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Chapter 157 Infiltrate
"The biggest excuse for King Qin's army around Kaifeng not sending troops is that Song Ting did not have orders." Chen Xun replied: "I am going this time to make their excuse no longer available."

In essence, Chen Xun wanted to speed up the defeat of the Jin army, so as to indirectly reduce the persecution of the Han people by the Jin people.

"Is your target Zhao Ji?" Sun Zheng asked.

"Yes, Zhao Ji, and the senior officials of the Song Dynasty in Kaifeng City." Chen Xun replied.

……

On the night of April [-], Chen Xun secretly sneaked into Kaifeng City from the Xishui Gate next to the west gate of the outer city.

Pei Ren, who had been notified long ago, was waiting in an alley inside Xishui Gate.

When Chen Xun climbed ashore, he was immediately given dry clothes for him to change into.

"Have you found out clearly?" Chen Xun asked directly.

"It's clear, Zhao Ji was put under house arrest by the Jin people in the Jingling East Palace, and most of the civil servants of the Song court were in Shangshu Province next to him. Zhang Shuye and the imperial army were disarmed and imprisoned in the south chamber of the outer city." Pei Ren stood at the entrance of the alley to watch the wind. , turning his back on Chen Xun and replied.

Jingling Palace is the emperor's temple, dedicated to the former emperor of the Song Dynasty. The Jin people put Zhao Ji under house arrest here, which really brought the humiliation to the extreme.

Let the ancestors of the old Zhao family watch how their descendants ruined their family.

After quickly changing his clothes, Chen Xun walked out of the alley and asked Pei Ren to lead the way: "Send my weapons and armor into the city as soon as possible. Time is tight and there is no room for further delay."

Because the armor and weapons were too heavy, and there were harnesses, short spears and other equipment, it was difficult for Chen Xun to sneak into Kaifeng City with them, so he temporarily stored the equipment outside the city.

"Don't worry, Kaifeng City is not closed. It will be easy to transport it in when daybreak." Pei Ren replied.

"How do we enter the inner city?" Chen Xun continued to ask.

The headquarters of the intelligence agency is in the outer city, in the south of the East Wing, where there are two rivers leading to the outside of the city, two water gates, and a river leading to the inner city, which is very convenient for entry and exit.

Chen Xun chose to enter from Xishuimen because he came directly from Xinxiang (located in the northwest of Kaifeng).

"I have to ask you to enter from Bianhe River." Pei Ren replied.

"Do you still have to dive? Then the clothes I just changed were not in vain." While chatting, Chen Xun smelled dozens of people approaching in front of him. After informing Pei Ren, the two hurriedly hid.

When the Jin soldiers who were patrolling the night walked over, the two of them left the hiding place and continued moving forward.

"No, our people have contracted the transportation of some vegetables in the inner city. You can take a vegetable transport boat in." Pei Ren replied.

"Then why didn't you let me take the boat just now?" Chen Xun was confused.

"The water gate of the outer city is closed at night." Pei Ren explained.

It turns out that it is tight on the outside and loose on the inside.

"Prepare some weapons for me, just in case." Chen Xun warned.

"It's been prepared a long time ago. It's on the boat." The two of them soon arrived at the water gate of the Bianhe River. There was a small transport boat docked on the river bank 300 meters outside the gate, full of vegetable baskets.

"Captain, you also have to hold an oar." The Chen Jiajun intelligence officer waiting on the boat handed over an oar.

"Okay!" Chen Xun took it, waved it a few times, and quickly recovered the muscle memory of paddling before. Including Pei Ren, a total of six people paddled, followed the current, and quickly approached the water gate of the Bian River.

"Stop!" There were golden soldiers guarding the water gate. When they saw the ship coming, they stopped it. "General, I am Jin Sanlang, the food delivery boy." A short and stocky intelligence officer replied in stuttering Jurchen. Chen Xun and Pei Ren sat in the back of the boat, holding the oars and lowering their heads and saying nothing.

"Why is it late today?" Jin Jiang asked.

"You have such a good memory. It's all my fault that my lazy son got drunk and got two of my helpers drunk. We were short of manpower and the food was served a little slower." The short and sturdy man said as he put the two assistants drunk. A wine bottle was put in a basket and carried to the water gate on a long pole.

General Jin took it and looked at it without asking any more questions. He waved his hand and opened the water gate, allowing the vegetable boat to row in.

Chen Xun breathed a sigh of relief. He could get in without fighting, which saved him a lot of trouble.

The boat kept going along the Bianhe River, and after crossing Yu Street, it stopped at Xiangguo Temple. There were servants from the palace waiting here. Chen Xun helped others unload the vegetable baskets on the boat. This errand had just begun. Considered complete.

After unloading the vegetables, the ship did not leave the city, but continued eastward along the river.

"This boat will spend the night at No. [-] Tianshui Lane in the inner city, and we will go ashore after arriving there." Pei Ren explained in a low voice.

"Just make your arrangements." Chen Xun didn't ask any more questions.

The density of Jin soldiers in the inner city was very high. Chen Xun came all the way and found that the houses on both sides of the Bian River were basically full of people. From the voices, most of them were Jin people and Liao people, and there were very few Han people.

It is easy to be exposed if you go ashore hastily.

When the boat arrived at the Second Sweet Water Lane, there were a large number of berths on both sides. It was not until Yunjingmen (the water gate from the east of Bianhe River out of the inner city) was visible that Jin Sanlang stopped at a berth.

"This place is relatively close to Yunjing Gate, so it's convenient." Pei Ren said.

Everyone tied up the boat and walked ashore towards an alley. When they entered the alley, a courtyard door near the entrance of the alley was open, and a person stood at the door looking out.

"Okay, you can rest." Pei Ren said, and the four people following him entered the courtyard.

The two of them continued walking in until they reached the innermost courtyard door, then pushed the door open and entered.

Entering inside, Chen Xun found that someone was sleeping on the floor in the yard.

"It's too difficult to find a place to live in the inner city now. All the good places are occupied by Jin people, and there are only some corner areas. There are also many refugees from the inner city gathered, so our people's living conditions are also very tight." Pei Ren took Chen Xun into a room. The room was small, but fortunately there was no one else.

"This is for you. You can take a rest. I will take you to Jingling Palace tomorrow." After saying this, Pei Ren was about to go out.

"Wait a minute, tell me about the situation in the city." Chen Xun asked Pei Ren to sit down.

"Okay!" I had roughly reported it in the intelligence before, but due to space limitations, I couldn't go into too much detail. Now that both of them have time, they can just talk in detail.

"After the Jin people entered the inner city, they directly controlled Zhao Ji, disarmed all the forbidden troops and imprisoned them in one place." Pei Ren began to tell.

After the preparations were completed, the Jin people put forward their previous requirements again, asking for 1000 million ingots of gold, 2000 million ingots of silver, and 1000 million pieces of silk.

Zhang Bangchang waited for Song Chen to bargain for a while, but after being scolded and frightened by the gold man, he began to raise money obediently and ordered a large-scale gold and silver collection in the sixteen counties of Kaifeng.

Then, because Chen Xun harassed him so much outside the city, the Jin people asked for mules and horses.

Zhang Bangchang and others collected them everywhere, and rewarded those who exposed the hidden mules and horses. In Kaifeng City alone, they found more than [-] horses, allowing the Jinren to gather [-] cavalry.

Hearing this, Chen Xun was really glad that he had killed Zhang Bangchang in front of the battle, otherwise he would definitely regret it now.

(End of this chapter)