Prince of Song Dynasty

Chapter 584

Chen Qiao and Zhang Bo were the main fighters from the beginning to the end, and they always opposed the surrender.Now seeing that the city is broken and the country is in ruins, and things cannot be done, they meet to serve the country with death.The two came to see the lord Li Yu together. Chen Qiao wept and said: "The guilty minister is incompetent and has wronged His Majesty. Today, I can only apologize with death. After the minister died, Master Zhang Bo accompanied His Majesty to Kaifeng, saying that the wall will not surrender. The reason is all the intention of my humble minister and has nothing to do with Your Majesty."

Li Yu sighed, burst into tears, and said repeatedly: "It's God's will that the breath is exhausted. It's useless to die." Chen Qiao said: "Even if the court of the Song Dynasty didn't kill the humble officials, what face will the officials have to see the scholars in the world?" Let's say goodbye to Li Yu, rush back to the mansion and hang himself to death.

Zhang Bo didn't commit suicide immediately. He knew that he was a prisoner of the Song Dynasty, and he, a tough main fighter, could not escape death.But he wanted to accompany his emperor to meet the kings and ministers of the Song Dynasty, take responsibility for His Majesty, and then die generously, to let the people of the Song Dynasty know that the officials of the Southern Tang Dynasty were not all weak and incompetent people who were greedy for life and afraid of death.

Pan Mei, Zhao Zan, Feng Xin and other Song generals all know that His Majesty hates Lou Yanming, the Pope of Maitreya, the Imperial Teacher of the Southern Tang Dynasty. What's more, they also know that the Huaxia Weifu has a blood feud with Lou Yanming, so no matter what Whether it was Pan Mei, Zhao Zan who was the first to enter the city, and other generals with good brains, they all arranged for their capable generals to lead thousands of elite soldiers to find Lou Yanming as soon as they entered the city. Kill him to make a great contribution, or to show his favor to the Huaxia Weifu and let him owe him a huge favor.

However, Lou Yanming seemed to have evaporated from the world. The Song army searched the entire Jinling City but failed to find Lou Yanming and the core elite members of the Maitreya Sect. The eldest son Li Zhongyu.

In addition, Han Xizai, the prime minister of the Southern Tang Dynasty, was very depressed after the Song army city was broken. He had already made arrangements in secret. He secretly sent people out to contact Song army commander Pan Mei at night, and then he arranged for people to open the south gate and let the Song army sneak into the city at night. Thus making great achievements.Unexpectedly, what made him vomit blood depressedly was that Jinling City was destroyed without even defending it for a day.

After the Song army attacked Jinling, Pan Mei led the army straight to the imperial city.At this time, the weak armed resistance in the city had subsided, and the Song Army troops surrounded the Southern Tang Imperial City in an orderly manner.Pan Mei personally selected a thousand elite soldiers to guard the gate of the palace, and no one was allowed to enter or leave without authorization, so as to avoid chaos and looting in the palace.Anyone who dares to intrude will be shot to death.Pan Mei took her bodyguards and walked towards the harem.

After Li Yu retreated to the deep palace, she wept with Empress Xiao Zhou.The shouts of killing came and went in Jinling City, endlessly.There is not much time left, and he is about to become a prisoner of the Great Song Dynasty. Whether he will live or die is still uncertain.

He looked around at this magnificent and beautiful palace. He has lived here for 40 years, and from today onwards, it will fall into the hands of others.

He asked the court ladies to spread paper and ink on the imperial cases in the palace. When the country was ruined and the family was destroyed, how many words did he have to write?He slowly picked up the pen, with tears in his eyes, and wrote the three characters "Linjiang Fairy" on the paper with trembling hands. Fans fly together, Zigui sings to the west of Yuexiaolou. Painting curtains and bead foil, melancholy rolling gold mud. After the lonely people in the gate and alley go, look at the residual tobacco and slump"

As soon as I wrote this, the palace door was pushed open with a bang, and Pan Mei led dozens of soldiers and appeared in front of him.

Li Yu was shocked, and the brush fell on the rice paper, leaving a huge ink stain.After Xiao Zhou waited for dozens of concubines and wombs to yell in fright, like a group of little sparrows that had been dug out of their nests, they scrambled and hid behind Li Yu.

Li Yu stared at Pan Mei blankly for a while with teary eyes, and had no choice but to take a few steps forward, knelt down on the ground, bowed her head, but couldn't even say a word.Concubines, court ladies and eunuchs also knelt on the ground behind them.

Pan Mei looked at Li Yu, and saw that his face was covered with a blank sheet of paper, with no blood at all, his body was trembling, like a dead leaf blown by the autumn wind, thinking that the man in front of him was once the emperor of a country, He couldn't help being extremely happy in his heart, laughing long and full of sarcasm and ridicule, but it was not enough. He laughed long and said, "Li Yu! If you really want to surrender me to Song Dynasty, you will do enough."

Li Yu was taken aback when he heard the words, and said, "Lonely Li Yu understands, Li Yu is ready now."

Without letting Li Yu escape, Pan Mei felt relieved that he could do business with the emperor, and accepting the surrender, the surrender of the king of a country, what a glorious event, what a grand event, this moment in the annals of history, of course To be admired by all people in broad daylight.How can it be done simply by Li Yu kneeling in this deep palace.

After a night of turmoil, the Tang troops fighting each other in Jinling City had almost lost their resistance. Pan Mei also restrained the rebellious soldiers and tried to restore order.Under the guard of all the generals, he stepped on the blood-stained imperial street, standing in front of the glorious palace city of the Tang Kingdom, with a long and golden wall. People, at this moment, Pan Mei's blood boils.

"Your Majesty" all the servants stood in front of the hall and called out to Li Yu tremblingly.

"In the past 40 years, my family and country have been surrounded by mountains and rivers for three thousand miles; Fengge and Longlou have continued overnight, and yushu and Qiongzhi are used as tobacco. , The teaching workshop is still singing a farewell song, weeping at the palace maid." Li Yu was dressed in white, and wrote with tears, looking at the scattered servants who had not yet escaped in front of the palace, and said sadly: "Let's go!"

The palace gate opened creakingly, the Song army lined up in front of the Meridian Gate, Pan Mei sat on the horse, Zhao Zan, Feng Xin and others stood halfway behind the horse, quietly watching the people walking out of the palace gate. team.

Dozens of Tang officials, dressed in white and bare their left arms, Li Yu was in the middle, exposing his somewhat blessed pale skin, leading a white sheep, unkempt, hobbled, and offered gifts and sacrifices in strict accordance with the ancient system.Behind him, an internal servant held up the surrender watch. It stands to reason that there should be another internal servant holding the national seal at this time, but it is a pity that the national seal was taken away by Lou Yanming.And in the middle of the team, a coffin was carried, implying that the sin deserves death.

At this time, Pan Mei was in a good mood, and it took more than two months to pacify the Tang Kingdom, which he did.The emperor of the Tang Kingdom would rather die than kneel down in front of him, pleading guilty to him.What else is he dissatisfied with?
Pan Mei let out a long laugh unscrupulously, and only laughed when Li Yu's face was red, and then she pretended to be amiable and said: "Don't be afraid, the king, the emperor of the Song Dynasty said that he will never hurt the family of the king. You wait and get ready , you can bring more gold, silver and jewelry, and you can’t move them after being sealed and registered. After you arrive at the court, you will have limited rewards and salary, but you can’t afford your usual extravagance.”

Li Yu didn't expect Da Song's coach to be so generous, and he was so moved that he kowtowed again and again, and couldn't help sobbing.

Pan Mei led the guards back out with a long laugh, and hurriedly persuaded him: "We should send someone to watch over Li Yu. If he finds short-sightedness, why will the commander-in-chief explain to the emperor?"

Pan Mei smiled and said: "Don't worry, everyone, since he has surrendered and knows that he has saved his life, why is he willing to die? This kind of person is the most greedy for life and afraid of death."

Pan Mei lived in a side hall in the palace.Immediately issued an order, reaffirming the prohibition of looting, and sent people to all camps in the army to search strictly. If anyone found hiding other people's wives, they would be returned immediately. Anyone who robbed property would be confiscated.Then he ordered Zhao Zan to lead his troops north to join Cao Wei and Yang Yanping's troops to deal with the nearly [-] elites of the Southern Tang Dynasty led by Caishiji Lin Renzhao.

Although Zhao Zan was unwilling, Pan Mei was the commander-in-chief of the army, and he had no reason to refuse her order, so he could only lead the army northward.

After Zhao Zan left, Pan Mei asked Feng Xin to lead [-] imperial guards from the capital to guard Jinling, and then led the Jiangbei camp he had been running for more than a year to leave Jinling.

Outside Jinling City, Pan Mei summoned the generals of all the armies to the commander's account, and Su Rong said: "Li Yu has surrendered now, and the commander has ordered someone to inform the world of Li Yu's surrender. If Nacheng surrenders, if there are those who disobey, once the city is broken, the city will be massacred!"

At the same time, most of the generals were overjoyed. Massacre of the city meant random burning, killing and looting, which meant huge wealth.A few people hesitated in their hearts, but before they could say anything, Pan Mei said in a deep voice: "The ruler of the Southern Tang Dynasty has surrendered, and those who still occupy the city are all loyal people of the Tang Kingdom, and they will not be wiped out. Resurrection, I don’t know how many wars will be set off again, this commander has no choice but to do it, not to mention the brothers have worked hard and worked hard under this commander, if they return empty-handed, it will appear that this commander has treated the soldiers badly. Alright , this is a military order, you all need not say more!"

Let her confidantes and horses divide their troops to attack other cities that have not yet surrendered. Pan Mei sent a navy to escort Li Yu, his wife and Li's royal family to Kaifeng. At the same time, he wrote a handwritten battle report and submitted it to the emperor. .

There is a statement in the memorial table: The Song army crusade against the Tang Dynasty, and according to the emperor's decree, when attacking Jinling, it is strictly forbidden to kill innocent people, and it is strictly forbidden to burn, kill and loot. Not a single household of the tyrants and wealthy merchants was plundered, and all the warehouses and government treasuries of the imperial court were sealed up without losing a single one.The great army of Song Dynasty is indeed the teacher of the king and the teacher of benevolence and righteousness. Wherever he goes, the people in the south of the Yangtze River respect him and greet him. This is really a great blessing to His Majesty.
However, at the same time that Pan Meizuo was being sent away, the soldiers were carrying the body out of the home of Su Sanxing, the great official of Tang Guoqinzheng Palace. A family of sixty people, regardless of gender, age or age, was slaughtered.

At the corner of the alley in black clothes, there are delicate white feet showing. When you walk over, you will find a naked naked corpse of fourteen or fifteen years old lying on its back in the alley. There is not even a fig leaf on its body, and its face is full of panic and despair .

(End of this chapter)