The First Yamen of the Great Song Dynasty

All the imperial doctors accompanying the army came to treat Zhao Ji, but they couldn't figure out why. "Officials, has there been a change in diet recently?" What should not be eaten? The so-called disease comes from the mouth.

"I didn't eat anything."

Zhong Shidao has already dispatched troops to rendezvous. According to the current situation, it is easy to break through Xixia's Hengshan defense line, and the rest is to go straight to the Xixia capital.

Now if the emperor is ill, it will be a great blow to the entire morale.

Gao Qiu didn't want to see Zhao Guan's family in his heart, but he still hoped that he would recover, and said to the imperial doctor: "Prescribe some nourishing medicine, let the officials take care of them."

Tong Guan also said: "Is the official family not acclimatized?"

The imperial doctor thought, I have been in the sea of ​​medicine for more than [-] years, but I can't diagnose the acclimatization? !

But he said on his mouth: "Then prescribe some medicines for recuperation."

"Your medicines are not good. If you want to take it, you have to take Gongsun Taoist's elixir." Zhao Jixiang suddenly opened his eyes, "I am not satisfied with the water and soil, and I have endemic diseases. You quickly send people back to Tokyo and ask Gongsun Taoist to go to heaven for me." Gather herbs and refine better pills for me!"

It may be that the dangerous mountains and rivers along the way made him, an emperor who had never been out of Tokyo, get sick.

Although he is also taking elixir now, the current effect is not enough to cope with the environment outside the Great Wall, so he asked Daoist Gongsun to send a batch of new elixir quickly.

Gongsun Sheng was favored by the emperor, and he kept his own law and order. He neither got involved in court battles nor corrupted the law. It almost made people forget his existence.

He is not a demon, and others have a good impression of him.

Since the officials want to take his medicine, others feel that there is no need to stop it.

The emperor wanted to take drugs, so Gao Qiu had no choice but to serve the god and beg him to get well soon.

Gao Lian immediately sent his cronies back to Tokyo on horseback to get the medicine.

Zhao Ji yawned tiredly again, "I'm tired, you all go down."

Tong Guan and Gao Qiu withdrew from the emperor's big tent. Facing the other generals who gathered around to inquire about the situation, both of them showed relaxed expressions, "The officials are just a little tired from their journey recently, just take a rest."

Both Tong Guan and Gao Qiu said so, believe it or not, and went to work.

But they were both worried, what should they do if Gongsun Sheng's elixir was taken and it didn't work?Besides, Xixia was about to be attacked, so the emperor had to show up at any rate to boost morale.

Later, when Hua Rong met Gao Qiu, he lowered his voice and said, "Is the official's health all right?"

Gao Qiu said: "It's nothing, there are probably no women to hold back."

Who is Zhao Ji? There are countless beauties inside and outside the palace, but how many days has it been since he went to war this time?

His eyes were almost red.

Hua Rong found that his father-in-law was getting more and more unkind to Zhao Guan's family, so he couldn't laugh or cry, "It's fine."

Anyway, the emperor doesn't need to go to the battlefield by himself, he just needs to put one there like a clay sculpture in a temple, and let people "worship".

Gao Qiu told Hua Rong not to worry, and urged him to rest and prepare for the imminent battle.

When Huarong left, Gao Li himself stood in the setting sun with his hands behind his back and sighed.

I don't know what will happen in the end of this Xixia trip.

-

Gao Ming heard that the front line sent people back to Tokyo City, and they came to fetch the elixir, so he couldn't help but mutter in his heart, did he take drugs halfway?Can this stick well?

I couldn't help but sweat for my father and Hua Rong.

However, now he has no time to worry about the army thousands of miles away, because he has more important things to worry about.

That is, there is a flood around the city of Tokyo, and the flood is about to submerge the imperial city.

Regardless of the size of the population or the size of the economy in Tokyo, it would be unimaginable if it was soaked in water.

In addition to human and economic losses, there is another point that is very worrying.

That is, this is the first year that Zhao Kai was established as the crown prince.

Heaven and man are in touch, and the common people are convinced.

As soon as the prince was changed, God flooded Bianliang City. It must be that God is dissatisfied with this prince.

Although the crown prince had pacified Fangla and recovered Youzhou before, but since the disaster happened, there must be some mystery in it that ordinary people can't understand.

The flood was raging, and there were all kinds of rumors every day.

Some of them have some basis, which belong to what the nearby people have seen and heard.

Some of them are totally unfounded, for example, the flood waves are one foot high, and there are man-eating water monsters inside. Everyone has seen it, and the beard is longer than a man's arm.

Speak with a nose and an eye.

Gao Ming's suggestion as the Secretary of the Imperial City was of course to arrest the person who spread the gossip with lightning speed.

And Zhao Kai, as the prince of the supervisory country, although he didn't understand why he didn't have a good relationship with the heavens, he couldn't care less about these things now, so he seized the time to organize people to fight the flood.

In terms of personnel deployment, the common people who served in corvee were not selected, but personnel were transferred from the imperial army to the front line of flood fighting.

These remaining Forbidden Army belonged to those who were eliminated by the pro-conquest team.

Basically, they have been "followed" by the new military training method, and lack ideological awareness.

Quite some complaints.

Originally, these forbidden soldiers were not very willing to do the work of these porters and coolies.

But when he was pulled to the forefront of disaster relief, he found that His Royal Highness himself was standing on the tower to oversee the work, and Cai Taishi and other civil and military officials were also there, and all the grievances were gone.

Even the crown prince and Tai Tuo stood against the wind and rain, who would dare to neglect.

In fact, Cai Jing didn't want to come out in the rain. He was old and couldn't afford to make a fuss, but anyone asked the prince to inspect it himself.

No matter how noble he was, he could still be more expensive than the crown prince, so he was helped up to the gate tower, accompanied by his old and dim eyes.

Gao Ming stood behind Zhao Kai and Cai Jing, looking at their expressions from the side and rear from time to time.

He stared at Cai Jing, seeing brown age spots on his wrinkled face, and thought, alas, can your bones still hold up?So in love with power?Have you ever thought about returning home?

Although he was standing on the city gate tower and was not directly exposed to the rain, when a gust of wind blew, there were still fine raindrops hitting his face. He wiped it off with a handkerchief and shivered.

Gao Ming grinned secretly, at such an advanced age, the fight against the flood will continue for a period of time, you have to endure it.

Facts proved that Gao Ming was right. Three days later, Cai Jing fell ill due to a cold and could not accompany the prince to the city gate tower to inspect the water conditions.

Seeing that Taishi Cai was ill, Zhao Kai went to visit him personally and sent kind condolences to Cai Jing who was ill.

Sitting in front of Cai Jing's sickbed, Zhao Kai said "sadly": "The grand master must get better, the imperial court cannot live without the grand master."

Cai Jing coughed and said, "The old minister will definitely...cough, cough...recover as soon as possible, and do my best for Song...cough...cough...bow...to do my best."

"Grand Master, don't talk too much, let's rest and recuperate." Zhao Kai stood up and said, "When you are well, then accompany me to the tower, I will wait for you."

Cai Jing thought of the cool wind above the city tower and the icy drizzle blowing in front of him, and immediately coughed even worse, "Cough! Cough! Cough——"

Cai Jing's sons hurried over to give obedience to their father.

Seeing that Cai Jing was coughing so badly, Zhao Kai was afraid of infecting himself, so he gave a few more words of advice and left.

After Zhao Kai left, Cai Jing, who was out of breath from coughing, lay back on the bed.

Zhao Kai is young and energetic, and likes to do everything by himself.

And how can the others not follow, this is too unfriendly to an old bone like him.

However, fortunately, he is only a prince, and he is only Jianguo at present.

The official family is in the prime of life, and the spring and autumn are at its peak, and the crown prince still has to wait.

When Cai Jing thought of this, he coughed uncontrollably again, and the inertia made him almost bounce off the bed like a carp.

"Cough-cough-cough! Cough!"

Officials at the front line, are you okay?

-

After the Western Expeditionary Army merged with the Western Army who cultivated the way of teachers, they successfully stationed in Pingxia City.

Pingxia City, as the name suggests, is a fortress built to calm Xixia.

It was extremely difficult to come to Pingxia City. It took several years to advance quickly and regained the stronghold from Xixia.

The geographical location of this stronghold is very important, because it means breaking through the southern part of Xixia's Hengshan defense line and running within the defense line.

The terrain in front is all plains, with rich water and grass, and is very rich, and looting can also supplement the supplies of Xingqing Mansion, the capital of Xixia along the way.

In addition, since the Pingxia City was built, the Song Army has been pouring supplies here, accumulating a lot of logistics materials over the years, and saving enough wealth.

The army was in place, carrying supplies, and went straight to Qingxing Mansion.

Everything was ready, and the emperor gave an order.

It's a pity that Zhao Ji couldn't boost morale, but he wanted to be encouraged by someone.

He felt uncomfortable all over, weak, limp, and lack of energy, unable to eat or sleep.

So rumors gradually circulated in the army that the official's family was suddenly seriously ill. After all, with the character of the official's family, if he arrived in Pingxia City, if he didn't go up to the city gate, look at the Xixia scenery in the distance, and write a poem, then he wouldn't be him.

Now I am still not moving, I am bored not seeing people, and the situation is not optimistic.

The undercurrent was raging, how could Gao Li not notice it, and he found that the trained soldiers were quite calm, and the middle and lower rank officers loved to whisper and whisper.

Why is the quality not as good as that of soldiers?

Gao Qiu remembered that his son had proposed ideological education for officers.

At this time, he saw Tong Guan coming out of the official's house, went up to meet him and said, "How is it? Has the official's eaten anything?"

Tong Guan sighed, "It's just a little bit. Why hasn't the person you sent back to Tokyo to fetch the elixir come back yet? Didn't you see the people's hearts fluctuate?"

Gao Qiu said sullenly, "How could I not see it?! If it goes well, the pill will arrive in a few days! I've been urging you again and again, and I'm more impatient than you."

As soon as the words fell, someone came to report: "I'm back—the person sent back to Tokyo is back—"

Both Gao Qiu and Tong Guan were overjoyed, and hurriedly went to meet the cavalry team who came back from the medicine.

The two quickly took the medicine, entered the room where Zhao Ji was, and offered the pill.

At this time, Zhao Ji was lying on the bed, humming with discomfort all over his body. When he saw the elixir coming, he sat up propped up, took the elixir immediately, and swallowed one.

Gao Qiu breathed a sigh of relief and looked at the emperor nervously.

After Zhao Ji took the medicine, he lay down and rested with his eyes closed, his complexion slowly returned to rosy, and then he stretched his waist, shaking his spirits and said: "I want to go out for a walk!"

I don't know if it is an illusion, but it seems that the effect is better than the one I took before.

Zhao Ji asked the servants to comb his hair, put on his clothes, and strode out of the room.

Gao Qiu and Tong Guan hurriedly followed. It was strange to say that the housekeeper who was lying on the bed and unable to move just now had a strong pace, and even they could hardly keep up.

As soon as Zhao Ji showed up, all kinds of rumors were self-defeating.

Seeing him board the city tower, overlooking the land of Xixia in front of him, he felt ambitious and passionate, and immediately said: "Bring a pen!"

When the pen and ink arrived, he picked up the pen and wrote three words in his original thin gold script: Deshengguan

"From now on, Pingxia City will be called Deshengguan. Let the army see this inscription."

"Author's personal letter——" A soldier took this writing, went down the tower, and rode back and forth in the army on horseback, "The official's personal letter——"

All kinds of rumors about the dragon body are self-defeating, and the morale of the army is boosted.

The next day, they broke up their camp and set out to officially attack Xixia.

-

When Li Qianshun heard that the emperor of the Song Dynasty had come to fight Xixia in person, he was so frightened that he almost fell off his throne.

"Not good, not good, really not good!"

My big summer is about to end.

Although he defeated the iron cavalry who had repelled the Liao State and arrested him to go to Beijing before, the victory was very dangerous.

At present, there are only a few thousand iron kites in hand, and the Hengshan defense line is broken, and there is almost no danger to defend. As long as the Song army goes all the way north, he will be the king of subjugation.

He had the cheek to look for his queen, Yelu Nanxian, who was the princess of the Liao Kingdom he proposed to marry. Since they got married, the two of them had never blushed, and their relationship was very harmonious.

She also gave birth to a prince for him.

Yelu Nanxian not only has a good relationship with him, but also gave birth to a prince, and is also very virtuous and perfect in every way.

"Queen, now that my summer is at its most dangerous moment, can you..."

Plead with the Liao Kingdom and send someone to help your husband?

But before he finished speaking, Immortal Yelu Nan's face turned cold, "No!!"

He is a good queen, she loves her own country, Liao, so much.

Since she knew that he sent Concubine Cao's relatives to Jin to form an alliance and cooperate to attack Liao.

For the first time his queen was furious with him.

And since a few days ago, he refused to go back to the Liao Kingdom to plead guilty, and even defeated the Liao Kingdom's iron cavalry.

His queen treated him like ice, treating him as nothing.

"Are you going to watch your husband perish?" Li Qianshun cried out in pain.

Yelu Nanxian squinted at her husband and said: "The iron kite can't save Daxia, there is no way, I will accompany you to die for the country."

The iron kite is the Xixia heavy cavalry. If this elite army can't beat the Song Dynasty, the country will have to perish.

Li Qianshun was furious, this woman even thought about her funeral, "Can't you ask the Liao Kingdom for help?"

"You linked up with the Jin country first, and then resisted the Liao army. What face do I have to beg for mercy from my mother country?"

"I hooked up with the Kingdom of Jin because the Liao Kingdom ceded Youzhou to the Song Kingdom. It was at the end of its strength, and you blamed me for finding another way out for Daxia?"

Immortal Yelu Nan was trembling with anger, "Then why do you ask for help from this weakling at this time?! Once the capital is broken, I will die to accompany you. Apart from that, I will not do anything else!"

"I don't want you to be martyred! Get lost! Go back and be your Liao princess! The crown prince stays!" After speaking, he called to the left and right and said, "You send the queen back to Daliao!"

Immortal Yelu Nan naturally refused to leave, but she was a woman after all, so there was no way she could hold her back.

He was coerced out of Xingqing Mansion, the capital, and sent back to Liao Kingdom.

Li Ganshun, who drove away Yelu Nanxian, fell to the ground with his head in his arms.

The rescue of the Liao Kingdom is hopeless, and there are only two ways in front of him, surrender or resist desperately.

surrender?No no no, now is not the time.

Whatever the case, fight a battle, and it won't be too late to surrender after losing.

Thinking of this, he ordered his left and right to take it and put it on.

He also wants to drive in person!Let's see who wins!

Maybe a miracle will happen.

-

Song Jun left from Deshengguan, marched all the way, and arrived at Qinwangchuan without any hindrance.

This is the last barrier of the capital city of Xixia. After entering the Qinwang River, it is an endless plain, and soldiers can approach the city by running horses all the way.

So, in Qinwangchuan, Xixia Tie Yaozi also rushed here.

The two armies met.

The terrain is open, so you can fight as you want.

Li Qianshun was well aware of the power of the Song army's bows, and in order to preserve the best troops, he called the postscripts to attack in the first wave.

The so-called postscript refers to the strong men drawn from various tribes as the piles that consume the number of arrows of the Song army.

In short, it is used to attract enemy attacks.

Afterwards, the iron harriers spread out, saw the right moment, and rushed towards the Song army with an order.

As long as the formation is not chaotic, these heavy cavalry with both men and horses in armor are like a sharp knife cutting apart the Song Army's infantry formation and annihilating them one by one.

This is Li Shunqian's ideal battle situation.

But the fact is that under the endless arrows shot by Song Junqiang's bow, his iron kite couldn't resist and broke a corner.

Immediately, the cavalry of the Song Army saw the timing and rushed in.

"Hold it! Hold it!" Li Qianshun shouted hoarsely.

Perhaps they all know that this battle is no small matter, either to wipe out the Song Kingdom or to destroy the country.

At the critical moment, the iron kite actually withstood the arrow in front of him and charged towards the Song army.

Because of its fast speed, as long as the iron kite cannot be defeated within a few arrows, the kite can quickly reach the infantry.

The rest is that the cavalry beheaded the infantry.

Sometimes even before the iron kite reaches the infantry, the infantry will stop fighting and collapse.

It happened many times in their war with Song.

But this time, it is an exception.

Facing the iron kite that was approaching like an iron tower, the soldiers of Song State did not collapse or flee, and still stuck to their positions. The gun pierces the enemy's heart.

The perseverance in the front bought time for the archers behind, and they fired arrows again and again.

No matter how thick the armor was, it couldn't stand such continuous attacks, and the cavalry on the iron kite fell from their horses one after another.

Seeing that the iron kite was shot into an iron hedgehog, Li Qianshun couldn't help feeling heartbroken, and unconsciously leaned forward.

"Your Majesty, be careful!" Shang Shu ordered, Tai Fu Wei named An Hui to prevent Li Qianshun from going any further.

You must know that the emperor's grandfather was shot and died in the war against the Song Dynasty.

How can the grandson repeat the mistakes of the grandfather.

Li Qianshun saw that the remaining iron harriers were about to collapse, and saw that the cavalrymen of the Song Dynasty had killed them, and realized that the situation was over, so he turned his face sadly to Wei Ming Anhui and said, "It's dead!"

As soon as he finished speaking, he felt severe pain in his cheek. It turned out that an arrow hit his cheek and pierced his cheek.

Immediately the mouthful of blood.

The moment he pulled out the arrow, he also saw the Song general who shot him, and it could be seen that he was not very old.

"General Hua shot the Emperor Xixia to death—" someone in the Song army shouted.

Li Shunqian threw the arrow on the ground and shouted: "Here I am!" Such rumors must not be spread.

Wei Ming Anhui hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, retreat quickly!"

Li Shunqian still shouted: "I am here!"

"I got it, I got it, let's run." Wei Ming Anhui persuaded: "Your Majesty, don't reveal your position!"

Seeing that the Song people behind him had noticed him, Li Shunqian shut up quickly and retreated immediately.

As soon as the emperor ran away, after Xixia's iron harriers broke up, they also followed the emperor and withdrew their troops, discarding countless luggage along the way.

Song Jun picked up equipment along the way.

After Li Shunqian rushed back to the capital in one breath, he knew that the Song army would definitely take advantage of the victory to pursue.

There is no danger to defend the capital, just wait for a knife to cut to the neck.

Since he couldn't beat him, he decided to take the second move, surrendering himself as a vassal.

Take it, can't you?

He ordered Shangshu Lingwei named Anhui as an envoy to enter the camp of the Song army with the letter of credence and gifts to seek peace.

In the face of Xixia's summing behavior, Song Jun's general perception is, what did he do so early?

If your ancestor Li Yuanhao didn't proclaim himself emperor and betrayed the state of Song and defected to the state of Liao, why would you have been fighting for so many years?

Oh, seeing that the soldiers are approaching the city, they came to negotiate peace and surrender.

When you recover, you will definitely turn your face faster than turning a book, and immediately betray your promise.

These acts are all historically available.

Therefore, not only Gao Qiu said that the Xixia people were unreliable, but even Tong Guan persuaded Zhao Ji not to meet the Xixia envoys, but to send troops directly to Xingqing Mansion to break through the city.

But Zhao Ji did not listen to the dissuasion of the two important ministers, "It's okay, I see that he is not in the way."

Whether to accept the surrender or not, the key is to listen to the envoys of the Xia Kingdom for peace, and to see their attitude of obedience and submission.

This process, the inner comfort, cannot be described in words.

The Song Dynasty has been oppressed by the Liao Kingdom, and there is nothing to do with Xixia, so it has never been elated.

Now that he has the opportunity to enjoy the waiting time, Zhao Ji can't stand it anymore, and wants to experience it soon.

Wei Ming Anhui performed the Song ceremony and knelt down to Zhao Ji in the big tent, "The emperor of the Song Dynasty is here, take pity on the people of Daxia, and hope to be free from the suffering of swords and soldiers. As long as the gods of the Song Dynasty are willing to return, our Xia Kingdom is willing to become a vassal. Supply good horses and salt from Song Dynasty."

The special products of Xixia, horse and salt, are all missing in Song Dynasty.

Zhao Ji stroked his beard, and there were only two words on his body, refreshing.

Gao Qiu snorted, "You guys are always going to backtrack! Your Majesty can't believe Xixia's nonsense!"

Wei Ming Anhui looked up at Gao Qiu, but what made him more concerned was the young general next to him. If he read correctly, he should have shot his own emperor in the cheek.

At that time, Li Qianshun was actually within a safe distance, and would not have been shot under normal circumstances.

But this person actually shot an arrow with precision, what's the reason?

Zhao Ji stroked his beard with a flower finger, and said with a smile that was not a smile: "Horses and salt, why do we need you to contribute in the Song Dynasty? Why don't you take it yourself?"

Anhui, who was named Wei, heard that this meant breaking the city, and hurriedly said: "If Great Xia is destroyed, who will spread the prestige of the Song Dynasty? Rather than killing a monarch, it is better to keep this monarch to submit to you Kowtow. The two countries of Song and Xia can become a country of uncles and nephews."

It is a country of brothers with Liao, but it is a country of uncles and nephews with Xia, so there is no need to say who is an uncle.

Zhao Ji smiled and said nothing. At this time, Wei Ming Anhui said: "Your Majesty, please think about it. Our Xia Kingdom is not in a hurry to reply. Knowing that the Great Song God Army has come from afar, it is very hard work, so we have prepared beautiful women to drum and dance for labor."

When Zhao Ji heard that there was a beautiful woman, Zhao Ji's eyes lit up until his eyes turned red.

Seeing that Zhao Ji was interested, An Hui, who was named Wei, hurriedly said, "They are all carefully selected beauties, and their skin is as white as the snow of Helan Mountain."

Zhao Ji, a pure straight man, loves beautiful women all his life.

However, the scope of picking was limited to the Bianliang area before.

Now that the beauty of Helan was on the tip of her tongue, she forgot everything, "Then let me have a look."

The atmosphere in the big tent was extremely low. Although they didn't say it directly, the aura exuded by the courtiers was obviously dissatisfied with the emperor's decision.

Huarong thought bitterly in his heart, the capital is about to be breached, do you still have the heart to do this? !

If he knew like Gao Ming that Zhao Ji was a big stallion who still had the leisure to have children even after being kidnapped by the Jin army and going north, he wouldn't be surprised.

Zhao Ji didn't think so, he also felt the subtle change in the atmosphere.

He hummed in his heart, how do you understand me? !Tong Guan, it goes without saying that you are a eunuch.Gao Lian, you haven't touched women for so many years, even if you don't say it, it's probably not okay.

And Huarong, you are a broken sleeve!

All of you, eunuchs of eunuchs, with broken sleeves, how do you understand my suffering? !

"Present the beauty to me." Zhao Ji swept over the eunuchs and Duanxiu of this gang, "You all go down."

After everyone else left, Zhao Ji took out the elixir given by Daoist Gongsun, one, two, three, four...

When he saw the ten Xixia beauties brought in, he added another one.

Five pills, ten girls, breaking my own record.

-

Hua Rong returned to her tent, knowing that she should sleep, but she was not tired at all.

He knew that he wanted Gao Ming who was far away in Tokyo.

I don't know if Du Gao Ming fell asleep or not, and if he misses him thousands of miles away like him.

He drew the jade pendant along the collar, put it on his lips and kissed it lightly, then held it and closed his eyes.

In a trance, he had a dream of Gao Ming, who was embracing him, and was about to make the next move, but was suddenly awakened by a sentence: "General Hua".

It turned out that the attendant called him, "General Hua, the Taiwei asked you to go out."

Hua Rong hurriedly got up and walked out of the tent. At this time, there was only a little light in the sky, and the appearance of the person was only vaguely visible.

But perhaps Gao Lian's expression was too shocked, he could see it clearly, and he felt uncomfortable, "What's wrong?"

Gao Qiu blinked his round eyes, and said in the lowest voice, "The official... is not good."

Hua Rong's heart skipped a beat, this person was the one who caused the most trouble along the way, since it's not going well anyway, he might as well just die.

"Come with me, don't panic." Gao Qiu winked at Hua Rong, then walked towards the emperor's tent.

After Huarong went in, Tong Guan had already arrived, besides him, there were a few servants.

Some servants are dressing Zhao Ji, while others are wiping the blood from Zhao Ji's nostrils.

And Zhao Ji stared straight at him.

Hua Rong took a look, and saw that his pupils were dim and had already spread.