The Jin army suppressed the country because three masters and apprentices, Zhao Dajun, the cabinet minister, Jia Huan, the champion, and Feng Qi, the governor of Taiping County, insulted and slandered the Jin country.
As long as Daxia hands over these three people and pays one million taels of silver and five million stones of grain, the Jin Kingdom will withdraw.
As soon as the news came out, the people in the capital suddenly became agitated and discussed.
Some people who were timid and cowardly said that since these three people had offended Da Jin, if they handed over these three people and compensated Jin Guo one or two, Jin Guo would withdraw its army.
If that's the case, then just hand these three people over to the Kingdom of Jin, and then compensate them and that's it! In this way, the Jin Kingdom will withdraw its troops and everyone can still live a stable life.
Of course, there are also knowledgeable people who feel that they cannot agree to Jin Guo's request.
Once Daxia agrees to this request, the Kingdom of Jin will feel that Daxia is weak and can be bullied.
If there is one, there are two. The next time the Jin soldiers come again and continue to demand other people and compensation, will Daxia give it or not?
If we continue to do this, wouldn't it be like cutting off our flesh and feeding it to the eagles?
How can a court that cannot even protect its own ministers and has to hand over its ministers and sell them to seek peace, make its ministers and people feel a sense of belonging to it?
At the same time, Jia Huan in Ningguo Mansion also learned the news, and Jia Huan suddenly felt like a beeping dog.
No need to ask, Jia Huan also knew that if the Jin Kingdom wanted the three of them as master and disciple, they must have something to do with the conservatives.
However, he had a vague feeling that the reason why Jin State cooperated with Daxia's conservatives was not just to prevent Daxia's changes.
If you seek skin from a tiger, you will suffer its consequences.
Don’t those conservative bosses understand this truth?
However, they are so obsessed with interests that they no longer care about this much.
Just like the civil and military affairs of the Manchu Dynasty in the late Ming Dynasty, the imperial court was unable to make ends meet and could not even spend military expenses.
Emperor Chongzhen called on the ministers to collect donations. As a result, these guys all cried out that they were poor, and then they took out one hundred and eighty taels of silver each to perfunctory the emperor, just like sending away beggars.
As a result, after Li Zicheng broke into the capital, he ripped off the skin of these guys one by one, and extracted an unknown amount of gold and silver from their homes.
Previously, it was clear that each of them could fend off the rebels by giving one-tenth of their wealth.
But they just couldn't bear it. When the rebels entered the city, all their property and lives would be ruined.
These are the ministers!
In Jia Huan's view, some of the ministers of the Daxia Kingdom could compete with the ministers of the Chongzhen Dynasty.
This gave Jia Huan a bad feeling.
He felt that under the joint promotion of the reformists and the Jin State, it was very likely that the three masters and disciples would eventually be handed over to the Jin State.
Don't look at the daylight. Emperor Chongkang angrily rebuked the Jin generals and flatly rejected their unreasonable demands.
But it's not an emergency situation yet.
In times of crisis, everyone is expendable.
And Jia Huan feels that it will almost certainly reach this situation in the end.
As Murphy's Law says, if there is a possibility that things will go bad, no matter how small the possibility is, it will always happen.
Jia Huan had to prepare for the worst case scenario. If he didn't save himself at this time, he might eventually be tricked to death by these brainless guys.
Thinking of this, Jia Huan called Mo Da and others, ordered them to bring a box, and first went out to the East Palace.
After another discussion with the prince, Jia Huan borrowed a token from the prince.
Then Jia Huan took the token and came directly to the city wall.
Next, Jia Huan ran around the city wall.
Using the telescope built for him by the Mo family, he began to observe the deployment of the Jin army.
At this time, two hundred thousand Jin troops had surrounded the entire capital.
Jia Huan drew the deployment of the Jin army outside the four city walls, including approximately how many Jin troops there were outside each city wall.
Their encampment situation, as well as the deployment of their troops, and what are the weak links in their deployment.
There are bound to be weak links. Although there are many 200,000 troops, their deployment must have a focus.
It is impossible to evenly distribute 200,000 people around the capital. In this case, once the Daxia army rushes out from one of the city gates, it will be difficult for them to organize an effective counterattack for a while.
And these weak points will definitely not be outside the city gate.
Only locations on the city wall will be selected for deployment.
In this way, even if the Daxia army rushes out of the city gate, it will not be able to attack their weak position for a while.
And if you want to hang soldiers from the city wall with ropes, it will be difficult to gather a large number of soldiers without being discovered by the Jin army.
Therefore, even if the Jin army's deployment has its weaknesses, it will be difficult for the Daxia army to attack these weaknesses.
The weak points will naturally not become its weaknesses.
But if Jia Huan wants to do something, he can take advantage of this.
Finally, Jia Huan made a key observation of the place where the Jin army stored food and grass.
The best way to make the Jin army retreat is to burn its military rations.
Once the food was burned, they had to retreat immediately.
Otherwise, their 200,000 soldiers and horses will most likely be lost in Daxia.
It has to be said that the Kingdom of Jin brought a lot of military rations this time.
Enough to support 200,000 gold troops for two months.
It is impossible for the 200,000 Jin army to march so quickly with so much food, and to be able to smoothly pass through Daxia's three lines of defense and arrive directly outside Daxia's capital without anyone noticing.
It can only be said that there must be some military in Daxia who are colluding with them and secretly providing them with food and grass.
The Jin Army naturally understood this truth, so they hoarded food and grass in a flat area.
There were at least 20,000 soldiers and horses guarding the surrounding area.
On both sides of it, there are also two teams of ten thousand people ready to support at any time.
In order to burn down the grain and grass of the Jin Kingdom, Daxia must have at least 20,000 soldiers and horses rush over to achieve this goal.
In the siege of the Jin Kingdom, only the whole army attacks, can they break out of the siege, and send 20,000 soldiers and horses to burn the Jin Kingdom's food and grass, can they achieve what they want.
However, Daxia currently only has a total of 100,000 troops. How dare Daxia release all 100,000 troops in one battle?
Once these 100,000 soldiers and horses are destroyed, so what if the food and grass of the Jin Kingdom can be burned?
At that time, the capital's defenses will be empty, and people can drive straight in and directly enter the capital.
Therefore, judging from the current situation, the food and grass of the Jin Kingdom are actually foolproof.
Jia Huan began to focus on drawing the defense map around the Jinguo granary.
At the same time, Jia Huan still discovered that a hundred miles away from the Jinguo granary was Yanshan Mountain.
Well, the distance of a hundred miles, if it is a rapid march, can barely be covered overnight, but it must be covered.
If not, even if the food and grass of the Jin Kingdom can be burned, how can there be no reason not to retaliate when the Jin Kingdom is furious?
If they can really burn down the grain and grass of the Jin Kingdom, Yanshan will be their escape place.
Of course, this trip is bound to be full of difficulties, with a narrow escape from death, or even ten deaths without a chance of survival! (End of chapter)
