Across the Water Margin: Officials of Ximen

Emperor Zhao Huan made another decree, ordering officials and people in the city not to hide gold privately, and all gold must be handed over to the court.

According to the decree, those who keep gold privately, and those who know that others have kept gold privately but do not report it, will be punished with felonies once they are discovered.In order to appease the officials and people in the city, the imperial court promised that in the future, every tael of gold would be paid [-] guan, and every tael of silver would be paid [-] guan.

In addition, Emperor Zhao Huan also instructed that if a large amount of gold and silver can be paid at one time, the imperial court will also give him an official position.

Judging from this decree, it seems that the Song court has not changed its national policy of peace talks with the Jin army, and is sparing no effort to raise labor costs.However, after Emperor Zhao Huan had soldiers in his hands, his mind had quietly changed from seeking peace to seeking war.The act of confiscating gold and silver may be more to paralyze the envoys and spies of the Golden Army.

Because on this day, Emperor Zhao Huan summoned Li Gang, Li Bangyan, Wu Min, Zhong Shidao, Yao Pingzhong, Zhe Yanzhi and others to the Funing Hall to discuss with them whether they could use troops against the Jin army.

Zhong Shidao, Yao Pingzhong, Zhe Yanzhi and others are all generals of Qin Wangjun from different walks of life. The emperor Zhao Huan invited so many generals to participate in the meeting, the holy will has been clearly revealed.

Li Gang, the minister of the main battle faction, became excited when he saw this posture, and he said to the emperor: "The Jin army is bluffing outside the city, but in fact it has no more than [-] soldiers, and most of them are people from the Xi, Khitan, and Bohai tribes.

The number of King Qin's troops we have assembled under the city has reached more than [-], which is more than three times that of the Jin army.

Moreover, the Golden Army went deep into the important place alone, just like tigers and leopards throwing themselves into the trap. We don't have to fight with them for a day, and try to defeat the Golden Army by all means.

For the current plan, it is better to guard Guanjin, cut off the Jin army's food road, prohibit the Jin army from plundering, and divide the troops to recover the lost counties in the north of the capital.If the rangers of the Jin army dared to go out, they would send troops to attack them, and then approach their camp with heavy troops, without fighting against the wall, just like Zhou Yafu trapped the soldiers of the Seven Kingdoms back then.

When the Jin army's rations are exhausted, let the soldiers and the Jin army take the oath, and the Jin army will return to the three towns in order to get out of trouble.

At that time, our army can return to the north. When the Jin army crosses the Yellow River in the north, our army will wait for the crossing and then attack. "

Li Gang's words were similar to the strategy Zhong Shidao said before. Emperor Zhao Huan took it for granted after hearing it, and felt that it would not be difficult to defeat the Jin army.

Seeing that the sage agreed with his opinion, Li Gang felt quite complacent, thinking that making meritorious deeds was just around the corner, so he took the opportunity to ask Emperor Zhao Huan for military power.

Li Gang said: "King Qin's divisions are gradually gathering, military strategists are afraid of dividing, and it will not help if they are united without temperance. I hope that the two generals, Master Dao and Ping Zhong, will obey the restraint of the ministers."

What Li Gang meant was to let Zhong Shidao, Yao Pingzhong and other generals follow his command, and let him control the military power of 20 Qin Wangjun.

In Li Gang's view, his request is reasonable.

Li Gang's current position is Shangshu Youcheng and the personal envoy of the camp. The so-called "personal envoy of the camp" is equivalent to the emperor's representative in the military camp, and the emperor Zhao Huan has long stated that he will take charge of the defense of the city, "Xu Cheap to do it."

Furthermore, Shangshu Youcheng is a civil servant of the deputy prime minister. According to the Song Dynasty's tradition of using literature to control military affairs, it is most appropriate for him to lead the generals of the Western Army Qinwang.

However, in Emperor Zhao Huan's mind, he didn't see it that way.

In terms of leading troops to fight, the famous general of the Western Army, Zhong Shi, is much better than Li Gang.Zhong Shidao fought with the Xixia Army in the front court for decades, and he had just established a reputation as an "old businessman". Li Gang is a scholar who has never been on the battlefield before, how can he compare with Zhong Shidao?

To put it bluntly, Li Gang was just a coincidence, because when the Jin army besieged the city, there was no good general to preside over the situation in the capital, so he was able to leap from a fourth-rank Taichang Temple Shaoqing to a second-rank Shangshu Youcheng.

The Shaoqing of Taichang Temple is the official in charge of sacrificial offerings, and it was just a stopgap measure to let Li Gang lead the troops to guard the city.Now to fight the Jin army outside the city, of course a general who is proficient in the art of war is needed to command the army.As for this candidate, Emperor Zhao Huan believed that he had to be a teacher.

Emperor Zhao Huan tactfully rejected Li Gang's proposal and did not let him control the army. Instead, he established a Xuanfu Division in addition to the Xingying Division, appointed Zhong Shidao as the Xuanfu envoy, and Yao Pingzhong as the capital.

Later, Emperor Zhao Huan issued a decree to promote Zhong Shidao to be the Shaofu of the school, the Privy Council of Tongzhi, and the Xuanfu envoy of Lianghe in Gyeonggi, and he would lead the teachers of the Sifang Qinwang.

Chapter 900 "Little Taiwei" Yao Pingzhong offers advice

On the second day after granting Zhongshidao, Emperor Zhao Huan believed that the strength of King Qin's army under Zhongshidao's command was not enough, so he assigned the front and rear troops of the Beijing Xingying Division to the Xuanfu Division.

As a result, Li Gang's original five armies, front, rear, left, center, and right, had gone to the second, and the number of troops under Li Gang's direct command was much smaller.

Emperor Zhao Huan put so much emphasis on the way of being a teacher and handed over all the troops in the capital to him, showing Zhao Huan's urgency to defeat the Jin army.

Because of the successive arrival of Zhong Shidao and the generals of the Western Army, the Song and Jin armies were already superior in terms of strength, and Emperor Zhao Huan's attitude towards the Jin people began to change from blindly pessimistic to blindly optimistic.

Zhao Huan believes that the more than 20 troops of the Song Dynasty under the leadership of the famous general of the Western Army Zhong Shidao can completely defeat the [-] to [-] lone troops of the Jin Army and flee in defeat.

However, although the Gyeonggi Xuanfu Division was established, the Xuanfu envoy Zhong Shidao faced the 20 Qin Wangjun like a loose sand.

It is possible for these troops to hold back the Jin army and prevent the Jin army from attacking the city, but it is not so easy to command these troops to fight the Jin army immediately.

The 20 Song army outside the capital was composed of soldiers and horses from all walks of life, and they did not belong to each other. There were soldiers and horses from generals such as Yao Pingzhong from the Fifth Route of Shaanxi, and Zheyanzhi army from Hedong.

These people, together with Zhong Shidao, once served as generals under Taiwei Tong Guan, perhaps Tong Taiwei can restrain them here, and neither Zhong Shidao nor Li Gang have that much prestige in front of these generals.

It's a pity that Tong Guan didn't recognize the new emperor Zhao Huan in his heart, but chose to follow the old master.At this time, he had already protected the Supreme Emperor Zhao Ji and fled to Yangzhou.

After coming to Bianliang City in Tokyo, some generals in King Qin's army were not reconciled to be restrained by the way of the teacher. Yao Pingzhong, who followed the way of the teacher, was one of them.

Yao Pingzhong, courtesy name Xiyan, was born as a general of the Yao family in the Western Army.His father died early and was raised by his uncle Yao Gu.

Yao Pingzhong grew up in the army and practiced martial arts with spears and sticks.

When he was there, he fought fiercely against the Zangdi River with the Xixia people, and won many victories, winning the honor of being the first in military exploits.

Because of Yao Pingzhong's high martial arts skills and extraordinary courage, all the heroes in Guanzhong respected him very much and called him "Little Taiwei".

As a family of military generals in the northwest, the Zhong family and the Yao family have been fighting openly and secretly on the battlefield in the northwest, competing for each other's reputation.

In the past, when the imperial court arranged expeditions, it always tried to avoid arranging people from these two families together, so as to avoid internal friction caused by conflicts.

This time, the cultivation of masters came in a hurry, before Qin Fenglu's army in the cultivation division had only one thousand soldiers and horses, and his momentum all the way east was supported by Yao Pingzhong's seven thousand Yao family troops.

But a few days after entering Beijing, the official position of Zhong Shi Dao was promoted again and again, which far suppressed Yao Gu, Yao Pingzhong's uncle and adoptive father.

Well, you old businessman, you actually used my Yao family's army to strengthen your family's reputation, and took all the credit for your uncle and I leading the army to rescue you, what a plan!

For this reason, Yao Pingzhong felt resentful.He took a deep breath, and wanted to lead the army to defeat the Jin army alone, make the Yao family famous, and suppress the Zhong family's limelight in this King Qin war.

Taking the opportunity of meeting Emperor Zhao Huan, Yao Pingzhong proposed a bold attack plan to Zhao Huan, who was eager to win.

This plan completely subverted the strategic concept of "deep ditch barriers, trapping the Jin army, returning north, and attacking them halfway through" by Zhong Shidao and Li Gang.

Yao Pingzhong's strategy is to rob the camp.He asked Emperor Zhao Huan to allow him to take his troops and horses to "knock at the Jinying camp at night, capture Zongwang alive, and return him to King Kang"!

Yao Pingzhong said that in fact, the Jin army outside the city is not intimidating, and the teacher is too old to worry, and his strategy is too conservative.

Now that Wang Shixin has gathered, the morale is at its peak, and the soldiers are eager to fight the enemy.

If you hold back your troops like a teacher, you are afraid that the time will be delayed, and the morale of the army will rise in one go, and then decline, and three will be exhausted!

At that time, the morale of the soldiers will be low, so how can they fight the Jin army?

Now as long as the enemy is panicking and carrying out night attacks, they can break through the camp of the Jin army and defeat them in one fell swoop.

Yao Pingzhong was young and vigorous, and what he presented to Emperor Zhao Huan was a military and adventurous strategy, but it touched Emperor Zhao Huan's heart.

Because the King's troops arrived one after another outside the city, the soldiers and people in the city believed that the Song army was superior, and they were unwilling to donate gold and silver to the gold army, so the call for the main battle became louder and louder.

Emperor Zhao Huan also regretted the previous peace talks, and wished that he could kill the Jin army, let go of his previous embarrassment, and save face for the Song Dynasty.

Seeing that Yao Pingzhong was brave enough to challenge the Jin Army, Zhao Huan immediately agreed to Yao Pingzhong's request and asked him to lead the troops to attack the Jin Army's camp.

Zhao Huan promised Yao Pingzhong that as long as Yao Pingzhong succeeds in attacking the Jin army, he will be awarded the post of Jiedushi.