Qiming 1158

Chapter 708 I just don't want to be the prince of surrender
After the Ming army's vanguard arrived in Lin'an, they first carried out reconnaissance outside Lin'an City, and raised the Daming battle flag in a grand manner, circled around Lin'an City, and showed off their military power to the Song defenders in Lin'an City, demonstrating their military exploits.

So the morale of the Song soldiers in the city was low.

When Yang Cunzhong saw it, he was very angry, and immediately ordered the crossbow set up at the head of the city to be fired outwards to bombard the Ming army cavalry outside the city.

But it was useless. The Ming army's cavalry moved at a high speed, and the bed crossbow could not hit it at all, and it had no effect.

The appearance of the Ming army's vanguard originally meant that the large army was coming. The Song soldiers in the city were terrified, and the army's heart was shaken. It was all controlled by Yang Cunzhong's prestige, and there was no major incident.

At this moment, the small court of the Southern Song Dynasty also turned into a pot of porridge.

Except for a small number of Leng Touqing who kept writing to the court requesting a decisive battle with the Ming army, most of the courtiers asked the emperor to make peace with the Ming army and stop the war.

Don't fight any more, it won't do any good to the Southern Song Dynasty. This war should never have happened. Now that it has happened, and the defeat is so tragic, why continue to fight?
Why must it be difficult to get along with the Ming Kingdom, whose military strength is stronger than that of the Jinbing?
Some of them have completely forgotten how they justly refuted Mingguo's behavior of asking for Suicoin.

They were not ashamed in the slightest, and immediately joined the camp of the Lord Peace faction, urging the emperor to beg for surrender to the Ming Kingdom, sign a peace treaty, and make every effort to achieve peace no matter the cost.

Even if you spend some money?
Spend some time, don't be ashamed!

If we continue to fight, Lin'an will not be protected, and everyone will become prisoners. At that time, it will really be over!
Before the officials did not dare to write, they saw Shi Hao's failure, and Huzhou still existed, and there was hope to change the situation of the war, but now that Huzhou is gone, the Ming army is overwhelmed, and it is about to surround Lin'an. They are afraid of it. Talking about peace, they were fearless and went to the table one after another.

The performances of these requests for peace were shot on Zhao Tan's body like bullets, and the blood was dripping from his body, causing him to suffer unbearably.

He was already in pain because of Huzhou's fiasco. Now that the Ming army is approaching Lin'an, and the courtiers have no fighting spirit to invite peace, it makes him even more miserable.

He also wanted to continue fighting, sticking to Lin'an and vowing not to surrender, in order to demonstrate the new emperor's will, and intended to use Lin'an City to drag down the Ming army's logistics.

But looking at the magnificent scene of flags being raised and lowered all over the dynasty, his will was seriously shaken. No matter how much he persisted alone, he could not defeat the Ming army alone. The general is full of courage, and he needs the soldiers to move forward bravely to win.

But now he seems to be the only one left.

He began to wonder if he should have followed Shi Hao's advice from the very beginning. He should not fight this war without the possibility of victory. He should discuss peace talks early in the morning, maybe there are more talks, so as not to let the enemy come to the city, let's talk about another one. The more demanding [Union under the City].

Moreover, the alliance under the city is the most humiliating peace negotiation, which is enough to destroy the dignity of a king. Song Zhenzong even sealed the mountain of Zen and Taishan because of this, trying to cover up the essence of the alliance under the city.

The result, of course, was criticized.

Zhao Tan was not reconciled and did not want to suffer such humiliation and become a humiliated emperor just after he succeeded to the throne, but he knew that he seemed to have no choice.

At noon on the second day of the fifth lunar month, the main force of the Ming army arrived outside Lin'an City and began to clean up the military facilities and defense points outside Lin'an City.

After a violent explosion, the Ming army soldiers dispatched, with skillful cooperation and skillful tactics, to remove all the Song army strongholds outside the city, even the defensive tactics set up by the experienced Yang Cunzhong did not withstand the Ming army's attack day and night.

At noon on the third day of the fifth lunar month, the Ming army cleared all of the Song army's defensive strongholds outside Lin'an City. Outside the city, the Song army was either killed or captured. No one escaped into Lin'an City - of course, this was not the same as Lin'an City from beginning to end. It's about opening the gate.

So the Ming army successfully completed the encirclement of Lin'an City.

So far, Zhao Tan has no way out. So far, even if he conducts peace talks, the nature of the peace talks will become an extremely shameful alliance under the city.

Zhao Tan found Shi Hao again. Facing Shi Hao, Zhao Tan shed tears.

"Teacher, am I really wrong?"

Shi Hao couldn't say anything like "really wrong" in the face of the tearful emperor and student.

He could only sigh deeply.

In terms of personal performance, Zhao Tan was much better than Zhao Gou. At least until the last moment, he insisted on resisting. If Yue Fei, Han Shizhong and others met the emperor when they were alive, maybe the Song Dynasty had recovered the Central Plains.

But history has no ifs.

Shi Hao can only comfort him.

"Your Majesty is unwilling to bow down to the Ming Kingdom and bear humiliation. This courage and responsibility cannot be considered wrong in any way. Your Majesty's heroism is what the Song Dynasty desperately needs. No one can deny this. Who dares to If you deny it, the minister will argue with him to the end."

Zhao Tan raised his head and looked at Shi Hao.

"So, the teacher also thinks what I'm doing is wrong?"

Shi Hao lowered his head and remained silent.

After a long time, Zhao Tan wiped away his tears and laughed at himself.

"I just don't want to be the prince of surrender. I don't want to do the things I hated the most. I thought I could turn things around when I became the emperor, but now it seems that I'm still too ignorant."

Shi Hao's heart moved, and he took a few steps forward and held Zhao Tan's hand.

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty is not ignorant, Your Majesty is brave and fearless. Compared to the cowardice called shrewdness, Your Majesty's seemingly reckless bravery is the most important thing in the Song Dynasty. Anyone can blame His Majesty for acting recklessly, but anyone Can't blame His Majesty for his bravery!"

Zhao Tan looked at Shi Hao in surprise.

"Teacher, do you really think so in your heart?"

"If there are false words, the sky will be struck by thunder!"

Shi Hao didn't waver.

Zhao Tan just looked at Shi Hao's face so fixedly, as if he could see what he desperately longed for in his face.

He did see it.

So there was a hint of relief in his expression full of misery.

Of course, misery still occupies the majority, because he is really miserable.

The voice of the Manchu civil and military demands for surrender was endless, and most people no longer supported him to continue the battle, and only a few people expressed their hope that the emperor would continue to fight.

Zhao Tan could only find one that would support him in continuing to fight after reading the ten copies, while the remaining nine asked for surrender.

Although Zhao Tan had the intention to continue fighting, but when he remembered the story of Kaifeng, he would really worry that someone would choose to open the city gate out of fear to welcome the Ming army into the city.

At that time, he really has no bargaining power at all.

Although it's nothing at the moment, if the party who surrendered voluntarily had some requests, the party who accepted the surrender would also consider it.

After all, there are still more than 4 fighting troops and residents in the city. If the Ming army wants to conquer Lin'an, it will be very difficult.

After thinking about it, under Shi Hao's repeated persuasion, Zhao Tan finally recognized the reality, nodded and agreed to Shi Hao's request.

So Zhao Tan officially announced the authorization to Shi Hao at the court, and asked Shi Hao to negotiate with the Ming army on behalf of the emperor to strive for a relatively reasonable peace clause to end the war as soon as possible.

Zhou Zhi didn't know about Zhao Gou's abdication and Zhao Tan's ascension to the throne until he arrived in Lin'an City. He felt that this was a big deal, so he immediately sent someone to return north quickly to inform Su Yonglin of the news together with the news that the army was besieging Lin'an. Please Su Yonglin Give specific instructions.

What is the appropriate amount of compensation.

How to determine the specific amount of the annual currency.

What should the Southern Song Dynasty do if they do not agree.

Do you really want to conquer Lin'an City?

What if the emperor of the Southern Song Dynasty was really captured.

He hoped to get specific instructions from Su Yonglin, so that during the negotiation, he would be able to target and make many extortionate demands to the Southern Song Dynasty.

Of course, without waiting for Su Yonglin's specific instructions, on the early morning of May [-]th, the Southern Song Dynasty dispatched a negotiating team, represented by Shi Hao, to request peace negotiations with the Ming Army, in order to stop the war and avoid disasters in Lin'an City.

(End of this chapter)