321 liquidate the surrender faction and prepare for the establishment of a new army

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Soon, the news that Xu Feng and Li Gang defeated the Jin army at the Zhending Prefecture border spread throughout the Central Plains at an extremely fast speed.

The news was also received soon after Bianjing.

"What? His Majesty really defeated the Jin army?"

At this time, all the court affairs in Bianjing were dealt with by Zhang Bangchang and others.

Because Zhang Bangchang was a puppet supported by the Jin people. When he heard this news, he was most frightened and urgently wanted to confirm the authenticity.

"Sir, it's true. This news came from Zhending Mansion."

"In other words, the imperial edict that Li Gang received before was true.

It's bad now."

Zhang Bangchang's face changed again and again.

At this time, the news had spread in Bianjing City. Not only Zhang Bangchang was worried, but also many other civil officials.

Even inside and outside the city, more than 200,000 Western Route Army and Imperial Army generals were now frowning.

Because, they were equal to opposing the order before and did not follow Li Gang to the north.

If Xu Feng comes back, will they be liquidated?

For a time, inside and outside the city of Bianjing, major civil officials and military generals met frequently in secret to discuss how to overcome this difficulty.

The sight turned back to the Jin people. Wanyan Zongwang and Wanyan Zonghan led the remnants of the Jin army, abandoning the convoy, and quickly got rid of the Song army and evacuated to the Hejian Prefecture on the east side.

When they arrived at the safe area, Wanyan Zongwang and the others counted the number of Jin troops, their faces were extremely ugly.

After careful inventory, in the end, there were less than 90,000 people left in their hands.

In other words, in just one month, their two armies combined totaled more than 150,000, and lost more than 60,000 people.

Such a number of war loss has exceeded their number of war loss in the past five or six years.

Among them, Wanyan Zongwang's army was the worst.

Wanyan Zongwang originally had more than 80,000 Jin troops under his command, but in the end there were only 40,000 people left, and half of them were lost, and the elite main force was almost wiped out.

"It's over!"

Wanyan Zongwang's face was despair at this time. He could imagine that if the Jin emperor did not kill him after he returned, it would be unreasonable.

Afterwards, Wanyan Zongwang found Wanyan Zonghan and the two had a secret conversation.

"Zong Han, this time we were defeated so badly, Your Majesty will definitely be held accountable after returning and will never spare us easily."

Wanyan Zongwang spoke.

Wanyan Zonghan's face opposite also looked ugly, so he naturally understood this.

However, at this time, Wanyan Zonghan didn’t know what Wanyan Zongwang meant to say this.

At this time, Wanyan Zongwang smiled bitterly and continued, "I will bear most of the responsibility for this defeat in the battle, and the losses of my army in this way were the heaviest.

So, after I go back, I will take all my guilt and blame.

At that time, let Your Majesty kill you, and just kill me alone, so as to protect you and the others."

"Zong Wang, you..."

Wanyan Zonghan was also stunned at this time. He didn't expect that Wanyan Zongwang would find him this time and say this.

This surprised him very much.

"Die alone is more than everyone else's death.

At that time, I just hope that you can plead with Your Majesty and not involve my little family.

In addition, in the future, I must destroy the Song State and capture the Song emperor in front of my tomb."

Wanyan Zongwang said gritting his teeth at this time, his hatred for Xu Feng was overwhelming.

Wanyan Zonghan listened quietly to Wanyan Zongwang's words, and he knew that Wanyan Zongwang was right.

As the main person in charge of such a crushing defeat in this battle, he was unlikely to survive after returning.

His ability to take the initiative to take all the blame will indeed save Wanyan Zonghan and other Jin army generals from great punishment.

"Okay, I promise you that I will definitely help you with all this."

Wanyan Zonghan nodded and replied.

Afterwards, the two led the Jin army and robbed the Hejian Prefecture area. They grabbed some more points, so they couldn't really go back empty-handed.

The people of Song State in Hejian Prefecture were again affected.

However, Wanyan Zongwang and Wanyan Zonghan did not dare to stay at Hejian Mansion for too long. They were worried that the Song army would continue to kill.

At this time, they could no longer bear any more casualties. To be cautious, they soon led the troops back outside the pass.

It was already the end of June when Xu Feng led the Song army back to Bianjing.

It is true that the escort convoy is not moving fast.

When Xu Feng arrived in Bianjing, Zhang Bangchang and other civil and military ministers came out to welcome him, and the people in Bianjing even spontaneously greeted him.

Hundreds of thousands of people gathered on both sides of the official road to welcome the triumphant army.

In the past six months, like the emperors of the Song Dynasty, it was also the most humiliating period for the people of Bianjing.

Because the Jin army plundered and extorted many times on Bianjing, the Northern Song Dynasty court could not afford so much money, so it had to constantly squeeze out the people of Bianjing.

Therefore, during the period after the Jin army left, many families in the Bianjing city could not even have enough food.

The civil officials in the court, one by one, was thinking about how to stabilize their power.

They thought that after the two emperors were captured by the Jin people, the Song State would inevitably elect a new emperor.

He himself was unwilling to be Zhang Bangchang, the pseudo-emperor, and it would not last long.

Therefore, these ministers were all observing secretly to see which royal family had the ability to inherit the new throne.

Even those senior officials secretly had members of the royal family who supported them, and they were secretly trying to make the royal family they supported take the throne.

At that time, they will be great heroes, and it will be no problem to be granted a marquis and ministers.

At this time, they had no intention of taking care of the lives and death of the people in the city, because they were not hungry anyway.

This is true for the people of Bian Jing, let alone other people in the Central Plains.

Xu Feng went south along the way and saw a large number of people in the prefectures causing food shortages, thieves were rampant, and the people suffered indecent suffering.

The reason why Xu Feng walked so slowly along the way was because they were all providing disaster relief all the way.

Among the convoys they recaptured from the Jin army, a large number of them were food.

Xu Feng sent these foods to the people in famine all over the country along the way, which delayed for too long.

It was precisely because of what he saw and heard along the way that Xu Feng was completely disappointed with the officials in the court at this time.

Moreover, along the way, Xu Feng and Li Gang also talked for a long time and found that Li Gang is indeed a person with real talents and knowledge.

At the same time, Li Gang is a firm pro-war faction, just what Xu Feng needs.

Xu Feng had already made plans. After returning to Bianjing, he would liquidate the surrendered officials and then let Li Gang be the chief minister.

From now on, the Song Dynasty will no longer negotiate, surrender, cede land, and no compensation.

It turns out that weakness and surrender will only bring shame.

"I'm going to see your Majesty!"

When Xu Feng led his army to the city of Bianjing ten miles, Zhang Bangchang and his ministers waited here, kneeled down and bowed, shouting.

At the beginning, when the Jin people left, they actually supported Zhang Bangchang as the pseudo-emperor.

Fortunately, Zhang Bangchang knew that this emperor could not do it, so under the pressure of the Jin people, he only ascended the throne but not became emperor.

Now that Xu Feng has returned, he has taken the initiative to kneel down and submit to his sanctions, and his meaning is already very obvious.

"Let's flat!"

Xu Feng said lightly.

Immediately, Xu Feng led his troops into the city!

Xu Feng regained so much wealth from the Jin people. With these wealth, the Northern Song Dynasty court did not need to be afraid of any famine.

There is no shortage of food in Jiangnan. The imperial court only needs to purchase food from Jiangnan and transport it to the Central Plains.

At the same time, with this money and food, Xu Feng could reorganize a new army.

After Xu Feng returned to Bianjing, his first thing was to control all the troops inside and outside the city.

With the nearly 200,000 Song troops he brought back as a guarantee, Xu Feng was not worried about the generals who had not followed his orders before and dared to resist.

Anyone who resists will be seeking death at this time.
To be continued...