Gate, go to Nanxun Gate.

In the past few months, he had been responsible for the construction of Kaifeng New City. Fengyi Gate was the south gate of his newly built inner city wall, while Nanxun Gate was the south gate of the outer city wall. There were three miles between the two gates.

Although Kaifeng City under the rule of the Jin Dynasty has a household registration of more than one million, it cannot be compared with Bianliang, the capital of the Song Dynasty at its peak. Therefore, there are many open spaces in the outer city and the population is quite withered.

In the past year, a large number of Jurchens gathered southward in Kaifeng and unceremoniously occupied many palaces and temples as their temporary residence. As a result, when Hou Zhi was building the city wall, he demolished all these palaces and temples.

It is planned to use these construction materials to build the oars on the outer city wall.

Because the Ding Navy suddenly attacked, this huge project could not continue. Countless wood, bamboo, reed mats, ropes, paint and other materials were piled on both sides of the road at this moment, like a mess of ruins stretching into one another.

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This situation is very ugly, and the face of the Jin Kingdom is completely lost. After a while, the Song people will come in and they will laugh.

Hou Zhi walked along these supplies, occasionally stopping to take a look before continuing forward. Beside him and behind him, subordinates with solemn faces appeared from time to time, whispering a few words to him, giving him a deep salute, and then hurriedly retreated.

It took more than two moments for him to stand on the inside of Nanxun Gate.

The city gate is quite tall, but the city wall left by the Song people is extremely dilapidated. Through the city gate, he can hear people outside the city shouting, that is, the Song army has arrived as promised and is about to take over Kaifeng.

"Open the door."

Hou Zhi ordered in a deep voice and immediately knelt down in the middle of the road. After the officials in charge of opening the city gate creaked open, they all ran back and knelt down behind him.

As the city gate opened, the noisy words of the Song army poured in. Because of the different accents, Hou Zhi couldn't understand it. He could only vaguely make out that someone seemed to be talking happily about entering the city to plunder; there were also officers shouting.

, saying that they must wait for Grandpa Zhao to give the order; others cried and said that the blood of the country's enemies and the family's hatred had been washed away.

Then, there was the sound of heavy footsteps.

But Hou Zhi did not look at the person who came, he just leaned down and shouted with all his strength: "You Cheng, the minister of the lower country, lead the three ministers Hou Zhi to greet the heavenly soldiers of the upper country!"

When he shouted, the originally noisy crowd suddenly fell silent. In the doorway directly in front of him, many people gasped and sighed with satisfaction, as if a wind had suddenly blown by.

At this time, more than two miles away from Nanxun Gate, Li Ting rode in the lead. Thousands of people behind him formed a long queue and rushed around the city.

In the long queue, everyone was running or urging their horses. They came all the way, and the smoke was billowing. The officers on horseback were shouting back and forth along the edge of the road, boosting morale and adjusting the queue.

This force was Li Ting's headquarters. After defeating Wanyan Heda, they continued southward, destroying the Kaifeng imperial court's defense lines in the north like a torrent, and finally successfully crossed the river and headed south, strangling the Kaifeng imperial court.

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At this time, all the soldiers knew that their commander-in-chief had received an order from Duke Zhou to snatch Kaifeng from the Song Dynasty. This was no ordinary honor! The soldiers were all excited and felt that the fatigue of long-distance marches and battles had been swept away.

"Get out of the way! Get out of the way! Don't block Grandpa Li's way!"

Seeing that the Nanxun Gate was wide open in front, and many Song soldiers were coming from the south road, and were about to squeeze in and block the city gate, Li Ting whipped his horse hard on the buttocks.

The war horse was in pain, and after bleating a few times, it sped up.
Chapter completed!