After the Ming army's vanguard arrived in Lin'an, they first conducted reconnaissance outside Lin'an City, and raised the Ming war flag grandly, and circled Lin'an City to show off their military power and military exploits to the Song defenders in Lin'an City.
As a result, the morale of the Song soldiers in the city was low.
Yang Cunzhong was very angry when he saw it. He immediately ordered the crossbows set up at the top of the city to fire outwards to bombard the Ming army cavalry outside the city.
But it was useless. The Ming army's cavalry moved at high speed, and the bed crossbows could not hit them at all, so they had no effect.
The appearance of the vanguard of the Ming army meant that a large force was about to arrive. The Song soldiers in the city were frightened and their morale was shaken. It was only because of Yang Cunzhong's prestige that no major incident occurred.
At this moment, the small court of the Southern Song Dynasty was also in chaos.
Except for a small number of Leng Touqing who kept writing to the court asking for a decisive battle with the Ming army, most of the courtiers petitioned the emperor to negotiate peace with the Ming army and stop the war.
Stop fighting. It will not do any good to the Southern Song Dynasty to continue fighting. This war should not have happened. Now that it has happened and the defeat is so miserable, why should we continue to fight?
Why must we have trouble with the Ming Dynasty, which has a stronger military than Jin Bing?
Some of them had completely forgotten how they had righteously refuted the Ming Dynasty's request for annual coins.
They were not ashamed at all, and immediately joined the peace camp, strongly demanding that the emperor surrender to the Ming Dynasty, sign a peace treaty, and do their best to obtain peace no matter what the price.
Even if it costs some money?
Spend some money, no shame!
If the fight continues, the situation will not be safe, and everyone will become prisoners. By then, it will really be all over!
Before, the officials did not dare to submit a letter because they saw Shi Hao's failure, Huzhou still existed, and there was still hope of changing the situation of the war. But now Huzhou is gone, the Ming army is approaching, and it is about to surround Lin'an. They are afraid of it. They were fearless when talking about peace talks and came to the table one after another.
These requests for peace were shot at Zhao Xun's body like bullets, making him covered in blood and causing him great pain.
He was already miserable because of the tragic defeat in Huzhou, and now that the Ming army was approaching Lin'an and the courtiers had no fighting spirit and were asking for peace, it made him even more miserable.
He also wanted to continue fighting, insisting on Lin'an and vowing not to surrender, in order to show the new emperor's will, and intended to use Lin'an City to wear down the Ming army's logistics.
However, seeing the spectacular sight of lowering flags all over the court, his will was seriously shaken. No matter how hard he persisted, he could not defeat the Ming army alone. He needed to help his civil servants to make plans, and he needed to help him. The general is very brave and he needs his soldiers to move forward bravely to win.
But now he seems to be left alone.
He began to wonder if he should have followed Shi Hao's advice from the beginning, and should not have fought this war with no possibility of victory. He should have discussed peace talks early in the morning, and perhaps more talks, so as not to have the enemy invade the city and then talk about another one. [Alliance under the City] with more stringent conditions.
Moreover, the alliance under the city is the most shameful peace negotiation, which is enough to destroy the dignity of a king. Back then, Zhenzong of the Song Dynasty even granted Zen to Mount Tai because of this, trying to conceal the essence of the alliance under the city of Chanyuan.
The result was certainly met with criticism.
Zhao Min was unwilling to give in and did not want to suffer such humiliation just after he took the throne and become a shameful emperor, but he knew that he seemed to have no choice.
At noon on the second day of May, the main force of the Ming army arrived outside Lin'an City and began to clean up the military facilities and defense points outside Lin'an City. The overwhelming thunder cannons and violent explosions caused by large rockets shocked the hearts of every Lin'an person.
After a violent explosion, the Ming army soldiers dispatched and used clever coordination and skillful tactics to remove all the Song army strongholds outside the city. Even the defensive tactics set up by the experienced Yang Cunzhong could not withstand the Ming army's day and night attack.
At noon on the third day of May, the Ming army cleared all the Song army's defensive positions outside Lin'an City. The Song army outside the city was either killed in battle or captured, and no one escaped into Lin'an City - of course, this was the same as Lin'an City had never been. It’s about opening the city gate.
As a result, the Ming army successfully completed the encirclement of Lin'an City.
At this point, Zhao Min has no way out. At this point, even if he conducts peace talks, the nature of the peace talks will become an extremely humiliating alliance under the city.
Zhao Hao found Shi Hao again. Facing Shi Hao, Zhao Hao shed tears.
"Teacher, am I really wrong?"
Facing the tearful emperor and student, Shi Hao could not say the words "I was really wrong" no matter what.
He could only sigh deeply.
In terms of personal performance, Zhao Hao was much better than Zhao Gou. At least he insisted on resisting until the last moment. If Yue Fei, Han Shizhong and others had met him when he was still alive, maybe the Song Dynasty would have recovered the Central Plains.
However, there is no if in history.
Shi Hao could only comfort him.
"Your Majesty is unwilling to kneel to the Ming Dynasty or suffer humiliation. This courage and responsibility cannot be regarded as wrong in any case. Your Majesty's bravery is what the Song Dynasty urgently needs. No one can deny this. Who dares to If he denies it, I will argue with him to the end.”
Zhao Hao raised his head and looked at Shi Hao.
"So, the teacher also thinks what I did is wrong?"
Shi Hao lowered his head and remained speechless.
After a long time, Zhao Yan wiped his tears and laughed at himself.
"I just don't want to be the king of surrender, and I don't want to do the thing I hated the most. I thought I could turn things around by becoming the emperor, but now it seems that I am still too ignorant."
Shi Hao's heart moved and he took a few steps forward and held Zhao Hao's hand.
"Your Majesty, your Majesty is not ignorant. Your Majesty is brave and fearless. Compared with the cowardice called shrewdness, your majesty's seemingly reckless bravery is the most important thing in the Song Dynasty. Anyone can blame your majesty for acting recklessly, but anyone We can’t blame His Majesty for his bravery!”
Zhao Hao looked at Shi Hao in surprise.
"Teacher, do you really think so in your heart?"
"If there are false words, thunder will strike from heaven!"
Shi Hao didn't waver at all.
Zhao Min just looked at Shi Hao's face intently, as if he could see what he desperately longed for in his face.
He did see it.
So his expression full of misery was mixed with a hint of relief.
Of course, misery still occupies the vast majority of it, because he is really miserable.
There were endless calls for surrender from the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty. Most people no longer supported him in continuing to fight this battle. Only a few people came forward to express their hope that the emperor would continue to fight.
Zhao Min had to look through ten memorials to find one that supported him in continuing the war, and the remaining nine demanded surrender.
Although Zhao Min was determined to continue fighting, thinking of the Kaifeng story, he was really worried that someone would choose to open the city gate to welcome the Ming army into the city out of fear.
By that time, he really has no bargaining power at all.
Although it doesn't matter at the moment, if the party that takes the initiative to surrender has some requirements, the party that accepts the surrender will also consider it.
After all, there are more than 40,000 fighting troops and residents in the city. It will be very difficult for the Ming army to conquer Lin'an.
After much thought and Shi Hao's repeated persuasion, Zhao Hao finally recognized the reality and nodded in agreement to Shi Hao's request.
So Zhao Hao officially announced in the court that he had authorized Shi Hao to negotiate with the Ming army on behalf of the emperor to strive for a relatively reasonable peace terms in order to end the war as soon as possible.
Zhou Zhi didn't know about Zhao Gou's abdication and Zhao Min's ascension to the throne until he arrived in Lin'an City. He felt that this was a big event, so he immediately sent people to return north quickly, informing Su Yonglin of this news together with the news that the army was surrounding Lin'an, and asked Su Yonglin to Give specific instructions.
What is the appropriate amount of compensation?
How to determine the specific amount of annual coins.
What to do if the Southern Song Dynasty does not agree.
Do we really want to conquer Lin'an City?
What to do if the Emperor of the Southern Song Dynasty is really captured.
He hoped to get specific instructions from Su Yonglin, so that he could be well-targeted during negotiations and make many blackmail-like demands to the Southern Song Dynasty with reasonable evidence.
Of course, without waiting for Su Yonglin's specific instructions, on the morning of May 5th, the Southern Song Dynasty sent a negotiation team represented by Shi Hao to request peace negotiations with the Ming army in order to stop the war and avoid disaster in Lin'an City.
