Chapter 322: Yanjing Earthquake
Xiao Ming's tone was very loud, which made Xiao Zhonggong very puzzled, he couldn't see why Xiao Ming was so confident, facing a Jurchen army of nearly 300,000, and he didn't have to do it all!
"Oh? Why is that? Xiao Zhonggong asked.
Xiao Ming said: "Big brother hasn't drunk for a long time, right?" ”
Xiao Zhonggong nodded, looked down at the wine jar in front of him, and there was already an empty jar, but he was still puzzled.
Xiao Ming said: "Although the eldest brother is not a prince and dignitary, his status in the Dajin Dynasty is not low, even you haven't drunk for a long time, it's not that you can't afford it, but you can't buy it, right?" ”
Xiao Zhonggong nodded again and said, "You just found out from this wine and water, is the Dajin Yanjing City already facing collapse?" ”
Xiao Ming said: "This is just one aspect, after the Jin Kingdom entered the Central Plains region, what did it do?" All of them are copied from the Great Song Dynasty, although Emperor Xizong of the Jin Dynasty promulgated nearly a thousand new laws of imperial rule, but it is a thing that changes the soup but not the medicine, and now the economy is adjusted, and the people are poor and angry! ”
He poured another bowl of wine for Xiao Zhonggong and said, "What you need to make wine is food, I think they have already issued a ban on alcohol, right?" It can be seen how shy the entire Dajin Kingdom is! ”
The head of Xiao Ming's analysis is Dao, Xiao Zhong listened dejectedly, now Yanjing City is actually in a famine, not to mention that the people's food is good, even the food in the treasury is insufficient, and even the princes and ministers of the entire Dajin Kingdom have no food to eat, not to mention the 300,000 troops! Not only is it the end of Xiao Ming's strong crossbow, but it is on the verge of collapse!
In fact, more than half of this is the consequence of Xiao Ming's financial war, since Xiao Ming launched the financial war against Jin, from the Central Plains occupied by the Jin State, millions of silver and gold have flowed to the Great Song Dynasty, and even millions of people have flowed to the Great Song Dynasty, and the Great Jin Kingdom is almost empty of talents!
They are really unable to fight this battle anymore, and asking Xiao Ming for peace has become the only choice now, but everyone knows that among the conditions that can make Xiao Ming accept the Jin State's request for peace, there is nothing worthy of Xiao Ming's view, and the reason why Xiao Zhonggong is here is also a way out.
Xiao Ming asked Xiao Zhonggong to stay and not have to go back, but Xiao Zhonggong still decided to go back, Xiao Ming meant to let Dajin Kingdom surrender unconditionally, and all personnel need Xiao Ming to decide how to deal with it, and the only condition that Xiao Ming can promise them is to ensure the safety of their lives.
"I'm going to have to do something for my brother, right? If I won't go, then who will convey your meaning to them? Xiao Zhonggong said.
"That's too dangerous!" Xiao Ming was very worried, and he was also afraid that the dog that forced Jin Guo would jump off the wall in a hurry.
"Don't worry, big brother still has a way to save his life, and besides, they really need to think about your suggestion!"
Xiao Zhonggong said that the Jin court became "them!" This shows that he has stood with Xiao Ming, Xiao Ming thought for a long time, and finally agreed that Xiao Zhonggong would bring a letter of his own to Jin Xizong, and asked the other party to give an answer within three days, if Xiao Zhonggong did not give the result to Xiao Ming at that time, then Xiao Ming would attack the city!
This can be another way to ensure Xiao Zhonggong's safety. At this time, Han Shizhong's department had already rushed to Yanjing in the first time, and finally joined forces with Xiao Ming, according to the formation of Yang Qizhong, I am afraid that it will arrive within these two days, and Wu Jue has already sent the vanguard to connect with Xiao Ming!
Xiao Ming's letter was brought back to Yanjing City by Xiao Zhonggong, but before the news in the Glasses City was given, there was a rebellion in the Glasses City, and in the middle of the night the next day, the entire Yanjing City suddenly heard a shocking shouting and killing sound, and there was a firelight, Xiao Ming hurriedly sent someone to find out the news.
It turned out that there was a rebellion in the city, and it was the county guard Guo Yaoshi who came to Yanjing and led his victorious army to fight fiercely with the Jin soldiers! Guo Yaoshi's current status is very low, it turns out that he has always been valued by Wanyan Zongqi and Wanyan Zongwang, and his Changsheng army has not been incorporated into the new attached army.
But after Emperor Jin moved south, Wanyan Zongbi hated Guo Yaoshi very much, and he also attached importance to him, Guo Yaoshi's life was very difficult, and now Dajin is like yesterday's yellow flower, and it will not work now! This guy's mind inevitably began to be active again, and when Xiao Ming's letter demanding the unconditional surrender of the Jin State was brought back by Xiao Zhonggong, there was a lot of noise in the Jin Court, and it became a pot of porridge.
In the end, the result of Jin Xizong's discussion with his ministers was that as long as Xiao Ming was willing to make peace, Jin was willing to give up all the land in the Central Plains, and was willing to return to the north of the Five Kingdoms City in Liaodong, hoping that Xiao Ming would retain the ancestral hall of the Jurchen royal family and release all the Jurchens who returned to the north.
Such news was immediately revealed, and Pharmacist Guo and the others immediately quit! Hand over the new annexed army, wouldn't that let the Great Song Dynasty deal with everyone in the name of traitors? Not all of them, including the Chang Shengjun, had no way to live, and there was nothing without soldiers, which was something that Guo Yaoshi resolutely could not tolerate.
After consulting with several other generals of the new annexed army, he decided to rebel, if he can rebel at this time, for the Great Song Dynasty, it belongs to the personnel anyway, although he has the foundation of being a traitor, but it is better than being directly regarded as a traitor, and the world is in turmoil this year, if you don't talk about the soldiers and horses in your hands, no one will pay attention to you.
So just do it, and these tens of thousands of new annexes began a rebellion that night! After a melee between the Jin soldiers in the city, they captured the east gate of Yanjing at ten o'clock in the morning, and opened the city gate and fled out, and the Song army, who detected this incident, immediately reported the situation to Xiao Ming and asked for a decision.
After Xiao Ming learned that the army out of the city was Guo Yaoshi's army, he sneered and said, "Block them and fight them to the death!" ”
So the battle began, which was simply unpredictable for Yanjing, the whole situation was developing towards the point of getting out of control, Guo Yaoshi's army encountered the Song army's blockage again, and it was basically a fly like a fly, but in the dense artillery fire and gunfire of the Song army, it immediately recovered, so they all surrendered.
Xiao Ming asked people to gather all the prisoners, and on the other hand, he sent troops directly to the east gate that had been opened in vain, and was about to occupy the entire east gate of Yanjing City before the Jin soldiers could react, but at this moment, nature came without warning and a violent earthquake occurred!
Everyone only felt a dull sound like a bull's roar in their ears, and the ground shook violently, and not only that, but the whole sky became extremely dark for a while! Countless big openings cracked out from the top of the earth, like a demon opening its huge mouth, facing the earth-shattering changes between heaven and earth, everyone was stunned for a while!
Xiao Ming immediately realized that there was an earthquake! He ordered loudly that all of them should lie down on the spot, and that those who were in some buildings must come out, and that they should not dodge, nor run around, and that they should lie down on the spot in an open place! The Tiger Guards' camp was in a panic, and even in the midst of this kind of heaven and earth shock, they would inevitably panic.
But the results of years of training made these tiger guards absolutely unconditional obedience to orders, after hearing the order, they immediately lay down on the ground, such a strong earthquake of intensity, the duration was not long, about ten seconds after the incident, the earthquake subsided, but everyone felt that it was a few days long.
Xiao Ming knew that the earthquake was very dangerous at the beginning, as long as it was not swallowed by the cracks in the ground, the people lying in the open space would be fine, and the military camp of the Tiger Guards was originally built in the wild, but because it was a harsh winter, several warm sheds built of adobe were built, but now they are all down! But most people don't have anything.
However, after the earthquake, there will be many aftershocks in at least three days, which is very dangerous, but if it is in the wild, don't worry, but it is difficult to say about Yanjing City in front of you! This time the earthquake Xiao Ming estimated that there would be at least level 7 or above, and Yanjing City would definitely be in a mess, to be honest, Jin Guo was really finished this time!
After the aftershocks subsided a little, Xiao Ming immediately ordered to rush to Yanjing City immediately, it was necessary to end the rule of the Dajin Kingdom there, but the most important thing now was the disaster relief operation, otherwise there would be too many dead! Especially now that it is the middle of winter, after losing the house, there is a lack of food, clothing, and fuel, and it is estimated that the people must be very miserable!
Xiao Ming's more than 10,000 tiger guards, Han Shizhong's Zhao Yanwen's army of about 30,000 people, Wu Jue and Liu Qi's less than 50,000 people, plus Yang Qizhong's 30,000 troops who arrived later, all of them were invested in the entire Yanjing earthquake, and almost all of the 100,000 gold soldiers were taken prisoner.
The damage of this earthquake in Chengde was huge, the Jin soldiers killed and injured more than 100,000 people, and the people in the city were even more killed and injured, according to preliminary estimates, no less than 300,000 people, nearly half of the houses in the city collapsed, and the palaces built by the Jin Kingdom in Yanjing were basically all turned into a pile of rubble! The royal nobles of the Jin Kingdom fled with people to the north to take advantage of the chaos! But it was soon chased back by the Song army, and everyone was arrested, so that the Dajin Dynasty, which lasted for less than twenty years, was completely destroyed!
If there was no major earthquake, the Jin regime would not have lasted long, but the earthquake accelerated its demise, thinking that Wanyan Aguda defeated 50,000 Liao troops with 2,700 people and captured Jiangning Prefecture and began to cause trouble, and the national line of Jin State lasted for less than 20 years, and Xiao Ming's appearance was undoubtedly a disaster in their fate!
The earthquake caused a hole more than a foot long in the south gate of the entire Yanjing City, and the city wall almost collapsed, which is nothing, but the hundreds of thousands of victims in the city can now basically only live in the tents provided for them by the Song army in the fields outside the city, and there are a large number of wounded, and a large number of people have died in the bitter cold! Xiao Ming is busy! Fuel, food, cotton clothing, and clothing are all insufficient, and supplies must be mobilized for disaster relief.
More than half of the more than 100 counties around Yanjing were affected by the disaster, and the people had no houses to heat their homes, no food and no cotton clothes to keep out the cold, which would inevitably cause a large number of deaths! All the supplies of Xiao Ming's army were not enough, and he hurriedly reported to Kangjing's imperial court! Allocate all resources for emergency relief in the affected areas.
But at this time, the imperial court has a holy decree to let Xiao Ming return to Beijing immediately, there is something important to find him, as for the disaster relief matters are taken over by Wang Shu, who came with the army, the imperial court has allocated a large number of food, coal, cotton clothes and other things in Xuzhou and other places to the north to rescue is going north, there are nearby areas, Zhending, Daimyo Mansion and other places are urgently raising,
Xiao Ming felt a little relieved, so he decided to take a hot air balloon directly back to Xuzhou Taiping City, and then take the train back to Beijing......