The night was cold, the sky was drizzling, and the cold wind blew, chilling to the bone, and darkness enveloped the entire canal.

Under the cover of the surging sound of the river, the big boats on the river are heading south in the night. The ship was full of black-pressed soldiers and war horses, horses picked bells, human titles, and the huge warships did not make a sound.

Wanyan Zongbi stood at the bow of the boat and gently shook the rain on his clothes. For the southerners, it was already a little cold at this time, but the Jurchen men who grew up in the white mountains, black waters, and ice and snow teams under Wanyan Zongbi were not cold at all.

Looking at the men at the bow of the boat who were shivering in the night rain, with their necks shrunched, their noses and faces swollen, Wan Yan Zongbi shook his head with disdain. These guys are too unfrozen.

This time, he served as the commander of the Eastern Route Army of the Jurchen Army, and did not encircle Wang Song with the Pucha Shijianu Army in the Middle Road. Instead, he waved his troops south, preparing to defeat the Song court in one fell swoop, capture Zhao Ji's royal family, and thus isolate Wang Song.

The Jurchen army destroyed the city and uprooted the villages, and everywhere it went, it was destroyed, but there was no construction, and only military occupation was known, but there was no propaganda and education. This also made them have to achieve the occupation of the Song Dynasty in two ways, one is to follow the story of breaking the Liao and capturing the Liao Emperor and capture the Song Emperor; The second is to support the puppet regime and rule the Song people in the jurisdiction on their behalf.

As for the "Jianyan Peace Proposal", it has long been thrown out of the back of my mind. Treaties are meant to be torn up, and in the face of interests, there is no etiquette and shame.

China is a vast land, and the terrain difference between the north and the south is huge, if there is no pseudo-Qi sailor, Wanyan Zongbi would not dare to be so bold, and he can rest assured that he will go south.

The warships stopped on the water twenty miles north of Yangzhou, and the army went ashore one after another. The warship was moored on the shore, and if you look closely, the soldiers on board are all dressed and dressed in the Song army.

"Send out rangers, and all the Song people you encounter will be killed, and you must not leak the news."

Wanyan Zongbi's eyes were cold, which made the Han'er generals next to him shudder.

"The foot soldiers entered the city through the north gate, and after entering the city, they opened the east water gate. The sailors traveled along the river, entered the city from the East Water Gate, fought together, and broke through Yangzhou City. ”

In the darkness, there were one or two screams from time to time, obviously the rangers of the golden people were searching for secrets. Huainan East Road has been through the war and has long been rotten. Both sides of the canal have been repeatedly destroyed, and the population is even more sparse. Those poor people who slept soundly in the winter, under the vigorous search and killing of the Jin people, I don't know how many people are left.

Even if some people escaped in the dark night and were scattered, no one realized that it was the Jin people who surrounded and suppressed them, but thought that they were the officials and soldiers of the Great Song Dynasty.

In these years, the official and bandit family, not to mention that it was the Han under the Jurchens, who could tell clearly.

"General Li, it's not early, it's time for you to hit the road."

Seeing that the east was pale, Wanyan Zongbi gave a military order to the fierce general Li Qiong on the side.

Li Qiong, the pacification envoy of Chuzhou of the Great Song Dynasty and the commander of the Huainan East Road, immediately threw himself into the arms of the Jin people when Yan Zongbi waved his army south.

Historically, in the seventh year of Shaoxing, Li Qiong led 40,000 soldiers under him to betray the Song Dynasty and join the pseudo-Qi, the so-called Huaixi Mutiny. If history has changed, Li Qiong took a step earlier and took refuge in Jinren.

It was precisely because he took refuge in the Jin people that the northern gate of Yangzhou was opened, and the Song army garrison generals in Yangzhou were especially ignorant of it. It was also at his suggestion that Wanyan Zongbi made up his mind to attack Yangzhou at night and destroy the new army that the Great Song Dynasty was building.

The sky is getting brighter, but the official road is deserted, in the barren and grassy barren fields next to the official road, rotting corpses can be seen from time to time, there are broken walls everywhere, the smell of fireworks and the smell of corpses are intertwined, making people just want to be disgusted, and the withering of people's livelihood in Huainan can be seen.

As the gates of Yangzhou City opened one by one, a new day began.

"Fourth brother, cheer up, there are a lot of people today, and there is still some oil and water."

At the gate of the north gate of Yangzhou City, Liu Yuan held the spear in his hand, and when he saw the people coming to the city gate on the official road, his eyes lit up, and he couldn't help but stand up straight.

Li Si also cheered up. Look at the people who are coming to the city gate on the official road. I also muttered in my heart, there are not so many people on weekdays, could it be that because of the rampant banditry, these people have fled.

"Fourth brother, it's not me saying you, go to the tile. It's better to quickly find a Hun family and give you the Li family to inherit the ancestry. ”

Liu Yuan's words made Li Si slump down again with the little interest he had just mentioned.

"Life is still early and happy, and it is not easy to drag the family with you. You just say that we will have three dollars a month, eat, drink and Lazar, how much is left, and which little lady can take a fancy to us!"

Li Si was born and raised in Yangzhou City, and since he became an adult, he has been begging for a living in Yangzhou City. The restaurant guys, the coolies on the ferry, the apprentices of the money village, the public servants of the yamen, he has done a lot of work in all walks of life, but none of them can persevere.

Up to now, the city of Yangzhou is depressed, and it is becoming more and more difficult to find a way to live, just in time for the imperial court to recruit new troops, and others are clever, and they have not passed the age, so they have become the new army of the imperial court.

When he entered the camp, he was hit a lot, and several times he tried to escape, but he had to persevere. Now that Yangzhou City is in a depression, it is really not easy to find a way to make money.

However, in his heart, he will only do this "thief with army" thing for a while, and once he has the opportunity, he will leave immediately.

Another soldier, Liu Yuan, is an honest farmer, and all he thinks about all his life is how to save enough money, marry a daughter-in-law, and pass on the lineage.

"Stop, open your baggage, we're going to take a look."

Liu Yuan stopped a strong man, Lan Fang, and asked with a frown.

The man was dressed in ordinary people's clothes, about 30 years old, and he looked like a spirited person. He frowned, pulled out some money from his body, and handed it over.

Liu Yuan was happy in his heart, and quickly took it, shook his head, and motioned for the man to continue walking.

The man continued to walk towards the gate of the city, and the people behind him came up one after another, and there were quite a few of them.

A few more men were released, and Liu Yuan was happy in his heart. Today, this is lucky, the past few men are all rich, and all of them obediently offer some money.

Li Si frowned, there were some doubts in his heart, but he couldn't say why.

"Stop, take your bow and arrows!"

Liu Yuan pointed to a man with a big bow on his back and a quiver full of feather arrows, and shouted loudly.

Liu Yuan's loud shout made Li Si wake up in an instant. It turned out that the people who entered the city today were all strong men, and there were not many old and young women and children.

Li Si immediately picked up the spear in his hand, took a step back, and shouted loudly: "There is an enemy attack, hurry up and close the city gate!"

Hearing Li Si's shout, Liu Yuan was holding a few copper coins in his hand, and he was at a loss, and asked loudly:

"Fourth brother, it's okay, you shout ......"

Before Liu Yuan finished speaking, there was a pain in his lower abdomen, and he had been stabbed into it by the man opposite.

Seeing that it had been exposed, Li Qiong immediately pulled out the long knife on his waist and shouted loudly: "Do it, control the city gate!"

The men drew their weapons one after another and rushed towards the city gate, and many men had already taken the crossbow machines in their hands and shot towards the Song soldiers at the city gate and the city wall.

Li Si ran towards the gate of the city, and before he could run a few steps, his heart ached, and he had been shot to the ground by a feather arrow.

Li Qiong's heart was burning

, shouting loudly, urging his subordinates to move forward. His soldiers were still forty or fifty steps away from the city gate, and if the Song soldiers closed the city gate, wouldn't it be a failure.

Caught off guard, there was an uproar up and down the city wall. Dozens of Song soldiers fell in response, screaming endlessly, and the rest of the Song soldiers were stunned, seeing the golden soldiers rushing madly in front of them, they shouted and fled backwards, and the city wall and the city gate were suddenly empty, and there was no one.

Li Qiong had just crossed the moat and saw the Song soldiers fleeing in a hurry, and the weapons and flags were thrown everywhere, and he was stunned like his subordinates.

This is the official army of the Great Song Dynasty!

"Brothers, quickly occupy the city gates and enlarge the army into the city!"

Li Qiong shouted loudly, commanded the Han'er, and quickly controlled the city gate and the city gate tower, and the big flag in Han'er's hand waved.

Smoke and dust rose on the official road, the Jurchen cavalry of the brigade rolled in, and on the north city wall, the few remaining Song soldiers collapsed in an instant.

They ran backwards one after another, crying for their father and mother, shouting loudly in their mouths: "Run for your life, Fanzi has entered the city!"

The routs who fled to the city shouted and screamed all the way, causing panic among the people in the city. Everyone scrambled to run home, scolding and crying endlessly, and the streets were in shambles.

Countless knights rolled into the city gates, and they marched all the way down the streets, rampage, cutting down and killing anyone they saw, which only exacerbated the fear and confusion of the people in the city.

Behind the Jurchen cavalry, countless Han'er followed closely, they were armed with guns and knives, with a fierce momentum, shouting strangely, burning and looting all the way, heading towards all parts of the city.

The Song soldiers stationed in the city fled one after another, and some dropped their swords and guns, removed their armor and uniforms, and tried to find a place to hide and escape.

Some Song soldiers couldn't dodge, so they had to pick up the swords and guns in their hands and fight with the other party. When encountering Han'er, he could hold out for a while, and the opposing cavalry was slashed and killed, and the Song army soon collapsed and fled backwards with his life.

A Jurchen knight slashed down with a knife, and the Song soldiers on the opposite side, who had no time to escape, were drenched in blood and fell down screaming. The Jurchen knight continued to ride his horse, and a four or five-year-old child was directly knocked out, and when he fell to the ground, his mouth was covered with blood, and he soon lost his life.

On the horse bridge, a group of Song soldiers struggled to resist, and they relied on the advantage of the arched bridge to shoot over dozens of Jurchen cavalry roaring with arrows. Before the Song Junyu arrows were shot, the opposing cavalry roared, slashing with knives and spears, and the Song soldiers suffered heavy casualties, and soon scattered as birds and beasts.

Wanyan Zongbi was under the command of a group of sergeants, and entered the northern city. The generals on his left and right were all smiling, and no one thought that the newly built Yangzhou City of the Song Dynasty would be opened so easily.

"The marshal is really like a god with soldiers, and the subordinates admire him very much!"

Seeing Yan Zongbi come in, Li Qiong hurriedly stepped forward to salute, and her mouth was also complimented.

"Li Qiong, I heard that the Song army has 30,000 new troops in Yangzhou, you lead Han'er, I will give you a thousand cavalry, and immediately go to the battlefield to annihilate this Song army."

Wanyan Zongbi was silent on his face, and directly gave a military order to Li Qiong.

Li Qiong hurriedly agreed, picked up the sergeant, and under the leadership of the Song soldiers, he quickly walked in the direction of the teaching field.

"Dirt Chicken Tile Dog!"

Wan Yan Zongbi shook his head disdainfully. He looked at the people and Song soldiers fleeing all over the street, his brows couldn't help frowning, and his voice became louder.

"Passing down the military order, all the armies shall not be taken captive, and those who violate the order shall be beheaded. Song Jun and Zhao Gou were dealt with first, and the property and women in the city were allowed to be plundered and imprisoned for three days. ”

Although Yangzhou City has been repeatedly devastated by wars, and a large number of people have gone south, there are at least more than 100,000 residents in this city. After this burning, killing and looting, all of these golden soldiers can return with a full load.