As the young soldier raised Wanyan Shouxu's head high, Li Ting and his companions applauded.
Li Ting picked up a flagpole from the city gate tower and hung the heads of Wanyan Shouxu and Tian Zhuo on it. He also asked a subordinate who was literate to pull off a light-colored robe, dip it in human blood and write two lines of words on it: The traitor Wanyan Shouxu is the leader, the traitor Tian Zhuo is the leader. "
After two rows of wet words were written, they hung under the head, like a wine cover.
While these people were writing and hanging their heads, the rest of the soldiers peeled off the armor and stomach of the dead body, took the swords, guns, swords and halberds in their hands, and re-armed themselves to the teeth. There were several soldiers with severe burns on their bodies. During the fight, a series of blisters burst and their skin and flesh festered. They really couldn't hold on, so they sat near the city gate with swords and guns, first to guard the city gate, and secondly to wait for the soldiers who would arrive at any time. Reinforcements.
In a moment, everyone gathered.
The officers and soldiers of Dinghai Navy had never regarded themselves as soldiers of the Jin Dynasty. Now they killed an emperor with their own hands. The valve in the hearts of many people was completely opened. Everyone's eyes were blood red and they shouted excitedly: " Fight into the city! Kill as hard as you can!"
"Wait!" Li Ting suddenly shouted.
Zuo Zuo asked: "Commander Jie, do you have any other instructions?"
"This line of writing is not good and the meaning is wrong. Take it down and change it."
Everyone on the left and right were stunned, and each of them cursed.
In this moment of fighting against time, what are you, Li Erlang, doing? Do you have to pretend to have read a book?
After all, he is a military envoy and a high official, so it is impossible not to listen to him. Everyone curled their lips and pulled the white cloth out again, eagerly waiting for Li Ting's instructions.
In the blink of an eye, the new two rows of words were written and hung again under the head, hanging down as the bamboo pole was raised.
Li Ting nodded with satisfaction: "Look, this is easy to understand and speaks directly to people's hearts. Isn't it much more appropriate?"
Everyone looked up and saw that the original two rows of characters had been replaced by: "The dog head of Emperor Dajin, the dog head of Prime Minister Dajin."
Dozens of soldiers outside laughed.
Several close friends in the inner circle were stunned.
Someone came close to Li Ting and whispered: "When we sent troops south, we said we were going to conquer the rebels! Commander-in-Chief, the emperor of Jin is in Zhongdu, and our Duke Zhou is a loyal minister of the court..."
"What a ghost of a loyal minister! This time we captured Kaifeng and killed tens of thousands of Jurchens. Who still takes the name of this loyal minister seriously? It's because we have such strong soldiers and horses that we can replace the Jin Kingdom and establish a new dynasty. That's it. Just do it! The emperor of the Kingdom of Jin is the one who died in the hands of his brothers now, the sick emperor of Zhongdu, it doesn’t count!”
At this point, Li Ting pushed the subordinate aside: "Just listen to me!"
Seeing the subordinate's hesitation, Li Ting slapped his chest loudly: "I, Li Erlang, have a clear mind, I can't make any mistakes!"
As for the rest of the soldiers, who doesn't like what Li Ting said?
First of all, everyone has been fighting with Zhou Guogong for several years. Everyone knows that Ding Haijun is obviously not of the same mind as the Kingdom of Jin. It's just that because the primary enemy is the Black Tartars on the grassland, they always use the name of the Jin Army to avoid unnecessary confrontation. As Daikin becomes more and more decayed, everyone has long been impatient.
Secondly, the navy will be severely punished and rewarded, and military merit will be extremely important, and it will be fulfilled in real terms. So much so that after every battle, the soldiers would repeatedly calculate their own merits. Today, everyone snatched it from the fire scene and broke through the two cities of Kaifeng. It was naturally a great achievement. But if it can be counted as killing the emperor of an enemy country, is this meritorious compared to killing a traitor? There is a huge difference!
At the moment, everyone's eyes are shining, and everyone is talking about it. He is handsome and talented in writing. The meaning of this line is particularly clear and appropriate.
Dozens of people bravely raised their heads to clear the way, and continued to charge into the city.
In the early years, Da Jin sent his troops to the Central Plains, and the troops were fierce and violent, killing everyone at every turn. Under the rule of the Song Dynasty in the Southern Dynasty, Tokyo Bianliang, which had millions of people, never recovered its vitality. Therefore, the number of people in Kaifeng City is less than one-third of what it was back then. Later, a large number of Jurchens from Zhongdu and Hebei fled south, and the Kaifeng court moved out of the Han'er city and used their homes to house tens of thousands of people.
As the saying goes, a centipede will never freeze even if it dies. A cautious general would never easily lead dozens of people into the inner city where tens of thousands of Jurchens live.
But Li Ting has never been cautious. No matter how many losses he suffered and how many risks he took, he was still bold. Even his subordinates never knew what stability meant. So many comrades were killed or injured, and only a few remained, but everyone's morale and vigor were not diminished at all.
At this time, a calm and wise general is really inferior to a ruffian like Li Ting.
There were already rumors in the city of Kaifeng that the army was defeated and all the generals were dead. A group of Jurchens with higher status and the first to get the news immediately concluded that the overall situation was about to overturn.
Once this group of people fled wildly, they immediately caused chaos in the city. Immediately afterwards, some people set fire to and looted, trying to take advantage of the chaos to grab some treasures.
Because the ordinary residences in Kaifeng City were not very prosperous, but the imperial palace was the first to bear the brunt of the disaster after it was built by King Hailing, which was very luxurious. What's ridiculous is that even Wanyan Jiuzhu, the leader of the bodyguards, couldn't help but take part in it. He also led people to overturn several five-color sun flags to unify the minds of his subordinates and prepare for surrender later.
In this situation, no one can stop Li Ting.
Li Ting swaggered into the city with two heads and ran rampant. Everyone he saw was horrified, and some even knelt down to beg for mercy. As a result, the entire city completely lost order.
In the waiter's bureau under the east gate of Duanmen, the young Fengyu Wanyan Chenglin climbed up the wall and looked at it for a long time.
Several times, huge crowds of people rolled past the door of the bureau, trampling the scattered people who couldn't get out of the way into a pulp. There were random fights, and even senseless massacres of women and children, with blood flying everywhere amid the whines and cries. Wanyan Chenglin was so frightened that his teeth chattered several times, but he kept insisting on looking.
After a while, the soles of his front feet almost cramped as he stood on the raised bricks on the wall, and he could no longer bear the weight. He had no choice but to turn over and land on the ground, and then he collapsed on the ground, making meaningless sounds.
He was frightened by this crazy scene of killing each other, but more importantly, it was the extreme despair caused by the emperor's death.
Wanyan Chenglin's ancestor was Emperor Gailibo, the ancestor of the Jin Dynasty. He fled from the country at the beginning of the year. Because of his loyal and diligent character and his strong skills, he was recruited by the emperor to serve as his emperor and serve on him every day.
These days, Wanyan Chenglin watched with his own eyes the emperor's determination to innovate the government and strive to make a difference; he watched the emperor repeatedly check files and formulate policies, so that he could not sleep at night.
He practiced martial arts with the emperor, and often thought of dying in the battlefield for the emperor. When it came time to face danger, the emperor said that they were too young and there was no need to take such risks, so he let him and several equally young companions Stay at the Chamberlain and wait for the dust to settle.
Wanyan Chenglin got impatient after waiting for a short time. He wanted to leave the Attendant Bureau and go to Suzaku Gate to ask about the battle situation. However, as soon as he put on a light plate-collar robe and black leather boots, he heard that Wanyan Xielie had rebelled, and the army was completely fail. After a while, thieves rushed into the inner city from the direction of Zhuque Gate. They held up two heads and said that these were the heads of Emperor Wada Shenzheng!
Wanyan Chenglin only glanced at the group from a distance and felt restless and breathless.
When the group passed the gate for the second time, Wanyan Chenglin used his eyesight enough to finally see clearly. He's angry, he's scared, he's desperate, he's emotionally out of control.
He lay on the ground, yelling meaninglessly, and jumped up again after two screams. The tears on his face had already poured over his cheeks, flowing from the corners of his mouth to his neck. He reached out to wipe it, but the more he wiped it, the more tears couldn't stop.
It wasn't supposed to be like this.
Originally, taking advantage of the fact that the main force of the Ding Navy was in the north, the emperor could have revitalized Dajin, controlled at least half of Dajin, and slowly reaped benefits from the Southern Dynasty by relying on the remaining power of his ancestors.
Unfortunately, all the emperor's efforts were to continue the Jurchens' regime. But it is the Han people who he can rely on in government affairs.
As the Jurchens from Zhongdu and Hebei continued to move south, the Kaifeng court's original unity of energy was replaced by
, on the contrary, it was continuously diluted. The more Jurchens there were, the more party struggles in the court, and the more powerful officials and nobles fought for power.
In front of those people, the emperor's efforts to rule had no effect at all. He is like a small dam, but trying to shake the direction of the river is simply impossible.
What's even more troublesome is that there are millions of Jurchens with millions of mouths, and the Jurchen nobles among them can consume as much as one hundred or one thousand people. Even some Jurchen clan members were so old that they could not move in bed, and the emperor continued to allocate huge amounts of salary to them from the increasingly tight treasury.
The Nanjing Road boundary actually controlled by the Kaifeng court could not withstand the bone-breaking and marrow-sucking of so many Jurchens.
The emperor had to send troops to the Southern Dynasties in an attempt to obtain more benefits and appease people's hearts.
Such actions not only failed to gain any benefits, but also consumed all the money, food and materials that were already in embarrassment. As soon as Ding Haijun arrived, the imperial court was like a rotten tree that could not be attacked, and the country was in danger. The emperor had to go to the front line in person to encourage the soldiers to fight.
result……
We failed, failed completely, the Emperor is dead!
The emperor who took care of his servants and the subjects of Dajin like an elder brother is dead!
Wanyan Chenglin was so painful that he was shaking all over. He drew the knife from his waist and held it tightly. He gritted his teeth and said, "I'm going to kill them! I'm going to avenge the emperor!"
After saying that, he walked out of the courtyard.
He had some prestige among the young attendants. Several companions stood up hesitantly and wanted to follow him. Before they could take a step, they suddenly heard the heavy footsteps of many people coming from outside the courtyard gate.
They only had time to be surprised when the courtyard door was pushed open violently, and a big man shouted: "Hudun! Is Hudun here?"
Following his footsteps, hundreds of people rushed in, occupying half of the courtyard in an instant.
Wanyan Chenglin was stunned for a moment before he remembered that Hudun was his Jurchen name. Look at the big man who asked, isn't it his brother Wanyan Chengyi?
Wanyan Chengyi went out to serve as an official ten years ago, and he had not seen Wanyan Chenglin for a long time. He was originally the official of Zhilintao Mansion and the general manager of the army and horse capital of this route. He returned to the court a few days ago to report on his duties. He was already scheduled to be the Marshal Zuo Dujian and the Commander-in-Chief of Yu Fengxiang.
Because of this appointment, some people in Kaifeng compared the two brothers to Wanyan Xielie and Wanyan Chen, monks, thinking that they were the result of the emperor being fed up with those nobles in Zhongdu and constantly promoting his cronies and lower-level Jurchens. .
"Brother, I'm here!"
Wanyan Chenglin responded repeatedly: "Brother brought these people here to fight with the enemy? Count me in!"
He waved the knife repeatedly and couldn't help crying again: "I must kill a few thieves today to avenge Your Majesty!"
Wanyan Chengyi stretched out his hand and snatched the short knife away.
"Hudun, there is no need for you to fight. Let me ask you, are you familiar with the roads in the palace?"
"What?"
"The roads in the palace!" Wanyan Chengyi smiled with a smile on his face and hugged Wanyan Chenglin's neck: "You usually serve His Majesty, so you must be familiar with the roads in the palace, right? You must also know the location of the imperial seal, right? "
"Wha, what?"
The young man asked in shock: "What does Baoxi have to do with us? Brother, I just saw that there are not many enemies entering the city. There is only a group of people running back and forth. We can at least kill them..."
Wanyan Chengyi suddenly became impatient and shouted: "I said, do you know where the precious seal is?"
He pushed Wanyan Chenglin down and pressed his chest:
"The city is in chaos, and Marshal Wanyan Congtan's troops outside the city have also been defeated. In half an hour at most, Ding Haijun's troops will enter the city in large numbers! The Kingdom of Jin is over! Hurry up and lead the way, let's go into the palace to seize the treasure. Seal, rob some more gold and silver, and leave immediately through Shunyi Gate. We all have good horses with us. As long as we get to Lintao, we can manage the situation with our precious seals and assets. If it doesn't work, we will surrender to the Song and Xia people. , Even if Guo Ning surrenders, he will not lose his glory and wealth by virtue of the merit of presenting the precious seal!"
After saying a lot in one breath, the blood vessels in Wanyan Chengyi's neck burst out. He gritted his teeth and asked: "Ding Haijun will enter the city soon. Wanyan Jiuzhu is already searching everywhere in the palace. Please pay attention to us." It’s the same, we don’t have much time! Do you understand? If you understand, just nod!”
Wanyan Chenglin nodded.
Wanyan Chengyi let go of his hand and asked him to stand up.
Wanyan Chenglin had just stood still when he suddenly screamed wildly, kicking and beating his brother: "The emperor is dead! The emperor is dead! As an important minister of Dajin, you still think about this! Do you still want to be rich?"
The young man was trembling all over, so much so that his voice trembled when he spoke: "Wealth and honor? Dajin is about to die. What's the use of us being rich and honorable?"
Wanyan Chengyi explained a few words in succession, but the young man didn't listen at all and just kicked and beat him desperately.
Wanyan Chengyi grabbed him and shouted, "Lead the way! I want you to lead the way!"
The young man punched his brother in the face and shouted at his subordinates: "The emperor treats us badly! We must avenge him!"
After several attempts, Wanyan Chengyi finally became impatient. He grabbed the boy's neck and pushed him against the back courtyard wall.
The two brothers are ten years apart in age. Wanyan Chengyi was a powerful general who was accustomed to fighting in Longyou. How could his physical strength be compared to that of a young man who was still young? Wanyan Chenglin couldn't resist this push at all, and his whole body was pushed flatly against the courtyard wall, making a muffled "bang" sound.
Wanyan Chengyi still felt that it was not enough and pushed twice more, making a dull impact sound every time.
The young man stopped talking.
Wanyan Chengyi felt that his decisive measures had an effect. He shook the young man's body and shouted: "Don't go crazy! Wake up quickly and lead the way!"
A subordinate from behind suddenly stepped forward and whispered: "Captain, please stop, something seems wrong!"
Wanyan Chengyi frowned and shook his hand twice more, only to find that the originally manic young man not only didn't speak, but also didn't move. His head and body were hanging limply, pressed against the wall by Wanyan Chengyi's arms.
Wanyan Chengyi suddenly let go, and the young man collapsed to the ground. His limbs and body were twisted unnaturally. Looking at his face facing the sky, his eyes did not avoid the sunlight and had begun to scatter.
It turned out that there was a brick about three or four inches protruding from the wall, right at the back of the young man's head. There was supposed to be a brick wall here, but it was later demolished, leaving only a few remains. It was the sharp corner of the brick that just collided with the back of Wanyan Chenglin's head.
The bricks were covered with thick blood,
Wanyan Chengyi suddenly turned Wanyan Chenglin's body over and saw the back of the young man's head, which was like a melon with a hole punched out by an awl. Through the broken bones, one could see the gray-white tissue and mesh inside. of slender blood vessels.
He was lying on his back just now, and blood was flowing on the ground behind his head. Now that he was turned over, blood gurgled out from the depression in his skull, like a hot spring, which was even hotter than the hot weather.
Wanyan Chengyi cursed.
He looked at the earth-colored crowds on his left and right, opened his mouth, but could only remain silent. After a while, he managed to pull himself together and said loudly: "In this world, people's lives are not as good as grass. He himself is young and has no luck. He can't blame me!"
He nodded his head left and right.
Wanyan Chengyi rubbed his hands and walked out. After walking a few steps, he came back and pointed at the other young Fengyu in the courtyard: "Take them with you! Let them show you the way! Anyone who dares to disobey will be killed immediately!"
A group of warriors rushed up and took the people away.
Someone interrupted and asked: "Wanyan Jiuzhu is already in the palace. He is the commander of the bodyguards and the army and has corresponding duties. If he bumps into us, he will be held accountable..."
"The emperor is dead! Dajin is dead! Do you still need to ask such a stupid question?" Wanyan Chengyi cursed angrily: "What are the guards worth? Anyone who dares to stop him will be killed immediately!"
"Yes Yes!"
