Chapter 29 From Hero to Traitor
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Shocking news came from Beijing that the Han enemy Li Hu betrayed the Song Dynasty and secretly joined forces with the Khitan City. The Northern Expedition Army was defeated, and then Li Hu turned against each other, severely damaged the Liao army and conquered Yanjing. Now Li Hu is in Baigou, threatening Hebei, and the Song Dynasty is in an unprecedented crisis.
For a time, Li Hu became a great Han thief who was pointed by thousands of people, the most despicable and shameless Han captive in the world, and the biggest enemy of the Song Dynasty.
Immediately afterwards, Tong Guan and Wang became the target of violent impeachment by the ministers. Even Cai Jingdu, who was resigning at home, submitted a memorial to the emperor, scolding Tong Guan, who was ineffective in the Northern Expedition, led wolves into the house and raised tigers as a disaster. This not only ruined the efforts of the Song Dynasty for ten years, but also brought unpredictable disasters to the Song Dynasty.
The emperor issued an order to remove Liu Yanqing, the commander-in-chief, and escort him back to Beijing for trial. As for Tong Guan and Wang, the emperor did not give any punishment. On the contrary, the emperor protected them and said that the strategy of the Northern Expedition was not wrong. The failure of this battle was Li Hu, the commander of the front line, and had no direct relationship with the two prime ministers.
Then, the emperor issued an order to cut off all contact with Yunzhonglu. He sent a letter to Xuanfu Department and quickly reorganized the army, preparing to go north to attack Li Hu and recover Youyan.
Yan Qing was shocked when he heard the rumors in the market and did not dare to ask for help from the Zhe family, but asked Li Shishi for help.
Li Shishi knew only the whole story of this matter, but she knew that Li Hu had indeed conquered Yanjing, and from Cai Tao's mouth, she heard something irrelevant. Yan Qing happened to ask about it, so she told him in detail.
Yan Qing was shocked and hurriedly sent someone to Yanjing day and night to report to Li Hu secretly.
.October. In the next month, Wanyan Agu meditated and commanded a large army to attack Bei'anzhou.
In order to retake Yanjing, Xiao Gan decided to withdraw from Bei'anzhou and let the Jin army kill Gubeikou directly.
At the same time, Yelu Dashi quickly returned to Yanjing. He told Li Hu that Xiao Gan refused to return the Empress Dowager Xiao unless Li Hu returned the return the Yanjing.
"Xiao Gan has given up Bei'anzhou. The Jin army is about to attack Gubeikou." Yelu Dashi pointed to Tanzhou on the map and said. "The Jin army arrived at Gubeikou. He was going to withdraw from Tanzhou. Then your army had to go north and block the Jurchens in Gubeikou."
Li Hu frowned and felt that the situation was becoming more and more unfavorable to him. "Zong Wang's army is outside Yu Pass." Li Hu said. "Once we fight with the Jin army at Gubeikou, I will draw reinforcements from Pingzhou Road. At this time, Zong Wang will definitely attack Yu Pass again."
"Don't you have a covenant with the Jurchens?" Yelu Dashi asked.
"My convoy with the Jurchens is. I cannot enter Juyongguan. If I enter Juyongguan, the Jin army will enter Youyan." Li Hu sighed. "In order to grab Pingzhou Road, I have to quickly enter Juyongguan. I thought the Song army would go north quickly and quickly solve the Pingzhou Road problem and give Pingzhou Road strong support. But who knew..."
Yelu Dashi shook his head. He didn't want to ask these things again. "Empress Dowager Xiao gave me a death order and asked me to lead my army to Yunnei immediately. I'm leaving."
"What else do you need?" Li Hu asked.
Yelu Dashi smiled bitterly. Li Hu plundered all Yanjing, and it was already a great gift to let himself take away the army. "I brought five thousand Khitans from Tanzhou, but Xiao Gan did not give them weapons or war horses. After I met with the emperor, the most urgent task was to quell the rebellion in the desert, so I urgently needed weapons and war horses."
"I'll give it to you." Li Hu said, "I'll give you ten thousand war horses. Try to take as much weapons as you can."
Yelu Dashi did not say thank you. He nodded and shook hands with Li Hu and said goodbye, "Take care, and we will see you again after you withdraw to Xijing."
Li Hu stood by the door and watched Dashi leave. After a long time, he turned around and said to Yuanye: "I'm afraid to tell Datong and ask them to prepare for the battle. The Xixia people and the Jurchen people are about to start attacking."
"If the Zhe family army does not help this time, our defensive forces on the Datong line will be seriously insufficient." Yuanye said worriedly, "Will the army from Pingzhou Road be transferred back?"
"Don't adjust, Datong will definitely be able to defend it." Li Hu walked to the map and pointed to Yuanyang. "The Jurchens' goal is Pingzhou Road, not Datong, so Wanyan and Wanyan Zonghan will not attack with all their strength, and at most they will restrain us."
"But..." Yuan Ye wanted to persuade him again, but Bei Li Hu shook his hand to stop him.
"I urgently report to the General Yun, Guishuai, and immediately lead the army to Tanzhou to block the Jin army at Gubeikou." Li Hu ordered, "I will report to the General Li and Dugu, and ask them to bring the thunder army and the Shenlong army to the General Yunkou to meet with the General Yun."
"Say Tie Shuai again, Mu Shuai, and led the First Army of Hu Lie and the cavalry generals of each army to Tanzhou to support Yun Shuai, and prevent Xiao Gan from attacking our army's rear and robbing our army's food and grass."
"Please ask Dong Shuai to lead the Heishan army to Juyongguan quickly north and to Yehuling and Taoshan to block the Jin army."
Yuanye quickly drafted the order. After waiting for a while, he saw Li Hu silent, so he asked in a low voice: "General General, Yanjing is empty. Should he be dispatched from Pingzhou Road to help?"
"Call Baoshuai and Bohai Army to return to Yanjing." Li Hu nodded and said, "See Gao Shuai again, Wu Shuai, and ask them to lead the second, fourth, sixth and seventh army to guard Yuguan to ensure the safety of Pingzhou Road. In addition, ask Tian Hao to bring the troops in western Liaoning, Wu Chitian and Yang Hua to Yanjing immediately. Their troops were not large, so there was no need to
Continue Pingzhou Road.”
Yuanye asked while recording, "Would you urgently report the situation in Yanjing to Hebei Xuanfu Department?" The novel mobile station
"Tell them, please ask Taishi Tong and Deputy Envoy Cai to go north to Yanjing as fast as possible, and..." Li Hu suddenly thought that the Song army was unwilling to go north, and of course he would not care about the ownership of Pingzhou Road. At this time, Tong Guan reported to the court to refer Zhang Jue as the vassal state of Pingzhou Road, which was a joke. Li Hu sneered and shook his hand hard, "Supervisor Zhang Jue, rush to Yanjing immediately, I want to see him."
On October 28th, Chai Yun accompanied Zhang Jue to Yanjing.
At this moment, the situation in Yanjing was already very serious. Zong Wang attacked Pingzhou Road again, Zong Pan attacked Gubeikou, and Xiao Gan's army was elusive and sneaked into the grain road between Yanjing and Tanzhou every day, sometimes attacked the grain road between Yanjing and Hepingzhou Road, and occasionally rushed to the vicinity of Yanjing, seriously threatening the safety of Yanjing.
After Li Hu met Zhang Jue, he made detailed analysis and speculation on the general trend of the world. Finally, he said, Pingzhou Road must be yours, but if you defect to the Song Dynasty or the Jurchens, that is your own choice. In the current situation, I suggest you seek refuge in the Song Dynasty. This is not only because the Song Dynasty has actually recovered Youyan, but the issue of the belonging of Pingzhou Road is also related to the survival of our northern Han people.
At this point, Zhang Jue finally understood Li Hu's thoughts. Li Hu's goal was to divide the world in the north, and Pingzhou Road was just a piece of his chess piece. But if Li Hu made the right move, his chess piece would play an important role in the future and might build a vassal based on Youyan. At this critical moment, Li Hu did not abandon himself and rushed to Pingzhou Road to protect himself. This kind of favor is real, and Zhang Jue is very grateful to Li Hu for this.
"You will return to Pingzhou Road immediately and guard Yu Pass to the death..." Li Hu said, "Before I evacuate Youyan, I will make you a vassal state in the Song Dynasty, guarding Pingzhou Road for generations."
Zhang felt that after Li Hu's promise, he had a clear understanding of the general trend of the world, so he was confident and hurried back.
On the same day, Wu Siming returned from a pegasus in Hebei.
Tong Guan, Cai You and Bian Jing both maintained close contact. The two were always paying attention to the changes in the situation in Bian Jing, but they never dreamed that the "experts" of Bian Jing had magical abilities, and overnight they turned Li Hu from a hero to a traitor, and completely wiped out Li Hu's great merits in recovering Yan Yun.
The two regretted it too late. If they had known that the "experts" in Bianjing were so "darling the will", they would have told the truth about the reason for the defeat of Liangxiang in the face of danger of being punished by the emperor.
Now that's it, the emperor of Bianjing believed the greedy words and forced Li Hu into a desperate situation. Both sides turned against each other and became enemies. You can imagine what's next.
The two had a very close relationship with the emperor, especially Tong Guan. The monarch and ministers had more than 20 years of trust, so there should be a chance to explain, but an imperial edict from the emperor caused Tong Guan to fall into the ice cave. The emperor was furious and defeated the Northern Expedition, which not only made the emperor's grand aspirations turn into a spring dream, and the emperor's ten years of hard work turned into vanish, but also made his favorite son lose the opportunity to inherit the imperial rule. This resentment was too strong, so that he scolded in the letter: "I will not believe you again."
Tong Guan couldn't take much care of it anymore and rushed to report to the emperor that he turned against Li Hu at this moment, and there was only one result, that is, the disaster of Shi Jing would repeat and the Song Dynasty would fall into a terrible war.
Tong Guan urgently summoned Wu Siming and asked him to return to Yanjing as soon as possible. He then went to Yanjing to visit Li Hu.
Li Hu thought that Tong Guan had received the emperor's imperial edict and wanted to discuss with him the matter of taking over Yanjing, but just two days later, just when Tong Guan was about to arrive in Yanjing, he received a 100,000 urgent secret letter from Yan Qing to Bianjing.
Li Hu was furious and cursed at the top of his throat.
Huang She, Yuan Ye, Chai Yun and others were shocked when they heard the news and rushed over. After reading the secret letter, everyone was so angry that they trembled all over and their eyes were about to get angry.
"What does Bianjing mean? At this time, turn against us? Does the emperor of the Song Dynasty still want to live?" Yuan Ye shook his head repeatedly, feeling incredible. Are the people of the Song Dynasty crazy?
"Who came up with this idea?" Huang She gritted her teeth, "Isn't this a suicide attempt? What are the benefits for the Song Dynasty to turn against us?"
"This cannot be Tong Guan's idea." Wu Siming said, "Tong Guan suddenly came to Yanjing. He must have heard the news and was worried that the general manager would be fooled, so he came in a hurry."
"This move is so poisonous." Chai Yun said angrily, "The Song Dynasty and us become enemies. Once this battle starts, the Song Dynasty will definitely lose, so Tong Guan is determined to die, and he will bear all the consequences caused by the failure of the Northern Expedition. The Song Dynasty lost and then negotiated peace with us. We were also eager to negotiate peace due to the situation, so the Song Dynasty won Yan Yun again."
"The peacemakers will become the heroes of the Song Dynasty." Huang She laughed in anger. "The people of the Song Dynasty have such smart minds and regard us as pawns for their power and profit, and we are so idiotic that we attack Yanjing for them and guard Yanjing for them. We are such a fucking idiot."
Chapter completed!