Regarding this question, Zhou Zhi also thought about it for a while in the past few days and came up with his own answer.
"lucky."
Zhou Zhi said loudly: "They don't want to believe that the gold master and hundreds of thousands of troops have been completely annihilated by us, so they are still struggling to their death. It is unwise to fight such enemies on the city wall. I think we should use some more powerful weapons." Something persuasive to convince them.”
"for example?"
"The battle flags of the gold thieves' armies that we captured were given to us by Commander Su to deter the enemy. At this moment, we should let the gold thieves in the city take a good look at our evidence. In addition, we should use Commander Su's [Together Expulsion] Jurchen] strategy, shouting to the Han people in the city, even if they can't be persuaded temporarily, it can still create dissatisfaction among them."
Zhou Zhi sneered and said: "In this way, the Han people and Jurchens in the city will inevitably be suspicious of each other and be wary of each other. If a fight breaks out in the city, won't our army be able to easily capture Kaifeng?"
Zhang Yue nodded, and the other generals and staff also nodded, thinking that Zhou Zhi's idea was right.
Zhang Yuejing added some supplements to Zhou Zhi's strategy, such as how to prevent the Jin army from the south from moving north to support them or from individual Jin army elites stealing their retreat.
Just like last year, Zhao Kaishan's attack on Kaifeng failed.
Tasks in all aspects have been assigned, and the next step is to prepare immediately.
Zhou Zhi also suggested that Zhang Yuejing, in addition to evidence such as battle flags, write down the Liberation Army's policy on only targeting Jurchens and not Han, Khitan and other ethnic groups on paper and throw it into the city to show it to the soldiers in the city.
Some people say that ordinary soldiers are illiterate and it is useless to write. Zhou Zhi does not think so.
"Ordinary soldiers can't understand it, so can't those Han officers and bureaucrats understand it? If they understand it, will they completely block the news and not tell their subordinates? As long as a few people know some news, it will definitely spread to the entire army."
Zhou Zhi is very confident about this.
He believed that as long as someone could understand things like the Liberation Army's policy against the enemy, there would be no worry that the Liberation Army's policy against the enemy would not spread in the city.
Once such news spreads in the city, even if such a thing does not happen for a while, it will cause the Jurchens to be suspicious of the Han and other ethnic groups.
In this way, the Han and Jurchens in the city are at odds with each other, and the main component of Kaifeng's city defense is also Han. Without the contribution of the Han, Kaifeng's city would be destroyed soon.
Zhang Yueying nodded, agreeing very much with this, and immediately ordered his subordinates to do it.
After the strategic instructions were given, the meeting ended temporarily. The officers of each army returned to their original posts to take charge of the things they were responsible for. Zhou Zhi was left behind by Zhang Yuejing and was pulled into a conversation by him.
"These strategies are all good strategies for fighting enemies. How did you come up with them? Or did anyone give you suggestions?"
"I figured it out myself."
Zhou Zhi smiled and said: "Besides training before, I also listened to some lectures given by the instructors to the soldiers. I heard that divisions would break up the Jin Kingdom and seize the contradiction between the Han and Jurchens in the Jin Kingdom to make a big fuss.
I was confused at first, but then I asked the instructor for advice, and the instructor explained it to me with practical examples. I gradually understood that it turns out that fighting gold thieves requires more than just soldiers and horses.
To deal with the gold-possessed thieves, we need to seize their other weaknesses and attack them together with soldiers and horses. If we only use soldiers and horses to attack them, it may take us more time to eliminate them.
In this way, I feel that Su Shuai's teachings are profound and profound, and he can hit the nail on the head and penetrate directly to the deepest root. It is really amazing. I admire Su Shuai very much. "
"That's natural. We have relied on Alang's foresight and proper response along the way. Without Alang's leadership, how could we achieve anything?"
Zhang Yue nodded and walked for a while, then suddenly asked Zhou Zhi about his family background.
"I heard that you were born into a wealthy family. You had no worries about food and clothing, and lived a normal life in a government office. But later, your family property was taken away by a gold thief. Is that true?"
Zhou Zhi nodded slowly.
Regarding his origin, it is not a secret in the army. Many people know it and you can find out with a little inquiry.
"My family originally had thousands of acres of fertile farmland, and we lived a comfortable life when we were young. Not to mention fine clothing and food, we were not worried about hunger. However, the good times did not last long. Golden thieves were seizing the land in Shandong and took a fancy to my family's land.
My family's land was taken away from us, and my father was unwilling to hand it over. He was persecuted to death by gold thieves, and his family was destroyed. There were seventy-two members of the family, and now I am the only one left alive. I have a blood feud with the gold thieves, and we have a sworn feud. "
"and after?"
"Later on, I wandered with many local refugees, struggling to survive with every hungry meal. I endured all kinds of hardships, but I was lucky. I honed my fighting skills and brought a few friends into a group, but I didn't suffer from hunger. After his death, he was taken in as a servant by the former commander-in-chief to protect the courtyard, and he had a place to settle down."
Zhou Zhi slowly talked about his tragic past, and Zhang Yuejing was very emotional after hearing this.
"You have a better background than me, but your subsequent experiences are similar. My family is just an ordinary farmer. We can barely feed our family with more than ten acres of thin farmland. However, a natural disaster caused the food to disappear, the land was forcibly bought, and all of our family members died.
I wandered all the way with the refugees, and was lucky enough to be taken in by Alang. I became a servant of the Su family and Alang's follower. That's how I am today. If I had been a little less lucky back then, I would have definitely starved to death. Now think about it, how hungry I feel. I can still recall it. "
Zhou Zhi nodded silently without speaking, wondering if he was recalling the difficult days of survival.
Zhang Yuejing looked at the silent Zhou Zhi, thought for a while, and then slowly said: "On the road to survival, can you feel the suffering of ordinary people?"
Zhou Zhi raised his head and looked at Zhang Yuejing with a bitter look on his face.
"That's not the suffering of ordinary people. The ordinary people still have more than ten acres of thin farmland and a house. I didn't look like a person at all in those years. I was almost no longer a human being. Fighting for food with others was nothing. Wild dogs are the most difficult to snatch.
Wild dogs are ferocious, have sharp teeth, and often travel in groups. We finally found some food, and at the same time, the wild dogs were focused on them. Wild dogs are cunning and will not admit defeat. We must beat them to death or We can only drive them away until they are lame, but then we ourselves will also be injured..."
Zhang Yuejing sighed.
"Yes, that is inhuman suffering."
"It's an inhuman suffering. It's indeed an inhuman suffering. If you can bear it, you are lucky. At that time, none of the three or five friends who stayed with me survived. They all died, and I was the only one left."
Zhou Zhi smiled bitterly and said: "If this could be considered an ordinary citizen, I'm afraid the whole world would have rebelled long ago, right?"
"indeed so."
Zhang Yue nodded and said: "That's why Alang vowed to change this cruel world, so he took hundreds of us from the Song Dynasty to Shandong, rebelled against the Jin Kingdom, and fought bloody battles all the way until now. Seeing that the clouds and mist are parting and the moon is shining brightly, looking back, the past two years have not been easy..."
Speaking of this matter, Zhou Zhi suddenly became interested.
"While listening to the instructor's lecture, I had a lot of puzzles. The most puzzling of all was why Su Shuai came to Shandong to rebel. General Zhang, you are Su Shuai's old subordinate. Do you know why Su Shuai came to Shandong to rebel? I But I heard that Su Shuai came from a family of officials in the Song Dynasty."
"Indeed, Alang's grandfather was a serious Jinshi. He also participated in the Northern Expedition with General Yue Fei. Later, he served as county magistrate, governor and other local positions. He also managed the salt administration and was of high moral standing."
"How could that be possible...I heard that Su Shuai later turned into a smuggler in salt."
"I don't know the inside story. Anyway, when I followed Alang, the Su family had already started selling smuggled salt. I don't know much about the relationship between Alang's grandfather and father. All I know is that Alang is Just people.”
"This...can you elaborate?"
Zhou Zhi's face was full of interest.
Zhang Yue nodded.
"Of course, Alang has never concealed himself. I even feel that Alang is not like a person on earth, but like a person in heaven. You said, we have to suffer so much suffering in this world, and those people in heaven are naturally With so much to enjoy, how could we possibly notice that we are hungry?
But Alang saw it. Alang said that when he went out for the first time and saw people dying of freezing and starving on the street, he felt as if his world had collapsed. It turned out that there was so much suffering in the world. What he saw before his eyes There is one, but how many others are there that I haven’t seen? Later..."
Zhang Yuejing recalled what Su Yonglin said to him when he was with Su Yonglin, and told Zhou Zhi those things.
