The fire burned until noon the next day before it was finally extinguished, when the sky began to rain moderately, extinguishing the embers, the Jin soldiers began to enter the palace to clean up the wreckage, the palace has been burned to a white ground, only some blackened ruins remained, there are charred corpses everywhere, no longer identifiable, no men and women can not be seen, the soldiers put these corpses into bags, directly transported to the outside of the city for deep burial.

Li Wujun's body was accidentally found, but instead of being burned to death, he was strangled to death with ribbons by dozens of maids.

When the flames engulfed the harem, Li Wujun fled with dozens of wives and concubines to the jade pavilion in the dragon pond in the back garden, but it was already crowded with nearly a hundred maids and eunuchs who had fled first.

Li Wujun raised his sword to force them to leave, but everyone refused to leave, Li Wujun was furious and swung his sword to kill more than a dozen people in a row, and finally angered the maids, and everyone rushed up, pressed him down, and strangled Li Wujun to death with a ribbon.

Nearly 200 maids, eunuchs, and Li Wujun's wives and concubines were escorted out, they were shocked, shivering in the rain, Xu Yun couldn't bear it, and ordered the soldiers to say: "Give each of them a blanket." ”

The soldiers distributed blankets to them and took them to rest elsewhere, when an old eunuch was led by the soldiers.

The soldier reported: "General, this is the head of the palace, he knows where Li Wujun's treasure house is?" ”

Xu Yun was overjoyed, this is also something he is anxious to find, Li Wujun inherited a large amount of wealth looted by Li Baochen from Chang'an, it is said that he built a large warehouse covering an area of five acres with bluestone in the palace, but the entire palace was burned to the ground, but he did not see where the so-called bluestone warehouse was?

"Where is his treasure trove?" Xu Yun asked anxiously.

The old eunuch trembled and said, "General Hui, his treasure vault is underground, and the entrance is in his inner study. ”

Xu Yun immediately ordered: "Take him to find it!" ”

A team of soldiers walked towards the palace of King Zhao with the old eunuch, at this time, Huo Weiran came to meet Xu Yun under the leadership of Liu Kun, Liu Kun was praised by Guo Song because he had informed Chang'an in time that Li Wujun secretly smuggled iron fire and thunder, and he was rewarded for meritorious deeds after conquering Xindu City, and he was appointed as the county commander of Xindu County, and jumped from a clerk to a seven-pin county commander.

But Liu Kun's qualifications are still a little shallow, if you want to stabilize Jizhou, you have to rely on the Huo family in Jizhou County, Huo Weiran is now the assassin of Jizhou, but it is precisely because of Huo Weiran's choice that the Huo family has lost the opportunity to rise, and can only rely on their prestige in Jizhou to barely maintain their current status.

Xu Yun appeased Huo Weiran a few words, and said with a smile: "It is not my order to let Huo Yuanjun continue to serve as the assassin of Jizhou, and I have no right to make such an arrangement, this is the order of His Royal Highness the King of Jin, he hopes that Huo Yuanjun can stabilize the situation in Jizhou as soon as possible and restore the prosperity of Xindu." ”

Huo Weiran was moved in his heart, and hurriedly said: "Thank you for the trust of His Royal Highness the King of Jin, and also thank General Xu for restraining the army, which did not cause too much damage to Xindu City, nor did it cause misery to the people, I will appease the people as soon as possible, in addition, I have another request, I hope General Xu can agree." ”

Xu Yun smiled faintly and said, "Huo Yuanjun, please say, as long as the request is not excessive, I can consider it." ”

"Li Wujun is dead, the recalcitrant soldiers have also been annihilated, and there are still 16,700 soldiers who have laid down their weapons when the general enters the city, and I beg General Xu to spare them."

Xu Yun nodded, "His Royal Highness the King of Jin often said that Hebei has been destroyed for a long time, needs to recuperate, and needs a large population, so to deal with the Hebei army, we try to be tolerant, as long as it is not a great crime, but it is just a stubborn resistance, as long as we are willing to put down our weapons and surrender, we will be amnesty, so Huo Yuanjun does not have to worry." ”

Huo Weiran was overjoyed and said, "Thank you, General Xu, for being tolerant!" ”

Huo Weiran and Liu Kun left, Xu Yun then urged the horse to come to the palace, at this time, the entrance of the study had been opened, it was a heavy iron plate, after it was opened, there was a row of steps inside, and the soldiers began to carry items outward, all of which were heavy wooden boxes.

"How's it going inside?" Xu Yun asked.

A pro-soldier said in a loud voice: "General, it is very large and dry, at least two or three acres, and it is made of large bluestone around it, and it is full of wooden boxes, I don't know how many boxes. ”

Only then did Xu Yun understand that the bluestone warehouse in King Zhao's mansion was built underground, and he had misunderstood, so he immediately ordered: "Empty it all!" ”

More than 1,000 soldiers moved for an hour before all the boxes in the warehouse were moved and piled up in the open space, which looked huge, as many as two or three thousand boxes, and each box had a big lock, but I don't know where the key is?

Xu Yun nodded secretly, this should be what His Royal Highness the King of Jin asked them to look for, the old bottom of Chengde Domain.

Xu Yun immediately ordered several civilian military officers to number the boxes and transport them to the barracks in a cart.

.........

Although the city of Xindu was conquered, but the real target of Guo Song was Youzhou City, since the late Tianbao period, the imperial court has lost control of the Youyan region, which has always been the nest of An Lushan, the Anshi Rebellion broke out so far, the Youyan region has completely become an independent kingdom, and the imperial court is difficult to touch.

Youyan area generally refers to the north of the Juma River, the vast area south of Yanshan, including Youzhou, Yizhou, Danzhou, Jizhou, Pingzhou and Yanzhou, is the strategic highland of Hebei, good to mention the trend of Qiu, that is to say, just like the collar of the fur coat, carry it to carry the entire Hebei, the Central Plains, the iron horse from here, can sweep the North China Plain.

A big reason why the Northern Song Dynasty has been strategically passive is that the Liao State occupied the Youyan region, the strategic location of the Youyan region, and the large amount of advanced technology brought by the Youyan Han people.

Guo Song's army pursued the 10,000 enemy troops in Feihukou, killed nearly half of the enemy, and thousands of remnants fled back to Youzhou, and the army then occupied Yizhou, and the 15,000 Jin army led by Zhang Yun of the Flying Fox converged, so that the Guo Song army increased to 65,000 people, but a little out of Guo Song's expectations, the Yizhou military warehouse was actually an empty warehouse, and there was no grain and grass.

This frustrated Guo Song's plan to resupply in Yizhou, and he could only go to Youzhou to resupply.

Two days later, the army entered Youzhou.

In the afternoon of this day, the army arrived in Fanyang County, Fanyang County is the grain production center of Youzhou, and it was learned from the previous intelligence in Youzhou that Fanyang County has an army reserve granary, which contains tens of thousands of stone grain and a large amount of forage.

Fanyang County ordered Jiang Wenhui to lead the county officials, county lieutenants, chief bookkeepers and other officials out of the city to surrender, they heard that it was the King of Jin who personally led the army, and they couldn't help but be even more afraid, under the guidance of the soldiers, trembling came to the front of the Guo Song war horse, and everyone knelt down and saluted, "Fanyang County ordered Jiang Wenhui to lead the county to see His Royal Highness the King of Jin." ”

"Jiang County's order, all officials, please rise, the Jin army marches all the way east, and there is no offense against the people's property, don't worry!"

"Thank you, Your Highness, for your kindness!"

"Let me ask you, how much grain and grass is still in Fanyang's warehouse?"

Jiang Wenhui thought for a while and said: "There are two warehouses in Fanyang County, one is the county warehouse, the other is the military warehouse, there are 8,000 stones of grain in the county warehouse, and there are no other items, and the money is also taken away by Zhu Tao, there is more grain and grass in the military warehouse, which was originally a transit warehouse to Yizhou, as far as the humble knows, there are about 60,000 stones of grain, 10,000 stones of black beans, 100,000 quintals of forage, 10,000 sheep, and thousands of tents, which are preparing to be sent to Yizhou in the next few days." ”

Guo Song was overjoyed, the dry food they carried could only last for one day, the forage was gone, and the war horses could only nibble on the grass on the roadside, and finally got supplies in Fanyang County.

He immediately ordered the soldiers to go into the city to fetch tents in the barn and camp outside the city to rest.

The soldiers quickly set up a large camp, and then buried the pot to cook, kill the sheep and roast the meat, and feasted happily.

At the beginning of night, an old man rode a donkey and led several entourages to the front of Guo Song's camp.

"Stop!"

There were still hundreds of paces to go before the camp was greeted by several patrol soldiers.

The old man smiled and said: "Old man Lu Jingliang, the head of the Lu family in Youzhou, came from Jixian County, may I ask who your boss is?" ”

The patrol soldiers also knew the reputation of the Lu family, and the commander of the brigade hurriedly said: "The commander is His Royal Highness the King of Jin himself!" ”

Lu Jingliang was overjoyed, but he didn't expect it to be Guo Song himself, he hurriedly said: "Please inform me, I made a special trip to visit him!" ”

"Please come with us!"

The patrol took Lu Jingliang and his entourage to the front of the camp, the camp did not have a camp fence, only dug a deep trench, Lu Jingliang's entourage waited outside the camp, and Lu Jingliangze followed the soldiers into the camp.