Daming Mansion, Zhao Gou's study room.

"Official family, Prince Chen has entered the city." Wang Boyan whispered to Zhao Gou.

"Finally..." Zhao Gou put down the brush in his hand, his expression was very contradictory.

"This Chen Thief is really not a thing." Huang Qianshan cursed, wondering whether Zhao Gou could make him feel better by doing this.

"Mr. Huang said this. For us, Chen thief did not support Prince Chen in Kaifeng, but sent them over, which saved us a lot of trouble." Zong Ze retorted that during this period of time, what he disliked the most was that Wang and Huang were not right or wrong, and they only flattered the appearance of the charming ministers of the official family.

Zhao Gou looked at Zong Ze with a little displeasure. Although he knew that Zong Ze was right, he felt very unhappy about him speaking on the side of Chen Zhei.

In Zhao Gou's opinion, since Chen Thief is a rebel, he should rebel thoroughly and slaughter the princes and grandchildren of Kaifeng.

"The queen is back, too?" Zhao Gou asked.

"I'm back, official, are you going to greet me?" Wang Boyan asked.

This question made Zhao Gou even more contradictory.

Empress Xing Bingyi, from Kaifeng, Henan Province, was born in an ordinary family of officials. Her father Xing Yu was only a seventh-rank official in the Northern Song Dynasty and his family was not wealthy.

After Xing Bingyi grew up, she had a clear water lotus appearance, which made her a famous beauty at that time.

In an accidental opportunity, Zhao Gou met Xing Bingyi, who had a beautiful and charming appearance, and was deeply attracted by her temperament and appearance.

After learning about Xing Bingyi's family background, Zhao Gou married Xing Bingyi with a large sum of money and named him the wife of Jiaguo.

Their married life is very harmonious and they are a good match. They are a few loving couples in the royal family.

Before the Jin people attacked Kaifeng, Zhao Gou loved this young, beautiful, gentle and virtuous concubine very much. When he escaped from Feng, he walked in a hurry and ran away without entering the city, causing Xing Bingyi to fall into the city.

Up to now, Zhao Gou still has a deep relationship with her for such a long time, otherwise he would not have been named the queen.

But after this incident, Zhao Gou always felt a little confused.

Kaifeng was first occupied by the Jin people, and then by the Chen thief. Who knows how many things happened in the middle?

"The empress was pregnant last year and is almost born. It's time to prepare for it." Zong Ze reminded.

This is a reminder to Zhao Gou that your wife was pregnant with your child before the incident. So many things happened and the child was still saved. So, no matter whether anything happened during this period, there is no need to care.

"You are right. Please follow me to the palace gate to welcome the queen." Zhao Gou did not say to welcome the prince. It seemed that he did not intend to admit the prince conferred by the former official family.

When they arrived at the palace gate and waited for a while, Zhao Chen and his group came over in a ox cart. There were a large number of eunuchs, palace maids and officials behind the ox cart.

…

Sun Fu walked next to Zhao Chen's ox cart, looked at the civil servants in front of the palace gate, and saw that all the pits were occupied when looking at their official uniforms.

If you come here, if you want to make a comeback, you must first drive down the civil servants in your position.

This is too difficult, you have to find another way.

"I have met the official family." Sun Fu greeted in his heart. He did not call Zhao Gou the King of Kang in a straightforward way, but chose to compromise first.

According to the law, the emperor passed away and the prince succeeded to the throne.

When Zhao Huan was alive, he had already made Zhao Chen a clear decision, so Zhao Chen had the only inheritance right of the Great Song Dynasty.

Zhao Gou is now supported by his subordinates as emperor. Strictly speaking, it is usurping the throne of his nephew Zhao Chen.

Sun Fu could call him King Kang, and he was determined by the orthodox nature of the inheritance right, but he was not a brave person at all. He knew better that Daming Mansion was now Zhao Gou's territory, so he decided on a general development strategy in an instant.

First, I will save my life, and then wait for an opportunity to play Zhao Chen's card.

...

On May 22, Chen Xun officially led the Xuzhou Army to advance eastward.

The entire eastward route revolves around the Yellow River. Even when the army marched, it was divided into two halves on the north and south sides of the Yellow River.

Most of the supplies were loaded on ships and followed the army.

After coming out of Dongshuimen, the army advanced along the Yellow River fork. Chen Xun led two soldiers to walk on the south side of Henan, and Gan Ping (promoted to the commander of the Sixth Army of the Army and the rank of major general) led two soldiers to walk on the north side of Hebei.

The Yellow River Fork occupies the Bian River channel. The first city I encountered along the river channel was Chenliu. This city had long been occupied by Sun Zheng's Kaifeng Army, and the Xuzhou Army continued to move forward without stopping.

The same goes for Yongqiu in front of him, and he also bypassed.

Due to the lack of supply and supplies, the soldiers of the group army marched forty to fifty miles a day. On May 24th, they arrived in Xiangyi, which is now occupied by the Song army.

At the same time, the Ganping army on the north bank also marched to Kaocheng, which was also occupied by the Song army.

"When the Jin army was raging, they didn't see any resistance. Now we are here, we have become 'chaste and brutally savage women'." Chen Zhuang looked at the defenders on the walls of Xiangyi and murmured in a low voice.

"Maybe I think we are not as cruel as the Jin people." Chen Xun replied and began to arrange a siege.

Instead of choosing to directly attack the city with the advantage of large numbers of people, we have people unloaded five artillery pieces from the ship.

After lunch, all the siege preparations were just completed.

Four towers were set up one hundred steps away from the city wall. The tower was six feet taller than the city wall, and musketeers were placed on it.

Behind the clearance between the tower are five cannons, with the muzzles facing the city gate.

Boom! With the roar of artillery, the siege officially started, and the shells hit the city gate tower, causing a small-scale collapse.

After five consecutive rounds, the city gate tower was completely collapsed and the city gate was also blasted. You can see from the hole that the Song army inside was blocking the door with earth bags.

"Roar on the car!" The two rushers lined up front and back and headed towards the city gate.

The musketeers on the tower began to shoot, condescendingly clearing the defenders on the front wall.

The improved Guangzhou-made flintlock rifle has reached 120 steps in the distance to kill armorless targets. Now the enemy and us are 100 steps apart. Some Song army officers wearing light armor cannot bear it. As long as they are shot, they will be injured and fall to the ground immediately.

Under the cover of cannons and muskets, the rushing car arrived safely downstairs at the city gate. At this time, there were no living Song troops on the city gate.

The blasting soldiers wearing heavy armor buried the explosives under the city gate and ignited the fuse.

Boom, the city gate is open!

The chariot continued to advance and entered the city. Sure enough, there were Song troops waiting inside the city gate. Arrows and crossbows immediately shot in densely.
Chapter completed!