The Song Ting appointed Wang Yu as the military affairs of Pingzhang. Chen Yizhong and Liu Mengyan were the prime minister and the Privy Councilor, and the commander of the army and horses. Chen Yizhong's name was Yuquan, and was from Yongjia, Wenzhou. When Chen Yizhong was young, his family was as poor as a waste. A businessman once calculated his birthday and believed that he would be rich and noble in the future, so he betrothed his daughter to him. After entering the Imperial Academy, Chen Yizhong's beautiful articles were praised by many well-educated people. As an Imperial student, he was upright and cared about current affairs.

During the Baoyou period, Ding Daquan and powerful ministers Lu Yongsheng and Dong Songchen were favored by Song Lizong, so he was promoted to the imperial censor. After Ding Daquan came to power, he relied on his power to dominate the world. Chen Yizhong then wrote a letter with his classmates Huang Yong, Lin Zezu and other six people to attack Ding Daquan. After Ding Daquan learned about it, he secretly instigated the supervisor Guan Yan to impeach Chen Yizhong, disqualified his qualification as a student, and sent him to the local area.

On the day before leaving, the Taixue Siye led twelve students to send Chen Yizhong out of the bridge gate. Ding Daquan became even more angry, so he erected a monument in the Taixue, which warned Tai students not to discuss state affairs. Many people ignored his plans at all, but praised the six Tai students who wrote letters, praised him as the "Six Gentlemen" and became a famous student movement leader in the Song Dynasty. Chen Yizhong was exiled to Jianchang Army. After Ding Daquan fell, Prime Minister Wu Qian asked to return to Lin'an.

At that time, Jia Sidao was the prime minister. At the beginning of his career, in order to stabilize his position, he paid great attention to recruiting talents. He believed that Chen Yizhong, who was talented and full of energy, had a great future and intended to treat him as a disciple. So he asked the emperor to issue an edict to be exempted from the provincial examination and take the exam. In the third year of Jingding, Chen Yizhong ranked second. Among these six people, Chen Yizhong was the most knowledgeable in the current affairs, so he was quickly promoted under the protection of Jia Sidao and served as the proofreader of Shaoxing Prefecture. A few years later, he was transferred to the Censor of the Supervisory Censor.

Soon, Chen Yuanfeng became prime minister again. Jia Sidao was afraid that he would invade his rights and wanted to get rid of him. Even though Chen Yizhong was accused of Chen Yuanfeng, even if Ding Daquan was abusing him, it was him who sowed the seeds of the disaster of the clan society. Chen Yuanfeng was dismissed and appointed as the Minister of Taifu. Considering that he had too deep resentment in the court and being a local official was also conducive to his political achievements, Chen Yizhong successively transferred to the position of the Xi of Zhejiang, the storyteller of Chongzheng Palace, and the prefect of Fuzhou. During his tenure, he rectified production, advocated the war of resistance, and developed water conservancy, and had obvious political achievements. Ten years later, he was promoted to the position of the General Privy Council and the General Secretary of the General Secretary.

Just when Chen Yizhong's official career was successful and his peak was rising, the situation in the Song Dynasty became worse and worse. Before he ascended the throne, Kublai Khan wanted to do a great job in the world. He united a group of Han landlords, officials and intellectuals around him and ruled the Han land with the Han law. Although the Mongolian army had the upper hand in the Song and Mongolia War, by the time of Zhao Yun, the Song Dynasty had not suffered a fatal blow.

Song Duzong was weak and incompetent, licentious, ignored the government affairs, and relied entirely on Prime Minister Jia Sidao. Jia Sidao, who was powerful in the court, had no intention of fighting the war and only cared for fun. He built towers, pavilions and pavilions in Geling Lake Mountain, stored treasures, collected prostitutes and took concubines, and did everything. In March of the first year of Deyou, Han Zhen, the commander in front of the palace, proposed to move the capital, and Chen Yizhong tricked him into his home to kill him. Chen Yizhong was timid and afraid of things, and was swaying between peace and war. The Song army was defeated by Jiaoshan, and the Tai students Liu Jiugao and others wrote a letter to show dozens of mistakes in Chen Yizhong. After Chen Yizhong knew about it, he abandoned his post and left. In September, his mother persuaded him to return to the court and became the right prime minister.

Because Zheng Huchen committed suicide by arbitrarily, Chen Yizhong ordered Zheng Huchen to be arrested and imprisoned and put it to death. Then he allowed Jia Sidao to be buried and sent back to Tianlu. The Empress Dowager Xie thought he was loyal and obeyed everything. The court immediately ordered the troops of the General Governor's Office of Zhang Shijie to resist the Mongolian army in different ways. However, the Mongolian army approached day by day, and Lin'an counted police overnight, and had to apply extra martial law.

The head of the Privy Council, Zeng Yuanzi, the left clerk Pan Wenqing, the right clerk Ji Ke, Xu Zi, the transferee of the two Zhejiang Transportation Army, Wang Linlong, the attendants of the eastern Zhejiang Pacification Army, Chen Jian, He Menggui, Zeng Xiyan and dozens of others fled without authorization. The head of the Privy Council, Wen and Weng, and Ni Pu, the head of the Academy, deliberately ordered the censors to impeach him. Before the impeachment was published, they fled out of seclusion. After hearing about this, the Empress Dowager specially issued an edict to prohibit the ban and indicated to the court.

Although this edict was issued, all officials in the court still had to escape. It was important for everyone to save their lives. There were a few patriotic patriots who were loyal to the emperor and the country who were willing to come out to support the crisis. The most ridiculous thing was that the border guards also relied on a sharp sword to kill foreign envoys and accelerated their death. The Mongolian Minister of Rites Lian Xixian and Yan Zhongfan, the Minister of Works, arrived in Jiankang and met Boyan with the letter of state.

Lian Xixian asked to send troops to guard him. Boyan said, "The envoy relied on his words but not on his troops. He had too many soldiers, but instead attracted suspicion." Lian Xixian insisted on sending troops, so Boyan sent five hundred soldiers to see him off. When he arrived at Dusong Pass, the Song Dynasty guard Zhang Ru did not care about it, and actually sent his troops to attack Yan Zhongfan, captured Lian Xixian and sent him to Lin'an.

Unexpectedly, Lian Xixian died of illness on the way. The Song Ting realized that he was causing trouble and hurriedly sent someone to send a letter to the Mongolian army, saying, "The murder of the envoy was done by the border generals, and the court really didn't know. We will kill these people according to the law, and beg your country to stop the troops and repair them!" Therefore, Boyan sent the congressman Zhang Yu and the envoy of Song back to Lin'an. He passed by Pingjiang and was killed by the guards.

So Boyan became angry and sent a large army to surrender to Changzhou. Ali Haiya attacked Yuezhou again, and the pacification envoy Gao Shijie was defeated and surrendered, and was killed by Ali Haiya. The general manager Meng Zhishao also raised the city to welcome the surrender. The Mongolian army entered Shashi City, and Sima Mengque hanged himself. Beijing, the lake prosecution envoy Zhu Sisun and the deputy envoy Gao Da were naturally uneasy when they heard that the Mongolian army had successively captured Zhoucheng. When Ali Haiya turned to attack Jiangling, Gao Da was defeated in the battle, and actually surrendered with Zhu Sisun and others. Ali Haiya entered Jiangling City and ordered Zhu Sisun to issue an edict to his subordinates to persuade them to surrender. The counties in Hubei were like Guixia, Ying, Xie, Ding, Li, Chen, Yuan, Jing, Sui, Changde, Jun, Fang, Shi, and Jingmen, and successively surrendered. Jingnan had been occupied by the Mongolian army, and Boyan had no worries about the west and went east with peace of mind.

Ah Moe advanced to Zhenzhou and sent the leader Li Hu to Yangzhou City with a letter of surrender. Li Tingzhi, the commander of the Song Dynasty, burned books and killed Li Hu, and sent the commander Zhang Jun to fight. Instead, Zhang Jun brought the letter from the surrendered minister Meng Zhijin and returned to the city to surrender. Li Tingzhi destroyed the letter and killed Zhang Jun's head. Then he gave out gold, silk, cattle and wine, and a banquet to reward the soldiers. Everyone was angry and crying, and swore to guard the death.

Miao Zaicheng, the garrison general of Zhenzhou, fought against the Mongolian army at Laoshenzui with his royal family member Zhao Mengjin, and returned after defeat. Ah Mo took advantage of the victory and headed straight to Yangzhou. Li Tingzhi ordered the commander Jiang Cai to fight. He went to Sanligou and set up a triassized formation and defeated the enemy. Ah Mo pretended to be defeated and retreated, tempting Jiang Cai to chase him. At Yangzi Bridge, Ah Shu returned to fight again, and the two armies formed a formation. Meng general Zhang Hongfan led twenty cavalry to cross south to attack the Song army. Jiang Cai

Strong walls.

Zhang Hongfan clashed repeatedly and could not enter, so he pretended to avoid it. Jiang Cai's general Hui Hui jumped out of the formation, erecting a big sword, and went to chase Zhang Hongfan. Zhang Hongfan waited for him to approach, but suddenly returned to his horse, stabbed the spear in his hand, and immediately dropped Hui Hui's stab. Hui Hui was famous for his bravery, and now he was stabbed to death. The Song army was brave enough to retreat. A Shu and Zhang Hongfan took the opportunity to attack. The Song army trampled on each other, and suffered many casualties. Jiang Cai was also hit by a trap on his shoulder. Jiang Cai roared, pulled out his scissors and waved his sword, and returned to intercept the Meng soldiers, killing several people. The Meng soldiers did not dare to force them, and Jiang Cai took the army into the city.

A Shu entered the south gate of Boyangzhou again, and Li Tingzhi climbed the city to defend, attacked and defended, and killed the enemy with equal strength, without any decision. Song general Liu Shiyong was a militia, and he accumulated merits and was promoted to the training envoy of Haozhou. At this time, he defeated Changzhou and was promoted to the defense envoy of Hezhou, assisting the governor Yao Zhi to defend the city, and his troops were greatly boosted. The troops from the right Zhejiang also rushed to provide assistance.

Zhang Shijie then summoned Liu Shiyong, Sun Huchen and others to gather the boat troops, and entered Jiaoshan to support Yangzhou. On the way, they heard that the Chengdu pacification envoy Jiu Wanshou, and Judging Jiading Zhucheng surrendered to Mongolia, and most of the two Sichuan counties were rebellious. Zhang Shijie was from Fanyang. When he was a young man, he followed Zhang Rou to guard Qizhou. Because he had committed illegal acts, he fled to Songzhou. No one knew his name.

When Ruan Sicong saw that he thought he was a genius, he told Lv Wende, who summoned him as a junior school. He later made many contributions and was promoted to the commander of the Wuding Army of Huangzhou. He attacked Andongzhou and fought fiercely. He and Gundam made great contributions to rescue Ezhou and were transferred to tenth ranks of official positions. Soon after, he followed Jia Sidao into Huangzhou, fought on the lawn, regained the things captured by the enemy, and was promoted to the sanitation officer, and served as the magistrate of Gaoyou Army and Andongzhou.

In the fourth year of Xianchun, the Mongolian army built Lumen Fort. Lv Wende asked the court to increase troops and dispatched Zhang Shijie and Xia Gui to go there. When Lu Wenhuan took Xiangyang to surrender to the Mongolian army, the court ordered Zhang Shijie to lead 5,000 people to station in Ezhou. Zhang Shijie used iron ropes to block the two cities, and used artillery and crossbows. The prominent areas were scattered wooden stakes and set up attacking equipment. The Mongolian army broke through the new city and drove down. Zhang Shijie fought hard, preventing the Mongolian army from advancing. The Mongolian army sent people to surrender, but Zhang Shijie refused. Boyan attacked Yanshan Pass openly, and secretly charged the navy from Tanggang to enter the Han River, attacked Ezhou in the east, and Ezhou surrendered.

Zhang Shijie led his troops to Wei Lin'an, and passed by Raozhou before entering the court. At that time, the court summoned generals to rescue him. However, most of the generals did not come, only Zhang Shijie came. Song Duzong sighed and was surprised. Zhang Shijie was promoted from the Hezhou defense envoy to the Chengxuan envoy of the Baokang Army and the general governor's office several times in less than a few months. He sent generals to attack everywhere, seized the counties in western Zhejiang, and recovered the cities of Pingjiang, Anji, Guangde, and Liyang. The army was quite inspiring.

Zhang Shijie decided to fight to the death with the Mongolian army and went to Jiaoshan with Liu Shiyong and other generals. He ordered the use of ten ships to form a ship and moored in the river. He did not have the order to set sail, expressing his determination to die. The commander of the Mongolian army, A Shu, climbed Shigong Mountain, saw the formation, and said with a smile: "This army can burn and leave." So he selected a thousand crossbowmen, loaded with ships, divided into two wings, and shot the Song army. A Shu himself fought from the middle and just joined the battle with the Song army, and the Mongolian army shot with rockets. The Song army ships were connected into formations and could not be dispersed, leaving only the tents and the river was destroyed and the smoke filled the river.
Chapter completed!