Chapter 10 Chapter 10 The Marco Polo Bridge Incident in 1111 AD

During this period, Tong Guan had already returned to China. After reporting his duties to Huizong, he lay down on a huge map.This map is the junction of Song Dynasty and Xixia Dynasty. It changes at any time, and it needs to be revised almost every ten years. There is no way, every war before Song Xia would change the borders of the country. At this time, what Tong Guan saw was an unprecedentedly good situation.After the Song Dynasty regained the Hehuang area lost in the Tang Dynasty, Hehuang threatened Xixia’s Hexi Corridor with Hehuang, Yiyan Army occupied Hengshan and overlooked Xiazhou, and Jingyuan Army occupied Tiandu Mountain and approached Xingqing Mansion, the capital of Xixia. More than 90% of the geographical barriers on which Li Yuanhao relied to build the country have been in the hands of the Song Dynasty.

In Tong Guan's mind, he continued to deduce the records of the victory and defeat of the two armies in the field battles of the Song and Xia wars in the past twenty years. There is no doubt that the Song army has an absolute advantage. Xixia can destroy the whole country of Xixia. So what are you waiting for?A huge plan was formed in Tong Guan's mind. He communicated with his close buddy Cai Jing in private, and the two made a decision-to immediately go to war with Xixia. This shows Tong Guan's true nature.He is not his teacher Li Xian. Eunuch Li has always lived in the army, and has always demanded himself by the standards of a soldier.He leads by example in battle, and never engages in politics in peacetime.But Tong Guan is not like that.

He is a man with three ideals and one conscience.This is quite rare, and many times it makes people's blood boil, and they even feel warm.But the key is that there are still six differences left. What are they? The answer is self-interest.This led to him being able to contribute to the military of the Song Dynasty. He resisted the edict when he pacified Hehuang, and he was able to act as a vanguard for the entire army and rushed to the forefront. It also made him full of personal desires, like at this time when he proposed to attack Xixia, regardless of whether the Song Dynasty army needs to rest, it depends on the domestic situation in Xixia.After all, the Empress Dowager Liang's group was destroyed, Xia Chongzong Nava was very respectful to the Song Dynasty, and the country gradually recovered unity.Is this a good time to go to war?

Tong Guan didn't care, he needed a bigger victory to push him to the pinnacle of power that eunuchs of all ages had never reached. As for Cai Jing, he has also changed.From the beginning, I just wanted to survive the party struggle and enjoy my life in peace, and now I am very quiet and want to move after a long time of peace.In the final analysis, he and all the superiors have committed the same problem - the ass determines the brain. The position of sitting is different, and the thinking is completely changed.When there is no painful lesson, I only know that I am constantly tossing and tossing.

In the first step, Cai Jing ordered Wang Hou to recruit Ren Duo Bao Zhong. The reason is very good. Wang Hou conquered Hehuang within a year and made his troops in Xixia.Ren Duo Bao Zhong is a noble general of the Western Xia Dynasty, and his status is second to none. After all, his father was the number one general in Xixia, who broke through Yongle City and killed 300,000 people in the Song Dynasty alone.Well, of course, Ren Duo was beheaded by Song Jun very simply. Speaking of it, Mr. Baozhong and Song Chao really have a deep hatred... But it is of great significance. If he can successfully surrender, he will be pulled to the side of Song Dynasty, which will affect Incomparably profound.

After receiving the order, Wang Hou was very depressed. He really wanted Prime Minister Cai to go to the frontier for a field trip to learn about the actual situation.Ren Duo Bao Zhong is very famous, and his current position is quite high. He is the supervisor of Zhuo Luo's right wing, in charge of the front line command. If he can really be pulled over, it is very likely that he will bring a large number of material personnel from the frontier. But the actual situation is different. Ren Duo is a member of Liang's group alone. After the victory in Yongle City, his military exploits made Liang's group flourish and crushed the Xixia royal family to death.May I ask what feelings Li Yuanhao's descendants have for Renjia?

The young Xixia Emperor Xia Chongzong is now in power. It would be nice to give Ren Duo's only son a military post. Even if he has military merits, reputation, and ability, he has absolutely no real power.Recruiting him has no practical meaning at all. Wang Hou wrote many letters to report the situation truthfully, which made Cai Jing furious.You are just a front-line General Qiuba, just work and contribute as cannon fodder, who asked you to take care of the strategic deployment of the international situation?Do whatever you want, regardless of whether your father, Wang Shao, was a colleague of the New Party back then, he would have dismissed you and returned to China for investigation.

Do you think winning a battle is awesome? ! Wang Hou had no choice but to send his younger brother to come forward and sneak into Xixia to make contact with Ren Duo Baozhong.Not to mention, Ren Duobaozhong really had enough of Xixia's uselessness, and agreed to surrender.But Wang Hou's younger brother was caught by patrol soldiers from Xixia on the way back. The matter came to light, and Wang Hou wrote to Cai Jing again, saying that from then on, Xixia would never give Renduo the loyalty and military power again, so what's the use of recruiting him, he's just a man. Cai Jing wrote back: You are an ordinary man, and you don't know the meaning of this matter at all.This is not military merit, this is political achievement!

After several twists and turns, Ren Duo Bao Zhong finally succeeded in recruiting and surrendering.When the news came, the whole Kaifeng was boiling. Cai Jing and Tong Guan specially wrote a memorial to Huizong, saying that this was the son of Ren Duoling, the mortal enemy of Yongle City. We should strengthen our operations in one go, implement the policy of surrender and disintegration in various frontiers, and destroy the Xixia army. After that, we will send a large-scale army just like we did against Hehuang Tubo, and wipe out the party in two years at most. What a grand plan, Zhao Ji's blood boiled when he heard it, and the lovers are so dedicated and patriotic, I approve the implementation.And there is another selling point, whoever recruits an enemy is equivalent to gaining a head before the battle.

When the defenders from all over the frontier heard this, their eyes lit up. Is there such a good thing?They raised a large sum of money and sold their official positions to the Xixia people. As long as they came here, they would be legal subjects of the Song Dynasty, and they no longer had to live on green salt and livestock. This trick worked very well. For a while, many Xixia soldiers really defected.But the sequelae are equally terrible. This is a naked provocation, even if Xia Chongzong is cowardly and wants to get close to the Song Dynasty, he cannot bear it.A king has his own bottom line.

The Xixia army was dispatched to retaliate in Yanzhou, Weizhou, Qingzhou, Zhenrong Army and other places. The biggest action took place in the Hehuang area.The Xixia people colluded with Duo Luoba, the former lord of Bajinling, to counterattack Shanzhou.It was so sudden that the Xihe army rushed to the battle and was defeated. Gao Yongnian, the general of the Western Expedition, died in battle. When the news spread to Kaifeng, Zhao Ji was furious.While gathering all the Western Army to attack Xixia, he held accountable on the one hand, what went wrong and let the Tibetans bite back? The whole country of the Song Dynasty was mobilized. Every time there was a war with Xixia, it would gather the strength of the whole country to support the Northwest. Every time it won or lost, it would seriously hurt the vitality of the rear.For a time people were very turbulent. Cai Jing and Tong Guan are very happy, their goal has been achieved.As I said before, recruiting Ren Duo Bao Zhong is not a military achievement but a political achievement. From then on, until the Xixia people were angered, it was the Qingyun road they paved for themselves.If you want to get promoted and get rich, consolidate your status, and gain more grand favor, you have to exchange for more important meritorious deeds. Where does the meritorious service come from? Use the head of the northwest frontier in exchange! As long as there is a war, the empire's money, military, supplies, letters and other lifelines will be decentralized and will be in their hands. At that time, they will become the essence of the supreme ruler of the Song Dynasty. But the situation quickly got out of control because of the courage of the Xixia people.After retaliating a few times like harassing them around, they suddenly had no idea and asked the people of Liao for help, using the highest standard. Xia Chongzong proposed to the royal family of the Liao Kingdom. Yelu Yanxi was very happy and married his younger sister Princess Cheng'an to him.After having this relationship, the Liao Kingdom began to put pressure on the Song Dynasty.In April of the fourth year of Chongning (AD 1105), they sent envoys to warn the Song Dynasty, that is my brother-in-law, what do you steal, don't wait for Liao to send troops, you will regret it later. Cai Jing and Tong Guan panicked, not because they were afraid of the Liao Kingdom, but because they didn’t expect Xixia to be persuaded so easily. The original plan was that the party members would be angry for two more days, and they would be able to send troops. They were caught off guard. This is indeed their miscalculation. Being in the middle of the game, they did not see the true face of the party members.In fact, since Li Yuanhao's death, the Xixia royal family has been feared by the people of the Song Dynasty. For so many years, it is the Liang Group who have been challenging the Song Dynasty. , are all peacemakers and pro-Song factions. What to do, Liao people... Facing this problem, Tong Guan turned and walked away. He was busy training troops in the northwest, and Cai Jing was worried about political matters.Cai Jing lived up to expectations, he thought for a while, and called someone. This person's name is Lin Bing, as mentioned earlier, this is his confidant.He has a very daring plan, so big that countless courtiers in the 150 years of the Song Dynasty, even a hawk like Han Qi, dare not think about it, and even a strong and unyielding person like Fu Bi dare not go. Do. In May of the same year, the imperial court sent Lin Bing to visit Liao. Along the way, Lin Bing's profile was terrifying. He didn't look like a person from the Song Dynasty, but a person from the Han Dynasty who had just crossed over to the Song Dynasty, and he was one of those cattlemen sent to the grassland tribes during the Han Dynasty. For example, Su Wu, who never bows his head and is always proud, is even more like the envoy who carried a golden horse into Dawan Kingdom to ask for a bloody horse.The Han court is the strongest regime under the sky, and the Han people are the supreme existence among all races. That's what Lin Bing did. He was picky at any time on the road, and immediately scolded him if he was dissatisfied. When he entered the Liao Palace, after seeing Yelu Yanxi, his posture not only did not lower, but became even higher. Lin Bing asked Yelu Yanxi, how do you manage your brother-in-law?Don't you know that your brother-in-law is so wrong, so disgusting?Or do you pretend to be confused and help your brother-in-law stir up trouble? The only thing you should do is to strengthen the management of party members of inferior races and stop pointing fingers at the Song Dynasty. You must understand that the diplomatic etiquette of the Song Dynasty is a model for the whole world. You can only learn from it and never have the right to intervene! Yelu Yanxi was so angry that he didn't give an order to drag Lin Bing out and chop it up that day, because it's his characteristic not to chop it up; he also didn't scold back on the spot, and started yelling at Lin Bing, anyway, he is still the emperor, throwing I'm sorry for that person. Lin Bing swaggered out of the Liao Palace, trembling with joy in his heart.He is really in the limelight. Countless ambassadors before, including Fu Bi, Fan Zhongyan, Wang Anshi, Cai Jing and other top-notch bigwigs, all together are not as cool as he is today.But he was really afraid, not only of the barbaric race of Liao, but also of Cai Jing. Prime Minister Cai asked him to do everything possible to provoke the Liao Kingdom. Don't be afraid of serious incidents. He must make the Liao Kingdom furious, so that the war can be fought.In line with this principle, the latter things got out of control. When Lin Xing returned to China, the Liao people sent special personnel to escort him according to the rules, and at the same time made a request.They wanted the Song Dynasty to return the frontier forts that had been looted and built since Huizong's accession to the throne. This is a thorn in Xixia's heart. Since the later period of Shenzong, the Song Dynasty has built countless fortresses and gradually advanced to the hinterland of Xixia, bit by bit eating away at Xixia's land.The above-mentioned Hengshan, Tiandushan and other places were occupied in this way. It is conceivable that their status in the Song Dynasty was equally important. When the Liao people made this request, they did not necessarily have to do it in the Song Dynasty.This is a common practice, and it will be the same in modern society in the 21st century. Politics is sometimes the same as buying vegetables on the street. Everyone can negotiate the price at will. So, they are very relaxed and don't feel any danger. The next moment they were stunned. Lin Bing's reaction was so strong that he had never seen it before. Even Fu Bi was not as brave as he was when he rejected Zong Zhen.Comrade Lin actually put aside diplomatic terms and used very folk language. What exactly was said is not recorded in the history books, so you can't talk nonsense, but the consequences are shocking. Liao's popularity is crazy, and all services, including food, will be cut off immediately.The only thing that was still provided was drinking water, but when I opened the kettle, I found human excrement in it... There was still a long way to go back to China. Lin Bing and his party suffered from hunger for three days, and they almost died of thirst. land. He struggled to return to the capital, and happily reported to Enxiang Cai Jing that the task was completed. However, Enxiang was expressionless and thoughtful, and was not ignited by his enthusiasm.Lin Bing panicked. As a qualified slave, his first reaction was that he was wrong.He must have messed up something, Cai Enxiang was furious the next moment, and asked him to travel long distances to get a permanent residence permit on Hainan Island. He thought too much, things did change, and there was a huge difference from Cai Jing's original plan, but it had nothing to do with him.In fact, no matter how successful he was, unless he provoked the Khitan people to send tens of thousands of people to follow him into the Song Dynasty, the original plan would still be aborted. Because Zhao Ji's interest has shifted. After the great victory in Hehuang, Zhao Ji was in a good mood.Amidst the singing, he found the famous jade bowls and asked Cai Jing if he would be accused of extravagance if he used them. As I said before, Zhao Ji became enlightened and began to pursue a high-quality life.Around 1104 AD, shortly after Lin Bing returned to China, Jiuding was in the process of casting, Jiucheng Palace was in the process of construction, Hua Shigang vaguely revealed his creativity, and Gen Yue was still stuck in the dreams of the superstructure. In such a peaceful and prosperous living atmosphere, who would compete with a group of party savages struggling to survive in the Northwest?As a result, Tong Guan's dream of military merit was suspended, and Cai Jing and his gang's attempt to usurp the lifeline of the country in the name of war also slowed down.When the Liao Kingdom sent envoys to talk about peace for the second time, the peace talks were successful, and peace between Song and Xia was restored. In the following five or six years, the main theme of the Song Dynasty was both material and spiritual construction. On days like this, Zhao Ji is young, unrestrained, joyful, and lives happily; Cai Jing, the only fish that slipped through the net in 20 years of party struggle, is enough for him to live a private and satisfying life, not to mention his companionship. Playing with Zhao Ji, instructing Zhao Ji how to play, with the Song Dynasty, the richest, most ingenious, and most playful country in the world at that time, using the wealth of the whole country to play as you like, what a joy it is! How can you not be satisfied? ! Liang Shicheng is also satisfied, he is a hidden form, the more stable the country is, the smoother his behind-the-scenes work will be. In contrast, the only one suffering is Tong Guan.The crown is full of Jinghua, and the child is alone and haggard.In such a life, in such a country, do we need a soldier, do we need a God of War?And he clearly knows that if he can't become the God of War, then he can only be a disabled man who has lost his male function, a slave who can't leave the country, has no status, and no reputation! In this torment, the time came to September in the first year of Zhenghe (1111 AD). Tong Guan grabbed the mission to go to Liao Kingdom. Before he set off, he set two principles for himself: first, he must do something, otherwise, to appear abroad as a eunuch would not only insult the Song Dynasty, but also insult the Song Dynasty. Insulting himself; second, no matter what, he can't be Lin's second. He is a soldier, a representative of the Western Army, and no status allows him to be bullied in the slightest.But it was easier said than done, from the moment he accepted the task, the provocation accompanied him from beginning to end. Before leaving the country, his old friend Cai Jing ridiculed him.After arriving in Liao Kingdom, the reaction of the Khitan people was a bit strange.Almost everyone who saw him, before the introduction, respected him, and after the introduction, they all showed suspicious and ambiguous smiles. This is what Tong Guan can't stand the most.He is "burly, majestic, with ten beards, his skin and bones are as strong as iron, he is not like an eunuch", he is simply a vigorous and powerful man, and he is not a eunuch from any point of view. But he is a eunuch, he can't explain why he grows a beard, and he can't help people think of him growing a beard, being in a deep palace, and winning military exploits. Is there any other hidden secrets in this series of events. This is simply a huge insult! Tong Guan was furious, he couldn't bear it but he still endured it, he knew what he was going to do.For that purpose, he accepted all the grievances he suffered.During his stay in the Liao Kingdom, he calmly contacted the leaders of the military and political circles of the Liao Kingdom, and got to know them deeply and carefully.At the same time, carefully record the geographical mountains and rivers that pass along the way, and analyze them all the time. He is doing what no soldier in the Song Dynasty dared to do for nearly a hundred years. The military of the Song Dynasty started from Zhenzong, and has always followed a principle-if you want to destroy the Liao Kingdom, you must first pacify Xixia; Now that Hehuang has recovered, the second step is Xixia, but the Liao Kingdom jumped out and always intervened between Song and Xia, making the Song Dynasty timid.So why not reverse the order? The Liao Kingdom is skin, and Xixia is hair. Pulling the fur can move it, but if the skin is peeled, does Mao dare to object?Take the Liao Kingdom as an operation, once and for all.With this ideal in mind, Tong Guan suppressed himself in the Liao Kingdom, and persisted until the way back to the country.The road passed a river and a bridge.At that time, no one knew what the meaning of the river and the bridge was. Because they are so commonplace. But from then on, until more than 800 years later, they have become synonymous with changing Chinese history, changing the destiny of the Chinese nation twice. The river became famous all over the world after eight hundred and twenty-six years.Every Chinese will always remember that on July 7th in the 26th year of the Republic of China (AD 1937), the Japanese launched a war of aggression against China near this river and this bridge. Yongding River, Marco Polo Bridge. That is the shame of the Chinese nation sinking to the bottom, and it is also the testimony of the newborn China's initial struggle. Back in the Song Dynasty, around October in the first year of Zhenghe (AD 1111), when Tong Guan and his party came here, the Yongding River was still full of water, not as dry as it is now.Above it, there is no stone bridge with a length of 266.5 meters, a width of 7.5 meters, ten piers, eleven bridge holes, one hundred and forty pillars, and six hundred and twenty-seven stone lions. The bridge was not built until seventy-eight years later, and the stone lions were not completed until the Ming Dynasty.When Tong Guan and his party came here, it was just a pontoon bridge.When I got here, I had to rest for a few days as usual, because I had already reached the sixteen prefectures of Yanyun, and then it was the land of the Song Dynasty. Just one evening during these few days, a man from the Liao Kingdom quietly approached Tong Guan and talked to him for a while.After that, the man disappeared, and no one knew where he went.Tong Guan was the only one left at the scene, sitting there blankly, his mind wandering, his imagination running wild, and he couldn't believe his ears. He was ecstatic, doubtful, amazed, and even more dreamy! Before meeting this person, all he did was some preliminary work, all of which were theoretical possibilities.For example, he collected all kinds of information about the Liao Kingdom to prepare for the future attack on the Liao Kingdom.It looks very positive, but it is actually very ethereal.What's the use of collecting as many and finely as possible, wars are about strength and leadership.As long as there is no war between Song and Liao, as long as the strength of Song Dynasty cannot surpass that of Liao, as long as Zhao Ji does not want to fight against Liao, then these collections are useless. But after this person appeared, everything changed. He instantly cured the Liaophobia that existed in the Song Dynasty for more than 130 years, and the Khitan people, who had dominated East Asia for more than 200 years, no longer had a sense of deterrence. .For the Song Dynasty, it became a piece of the sweetest and most delicious big cake, fluffy and soft, ready to bite.If he eats it, not only will the Song Dynasty rise strongly, but he himself will ascend to the sky in one step, becoming the greatest hero since the Northern Song Dynasty. At that time, no one would care that he was a eunuch, but only remember that he was a man who created the world.Stronger than Zhao Kuangyin, the founder of the country, and greater than Chai Rong, emperor Shizong of the later Zhou Dynasty. The premise is that what that person said is true. Subjectively, he prayed that it was true, but intellectually, he always reminded himself not to believe it.You can't believe it until the real facts show up.With this judgment in mind, he returned to China. He didn't tell anyone about the man by the Marco Polo Bridge.Including his best friend Cai Jing, as well as his emperor Zhao Ji. Time flies, and four years have passed in a flash.Many things have happened in these four years, some of which Tong Guan could only wish for, such as the people from Xixia finally coming to their door. This time it was purely the Xixia people who took the initiative to make trouble.In the fourth year of Song Zhenghe (AD 1114), that is, three years after the Lugou Bridge Night, on the border between Song and Xia, a Chinese party member suddenly wrote a letter to his former fellow. This person is Li Yuduo, the leader of the party's National People's Congress who surrendered to the Song Dynasty for many years in Huanzhou and Dingbianzhai. He wrote a letter to Xixia General Liang Duomao.He said that after more than 20 years in the Song Dynasty, he discovered a big secret.Every spring, the winter grains are exhausted and new grains are not brought in.This period of time was the weakest time for the soldiers of the Song Dynasty. As long as the leading soldiers came to kill them, they would definitely win. Liang Duoma didn't believe it, saying that the Song army had no food, and Xixia had no food. Even if they killed them, they really won. What would the army eat?Do you want to bring round-trip food stamps to march? Li Ye laughed, General Liang need not doubt, the party members have food when they come, I have been saving it for you for twenty years, all hidden in the cellar. So overjoyed, the Xixia soldiers ran over happily. They were so happy. They killed the hungry and weak enemies, robbed the silver, and there were people who took care of the board and lodging. Being such a soldier and fighting this kind of battle is really the ultimate life. But after running to Dingbian Village, everything was left to dry in the biting spring breeze.What greeted them was not the kind-hearted old man Li Yuduo and the grain in the cellar, but a vast expanse of white land, with nothing on the surface or in the cellar. The local Song army had been staring at them for a long time. After knowing what was going on, they did not ambush them in the cold weather, but took the first step to dig away all the food... Liang Duomao and his soldiers were almost crying. If you don’t bring such fun people, you didn’t bring any food for the return trip in order to run faster. Now you have to go back, you are not hungry! In the end, they went back, cold and hungry, and many non-combat casualties died.Looking back at the whole process, the typical stealing chicken is not enough to lose money.As far as Xixia is concerned, it has already suffered a lot. Unexpectedly, the Song Dynasty was furious, and Zhao Ji personally ordered: the Western Army will attack across the board, and let the party members know what is good or bad! The total strength of the troops dispatched this time reached 200,000.Among them, Liu Fa, the envoy of Xihe Road, led the Xihe Legion to march out of Huangzhou with 150,000 soldiers on foot, and Liu Zhongwu, the envoy of Qinfeng Road, led 50,000 elite troops out of Huizhou to attack Xixia from the west and south. Tong Guan stationed in Lanzhou, and the two sides responded. The moment Tong Guan dreamed of has arrived. In this big battle caused by a little friction, he got what he wanted most.Zhao Ji ordered that he be the commander-in-chief of Yongxing, Yanyan, Huanqing, Jingyuan, Qinfeng, Xihe and other roads in the northwest to control all economic and strategic appeasement departments. From then on, the Northwest Army belonged to Tong Guan alone. Judging from the time, Tong Guanzhi was full of pride, and he would undoubtedly do his best to win this battle, thus establishing his glorious image as the God of War in the Song Dynasty.But in what happened later, the result was exactly the opposite. Sitting on 200,000 elite soldiers, controlling the entire northwest jurisdiction, Tong Guan made the battle like lukewarm water.This battle lasted for two years, and both Song and Xia had their own winners and losers. Looking at the overall situation, there was no in-depth interspersed, no corps decisive battle, and the fighting points were only in some remote small cities, such as Zangdihe City and Renduoquan City in Xixia. Jingxia City in the Song Dynasty was very ruthless in both aspects, and slaughtered all three cities, leaving no chickens or dogs in the city. But for both Song and Xia, is this the only price for hundreds of thousands of people fighting in groups?If you really want to die, why don't you do it in such important areas as Tiandu Mountain, Hengshan, and Qingbaiyanchi?Guaranteed to be in dire straits immediately, you will live or die. This is where the mystery lies. If any soldier of the Western Army knows something, why doesn't the highest authority do it?If Tong Guan really wants to make contributions, why is there so much thunder and little rain? Very simple, look at the historical process table.What happened in the front and what happened in the back can be compared at a glance.The real reason is the night of Marco Polo Bridge in October of the first year of Zhenghe (1111 AD), and a letter received by the northeast border in March of 1115 AD. This letter was written to Emperor Zhao Ji of the Song Dynasty.The letter writer is a Liao Chinese named Ma Zhi.Ma Zhi was born in a famous family in the Yanyun area of ​​the Liao state. He was Guanglu Qing of the Liao state at the time, and he was regarded as a national-level middle and upper-level cadre.In his letter, he listed some things that just happened in the northeast of Liao.Due to geographical restrictions, those places were out of reach of the Song Dynasty. Even though it had been six or seven years since the incident happened, the people of the Song Dynasty were blindsided. After seeing this letter, Zhao Ji quickly ordered that the border gate should make every effort to quietly and quickly call Ma Zhi into Kaifeng, and he would talk to this person face to face. And Tong Guan immediately gave Ma Zhi, who was already in Kaifeng City.There is evidence that Ma Zhi has been hiding around Tong Guan since October of the first year of Zhenghe (AD 1111). On the night of Lugou Bridge, the person who secretly contacted Tong Guan was him.