Chapter 7 Defending the Capital(1/2)
Early the next morning, Li Gang, who had not been asleep for a night, hurried into the palace. Sure enough, he saw that a large number of imperial guards such as Jinwu Guards and other imperial guards, palace eunuchs, palace maids, errands, etc. were gathered outside the palace, and there were many carriages, carriages, etc. in the crowd.
At this time, why didn't Li Gang know what happened? It was Emperor Xin of Song, Zhao Huan, who planned to escape from the Feng Mansion again.
So Li Gang was furious and shouted at the imperial guards of the imperial guards without regard for the consequences: "Where are you waiting for your parents, wife and children?"
"Shilarious Minister Li?"
"What do you mean?"
When the imperial guards of the imperial palace rushed in angrily, they all looked at Li Gang in shock, and several of them asked.
Li Gang tucked the underside of the official robe into his waist, walked up the jade steps with great strides, looked at the black imperial guards below the steps, raised his arms and said loudly: "Where are you waiting for your parents, wife and children?"
"In the city!"
"We are all from Kaifeng Mansion, and our parents, wives and children are in the city!"
The troops answered loudly.
"Since you are in the city, why do you ignore it? Leave them to the Jin people? Disregard your parents, wives, children and other relatives? Is this what people do?" Li Gang asked loudly again.
"Mr. Li, I have nothing to do with you when I ordered you to do it!"
"Mr. Li, what do you think you should do?"
When the soldiers heard this, they responded loudly with tears in their eyes, and many imperial guards were already extremely angry.
"Since that's the case, are you willing to follow Your Majesty to the south or stay in the city to fight the enemy?" Li Gang asked loudly again.
"We are willing to follow Mr. Li to fight the enemy!"
"Mr. Li, please give the order. We will be absolutely certain. We will decide to fight the enemy to death and swear to never retreat!"
"Fight to the end, fight to the death!"
"I, the Song Dynasty, have a good man with iron blood, fight to the end, and fight to the death!"
The troops pulled out their weapons, and the sound of "Canglanglang" being unsheathed was heard, and the troops roared loudly with swords.
The eunuchs and palace maids in the palace were so scared that their faces turned pale, and they all stood there in a daze.
What is Mr. Li trying to do? Do you want to cause a mutiny? If it causes a mutiny, the emperor and other people in the harem will of course suffer. These people will also have a fire in the city gate and will cause fish to suffer.
"Since that's the case, you'll wait here and don't go anywhere. Wait for Li to ask for the Holy Order." Li Gang said after nodding.
"No!" The troops sang loudly together.
Li Gang then made great strides into the palace. The palace guards dared not stop it. If they were to stop it, they might be chopped into meat paste by the angry army.
The movement on the roof of the palace was almost blown out, and the new emperor Zhao Huan, the queen Zhu and others had already scared him to the point of being invisible. Zhao Huan forced himself to calm down, while the concubines, princess and other concubines, princesses were so scared that they hugged each other and were trembling.
"What happened to your family?" Zhao Huan asked in a trembling voice when he saw Li Gang breaking into the hall with great strides.
"Your Majesty, all the troops are willing to seize the city and defend their homes." Li Gang replied.
"Oh, that's right, then... I won't leave anymore?" Zhao Huan said hesitantly.
"Your Majesty, Emperor Taoist entrusted the country and the country to you." Li Gang said slowly: "Your Majesty will respond to the will of heaven, follow the wishes of the people, eliminate the dangers of foreign enemies invasion, revitalize the power of the Holy Dynasty, eliminate traitors, and increase the way of a gentleman!"
"Oh, I know, I won't leave." Zhao Huan responded perfunctorily.
I know if what you said is true
Words? He left now, but he didn't leave now, resisted Jin, and ran away again. This made Li Gang unable to believe Zhao Huan's words, so he had to take out the plan that Liu Anjie had offered.
"Your Majesty has promised to stay for me, why are you going to leave again? Now the parents, wives and children of the six soldiers are in the capital and are willing to defend themselves. If they escape halfway, who will defend His Majesty? The enemy has approached and knows that the emperor has not gone far. If he uses a fast horse to chase him, what will he use to resist?" Li Gang said then.
"Yes, yes, what the Li Qing family said is very true." Zhao Huan suddenly realized after hearing this, and nodded repeatedly to agree.
Liu Anjie's plan was to accurately call Zhao Huan and others, and they were afraid of death.
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The Jin army was mainly cavalry, and Zhao Huan and others dragged a family to escape, and they would inevitably be caught up by the Jin army halfway. By then, without the protection of the city, it would be a disaster.
Zhao Huan woke up and hurriedly ordered his orders to stop leaving the city and stay in the city to defend against the enemy.
"Those who dare to say that they leave will be killed!" Li Gang then said sternly to the eunuch who was about to go out to deliver the order.
The eunuch looked at Zhao Huan, Zhao Huan nodded, and the eunuch ran out of the hall and sent an order to the troops waiting outside the hall.
"Long live! Long live! Long live!"
When the imperial guards heard the news, they were all moved to tears and kept lying on the ground and shouted long live.
The Song Dynasty was not without soldiers who were good at fighting and bravely fought, but with almost no general who dared to fight!
So Zhao Huan finally made up his mind to defend Kaifeng Prefecture to wait for the kingly army in the world to attack the Jin army and dismiss Bai Shizhong. However, Li Bangyan and Zhang Bangchang were still appointed as prime minister, and Cai Que's son Cai Mao was appointed as the left chief of the Shangshu.
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"Kill! Kill! Kill!"
"Kill the enemy! Kill the enemy! Kill the enemy!"
At dusk this day, thousands of Song soldiers came down from Xinzhengmen City, taking advantage of the enemy's unpreparedness to kill the Jin soldiers and the civilians among the Jin soldiers who were digging trenches.
Thousands of Song soldiers were brave and dying men. After Li Gang personally supervised the battle, they held up sharp blades and fought bravely towards the Jin army.
The Jin army was caught off guard and was chopped over into the trench by the Song army. Blood flowed and became blood in the trench. The undead Jin army hurriedly picked up the weapons and fought back.
The two sides were entangled near the trench, roaring like thunder, fighting desperately, not giving in to each other, and in an instant, blood flowed into a canal and corpses were everywhere.
In this battle, Li Gang was surprised and suddenly rushed down the city and killed the Jin army, caught the Jin army off guard, and lost more than ten generals, thousands of soldiers and civilians.
Many Song army suffered casualties, and only half of the Song army warriors in Qiancheng returned to the city.
Although both sides suffered casualties and the battle was not large in scale, it greatly boosted the morale of the military and civilians in Kaifeng Prefecture City, and also increased the confidence to repel the Jin army.
The Jin army also realized that because of the small number of people, it was impossible to surround Kaifeng Prefecture and cut off its waterways, grainways, etc., so they adopted the tactic of key attacks, focusing on attacking the east gate, north gate and waterways of Kaifeng Prefecture.
At the same time, the Jin army also realized the will of the Song Dynasty's military and civilians to resist Jin, and realized that the Song Dynasty's military and civilians were not unable to fight and dared not fight, so they shrank their troops and waited for an opportunity to steal the city or siege the city to fight aid.
Wanyan Zonghan tried to use the method of trapping Taiyuan with military force and adopted the "City Locking Method" to deal with Kaifeng Prefecture.
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To be continued...