"At present, there are only one surrendered army left behind in Xingzhou. If the general wants to, he can take Longgang, the city of the state tonight."

"Then take it."

The next day, the flag of the Song Dynasty fluttered at the head of Longgang City. Hu Yangeng sent a horse to find out, and while contacting Puluru Bosheng who had arrived in Hedong, he went around to search for the whereabouts of the Jin soldiers. He learned that Wanyan Yinshu could go east to Jizhou, while Wanyan Loushi in Cizhou did not stay there, so he attacked Xiangzhou south.

Xiangzhou.

The prefect Zhao Bushi sat upright in the hall, with officials from the prefecture yamen standing on both sides. Zhao Zishi was the sixth-generation grandson of Taizu. He was originally a magistrate of Xiangzhou. After the prefect Wang Boyan followed Zhao Gou to the south, Zhao Bushi took over as the prefect. At the beginning of this year, the Jin soldiers took Zhao Bushi's son to the city and threatened Zhao Bushi to open the city, "not staying without trying."

More than half a year after the last time the Jin soldiers retreated, Xiangzhou was surrounded by Jin soldiers. Now it has been surrounded for ten days. The guards at the top of the city came in to report: "Most of the Jin thieves withdrew from the camp, and now there are only three or five thousand troops blocking the four gates."

Zhao Bushi ordered the horse to try to leave the city, but was indeed blocked by the Jin soldiers.

"It's a pity that there are no warriors, and there are only three thousand Jin soldiers outside the city. Tens of thousands of people in my city are strong. Only one strong general can lead them to defeat the Jin thieves."

Zhao Bushi was passionate on the top, and the officials sitting below all bowed their heads and said nothing.

No one answered, Zhao Bushi had to announce himself: "If you can defeat the golden thief, you will be rewarded with a million yuan."

This list article was posted for three days, but no one took it. However, the rich people in the city found the prefectural yamen: "Premier Zhao, there is not much food in the city, so why not surrender." Zhao Bushi scolded him.

Not long after, the local genius in the city gathered and went to the yamen to beat the drum. The leader of Han Zhenzhou said, "Please surrender to the people, let's surrender. Our family has no meat." After the Jin soldiers retreated, Han Zhenzhou returned to Xiangzhou to take care of his manor.

Zhao Bushi stood in front of the gate of the mansion and said, "The food and grass in the city can be persisted for several months. The people still eat porridge. How can all the local geniuses surrender because they have no meat? The Jin people are seeking enemies. If they enter the city, they will destroy my clothes and clothes. All the local geniuses are examples of the people. How can they serve the barbarians? Mr. Han, your family background is favored by the emperor, and you should do your best to protect the whole world of Zhao Song."

"The Great Mansion, Confucius said that the warehouse is solid but knows etiquette. Now there is no food. Why do you say that the warehouse is solid? If you don’t have a warehouse, what is the use of clothes?"

Zhao Bushi turned around and returned home, summoning his subordinates to discuss matters: "Now the city is short of food, and foreign aid will not come. If you don't try, the clan will be the son. If you don't surrender, will the plan be released?"        The crowd did not respond. If you don't try, you should not do anything. So he climbed the city to make an appointment with the Jin people and promised him.

Zhao Bushi returned to the back house and asked his family to join a deep well in the yard. Then he instructed his family members who had been following him for many years: "You buried the wellhead, and you will take the property in the mansion and go back to your hometown." After that, he jumped into the well.

Zhao Bushi sat at the bottom of the well, listening to his wife and children crying aside, thinking: "I heard that those who are suffocated will die very uncomfortable. I should have committed suicide by taking poison. Oh... It's a pity that I didn't bring the poison in."

Just as he was thinking, a large bluestone slab was covered with the wellhead. Zhao Bushi secretly complained: "If you don't fill the soil, just seal the wellhead, you will die more slowly and uncomfortable."

After covering the stone slab, the breathing in the well became more and more uncomfortable, and his belly gradually became hungry. Zhao Bushi thought in a daze: "I'm going to starve to death now. If I had known, I would have brought some food in. Which one is more uncomfortable to starve or suffocate?" He fell asleep. After a while, he thought in a daze: "Why do you have to suffocate to death? If you fight with the Jin thief, you can still leave your name in history. If you suffocate to death like this, you don't know what title will the court posthumously posthumously."

When Zhao Bushi woke up again, he found that he was already lying on his bed, and his hometown was serving him.

"What's going on?"

"Master, reinforcements have arrived and the Jin thieves have been killed."

Seeing Zhao Bushi looking at him in confusion, the old family explained: "I covered the wellhead with bluestone slabs, but when the Jin thief didn't pay attention, he would dig out the master's family. I never thought that just one day passed, General Hu came with reinforcements."

"General Hu? Which General Hu? How did he get here? And how did he defeat the Jin thieves? How many troops did he have?"

"I don't know these little ones, so the master can just ask General in person."

"Change clothes for me, I'll go see him." Zhao Bushi stood up after hearing this.

While changing clothes for Zhao Bushi, the old family asked inquiry: "Master, that's the money in the mansion that you took out, right?"

Although Zhao Bushi was very weak at this time, he was in a good mood overall. He said, "So, you have been with me for twenty years and have never rewarded you. After this, you can adopt a child from your hometown."

In the lobby of the state yamen, Zhao Bushi met Hu Yangeng and his deputy Puliu Ru Bosheng.

Puliu Ru Bosheng was ordered by Hu Yangeng to search for the Red Turban Rebel Army in Hedong. After the Jin soldiers headed southeast of Hedong, he followed the orders of Fu Liang, the Hedong Economic and Control Order, and retreated. When he arrived in Hebei, he took the initiative to contact him after finding out that Xingzhou was recovered by the Song army.

Hu Yangeng and Puliuru Bosheng joined forces and came to Xiangzhou. The Jin soldiers of Xiangzhou fought three battles with the vanguard led by Gao Chong. Gao Chong killed three generals and captured five flags. Later, he saw that the Song army's reinforcements were afraid that there were more than 10,000 people, and the number was much greater than that of him, so he lifted the siege of Xiangzhou and retreated.

After Hu Yangeng made a polite decision, he made a request to Zhao Bushi: collect grain.

He had to collect grain. Puluru Bosheng had no food or grass or weapons. He actually recruited more than 30,000 people in Hedong and cut wood to fight against the Jin army. But no matter how high the fighting spirit was, there were time limits. After they retreated to Hebei, they had lost money, fled and dispersed, and nearly 20,000 people were left under Puluru Bosheng.

Zhao Bushi had a bitter face: "The people of Xiangzhou still need to close the warehouse and provide relief."

"There is no need to use the Changping position, and the big households in the Xiangzhou Province will be invited to provide assistance to the salary."

"I'm afraid this matter is not easy." Zhao Bushi told Hu Yangeng about the performance of the Han family and other major families in Xiangzhou.

"This matter is easy." Hu Yangeng was overjoyed after hearing Han Zhanzhou's performance: "They have opened the city to surrender Jin, and that is the Jin people, the enemy. Now it is not to help with the money, but to the enemy."

Hu Yangeng led the red scarf into the city and surrounded the houses of Han family and other major families. It took only half a day for the wealthy families in Xiangzhou to pay a total of 10,000 stones of grain and 3,000 kilograms of iron. The patriarchs or family members of more than 30 wealthy families, including Han Xianzhou, signed and pressed their handprints on the three repentance written by Hu Yangeng, and regretted their surrender to the Jin Kingdom and cried bitterly.

Without further ado, Hu Yangeng wrote a report in duplicate, and asked Zhao Bushi to use a seal on the report. The two reports were then accompanied by a letter of repentance and sent to Zhang Shuye, Xuanfushi and Zhu Fenglian, the palace. Hu Yangeng also kept a letter of repentance in his hand.

After the three thousand kilograms of iron from the wealthy families were handed over, Hu Yangeng ordered the recruitment of blacksmiths in the city and among the refugees to create a knife and stick. He used a big stick to hit heavy armor. It has been in ancient times. For example, the famous Baili Army of the Western Army was a heavy cavalry with large wooden sticks.

But the knife and stick were created in the Ming Dynasty. "In the battle of the northwest field... the enemy's armor is strong, and it cannot be shot, and it cannot be hurt if it is stabbed. So with a stick, there is no need to ask how strong the armor is. Now the method of making the method is eight feet long and two inches thick, but add a sharp blade like a duck's mouth. It is beneficial to the stick, and it is beneficial to the blade, and the two are complementary."

Whether it is punctured or armor-breaking, knives and sticks are not as good as professional spears and maces, but fortunately, they are easy to make and cheap. At present, thousands of people with red scarves do not have weapons, so I will solve the problem first.

More than 100 blacksmiths commanded a thousand strong men and built 10,000 blades in ten days to make knives and sticks. In addition to some weapons in the Xiangzhou treasury, more than 10,000 red scarves were armed.

These ten thousand red scarves were roughly the ones who were holding regular weapons, and the commander and the soldiers took knives and sticks.

It was already December, and the weather became colder. Gao Chong, who had been inquiring, sent out to report that Wanyan Loushi's army surrounded Xinxiang where Wang Yan was located near Weizhou.

In May, "The Privy Council appointed Wang Yan as the commander of the Hedong Economic and System Department, and together with Zhang Yi, Bai Anmin and Yue Fei and ten commanders, 7,000 people crossed the river. In Si, the prefectures and counties were trapped to recruit unsustainable foreign soldiers and civilians, and then entered Hedong and repeatedly fought fiercely with the Jin bandits." Wang Yan recruited tens of thousands of Zhongyi soldiers in Hedong, and in the Weisheng Army Alliance, even Zhao Bangjie, Li Jun and others from Hebei also participated in the alliance.

However, Fu Liang, the Hedong Economic and Regulations envoy who was in Longde, did not know how to fight and was unwilling to listen to Wang Yan's opinions, which led to Wang Yan's repeated defeats in Hedong.

The situation was very tense for a time. Wang Yan was afraid that someone would betray him, so he changed his residence several times overnight.

His tribe said: The reason why I abandoned my wife and died to follow the Duke is to be loyal and angry to save the country. Now I am not aware of the Duke's slept with peace of mind and suspicion. I am not a human being. So they all face the eight characters "I am a sincere man to repay the country and kill the Jin thief" to show their sincerity.

From then on, Wang Yan's subordinates were called the Eight Character Army.

The Jin soldiers headed south on the west side and successively defeated Longde, Jiangzhou, Zezhou and other places. Although Wang Yan had tens of thousands of Eight Characters, he was in short supply of weapons, food and fodder, not to mention horses, and he retreated. Now he retreated into Xinxiang County, Weizhou, Hebei Province, with only 5,000 people left.

After Wang Yan gained a foothold in Xinxiang County, he sent people to recruit scattered soldiers everywhere, and the troops were restored to 7,000. Wanyan Nianhan also found out the news and thought that the main force of the Song army was here, so he led the main force of the Jin army to the south and surrounded Wang Yan in Xinxiang County.

Wang Yan was very famous. The Jin soldiers surrounded Xinxiang County and attacked for several days, vowing to kill Wang Yan.

Wang Yan led his army to defend the city. Seeing that the arrows were about to end, the Eight Characters Army had already begun to demolish the house and prepare to beat the stones and roll the wood.

In the county government office, the magistrate sat in the upper head and Wang Yan sat in the lower head. The magistrate said: "The attack of the Jin thieves is urgent, and the king's rule can have a strategy to defeat the enemy."

Wang Yan said: "There are still 100,000 troops in Hebei, and there are more than 100,000 elite troops in Henan Wangjie's position. We only need to persist and we will definitely wait for reinforcements to rescue the siege."

"I'm afraid that Xinxiang is small, and before the reinforcements arrive, the city is broken. I heard that the Jin thieves are the most happy to wash the city, and I feel sorry for the tens of thousands of people in the city."

"What is the county magistrate who has seen the education?"

"I heard that the Jin thieves only want to control one person and are willing to do so. It is better to let the city not leave, and to save the creatures in the city."
Chapter completed!