Han Hai Tang Ergui

Chapter 489

He Ning's judgment was very accurate. Faced with the great achievement of destroying the country and capturing the king, Zhang Yanze would not wait long in Weizhou on the north bank of the river.

He led the mission to Zhengzhou just three days after leaving Kaifeng Mansion in Tokyo.

Zhang Yanze and Khitan general Fu Zhu'er led 4000 people to rush across the Yellow River at Baimajin to Huazhou, and then went straight to Kaifeng Prefecture in Tokyo without stopping.

At this moment, the court of the later Jin Dynasty ordered the various prefectures in Henan to recruit young men, and the order to organize and unite the athletes had just been issued.

Shi Chonggui was as anxious as an ant on a hot pot, and desperately ordered his brother-in-law Feng Yu to search for the imperial army and organize the defense of Kaifeng Mansion in Tokyo.

As a result, on the second day, Feng Yu collected less than [-] forbidden soldiers, and Zhang Yanze led the Khitan Qingqi, charging straight from Huazhou.

The guard of Fengqiu Gate, the east gate of Tokyo, surrendered without a fight, and the Khitan cavalry drove straight in. When Shi Chonggui woke up from his dream, the Khitan cavalry had rushed to the Mingde Gate, the south gate of the imperial palace.

At this time, Shi Chonggui only had a dozen guards around him, the palace was in chaos, and the palace servants were running around, it was a doomsday scene.

There were also servants with ulterior motives who took advantage of the fire to rob and search for treasures in the palace, and several fires broke out in a short while.

Shi Chonggui had the guts of a warrior at the moment, he took out his sword and led his guards around the palace to calm people's hearts, but at this moment, this calmness is useless.

In Shenshi, too few Khitan cavalry arrived at Mingde Gate and failed to open Mingde Gate, perhaps because they were afraid that Shi Chonggui would burn the palace down, so the Khitan cavalry shot two letters into the palace.

One was a call to crusade against Shi Chonggui from the Liao Kingdom, accusing him of instigating the war between Jin and Liao, and scolding him for making his aunt Feng the queen, corrupting ethics, and being immoral.

The second letter was written by Yelu Deguang to Empress Dowager Li. The words in the letter were quite peaceful, and he promised not to kill the Shi family's clan indiscriminately.

Originally, after Shi Chonggui read the first letter, he had already driven away more than thirty beauties under the empress and concubines, and went to the fire to burn themselves together.

But after reading the second letter and the persuasive persuasion of the guards around him, Shi Chonggui didn't want to die anymore, so he asked people to put out the fire.

He even hurriedly asked his sons Shi Yanxu and Shi Yanbao to submit the form of surrender, and took the national treasure and gold seal of Jin to open the Mingde Gate to surrender.

Shi Chonggui did this because he wanted to retain a little bit of dignity.

He felt that Zhang Yanze was a courtier of the Jin Kingdom, and he was extremely respectful in front of Shi Chonggui, so he should not come to embarrass him.

What a pity!Shi Chonggui lives in the inner palace all the year round, like a protected greenhouse flower, he has already forgotten the virtue of a warrior at this time.

As soon as the Mingde gate was opened, Zhang Yanze not only sent Jiang Biao, the national treasure and Jinyin to Yelu Deguang on horseback, but he immediately supervised the soldiers and drove Shi Chonggui out of the palace.

He and Fu Zhu'er, a Khitan native, robbed the concubines and palace servants in front of Shi Chonggui.

Zhang Yanze even took Shi Chonggui's eldest son, Shi Yanxu's biological mother, Mrs. Ding Shikang of the Chu Kingdom, away on his shoulders, leaving Shi Chonggui weeping in pain.

Immediately afterwards, these thousands of cavalry took control of various gates inside and outside Kaifeng Mansion in Tokyo, and after recruiting a group of scum in the city, the divisions began to loot the people in the city.

They didn't dare to plunder the palace, but they would not be merciless towards the officials of Jin and the people of Tokyo.

For a time, even the families of high-ranking families were unavoidable. The gold, silver, brocades and silks were looted, and almost all the beautiful women were taken away.

But all of this has nothing to do with Zhang Zhao.

After initially solving the problems of Li Dexuan and An Yanwei, the only way to enter the customs is to wait for when Yelu Deguang enters the Central Plains.

Zhang Zhao released almost all the brocade-clothed envoys around him, and went to inquire about the movements of Jin and Liao.

On the twentieth day of the first lunar month, Zhang Zhao, who couldn't bear it any longer, set off from Yuanzhou with [-] cavalry, crossed the Tanzheng Gorge, and camped more than [-] miles west of Weizhou (Pingliang) in the Later Jin Dynasty.

Now it only takes two hundred steps to the east to enter Guanzhong, but Zhang Zhao can only wait here for the right time.

On the 24th of the first month, news came from Ningzhou that Liu Jingyan, the envoy of the Jingnan army, sent his three sons as hostages and handed over the gold seal of the envoy of the Jingnan army, and only asked Zhang Zhao to keep his ten thousand mu of retirement land.

Zhang Zhao agreed without hesitation, but his heart was still itchy.

On the 27th day of the first lunar month, the eldest son of An Yanwei, the envoy of the Jinchang Army of Jingzhao Prefecture, came to report the funeral in person from Jingzhao Prefecture.

It turned out that An Yanwei himself was already seriously ill, and after receiving the news that Du Chongwei had surrendered to Khitan, he was shocked and angry, and died of illness suddenly.

The eldest son of An Yanwei didn't go to Kaifeng Mansion in Tokyo to report the funeral, but personally came to Zhang Zhao's place to report the funeral in hemp and filial piety, the meaning expressed was obvious.

Zhang Zhaosui sent his nephew Zhang Liecun as an envoy, with two hundred fine horsemen, to Jingzhao Mansion to mourn An Yanwei.

On the first day of February, the envoy of the Fengxiang Army of the Later Jin Dynasty, Li Congxi, king of Qin, sent his eldest son Li Yongxi to come to beg for surrender.

Li Congxuan was willing to go to Wangjue himself, and his family moved to live in Jingzhao Mansion, and handed over the battered Fengxiang Mansion and Fengzhou that had been infiltrated by Yan Jin.

However, Zhang Zhao did not agree to Li Congxi's refuge for the time being, because it was not the time yet.

But he comforted Li Yongxi with good words, and he also said that he would not pursue the matter of Mawei Slope, and Li Yongxi finally breathed a sigh of relief.

On the seventh day of February, just as Zhang Zhao was about to wear it, the urgent envoy, dressed in brocade clothes, with a headband and three small red triangular flags on his back, finally appeared in Zhang Zhao's sight.

Before the envoy arrived at the Liangguo military camp, the Weizhou city began to cheer loudly, and when they reached the gate of the military camp, the soldiers had already blocked the camp gate completely.

Two brocade-clothed envoys helped a man in the official uniform of the state of Jin, who was almost dying of running, and came to Zhang Zhao.

The man held up a dark red silk book and shouted loudly.

"The foreign minister He Jun, the son of the right servant of the Jin State, She He Ning, paid homage to the Heavenly King of Jinshan and Daliang in the Western Han Dynasty. The northern captives of the Liao Kingdom invaded our territory and killed our officials and people. My lord ordered the foreign ministers to come to Daliang and ask the Heavenly King to send troops to help.

My lord wishes to give [-] bolts of silk every year, call the Heavenly King A Weng, and implore the Heavenly King to send troops to help because Daliang and Dajin belong to Tang'er! "

In an instant, Zhang Zhao felt that tears were about to rush out of his eyes!
After planning for so many years, he finally got the righteousness to enter Guanzhong legally. The Lord Jin personally invited him to enter the Central Plains as Tang'er.

Amidst the cheers that shook the sky, Zhang Zhao grabbed the scroll of silk and silk book in his hand, opened it and read it, and immediately raised it to the sky to show it to all directions.

They came here specially from Suzhou, the confidantes of Zhang Zhao's father Zhang Chengfeng, the veteran generals Luo Tongda and Luo Yingda of the Guiyi Army.

Zhang Zhao's elder Zhang Huaiqing and Cao Renrong.

Confidant civilian and military generals Ma Yaozi, Fanshun, Ma Shacai, Murong Nobunaga, Li Cunhui, Liu Zaisheng, etc.

As well as the newcomers Zhang Xichong, Murong Yanzhao, Wang Shenqi, Zhe Deyuan and others, they all half-kneeled.

At this moment, the cheering stopped immediately, only Zhang Zhao held up the silk book, and he waved his hand vigorously, shouting loudly.

"Expel the northern captives, revive the dynasty, and enter Guanzhong!"

"Expel the northern captives and restore the dynasty!"

"Expel the northern captives and restore the dynasty!"

The soldiers cheered again.

At Zhang Zhao's order, five thousand fine riders crossed the Jing River again and headed east.

Wu Ying'er, the governor of Weizhou, had already prepared Qingqi as a guide and civilian husbands who transported grain and grass.

From Weizhou to Qianxian County, on the hundreds of miles away, the food supply points have already been prepared.

Zhang Zhao did not enter Weizhou, but went down the Jing River with the army.

At the same time, Yuanzhou's follow-up army also began to pass through Tanzheng Gorge.

Yan Jin of Qinzhou also led an army of [-], and entered the territory of Fengxiang Mansion from Qinzhou.

In the north, Yin Yaozi transferred three thousand elite soldiers who had already pretended to be Yanzhou Zhangwu Army, together with Gao Yunquan's Zhangwu Army, and under the guidance of the soldiers of the Yanzhou Baoda Army bought by Jinyi envoys, they broke into the city of Yanzhou at night.

Guo Jin, the Jiedu Envoy of the Baoda Army in Fuzhou, was surrounded in the office of the Jiedu Envoy while he was still asleep. Except for Guo Jin's more than a hundred soldiers who resisted for a while, the soldiers of the Baoda Army did not move out at all.

Yin Yaozi took Fuzhou, and immediately relieved the threat from the Liang army's east side.

He stationed troops in the upper reaches of the Luohe River, recruited the soldiers of the Baoda Army, and built boats and ships, preparing to go straight from Fuzhou to the land of the Kuangguo Army Jiedushi in Tongzhou, and completely control Guanzhong.

On March [-]th, Zhang Zhao led Regret Shandu and the fine cavalry of the left and right Habayashi guards to pass through Jingzhou first.

Zhang Zhao resisted the desire to go directly to Chang'an, Jingzhao Mansion, but chose to bypass Chang'an, and rushed to the Jiedu envoy of the Shunyi Army of Yaozhou in the starry night.

At this time, Yaozhou experienced continuous floods and droughts. Earlier, the soldiers and generals of the Shunyi Army had a disagreement with the Jiedu envoy Yang Siquan on the amount of food and grass sent to the court.

So they simply expelled Yang Siquan, the Jiedu envoy, and let Zhang, the military envoy of the Yaqian Army of the Shunyi Army, claim to stay behind to control him.

Of course Zhang Zhao would not tolerate this kind of soldiers who harmed the people, so he sent Li Cunhui to lead two thousand elite cavalry to the city of Yaozhou to kill Zhang, the envoy of the Shunyi Army Yaqian, and the rest of the Shunyi Army scattered.

Zhang Zhao left 300 people to wait for the army, and then went to Huazhou again with the generals.

Huazhou Township National Army Jiedu Envoy Zhao Ying was notified by Zhang Zhao, and took advantage of the night to lead her cronies out of the city.

The National Army of Huazhou Township is very united, it is not the mindless scattered sand like the Shunyi Army of Yaozhou, there are not many people in Huazhou City, and the people who still live in the city are basically the family members of the National Army of the Township.

What's more, the [-] shi of food and grass they plundered had accumulated in the city, which Zhang Zhao also needed.

So Zhang Zhao took advantage of the night to let Fen Jindu plant gunpowder at the east and north gates of Huazhou, and waited for three days. After the army arrived, Zhang Zhao pretended to attack the east and north sides.

The soldiers of Zhen Guojun never expected that the Liang army would come suddenly. Zhao Ying, who was always as timid as a rabbit, dared to leave the city.

Caught off guard, they could only flock to the east and north gates in large numbers to resist.

Seeing that they had been fooled, Zhang Zhao withdrew his troops suddenly. Before the Zhen Guojun soldiers could understand what had happened, there was a violent explosion, and the east and north gates were blown down at the same time.

Countless ignorant soldiers were directly buried by the collapsed city wall, and the army of Liang State took the opportunity to storm and occupied Huazhou without any effort.

Just when Zhang Zhao occupied Huazhou, Yin Yaozi also went down the Luoshui River and went straight to Tongzhou City where the Kuang Guojun Jiedu Envoy of Tongzhou was located.

Although Li Chengfu, the governor of the Kuangguo Army in Tongzhou, was born as a servant of Shi Jingtang, the Liang army was summoned by Shi Chonggui to help him. Regardless of what happened in Tokyo, this request is still valid.

Moreover, Kuang Guojun also saw clearly that no one wanted to die in vain, so he held Li Chengfu hostage and opened the city gate.

So far, after a year of preparations, Zhang Zhao's troops were extremely fast, and it took less than a month for Zhang Zhao to advance lightly and occupy the three strategic locations in Guanzhong, Yaozhou, Huazhou and Tongzhou.

The next step is to enter Chang'an City.

(End of this chapter)