choke element

Chapter 787 Fire

In the past year, the Dajin was divided into two points, and the northern Jurchens all deeply felt the threat of dynastic change, so they went south in a large scale and defected to the Kaifeng court.On the one hand, this provided the Kaifeng imperial court with a huge source of troops. On the other hand, the resettlement of these people also quickly exhausted the resources and food they had accumulated in the past two years, so that at this moment, sitting on a huge city, they could not fight the enemy for a long time. war.

But the lack of money and food is one thing. The amount of wood, stone, etc. that can be used to defend the city in Kaifeng is still huge, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is as mountainous as the sea.

After all, Kaifeng City used to be Bianjing, the capital of the Song Dynasty, and it was also deliberately managed by Dajin, planning to be the capital of the country after the world was unified.

With the help of Duke Hunde and King Hailing of the Great Jin Kingdom, the construction specifications of this city are beyond ordinary people's imagination. In recent years, King Sui has built military camps and school grounds in Kaifeng. A piece of unused government offices or palace buildings were demolished, and everything was there.

If you consider the wood and stone needed for defending the city and fighting, so many grand buildings may not be used up even if they are demolished in three to five years.

Last year Hou Zhi was squeezed out by the Jurchen nobles and was forced to transfer to the Third Division. At the beginning, he had some ambitions, planning to turn all these abandoned and useless palace buildings into strong cities, as a basis for the revival of Dajin.But as the situation changed, the momentum of the entire Kaifeng court was like a raging fire cooking oil for a while, but the money and food that had been accumulated with great difficulty were flowing out, and Hou Zhi had less and less manpower and material resources at hand.

In the end, Hou Zhi's family didn't understand. Since the court's money and food were not enough to support a long-term battle, no matter how strong the city itself was, what good was it?

The project of rebuilding the inner and outer city walls of Kaifeng ended hastily.
One day, he and Tian Zhuo had a private wine meeting, mentioned his official duties in the third division, and said with a bit of resentment:

The Jurchen warriors in the DPRK were thinking about getting compensation from the south all day long, but they didn't consider the country's weakness at all.I, Hou, have been repairing the city for half a year, thinking about stabilizing the foundation, but in fact, all the work I have done is useless.

Now there is no need to repair the city. Seeing that there are countless logs piled up in the outer city, they are useless. Only the poor in the outer city secretly use them as firewood.One day it made me angry, so I just set a fire and burned all the wood, at least I can see some spectacular sights, and I can have fun for my family.

Tian Zhuo couldn't think about it at that time, so he only advised Hou Zhi to be patient for now.King Sui wanted to ascend the throne and proclaim himself emperor, so he had to win over those Jurchens as a facade. When the matters on the table were finished, sooner or later, there would still be trust in us and wait for the Hanchens, and it was time for us to clean up the situation.

At that time, those words were said, who would have thought that in just a few months, the short-term weakness of the Kaifeng court was completely taken advantage of by the enemy, and the situation was turned upside down.

When Ding Haijun broke through Xuzhou and Guide Mansion, the soldiers and horses attacked Kaifeng all the way, Tian Zhuo, Hou Zhi and others were recalled by the emperor again to deal with them in secret. .

Until Wanyan Sai, who was in charge of the war in the south, sent someone to send a message on flying horses, saying that the Song army on Jingxi Road was marching northward, and it seemed that the intention was to join Guo Ning's bandit army at the foot of Kaifeng city... The other officials felt that the two families were not the same. Attacking with force, the situation is extremely difficult, just like a noose has tightened the neck.Tian Zhuo and Hou Zhi both remembered the drunk talk earlier at the same time.

And the drunken words turned into reality is the situation at this moment.

The flames continued to churn, the air became hotter and hotter, and the firewood that had been pre-watered with oil and filled with firewood continued to burn, making beeping and crackling sounds, and the whining sound of the air pulsating and people's coughing and miserable Call.

Not far from Hou Zhi's side, a soldier of the Ding Navy, with his head and face full of scorching foam, flung off half of California, bursting into flames and went straight to the outside of the fire scene. He stared at the crowd with blood-red eyes , as if not believing that he was out of danger.

Several soldiers of the Song army held their knives in a gesture, fearing that he would be dazed by anger and hurt others violently, but the soldiers of the Ding navy only turned around and shouted: "Here, go here!"

He shouted hoarsely, but there was no response from the fire scene.The fire burned from Fengyi Gate, which was restored by Hou Zhi, to nearly Nanxun Gate, covering a radius of several miles in an extreme time.When Hou Zhi was discarding the wood, he deliberately manipulated the wood and piled it up in a winding and long way, so that Fengyimen Avenue suddenly widened and narrowed.

The position where the soldier rushed out was just a small gap where the wood of the hatchback was interlaced. It was a fluke for him to escape, and the inside and outside of the fire scene were separated like a moat!

The soldier yelled a few more times, but seeing no one answered, the veins on his forehead twitched violently, his hands trembled, and a muffled ho-ho sound came out of his throat.A lot of sweat dripped from his temples, flowed over his scorched skin, and was quickly evaporated by the heat wave. Outsiders felt pain for him when they saw it.

But the next moment, he roared wildly, and rushed back into the fire scene!

"An ordinary soldier can do this, who can be in such an army?" Such thoughts popped up in everyone's minds at the same time.

"We have been worried for a long time that it will be difficult to fight against the tiger and wolf division of the Navy when fighting on the battlefield, so we will draw up a fire attack plan. Only such a plan will definitely bring huge damage to the Navy, and since we have A plan capable of killing and injuring the enemy must be carried to the extreme."

Facing Zhao Fang's and Xuan Zen's suspicious eyes, it was Hou Zhi who had the time to relax.

After the fire blazed, Hou Zhi's nervousness was swept away. The original humility of kneeling on the ground and paying respects to the officials of the Song Dynasty could not be seen, but was replaced by abnormal calm.He even thought of squatting down, picking up the short staff that Xuan Zang had just thrown away, and handing it back to Xuan Zong.

"At that time, we thought that it would be best to create a situation in which Guo Ning led his troops to rush straight into the city gate. The gap between the inner and outer walls of Kaifeng City was so wide that soldiers and horses were galloping. I can wipe out this troublesome child and all the people under his command."

Having said that, Hou Zhi smiled:

"Of course, this is impossible. Guo Ning was born in the army. He is fierce and cunning, so he would never be so negligent on the battlefield. Moreover, his heir Guo Jing is still young. The future is not too much. Therefore, even if he insists on leading the army to fight, the subordinates will do their best to protect him and not allow him to fall into such a dangerous situation."

"So, you took the next best thing and turned your target to a certain unit under the command of Dinghai, and created another situation that forced Dinghai to rush into Kaifeng City at full speed, but had no time to pay attention to other situations."

"That's roughly the case, but this is also inseparable from the prestige of Song Dynasty, and we must thank the two gentlemen for their assistance." Hou Zhi bowed to Xuan Zang and Zhao Fang.

Xuan Zeng stepped aside.Zhao Fang stood proudly, only sneered a few times.

(End of this chapter)