However, the high-ranking officials of the Jin Kingdom are now in high spirits to counterattack. Song Qingshu can only wait for the Jin people to go south and suffer setbacks before proposing peace. He believes in the strength of the Southern Song Dynasty. The Southern Song Dynasty has never been good at attacking, but it is very good at defending. Come down, it is completely impossible for the national strength of the Jin Kingdom to destroy the Southern Song Dynasty.
Of course, he can now order strict military discipline on the way to the south, not to rob women and children, and he also raised objections to this. After all, Jin soldiers go to war to loot spoils. It is easy to cause dissatisfaction among soldiers.
Song Qingshu explained this. This time the attack on the Southern Song Dynasty was aimed at destroying the country. If they burned, killed and looted all the way, it would easily arouse the hatred of the people in the south, which would add more variables to the grand plan of the Southern Expedition.
As for the morale issue, the government treasuries of the prefectures and counties in the Southern Song Dynasty were quite abundant, which was completely enough to reward the soldiers. In addition, the imperial court would also open the treasury to reward the soldiers of the whole army.
Hearing what he said, although Pu San Zhongyi felt that he had some benevolence for women, he didn't say anything anymore. After all, the other party was the number one person in the military and the government. Rewards are naturally no problem.
In the next few days, news came from the south that Han Yuzhou dismissed Su Shidan and Deng Youlong, who were in command of the military, because of his failure to send troops. Qiu Jie was ordered to take office, so he gave up the occupied Sizhou and retreated from Xuyi, saying that he could preserve Huaidong's troops. The Song army retreated, and the Jin army marched in nine ways. The war situation changed from the northern expedition of the Song army to the southern invasion of the Jin army.
Dai Qisi sneered when she heard the news: "Han Yuzhou is really dizzy. Qiu Jie was a person who strongly opposed his Northern Expedition before, but now he is replaced by him. Isn't it a demolition?" Because her husband Han Qianye is She died indirectly because of Han Tuozhou's Northern Expedition plan, so she naturally didn't like Han Tuozhou in her heart.
Song Qingshu explained: "Do you think it was Han Yuzhou who wanted to replace him? Someone must be responsible for the fiasco of the Northern Expedition before. How could Jia Sidao and Shi Miyuan miss such a good opportunity? Using Su Shidan and Deng Youlong as scapegoats, of course he wants to replace his confidantes, but what are the others doing? The appointment of Qiu Gu and others is probably the result of a multi-party game by the Lin'an court."
Dai Qisi frowned and said: "Chen Xiaoqing who abandoned Guo Jing's department before and fled before the battle was just demoted without pain, and Wang Ziteng who gave the order was even more innocent. Before Qianye worked for such an imperial court, he was really blind Eye."
Song Qingshu smiled wryly: "Although Chen Xiaoqing is demoted now, he has completed the task of going up to the peak, and he will rise like a rocket in a short time; Wang Ziteng is the patriarch of the Linchuan royal family, since someone is in charge of this matter now, how can he be Find him? That's politics."
Dai Qisi snorted: "I'm not too lazy to care about the strife in the officialdom in the Southern Song Dynasty. I only care about how it will end. Should the Jin and Song countries be allowed to fight like this? You should know that I am still waiting to deal with Mongolia. I don’t want to waste the power of Jin Kingdom in the south.”
She has assumed the role of Tang Kuobian for a long time, and she has a lot of information in her hands. Naturally, she knows that the national power of the Southern Song Dynasty still exists. It would take ten or eight years to fight at least, and this was the last thing she wanted to see.
"Don't worry, it won't be long before there will be an opportunity for an armistice and peace talks." Looking at the mountains and rivers to the south, Song Qingshu's eyes were extremely deep.
Then the Jin army began a complete counterattack. It can be said that the whole road was like a broken bamboo. Wan Yangang led his army to fall into Guanghua, Zaoyang, and Jiangling, and then broke through Xinyang, Xiangyang, and Suizhou, and entered De'an Mansion.
Servant Feihan led his army to sneak across the Huai River, the Song army was defeated, and the Jin army entered Hezhou.
Heshi Lieziren captured Chuzhou and Zhenzhou. Huaixi counties and towns were all occupied by the Jin army.
However, the Southern Song court finally reacted and began to gather heavy troops from various places. The Jin army's offensive was finally blocked, and the two sides began to stalemate in the area of De'an Mansion.
Hearing the news that Xiangyang had been breached, Song Qingshu sighed for a long time. You must know that Guo Jing was guarding here at the beginning, and the Mongols had not captured it for so long. It was the soldiers and civilians in Xiangyang who heard Guo Jing's "death" and lost their military spirit for a while.
As for Guo Jing's "death news", Song Qingshu knew what was going on after a little aftertaste. I am afraid that some people in the Southern Song court did not want him to come back alive. They are gone.
"Shouldn't Guo Jing belong to Jia Sidao's school?" Song Qingshu couldn't understand this question, but he was more concerned about how heartbroken Huang Rong would be when he heard the news. Explain to her why.
"I can only hope that Peach Blossom Island is isolated from the world, and Huang Yaoshi won't tell the news to his daughter who is raising a baby." Song Qingshu could only think so.
Just these days, the court of the Southern Song Dynasty was also changing. Han Yuzhou took the opportunity to impeach Jia Sidao and other officials, let his own cronies come back to power, and tried to send people to negotiate. Soon after, Qiu Yu was dismissed and Zhang Yan was ordered to supervise the Jianghuai soldiers and horses. Han Tuozhou made 200,000 yuan from his family to subsidize military supplies, and sent his envoy Fang Xinru to Kaifeng to negotiate with the Jin Dynasty.
Hearing this news, Song Qingshu couldn't help heaving a sigh of relief, this was the opportunity he had been waiting for. Now that the Kingdom of Jin is a victorious country after all, it is impossible to take the initiative to sue for peace. The Southern Song Dynasty’s proposal for peace means that they will be slaughtered severely. Well, being able to buy peace with money is exactly what they wish for. They lack everything except money.
In fact, the generals in the army have been discussing this topic for a long time. Although the situation was overwhelming a while ago, they also fell into the dilemma of being alone. The recent setbacks in several attacks and the increasing number of soldiers in the Southern Song Dynasty, the potential danger calmed down the generals who were dazzled by the victory before, and Song Qingshu hinted from time to time, everyone realized that they had already got enough The spoils of war, why continue to fight at the risk of death? Therefore, peace talks have become a matter of course, and the rest is how to get the most benefits.
That day Song Qingshu was chatting with Dai Qisi in the tent when suddenly a soldier came to report that there was a fairy-like girl outside the barracks asking to see her.
"A girl like a fairy?" Hearing his description, Song Qingshu was a little confused for a moment. Who would be looking for him at this time, the key is that he is Tang Kuobian's identity at this time, and the other party also specified to see Tang Kuobian.
"Could it be a confidante from before Tang Kuobian?" Song Qingshu shook his head to disperse the thought as soon as it came to him. If so, Tang Kuobian's beauty would be too exaggerated.
"Well, it's really beautiful, and it's not much better than my wife." The soldier's face was reddish, with a look of surprise on his face. The wife he was talking about was naturally Gebi. As a soldier of Tang Kuobian, of course he was I have seen Gebi.