Seeing Yu Jie's hesitation, a village elder sent all the gold, silver, jewelry, fine wine, and beauties given by Guo Xiatu to Yu Jie.
A village elder said to Yu Jie: "General, don't worry. General Guo's sincerity is beyond doubt. I can guarantee this with my head."
Yu Jie looked around in front of several village elders, and then said with a smile: "This is natural. General Guo can't help himself. This is also human nature. How can I not believe it? Okay, please go back and tell General Guo."
, just say that I accept his surrender, and as long as he serves our Song Dynasty, his official position will remain unchanged, and I can guarantee this."
The old man was so excited that he immediately raised his hand to thank him, and finally left with satisfaction.
The next day, the Song Army's camp suddenly became restless, and they immediately began to prepare to break camp and withdraw.
Seeing this scene, Guo Xiadou was overjoyed. He smiled and said: "General Song fell into my trap and is already dead. All generals, please obey my order and follow me to kill him."
Guo Xia Tou gave an order and the 20,000 golden soldiers all came out of the city and killed the Song army who was preparing to break camp;
Guo Xiazou was full of confidence. He laughed while riding on horseback and said: "Song people who are as stupid as pigs actually thought that they were going to surrender. You deserve to be killed at my hands."
However, before the Jin soldiers entered the Song army's camp, they saw the Song troops who had just been hurriedly preparing to withdraw. At this time, they all resumed their formation, holding long spears, waiting for the arrival of the Jin soldiers in order and solemnity.
Guo Xiabao was shocked, and then Yu Jie appeared again. He was even more surprised and said in disbelief: "You are still alive?"
Yu Jie smiled slightly and said: "Guo Xiadou, you think that I can't understand your tricks. Your surrender is a lie. You want me to be careless, take your gold, silver and jewelry, drink your wine, and sleep with you."
Beauty, will this officer and his trusted generals be poisoned to death by your poisonous wine? You underestimate me too much."
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It turned out that Guo Xiatu sent the village elder to say surrender. He also knew that Yu Jie would not be fooled so easily, so he deliberately said that he would cooperate with the opening of the city gate in three days. The purpose was to make Yu Jie think that he was stalling for time to wait for reinforcements.
The few jars of fine wine given out as gifts were highly poisoned. He knew that as long as Yu Jie's attention was diverted, Yu Jie would not care about these gifts.
After Yu Jie accepted the gift, he would celebrate. By then, these jars of wine would be able to poison at least half of the senior generals. The Song army would definitely withdraw, and then his chance would come.
But he didn't expect that Yu Jie was a civil servant. Civil servants always like to read history books, and they have read a lot about these cunning methods. Moreover, Yu Jie is a cautious character, how could he be careless about something like wine?
So he ordered someone to test it and found out that the wine was poisonous. Yu Jie guessed what Kuo Toad was planning, and then he used his plan to lure the snake out of its hole today.
Guo Xiazou was filled with regret and wanted to leave, but how could Yu Jie give him a chance? Yu Jie waved his hand and said, "Kill."
At the foot of Xuzhou City, Zhao Fan was watching the Song Army attack the city. Seeing that the Song Army was about to capture the city, Zhao Fan ordered the troops to retreat. Immediately, the Song Army, which had been attacking so fast just now, retreated like a tide.
His younger brother Zhao Kui was puzzled, so he came to Zhao Fan and asked: "General, we were almost able to capture Xuzhou just now, why did you pay for it and withdraw your troops?"
Zhao Fan smiled slightly and said: "Tanma came to report that Wanyan Chenglin was ordered to rescue Xuzhou. If Xuzhou is captured and he doesn't come, won't I have to guard against him every day?"
Zhao Kui understood Zhao Fan's plan, which turned out to be that he wanted to catch all Wanyan Chenglin in one fell swoop.
However, it is necessary to catch them all in one sweep, but not in Xuzhou, but in an ambush halfway.
Zhao Fan said to Zhao Kui: "Immediately lead 30,000 troops to ambush in the mountains and forests north of Xuzhou City. When Wanyan Chenglin shows up, you can kill him."
"Yes, General."
Zhao Kui clasped his fists and followed the order.
Then Zhao Fan ordered his people to send out ten thousand troops to attack the city every two hours, but it didn't have to be successful, it only needed to cause tension.
Facing the Song army's continuous attacks on the city, Xuzhou garrison Wanyan Zhongjun was in a hurry. He kept ordering people to urge Wanyan Chenglin to come quickly. If he didn't come, he wouldn't be able to withstand it anymore.
Facing waves of calls for help, Wanyan Chenglin was not anxious at all. He was still walking slowly on the road.
In such a situation, Wanyan Chenglin was not in a hurry. His confidant general Zhang Zhi was puzzled and asked: "General, Xuzhou is in danger, why don't you hurry up and march slowly here?"
Wanyan Chenglin looked confident and said: "The Song army has several times more troops than us. If we want to defeat the Song army, we must force it to divide its troops. Only then will we have a chance. Xuzhou is a big city. As long as the Song army captures Xuzhou, we will be able to defeat it."
We have to station troops to stay behind, and when the Song army divides its troops and advances, we can engage him again and get twice the result with half the effort."
Zhang Zhi understood Wanyan Chenglin's intention, but he was still worried: "But once Xuzhou falls, won't the morale of our army be hit? And if the fall of Xuzhou is due to untimely rescue, won't the general be blamed by the court?"
Wanyan Chenglin didn't take it seriously and said: "It doesn't matter, the morale of the army must be carried by lives. Without lives, what's the use of strong morale? As for the fall of Xuzhou, hum, as long as we can defeat the Song army, we will lose ten
Xuzhou, the court does not dare to blame me. But if we lose, a eunuch can kill me."
Wanyan Chenglin was walking slowly like this. Seeing that the Song army had not captured Xuzhou for a long time, things were very abnormal. So when Xuzhou was still two days away, Wanyan Chenglin ordered to stay in place and patiently wait for the news of the fall of Xuzhou.
Soon, the Song Army's scouts also found out the news that Wanyan Chenglin was not moving forward, and then came to report to Zhao Fan non-stop.
Zhao Fan looked at the sand table carefully, deducing various possibilities for Wanyan Chenglin, and finally concluded that Wanyan Chenglin planned to sacrifice Xuzhou in exchange for the opportunity to divide his army and advance.
Facing Wanyan Chenglin's tactics of killing a thousand enemies and damaging himself a thousand and eighty-eight, Zhao Fan also had a headache.
In the end, Zhao Fan had no choice but to order all his troops to attack the city and capture Xuzhou.
Xuzhou had long lost its troops and generals at this time, and the Song army had been holding on to this attitude. Now that the Song army was ruthless, they naturally had no power to resist. Soon, Xuzhou was captured.
Zhao Fan led his army into Xuzhou, and then ordered people to take all the officials of Xuzhou in front of the people, explain their sins bitterly, and hand over all the officials to the people for punishment.
Based on the current moral character of the Jin Kingdom's officialdom, it can be said that a hundred officials can kill ninety-five with their eyes closed, and no more than two will be killed by mistake.
These officials were already oppressing the local people. Seeing that the Northern Expedition of the Song Dynasty was going strong and the Jin Kingdom's demise was basically certain, the people now saw that the people who usually oppressed them were right in front of them, so they couldn't control them so much and started punching the officials one after another.