Chapter 1029: Defeat is like a mountain
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Under Li Qi's series of actions, the price of food finally dropped, and the rest of the prices also fell, which made the people of Tokyo happy, in fact, they are used to this kind of price increase, so if you don't rise, it will be a gift from God to them.
Therefore, Li Qi often couldn't understand why the Song Dynasty couldn't satisfy the people so easily.
However, in order to prevent the people from rushing to buy food, the director gave some people an opportunity, and after discussing with a dry grain merchant, the Commerce Bureau decided to adopt the policy of limiting people and restricting purchases, which was also in order to prevent Li Qi from having no food available in his hands in case the war burned into the capital.
I believe that after this incident, unless Li Qi faces a huge test in politics, these businessmen will not dare to pluck the feathers on the tiger's head anymore, this is not a joke.
Li Qi began to organize the soldiers and civilians to harvest grain, this is a race against time, he must rush before the Jin army comes, otherwise a grain of rice will flow out.
However, before the people of Tokyo were happy, the war reports from the north were one after another, but they were all bad news, the Jin army was like a tiger out of a cage, like a bamboo, only two months later, the Jin army swept away the prefectures and counties in the southwest of Yanshan Prefecture, almost cut off the route to rescue Yanshan Mansion, and formed a semi-encirclement.
Yanshan Mansion is in jeopardy.
Song Huizong has been spending the past few days, but even so, he didn't think about how to break the enemy, but pinned all his hopes on Li Ye in the matter.
And Cai You, the privy envoy, did nothing and did it at home every day. Pray for the blessings of the gods.
Unconsciously and unconsciously, the end of the year is approaching. But there is no one in the whole capital to put up lights, and there is no mood for the New Year, the people are panicked, and under the influence of the situation, it is destined that the whole New Year will become very special.
Fortunately, the talks were finished last year, and there will not be too many foreign envoys this year, even if they are already on the way. I'm afraid that when I hear this news, I will also go home, after all, no one wants to lose their lives for a little congratulatory gift.
But compared to the people in the north, the people of Tokyo are undoubtedly happy.
Just when Wanyan Zongwang was preparing to attack Yanshan Mansion, it was in this area south of Yanshan Mansion and north of the Yellow River. It's rumors that are spreading, although Jin Bing hasn't fought yet, but people's hearts are already in turmoil.
Rumors are spreading everywhere that the Jin Army is about to call, and the Jin Army is molded into the embodiment of the devil, if it is caught by the Jin Army. The result was a terrible sight to behold!
Under this series of premeditated rumors, there was only one outcome, and that was the mass migration of the people.
This kind of large-scale migration is the first time in the history of the Northern Song Dynasty, and now groups of people carrying luggage can be seen everywhere in the north. Walking on the road to uprooting.
In fact, not only the common people, but also those big landlords. There are even many petty officials mixed in with the people, of course they don't want to leave, but if they don't go, they will die.
Seeing that the Jin army was about to fight, these big landlords were about to cry when they looked at the full granary, after years of hard work, how good is this, if they leave with so much grain, they will definitely not be able to leave. Of course, they also tried their best to sell to the people, but the people also had to flee for their lives, they still relied on their legs, not even donkeys, where did they dare to sell too much food!
At this moment, a group of businessmen suddenly appeared in the northern states and counties to buy grain in large quantities at low prices, but these big landlords were very happy, and no matter how low the price was, as long as you gave money.
As a result, this group of merchants swept away the grain of the north almost instantly.
Among this group of migrants, there are some very special people, all of whom can speak well, and in a short time, they have won the trust of the people and become the leaders of the people. They divided these people into two groups, and those who were close to Tokyo fled to Bianliang, and most of the rest went to Deng, Laizhou, which was the Jiaodong Peninsula in later generations.
Therefore, although the situation looks quite chaotic, because of the existence of this group of people, it is actually very orderly.
To the surprise of these people, when they came to the edge of the Yellow River, that is, the boundary of Jinan in later generations, they saw that the river was full of boats of all sizes. Zong Ze, the envoy of the Tokyo East Road, personally commanded on the edge of the Yellow River and asked the boatmen to extradite them across the river.
Because this has been prepared a long time ago, the boats are abundant enough, so everyone calmly crossed the river, and then, Zong Ze instructed the local residents to take a one-on-one way to quickly settle down these people, under the leadership of Zong Ze, although there are many people, but there is no slightest turmoil, everything is in an orderly manner, which shows how strong his ability to do things is.
In the last two or three months of the year, the area north of the Yellow River in the Song Dynasty was basically empty, except for some important cities, many counties and towns were empty, like dead cities.
Of course, this qiē was arranged by Li Qi, who had already sent people to infiltrate the state capitals, waiting for this moment to come. The reason is that there is no fortification in the north at all, even the army is pitiful, and most of the remaining troops are concentrated in the Yanyun area, once the Yanshan Mansion is lost, then it can be said that the entire north is lost, and Li Qi learned from the seed master Dao that the Jin army is to feed the war with war, and the reason why they march fast is that part of their military food is obtained by robbing, Li Qi in order to destroy this strategy of the Jin army, so he asked the people to take all kinds of things that can be eaten, and you can take the city, Anyway, I can't hold it, and I won't be able to kill many people.
In the blink of an eye, the thirtieth year of the Chinese New Year's Eve slowly arrived, and after Yan Zongwang annihilated the Song army outside Pingyanshan Province, on the last day of 1125, he personally sat in Sanhe and launched a general attack on Yanshan Province from the southwest.
Wanyan Zongwang is very clear that if you want to attack the Song Dynasty, you must eat this Yanshan Mansion, one is because if you bypass Yanshan Mansion, then when you go deep into the hinterland, you may encounter a two-sided attack, Yanshan Mansion's strength is very considerable, because their predecessor was the Liao Army, therefore, there is still a little combat effectiveness, which cannot be ignored. Second, Yanshan Mansion is still a treasure house, and there are countless weapons and armor in it, which is also the equipment and materials urgently needed by the Jin Army.
Therefore, Originally, Wanyan Zongwang could have attacked a long time ago, but in order to be precautionary, he also made sufficient preparations before the battle, and after solving all the potential factors, he would come to fight your Yanshan Mansion again.
In history, at this time, the defense of Yanshan Mansion should have been controlled by Guo Yaoshi, but due to the arrival of Li Qi, the situation has changed, and now the defense of Yanshan Mansion is under Zhen Wuchen, although Guo Yaoshi returned to Yanshan Mansion, he is still subordinate to Zhen Wuchen.
This Zhen Wuchen used to be the defeated general of Wanyan Zongwang's subordinates, not to mention now, Wanyan Zongwang and Liu Yanzong, the old general of the Liao State, each commanded 10,000 soldiers and horses, attacked from both sides, and defeated Zhen Wuchen's 50,000 Song troops in Baihe with a devastating momentum.
This Zhen Wuchen was defeated, announcing that the defense of Yanshan Mansion had collapsed, and there was a way that the house leak happened to rain overnight. On the third day after Zhen Wuchen was blown up by Wanyan Zongwang, Guo Yaoshi, another general who served as the defense of the northern border of Yanshan Mansion, opened the city gate and announced his surrender.
Although in history, Pharmacist Guo also surrendered, but the reason is very different. This Guo Yaoshi has always hated Li Qi for his humble promotion and secret surrender, and wanted to put him under house arrest in Tokyo, if it weren't for his cleverness, I am afraid that he would never want to come back for the rest of his life, he was already faintly aware at that time, Li Qi regarded him as a backbone, so he didn't want him to serve as the commander of the important area of Yanshan Mansion, which made him heartbroken.
But that's not all, after he returned to Yanshan Mansion, he has been squeezed out by Zhen Wuchen, you know, he used to be above Zhen Wuchen, but now he has to obey Zhen Wuchen, how does he accept it.
But then again, this Zhen Wuchen really can't be a man, he is very afraid that Guo Yaoshi's arrival will rob him of his position, so he arranged for Guo Yaoshi to lead his own personal soldiers to the north to guard, that is, to guard the frontier, because he knew that once the war started, the Jin army must come from the north, which is equivalent to letting Guo Yaoshi take the lead.
But where did Zhen Wuchen expect that Yan Zongwang would bypass the north, go diagonally to the south, and attack from the southwest, just aimed at him, which was really lifting a stone to shoot himself in the foot.
Guo Yaoshi's heart is like a mirror, but he is under the eaves, he has to bow his head, but the resentment in his heart is accumulating more and more, and now seeing that Zhen Wuchen was defeated, he saw that the general trend of the Song Dynasty had gone, and decisively chose to surrender again.
This Guo Yaoshi rebelled, so it was to announce that Yanshan Mansion had completely lost the capital to resist, Zhen Wuchen saw that the situation was not good, and led the remnants of the army to try to break through several times, but they were all defeated by the Jin army, and the last time, Zhen Wuchen was also killed.
For Guo Yaoshi's surrender, Wanyan Zongwang was overjoyed, because in terms of the strategy he formulated, this war must be quickly resolved and Kaifeng directly, which is called capturing the thief and capturing the king first, and hitting the Song Dynasty by surprise, if all the reinforcements of the Song Dynasty are in place, then even if he wins, I am afraid he will have to pay a considerable price.
Therefore, Wanyan Zongwang treated Pharmacist Guo with courtesy, and talked with Pharmacist Guo that night, and talked about Tianming all the time. After seeing that Yan Zong looked at him seriously, Guo Yaoshi thought that he had met the Ming Lord, which was knowing everything and saying everything. Because he had been in the forbidden army for a long time, he knew the situation of the forbidden army in Tokyo very well, and he gave all his thoughts to Wanyan Zongwang without any reservations.
This is like a tiger for Wanyan Zongwang, although he has arranged a lot of detailed works in Tokyo, but he can only probe some things on the surface, and he can't get such detailed information as Guo Yaoshi, so he is very happy.
In order to show himself, Guo Yaoshi also gave advice to Wan Yan Zongwang, telling Yan Zongwang about the deployment of the Song army in Yanshan Prefecture, and the best route to attack.
Although it was only one night, it was really a valuable asset for Wanyan Zongwang, so he hurriedly adjusted his plan according to the information provided by Guo Yaoshi, and was sure to take Yanshan Mansion as much as possible. (To be continued)