Wang Boyan went back to Xiangzhou with great interest. Zhao Gou once again rejected his offer to go to Xiangzhou.

Then Zhao Gou waited in Cizhou City for another half a month.

In the past half a month, news has been transmitted from the south, such as the news of Fan Ne, the Xuanfu envoy of Hedong in Hebei, and Zhao Ye, the governor of the North Province, both of whom are in Hebei and hold the army in their hands.

Fan Ne was originally stationed in the area of Huazhou, guarding the Yellow River. Knowing that the Jin army had made a detour to cross the Yellow River and besieged Tokyo, he supported his troops to defend himself and did not dare to march to rescue the capital. Later, he actually led his troops south, around Tokyo, to the southern capital of Yingtianfu.

Zhao Ye, the governor of the Northern Province, was originally stationed in the Daimyo Mansion of the Northern Capital, and when he learned that the capital was under siege, he once said that he was ill. Later, he also led his troops south to the southern capital of Yingtianfu. The two armies were merged into one army, with a large number of soldiers and horses, and they called themselves "General Xuan" to the outside world, but they did not dare to take a step forward in Tokyo.

Under the city of Tokyo, the Jin army and the Song army fought for half a month, occupying a certain upper hand, but still failed to achieve an overwhelming advantage.

Zhao Gou also received news from King Kang's Mansion, but Guo Jing had been killed. King Kang's Mansion doesn't have any real capital, but it is still possible to kill a mere deputy capital. Even if this deputy capital has been appreciated by Wang Zongmiao, the commander of the palace, thinking that this is a genius, who can throw beans as soldiers, and the soldiers can be invisible, as long as he uses the Liujia regular soldiers to get 7,777 people, he can break the enemy and win, and even capture the second marshal of the Jin army alive and wait.

But Zhao Huan hasn't responded yet, He Li, Sun Fu and other ruling ministers are still hesitating, although Guo Jing has been sought after, but he is still the deputy head of the Gong Holy Army.

Zhao Gou sighed, without this Guo Jing, Tokyo City will always be able to hold on for a little longer. Zhao Song Tianxia is really sick, not only the royal family is bloodless, but those ministers have broken their brains.

How ridiculous is it to promote Guo Jing, the deputy capital of a district, to the martial arts doctor Yanzhou Assassin History?

Then there is Zhao Huan, in order to appease the hearts of the army and the people and stabilize the situation, he specially issued an edict: I have repeatedly sent envoys to pass well, and the envoys are on the road. However, the enemy was unstoppable, and the generals were unable to cooperate, so that the one-year-old Zhongjiaogi was disturbed again. How could the court be willing to use land and people? Soldiers and horses from all towns have been summoned to help defend the royal family. In Beijing, the military and civilians should feel the will and do nothing to disturb them. ”

After this edict came out, there was no news about whether there were any new soldiers and horses entering Tokyo City, but Zhao Gou had turned a cold stove into a hot stove here, even if he had closed his door and only waited for the emperor's order.

However, Hebei West Road raised the prison Wang Qizhi, promoted Changping Yang Yuan, and promoted Changping Tea and Salt official Qin Baixiang and others, or rushed to Cizhou to pay homage to him. The reason is very simple, the imperial court wants reinforcements from all over the country to defend the Beijing Division, which must set up a head, but Zhao Ye and Fan Ne are not angry, and such errands are generally led by the prince Yao, as a disguise.

Zhao Gou is obviously a ready-made tablet.

These people just came to Zhao Gou to ask for a favor, and they had also received Zhao Huan's edict from King Qin before, but they didn't dare to go. But they will not go to serve the Jin people, so they need to find an excuse or make a contribution, after the provincial Jin soldiers retreated, the court turned back to find them to settle accounts.

Wang Qizhi, Yang Yuan, Qin Baixiang and others were originally ordered to defend on the south bank of the Yellow River, and they should have been stationed in Liyang, but now they left the station without permission and ran to Cizhou.

Zhao Gou looked down on them, so he kept hanging people in Cizhou.

In addition to these officials, during Zhao Gou's stay in Cizhou, the people of Cizhou, Xiang, Wei, Xing, Wei and other states, as well as the local tyrants, all came to guard, and many of them repeatedly asked him to start troops as soon as possible and return to the capital.

Of course, Zhao Gou disagreed. Although this was a painful one, it lost the support of the Song army in Hebei.

Not to mention Zong Ze, Wang Boyan, Wang Yuan and others, even the soldiers and horses of Daimyo, Hejian and other places will form a huge gap with him. It will even form a major obstacle to his planning of the soldiers and horses of Tianfu.

The latter's strength is still not weak, and it is a very important force in the Song army at present.

He only explained that he was only ordered to send an envoy and did not receive the holy order to raise troops, so he did not dare to raise troops without authorization. Then he said that he had sent someone to bring the wax book to Beijing to tell the saint about the affairs of Hebei and the feelings of the army and the people, and now he could only stand by on the spot.

Disguise yourself as a pure and honest guinea pig.

In this way, until the arrival of Geng Nanzhong, everything has a reason.

As for why Geng Nanzhong, who went to Jinying with Nie Chang and others, actually came to Cizhou, the reason is very simple. He was cornered.

Geng Nanzhong and Nie Chang didn't see each other, but met Sticky Han first. It was a very confrontational speech, especially Nie Chang, whose bones were very hard.

He only gave the courtesy of foreign ministers to Sticky Han, and resolutely did not give big gifts, and even said, "The lord is worried about the humiliation of the ministers, and the lord humiliates the ministers to death." Death is not fearful, and it is unyielding! Words to come.

In the end, Mu Han made a decision: send Taishi Yang Tianji to lead a thousand soldiers and go to Hedong with Nie Chang to cut land; He sent Taishi Wang Wei to lead a thousand soldiers and go to Hebei to cut land with Geng Nanzhong.

However, Geng Nanzhong and Wang Wei only arrived within the boundaries of Weizhou (now Weihui). When the local soldiers and civilians heard that Wang Xiao was a golden envoy, they prepared to kill him. Seeing that the situation was not good, Wang Xiao and the others hurriedly fled. Geng Nanzhong had no choice but to ride alone to the city of Weizhou.

Xu Qin, the defender of Weizhou City, wanted to go out of the city to meet him, but the people in the city did not allow it, they said: "Geng's subordinates walk with the Jin people, and it is difficult to distinguish between good and bad, so you must not let him enter the city." "Close the city gate and prevent Geng Nanzhong from entering the city.

Geng Nanzhong was very helpless, and when he was desperate, he remembered that King Kang Zhao Gou was in Cizhou, and his son was also in Cizhou, so he turned his horse's head and went straight to Cizhou.

This result is much better than Nie Chang's. Because at this time, the Nie Chang people were already dead.

He and Yang Tianji and others came to the city of Jiangzhou, the gate of Jiangzhou was closed, and the general judgment of Zhizhou had abandoned the city and fled. Nie Chang ordered the senator Liu Cen to explain to the officers and soldiers defending the city, telling them that the saint was besieged by the Jin people in the capital, and he was in danger, and it was advisable to quickly cede the land to return the Jin people's soldiers.

When Liu Cen arrived at the city, he said: "The Holy Lord is now in danger and uneasy, and if you can cut the land, you will cut the land to relieve the urgency of the court; If you can't cut the land, why can't you protect the society by the king of soldiers? ”

Zhao Ziqing and the people of Jiangzhou thought that Liu Cen's speech was more reliable, and they were willing to listen. However, they were very angry with Nie Chang, and they believed that Nie Chang was a traitor who instigated the emperor to cut off the land, so they closed the city gate and refused to let him in.

Nie Chang saw that the soldiers and civilians of Jiangzhou were very uncooperative, so he personally came to the city and showed the holy edict.

Zhao Ziche and the people of Jiangzhou were even more angry when they saw the edict, and the old Zhao family was afraid that they would not sell it completely, so they had murderous intent. They lowered the rope and let Nie Chang and Yang Tianji climb up the rope. When Nie Chang and Yang Tianji climbed the city wall, Zhao Ziche led the army and civilians to rush up and capture Nie Chang and Yang Tianji.

Liu Cen was under the city, and when he saw that Nie Chang and Yang Tianji were both arrested, he was so frightened that he quickly fled to Shaanxi. But Nie Chang said before that if he could, he should contain Yang Tianji, and let Liu Cen and Teng Mu hurry to Shaanxi to urge the division of King Qin of the Sixth Road in Guanxi to enter Beijing as soon as possible to escort them.

The brave Nie Chang and Yang Tianji, the Liaochen who lowered the gold, were killed by the Jiangzhou people together, and they were cursed by countless people until they died, and both of them died miserably. Nie Chang died at the age of forty-nine.

Geng Nanzhong came to Cizhou, and after seeing Zhao Gou, he only said that he did not mention the matter of cutting the land, but falsely claimed that he came to see King Kang in front of the emperor's holy decree, and asked him to do his best to defend the capital with the troops of the counties of Hebei.

How did Zhao Gou not know that Geng Nanzhong and Nie Chang were ordered to cut the land?

But now Geng Nanzhong said that he was here to convey the holy decree, and he felt wrong in his heart, but what if it was wrong? Geng Nanzhong is Zhao Huan's teacher, the henchman of the new emperor known to everyone in the world, it is impossible to turn his back on the new emperor to serve Zhao Gou, right? So Geng Nanzhong's words are very credible, what about him? Isn't it just a name?

He immediately said: "In this way, the army will be famous." ”

Geng Nanzhong didn't mention anything else, so he didn't know.

Zong Ze had two doubts in his heart, even more so after seeing the proclamation. Among Geng Nanzhong's entourage were several provincial officials, so the proclamation drawn up was very standardized. However, no matter how standardized the proclamation is, it is not printed, and that is the biggest doubt.

However, Geng Nanzhong's identity is very bluffing, he is Zhao Huan's teacher, how many years have he been a hardcore. Zong Ze didn't dare to say that he was falsely preaching the holy decree even if he thought about it.

Even Geng Nanzhong himself didn't think he was pretending to pass on the holy decree, this was obviously Zhao Huan's plan, to add an empty title to Zhao Gou, and to actually send troops to others, as much as possible to urge Hebei soldiers and horses to enter the capital to defend the capital. It's just that he didn't make an order openly when he left Beijing.

After the proclamation was issued, almost every day, the local wealthy families came to visit Zhao Gou, and he didn't care about Zong Ze, so he officially organized the Generalissimo's Mansion to study the matter of raising troops.

First of all, it was passed on to Chen Yu, the prefect of the mountain, who was also capable, and refused to defend the wall in Zhongshan, and has been for more than half a year.

Zhao Gou planned to make Chen Yu and Wang Boyan deputy marshals, because they were pacification envoys, one was a scholar of the Senior Administration Palace, the other was a bachelor of the Zhilong Tuge, and they also held soldiers and horses in their hands. Zong Ze's position is the head of the Hebei Righteous Army, and he has a secret pavilion to revise, which is much worse than the previous two.

And this arrangement, but I also want Zhao to construct the grandfather who worked hard in Tokyo in history, this person is very capable of collapsing his body and not looking at people with colored glasses, which is very useful for recruiting rebels.

Then he passed on the letter to Wang Yuan of Qingyuan Mansion, taking him as the generalissimo's mansion to control, and first led troops south to join Zong Ze, and then asked Zong Ze to prepare to send troops to the Daimyo's Mansion, and then prepare to cross the Yellow River.

Zhao Gou's target was Fan Ne and Zhao Ye of Ying Tianfu, who were not good birds because they had an empty army but stood by and watched.

Zong Ze still had doubts in his heart, but seeing Zhao Gou's moves, at least this person really used troops against Jin Bing. took Li Gudu, who was in the Daimyo's mansion, which at least cut off the minions of the Jin soldiers left north of the Yellow River.

Then Zhao Gou rewarded the Li family in Nanping County, the Lan family in Pingluo County, and the Tian family in Hebi County.

These three families are all wealthy families, and they have a bit of a sense of déjà vu of the Water Margin Zhujiazhuang. They recruited militia by themselves, and the weapons and armor they used, as well as the money and food they needed, did not need the supplies of the imperial court, and they could bring their own ones.

The three families each gathered 3,000 people and rushed to Zhao Gou early. Now that Zhao Gou has no descendants at all, what could be better and more credible than these three?

A large number of empty names were scattered, and each family arranged five people as officials, one of whom was the defense envoy, and three of them served as the deputy envoys of the regiment training, so that each of the 3,000 men and horses could have a command, and the other served as the patrol of the department, because after each family organized 3,000 people, the department had its own family to serve as an inspector, which could slow down the pressure and drive the people to resist the enemy and protect the family.

At the same time, martial ranks such as Bao Yilang are even more waving a lot.

It can be said that it is a big deal, and the three families are very excited.

With such a decision, the three of them changed their doors and established an excellent relationship with Zhao Gou.

And what about Zhao Gou? It is also the best of both worlds to be able to land a soldier and a signboard.

If so, he had the idea of medicinal powder in his heart. Of course, he could directly take out the new medicine powder, but what was too easy to get would not be precious, so Zhao Gou felt that he would follow the ghosts and gods to make trouble.

Don't look at the Zhao and Song dynasties in history, the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty were all wiped out by Guo Jing, a ruffian. The ghost and god plot of this era is still very strong.

But at this time, Qin Zai came.

There is something in the memory of this person Zhao Gou's ontology, he is Zhao Huan's ladder person, carrying a wax book, running around and working hard, this is the real messenger.

He may have known Zhao Gou's movements, but he didn't say anything, and directly passed the holy decree and returned to Tokyo.

Zhao Huan really appointed Zhao Gou as the generalissimo of soldiers and horses, but what was different from Zhao Gou's assumption was that he was the generalissimo, and he was not a deputy marshal, but a marshal of soldiers and horses.

Who? Chen Yu.

Chen Yu was the marshal of the soldiers and horses, and Zong Ze and Wang Boyan were the deputy marshals of the soldiers and horses.

Sure enough, the prince was an empty head, just a tablet on the table.