Xiao Ming obviously hated those traitors who defected to the enemy! And those new Han soldiers wearing golden soldier costumes are naturally frightened and do not possess their bodies! Xiao Ming, the cabinet boss of the Great Song Dynasty, said such a thing, which obviously did not give these people a way to live! So one by one they would kowtow to the ground like pounding garlic.

“…… But! Xiao Ming changed his words and continued: "I am in the Great Song Dynasty and the Kingdom of China, in line with the idea of curing diseases and saving people, and thinking that there is a virtue of a good life in heaven, it is not impossible for you to open the net, as long as you can realize your mistakes from the psychological side and transform yourself ideologically, it is not impossible to save your own life!" ”

No matter what he said, his life is still in the net, but the new annexes below are equivalent to hearing a glimmer of life, and they kowtow and say: "Willing to transform!" Sincerely repentant, the villain is grateful! It will be enshrined in the ranking of Taishi Xiao, may the adults be blessed with the sky, and the sons will be blessed with many blessings and ......! ”

Wang Shu looked at Xiao Ming's nonsense dumbfounded, "What do you mean by transforming your mind and recognizing mistakes psychologically?" But he didn't dare to question Xiao Ming, sometimes it doesn't seem to be one and one in this world, and two and two things, there are often three between one and two, in Wang Shu's view, it is a capital crime to defect to the enemy and treason when the country is in trouble! Is it possible to change the mind and forgive the death penalty?

But from the perspective of cherishing talents, Kong Yanzhou may have a greater role, but Xiao Ming vetoed his idea, Kong Yanzhou, as a high-ranking general of the Great Song Dynasty, must be executed, so as to deter those who still continue to be traitors, and the theory of talent is not necessary at all, Xiao Ming needs a flexible young talent.

In the end, Kong Yanzhou was sent to Kangjing according to Xiao Ming's wishes, and what awaited him would be trial and beheading, and the more than 10,000 people captured by Ying Tianfu were immediately transferred to the mines of Taiping City to do hard labor, which could also alleviate the current situation of insufficient manpower in Tianping Iron Mine.

At the end of November, the Song army of Cui Zeng, Yao Duan, and Zhang Shouzhong, who had already gone north from Huangzhou and Caizhou, finally opened the road to Yingchang Mansion and joined forces with Wu Jue and Liu Qi on the Kaifeng front! At this time, the grain and grass materials of the Song army have all been assembled, and Wu Jue and others can attack Kaifeng with confidence! .

In addition to the 20,000 Jin soldiers guarding Kaifeng, there are also 70,000 or 80,000 new troops, and the Jin State divided the Han army attached to them into two batches, the northern part of the Central Plains is called the new army, and the southern part of the Central Plains is called the new army.

Therefore, the new army of the Jin State is generally placed in the northern region of the Central Plains, and there must always be Jin soldiers to supervise it, and compared to the new annexed army that is more sincere to the Jin State, how can it be placed on the direct front line between the southern part of the Central Plains and the Song army, but the people guarding Kaifeng are the famous generals of the Jin State, so even if the new army with low combat effectiveness is the main force, Kaifeng may not be easily broken.

But the Jin people do not know the whole Kaifeng City, the Great Song Dynasty once Tokyo, in fact, has a lot of waterways, the Northern Song Dynasty Tokyo City, is in the Tang Dynasty, the Five Dynasties period of Bianzhou City on the basis of the development of many times after many construction, a total of divided into the outer city, the inner city and the imperial city three parts.

But there are three rivers running through this city, namely the Cai River, the Bianhe River and the Jinshui River, and there are water gates in and out of the city, in addition to this, there are two inland rivers, namely the Wuzhang River and the moat, and the large lake Jinming Pond and Yingxiang Pond in the city that are directly connected, that is to say, there are water gates in the southeast, northwest, and southeast of the city.

The defense inside the water gate was designed and manufactured by the Tokyo Forbidden Army, generally two shallow boats are set up in the west, and a huge iron spear is placed, plus three iron cables, which are wrenched on the water at night to prevent boat theft, but now it is the middle of winter, and the facilities in this part basically do not need to winch iron cables, because the iron cables are all frozen underwater.

When Wu Jue was an officer of the Tokyo Forbidden Army, he knew these very well, which was also the key to his breaking the city, and at the third watch of one night, Wu Jue found someone to chisel through the small boat to break the ice floe, came to the water gate, cut the chain that locked the door short, and then touched into Kaifeng City from three directions.

The soldiers defending the city did not expect that the Song army would enter the city, and only woke up after the fire was everywhere, and at this time, the south gate and west gate of Bianjing City had been controlled by the Song army, the city gate was opened, the drawbridge was lowered, and then the Song army of the brigade poured into the city, and then the explosions and gunshots in the city became one.

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The news of Kaifeng's recovery reached Xiao Ming, and Xiao Ming said to Wang Shu: "This is a big deal, you should draft a report to the imperial court, and give a certain reward to Wu Jue and other generals!" ”

Wang Shu also said with a red face: "That's nature, but is it a reward...... This last failed ......! ”

"You!" Xiao Ming began to say earnestly: "Old Wang! Although the military is not politics, and the army requires clear rewards and punishments, now the people of the country do not want to listen to the punishment of that general, and that general has failed! They want to see the court win those battles again, and reward that general again! The homeland of the Central Plains has been lost for so many years, and the people have been looking forward to it for so many years just hoping that the imperial court can recover their homeland and recover the lost land. Why let the people lose confidence in the court? ”

Wang Shu said: "Is the Taishi talking about the "Kangjing Tabloid"? Xia Guan always believes that talk in the opposition will not be able to lead public opinion! ”

Uncle Wang said that the "Kangjing Tabloid Newspaper" is a kind of thing similar to the newspaper of later generations, it is an unofficial distribution of things, originated in the Northern Song Dynasty, it was some officials and bookstore owners at that time to some emperor's edicts and national policies and even some major news handwritten and printed "newspapers" with a small circulation.

However, with the rapid development of the printing industry in the Great Song Dynasty, this kind of "tabloid" became more and more prosperous after Gaozong's southern crossing, and there have been specialized profit-making bookstores equivalent to later generations of "newspaper office" organizations, who often learned about some major events and national policies of the day or time through various connections, and printed them and sold them as quickly as possible.

They often bribe the servants and low-level clerks of the important government and the yamen to reveal the news, and his sales objects are relatively fixed, but there is an opportunity for the development of anything, and this opportunity is the "Northern Expedition Bond Volume" issued by Xiao Ming Due to the serious concern of the whole society about the debt volume, yes, the review news about the Northern Expedition is very important and even valuable!

Because any news involving the progress of the Northern Expedition and the war will directly affect the price of the "Northern Expedition Bonds"! Nowadays, the price speculation of the "Northern Expedition Bonds" has soared, and any bad news will cause violent fluctuations in prices, so the inside information is a magic weapon for many people who specialize in speculating on bonds to make money, and the financial speculation awareness of the Song Dynasty people is not bad at all.

The last time Jin Bing copied the back road of the Song army, although Xiao Ming ordered all the news to be strictly sealed, but I don't know where it still leaked out, and the price of the debt volume shrank greatly for a while! Fortunately, Xiao Ming defeated Jin Wushu within a few days, and then sent the captives back to parade the streets, which stopped the decline of the debt roll, and even rebounded continuously.

The circulation of the "Kangjing Tabloid Newspaper" driven by this has also soared, which shows that there are two aspects of the situation, one is that the ordinary people of the Great Song Dynasty are paying very high attention to the "Northern Expedition Debt Roll", which also reflects the improvement of the financial knowledge of the whole people brought about by the importance of commerce and trade in the Great Song Dynasty in recent years.

On the other hand, from the hot sale of "Kangjing Tabloid Newspaper", it also shows that the base of ordinary people in the Song Dynasty is currently rising, which is a good thing, although Xiao Ming did not promote education in the Great Song Dynasty, but the school construction he vigorously promoted in Hangzhou is also a big promotion to drive various kilometers and private schools.

But the issuance of such a newspaper is not just a simple talk about the war of the Northern Expedition, some street talk of lace news also appeared on it, and the library also specially found a writer with excellent writing to make special comments on various court policies and social evils, which was unimaginable in the feudal dynasty, but now the Great Song Dynasty has adopted a relaxed policy on any speech, not only the emperor, but also the entire court and government.

This is a direction of social civilization and progress, Xiao Ming is naturally very happy when he sees it, the development of "Kangjing Tabloid Tabloid" is a good thing for news dissemination, and it is naturally under Xiao Ming's attention, but he also knows the power of public opinion influence, if he grasps it properly, he is confident that he can control this power.

Now Xiao Ming still has to deal with the last force of the Jin Kingdom, since he has decided to settle the affairs of the Jin Kingdom before the end of the year, of course this matter cannot be delayed any longer! He ordered Wu Jue and Liu Qi's troops in Kaifeng to continue the attack to the west, and to cross the Yellow River when it froze in early December, and then attack Xiangzhou, while he himself led the Tiger Guards of the Great Song Dynasty to the Daimyo's mansion.

At the same time, Yang Qizhong had handed over tens of thousands of captives to the officials of Ningxia Province to build roads before the winter snow fell, and he joined Datong's army and continued eastward along the Great Wall to Yanjing.

The army led by Han Shizhong and Zhao Yanwen has conquered the original Dading Mansion of Liao at the end of November, and the Jin soldiers are now under attack from all sides, not only the military offensive of the royal guards of the Great Song Dynasty, but also the rebel army in the Central Plains of the two roads of Hebei they occupy, the rebel army one after another is also a headache for them!

On December 3rd, Xiao Ming arrived at the camp thirty miles outside the city of the Daimyo's Mansion, and the tiger guards immediately set up camp and built tents according to their usual training, and at the same time released hot air balloons into the air as a post to observe the surroundings, that is, Xiao Ming's camp did not have a wooden watchtower, but there were three layers of trenches inside and outside as a defense.

On the outside of the trench were wooden stakes like a fence, covered with barbed wire nets, and some jingling objects were hung, and at night the men were organized to work in three shifts, which can be said to be unique. Before I figured it out, I didn't know why Xiao Ming pulled a few carts of barbed wire rolls!

Just set up camp, Xiao Ming received a report that it was a group of men and horses troops coming towards them, looking at the banner as if it was not a golden soldier, but like an armed force of the Hebei Righteous Army, and after the other party approached, his subordinates came to report, saying that it was: "Wang Chongyang, the leader of the Hebei Righteous Army, asks to meet Xiao Ming, the Great Song Dynasty!" ”