One Piece of Song Dynasty

Xu Cai and Cai Songnian both believed that this should not be done. Xu Cai said: "The Duke is a minister who guards the land. How can he be compared with others and defend it to the death? Moreover, if the Duke leads others to go together, they will all have their own families to drag them down. Moreover, the area around the Lugou River south of the city is full of defeated troops. , they have nowhere to vent, how can they easily let us return to the south?"

Cai Jing said: "That's what Jing meant."

After a while, someone came to report that Lu Yihao and Liang Jing, the anti-corruption envoy, arrived at the south gate of the city with their families and were preparing to leave the city. In addition, there were about one or two hundred Caosi officials. They smashed the door at the south gate of the city and also wanted to escape south of the city. Cai Jing decisively ordered: "Immediately bring people with sharp blades to stop them. If anyone dares to take advantage of the chaos, kill them." After a long time, the area around the south gate of the city was calmed down.

That night, there were rumors in Yanjing city that the Chang Sheng Army might rebel. After Xu Cai heard the news, he hurriedly reported to Cai Jing. Cai Jing didn't quite believe it and was "quite suspicious." At this time, Lu Yihao, the transfer envoy, Liang Jing, the honest envoy, and others came to Cai Jing's house. They urged Cai Jing to "abandon Yan and run away", and they "confused Cai Gong with words to each other." Wu Ji, who was in the pacification department and engaged in official business, also suggested to Cai Jing: "You can withdraw from Yanjing to protect yourself."

Xu Cai analyzed Cai Jing and said: "In the rebellion of the Tang Dynasty, for example, the generals of Li and Guo had to surrender. They each raised heavy troops, either because the place was inconvenient, or because of the water and grass, or because of the terrain. However, Yanshan is The place governed by the public is different from the above situation. Wu Ji's words are not true. If the public follows his advice and abandons the city and flees, they will inevitably put the responsibility on the public in the future and must not ignore it. If Chang Sheng wins If the army knows that the public is fleeing with the generals, Guo Yaoshi and the others will definitely use this as an excuse to arrest the public, and they will not be able to escape anywhere." Cai Jing was convinced.

After Lu Yihao and Liang Jing heard this, although they didn't say anything, their faces showed anger.

In fact, Xu Cai's analysis makes sense. If Cai Jing really followed the advice of Lu Yihao and Liang Jing and led his troops to flee south, he would definitely "throw himself to death" and would not be able to leave the Yanjing area alive. Because the Changsheng Army and the Xiang Army had just been defeated at that time, they were entrenched between the Lugou River and Zhuozhou. "There was no way to vent their anger with accumulated grievances, and the number of those who were plundered and killed was unknown."

On the morning of the eighth day of December, Cai Jing led officials from various supervisory departments to the Changsheng Army station to visit Pharmacist Guo. Pharmacist Guo briefly introduced yesterday's battle situation and next step plans to everyone.

Pharmacist Guo said: "Yesterday's battle, Pharmacist defeated them with cavalry. After chasing for thirty miles, the Jin people fled. When they reached Shen Weijian, they looked back at the infantry without fighting and thought they were defeated, so they galloped back. Later I heard that it was Ling Hui retreated without fighting, and the infantry was pursued by the Jin prince as far as Lu County. Seeing that his army would not continue, the prince also fled eastward. Now he gathered his troops and entered the city to wait until the Jin people arrived at the city. Send out all your troops and fight to the death, but if you fail to win, then support your troops and head south to wait for reinforcements to arrive."

Zhang Linghui asked: "Can any reinforcements come from the imperial court?"

Someone replied: "No."

Zhang Linghui asked again: "Is there any military rations that can be shipped?"

Someone replied: "No."

At this time, Lu Yihao said: "It has been a common practice in ancient times for a division to retreat after a defeat. It is better to retreat to Xiongzhou in order to advance later."

Zhang Linghui said: "There are nearly family members of the Ever Victorious Army in Yancheng. How can we conclude that if we lead them away, we will speed up the chaos?"

Both Guo Yaoshi and Liu Shunren agreed.

Pharmacist Guo said: "The university pointed out that since Cai Jing defended with death, the pharmacist is a commander-in-chief, so he should repay Emperor Zhao with his death, and the rest of the supervisors will go on their own."

At this time, an official from the Supervisory Department asked Pharmacist Guo to send a hundred people from the Changsheng Army to escort his family out of the city. Pharmacist Guo replied firmly: "The ever-victorious army cannot be dispatched."

Cai Jing said: "I will defend the city with my life, what will you do?"

Only Shen Guan expressed his position: "I heard that it is difficult to come, and I will not leave alone. I have to die, and I am the same as the university."

After the meeting, Cai Jing, Shen Guan and others returned to Yanshan Fu Yamen. Cai Jing and Shen Guan saw that the officials of the government office "still wanted to escape", so they warned: "If all the supervisors, commanders and ministers escape, and the Chang Sheng army rebels with this excuse, there will be genocide."

Shen Guan added: "If you follow the path of life, you may not avoid death; if you stick to the path of death, you may not avoid life."

Deputy envoy Li Yuquan joked: "The battle is very rigorous."

Shen Guan also said: "Although a certain person is lonely and cold, there are still fourteen or five people in the family who can earn a living. If one of them dies here, then the whole family can be an official. If not, the whole family cannot be an official again. If after leaving the city, If he is killed by the Jin people, or when the victorious army returns, the humiliation will be even worse." After hearing this, everyone was speechless.

Cai Jing agreed very much with what Shen Guan said. He joked to Shen Guan: "Jing has been admitted to the biography of loyalty and righteousness today. He is brave and will not be afraid of death. He should follow my biography."

Cai Jing and the officials of the Supervisory Department of Yanshan Prefecture seemed to be helpless in the face of the crisis, except to die to clarify their ambitions. They all pin their hopes on the victorious army. They didn't know that last night, Huang Ben, the governor who guarded the northeast gate of Yanjing City, secretly sent someone to contact the Jin army, saying that he could open the city gate to provide internal support for the Jin army. He also asked the second prince Zong Wang for instructions: "I don't know if the prince is going to survive." Pharmacist Guo, Pharmacist Guo is still going to die."

Pharmacist Guo has already learned about this, and he also knows that the masterminds behind Huang Ben are Zhang Linghui and Liu Shunren. Pharmacist Guo has asked the scholar Lang Wangshu to draft a surrender form to the Jin army. The surrender form said: "Wait for the time to move, and the movement and stillness are unknown. Those who obey the sky will survive, and their survival must be monitored." Chen Suti's brigade The teacher of the Qin Dynasty met with the fate of six hundred. The ruler of the Liao Dynasty died and had nothing to do, and the road to the Jin Dynasty was difficult. The Lord of the Song Dynasty Zaijia, the official of the Qin Dynasty, thought that the kindness of a meal would be repaid, so the six-foot body could be donated. Even though I know that God is coming, I dare to think about the trapped beasts and still fight. In the past, I marched eastward, and despite the wrath of thunder, I dared to attack; now I am facing the north, praying for the strength of heaven and earth."

In fact, in the Battle of Baihe, the Evervictorious Army and the Jin Army "had about the same kills, and the Jin people did not know why they won." However, due to the rebellion of the Evervictorious Army Zhang Linghui and Liu Shunren, the city of Yanjing was about to fall. Seeing this situation, Pharmacist Guo wanted to protect himself, but "it couldn't be revived", so he dropped gold. From then on, "the people of gold became more prosperous".

Therefore, it can be considered excusable for Pharmacist Guo to lower the gold. Even though Pharmacist Guo has some personality problems, such as being too indulgent to his subordinates and being unable to get along well with others, at least he still tried his best to fight the Jin army before surrendering the gold. In the first battle, who allowed the Song Dynasty to have only the Ever Victorious Army in the north, a force capable of fighting, and there was a lot of distrust in the Yan people within the Song Dynasty. The Zhang Jue incident made Guo Yaoshi and other Yan people tremble with fear, even if Song Huizong rewarded Pharmacist Guo a lot, and Pharmacist Guo was happy to serve the Song Dynasty, but he couldn't bear that his subordinates didn't want to serve the Song Dynasty. After all, the victorious army did not belong to Pharmacist Guo alone, there were other generals. l0ns3v3

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