On November 1st, after more than a month of preparation, Chen Xun led a fleet of 300 large and small ships to officially set off from Guangzhou Bay and began to head north along the East China Sea.

The fleet stopped at Penghu Island for a while, replenished some supplies and tamsui before continuing north.

Along the way, you can see ships heading south from time to time, mostly Han people from Hebei heading south to take refuge.

Among these northern Han people, some are rich and some are poor.

The wealthy ones take their own sea boats or charter a boat to take refuge in the south.

The poor man lost all his money and exchanged for a ticket for a boat ticket, or sold himself directly to the owner.

These scattered ships unconsciously avoided when they encountered a huge fleet led by Chen Xun.

Chen Xun did not cause any trouble. Apart from stopping several ships and asking about the situation north of the Huai River, he did not disturb these fleeing people.

According to the descriptions of the Han people in the north, the disasters caused to the Sishui and downstream of the Huai River after the Yellow River were diverted were even more serious than Chen Xun imagined.

The people in these places did not expect that the Yellow River, which originally entered the Bohai Bay to the north, would directly divert to the south during the dry winter period.

Too many people died.

After the flood was introduced into Sishui by the ancient Bian Canal, there were corpses everywhere on both sides of the Bian Canal.

The Sishui River and Huai River afterwards could not accommodate all the Yellow River water, and the people on both sides were even more miserable.

After more than half a month of sailing, the fleet finally arrived at the original Huai River on November 20, and was now at the mouth of the Yellow River.

Chen Xun stood at the bow of the boat and watched the turbid Yellow River water flow into the blue Yellow Sea.

In this era, there was no name for the Yellow Sea. Except for the Bohai Bay, the seas east of the mainland were all called the East China Sea, and even the Sea of ​​Japan to the north belonged to the East China Sea.

The Pacific Ocean in later generations was called the Eastern Ocean Sea.

"The Yellow River is worthy of being a land-making machine. It took only how long it took to change the route to change the terrain of the Huai River." Chen Xun sighed as the estuary of the sea-entrance estuary was obviously a newly alluvial land.

You should know that Lianyungang City, slightly to the north, was just an island in this era. In the next few hundred years, the Yellow River directly filled the strait between the mainland and the island.

"The Yellow River does have the ability to change the world." Ke Lei agreed with Chen Xun's words very much.

"Let's enter the river, we have to reach Xuzhou as soon as possible. I don't know if Kaifeng City has been captured by the Jin army now. We shouldn't have much time left." Chen Xun did not continue to sigh and ordered directly.

"Receive the order!" Ke Lei went down directly to command the huge fleet to enter the Yellow River in sequence.

I had received information on the road before that the two Jin armies of the East and West had arrived outside Kaifeng City in early November.

"Notify the soldiers to change into thick clothes and stop catching a cold."

"yes!"

As the leap month begins, the land of Huaibei is already very cold.

...

Kaifeng, November 22nd.

The Minister of War of the Song Dynasty, the Right Prime Minister of the Shang Dynasty, and the Co-Governor of the Privy Council, Sun Bo visited a Guo Jing in the Guards with just one line of "Guo Jing, Yang Shi, Liu Wuji" and entrusted him with important military responsibilities.

Guo Jing claimed that he could use the Six Jia method, and he could repel the Jin soldiers with just 7,777 people, and captured the two main generals of the Jin army alive.

The Song Ting had no idea what ecstasy drug was poured into, but he believed the fraud and accepted it. For a moment, Guo Jing's military rights in Kaifeng City were even greater than Zhang Shuye, the chief general of the Kaifeng defenders, who was the 30,000 imperial guards.

On this day, the Jin army attacked Tongjin Gate again and Xuanhua Gate. Zhang Shuye sent the imperial guards out of the city to fight. He was defeated and could only withdraw the imperial guards who had left the city to fight back to the city and defend the city.

Kaifeng's walls are high and the city is strong, and the city guarding equipment is complete. Zhang Shuye is also a famous general. He had already killed the Jin general and Jinhuan in the previous battle to defend the city. The Jin army had no choice but to deal with the Song army in a short time.

"Zhang Xianggong, order all the defenders to go down the city and see how my Liujia soldiers defeat the Jin army." Seeing that Uncle Zhang was not effective in fighting at night, Guo Jing directly started to intervene in command.

These armored soldiers were recruited by Guo Jing according to the eight characters. As long as the eight characters match the Liujia, they can become Liujia soldiers.

In his heart, Zhang Shuye completely didn't believe that these Liujia soldiers who could do nothing could defeat the Jin army. However, the officials trusted Guo Jing and gave him the right to command with full authority. Even if he is a bachelor of the Zizheng Hall and signed a letter to the Privy Council, he could only follow orders.

All the imperial guards guarding the city were withdrawn, and the closed Xuanhua Gate was opened from the inside.

The Jin army, who had just been preparing to attack the city outside the city, looked at the Xuanhua Gate that suddenly opened, and was a little confused about what the plan was.

A plan to empty city? Please get into the trap?

Thousands of Song troops wearing golden armor (inlaid with gold foil) walked out of the city. From a distance, the entire army shone under the sunlight and was extremely majestic.

However, seeing that the army was not in a uniform formation, the Jin army was not timid and sent elite troops to fight.

As a result, the Song army of Liujia was not even a paper-paste tiger, and was directly beaten by the Jin army and was about to collapse.

"Zhang Xiang, wait until I go down and make a move, I will be able to capture the Jin army's chief general alive soon." Zhang Shuye, who was watching the battle on the city gate tower, was stunned in shock.

Although I knew in my mind that this battle might be defeated, I didn’t expect it to be defeated so quickly.

Before Zhang Shuye responded to Guo Jing's greeting, he saw him hurry down from the city tower.

After a while, nothing had happened under the city. The Jin army had already begun to attack the city. Only then did Zhang Shuye realize that Guo Jing was a complete liar!

Zhang Shuye quickly organized the imperial guards to fight to the death.

However, the Jin army had already entered the city and was too late to do anything. In the end, they could only organize the remaining imperial guards to retreat to the inner city of Kaifeng and hand over the outer city to the Jin army.

...

On November 26, the Chen family's fleet arrived in Pengcheng, Xuzhou (with Guo County).

This will be the base where Chen Xun came to the North this time.

The Chen family army began to unload people and goods on the river port outside Xuzhou City.

As soon as Chen Xun got off the boat, he saw Xuzhou's intelligence personnel running towards him quickly.

"Governor, latest information."

Another red bamboo tube.

Chen Xun felt something bad in his heart, it shouldn't be so fast.

Taiyuan City was alone and had no help, and had been defended for nearly a year. As the capital of the Song Dynasty, Kaifeng was not bad, so it should be able to defend until after the New Year.

Open the bamboo tube, remove the information from it, and browse it quickly.

Sure enough, good things are not effective, bad things are coming to whatever you want.

"Can people really be so stupid?" Chen Xun let out a cry of grief from his heart, and it was worth it to arrive for the Kaifeng defenders and the Kaifeng people.

"Governor, is it serious?" Sun Zheng also saw the bright red bamboo tube in Chen Xun's hand and hurried over to ask.
Chapter completed!