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Guo Ning is leading a team of cavalry along the outer city wall of Kaifeng.

The turmoil in Kaifeng is no longer in Guo Ning's eyes.The princes and nobles of the Jurchens, or the ceremonial guards displayed by the Kaifeng court, are just a piece of well-cooked meat.Someone is in charge of cutting and serving the plate.

For example, Li Ting, who was rampaging in the city at the moment, was obviously very interested in this.Guo Ning sent some of his troops in to help him continue his meritorious service.

Guo Ning himself dispatched manpower step by step, and firmly controlled the city from the outside to the inside.

The first to change hands was, of course, the outer city wall of Kaifeng.

The outer city of Kaifeng relied on the construction of the Song Dynasty in those days. The wall base was five feet six feet wide, and the top of the wall was enough for several armored iron floating figure knights to walk abreast. Successor soldiers and horses accompanied him to take over.

The embarrassment of the Kaifeng court in terms of force became more and more obvious at this time.Even if they control millions of Jurchens, their soldiers and horses are scattered in half of the Dajin Kingdom, how can it be enough?Even among the defenders in Kaifeng, more than half of them are Han children.

Strictly speaking, these Han children joined the Kaifeng court earlier than most Jurchen soldiers.Some of them were the anti-defense army and grain shooting army set up by the imperial court on Henan Road in the early years;When King Sui first went south, he deliberately bridged the contradiction between the Jurchen and the Han people, so he believed in the Han army.

However, as Guo Ning established a foothold in the central capital and showed more and more momentum to replace it, the Kaifeng court had to rely on the Jurchens, and instead continued to split up these Han troops and transferred them out of Kaifeng to farm.

Such an operation is tantamount to a naked expression of suspicion, which has further aroused rifts within the army.

In the past year, the sergeants of Han'er had seen the Jurchens fleeing from the north, and heard them tell about Guo Ning's ferocity and terror in private, and their ears were getting callused.However, since this Zhou Guogong is clearly going to the Jurchens, what does he have to do with Han'er?
Previously, Aotunwo Libu Wanyan and A Pai led their troops to attack. In order to ensure the loyalty of the soldiers, they eliminated all the Han'er, and temporarily mobilized nearly [-] Jurchen civilians to fill the city wall for defense.Such an army cannot be used to fight at all.

As soon as the news of the death of the two captains arrived, all the Jurchen civilians fled.

Seeing the flag of the Ding Navy arrive, all the Han'er officers and soldiers cheered loudly and surrendered one after another. Even before the Ding Navy sent officers to take over, they killed the Jurchens who led the army and arranged their troops in an orderly manner.

As the sky gradually dimmed, many Han'er soldiers opened warehouses along the city wall and took the initiative to distribute pine torches, and a large number of soldiers followed Guo Ning with torches high to build momentum.

Thousands of torches illuminate the city wall as bright as day, like a fire dragon stretching its huge body along the city wall.And this kind of momentum caused more and more people inside and outside the city to respond and surrender.

When the team crossed Hongren Gate and arrived at Guangze Gate in the east and north of the outer city, the Jurchens who had tried to escape through this place saw that the situation was not good, and most of them frantically ran in other directions.

The hundred or so soldiers stationed here put all their weapons and armors in one place in advance, and waited empty-handed.When Guo Ning stepped onto the tower, there were still a few people waiting for him, and they were still standing behind the crenel on the pier wall, looking out.

Ni Yigang wanted to shout, but Guo Ning stopped him.

Guo Ning walked a few steps towards the crenel, looked around, and asked, "What are you looking at?"

"There is no way to go!" A young Han soldier paid no attention to Guo Ning, and said happily: "The Jurchen generals outside, including Marshal Wanyan Congtan, and Monk Wanyan Chen...they have no way to go. Let's go!"

Guo Ning looked at them for a moment, then smiled and said, "Can you recognize them from such a distance?"

The soldier felt that Guo Ning's accent was different, so he looked sideways.

Guo Ning was only wearing a gray military uniform at the moment, without a guard of honor, and all the soldiers from the army surrounded him in the outer circle.The soldiers only thought that Guo Ning was somewhere in his robe to avoid the chaos, and replied casually:

"In the past, when the two of them were in charge of the army, I saw a lot of them. These two were not bad. They were kind to the soldiers, and they were capable. They were very different from those stupid pigs who were officials in the city. Although the Jurchens later There are too many people coming here, and they are being squeezed hard, but the two of them have no enmity with us Haner."

"So that's how it is." Guo Ning asked again: "If Zhou Guogong sends people to recruit them, do you think it will work?"

The soldier frowned, thought for a while and said, "If this group of people wanted to die, they would have died long ago. At this point, it's just because they don't want to die... I think it's not difficult to recruit them if you give them a reason. I would be happy if they could survive!"

Guo Ning laughed loudly, and patted the soldier on the shoulder: "Little brother is very knowledgeable."

When he withdrew his body from the crenel, Wanyan Xilie knelt beside him with an excited face: "Thank you Zhou Guogong!"

"Don't thank me, you should thank this soldier, and thank your brother for his good reputation every day."

Guo Ning recruited Ni Yi and told him: "Go once and give them a reason! Just say, hand over Monk Wanyan Chen and allow them to surrender!"

Ni Yi took the order loudly.

The city gate of Guangzemen is still blocked. Although people have been dispatched to remove the earth and rocks, it is impossible to enter and exit normally in a short period of time.Ni Yi wanted to show off his prestige in front of the crowd, and grabbed the rope that the Jurchen had woven before fleeing with one hand, turned over and jumped out of the high wall, kicked the wall twice, and landed safely.

This is the climbing method he learned with Dong Jin a while ago, but he didn't expect to use it now.

A few steps away from the city wall, there are scattered soldiers and horses.Ni Yi got on his horse, swung his whip heavily, the horse suffered from pain, stood up for a while, and then stepped forward, crossing the shallow part of the moat in an instant, and rushed straight to the place where the Jurchen generals gathered.

The whole set of movements was crisp and neat, and many soldiers above the city gate cheered loudly.Accompanying Guo Ning was Zhao Fang from the Song Dynasty, and more than ten generals of the Song Army who accompanied him.Of course they also saw Ni Yi's showing off, Meng Gong snorted immediately, and his father Meng Zongzheng, Hu Zaixing and other senior generals all watched Ni Yi ride straight in with respect.

There are still many Jurchens scattered around the city, seeing his ferocious approach, they all ran away.

Walk forward for hundreds of steps, and you will arrive at the heart of Jinjungai.

It turned out that the Jin army was fighting and retreating. At this time, many wounded could not be treated, and they were lying on the ground scattered, with blood flowing everywhere. Even several generals were soaked in blood and stood staggeringly.

Ni Yi also felt a little respect, he reined in his horse and stopped, following Guo Ning's instructions, he yelled.

It has to be said that the soldier's vision is really accurate.

Once this step was given, many generals of the Jin army showed joy, and everyone shouted: "Monk Wanyan Chen is here!",
Turning around, he pushed it out.

Ni Yi was waiting for him to report back, but he never thought that Monk Wanyan Chen would suddenly roar, shouting, bleeding from his eye sockets!
"This guy is crazy? What are you shouting for?"

Monk Wanyan Chen’s voice was hoarse. After Ni Yi listened carefully, he realized that he was shouting: “The country is broken, the army is defeated, only dead ears! I will not surrender! Give me the knife, let me fight to the death!”

"Hey!" Ni Yi was shocked on the spot.

A man covered in wounds and half dead, still has such determination?
Zhou Guogong did agree to Wanyan Xilie, but no one knew at the time that a desperate ghost would dare to die like this in the face of Zhou Guogong's kindness!
Before several Jurchen generals panicked to persuade him, Ni Yi had already pulled out a dagger from his waist and threw it in front of Monk Wanyan Chen.

Monk Wanyan Chen shouted desperately, broke away from several hands that were holding onto his arms and shoulders, and looked up at Ni Yi.He was shaking all over, and the hand that raised the dagger was shaking all the time.He opened his mouth and wanted to say something more, but his voice was completely hoarse.

Ni Yi could guess what he meant, and said in a deep voice: "I am Ni Yi, the commander of the personal guard under Zhou Guogong's account! You didn't die at the hands of an unknown person!"

Monk Wanyan Chen showed a smile on his face, he strode forward, holding a knife towards Ni Yi's chest and abdomen.

If he was full of energy, this prick would be very powerful, but now he has no strength at all, and his movements are extremely slow.

Ni Yi didn't even bother to move his horse to avoid it, so he turned his hand over and threw out his big axe, swinging horizontally.After a soft sound, the dagger in Monk Wanyan Chen's hand was knocked into the air.

The big ax took advantage of the trend and went straight towards Monk Wanyan Chen with a bad wind.

Monk Wanyan Chen knew that he couldn't dodge it at all, so he only had time to stare angrily.Unexpectedly, the iron ax turned sharply, and the wide ax back replaced the sharp blade, and hit him squarely on the neck.

Monk Wanyan Chen's eyes darkened, and he immediately fainted.

Ni Yi leaned over to have a look, and asked hesitantly, "Are you still alive? I saved my strength and didn't kill myself."

Wanyan Congtan and Yilapua rushed forward at the same time, to detect Monk Wanyan Chen's breath.

"He's fine." After a while, the two breathed a sigh of relief: "Commander Ni, we begged for surrender."

In the second year of Xingding of the Great Jin Dynasty and the ninth year of Jiading of the Great Song Dynasty, the two armies of the Jin and Song Dynasties gathered in Kaifeng to fight against the rebels.

The self-determined navy dispatched more than ten consecutive fierce battles on Nanjing Road, Hedong Road, Hebei Road and other places, killing more than [-] enemies above the captain, captain, and marshal, and annihilating no less than [-] enemy troops.

When the decisive battle under the city of Kaifeng happened, King Sui went south to operate for several years, and the elite of the thirteen captains gathered from the millions of Jurchens were all wiped out. In just one day, the total number of dead people including the self-disturbing and fighting in Kaifeng city was no less than [-]. .Inside and outside the city, blood flowed like rivers.

In the past two years, nearly a million Jurchens went south to Kaifeng, so that the Kaifeng court spent a hundred of them, and the three armies dispatched them. One person cultivated it and a hundred people ate it.By the time the thirteen captains were separated, there were still 42 military households minus the redundancy.But among them, no more than one-third of them are capable of fighting with their bows and have courage.

In the end, most of these courageous people died on the battlefield, and the people outside Kaifeng who responded to Wanyan Congtan's begging for surrender were only in their early [-] years.

As a result, this nation that used to run rampant in the world with powerful force, and then in the autocratic domain, lost its relying on force.The backbone of the Jurchens in the Central Plains was completely broken.