Guide Mansion is an ancient city and was once one of the largest cities in the world.
During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, after the country was subjugated, it was based on this, and they still fought to outlast the Shandong princes for hundreds of years, and they called it the Five Thousand-Cheng Powerful Song Dynasty.
Zhao Kuangyin, the founding emperor of the Song Dynasty in the Southern Dynasty, served here as the governor of the Song Dynasty's returning army to Germany. Later, Zhao Kuangyin became the emperor, so he took the Song Dynasty as the country's name and promoted this place to Nanjing Yingtian Prefecture of the Song Dynasty. When the Song Dynasty moved south,
, this place became Guide Mansion again. At its peak, it governed more than 70,000 households, and it was worthy of being a prosperous place in the Central Plains.
However, the current Guide Mansion, with an outer city of 25 miles, an inner city of 15 miles, and a palace city of 2 miles and 316 steps, is still there, but it has become much more remote. There is a large area between the inner city and the palace city.
In the open space, there are ruins of collapsed buildings and overgrown grass. In the direction of the continuous houses, they also seem to have a dilapidated appearance that has been in disrepair.
However, this is already better than the outer city. Between the outer city and the inner city, you can even see piles of bones. Obviously, those are the corpses of refugees. No one locally collects them, and the local government is too lazy to send people to bury them. Simply put in the city
It's big enough, and there's plenty of open space. Just leave it like that. Wild dogs and birds will always eat it, and when the corpses turn into bones, there's no danger of causing the plague.
This situation aroused the anger of the accompanying knights, but Peng Yibin, as the guide, quickly told everyone that this was not caused by war or harsh government, but the result of the rise and fall of the large-scale economy after the Yellow River changed its course.
Since the early years of Dading, the Yellow River has flowed southward. It has burst several times over the past few decades, dividing the northern and southern branches into three parallel streams to seize the Huaihe River. In particular, the southern branch branching off from Yanjin has swept across Kaifeng, Suizhou, and Guide, and will
The Bian River, Sui River, Huan River and other water systems were all destroyed.
Tens of thousands of hectares of fertile farmland around Guide Mansion were destroyed and turned into floods such as Hong Pengze and Meng Zhuze. Since the agricultural foundation was destroyed, the people were scattered day by day.
Nanjing Road faces the Song Dynasty of the Southern Dynasty. Even for political purposes, the Jin Dynasty hopes to run the business properly here, so strictly speaking, the court is closely watching the gatherings, mainly in Shandong and Hebei; daily life on Nanjing Road
Governance, even salt administration, and taxation policies are much better than those in Shandong Road. Especially in terms of taxation, the burden on the people is much less than that of the Southern Song Dynasty.
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But the power of nature is so irresistible, and the Guide Mansion in front of us really doesn't seem to be prosperous and developing.
According to Peng Yibin, in the past two years, the role of Guide Mansion has been more reflected in the focus of military defense and the hub of material transfer and delivery, so even if Wanyan Bi is a pure warrior, he will not appear to be at a loss when sitting here.
But precisely because Wanyanbi was a pure warrior, the management of this city was almost completely under the control of the army. I am afraid that the local Recorder or Secretary Housi had little authority.
Once the army went out in large numbers, the remaining few soldiers relied on temporarily recruited men to maintain the situation. They were responsible for patrolling thieves, prosecuting night-time violations, etc. Suddenly, there were too many things to take care of, and it was inevitable that they would make mistakes.
Just like a moment ago, Guo Ning arrived with his knights, and the officers guarding the gates of the outer city and the inner city came up for questioning. However, Guo Ning's more than two hundred people were very loud, and the cavalry led by Guo Ning
He also had a bad temper. Anyone who came to question him was beaten on the spot, and several people turned into gourds. So no one dared to stop them anymore, and they were forced to break into the city.
At this time, the entire cavalry team gathered on the street. Occasionally there were people on the street who looked at them all with fierce looks and hurriedly turned around and left. There were also people who stuck their heads out from the cracks in the door or the top of the wall to look at them, secretly guessing their identities.
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Just looking at the shape of the armor and stomach of the robe, it is really hard to tell. The knights had obviously traveled a long way, and their horses and men were dusty, so the original color of the robe could hardly be seen.
Their flags were also rolled up and tied to the horses' backs, as if they were in no hurry to raise the flags.
Peng Yibin felt the attention of many people gathered and felt uncomfortable all over.
In an abandoned house next to the road, there was a broken door. Through the hole under the broken door, a child sneaked out and looked up. Peng Yibin raised his big eyes and made a grinning expression at the child. The child
He was so frightened that he screamed and crawled back out of the hole using his hands and feet.
When he followed Guo Ning before, he thought that there would be a continuous gathering of soldiers and horses that had sneaked into the enemy's territory along the way, or that some hidden stakes were arranged to control important positions in Guide Mansion. As a result, everything happened while running all the way.
Didn't see it.
Guo Ning and others rushed into the city in a swaggering manner.
Because Wanyanbi led his elite troops to the front line, the weakness of Guide Mansion at this moment was beyond imagination. Moreover, no one could have imagined that enemy troops would ignore the front line fighting and come to harass the strong city from more than two hundred miles away. Therefore,
, the city was completely defenseless at this time.
If the intelligence of Xu Jin and Liu Erzu is correct, the reinforcements arriving at Guide Mansion from various places will arrive one after another tomorrow and the day after tomorrow. Therefore, Guo Ning and his party may seem to be taking a huge risk, but in fact they are very safe. At least they can't protect themselves.
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However, the process of entering the city was a bit humiliating. Guo Ning beat, cursed and threatened at the front and rear gates. When the city guarding officers were so frightened that they could not lift their heads, Peng Yibin almost wanted to rush up and grab them by their collars and ask them to stop for a moment.
Get started:
Please open your eyes wide and take a look. This is Guo Ning, the thorn in your side of the Kaifeng court. As long as you kill him, you will have made a great contribution!
Peng Yibin just thought about it, and of course he would not do it. Such a powerful man who controlled the court of the Kingdom of Jin actually went to the enemy's territory in person, and his courage was limitless. Faced with this lawless banditry, Peng Yibin
He was so convinced that he fell to the ground, so according to the previous agreement, he was leading the horse for Guo Ning.
When he arrived in the city, Peng Yibin was still feeling dizzy. It wasn't until he stood on the street that he suddenly woke up and said to Guo Ning: "Why don't we leave some manpower to guard the city gate?"
"Don't worry about these bits and pieces for now." Guo Ning shook his head.
Peng Yibin frowned: "Although the soldiers who were guarding the city were released, they were not willing to do so after all. We are not keeping an eye on them. They have probably sent people to report to the military commander. The due interrogation is definitely indispensable. There is still half an hour at most, and the local soldiers and horses
The commander-in-chief of the department will send someone to interrogate you. That level is not easy to deal with!"
"What do you want to do with the lake?"
Xu Yan laughed: "They would never have imagined that the outpost of the Ding Navy was entering the city. They only thought that the marshal was an officer who came from Haozhou and Suzhou for reinforcements. Judging from the size of the accompanying cavalry, he might be a certain important general.
The general next to you."
"So, the person who came to interrogate him soon was probably a high-ranking officer in the city, at least a Qianhu or Meng'an member of the defense army. Moreover, this person would never dare to accuse him when he came up. Instead, he wanted to receive reinforcements.
He arranged the banner of the garrison area and tried to tell us what was right and wrong and to talk about the truth."
Peng Yibin said happily: "Let's talk reason with them and try to cover it up again?"
Guo Ning was stunned.
He glanced at Peng Yibin and said with a smile: "Old Peng, could it be that you look like a rough martial artist, but in fact you are just a rotten tofu who reads books about sages?"
"What's this? Why did I become sour and rotten tofu?"
"You and I are both rebels from the Kingdom of Jin. What's the point of being a rebel?" Guo Ning sighed: "Look... we just need to be fierce and ruthless!"
Guo Ning pointed to the opposite side of the road.
Sure enough, I saw a group of infantry running out of the fork in the road, led by a majestic-looking officer, holding a silver waistband in his hand.
He quickly walked closer, looked at the cavalry formation, and squeezed out a smile: "I don't know which group of soldiers and horses are coming to help? I am the guard girl Xi Lie of Guide Mansion. I would like to ask the leader of your department to come out."
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Halfway through his words, Ni hit him in the face with a fist, knocking him over.
"You guys, since you want to pay homage to our marshal, why don't you kneel down? You are so cowardly!"
Ni yelled wildly and used all his strength with his hands. He and several of his companions also rushed forward, pressed the officer to the ground, and beat him like a piece of spring rice. In a blink of an eye, his mouth and nose were crooked, and his head and face were all covered.
They are all bloody bulges.
The soldiers who followed the officers didn't react in time. A deputy-looking colonel was about to come up to try to persuade him, but Ni Yi pointed at his nose: "Shut up if you don't want to die! Where is the local military commander? Hurry up and lead the way for my marshal!"