Of course, in the end, the three people came to some common conclusions.
For example, they all don't want to die, for example, they all want to live and enjoy the glory and wealth, and they don't want to be besieged to death by the rebels here.
So the decisions they made were very targeted.
First, how long can you keep it?
Second, if you can't hold it anymore, you should immediately retreat to the direction of Guanzhong and ask for help, and strive to gain a foothold in Guanzhong.
Third, mobilize all Jurchen elites and soldiers to protect themselves, and absolutely cannot give any opportunity to some people with ulterior motives in the city.
The matter was thus determined. The Kaifeng High Command quickly announced to the entire army that everything the Liberation Army said was a lie. The emperor was still alive, and the army was still attacking, winning every victory.
The Liberation Army tried to deceive Kaifeng into using it as a new base because they could no longer hold Shandong. Anyone who believed the lies of the Liberation Army would be asking for trouble and death.
The Liberation Army's statement was more direct.
After the Liberation Army's leaflets were projected into the city, the siege was suspended, as if to allow time for the Han people in the city to think carefully, while the previous siege was more like a deterrent and a show of force - —
did you see it?
I'm very strong.
If you want to do it with me, then do it with me. If you don’t do it with me, then I will do it with you.
The meaning is very clear and straightforward, it just depends on how the Han people in the city choose.
Their choice is still very difficult.
On the one hand, it is the propaganda of the Liberation Army, on the other hand, the high-level officials in the city refuse to admit it.
So when the news that the emperor was dead was widely circulated in the army, the news that everything was an illusion was also circulated. The Han soldiers were a little confused about who the pill was, whether it was the Guangfu Army Pill or the Great Jin Pill. .
This leaves them wondering who to side with - which is very important.
How could they be sure who to help when they weren't sure who would win?
What if bad luck helps the loser?
The soldiers in the city were confused and didn't know what to do. It happened that the Liberation Army had not attacked the city in the past few days.
In order not to give the city a chance to unite as one to fight against the Liberation Army, Zhang Yuejing ordered the army to besiege and not attack. Instead, he attacked the city around Kaifeng and continuously uprooted military strongholds or county towns around Kaifeng to achieve the effect of isolating Kaifeng.
By the way, Zhang Yuejing also took the time to visit the underground river in Kaifeng.
After seeing the dangers of the above-ground river with his own eyes, Zhang Yuejing finally understood why Su Yonglin wanted to use the management of the Yellow River as a cover for the establishment of the Renaissance Society.
No, maybe it's not a pretense. Su Yonglin really knows the danger of the above-ground river in the lower reaches of the Yellow River, and he really wants to solve the threat of this terrible above-ground river to the Central Plains.
And he believed that only non-bureaucratic service organizations like the Renaissance Association could truly complete the important mission of regulating the Yellow River, because it was too difficult and dangerous.
It is said that the Prime Minister of the Renaissance Tian Guizi and the Deputy Prime Minister Xin Qiji had begun to study how to regulate the Yellow River before the war began. It seemed that they wanted to restore the Yellow River to the state of its old path in the Eastern Han Dynasty.
Because they said that the Yellow River underwent a major repair during the Eastern Han Dynasty and was well repaired by a famous official of the Eastern Han Dynasty. For more than a thousand years, the Yellow River flowed smoothly according to his planned route, making Hebei's agriculture prosperous and prosperous.
Until the establishment of the Northern Song Dynasty, in order to deal with the threat of the Liao Kingdom, the emperor and his ministers continued to toss the river channels, and factors such as climate change worsened the situation.
Zhang Yuejing did not understand these contents and was not very interested. He only knew that if an order was given, he would definitely lead his soldiers to successfully regulate the Yellow River at all costs.
How could the food that the people had worked so hard to grow be destroyed by a flood?
That would be too cruel.
After returning from inspecting the Dihe River, Zhang Yuejing concentrated on preparing to deal with these reinforcements because he heard that Jin Army reinforcements were approaching Kaifeng in the south.
There is no doubt that these reinforcements are border guards from the southern Song and Jin border. They are all regular troops. They are basically fully prepared for combat and have the minimum combat effectiveness and organization.
These people were quite brave. Faced with the Song army's war preparations, they were able to dispatch troops north to support Kaifeng. It seemed that they really valued Kaifeng.
Zhang Yuejing originally thought so.
But when he knew the specific information, he was a little surprised.
There were only more than a thousand troops coming to aid the Jin army.
In order to prevent the Jin army's border guards from going north to support, Zhang Yuejing continued to send sentries to the south to sneak in secretly during the attack on Kaifeng.
There are sentinels arranged by Zhang Yuejing in Suzhou, Bozhou, Chenzhou and Xuzhou to monitor the movements of troops in the southern border states.
But so far, only the Jin army heading north has appeared in Xuzhou, with only a thousand people. There is no movement of Jin troops in other places.
Zhou Zhi also expressed confusion about this.
"It wouldn't be surprising if the golden thieves in the south had already started a war with the Song army, but they didn't start a war. They just confronted each other and sent only a thousand people north. It's really strange."
Zhang Yuejing thought for a while and found it difficult to understand this matter.
This was something he took for granted.
Zhang Yuejing grew up under Su Yonglin. The troops led by Su Yonglin have always emphasized unity, friendship, cooperation and win-win results. The competition between them is healthy competition, not a battle of spirits or sectarian opinions.
But this is not the case with Jin Jun.
In short, the Jin Army border guards in the south were unwilling to take risks for Kong Yanzhou.
This may sound a bit strange at first. We both belong to the Kingdom of Jin, so why do you refuse to save your immediate boss?
But that's actually it.
The reason is also very simple, because Kong Yanzhou committed suicide.
Last year, during the first battle of Kaifeng when Zhao Kaishan led his army to attack Kaifeng, the Liberation Army advanced to the outskirts of Kaifeng. Kong Yanzhou's battle was unfavorable and Kaifeng was in danger.
At that time, Dan Kening, the defense apostle of Suzhou, took the initiative to lead troops north to relieve the siege of Kaifeng. He led thousands of cavalry and boldly entered the rear of the Liberation Army, destroying the logistics of the Liberation Army and forcing the Liberation Army to withdraw when it had the upper hand. .
After the war, judging by merit, Tu Dankening should have made a great contribution anyway, and should be included in the merit book and receive a reward.
As a result, Kong Yanzhou calmly took the credit for Tu Dankening's contribution to his own head and went to ask for the credit himself. Then he said that he did not give the order so the troops could not attack. Tu Dankening attacked rashly and almost made a big mistake. , for the sake of meritorious deeds, they will not be held accountable, and they will not be allowed to commit the crime again next time.
Good guy, Dan Kening, the emotional disciple, threw his life and blood to save you, but in the end he was wrong. Are you the right one?
Strictly speaking, Tu Shankening was still a relative of Emperor Wanyan Liang, because he married a concubine of Wanyan Liang's father, Wanyan Zongqian, but for some reason Wanyan Liang didn't like him very much, so he tried every means to transfer him out. , to prevent him from taking power.
Kong Yanzhou knew Wan Yanliang's intentions, so he took away the credit from Tu Dan Kening and enjoyed it himself. He made a lot of money and received Wan Yanliang's commendation.
Tudan Kening has nothing.
This approach is very harmful to character and chilling to the hearts of the people.
Tu Shan Kening made great achievements but was not rewarded. Instead, he was criticized and almost even tried. What's the point of doing this kind of thing? Who else would be willing to continue fighting under your leadership, Kong Yanzhou?
You don’t know what day you will take away the merits you have made, and you will accuse me of all kinds of things. Maybe you won’t even be able to save your life!
Although Tu Shankening was soon transferred to Liaodong as the envoy of Huli Road Reform, the Jin army commanders on Nanjing Road were alienated from Kong Yanzhou from then on, obeying and secretly disobeying his orders, using various prevarications and shirks, and were no longer willing to wholeheartedly Do errands for him.
This time the Liberation Army's expedition was so unexpected that Kaifeng was besieged. Although the commanders of the various border armies were shocked, no one wanted to rescue Kong Yanzhou.
After receiving the news, the first thing the commanders of the various border troops considered was not how to send people to support Kaifeng, but what the situation was like on the front line and what the situation was like during Wanyan Liang's southern expedition.
Immediately afterwards, many rumors spread to several states on the border between the Song and Jin Dynasties, saying that the emperor was dead, the army was defeated, the Liberation Army began to counterattack, and the Jin Kingdom Pills.
Boy, this scares these people a lot.
On one side, the Liberation Army marches out to surround Kaifeng, and on the other side, there are rumors that the emperor's army was annihilated in battle. No matter how you look at it, there is a strange sense of fit.
Is Dajin really taking pills?
Under all kinds of worries, in the end, only Caizhou's defense envoy sent a thousand soldiers and horses to the north to pretend to support. However, after entering Xuzhou, they stopped moving because the officer leading the army was afraid of becoming an outcast, so he simply hesitated. Do your best to delay.
The other governors and defense envoys were all thinking about what to do about the current situation.
On one side was the heavily-armed Song Army, which was about to embark on the Northern Expedition, and behind them was the Liberation Army, which was eyeing the powerful battle force. It was as if they were being attacked from two sides, and they felt that if they continued, they might be attacked at any time.
Moreover, since the Liberation Army has invaded Nanjing Road, the military supplies transportation routes in the border states will be greatly threatened. It is very likely that the military will not be used, and it will be over by then.
Therefore, the military commanders of the border states were more concerned about their own safety than supporting the mean and unkind old bastard Kong Yanzhou.
While strictly guarding against the Northern Expedition of the Song Army, they sent a large number of people to the north to inquire about information, but did not go to support Kaifeng.
They all unanimously believed that if the emperor was really doomed, why would he still keep Kaifeng? Isn't the most important thing is to run away quickly? Otherwise, are you waiting to be attacked from both sides?
So there was a very embarrassing scene - Zhang Yuejing thought that there would be a lot of Jin Army reinforcements to support Kaifeng, but in the end, only more than a thousand people set out, and they were still "a long way away" from arrival.
Reinforcements did not come, and the situation in Kaifeng City did not get better. Rumors spread more and more. Kong Yanzhou successively arrested more than a dozen soldiers who were rumored to be unbelievable, and ordered them to be beheaded, but he could not stop everyone from talking. .
The atmosphere in the city became increasingly tense, and because there were too many people in the city, food gradually became scarce. Kong Yanzhou had to order a reduction in the daily food ration per person to extend the time he could hold out.
But when it fell on the soldiers, the city was in a food shortage and was about to collapse.
Faced with this situation, the Han soldiers became more and more shaken, and became more and more inclined to the Liberation Army outside the city, which only surrounded but did not launch an attack. For several days in a row, some Han officers gathered together in private to discuss whether to kill Kong Yanzhou and open up The city gate welcomed the Liberation Army as they entered.
However, the troops guarding the city gate were all Jurchen soldiers, and many armies were also equipped with Jurchen officers for surveillance. Kong Yanzhou and others were strictly protected by well-equipped soldiers when they appeared and left every day, and there was absolutely no loophole to exploit.
However, the biggest loophole is their own ideas.
Because the amount of food is getting smaller and smaller, and it is mainly used to provide Jurchen dignitaries, regular soldiers, generals' personal soldiers, etc., ordinary Han soldiers get less and there is not enough to eat. Therefore, the Han soldiers will go hungry and become more and more resentful. Come bigger.
In the end, they couldn't bear it anymore. Under the leadership of some junior officers, they asked their superiors for an explanation, asking why there were so many daily combat preparation tasks but so little food.
Of course, the Shangguan could not give them a satisfactory answer. He just kept prevaricating, which could not solve the problem. When the question was urgent, the Shangguan directly asked his soldiers to arrest the leader and beat him up, showing his force.
But what they didn't expect was that the tried-and-true method of deterring low-level soldiers would no longer work.
"I have sacrificed my life for you, but I can't even eat. Why should I sacrifice my life? I will starve to death before I sacrifice my life! No matter what! Brothers! You are rebelling! Join the Liberation Army!!!"
After the first rebel Han army team killed the highest-ranking Jurchen officer they could find, they quickly swept through a city gate tower.
More and more people responded, and more and more people followed them to attack the city gate tower, which brought a huge impact to the Jurchen soldiers guarding the city gate.
It was daytime at that time, around noon, and the soldiers of the Liberation Army were preparing for a lunch break after having lunch. Suddenly they heard the noise on the Kaifeng City Tower, and then suddenly discovered that the gate of an urn city in Kaifeng City was actually open.
this……
What's going on?
