After listening to Jia Sidao's account, Zhao Yun felt that Zhao Tai was quite loyal.
Previously, Zhao Yun was not very interested in recruiting Zhao Tai.
After all, the Loyalty Army was mostly composed of remnants of the Jin Kingdom, and even the Song Dynasty had to guard against its own generals, let alone a group of people who served the Jin Kingdom.
Asking Zhao Yun to appease more than 100,000 remnants of the Jin Kingdom at once, he would somewhat think of Hou Jing's rebellion, and how could he sleep peacefully.
In fact, during the Mongolian-Song War, there was more than one situation where northern generals wanted to surrender but were rejected by the Southern Song Dynasty.
Among them, Fan Yongji surrendered to the Mongolian Communist Party, and the Southern Song Dynasty directly refused Fan Yongji's surrender because he was afraid that the Mongolian Communist Party would become stronger. This is the most depressing thing.
Because this not only rejected Fan Yongji, chilling the people in the north, but also made the Meng Cong realize that the Emperor of the Song Dynasty was suspicious of him, causing him to resign to show his loyalty, and the last generation of famous generals died in depression.
At this time, Zhao Yun thought over and over again and decided to recruit Zhao Tai, which was also a helpless choice.
Now he uses Zhao Tai to control the remnants of the Jin Kingdom to work for the Song Dynasty, mainly because no one in the Song Dynasty can defeat the more than 100,000 remnants of the Jin Kingdom in Shandong, so Zhao Tai becomes the only candidate.
He now wants to use Zhao Tai to bring these remnants of the army to defeat Mongolia. After the war is over, he will use Zhao Tai's loyalty to dismember the Zhongyi Army. It can be said that he will achieve multiple goals with one stone.
Of course, the premise of all this is that Zhao Tai is loyal to the Song Dynasty.
Zhao Yun didn't understand Zhao Tai at the moment, so naturally he couldn't completely trust Zhao Tai. However, the Mongolian attack was too urgent, so he could only choose to trust Zhao Tai's character.
Zhao Yun looked at Jia Sidao and said: "I will ask the Zhengshitang to draw up a reward. I will make another hard trip to Shandong to announce the decree."
Jia Sidao quickly saluted, "I accept your order!"
Zhao Yun stood up and walked to him, looking at him with deep meaning, "Si Dao! After you declare the decree, you will stay in Shandong for the time being and monitor Zhao Tai for me. If you have any news, report it to me immediately. Understood. ?"
Jia Sidao lowered his head and saluted, "I understand!"
Zhao Yun nodded with satisfaction, "You go down first! After the political hall has reached an agreement, I will have someone notify you."
At that moment, Jia Sidao bowed and resigned. Zhao Yun looked at his back and sighed: "When the country is in trouble, we miss our loyal ministers. I hope this Zhao Tai will live up to my kindness! I hope my ancestors will protect me and let me and the Song Dynasty survive." This time is difficult!”
After Zhao Yun's decision, the Song Dynasty court moved quickly. It was soon decided to restore Zhao Tai's status as a clan, confer Zhao Tai as the king of Linyi County, establish two envoys in Shandong, and control the three towns of Zhongyi, Wuwei, and Haining. Quan Zhi A major military and political event in Shandong ordered Zhao Tai to quickly send troops.
Zheng Qingzhi breathed a sigh of relief when the Southern Song Dynasty court made a decision, but deep down in his heart, he felt uneasy.
The gene of guarding against military officials was not only rooted in the hearts of the emperors of Zhao and Song dynasties, but also in the entire scholar-official class of the Song Dynasty.
Now that there are powerful enemies outside, this gene has been suppressed. Once the situation eases, it will explode again.
After all, the Song Dynasty was a dynasty where all the birds were flying and good bows were hidden.
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The words are divided into two parts. The Mongols suddenly attacked the Song Dynasty, Wo Kuotai soldiers surrounded Kaifeng, and Kublai Khan invaded Huainan. When Jiangnan was in danger, Sichuan Zhizhi envoys Zhao Yanna and Jinghu Zhizhi, who originally advocated peace with the Mongols, Shi Songzhi finally realized that he had been tricked.
In order to confuse the Southern Song Dynasty, Mongolia took the initiative to send envoys to contact them, hoping that the two families could make peace. Both parties responded positively and promoted the peace talks.
These two people want to negotiate peace, not because they are traitors to their country, but because they have their own considerations.
Three years ago, in order to destroy the Jin Kingdom, Mongolia Tuo Lei led a large army and forcibly borrowed the road from the Southern Song Dynasty. Both Sichuan and Jinghu had seen the terrifying combat power of the Mongolian army.
The two had fought against Mongolia and knew that Mongolia was powerful and their troops were no match, so they tried their best to advocate peace in the hope of avoiding war.
Now Mongolia is launching an attack. Although the two of them don't want to fight, for the sake of the court and the emperor, they have no choice but to bite the bullet and attack Mongolia.
Sichuan's envoy Zhao Yanna hurriedly gathered more than 30,000 people and left Hanzhong to attack Guanzhong. However, he hesitated and was not prepared in advance. The road out of Sichuan was steep and food could not be transported. As a result, the Sichuan soldiers were trapped in supplies and found it difficult to do anything.
As for Jinghu, food transportation is convenient, and Xiangyang has always stationed heavy troops, so it can move much faster, and it became one of the main hopes of the Southern Song Dynasty to force the Mongols to retreat.
Now the Song army in Huainan and Jiangnan can only barely resist the Mongolian army and prevent the Mongolian army from crossing the river. If they want to repel the Mongolian army, they must rely on other forces.
Zhao Tai from Shandong is considered one group, and the other two are the Song army from Sichuan and Jingxiang.
After Shi Songzhi received the news of the Mongolian attack, he knew that he had been tricked and was quite panicked.
Because when Mongolia attacked Shandong, he kept writing to the court asking for restraint, saying that Mongolia would not attack the Song Dynasty and meant to make peace.
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Now that the Mongolian army is directly attacking Yangzhou, there is no reason why Shi Songzhi should not be impatient.
When Duanping entered Luo, the Song Dynasty originally ordered three armies to take over the land south of the Yellow River and rebuild the Guanhe defense line.
At that time, Lianghuai dispatched 60,000 elite troops, but Shi Songzhi did not cooperate.
This was the powerful strength shown by Mongolia when they borrowed the road, which made Shi Songzhi fearful and believed that the Song Dynasty was not an opponent of Mongolia and should not take the initiative to provoke a war.
Second, Duanping's entry into Luo was led by Zheng Qingzhi, Zhao Kui, and Zhao Fan. The credit for the success could not be attributed to them, so Jingxiang was not very active in Duanping's entry into Luo.
Last time Jingxiang did not send troops. This time Shi Songzhi received the order from the court, but without any hesitation, he immediately ordered General Meng Gong to lead his troops as the vanguard and invade Henan.
There was no reason for him to be impatient. The Mongolian army threatened Jiangnan. If the Song Dynasty died, he would have nothing to do.
Furthermore, his previous letter had more or less caused the court to misjudge the situation. If he did not take the initiative, he would definitely be liquidated by the court.
Therefore, unlike Duanping's entry into Luo, this time Jingxiang was very active and hard-working.
Although Wo Kuotai made arrangements in advance to prevent the Song army from attacking Sichuan and Jingxiang before deciding to send troops, the Mongolian Communist Party was indeed powerful. They captured Tangzhou and Dengzhou in less than a month, and their troops reached Nanyang. .
At this time, outside Nanyang City, the Song army's vanguard set up camp, while the Mongolian army inside the city closed the city and stood firm.
In the Song army's tent, Meng Gong, who was wearing armor and looked very powerful, was discussing the military situation with a group of generals.
After Meng Gong was a general, his ancestors were Yue Fei's generals. The soldiers and horses under his command inherited the legacy of Yue's army. They can be said to be one of the most capable soldiers in the Southern Song Dynasty.
At this time, the Meng Communist Party was discussing with their subordinates how to attack the city, and the tent curtain was suddenly raised.
Meng Gong and others turned around to see, they were all frightened and saluted quickly, "Mr. Zhizhi, why are you here!"
The person who came was none other than Shi Songzhi. He entered the tent and looked at the people and the sand table. He knew that the Meng Communist Party was studying how to attack the city, so he said in a deep voice: "The situation has changed now. Let's stop attacking the city for a while! "
