In the secret room, after listening to Gao Yu and Wen Huanzhang's words, Sanniang pondered for a moment and said: "Since there is only one military horse on my Shandong Road at the moment, He Li and Sun Fu, who are newly in power in the court, will definitely have something to ask for, and Luan Tingyu, Li Ying, and Dong Ping, who can teach the leading troops, wrote to the court and asked for the court's will to enter Beijing to guard." As long as we have soldiers and horses in the capital, plus you invade up and down, the troops inside and outside Tokyo will be within my control sooner or later. ”

Wen Huanzhang said: "This strategy is wonderful, the imperial court forbids only 50,000 or 60,000 troops in Tokyo, and the city of Tokyo is more than ten miles on Friday, and there are only more than 1,000 guards per mile, and these military horses also have to guard the imperial city, so that there are only hundreds of defenders per mile." He Li and Sun Fu have no soldiers in their hands, how can they talk about the main battle? If a force of 30,000 military horses can enter the city, He Li and Sun Fu will definitely be happy. And after our army enters the city, we will control the military power of the capital, and we will have the final say on how to attack and defend. ”

Sanniang nodded and said, "How about the water army rescuing the people?" Gao Yu said: "The Jin army is going south, there are no less than two or three million refugees on both sides of the Yellow River, and the Shandong Road Navy has sent a naval warship to transport the refugees back to Shandong Road day and night. ”

Sanniang said: "The navy has stepped up the transportation of refugees, and it must teach the fleeing people to avoid the suffering of swordsmen." If the Jin army came to harass them, they could teach Li Jun to send people to negotiate with the Jin army, and if they did not give up the pursuit and looting of the fleeing people, then the navy would block the crossings of the Yellow River and teach the Jin army not to go south. Wen Huanzhang, Gao Yu and others all responded, and after they agreed, they taught people to release carrier pigeons to give orders to Luan Tingyu and others.

Besides, within the Song Dynasty, Emperor Qinzong was still hesitant when his troops approached the city, and he had not yet made a clear idea of whether to make peace or war. Although he deposed Geng Nanzhong and Tang Ke, promoted He Li, the minister of war, to the prime minister, and appointed Sun Fu as the chief military minister of the Privy Council. However, he still sent Zhao Gou, the king of Kang, as an envoy to Hebei to discuss peace with the Jin army, and it can be seen that Qinzong is still at war and uncertain. As for the move to the capital or the release of the clan to the south, Qin Zong is reluctant to do so. It's not that Qin Zong has much courage, it's just that he still thinks that he can wait for the news of King Kang and Zhao Gou's peace to come before making a decision.

However, after the two ministers of the main battle faction took power, this He Li was really just a scholar, and he didn't know anything about professional knowledge such as military operations, and so did Sun Fu. The literati and the military were the established national policy of the Great Song Dynasty, and there were no drawbacks in normal times, but when it came to war, the drawbacks could not be overcome.

In terms of troops, the Song Dynasty temporarily recruited many soldiers in the face of the embarrassment of only 50,000 or 60,000 forbidden troops, most of whom were scoundrels in the market, and these people had not received formal military training, and it was not easy to be able to draw a bow and shoot arrows. Now let these people fight against the iron cavalry of the Jin Army, which is armed to the teeth, that kind of difficulty is tantamount to hitting a stone with an egg.

The solidity of Kaifeng city defense may not be what later generations can imagine, when Sanniang came to Kaifeng City for the first time, they were amazed by the solidity and height of Kaifeng City defense. A hundred years after the fall of Kaifeng, Kaifeng City has been deserted for a long time, and the city defense has not been repaired, and despite this, when the Jin people used Kaifeng City to resist the Mongolian army, Kaifeng still became a strong fortress and became a hard bone for the Mongolian army. The huge boulders thrown by the heavy stone throwers used by the Mongols hit the Kaifeng city wall, and the city wall did not move. The bricks on the surface of the wall may have broken apart, but the wall was only a pit. Walls do not collapse due to boulders. At the end of the Jin Dynasty, the Kaifeng city defense was sparse and repaired for a long time, and it was still so strong, not to mention that this moment was the strongest time for Kaifeng City in the Northern Song Dynasty?

Kaifeng in 1126 was the capital of the Great Song Empire, and the fortification of its city and the fortification of the city defense are needless to say. Kaifeng is one of the largest cities in the Zhao and Song Empires, the scale is grand, Wen Huanzhang said that the circumference of Kaifeng City is more than 50 miles and is not exaggerated, the actual accurate number of the circumference of the city wall around Kaifeng Mansion is 50 miles and 165 steps. Such a huge city, relying on the 200,000 troops of the Jin army, is difficult to conquer in a short period of time.

In addition, Kaifeng was the most populous city in the world at that time, with a population of one million providing the Northern Song Dynasty with abundant troops and strong city defenses, which made the Kaifeng Mansion in Bianliang, Tokyo, a fortified fortress that was almost difficult to conquer in the era of cold weapons. Although the Song court was so dimly rotten after the First Battle of Tokyo. However, just by virtue of the above-mentioned favorable conditions, Kaifeng can still be held for a long time. As long as they hold on for a few months, the Song army from all walks of life will definitely gather under Kaifeng City, and the Jin people will be defeated at that time.

In all fairness, if He Li and Sun Fu were so mediocre, and the soldiers would be so incompetent, if the Song Dynasty could recruit men over the age of 16 and under the age of 60 in Kaifeng City, or even more extreme, all the people would be soldiers, and then with the tall and strong city defense of Kaifeng City, there would be no problem at all to resist the attack of the Shangjin army for a period of time. It's just that the problem of improper employment in the Song court was exposed again, and the decay of the imperial court affected the employment of people. Compared with Wanyan Zongwang and Wanyan Zonghan, the commanders of the Jin Army, who have been in a hundred battles, He Li and Sun Fu are simply yellow-haired boys who have not yet read.

He Li had no idea at all about how to defend the capital, and he couldn't think of any good way to relieve Kaifeng's existing crisis. All he could do was drink to show his leisure, show his calm demeanor, and boast that Xie Xuan of the Jin Dynasty was as calm and unhurried. Although Sun Fu also mobilized some troops, as mentioned above, the recruited soldiers were all ruffians and hooligans, and they had no effect on defending the city at all, but these soldiers became the first to harm the people of Kaifeng City.

After the ruffians and hooligans recruited by Sun Fu turned into official soldiers, the extortion and oppression of the people of Kaifeng City became even more unscrupulous. The people suffered from the encroachment of hooligan soldiers, and the imperial court was eager for more troops, at this time, 30,000 military horses on Shandong Road appeared in the field of vision of the soldiers and civilians of the Kaifeng imperial court.

In the first year of Jingkang, on August 27, 30,000 soldiers and horses of Shandong Road passed Dingtao and arrived in Dongwu County, 80 miles east of Kaifeng. In this situation, He Li and Sun Fu, who received the official document, were overjoyed, and immediately asked Qinzong to issue an order to teach the Shandong Road military horses to enter Beijing.

Originally, Qinzong also wanted to make an order, but at this time, the story of Dong Zhuo's entry into Beijing spread in the capital. It turned out that this message was a plan to complete Yan Zongwang, and the Jin people saw that a group of 30,000 troops and horses on Shandong Road went to King Qin, but they were afraid that after Kaifeng got this elite army of soldiers and horses, it would be difficult to attack the city, so they sent many spies and fine works to spread the news in the capital.

In this way, Emperor Qinzong, He Li, and Sun Fu all muttered, it is indeed a big taboo to teach the military horses of the feudal town to enter Beijing. After several discussions, Song Ting issued an order to teach Luan Tingyu of Shandong Road to lead the army to Kaifeng, but he was not allowed to enter the capital, and only set up a fortress outside the city to defend the palace.

Luan Tingyu, who received the order, spent two days to get to Kaifeng City, and sure enough, Kaifeng City did not open the city to let them enter the city, and finally Luan Tingyu had to go down to the village outside the east gate. When the soldiers and civilians in the city saw this, they all scolded the court for being unreasonable, and people came from afar to King Qin, but they closed their doors? Outside the city, the army and horses on the Shandong Road collected a total of 50,000 people along the way, all of whom scolded the court for being mediocre outside the city.

Song Qinzong didn't care if he scolded or not, he couldn't hear it anyway. Song Ting's wishful thinking was very good, and he wanted the Shandong Road Army to fight to the death with the Jin army outside the city, but unfortunately the movements of the Jin army made the imperial court's plan fall through.

On the evening of August 30, the Jin army of Zhengzhou arrived at the west of Kaifeng after completing the 100,000 troops and horses of Yan Zonghan's department, and stormed the west gate of Kaifeng City that night. In the siege battle of the Jin army, the two supreme commanders, He Li and Sun Fu, could not come up with any way to fight the enemy. If the Jin army wanted to reach the city, they had to cross the moat. The Kaifeng moat was quite wide, and the Jin army could not cross the river with the bows and arrows of the Song army. Therefore, the Jin army had to prepare earth and stones, and while attacking, they used earth and stones to fill the moat. The Jin army's attack in this way posed a great threat to Kaifeng's city defense. However, He Li and others drank in the West Gate Tower and were indifferent to the attack of the Jin army. In the end, even Song Qinzong couldn't stand it, the emperor personally inquired about the matter, He Li, Sun Fu and others ordered the forbidden army to go out of the city to attack the enemy, but no one dared to lead the army out of the city to fight with the Jin army.

In the end, it was still in the east of the city on the Shandong Road Song Army Dong Ping led a 3,000 cavalry army patrol here, saw the Jin people attacking the city, then waved the army to attack the rear of the Jin army, Wanyan Zonghan saw that the night engagement was unfavorable, I don't know how many military horses came from outside the Song army, the Jin army was forced to give up the earthwork, slowly collect troops back to the camp. Dong Ping saw that the Jin army was strong, and he didn't dare to approach too much, and after harassing him for a while, he withdrew to his camp.

The whole process, the soldiers and civilians of Kaifeng City were clear, and Song Qinzong also knew it clearly, and he summoned He Li and Sun Fu into the palace that night and scolded him, and taught him to come up with a way to defend Kaifeng City.

He Li and Sun Fu were scolded and both hung down. After Sun Fu returned home, he was even more depressed, locking himself in the study and not wanting to come out. In the study, Sun Fu was bored, and suddenly saw a letter on the table, opened it and looked at it, but it was a letter from Qiu Jun, a member of the Chinese Scholar's House, saying that he had recently obtained a few poems and asked Sun Fu to taste them.

Sun Fu was disheartened and didn't want to pay attention to military affairs, so he read a few poems by Qiu Jun, and when he read Qiu Jun's "Sentimental Poems", he read such a sentence: "Guo Jing, Yang Shi, Liu Wuji, are all lying in the southeast and white clouds." I also saw a few sentences attached to this poem, that is, the deeds of Guo Jing and others, many of which praised Guo Jing's Taoism, but he could sprinkle beans into soldiers.

After reading it, Sun Fu's eyes lit up, and he became a soldier? This is worth it, isn't this the master who can hold Kaifeng City? So as soon as the sky was bright, Sun Fu instructed the housekeeper and the servants to look around for the man named Guo Jing.

Guo Jing was in Kaifeng City at this time, and his name was not small, especially in the markets around the Longwei Army's station, and he was extremely famous. Sun Fu's housekeeper quickly inquired clearly and came back to report, and on the same day, Sun Fu prepared some gifts and personally went to visit Long Weijun Guo Jing's house.