"At the moment in Xingzhou, there is still only one surrender army left. If the general is interested, he can take the state city of Longgang tonight. ”

"Then take it."

The next day, the banner of the Great Song Dynasty fluttered again at the head of Longgang City. Hu Yangeng sent a reconnaissance horse, on the one hand to contact Puliu Ru Bosheng, who had arrived in Hedong early, and on the other hand to explore the whereabouts of the Jin soldiers, and learned that Wanyan Yinshu could go east to Jizhou, and Wanyan Lou Room in Cizhou did not stay on the spot, he attacked Xiangzhou in the south.

Xiangzhou.

Zhizhou Zhao Butry sat in the hall, and the subordinate officials of the state government stood on both sides. Zhao Zitry is the sixth grandson of Taizu, originally a general judge of Xiangzhou, after Zhizhou Wang Boyan followed Zhao Gou south, Zhao Butry took over Zhizhou. At the beginning of this year, Jin Bing took Zhao Butry's son to the city and threatened Zhao Butry to open the city, "If you don't try, you can't hold it."

More than half a year after the last Jin soldiers retreated, Xiangzhou was surrounded by Jin soldiers again, and now it has been surrounded for ten days, and the city head guard came in to report: "Most of the gold thieves withdrew from the camp and left, and now there are only three or five thousand men and horses blocking the four gates." ”

Zhao Butry ordered Tanma to try to get out of the city, and sure enough, he was blocked back by the Jin soldiers.

"It's a pity that there are no warriors, there are only 3,000 golden soldiers outside the city, and tens of thousands of people in my city are strong, and only one fierce general will be able to defeat the gold thieves."

Zhao Butry was impassioned above, and the subordinate officials sitting below all bowed their heads and were silent.

No one answered, so Zhao Butry had to announce by himself: "Publish the list to recruit talents, if you can defeat the gold thief, you will be rewarded with ten thousand dollars." ”

This list was posted for three days, and no one took the list. However, the rich people in the city found the state government: "Zhao Taishou, there is not much grain in the city, it is better to lower." Zhao didn't try to scold him.

Soon after, the sages of the city and the countryside gathered and beat the drum in front of the yamen, and the leading Han Fake said: "Please take the people as your thoughts, come down, there is no meat in our family." After the Jin soldiers retreated, Han Fake returned to Xiangzhou to take care of his manor.

Zhao Buqian stood in front of the gate of the mansion and said: "Now the grain and grass in the city can still last for a few months, and the people still eat porridge. The golden people are Suo Yu, if they enter the city, they will destroy my clothes, all the village sages, are the example of the people, how can you leave the left to do things? Han Xianggong, the Er family is favored by the emperor, and he should do his part to protect my Zhao and Song world. ”

"Dafu, Confucius has a saying, he knows etiquette and etiquette, and now he has no meat, how can he say that he is honest and honest, what is the use of clothes?"

Zhao Butry turned around and went back to the house with his sleeves and convened his subordinate officials to discuss: "There is a lack of food in the city today, and foreign aid is not coming." If you don't try, Zongzi will also, if you don't surrender, the plan will be released? No, no one. If you don't try to do something, you can't do it, so you go to the city and ask the Jin people not to kill, and let it go.

Zhao Butry to return to the back house, let the family throw themselves into a deep well in the courtyard, and then instructed the old family who has followed him for many years: "You will bury the well, and the property in the house, you will take it yourself, and go back to your hometown." With that, he jumped into the well.

Zhao Butry sat at the bottom of the well, listening to his wife and children crying on the side, and thought: "I heard that people who suffocate to death will die a very uncomfortable death, and I should have committed suicide by taking poison, alas...... It's a pity that I didn't bring poison with me. ”

Just as he was thinking, the wellhead was covered with a large bluestone slab. Zhao Butry secretly complained: "If you don't fill the soil, just seal the wellhead, you will die more slowly and more uncomfortable." ”

After covering the stone slab, the breathing in the well became more and more uncomfortable, and the stomach gradually became hungry, Zhao Butry thought dizzily: "I'm going to starve to death now, I knew that I would bring in some food, which one is more uncomfortable, starvation or suffocation?" ”

He fell asleep, and after an unknown amount of time, he thought in a daze: "Why suffocate to death, fight hard with the gold thief, and still be famous in history, so quietly suffocated, I don't know what the court will say." ”

When Zhao Butry woke up again, he found that he was already lying on his bed, and his family was waiting for him.

"What's going on?"

"Master, the reinforcements are here, and they have already shot away the gold thief."

Seeing Zhao Buqian looking at himself suspiciously, the old family explained: "I covered the wellhead with a bluestone slab, just to wait for the gold thief to pay attention, and then dig out the old man's family. ”

"Huh, General? Which one calls the general? How did he get here? And how to defeat the gold thief? How many centaurs does he have? ”

"I don't know these little ones, just ask General Hu in person."

"Change my clothes, I'll go see him." Zhao Buyan got up when he heard this.

While the old family tried to change clothes for Zhao Bu, they asked in an interview: "Master, that, the property in the house is taken by itself, does it count?" ”

Although Zhao Butry was very weak at this time, he was in a good mood overall, so he said: "Count, you have been with me for 20 years, and I have never rewarded you with anything. ”

In the hall of the state government, Zhao Butry met Hu Yangeng and his deputy Pu Liuru Bosheng.

Puliu Ru Bosheng was ordered by Huyan Geng to search for the Red Turban Rebels in Hedong. After the Jin soldiers went southeast of the river, he followed the orders of Fu Liang, the envoy of the Hedong Economic System, to fight with the Jin soldiers, and fought and retreated, and arrived in Hebei, and took the initiative to contact Xingzhou after being recovered by the Song army.

Huyan Geng and Puliu Ru Bosheng joined forces, and came to Xiangzhou, Xiangzhou Jin soldiers fought three battles with the forwards led by Gao Favor, and were beheaded by Gao Pet, capturing the flag on five sides, and then saw that the reinforcements of the Song army were only afraid of more than 10,000 people, and the number was much more than their own, so they lifted the siege of Xiangzhou and retreated.

After Hu Yangeng was polite, he made a request to Zhao Butry: to levy grain.

He had to levy grain, and Puliu Ru Bosheng had neither grain nor grass, nor weapons, so he actually recruited more than 30,000 people in Hedong to chop wood for soldiers and fight against the Jin army. However, no matter how high the fighting spirit is, there is a time limit, and after they retreated to Hebei, they have already lost, fled, and dispersed nearly 20,000 people, and only more than 10,000 people are left under the command of Puliu Ru Bosheng.

Zhao Butry made a bitter face: "The people of Xiangzhou still need to be liquidated often." ”

"There is no need to use the regular closing position, and the end will ask the big Xiangzhou households to help."

"I'm afraid it's not easy." Zhao Butry told Hu Yangeng about the performance of the Han family and other Xiangzhou clans.

"It's easy." Hu Yangeng was overjoyed when he heard Han Zhengan's performance: "They have already opened the city to reduce gold, that is, the people of Jinguo, they are enemies, and now they are not helping, they are because of food to the enemy." ”

Hu Yangeng led the red scarf into the city, surrounded the houses of the Han family and other big clans, and it only took half a day, and the big households in Xiangzhou paid a total of 10,000 stone of grain and 3,000 catties of iron. Han Xuan, the patriarch or family members of more than 30 large households, signed and pressed their fingerprints on the three letters of repentance written by Hu Yangeng, remorseful for their surrender to the Jin State, and wept bitterly.

Without further ado, Hu Yangeng personally wrote a report, in duplicate, soft and hard, and asked Zhao Bu to try to use a seal on the report. Subsequently, these two reports were accompanied by a letter of repentance, which were sent to the night place of Uncle Zhang of the Xuanfu Division and Zhu Fenglian in the palace, and Hu Yangeng also left a letter of repentance in his hand.

After the 3,000 catties of iron of the big families were handed over, Hu Yangeng ordered to recruit blacksmiths in the city and among the displaced people to make knives and sticks. The use of big sticks to hit heavy armor has been practiced since ancient times, such as the famous White Cavalry Army of the Western Army, which is a heavy cavalry with a big wooden stick.

But the knife stick is a creation of the Ming Dynasty, "the battle of the northwest wilderness...... With the enemy's armor strong, it is invulnerable to shooting and not hurting to poke. Then he struck with a stick, regardless of the strength of the armor. Today's method is eight feet long and two inches thick, but with a sharp blade like a duck's beak. Hitting is good for sticks, and slashing is good for blades, and the two are mutually beneficial. ”

Whether it is a stab or armor piercing, the knife stick is not as good as a professional spear and mace, but fortunately, it is convenient and cheap to make.

More than 100 blacksmiths commanded 1,000 strong men, and in ten days they created 10,000 blades for making knives and sticks, plus some weapons in the Xiangzhou Mansion Treasury, so that more than 10,000 red scarves were armed.

These 10,000 red scarves are roughly held with regular weapons, and the army commanders and military men are armed with knives and sticks.

The time has entered December, and the weather is getting colder and colder, and Gao Zhong and others, who sent to investigate, reported that the army of Wanyan Lou was near Weizhou, and surrounded Xinxiang, where Wang Yan was located.

In May, "the Privy Council took Wang Yan as the commander of the Hedong Economic System, and led 7,000 people to cross the river with Zhang Yi, Bai Anmin, Yue Fei and other ten commanders. Wang Yan was in Hedong, recruiting tens of thousands of loyal and righteous soldiers and horses, and in the Weisheng Army Alliance, even Zhao Bangjie, Li Jun and others from Hebei also went to participate in the alliance.

However, Fu Liang, the newly sent Hedong economic envoy to Longde, did not know how to fight, and was unwilling to listen to Wang Yan's opinions, which led to Wang Yan's successive defeats in Hedong.

The situation was very tense for a while, and Wang Yan was afraid that someone would betray him, so he changed his residence several times overnight.

The song said: I Cao so abandoned his wife and risked thousands of deaths to serve the public, and I felt the loyalty of the public and the shame of the country. Today, the public sleep is uneasy, and the banquet is suspicious. I'm not human. Then they all said "serve the country with a naked heart and swear to kill the gold thief" to show their sincerity.

Since then, Wang Yan's subordinates have been called the Eight-Character Army.

The Jin soldiers on the West Road went south, even breaking Longde, Jiangzhou, Zezhou and other places, although Wang Yan had tens of thousands of eight-character troops, but weapons and grain were very lacking, not to mention horses, and they fought and retreated, and now retreated into Xinxiang County, Weizhou, Hebei, with only 5,000 people left around him.

After Wang Yan gained a foothold in Xinxiang County, he sent people to recruit the scattered soldiers, and the strength was restored to 7,000. Wanyan Muhan also found out the news, thinking that the main force of the Song army was here, so he led the main force of the Jin soldiers to the south and surrounded Wang Yan in Xinxiang County.

Wang Yan's reputation was very famous, and the Jin soldiers surrounded Xinxiang County, attacked for days, and vowed to put Wang Yan to death.

Wang Yan led the army to defend the city, and seeing that the arrows were about to run out, the eight-character army had already begun to demolish the house and prepare to roll stones.

Among the county officials, the magistrate sits at the top and Wang Yan sits at the bottom. Zhixian said: "The gold thief is attacking the Japanese emergency, and the king can have a strategy to break the enemy." ”

Wang Yan said: "There are still 100,000 troops in Hebei, and there are more than 100,000 elite soldiers in Wang Jieshuai, Henan. ”

"I'm afraid that Xinxiang is small, and I can't wait for reinforcements to arrive, the city has been broken, and I heard that the gold thieves are the most happy to wash the city, and I pity the tens of thousands of people in the city."

"What does the county magistrate have to say?"

"I heard that the gold thief only wants to be under control of one person and is willing, and it is better to let the city go and save the lives of the city."

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