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Chapter 442 The Moon Is Really Round Tonight ([-])

At the same time, Hu Biao and the others, who couldn't sleep, sat silently on the top of the mountain, smoking a cigarette and thinking about something in their hearts under the bright moonlight.

Even in the ensuing boredom, Hu Biao took out the butcher's knife from his waist that had been curled up due to too many beheadings during the day, and was sharpening it on a whetstone.

What they don't know is that they are not alone.

Because it was in the Jinbing camp that was only three miles away from their current location.

Wanyan Zongwang, Wanyan Zonghan, Wanyan Xiyin, Wanyan Loushi and other four giants of the Jin Kingdom's conquest of the Song Dynasty; all under the butter lamp in the Chinese army tent, they also did not fall asleep.

When such a situation occurs, it is normal to think about it a little bit.

With the vicious eyes trained by these four people after fighting for a long time, they still can't see some of the crises they are facing in the current army that is attacking the Song Dynasty.

yes!That's right.

Hu Biao and a group of netizens, these Song people who they thought were just minor troubles at first, have finally risen to the level of crisis.

It is precisely because Hu Biao and others have far exceeded everyone's expectations and miraculously persisted on the Cooking Cake Mountain day after day.

As a result, in the city of Kaifeng, the Song people who were originally weak like sheep have become more vigorous as each day passes.

In the past two consecutive days, hundreds of people from the Song Dynasty have risked more than half of the casualties from the waterway and forcibly supported the Cooking Cake Mountain.

And in terms of the number of people, the number is increasing day by day, which is the best proof.

If things continue, with their rich experience in war, they will not be able to understand such a battle; let alone know how this war, which has no suspense in the first place, will turn out in the end?

no way!They have fought many vicious battles, but this is the first time they have encountered such a strange situation.

Of course, they still occupy the absolute initiative on the battlefield; as long as they want to leave, they can return to the Kingdom of Jin with a lot of spoils.

Just returning like this, they are very unwilling.

In short, when thinking of the above-mentioned bad things, these so-called giants of the golden soldiers became very anxious.

It was only then that in the middle of the night, they didn't rest in their respective big tents, but came to the big camp at the foot of Cooking Bread Mountain together.

All of this was not because they were worried about how to take down the Cake Mountain in the fastest time and suppress the newly raised blood of the Song people.

Sadly, it's one thing to realize something isn't right.

It is another matter to be able to think of a solution. They have been sitting here for a long time, and they have no idea about the specific measures...

In the crisp sound of 'Kang Dang~', Wanyan Xiyin slammed a teacup 'Jianzhan', which was used by the royal family of the Song Dynasty, heavily on the ground with a wave of his hand.

In an instant, it is said that only half of Huaguo is left in the modern plane, and there is only one island country left.

As long as it is successfully brought back, it can definitely be regarded as a national treasure, and a treasure with inestimable value has been smashed to pieces like garbage.

In the following time, Wanyan Xiyin began to drink loudly:
"No, Alu, send me troops to attack the mountain overnight, from this moment on, we will attack the mountain day and night, even if the pile of dead people is as high as this mountain of cooking cakes, we must take it down.

What can happen?It's nothing more than killing more pawns.

In the past, there were many Han and Liao people in the Liao land. As long as you go back and raise the banner of recruiting troops, you can have as many as you want; if you die here, I will make up for you.

I only want this mountain of rice cakes and the heads of Song people on the mountain, and I don’t care about anything else~”

Hearing this, Mr. Wan, who had several blisters on his lips because of getting angry these days, was overjoyed in his heart.

He can also be regarded as a middle-level and high-level member of the Jurchens. Since he followed the old emperor Aguda, he has experienced many fierce battles, but where has he suffered such a loss and suffered such anger.

Up to now, the number of his pawns who died on Cooking Bread Mountain was almost tens of thousands.

That is to say, several commanders kept adding manpower, otherwise he would have become a polished commander; but even so, his colleagues in the clan didn't know how to laugh at him secretly.

Now that he finally heard such an order, he was ready to act immediately.

As Wanyan Xiyin said, it is nothing more than killing more Han and Liao people.

It was just at the moment when he was about to rush out of the tent excitedly and start attacking overnight, Wanyan Zongwang, the second prince of the Jin Kingdom and the commander-in-chief of the Eastern Route Army.

After putting down a thick file in his hand, he drank a sentence:
"Wait a minute, don't mention the matter of attacking the mountain overnight~"

After finishing speaking, the second prince of the Kingdom of Jin said to Wanyan Xiyin and the others regardless of Alu who had a disgruntled expression on his face:

"Xi Yin, you might as well take a long-term view, the former Liao land has become the land of our Great Jin Kingdom, and those Han and Liao people are now our people.

Treat them like you treat your own cattle and horses, and you can't drive them to death.

Feed them an extra handful of forage on weekdays, so that they can have more energy when farming, and more meat when slaughtering; remember!In the future, such words must not be said in front of those Han people, so as not to hurt their minds.

For the same reason, you can't use the soldiers and horses that are not my Jurchens under your command. Give some consideration to the thoughts of those Han and Liao generals. "

Wanyan Zonghan's lesson is very reasonable.

Therefore, with Wanyan Xiyin's temperament, it is not easy to refute directly for a while.

He could only yell out angrily: "If you don't use your life to pile up, Zong Wang, what good way do you have to take down this mountain of cooking cakes and kill all those Song people?"

When Wanyan Zongwang heard this, he confidently clapped the pile of files beside his hands, and said with a smile:

"There really are, but I didn't think of it, but some Song people who know Song people best, they thought of a lot of good ways for us~"

In fact, the dossiers in Wanyan Zongwang's hands were exactly what Song Huizong and those ministers handed over after they put pressure on the Song court two days ago.

Among the specific content, there are not only records related to Hu Biao and Hu Yitong.

Even some cover identities and information arranged by the system for the team and the netizens, such as background, what they committed, and portraits are all involved, which can be said to be quite complete.

For those people to hand over these materials so happily, there is an extremely dirty mind.

They wanted to use such a method to show Jin Bing that the identities of those people on the Cooking Bread Mountain were either bandits joining the army, or they were descendants of criminal officials like the oiran of the Jiaofang Division.

In short, to put it bluntly, they are all prisoners and rioters who do not accept Wang Hua. No matter what they do, they have absolutely nothing to do with the Song court.

In addition to some of these official materials, there are also some private things.

One thing must be admitted is that whenever this nation faces the most difficult moments, there will never be no shortage of generous descendants who will stand up without hesitation.

Give your all to save the world, so that such a civilization can continue.

But it is also undeniable that often at such times, there is also no lack of some scum who recognize thieves as fathers for their own interests.

Therefore, what was sent along with these dossiers was some internal information sent along with the scum who secretly took refuge in them.

It included last night, when people on the mountain actually sang those outrageous lyrics of 'Don't want a fairy emperor'.

It has attracted Zhao Ji, who is now considered the Supreme Emperor, and became furious on the spot.

Even to the cronies around him, he said the words 'these disorderly people are the serious troubles of the heart, and they must not be left behind'.

In other words, that scum, aiming at the current predicament facing Jin Bing, relied on his familiarity with the Song Dynasty, and put forward several vicious suggestions.

Combining all of the above, after getting such a thick pile of files and information this afternoon, Wanyan Zongwang patiently read them one by one.

At this moment, I already have some good ideas in my mind.

Facing the crowd who pricked up their ears, he said in his mouth: "There are many ways, let me explain them in detail.

First, the Caihe River is only seven to eighty meters wide, and there are many iron chains in the arsenal of Kaifeng City. Tomorrow, the military blacksmiths will only need to put them on the machine and pull a few in the river.

It is equivalent to a iron chain crossing the river, which can make it impossible for Song people's boats to pass.

Second, let someone tell the court of the Song people early tomorrow morning that if they don’t want to provoke me to raise troops to attack Kaifeng City again, let them send some confidants of the Imperial City Division to guard that water gate for me.

Don't let any boat out, or I'll make trouble for them.

Third, according to what Na Neiying said, the reason why Kaifeng city has reinforcements every day, and there is a steady stream of reinforcements towards Cooking Bread Mountain, is that someone secretly organizes them.

However, the leader Song Ren was very careful in his actions, and now he only found out that this person was called the leading brother.

Fortunately, it doesn't matter if you can't find this person, as long as you put pressure on the Song Dynasty court to increase its search and arrest efforts, so that it can't continue to organize people easily.

If the above three items were implemented together, it would be a three-pronged approach to prevent the reinforcements in the city; under such circumstances, those Song people could still put on their wings and fly up the Cooking Cake Mountain?
Fourth, in the city of Kaifeng, the court of the Song Dynasty actually had a navy in their hands.

That old man Zhao Ji, isn't he eager to die for the rebellion on the Cooking Bread Mountain now? Then let him send that navy army to fight, and attack the Cooking Bread Mountain together with our water and land troops.

Without new reinforcements, there will be more attacks on the water.

No matter how strong the Song people in Cooking Bread Mountain were, they couldn't last long. It would take five or six days at most, or two or three days at least. "

I can hear that there are a total of four items above, each of which sounds like a method with excellent results.

Wanyan Xiyin's face was finally overjoyed, thinking of the Song executive who secretly took refuge in them, he immediately gave a pertinent evaluation:

"I never thought that this old guy is really a good dog~"

After letting go of all kinds of worries in his heart, with Wanyan Xiyin's irritable temperament, and even with some leisurely thoughts, he picked up the files that usually give him a headache just looking at them and looked through them.

Of course, what he mainly looked at was the portraits of Hu Biao and others in a pile of materials.

As a result, his eyes lit up after he turned it over a few times, because he saw the portrait of the noble concubine, and it was indeed like the legend, with some relics of the prosperous Tang Dynasty.

Waving the portrait, Wanyan Xiyin, who had already regarded everyone on the Cooking Bread Mountain as something in his pocket, immediately yelled at Alu:
"Remember, this girl from the Song Dynasty must be caught alive for me."

After finishing speaking, I no longer had any plans to stay up late at the Chinese army camp, and went straight out to go back to the camp to have a good rest.

It was also during such a process that when he looked up, he suddenly found that the moonlight tonight seemed to be extraordinarily bright.

After thinking of something, he said something to the guards behind him:
"Tomorrow is the Shangyuan Festival for the Song people. When I arrange all the means in place one by one, those Song people's reinforcements will find that they can't even get out of the city. That uncomfortable appearance must make people feel very happy..."

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Time: The next day, which is the annual Lantern Festival, in the evening of the day.

Location: On the east wall of Kaifeng City, in an inconspicuous two-story building near the Northeast Shuimen.

A yamen servant dressed in soap art took a look at the Northeast Water Gate, which is now guarded by hundreds of soldiers and horses from the Imperial City Division, and a heavy iron gate has been put down and completely closed.

Suddenly, in a burst of great anger, he lowered his voice and cursed:
"Someone in the imperial court must have secretly informed the Jin people. Otherwise, since those Jin people are newcomers, how could they understand the reality of the city so well and make such meticulous arrangements."

The voice fell, and there were seven or eight men dressed as Taoists, Minzhuang, and servants in the room.

Apart from nodding, they all had serious expressions on their faces.

In the following time, the yamen servant immediately asked a series of questions to the Taoist in his thirties in the room:

"Brother in charge, the situation is so difficult now, what should I do tonight, should I continue to act?"

That's right!This Taoist in his thirties is exactly the leader of the Kaifeng mansion who is now frantically pursuing under the strict orders of the imperial court.

If Hu Biao and others saw him, they would have called out:
Isn't this Ma Kuo and Ma Xuanzan?
say!In recent years, Ma Kuo's life has not been so satisfactory.

Originally, Ma Kuo, who had benefited somewhat from the great contribution to regaining Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures, could definitely be promoted to rank.

It's just that he not only ran for Hu Biao, but also persuaded Song Huizong Zhao Ji many times to prepare military forces to prevent the Jin people from going south.

As a result, after he hated Song Huizong, he was sent to Hezhou.

In the following time, King Qin experienced the first Kaifeng war, but was falsely accused of colluding with the Jin people; he participated in the volunteer army of Zhending Mansion to fight against the Jin, but he was defeated again.

In the end, disheartened, he lived in seclusion in the busy city of Kaifeng.

As a result, he never thought that when he was most depressed and desperate, his good brothers Hu Biao and Hu Yitong appeared, which immediately made his heart come alive.

After raising his spirits, he began to act in the city.

In the previous time, it was under the organization led by him that Chen Ergou was a straggler who couldn't even get out of the city gate.

It took hundreds of people to act together in a relatively organized manner, and finally succeeded in supporting the climb to the Cake Mountain.

In a very targeted manner, Hu Biao brought the much-needed supplies.

And with the successful examples of the previous two days, more people are now willing to join them, and more people have spontaneously donated various urgently needed supplies such as food fodder, knife wound medicine, and gunpowder.

Even after they have more experience, they are more fully prepared.

For example, more improvements will be made to the boat.

The upright door panel is nailed to the side of the ship, so that people don't have to lift it all the time; adding a layer of wet quilt outside the wooden board, the defense is stronger.

Some gaps are reserved in the door panel, so that the oars can be rowed by the crew; instead of only relying on one person to row, the speed is too slow and so on.

In short, I tried every means to make the boat stronger and faster, so as to reduce the casualties when passing through that section of the dead river.

However, the above-mentioned good plans began to take a turn for the worse at about a quarter this morning, when some surprising changes occurred in the situation.

At first, amidst a burst of noise, a small number of imperial troops and a large number of civilians guarding the Northeast Water Gate.

In fact, they have established a relationship, and the guards who had a tacit understanding between the two sides were driven away by the soldiers and horses of the imperial city who had just arrived.

In the words of the head lieutenant, the defense of this water gate is now taken over by them, without the order of the court, no plank can leave the city.

Not long after, an even bigger piece of bad news came.

That was after the arsenal in the city was opened, a large number of rusty iron chains were transported out of the city and sent to the upper reaches of the Cai River, making some blacksmiths busy.

He made a posture that he wanted to pull up a few iron chains on the river, and come up with a chain across the river.

To make matters worse, they also heard an even bigger bad news:
The capital navy of the Song Dynasty in Jinmingchi has been mobilizing personnel and preparing certain combat equipment since today; once it is completed, it will go out of the city to attack Grandpa Hu and others on Cooking Cake Mountain.

Everyone present, they are all natives of Kaifeng, so they are naturally no strangers to this capital navy.

This thing was still at the time of the founding of the Song Dynasty. Zhao Guangyi, the official at the time, was suffering from a lack of horses in order to conquer Liao and take back the sixteen prefectures of Yanyun, so he wanted to take advantage of the Shangshui division.

So this capital navy was established, and it often trained in Jinming Pool.

It's a pity that before this navy came out of the station, the army that defeated Liao was defeated and returned. Such a navy became the emperor of the Zhao family, a toy in the golden pool like a bathtub.

However, no matter how poor the combat power of the capital's navy is, there are still many large ships and warships, and all kinds of combat equipment on them are quite complete.

If they join the attack on Cooking Cake Mountain, and their manpower and supplies cannot be delivered, Hu Yitong and the others may not be able to hold on.

In contrast, Kaifeng Mansion starts today.

Intensifying the pursuit of his leading brother was not an important matter at all, and Ma Kuo never took it to heart.

Because there are a large number of those arresting him and the Yamen servants, if they are asked to risk their lives to support Cooking Bread Mountain, they may not be able to do so because of many scruples.

But in the private tip-off, turning a blind eye and closing one eye in the process, there was no problem at all...

Facing those who are not subordinates, just because of the deep-rooted hatred for the golden man in the heart, and the blood of those who refuse to kneel in the heart, the brothers gathered together, what is the question of "how to do it?" .

Frankly speaking, Ma Kuo, the so-called leading brother, has nothing to do.

But he faced a pair of expectant eyes, and based on his years of leadership experience, he knew that the more he came to such a time, the less he could show his timidity.

Otherwise, the brothers might become more and more worried, which would make things worse.

For this reason, he cheered up, and said calmly: "It's okay! After everyone is ready and wait patiently, a certain solution will be solved tonight."

After thinking of something, he added another sentence:
"Today is the Lantern Festival, when preparing meals at night, remember to prepare some more Fuyuanzi by the way, and cook some for the brothers to eat a bowl.

The rest will be sent to Cooking Bread Mountain and the others. "

After finishing speaking, Ma Kuo silently added another sentence: "If possible..."

　I wrote it in a hurry, please point out the typo, and I will correct it later.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)