Reborn Wu Dalang

Chapter 611 Sword Gate Pass

In the end Yang Xiong agreed to Yue Fei's request. Although he was eager for war, he was not an unreasonable person.The update is the fastest. He knows that staying in Dali is the best choice, and he has decided to completely pacify Dali, lead the army west to the southern Fujian area, and then enter Jiangnan from southern Fujian to participate in the Central Plains War!Of course, during this period of time, he, Yang Zhi, and Yue Fei led the army to raid thousands of miles to Dali City. He didn't know that the Central Plains had undergone earth-shaking changes, and he might have no chance to participate in the Central Plains War.

It was also New Year's Eve, but in the Chengdu Mansion in Bashu, there was no atmosphere of celebration at this moment.

There is a large palace in the center of Chengdu Mansion. It was originally the palace of the Later Shu in the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms. The Song Dynasty destroyed Shu. This palace has been sealed for more than a hundred years. Now it has finally ushered in its new owner—Song Huizong Zhao Ji !

But Zhao Ji is no longer the emperor at this time, he is now the Supreme Emperor of the Song Dynasty!The news from the Central Plains had reached Bashu. He knew that his son had surrendered, and his son persuaded him to surrender, but he did not agree!If it wasn't for the last moment, he wouldn't have surrendered.He was afraid of taking the charge of being a subjugated king.

At this moment, he was sitting in the palace, frowning tightly.

"Your Majesty, it's getting late! Rest early!" Yang Jian said.

"Go and call the Taishi, Taiwei and all the adults!" Zhao Ji said.

"Your Majesty, it's almost midnight, isn't it too late?" Yang Jian hesitated.

"Today is New Year's Eve! At this time in previous years, we all had a banquet in the imperial palace of Bianliang! Although we are in Chengdu Mansion today, we should have a good celebration!" Zhao Ji said.

Yang Jian nodded, turned and left.

About half an hour later, Taishi Cai Jing, Taiwei Gao Qiu, Zhong Shidao, Liang Shicheng, Qu Duan, Wu Jie, Wu Lin and other generals of the Western Army arrived one after another!These people sat down one after another according to their ranks, and after a while, countless wine and meat were brought up, and everyone began to feast on it!

The palace was brightly lit, and dozens of eunuchs and palace maids stood aside to serve these ministers. If one only looked at the scene in the palace, one would never have guessed that this was an empire that was almost at the end of its rope!

"Today is New Year's Eve, I called you here, one is to welcome the New Year, and the other is to discuss future strategies." Zhao Ji said slowly.

Hearing Zhao Ji's words, everyone stopped eating and drinking. They were all silent, and no one knew what would happen to Song Dynasty in the future.

"You all talk about it, can we hold Bashu?" Zhao Ji said.

"This..." Cai Jing wanted to speak, but finally stopped. The rest of Gao Qi, Liang Shicheng, Yang Jian and others also hesitated, and finally did not speak.

"Chong Aiqing, you are the leader of the Western Army, and the Zhong family army under you is brave and good at fighting, so please tell me first!" Zhao Ji said.

"This... I really don't dare to speak nonsense!" Zhong Shidao said with a wry smile.

Zhao Ji frowned, and kept looking down, at this moment Qu Duan suddenly stood up and said, "Your Majesty, we will definitely be able to defend Bashu!"

"Oh?" Hearing this, Zhao Ji showed an excited expression on his face, Zhao Ji said: "So it's Qu Aiqing, tell me, why can we defend Bashu?"

Qu Duan said: "Bashu has been a place that is easy to defend and difficult to attack since ancient times. As long as we guard the Jianmen Pass and the Jinniu Road and Rice Cang Road from Hanzhong to Bashu, Liangshan bandits will never be able to enter Bashu! I am Da Song."

"Okay! Aiqing spoke well! Come here, reward Qu Aiqing with 1000 taels of gold!" Zhao Ji actually said such words at this moment.

It turned out that during this period of time Zhao Ji was frightened, and what he hoped most was to be comforted by others!Now Qu Duan's words made him happy, he actually did such an incredible thing!

When the ministers below heard that Qu Duan got a thousand taels of gold just by saying such a sentence, they were stunned for a moment, and then they all spoke.

"Your Majesty, there is a poem by Li Bai that 'the road to Shu is difficult, and it is difficult to go to the blue sky'. The road to Shu is difficult, and it is certainly difficult for bandits to enter Bashu." Gao Qiu said.

"Your Majesty, there are more than 50 troops in the western army and the Bashu garrison! It is said that the Liangshan bandits have only a million troops. We will defend everywhere and occupy a good location, so we are not afraid of them at all!" Cai Jing said.

"I heard that Liangshan's navy is very powerful? What if they go up the Yangtze River?" Zhao Ji asked suddenly.

Hearing Zhao Ji's words, Cai Jing, Gao Qiu and others were all stunned, they haven't thought about this issue yet.

"Your Majesty, Lord Zhongshi Daozhong has set up checkpoints on the water in Fuzhou, Luzhou, and Rongzhou. We are not afraid of them going north!" At this time, Qu Duan said again.

"Oh, Qu Aiqing, tell me, what are these checkpoints?" Zhao Ji asked hurriedly.

"In Fuzhou, we have sealed the entire Yangtze River with iron locks, and there are countless wooden fences around the iron locks! There are mountains on both sides of the river, and we have arranged countless trebuchets on the mountains, condescending. There is only one dead end when the bandit navy comes! Those mountains are very difficult to climb! We climbed from the Bashu area, and they couldn’t climb from the other side! Except for Fuzhou, Luzhou, Rongzhou and other places The defense is no worse than this, so we are not afraid of the arrival of Liangshan bandits! Besides, the Yangtze River is so fast that it is difficult for them to enter." Qu Duan said.

"Good! That's great! Qu Aiqing is really a loyal minister of the country! Only Qu Aiqing can lay down such layers of defense to resist Liangshan bandits!" Zhao Ji said excitedly.

"Your Majesty, this is not my idea, these are all arranged by Master Zhong Daozhong!" Qu Duan hurriedly said.

"Chong Aiqing, why don't you speak?" Zhao Ji said.

"Although the ministers have laid down layers of defenses, it is reasonable for us to be able to stop the bandits! But since ancient times, there has never been a unified Central Plains and Bashu independence! No matter how easy it is to defend and difficult to attack Bashu, I am afraid that we will not be able to compete with the entire Central Plains." Once the army of the Central Plains breaks through the Jianmen Pass, Bashu will fall immediately, and the 50 western troops will be useless!" Chong Shidao sighed.

When the Great Song Dynasty ruled the Central Plains, the Great Song Dynasty army broke through Jianmen Pass, and the entire Houshu fell immediately. At that time, no one dared to fight more than 14 elite soldiers of Houshu, and all of them surrendered in anticipation!Empress Huarui of the later Shu Dynasty once wrote a poem describing this incident, "[-] people were all disarmed, and none of them was a man"!It can be said that Jianmen Pass is not only the gate of Bashu, but also the confidence of Bashu defenders. Once Jianmen Pass is broken, all defenders will immediately lose confidence and no longer have the courage to fight.

Hearing what Zhong Shidao said, Zhao Ji felt his whole body tremble again.

At this moment Gao Qiu sneered, and said: "Your Majesty Zhong is really alarmist! How could Jianmen Pass be broken so easily? There are hundreds of thousands of troops guarding it! Moreover, the hearts of the people in the world are still in my Song Dynasty! Although the Liangshan bandits are temporarily Occupied the Central Plains, but I believe that the current Central Plains must be rebels, and these rebels will help us overthrow the Liangshan bandits!"

Zhong Shidao said lightly: "I hope so!"

Gao Qiu said again: "Kang Kang is now calling on the local officers and soldiers to serve the king in southern Fujian! I think that in a few days, the officers and soldiers from southern Fujian will enter the south of the Yangtze River, and then they will regain the south of the Yangtze River and the Central Plains! At that time, the Supreme Emperor can return to Bianliang , regain the throne!"

Zhao Ji nodded and said, "It's still Gao Aiqing who said it! My Great Song Dynasty has lasted for almost 200 years, and my Great Song Dynasty will definitely stand up in the future! Come, drink this glass of wine for my Great Song Dynasty tomorrow!"

All the ministers in the palace stood up one after another and drank the wine in their cups!

"Your Majesty, I want to go to Jianmen Pass in person to command the battle!" Zhong Shidao was dissatisfied and stood up suddenly, saying.

"Okay! Aiqing will go to Jianmen Pass tomorrow morning!" Zhao Ji was taken aback for a moment, then said coldly.

What Zhong Shidao said made him feel uncomfortable, and he wished that Zhong Shidao would leave here immediately.

Early the next morning, Zhong Shidao and Qu Duan headed towards Jianmen Pass!On the first day of the new year, the cold snap hits and the weather is a bit chilly!Zhong Shidao, who is over seventy years old, feels his body trembling while riding a horse!After all, he was old and couldn't bear to go back and forth like this!

"My lord, you should go to Jianmen Pass in a carriage." Qu Duan said distressedly.

"Taking a carriage is really too slow! Liangshan always sends out troops by surprise. In the first month, they are very likely to send troops, so I must rush to Jianmen Pass in the shortest possible time!" Zhong Shi said.

"My lord, do you really think we can't stop Liangshan's army?" Qu Duan said.

"It's really unstoppable!" Zhong Shidao sighed.

"Since my lord thinks that we can't stop Liangshan's army, why don't we surrender to Liangshan?" Qu Duan said.

"We are officials of the Great Song Dynasty. We were born as people of the Great Song Dynasty and died as ghosts of the Great Song Dynasty! I will never surrender!" Zhong Shidao shook his head.

"In Bianliang City, His Majesty has already surrendered to Liangshan, and he ordered the officials from all over the place to surrender. Even if we surrender, future generations cannot say that we have no integrity." Qu Duan said.

"Your Majesty can surrender, but I will never surrender." Zhong Shidao said decisively.

On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the two of them came to Jianmen Pass.There are military camps everywhere, and 50 of the 30 Western troops are stationed here.

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