Outlaws of the Marsh

Chapter 794 I will change his name to Li Gou (please subscribe!)

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The Chinese army fought as soon as it said it would, and caught the unprepared Southern Song court by surprise!
Zhao Gou hurriedly ordered Wang Yuan at the front line to lead the army to resist, and at the same time ordered Du Chong, Zhang Jun, Liu Guangshi and others to guard each key area, and at the same time wrote a letter to Li Yan begging for mercy.

The letter Zhao Gou wrote to Li Yan did not dare to use "Emperor of the Song Dynasty" as the letter's title, but "Song Kang Wang Gou wrote to the uncle of the Emperor Dazhong" as the title of the letter.

This letter may have been written by Qin Hui, and it was written with sincerity.

This letter said: "In ancient times, those who had a country but were forced to perish were just guarding and running. Today, if you follow the rules, there will be no one, and if you run, you will have no land. The world is uncle's land."

What Zhao Gou meant was: "Uncle, if you attack me, I have only two choices, one is to defend to the death, and the other is to run away. Now I have to defend to the death and no one can defend. If I want to run away, there is no place to escape. Even the world is my uncle." Your."

Then he said: "So I only hope that my uncle will see me and mourn."

It means: "My only hope lies in your merciful uncle. Uncle, you have pity on me. Please don't attack me again."

Then he said: "Therefore, the former even wrote a book, wishing to cut off the old name. Between heaven and earth, both are large and medium-sized countries, and there is no second place in respect. Why bother to travel far away and be happy."

It means: "I wrote to you several times before, expressing my willingness to cut off my old name and not be the emperor of the Song Dynasty, but you, my uncle, canonize me, and the Song Dynasty will be a vassal state of Dazhong. How wonderful that you are a big country."

Then he said: "Looking forward to my uncle, with a magnificent and far-reaching picture, thinking of the lonely and dangerous country, returning to Shi Yanjia, and giving me the rest of the year."

It means: "Uncle, please show mercy, take pity on me, and let me live on. You can return it as a teacher."

In the end, Zhao Gou also said that he did not sincerely want to default on the old coins, but that the Southern Song Dynasty was too poor now. However, even so, as long as the Chinese army was willing to return to the court, he would also be willing to immediately offer ten times the old coins. To charge the penalty for late payment of the New Year's currency this year.

After reading this earnest letter of pleading, Li Yan showed the letter to Concubine Wei Xian, Xing Bingyi and others, and said to Concubine Wei Xian: "You have given birth to a good son, and you are really able to stretch and bend. Outstanding."

Concubine Wei Xian fell silent after reading the plea letter written by Zhao Gou and listening to Li Yan's words of praise to Zhao Gou.

The same is true for Xing Bingyi and others on the side.

Although Concubine Wei Xian, Xing Bingyi and others are all women in the deep palace and don't know much about the world, they also understand that Li Yan's attack on the Song Dynasty is a real move, not that Zhao Gou wrote a pleading letter to say something. If they speak softly or they plead for Zhao Gou and the Southern Song Dynasty, Li Yan will withdraw his troops.

Furthermore, today is different from the past, not to mention Concubine Wei Xian, Tian Chunluo, Jiang Zuimei, even Xing Bingyi has given birth to a son for Li Shengsheng, and some of their family members are officials in the Dazhong Dynasty, like There are nearly ten members of Xing Bingyi's family who are officials in the Dazhong Dynasty. Several women in Xing's family are Li Yan's concubines. In other words, they have been firmly tied to Li Yan and become Li Yan. Concubines, under such circumstances, how can they speak for their ex-husband and his small court? It can even be said that it is too late for them to avoid suspicion.

In the end, only Concubine Wei Xian knelt down in front of Li Yan with a "plop", and then gave Li Yan three heavy knocks on the head, saying: "I beg the official family to save my son's life in the future!"

After hearing this, Li Yan helped Concubine Wei Xian up, and said: "Don't worry, my concubine, I won't kill him. After I capture him, I will change his name to Li Gou, and then take good care of him. I will take care of him." Let him take a good look, the gap between him and me is not just him, in the future I will rescue Zhao Ji, Zhao Huan, and Yelu Yanxi, and I will also capture Wanyan Wu Qimai and let them watch , How did I become an emperor through the ages!"

Hearing what Li Yan said, Concubine Wei Xian felt relieved.

In Concubine Wei Xian's heart, Zhao Gou could not defeat Li Yan no matter what, and would be defeated by Li Yan sooner or later. At that time, as long as Li Yan could save Zhao Gou's life, it would be fine.

Li touched the head of the son that Concubine Wei Xian gave birth to him, Li Wei, and said, "Qi'er, do you want to see your brother?"

Li Wei said in a childish voice, "I want to! I really want to see my brother soon!"

Hearing this, Li Yan smiled "haha" and said, "Okay, father will help you realize this wish as soon as possible!"

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While Yue Fei launched an attack on the Eastern Front, Wu Jie also launched an attack on the Western Front.

Wu Jie ordered Zhang Xian and Wang Yan to leave Shanzhou and Tongzhou respectively.

Zhang Xian and Wang Yan each led [-] troops into the Guanzhong Plain, using Chang'an as a base to attack Huanqing.

Zhang Xian took Yang Congyi as the vanguard, and Wang Yan took Li Yanqi (Li Yanxian's younger brother) as the vanguard officer, and the two attacked Binzhou and Yilu respectively.

Under the command of Qu Duan, the Song army also set up a formation and fought against the Chinese army on the front lines of Binzhou and Yilu.

The two sides started the first battle in Pengyuan store.

The terrain of Pengyuandian is very favorable to the Song army.

The Song army occupied the must-win place on the plateau, and took advantage of the heights to fight, condescending, while the Chinese army had to attack the Song army.

As soon as the battle started, Yang Congyi led the Chinese army to fight to the death.

After a tough battle, even though Yang Congyi even led his troops to charge in the end, he was still defeated by the Song army who had an absolute advantage.

It can be said that the Chinese army was at a disadvantage on the western front.

After Zhang Xian learned of this, he sent Guo Jin to lead an army of [-] to reinforce Yang Congyi, and issued a death order to Yang Congyi and Guo Jin: Pengyuandian must be conquered.

At this moment, Qu Duan suddenly sent an order to retreat for unknown reasons, and immediately retreated from Yilu with his troops.

After Yang Congyi found out about this, he discussed with Guo Jinyi, and then Guo Jin detoured to Yilu to surround the frontline troops of the Song Army.

As a result, the frontline troops of the Song Army were roundabout and outflanked by the Chinese army, causing heavy casualties.

Qu Duan's move was condemned by many Song generals.

Zhang Jun originally planned to rely on Qu Duan in the military, but Qu Duan's bad performance made Zhang Jun feel chilled, and then Zhang Jun developed a great aversion to Qu Duan, who was accustomed to offending his superiors and relying on his talents.

At the same time, Zhang Jun, who learned that the Chinese army had also launched an offensive on the eastern front, had a sudden idea and planned to organize a big battle in Shaanxi to contain the Chinese army so that the eastern front could not fully invade the south and threaten the small court of the Southern Song Dynasty. .

Zhang Jun's unrealistic and hasty idea met with widespread opposition.

Xuzhou Tongjuan Wang Shang presented Zhang Jun with two strategies of "raising power" and "holding weight", advising Zhang Jun not to act rashly.

Zhang Jun laughed it off and didn't accept it.

Zhang Jun held a military meeting to ask the generals for their opinions on the battle.

Qu Duan said: "The plains are conducive to the enemy's charge, but not conducive to our army's offensive. Moreover, China has been cultivated for a long time and its vigor is in full swing. It is difficult for our army to compete with it. The existing territory, and then gradually grow based on the center of Shu, after ten years, we can talk about the battle."

Tang Zhong then said: "High mountains and steep valleys are conducive to our army's formation and defense. Although the enemy army is brave and has heavy armored cavalry, they cannot charge in the mountains. If you want to fight for this land, it is absolutely impossible to do it!"

The "Guanfu" mentioned by Tang Zhong refers to the Guanzhong Plain, which is also known as the "Eight Hundred Li Qinchuan". The Beishan Mountain System is composed of Jiuyi Mountain, Qishan Mountain, Qianshan Mountain and Longshan Mountain.

The "Saga" mentioned by Tang Zhong does not refer to Saga Mountain specifically, but refers to the Beishan Mountain System in general.

The cavalry of the Song army was not as good as that of the Chinese army, and it was indeed difficult to compete with the cavalry of the Chinese army when fighting in the narrow and long Guanzhong Plain.

However, as long as the Beishan is guarded, the Song army can control the Guanzhong Plain condescendingly.

The Chinese army captured Chang'an several times and did not dare to stay for a long time, because they were worried that the Song army would cut off the Chinese army's back route or divide and encircle the Chinese army anytime and anywhere from Beishan to the south.

Therefore, Tang Zhong's opinion of "relying on the steep danger and guarding the Guanfu place" is very insightful.

However, most of the civil servants of the Sichuan-Shaanxi Xuanfu Disposal Envoy believed that Qu Duan's opinion was too slow, and Tang Zhong's opinion was too cowardly.

Tang Zhong argued hard and resolutely opposed to fighting with the Chinese army in the near future.

Zhang Jun couldn't help being anxious, and cut off Tang Zhong's words sharply, and said, "Don't I know this? I saw that the situation in the southeast is now critical, so I had to hold the battle!"

In the end, the military council broke up unhappy.

After the meeting, Zhang Jun approached Tang Zhong and reiterated his intention to hold the battle, saying: "The Chinese army is now invading Jiangnan. If something unexpected happens, then we will become the sinners of the Song Dynasty. Under this situation, we We should spread the call to raise troops to contain the Chinese army in the Central Plains so that they dare not go south."

Tang Zhong didn't dare to force Zhang Jun's opinion, but he knew that when Zhang Jun left Lin'an, Zhao Gou had told Zhang Jun: "The Western scholars and horses are dying, depending on the situation, it must be five years from now."

Therefore, Tang Zhong brought out Zhao Gou to dissuade Zhang Jun, saying: "Don't you remember what the emperor said when you left? The western army must be trained for five years."

But Zhang Jun still insisted on his own opinion, and retorted: "You can't stick to everything. If the Chinese army invades Lin'an and something unexpected happens, what should we do in the Song Dynasty? At that time, only the unified west is the place where the Song Dynasty can revive. !"

Tang Zhong listened to the words and was speechless.

However, because Qu Duan always insisted on his opinion and resolutely opposed holding a battle, Zhang Jun forced Qu Duan to hand over his military power, and left Qu Duan in the Sichuan-Shaanxi Xuanfu Disposal Division as a staff officer.

After some days, someone slandered Zhang Junjin and said bad things about Qu Duan, which aroused Zhang Jun's suspicion.

Therefore, Zhang Jun liquidated Qu Duan's guilt for not sending troops to respond to the former army during the Battle of Pengyuandian, demoted Qu Duan to an official position, and resettled him to live in Jiezhou.

Soon, Zhang Jun relegated Qu Duan to be the Deputy Envoy of Haizhou Tuanlian, and resettled Wanzhou to live at home.

At the same time, Zhang Jun purged the senior officers of the Jingyuan Army and took the Jingyuan Army into his own hands.

The matter of holding a big battle in Shaanxi was finally decided by Zhang Jun alone.

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PS: I adapted the above letter written by Zhao Gou to the protagonist based on part of Yuan Tengfei's "Two Songs".

Let me explain, originally, I only wanted to write classical Chinese or only wanted to write translations, but after reading it, I think Yuan Tengfei’s method of handling it is more interesting, that is, classical Chinese plus slightly humorous translations. I borrowed his style of writing and a little content.

If everyone thinks this is inappropriate, I will delete it tomorrow morning.

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