Like when Liang Ziyue received the relevant report, Wang Kunjun was not surprised or surprised by Li Yun's collusion with Jiangnan and his intention to rebel. After all, this Li Dajiedu, who raised troops to rebel against Zhao Kuangyin in the history of his previous life and was also regarded by Li Chongjin as the first ally in the joint rebellion in the history of this life, has long been registered in the hearts of Wang Kunjun and even all the members of the crossing team. In the eyes of the traversing public, there is no question of whether Li Yun will or will launch a rebellion, only the question of when to raise troops. It was precisely because he had already prepared in his heart that after receiving the news that Li Yun did have the intention of rebellion, Wang Kunjun did not rush to counteract, but very calmly brought Xu Shaoan over, and the two of them discussed this matter with Li Junwu and Zhang Weixin, who were in Kaifeng, through the radio.

On the one hand, although Li Yun secretly colluded with Jiangnan, had the intention and intention of rebellion, and actively prepared and mobilized troops and horses for this purpose, at the last moment, he reined in the precipice due to the change of the situation, and gave up the action of raiding Kaifeng and cutting off the rear route of the Southern Expeditionary Army, which can be regarded as an attempted rebellion. Although in this era, it is said that there is an attempt to rebel, even if it is only an expression of the intention to rebel, or just a statement of wanting to rebel, it can be regarded as a rebellion, and it will be punished as a crime of rebellion. However, for the crossing team that is unwilling to use swords in their own homes, and does not want the common people to suffer unjustified disasters for the sake of someone or some people's mistakes, this kind of behavior that only has ideas and preparatory activities, but has no actual insurgency and no serious consequences, has not yet touched their bottom line, and there is still the possibility of resolving it by peaceful means or peaceful means backed by military means.

On the other hand, although the overall situation of Jiangnan has now been decided, and the battle of the Southern Expedition is about to come to an end, it will take some time to put the entire Jiangnan under the control of the Great Zhou from forcing Li Yu to surrender or storming Jinling to completely stabilizing Jiangnan. Moreover, there are thousands of miles from Jinling to Kaifeng, and it is nearly 1,500 miles to Luzhou, where the Zhaoyi army is located, and even if the Southern Expeditionary Army returns to the DPRK immediately, it will take about 20 days to rush back to Kaifeng and about a month to arrive in Luzhou. If Li Yun's guilt is announced now, it is likely that Li Dajiedu, who had already decided to stop and continue to wait for the opportunity, decided to take a risk out of fear, fear, and uneasiness, put aside all worries and fears, and immediately rebelled. At that time, although the brothers who stayed in Kaifeng before the start of the southern expedition had already prepared a plan to deal with emergencies, especially to deal with those unstable Jiedu envoys and assassins, who might take advantage of the opportunity of the army going south and the emptiness of Kaifeng, to rebel, and made the necessary preparations, but fighting with the rebels under the city of Kaifeng will inevitably cause unnecessary harm to the surrounding people, and will also have a very adverse impact on the stability of the Great Zhou court. Therefore, after careful analysis and weighing, the committee finally made a decision not to suppress or punish Li Yun's intention to rebel for the time being, and to deal with it after the end of the southern expedition.

Because the crossing team has long been mentally prepared, they can react calmly and calmly to Li Yun's intention to rebel. Moreover, for the sake of the more important battle of the Southern Expedition, he can also pretend not to know that Li Yun had plans to rebel, and temporarily refrain from responding to and dealing with his rebellion. After Li Yu in Jinling City received the news that Li Yun had decided to give up the army and attack Kaifeng, it was impossible for him to be as calm and disapproving as Wang Kunjun, Liang Ziyue and others, let alone pretend that nothing had happened, and still chant poems against Xiao Zhou in the palace.

But the problem is that after scolding the treacherous and self-fattening Li Yun, Li Yu helplessly found that he had no way to counteract except for cursing the eighteenth generation of the other party's ancestors. Realizing this, Li Yu, who was still angry and angry, couldn't help but be deflated immediately, sat back on his throne dejectedly, and looked at the civil and military generals who all got up and stood up because of their anger with inquiring or expectant eyes, hoping that these courtiers who had been favored by him could offer them a strategy to retreat from the enemy. But to Li Yu's disappointment, none of the ministers stood up to help him, and in the face of his own inquiries or even with a little begging eyes, the ministers either responded with a sad face, or were full of apologies to Yi, or simply lowered their heads and did not look at themselves at all.

Seeing that the situation was critical, a group of civil and military generals had nothing to do and were speechless, Li Yu was both angry and sad, and then became disheartened and had no fighting spirit. He stood up and waved his hand weakly, and in the voice of the eunuch announcing "retreating from the court" and the ministers "sending off the lord", with endless loneliness and helplessness, he went to the Buddhist hall to chant and pray, and never asked about the government again.

Li Yu ignored the government and only knew how to recite poems and worship the Buddha, and the military and political affairs of the Jiangnan court were controlled by Chen Qiao and Zhang Xun, the two main battle factions who always advocated resisting the city and defending it, and fighting to the death. In this way, even if there were some ministers in the court who wanted to surrender to Kaesong, under the suppression of these two, they had to hide their thoughts and dare not show them again. As a result, after entering the seventh lunar month of the second year of Jianlong, the sound of the main battle and the preparation of defense in Jinling City were louder and more adequate than when Li Yu came to the dynasty before.

Seeing that the voice of Jinling Chengnei advocating resistance and fighting to the death is getting stronger and stronger, and the defense is becoming more and more perfect, and the morale of the soldiers and civilians in the city has also improved to a certain extent compared with the shelling of Jurong, and if it continues to delay, it will be more and more unfavorable for the Southern Expeditionary Army to conquer Jinling City. Moreover, although Li Yun of the Zhaoyi Army temporarily gave up the rebellion due to changes in the situation, he may not have given up the idea of rebellion, and it is a disaster to let such a scheming guy behind him after all, and it is better to solve it as soon as possible. In addition, more than 100,000 troops were stationed under Jinling City, and the daily consumption of grain and grass was huge, which was a heavy burden on the Later Zhou court, which was still in the recovery period - even with the full support of the Beiping Army, an economically developed place, the long-term siege of the city was also unbearable. What's more, as the siege gets longer and longer, the morale of the officers and men of the Southern Expeditionary Army will inevitably gradually decline and lose, even if their own side has an advantage in weapons and equipment, attacking the enemy with low morale will also increase their own casualties unnecessarily.

Therefore, at the beginning of the seventh lunar calendar of the second year of Jianlong, after nearly two months of besieging the city, Wang Kunjun and the other three members of the committee decided that they could not spend so much time with the Jiangnan monarchs and ministers in the city indefinitely. So, on the fourth day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar, Wang Kunjun sent an envoy into Jinling City for the first time since the southern expedition to persuade him to surrender.

However, in the face of the persuasion of the envoys of the Southern Expeditionary Army, Chen Qiao and Zhang Xun, who were bent on fighting to the death, not only did not have a repentant and confessional attitude, but instead spoke fiercely and argued on the basis of reason, refuting the sins of Li Yu and the Jiangnan Imperial Court one by one, and refused the envoy's request to meet Li Yu and persuade him to surrender in person, saying that his thoughts were the thoughts of the lord of the country, and his own words were the words of the lord.

Although the first envoy to persuade surrender ended in failure, considering the life and gathering of a city and the value of the ancient capital, from the sixth day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar to the twentieth day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar, Wang Kunjun and Xu Shao'an still sent three envoys into the city to persuade them to surrender one after another, hoping to take the ancient capital of the six dynasties and the first city in the south of the Yangtze River without hurting a person or damaging anything.

The Southern Expeditionary Army did its best to be benevolent and righteous, but the Jiangnan monarchs and ministers in the city, especially Chen Qiao and Zhang Xun, who were in charge of military and political affairs, were unmoved and stubborn, not only refused to surrender, but also continued to speak disrespectfully, accusing the Great Zhou officials, the Great Zhou court, and the Great Zhou ministers, especially the Song Duke Kunjun who led the army to the south.

As the so-called "mud bodhisattva still has three points of earth", as Wang Kunjun, who said nothing in the Later Zhou court, as a member of the crossing team who controlled the politics of the Later Zhou Dynasty and looked down on the world, how could he tolerate Chen Qiao, Zhang Xun and other Jiangnan ministers so criticized and rude. So, when the last patience of the brothers was also worn out by the delay and stubbornness of the Jiangnan ministers, on the 25th day of the seventh lunar calendar of the second year of Jianlong, Wang Kunjun sent an envoy into Jinling City again, and at the same time, the last time before the siege of the city by force. It's just that this time what he brought was no longer a letter and rhetoric to persuade him to surrender, but to order the other party to open the city and surrender just before the 27th day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar, otherwise there would be an ultimatum of ten thousand cannons and a hundred ways to attack the city.