Tang Dynasty Mingyue Song Dynasty Pass

Chapter 685 Conspiracy to Surrender
Li Yu was depressed and unhappy. After drinking, his heart was filled with melancholy.

The palace is still brightly lit, but Li Yu feels that all this will change a lot, the prosperity will be gone, the palace is so cold and cruel, and it will soon not belong to him.

Throughout the ages, how many dynasties have risen and fallen, but only a few decades or hundreds of years.

The prosperity of the Han and Tang Dynasties turned from prosperity to decline, and finally fell apart. What's more, they are such a small southern court that is peaceful and peaceful. Excessive ruthless means of beheading and exterminating the mouth will harm the virtues of heaven, so the Tang Kingdom today will also face the end of decline.

Perhaps this is a reincarnation, a retribution, you covet this authority, bring you the supreme glory and wealth, similarly, you will shoulder its responsibility and karma.

Li Yu believes in Buddhism and also believes in cause and effect, so in this regard, he thinks he can understand.

He himself does not have the ability to govern the country and lead troops to fight. Facing this kind of crisis field, he has no choice but to wait and listen to the destiny.

With the smell of alcohol all over, Li Yu walked to the harem and came to the Yaoguang Palace after the Great Zhou Dynasty.

At this time, Empress Da Zhou was studying with the two princes, and when she saw Li Yu coming in with a smell of alcohol, Empress Da Zhou frowned, and said to the two princes, "Let's step back, you guys."

"Yes, mother."

The two princes stood up, greeted their father Li Yu and the queen mother, and retreated at the same time.

In the palace, only Li Yu and Empress Da Zhou, the maids were also temporarily dismissed.

The two sat down face to face, poured a cup of tea personally after the big week, handed it to Li Yu, and said, "Is there no way for the court to deal with it? The situation is getting more and more complicated."

Li Yu nodded and said: "The wind knows the strength of the grass, the toughness knows the honest minister, the brave man knows the righteousness, and the wise man must be kind. In this troubled world, there is a lack of such characters as Zhuge Kongming, Dongwu Zhoulang, Pang Juan Sun Bin, etc. , to turn the tide; it is a pity that in the court of the Tang Dynasty, there are no generals available, and there are no strategists who can think of a strategy to retreat from the enemy, so we can only obey the destiny like this."

Hearing the words, Empress Da Zhou sighed: "If I had known this before, why bother? If we had refused to hand over Su Chen from the very beginning, we might still have the power to fight. Since handing him over as a hostage, the entire army has been shaken. It's against the Song army."

Li Yu shook his head and said: "Everyone is dead, why do you still mention him, even if you shouldn't, you can't turn back."

After the big week, he asked again: "Han Xizai, Master Han, he also has great talents, and he can offer advice and strength."

Li Yu said with a bit of anger: "He said he was sick at home all day long, and he didn't leave the house for a month. He neither offered advice nor accepted any canonization. You may have complaints about the matter of Chen. I sent Gu Hongzhong and Zhou Wenju, who are waiting for the painting academy, to Han Xizai's house at night to find out the truth, and ordered Gu Hongzhong and Zhou Wenju to draw everything they saw. Han Xizai actually Drinking and singing at home, admiring singing and dancing beauties, having fun all night long, Gu Hongzhong drew the scenes he watched from memory, and those "Han Xizai night banquet pictures" were placed on my table. This is Han Xizai's attitude, I It is no longer possible to reuse him."

After listening to it after the Great Zhou Dynasty, he sighed, a talented official like Han Xizai has been frustrated many times and returned to the court many times to be reused, but this time, he seems to be completely disappointed and has no intention of governing. up.

The Song army attacked the city more and more fiercely every day, and the city gates on all sides were facing crises and were in danger.

The sound of the drums was like thunder, dense and steady, earth-shattering, and matched with the sound of fighting, the sound was mighty.

The defenders at the top of the city have already trembled, and they are already shaking the morale of the army.

For example, Huangfu Jixun, the chief general guarding the west city gate, often talked about "subduing the Song Dynasty" in private. Whenever his subordinates offered advice to defeat the enemy or asked to fight the enemy, they were often whipped by him, so that the fighting spirit of the soldiers became lower and lower. .

He no longer has any trust and hope for the Southern Tang, so he feels that instead of perishing together, staying together to the end, and living with the city, it is better to surrender as soon as possible. The Tang Kingdom belongs to the Song Dynasty. These generals can also receive new rewards and continue to stay in the Tang Kingdom. If you are an official in the territory, you don't have to fight back and forth like this, and you don't have to worry about it.

Huangfu Jixun didn't have the ability to lead troops to fight, nor did he have the courageous blood of a general. The reason why he was able to become a general of the Southern Tang Dynasty was entirely because he was born in a general family. His father, Huangfu Hui, was a general of the Southern Tang Dynasty and had a high prestige.This Huangfu Hui was originally from the north.After the establishment of the Later Jin Dynasty, he served as the governor of Mizhou.

In the 12th year of Tianfu in the Later Jin Dynasty (947), the Khitan went south and destroyed the Later Jin Dynasty.Therefore, Huangfuhui led his troops to the Southern Tang Dynasty, and was reused by Li Jing. He served successively as the governor of Shezhou, the Marquis of Shenwei, and later as the Jiedu envoy of the Fenghua Army.In the third year of Xiande (956), when Huainan was plundered in the Later Zhou Dynasty, Huangfu Hui led his troops to resist to the death, but was finally defeated and captured, and died because of his serious injuries and refused to seek medical treatment.

These heroic deeds made Li Jing and Li Yu respect Huangfu Hui very much. Therefore, they felt that Huangfu Jixun, the son of the general, could also be of great use.

On this day, Huangfu Jixun tangled with several lieutenants and Marquis Du Yu, discussing whether to continue to resist.

Huangfu Jixun said: "Everyone, there are more than 15 troops outside the city. They are attacking day and night, and their morale is like a rainbow. People, they insist on fighting to the death, but they are scholars who know nothing about military affairs and have no measures. If they continue like this, after a few months, all the soldiers and people in the city will die. For the safety of our own families, we must not just fight like this to the death, otherwise, none of us will be able to survive."

"General Huangfu, what do you mean?" Youdu Yuhou asked.

Huangfu Jixun's face was firm and determined, and he said: "It's time to launch a mutiny and prepare to surrender."

After hearing this, all the lieutenant generals, commanders, and Marquis Du Yu all looked at each other with a bit of surprise.

After a long while, Youdu Yuhou said: "I support General Huangfu's decision to surrender to the Song army. Not only will he be able to save his life and gain wealth, but the most important thing is to protect his family members and people in the city. If he persists for four months, the soldiers and soldiers of Jinling City People, losing at least half of it is too cruel!"

"That's right, anyway, our Tang country can't take it anymore, and the court officials and the emperor don't have that talent. The Tang country is going to end. We don't need to take everything and die here!"

"Yes, we support surrender!"

These generals and Marquis Duyu had already chatted with Huangfu Jixun about the day they would open the city gate and surrender when they were eating meat and drinking, but it was more of a joke, but in their hearts, there were already sprouting seeds .

Now, after Huangfu Jixun raised it based on the situation, the generals were not too surprised, and quickly reached an agreement.

"Since everyone has agreed, it is not too late. We should inform the Song army outside the city as soon as possible, so as to avoid being accidentally injured by the Song army when we open the city gate. At the same time, we should prevent the news from leaking and be punished by the court. At dusk today , On the arrows shot, send some confidants and soldiers to tie a note of surrender, and agree that at the time of tomorrow morning, Ximen will open the city gate to welcome the Song army into the city. Book, no one can escape. Be alert to the news that the imperial court will send troops to encircle and suppress us tonight."

After Huangfu Jixun said this, the other generals nodded slightly and agreed.

(End of this chapter)