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Chapter 131

On leap November [-], after more than a month of preparation, Chen Xun led a fleet of [-] large and small ships to officially set off from Guangzhou Bay and head north along the East China Sea.

The fleet stopped at Penghu Island, replenished some supplies and fresh water, and then continued northward.

Along the way, you can see ships going south from time to time, mostly Han people from Hebei who went south to seek refuge.

Among these Han people in the north, there were some who were rich and some who were poor.

The wealthy took their own ships or chartered ships to escape south.

The poor lost all their money to exchange for a ship ticket, or sold themselves directly to the ship owner.

These scattered ships unconsciously avoided when encountering the huge fleet led by Chen Xun.

Chen Xun didn't cause much trouble. Apart from stopping a few boats to ask about the situation north of the Huaihe River, Chen Xun did not disturb the fleeing people.

According to the descriptions of the Han people in the north, the diversion of the Yellow River caused more serious disasters to the lower reaches of the Sishui and Huaihe Rivers than Chen Xun imagined.

The people in these places never expected that the Yellow River, which originally entered the Bohai Bay in the north, would directly change its course to the south during the dry season in winter.

Too many people died.

So much so that after the flood was diverted into Si River by the ancient Bian Canal, corpses were everywhere on both sides of the Bian Canal.

After that, the Sishui River and Huaihe River couldn't hold all the water of the Yellow River, and the people on both sides of the river were even more miserable.

After more than half a month of sailing, the fleet finally arrived at the mouth of the former Huaihe River and now the Yellow River on November [-]th.

Standing at the bow of the boat, Chen Xun watched the turbid Yellow River flow into the blue Yellow Sea.

In this era, there was no name for the Yellow Sea. Except for the Bohai Bay, the sea areas east of the mainland were called the East China Sea. Even the Sea of ​​Japan in the north belonged to the East China Sea.

In later generations, the Pacific Ocean was called the Eastern Ocean Sea.

"The Yellow River is indeed a land-building machine. It has only been a short time since it was diverted, and it has already changed the topography of the Huaihe River estuary." Chen Xun sighed as he looked at the land that had just been newly deposited at the estuary.

You know, Lianyungang City, slightly to the north, was just an island in this era. In the following hundreds of years, the Yellow River directly filled up the strait between the mainland and the island.

"The Yellow River does have the power to change the world." Ke Lei agreed with Chen Xun's words.

"Enter the river. We have to reach Xuzhou as soon as possible. I don't know if Kaifeng City has been captured by the Jin Army now. We may not have much time." Chen Xun did not continue to sigh and ordered directly.

"Take the order!" Ke Lei went directly to direct the huge fleet to enter the Yellow River in sequence.

I received information on the road before that the Eastern and Western Route Army of the Kingdom of Jin had already arrived outside the city of Kaifeng in early November.

"Inform the soldiers to change into thick clothes to avoid cold."

"Yes!"

Entering leap November, it is already very cold in Huaibei.

……

Kaifeng, leap November 22nd.

The Song Dynasty Minister of War, Shangshu Youcheng, and Tongzhi Privy Councilor Sun Bo, only used a poem "Guo Jing, Yang Shi, Liu Wuji" to visit Guo Jing among the guards, and entrusted him with important military tasks.

Guo Jing claimed that he could perform the Liujia method and that he could repel the Jin soldiers with only 770 soldiers and capture the two generals of the Jin army alive.

The entire Song court did not know what kind of ecstasy they had been given, but they believed this liar and accepted his actions. For a time, Guo Jing's military power in Kaifeng City was greater than that of the Kaifeng defenders/[-] Forbidden Army General Zhang Shu. night.

On this day, the Jin army attacked Tongjin Gate and Xuanhua Gate again. Zhang Shuye sent the Forbidden Army out of the city to fight, but was defeated. He could only withdraw the Forbidden Army soldiers who went out to fight inside the city and defend the city.

Kaifeng's walls are high and the city is strong, with all the equipment to defend the city. Zhang Shuye is also considered a famous general. In the previous battle to defend the city, he had killed the Jin generals Jin Huan and He Gui. The Jin army could not do anything to the Song army in a short time. "Ms. Zhang, order all the defenders to go down to the city and see how my Liujia soldiers defeat the Jin army." Guo Jing saw that Zhang Shu was ineffective when he left the city at night, so he directly intervened in command.

These armor soldiers were recruited by Guo Jing according to their horoscopes. As long as their horoscopes match Liujia, they can become Liujia soldiers.

Deep down in his heart, Zhang Shuye did not believe that these incompetent Liujia soldiers could defeat the Jin army. However, the officials trusted Guo Jing and gave him full command rights, even if he was now a bachelor of Zizheng Palace and a signer of the Privy Council. , and can only act according to orders.

All the imperial troops guarding the city were withdrawn, and the closed Xuanhua Gate was opened from the inside.

The Jin army outside the city who had just prepared to attack the city looked at the suddenly opened Xuanhua Gate and were a little confused as to what the plan was.

Empty city plan?Please enter the urn?

I saw thousands of Song troops wearing golden armor (inlaid with gold foil) coming out of the city. Looking from a distance, the entire army was shining in the sunlight and was extremely powerful.

However, looking at the uneven formation of this army, the Jin army did not give up and directly sent out their elite troops to fight.

As a result, the Liujia Song Army was not even considered a paper tiger, and was directly defeated by the Jin Army.

"Prime Minister Zhang, wait until I go down to do this, and I will soon capture the Jin army leader alive." Zhang Shuye, who was watching the battle on the city gate tower, was stunned by this lightning-fast defeat.

Although I vaguely knew that this battle might be lost, Wanwan didn't expect that it would be lost so quickly.

Before Zhang Shuye responded to Guo Jing's greeting, he saw him hurriedly descending from the tower.

After a while, nothing happened outside the city. The Jin army had already begun to attack the city. Only then did Zhang Shuye realize that Guo Jing was a complete liar!
Zhang Shuye quickly organized the imperial army to resist desperately.

However, the Jin army had already entered the city and it was too late to do anything. In the end, they could only organize the remaining imperial troops to withdraw to the inner city of Kaifeng and hand over the outer city to the Jin army.

……

On leap November 26, the Chen family's fleet arrived at Pengcheng (Fuguo County), Xuzhou.

This will be Chen Xun's base for coming to Northland this time.

Chen Jiajun began to unload people and goods at the river port outside Xuzhou City.

As soon as Chen Xun got off the boat, he saw the intelligence personnel from Xuzhou running towards him quickly.

"Captain, the latest information."

Another red bamboo tube.

Chen Xun had a bad feeling in his heart, it shouldn't happen so soon.

Taiyuan City was left alone and defenseless for nearly a year.As the capital of the Song Dynasty, no matter how bad Kaifeng is, it should be able to defend it until the end of the year.

Open the bamboo tube, take out the information and browse it quickly.

Sure enough, good things don’t work, bad spirits come to them whatever they want.

"Can people really be so stupid?" Chen Xun let out a cry of sorrow from the bottom of his heart. It was not worth it for the Kaifeng defenders and the Kaifeng people to come sincerely.

"Captain, is it serious?" Sun Zheng also saw the bright red bamboo tube in Chen Xun's hand and hurriedly came over to ask.

"The outer city of Kaifeng was captured by the Jin Army. It is estimated that the inner city cannot be defended for long." Chen Xun handed him the information. This information needs to be known to all the generals heading north this time to give them a greater sense of urgency.

　Thanks to the book friend "The Endless View Is You" for the reward of 1500, plus the rewards from several previous book friends, it is enough for additional updates.

　　My sister-in-law is getting married these two days, so I have been very busy, so I stayed up until three in the morning to finish coding these two chapters.

　　I'll pay the extra debt first, and I'll pay it back in writing when I get to work on the 24th.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)