This man led hundreds of elite troops to seize the city and surrender to the Jin Dynasty. He was the biggest culprit in the fall of Chang'an City.

It's ridiculous that Emperor Zhao had previously pardoned him and tried to find him, and was even worried that he had already died at the hands of the fleeing soldiers. However, he didn't know that this man had already hidden in Guanzhong and became a blatant traitor.

After Chang'an was captured, almost all of the officials including Tang Zhong, the direct scholar of Tianzhang Pavilion and the governor of Jingzhao Prefecture, as well as the deputy envoy of Shaanxi Transportation, the chief judge, the judge, and the clerks died for their country.

Later, after Henan Yin Sun Zhaoyuan fled south from Luoyang to Caizhou, he saw that the mountains and plains were full of defeated soldiers. He wanted to recruit and use them, but he scolded the defeated soldiers for depriving the people of their food and clothing and bringing disaster to the local area. As a result, he was killed by angry defeated soldiers under the city of Ruyang. The corpse was found in a wild forest by Emperor Zhao, and it was infested with maggots.

At this time, the atmosphere in the imperial court had been thoroughly rectified, but two days later, with the arrival of a man in coarse cloth hurriedly brought in by Han Shizhong, no one below Emperor Zhao could sit in peace anymore.

The man who came was Yan Xiaozhong, the prefect of Tangzhou, which is west of Caizhou and east of Dengzhou where Nanyang is located. And he actually escaped from the Jin army!

Regardless of how they escaped, Yan Xiaozhong reported a piece of news that caught everyone off guard - the Jin army commander Ni Chuhe was still looting in Nanyang!

It turned out that just after the Palace Attendant Censor Ma Shen took Zhang Suo to leave Xiangyang and Nanyang to meet Emperor Zhao, the Jin army launched a large-scale invasion to the south. After the Jin army's western army broke through Luoyang, it specially sent a force of about 10,000 people led by a Wanhu to the south, and successively conquered Ruzhou and Caizhou... The Emperor knew about this, because this Wanhu had stayed in Caizhou for a long time, and it seemed that he was going to respond to Wanyan Wushu in the east in Huaixi.

At this time, they were traveling west and arrived at Caizhou. Because there were no Jin troops in Caizhou, they thought he had withdrawn his troops back to Taiyuan!

In fact, at this moment, according to the continuous information from Zong Ze, Zhang Suo and Zhang Jun, at least the Eastern Army of the Jin Army had a clear intention to withdraw from Jingdong. The Jin Army garrisons in Qingzhou and Weizhou on the corners had already gone to Hebei. There were even rumors that Liu Yu, a surrendered minister of Jinan Prefecture, had wailed and begged Talai to leave some Jin troops stationed there.

But no one expected that the Jin Army's Western Route would still be so rampant.

"Good instructor, my family knows."

The short Yan Xiaozhong bowed and made a statement in the hall of Ruyang government office. "Ni Chuhe went south after conquering Xijing in December last year. He was dispatched for the emperor and the imperial court. The official military order he received from Wanyan Loushi seemed to be to conquer Dengzhou and take Nanyang. On the contrary, he came to Caizhou on his own after hearing that the emperor was in Huaishang!"

In the lobby, many smart people, including Emperor Zhao, realized it almost instantly, and then were shocked - yes, this is right!

You know, at that time, our Emperor Zhao was preparing to go to Nanyang with Li Gang, Li Xianggong! The Western Route Army of the Jin Army, whether it was Nianhan or Loushi, could not fail to notice this matter, so after quickly breaking through Xijing Luoyang, they naturally had the intention of waiting for the rabbit.

And if there had been no trouble that day, and if the emperor and his people had really come to Nanyang happily, with the emperor's combat power at that time, wouldn't they have been wiped out by Wanhu?

Thinking of this, many people in the tent turned pale, and even Emperor Zhao suddenly remembered the corpse with a bulging belly - could it be that the Huaixi thief Ding Jin was the hero who saved the Song Dynasty? !

Is this another major injustice case created by Emperor Zhao himself after Liu Guangshi?

"Your Majesty." After a moment's hesitation, Yan Xiaozhong took the time to speak cautiously. "I originally planned to defend Tangzhou and wait for death, but Tangzhou is small and old, and the Jin army could easily dig down the city walls, and I was powerless. Also, because I am short, dark-faced and ugly, like a dwarf, and when I was captured, I was wearing coarse cloth and carrying soil on the city wall, so the Jin army did not pay attention to me and still let me be a laborer carrying soil with the army. That's why I had the opportunity to escape and come to see you... Your Majesty, my appearance is special, and there must be a laborer recruited by the Jin army who has seen me. Once you ask, you will know the truth. I have never lost my integrity!"

"There is no doubt about Lord Yan's loyalty. Just stay with the emperor and I will make any appointments after the enemy retreats." Zhao Jiu nodded quickly to comfort him.

Of course I need comfort!

Scholar Kobayashi, who was attending nearby, secretly laughed at Yan Xiaozhong for being too cautious.

Just think about it. According to the current intelligence, the senior officials in the west of Beijing who were close to the Jin army have basically died or surrendered. Having a prefect who dares to defend the city and walk hundreds of miles to report the news is already a rare role model of a civil official. How could the emperor possibly care about your experience of being captured, Yan Xiaozhong?

However, is there any benefit for Governor Yan to be like this?

"But Mr. Yan," just as Xiaolin was thinking about it, Emperor Zhao continued to ask, "You escaped from Ni Chuhe's army, do you know what the situation in Dengzhou is like?"

"Fortunately, the emperor came quickly. Liu Ji, the transport commissioner of the southwest of Beijing and the direct scholar of Longtu Pavilion, is still here... Fan Zhixu, the scholar of Guanwen Hall and the governor of Dengzhou, is also here." Yan Xiaozhong blurted out again. "But I don't know when these two will be gone."

"What does this mean?" Zhao Jiu was confused when he heard the other party's words. "Has the Jin army's offensive been decided?"

"Your Majesty, I did not criticize my colleagues without permission!" Yan Xiaozhong gritted his teeth and said angrily. "I am also a useless person who knows nothing about military affairs. I was captured alive by the Jin army, but at least I know how to defend the city and know that it takes effort to carry soil to defend the city. I have never thought of using monks and boys as soldiers! I also didn't build the 'Great Wall' to the height of my shoulders!"

Zhao Jiu instinctively thought of the legendary story of the so-called "Six Dings and Six Jias" when he heard this, but he was startled and immediately looked at the men sitting beside him: "Who is this talking about?"

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