Chapter 1127 Tian Hu is destroyed, Zhao Song surrenders

Su Mingzhe did not expect that he would be able to recruit Yue Fei under his command so quickly.

In order to prevent mistakes, Su Mingzhe tested it again.

Yue Fei naturally dealt with it easily.

"Master, your junior fellow apprentice is no less talented than you!"

Su Mingzhe first sighed in admiration, then turned to Yue Fei and asked:
"Pengju, if I give you 100,000 soldiers and horses, would you dare to go and recapture the Sixteen Prefectures of Youyun?"

A few years ago, Wanyan Aguda founded a country and negotiated with Zhao Song to jointly attack the Sixteen Prefectures of Youyun, and also signed a "Sea Alliance".

Unfortunately, the Zhao Song Dynasty was not strong enough to suppress even the four major bandits in the country, so the "Sea Alliance" could not be implemented.

Now, Su Mingzhe has established the Daliang Kingdom, and does not want to recognize the "Sea Alliance". Instead, he wants to take advantage of the Liao-Jin War to send someone to steal the Sixteen Prefectures of Youyun first.

As a military commander, Yue Fei had always been paying attention to the affairs of the Sixteen Prefectures of Youyun, so when he heard this, he was so happy that he immediately knelt on one knee and said:
"Pengju obeys the order!"

Su Mingzhe immediately divided his troops into 100,000 and asked Yue Fei to lead them to attack the Sixteen Prefectures of Youyun.

Su Mingzhe and Lu Junyi crossed the Taihang Mountains and began to attack Tian Hu of Jin State.

Tian Hu was just sitting at home when disaster struck.

He had just become emperor not long ago and was enjoying the good days with three palaces, six courtyards and seventy-two concubines.

Suddenly his brother Tian Bao rushed in and reported hurriedly:

"Brother, Emperor Liang is calling!"

Tian Hu was delighted when he heard this and scolded:
"Nonsense! Isn't Emperor Liang at war with the Song people? How could he possibly come to attack our Great Jin?"

Tian Bao was so anxious that he stamped his feet when he saw that his elder brother didn't believe him:
"Brother, the Emperor Liang led an army of 200,000 and crossed the Taihang Mountains and reached the Baodui Mountain! The three generals Xu, Gao, and Zhang were unable to stop them and have died for their country. The three thieves Tang Bin, Wen Zhongrong, and Cui Ye surrendered to the enemy when they saw that they could not hold on!"

When Tian Hu heard that Baodui Mountain had been lost and the three defending generals had surrendered to the enemy, he felt dizzy and his body began to stagger, and he almost fainted.

"You bastards! I treat them well!"

……

"You are Tang Bin, Wen Zhongrong, and Cui Ye?"

Su Mingzhe was immediately delighted when he saw the three burly men kneeling in front of him and asking for surrender.

If they had not charged in person, who knows how many men would have to die before they could capture Baodui Mountain with these three brave generals!
"The guilty minister Tang Bin (Wen Zhongrong and Cui Ye) pays respect to His Majesty the Great Liang!"

When Tang Bin, Wen Zhongrong and Cui Ye heard Su Mingzhe's question, they did not dare to hide anything and directly told him their origins.

These three people were originally the leaders of Baodui Mountain.

Later, Tian Hu rebelled and fought to Hedong Road. He invited the three men to join the rebellion, and the three men surrendered.

However, the condition for the three men's surrender was that they must be allowed to continue staying in Baodui Mountain.

Seeing that Baodui Mountain was treacherous and easy to defend but difficult to attack, Tian Hu agreed immediately to save trouble.

However, in order to restrain the three men, Tian Hu also sent three palace generals to garrison in nearby cities.

Su Mingzhe was somewhat speechless after hearing this:

"The Jin State is not big to begin with, yet it still has so many problems. No wonder it can't develop!"

The other generals also laughed when they heard this.

Of the four great bandits in the past, only Liangshan was at its peak, and it seemed that it was on the verge of unifying the world.

How could the former leaders of Liangshan not be happy!

Afterwards, Su Mingzhe and Lu Junyi divided their troops again, each leading 100,000 people, one heading south and the other heading north, sweeping across the Hedong Road.

Tian Hu was originally a bandit, and the generals under his command were also bandits.

Perhaps these generals did not believe that Tian Hu could accomplish anything, so when they were stationed in various places, they did not go to defend the city at all, and all stayed in the dangerous places in the mountains and rivers.

This brought great convenience to Su Mingzhe and Lu Junyi in attacking provincial capitals and counties in various places.

After taking the city, the Liang army concentrated its firepower to wipe out the bandits in the mountains and rivers. It was extremely easy.

In the blink of an eye, more than a month passed.

It's late July.

Su Mingzhe and Lu Junyi have already taken over the panoramic view of Hedong Road.

Seeing that the situation was hopeless, Tian Hu asked to surrender and said that he was the adoptive father of Queen Qiongying of Daliang and was also a relative of Su Mingzhe.

After hearing this, Su Mingzhe laughed and then told the story of how Tian Hu had killed Qiongying's parents.

When Tian Hu heard that Qiongying was the daughter of his enemy, he knew that he had no chance of survival. He could not surrender, and was afraid that Su Mingzhe would cheat on him after his death. After returning to the palace, Tian Hu sent people to strangle all his wives and daughters, and then burned himself to death.

After defeating Tian Hu, the army rested for a few days and continued to move south, preparing to attack the northwest road of Zhao Songjing.

At this moment, the Zhao Song army that could fight was all in the Bianliang area, confronting Lin Chong's 200,000-strong army.

When Su Mingzhe rushed out from Hedong Road with an army of 200,000, the northwest road of Beijing offered no resistance at all.

Less than three days.

Su Mingzhe has surrounded Henan Prefecture and Zhao Song's new capital Luoyang.

Two days after the siege.

Zhao Jiji asked for surrender and abdicated the throne to his son.

I have to say that Zhao Jiji's train of thought is quite unique.

He would rather die than bear the infamy of being the king of a fallen country.

After Crown Prince Zhao Huan ascended the throne, he continued to ask for surrender.

Su Mingzhe started the rebellion in the name of Zhao Song's inhumanity, so even if Zhao Song surrendered, he would not give him the title of duke or marquis.

After some negotiations, they were only willing to confer the title of "Anle Earl" on Emperor Zhao Song.

Zhao Huan didn't have time to care about so many things and agreed immediately.

On August 13, the two sides reached an agreement on negotiations.

Zhao Huan also requested that the time of surrender be postponed to after the Mid-Autumn Festival.

Su Mingzhe was furious when he heard this and said:
"Because you, the Zhao family, favored treacherous officials, and the cholera spread beyond the limit, poisoning the world, causing countless families to be torn apart and unable to reunite! Why do you, the Zhao Song royal family, dare to make such a request?"

"No!"

Without any choice.

August 14th.

Zhao Huan led all the civil and military officials, walked out of the city shirtless and surrendered.

After Su Mingzhe received the imperial seal of Zhao Song, the first thing he did was to have someone stamp the long-prepared edict of surrender from Daliang, and then spread it throughout Song.

The second thing was to send personal guards into the city to capture the treacherous officials and their cronies of Zhao Jiji's reign.

The treacherous officials on the wanted list included Cai Jing, Gao Qiu, Yang Jian, Liang Shicheng, Tong Guan, Wang Fu, Zhu Zhen, Li Yan and more than 30 others.

The results are not long.

The personal guards reported that before the city was captured, Cai Jing, Gao Qiu, Li Yan and more than a dozen other treacherous officials, knowing that they could not escape death, committed suicide in advance.

Zhao Huan, who was sitting on a small stool, saw Emperor Liang gritting his teeth in anger, as if glaring at him fiercely. He was immediately frightened and trembled. With a plop, he knelt on the ground, his face pale, and begged for mercy:
"Your Majesty, this is none of my business. It was my father who ordered Cai Jing, Gao Qiu and others to commit suicide before he abdicated!"

"What's going on? Report it truthfully!"

When Su Mingzhe heard this, he realized there was something behind the matter and asked quickly.

Zhao Huan did not hide anything for Zhao Jiji and told him everything.

This bastard Zhao Jiji summoned his close ministers to discuss countermeasures before the Liang army besieged the city.

Cai Jing, Gao Qiu and others knew that they would surely die if they surrendered, so they proposed to break through the siege and continue to move the capital.

As a result, Zhao Jiji directly retorted that Zhao Song was now surrounded by enemies, with Liang to the east and north, Chu to the south, and Xia to the west.

The only direction to escape is Bashu, where the road is difficult.

The problem is that Bashu is more than a thousand miles away from Luoyang, and they would probably be intercepted by the Liang people halfway through their escape.

Cai Jing, Gao Qiu and others became discouraged when they heard Zhao Jiji's angry curse.

Then Zhao Jiji said something else.

After Cai Jing and other ministers returned home, they committed suicide by taking poison.

Zhao Jiji also waited until all his close ministers committed suicide before he surrendered and abdicated.

"What a cunning old man!"

Su Mingzhe was so angry that he kept humming, but he could do nothing about it.

After all, it was impossible for him to revive someone and kill him again.

(End of this chapter)