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Therefore, Emperor Zhao Huan added Li Gang as Shangshu Youcheng.
On the sixth day of the first lunar month, Wanyan Zongwang's entire army crossed the Yellow River and advanced towards Bianliang City, Tokyo.
At this time, the news that the Taishanghuang was attacked by the forwards of the Jin army in Bianhe and fled to Yingtianfu in Nanjing has spread back to the capital.
After hearing this, Emperor Zhao Huan didn't dare to move out of the city anymore.He decreed that Li Gang be the guardian envoy of the four walls of the imperial camp, and be fully responsible for the city defense.
The guardian of the four walls of the capital, in the words of later generations, is almost the role of the commander of the capital's city defense.
After deciding to stick to Tokyo City and wait for help, Emperor Zhao Huan ordered to recruit Tuan Lian Xiangyong and other local armed forces to come to serve the king.
Immediately afterwards, Zhao Huan ordered to suspend all unnecessary expenditures in the palace to save money and tide over difficulties.
Zhao Huan also decreed to add Bai Shizhong, Li Bangyan, Zhang Bangchang and others, hoping that they could share the country's worries at this critical moment.
Because Gao Qiu, who was in charge of the forbidden army in the capital, ran away with the Supreme Emperor Zhao Ji, Zhao Huan ordered Wang Zonglian to replace Gao Qiu in charge of Dianqian.
On the 100th, Emperor Qinzong issued a decree to allocate [-] million taels to each of the three provinces for war preparations, and ordered all the city walls to be repaired.
In order to defend the city, the soldiers on the city of Tokyo adopted a hundred-step method, each of the east, south, west, and north walls was defended by 2000 regular troops, and the township army, Baojia army, and residents of the city were also assigned to defend the city. The regular army provided support.
Under Li Gang's command, the army and civilians in the city stepped up repairs, sculls, tapestry curtains, barge seats, crossbow beds, tiles and stones, fire oil, etc., and prepared all the equipment for defending the city.
After He Guan, the deputy envoy of Hebei and Hedong Road, fled back to the city of Bianliang in Tokyo with his troops, he was turned away by Li Gang and other ministers.
He Guan wanted to see Emperor Zhao Huan, but Zhao Huan was dissatisfied with He Guan's abandonment of the natural danger of the Yellow River and refused to see He Guan.
In order to investigate the responsibility for the collapse of the Yellow River defense line and to serve as an example to others, Emperor Zhao Huan convicted and beheaded the servant Liang Fangping who had fled in battle.
After the entire army of the Eastern Route Army of the Jin Army crossed the Yellow River on the sixth day of the first lunar month, Wanyan Zongwang led his troops straight in, and fought from Huazhou to the outside of Bianliang City, Tokyo in one day and night.
Under the guidance of forward Guo Yaoshi, the Jin army went straight to Moutuogang in the northwest of the city and quickly occupied it.
Previously, when Guo Yaoshi was summoned by Emperor Huizong of Song Dynasty, he played polo in Moutuogang, and knew that the Tiansi Supervisor of Song Dynasty was here.
There are [-] horses in the Tiansi prison, and the fodder is piled up like a mountain. After the Jin army captured this place, the worry about food and grass was solved.
Wanyan Zongwang was overjoyed when he saw this, he admired Guo Yaoshi even more, and introduced him as a confidant general.
Although Wanyan Zongwang's real purpose was to force the Song Dynasty to negotiate and let the Song Dynasty cede land and pay compensation, in order to deter the Song Dynasty, Wanyan Zongwang still ordered the Jin Army to launch a tentative attack on Bianliang City, Tokyo.
In order to achieve an unexpected effect, the Jin army put down dozens of fire boats along the Bianshui, intending to attack Xishuimen with fire.
Seeing this, Li Gang recruited [-] dead soldiers to arrange them by the river outside the city. If a fire boat approached, the dead soldiers would use long hooks to hook the boat to the shore, and then use big stones to break the boat and sink it.
In addition, Li Gang ordered people to arrange wooden piles in the middle of the river, and carried out rockery and boulders from Cai Jing's house and threw them into the river to form a roadblock, preventing the fire boat from approaching the West Water Gate.
The Song army fought hard all night, until dawn, and the Jin army stopped attacking Xishuimen.
Wanyanzong saw that Huo Gong could not break through Xishuimen, so he ordered the Jin army to turn to Suanzaomen in the north of Tokyo city.
The Jin army crossed the moat outside the gate and set up ladders to storm the city wall.
Li Gang ordered the defenders to shoot the Jin army with bows and crossbows, and sent more than a thousand soldiers from the imperial guards who were good at bows and arrows to reinforce them.
Under the strict defense of the Song army, the Jin army failed to break through the Suanzao Gate by noon, so Wanyan Zongwang had to order a temporary truce.
Except Suanzaomen, Chenqiaomen, Fengqiumen, and Weizhoumen were all tentatively attacked by the Jin army that day, and the battle in Suanzaomen was the worst.
When the two sides fought to withdraw their troops, the gate and city wall of Suanzao Gate were shot like hedgehogs, and the corpses of soldiers from the two armies and burned siege equipment were strewn above and below the city.
When defending the Suanzao Gate, Li Gang discovered that a soldier had hit the Jin army climbing the city with a human head, so he asked where did the head come from?
It turns out that after the Song Dynasty recovered Yanshan Mansion, a large number of Yan people moved to live in Bianliang City, Tokyo.
Now that the Jin army is approaching the city, the soldiers and civilians in the city are indiscriminate, thinking that these foreign Yan people are spies.
Under the instigation of people with good intentions, the army and civilians of the whole city were mobilized together to arrest the Yan people wantonly, and beheaded all the captured Yan people regardless of the reason.
These Yan people really died wronged and aggrieved, and the heads of the people after death were still used as bricks and stones by the Song army.
In addition, hundreds of Yan people have been escorted to the Kaifeng government office and are waiting for disposal.
The crazy behavior of the Song people once again proved that they did not regard the Yan people as their compatriots at all.
Seeing the chaos in the city, Li Gang was afraid that there would be another chaos in the city, so he hastily ordered that if another Yan people's spies were captured, they must be sent to the Yamen to verify their identity before they can receive the reward.
Li Gang also ordered the Yan people who had already been detained in the government office to be temporarily detained.
After some rectification, the chaos of arresting spies in the city was stopped, avoiding further deterioration of the situation.
The Jin army's two rounds of storming did not take any advantage, so they chose to retreat temporarily.
Emperor Zhao Huan was overjoyed when he learned about the situation of the battle, and hurriedly took this opportunity to arrange for minister Hou Qiyun to go to the Jin Army to negotiate a truce.
When Zhao Huan's imperial edict came to Dutang, Prime Ministers Li Bangyan and Zhang Bangchang hurriedly sent someone to look for Hou Qiyun, but unexpectedly, he was nowhere to be found.
Chapter 894 The Bodhisattva Prince's Kindness
Ministers Bai Shizhong, Li Bangyan, and Zhang Bangchang all wanted to reach a peace agreement with Jin Jun as soon as possible and send Jin Jun home.Can't find the envoys who are going to send envoys at this time, isn't it a delay in the big event?
At this time, it happened that Zheng Wangzhi, a member of Shangshu's driving department, came to Dutang, and was caught by Zhang Bangchang, and asked him to go to the Jin army to test whether the Jin army had any intention of peace talks.
Zheng Wangzhi asked for the imperial decree, Zhang Bangchang asked the servant to report to Emperor Zhao Ji, and formally appointed Zheng Wangzhi to go to the Jin army to negotiate as the minister of the Ministry of calligraphy and industry.
The people in the court hastily gathered together pommel horse, robe belt, official uniform, gold belt and other things for Zheng Wangzhi, and sent him out of the city.
Zheng Wangzhi rode his horse to the gate of Anyuan, and saw He Guan who was leading the troops stationed here.
When He Guan saw the envoy coming, he quickly found a sergeant with a loud voice to cross the moat and shout to the Jin army, saying that the envoy of the Song Dynasty had arrived, and asked the Jin army to send someone to pick him up.
Wanyan Zongwang sent troops to attack the city for the purpose of military intimidation against the Song Dynasty and forced the Song Dynasty to cede land and pay compensation.
Before the Jin army rushed to Bianliang City in Tokyo, what they were most afraid of was that the emperor of the Song Dynasty ran away.After all, Wanyan Zongwang's army went deep alone, and there were many unconquered Song Dynasty cities in the rear. It was impossible to chase the Song Dynasty emperor's whereabouts all over the world without worrying about the future.
When he came to the city of Bianliang in Tokyo, and learned that the new emperor of the Song Dynasty stayed in the capital and did not run away, Wanyan Zongwang gained confidence in his heart.
As long as the city of Bianliang in Tokyo is trapped, there is no need to worry about the emperor and ministers of the Song Dynasty not bowing their heads and obeying orders.
Therefore, Li Gang blocked the emperor Zhao Huan's strategic shift and pulled the emperor to defend the capital, which invisibly reduced many troubles for the Jin army.
Li Gang had no experience in marching and fighting, so he didn't know that for city defense, the bigger the city, the harder it was to defend.
First, the larger the city, the longer the city wall, and the defenders' strength, equipment and supplies must be scattered.However, for the attacking party who has the initiative, they can choose to concentrate their forces to attack the weak points of the city defense. They only need to break through one place, and the city walls that are tens of miles long will become decorations.
Therefore, a small and tall castle is much more defensive than a large and wide city.
Two, the biggest weakness of Bianliang City in Tokyo is the large number of people, with millions of people.In order to supply the lives of the millions of people in the city, there is an endless stream of boats on the Libian River every day.After such a city is besieged, the food supply of the soldiers and civilians will be interrupted, and they will soon be in a desperate situation.