Guide to Traveling through the Northern Song Dynasty.

Chapter 820 0815 [Details]

The population of Liaoyang is dominated by the Bohai ethnic group.

The Han people come second, the Khitans come second, and the Jurchens the least.

One hundred years ago, Dayanlin Uprising occurred. Killed the consort and princess of the Liao Kingdom and established the Bohai regime centered on Liaoyang.

After the Liao State suppressed them, they forcibly moved the Bohai people in Liaoyang to the Western Liaoning Corridor. They also moved many Khitans and Han people to Liaoyang to reduce the population proportion of the Bohai people.

In recent years, not many Jurchens have moved to Liaoyang, mainly because of the resistance of the large Bohai clan, overtly and covertly.

"No matter men, women, old or young, all come to the top of the city!"

"All Jurchen slaves, now you are free, pick up weapons and help defend the city!"

The few Jurchen people in the city were forced by Wanyan Zongxian to defend the city and distributed simple armors and weapons.

By the way, free all the Jurchen slaves in the city.

Not only was the equipment inferior, but also the long march without much rest made both men and horses exhausted.

In the darkness, the rumble of horse hooves could be heard from the east.

The whole city was mobilized!

They blew the horns and led less than a thousand Bohai cavalry to charge towards the enemy in the darkness.

"kill!"

The Jurchen Qingqi were beaten into several groups and fled. Two of them quickly approached the city and shouted in a hissing voice: "The Gao and Wang tribes have rebelled. Do not open the city gate!"

Wang Zheng said: "The Jurchen cavalry is back."

Now that the situation is critical, we might as well liberate them all and quickly organize them into defense forces!
These newly freed Jurchens actually did not feel happy. They have no sense of belonging to the Kingdom of Jin, and having enough to eat is their greatest hope. Isn't it nonsense to ask them to defend the city now?

Yawuta originally wanted to wait for the opportunity, but when he saw the Jurchen reinforcements coming back, he knew that he could not delay it any longer.

In order to increase the Jurchen population, the Jin Kingdom issued an edict stating that Jurchen slaves could redeem themselves. At the same time, when they snatched slaves from other tribes, the Jin Kingdom used them to exchange for Jurchen slaves, but there were still many left in the Bohai noble families.

He shouted loudly and rushed towards the nearby Jurchen soldiers.

One or two, they carefully received their armor, then climbed up the city wall and looked around randomly.

"The main force cannot return so quickly. There must be only a small number of light cavalry. They probably want to rush here to report the news." Gao Jingshan guessed.

Some people cried and demolished their houses and moved the pillars and beams to the top of the city to make rolling logs. Every household carries a chamber pot or incense bucket, pours the excrement and urine into the large wooden bucket, and transports it to the city head for cooking and refining gold juice.

As for the civilians of other ethnic groups, their weapons and even kitchen knives were confiscated, and each family had to have some help transporting supplies.

The two sides had just fought, and more than two thousand Jurchen Qingqi were at a disadvantage.

Wanyan Zongxian asked his soldiers to shout: "Go around the Wengcheng and come in through the Wengcheng!"

Gao Jingshan and Wang Zheng set out with their elite clan soldiers when the fire broke out in the camp. Wanyan Zongfu also led his troops to fight in the canyon for a while, then returned to the city to collect the defeated troops, arrange defenses, and then planned to kill people and burn food to evacuate. There was a time difference of several hours.

"Then kill him!" Wang Zheng gritted his teeth.

These Jurchen slaves were used by the Bohai clan before the Jin Kingdom was established.

Gao Jingshan and Wang Zheng quickly led their troops to join together.

Those Jurchen soldiers were in joy and turned to look in the direction of the reinforcements, not paying attention at all.

The Huangtou Wei men suddenly attacked and killed the Jurchen soldiers by surprise. The brave ones tried to resist, but the timid ones turned around and ran away.

None of them are elites. The real elite Jurchens have long been transferred to the front line.

Yawu Pagoda killed the nearby Jurchens and did not continue the pursuit. Instead, he turned around and rushed towards the horse road.

There are still people carrying supplies on the horse road. The Jurchen officers in charge have been scared away, and only a few Liaoyang civilians are still standing there.

"Kill the Jurchens together!"

Although Yawuta can understand Chinese, it is very difficult for him to speak it, and his accent is so strong that it is almost indistinguishable.

Most of the people were frightened and ran away, while a few actually followed.

Seeing that they had escaped, Yawuta quickly shouted: "Set fire, set fire!"

One of the Khitan civilians, who was originally following Wei Chong from Huangtou Shi, reacted immediately after hearing this. He shouted to his companions: "Set the house on fire!"

The Khitans turned around and returned to the city wall, where gold juice was being cooked, and the Jurchen soldiers had been killed.

They picked up the burning firewood, picked up a pot of hot oil, and rushed down the horse path to the street. Then he poured hot oil on the door of the shop, set it on fire and went to the next shop.

"Set fire to kill the Jurchens!"

These Khitan people shouted all the way and rushed into another Bohai people's shop.

The shop owner hid in the backyard, crying and begging: "Don't burn my house!"

The Khitan civilians didn't care about this and asked: "Where is the woodshed?"

"I know, come with me!" said a Han slave living in a side house.

The woodshed was quickly set on fire, and everyone rushed out to continue setting fires, shouting for Jurchen rebellion along the way.

In the bitter cold land of Liaodong, there are many people who dare to fight hard.

The Liao Kingdom forced the people of Liaodong to rebel many times, and the Jin Kingdom had rebellions every now and then.

Because their life is too hard!

Before Huangtou Shiwei captured the city gate, dozens of civilians joined the rebellion. Until the fire burned bigger and bigger, many Khitan people and Han people came spontaneously. There were also slaves who killed their masters and rebelled, then set fire to the house, grabbing some gold and silver jewelry and putting them in their arms.

"Go to Beicheng to suppress them!"

Wanyan Zongxian ordered in panic. He had no idea how many people were rebelling.

"Huangtou Shiwei has rebelled, Huangtoushi Wei has rebelled!"

The defeated Jurchen soldiers shouted in panic.

It doesn't matter if you don't shout. If you shout, it will be bad.

The Huangtou Shiwei led by Yawuta only had more than 200 people, and nearly 300 others were elsewhere.

Huangtou Shiwei, who had not rebelled originally, faintly heard the shouts of the Jurchen soldiers, and was so frightened that he quickly joined the rebellion.

Instead of killing the Jurchen soldiers, they rushed into the city and killed them randomly, and then set fire to create chaos. More and more civilians were killed and fled for their lives in the streets. Neighbors near the fire point also came out one after another.

The whole city was in chaos and fires broke out everywhere.

The rich people who were ordered not to go out did not know what was going on outside and did not dare to act rashly. They could only hide at home and wait anxiously.

"The Jin soldiers were defeated, and Emperor Zhu of the Han Dynasty came to kill them!"

There were more than ten groups of Han and Khitan civilians who took advantage of the chaos to rebel in the city, and one group had gathered more than two hundred people.

More than a dozen people hurried over and the leader shouted: "I am Ming Xiaozuo, and I have been lurking in Liaoyang under the orders of the Ming Emperor. If I capture this city, the Ming Emperor will give me a lot of rewards!"

When the Ming Dynasty and Jin Dynasty negotiated peace, a large number of Youyan people were moved away.

Shi Yuangong took the opportunity to launch hundreds of traps, disguised as Han people in the north, and followed them to move eastward.

At that time, the migration work of the Jin Kingdom was extremely chaotic, and there was no basic roster. It could only be carried out by the gentry and generals of various ethnic groups.

There are also many scattered people who have no idea of ​​their origins, and no one has been found in the detailed work.

Most of these more than 100 large workers were placed in the countryside to farm, and this year they were even drafted into the militia.

The man in front of me was a carpenter, and he was brought to Liaoyang by the Kingdom of Jin to work as a carpenter.

The leader is called Song Yu, holding an ax in his hand.

He had just been forced to help demolish houses and use old wood to make fork poles and other simple tools for defending the city.

Seeing that there was chaos in the city, Song Yu immediately brought people over to cause trouble. The ten people behind him were not craftsmen, but carpenters whom he had deceived into rebelling.

"Are you really sent by the Ming Emperor?" the leader of the rebels asked.

Song Yu loudly said to everyone: "My name is Song Yu, and I am a carpenter. I am originally from Wanping County, Liao State. My whole family was taken captive by the Jin people and sent to western Liaoning. Later, Zhang Jue rebelled and I was separated from my family. I fled back to Youzhou with the defeated army. He became a soldier of Marshal Guo (Guo Yaoshi) and later joined Prince Zhu of the Ming Dynasty... He was Emperor Zhu and returned to Liaodong as a spy to find his lost family members. "

"Emperor Zhu is a descendant of the stars in the sky. He has never been defeated. No matter how powerful the Jurchen soldiers are, they can't defeat Emperor Zhu."

"Let me kill the Jurchens tonight, and everyone will be able to make meritorious deeds. When the Jin Kingdom is destroyed, drinking and eating meat every day will make you very happy..."

At this moment, more than a hundred Xi soldiers came to kill him.

Song Yu held an ax and roared: "Whose soldiers are in front of you? I am sent by the Ming Emperor. The Jurchen soldiers quickly kneel down to die! The Bohai soldiers, Khitan soldiers, Xi soldiers, and Han soldiers can all be spared from death. Come and kill with me." Jurchens, all of them can be given the title of wife and daughter-in-law!”

The Xi general really stopped and asked in surprise, "Are you from the Ming army? Is Emperor Zhu leading his troops to attack us?"

Song Yu said: "I was sent by the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty to lurk in the city. The soldiers of the Ming Dynasty are already dozens of miles away, with a total of 500,000 troops. There are also many Xi people among the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty, and all of them are favored by the emperor! Follow me. I will kill the Jurchens together to ensure your prosperity and wealth."

The Xiren general was still hesitating.

Song Yu shouted: "What are you waiting for? Are you going to die with the Jurchens?"

The Xiren general gritted his teeth and said: "I'll do it with you. Sons and gentlemen, follow me to kill the gold thief!"

"kill!"

With the participation of more than a hundred Xi soldiers, the morale of the rebellious civilians of all ethnic groups was even higher.

Song Yu commanded: "Attack the city gate and welcome the friendly troops in!"

The more than two hundred yellow-headed Shiwei who were the first to rebel were now at the city gate and were attacked from two sides by Jurchen soldiers.

These guys fight with no regard for their lives, and are more brutal and fierce than the Jurchen soldiers.

Historically, when the Jin Kingdom expanded rapidly, they often captured Huangtou Shiwei as soldiers and put them in the front row to charge into battle.

Even Lu You wrote patriotic poems with the vision of capturing Huangtou Shiwei: the yellow-headed girl has lost her soul and is bound to the army to fight for her death.

Huangtou Shiwei appears many times in Lu You's poems, and is the object of reviling and curses.

Nearly half of the more than two hundred yellow-headed Shiwei who attacked the city gate were killed or wounded and were still fighting bloody battles.

They seemed to have only one idea. They were determined to take down the city gate, so they would fight to the death to achieve their goal.

On the contrary, these Jurchen second-line troops have never experienced a real battlefield, and they are timid in fighting at this moment.

"Kill the Jurchen!"

Song Yu has led his troops to kill him.

He first observed the situation clearly before running to trick others into rebelling. Now he went straight to the city gate to cooperate with Huangtou Shiwei.

The Jurchen soldiers who had the upper hand were attacked from behind by Song Yu's troops, and they immediately showed signs of collapse.

(End of this chapter)