Chapter 67 four

The next day, the camp of the Yuan Army in Jiaxing Prefecture. In the handsome tent, Boyan, Meng Qi, and Song Jiang had a long talk with Liu Hanjie, very speculative. "The Empress Dowager Xie insisted on refusing to leave Lin'an, so Chen Yizhong had to agree to become a minister and seek peace. The envoy of the Song Dynasty was ordered to bring a copy of the Song Emperor's surrender form to our camp for negotiations. He said that Chen Yizhong also wanted to invite Prime Minister Boyan in Chang'an Town (Ninghai West, Zhejiang) Face-to-face talks." Meng Qi, the governor of the province, briefly introduced Song Ting's motion for peace talks.

"How's the situation in the east?" Boyan asked. "Yanguan City is less than a hundred miles away from Lin'an, and General Ashu is progressing smoothly. On the day of occupying Yanguan City, he secretly divided his troops to the south of Lin'an City, stationed at Zhejiang Pavilion, and blocked the exit to the sea." "Okay! This will block Song Shihai's escape route to the south. That's great!" Boyan slapped the red lacquer desk heavily, causing the teacup to rattle. "In the past few days, Song envoys have been frequently traveling between Lin'an and Jiaxing, just to facilitate a peace negotiation as soon as possible. For the Song Dynasty, the only way out at present is to flee to Fujian. I worry that if we push too hard, we will have to It prompted the Song Dynasty to choose to flee south. Once the capital lost control and thieves flocked, the wealth accumulated by the Song Dynasty for three hundred years would be wiped out. Therefore, the general thought that it would be better to use tricks to appease them so that they would not be too frightened."

"General Meng is right, and I will entrust this matter to you to supervise. Write a reply letter to Empress Dowager Xie, telling her that our army will never kill rashly, and let her not panic." "yes." Watching Meng Qi leave in a hurry, Boyan withdrew his gaze and asked Liu Hanjie with a smile: "General Liu, I have something I want to discuss with you. I wonder if General Liu would like to enlighten you?" "Although the prime minister inquires, he will not dare to hide it." "Do you think Song Ting will surrender?" "meeting."

"Will you change your mind?" "Won't." "why?" "For so many years, most of the civil servants and generals in the Song Dynasty have been dawdling around--to tell you the truth, I am the same--and the Song court has always claimed to be orthodox, arrogant, and self-styled, which has led to today's disaster. If a few days earlier In 2010, we noticed the changes in the political situation in the north, prepared in advance, worked hard, and with the country's more than 700,000 troops, it is entirely possible to keep the enemy out of the country."

Boyan listened calmly, nodding frequently. "Even after the Yuan army crosses the river, if we can move the capital to Fuzhou or Guangzhou immediately, and take advantage of the convenient location of the water town in the south of the Yangtze River, it is not impossible to start a protracted war with the Yuan army." Facing Boyan, Liu Hanjie just wanted to say something quickly. .Although they had confronted each other on the battlefield, from the bottom of his heart he admired Boyan's majestic strategy and general demeanor very much. "It's a pity, it's a pity, generals like Song You can't be reused, but speculators like Jia Sidao, Chen Yizhong, and Liu Mengyan are used. If Song Ting regards generals as commanders, how can I, Boyan, be in the Jiangnan battlefield?" Do not meet a real opponent?"

"The prime minister has won the award." Liu Hanjie thought to himself: A few days ago, the messenger sent by Emperor Kublai Khan told Boyan that there was a problem on the northeast border, and the army must not advance lightly.In the first year of Zhongtong, Kublai Khan was forced to sign an armistice agreement with Jia Sidao, which was caused by "problems on the northern border".