Chapter 1096: Zhaoan General Peng Sun (Second update)
Chapter 1105 Zhaoan General Peng Sun (Second update)
All the generals could tell that Shen Kuo's move was a foolish move, and many of them objected.
Liu Changzuo said: "It is better to wait for the Huanqing Road army to gather together and send troops to meet Mingsha City."
Shen Kuo shook his head and said: "Yu Jinglue sent an envoy to Qingzhou, and Xixia soldiers and horses have appeared in Huanzhou. If troops are sent to rescue, once Qingzhou and Huanzhou are lost, the door will be opened."
After Liu Changzuo finished speaking, the generals were still reluctant.
Only Fan Chun, the transfer judge, agreed.
Fan Chunchun was the fourth son of Fan Zhongyan. He had been on Shaanxi Road for a long time and saw the decline of the people and the suffering of the people. He heard Shen Kuo's willingness to negotiate for peace and said: "I think it is feasible to abandon the land and return the army. Over the years, our struggle with Xia is to fight against Xia."
Fighting for land. As long as I am willing to give up the land, the gap will never be eliminated."
"In my opinion, Jialu and Wubao in the east of Hedong, Mizhi, Xihe, Futu and Huanqing in Anjiang are all deep in the Xia border, and have little benefit from the geographical situation of the Han border. New ones are taken.
The land of Lan, Hui, and Tiandu Mountains is even more vulnerable to attack by the Xixia army, so we must not abandon it."
Fan Chunren and his brother Fan Chunren both opposed the use of troops against Xixia and repeatedly asked the emperor to stop the troops.
He believed that the emperor was determined to conquer Xixia because he was bewitched by treacherous officials such as Zhong E and Lu Huiqing. Therefore, he repeatedly resorted to militarism. Otherwise, he would not have persisted despite the dissuasion of veterans such as Fu Bi, Wen Yanbo, and Sima Guang.
Cut off summer.
Seeing the defeat at Yanyan Road strengthened his determination to negotiate peace with Xixia to end the war, so that the people of Shaanxi could calm down and the two countries would no longer be at war.
Fan Chunchun said: "This time there was a disastrous defeat in the battle at Yanyan Road. Zhonge, Zhang Shouyue and two generals died for the country. I think your majesty will change his mind and follow the advice of Sima Gong, Fugong, Wen Gong and other ministers to negotiate peace with Xixia and stop the army."
.Otherwise, how would it be different from Emperor Yang of Sui’s three expeditions to Goguryeo?”
"But Mingsha City is difficult to defend as an isolated city. It is outnumbered and has no food routes. We can hold on for a few days at most. Our army is garrisoned here rashly. If the Western thieves attack, we will be unable to resist it. The only solution now is to negotiate a peace!"
After Fan Chunchuan finished speaking, there was no sound in the tent.
Border ministers did not have the power to negotiate peace privately. Fan Chun purely guessed that the emperor would ask for peace from Xixia because of the defeat at Yanyan Road, so they sent envoys to negotiate peace with Xixia in advance, so that they could at least rescue Zhang Zhi and the Xihe Road soldiers behind the palace.
The price offered by Fan Chunchun was also very realistic. He said that a large area of land could be abandoned, such as Lanzhou and Tiandu Mountain, which were newly captured this time.
This also includes Pingxia City, which Shen Kuo rushed to build this time.
At that moment, all the generals were silent, and the veteran general Peng Sun was elected as the envoy to Xixia.
Peng Sun is from Fujian, and his status is very special. He is a recruiting general.
Yes, Peng Sun was originally a Fujian grass bandit. After being recruited by the imperial court, he became a member of the Song Army. Because of this status, he was always ashamed of the scholar-bureaucrats.
Peng Sun's treatment was similar to that of Song Jiang later. He was sent by the court wherever there was trouble and was used as cannon fodder. However, Peng Sun's luck was very good. He turned misfortune into good fortune throughout his life and made many extraordinary achievements.
Peng Sun was well-known in Renzong and Yingzong, but his real prominence came when he followed Zhang Dunping across Meishan in the fifth year of Xining, and then conquered Jiaozhi with Guo Kui. In both battles, he made outstanding military exploits and won the official title.
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In the tenth year of Xining's reign, he rode alone into the tiger's den in Nanjianzhou and captured Liao En, a powerful local who resisted the imperial court.
In the first year of Yuanfeng, Zhan Yu, a miner, rebelled and captured Yuezhou. Peng Sun went to persuade Zhan Yu to surrender, and then planned to kill all Zhan Yu and put down the rebellion.
During this Pingxia battle, Peng Sun, who had won the trust of the officials, was sent to Jingyuan Road as a general to oversee the transportation of grain and grass.
Now that peace is being negotiated with Xixia, veteran Peng Sun has naturally become the peace envoy.
Peng Sun took a lot of gold and silver jewelry with him, and did not follow him. He rode alone to Mingsha City to discuss peace. Peng Sun was discovered by Xixia ambushes halfway. He heard that he was an envoy from the Song Dynasty, so he was taken to meet Li Qing.
As a Han from Jiangxia, Li Qing was very polite when he saw Peng Sun, and immediately said: "General Peng, you have worked hard all the way. Your accent doesn't sound like someone from Shaanxi."
Peng Sun nodded honestly and said, "Yes, I came from Fujian Road."
"Guest general?"
Peng Sundao: "Exactly. I want to see the leader of your country!"
Li Qing smiled and said: "Don't worry. You are from Fujian, so you know how to participate in politics in your dynasty."
Peng Sun nodded and said: "I know, I know, his Yuan Sui Peng Jingyi is my nephew, and I used to go to his house."
"You are not an ordinary person who can often come in and out of Zhang's mansion. When I came to your dynasty, I received the hospitality of Xianggong Zhang. I am always grateful to this day. To be honest, I have met many people, but no one can compare with Xianggong Zhang. It is a pity that such a good minister, you
Isn’t it a pity that the Lord can’t use it?”
Peng Sun said with a smile: "Xiangong Zhang is ill, so he did not go to court. This is known to both the government and the public. The officials think highly of Xianggong Zhang."
Li Qing chatted with Peng Sun for a few words, but did not get any useful information, and then said: "Your official position is too humble to negotiate an agreement. Please ask your Prime Minister Shen Kuo to come in person."
"If Shen Kuo can't travel, it's okay to cultivate the Tao of Masters."
Peng Sundao: "Premier Shen Jinglue's military administration, the general manager, the governor's army must not come. Besides, it is several days' journey from here to our army's station. If Mingsha City is defeated first, all the credit will belong to others, and only a small amount of credit will be given.
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Li Qing sneered: "Do you think you can irritate me with these words?"
Peng Sun said with a smile: "How dare you? Why leave it to swords when you can do it with just words. What we Han people value most is reciprocity."
After saying that, Peng Sun used his body to cover himself and took out several strings of pearls from his arms and stuffed them into Li Qing's hands.
Seeing that no one outside the tent noticed, Li Qing put all the pearls into his sleeves and said: "In the Xixia Kingdom, I am the only Han Chinese who is easier to talk to. You tell Shen Kuo that as long as he returns Lan, Hui Erzhou and Mizhi Village
.We will withdraw from Mingsha City and send you Song soldiers back to China alive."
Peng Sun patted his chest and said, "It's no big deal. Just ask for letters."
Li Qing said proudly: "You Han people are asking our country's leader to negotiate for peace, and you should write the letter!"
Peng Sun said: "I understand. There is one more thing to ask. Zhang Shouyue and other generals who died in state affairs this time, please return them to your country."
Li Qing smiled contemptuously and said, "Of course."
At that moment, Peng Sun set out to return overnight. Under the escort of Xixia soldiers, he rode on his horse and looked back at Mingsha City.
Mingsha City, surrounded by Xixia, is like a lonely boat in the sea, which can be knocked down by one wave.
The lonely lights on the top of the city represent the Han soldiers' last stand on this distant territory.
Peng Sun recalled the time when he led his troops to Xihe Road and went to Zhang Mansion to meet Zhang Yue.
Zhang Yue gave him a message: "Everywhere the sun and the moon shine, and wherever the rivers reach, are Han lands!"
Later, Peng Sun found out that this sentence came from the Dinghu Monument of Emperor Xuan of the Han Dynasty.
Zhang Yue encouraged Peng Sun to expand territory for the country with these words.
In fact, Peng Sun was not familiar with Zhang Yue, and he and Peng Jingyi were also very estranged relatives, but they only had a relationship by force. But Peng Sun always remembered this sentence in his heart.
"Brothers, I, Peng Sun, must take you home!"
Thinking of this, Peng Sun whipped his whip and galloped at night, returning to the camp on Jingyuan Road in Huluchuan to report to Shen Kuo.
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Huanzhou.
Yu Chong, the economic envoy, was sitting in the government office talking to the messenger sent by Shen Kuo.
"My husband, I beg you, Mr. Yu Jinglue, for the sake of his kindness over the years, to send troops to save the soldiers and horses on Jingyuan Road! Please save Mingsha City!"
Yu Chong sighed: "I am also powerless. Since the disastrous defeat on the Yanyan Road, the morale and morale of the troops on the Huanqing Road have been extremely depressed."
"In the past few days, the surrounding states have successively taken in the defeated troops on the front line, and everyone said that the defeat was disastrous."
"This promise is made by me as the governor of Huanzhou. He was chosen to serve in the army on Yanyan Road but died in battle. Go out and listen. All the soldiers in the city are crying. How do you want me to send troops to rescue?"
Shen Kuo's envoy repeatedly begged and cried, but Yu Chong turned a deaf ear and refused to send any troops to rescue. He claimed that Dangxiang cavalry troops had appeared in the direction of Huanqing Road.
Even though the official ordered Yu Chong to send troops to meet the troops on Jingyuan Road, Yu Chong ignored it and just stationed his troops in Huanzhou.
This place is not far from Weizhou, where Xixia's Jingsai Military Supervision Department is located, and the Huluchuan Camp where Shen Kuo is stationed, but Yu Chong still holds his troops back.
Seeing that Shen Kuo's envoy fainted from crying for help, Yu Chong ordered his men to carry him down to rest, while he returned to the back room to rest.
The maid served Yu Chong hot tea.
After all this torment, Yu Chong also looked very tired.
An aide on the side asked: "Why doesn't the commander-in-chief send troops to rescue him? Although Zhang Jinglue killed Wang Zhongzheng, Wang Zhongzheng is dead after all. The commander-in-chief should find another way out in the court."
Yu Chong sighed. He remembered that when his official career started, he fought with Wang Zhongzheng in the battle of Maozhou.
At that time, Yu Chong was the envoy of Chengdu Road, and together with Wang Zhongzheng, he conquered the Maozhou tribe and won a great victory. Afterwards, Yu Chong gave all the credit to Wang Zhongzheng.
Because of this, Yu Chong was appreciated by Wang Zhongzheng. Now that Wang Zhongzheng was killed by Zhang Zhi, he was certainly angry.
But this is just one reason.
And Yu Chong strongly advocated the use of troops against Xixia to gain the emperor's appreciation, and even said a few bad words about Zhang Yue. Now that Yanyan Road was defeated, he was left without a master, for fear of being punished by the emperor.
Yu Chong's appointment as the envoy of Huanqing Road was also recommended by Wang Gui. After the defeat at Yanyan Road, he expressed his goodwill to Wang Gui many times, but at this time Wang Gui seemed to have given up on him and did not reply to Yu Chong's letters.
In this situation, Yu Chong held the idea of not seeking merit, but seeking no faults.
Yu Chong said to his staff: "The affairs of the world are divided into three grades. The first grade is those who have merits and demerits, so we should weigh them. The first grade is those who have merits but no faults, so we should do our best. The third grade is those who have faults but no merits, so we should not do them.
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"Sending troops to rescue Mingsha City is a matter for Jingyuan Road. Why should I intervene? Even if it is rescued, I will get no credit."
"Besides, Mingsha City is a place of death. If Zhang Zhi wants to defend here, he will destroy himself. Losing Mingsha City is a small matter. Huanzhou and Qingzhou are the gateways of the country. What should we do if something goes wrong?"
"What's more, Li Bingchang, the leader of the Xixia Kingdom, personally led the troops in Mingsha City, with hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses. Even if we send troops on the Huanqing Road, we may not be able to break the siege. Once we are out of the fortress and ambushed by Xixia on the way, the consequences will be disastrous."
"Back then, Li Yuanhao surrounded the area many times to call for reinforcements. This is the old wisdom of Western thieves. You must be on guard!"
ps: Historically, Ren Duoyading was the Xixia general who captured Yongle City and massacred tens of thousands of Song troops.
Later, it was Peng Sun who beheaded Ren Duoyading, the first general of Xixia, or the way to take the head of a general out of a hundred thousand troops.
But for people like Peng Sun, let alone outsiders, not many book friends have even heard of him.