Wanyan Wu set out in the middle of the night, ignoring the Yanyun's new army that collapsed and rebelled along the way. On the evening of the next day, when the Jin Dynasty's dignitaries were evacuating to Gubeikou, he encountered Han Shizhong's troops who were advancing rapidly.
Weijun.
After interrogating the details, Min was so overjoyed that he did not even care about marching north to Fan Yang to take over the surrendered troops. He actually only asked the deputy general to continue heading north and personally escorted Wanyan Wushu to Baosai.
Meet Han Shizhong.
After another day and a half of hard work, we arrived at Baosai, but Han Shizhong didn't know what to do with this person.
In fact, according to his temper and temper at that time, Marshal Han should have ignored everything and first used the rusty dagger to cut this man into pieces with his own hands. However, when the battle got to this point, Yan
Kyoto was about to be captured, and the Great Jin Kingdom, which invaded the surrounding areas and was invincible for a while, and defeated Han Shizhong from the Hutuo River all the way to the Huaihe River, had actually disappeared from the concept as early as Huolu... Therefore, it cannot be called a country.
Unexpectedly, Han Shizhong felt somewhat hopeless at this time.
Besides, from a legal point of view, Wu Shu is still one of the two ruling princes of Jurchen, and everyone knows that he has always been responsible for the military affairs of the Song Army. For the Song Army, he can be regarded as the number one figure.
So it’s not easy to deal with it without permission.
So, Han Shizhong just found the dagger that he almost threw away, wrote a note with his own hand, and asked Cheng Min to lead a team to escort the opponent east to find Zhao Guan's family, and let the official family make the decision in person.
As for him, he headed directly north, preparing to take over Yanjing and clear the way for Lu Yihao and Lu Xianggong to settle in the rear.
By the way, Zhao Jiu is not in Hejian now, but in Cangzhou.
The Zhao Guan family did not follow the army to Yanjing but went to Cangzhou. People below have different speculations, but there are two mainstream theories.
Some people say that officials have long called themselves Zhao Jiu of Cangzhou instead of Zhuozhou, the ancestral home of the Zhao family. Moreover, from Baima to Wulin, many people have talked about establishing the New Song, Shao and Old Song. I am afraid that there has been some kind of change that everyone knows.
The purpose of the sacrifice today is to take advantage of this great victory to settle the matter.
Some people even maliciously speculated that there would be some unexpected surprises in Shaolin Temple and Dongxiao Palace soon.
In addition, some people also speculate that in order to make way for Xianggong Lu, who has a grudge against Yanjing, the officials entered Yanjing first and then acted wantonly... but they did not want to rob him.
The meaning of Xianggong Lu’s limelight.
Both statements are very reasonable. In fact, Zhao Jiu does have these two considerations, but at the same time, he has another clear and direct, simple and ordinary reason... This official just wants to go with the flow.
Next, let’s take a look at what the Yellow River estuary looked like in this era.
The three branches of the Yellow River's north flow are reunited in Hejian Prefecture, and then go north and then east to enter the sea from the northern border of Cangzhou. This last section of the river that enters the sea, due to strong artificial factors, is actually from the previous one of the Song and Liao Dynasties.
It passes through the junction, so it is also called the boundary river.
Zhao Jiu was the Wanyan Wushu who waited on the Cangzhou side of the so-called boundary river.
To be more specific, I actually met the fourth prince of the Jin Kingdom in Nigu Village, which was more than ten miles away from the entrance to the sea.
The meeting between the two was unusually calm, even too calm.
After receiving the message, Zhao Jiu turned back from the estuary and returned to Nigu Village. Wanyan Wushu had already been tied to the rammed earth general platform in the center of the military stronghold. After the body search was completed, he knelt directly at the end of the general platform.
The sword and dagger that this man carried with him, together with Han Shizhong's zhazi, and the account of the sword's origin by his attendant Taishi Nu, had already been placed on the tables under the dragon banner at the other end of the platform.
Then, Zhao Jiu also sat behind several cases under Long Hu.
He turned over Han Shizhong's notes and read the story about Yue Fei and Wanyan Wushu Cao Po Noodles that his attendants learned from the Grand Master's slave. Then he put them aside and turned to look at the Yellow River on one side.
He didn't say a word, and he didn't even go to see Yan Wushu.
To be fair, if Zhao Jiu wants to talk, he certainly has countless things to say. If he wants to see, he can also go up and take a good look.
After all, the person opposite is Wanyan Wushu, the fourth prince of the Jin Kingdom.
Yue Fei, Wanyan Wushu, and Qin Hui were originally representatives of this era.
This is not just caused by some legendary novel... or it is the art of Hui Wu... Whether it is the ten years that Zhao Jiu personally experienced, or another time and space, the fourth prince of the Jin Kingdom is actually the Jurchen Kingdom after the founding general withered.
He was the backbone of the army and the military and political commander. All the wars between the Song and Jin Dynasties, all the diplomacy between the Song and Jin Dynasties, so the confrontation strategy between the Song Dynasty and the Jin Dynasty could not avoid this person. In other words, this person was simply the military and political leader of the Jin Dynasty against the Song Dynasty.
From this perspective, he can even be called Zhao Jiu's main opponent in the past ten years, even though there were Nianhan, Lou Shi, and Wu Qimai.
But no one has as strong a representation and sense of presence as Wanyan Wushu.
Zhao Guan's family could have asked each other how the scenery of Bagong Mountain in Huaishang was that day. Did they take a closer look?
When Nanyang withdrew its troops, what did you, Wanyan Wushu, think of Wanyan Talan?
When Yaoshan collapsed, did you see Wanyan Loushi's charge clearly?
Do you still remember Han Chang?
Have you forgotten Puluhun?
Do you know Zhang Yongzhen and Hou Dan?
Do you regret your retreat at the foot of Yinshan Mountain that day?
Do you know that Wanyan Onun tried to escape by pretending to be a pawn, but was reported on the road, and that the outcome of the last ten thousand households in the battle of Huolu was already clear?
As long as he, as an official, or as a winner, wants to, he can set up a banquet to give the other party some dignity, have a warm drink and talk about heroes, put on a good show, and he can also have people pull his hair.
, on the number of crimes, both swords and axes are used... Let's talk about drinking the blood of Huns when thirsty, and eating the meat of Huns when hungry.
As the saying goes, you need to be vulgar enough to be vulgar, you need to be elegant enough to be elegant, you need to be dramatic enough to be dramatic, and you need to be dignified enough to be chopped.
However, Zhao Jiu did not move at all, nor did he look at the other party. He just turned his head to look at the 'boundary river' that seemed calm but gushing.
Unexpectedly, Wanyan Wushu didn't say anything.
The ruling prince of the Jin Kingdom, who is responsible for the survival of his family, even his tribe, and the country, of course has countless reasons to speak, has countless political appeals to express, and must also have countless complex emotions... such as fear, sadness, and anger.
, such as sadness.
But for some reason, Wu Shu, who was also full of desire to talk, also didn't speak.
Dressed in white, with his hands tied, he just lowered his head and knelt at the other end of the rammed-earth platform, looking at the rammed-earth under his knees without saying a word, as if waiting for the verdict that might appear at any time.
But the verdict was delayed.
Wanyan Wushu was delivered at noon that day, and Zhao Jiu returned after an hour. Then the two of them sat and knelt, one turned to look sideways at the Yellow River, the other lowered his head and waited for the verdict, and they continued to confront each other...
At the end of the day, the road was exhausted and the sun was setting in the west. Neither of them made any move.
Moreover, due to the separation of channels, the boundary section of the Yellow River does not have such rapid water flow, but the Beiliu River and the Sanggan River merge into one here, finally showing a sparkling scenery in the sunset.
But as time went by, even this scenery gradually dimmed.
On the other side, Hu Yin followed Lu Yihao to the north, and Yang Yizhong was ordered to go north to Tokyo to prepare for something. Zhao Guan's family was flanked by generals Liu Yan, Shao Chengzhang, Tian Shizhong, Zhang Zigai, and Cheng Min.
These people stood on the side of the general platform, and no one dared to say anything to disturb them during the whole process. But seeing that it was getting later and later, they finally had to think of something.
Tian Shizhong hesitated for a moment, carefully walked around behind Liu Yan and Shao Chengzhang, and whispered in a low voice: "Prince Liu, Shao Daban, can you serve dinner to the officials?"
Liu Yan and Shao Chengzhang woke up for a moment, and within a moment, Shao Chengzhang personally served two portions of roasted pork and some snacks and drinks.
Zhao Jiu really came back to his senses.
He looked at the food and wine on the table, glanced at the sword and the dagger, and then finally turned to look at Wanyan Wushu directly in front of him, and said the first sentence of the afternoon:
"The official punishment is clearly stated, and the head is handed down to the public."
As soon as he said this, Zhao Guanjia directly picked up a piece of pork and burned it, eating it while walking away.
About half the time after the official took Liu Yan and Shao Chengzhang away from the rammed-earth general platform to burn incense, Cheng Min suddenly turned over and jumped to the general platform under the watchful eyes of Tian Shizhong and Zhang Zigai.
Seeing this situation, Zhang Zigai, who had the home field advantage, wanted to turn over, but was stopped by Tian Shizhong... Obviously, he felt that there was no need to conflict with Han Shizhong's cronies over such a trivial matter, especially Zhang.
Jun Jun has been in Qingzhou, while Han Shizhong is in Yanjing to the northwest.
Wu Shu had long heard the words "Mingzhengdian punishment", but he didn't have any superfluous reaction. It wasn't until Cheng Min, who had been escorting him for two or three days, came to him with a knife that he raised his head.
"Is there anything you want to say?"
Cheng Min looked down and sighed slightly. He knew to some extent that although the person in front of him was about to die, he was a person of a higher level than himself, so he remained polite.
"I've been kneeling all afternoon and I'm so hungry."
Wu Shu answered seriously. "What did your Zhao Guan family eat just now? Can you give me a piece to try?"
Cheng Min was a little confused, but he looked around and thought about it for a while, and finally felt that there was no reason not to make the other party a fool, so he directly shouted to the soldiers below the platform:
"Get some fire!"
"I want to eat that."
Wu Shu suddenly pursed his lips in front of him. There was a few cases after Zhao Guan's family left. There was still a fire left in the basket above.
"Then the officials will reward you."
Cheng Min immediately shook his head. "How dare I, the commander, dare to take action? Besides, when the officials were here before, why didn't you ask for it?"
"I don't want to beg."
Wu Shu opened his eyes wide and responded calmly. "I don't dare to ask."
Cheng Min listened in confusion... In the first half of the sentence, he felt that the other party was a man, and at the same time, he felt that the other party was still pretending to be dead. However, in the second half of the sentence, the situation suddenly changed and he could not understand the other party's thoughts at all.
So, just shut up.
After a while, a soldier brought a piece of fire. Cheng Min picked one up with his own hands and put it to Wushu's mouth. Wushu just kept silent and shook his head.
Cheng Min didn't bother to care, so he took a bite of Huo Shao, then held Huo Shao in one hand and waved with the other.
Immediately, several Beiwei soldiers who came with him to escort him immediately stepped forward, dragged Wu Shu off the general platform, and then carried him to the gate of Nigu Village. Then the sergeants on both sides pushed him down, and another sergeant randomly took a handle.
The military-standard simple sword was used, and with just one strike, the silent Fourth Prince Wanyan Wushu was killed and his head was removed from his body.
This sword also cut off the countless grievances between this man and the official, the two marshals, a dozen princes, and the king in the past ten years.
After the beheading was completed, another sergeant fetched a wooden bucket filled with quicklime, skillfully placed Wu Shu's head in it, and tied it to the side of a war horse.
Cheng Min nodded and left Nigu Village directly with the head.
He knew that Wanyan Wushu's attendant Taishinu would report the specific conditions brought by the dead man to Zhao Guan's family or Liu Yan and Tian Shizhong, but that was none of his business.
Now he just wants to show this head to everyone urgently.
Wu Shu died at the age of thirty-eight. He was aged at Bingchen, and the world was auspicious.
PS: I really didn’t expect to be so tired after a trip. The journey itself is the scariest thing... I’ll post a chapter first and make do with it... I’ll try to finish it this month, but I can’t delay it until next month... Let me think about what will happen in the end.