On the eighth year of Xuanhe in the Song Dynasty, on the eighth day of the first lunar month, a large group of infantry and cavalry had already been set up at the Nanhe Gate of Daming Prefecture in Beijing in the Song Dynasty. When the Jin thieves had already reached the edge of the Yellow River, this scene really scared the people and gentry in the Daming Prefecture.

Could it be that the Jin soldiers have entered the Daming Mansion and are about to attack the city!

After all, the famous gentry and people, who were frightened, squeezed into the long street in Nanhemen and looked at the city gate. Some natives with familiar heads simply walked along the horse road in the outer city of Daming Mansion to the city wall, wanting to climb high and look into it.

There are defenses on the top of the city wall, and there are many single and double-slight cannons that can be used to fire mud bullets, stone bullets. This is a light trencher that is not too far away, but it is a large number. It is used to destroy enemy siege equipment near the city wall.

Right in front of the lightning, a daughter's wall was built. There were also leather and bamboo fences hanging on the wall to cover the arrows and stones, and outside the wall was a row of fork wood several feet higher than the wall.

The daughter wall is a good place to hide soldiers, which is equivalent to a trench on the city wall. Even if the enemy sets up a little cannon outside the city, it will be difficult to hit the defenders squatting against the daughter wall.

Paichamu is a tall wooden fence that can prevent enemies climbing up the city from climbing over the daughter's wall directly. The defenders can lean on the cover of the daughter's wall and use long spears and crossbows to kill enemies who climb the city.

In front of the daughter's wall is the battlements of the city wall. There are piles of rolling wooden stones leaning against the battlements. Of course, these are used to smash people!

At every distance on the city, there are car-mounted plaques to block the road. They are wrapped in large wooden boards with iron leaves, placed on wheels, and placed on top of the city. This is a tool used to prevent the enemy troops who are climbing the city from attacking along the city wall, but now it blocks the famous people who want to look up at the city.

At this time, the imperial guards stationed in Daming Mansion had already left the city to line up, so the people guarding the city walls were all local local soldiers. Many people lived in the streets and alleys within Nanhemen, and were fellow villagers with Daming people who wanted to see from afar, so the two sides simply started talking through the gap between the Gange boards.

"How come this Grand Marshal, why are there so many (so many) soldiers leaving the city? Is it because the Jin thief's soldiers have come to Daming?"

A veteran lieutenant wearing a war jacket and a Fan Yang hat waved his hand and said to the people who asked: "Don't say that if the Jin thief came to Daming, Cai Dayin would not use earth and stone to block the city gate to defend himself? How dare he send troops out of the city to resist the battle?"

"What? Cai Dayin has also left the city? Could it be that he is welcoming some distinguished guests?"

"How is it possible? Cai Dayin is also a lucky husband, and he was a Privy Councillor. He was in the Hebei territory. Who can work for him to get out of the city?"

"Maybe the official commander came to Hebei in person?"

Some people mentioned the official family, and the famous people squeezed on the horse road stopped talking, and turned their anticipated eyes to the easy-to-talk old captain.

The old captain was really a well-informed person. Looking at everyone's expectation, he sighed in a deep voice: "It would be better if the official family was willing to come... It's a pity that the official family came not, but His Highness Prince Yun, the son of the official family!"

"Prince Yun? Why did a great king come?"

"What is a great king coming to Daming Mansion to do?"

"Yes, the king of this dynasty doesn't travel far!"

The old captain was mysterious and lowered his voice: "What else can the king of this dynasty do when he comes to Hebei? Of course, he made peace with the Jin thieves!"

The people of Daming who asked were all over the place, "Can they really make peace? Can the Jin people agree?"

The old captain sighed again: "Isn't what the Jin people ask for gold, silver and treasure goods? The officials have money. If they have all the money, are they still afraid that they can't make peace?"

The people sighed one after another.

"Oh, it's all people's money and cream, it's just giving it to people..."

"I don't know how much I have to give it? Is there no more taxes?"

"There will definitely be tax-increased, otherwise you can expect the official to dig out from the warehouse?"

"If you increase the tax, just increase the tax. It's better than if the thief is in, we kill them..."

"Oh, it's all the hardships of the people!"

When the well-informed people were talking, the Hebei Transport Authority, Cai Mao, was neatly guarded the Nanhe Gate in the outer city of Daming Mansion, guarding his prime minister's demeanor, looking at the south without squinting, letting the north wind blow his official robe sound.

There was a large group of officials from the Hebei Yunsi and Daming Prefecture standing behind him, most of whom were small officials in green robes, and there were also several large officials in red robes. Three of them were wearing swords and huddled on the corners, and they should be military officers.

The military officers in the Song Dynasty implemented the military uniforms of the military officers, which means that the military uniforms of civil and military officers were exactly the same, and it was difficult to distinguish them by looking at the official uniforms. The Daming Mansion is now on the front line, so military officers should naturally go out of the city with swords to show their preparations for war.

Two of the three military officers were wearing breeze robes, obviously both of whom were above the sixth rank. One of them was about fifty years old, with a gray beard and thick, with short figure, and bright eyes. The other was about forty years old, with a white face and a slim chin without a beard. There was also an military officer in a green robe who was extremely grown up, thirty-five and sixty years old, with a big beard on his face, and just rubbed his hands there: "I don't know when the thief can fight with the golden thief. If we can kill one after another and then discuss peace, we can also get some heads and turn a few officials!"

He murmured there, but the two high-ranking officials beside him looked at him. The short beard, about 50 years old, said with a stern face: "Spray Han Wu, you can't say anything like this! We fight the man just obeys the orders of war or peace. That's a military plan, how can a warrior interfere with?"

The beardless eunuch also lowered his voice and said, "Commander Han, be careful! Today is not in the camp... If the husband of Transportation heard it, our family will not protect you!"

The man called "Po Han Wu" just sighed helplessly and closed his mouth and stopped talking. But at the same time, a group of civil servants in green robes started to talk. They were all civil servants, but they were not as brave as three military officers (one of whom was an eunuch with the title of Jiedushi). They were still talking about whatever they wanted.

"Have you heard that this time, Prince Yun came to Hebei to spend 3 million yuan and a Yanshan Mansion to buy a gold refund thief!"

"Three million yuan in annual monies? Really fake? In the early years, we gave the Khitan an annual monies only 500,000 yuan! How did this increase to three million?"

"It's true! Zhang Deyuan and Hu Mingzhong, who have come to serve as officials recently, said so!"

"Yes, I also heard from a few students who came back from Tokyo for the New Year's Day talk about this..."

"Three million... Yanshan Mansion that you bought for one million has to be given out. This really lost its capital! His Highness Yun also has a Jinshi, so why is he willing to do such a thing?"

"Why does he refuse? You don't know yet? The official has secretly promised another country's position. As long as the situation is 10% clear, the country's position will be replaced!"

"Be careful with your words, be careful with your words... How can we talk about the basics of the country be easy?"

Although civil officials in the Song Dynasty were not very guilty of their words, it would be better to say a few words less.

Although these green-robed civil servants had discussed the discussion, what they said had long been heard in Cai Mao's ears. But he just pretended that he had not heard anything and still stood solemnly waiting for Zhao Kai and his party to arrive.
Chapter completed!