The Song Dynasty on the Sand Table

Chapter 237: The head can be cut off, but the hairstyle cannot be messed up

The situation in Shandong Province as a whole is becoming more and more tense day by day.

The Jin army really started to move south!

Just before they headed south, some interesting news came.

In the Lailiu River (a tributary of the Songhua River), the Jin Dynasty's old nest, the local people suddenly became influenced by Chinese culture. They began to imitate the Central Plains people's clothing, living habits, and the four seasons were similar to those of the Central Plains.

That is not the territory of the Han people, it is the nest of the Jin Kingdom!

The Han culture spread wildly in the Jin Dynasty's stronghold like a virus.

I told you to divert the population of the Central Plains to the north and mix with the Jurchens. Now you know how powerful I am, right?
The rulers of the Jin Dynasty were so shocked that they were completely paralyzed.

In June, the Jin Dynasty issued an order that no one, regardless of their ethnicity, was allowed to wear Hanfu. Han people who surrendered to the Jin Dynasty had to shave their heads, and those who disobeyed the order would be put to death.

Just a few days after this order was issued, a nursery rhyme suddenly began to be sung among beggars. The song only has one sentence, which is easy to remember and sing: "The head can be cut off, but the hairstyle cannot be messed up."

As beggars sang all over the streets, the message that "hairstyles should not be messy" began to spread throughout Shandong.

Before this nursery rhyme was released, many rebel armies had planned to surrender to the Jin bandits, but once the nursery rhyme was released, rebel armies in various places began to fight desperately again.

Hero of the Jianghu, when we meet you, we first look at your hairstyle.

If your hairstyle is not messy, you are still a hero. If your hairstyle is not right, the whole Shandong will look down on you.

If you want me to surrender, you can do it. But if you want me to shave my head, I would rather fight to the death and lose my head.

Some Han people who had already shaved their heads and were preparing to surrender to the Jin Dynasty now hurriedly shaved their heads bald and told everyone that they were monks who had just returned to secular life.

In this vigorous resistance movement...

The Jin army marched south with supreme power!
In August, the vanguard of the Jin army passed through Jinan City and arrived in Qingzhou.

Zhao Sheng, a righteous soldier from Qingzhou, led his troops to fight, but was killed in a single encounter! (In real history, he was killed by a trick played by Liu Hongdao.)
The Jin army passed Qingzhou and headed straight for Weizhou.

Weizhou Yan Gao laughed loudly, looking up to the sky: "You are just a mere Jin thief. You can't even defeat the palace thieves. How can you stand up to my might? Look at me sending out troops and easily defeating the Jin thieves."

After that, he led his army to fight, but was defeated in the first encounter! Yan Gao fled to the south, and his subordinate Zhang Cheng led his men to surrender to the Jin Dynasty and became a "glorious" puppet soldier.

In September, the main force of the Jin army advanced to Weizhou, and Marshal Talai was stationed in Changyi County, facing Jiaoshui County from afar.

When they arrived here, the Jin army divided its forces.

Talai ordered the brave general Jin Wushu to lead the main force south to search the mountains and seas to capture Zhao Gou, and sent his son-in-law Pucha Hubalu and the brave general Wanyan Teli to lead another army south to attack Zhang Rong of the Liangshanpo rebel army.

He himself led an army, eyeing Jiaoshui County covetously... By the way, there was also a Li Kui from Mizhou in the south, but Talai didn't even look over there.

The small Changyi County is now quite lively.

A large number of Jin troops, puppet troops, auxiliary troops, and civilian laborers filled this small county town. Inside and outside the city, craftsmen were busy everywhere...

Gu Wei, an old friend of the rebel army, was walking through a large group of craftsmen with a few personal soldiers.

These craftsmen are building a "counterweight trebuchet."

The Jin army's technical capabilities were still good, and their counterweight catapults could already throw as far as the rebel army's. This time, Guwei had made up his mind to have a catapult showdown with the rebel army.

With the same range and power, it was mainly a competition of financial resources and manpower. The Jin army was very confident in its own financial and material resources and could not lose to the bandits who only had two states and eight counties.

A group of unarmored Iron Tufu were sitting on the hillside outside the city, enjoying the breeze.

When they are not wearing armor, they are just ordinary Jurchen men. This group of people are tall, strong, brave and willing to fight to the death. They have always been invincible, which has developed their extremely confident and arrogant character.

"Have you heard? The enemy has a strange firearm. When it makes a bang, lead bullets will shoot towards you."

"I heard that our light cavalry suffered a lot." An Iron Buddha laughed, "But against us, these firearms are useless."

"Hahaha, we just charge for a bit and we're sure to kill them all."

The Iron Buddhas laughed happily...

However, he did not notice that there was a beggar sleeping at the corner of the city wall in the distance. The beggar was wearing tattered linen clothes and looked sloppy, but his eyes were shining with a smart light.

Yue Wenxuan possessed Su Qier and was scouting here.

Changyi County has always been on the front line of the battle between the Jin army and the rebel army. The people's livelihood here is in decline. There are many beggars in and outside the city. Yue Wenxuan is not conspicuous among the large group of beggars.

He was unable to get close enough to scout the Jin army, but it was not difficult at all for him to peek from the periphery.

I can even leisurely count how many iron pagodas there are...

Just as he was counting enthusiastically, a patrol of Jin soldiers came over and grabbed Yue Wenxuan by the tattered clothes: "The nursery rhyme that says the head can be cut off but the hairstyle cannot be messed up, was it you beggars who spread it?"

Yue Wenxuan said, "Sir, you misunderstood. I definitely didn't write that nursery rhyme. Look, I shaved my head."

He lifted up his messy hair and showed his hairstyle to the Jin soldiers...

Hey!
Su Qi'er really did shave his head. After all, he was a man from the Qing Dynasty. The front half of his head was basically shaved off, and only the back half had hair. It's just that his hair was pulled to the front in a messy manner.

When the Jin soldiers saw that he had shaved his head, they did not make things difficult for him. A man with a shaved head could not have made up a song that said "The head can be cut off, but the hairstyle cannot be messed up."

The Jin soldiers laughed and scolded him, "You are a beggar who shaves his head and still wants to follow us? Don't you see how poor you are?"

The Jin soldiers walked away...

Yue Wenxuan was safe and continued counting.

It took several days to count them all. There were only more than 300 Tiefutu who stayed in Changyi County and did not go south, but there were 3,000 Guaizima (light cavalry) who cooperated with them in the battle. In addition, old friends Baliyuanshan and Luyuantiao came again, with 5,000 Khitan and Tieli infantry, and 3,000 Han soldiers led by Zhang Cheng of Weizhou who had just surrendered to the Jin.

This is only the number of regular troops. They also have up to 5,000 auxiliary troops and tens of thousands of craftsmen and laborers.

The total number of people in the entire army exceeds 30,000!

This scale is quite large!

Moreover, Guwei has learned from his mistakes and is frantically building a counterweight catapult.

He no longer carried out cavalry raids or launched a hasty attack. Instead, he built catapults one after another. Judging from his posture, he would not start the attack until he had built at least fifty or sixty catapults. The entire Jin camp was filled with flying sawdust.

Yue Wenxuan took a look and smiled inwardly. His perspective turned towards Jimo County, and the scene he saw immediately changed...

The rebels were also preparing their armaments, but their scenes were not filled with flying sawdust, but were full of heavy metal, and the air was filled with the smell of gunpowder.

(End of this chapter)