Chapter 28 Monarchs slip together

Du Chong crossed the river and retreated to Zhenzhou. In view of his many crimes and enemies all over the world, he did not dare to show his face during the day and hid in Changlu Temple. Zhao Gou didn't blame him, but wrote to comfort him, saying that victory or defeat is a common matter in military affairs, so don't worry about it.Then he sent singers and gold and silver to shock him. But Zhao Gou was still a step behind compared to Wushu.Wushu sent people to fool Du Chong and said: "If you surrender to the Kingdom of Jin, you will be the second Zhang Bangchang. We will make you emperor, and the land in the Central Plains will be rewarded to you." Compared with silver, of course it is more tempting to be the emperor of the Central Plains.

Du Chong rushed back to Jiankang excitedly and surrendered to Wushu.However, it turned out later that Wu Shu's words were just a blank promise. When Zhao Gou learned that Du Chong had surrendered to the enemy, he looked up to the sky and shouted, "Du Chong, Du Chong, why are you doing this? I will treat you well!" The greater the hope, the greater the disappointment. Du Chong's betrayal made Zhao Gou "Those who don't eat will tire for days", and the pain will cause internal injuries. However, the most urgent task is not to condemn Du Chong's departure, but to consider which direction he should flee.Zhao Gou put this important topic on the table for the ministers to study together.

The ministers expressed their opinions and had different opinions. Left Prime Minister Lui Yihao's idea is the most creative.He said: "The emperor's holy car travels, and the royal family, harem concubines, officials, and soldiers and guards all follow. The team is huge, it is inconvenient to walk, and it is difficult to bring food. The Jin people always win with cavalry. Once they cross the river, they will send light cavalry. Pursuit. I think we should abandon the car and board the boat and go to sea to avoid the enemy. The geothermal heat in Zhejiang makes the Jin people unable to stay for long. As soon as they leave, we will come back, one goes in and one goes out, and one goes out and one goes in. This is a miracle of military strategists .”

"What a miracle of a military strategist!" All the ministers applauded and praised. Indeed, the emperor escaped by boat and floated across the sea, which is both novel and exciting. Zhao Gou made a decision on the spot: "This matter is feasible." At the beginning of December in the third year of Jianyan (1129), it was very cold, and there was a light snow like fine sand in the sky. On the 5th, Zhao Gou and his party arrived in Mingzhou (now Ningbo City, Zhejiang Province) in the snow. Mingzhou was a big port at that time. Officials gathered twenty large ships and converted them into royal boats for the imperial use.

Food, drinking water, a change of clothes, various living utensils, and daily necessities are fully prepared, and the sail is officially set sail. The Louchuan departed from Dongdumen and first sailed to Dinghai County (now Zhenhai, Zhejiang). Fan Zongyin, the political adviser, boasted and said: "Although there are millions of enemy cavalry, but we abandon the land and take the boat, what can they do to us?" Another courtier next to him quoted the words of the hero of the Southern and Northern Dynasties, Zongxi, and echoed: "From today on, you can ride the long wind and break through the waves." Those who go will suffer from wind and waves." Many people were pale and trembling standing in the cold winter air.

Wu Shu led a large army to Lin'an to fight. When the troops arrived, the defense line of the Southern Song Dynasty collapsed in an instant. There is a dangerous pass in Tianmu Mountain in the northwest of Lin'an, named Dusong Pass. In the Sui and Tang Dynasties, Wang Xiongdan, a fierce general under Du Fuwei, once showed his prowess here. He defeated the 100,000 army of Wu Wang Li Zitong with 500 cavalry. It can be said that one man guards the pass. , Wan Fu Mo open. In order to pass this test smoothly, Wushu did his homework on the way here, designed several attacking plans, thought through all the difficulties he would encounter, and made several ideological mobilizations in the army.

However, in the end Wushu was "disappointed".Song Jun didn't place a single soldier here at all. Wushu looked back after passing the pass, the cold wind was strong, it was just: I saw the clouds on the top of the mountain like a cover, and the rocks were startled and the snow was like dust.Then he yelled regretfully: "The Song Dynasty really had no one available. If they deployed hundreds of soldiers here, how could we pass through so calmly?!" On December 15th, Wushu broke through Lin'an Mansion.On December 24th, Wushu broke through Yuezhou (now Shaoxing, Zhejiang), and went straight to Mingzhou without stopping.

Zhang Jun, the commander of the capital of the imperial right army and the governor of eastern Zhejiang, was ordered to cover Zhao Gou in Mingzhou. There were not many residents left in Mingzhou. As soon as Zhang Jun's army arrived, he took the opportunity to "in the name of Qingye" and plundered wantonly in the cold wind. "Every thirty miles around the city was burned by him." On December 29th, the westerly wind suddenly rose, and the Jinmen attacked. Zhang Jun fought a random battle in the snow, and retreated to Taizhou (now Taizhou, Zhejiang). As soon as Zhang Jun left, "Mingzhou scholars and people all dispersed", and the people wailed loudly.

On the third day of the first lunar month in the fourth year of Jianyan (1130), Wushu arrived in Mingzhou. What made him even more unexpected was that the Song army actually fled without a fight, and with his current strength, it was not enough to occupy the land in the south of the Yangtze River.But Wu Shu stood at the top of the city of Mingzhou, overlooking the entire Jiangnan land, and Song Bing could hardly be found.The generous imperial governor, General Zhang Jun, has given him this vast land without reservation.Don't don't want what was given for free, he let his army plunder it.

Afterwards, Wushu set its sights on the next stop—Taizhou. On the tenth day of the first lunar month, Taizhou was successfully captured, and then they marched towards Dinghai (now Zhenhai, Zhejiang), and pursued Zhao Gou from Dinghai. Zhao Gou had arrived in Zhang'an Town, and he was terrified when he heard that Jin Bing had dispatched ships to chase after him. "The cold weather makes the days shorter, and the wind and waves are even with the clouds." In the evening, the boatman tried his best to sail against the wind in the cold air, and suddenly drove off the two-leaf boat, "directly offending the guard ship", Zhao Gou got the report, thinking that he had met Jin. The outpost ship of the soldiers, with a face ashen, thought: "It's over..."

In fact, Zhao Gou was on a huge fleet of 20 large ships connected together, so he didn't have to worry about the two small fishing boats rushing down with the wind. The imperial guards in front stopped the two small boats and asked, but they were just ordinary merchants selling oranges. Zhao Gou breathed a sigh of relief, and ordered people to buy all the tangerines on board and distribute them to the imperial guards for food. On this day, it happened to be the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. "Lantern Festival, the weather is harmonious." The soldiers ate tangerines. I don't know who started it. They made lamps out of tangerine peels, stored oil, lit them, and put them into the sea at low tide. .The other soldiers followed suit one after another, and soon there were thousands of small orange lanterns flickering on the sea. At that time, "the wind is still and the waves are still, and the water is still." Thousands of fire lights shone in the waves of the sea, which was spectacular. The people of Zhang'an Town saw it on Jin'ao Peak, and they couldn't help crying.