Across the Water Margin: Officials of Ximen

"General Wang Zhi, your loyalty is admired by all the people in the world, and this commander also appreciates it very much.

Now the fall of Taiyuan City is due to the incompetence of your emperor and army, not the general's responsibility.

General Wang only needs to lay down his arms, and this commander will treat you as a guest of honor.

If the general wants to return to his home country, this commander must also send him out of the country.

The general may not know that you have an old friend who is very concerned about your safety. This is a letter he asked me to forward to you. "

After Tongshi finished translating Yan Zonghan's words, he took a secret letter from Wanyan Zonghan, walked carefully to Wang Jin, and handed it to Wang Jin.

Wang Ting opened the secret letter and saw only a few short sentences on it: "Brother Zhengchen: If you keep the green hills, you don't have to worry about running out of firewood. Wanwang take care of your useful body, and I will wait for your safe return. Brother Ximen."

Wang Teng was able to make repeated military exploits in the battle against Fang La, mostly thanks to Ximen Qing.Therefore, he could tell at a glance that this was Ximen Qing's personal letter.

My brother Ximenqing really has hands and eyes!To be able to bribe the commander-in-chief of the Jin army and save my life?

Wang Ting understood that the friendliness of Wanyan Zonghan, commander of the Jin army, to him was probably the result of Ximenqing brothers' secret efforts.

But, Brother Ximenqing, you can't save my [-] soldiers and civilians in Taiyuan Mansion, so why come to save me Wang Zhi by yourself?So many soldiers died fighting for me, how can I, the king, do something that is greedy for life and fear of death?

Brother Ximenqing, Wang Bing will let you down for all your painstaking efforts!

Wang Bao raised his head to the sky and screamed, tearing Ximen Qing's secret letter to pieces.

He looked at the dozens of blood-stained soldiers and civilians around him, and slowly said: "I have done my allegiance to the country and my righteousness to the people, what more can a man ask for in his life?"

After finishing speaking, Wang Zhi lifted up his blood-stained battle robe, wiped his sword that had curled up a bit, then raised his sword and pointed it at Wan Yan Zonghan, and shouted: "Nianhan, how can a man kneel when he dies in battle? Survive on the ground? If you dare to slaughter my people in Taiyuan, I will turn into a ghost after I die and claim your life!"

Afterwards, Wang Yin slayed himself with a horizontal sword, and the blood spilled across the far door.

After Wang's death, dozens of Taiyuan soldiers and civilians who fought with Wang's hard work, some killed themselves, some stabbed each other, all committed suicide in front of the battle, and no one survived.

Wanyan Zonghan sighed when he saw this, and ordered the Jin army not to harm the people in the city who did not resist.

Unfortunately, there are not many people left in the city.

So far, Taiyuan City has been besieged for 260 days, and was finally broken by the Jin army. Nine out of ten soldiers and civilians in the city starved to death.

On the same day, Ximenqing's envoy who stayed in Wanyan Zonghan's army confirmed that Wang Bao and his son had died heroically, and reluctantly left the Jin army camp and returned to Yanggu County day and night.

In the city of Bianliang in Tokyo, Emperor Zhao Huan issued a mournful edict and ordered the two rivers to rescue each other after learning that Taiyuan City was broken and the Jin army was going south.

Chapter 931 Lu Zhishen Dedicated to Ximen Qing

Due to the wrong command of the Song Dynasty court, in order to break the siege of Taiyuan, it sent troops to the north three times. As a result, millions of troops were wiped out and defeated by Wanyan Zonghan's Western Army.

After the defeat in the third Taiyuan siege battle, Hebei and Hedong Xuanfu Li Gang had no soldiers to use, and was also recalled to Bianliang City, Tokyo.

Although the imperial court asked Hebei and Hedong to rescue each other, the armies of these two places have become frightened birds after the Song army suffered a series of defeats. How dare they go out of the city to compete with the Jin army?

The losses of troops in Hebei prefectures were smaller, and they were still able to defend their prefectures. The troops of Hedong prefectures were exhausted under the city of Taiyuan, and now they were unable to defend their own cities.

After the fall of Taiyuan City, the Jin Army West Route Army continued to sweep the surrounding area, and soon even Fenzhou, Shizhou and Liaozhou on Kehe East Road.

During the first attack on the Song Dynasty, Wanyan Zongwang's East Route Army went deep alone and failed to achieve greater results because of the inconsistent advance speed of the East and West Route Army of the Jin Army.

During the second expedition to the Song Dynasty, Wanyan Zonghan and Wanyan Zongwang agreed that the East and West Route Army should open up the Pingding Army and Liaozhou connecting Hebei and Hedong when they marched, so as to maintain the coordinated advance and retreat of the two armies.

Therefore, after breaking through Taiyuan Mansion in Hedong and Zhending Mansion in Hebei respectively, the generals of the Jin Army's East and West Route Army gathered in the Pingding Army between Taiyuan Mansion and Zhending Mansion, and held a military conference against the Song Dynasty.

At this meeting, the two marshals Wanyan Zonghan and Wanyan Zongwang convened all the generals to discuss whether to continue to conquer Bianliang, the capital of Song Dynasty.

The Jin army and the Song army fought for nearly a year, and all the generals felt tired, and said one after another: "It is really difficult to continue to go deep into the Song Dynasty."

Marshal Wanyan Xiyin, the right supervisor of the army, said: "Hedong has acquired Taiyuan Mansion, and Hebei has acquired Zhending Mansion. These two are the leaders of Lianghe. Taking advantage of this situation, our army can take Lianghe first. Wait for the two The river is established, and it is not too late for Xu to take Tokyo. If our army abandons the two rivers and takes Tokyo first, if there is a disadvantage in the battle, the two rivers will not be ours."

Wanyan Xiyin supported the continued attack on Bianliang City, Tokyo, the capital of the Song Dynasty, but his strategy was to take it step by step, first completely conquering Hebei and Hedong, and then crossing the river to capture Bianliang City in Tokyo.

In short, none of the generals agreed to directly attack Bianliang City in Tokyo.

Wanyan Zongwang was good at the tactic of rushing for thousands of miles and driving straight in, but he was conservative when seeing the generals, so he kept silent and did not express his opinions.

Wanyan Zonghan saw that the generals had lost their vigor, he took off the mink cap on his head excitedly, threw it on the ground, and said to the generals: "Tokyo Bianliang City is the foundation of the Song Dynasty.

I think that if you don't occupy Bianliang City in Tokyo and completely defeat the Song Dynasty regime, it will be difficult for Lianghe to capture and defend.

If our army captures Bianliang City in Tokyo and makes the Song people lose their backbone, then the land of two rivers will not be taken but will be brought down!

The last time I attacked the Song Dynasty, the reason why I failed to capture the Bianliang City of Tokyo in the Song Dynasty was because I was not there.If I lead the troops to the city of Bianliang in Tokyo this time, I will definitely be able to conquer it! "

After all, Wanyan Zonghan was still not satisfied, he stretched his right hand again, as if fetching something, and said to the generals: "If I take Tokyo today, it is like waving an arm to fetch something, and I will definitely get it."

As No.1 in the army, Wanyan Zonghan showed the generals his intention to enter Tokyo.

After Wanyan Zongwang heard this, he also readily praised it.

Wanyan Zonghan had the highest authority and prestige in the army. When he made up his mind to directly attack Bianliang City in Tokyo, the generals of the Jin army did not dare to stop him, so he decided to advance in two ways and march south to Bianliang City in Tokyo in the Song Dynasty.

After the military meeting of the Jin army in Pingding Army, the two commanders Wanyan Zonghan and Wanyan Zongwang returned to their own roads respectively, and led the east and west armies to the south, aiming at Bianliang City in Tokyo, the capital of the Song Dynasty.

After repeated defeats in the battle to rescue Taiyuan, Emperor Zhao Huan replaced Li Gang and sent the old and sick Zhong Shidao to take over.

Zhong Shidao met Wang Rui, the envoy of the Kingdom of Jin in Mengzhou City, Heyang, and judged that the Jin soldiers would definitely go south in a big way.

At this time, Zhong Shidao knew that the imperial court had no soldiers to fight. If the Jin army went south, the city of Bianliang in Tokyo would not be safe.So he immediately went to Shu and asked Emperor Zhao Huan to come to Jingzhao Mansion in Shaanxi to avoid the enemy front of the Jin army.

The ministers in the court were in an uproar, thinking that this was the kind of teacher's way of fearing the enemy and war, so Emperor Zhao Huan recalled the kind of teacher's way.

Because of the repeated defeats in the war, the two groups of Jin soldiers went south in a large scale. The emperor Zhao Huan was so frightened that he lost his mind, and determined to cede the land to discuss peace, and reappointed the ministers of the main peace faction.

The Zhuhe faction impeached Li Gang on the charge of "specializing in war discussions and losing money for teachers". Emperor Zhao Huan first charged Li Gang with the Jianchang army, and then relegated Kuizhou.

To say that Li Gang’s crime is not unjust, it was the main combat faction headed by him who ignored the difference in combat effectiveness between the Song and Jin armies, encouraged Emperor Zhao Huan to tear up the peace agreement between the two countries, and sent the Song army into the Jin army again and again. , As a result, millions of Song soldiers were killed in Taiyuan, and a lot of money and food were wasted.

When the Jin army went south again, the Song army had already been severely wounded by the main combat faction headed by Li Gang, and even King Qin's army who wanted to organize the first defense of Tokyo had difficulty in doing so.

However, Li Gang couldn't understand what kind of mistake he had made. He still thought that he was a loyal minister.

At this time, the old general Zhong Shidao couldn't hold on anymore.Among Zhong Shidao's brothers, Zhong Shimin, Zhong Shimin was defeated and died successively, and the entire army of the Zhong family was wiped out.

After Zhong Shidao returned to the capital, he was too sick to enter the palace to face the saint. He died of illness a few days later at the age of 76.

After learning of Zhongzhu Shizhong Shidao died of illness, Emperor Zhao Huan came to pay homage to him, wept over him, and presented Zhongshidao Kaifu Yitong as a posthumous gift.

Emperor Zhao Huan is really sad!Without the way of being a teacher, who else can lead the army to defend Tokyo Bianliang City for him?

The death of veteran Zhong Shidao made a person completely free.This person is "Hua Monk" Lu Zhishen.