to kill Zhao Yurui.

So I proposed to humiliate Zhao Yurui in public and temporarily add terms, such as asking Zhao Yurui to marry his daughter to Wo Kuotai's grandson. I heard that Zhao Yurui just gave birth to a daughter a few years ago, who was only five or six years old. Rui married her daughter to Yougui's son Hucha.

In this way, both Zhao and Rui have to call Wo Kuotai daddy.

And how could Zhao Yurui marry his five or six-year-old daughter.

"Hahahaha" Heshu laughed again.

Wokuotai's eyes lit up. If there is really no other way, I can humiliate Zhao and Rui by negotiating peace in Baozhou and force the Song people to actively refuse to negotiate. Then I can attack and destroy the Song Dynasty without breaking my promise?

"If He Khan really decides to do this, he should mobilize his troops as soon as possible and prepare near Dezhou and the daimyo. If the peace negotiation fails, he should immediately strike preemptively."

Yelu Chucai believed that if the peace talks failed, the Mongolian army could preemptively attack Shandong.

If there is a chance, we can cut off Zhao and Rui's return route on the water. If the peace negotiation fails, there seems to be no problem in killing Zhao and Rui again?

Wokuotai thinks this can be done.

He had been struggling for so long and finally made up his mind.

If you humiliate Zhao Yurui in Baozhou, wait for Zhao and Rui to leave the Mongolian territory and enter Linqing, find an opportunity to ambush Zhao Yurui, and kill Zhao Yurui in the Song Dynasty, then Mongolia will not be said to have broken its promise.

Next, Wokuotai mobilized troops and horses to break into the Song Dynasty near Linqing and wait for Zhao Yurui to kill him when he returned. At the same time, he prepared to welcome Zhao Yurui's entry.

As expected, Zhao Yurui walked very slowly. It took four days to walk the waterway for two days, and it took four days to arrive in Cangzhou. Then he stayed in Cangzhou for one night. It is said that he also went to Yanshan, where he grabbed a handful of soil and took it away. Half, the other half was thrown into the floating water. The Fushui River flows straight into the Bohai Sea. Zhao and Rui seem to miss their homeland very much.

At this time, the Mongolian generals stationed in Cangzhou were Yan Shi and Kuo Kuo Buhua.

Yan Shi originally garrisoned Daming, but later Daming was defeated by the Song army, and Yan Shi moved to Cangzhou.

After welcoming Wokuotai in Yizhou in early July, Yan Shi and Kuokuo Buhua returned to Cangzhou to make arrangements to welcome the Song emperor Zhao Yurui.

Not long after Yan Shi returned to Cangzhou Mansion, he heard a report from his servants that a Song merchant named Zhou Neng asked to see Wanhu, saying that he had important matters.

Yan Zhen was now a member of Mongolia's new Han army, so he had no time to meet an ordinary businessman, not to mention that he had never heard of this person named Zhou Neng, so he immediately refused.

Unexpectedly, the servant came back soon and said that Zhou Neng had handed over a letter for Yan Shi to read.

Yan Shi originally wanted to tear it up directly, but after thinking about it, he opened it anyway.

Zhou Neng said that he used to be a subordinate of Yan Shi, named Li Zhong. Later, he was defeated in Shandong and surrendered to the Song army. Now he is a member of the Song army. This time he came to talk about Emperor Zhao and Rui's invasion of Mongolia.

Hiss, Yan Shi's face changed drastically, and he finally thought of Li Zhong.

Li Zhong was indeed his subordinate before, but later in Shandong they were defeated miserably by Peng Yibin and the Song army. Li Zhong fell into that formation and unexpectedly surrendered and followed the Song army.

What do you want to do? Want to persuade me to surrender?

Yan Zhen now has ten thousand households in the Han army in Mongolia, which is considered a high status. Of course, it is impossible to switch to the Song army. Moreover, he and the Song court have a feud, and his whole family was killed by the Song court.

For a moment, Yan Shi wanted to ask someone to capture Li Zhong and chop him down.

But now that Song Meng is negotiating peace, he naturally can't do this casually.

After thinking about it, Yan Shi motioned to the servant to bring Li Zhong in.

After Li Zhong came in, he brought Yan Shi a box of belongings, including many rare things from Southeast Asia. Yan Shi later looked at them and liked them quite a lot.

He claimed to be the commander of the Song Army camp. Yan Shi heard that there were five capitals under the camp commander, which meant he only commanded more than 500 people. His expression was slightly disdainful.

He now has ten thousand households. Although he cannot actually rule ten thousand people, he still has several thousand.

Li Zhong went straight to the point and said that Emperor Zhao Yurui valued Yan Shi and hoped that Yan Shi could join the Song Dynasty. If he wanted to, when Zhao Yurui returned, he could follow Zhao Yurui's ship and move his family to the Song Dynasty.

Yan Shi laughed loudly at first, and then said angrily: "My whole family was killed by the Song people." Where is the family?

Of course, he is now married and has children, but his whole family was killed by Song general Li Xin before.

There is a reason why Yan Shi's whole family was killed. When Muhuali's army arrived in Jinan, Yan Shi, who had strong soldiers and horses, led Hu San in six prefectures: Zhangde Prefecture, Daming Prefecture No. 2 Prefecture, Cizhou, Mingzhou, Enzhou, Bozhou, Huazhou, and Junzhou. One hundred thousand people surrendered directly to Muhuali.

After that, Yan Shi led his troops to fight and left his deputy Li Xin to garrison his hometown Qingya. However, Li Xin refused to surrender to Mongolia. As soon as Yan Shi left, he immediately killed Yan Shi's wife and brother Yan Bin and surrendered to the Song Dynasty.

In fact, he later avenged this revenge, captured Qingya, and killed Li Xin's entire family.

However, there were other family members of Yan Shi at that time, but his luck was not good, and later he fell into the hands of Peng Yibin. Peng Yibin did not kill Yan Shi's family, and placed the remaining family members in Dongping.

When Peng Yibin was fighting with the Mongolian army, Yan Shi later attacked Peng Yibin from behind and killed Peng Yibin.

Peng Yibin had a general named Wang Yishen. After hearing this, he immediately rushed into Dongping and killed Yan Shi's remaining family members.

From then on, Yan Shi believed that the Song Dynasty people had killed his whole family and swore no conflict with the Song Dynasty.

This incident also became his lifelong belief in opposing the Song Dynasty.

After Zhao Yurui arrived, Peng Yibin was not dead. Yan Shi also rebelled and attacked Peng Yibin behind his back. Afterwards, Wang Yishen got the news and rushed into Dongping and killed Yan Shi's remaining family members. He was scolded by Peng Yibin for this.

Peng Yibin was extremely kind and righteous to him, but Yan Shi always believed that his whole family was killed by Song people.

When Li Zhong arrived, he didn't even say a few words to Yan Shi before he was scolded by Yan Shi and told to get out.

Li Zhong didn't say much, clasped his fists and left.

On that day, the boat of Emperor Zhao Yurui of the Song Dynasty was on the water in Cangzhou, and the Song people were preparing to go to Hejian Mansion by land via Cangzhou.

But Yan Shi slept until midnight when he was suddenly woken up.

The visitor was frightened and told him that there was a boat on fire on the water in Cangzhou. It was said to be the boat of Emperor Zhao Yurui of the Song Dynasty.

"What?" Yan Shi was half asleep, but he was fully awake in an instant.

He took his armor and a wave of soldiers and rode horses to the shore. The sound of killing was heard halfway.

When he arrived at the dock outside the city, he saw flames blazing into the sky on both sides of the Wei River. Many Song envoys' boats were on fire. There were shouts of killing on the boats, as if someone was killing. Other boats that were not on fire were heading south. Run away from Song Dynasty.

He stood on the shore with a blank look on his face. He could also see flaming arrows flying in the air, flying towards some ships, and it seemed that there were still people shooting at them.

What happened? Yan Shi vaguely felt that something was wrong, and felt that it was not good for him.

After a while, there was a rumble and strong sound of horse hooves coming from behind.

Another guard, General Meng Kuo Kuo Bu Hua, rushed to the scene with his men.

"Xu" Kuokuo Buhua reined in Yan Shi and quickly came to Yan Shi's side.

Yan Shi turned around and looked at Kuo Kuo Bu Hua blankly. The two looked at each other for a moment, but Kuo Kuo Bu Hua suddenly said, "You sent troops to kill the Emperor of the Song Dynasty?"

"What?" Yan Shi almost jumped up.

Then he immediately said: "No, no, how is it possible? How could I do such a thing."

Wo Kuotai was negotiating peace with the Song people. Wo Kuotai wanted to humiliate Zhao Yurui and then attack him when he returned. Few people knew that Yan Shi would dare to do such a thing.

Yan Shi's face turned red and he said instead: "I thought it was you who did it."

"Fuck nun." Kuokuo Buhua yelled, but he came to his senses the next moment: "What are you guys looking at? Try to put out the fire."

But how to put out a burning boat on the river? Yanshi and the others were all on the shore, and it was late at night. They couldn't mobilize manpower at all, and they were out of reach.

Everyone could only stand on the shore and watch the boats in the river burning, and there were all kinds of shouts of death.

Kuokuo Buhua looked at Yan Shi from time to time, the expression on his face was that he was suspicious of the soldiers of Yan Shi's faction.

Be strict, be quick and ruthless, and not be able to dig your heart out. This is not my doing, it is not my doing.

Looking at the burning boat on the river, Kuokuo Buhua finally couldn't help it anymore and whispered: "Hehan also knows that you and the Song people have sworn enemies, and the Song people killed your whole family."

"But at such a critical moment, it is related to the second peace negotiation between Song and Meng. How can you make an independent decision?"

"Kuokuo is not worth it. I said it wasn't me who did it." Yan Shi was furious and almost jumped.

(End of this chapter)