Chapter 316 The lion opens his mouth and fights with the barbarians; arms supplies arrive at the front line
It was the 29th day of the eighth lunar month in the third year of Xuanhe.
The peace envoys sent by Xia Emperor Li Qianshun have arrived at the Song Army camp where Zhao Guan's family is located for more than a day.
Their weapons and horses were confiscated by the Song army.
They wanted to visit Zhao Guan's family and present to the Emperor of the Song Dynasty the letter of begging and credence written by Emperor Xia Li Qianshun.
However, Zhao Ji did not receive them at all.
"The territory within the range of my cannon is my territory of China!"
This famous saying adopted by the Zhao Guan family was deeply engraved in the mind of the young and high-spirited Zhang Jun.
According to the imperial decree, he received the Xia State envoy...
Xia Guoyi and the twelve envoys saw that nearly 200,000 Song troops had surrounded the city of Xijing, and they were filled with sorrow...
Each military camp of the Song Army was reasonably arranged, with neat military appearance and high morale.
They became even more worried about whether their peace negotiation mission could be completed...
They also wanted to see the Emperor of the Song Dynasty as soon as possible and present Emperor Xia's peace certificate to the Emperor of the Song Dynasty.
However, they had been here for more than a day, but Zhang Jun, the official sent by the Song Dynasty to receive the imperial envoy, had a tough attitude and showed no sincerity at all in negotiating peace.
During the day, they saw from afar an impressive middle-aged general (Liu Guangshi) in the Song army, following a young general (Yue Fei) who exuded a heroic spirit, leading hundreds of cavalry, escorting them tied up in the building. Jin King Richard Brother, who was covered with injuries in the car, left the camp and went to the Xijing City of Xia Kingdom to parade outside Xijing City to demonstrate to the public.
They knew full well that the Song army's intention was to break the fighting spirit of the Xia army guarding Xijing City.
They immediately lodged a strong protest to Zhang Jun...
Zhang Jun raised the corners of his mouth and smiled slightly:
"Escort the captive Brother Richard to the parade. This is the imperial edict of the Zhao Guan family of the Great Song Dynasty. Who dares to change it without authorization? Your protests are invalid!"
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All members of Xia's peace delegation immediately felt the truth that a weak country has no diplomacy!
Many of them were key members who participated in the Song-Xia peace talks three years ago.
They miss the Song-Xia peace negotiation three years ago very much...
At that time, as the envoy of the victorious country to Great Xia, I was so high-spirited and arrogant...
During the Song-Xia peace talks three years ago, the reason why he was so successful was because Emperor Xia sent Richard to personally lead the Iron Harrier Army and tens of thousands of auxiliary troops to fight against Liu Fa's army, which was advancing alone, and defeated his troops miserably. Killed the famous Song Dynasty general Liu Fa...
This shocked and frightened the people of the Song Dynasty at that time, and they had to accept peace negotiations.
Three years ago, when the Song and Xia were negotiating peace, the Song Dynasty still wanted to save face and considered itself a superior state. It was obvious that it would compensate Xixia with a large amount of property every year, and it was said that it was an "annual gift" from the superior state to its subjects.
The current Emperor of the Song Dynasty was so obsessed with saving face three years ago, it can be regarded as a genetic legacy.
As early as seventy-seven years ago, in the fourth year of Qingli in the Song Dynasty, during the Song Renzong Dynasty and the Song-Xia peace talks, the Song Dynasty also insisted on calling the compensation to Xixia a "yearly gift":
‘The Song Dynasty granted Western Xia 150,000 pieces of silk, 70,000 taels of silver, and 30,000 jins of tea every year;’
‘Reopen the border market for trade…’
However, what these Xia envoys could not have imagined is that today, just three years later, the Song Dynasty, which was originally only strong in economy and culture but weak in military force, had undergone earth-shaking changes!
This time on their mission to the Song camp, they finally experienced the shame and humiliation suffered by the defeated envoys of a weak country during peace negotiations...
Zhang Jun, the imperial envoy who negotiated peace with the Song Dynasty, suddenly opened his mouth:
"I follow the instructions from Zhao Guanjia:
'If Xixia sincerely negotiates for peace and returns the Xiping Mansion in Xijing, which has been occupied by Xixia for more than a hundred years, to the Song Dynasty, Xixia will also pay tribute to the Song Dynasty every year: 30,000 good horses, 50,000 cattle, 300,000 sheep, and ten pieces of silver. Wanliang...'"
The Western Xia envoys all looked ugly and frowned, feeling painfully that the peace negotiator of the Song Dynasty was speaking like a lion!
Before they went to the Song camp as envoys, Xia Emperor Li Qianshun saw them off at Xingqing Mansion in the capital and asked them to negotiate a peace to rescue Xijing, which was besieged by the Song army.
They immediately raised objections:
"Xiangong Zhang, you, the Song Dynasty, want me, the Xia Kingdom, to cede Xijing. This is simply an idiot's dream!"
"We follow the imperial edict of the Emperor of Great Xia. It is absolutely impossible for our Great Xia Kingdom to cede Xijing, the land of Longxing, to the Song Dynasty..."
"..."
"Haha..." Zhang Jun sneered and said leisurely:
"Since you are unwilling to return the Xiping Mansion to the Song Dynasty, I will paraphrase the oral instructions of Emperor Zhao Guan of the Song Dynasty:
‘The land that cannot be returned through peace talks will have to be taken back through war’!”
"ah?!"
"Huh?!" Upon hearing this, the Xia ambassadors were so frightened that they broke out in cold sweat.
They heard clues from the words of the Song envoy Zhang Jun: It turned out that the purpose of the Song Dynasty's renewed war was not as simple as getting this benefit during the peace negotiation. It was probably to plot against the entire Xixia!
They made strong excuses and protested:
"Xijing Xiping Mansion, that is the land of Longxing in our Great Xia Kingdom!"
"If during this peace negotiation, we, the Xia envoys, agree to cede Xijing to the Song Dynasty, then we will become Xixia's eternal sinners!"
"Xiping Mansion has been the Xijing of my Great Xia Kingdom for more than a hundred years. How can it be ceded to your Great Song Dynasty?!"
After Zhang Jun heard Ambassador Xia's rebuttal, he argued with reason:
"Your Xiping Prefecture in Xijing was originally Lingzhou of our Song Dynasty. Do you know this?"
The Xia envoys were all silent.
They were able to be sent by Li Qianshun as envoys to negotiate peace because one-third of them were well-educated Han people who had surrendered to Xixia long ago, and the rest were all Dangxiang civil servants who were proficient in Sinology after Sinicization.
They naturally knew that what Song envoy Zhang Jun said was true.
However, they could not accept this statement. They thought silently, how should they refute Zhang Jun's words?
Zhang Jun was in the capital as early as before going out with Zhao Guan's family. When he received the imperial edict, he collected the history of the Song and Xia wars in advance for more than a hundred years. He also carefully studied all the archived documents of the Song and Xia peace talks.
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Zhang Jun was confident and continued:
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! "As early as one hundred and nineteen years ago, Zhao Baoji, the grandfather of Li Yuanhao, the founding emperor of Xixia, was still the governor of Daxia Prefecture in the Song Dynasty and the leader of the Dingnan Army.
Jiedushi."
"However, Zhao Baoji was greatly favored by our late Emperor of the Song Dynasty, but he was treacherous and disobedient."
"Zhao Baoji did not think about the favor given by Emperor Zhenzong of the Song Dynasty to the country's surname, but he rebelled, assembled a large number of troops, captured Lingzhou of the Song Dynasty, and killed Pei Zhongpu, the magistrate of Lingzhou of the Song Dynasty..."
"Now, I, the Emperor of the Song Dynasty, am personally conducting an expedition, and hundreds of thousands of elites are besieging the city of Xiping. They just want to take back the land that belongs to me, the Song Dynasty."
Although the Xia envoys knew in their hearts that Zhang Jun's statements were all facts.
However, Zhang Jun's words were very disrespectful to their founding emperor Li Yuanhao and his grandfather, because how could he call them by their names?
However, Zhang Jun respectfully called Pei Ji, the magistrate of Lingzhou more than a hundred years ago - Pei Zhongpu.
What's more, what disgusted the Xia envoys was that the grandfather of Li Yuanhao, Zhao Baoji, whom Zhang Jun said had actually been named Li Jiqian for a longer period of time. However, he chose to use the Song Dynasty name given to Li Jiqian by Song Zhenzong - Zhao
Baoji.
Zhang Jun's words made these summer envoys feel more disgusting than eating flies on the spot.
Ambassador Xia made strong arguments and retorted...
Zhang Jun interrupted their quibbling and said loudly:
"One hundred and nineteen years ago, our Lingzhou of the Great Song Dynasty was robbed by thieves of the three surnames. Now, our Emperor Zhao Guan's family is a generation of sage kings and lords who are rare in the ages. How can we allow the land of Lingzhou of our Great Song Dynasty?
What if you, the small country of Xixia, forcibly occupy it again and call it Xijing?!"
The Dangxiang envoy among the Xia envoys retorted angrily:
"Mr. Zhang, your words are rude and insulting to your gentleness and dignity. Who do you think is the national traitor of the third surname?"
"Hahaha……"
Zhang Jun laughed heartily and said:
"You, the ancestors of the Xia Emperor, who robbed our land of Lingzhou in the Song Dynasty and renamed it Xiping Prefecture, are the national traitors of the third surname."
"His original name was Tuoba Jiqian. In order to show that his ancestor was given the surname Li by the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty, he changed his name to Li Jiqian. Later, because Li Jiqian sent an envoy to ask for peace with our ancestor Zhenzong of the Song Dynasty, he was given the name Zhao by the Song Dynasty.
Baoji, didn't he also happily accept the name "Zhao Baoji" for five years?"
"Let's do the math. Didn't Li Jiqian, a national thief, have exactly three surnames?"
Zhang Jun's well-founded words left Ambassador Xia speechless, his neck thick and his face red.
"I carefully checked the historical data and learned that the following year after Li Jiqian, a national thief with three surnames, captured Lingzhou in the Song Dynasty and renamed it Xiping Prefecture, he led his army to the west and occupied Xiliang Prefecture. Due to a surprise attack by Pan Luozhi, the leader of the Tubo tribe who pretended to surrender, he
He died of serious injuries. This can be regarded as retribution for Li Jiqian, a traitor with three surnames, who rebelled against the Song Dynasty!"
Zhang Jun, who was knowledgeable about the past and the present and was good at debating, made Xia Shi furious.
However, they, the summer envoys, did not dare to cause trouble in the Song camp.
The Xia envoy asked angrily: "The Song Dynasty wants my country, the Xia Kingdom, to cede Xijing. This is absolutely impossible. If the Song Dynasty wants property and other places in exchange, I and the Xia envoys can convey the decision to the Emperor of the Xia Dynasty on your behalf."
"Besides, given the height of the city and the deep trenches of the Xijing City of our Daxia Kingdom, and the fact that King Pu, who is deeply loved by the soldiers and civilians of the Daxia Kingdom, led a heavy garrison in the Xijing City, you and the Song Army will not be able to break through our city within a year and a half.
Xijing City of Xia Kingdom."
"At that time, your Song army will inevitably fall into a long-term war of attrition. In addition, we have more than 500,000 Xiang troops in Daxia coming to rescue Xijing City, and your Song army will definitely be defeated..."
"Your Majesty, Emperor Zhao Guanjia of the Song Dynasty, who personally led the expedition, may have been defeated and became a prisoner of our Great Xia Kingdom..."
"Haha..." Zhang Jun sneered and did not directly answer these Xia envoys because they were overthinking.
He also did not tell them that the Song army was equipped with many powerful gunpowder weapons developed by the Zhao Guan family.
He just said coldly: "Today's peace talks are over. You will be escorted back to the barracks by our Song army for a short rest. You only need to wait a few more days in our Song camp. Naturally, you will know what you will say today.
How ridiculous."
A team of more than 30 elite Song troops escorted the summer envoys out of Zhang Jun's peace negotiation camp. They were sent to a designated camp where they were not allowed to go out, and were secretly guarded...
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After Zhang Jun saw the Xia envoys being escorted out of the camp by the Song army, he immediately went to the imperial tent of Zhao Guan's family and informed Zhao Guan's family about the peace negotiation between himself and Xia...
Zhao Ji smiled, called Zhang Jun affectionately, and said:
"Deyuan, this matter was done very well, I am very pleased! We should be so tough in dealing with Ambassador Xia!"
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The second day is the 30th day of the eighth lunar month in the third year of Xuanhe.
Zhao Ji received a report from the reporting officer: "Wang Cun came from the capital with a force of three thousand. Under the escort of Wu Jie, Wu Lin, Yang Zaixing and other generals, the military supplies and ammunition transported by his department were
We have arrived in front of our army station outside Xipingfu City..."
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