Poor Family Chapter 1021

  Chapter 1021 Unexpected news

After dawn, the sound of firecrackers began to explode in various parts of Lin'an. During this time, firecrackers sounded at intervals of three to five, celebrating the victory of Xuzhou, celebrating the victory of Suzhou, celebrating the capture of Daming Mansion, celebrating the victory of Surabaya, etc., and the people gradually got used to it. However, the sound of firecrackers today seemed to be louder than usual. Many people rushed to buy the "Zaobao". The content of "Zaobao" was indeed encouraging.

   The total annihilation of 30,000 gold soldiers means that the Song Army has regained the Jingdong Road, and the entire Lin'an City is boiling, and the streets and alleys are discussing this matter.

   At noon, in the Sanyuan Teahouse next to Taixue, a group of Taixue students were discussing the current battle situation enthusiastically.

"I reckon that the Song army implemented an empty city strategy and moved the people away in advance. The city was filled with fire starters. When the Jin soldiers stayed in the city overnight, they set fire to the city, and then the Song army blocked the city gate to prevent the Jin soldiers from coming out. Of course the 30,000 gold soldiers were all killed in Rencheng, how about burning Rencheng?"

  A Tai student conducted a specific analysis based on the content of the "Zaobao", which attracted everyone's approval.

Someone exclaimed: "The King Regent's real surprise soldiers traveled northward by sea, which Jin Bing never dreamed of. Didn't the "Morning Post" say two days ago that we sent surprise soldiers to capture the Daming Mansion? The surprise soldiers came from the sea and fought The enemy defending the city was caught off guard, and heard that warships have blocked the Yellow River, preventing the Jin soldiers from going south, and the recovery of the Central Plains is just around the corner.”

   "But when winter comes and the Yellow River freezes, Jin soldiers can go south."

   "The Yellow River will freeze for at least half a year! At that time, the Central Plains has already been recovered. Even if the golden soldiers come, we will not be afraid. Let's fight the city's offensive and defensive battles."

  A scholar said quietly: "Why did the regent attack the Daming Mansion? Isn't it to keep the battlefield in Hebei? At the same time, it also lays the foundation for the recovery of Hebei."

  A group of scholars suddenly fell silent, and suddenly someone slapped the table, "Great!"

  The scholars suddenly realized, and praised without hesitation.

  At this time, a scholar rushed in and said loudly: "Have you heard? The Supreme Emperor has passed away."

  The teahouse suddenly fell silent, and someone whispered: "I'm only dying now, it's cheaper for him!"

   "That is, I don't know how much it will cost to bury him. He committed crimes in life, and he will become a burden after death!"

   Everyone said something, and I said something. They were full of ridicule towards Zhao Ji's death, but they didn't have a good word. Soon, everyone's topic turned to the battle situation, which was their major concern.

   This is something that scholars care about a little bit. For ordinary people, they are even less interested in the death of the Supreme Emperor. Even the "Morning Post" the next day only published an obituary at the bottom of the government affairs page.

  Zhao Ji's death was like a gust of wind, it disappeared after blowing, and was completely forgotten after a few months, completely disappearing in the long river of history.

  During this time, Wanyan Xie was really in a bit of a state of distress. The Song army's all-out attack came too suddenly, especially Li Yanqing's attack from the sea caught him by surprise.

  Wan Yanxie also realized that it was the Song army that captured the Daming Mansion five days after Daming Mansion was captured, not the Liangshan bandits reported by Gao Qingyi. So where did the Song Army come from?

  Wan Yanxie also thought for a long time before he fixed his eyes on the sea. He could only come by sea. Taking advantage of the southeast wind, Song Jun's ships could go all the way north.

However, even though he guessed that the Song army captured the Daming Mansion, Wanyan Xie remained silent and used Gao Qingyi's army to take back the Daming Mansion, but he did not expect that Gao Qingyi was also a treacherous and cunning man. Fortress, but didn't even touch the top of it, really made Wanyan Xie extremely annoyed.

  On the tenth day, Wanyan Xie couldn't bear it any longer, and finally decided to send troops to Daming Mansion, and at the same time sent people to Shangjing Mansion to deliver a letter to the Wolf Lord. He strongly demanded to stop attacking the grassland and gather troops for a decisive battle with the Song army.

Currently there are 130,000 troops in Yanshan Mansion, and Wanyan Xie also ordered Wanyan Xiyin to lead 30,000 Han troops to garrison Yanshan Mansion. He personally led the army of Jin Kingdom to the south, including Jurchen, Bohai, Goryeo, Khitan, Xi and other tribal armies. A total of 100,000 troops marched towards the Daming Mansion.

  Currently Wanyan Xie is also most troubled by the situation of the 50,000 gold soldiers in the Central Plains. Now the news to the south of the Yellow River has basically been cut off.

  Although the Kingdom of Jin has many intelligence points south of the Yellow River, the problem is that all the pigeons in the south of the Yellow River must pass through the Daming Mansion, and then transfer the pigeons from the Daming Mansion to Yanshan Mansion.

If the most crucial link is lost, the intelligence point in the south will lose its effect, making Jin Bing deaf and blind. Except that he learned from the intelligence point in Jingzhao Mansion that the Song Army has launched a full-scale northern expedition, he has no other details. known.

   At dusk that day, a 100,000 army arrived in Qinghe County, Enzhou. The army temporarily stationed outside the county seat, and continued southward early the next morning.

  The soldiers were busy setting up their tents. At this time, the county magistrate of Qinghe brought a businessman to look for Wanyan Xieye.

   "Magistrate Qi, what can I do with this king?"

  Wanyan Xie is also quite polite to the officials below because of his high status.

   "Firstly, the humble official came to thank His Highness for not disturbing the people, and secondly, he wanted to tell His Highness the news about the Central Plains."

  Two days ago, Wan Yanxie also ordered all states and counties in Hebei to collect information on the Central Plains. Those who provide accurate information will be rewarded. He has no way to get the information on the Central Plains himself, so he can only pin his hopes on the officials in Hebei.

  Wan Yanxie was also refreshed, and quickly asked: "What news?"

   County Magistrate Qi said to a businessman behind him: "You tell me!"

The businessman trembled and said: "Xiaomin has a shop in Xuzhou. Two days ago, he received a letter from the shop saying that the Yellow River was blocked and he could not cross the river. The letter mentioned that Xuzhou was defending to death. .”

"What!"

  Wanyan Xie also grabbed the businessman and roared angrily, "What did you say?"

  The businessman was so frightened that he couldn't get out of his wits, trembling all over, unable to utter a word, Wan Yanxie also put him down, "Where is the pigeon letter?"

The merchant tremblingly handed over a roll of pigeon letters, and Wanyan Xie also hastily opened it for a closer look. The pigeon letter in front of him really contained the news that one hundred thousand Song troops besieged twenty thousand Jin soldiers. Although there was no result, it was enough to make Wanyan Xie He was very anxious, at least the one thing he was looking forward to the most did not happen, the two golden soldiers did not merge into one.

   This is the result he most hopes for. The two Jin soldiers will be combined into one, that is, an army of 50,000. They are not afraid of any Song army, but if they are not merged, they will probably be defeated one by one.

  Wan Yanxie also felt blood dripping from his heart, the 100,000 army is very likely to be the 100,000 Jingzhao army that Li Yanqing transferred from Guanzhong.

   After a while, Wanyan Xie also calmed down, and asked again: "Can you still send letters to me?"

   "It's okay, if the king needs it?"

   "Immediately send a pigeon letter to ask how the Xuzhou Jinbing situation is, and how the Yunzhou Jinbing situation is, ask them together, and then tell me."

   "My lord, it's getting dark, and I'm afraid it will be tomorrow morning at the earliest."

   "Then send a letter tomorrow morning, I hope to get accurate information before dark tomorrow."

   "The villain understands!" Wanyan Xie immediately sent a team of soldiers to follow the businessman.

  Wan Yanxie also let out a long sigh. If it is because of the imperial court's strategic mistakes, it temporarily let go of the Song Dynasty to attack the grassland, which led to today's passivity.

   But the grasslands had to fight. There was nothing wrong with this strategic decision. In the final analysis, the strength of the Jin Kingdom was not enough.

When they attacked Liao that year, most of the 500,000 Liao soldiers and the 200,000 Xi soldiers were killed. If they had accepted the surrender at that time, then the Jin Kingdom's military strength would not be as stretched as it is today. If it is destroyed, then Liu Yu and Gao Qingyi will have enough financial resources to recruit troops.

  But it's useless to regret now.

Wanyan Xie was also pacing back and forth with his hands behind his back. He remembered another thing and couldn't help being upset for a while. The wolf master actually sent Wanyan's mother to be the deputy commander, and even possessed the order of the golden wolf head, which made Wanyan Xie also very upset. A distrust was felt.

   It is said that the wolf lord reached some kind of agreement with Bohai and Goryeo to give half of the people and property in Hebei to the Bohai and Goryeo departments, but this is unacceptable to Wanyanxie.

   It is estimated that Wanyan Jiamu came here to complete this agreement.

  Wanyan Xie gritted his teeth secretly, as long as he was in Hebei for a day, Wanyan's mother would never want to loot Hebei.

  (end of this chapter)

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