It was early morning on the ninth day of February in the eighth year of Xuanhe reign of the Song Dynasty.
At this time, in the Chenqiaoyi Jinbing Middle Army Camp outside Kaifeng Prefecture, Wanyan Zongwang, Wanyan Yan Mu and others had just decided on a "fraudulent peace" plan and sent Cai Songnian as an envoy to Kaifeng Prefecture. In the city of Kaifeng, Zhao Ji, an official who seems to have recovered from his illness, is now sitting on the dragon chair in the Chongzheng Palace. Together with the civil and military ministers and the prince Zhao Huan, who has also been cured of his illness, they are discussing how to defend the city. Strategies and calling on the heroes of the world to work hard for the king.
At this time, Zhao Ji and his son, as well as the civil and military personnel in the palace, did not know that the dawn of resistance against the Jin Dynasty in Hebei was emerging, let alone that the troops of King Qin from all over the world were moving closer to Kaifeng Mansion. Because the communication between Kaifeng Mansion and the outside world was blocked by the Jin cavalry, it became very difficult.
Although Li Gang selected some warriors who were good at riding and shooting from the Kaifeng Forbidden Army and the troops that had withdrawn from various places into Kaifeng Mansion to form an imperial cavalry, which could escort the acceptance officers who entered the Yintai Division or the horse acceptance officers sent by the inner court. Carrying the edict, he stood out from the encirclement. However, the Jinzou officials from various places were unable to break through the obstruction of the Jin soldiers under the escort of cavalry and rush into Kaifeng Mansion. Therefore, it is difficult for the Song Dynasty court to get news from outside Kaifeng Mansion, which means it is a bit blind and deaf.
Because they did not know the situation outside, the Song Dynasty court also lost the ability to command blindly, so now on the anti-Jin battlefields in Hedong and Hebei, the losses of the Song army are not very big...
Of course, Zhao Ji and Zhao Huan, the treacherous ministers and faint-hearted officials in the dynasty, would not give up their efforts to destroy the great cause of resisting the Jin Dynasty by blindly commanding.
Even if they know nothing about the situation outside Kaifeng Mansion, they still have to do their best to give blind orders. Otherwise, how can they reflect the national conditions of the Song Dynasty?
Didn't the Song Dynasty imperial court "take away the soldiers, the wealth, rewards, punishments, punishments, and everything else" when it came to local areas? Since all power belongs to the court, how can the court not blindly give orders with its eyes closed? If they don't give random orders, wouldn't it be equivalent to delegating power to local governments?
The latest blind command method of the Song Dynasty was, of course, to order troops from all over the country to serve the king!
Now the two "warrior factions" Zhao Ji and Zhao Huan have no idea about the whole country at all, only their Kaifeng Prefecture in Tokyo. Therefore, they did not consider how Hebei, Hedong, Shaanxi, Jingdong, Jingxi and other places should resist the Jin. They just issued edicts urging the dispatch of troops and asked the defenders in various places to immediately send troops to rescue Kaifeng. If the defenders have no troops to send, they will immediately organize King Qin's rebel army to send to Kaifeng Mansion to rescue him.
As for how to spend the food and pay for so many King Qin's troops, how to conduct training, and whether the equipment can be collected, they didn't ask or think about it.
What's more, they have forgotten that Hebei already has a military marshal's office that controls everything. They also sent edicts one after another to the pacifiers in the east and west of Hebei, asking them to quickly send troops to rescue the people who were surrounded by Jin soldiers. Kaifeng Mansion! He even went beyond the Hebei Marshal's Mansion, directly appointed a group of Hebei state officials, and asked them to send troops to Kaifeng Mansion King Qin as soon as possible...
However, although the edicts ordering King Qin from various places were sent out every day, they did not receive any reply. I don’t know if anyone listened? I don’t even know how much territory has fallen to the enemy, and how many ministers have become second ministers?
Therefore, Zhao Ji, Zhao Huan, and the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty were all very anxious in their hearts... But on the surface, they had to hold high the banner of resistance to the Jin Dynasty, and no one dared to show any weakness!
"Father, yesterday the golden thieves, with more than 10,000 troops, once again approached Ruisheng Fort in the north of the city. They were shot back by the officers and soldiers with random arrows. However, when the two armies were fighting, the commander of the Shengjie Army who led troops to assist Ruisheng Fort Xin Xingzong was cowardly and did not dare to fight, but he also prevented Minzhuang from shooting arrows to kill the enemy, which aroused the anger of the people. It is really hateful! I ask my father to issue an edict to severely punish this person!"
The person who is impeaching the generals of the Victory Army who were unfavorable in the battle is the prince Zhao Huan of the Song Dynasty. Although he resigned from the position of prince in public that day, he did not get Zhao Ji's approval. At that time, Zhao Ji still wanted to run away, so he had to keep Zhao Huan. Not only was he not allowed to resign, he was even granted the official position of Kaifeng Governor.
But unexpectedly, when Zhao Huan became tougher, he actually used the power of Kaifeng Prefecture Yin and the support of the camp envoy Li Gang to bring all the people in Kaifeng Prefecture City under his control.
The knife in Minzhuang's hand is also a knife!
Moreover, Kaifeng Minzhuang and the Sanya Forbidden Army are actually connected... One of the main sources of the Sanya Forbidden Army is the so-called "Yingwu children", which are actually hereditary father-son soldiers. If many Sanya soldiers had their family trees to look up, they could trace them all the way back to the early years of the Song Dynasty or even the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms. The fathers, sons and brothers of these three Yamen soldiers may be members of Kaifeng Minzhuang and can receive a share of money and food from Kaifeng Mansion.
If Zhao Huan gets the support of these people, then at least half of the three yamen soldiers will also support him as the crown prince.
In addition to Minzhuang and Sanya soldiers, there are two other armed forces in Kaifeng Fucheng. One is the Western Army, including the Shengjie Army and some Western Army troops led by Liu Yanqing - Liu Yanqing was defeated by soldiers during the Xuanhe Northern Expedition. He was defeated and demoted, but he had troops, so he was quickly resurrected. Before Kaifeng was besieged, he led more than 10,000 Western troops and was ordered to enter the city.
There was another army from the Imperial City Division. Zhao Kai took away the best of them, but most of the personal officials stayed in Kaifeng Mansion.
The former is now controlled by Tong Guan and Liu Yanqing, and the latter is controlled by Tan Zhen, another "general in the chamber" who is trusted by Zhao Ji.
As for these two troops, they are closer to Zhao Ji, and Ma Mahuhu is considered to be on Zhao Ji's side.
Therefore, the loving father and son in Kaifeng City now want to capture some troops, and they are also wary of each other.
Although the father and son had little confidence in fighting against the Jin Dynasty, none of them dared to betray the country... They were afraid that they would fail to betray the country, but they would offend the Kaifeng people who were determined to fight against the Jin Dynasty, and finally let the other party borrow money from them. Drive out of office based on public opinion!
Although the people of Kaifeng were firm in their will to resist gold, their ability to resist gold was not very reliable... What Zhao Huan is talking about now was caused by the poor archery skills of Kaifeng Minzhuang.
Of course there is no such thing as a golden thief with more than ten thousand troops. In fact, hundreds of Jin cavalry approached Ruisheng Fort, a branch in the north of Kaifeng City, and the minzhuang stationed there fired thousands of arrows when they got nervous... They were only a few hundred steps away, and you shot them. What a hair!
Xin Xingzong, the commander of the Shengjie Army, took hundreds of soldiers of the Shengjie Army to support Ruisheng Fort. When he got there, he found that Minzhuang who was guarding the fortress was shooting arrows randomly, so he overestimated his ability and tried to stop it, but he got angry. They killed Kaifeng Minzhuang, who was extremely dissatisfied with the Victory Army, and a civilian official who was supervising the army in Ruisheng Fort. These people did not care about the hundreds of soldiers of the Victory Army. They arrested Xin Xingzong and gave him a good beating. Killed at one point! After the beating, he was taken to Kaifeng Mansion and handed over to Prince Zhao Huan.
Although Zhao Huan knew that Xin Xingzong had done nothing serious, he still imprisoned him and even sued this unfortunate guy at the court meeting today!
Of course Zhao Ji also knew the whole story, but he didn't dare to speak for Xin Xingzong now - it seemed that his illness was not cured, but the symptoms had changed.
When Zhao Ji was thinking about whether to demote Xin Xingzong to Lingnan for resettlement (I wonder if the gold thieves outside the city would be allowed to go?), a door-to-door Xuanzan hurried in from outside the palace and met the official Zhao Ji. First he bowed and bowed, and then loudly said: "Your Majesty, the guardian of Ruisheng Fort has just sent someone to report that more than ten thousand gold thieves have arrived at the fort. Please send troops to rescue them quickly!"
