This time, the Great Song Dynasty finally tasted the bitter fruits of its own planting.

Since Zhao Kuangyin launched the Chenqiao Mutiny as a military general to seize the throne that did not belong to him, the Great Song Dynasty court has always been strict against military generals, and has little trust, plus they think that they have learned from the Tang Dynasty's death in the feudal towns, as well as a series of military generals of the five dynasties and ten kingdoms to kill the monarch, and the following lessons are to continue to suppress the military generals, so that the generals become precarious, marionette-like existence.

And in this era, because the king is mediocre and traitorous in power, the life of the soldiers is even more difficult, and even worse than that of ordinary people. Because the family property and land of ordinary people are in their own names after all, even if corrupt officials and landlords want to take advantage of it, they always have to find a suitable excuse and opportunity, but the property of ordinary soldiers at the bottom is different.

In almost every state capital and county in the world, there have been cases where the land under the name of the Xiangjun has been annexed by the local officials and gentry by extraordinary means. Moreover, at this time, the already low-status soldiers could not even find a place to redress their grievances, and in the end, most of them had to flee the local area in order to survive and go elsewhere to beg for a living. And this is exactly what those corrupt officials want, and they can embezzle the food and salary of the fleeing soldiers into their own pockets.

In some places, there have even been cases of superiors and officials deliberately forcing the families of the soldiers below to be ruined and leave their hometowns in order to eat empty quotas and drink the blood of soldiers. And when these corrupt officials are full of fat because of this, the defensive strength of the cities everywhere will also drop again and again, and the so-called tens of thousands of standing soldiers and horses are just numbers on the books.

And in the final analysis, all this is the result of the imperial court's contempt for military affairs and strict prevention of military generals from gaining power. It can be said that except for a few important Guancheng that still have a certain number of soldiers and horses stationed, today's Great Song Dynasty is almost an empty shelf without defense. In fact, this is also the reason why tens of thousands of golden soldiers in history can enter the Central Plains from the north in a few months like no one, and finally easily occupy Bianliang in Tokyo.

This time, although the threat of the Jin Kingdom had been completely eliminated, Sun Tu led his army of thieves from north to south, constantly attacking cities and plundering land.

The soldiers of the world have suffered from the injustice of the imperial court for a long time, and now the well-known General Sun came under the banner of making them self-reliant and saving them from the sea of suffering, coupled with the banner of eliminating thieves and clearing the king's side, which of the defenders in the city along the way will work for those corrupt officials who continue to exploit and mistreat themselves?

What's more, even if someone really wants to defend the city, they can't do it. The soldiers and horses of the Xiang army, which were supposed to be used to guard the place, had already been forced away by those officials, and the part that was left behind had also been ordered by the imperial court to be transferred to the north to support the border army and fight against the Liao army - that is to say, a considerable part of the soldiers and horses in this thief army originally came from this northern state capital.

In this way, things have become simpler and simpler, with the help of Neiying, who is familiar with everything in the local area, Sun Tu Bacheng is even more powerful, and in just one month, it has swept the entire territory of Hebei, Xiangzhou, Bozhou, Huaizhou, Puyang...... Countless big cities are like the mansion of the daimyo, and the moment the thieves and soldiers come to the city, the local officers and soldiers have opened the city gate and directly welcomed the righteous into the city.

Even in the city of Xiangzhou, the local defenders and the people acted together, and killed dozens of officials and their families from the local prefect before the arrival of the thief army, plus the Han clan, the largest local wealthy family, to welcome the arrival of the army. You must know that this Xiangzhou Han family is the descendant of Han Qi, a famous minister of the Great Song Dynasty, and whether it is in the court or the opposition, it is an amazingly powerful existence.

But it is precisely because the Han family is so powerful that they have almost monopolized all the interests of the entire Xiangzhou territory in the previous decades, and with the continuous expansion of the family, ordinary people and merchants have been forced to the point where they can only survive by relying on their noses.

When there was no other choice, the people had to endure. But when Sun Tu raised the banner of eliminating thieves and rolled to kill, it finally ignited the anger in the hearts of these oppressed people, and before the army could be killed, the people in the city had already taken the first step and returned the suffering that the Han family had inflicted on them tenfold.

When Sun Tu led the army into the city, he learned that more than 200 members of the Han family had been killed, and the male was killed by all the rioters. For the funeral of the entire Xiangzhou Han family, there are hundreds of local officials and their families......

In this regard, Sun Tu didn't want to investigate much, but just asked someone to collect and burn these corpses, and then find a vacant land outside the city to bury the matter hastily. In fact, even Sun Tu himself was shocked by the results of this riot, you must know that he also dealt with the descendants of the Han family in Xiangzhou, I really couldn't imagine that the great Song dynasty family, which could almost turn black and white upside down at that time, would end up so miserably today.

This may be the power of the people's will. Water can carry a boat, or it can overturn a boat!

With the experience of the tragic accident in Xiangzhou, the resistance of the cities after that was even weaker to the extreme. Sun Tu's march to the south was almost all used on the road. By the end of the winter month, the thief army, which had captured the entire territory of Hebei, deployed troops on the north bank of the Yellow River, preparing to cross the river south and enter Gyeonggi, and the front of the army was directed at Bianliang, Tokyo.

It was also at this time that the last capable army from the Great Song Dynasty also appeared, drove to the south bank of the Yellow River, and almost confronted the thief army across the river. This is an army urgently transferred from Gyeonggi, Huainan and other places, mainly from various places, and then attached to the forbidden army, the number of 180,000 people, the Great Song Dynasty official army. And its coach is Zhang Shuye, who had dealt with Sun Tu earlier!

Although relying on the timely northward movement of the 180,000 army and the natural danger of the surging Yellow River, the footsteps of the thief army to the south were finally temporarily blocked, but Sun Tu's army this time quickly shook the entire Great Song Dynasty, and countless people began to react accordingly-

On the twentieth day of the winter month, just as Sun Tu led his army to set up camp on the north bank of the Yellow River to find a ship, Tokyo Bianliang had already shown a rare panicked scene. The streets of Tokyo, which should be bustling with pedestrians on weekdays, are still walking today, and the rest of the people have long since taken refuge in their homes.

It's not that the people of the capital have felt the threat of the soldiers and horses in front, but because several yamen have issued a strict order to clean the streets for the first time. Many people who had been talking about the war ahead had been arrested by the court spies who had suddenly appeared on charges of treason, and now the prisons in Kaifeng Mansion and the Criminal Department are full of innocent people. Before the thief army arrived, the city was already full of grass and trees, and the rumors were loud.

And what is even more nervous is the ruling officials headed by Cai Jing and other traitorous ministers. You must know that their names were written by Sun Tu openly in the text of the army, that is to say, once Sun Tuzhen led the troops into Tokyo, others may still have a glimmer of life, but they will definitely die.

If it was before, the wind and rain that Cai Jing had experienced as an official for many years would not have been too serious, but now, as the news of the continuous capture of the city in front of them came back, they were really afraid.

"In just less than two months, he killed from Youzhou to the edge of the Yellow River, and none of the dozens of cities in Hebei could stop the rebels......" Holding the stack of battle reports in his hand, Cai Jing's veteran hand was already trembling with the naked eye, but he didn't know if it was because of anger or panic, maybe both.

"These local officials are really rice buckets, the court and they are so generous, do they repay them like this? Hardly any city could hold on for a few days. Liang Shicheng also scolded loudly: "Damn, they all deserve to die!" It seems that he wants to use such a curse to reassure himself a little.

"Has the Sun family held it all there?" Suddenly, Cai Jing asked with a gloomy face again.

"Since the news of Sun Tu's rebellion reached the capital, I have let people see all the Sun family dead. If it weren't for the Taishi, you confessed that you couldn't hurt their lives, I'm afraid that they would have all been killed by inch! Liang Shicheng immediately distorted his face and said, with a little doubt in his words.

The other people present were actually a little puzzled in their hearts, why Cai Jing didn't let them arrest the family of the traitor leader Sun Tu for questioning. Facing the gaze of these people, Cai Jing smiled bitterly: "Don't you want to kill them?" It's really not allowed. Do you know that just a few days ago, the forbidden army has already moved troops and horses to the vicinity of the Yuehou Mansion, if you really order the killing, I am afraid that those forbidden troops will be the first to make a rebellion. ”

"They dare!"

"The old man has already found out that Sun Tu's wife is the daughter of the Di family, do you think they dare?" Cai Jing sneered: "Now we are just surrounding his mansion, of course those forbidden troops will not do anything, but once they really arrest people, with the courage of Di Yingyang and others, as well as the team left by Sun Tu in the forbidden army, there will inevitably be a big disaster."

"Also, this inscription has just come from the north, so you should all take a look." Cai Jing, as he spoke, handed a brand new book in his hand to Liang Shicheng in front of him. When the latter saw it, his face changed again, and with the transmission of this document, the people who were still aggressive before immediately became saw-mouthed gourds, and they didn't dare to shout for anything to kill Sun Tuman.

Because the content of this is very straightforward - if anyone dares to kill the lives of the families of the soldiers under Sun Tu, when the army arrives, they will kill the officials of the Manchu Dynasty, and no one will be left!

If this were said by others, these officials might not take it too seriously, but Sun Tu, especially Sun Tu, who had the incident of the destruction of the Han family in Xiangzhou, said that its deterrent power was enough to suppress everyone. Some people even began to think about leaving the Sun family behind, maybe they could also play a threatening role when the army really reached the city.

In this regard, although Sun Turen is still north of the Yellow River, his deterrence has invaded all the officials in Tokyo like the cold wind of this winter.