Zhao Huan immediately jumped up, "You don't have to say anything anymore. I have decided to leave the capital and go to Shaanxi, recruit the Western army there, and recover the capital, and never stay here again."

At this point, what else can Li Gang do? Can he hold Song Zhenzong's dragon robe tightly like Kou Zhun and let you go without saying anything? Li Gang could only kneel down and persuade him in tears!

At this time, Tianyou's Song Dynasty, Li Gang came to savior! Zhao Huan's two uncles, King Yan, Zhao Ya and King Yue, Zhao Wei, came, and they also advised the emperor not to escape...

Zhao Huan finally calmed down. He picked up the pen and wrote two words "Kei Hui" and stamped them with the imperial seal, and handed them over to the eunuch, asking them to catch up with their wife and son, and they were all recalled!

The emperor stopped running away. It was the afternoon of January 4th...

By night, the emperor changed his mind again. The reason was probably that the queen and the duke continued to run away and did not listen to his orders at all. This directly damaged his confidence and made him issue an order overnight, telling the ministers: I will set off in the early morning of tomorrow, and the capital will be entrusted to Li Gang and Li Qi! Whoever loves to guard, should not bother me anyway!

It was already late at night when Li Gang received the order, and the palace gate was locked. Not to mention him, even Kou Zhun, he would not expect to see the emperor at this time. So he could only wait until dawn...

In the early morning of the 5th, the night of suffering made Li Gang very angry and walked in like a lit firecracker. He saw groups of guards and eunuchs moving their luggage and preparing for a large palace move! The excited Li Gang could no longer care about the decentness of the monarch and his subjects!

Li Gang decided to remove the firewood from the cauldron! A trick that must be effective: he wants to instigate a mutiny in the palace!

Li Gang asked these guards loudly: Do you want to escape or guard? This sentence is in the question. The guard soldiers' families are all in Kaifeng City. At this time, they run away with the emperor. What should their families do? Who is willing to abandon their families and business?

After receiving this reply, Li Gang immediately went to see the emperor with the boss of the imperial guard Wang Zongbi to report the news of the mutiny. Zhao Huan was stunned. He was at the mercy of Li Gang and personally issued an order to announce that he would not escape!

Then, Li Gang walked to the prime minister, Bai Shizhong, and said, "The emperor's intention has been settled, and those who dare to object to it will behead him."

Then, Li Gang asked the emperor to climb the Xuande Gate Tower and ordered all civil and military officials, soldiers and soldiers to gather downstairs. In a moment, he and Wu Min drafted an imperial edict, which was written on it. He stood at the top of the city and read it loudly, and each sentence was exchanged for the promise of the soldiers... Morale was aroused, but it was not enough!

There must be a reward. Li Gang talked to Zhao Huan for a while, and the emperor gave the following rewards: The Song Dynasty's official paid 1 million taels of silver, 1 million pieces of silk, and 1 million guan of money. Civil officials asked for the doctors from the court, and military officials from the martial arts masters from the martial arts masters, a total of 000 imperial edicts were rewarded to encourage those who were rewarded to fight the enemy! Li Gang was the leader of the award for whom and how to reward them!

At the same time, Bai Shizhong was dismissed from prime minister. Li Bangyan was promoted to the prefect and Zhang Bangchang was appointed as the junior minister. Zhao Ye, the minister of the clerk, Wang Xiaodi, and the minister of the clerk, Cai Mao, and Li Gang were the commander-in-chief of the clerk, and Cao Wei, the commander-in-chief of the clerk, as the deputy envoy of the clerk, who was personally expeditioned and carried out camps.

At this point, the Song Dynasty finally clarified its attitude - to fight! No matter what internal differences were, at least the external unified the caliber. But was it correct? Not only at that time, but even modern times hundreds of years later, there were still endless debates...

Should we run away? If we don’t run away, everyone knows the historical ending. So many people say that Li Gang is an idealist. He refused to let Qin Zong leave the capital, and even brought Hui Zong back afterwards. As a result, he was killed by the Jin army and all of them were killed... Li Gang hurt people!

Then run away, escape, the Jin army cannot catch up, secondly, China is so big that there will be a chance to escape wherever it goes. For example, Shaanxi has a powerful Western army and a strong city surrounded by rivers and mountains, which are all unparalleled by Kaifeng. If you want to go farther, when you go to Sichuan, like Emperor Xuanzong of Tang, you can go to Chengdu along the plank road, no one can do anything... But how many times have Chengdu been violated in history? Not to mention the distance, the Later Tang Dynasty destroyed Shu during the Five Dynasties, and the establishment of a country to destroy Shu at the beginning of the Song Dynasty, which were all destroyed and unstoppable. The reason for the natural danger is that the government in Shu was completely ruined! The government under Emperor Huizong of Song was very bad at the level of ruin. So why could the Song Dynasty defend the natural danger that could not be defended by Shu in the front and back?

Back in Kaifeng City, Li Gang finally had military command. He flew around like a cannonball, and Kaifeng City was everywhere. In the past 0 years, the capital has become a super-large scenic amusement park, and the city defenses are abandoned. He has to organize the military and civilians to repair buildings, hang felt curtains, install artillery seats, set up crossbow beds, transport bricks and stones, install fireworks, hang torches, hang wood, prepare tin oil, etc. Whether it is on or not, he has to go to the front line!

If the river in Xishuimen is deep and wide, it will be difficult for the Jin army to attack by boat from there. There are so few strategic materials at hand, what should I do? Li Gang thought for a while: People come and demolish Cai Jing's rockery! All the stones are thrown into the river and cut off the waterway!

There are many such things. Although Cai Jing has been dismissed from office, but after decades of gaining power, who would dare to do it?

What’s more important is the allocation of city defense personnel. Kaifeng City is 80 miles away. What a large defense area. As it is written in "Water Margin", Kaifeng City is equipped with 800,000 imperial guards all year round, so that’s easy to deal with. The city is full of people and can be replaced in shifts. But at this time, there were no people in Kaifeng City!

During the Huizong Dynasty, the imperial guards went south and north to fight many major battles. Not to mention anything else, the number of people sent by the imperial guards was only a little less than that of the Western Army this time, and they had already been empty! In addition, just now, the eunuch Liang Fangping took all the elite imperial guards to escape to the north bank of the Yellow River, and the rest of the capital were all old, weak and remnants! At this time, Li Gang did his best to make the following arrangements:

On all sides of the capital, each with more than 000 imperial guards, and the strength was insufficient, and the 10000 soldiers were assisted by the Xiang army and Baojia militia. The city gathered 40,000 horse and infantry troops, and for mobile forces, they divided into five armies in front, back, left and right, with 8,000 troops each, and supported all parties at any time. Among them, the front army was sent to Dongshuimen (Tongjinmen) to guard Yanfengcang, which had 400,000 stones of grain. The back army was sent to Songmen (Chaoyangmen) to defend the Fanjiagang area, the shallowest area of ​​the capital city. These two places are the weakest areas, and the other is the important food area for the residents of the city. There is no mistake at all!

These were completed between January 5 and January 7. On the 6th, an edict was issued: All the troops came to Beijing to serve the king! After doing these, the Jin army finally came to the city of Kaifeng!

It was earlier than expected. The reason why it came so quickly was thanks to the six thieves! Do you remember? In order to "recover Yan Yun" as soon as possible, Wang Fu and his team ordered Zhao Liangsi to rush from Youzhou to Kaifeng within 7 days! Zhao could only take the other party to take the shortcut every time. This is a violation! Before the Song and Liao dynasties, the Song Dynasty people would never do this. They would try every means to make the aliens faint and prevent them from knowing how to walk Kaifeng City. Now, the distances and distances of the Song Dynasty were exposed on the land of Hebei!

But please thank eunuch Liang Fangping for being timid! He burned all the bridges on the Yellow River before he escaped! And the Jin army had been conquering for a hundred years, and they always had one of the biggest weaknesses: there was no naval army! So on January, all the Song army on both sides of the Yellow River fled. On the 7th, the Jin army crossed the Yellow River and came to Moutuogang, northwest of Kaifeng City. At this time, Wanyan Zongwang smiled and said, "The Southern Dynasty was no one. If one or two thousand people guard the river, how could we cross it?"

I have to say: The white-faced scholar Li Gang is really not a professional military talent. When the enemy is on the verge of the enemy, he made the biggest principled mistake!

Moutuogang, it faces water on three sides and ponds on one side. The terrain is very perfect. It is a military-investor-level area near the capital of the Song Dynasty. It has tens of thousands of war horses and countless forages. Li Gang forgot to send people to transfer the army horses into the city, and he did not handle the forages well. The Jin army rushed over directly under the leadership of Guo Yaoshi and grabbed all of them!

The biggest hidden danger in fighting in the guest realm is insufficient supplies! The Jin army went deep into the ground alone, which was even more fatal to this aspect, but due to the negligence of the Song Dynasty, the Jin army solved this problem effortlessly!

In addition: Kaifeng is also a prosperous place, and the residents have not been evacuated. The Jin army can walk their horses and go out to rob. Standing at the head of Kaifeng, Li Gang blamed himself. This was his mistake. He artificially increased the difficulty of the Kaifeng defense battle!

Only by double his efforts can he recover these losses! But where can he support it? Li Gang knew deeply: no matter how firm his heart was, he could not survive this difficulty with the power of Kaifeng City itself! All hope was concentrated on reinforcements coming to serve the king! But when will the reinforcements arrive? He didn't know...

On January 7, 2016, the first Kaifeng defense battle began!

The Jin army first launched an attack, and the first choice was waterways. This is very wise. Kaifeng City has 4 rivers that pass through the city, namely the Bian River, Huimin River, Wuzhang River, and Guangji River (Jinshui River). The Bian River is the largest and widest one. It "from Huai to the south, what the country admires, what the people lose, the wealth of the Jingu Valley, is often adjusted every year, and the food is connected, and thousands of miles away." So the waterway when entering the city is also so wide that it is unreasonable... As mentioned earlier: The widest street in Kaifeng City is conservatively estimated to be 07 meters, so how wide is the waterway when the largest river enters the city? There is no specific number at present, but what can be found is that it has at least 4 water gates. More vividly, it is like the current four-row lane! It is so wide that it is obviously easy to attack and difficult to defend in war!

The Jin army chose the Bian River as the first target of the attack! Dozens of ships shone brightly, descended along the Bian River and rushed towards Xuanzemen. The Jin army had a clear purpose, first of all, destroying the city defense facilities in Kaifeng. Li Gang sent more than 000 suicide soldiers to guard the water gate. When the fire ship arrived, they dragged the boat to the shore with a special long hook. Before they could extinguish the fire, they directly smashed the stone into the water!

Following behind was the Jin army's siege troops! Li Gang urgently sent people to set up twigs in the water to prevent the Jin army's transport ship from docking! The rockery rocks at Cai Jing's home finally played a role, and the river channel became blocked. In this way, the first battle took place at Water Gate. The Song and Jin armies fought fiercely for a day. When dawn was approaching, the Jin army retreated, and they were unable to rush into the outer wall of Kaifeng City...

After dawn, the Song army found more than 100 Jin army corpses outside the water gate... Only killing such a few enemies was still in the water battles that the northern nomads were not good at. This number sounded the alarm for every Song Dynasty person!

At the same time, the Song Dynasty sent Zheng Wangzhi, Gao Shize people, and the Jin Kingdom also sent Wu Xiaomin to discuss the peace talks between the two countries. Zheng and Wu people bowed from afar and agreed to meet in the west of the city. That night, Zheng Wangzhi came down from the city and came to He Guanjun's tent. Soon, Wu Xiaomin arrived. The Jin Kingdom first proposed the conditions: to reward the army with gold and silk, and the two countries were bounded by the Yellow River. Of course, this condition was not something that Zheng Wangzhi could make.

So on the 8th, the Jin envoy Wu Xiaomin entered Kaifeng City and saw Song Qinzong directly, proposing to ask the Song Dynasty to send ministers to the Jin camp to discuss peace. Zhao Huan then summoned the prime minister in Chongzheng Hall: Who are you going? But they all bowed their heads and thought deeply about the saints, but no one paid attention to the emperor's questions.

The Right Prime Minister of Shangshu Li Gang was angry. He stood up and said, "I will go to the Jin camp to negotiate with Wanyan Zongwang... but I was rejected by the emperor, and the reason was very just. "Your dear, you can't go, the safety of the capital is all about you." Afterwards, the emperor named Li Qi, the head of the Tongzhi Privy Council, and Zheng Wangzhi, the head of the Jin camp! Tang Ke was promoted to the Tongzhi Privy Council.

This decision seemed very open and upright. After all, Li Gang is the only hope in the capital now. If something unexpected happens in the Jin camp, the consequences will be unimaginable! But Li Gang once again felt something strange. After retreating from the court, he quietly asked Zhao Huan what he really thought.

This time, the emperor gave another reason, "You are tough, don't go." You have a bad temper and are not suitable to go! Li Gang had no choice, and he wanted to negotiate peace at this time because he wanted to buy time and get the time for reinforcements to arrive. What Li Gang disagreed was the messenger of the peace talks: Li Fen... so he did not insist anymore. He just asked Zhao Huan not to make any inappropriate promises.

So what is the price for peace talks in Zhao Huan's heart? Before Li Gang retired and Li Qi went on an envoy, he said: the annual monies can be increased by 5 million taels per year, and the military expenses can be rewarded with 5 million taels of silver. First, 10,000 taels of gold and fine wine and delicacies will be given to the head coach of the Jin army, Wanyan Zongwang. He will never agree to cede the land!

Li Qi took this reserve price to Jin camp and heard Wanyan Zongwang’s offer: 1 The Song Dynasty respected the Jin Kingdom as his uncle; all the people from Yanyun in the Song Dynasty returned; 5 million taels of gold, 50 million taels of silver, 1 million pieces of silk, 10,000 cattle and horses each; 4 stolen the land of Taiyuan, Zhongshan, and Hejian Town; 5 stolen the prince and the prime minister were hostages!

Compared with the two, there is nothing to talk about! Of course, Li Qi did not dare to take the initiative and said he would go back to the city to report. Wanyan Zongwang was not embarrassed, so he sent a few representatives to go with him. As for the ten thousand taels of gold and a lot of wine, meat and fruit, well, you can stay for the tooth sacrifice...
Chapter completed!