Tu Dan Hexi didn't know that Xixia's betrayal was not the most desperate thing for him.
The most desperate thing was the news brought by his deputy Zhang Zhongyan a few days later.
"Your Majesty, there is news circulating in the Xia Kingdom that Liaodong has been pacified by the Liberation Army, and that Wanyan Yong, who was the emperor of Liaodong in the former Tokyo, died in battle..."
Zhang Zhongyan ran to report the news to Tu Dan Hexi with a panic look on his face, which undoubtedly dealt another heavy blow to Tu Dan Hexi.
If Liaodong is finished, then the Kingdom of Jin will really only have one hundred thousand troops in this corner of the country.
This is the last evidence of the existence of the Great Jin Kingdom.
He will lose all possibilities for foreign aid, he will be completely isolated, and will only lose everything in the constant fighting.
It's over.
So Tu Dan Hexi raised his head and said with a wry smile: "Caifu, we are completely alone."
Zhang Zhongyan swallowed and whispered: "Is there really no possibility of recovery?"
"What else is possible? Liaodong is over, even the land of our ancestors is gone, how can we save it?"
Tu Dan Hexi sighed: "Although we still have an army of 100,000, it's just these 100,000 troops. Apart from that, there is nothing. The Xia Kingdom has at least 200,000 capable soldiers, and the Liberation Army can also Take out 200,000 combatable soldiers, and add them all up to 400,000.
Caifu, it is true that Guanzhong is a vast territory with abundant resources, and it is true that there are many 100,000 troops, but can it withstand the invasion of 400,000 enemy troops? Can you? Or can I? I can't do it anyway. If an army of 400,000 soldiers were to invade, I would be able to resist for a month at most.
Even if all men are signed to serve as soldiers, how long can they last? The Liberation Army is an army capable of hundreds of battles. No matter how many of us there are, we are still a mob and cannot be hostile at all. "
Zhang Zhongyan sat down on the chair and was stunned for a while.
"Is it really over?"
"Almost."
"Are there no foreign aids left?"
"Who can be a foreign aid? The Xia State is despicable and shameless and has already defected to the Liberation Army. The Song State... wishes we would die immediately! What else can we do?"
Zhang Zhongyan was silent for a long time, having nothing to say.
Although he was born as a Song general, it was equivalent to betraying Song and surrendering to Jin twice. After leaving Guanzhong, he could not live anywhere and would not accept him anywhere. Like Tu Dan Hexi, the people surrounding him It's amazingly isolating.
However, Tu Dan Hexi didn't seem to be planning to give up, and he still wanted to fight.
"Although we have no way to go, I don't intend to live quietly. I am a general. Generals are born to die on the battlefield. Now I am just doing what I should do.
If the Liberation Army comes, I will fight against the Liberation Army. If the Xia Army comes, I will fight against the Xia Army. If the Song Army comes, I will fight against the Song Army. I will not retreat until the last soldier is killed. In order to repay the emperor's favor, I will die nine times. not regret! "
Tu Dan Hexi knew that he actually had no way out and would fail sooner or later, but at this moment when the Great Jin Kingdom had no hope, he hoped that he could do his best to retain a territory for the Great Jin Kingdom.
So his will has become unshakable.
But Zhang Zhongyan has no similar will.
He preferred to find a way to survive for himself rather than die in battle.
Zhang Zhongyan was born in the Western Army, a Western Army that was strong and good at fighting but also good at seeking benefits for himself.
The Western Army of the Song Dynasty can be said to be the only unit of the Song Army with strong combat effectiveness after the abolition of the Forbidden Army. However, this unit is not just a dead soldier, but has many plans of its own.
In the long process of competing and cooperating with the court's civil service system, the soldiers of the Western Army were frightened and suffered miserably, so they passively mastered many survival skills and were not absolutely loyal to the court.
They were skillfully deducted from their military pay by the imperial bureaucrats and Shangguan, and skilfully betrayed their trust. The promised reward was withheld, and the promised reward was lost. They knew the faces of the bureaucrats and Shangguan all too well.
They have been wandering on the edge of life and death for a long time. They are also people who lick blood from the edge of a knife, and they are not people who can be slaughtered by others. They have gradually learned how to seek benefits for themselves.
They learned to seize the opportunity to ask for favors from their superiors. For example, they would start asking for rewards after three arrows were fired, otherwise they would not fire the fourth arrow.
The central civil servants and senior military officers were helpless about this. Although they were very unhappy with such behavior, they did not dare to retaliate. Otherwise, they would not lead the army, stop fighting the war, and stop taking their own lives.
However, this does not mean that the Western Army is a group of shameless people, but that the Song Dynasty court is too deceitful. The Western Army generally does not have enough trust in the Song Dynasty court. Rather than trusting the empty promises of the court, they believe that they can actually get it. money.
The blame for this is the Song court's embarrassing and cumbersome rules of using civil servants to control military forces, and its inability to fulfill its promises, which resulted in the loss of the trust of the soldiers.
For doing such a thing, one cannot blame the soldiers for seeking their own lives first and then their country.
In this context, many generals in the Song Dynasty's Western Army believed that the Song Dynasty was about to fail before and after the Battle of Fuping. For the sake of themselves and their families, they chose to surrender to the Jin Army.
It was at that time that Zhang Zhongyan and his brother Zhang Zhongfu surrendered to the Jin Kingdom - even though their father died fighting to support Taiyuan, which was besieged by the Jin army.
It can be said that Zhang Zhongyan has never been a stupid person. No matter then or now, he will never die fighting for an unworthy goal.
The Song Kingdom had no hope, so he chose the Jin Kingdom. The Jin Kingdom had no hope, so he had to find ways to choose other forces to maintain the survival of his family and his high position.
Now, it's time to choose.
Who to choose?
Southern Song Dynasty?
No, he also looked down on the Southern Song Dynasty from the bottom of his heart.
When the Kingdom of Jin returned Shaanxi and Henan, he returned to the Song Dynasty and was summoned by Zhao Gou to Lin'an to pay a visit. During that time, Wanyan Zongbi went south again to seize Shaanxi and Henan, and asked the Zhang brothers to return by name.
So Zhao Gou really followed Wanyan Zongbi's wishes and sent them back to the north.
Although the Zhang brothers are not opposed to returning, can such an emperor believe in such a court?
That's courting death!
So choose Xixia?
No, it's a remote and small country with even less political credibility than the Southern Song Dynasty. It was hooked up with the Jin Kingdom before, and now it hooked up with the Liberation Army at the speed of light - it has sharper eyesight and faster hands than me. Can you choose?
What a joke!
So Xixia was also excluded.
So what are the options next?
Go west, go to the Western Regions to defect to a certain tribe or simply defect to Xiliao?
Say goodbye, it's too far, I still don't know if my old bones can hold on, don't die on the way and become a laughing stock!
Then, there is no choice, there is only one person to choose from.
Zhang Zhongyan looked at the white-haired Tudan Hexi, with a trace of unbearable flash in his eyes.
Tu Dan Hexi took good care of and trusted him.
But these little bits of intolerance were quickly replaced by a firm desire to survive.
Nothing is more important than your own survival.
So, sir, I'm sorry!
Zhang Zhongyan made up his mind to contact the Liberation Army privately, intending to provide convenience to the Liberation Army in exchange for his own survival and the future of his family.
The Guangfu Army and the Xixia Army were on the border, eyeing Guanzhong.
Not to be outdone, the Jin Army in Guanzhong confronted Chen Bing on the border, showing that they could fight again.
The situation in Guanzhong is on the verge of breaking out.
At the same time, in Lin'an, Zhang Jun was saying goodbye to his friends who came to see him off.
A month ago, Zhang Jun submitted his resignation to Zhao Gou and begged for his remains to return to his hometown. Zhao Gou refused three times, Zhang Jun insisted three times, and the fourth time, Zhao Gou agreed.
Zhao Gou thought that although Zhang Jun had made mistakes, he had always worked conscientiously for the sake of the country, so he increased Zhang Jun's title of Taishi and granted him the title of Liquan Guanshi. He could receive an extremely generous pension every month until his death.
Zhang Jun accepted the order and went to the palace in person to express his gratitude to Zhao Gou. The monarch and his ministers hugged each other and cried for a while, and Zhang Jun formally bid farewell to Zhao Gou.
After bidding farewell to Zhao Gou, Zhang Jun said goodbye to many of his friends, and warmly invited them to visit his hometown in Sichuan if they have the opportunity in the future. His hometown has green waters, green mountains and beautiful scenery. He is willing to spend time with his old friends They spend their lives traveling in small groups and enjoying the mountains and rivers.
He said goodbye with a smile, but his friends really couldn't laugh, and some even came to see Zhang Jun off with great sadness and indignation.
For example, Chen Junqing.
"I really don't think you need to take the initiative to resign. If you stay in the court for a day, the court's sycophants will not open their eyes. If you say one more word, the court's sycophants will be frightened. Once you leave, the court will be shaken." There is no one anymore! Is this okay?!"
Chen Junqing held Zhang Jun's hand with great sadness and indignation and stared at him.
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ps: The saved manuscript is gone and turned into nothing. I rushed these out overnight. . . . Really, I have never found cloud disks to be so meaningful, so I won’t go into details and just go for membership.
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