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

At this time, in the camp of the Chen Qiaoyi Jin Bing Chinese Army outside the city of Kaifeng Mansion, Wanyan Zongwang, Wanyan Yanmu and others had just made a plan of "deceitful peace", and sent Cai Songnian to Kaifeng Mansion as an envoy. In the Kaifeng Mansion City, Zhao Ji, an official who seems to be very sick, is now sitting on the dragon chair in the Chongzheng Palace, and the civil and military ministers and the prince Zhao Huan, who has also cured the disease, are discussing the strategy of defending the city and calling on the heroes of the world.

At this time, Zhao Ji's father and son and the civil and military forces in the palace did not know that the dawn of Hebei's resistance to gold had appeared, let alone that the division of the king of Qin in the world was moving closer to the surroundings of Kaifeng Mansion. Because the communication between Kaifeng Mansion 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 archery from the Kaifeng forbidden army and the troops that withdrew into Kaifeng Mansion from various places, they formed a royal cavalry, which could escort the bearer of the Yintai Division or the horses sent by the inner court to bear the edict and break out of the siege. However, the marching officers from all over the country were unable to break through the obstruction of the Jin soldiers under the escort of the cavalry and rushed into Kaifeng Mansion. Therefore, it is difficult for the current Great Song Dynasty to get news outside Kaifeng, which means that it is a bit blind and deaf.

Because they didn't know the situation outside, the Great Song Dynasty court lost the ability to command blindly, so now the losses of the Song army on the anti-Jin battlefields in Hedong and Hebei are not very large......

Of course, Zhao Ji and Zhao Huan, traitors and unconscious officials of the Manchu Dynasty, will not give up their efforts to sabotage the great cause of resisting Jin by means of blind command.

Even if they don't know anything about the situation outside Kaifeng Mansion, they have to do their best to command blindly, otherwise how can they reflect the national conditions of the Great Song Dynasty?

Isn't the Great Song Dynasty court's "soldiers also collected, wealth also collected, rewards and punishments, and everything collected"? Since all power belongs to the imperial court, how can the imperial court not blindly command with its eyes closed? If they don't command blindly, isn't it tantamount to delegating power to the localities?

And the latest blind command method of the Great Song Dynasty is, of course, to order troops to be sent to all parts of the country!

Now Zhao Ji and Zhao Huan, the two "main battle factions", have no country in their hearts, only Kaifeng Mansion in Tokyo, where they are located. Therefore, they did not consider how Hebei, Hedong, Shaanxi, Jingdong, Jingxi and other places should resist Jin, but only sent edicts urging troops to go out one after another, and asked the guards in various places to immediately send troops to rescue Kaifeng. If the guards have no troops to send at hand, then immediately organize the Qinwang Righteous Army to be sent to Kaifeng Mansion to rescue them.

As for how the food and salary of so many Qinwang troops were spent, how the training was carried out, and whether the equipment could be gathered, they didn't ask or want to do anything.

What's more, they have forgotten that Hebei already has a Marshal Mansion that controls everything, and they also sent edicts one after another to the pacification envoys of Hebei's east and west roads, asking them to quickly send troops to save Kaifeng Mansion, which was surrounded by golden soldiers! even crossed the Hebei Marshal's Mansion and directly appointed a group of Hebei state officials, and asked them to send troops to Kaifeng Mansion as soon as possible......

However, although the edict ordering the king of Qin was sent out every day, he did not receive any reply, and I don't know if anyone listened to it? I don't even know how many territories have fallen to the enemy, and how many courtiers have become second ministers?

Therefore, Zhao Ji, Zhao Huan and the hearts of the Manchu Dynasty Wenwu are actually very anxious...... However, on the surface, he had to hold high the banner of anti-gold, and no one dared to show half a point of weakness!

"Father, yesterday there were more than 10,000 gold thieves, and they once again approached Ruisheng Fort in the north of the city, and were repelled by the officials, soldiers and people with random 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 did not dare to fight, and prevented Minzhuang from firing arrows to kill the enemy, which caused public indignation, which was really hateful! The son asked his father to send an edict to severely punish this member! ”

The person who is impeaching the generals of the Shengjie Army who are unfavorable in the battle is the Great Song Guoben and the crown prince Zhao Huan. Although he resigned as the crown prince in public that day, he did not get Zhao Ji's approval - at that time, Zhao Ji still had the intention of running away, so he had to keep Zhao Huan. Not only was he not allowed to resign, but even the official position of Kaifeng Mansion Yin was granted to him as usual.

But he didn't expect that when Zhao Huan became tougher, he actually used the power of Kaifeng Mansion Yin and the support of Li Gang to bring the people in Kaifeng Mansion under his control.

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

Moreover, Kaifeng Minzhuang and the Sanya Forbidden Army are actually connected...... One of the main sources of the Sanya Forbidden Army is the so-called "battalion children", which are actually hereditary father-son soldiers. If many Sanya soldiers have a family tree to check, they can check all the way to the early years of the Great Song Dynasty or even the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms. And the fathers and sons of these three soldiers may be a member of the Kaifeng Minzhuang, and they can receive a share of money and grain from Kaifeng Mansion.

If Zhao Huan is supported by these people, then at least half of the three soldiers will also support him, the crown prince.

In addition to Minzhuang and Sanyabing, there are two other armed forces in the city of Kaifeng Prefecture, one is the Western Army, including Shengjie Army and some Western Army troops led by Liu Yanqing - Liu Yanqing was demoted because of the defeat during the Xuanhe Northern Expedition, but there were soldiers in his hands, so it didn't take long to get recovered, and before Kaifeng was besieged, he led more than 10,000 Western troops to be ordered to enter the city.

There is also a force that is the army of the Imperial City Division, Zhao Kai took the essence of it, but most of the personal officials stayed in Kaifeng Mansion.

Now the former is in the hands of Tong Guan and Liu Yanqing, and the latter is in the hands of another "internal general" Tan Jin, who is trusted by Zhao Ji.

And these two troops are relatively close to Zhao Ji, and they are so-so and are on Zhao Ji's side.

Therefore, the pair of loving fathers and filial sons in Kaifeng City now want to catch a little army, and they are also guarding against each other.

Although the father and son have little confidence in such a thing as Jin, none of them dare to betray the country lightly...... I was afraid that I would not succeed in betraying the country, but I provoked the people of Kaifeng who were determined to resist Jin, and finally let the other party take advantage of public opinion to oust him!

Although the Kaifeng people's will to resist gold is firm, their ability to resist gold is not very reliable...... What Zhao Huan said now is caused by the poor archery skills of Kaifeng Minzhuang.

There are more than 10,000 gold thieves, of course there is none. In fact, hundreds of Jin cavalry approached Ruisheng Fort, a branch fort in the north of Kaifeng City, and the people stationed there fired thousands of arrows as soon as they were nervous...... People are just a few hundred steps away, you shoot a hair!

And Xin Xingzong, the commander of the Shengjie army, took hundreds of Shengjie army soldiers to support Ruisheng Fort, only to find that the people who were guarding the fortress were indiscriminately releasing arrows, so he didn't want to stop it, and as a result, he provoked Kaifeng Minzhuang, who was extremely dissatisfied with the Shengjie army, and a civilian official who supervised the army in Ruisheng Fort. After the fight, he was also sent to Kaifeng Mansion and handed over to the crown prince Zhao Huan.

Although Zhao Huan knew that Xin Xingzong was not a big mistake, he still went to prison, and today he sued this unlucky guy at the court meeting!

Of course, Zhao Ji also knew the reason, but he didn't dare to speak for Xin Xingzong now—it seemed that his illness had not yet healed, but his symptoms had changed.

Zhao Ji was wondering whether to demote Xin Xingzong to Lingnan for resettlement (I don't know if the gold thieves outside the city will be released?). At that time, a gate Xuanzan hurriedly rushed in from outside the hall, and saw the official Zhao Ji first bowed, and then loudly said: "Your Majesty, the guards of Ruisheng Fort have just sent someone to report, saying that more than 10,000 gold thieves have come to the fort, please send soldiers to rescue immediately!" ”