Even the soldiers in the rear of the imperial camp would not say anything about this person at this time. This was different from Yang Zheng.
But why wasn't this man executed immediately before?
It was very simple. Wu Da was waiting for Emperor Zhao's scolding... If Emperor Zhao didn't cross the river, he would kill without hesitation. But just when he caught the man and was about to chop him off, Emperor Zhao crossed the river. And since Emperor Zhao crossed the river, in order to respect Emperor Zhao's authority on the front line, this commander-in-chief of the imperial camp's rear army and military governor waited there until he received a clear order. Only then did he chop off the commander's head and send it to the emperor.
This was Wu Jie's unique little thought, he always wanted to be smooth on all sides. When he was in Guanxi before, he had made peace with everyone in Guanxi.
I don't know if it was because Qu Duan's experience in Guanxi when he was resented by the people left him with a psychological trauma, so he followed Emperor Zhao's example and said, "Every time you oppose Cao, things will go wrong."
Without further ado, Guo Zhen's head arrived and Zhao Jiu ordered it to be sent to the emperor, which made him feel a little better.
But soon, the official became uneasy again, because as soon as he set out, a winter rain came unexpectedly, causing the temperature to drop again. Although it was far from freezing point, it still cast a shadow on the Northern Expedition.
After all, if a cold winter comes and even the Yellow River freezes over, there will be severe logistical pressure as hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians will need winter clothing and the stationing of troops will consume a lot of fuel. Another reason is that the Imperial Camp Navy will lose its advantage in controlling the Yellow River.
In other words, sufficient progress must be made to leave a strategic buffer for winter operations, and the logistical foundation needs to be further consolidated... There are supplies in the rear, but before the Yellow River freezes, the logistical embolism effect of the Shanzhou River will only become greater and greater.
On the contrary, things became a little more convenient after the Yellow River froze, but the logistical needs would only be greater at that time.
However, before that, a more obvious effect caused by the temperature drop was that Prime Minister Lu Yihao who was accompanying the army caught a cold, and several elderly people among the top 100 people in the Southeast Public Pavilion who were traveling with them also fell ill.
This frightened Emperor Zhao so much that he asked Li Qiong, Wang De and others to continue heading north, while he personally arranged for Prime Minister Lu to move to Wenxi.
Then, Prime Minister Lu took the initiative to persuade Emperor Zhao not to worry about himself and to go north as soon as possible to join the generals. He caught a cold and would go north to join them as soon as he got better... These implications were inevitable.
However, not to mention that Emperor Zhao had been feeling a little flustered and confused since he crossed the river, let's just say that on the day after the winter rain that lasted only one day ended, outside Hedong City, the only place in the entire Hezhong area where fierce fighting was still going on, Wang Sheng, the deputy commander of the left army of the imperial camp and nicknamed Black Dragon, also delivered Emperor Zhao's manifesto to the city, and at the same time, following the example of Anyi City, issued an ultimatum to the city.
The so-called deadline is tomorrow noon. If you surrender, all the grassroots officers and soldiers in the city, including the Mouke, will be pardoned, regardless of whether they are Jurchen, Khitan, Xi, Bohai, or Han, and only the main culprit will be executed.
If they cannot surrender, once the city is captured, those who resist will be killed without mercy.
By the way, Wang Sheng's move was different from what Zhao Jiu did in Anyi before. He had been besieging the city for nearly a month, and the siege positions had been polished almost completely. Although the artillery carts were a little insufficient, they had been targeting the northwest corner of the city and smashing it for two or three days... That's right, they started hastily smashing the city from the day Emperor Zhao crossed the river, because Wang Sheng was not stupid, they were all experienced soldiers, so who didn't know who?
Li Qiong, a guy from Hebei, is fine, but what if Wang De, Zhang Jing and others instigate Emperor Zhao to come to Hedong City to grab the credit?
This Hedong City is the capital of Hezhong Prefecture. There is also a Hezhong garrison commander named Wen Dun Sizhong, six Meng'an, and dozens of Mouke... These are all military achievements!
Military merit, for Wang Sheng in this Northern Expedition, is more than just real money. Wang Sheng is already a deputy governor, and according to common sense, will Han Shizhong and Zhang Jun, the generals above him, still have room to lead troops after this battle?
Therefore, Wang Sheng really wanted to make great achievements, and Wang De, who was slightly inferior to other generals, and senior officials such as Zhang Jing and Qiao Zhongfu also had this intention.
It was precisely because of this that Wang Sheng could not wait even though the artillery positions at the time were not large enough.
But now, seeing that Emperor Zhao was taking Wang De and his men away, Wang Sheng had another idea - this achievement would be real only if he demonstrated it in front of Emperor Zhao!
After the emperor leaves, he will no longer care about this place. Even if they reach Tieling Pass and Linfen wins and moves forward again, the credit will not be in the emperor's heart, right?
Therefore, once Zhao Jiu set off, Wang Sheng, with all kinds of complicated thoughts in mind, finally decided to launch a large-scale attack on the city, striving to capture Hedong City cleanly before the emperor left Hezhong. This time, he used courtesy before force and pretended to be a good man, mostly for Emperor Zhao to see - please see, I, Wang Sheng, am also a civilized man with the demeanor of a great general.
Of course, the nickname Black Dragon was meant to describe Vice Governor Wang's swift and resilient use of troops, but it also roughly reflected his usual character.
That's another matter.
In short, since Wang Sheng had made up his mind, after sending in this manifesto, he went to the Guanque Tower to reward the three armies, and gathered the officers, conferred official titles, made promises, reminisced about the past and established his authority...and the officers also roughly knew that Deputy Governor-General Wang wanted to get a chance to be a governor for fun, so of course they all cooperated with him.
Every one of them said that they would attack the city with all their might starting from tomorrow and make sure to capture Hedong City beautifully to win honor for Deputy Governor Wang in front of the emperor.
For a moment, everyone was very excited.
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