But after the old seed left, although the news of the Jin army's southward movement could no longer be concealed, the imperial court's official newspaper was issued as usual. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

On the 28th of February, the official post sent a regular report on February 15, although there were more than 10 large and small affairs listed in it, but there was nothing related to the Jin Army, and the biggest thing in the newspaper was that the new emperor Zhao Heng got a new year name after the second day of the second month of February, and ordered to change the yuan to Xingchang.

Although Zhao Ji's Zen throne this time is an inner Zen (to give the throne to the people in his family), but the incident happened suddenly and Zhao Ji did not die, so the new emperor did not change the name of the era for the first time after succeeding to the throne, and at this time, the decree to change the yuan is also to officially announce the meaning of the new dynasty in the world.

It's just that Huang Jie took a look at the Di newspaper, couldn't help but twitch his brain, and read the sentence "Xingchang is ashamed, it is still snowing", and then said to himself: "It doesn't seem to rhyme!" ”

Regardless of whether the imperial court deliberately concealed the war, or whether it was delayed in the first place, first of all, the Green Forest Beacon of the Heavenly Dao Alliance continued to send news from the line from Maozhou to Zhenjiang that the Emperor Zhao Ji was going south.

It is said that on the third day of the first lunar month, when the news came that the Jin army was about to cross the river, Zhao Ji was also frightened, and he was busy looking for Cai You, Cai Jing, Wang Hao and Tong Guan and others to discuss. At that time, Tong Guan had just fled back to Bianliang from Taiyuan, so he proposed that Zhao Ji go to Hangzhou for refuge, but Lao Cai Jing objected, thinking that at most he would move to Nanjing Yingtianfu, anyway, he passed the throne to Zhao Heng, so Jin Ren really called and should stare at the current emperor to play tricks.

After discussing and discussing, it seemed to break up unhappily in the end, but that night Zhao Ji couldn't stand Cai You's pleading, and only took Cai You, Liang Shicheng and two little eunuchs, as well as a dozen or so guards, and set up a tribute four-wheeled carriage that was still Huang Jie, and fled to Nanjing Yingtianfu in panic.

Even according to Huang Jie's investigation buried in Bianliang, Zhao Ji made a special detour from the door of Master Li's house before leaving the city, but in the end he didn't stop to take her away.

The next day, Tong Guan was the first to learn that Zhao Ji had fled, so he ordered Gao Yu to lead three thousand Shengjie troops and hundreds of guards to catch up with the escort, because of the grand situation, Zhao Ji who had just arrived in Yingtianfu thought that the Jin army crossed the river in advance to kill, and was so frightened that he hurriedly fled to the south of Maozhou, until he was chased by Tong Guan halfway, and saw that Tong Guan insisted on leading the army to escort him, so he had to declare to the magistrates and people who were alarmed along the way that this was going to Maozhou to burn incense.

Soon, the brigade had just arrived in Maozhou on the eighth day of February, and even the prefect of Haozhou had no time to clean up the residence for Zhao Ji and his party, and the news that Wanyan Zonghan was slaughtering the city in Taiyuan Mansion came from the front line, and Wanyan Zongwang marched all the way to the Daimyo's Mansion to kill.

So Tong Guan and Zhao Ji calculated the speed of the Jin army's southward movement, which was almost a hundred and fifteen miles a day, and Zhao Ji, who was so frightened, only had time to have a lunch outside the city of Maozhou, and then hurriedly fled.

Speaking of which, at the beginning, Zhao Ji arrived in Nanjing first, he should have listened to Cai Jing's persuasion, and later went to Maozhou, because there was a Taiqing Palace in Bozhou, and the emperors of the Song Dynasty had the custom of driving a car to visit the Taiqing Palace, so they could also use the excuse of burning incense to escape for themselves and cover up people's eyes.

It was only the development of events that exceeded his final expectations, so he could only continue to escape, and he walked all the way south for another six or seven days before he stopped after arriving in Zhenjiang. The reason why he stopped in Zhenjiang was that he didn't know the reason, but Huang Jie also found that in the third year of Shaosheng (1096), Song Zhezong took Pingjiang and Zhenjiang military festivals to seal Zhao Ji as the king of Duan, and Cai You successively served as the Kaifu Yitong three divisions, Zhenhai Navy Jiedu envoys, and Shaobao, and also stayed in Zhenjiang for a long time, although he did not stay in Zhenjiang for a few days, but this stop should also have something to do with this matter.

However, according to the news from the rudder of the Tiandao League in Zhenjiang, Zhao Ji arrived in Zhenjiang only a few days after he was born in peace, and then he relapsed into his old ways, first ordered someone to renovate Cai You's original mansion in Zhenjiang as the Taishang Palace, and then sent people back to Beijing to send the queen, prince, princess and princess who he looked at to the south, until the day when the Jin army besieged the city on the 22nd, the officials of the court and the central government had been recalled by him three or four out of ten.

However, even if Zhou Bangyan's family was recruited by him, Wang Hao and Li Bangyan and Zhou Bangyan, who had just fled back to Tokyo like beggars, were ordered by him to stay in Tokyo to assist Zhao Heng. and Cai Jing, who had just gotten the news and was rushing to Zhenjiang, was also disgusted by him, and finally the old Cai Jing simply changed his route to Gongzhou.

At present, although the Jin army has besieged Bianliang, judging from the news sent recently on February 26, the people in Zhenjiang City do not know the news that Bianliang was besieged, and Tong Guan also caused the Shengjie army to surround Zhenjiang, and the people are not allowed to enter, and it seems that the news is also being blocked.

Besides, at the same time that Zhao Ji ran to Zhenjiang, the developments in Tokyo also followed.

But said that after the Jin army crossed the river on the 22nd day, Wanyan Zongwang divided the army into mountain roads, and he led 5,000 men and horses to rush straight to Fengqiu and Chenqiao, but the Song army guarding the door was not slow to react when he saw the opportunity, and quickly closed the gate so that he could not succeed, and the other two teams of nearly 10,000 horses rushed down along the east and west directions, but found that although the city gates in the east and west of the city were not closed, there were car formations outside the urn city in front of the gate.

Until, a commander who led the army to continue to the south rushed to the Nanxun Gate, and found that there was neither a fortification nor a car formation in front of the Nanxun Gate, so he dared to rush in, but the Song army guarding the gate resisted desperately and forced the Jin army to retreat and close the city gate.

The commander saw that Nanxun Gate had an opportunity, so he also waited outside the door for Zongwang's army to arrive. After Zong looked at it, he also found that the gates on the north, west, and east sides of the outer city of Tokyo were all extremely strong urn castles, and in addition to the moat and chariot array guarding the urn city, the number of Song troops guarding it was also unusually large. The Nanxun Gate in the south is not only guarded by a car array outside the gate, but it is also a Pingcheng Nanxun Gate without an urn city (there was originally one, but it was deliberately demolished), so Zongwang each pointed out two thousand men and horses to block the north, west and east gates of Bianliang, and the main camp of the army was set up in front of the Nanxun Gate.

At this time, Zongwang's army totaled about 30,000 people, of which less than 20,000 were Jurchens, and the other more than 10,000 were miscellaneous Hu and servants collected by the Jin State. After separating 6,000 people to guard the north, south, and west sides of Tokyo, there were actually more than 20,000 Jin troops blocking the Nanxun Gate.

At this time, Zong Wang, who entered the territory of the Great Song Dynasty as if no man's land, saw that he easily came to the city of Bianliang, so he was also arrogant for a while, and sent an envoy into the city to convey the harsh conditions that the Song Dynasty had to cede Zhongshan (now Dingxian, Hebei), Taiyuan, and Hejian to the three towns, and to compensate 5 million taels of gold and 50 million taels of silver, in addition to 10,000 cattle and horses, and 10,000 silk horses. (To be continued.) )