He Ning's judgment was very accurate. Faced with a great achievement that could destroy the country and capture the king, Zhang Yanze would not wait long in Weizhou on the north bank of the river.
He led the delegation to Zhengzhou just three days after leaving Kaifeng Prefecture in Tokyo.
Zhang Yanze and the Khitan general Fu Zhuer led 4,000 people, crossed the Yellow River at Baimajin and arrived at Huazhou. Then they rushed straight to Kaifeng Prefecture in Tokyo without stopping.
At this moment, the imperial court of the Later Jin Dynasty ordered the various states in Henan to mobilize young men and organize the order to unite the athletes.
Shi Chonggui was as anxious as an ant on a hot pot. He desperately ordered his wife and brother Feng Yu to collect the imperial army and organize the defense of Kaifeng Mansion in Tokyo.
As a result, on the next day, Feng Yucai gathered less than two hundred imperial troops, and Zhang Yanze led the Khitan Qingqi to attack directly from Huazhou.
The defenders at Fengqiu Gate, the east gate of Tokyo, surrendered without a fight, and the Khitan cavalry marched straight in. By the time Shi Chonggui woke up from his dream, the Khitan cavalry had already rushed to the Mingde Gate, the south gate of the imperial palace.
At this time, Shi Chonggui only had more than ten guards around him. There was great chaos in the palace, and the palace attendants were running around, creating a doomsday scene.
The chamberlains with ulterior motives also began to take advantage of the fire to collect treasures from the palace, and soon several fires broke out.
Shi Chonggui did have some courage as a warrior at this moment. He drew out his sword and led his guards around the palace to calm people's hearts. However, at this moment, this calmness was of no use.
At Shenshi, too few Khitan cavalry arrived at Mingde Gate and failed to open Mingde Gate. Perhaps they were afraid that Shi Chonggui would burn down the palace, so the Khitan cavalry shot two letters into the palace.
One letter was a message to attack the Liao Kingdom against Shi Chonggui, accusing him of being an unkind master by provoking the Jin-Liao War, scolding him for appointing his aunt Feng as the queen, corrupting ethics, and being immoral.
The second letter was a personal letter written by Yelu Deguang to Empress Dowager Li. The words in the letter were quite peaceful, and he also promised not to kill the Shi family members indiscriminately.
Originally, after Shi Chonggui read the first letter, he had already driven more than 30 beauties below the concubine to burn themselves in the fire.
But after reading the second letter, and with the persuasion of the guards around him, Shi Chonggui didn't want to die anymore, so he had someone put out the fire.
He even hurriedly asked his sons Shi Yanxu and Shi Yanbao to surrender, took the national treasure and gold seal of the Jin State, and opened the Mingde Gate to surrender.
Shi Chonggui did this because he originally wanted to retain some dignity.
He felt that Zhang Yanze was a minister of the Jin Dynasty and was extremely respectful in front of Shi Chonggui, so he should not come to embarrass him.
What a shame! Shi Chonggui has lived in the inner palace all year round, like a protected greenhouse flower. He has forgotten the virtues of a warrior at this time.
As soon as the Mingde Gate opened, Zhang Yanze not only sent the surrender, national treasure and gold seal to Yelu Deguang, but he immediately supervised the troops and drove Shi Chonggui out of the palace.
He, Fu Zhuer, a Khitan man, and others robbed concubines and concubines in front of Shi Chonggui.
Zhang Yanze even carried Shi Chonggui's eldest son Shi Yanxu's biological mother, Mrs. Ding of Chu, on his shoulders and kidnapped him, leaving Shi Chonggui to cry in pain.
Immediately afterwards, these thousands of cavalry took control of various gates inside and outside Kaifeng Mansion in Tokyo. After recruiting a group of scum in the city, they began to plunder the people in the city in different divisions.
They did not dare to rob the imperial palace, but they would not be merciful to Jin's honorable ministers and the people of Tokyo.
For a time, even wealthy families could not avoid it. All the gold, silver, brocade and silk were looted, and most of the beautiful women were kidnapped. The sound of mourning in the city of Tokyo spread throughout both sides of the Bian River.
But all this has nothing to do with Zhang Zhao.
After preliminarily solving the problems of Li Dejun and An Yanwei, we can only wait for Yelu Deguang to enter the Central Plains before entering Guanzhong.
Zhang Zhao released almost all the envoys in brocade clothes around him, specifically to inquire about the movements of Shanxi and Liao.
On the twentieth day of the first lunar month, Zhang Zhao, who couldn't bear it anymore, led 5,000 fine cavalry from Yuanzhou, passed through Danzheng Gorge, and camped more than 20 miles west of Weizhou (Pingliang) in the Later Jin Dynasty.
Now we only need to go two hundred steps east to enter Guanzhong, but Zhang Zhao can only wait here for the opportunity.
On the twenty-fourth day of the first lunar month, news came from Ningzhou that Liu Jingyan, the envoy of the Jingnan Army, sent his three sons as hostages and handed over Jinyin, the envoy of the Jingnan Army, and only asked Zhang Zhao to keep his tens of thousands of acres of retirement land.
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Zhang Zhao agreed without hesitation, but his heart was still itchy and unbearable.
On the twenty-seventh day of the first lunar month, the eldest son of An Yanwei, the envoy of Jinchang Army in Jingzhao Prefecture, personally came from Jingzhao Prefecture to report the funeral.
It turned out that An Yanwei himself was already seriously ill, and after receiving the news that Du Chongwei had surrendered to the Khitan, he was so shocked that he suddenly died of illness.
The eldest son of An Yanwei did not go to Kaifeng Mansion in Tokyo to report the funeral, but went to Zhang Zhao in person to report the funeral. The meaning expressed is very obvious.
Zhang Zhao then sent his nephew Zhang Liecun as an envoy with two hundred elite cavalry to Jingzhao Mansion to express his condolences to An Yanwei.
On the first day of the second lunar month, Li Yongxi, the eldest son of the Qin King Li Congyu, sent by the Fengxiang Army of the Later Jin Dynasty came to beg for surrender.
Li Congyu was willing to surrender to Wangjue and move his family to Jingzhao Mansion. He handed over Fengxiang Mansion and Fengzhou, which had been riddled with holes by Yan Jin, and offered 90,000 shi of food and grass to the labor force.
However, Zhang Zhao did not agree to Li Congsuo's surrender for the time being because it was not the time yet.
But he comforted Li Yongxi with kind words, and also said that he would not pursue the matter under Maweipo again, and Li Yongxi finally breathed a sigh of relief.
On the seventh day of the second lunar month, just as Zhang Zhao was looking forward to seeing him, the envoy, dressed in brocade robes, wearing robes and three red triangular flags on his back, finally appeared in Zhang Zhao's sight.
Before the urgent envoy arrived at the Liangguo military camp, Weizhou City began to cheer loudly. When they arrived at the gate of the military camp, the soldiers had already blocked the gate.
Two envoys in brocade robes helped a man in Jin official uniform, who was running to death, to Zhang Zhao.
The man held up a dark red silk book and shouted loudly.
"The foreign minister She He Ning's son He Jun, the right servant of the Jin Kingdom, pays homage to the King of Daliang in Jinshan of the Western Han Dynasty. The northern barbarians of the Liao Kingdom invaded our territory and killed our officials and people. My lord ordered the foreign minister to go to Daliang and ask the king to send troops to help.
My Lord is willing to give you 100,000 pieces of silk every year, call the Heavenly King Aweng, and beg the Heavenly King to send troops to help you for the sake of Da Liang and Da Jin both belonging to the Tang Dynasty!"
In an instant, Zhang Zhao felt that tears were about to burst out of his eyes!
After planning for so many years, he finally got the right to legally enter Guanzhong. It was the Lord of Jin who personally invited him to enter the Central Plains as Tang'er.
Amidst the cheers that shook the sky, Zhang Zhao grabbed the silk book in his hand. After opening it and reading it, he immediately raised it to the sky and showed it to all directions.
Came here specially from Suzhou were Luo Tongda and Luo Yingda, the old Guiyi Army generals who were confidants of Zhang Zhao's father Zhang Chengfeng.
Zhang Zhao's elders Zhang Huaiqing and Cao Renrong.
His trusted civilian and military commanders Ma Yaozi, Fanshun, Ma Shacai, Murong Nobunaga, Li Cunhui, Liu Zaisheng, etc.
As well as the newly joined Zhang Xichong, Murong Yanzhao, Wang Shenqi, Zhe Deyuan and others, they all suddenly knelt down.
At this moment, the cheers stopped immediately. Only Zhang Zhao held up the silk book, waved his hand vigorously, and shouted loudly.
"Expel the northern barbarians, re-establish the great dynasty, and enter Guanzhong!"
"Expel the Northern Barbarians and re-establish a great dynasty!"
"Expel the Northern Barbarians and re-establish a great dynasty!"
The soldiers and generals cheered again.
Zhang Zhao gave an order, and five thousand fine cavalry crossed the Jinghe River again and headed east.
Wu Ying'er, the governor of Weizhou, had already prepared Qingqi as a guide and civilian men to transport grain and grass.
On the hundreds of miles from Weizhou to Qianxian, the food supplies had been prepared long ago.
Zhang Zhao did not enter Weizhou, but followed the army down the Jing River.
At the same time, Yuanzhou's follow-up army also began to pass through Danzheng Gorge.
Yan Jin of Qinzhou also led an army of 20,000 people and entered the territory of Fengxiang Mansion from Qinzhou.
To the north, Yin Yaozi mobilized three thousand elite soldiers who had already disguised themselves as the Yanzhou Zhangwu Army, together with Gao Yunquan's Zhangwu Army, and under the guidance of the Yao soldiers of the Yanzhou Baoda Army bribed by the Jinyi envoy, they broke into Yanzhou City at night.
Guo Jin, the Jiedushi envoy of the Baoda Army in Yanzhou, was surrounded in the Jiedu Envoy's office while he was still sleeping. Except for some resistance from Guo Jin's hundreds of tooth soldiers, the Baoda army's soldiers did not move out at all.
Yin Yaozi captured Yanzhou and immediately eliminated the threat to the east of Liang's army.
He stationed troops in the upper reaches of the Luo River, recruited Baoda army soldiers, built boats, and prepared to go directly from Yanzhou to Tongzhou to seize the place where the Kuangguo army was envoyed, and completely control Guanzhong.
On March 15th, Zhang Zhao led Han Shandu and the fine cavalry of the Yulin Guards on the left and right to pass through Jingzhou first.
Zhang Zhao resisted the desire to go directly to Jingzhao Prefecture Chang'an, but chose to bypass Chang'an and pounced on the Yaozhou Shunyi Army's Jiedushi station at starry night.
At this time, Yaozhou was experiencing continuous floods and droughts, and the Ya soldiers and Ya generals of the Shunyi army had disagreements with the Jiedushi envoy Yang Siquan over the amount of grain and grass sent to the court.
So they simply expelled Yang Siquan, the Jiedushi envoy, and appointed Zhang, the military envoy in front of the Yamen of the Shunyi Army, claiming to stay behind and control the situation.
Of course, Zhang Zhao would not tolerate such soldiers who harmed the people, so he sent Li Cunhui and two thousand elite cavalry to rush to the foot of Yaozhou City and kill Zhang, the military envoy in front of the Yamen of the Shunyi Army. The rest of the Shunyi Army dispersed.
Zhang Zhao left 300 men behind to wait for the army, and then he and his generals headed for Huazhou again.
Zhao Ying, the military governor of Huazhou Town, received Zhang Zhao's notification and took advantage of the darkness to lead his trusted followers out of the city.
The Huazhou Town National Army is very united. It is not a mindless disorganized army like the Yaozhou Shunyi Army. There have not been many civilians in Huazhou City for a long time. Those who still live in the city are basically the family members of the Shunyi Army.
More importantly, the city also stored one hundred thousand stones of food and grass that they had looted, which Zhang Zhao also needed.
So Zhang Zhao took advantage of the night to lay down gunpowder at the east and north gates of Huazhou, and waited for three days. After the army arrived, Zhang Zhao pretended to attack the east and north gates.
The soldiers of the Zhenguo Army did not expect that the Liang Army would suddenly arrive. Zhao Ying, who had always been as timid as a rabbit, actually dared to attack the city.
Caught off guard, they could only swarm in large numbers near the east and north gates to resist.
Seeing that they had been fooled, Zhang Zhao suddenly withdrew his troops and retreated. Before the soldiers of the Zhenguo Army understood what happened, a violent explosion sounded, and the east gate and north gate were blown down at the same time.
Countless soldiers who were confused were buried directly by the collapsed city wall. The Liang army took the opportunity to attack and occupied Huazhou effortlessly.
Just when Zhang Zhao occupied Huazhou, Yin Yaozi also went down the Luo River and went straight to Tongzhou City, where the Kuangguo Army Jiedushi Office was located in Tongzhou.
Although Li Chengfu, the governor of Kuangguo Army in Tongzhou, was born as a servant of Shi Jingtang, the Liang army was summoned by Shi Chonggui to help. Regardless of what happened in Tokyo, this request is still valid.
Moreover, Kuang Guojun saw clearly that no one wanted to die in vain, so they took Li Chengfu hostage and opened the city gate.
At this point, after a year of preparation, Zhang Zhao was very quick with his troops. In less than a month, he advanced with light troops and occupied the three strategic locations in Guanzhong, namely Yaozhou, Huazhou and Tongzhou.
The next step is to enter Chang'an City.
This chapter has been completed!