"Kill the gold thief and earn a house! Kill the gold thief and get a wife! Kill the gold thief and become a countryman..."
Inside and outside Jinming City, the loud shouts of at least 70,000 to 80,000 people turned into waves of roaring cheers, reaching tens of thousands of Western troops who were marching toward Kaifeng Fucheng along an official road along the Bian River. In the ears of the soldiers.
Of course this is not an ordinary coincidence, but a coincidence that has been arranged long ago!
Zhao Kai also has a staff team now!
Cao Li, who went deep into the enemy camp to negotiate with Jin Wushu, was appointed as Zhao Kai's marching counselor after the Battle of Sanshan Floating Bridge. He also selected a group of martial arts classmates to form a staff group specifically for Zhao Kai. Zhao Kai made suggestions and made various plans.
Although these guys are all professionals who have graduated from martial arts, the knowledge imparted in Song Dynasty martial arts is not practical, so these guys just rush to the shelves and make plans, often making omissions... . When I was running away from Yuncheng last time, I actually forgot to load a few horses on the warship of "Liangshan Good Official" to send messages. Even Zhao Kai's own mount was sent to Liangshan!
Similar mistakes have been made again and again since the Sanshan Floating Bridge. Many jokes were made and many things were missed. As a result, Cao Li had to go to Zhao Kai to admit his mistakes and apologize every now and then.
However, there is really no one around Zhao Kai. It is better to have such a group of martial arts students who know a little bit to help him than to make everything messy.
Therefore, Zhao Kai did not blame him. He just asked Cao Li to write summary reports continuously, and also asked him to write a staff diary to record in detail all the major and minor events that happened every day during the operation of the Marching Counselor Department. Will be reviewed and summarized in the future.
However, this group of martial arts students all compare themselves to Zhang Zifang. Their plans are not very good, but their small strategies and tricks are very powerful.
For example, the time for posting the imperial list in Jinming City coincided with the arrival of the soldiers led by Zhong Shizhong and Yao Gu in Kaifeng Mansion.
Such cheerful shouts reached this worried army, and immediately caused a burst of low noises.
"You thief, I don't know where the men and horses came from, but they are so happy. Could they be receiving the reward?"
"You scream so loudly, you must have received a lot of rewards, right? I wonder if one person can win a bronze?"
"You have never seen money, how can you be so happy with Guan Tong? This movement must be at least ten Guan Tong!"
"Ten guans? A few dozen kilograms! Why do officials give such a heavy reward?"
"Hey, do you need to say that? Of course, the officers and soldiers of Kaifeng Prefecture won the battle!"
"Victory the battle? Defeated the golden thief? Is it possible? I heard that the golden thief was so powerful that he wiped out the Liao Kingdom!"
"It's impossible but it has to be possible... If it's impossible, we've all arrived outside Kaifeng City and walked all the way. Did we see even half a gold thief?"
"No, I didn't see it..."
"Then it's over! The gold thief must have been defeated by the Qin Wang Army who came earlier and the Sanya Army of Kaifeng Mansion!"
"What should we do? If the golden thief is defeated, wouldn't it be in vain for us to come..."
"It shouldn't be a complete defeat, right? When I passed Banqiao Town and Yuetai Town before, I saw that they were heavily guarded. There were people outside the city digging ditches and building barriers!"
"Yes, yes, I saw it too... there are many people practicing shooting outside the city!"
"That's good. The golden thief hasn't been completely defeated yet, and we still have a share of the credit! Let's all walk faster, but don't let the golden thief run away, otherwise our efforts will be in vain!"
The main forces of King Qin's army coming from Shaanxi were Yao Jiajun, Zhong Jiajun, and some powerful Shaanxi rebels who organized themselves to recruit officials to Kaifeng Prefecture. The total number is quite large, with as many as 50,000 regular soldiers, and many auxiliary soldiers, with a total strength of between 70,000 and 80,000.
In addition, there are many cavalry in this army. There are seven or eight thousand people! They are all equipped with a horse and a donkey. The man rides the horse and the donkey carries the equipment, marching at the forefront of the army.
The two old men, Zhong Shizhong and Yao Gu, were escorted by their nephew's soldiers and walked at the front of the cavalry team, now to the east of the newly built Jinming City.
Jinming City is also a sandbag city. The city wall is not high. Except for the southwest section of Kaifeng Mansion's outer outline, the other three walls are only two to four to five feet high.
But it is also a layout of three and four floors inside and outside, with trenches, fences, sheep and horses walls, gate walls, magpie platforms, etc., everything that should be there. Rao Shi, two old men who had been fighting in the northwest battlefield for half their lives, nodded frequently when they saw the newly completed castle, and even asked questions to Yu Wenxuzhong who accompanied them.
"Bachelor Yuwen, did this city really take only one month to fortify?"
"Bachelor, is this city wall really made of straw bags and sacks filled with soil?"
Yu Wenxuzhong nodded and said with a smile: "Jinming City originally had some buildings. What we see now are the outer trench, the sheep and horse wall, the gate wall and the outer wall. They were all built with straw bags and sacks filled with soil. There are also inner trenches and inner walls, which were built on the basis of the original Jinming Pool and Qionglin Garden outer walls. Within the inner wall, there is an inner city, which was rebuilt on the basis of the original Baojin Building. Barracks sufficient to station 150,000 troops were also built between the inner wall and the inner city, most of which were renovated using original buildings. All the projects were completed within a month."
The planter was stunned, "It takes so much work to finish it in one month? Isn't it too fast? Even if we use straw bags and sacks to fill the soil, this big work can still be done quickly enough."
The technology of filling the city with straw bags and sacks has now become popular around Kaifeng Prefecture. On the outside and at the top of almost every castle, there are various fortifications made of straw bags and sacks filled with soil.
Therefore, both Zhongshi Zhong and Yao Gu already knew that the castle fortifications built with soil filled with straw bags and sacks could be very huge.
When Yu Wenxuzhong heard this, he smiled and said: "This is the credit of Chen Yuanze, the magistrate of Anlu County. He followed the orders of the Jinghu North Road Appeasement Envoy and the De'an Mansion Office and brought thousands of King Qin's soldiers to the north. And Li Yuanshu We met and had an in-depth conversation for two hours, and then we were appointed to build the city and promote the camp."
Yao Gu couldn't help but frown deeply when he heard that Yu Wen promoted Li Gang in vain, "Yuanshu is trapped in Chengshi, and I don't know when we can rescue him from the siege!"
Zhongshi sighed: "Can it be rescued? The people below don't know how good the golden thieves are, so how can we not know? Whether it's holding on to the city or fighting on the water, our Song Dynasty may not be afraid of them. . But Chengshi County is just a small town, and there is no big water around it..."
While he was speaking, Jin Ming City, which was already about to boil over, suddenly erupted into even louder cheers, interrupting his conversation with Yao Gu and Yu Wenxuzhong.
"Long live, long live, long live..."
Zhong Shizhong, Yao Gu, and Yu Wenxuzhong immediately understood that either Zhao Kai's imperial edict to distribute money had arrived, or Zhao Kai himself had arrived in Jinming City!
Of course, Zhao Kai's arrival could not be for the hastily put together troops in Jinming City, but for the Western Army of Zhong Shizhong and Yao Gu.
At this time, dozens of knights rushed out from an open gate in the west of Jinming City, and then ran towards Zhongshizhong, Yaogu, and Yuwenxu. And the leading one among them is Yao Gu's adopted son Yao Pingzhong!
Zhong Shizhong, Yao Gu, and Yu Wenxuzhong quickly reined in their horses. Yao Pingzhong flew up to the three of them and reined in their crotches. Then he crossed his hands on the horse and said, "Dad, Zhong Old Taiwei, Yuwen Bachelor, the officials invite you three to meet at Baojin Tower."
Zhong Shizhong, Yao Gu, and Yu Wenxuzhong looked at each other and did not dare to neglect, so they followed Yao Pingzhong into Jinming City.
After entering the city, they discovered that all the soldiers in the city had gathered downstairs at Baojin.
The outer wall of Baojin Tower was covered with flags of various colors, and there were many grown-up warriors in purple clothes and black hats, who were surrounding a tall young man... This young man was none other than Zhao Kai. !
Zhao Kai had arrived at Baojin Tower a long time ago - he was watching the people below getting excited in Baojin Tower!
Look at the army of the Zhong family and the Yao family approaching in mighty force!
When the two old lieutenants Yao and Zhong separated the crowd and arrived at Baojin Downstairs with the help of guards, the emperor on the city was looking at everyone silently.
The boiling atmosphere gradually cooled down, and the people below knew that Zhao Kai had something to say, so they gradually became quiet until there was no sound.
Suddenly, Zhao Kai spoke: "Everyone, Kaifeng City is very big, and there is a lot of land outside the city... I have ordered people to build a house on the site of the third school! We have also taken back more than a dozen royal palaces... including my dormitory. , will all be bulldozed to build the Hero Building!"
Hero Building! The hero building that bombarded the hero building. But don’t worry, because the cannon hasn’t been invented yet.
"Of course the Meritorious Minister Building is used to reward meritorious officials - I hope that when I join you and others in triumph this time, all the meritorious officials will be able to welcome the joy of moving!"
"Long live, long live, long live..."
When people cheered again, Zhao Kai had already seen Yu Wenxuzhong, Zhong Shizhong and others being brought by Yao Pingzhong.
Zhao Kai suddenly raised his voice and shouted with a roar: "I can't let you down, nor can I let down Li Gang, let alone the tens of thousands of soldiers under Li Gang's command... So I plan to personally take a hundred thousand troops and go north. Save Li Gang’s life!”
"I would like to congratulate you, Your Majesty!"
"Your Majesty and your ministers are willing to fight!"
"The golden thief is nothing more than that. I am not afraid of the golden thief!"
In the midst of this joyful sound, among the teachers, among Yu Wenxu, Yao Gu and others were led by Yao Pingzhong to the tower to fight.
When Zhao Kai saw Yu Wenxuzhong and others, he called them forward: "Come here, come here... You three can see how powerful our army of Song Dynasty is now."
"Your Majesty is so powerful that I admire you."
"I have never seen such an elite soldier before!"
Zhao Kai's military power was actually not that great, but his morale did rise so fast that he almost exploded!
Zhao Kai smiled proudly and said: "After all, soldiers are not for watching, but for fighting... I want to send troops to rescue Li Gang as soon as possible. Among the commanders, Yao Gu, are you ready?"
