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On the second day of June, Xin Qiji feigned an attack on Weizhou, using the strategy of besieging the city and attacking its reinforcements. He set up an ambush in the north of Weizhou city with an absolutely superior force and almost wiped out Wanyan Yong's troops.

At 3 p.m. that day, Xiao Xin killed more than 200 captured Jin soldiers one by one at the foot of Weizhou City.

Used to deter the enemy and completely destroy their hope of holding on and waiting for help.

This place is deep behind enemy lines and there are no Jinyi Uniform Guards watching, so Xiao Xin has no psychological burden about killing prisoners.

According to the combat plan, the blasting team originally planned to approach the city wall under the cover of darkness after nightfall and use gunpowder to blow down the city wall.

But in the evening, there was a sudden deafening cry of killing in Weizhou City, as if a civil strife had broken out.

At 10:00 p.m., the north gate of Weizhou suddenly opened, and two Han people in white clothes and holding white flags ran out of the city. When they were brought to Xiao Xin, they said, "The Han and Liao slaves have turned against us to welcome the royal army! General, please enter the city quickly and help us besiege the Weizhou Commander Pushala's office!"

Looking in from the city gate, one could indeed see flames rising into the sky and chaos in the city.

However, Xiao Xin, who usually liked to use strange and risky strategies, was extremely cautious at this time. He only let Qin Zhiyuan lead the scout company into the city first to occupy the commanding heights of the city gates and streets to prevent any fraud.

At 10:00 p.m., Qin Zhiyuan sent someone to bring back a message: there was indeed chaos in the city, and the Jurchen officials and their families were resisting stubbornly in the government office. Although the Han and Liao slave troops were numerous, they had not been able to break through the government office due to lack of command and equipment.

With this news, Xin Qiji felt relieved and immediately led his own troops and Wu Kui's Sixth Regiment into the city, while the Second Guard Regiment stood guard outside the city.

Before setting off, Xiao Xin deliberately explained cryptically: "Fighting behind enemy lines is very different from a head-on confrontation."

Wu Kui knew very well what Xiao Xin meant. When the Huaibei Army was in the Central Plains and in the south of the Yangtze River, it was a righteous army that always kept in mind the iron rule of "three kills".

But outside the tiger's den and wolf's lair, they are also tigers and wolves, and their top priority is to destroy productivity to the maximum extent and eliminate the enemy's war potential!

Therefore, military discipline cannot be used to restrain them at this moment.

Xiao Xin did not allow the second regiment to enter the city, probably because he did not want Tiedan and the King of Chu to be stained. After all, the second regiment was prefixed with the word "Guards".

A night of fighting
By the time of Mao when the sky was just beginning to brighten, all the Jin men in Weizhou city who were taller than the wheels of a carriage had been killed, and the remaining four or five thousand Jurchen women, children, the elderly and the weak were driven to the city wall in the south of the city.

Perhaps they felt death was approaching, and there was crying in the city.

In the inner city, which was separated from the inner city by a gate, gathered more than a thousand Han and Liao slave soldiers who had returned to the right path last night. At this moment, they were shouting and cursing at the inner city through the gate.

If Fan Rushan and his men had not stopped them, they would have rushed in and torn these old and weak people to pieces.

At the end of the Mao hour, Xiao Xin and Wu Kui came to the wall of Nan Weng City. Wu Kui saw the crowds of women, children, the elderly and the weak below and felt a little uncomfortable.
He naturally knew that the Jin people had caused great harm to the Central Plains in the early years. Many of Yang Youtian's elders had died at the hands of the Jin people. He also knew that the Jin people never showed mercy to Han women and children.

But now he could control the other party's life and death at will, so he still felt a little reluctant to let Wu Kui attack these people who had completely lost their ability to resist.

"How is Tanfu going to deal with them?"

Wu Kui asked tentatively, but Xin Qiji looked at Wu Kui calmly and said, "What do you think, Brother Wu?"

"The Jin people are brutal, so killing the captives is fine, but these are women, old people and children. If you kill them, it may be bad for the reputation of the prince."

In Wu Kui's simple cognition, he was unwilling to attack women and children, but he knew that they were also part of the Jin Kingdom's war potential. After some hesitation, he brought up Chen Chu.

Unexpectedly, Xiao Xin laughed and said, "Brother Wu, we are a civilized army! How can we slaughter the old and the weak like the barbarians?"

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Wu Kui was stunned. He knew Xin Qiji well. He looked harmless, but he was actually a ruthless character. Wu Kui found it hard to believe that Xin Qiji would be so kind as to let these people go. He couldn't help but ask, "So what do you mean?"

Xiao Xin pointed to the south in the morning light and said, "Have someone drive them to the Daling River and hand them over to Wanyan Liang, hehe."

If Xiao Xin had not let out a sinister laugh at the end, Wu Kui almost thought that Xiao Xin was really kind-hearted. After all, driving the people to Dalingh River and handing them over to Wanyan Liang meant that they were safe.

But then, Wu Kui immediately reacted. What is Daling River? That is the front line of the two armies!
After driving thousands of women, children, the elderly and the weak over there, the remaining 70,000 soldiers of Wanyan Liang would certainly know the news that their hometown had been robbed, and Wanyan Liang would not be able to conceal it even if he wanted to.

Furthermore, four or five thousand people mean four or five thousand mouths to feed. For Wanyan Liang, who was already short of food and grass, this was a huge burden that was of no help at all.

But Wanyan Liang couldn't just ignore it. The soldiers were fighting on the front line, you couldn't let their wives and children starve to death, could you?

In short, if Wanyan Liang took them in, the news that a big city in the hinterland had been broken would inevitably cause instability in the army's morale.

If Wanyan Liang did not accept them, the morale of the army would not be as unstable as it seems, and it might lead to a direct collapse of the morale and mentality of the Jin army.

"Tanfu, it's high!"

After figuring this out, Wu Kui couldn't help but praise.

At dawn at noon, amid cries, more than 4,000 old and weak Jurchens were driven out of the city wall and headed south.

Afterwards, Xiao Xin ordered the Han-Liao slave army that had revolted on the battlefield to empty the arsenal in Weizhou City and obtained a batch of armor and bows and arrows that the Tiger Regiment urgently needed.

At noon, Weizhou, which had become a deserted city, was burned down.

The wheat fields that were about to mature within thirty miles of the city were quickly engulfed by the sea of ​​fire, and the billowing thick smoke could be seen dozens of miles away.

The Tiger Regiment, which was already very resilient, had developed a tenacious style of continuous combat and hard fighting after two years behind enemy lines. After leaving the city, they simply rested for two hours, and then at noon on the same day, they turned north with the Second Guard Regiment and the Sixth Regiment and headed straight for Huanglongfu.
This is Xiao Xin’s real intention!

Use Weizhou as bait, defeat the last Jin army, and then go straight to Huanglong!

In the past, due to insufficient military force, Xiao Xin had no way to attack the 3,000 Jin troops in Huanglong Prefecture relying on the strong city.

But now, the conditions are ripe.

Wu Kui and Tie Dan only understood Xiao Xin's intention at this moment and were shocked. The task assigned to them by the King of Chu was to harass the enemy and disrupt production. But Xiao Xin was thinking of conquering the capital!
But considering the current situation, it seems that this goal is not so difficult to achieve.
Seeing the two men in doubt, Xiao Xin said with a smile: "Don't be scared by the name of 'Imperial Capital'. First, the walls of Huanglongfu are not as majestic and solid as those of Dongjing. Second, Wanyan Hushe has a strong city but no elite soldiers. With the precedent of Weizhou, how dare he use the Han Liao army? I'm afraid that by the time the news of Wanyan Yong's death gets back, the Jin people and the Han Liao army have already begun to be suspicious of each other and be wary of each other. You two are often around the prince. Haven't you heard the prince say, 'Despise the enemy strategically, and take the enemy seriously tactically'?"

Wu Kui is still a regiment commander today, and is far behind Peng Er, Zhou Liang, Dalang and others who also came from escaped families. Naturally, he has some shortcomings in commanding operations.

'Despise the enemy strategically and take him seriously tactically' He had heard this from Chu Ge'er before, but he didn't quite understand its meaning before. But now... He suddenly remembered Xiao Xin's caution before entering the city last night, and compared it with Xiao Xin's boldness in rushing straight to Huanglong Mansion at this moment.

Wu Kui suddenly felt as if he had been enlightened.

I’ve realized it!

This is how wars are fought!
At midnight that night, the three armies arrived at the outskirts of Huanglong Prefecture.

The march went very smoothly without encountering any resistance. In the battle the day before, it was impossible that no one of the 3,000 Jin soldiers had escaped. Wanyan Hushe in the city had already known about Wanyan Yong's death. It was not that he didn't want to deploy guards outside Huanglong Mansion, but he really had no one available!

Today, news came back that the Han-Liao slave army in Weizhou had rebelled on the battlefield. Wanyan Hushe was shocked and quickly sent people to confiscate the weapons of thousands of slave soldiers in Huanglongfu.

He then urgently summoned the Jin nobles in the city to discuss the matter, but they continued to discuss until midnight and still could not come up with any rules.

The old minister Wanyan Ang had the most intense opinion. "The city of Huanglongfu is high and the moat is deep. We just need to hold on. Even if the bandit Xin has reinforcements, what can we do? As long as we hold on for a month and wait for King Hailing to send troops back to help, the danger will be resolved!"

Wanyan Hushe was not as confident as Wanyan Ang. Even if the walls of Huanglongfu were high and the trenches were deep, it still needed people to guard it! Weizhou had a precedent. If the Han and Liao slaves were not used, where else would they be used?

Furthermore, will the so-called reinforcements from King Hailing really arrive?

The confrontation at Daling River lasted for more than two years. If the King of Hailing had sent fewer reinforcements, he might not be able to defeat the bandit Xin. If more soldiers came to support him, would the King of Chu just sit back and watch the opportunity slip away? If Xin took the opportunity to force a crossing of Daling River, what would the King of Hailing do?

Wanyan Hushe, who couldn't think of any solution, looked at Gao Zhen, the governor of Huanglong Mansion and the head of the Third Division, and asked, "Master Gao, do you have any ideas?"

Gao Zhen stood up after hearing this, hesitated for a moment, and finally said: "From what I have seen, since Weizhou has been destroyed, the bandits are very likely to go north to harass Huanglongfu. For now, King Hailing can only re-arm the Han Liao slave army to guard the city."

"Gao Zhen, what are you up to? Don't you know about the rebellion of the Han-Liao slave army in Weizhou? Or have you, a Han Chinese, already made other plans?"

Wanyan Ang scolded immediately.

This was the embarrassment of the Han ministers. Even though Gao Zhen had been an official in the Jin Kingdom for more than a decade, he was still not trusted at the critical moment.

Fortunately, Wanyan Hushe waved his hand and interrupted Wanyan Ang, "Just listen to what Master Gao has to say first!"

With Wanyan Hushe's encouraging eyes, Gao Zhen continued, "Re-arm the slave army, and then have the gentlemen lead the personal guards to personally go up to the city to supervise and deter the slave army to prevent rebellion!"

This is a stupid idea. Even if all the noble families in Huanglong Prefecture went into battle together with their guards, there would only be a few hundred people. It is hard to say how much effect it would have on monitoring nearly 6,000 serfs who had just put down their hoes and picked up swords and guns to defend the city.

Seeing everyone hesitating, Gao Zhen considered it again and again, and still said with a stiff upper lip: "In addition to this, we also need the word 'delay'"

"Oh? How to delay? Tell me." Wanyan Hushe said hurriedly.

"There is an extreme shortage of food in Huanglong Mansion right now, but there is no shortage of gold and silver. Gold and silver cannot be eaten or drunk, so they are no different from bricks and stones at this time."

Perhaps he anticipated that his words would cause public outrage, so Gao Zhen deliberately laid the groundwork before continuing, "You all are the pillars of the country who share the same destiny with the country. If each family can give out a sum of gold and silver to reward the slave army, we can fight against the Xin bandit."

Even though Gao Zhen was mentally prepared, he was still frightened by the countless angry gazes.

Wanyan Ang jumped up from his chair, rushed over in two steps instead of three, kicked Gao Zhen to the ground, and cursed: "The late emperor did not abandon you and let you, a dog slave, serve as an official in my Great Jin, but you have no intention of repaying your kindness. How dare you, a lowly servant, have ideas about us!"

After a few kicks, Gao Zhen's nose was bleeding, but many Jurchen nobles just watched coldly. If Wanyan Hushe had not spoken up to stop him, Gao Zhen would have been beaten to death on the spot.

Indeed, Wanyan Ang expressed what everyone was thinking.

Huanglongfu was the place where the most nobles of the Jin Dynasty were concentrated. Most of the gold and silver looted from various parts of the Central Plains in the early years were gathered in various families.

But no matter how much gold and silver there is, it belongs to us, the Jin people. You, a slave as lowly as pigs and dogs, actually want us to give gold and silver to the Han and Liao serfs for nothing. I'm afraid you must be crazy!
Amid the noise, a servant suddenly came to report, and as soon as he spoke, the whole place quieted down.

"Prime Minister! Bandits have been spotted on the south, west, and east sides of the city walls at the same time! Torches stretch for miles, there must be at least 10,000 of them!"

Wanyan Ang, who was still raising his leg to kick down, said in astonishment: "It came so fast!"

Wanyan Hushe suddenly stood up, not caring about anything else, and immediately said: "Quick, quick, order people to open the armory and distribute swords and guns to the Han and Liao slave soldiers, everyone, hurry up to the city!"

At midnight, four miles south of the city.

Xiao Xin, who had intended to attack by surprise, did not even set up camp, but ordered the blasting team to sneak towards the city wall at night.

In front of a gentle slope, Xiao Xin stood side by side with Wu Kui and Tiedan, and below them were officers of the third military camp and above.

Xiao Xin looked at the shadowy Huanglong Mansion in the darkness, and suddenly turned to look at everyone and said: "Since the destruction of the Tang Dynasty, our Han Dynasty has been weak for more than 200 years. In the past, there was the disastrous defeat of Haoshuichuan, the disaster of Wudinghe in the middle, and the shame of Dingwei in Tokyo in the back! Xixia, Liao, and Jin regarded our Han homeland as a grazing land, entering and looting at will; they regarded our Han people as pigs and dogs, slaughtering them at will! And now..."

Xiao Xin suddenly raised his arm and pointed at the dark walls of Huanglongfu, and said, "In the past two hundred years, no man has ridden a horse and taken a spear to break into the enemy's capital! Now, the capital of the Jin Kingdom is right in front of us! Everyone, it has been exactly ten years since the King of Chu returned home from overseas, so we should celebrate! Can this city be used to congratulate the King of Chu and the new emperor?"

The crowd below had already heard this and their blood was boiling. They immediately shouted in unison: "Congratulations!"

Even Tiedan, who was relatively emotionally dull and introverted, got goosebumps with excitement.

"In the past two hundred years, no Han people have conquered the capital of an enemy country!"
So inspiring!

Today, they are the ones who are going to rewrite this history!
Many people in the crowd also clearly heard Xiao Xin's last words, "Can you congratulate the new emperor?"

Our boss is still a prince. When did he become the new emperor?
However, no one raised any questions at this time. In their eyes, it was natural for the prince to be the new emperor!

If princes don’t become emperors, how can they become founding heroes?
Seeing that the atmosphere was almost ready, Xiao Xin took another breath and shouted, "It is time to seek wealth and honor for my wife and children, to make history for myself, and to avenge the past shame for the Han people! Everyone, follow me to conquer the capital!" (End of this chapter)