The Southern Tang Dynasty has reached the critical moment of life and death, and the only last way for Xu Xuan is to enter Kaifeng and turn the world around for Li Yu with a perfect tongue! The task is arduous, but not impossible. Thousands of years ago, Su Qin and Zhang Yi and others had sent missions to various countries to lobby the world. They could use a few words to provoke wars or quell wars. So why can't Xu Xuan, the world's number one debater today? A common voice echoed in the hearts of Li Yu and Xu Xuan - Zhao Kuangyin, I can't fight. You can't talk to you! So, everything is still undecided...

Before leaving the city, Li Yu said to Xu Xuan, "After you are leaving, I will immediately order Zhu Lingyun to stop moving and not let him come to save Jinling again." Xu Xuan was puzzled and asked why. Li Yu sighed, "Send you to seek peace, but summoned reinforcements again. Isn't you dangerous?" Xu Xuan shook his head slowly, "Your Majesty, please put me out of the way, what should I do?" Li Yu cried at the time. He wrote a private letter of more than a dozen papers to Zhao Kuangyin on the spot, asking a close confidant named Zhou Weijian to hide it, and then let them set off.

On October 1, Xu Xuan walked out of the heavily besieged Jinling City, faced the swords and guns of the Song army calmly and said calmly that he wanted to meet the commander of the Song army. Cao Bin came to see him. After asking about his purpose, he sent someone to escort him across the Yangtze River and enter Kaifeng as an envoy of the enemy country. The atmosphere in Kaifeng City was immediately tense. For nothing else, Xu Xuan's name of erudition was really horrifying. Someone immediately warned Zhao Kuangyin not to be careless about this person and must be fully prepared. After half a lifetime of military service, the invincible emperor on the battlefield felt that the idea of ​​the emperor and ministers of the Southern Tang Dynasty was ridiculous. Will he withdraw the army because of the lack of reason for being asked? But he suddenly had the urge to compete with the world's number one debater, and laughed and said, "Just call him up, you don't understand the others."

Xu Xuan walked into the Palace of the Song Dynasty, faced the Emperor of the Song Dynasty and the civil and military officials, raised his head and loudly expressed the resentment of all the people in Jiangnan. "Li Yu is not guilty, and Your Majesty is not famous." Song court was shocked! His words hit Zhao Kuangyin's point! Everyone knew that there must be a reason for every time the Song Dynasty sent troops. Jinghu was the other party requested to send troops, Later Shu was forced to fight back, and Southern Han saved the people and fire. And what about the Southern Tang Dynasty? The most impressive reason was that Li Yu was "stubborn and did not go to court" which was too forced no matter what.

Everyone was watching the Emperor of the Song Dynasty. Zhao Kuangyin was not angry. He asked Xu Xuan to get closer and finish his words. Over the years, all kinds of controversy in the Southern Tang Dynasty came to his heart, making Xu Xuan blurt out that "Li Yu treats His Majesty like a son and serves his father, without any mistakes. How can he see him?" After that, Xu Xuan was passionate and said hundreds of words. Unfortunately, Xu Xuan, who quickly entered the debate state, left a fatal flaw at the beginning. Zhao Kuangyin also proved that his books for so many years were not read for nothing. The Emperor of the Song Dynasty only asked in plain words, "Do you say that I and Li Yu are like father and son? Well, do you think your father and son can live separately?" Xu Xuan was stunned. What else can you say? Zhao-kuang-yin... You are cruel! Xu Xuan didn't expect that he was full of knowledge and was accidentally defeated by this robber emperor who was born in the army.

In Xu Xuan's embarrassment, Taoist Zhou Weijian took out Li Yu's handwritten letter and presented it to Zhao Kuangyin. This was his last effort. But after reading the letter, Zhao Kuangyin said something that made Xu Xuan more angry, "What did your king write? I can't understand it."

Xu Xuan's first plea in Kaifeng failed completely. On the 4th, Xu Xuan said goodbye and returned to Jiangnan.

Xu Xuan failed, and the final fate of Jinling, Southern Tang and Li Yu was all maintained by Zhu Lingyun's 100,000 troops in Hukou.

In mid-October, Zhu Lingyun, who had been delayed for five months, had no choice. He went out and did not look back. He didn't care about any retreat or ambush. He claimed to be a 150,000 army and boarded a super-large warship that could accommodate thousands of people and a large raft that was more than 100 feet long, went east and rushed to Caishiji! The strategic intention was obvious: to use the advantages of the Southern Tang naval army to cut off the Song army's advance and retreat path in half, and then to go to Jinling to save his Majesty. This hits the key point of the Song army. In fact, the Southern Tang people aimed at the floating bridge again and again during the war, which showed the problem. This is indeed the gate of the Song army - whether it is the army or the supplies, they must be achieved through this floating bridge.

Wang Ming, the chief general of the Song army who had been stationed in Dushukou, immediately reported it and asked to mobilize heavy troops to intercept Zhu Lingyun. This news directly alarmed Zhao Kuangyin himself. The emperor personally instructed: It is too late to mobilize troops, but you must stop it! A long mast-shaped wood must be erected between Zhoupu, where Zhu Lingyun must pass through the path to advance, as a suspicious soldier.

In Zhu Lingyun's hesitation, Cao Bin won a time that was hard to buy and sent Liu Yu to provide reinforcements. On the 21st, Wang Ming and Liu Yu met. Without delaying for a moment, they immediately launched an attack on Zhu Lingyun who had just arrived in Ankou.

In the deep winter of October, the weather was rarely blowing strong south wind. Zhu Lingyun is worthy of being one of the most famous navy generals in the Southern Tang Dynasty. He wanted to recreate the miracle 767 years ago. He ordered a large amount of tung oil to be poured into the river and set it on fire. Suddenly, a sea of ​​fire submerged the Song army in the north, and Liu Yu could no longer support it. However, Zhu Lingyun's 150,000 army was missing one person. When the victory scale just tilted slightly towards the Southern Tang Dynasty, fate would be He once again cruelly teased the people of Jiangnan. The so-called "the east wind does not go with Zhu Lang, and the deep palace of Kaifeng locks the Zhouhou," because Zhuge Liang, who could summon the wind and rain, suddenly turned into the north wind, and the raging flames completely destroyed the 100,000 Southern Tang naval army... Zhu Lingyun was unable to establish a great achievement that was on par with Zhou Lang's defeat of Cao. He pointed to the sky and the earth, and finally committed suicide. At this point, Li Yu's last hope also disappeared with the fire...

On November 3, Xu Xuan walked into the palace of the Song Dynasty in Kaifeng for the second time. He will make his last effort for the Southern Tang Dynasty and Li Yu. "Li Yu was really sick and failed to enter the palace to meet. It was not that he dared to resist your edict. I beg Your Majesty to slow down the troops and protect the people of Jiangnan." Xu Xuan, who was smart and sharp, was almost begging at this time. But Zhao Kuangyin was unmoved. Xu Xuan was unwilling to accept it and debated repeatedly with the Emperor of Song Dynasty. Finally, he could not control himself and became "momentier". Zhao Kuangyin's patience finally came to an end. He had nothing to say, so he told the truth. The emperor pressed the sword and said, "No need to say much! Jiangnan is also guilty! But the whole world is alone, and he can't let others snore."

Xu Xuan was silent. According to historical records, this talented man in Jiangnan "retreated in panic". But who in the world was forced to use a sword to talk about things, throw benevolence, righteousness and morality aside, and admit that he was uneasy to rebel because of your money and land. The Emperor of the Song Dynasty was angry and embarrassed. This verbal battle must have been said before the words of "Where can you let others snore?", which was passed down from generation to generation.

Xu Xuan was defeated again. He was speechless and disappeared from Zhao Kuangyin's eyes. He still chose Jinling, which was thousands of miles away, to return to Li Yu, who was destined to be destroyed. Behind him, Zhao Kuangyin slowly put down the hilt of the sword and asked his left and right to immediately bring the map of the siege of Jinling. He wanted to carefully see if Cao Bin and Pan Mei had any flaws? Because he saw from Xu Xuan that the people of Jiangnan were far away and had not yet surrendered... Sure enough, he pointed to the northern village of the Song army outside Jinling City and said, "Is this Pan Mei's camp? Is it a notice immediately and dig a deep trench here immediately. Jiangnan people will definitely come to attack at night."

Late at night on the 18th, 5,000 Southern Tang people really attacked at night. Unfortunately, Pan Mei and Cao Bin were prepared. 5,000 people were wiped out. The Song army found general-level talisman seals on more than a dozen Southern Tang people who died in battle... The soldiers were gone, and the generals came to be the suicide squad in person.

At this time, Cao Bin was finally able to make up one thing. After nearly a year of besieging the city, Jinling City was exhausted. So he decided to write a letter to Li Yu, "Our army will break the city on the 27th. It is OK to do it early." Li Yu could only admit defeat. He replied to Cao Bin and made an appointment with Cao Bin to send his eldest son Li Zhongyu to Kaifeng as a hostage first, and then surrender to the clan. But he didn't do it. Cao Bin was patient. He just sent people to send letters to urge him every day, and automatically lowered the standard. "The son doesn't have to go to Kaifeng, as long as he goes to our military camp, he can immediately stop the battle." But Li Yu always chose to delay, and his excuse was really too bad, which made Cao Bin feel teased in public. "My son is not ready to go out, so he can't go out to see people."

Cao Bin had no choice. He warned Li Yu for the last time that "it's too late, it's not enough." But he still fell into the sea. Li Yu seemed to have made up his mind and decided to delay it to the end.

Cao Bin had no way out, and he finally did something most important to the entire battle situation that lasted for a year. He was "ill". So the generals of the Song army came to his commander's tent to visit him.

Cao Bin said in a weak voice, "My illness is not cured, it is a terminal illness... But as long as everyone swears, I will not die on the day of breaking the city. Can you swear?" Cao Binding was still panting and seemed to be disorganized. But behind him, the extremely classic decoration must have revealed its hideous face - the first Shangfang sword of the Song Dynasty that the emperor personally gave to him before the expedition, which could kill anyone.

Is there anything else to say? Cao Bin has the right not to use it, but he used this "disease" to beg everyone to give him face. So everyone burned incense and swore. The next day, Cao Bin's "serious illness was cured"

On November 27, 975, the commander of the Song army, Cao Bin, told me that Jinling City would be broken on this day. I knew he could do it. And my reply to him was that I would pile up dry firewood around my palace. When the city was broken, I would take the whole clan and turn into ashes in the sea of ​​fire... Just like my name "Yu", I will use this last piece of light to wash away the shameful words such as incompetence, incompetence, cowardice and other shameful words that enveloped my name!

Far away, the sound of fighting between the golden drums is approaching. It is the loyal soldiers of Southern Tang, such as Ma Chengxin, Ma Chengjun, who are fighting for me and preventing the arrival of this last moment. Just like Chen Qiao, he just committed suicide in front of me because he did not want to see me become a person who was destroyed in his own eyes. Zhang Shi was crying silently. He said, "Your Majesty, I will always be with you. Even if I go to Kaifeng, I will keep this life and defend you against Zhao Kuangyin."

I don't know when my hand grabbed another pen, and some words seemed to float from the sky, flowing through my hand on this Chengxintang paper. "Cherries fell and spring returned, butterflies flew over and light pink, and the moon cried west of the small building. Painted curtains and beads, rolled up gold mud. After the lonely people left, I looked at the sluggish tobacco..." (This song "Linjiangxian" is said to be written when Li Yucheng was broken. It is not a complete jade. There are three sentences behind "The Incense Burner is leisurely and the Phoenix is ​​held in the empty harness, holding the ribbon, looking back and resentful" . Some say that this was written one year after Li Yu's demise. I will not do a test for the time being) and the poem made me forget everything, and even forgot to order the soldiers to ignite the dry firewood...

Suddenly, the sound of killing was still. The city was really broken... The Song army was lined up outside the wall of my palace. Unexpectedly, for the sake of me, I would not go to Kaifeng, Zhao Kuangyin sent 100,000 people to my Jinling. Well! Let me go to Kaifeng to meet Zhao Kuangyin!

Li Yu came outside the palace and saw Pan Mei first and then Cao Bin officially surrendered! Cao and Pan replied with courtesy, and immediately selected more than 1,000 soldiers to guard outside the palace wall. "If anyone wants to enter, he will reject everything."

Then Cao Bin asked Li Yu to go to his handsome ship to have tea. When Li Yu saw that the springboard on board was too narrow, he was afraid and could only get on the boat. After chatting for a few words, Cao Bin suddenly sent the guest. "You'd better go back to the palace immediately. Try to pack up more gold, silver and treasures. Once it is confiscated and registered, you can't get anything out. After arriving in Kaifeng, there are fixed wages and bonuses, and you can't live that kind of life..." Li Yu was so grateful that he rushed back to the palace to get money. Liang Jiong, Tian Qinzuo and others surrounded Cao Bin and quarreled, "Cao Bin, what are you doing? He finally captured Li Yu alive, and you let him go back. What's going to happen to him?

Who will be responsible?" Cao Bin smiled and refused to answer. The generals argued, which made him very upset. "Don't worry. Li Yu was indecisive. Look at him trembling when he got on the boat. Since he surrendered, he would never commit suicide again." While ensuring Li Yu's safety, Cao Bin also strictly enforced military discipline and protected all the families of the literati and doctors in the Southern Tang Dynasty. He also strictly inspected the army to see if there were any stolen Jiangnan women or folk treasures hidden. Cao Bin did not ask any questions about the granary of the Southern Tang Dynasty and handed them over to full-time officials such as the transfer envoy sent by the court. When the Song army returned to Beijing, Cao Bin only had some books and clothes in his luggage.

On December 1, the good news spread to Kaifeng. The 3rd Army of 19 Prefectures of the Southern Tang Dynasty, and 655,065 households in 108 counties returned to the territory of the Song Dynasty.

On the 4th day of the 9th year of Kaibao (976), Li Yu and his 45 people came to Kaifeng. How to deal with Li Yu? The ministers suggested finding out the white cloth strip tied to Liu Yu's neck, and tied it to Li Yu's neck, and dragging it to Taimiao to offer prisoners. Zhao Kuangyin shook his head, "These two people are incomparable. Li Yu once surrendered to me, so he can't treat him like this." However, in front of Mingde Gate, Li Yu kowtowed to Zhao Kuangyin in public, and on the 8th he received the title of disobedient Marquis of the Song Dynasty (Liu Yu was awarded the title of Duke of Pengcheng County by Enshe Marquis on the 22nd of last month)
Chapter completed!