On the ninth day of the second month of the eighth year of Xuanhe in the Song Dynasty, early in the morning.

At this time, in the Jin army camp of Chenqiaoyi outside Kaifeng Prefecture, Wanyan Zongwang, Wanyan Jiemu and others had just decided on the "discipline of peace" plan and sent Cai Songnian to Kaifeng Prefecture to send him to Kaifeng Prefecture. In the Kaifeng Prefecture, Zhao Ji, the official who seemed to be a good person, is now sitting high on the dragon throne in Chongzheng Hall. With the civil and military ministers and the prince Zhao Huan who also cured the cowardly disease, he was discussing the strategy of defending the city and calling on heroes in the world to save the king.

At this time, Zhao Ji and his son, and the civil and military officials in the hall did not know that the dawn of anti-Jin in Hebei suddenly appeared, and they did not know that the king-supporting army in the world was moving closer to Kaifeng Prefecture. Because the communication between Kaifeng Prefecture and the outside world was blocked by the Jin cavalry, it became very difficult.

Although Li Gang selected some warriors who were good at riding and shooting from the Kaifeng Imperial Army and the troops retreated from various places to Kaifeng Prefecture to form an imperial cavalry, which could escort the undertaking officers who entered the Yintai Division or the horses sent by the inner court to bear the carrying edicts and break through the encirclement. However, the officials from various places could not break through the obstacles of the Jin soldiers under the escort of the cavalry and rushed into Kaifeng Prefecture. Therefore, it is difficult for the Song Dynasty court to get news outside the Kaifeng Prefecture, which is a bit blind and deaf.

Because he did not know the situation outside, the Song Dynasty court lost the ability to command blindly. Therefore, the Song army suffered not much losses on the anti-Jin battlefields in Hedong and Hebei...

Of course, Zhao Ji and Zhao Huan, the treacherous officials and unscrupulous officials in the court, would not give up the efforts to destroy the great cause of anti-Jin with blind command.

Even if they know nothing about the situation outside Kaifeng Prefecture, they have to do their best to command blindly, otherwise how can they reflect the situation of the Song Dynasty?

Didn’t the Song Dynasty’s court just say that “the soldiers were collected, the wealth was collected, the rewards and punishments were collected, and everything was collected”? Since all power belongs to the court, how could the court not command blindly without closing its eyes? If they don’t command blindly, wouldn’t it be like giving power to the local area?

The latest blind command method of the Song Dynasty is of course to order various places to send troops to help the king!

Now Zhao Ji and Zhao Huan, the two "war pro-sects", have no country in their hearts, only the Kaifeng Prefecture in Tokyo where they are. So they do not consider how Hebei, Hedong, Shaanxi, Jingdong, Jingxi and other places should resist the Jin Dynasty. They just ask the edicts urging soldiers to go out and ask the guards from all over the country to send troops to rescue Kaifeng immediately. If the guards have no soldiers to send, then immediately organize the rebel army to send to Kaifeng Prefecture to rescue the guards.

As for how the food and salary of so many soldiers of the kings are spent, how to carry out training, and whether the equipment can be collected, they don’t ask or think about it.

What's more, they have forgotten that Hebei already has a Marshal's Mansion that controls everything, and sent a series of edicts to the pacifiers of the east and west Hebei routes, asking them to send troops to rescue Kaifeng Mansion surrounded by Jin soldiers! They even crossed the Marshal's Mansion of Hebei and directly appointed a group of prefecture officials from Hebei, and asked them to send troops to Kaifeng Mansion as soon as possible to serve the king...

However, although the edicts ordered to serve the kings in various places were sent out every day, they received no reply. I don’t know if anyone obeyed? I don’t even know how many territories have fallen into enemies and how many ministers have become traitors?

Therefore, Zhao Ji, Zhao Huan and the civil and military officials of the court were actually very anxious... But on the surface, they had to hold up the banner of anti-Jin, and no one dared to show any weakness!

"Father, yesterday, more than 10,000 Jin thieves approached Ruisheng Fort in the north of the city again and were shot back by the government army and Minzhuang with arrows. However, when the two armies were fighting, Xin Xingzong, the commander of the Shengjie Army who led his troops to aid Ruisheng Fort, was cowardly and dared not fight, and also prevented Minzhuang from shooting arrows to kill the enemy. As a result, it aroused public anger. It was really hateful! My son asked the father to issue an edict to severely punish this person!"

The person who was impeaching the general of the Shengjie Army who was unfavorable to the war was the crown prince Zhao Huan, the founder of the Song Dynasty. Although he resigned as the crown prince in public that day, he did not obtain Zhao Ji's approval. At that time, Zhao Ji was still thinking of running away in Nei Zen, so he had to keep Zhao Huan. Not only did he not allow him to resign, but he was still granted the official position of Kaifeng Prefecture.

But unexpectedly, when Zhao Huan became tough, he actually used the power of Kaifeng Prefecture Prefecture and the support of Li Gang, the camp commander, to put all the people in Kaifeng Prefecture under his control.

The knife in Minzhuang's hand is also a knife!

Moreover, Kaifeng Minzhuang and the Three Ya Imperial Guards are actually in common... One of the main sources of the Three Ya Imperial Guards is the so-called "children of the camp", which is actually the hereditary father and son soldiers. If many Three Ya Imperial Guards have a genealogy, they can search all the way to the early Song Dynasty and even the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms. The father and son brothers of these Three Ya Imperial Guards may be members of Kaifeng Minzhuang and can receive a piece of money and grain from Kaifeng Prefecture.

If Zhao Huan is supported by these people, at least half of the three soldiers of the yamen will support him as the founding prince.

In addition to the Minzhuang and the Sanya soldiers, there are two other armed forces in Kaifeng Prefecture City, one is the Western Army, including the Shengjie Army and some Western Army units led by Liu Yanqing. Liu Yanqing was demoted during the Northern Expedition of Xuanhe. However, they had troops, so they were restored soon. Before Kaifeng was surrounded, they led more than 10,000 Western Army orders to enter the city.

Another unit was the army of the Imperial City Department. Zhao Kai took away the essence of it, but most of the personal officials stayed in Kaifeng Prefecture.

Now the former is controlled by Tong Guan and Liu Yanqing, while the latter is controlled by Tan Zhen, another "eunuch general" trusted by Zhao Ji.

These two troops are closer to Zhao Ji, and are considered to be Zhao Ji's side.

So the kind and filial sons in Kaifeng City want to capture some army now and are also careful to beware of each other.

Although the father and son had no confidence in fighting against Jin, neither of them dared to stolen the country easily... for fear that the stolen country would fail, but they provoked the Kaifeng people with a firm will to resist Jin, and finally let the other party quit the stage with public opinion!

Although the Kaifeng people's will to resist Jin was firm, their ability to resist Jin was not very reliable... What Zhao Huan said now was because of the poor archery skills of Kaifeng Minzhuang.

Of course there are more than 10,000 Jin thieves, of course there are not. In fact, only hundreds of Jin cavalry approached Ruisheng Fort, the Zhibao Fort in the north of Kaifeng City, and the Min Zhuang stationed there was tens of thousands of arrows at the same time when he was nervous... They were just a few hundred steps away, so you can shoot!

The commander of the Shengjie Army, Xin Xingzong, brought hundreds of Shengjie Army soldiers to support Ruisheng Fortress. When he arrived there, he found that Min Zhuang, who was guarding the fortress, was shooting arrows randomly. So he overestimated himself to stop him. As a result, he angered the Kaifeng Min Zhuang, who was already extremely dissatisfied with the Shengjie Army, and a civil servant in Ruisheng Fortress. These people were not afraid of the hundreds of Shengjie Army soldiers. They caught Xin Xingzong and were almost killed! After the fight, he sent him to Kaifeng Prefecture and handed him over to the crown prince Zhao Huan to set off.

Although Zhao Huan knew that Xin Xingzong had no major mistakes, he still put him in prison and sued this unlucky person at the court meeting today!

Of course, Zhao Ji knew the whole story, but he didn't dare to speak for Xin Xingzong now - it seemed that his cowardice had not yet been cured, but the symptoms had changed.
Chapter completed!