Great Song Pirate

Chapter 596

After Zhao Xu heard the news, he ordered Zhang Bangchang to be hoisted into the city from outside the city in a hanging basket. When he heard the bad news, his vision went dark, and he fell down on the big chair behind Shuai's case on the spot.

The sudden news caused a commotion in the palace, and the officials who stayed in Tokyo were stunned as if they had been struck by lightning. There was a look of despair, some showed a look of determination, and some even showed a look of joy, all kinds of expressions were different, and there were all kinds of strange things.

After Zhao Xu was silent for a long time, he sighed, stood up slowly, and said to Zhang Bangchang who was kneeling below: "Since the matter has come to this point, what are we still doing here? The Song Dynasty is dead!" As soon as the voice fell, Zhao Xu's body softened and he fell backwards.

For many days in a row, Zhao Xu barely blinked a glance for the purpose of city defense. When he heard the news that his father and his brothers had been captured by the golden man, his mind collapsed. His exhaustion, grief and anger finally made him unable to hold on, and he fainted on the spot. Fortunately, Zhang Hu was by his side all the time, he quickly reached out to support him, sent him into the inner hall, and summoned the imperial doctor to rescue Zhao Xu from the coma.

Although Zhao Ji has always disliked Zhao Xu, and these brothers have never gotten along well with Zhao Xu, they are still blood relatives after all, and Zhao Xu is not the kind of heartless person who just woke up from a coma and burst into tears When I got up, I cried until the sky was dim and the earth was dark, so miserable.

Li Gang, Wu Min and others entered the back hall one after another, persuading Zhao Xu and asking him to take care of his body. Zhang Hu also begged Zhao Xu again and again, please hold on. After a lot of comfort from everyone, Zhao Xu stopped With a sad voice, staring at the red eyes, he asked the courtiers in the room;

"Everyone, what do you think this king should do?" This is the crux of the problem.

Wu Min, who was also the deputy envoy of the camp, came out and replied at this time: "As of today's plan, the sage is captured by the golden men. We, as subjects, can't sit idly by. Seeing from the humble position, the prince should be filial." The most important thing is, since the golden soldiers are invincible, and the sage and the princes and concubines fall into the enemy's hands, we can't fight any longer. Since the sage has a decree, the prince can only put filial piety first, agree to the conditions of the golden man, and send People go to Jinying to negotiate with Wanyan Zongwang, and it is better to redeem the Holy One as soon as possible!" After hearing the news, Wu Min, who was originally a main fighter, began to change his attitude.

Zhao Xu lamented again, now he is riding a tiger, sticking to it and continuing to fight the Jin soldiers, he is likely to bear a reputation of being unfilial, being accused by the world of disregarding the life and death of his father and brothers, and restless for the rest of his life. He agreed to Jin Bing's conditions and left the city to surrender, which is even more unacceptable than killing him. It has been more than 160 years since the founding of the Song Dynasty, and it has finally taken down this land of mountains and rivers.

Zhang Bangchang also followed in, seeing that Zhao Xu was silent, he went on to say: "Since the matter has come to this point, the prince should still put the safety of the two saints as the most important thing, this battle cannot continue, otherwise, the Jinren will be determined." I will vent my anger on the two sages, and if it takes a long time, I am afraid that the lives of the two sages will not be guaranteed! Let's go out of the city and surrender!"

As soon as Zhang Bangchang's words fell, a person shouted angrily: "You are talking nonsense! You are talking nonsense!" Everyone was startled by the voice, and they all turned their heads to look. It turned out that Li Gang had spoken.

Li Gang said angrily to Wu Min, Zhang Bangchang and the others: "You are all dizzy! It's not a day for the Jin people to covet my territory in the Great Song Dynasty, but the Holy One has never listened to my advice and let the six The thieves and cholera were in charge of the court, and when the soldiers of Jin approached the city, they did not think of resisting the Jin. Instead, they led the people to flee south of the city, so that they were captured today. Is it in the hands of people? Although the Jin soldiers are powerful, after a few days, I haven’t seen what they did to my Bianliang City, and the Jin people are even capricious villains. Their words cannot be trusted at all. Don’t you think that as long as The prince went out of the city to surrender, and if they fulfilled their demands, they would be released to the two sages. What's more, we couldn't meet the conditions they proposed, 500 million taels of gold, 5000 million taels of silver, let alone Tokyo Bianliang, even if Even if we try our best in the whole Song Dynasty, I am afraid it will be difficult to meet the requirements of the Jin people. How can we get so many yellow and white things to compensate the Jin people? Does Mr. Zhang have so much gold and silver?

Also, it is a dream for you to expect the golden man to fulfill the contract!With the behavior of the Jin people, they will not be satisfied with only taking the territories of Hebei Lianglu and Hedong Road. Their real purpose is to destroy the Great Song Dynasty, and they will never release them to the two saints easily. Now the only princes left are If the prince is alone, if he goes out of the city and surrenders, and then falls into the golden camp, then who else can preside over my Great Song Dynasty?As ministers, state affairs should be the most important thing. Not only do you not want to serve the country, but you encourage the prince to leave the city and surrender, it is really despicable! "

Li Gang almost yelled at him, which made Zhang Bangchang and Wu Min a little bit annoyed. Wu Min's official position is not high, but Zhang Bangchang's official position is much higher than Li Gang's, so he stared and said angrily: "How can you Talking like this? You must know that we are subjects, of course we must put the safety of the Holy One as the most important thing. Now that the two Holy Lords are trapped in the enemy camp, you don’t want the emperor’s kindness, but you don’t want the prince to repay the father’s kindness. At that time, it has already been said that as long as the prince goes out of the city and surrenders, he will pay 500 million taels of silver to compensate the gold soldiers and military expenses, and the two saints have already agreed to cede the territory north of the Yellow River, and the gold soldiers will be released to the saints. Bei Huan,..."

Li Gang refuted Zhang Bangchang again, and the officials in the room were immediately divided into two factions. One faction, headed by Zhang Bangchang and Wu Min, strongly advocated leaving the city and surrendering, calling Li Gang unfaithful and unrighteous!

The other faction is the main combat faction headed by Li Gang, who firmly disagrees with King Ji’s surrender in Kaicheng. The emperor is still facing!
King Ji's back hall was full of people, as noisy as a busy city, each holding their own words and attacking each other non-stop. Although Zhang Hu and Li Bo were also in the room, they couldn't get involved in such things. After all, these people They were all ministers of the Song Dynasty, and their identities did not allow them to speak on such occasions. They could only look angrily at Zhang Bangchang and a group of people from the main descendant faction, wishing to punch them and knock them down.

Zhao Xu was so dizzy from the noise of these people, he was so irritable, he couldn't bear it any longer, he slammed the medicine bowl that the imperial doctor gave him to the ground, and said angrily, "Shut up! This matter is no small matter, it is related to the life and death of our Song Dynasty, you all go out and wait for my orders, let me think carefully before answering you, Li Gang, as a camp envoy, you must not ignore the matter of city defense, and you must not be caught at this time. The Jin soldiers took advantage of the loopholes and ordered the four walls to guard the army and wait in full force, so don't be careless!"

Seeing that Zhao Xu was angry, Li Gang and the others quickly shut up, bowed to accept the order, and withdrew from Zhao Xu's back hall. Li Gang ordered his subordinates to continue patrolling the city defense, and quarreled with Wu Min, Zhang Bangchang and others outside.

Zhao Xu stood up and paced back and forth in the room with his hands behind his back, feeling extremely irritable. At this moment, he also lost his mind. He never thought that the golden soldiers could move so fast, and they sent troops before their father and the emperor fled to Yingtian Mansion. After catching up with them, he didn't know how to decide whether to surrender or fight.

At this time, a figure suddenly appeared in his mind, and he sighed: "It would be great if Mr. Xu could be by my side at this time!" Listening to Xu Yi's words these years, he can be said to have firmly believed that, Xu Yi is a semi-immortal person, he speaks everything, and has subconsciously developed a strong sense of dependence on Xu Yi. He feels that whenever he can't make up his mind, he wants to hear Xu Yi's opinion. Unfortunately, now Xu Yi is not in Bianliang City, otherwise it would be great to ask his opinion!

When Zhao Xu lamented Xu Yi's absence, Li Bo couldn't help standing up, clasped his fists and said to Zhao Xu: "Your Highness! Although our son is not here, our young master's heart can be guessed! After all, a small I have followed our young master for many years, and I already know how he will make a decision!"

After Zhao Xuwen heard Li Bo's words, he stopped, turned around and asked Li Bo seriously: "Oh? Then tell me, if Mr. Xu is here, how would he make a decision?"

Li Bo didn't care about whether it was appropriate at this time, so he answered, "To put it bluntly, I'm not afraid that the prince will punish me. I'm afraid the prince knows why the matter has developed to such a degree. I can only blame the sage." They took the blame for themselves, they didn't listen to your advice, my lord, and what your majesty has done these years has made people in the world miserable. I'm afraid even the lord can't imagine what the Song Dynasty has become in the past two years. Starvation, this is exactly the consequence of the Holy Majesty's appointment of treacherous ministers!

Now that I have said it, the little one might as well finish the sentence today. Although the little one doesn’t walk on land very often, but this time the little one landed from Jiaozhou Bay and hurried all the way here, the vast majority of the people he saw It is already impossible to make a living. If the prince opens the city and surrenders at this time, it will be tantamount to digging his own grave for the Song Dynasty.

If the prince puts the country first, he would not be able to open the city and surrender now, and he would also strictly order everyone in the city to wait, and no one should mention surrender. No matter how powerful, there are only tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, and their two armies have only reached one road, and they have penetrated deep into the hinterland of our Song Dynasty. No matter whether it is supplies or personnel, they cannot be replenished. On the way here, the golden soldiers could only retreat in the end. As for the Second Emperor and the others, after they brought reinforcements, they defeated the golden soldiers, and they would naturally be rescued!
If the prince thought about his personal reputation and was afraid of being scolded as unfilial by the world, and planned to open the city and surrender to the Jin soldiers, there would be only one result, that is, the Great Song Dynasty would be completely destroyed by the Jin people since then, and there would be no possibility of revival in the future!The Jin people captured all the royal family of the Great Song Dynasty. After the world lost its co-lord, they could only fight on their own. In the end, they will not be completely destroyed by the Jin people, but will also form a separatist regime. I am afraid that by then, the Great Song Dynasty will be completely defeated. up!

The little one can only say so much, if my son is here, the little one can guarantee that he also has the same opinion, please let the prince make his own decision! "

After all, Li Bo has been with Xu Yi for a long time, and he also speaks in the same way. This trick is obtained from Xu Yi's true biography. After he said something, it hit Zhao Xu's head like a heavy hammer. In his heart, he had a feeling of enlightenment and nectar, and his heart immediately cleared up.

What Li Bo said is right, the one who cares about everyone should give up his family. If he goes out of the city and surrenders, the Song Dynasty will really be over. In fact, Zhao Xu has also understood his situation at this time. Now it can be said that his situation is very delicate. , all the princes are now either captured by the golden man, or disappeared, only he is still representing the Zhao family like a benchmark, he can't fall now, once he falls, the Song Dynasty will be over!

After figuring this out, Zhao Xu bowed down respectfully and bowed to Li Bo: "After hearing what you said today, Li Bo, this king has completely awakened, thank you Li Bo! Now I know what to do." Done!"

Li Bo was startled by Zhao Xu's gift, he jumped away quickly, not daring to accept Zhao Xu's gift, Zhao Xu didn't force it, took Zhang Hu and Li Bo with him, and walked towards the front hall.

The officials who were arguing in the hall were so quarrelsome that they almost started fighting on the spot, attacking each other, calling each other sycophants and thieves, when they saw Zhao Xu walking out of the back hall with a face as heavy as water, they hurriedly They all shut up, and immediately got up to greet Zhao Xu. At this time, because Zhao Xu was the only prince left in the royal family, everyone began to change their attitude towards him unconsciously, and took him as the backbone!

Zhao Xu glanced at all the officials in the hall, cleared his throat, and said loudly to everyone: "You don't need to argue about this matter, this king has already made up his mind, and now, this king should put state affairs first. , if Kaesong surrenders now, the Great Song Dynasty will perish immediately. In the current plan, not only can we not surrender to the Jin people, but we must also resist the rude demands of the Jin people, and we must not satisfy them. Surrender will continue from now on No one should mention it again. I am the Marshal of the Army and Horses of Hebei Road, and I have the right to deal with anyone who shakes the morale of the army. Work together to defend the golden soldiers!

As for the matter of welcoming back the two emperors, after King Qin's division arrives in Bianliang and defeats the Jin soldiers, the two emperors Mengchen will naturally be rescued. I, Zhao Xu, are willing to bear the reputation of being unfilial today. Great Song Mountains and Rivers!Zhang Bangchang, I am here to write you a personal letter, you take it to Wanyan Zongwang, and tell him that if they want to enter Bianliang City, they have to rely on their own ability to fight!This king should go to the city in person and wait for his arrival!
Also, after you go to the Golden Camp and meet my father and brother, please tell them that this king, for the sake of the Song Dynasty, cannot yield to the power of the golden soldiers. Rescue them, when the time comes, the king is willing to stand in front of them and plead guilty! "

When Zhao Xu said these words, there was no hesitation on his face anymore. His words were loud and echoed in the hall for a long time. After the officials in the hall heard about it, they saw Zhang Hu, the personal guard of King Ji, suddenly transferred a guard of hundreds of people from outside. , each of them looked fiercely, staring at these ministers in the palace, so these people were all silent, some were surprised and some were happy, but no one dared to mention the surrender of Kaesong again.

Wanyan Zongwang waited for a long time, but he did not see the opening of Bianliang City and surrendered. Instead, some subordinates came back to report: "Commander, Song Chen Zhang Bangchang was hanged from the top of the city with a hanging basket again, come back to ask for permission handsome!"

After Zhang Bangchang entered the big tent, he handed Zhao Xu's autograph letter to Wanyan Zongwang, and told him that Zhao Xu was determined not to surrender, and that he would fight to the death with the Jin soldiers under Bianliang City!

Only then did Wanyan Zongwang realize that this Zhao Xu was really not simple, leaving his father and so many brothers and ministers alone, he just ignored it, it seemed that he had no other choice but to attack by force, but at this time, Guo Yaoshi He gave him an idea that would damage his family. After Wanyan Zongwang heard it, he was ecstatic for a while, and immediately sent an order to bring the captured royal family and ministers to the front of the battle, and then drove them away. The siege equipment such as ladders forced down the city of Bianliang.

And these captured princes and ministers cried all the way, calling desperately to ask the soldiers of the Song army on the top of the city not to shoot arrows, but the Jin soldiers were behind them and started to shoot arrows at the top of the city.

After the soldiers of the Song army on the city saw this scene, no one dared to shoot arrows or stones down the city anymore, because those who were leading the charge towards the city wall were all important officials of the court and the prince. Sun, when the arrow goes down, God knows who will be shot to death. When the time comes to investigate, then these soldiers and generals will lose their heads. Now there is chaos on the top of the city. No one knows how to deal with this situation. The situation is getting worse, and even hardliners like Li Gang are stumped, let alone other people. They can only watch as the golden soldiers drive these people towards the city wall, and the golden men who shoot at the top of the city from time to time shoot arrows continuously. Casualties were being caused on the city walls, but they could not fight back.

After the news reached Zhao Xu, even though Zhao Xu was stunned and cursed that the golden man had no virtue, he could come up with such a wicked and smoldering idea, so he immediately led his guards to the west wall, Under the protection of Zhang Hu, Li Bo and others, they looked outside.

As a result, at the first glance, I saw the person walking in the front. It was the famous Tong Guan who was in front of Huizong at that time. Although this guy abandoned his troops and fled, he was finally captured by the golden man, and at this time he became a golden soldier. Looking at those familiar faces, the ministers and members of the royal family who were terrified out of their wits, Zhao Xu didn't know how to deal with the vanguard army attacking the city!
Seeing that Jin Bing was getting closer and closer, but not a single arrow was fired from the city, and the entire wall of Bianliang City was dead silent. Jin Bing began to laugh wildly triumphantly, and continued to drive these Song people towards the city wall. The secondary ladder began to pass over the crowd and erected towards the city wall, and the golden soldiers were about to start attacking the city along the ladder.

At this critical moment, a man suddenly roared, stood up and held his bow, and pointed at the Jin soldiers and Song people below and shouted: "The Great Song Dynasty is at stake, and now, as ministers, it is time for you to be loyal to the Great Song Dynasty!" Now, if the Jin soldiers break the city, the people in the city will be devastated. If you still have conscience, go back and die together with the Jin people! Don’t hesitate! Let the arrows go!” As soon as the man finished speaking, he took the lead and shot an arrow at the city. When the shot was fired, a general of the Jin soldiers who was directing the building of the ladder towards the city immediately covered his neck, and without a hum, he stuck his head on the ground.

Zhao Xu looked over in shock, but saw that the person who shot the arrow was Li Bo, and then some poisonous snakes around Li Bo who he brought from the Fubo Army also started to shoot their bows at the same time. Going down, he immediately shot down many Jin soldiers who were swaggering and trying to attack the city, and of course, accidentally injured a few Song people under the city.

I am afraid that someone will take the lead, and the nerves of those Song soldiers on the city wall will be broken. At this time, someone will take the lead and shoot arrows. They no longer care who gave the order, so a large number of Song soldiers will immediately get up and stand behind the female wall They got up, raised their bows and arrows, and fired towards the bottom like crazy. They were not willing to die together for these cowards. After the golden soldiers broke through the city, they would never let them go, and they lived in the city. Few of them wanted to be buried with these cowards, so a large number of Song soldiers broke out at the same time after being suppressed for a long time!
Zhao Xu stared dumbfounded at the scene in front of him, seeing the soldiers on the city wall shooting down like crazy, and many civilians helping the battle were also madly throwing bricks and stones at the crowd below the city , who cares who is below!The Jin soldiers who were caught off guard and those Song people who were driven to help them attack the city were shot down on the spot.

I don't know whether it was intentional or unintentional, or whether Tong Guan was too tall or conspicuous. Before the old man could react, more than a dozen arrows shot at him at the same time, and he was shot into a hedgehog on the spot. With two screams, he threw himself to the foot of the city, ending his glorious life.

The other Song people saw that the city didn't care about their life and death at all. After throwing arrows and throwing stones at the city, they were killed and injured. The Jin soldiers who were advancing, the Jin soldiers did not expect the Song army in the city to be so ruthless, even disregarding the lives of their ministers and royal families, they shot arrows wantonly, and were caught off guard on the spot. The recoil of the golden soldiers suddenly became chaotic. As a result, after being beaten violently by the Song army in the city, they left a large number of corpses and retreated.

Zhao Xu looked at the piles of corpses in the city, and looked at the plight of those Song people who were killed, and his face turned pale. Now his reputation of unfilial piety is completely confirmed, and he may have no chance to stand up!So he turned his head full of anger and looked at Li Bo, who was furiously firing arrows at the golden men outside the city, and said angrily, "Come on! Bind this daring and rebellious minister for me!..."

(End of this chapter)