The struggle of the reborn prince

Wan Yanyong led the crowd up to the tower of the inner city to have a look, he couldn't help shivering in the hot weather, although he was prepared to hear everyone's report just now, he was still greatly shocked by seeing the tragic situation in the city with his own eyes.After the bombardment, the famous city of Liaoyang had lost its former splendor. Everywhere one could see were ruined walls, scorched black, corpses that could not be buried all over the place, and some places were still burning with lingering flames.Only the white pagoda built in the Liao Dynasty stands among the ruins, as if to show people his misfortune.

The city was full of people, and thousands of homeless people were wandering around, trying to find a place to stay. The whole city was drowned in cries, shouts, and crying for their children.The sergeants guarding the city also had panic-stricken eyes and were sluggish. They stayed together in groups of three and two, whispering, telling about the horror of their narrow escape yesterday.Wan Yanyong realized that the large-scale bombardment of the Song army not only destroyed the city, but also severely affected the hearts and morale of the people. He had lost confidence in defeating the enemy. And scattered.

"What are the Song soldiers shouting outside the city?" Because of the distance and the noise of people in the city, Wan Yanyong couldn't hear clearly, so he turned his face and asked. "Commander, the Song Army is shouting: There will be another bombardment at Sishi tomorrow, but their emperor is kind, and the people in the city can still leave on their own. The Song Army will not send people to intercept them, nor will they loot their belongings. They also said... " Wanyan Zhehe replied, but he hesitated again.

"What else are they talking about? Just tell me." Wan Yanyong understood when he saw that he hesitated to speak, and Zhao Er definitely didn't have anything good to say about himself.

"They...they say that the commander-in-chief is coercing all the people to fight against the Heavenly Army. He is harboring evil intentions and exchanging the lives of all the people for his own glory and wealth. He refuses to open the city gate and let the soldiers and civilians leave the city because he wants everyone to be buried with him!" Wanyan Zhehe looked at him. Said the face.

"Zhao Er is trying to confuse people's hearts, the commander-in-chief should not take it to heart. Let the last general lead his army out of the city to expel him, so that the people will not be deceived by him." Jiagu Wulibu said.

"This is Zhao Er's trick. He wants to lure us out of the city. The commander must not send troops out of the city." After hearing this, Li Qiong hurriedly stopped him. He was not afraid of being annihilated by the Song army, but worried about going out in this form. The soldiers ran away without waiting for the battle to start.

"Master stay behind, let us go out of the city, Liaoyang is grateful for your great kindness, and will build a shrine and temple for you and be grateful forever!"

"My lord, it's not that we don't want to do our best, it's because the enemy's artillery is powerful. Let's open the city and please surrender to save the lives of the people!" "My lord, the Song army will bombard the city again tomorrow, when the city will be completely destroyed, no one will be left behind!" At this time, the people below the city saw Wan Yanyong and others on the top of the city, and they knelt down and begged.

"Anyone who dares to abandon the city and surrender, kill, kill, kill!" Hearing that the soldiers and civilians in the city demanded the surrender of the city, Wan Yan suddenly became furious and shouted three times to kill.

"Archers get ready!" Kong Yanzhou waved his hand, and all the soldiers in the city stepped forward to bend their bows and set their arrows, getting ready.

"Wait a minute. Don't kill innocent people indiscriminately." Wan Yanyong hurriedly stopped him, "Now people's hearts are already unstable, and if we forcefully suppress it, it may lead to mutiny. It is better to comfort with kind words." Can't go down hard.

"My lord, those who surrender at this moment must not stay. Otherwise, we will follow suit and the situation will be out of control. It must be severely suppressed." Li Qiong said with a frown.

"The people in the city are all my Dajin people, how can I kill them recklessly." Wan Yanyong refused again.

"My lord, why don't we let the women, children, old and young people out of the city. This way we can save some food and grass, and also show your kindness, and the remaining soldiers will definitely serve to the death." Knowing Wan Yanyong's thoughts, but to quell this incident is not something that can be solved in a few words, so he suggested again.

"Alright, just listen to Mr. Fu Yin and tell the people in the city that those under the age of 16 and over [-] can leave the city through the north gate before sunset. Trying to get out of the city and kill without pardon!" Wanyan Yong thought for a while and said, "Wanyan Zhehe, you and Kong Dutong are responsible for supervising the implementation, and at the same time strictly prevent the Song army from attacking the city when they take over the city. If you find that the Song army is approaching, immediately Close the door."

"My lord, although this move is for all the people, it is like the people who left the city were captured by the Song army. They drove everyone to attack the city first, and all of them were the relatives of the soldiers who stayed behind. How can they fight?" Li Qiong hurriedly dissuaded after hearing this.

"This..." Wan Yanyong hesitated, attacking cities with the opponent's people as the vanguard is a common tactic in wars at this time, the Jurchen used this tactic to capture countless cities in the past, Zhao Er is very vengeful and will never forget It is not impossible for these past events to be repeated in the same way.

"My lord, please make a decision early, there is not much time left before the Song Army's ultimatum." Wanyan said quickly.

"Prime Minister Xiao has not yet returned to the peace agreement, so let's use this as an excuse to stabilize the army and civilians, and then make a decision after I think about it." Wan Yanyong pondered for a moment and then went down to the city and returned to his residence.

Sure enough, Xiao Zhonggong couldn't help talking, and he came back that evening.Wan Yanyong hurriedly visited to inquire about the peace talks, Xiao Zhonggong smiled wryly, and told Zhao Er that he was willing to withdraw his troops on the condition of ceding the Liaoyang Mansion, and said that he was temporarily stable on the grounds that the matter was important and needed to be reported to the court After letting them go, Zhao Er promised to cede Liaoyang Mansion within ten days, and if he still refused to cede Liaoyang Mansion, he would send troops to attack.

Wan Yanyong was both sad and happy when he heard it. He was happy that Liaoyang City got a chance to breathe, and he could rearrange the city defenses and deploy troops.The sad thing is that if the imperial court agrees to cede Liaoyang Mansion, he will become a defeated general who loses the city and land, and he will never feel at ease for the rest of his life.But if he doesn't promise himself, he may not be able to defend it, so he hopes that when the court rejects the Southern Dynasty's conditions for ceding Liaoyang, he will also ask Xiao Zhonggong to play on his behalf and ask the court to send reinforcements.The next day, Wan Yanyong bid farewell to Xiao Zhonggong back to Beijing with contradictory psychology, and the Song Army did not bombard Liaoyang Mansion again according to the agreement, but the soldiers and civilians in the city still lived in fear.

And there is actually a reason why Zhao Tong said harsh words and then retracted them.One is that although the large-scale bombardment of Liaoyang Mansion has achieved unprecedented results, the ammunition consumption is also very heavy, and it is no longer able to launch a second bombardment of the same intensity, so it is necessary to wait for replenishment of ammunition; the second is that the weather is hot and it is in the rainy season. It is easy to get sick, which is not conducive to large-scale battles, so he wants to wait for the weather to be cooler and the precipitation to decrease before entering the army.

As for the peace talks, Zhao Tang believed that the Kingdom of Jin would never agree to cede the Liaoyang Mansion, otherwise the country would fall into a serious economic crisis and would not be able to maintain the operation of the court at all.And the other reason is that he got the news that another big event happened in the Kingdom of Jin. Now the people in the government and the public are in a state of panic.

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The matter stemmed from a rebellion case involving the two emperors of Wanyan Quan. He was not as magnanimous as Zhao Tun, and he ordered his two younger brothers, Wang Yanyuan and Wanyan Chala, to be executed.Although the Sinicization work of the Kingdom of Jin has been carried out for many years, especially Wan Yanquan, the favorable promoter of Sinicization, should know etiquette and reason, but he accepted the family members of the two brothers, including their concubines, according to the Jurchen customs.

Unexpectedly, the neurotic Wanyanquan fell in love with his younger brother Wanyanyuan's concubine Samao at first sight, as if he had found the true love in his 30-year life, and found the second spring, and it was love desperately, at any cost That is to say, he is willing to do anything for Sa Mao.Thus, Wanyan Quan started another bloody massacre, but this time the target of the massacre was not the maids and servants in the palace, but the concubines in the harem. The bloody murder that shocked the court of the Kingdom of Jin finally happened .

First of all, the unlucky one was his wife who had been with Wan Yanquan for more than ten years.The emperor killed the empress Pei Manshi, the mother of the Jin Kingdom, which was definitely a sensational political news in the Jin Kingdom at that time, and a special issue could be published.Regarding the death of Empress Pei Man, people analyzed that she always wanted to seize power and interfere in government affairs, which made Wanyan Quan dissatisfied. In addition, after Wan Yanliang died, she was always sad, which may remind him of the relationship between the two people. Rumors of a sexual relationship caused Wan Yanquan, who had always been delirious, to commit a crazy act of killing his wife.

However, most people think that the appearance of Sa Mao may also be an important reason for the emperor to kill his wife, because Wanyan Quan couldn't wait to bring Sa Mao into the palace less than a day after the death of Empress Pei Man. its Queen's treatment.So Wan Yan Quan had to abolish the current empress, Pei Manshi, in order to let his beloved Sa Mao ascend the throne of the queen of the Kingdom of Jin. Abolishing the empress is an extremely cumbersome matter, but letting her disappear is the easiest , and the most convenient way.

Since Wanyan Quan was so crazy that he even dared to kill the queen, is there anyone in the whole court of the Kingdom of Jin who he dare not kill?Just when everyone was panicking, Wanyan Quan's murder of the harem did not come to an end because of the disappearance of Empress Pei Man. Ten days later, Wanyan Quan sent someone to kill the concubines Ugulun and Jiagu. , Zhang and other three concubines, the tragedy once again shocked the ruling and opposition parties of the Kingdom of Jin.

When the country was in crisis, the emperor didn't think about how to resist the invasion of the Southern Dynasties, save the country and the people, and go to battle to kill the enemy.But because of a woman, he went on a rampage in the harem, killing his wife endlessly, who knows what crazy actions he will make in the future, maybe one day the knife will fall on his head.Some courtiers asked Taishi Wushu for help, hoping that Wushu could stop the emperor's absurd behavior and save the Kingdom of Jin.

But Wu Shu's energy at this time was devoted to the war against the Song Dynasty. He was so ill that he was unable to worry about the emperor's housework anymore. Besides, he was hiding at home and killing his wife for fun. It's over.But some people in the court didn't think so, thinking that the reason why the grand master got the power today was all because he controlled the current emperor, how could it be possible to ask him to "change horses"...