Guide to Traveling through the Northern Song Dynasty.

Chapter 839 0834 [The Emperor of Jin who murdered Zhongliang]

Xingzhongfu (Chaoyang City).

Yin Shuke discovered that Li Bao was withdrawing his troops and guessed that the opponent wanted to attack from behind.

While he sent Qingqi to notify the defenders of Jinyuan County to strengthen defense, he led his army westward to Jianzhou (Dapingfang Town, Chaoyang City), trying to force Li Bao to return to defend the city.

After besieging Jianzhou City for nearly ten days, Yin Shu couldn't defeat it at all.

There are not many Ming Dynasty defenders here, but nearly ten thousand civilians have organized themselves and taught them how to throw thunder. Once a certain section of the city wall is in danger, immediately throw bombs down there.

Yin Shuke was blown away and lost his temper, so he led his troops back to Xingzhong Mansion in despair.

The armies of Yue Fei and Wang Yan continued to move north, and they also brought prairie cavalry with them to seize the city all the way to Linhuang Mansion.

Li Baoqi came back with his troops after a surprise attack, and then brought Li Yanxian's troops with him, and also asked Li Jinyi to cooperate in sending troops.

The troops mobilized by the three to fight Xingzhong Mansion totaled nearly 50,000 people. However, Yin Shuke failed to attack Jianzhou and returned to Xingzhong Mansion with only 10,000 soldiers left, including the defeated soldiers who fled from Jinzhou.

Yin Shu wanted to mobilize troops and generals, but he couldn't direct them at all. He couldn't even find all his own generals. Military law is no longer useful. He has already executed many people. If he continues to kill people indiscriminately, he will probably mutiny on the spot.

Wanyan Yuying held her father's body and sat on the street blankly for a long time.

The two sides fought on the spot. Not only was the local officer killed, but Yin Shuke's soldiers also slaughtered his entire family.

"It's your choice."

On the fifth day of bombardment, there was a crack in the city wall, and on the sixth day it partially collapsed.

A shell flew in and smashed a big hole in the wall of the house.

Many Jurchen soldiers laughed and gathered around, pointing at the holes and discussing how heavy the shells were.

Yin Shuke was dealing with another brawl. He rushed over after hearing the news and was about to punish him severely, but found that the soldiers didn't even bother to look at his commander.

Wanyan Yuying was dejected.

Yin Shu didn't even think about breaking out of the siege, because all the surrounding cities were occupied by the Ming Dynasty. Where could he escape to?

Yin Shuke said something to his son, and suddenly he drew his sword and killed himself.

He finally achieved some results and burned more than 30 Ming army siege equipment.

Suddenly, I heard that there was still some wine hidden in a house, so they rushed there in a swarm, killing people all over the house before looking for wine to drink.

"The Ming army is coming!" a soldier shouted outside the house.

The shelling lasted for more than half a month. If it had not been for fear of overheating of the gun barrels and had been firing at a leisurely pace, I am afraid that the Ming army would have almost run out of shells.

However, it doesn't help.

"Mr. Li, your Majesty has ordered eighty cannons to be delivered!"

Besides committing suicide, he didn't know what else he could do.

"Boom boom boom!"

They also tried to break out, but they were all beaten back to the city by the Ming army. Only a few lucky ones managed to escape.

The wife and daughter of a local military officer were also raped and humiliated by Yin Shuke's own soldiers. They were so angry that they led their troops to seek an explanation.

"Haha, isn't this going to turn Yin Shu Ke into a pulp? Drag them all up and give me a hard blast!"

Where are the elite Jurchens here?
The news that Wanyan Zongfu and Wanyan Zonghan were completely wiped out had already reached Xingzhong Fucheng. Because of this, the defenders in the city seemed to have lost their souls.

Xingzhong Fucheng has had seven walls destroyed.

One morning, Yin Shuke took advantage of the foggy weather to send troops out to destroy the siege equipment.

The loud shouting of killing came, and Wanyan Yuying suddenly woke up. He saw the Ming army chasing the Jin soldiers and killing them. A group of broken soldiers ran towards him and were chased and killed by the Ming army.

Taking the original artillery pieces of Li Bao, Li Yanxian, and Li Jinyi, plus eighty more were sent by Zhu Ming. Outside Xingzhongfu City, the Ming army's artillery number reached 130.

Yin Shuke sent troops many times to try to destroy the Ming army's pontoon bridge, but was shot back with muskets and crossbows. Even people didn't dare to stand on the city wall. Who knows where the cannonball might have landed.

"Tie them up!"

The father and son hurriedly rode a horse, but saw that the soldiers in the city were even more confused.

Calling his son Wanyan Yuying over, Yin Shuke said: "You can break out again tonight, and you can run as far as you can. If you can't break out, don't come back. It's better to die under a knife or a gun."

The Ming army still did not attack, and continued to bombard the city walls in turn while making pontoons and siege equipment.

In front of Yin Shuke, the officer swaggered past and led the soldiers to ransack the house.

Gunfire was still being fired outside the city.

Wanyan Guoying was filled with fear. He dropped the corpse, knelt on the ground, and shouted in Chinese: "I am willing to surrender! I am willing to surrender! Long live the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty! Long live the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty..."

They had many copper coins wrapped around their waists and went out into the streets to scatter them everywhere.

The east, northeast, and southeast of Xingzhong Fucheng are all surrounded by rivers. One hundred and thirty artillery pieces of the Ming army were deployed on several other sides to bombard the city walls every day.

Some people carried weapons to the city wall, some wandered around holding wine jars, and some even burned their houses and set themselves on fire.

Gradually, Yin Shu could no longer restrain his soldiers. The Jin soldiers in the city knew that they were bound to die, so they simply began to indulge as much as they wanted. They drank and had fun all day long, robbed young women in the city, and even exchanged them with each other after playing with them.

Yin Shuke was almost sixty years old, and he looked around the streets with dejection. There were fights everywhere, drinking and gambling, rape and robbery, and tens of thousands of enemy troops were just outside the city.

"Boom boom boom!"

When this voice reached Wanyan Yuying's ears, it was like a fairy music coming from the sky, as long as he was not killed on the spot.

……

Ju Ming led his army to Xianping Mansion and did not continue to advance.

He himself sat in Xianpingfu City and sent various generals to occupy the city. Among them, more than 10,000 soldiers went straight to the capital of Jin Kingdom.

Going to Beijing, there is internal strife.

Wu Qimai, who had suffered a stroke, suddenly recovered. His sons joined forces with the Jurchen nobles and gained the support of Han and Bohai civil servants to launch a bloody massacre against their political opponents. Prime Minister Wanyan Zongqian was first convicted of rebellion and was killed directly during the meeting.

He suddenly killed Wanyan Zongqian, and then went to kill Wanyan Zongqian's descendants.

In Wanyan Zongqian's family, only the young female relatives and Aguda's eldest grandson could survive this massacre.

After Wanyan Zongqian was destroyed, Wu Qimai's political opponents were leaderless, and a large number of nobles ran outside the palace to pledge their allegiance to the emperor.

The next person to be exterminated was the slave of the Shi family who was seriously ill and had not yet recovered.

Hearing the screams of death in the courtyard, Shi's slave struggled to get up from the bed, but fell to the ground after taking only two steps.

He is Aguda's son-in-law and Wanyan Zonghan's confidant. He has experienced countless battles in his life, and has never been defeated before encountering the Ming army. At this moment, he can't even save his family.

In order to fight, Wanyan Zonghan and Wanyan Zongfu drained all the troops who went to Beijing.

When the news came back that they were defeated on the front line, and that Wanyan Zongqian was trapped and killed during a meeting, the three members of the gang immediately had different thoughts. More than half of them turned to Wu to beg for money, and then discussed surrender with Han and Bohai civil servants!

All the family members of the frontline generals who were loyal to the Jin Kingdom were killed, leaving only the young female dependents.

The families of those generals who rebelled against the Ming Dynasty were protected for fear of angering the Ming Dynasty.

Shi Jianu crawled hard for a while, and finally he crawled near his armor. That was the armor given by Aguda himself, and that was the iron sword obtained by defeating the Liao Kingdom.

Dragging his old and sick body to his feet, Shi's slave grabbed the armor, but was unable to pick it up at all.

"That old thing is in there!" someone shouted at the door.

The slave of the Shi family gave up his armor, stretched out his hand to hold the iron sword, and turned around while panting.

"Kill him quickly!"

A group of noble young people rushed in.

Shi Jianu swung his sword to strike, but the sword was knocked away, and he himself lost his footing and fell down.

Po Luhuo, who was also recuperating in Beijing, suddenly walked into the room and sighed when he saw Shi Jianu's embarrassed appearance.

Shi Jianu coughed twice, lay on the ground and asked, "You also rebelled?"

Po Luhuo sighed: "You are the one who rebelled, I just followed the general trend. Both armies were defeated. If I don't kill you, how can we surrender to the Ming Dynasty? If we don't surrender quickly, the Kingdom of Jin will really be gone."

"How can you have the nerve to see Taizu after you die?" Shi Jianu sneered.

"You go to see Taizu first," Po Luhuo ordered, "give him a good time, don't humiliate him in every possible way."

Wanyan Zonghan's family members were also being massacred at this moment.

Only Wanyan Zongfu was extremely popular, and people from all sects and tribes came to ask for mercy. Even father and son Wu Qimai and Wanyan Zongpan felt that Wanyan Zongfu's family could stay.

Of course, if the news comes that Wanyan Zongfu ordered the massacre of the Bohai commanders, the Bohai civil servants in Beijing will definitely be furious.

……

Just as the bloody massacre was going on in Beijing, a remnant army returned.

The leader was Wanyan Zongxian. When Liaoyang fell, he and He Shiliezhining fled to Shenzhou with their troops.

Shenzhou was attacked over a long distance by the Ming army again. He had too few available soldiers, and there were arsonists in the city. So, he lost Shenzhou again and broke out with only a small number of soldiers and horses to escape.

He wanted to tell Wanyan Zongfu, but was chased into the mountains by hundreds of Ming troops.

After hiding in the mountains for two days tired and hungry, Wanyan Zongxian cautiously came out. When he met the defeated troops, he said that Wanyan Zongfu was defeated.

He gathered some broken troops and escaped around the battlefield. The next day he met Jin Wushu by the river.

The two men joined forces, and their strength finally exceeded a thousand.

They rested for half a day in Xianping Mansion, then looted the whole city and left, and then gathered troops and horses in Hanzhou to prepare for another battle.

But they couldn't recruit soldiers at all, and recruiting them by force was a burden, so they simply fled all the way back to Shangjing.

When he heard that Wanyan Zongxian and Jin Wushu were returning with their troops, Wu Qimai felt as if he were facing a powerful enemy and personally led all the troops and civil and military ministers to greet them.

Wanyan Zongxian guessed what happened when he saw the civil servants and generals beside Wu Qimai. He asked directly: "Are my family members still well?"

Wu Qimai said: "You are not closely connected with those rebellious people, so naturally the whole family is fine."

Jin Wushu also asked: "Where is my family?"

Wu Qimai said: "The family members of Nianliduo (Wanyan Zongfu) are all fine. You and Nianliduo are so close, so naturally nothing will happen."

Wanyan Zongxian and Jin Wushu looked at each other, and the former said: "Bring our family members here."

More than an hour later, the two family members were sent outside the city.

Jin Wushu asked: "How does your majesty plan to deal with the southern bandits?"

Wu Qimai rebuked him, "How can you call them southern bandits? They are all Ming soldiers. I have sent messengers to ask for surrender. After all, I want to preserve the Jin Dynasty."

Jin Wushu clenched his fists, wanting to rush over and kill Wu Qimai.

However, there can be no more internal strife now.

Otherwise, I don’t know how many of the Jin Kingdom’s remaining troops would survive.

Moreover, with their families under control, both sides would definitely suffer losses if they fought.

Wu Qimai said: "Now that all the armies have been defeated, the Dajin army should be reorganized. You two have come back just in time. Can you hand over the soldiers for unified deployment?"

Wanyan Zongxian looked at the family members who were surrounded and said helplessly: "It all depends on His Majesty's will."

Jin Wushu was so angry that he threw his spear to the ground.

The news that they were recruiting troops in Hanzhou had already spread back to Shangjing. Wu Qimai knew that they were still alive and had soldiers, so he did not massacre their families.

There were family members who were used as hostages, but as soon as they came back, they had their military power taken away!

(End of this chapter)