The fire burned until noon the next day before it was finally extinguished. At this time, it started to rain moderately, which extinguished the embers. Jin soldiers began to enter the palace to clean up the debris. The palace had been burned to a white ground, with only some smoke left.
The black ruins were filled with charred corpses everywhere. Their identities could not be identified, and neither men nor women could be identified. The soldiers put the corpses into bags and transported them directly to the outside of the city for deep burial.
Li Wujun's body was accidentally found, but instead of being burned to death, he was strangled with ribbons by dozens of maids.
When the fire engulfed the harem, Li Wujun took dozens of his wives and concubines and fled to the jade pavilion in the dragon pond in the back garden, but the place was already crowded with nearly a hundred maids and eunuchs who had fled first.
Li Wujun raised his sword and forced them to leave, but no one was willing to leave. Li Wujun was furious and swung his sword to kill more than a dozen people. Finally, the maids were angered. The crowd swarmed him, pushed him down, and strangled Li Wujun alive with a ribbon.
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Nearly two hundred maids, eunuchs and Li Wujun's wives and concubines were escorted out. They were in shock and shivering in the rain. Xu Yun couldn't bear it and ordered the soldiers to say: "Give them each a blanket."
The soldiers distributed blankets to them and took them elsewhere to rest. At this time, an old eunuch was led over by the soldiers.
The soldier reported: "General, this is the manager of the palace. Does he know where Li Wujun's treasure house is?"
Xu Yun was overjoyed. This was what he was eager to find. Li Wujun inherited a large amount of wealth that Li Baochen looted from Chang'an. It is said that he built a large warehouse covering an area of five acres with bluestone in the palace, but the entire palace was burned to the ground.
, but didn’t see where the so-called bluestone warehouse is?
"Where is his treasure house?" Xu Yun asked urgently.
The old eunuch said tremblingly: "Report to the general, his treasure house is underground, and the entrance is in his inner study."
Xu Yun immediately ordered: "Take him to search!"
A group of soldiers led the old eunuch to the palace of Prince Zhao. At this time, Huo Weiran came to meet Xu Yun under the leadership of Liu Kun. Liu Kun had promptly informed Chang'an about Li Wujun's secret smuggling of iron fire thunder.
However, he was praised by Guo Song and rewarded for his merits after conquering Xindu City. He was appointed as the magistrate of Xindu County, and was promoted from a civil servant to a seventh-grade magistrate.
But Liu Kun's qualifications are still a little junior. If he wants to stabilize Jizhou, he must rely on the Huo family of Jizhou County. Huo Weiran is now the governor of Jizhou. However, it is precisely because of Huo Weiran's choice that the Huo family has lost the opportunity to rise.
, can only rely on their reputation in Jizhou to barely maintain their current status.
Xu Yun comforted Huo Weiran with a few words and said with a smile: "It is not my order to let Huo Shijun continue to serve as the governor of Jizhou, and I have no right to make such an arrangement. This is the order of His Highness the King of Jin. He hopes that Huo Shijun
We can stabilize the situation in Jizhou as soon as possible and restore the prosperity of Xindu."
Huo Weiran was moved in his heart and said quickly: "Thank you to His Highness the King of Jin for your trust, and also to General Xu for restraining the army. It did not cause too much damage to Xindu City, nor did it cause loss of life. I will pacify the people as soon as possible. In addition, I
There is one more request that I hope General Xu can agree to."
Xu Yun smiled lightly and said: "Huo Shijun, please tell me. As long as the request is not excessive, I can consider it."
"Li Wujun is dead, and the soldiers who resisted have been wiped out. There are still 16,700 soldiers who have laid down their weapons when the general entered the city. I beg General Xu to let them go."
Xu Yun nodded, "His Royal Highness the King of Jin often said that Hebei has been destroyed for a long time and needs recuperation and a large population. Therefore, we try to be tolerant when dealing with the Hebei army. As long as it is not a heinous crime, it is just a stubborn resistance, as long as it is willing to put down its weapons.
If you surrender, we will give you amnesty, so Huo Shijun doesn't have to worry."
Huo Weiran said with great joy: "Thank you, General Xu, for your tolerance!"
Huo Weiran and Liu Kun left, and Xu Yun urged his horse to come to the palace. At this time, the entrance to the study had been opened. It was a heavy iron plate. After opening it, there was a row of steps inside. The soldiers began to move out.
The items to be transported are all heavy wooden boxes.
"How is the situation inside?" Xu Yun asked.
A soldier said loudly: "General, it's very big and dry inside, at least two or three acres. It's made of large bluestones and filled with wooden boxes. I don't know how many boxes there are."
Only then did Xu Yun realize that the large bluestone warehouse in Prince Zhao's palace was built underground. He had misunderstood it. He immediately ordered: "Empty everything inside!"
It took more than a thousand soldiers an hour to move all the boxes in the warehouse and pile them in the open space. It looked huge, with as many as two to three thousand boxes. Each box had a big lock, but no one knew the key.
Where?
Xu Yun nodded secretly, this should be what His Highness the King of Jin wanted them to find, the old man in Chengde Fan Town.
Xu Yun immediately ordered several civilian and military personnel to number and register these boxes, and then transport them to the military camp in large trucks.
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Although Xindu City was captured, Guo Song's real target was Youzhou City. Since the late Tianbao period, the imperial court had lost control of the Youyan area. It has always been the home of Anlu Mountain. Since the outbreak of the Anshi Rebellion, Youyan
The region became a completely independent kingdom, and the imperial court could not get involved.
Youyan area generally refers to the vast area north of Juma River and south of Yanshan Mountain, including Youzhou, Yizhou, Tanzhou, Jizhou, Pingzhou and Guizhou. It is a strategic highland in Hebei and is often called Tiqiuzhi.
The momentum, that is to say, is like the collar of a fur coat. Carrying it can hold the entire Hebei and Central Plains. From here, the iron cavalry can sweep across the North China Plain.
The reason why the Northern Song Dynasty has always been strategically passive is that the Liao Kingdom occupied the Youyan region, the strategic location of the Youyan region, and the large amount of advanced technology brought by the Han people in Youyan.
The army of Guo and Song Dynasty pursued the 10,000 enemy troops at Feihukou and killed nearly half of them. Thousands of remaining soldiers fled back to Youzhou. The army immediately occupied Yizhou and joined the 15,000 Jin army led by Zhang Yun at Feihuxing.
The Song army increased to 65,000, but to Guo Song's surprise, the Yizhou military warehouse was actually an empty warehouse with no food or grass.
This frustrated Guo Song's plan to supply supplies in Yizhou, and he could only go to Youzhou to supply supplies.
Two days later, the army entered Youzhou.
That afternoon, the army arrived at Fanyang County. Fanyang County is a major grain-producing area in Youzhou. From previous information about Youzhou, we learned that there was an army reserve granary in Fanyang County, which contained tens of thousands of stones of grain and a large amount of fodder.
Fanyang County Magistrate Jiang Wenhui led the county magistrate, county lieutenants, chief registrar and other officials out of the city to surrender. When they heard that the King of Jin was personally leading the army, they couldn't help but become even more frightened. Under the guidance of the soldiers, they tremblingly came to the front of Guo Song's war horses. Everyone knelt down and saluted.
, "Fanyang County Magistrate Jiang Wenhui led the county assistant to see His Highness the King of Jin."
"Magistrate Jiang, please stand up, all officials, please stand up. The Jin army is marching all the way eastward and will not harm the people's property. Don't worry!"
"Thank you for your kindness, Your Highness!"
"Let me ask you, how much grain and grass is left in Fan Yang's warehouse?"
Jiang Wenhui thought for a while and said: "There are two warehouses in Fanyang County, one is the county warehouse and the other is the military warehouse. There are 8,000 dan of grain in the county warehouse, but there are no other items. The money was also taken away by Zhu Tao. The military warehouse
There is a lot of grain and grass inside, and it was originally a transit warehouse to Yizhou. According to what I know, there are about 60,000 shi of grain, 10,000 shi of black beans, 100,000 dans of fodder, 10,000 sheep, and thousands of tents.
I'm preparing to send him to Yizhou in the next few days."
Guo Song was overjoyed. The dry food they carried could only last for one day, and there was no fodder. The war horses could only eat the green grass on the roadside. They finally got supplies in Fanyang County.
He immediately ordered his soldiers to go into the city, fetch tents from the military warehouse, and camp on the spot outside the city to rest.
The soldiers quickly set up the camp, then buried pots to cook, killed sheep and roasted meat, and had a hearty meal.
As night fell, an old man rode a donkey and brought several followers to the Guo Song camp.
"stop!"
There were still hundreds of steps away from the main camp, when several patrol soldiers came up to meet them.
The old man laughed and said: "I, Lu Jingliang, the head of the Lu family in Youzhou, came from Jixian. Who is your coach?"
The patrol soldiers also knew the reputation of the Lu family, and the leading brigade commander quickly said: "The commander is none other than His Highness the King of Jin himself!"
Lu Jingliang was overjoyed. He didn't expect that it would be Guo Song himself. He quickly said: "Please inform me that I will make a special trip to visit him!"
"Please come with us, Master Lu!"
The patrol led Lu Jingliang and his entourage to the camp. The camp had no fence and only dug a deep trench. Lu Jingliang's entourage was waiting outside the camp. Lu Jingliang followed the soldiers into the camp.