The snow has stopped for several days, and the grievances and hatreds on the land of China have been staged for thousands of years. In the face of history, there is a little more remembrance, and a little more indifference.

The snow on the evergreen trees slowly melts, and when it melts to a certain point, large chunks of snow fall from the sky, and after encountering countless branches, they break down into many debris and small pieces.

Snow is cold, snowmelt is even colder, and snow melts as it melts and takes away a lot of the heat from the air. The sun has just come out, and the temperature in Yanjing is still below zero.

More than 100,000 people outside the southern city began to line up amid shouting, and there were thousands of iron armor outside the east, west, and north cities.

This huge Yanjing City has fallen into a heavy siege, and the black clouds are overwhelming the city and wants to destroy it. The last straw on the Khitan Great Liao State was finally pressed.

The platform outside the southern city was built extremely spacious and tall, and Zheng Zhi walked up to the platform with heavy steps, sitting on a seat covered with tiger skin, and there was a red-hot charcoal fire in front of him.

Zheng Zhi took off his sheepskin gloves and put his hands on the charcoal fire, the feeling brought by the temperature made Zheng Zhi extremely refreshing, but the soldiers who stood straight left and right were so cold that their cheeks were red.

Wu Yong and Li Gang ran back and forth on the edge in front of the stage, accepting documents one by one, and also sending out many documents.

Everything is in order, this army and the system in which this army operates has long been mature, everyone has their own duties, and everyone can do their part.

"Xianggong, everything is ready." Wu Yong came forward to report.

Zheng Zhi glanced up at the sun that had just risen, glanced left and right at the endless battle array in front of him, and said, "Blasting the city gate open first." Tell Guo Yaoshi to attack the city wall. ”

"Yes!" Wu replied respectfully. Perhaps Wu Yong at this time also had a kind of glory in his heart, a troop of more than 100,000 people, and the military order came out of his mouth, which was an honor in itself for an individual.

It is not difficult to open the city gate, but this city gate cannot be entered casually, and when you enter the city gate, you will face a narrow urn city with high walls on all sides, and after entering, you will be attacked on all sides.

The city wall is the key, as long as the city wall is attacked, this urn city will have no effect.

The drums sounded, and the eight thousand victorious troops in front of their heads, carrying countless long ladders and shields, began to move forward. The crossbow artillery behind him was already in full swing.

Perhaps most of the 8,000 victorious troops did not think that they would one day attack the city of Yanjing.

Pharmacist Guo even stood at the head of the formation in person, and moved forward with his soldiers, because he was afraid that the soldiers under his command would not work hard. These 8,000 people are the foundation of Guo Yaoshi's life, if this battle can't show the power of his soldiers, Guo Yaoshi will no longer have face in front of that Zheng Xianggong.

The increasingly weakened strength of the Great Song Dynasty is actually manifested in today's battle array. When attacking Lingzhou City, the army could prepare for a long time under Lingzhou City without hurrying, and countless craftsmen built all kinds of huge equipment for attacking the city.

At that time, the war mobilized the manpower and material resources of the entire Great Song Dynasty, and used enough manpower and material resources to defeat the party members.

Today, when I arrived in Yanjing City, all this is gone, not to mention the craftsmen and armies from all over the country, even the food has to be raised by Zheng Zhi himself, so compared with this, the gap is too big.

After the rain of arrows and projectiles were removed from the city, countless Liao people stood on the city, and Guo Yaoshi also reached under the city wall, and a battle had begun.

Zheng Zhi sat on the platform, looked at the tragic battle in the distance, nodded again and again, and said: "Pharmacist Guo is not bad, but it can be used." ”

Li Gang, who had already arrived beside him to roast the fire together, replied: "I didn't think that the Liao soldiers were much stronger than the soldiers of my Chaozhou Mansion, but when I heard that hundreds of thousands of Liao people could not beat the Jurchen 10,000 or 20,000, I thought that these Liao people were greedy for life and afraid of death. If there were no men and horses under the command of Xiang Gong, the outcome of this battle would be unimaginable. ”

Zheng Zhi nodded when he heard this: "I have arrived in Yanjing, and the Liao people are no longer a problem." In the future, we will have to face the Jurchens, and what we will have to think about in the future is how to deal with the Jurchens. ”

Zheng Zhi has an intuitive understanding of the combat power of the Jurchens, when Sticky Han fought against the Bohai people in the dense forest, the Jurchens were like wild beasts, no formation, no command, chasing and killing countless Bohai people all over the mountains, even Zheng Zhi was shocked at the beginning.

After all, there is a gap between people. When a person grows up in the jungle since childhood, facing threats in the jungle, it is already a great luck to be able to grow up smoothly, the Jurchens who are accustomed to seeing life and death, snatching food from the mouths of bears and tigers, and fighting with their lives for every full meal, such a person, what it will be like to go into battle to fight, it is enough to imagine.

The more difficult the growth environment, the more resolute the people. The tradition of giving birth to a girl is to be calm in the face of death.

The shortest-reigning emperor in history also came from the Jurchen Jin Kingdom, and a hundred years later, the Jin Kingdom was under the attack of Mongolia and the Southern Song Dynasty, and the country was about to die. The emperor had just ascended the throne for half a day, and before the enthronement ceremony was over, he rushed into the battle and died. The fallen emperor of the Jin State can also be regarded as a relatively heroic one in all dynasties.

"Xianggong, in the face of the Jurchens in the future, be on guard when necessary, and don't relax for a moment. This matter should also be made clear to His Majesty, lest His Majesty not know the stakes in Tokyo and turn against the Jurchens. Li Gang said.

Li Gang doesn't seem to understand the relationship between Zheng Zhi and Tokyo, or Li Gang doesn't really understand what the situation between Zheng Zhi and Tokyo is. Among the army, most of them are the same as Li Gang, just because after this battle, everything before is gone, and when his father-in-law returns to Tokyo, he will naturally be added to the rank of knight, and everyone will follow Zheng Zhi to add the rank to the knighthood.

This kind of thinking is also human. Since ancient times, China has had the practice of repaying with merit, not to mention that Zheng Zhi's mistake is not a fault in the hearts of everyone, and compared with Zheng Zhi's contribution to destroying the Liao State and recapturing the sixteen states of Yanyun, it is nothing at all.

Zheng Zhi glanced back at Li Gang and said, "Hmph... Boji, in this Great Song Dynasty, where is there a certain place to stand? ”

Li Gang was stunned when he heard this, and didn't seem to understand what Zheng Zhi said, and said: "Xianggong, after this victory, the long-cherished wish of the Great Song Dynasty for one hundred and sixty years will be fulfilled, and the whole world will celebrate together, and the government and the opposition will rejoice." Why did Xiang Gong say this? ”

"Boji, do you know that the officials in Tokyo have issued an order to dismiss him and investigate him, and go to Beijing for trial? If it weren't for Luda intercepting this will on the road, now that the holy decree has arrived in Yanjing, do you say that he will continue to lead the troops to attack Yanjing or listen to the order to wear an iron chain and return to Beijing to ask for guilt? Zheng Zhi was blunt.

There are some things that have come to a showdown, and the generals under his command who have followed him for several years are better to say. But Li Gang, an orthodox jinshi, who has read the books of sages for twenty or thirty years, Zheng Zhi is much less sure. The showdown is not to kidnap Li Gang, but to give Li Gang one last chance to choose.

Li Gang was shocked when he heard this, and said hurriedly: "Xianggong, how can Tokyo act like this?" At the moment of the war, if there is no Xianggong, not to mention how this war will be, even the supply of grain, grass and baggage will be immediately interrupted, and the army of more than 100,000 will not be dispersed as birds and beasts? Isn't a long-cherished wish of 160 years in vain? The official family's move is inappropriate, and the princes of Tokyo do not know the seriousness, why is it so ridiculous. The survival of the country, such an arrangement, is worse than children... ”

Li Gang said it heartbreakingly, in Li Gang's heart, it was naturally towards Zheng Zhi, just because Li Gang participated in all the links before and after this war and understood all the big and small things in this war. Not to mention emotionally, let's talk about such a long period of hard work, Li Gang doesn't want to give up his efforts.

After Li Gang entered the officialdom, almost all his errands revolved around this war, and there were too many ups and downs, how many tongues he spent, how many journeys he ran, how many times he broke his legs on horseback, how many sleepless nights, how many times he was anxious, and how many people lost their lives for this matter.

Knowing that Cai You led troops to get Zheng Zhi's family, Li Gang was already extremely angry, and when he heard about this matter at this time, Li Gang's words were a little less restrained, and he said that the emperor's move was inappropriate.

Zheng Zhi nodded and said: "Now for me, there is only one way, which is to hold on hard, defeat the Liao, and block the Jurchens." Use military power to suppress the sixteen states of Yanyun and control the two-faced and three-edged people like Guo Yaoshi. Walking on thin ice, the Tokyo affair can only be put behind for the time being. Whether the future will be dead or alive, whether the history books are loyal or treacherous, will be left to future generations to say. ”

When Li Gang heard this, he looked at Zheng Zhi, there were tears in his eyes, and at this time he knew what the man in front of him was carrying, and only knew how great the pressure was, so he only said: "Xianggong is loyal and righteous, no matter who says it later, the lower officials must be impartial, and they will not teach the younger generations to tarnish the prestige of Xianggong." ”

"We'll talk about the future later, and we'll win this battle before we talk about anything else." Zheng Zhi said lightly, his eyes only looked at the soldiers in front of him who kept climbing towards the city. All I heard was the terrible wail.

The terrible wails of people are terrible. How can one turn a deaf ear to such sounds? How many lives and deaths do you want to see? How hard is the heart to be cultivated?

Pharmacist Guo, who kept going back and forth under the city, was also constantly looking back to see Zheng Zhi sitting firmly on the stage.

Relying on the 8,000 victorious army alone, the head of the city is obviously unable to be captured, Guo Yaoshi is clear in his heart, but Guo Yaoshi still takes his subordinates to attack the city, that is, to show Zheng Zhi.

But it was Pharmacist Guo who was also anxious, and he didn't know how this Zheng Xianggong would be satisfied. In my heart, I was even more afraid that this Zheng Xiang Gongzhen would consume all the 8,000 people under his command under this fortified city.

For a long time, Zheng Zhi had already sat firmly, looking at the soldiers who kept falling down the long ladder in front of him, and did not make any movement.

Zheng Zhi was only racking his brains to think about how to break this fortified city, and suddenly Zheng Zhi stood up and shouted: "Mingjin collects the troops and tells the Cangzhou soldiers to prepare!" All knights on board! ”

Guo Yaoshi finally looked forward to the sound of Mingjin's retreat, breathed a sigh of relief, turned around and left, and there were many soldiers behind him who erected wooden shields for Guo Yaoshi to resist the arrows shot from above the city.

Four hundred miles to the north, Wanyan Agu beat the second son, Wanyan and Mu Han with more than 10,000 forward soldiers to Songting Pass. As soon as the Songting Pass is broken, and then the Gubeikou is broken, it will enter Yanyun, and Yanjing is not far away.

Wanyan Zongwang in the history books, that is, the second brother of Wanyan Zongbi Jin Wushu, before the Jin Wushu, the inconvenience of Yan Li was the representative of the Jin army, and he was the one who captured the two emperors of Hui and Qin. Sticky Han is Wanyan Zonghan.

The temporary camp of the Jin people is also extremely simple, and there is not much difference from the fence village of the party people.

A piece of military information arrived in the big tent, and he couldn't stop laughing when he saw it, and said with a smile: "Second prince, take a look, my brother Zheng Zhi is already besieging Yanjing." ”

He didn't take it and looked at it, and said, "Haha... drove all the way in, and went straight to Yanjing, a good man. This time, the Liao people couldn't stop me from waiting, but it's a pity that I didn't see this Song Zheng Zhi at the beginning. ”

Sticky Han laughed when he heard this, and said: "Isn't it a good man, when he was in Liaoyang Mansion, he fought side by side with him, and he was really happy, and the men under his command were not bad." I hope that I will see him again in a short time, and I will definitely not get drunk with him. The second prince didn't know, the good wine on Zheng Zhi's body, drink it once, and think about it for a lifetime. That kind of good wine is the wine that my Jurchen man should drink, and the wine of the Liao people is really weak. When the time comes, I'll send him a bunch of Khitan little ladies, haha... ”

"What a good wine to keep you coming back to for so long. Wait until tomorrow to break this hurdle, and meet this Song man! He also smiled, and he also had a little longing for fine wine.

The two countries of Jin and Song, one south and one north, were sandwiched between a Liao State. At this time, it is not yet time to show teeth and claws, so naturally there is no hatred, let alone war. For the separation of the inseparable and sticky Han, the most important thing in front of him is the destruction of the Khitan.

The world only knows that the Jurchen and the Song have a hatred of destroying the country and a deep hatred of blood. But I don't know that the golden man who has just come out of the white mountains and black waters is actually inferior. For Liao, for countries like Song, the Jin people have cultural inferiority. The Jin people can withstand the oppression of the Liao people for hundreds of years, and it is also because of this inferiority.

It's not that the Jurchens don't dare to die, it's not that they don't dare to be angry, but they haven't really rebelled against the Liao people for hundreds of years, because the Liao people are culturally advanced, the things from the Liao are extremely exquisite, the clothes worn by the Liao people are extremely luxurious, the Liao people have more horses, they eat just right, there are words, there are books, and there are all things that the primitive tribes do not have.

Ah Guta's resistance was sent out when he couldn't bear it anymore, and Ah Guda at the beginning of the army was also with the heart of death, and never thought that there would be today, and he could beat the Liao people to the ground. Ah Guta thought that he was about to die countless times, but Ah Guda did not get depressed when facing death, but maintained his calmness in the face of sinister nature. This calmness has created this big gold country.

"Haha... Not only good wine, I heard that the Song people also have many delicious foods, which are a hundred times more exquisite than the food of the Liao people, and a hundred times more delicious. My brother Zheng Zhi is different from the Liao people, the Liao people never treat us as people, my brother is the most righteous, and he will definitely treat us well. "Sticky Han is in a great mood and has a smile on his face.

"The Liao people don't treat my Jurchen as a human being, so we treat the Liao people as livestock. If Zheng Zhi is really as you said, this brother is worth befriending. He couldn't leave his mouth.