One Piece of Song Dynasty

On the same day, the Jin people began to formally attack the city. They chose Shanli Gate, the Wuzhang River Water Gate in the northeast of the city, as the first place to attack. The Jin army fired thousands of arrows, and the Song army was in desperate need of city defense. Yao Youzhong hurriedly selected divine arm archers from the five armies in reserve to go to support.

On the third day of November, Emperor Qinzong of the Song Dynasty climbed to the north wall of the capital to inspect the city defense and express condolences to the soldiers. At this point, Song Qinzong had inspected the four walls of the capital for four consecutive days. Everywhere he went, he did not eat the royal meal, but ate the same meal as the soldiers. He even gave the soldiers the royal meal sent from the palace as a reward, which moved the officers and soldiers to tears.

Since Song Qinzong inspected the city wall, the weather has been very bad, with rain and snow falling continuously for four days. Song Qinzong always wore a small hat and armor. But Wang Zongliu, the commander in front of the palace who followed Song Qinzong, was holding a bone in his hand and wearing a purple robe. After people saw this, they all hated Wang Zongliu with gnashing of teeth.

Empress Zhu, who was in the harem, was also very concerned about city defense. Seeing that the weather was cold, she personally paid money and silk to the inner palace, bought cotton thread, and worked with the concubines to weave many cotton scarves and distributed them to the soldiers guarding the city.

A soldier was given a cotton scarf. He held the scarf in his hand and said, trembling all over, "Even though I got this, I'm still wearing single clothes. How can I keep out the cold?" When knowledgeable people heard about this, they were deeply disturbed.

Queen Zhu's name is Zhu Lian, a native of Xiangfu County, Kaifeng. She was born in the first year of Chongning. Her father, Zhu Bocai, served as an official in Wukang Army. In the sixth year of Zhenghe's reign, Emperor Huizong of the Song Dynasty personally presided over the marriage and conferred the title of Zhu on the throne. Empress Zhu was very virtuous, beautiful, and could write poems and paintings.

On this day, the Jin people turned the focus of their siege to Tongjin Gate, that is, Dongshui Gate, and "the arrows and stones flew like rain." The Jin people tied up huge rocks such as Mopan and Qilu and used them as cyclone cannon shells to shoot into the city. On the city, the Song army used thick ropes to form a net to catch the artillery stones to reduce their lethality. The Song army built a Yanyue fortress across the river in Shuimen to fight against the Jin people.

Hu Zhiru, the manager of the host road, was taken to the city by the Jin people. Hu Zhiru had previously led troops from Yingtian Prefecture to Tokyo to serve the king. When he arrived in Gongzhou, he fought with the Jin people and was defeated and captured. The Jin people shouted to the Song army on the city: "Reinforcements cannot come. If they come, they will be defeated, just like Hu Zhiru." After hearing this, the people in the city began to be afraid.

Emperor Qinzong of the Song Dynasty decided to re-appoint Li Gang. He sent a post horse secretly out of the city to convey the imperial edict to Li Gang: "Li Gang was reinstated and appointed as a bachelor of Zizheng Palace, leading the affairs of the Kaifeng government. When the order arrives, it will be sent to Beijing at starry night."

That night, the Song army sent death squads to descend from the city and burned five Jinren artillery mounts and two goose chariots. However, seven gun mounts remained unburned. The artillery mounts that have not yet been erected are of no use. Yao Youzhong led a thousand men from the front army to respond and went down to the city to engage in battle, killing and wounding many Jin people.

The terrain of Tokyo City is high in the northwest and low in the southeast, resembling a lying cow. In terms of city defense facilities, the northwest is relatively strong, while the southeast is relatively crude. Some magicians believe that Shanli Gate is at the head of the ox, Xuanhua Gate is at the neck of the ox, and Tongjin Gate is between Shanli Gate and Xuanhua Gate. If the Jin people attack the city, they must choose these three gates as the key points of attack. This turned out to be the case. But He Li, Sun Fu and other prime ministers didn't take it seriously.

Liu Yanqing served as the official of Sibi. Although he was defeated by the Liao army when he led the Northern Expedition to regain Yanjing, and his reputation plummeted, he still had rich combat experience. When he saw that the southeast city defense was weak, he went to the city in person to command the imperial guards. enemy. He had a "unique method of handling". Every night, he had hundreds of bundles of hay piled under the city. When the Jin attacked the city, he would light a fire and call the police, so as to prevent the Jin from sneak attacks. Liu Yanqing also accepted others' suggestions and placed a nine-ox cannon on the east wall of the city. Although this cannon was somewhat worn, it was still usable. It played a huge role in city defense and repeatedly destroyed the ladders used by the Jin army to attack the city. Song Qinzong also issued a special edict to confer this cannon as a national protector general.

The Jin people felt that the east wall of the capital was well defended and difficult to break, so they made the south wall the focus of their siege.

Just when the Jin army began to attack the city, Li Xin, who had been lurking in the city for a long time, was about to take action.

After returning to the small courtyard where he lived from the messy city, Li Xin first asked: "Gao Ping, how much did the craftsmen and medical officers send out before the Jin army besieged the city?"

Gao Ping replied: "Your Majesty, everyone who can be bought has been given away. Among them are five hundred families of craftsmen of all kinds and twenty-four families of medical officers."

Li Xin nodded and said: "Very good, today is the second day of the Jin Army's attack on the city. We can start taking action. By the way, do you know where Prince Yun's Mansion is?"

Gao Ping said: "My subordinates know."

Li Xin thought for a while and said: "Okay, tonight we will divide our troops into two groups. Gao Ping, you lead a team to Prince Yun's Mansion to kidnap Zhao Kai's newly married wife Zhu Fengying to someone, and someone will take Han Zhong to Master Li."

Gao Ping cupped his fists and said, "Yes, Lang Jun."

At midnight, Li Xin and others started taking action on time. After avoiding several patrolling soldiers, Li Xin led the people to Li Shishi's residence. After entering Master Li's residence, Li Xin ordered people to light incense in all the rooms in the courtyard. Only after half of the incense was burned did everyone enter the house.

After entering the house, seeing that Master Li did not respond, Li Xin said: "Everyone started looking for the tunnel entrance, don't let go of any clues."

After searching for less than half a quarter of an hour, he found the tunnel entrance behind the wardrobe. After finding the tunnel entrance, Li Xin ordered: "Han Zhong, send two people to stay and watch, but they cannot do anything to the people in the house. Let's go in." typical."

After everyone entered the tunnel with torches, they walked around for about half an hour before reaching the end. After reaching the end, Li Xin ordered someone to quietly open a gap in the exit. After seeing the darkness outside, he relaxed. Take a breath.

After leaving the tunnel, Li Xin used candles to circle around and found that this was a study room with many calligraphy and paintings hanging inside. After looking at the names on the calligraphy and paintings, it turned out that they were all works by Song Huizong. It seemed that this room should have been It was Song Huizong's study, but the current owner should be Song Qinzong.

Li Xin also accidentally discovered a large square seal on the bookcase in the study. There was a dragon engraved on the top of the seal, and eight characters like ghostly symbols were engraved under the seal. Li Xin did not recognize it, but there were seven official characters engraved on the shoulder. Li Xin recognized both the words "The Great Seal of the Han Dynasty" and the words "Destiny Stone" engraved on the right, and one corner of the seal was inlaid with gold. From this, Li Xin judged that this seal should be passed down by Qin Shihuang. The jade seal passed down from the country.

Li Xin was very excited to get the Jade Seal of the Kingdom by accident. It seems that the destiny lies with Li Xin. Of course, it is not just destiny. The value of the Jade Seal of the Kingdom itself is also huge. It is comparable to Jiuding. In Li Xin’s previous life, the Jade Seal of the Kingdom of Chuan was The national jade seal has been missing since the Yuan Dynasty. Since we have obtained the national jade seal in this life, we must preserve it and not let it be lost again. This is a priceless treasure of Chinese civilization and will be placed in a museum for future generations hundreds of years later. Paying homage is its best destination.