Xianxia version of Water Margin

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Qingcheng, Zhai Palace.

Surrounded by Liu Huiniang, Lady Jia, Chen Liqing, Hua Baoyan, Hu Sanniang, Qiongying, Su Jinniang, Pang Qiuxia, Liang Hongyu, Yan Zhengu, Xu Qingniang, Wang Gongren, Yelu Dalibo and other women, Jiang Hongfei called Song ministers Zhang Bangchang, Geng Nanzhong, Nie Chang, Li Ruoshui, Feng Xie and others over.

Seeing that Jiang Hongfei was not only surrounded by women, but also guarded by five hundred fat and thin female guards, Zhang Bangchang and others thought: "How much does the emperor of the Great Yuan like women? In this occasion, there are so many beautiful women around him?"

In fact, Zhang Bangchang and others never thought that it was because Jiang Hongfei did not value them at all, so he would entertain them in such a manner.

And Zhao Huan was frugal and did not like women. No matter how you look at it, he looked like a wise ruler than Jiang Hongfei, who was as lustful as his life.

"But why can the Great Yuan force our Great Song to this extent?"

Zhang Bangchang and others were puzzled!

At this time, Jiang Hongfei was not only surrounded by a bunch of women, but also washed his feet.

——Pang Qiuxia and Wang Gongren were serving Jiang Hongfei on the left and right.

Jiang Hongfei ate the grapes that Xu Qingniang fed him and said, "What is there to discuss? It is because your dynasty has repeatedly broken its promises that I personally led the army south to attack Song. Now that I have led the army south and have arrived at the city of Bianliang, I will withdraw my troops unless you come and say a few words and ask me to cede Hebei, Hedong and Shandong to my dynasty."

Nie Chang said, "The emperor of our dynasty is benevolent and has never broken his promise to the world. It is only because the soldiers and civilians on the front line do not agree to cede land, and our dynasty does not want to cause trouble for both countries, that we have repeatedly sent envoys to seek peace."

Jiang Hongfei spit the grape skins into the fruit plate held by Su Jinniang, and then said lightly, "You and my dynasty have already signed a peace treaty, and the north of the river is all our territory, but your dynasty has repeatedly sent troops across the river to harass our territory. Now Yao Gu and Zhong Shizhong are still attacking Hedong and Hebei. Do you still dare to say that your emperor has never broken his promise to the world and dare not abolish the peace agreement?"

Nie Chang was speechless.

Seeing that Zhang Bangchang and others were hesitant and dared not speak, Jiang Hongfei took the initiative to say: "If you still want to negotiate peace, I will ask your emperor to come out of the city to meet me. I will talk to him face to face, otherwise there will be no need to talk."

Zhang Bangchang said respectfully: "The country of uncle and nephew is equal. It is harmless to meet with Your Majesty, but the situation is not going well and it is difficult to make it known to everyone. The people in the capital see that your army is approaching the city, how can the emperor's car go out of the suburbs? Your Majesty came from the north, just to keep each other trust. However, if you agree to Your Majesty, but are blocked by the common people and cannot leave the city, wouldn't it be a loss of trust to Your Majesty? This will be even more uneasy."

Jiang Hongfei looked at Zhang Bangchang and laughed and scolded: "Slippery."

From Jiang Hongfei's attitude towards Zhang Bangchang, it is not difficult to see that Jiang Hongfei does not hate Zhang Bangchang.

This is mainly due to what Zhang Bangchang did in history.

After the Jingkang Incident in history, the Jin people supported Zhang Bangchang to establish the pseudo-Chu regime for 33 days.

From the perspective of orthodox Confucian ethics, Zhang Bangchang did lose his integrity.

But this does not mean that Zhang Bangchang is a traitor.

Yes.

Zhang Bangchang not only usurped power, but was also a peace advocate.

But peace advocates do not mean they are traitors.

Some people may think that peace advocates are humiliating and traitors, but in fact, peace advocates and surrenderists are not the same.

You should know that in ancient times, once a major war broke out, the court would often be divided into war advocates and peace advocates.

I won’t say much about the war advocates. Most of the war advocates take the future and interests of the country as their starting point.

And the peace advocates often split into peace advocates and surrenderists.

Although the peace advocates advocate peace, they are mostly simple-minded, and they also take the future and interests of the country as their starting point. Combined with the actual situation, they either try to exchange peace at the lowest cost, or advocate a victorious war to force peace. They are patriotic just like the war faction, but they hold different views on the country's policy toward the enemy.

For example, Zhong Shidao is such a peace faction that uses war to force peace.

Another example is Zhao Ding in history, who is also such a peace faction that uses war to force peace.

The surrender faction, on the other hand, does not consider the interests of the country and the people of the world, but is purely a betrayal of the country. This kind of people are good at disguise and are extremely smart. For personal gains and losses, they are willing to sacrifice the interests of the country and the nation, and even persecute loyal people. For example, Qin Hui is a typical surrender faction. For power, he surrendered voluntarily, and even harmed Yue Fei, a war faction, and Zhao Ding, a peace faction.

Although Zhang Bangchang is a peace faction, he is not a surrender faction.

After the Jingkang Shame, the Jin people only broke through the city of Bianliang, abducted Zhao Ji, Zhao Huan, the royal family and clan of the Zhao Song Dynasty, as well as a large amount of wealth and women, and did not have the strategic vision to swallow up the entire Zhao Song Dynasty. Of course, they did not have the strength to do so.

The Jin people's idea at that time was very simple, to find a spokesperson to manage the places they had already obtained, and then let this obedient spokesperson pay tribute every year.

Originally, a group of ministers of the Zhao Song Dynasty proposed that the Zhao royal family be the puppet emperor, but the Jin people disagreed. Finally, the ministers of the Zhao Song Dynasty recommended Zhang Bangchang, who had originally negotiated peace with the Jin people.

Zhang Bangchang refused to agree at first. He used methods such as pretending to be sick, fasting, and committing suicide to resist being the puppet emperor, because he knew what it meant to be the "emperor".

Seeing that it was useless to talk nicely, the Jin people threatened to massacre the city. In this way, Zhang Bangchang ascended the throne under the coercion and inducement of the Jin people and the persuasion of the court officials.

After Zhang Bangchang came to power, he did not go to the Zichen Hall and Chui Gong Hall to work, but chose a side hall. The desk did not face the emperor's north to south, but east to west.

When Zhang Bangchang was discussing matters with the courtiers, he did not allow them to kneel down and worship, and he called himself "Yu" instead of "I", which was used by the emperor. Any government decree issued is not called "imperial edict" but "handwritten". He also sternly refused the ministers who flattered him and declared that he was a minister of Zhao Song.

Later, Zhang Bangchang also used his status as "emperor" to save a large number of ministers of the Zhao and Song Dynasties, leaving a spark for the Southern Song Dynasty.

When Zhao Ji and Zhao Huan went north, Zhang Bangchang still knelt to see them off.

These details all show that Zhang Bangchang did not dare to underestimate the duties of a monarch and his ministers, and always got along with other ministers as colleagues.

The day after the Jin left, Zhang Bangchang immediately contacted Zhao Gou and welcomed Empress Meng into the palace to listen to politics behind the curtain after Zhezong of the Song Dynasty was deposed.

Even though Wang Shiyong, Xu Bingzhe and others warned Zhang Bangchang that he might be liquidated in the future, he still did it!

Zhang Bangchang even clarified it in his handwriting: "So those who are admired by the Jin people want to temporarily relieve the country's difficulties. How dare there be other people?"

In the end, Zhao Gou liquidated Zhang Bangchang, but the reason for killing Zhang Bangchang was not that he collaborated with the enemy and treason, let alone that he arrogated the throne. Instead, he was killed for the reason of "having an affair with the Song Emperor's concubines and denounced Cheng Yu".

It is not difficult to see from this that, at least in terms of loyalty and disloyalty, Zhao Gou could not find fault with Zhang Bangchang!

All this shows that it is okay to say that Zhang Bangchang has a bad reputation and lack of integrity, but it is indeed wrong to say that he is a treacherous minister, a traitor, and a traitor.

Anyway, if Jiang Hongfei's ministers can achieve the level of Zhang Bangchang, Jiang Hongfei will be satisfied.

It is precisely because of this that Jiang Hongfei favors Zhang Bangchang.

Zhang Bangchang also took advantage of Jiang Hongfei's attitude towards him to mediate for the Zhao and Song Dynasties from the side.

But then again, Jiang Hongfei was on the verge of destroying the Song Dynasty. How could he change his mind just because of Zhang Bangchang?

It is worth mentioning that Hu Zhiru, the host general appointed by Zhao Huan yesterday, led 10,000 troops to visit the king.

Jiang Hongfei sent Luan Tingyu and Sun Li to fight against Hu Zhiru.

Hu Zhiru was a pure literati with no experience in leading troops in war, and he did not have any generals who were very good at fighting.

The result was no surprise. Luan Tingyu and Sun Li attacked from both sides and defeated Hu Zhiru's tribe in one battle. Sun Li also captured Hu Zhiru alive.

Jiang Hongfei wanted to use this to intimidate Zhao Huan's monarch and ministers, and see if he could trick Zhao Huan out of the city without a fight and achieve a great victory in destroying the Song Dynasty. He asked Geng Nanzhong and Feng Pu, the former Privy Councilor, to go back and tell Zhao Huan, If the Zhao and Song Dynasty wanted to negotiate a peace, it would be fine. Zhao Huan would have to go out of the city to negotiate a peace in person, and Zhao Gou would have to come back. Only if the Zhao and Song Dynasty met these two conditions would they consider negotiating a peace with the Zhao and Song Dynasty.

Geng Nanzhong and Feng Pu returned to the city and told Zhao Huan about Jiang Hongfei's attitude. Zhao Huan asked all the ministers: "The Emperor Yuan asked me and King Kang to go see him. What should we do?"

He Li, Sun Fu and others didn't know Zhao Huan's attitude towards this, so they all kept silent.

Seeing that no one dared to help him make a decision, Zhao Huan thought for a while and said, "I don't dare to go out of the city to see Emperor Yuan. I'm afraid that if I leave the city, Emperor Yuan will force me to make a forced landing again."

Seeing that Zhao Huan was unwilling to go out of the city to meet Jiang Hongfei, Sun Fu and He Li decided on behalf of the Zhao and Song Dynasty to send Feng Shu to inform Zhang Bangchang and others, so that they could negotiate peace on behalf of the Zhao and Song Dynasty. They also said that Zhao Huan occasionally felt cold and could not meet with Jiang Hongfei. Meet.

As for Jiang Hongfei wanting Zhao Gou to come back?

After discussion, Zhao Huan and his ministers decided that Zhao Gou must not be allowed to come back. Moreover, not only could they not allow Zhao Gou to come back, they also had to give Zhao Gou a title so that Zhao Gou could summon soldiers and horses from all over the world to come to the rescue of King Qin.

In fact, as early as when Zhongshidao was still alive and serving as the privy envoy, Zhongshidao had expected that the Yuan Empire would definitely go south to attack the Song Dynasty.

So Zhongshidao asked Qian Gai and Zhang Shuye to come to the capital with an entire army to rescue King Qin.

After receiving the message from Zhongshi Dao, Qian Gai gathered 100,000 Western troops, and Zhang Shuye also gathered more than 158,000 troops. The two men and their men were all ready to go to the capital to rescue King Qin. Preparation for driving.

But Tang Ke, Geng Nanzhong and other prime ministers saw that the Song army would definitely not be able to defeat the Yuan army, so they no longer wanted to engage in military confrontation with the Yuan Empire and wanted to pursue peace.

In addition, the Zhao and Song dynasties have recently had no money or food and have had extremely serious financial problems. They cannot feed hundreds of thousands of troops. Once the Zhao and Song dynasties cannot come up with money and food, the Song army, which has extremely poor military discipline, may Will mutiny.

Based on these considerations, Tang Ke, Geng Nanzhong and other prime ministers suggested that Zhao Huan cancel the order that Zhong Shidao had given.

At that time, Zhao Huan also wanted to negotiate peace, so he issued an edict to Qian Gai and Zhang Shuye to disperse the gathered troops and station them, and not to come to the capital again for King Qin to rescue him.

After Qian Gai and Zhang Shuye received Zhao Huan's imperial edict, they were immediately dumbfounded, and then they could only follow Zhao Huan's order and disperse the army they had gathered.

A few days ago, Zhang Shuye suddenly received another edict from King Qin from Zhao Huan, saying that the Yuan army had arrived on the outskirts of the capital, and he was ordered to rush his troops to the capital to rescue them without any mistakes.

Seeing this, Zhang Shuye hurriedly gathered his troops.

But in a hurry, it was impossible for Zhang Shuye to gather all the hundreds of thousands of people.

Zhang Shuye knew the situation was critical, and he wanted to quickly go to the capital to escort Zhao Huan to Shaanxi, so he could only grit his teeth and let his eldest son Zhang Bofen lead the front army, his second son Zhang Zhongxiong lead the rear army, and he himself lead the central army, leading more than 10,000 troops to the capital to rescue the king.

Before leaving, Zhang Shuye asked people to continue to gather troops.

Now that I think about it, even if the hundreds of thousands of troops have not been fully gathered, they should have gathered a lot.

It's a pity that the hundreds of thousands of troops now have no one to command them.

In addition, Zhang Shuye met Wang Xiang, the governor of the West Road, on the way to the capital.

Zhang Shuye wanted Wang Xiang to come to the capital with him to rescue the king.

But Wang Xiang refused without even considering it, not only that, Wang Xiang also persuaded Zhang Shuye to run away with him.

Zhang Shuye and Wang Xiang didn't get along, so they parted ways. Zhang Shuye came to the capital alone to rescue the king, while Wang Xiang continued to run away.

Zhao Huan needed someone to command the Song army scattered throughout the Zhao Song Dynasty.

Moreover, people like Wang Xiang and Zhao Ye, the governor of the North Road who also chose to flee without resistance, also needed someone to deal with them and seize their military power.

Also, people like Hu Zhiru, who had a heart of loyalty to the country but fought against the stone with an egg, were not advisable.

In short, since the Zhao Song court had lost contact with the outside world, someone was needed to take charge of the overall situation and command the troops of the world to rescue Bianliang City.

Therefore, He Li, Sun Fu and others persuaded Zhao Huan to send someone to summon Zhao Gou back to the capital on the surface, but in fact, to send a secret edict to Zhao Gou, appointing Zhao Gou as the Grand Marshal of the Army, Wang Yanbo and Zong Ze as deputy marshals, and quickly organize troops to come to the capital to rescue the king.

Geng Nanzhong volunteered to carry out this task.

Geng Nanzhong was the person Zhao Huan trusted most, so Zhao Huan agreed to let Geng Nanzhong carry out this task that was related to the life and death of the Zhao Song Dynasty and himself.

Soon, Geng Nanzhong left with Zhao Huan's imperial edict.

Jiang Hongfei guessed that Geng Nanzhong might be going to deliver a message to Zhao Gou.

But Jiang Hongfei could stop Geng Nanzhong, but he couldn't stop the spies that Zhao Huan kept sending out.

Historically, Zhao Huan sent more than a dozen spies to meet Zhao Gou with his imperial edict during the period when the Jin people closed the city.

Bianliang City was so big that even if Jiang Hongfei brought more than 200,000 troops, it would be impossible to completely blockade Bianliang City.

In order not to alert the enemy, after weighing the pros and cons, Jiang Hongfei asked people to let Geng Nanzhong, who advocated peace or even surrender, to meet Zhao Gou.

Then, Feng Xi came to tell Jiang Hongfei tactfully that Zhao Huan would not come out of the city to negotiate peace in person.

Seeing this, Jiang Hongfei did not waste words, but directly sent Lin Chong and Yan Shude to attack the east wall, Shi Jin and Cao Zheng to attack the west wall, Tang Bin and Yu Cheng to attack the south wall, and Yang Zhi and Liu Guang to attack the north wall.

That night, the Yuan army began to attack the city fiercely.

At the beginning of the battle, mages such as Gongsun Sheng, Chen Xizhen, Fan Rui, Wu Jiao, and Xu Qingniang cast spells to cover the Yuan army's attack on the city.

Then, nearly a hundred flying bridges appeared out of thin air.

The soldiers of the Yuan army rushed to the Bianliang city wall through the flying bridge and launched a fierce attack on Bianliang City.

On the Song army side, Zhe Yanzhi, Yao Youzhong, He Guan, Wang Qiong, Fan Qiong and other generals also desperately led their troops to resist. They fought well. Even Zhao Huan's cousin Wang Zongchu personally led the elite out of the city to fight a field battle with the Yuan army.

It must be said that the Song army performed really well this time.

But the Song army performed well this time, and the Yuan army performed even better this time.

Three hours later, Jiang Hongfei sent Hua Rong, Jie Zhen, Jie Bao, Luan Tingyu, Shan Shiqi, Sun Li, Wu Song, Suo Chao, and Liu Tang to replace Lin Chong and other troops in the first wave of siege.

When Hua Rong and his men could no longer attack, Jiang Hongfei sent Guan Sheng, Li Kui, Xu Ning, Guang Hui, Mi Xian, Yan Xiaoguang, Qin Ming, and Zhang Qing to replace Hua Rong and other troops in the second wave of siege.

In short, Jiang Hongfei relied on his large number of troops to fight a round-the-clock battle with the Song army, and the attack was non-stop for 24 hours.

Long story short.

In less than two days, the Song army was a little overwhelmed.

There was no way, the combat quality and fighting will of the soldiers on both sides were really not a little bit different.

Seeing the fierce attack of the Yuan army, the Song army seemed unable to hold on. The Zhao Huan emperor and his ministers felt that if they did not use the secret weapon, that is, Guo Jing and his 7,777 Liujia regular soldiers, the Zhao Song Dynasty might lose the war.

So, He Li forced Guo Jing to send troops the next day...

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