Qian Song

Chapter 148 Who Will The Heavens Forgive?

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Liu Yanqing and his party crossed the northern line of the river, and the remnants of the Song Army escaped all the way across Taihu Lake.

Then, the pedestrians argued over where they should go next.

Some people said that they would go to Jinling City and wait for help.

Some people said that they went south to join the Song Army on the Western Front.

It is also said that they should find a way to cross the river and return to Jiangbei Gongwei Tongguan.

Some people even suggested that everyone would fall into bandits, right?
During this process, Liu Yanqing never said a word.

Having fought such a big defeat, Liu Yanqing felt that not to mention ruining his official career, he might lose his wealth and life.

Liu Guangshi persuaded Liu Yanqing not to worry too much. It was Tong Guan who asked him to decide how to fight the battle according to the situation. Tong Guan's personal letter testified to this. Later, he felt that the time for a decisive battle was not ripe. Only then did he force him to fight a decisive battle when the conditions were not ripe. This was also testified by many documents and appeals from the Xuanfu Department. Besides, Liu Guangguo might have died in battle. Their Liu family is worthy of Zhao Song.

Hearing Liu Guangshi mention Liu Guangguo who was also trapped in the encirclement, Liu Yanqing burst into tears.

In the end, through discussion, Liu Yanqing and his group felt that it was impossible for the Huben Army not to take back Jinling City. Moreover, they would not be able to pass through the blockade of the Huben Navy Army when they went to Jinling City. They could only wait to be caught by the Huben Army. Fallen grass becomes bandit, they don't want their family anymore?
So it's better to go to the seed teacher.

But there is one thing, that is, Jinling City still has [-] troops left behind, and they have to bring them with them, so as to increase their strength somewhat.

However, someone else pointed out that the information about the Huben Army they now have is very critical, and this may be an opportunity for them to make a contribution to the crime.

Therefore, Liu Yanqing and his group finally decided to send Li Shiyan to transfer the left behind Guan Shigu and 3000 people led by Guan Shigu to go south to join the Song Army on the Western Front.

Niu Meng wanted to pick up his family members in Jinling City, so he followed Li Shiyan to Jinling City.

Unexpectedly, Li Shiyan and Niu Meng were arrested as soon as they entered Jinling City.

turn out to be--

There is a small school under Guan Shigu, named Zhou Tong, who is tall and burly, and has a dignified appearance.

Niu Meng's concubine Sai Furong came into contact with Zhou Tong by chance.

Sai Furong, who hates Niu Meng for beating her, has long held back her energy to put a green hat on Niu Meng, and seeing that Zhou Tong is good, she seduces Zhou Tong on her own initiative.

How can a woman, especially a beautiful woman, fail to seduce a man?What's more, who is Sai Furong, she is the master of ushering and sending, how can Zhou Tong be her opponent?

So, once they come and go, the good things for Sai Furong and Zhou Tong will be completed.

Ordinarily, the matter of the two playing casually will be over. Sai Furong is not a chaste woman, and she will not really pester Zhou Tong. After Zhou Tong puts on his pants, he can do whatever he wants, at most ten In January, Sai Furong helped him surprise Niu Meng.

But whoever thinks, it's unknown whether this Sai Furong is too attractive, or Zhou Tong is a natural lover, Zhou Tong actually wants to be with Sai Furong.

Sai Furong was also reluctant to part with Zhou Tong who was stronger than Niu Meng everywhere and cared about her.

So, Sai Furong told Zhou Tong that if the two of them wanted to be together, they would definitely not be able to go to Zhao Song. Knowing about the two of them suddenly, they must be killed, so if the two of them want to be together, they must find a way to join the Huben army.

Coincidentally, Zhou Tong happened to be the person who was in charge of the general and supervisor of the garrison of Jiangning Mansion who was detained by Niu Meng.

As soon as Sai Furong and Zhou Tong got together, Zhou Tong secretly let Sun Sandai and the others go.

From the perspective of Sai Furong and Zhou Tong, they just handed in the nomination certificate, and then went to the Huben Army.

Who would have thought that after Sun Sandai and the others were rescued, he would actually want to take the blame and make meritorious service.

With Zhou Tong's help, Sun San went down the city in a daze, and then ran more than 100 miles overnight to Zhenjiang City, where he met Zhao Han'er.

As soon as they met, Sun Sandai told Zhao Han'er that the large troops of the Song Army had gone south to fight the Great Governor, and now there were only [-] defenders led by Guan Shigu in Jinling City, which was very empty. The soldiers went to fight Jinling City.

Sun Sandai also told Zhao Han'er that as soon as the army from Zhao Han'er's side arrives, the other generals and supervisors of the Jiangning Mansion's garrison will go to rescue the Huben soldiers who were imprisoned by the Song army, and then they will Open the gate of Jinling City and let Zhao Han'er's army enter the city.

But Zhao Han'er's stupidity came up again, he felt that Sun Sandai might have betrayed, and he came to tell him these things in order to trick him out of the city, and then the Song army would come to attack his Zhenjiang city.

Mrs. Xie, who was hiding behind the screen, couldn't listen anymore, so she called Zhao Han'er over, and said to Zhao Han'er: "There are five generals around the governor who will never betray the governor. It's you, Li Gan, Kong Zhong, Zhang Gou and Sun Dai, if you don't have the governor, your five tigers are not as good as ordinary people, how can you be so beautiful? If Ruju can recognize your talents, who else can recognize them?"

After a pause, Mrs. Xie said again: "You and Sun Dai changed positions and thought about it, and you know how loyal Sun Dai is to the governor. I pledge my life as a guarantee. Sun Dai is definitely not someone who came to cheat the city, and the Song army has been gone for many days. Come to fight, it is in line with what Sun Dai said, so you just feel free to lead your troops to rescue Jinling City with Sun Dai, I and Ma Dujian will take care of you at home, and you will never let others take your Zhenjiang City and harm you No face to see the governor."

Zhao Han'er, who always listened to Xie's words the most, led an army of eight thousand to attack Jinling City with Sun Sandai without saying a word.

The other generals and supervisors of the Jiangning Mansion's defenders, as promised, took advantage of the chaos to rescue the soldiers of the Huben Army who had been imprisoned by the Song Army when Zhao Han'er led his troops to attack Jinling City.

The two sides cooperated internally and externally, and took down Jinling City in the first battle.

Guan Shigu was defeated, worried about being punished by the Zhao and Song courts, so he surrendered with his soldiers.

Li Shiyan, Niu Meng and others didn't know about Guan Shigu's rebellion at all, so they entered the city foolishly, but they were caught by Sun Sandai and the others immediately.

This news was quickly found out by Wu Desi and the pro-military Duwei Mansion, and then reported to Li Cun.

Li Cun then sent Su Dong to lead an army of [-] to go north, of which [-] were stationed in the Guangde Army, and [-] were handed over to Sun Sandai for control. He formally appointed Zhao Han'er as the commander of the capital in the northern theater, stayed behind in Zhenjiang, and Sun Sandai as the commander. The capital supervisor and Jiangning mansion of the northern theater stayed behind, and Su Dong was the deputy capital chief of the northern theater and the Guangde army stayed behind.

At the same time, Sun Sandai ordered Niu Meng's family to be escorted to Hangzhou City.

Li Cun accepted the advice of his confidants, civil and military advisers. Except for Sai Furong who had made great contributions, Niu Meng's other wives and concubines were all rewarded to meritorious soldiers. Niu Meng's three daughters were raised by Li Cao. When they grow up, they will also be used to reward meritorious soldiers in the future. Niu Meng's parents, since they are also the parents of the hero Niu Wei, will not be punished.

A few days later, Niu Meng was shaved for a total of [-] knives on the streets of Hangzhou before he died.

The person who executed the torture became famous in one fell swoop because of his skillful sword skills.

Good and evil will eventually be rewarded, and the way of heaven is reincarnation.If you don't believe me, look up, God will spare you.

This poem should be applied to both Niu Meng and Fang La.

A few days ago, the Song army on the western front besieged the remnants of Fang Layi's army in Bangyuandong and fought with them for more than 20 days.

In the end, except for the tens of thousands of remnants and defeated generals who were released by Song Jiang, almost all the other Fang Layi troops were wiped out by the Song army.

But there is one thing that has never been able to make all the generals of the Song Army on the Western Front relax their vigilance, that is, Fang La, the leader of the Fang Layi Army, who dared to build the Yuan Dynasty and restructure the leader of the bandit, has never been captured.

Because there was no trace of Fang La, many generals of the Song army couldn't help but began to wonder if Fang La had escaped from their encirclement as well?
In this regard, Zhong Shidao is really worried.

It's still the same problem, although they have basically wiped out Fang Layi's army, but as long as Fang La doesn't die, Fang Layi's army will soon revive and make a comeback.

Fang Youchang actually has a son alive.

He is Fang Youchang's second son Fang Xiong.

During the Fang La uprising, Fang Xiong was sent by Fang Youchang to Qingxi County to report to Chen Guang, the county magistrate.

This allowed Fang Xiong to escape.

Later, Fang Xiong defected to a landlord in Suian County named Zhan Taihe.

After the Song army came to Muzhou, Zhan Taihe united with many local tyrants in Suian County to form an army of more than 2000 landlords.

On this day, Zhan Taihe sent Fang Xiong to buy some military supplies for their armed forces.

After Fang Xiong took the order, he took people to the only one still open in Qingxi County.

Here, Fang Xiong bumped into Fang Jing who had been disguised and was also buying food with a few people.

Fang Xiong immediately arrested Fang Jing with the people who brought him, and then took him back to Zhan Taihe.

After Zhan Taihe and others tortured Fang Jing, Fang Jing explained that Fang La's family and more than 200 backbones of Fang La's rebel army are currently hiding in a cliff cave in Bangyuan Cave. They went down this time to buy food and supplies for Fang La and the others.

Mrs. Zhan was worried that these mobs would not be able to defeat Fang La and his group of lunatics, so he called Zhang Jun, who had a good relationship with him.

As soon as Zhang Jun heard that there was such a good thing, he immediately led his troops to follow Zhan Taihe and other landlords, and under the leadership of Fang Jing, they found the cliff cave where Fang La was.

After a battle between the two sides, more than 30 people including Fang La, his wife Shao Shi, Zi Fang Bo, and Prime Minister Fang Fei were exhausted and captured. As for the others, they were all killed by Zhang Jun and the others.

Zhang Junman thought that if he made such a great contribution, he would be able to get promoted and raise his salary, and he would have a bright future.

But the big head of this credit was taken away by Xin Xingzong, who was in charge of the Houshan defense area, and the small head was taken away by Zhe Kecun, the highest officer of Zhang Jun's defense area. Arriving at Zhang Jun's place, it was just a symbolic promotion to Zhang Jun's first level, and as for the people below Zhang Jun, there was nothing.

Let's not mention what Zhang Jun and his subordinates think.

It is only said that Fang La's family was finally captured, and the Song Army on the Western Front was all smiling from top to bottom.

Cai You and Tan Zhen immediately sent a large army to escort Fang La's family to Beijing, and even faster than this was the good news jointly written by Cai You and Tan Zhen.

But as soon as Fang La's family was escorted to Beijing, Liu Yanqing and his party came to Qingxi, and at the same time brought the news that the Song Army on the Northern Front was wiped out by the Huben Army.

In order to avoid guilt, Liu Yanqing and the others exaggerated the strength of the Huben army countless times, and Liu Yanqing and the others described the heartless cannon and thunderbolt as artifacts that could kill tens of thousands of people at once.

If Li Cun listened to what Liu Yanqing and the others said, he might die laughing.

Unconscionable cannon is a helpless method adopted when there is no heavy firepower.

The original form of the unconscionable cannon is mainly to put propellant in the gasoline barrel, and then use the force generated by the explosion to push the explosive package out.

It can be imagined from this crude facility that the unconscionable cannon has no accuracy at all, it can only have a general direction, and the range is not accurate, and it is possible to be far or near.

Another trouble is that a separate explosive package cannot be used, and it is necessary to use wooden boards to ensure the attitude, but this will cause roll during the launch process, which is not stable at all.

The key point is that there is another biggest disadvantage of unconscionable guns, that is, the high temperature and high pressure generated by the propellant is likely to ignite the explosive package and cause the chamber to explode. One's own launch position, killing and injuring one's own personnel.

In fact, the unconscionable cannon is not a cannon at all, it is just an engineer weapon invented by an engineer, and it is mainly used to open roads and break obstacles.

In the final analysis, unconscionable guns are actually developed under specific conditions, and are only effective for specific targets—for example, battles that do not require precision, or for example, when the enemy is circled and becomes a lamb to be slaughtered.

The reason why Liu Yanqing and the others felt that the unconscionable artillery was so powerful was because the Song Army who was surrounded at that time was in this last situation.

But the real situation is that there are huge problems in the heartless cannon itself, and the combat form is single, unable to adapt to the complex battlefield environment, and it is embarrassing to use.

Li Cun was busy all the time and didn't have time to prepare weapons properly, otherwise Li Cun would not have developed such a heartless cannon even if he was going to develop the Hu Zun Cannon, which mainly focused on curved shooting.

In fact, for Li Cun, this unconscionable cannon is an excessive equipment and will be eliminated soon.

Let's talk about thunder.

It was similar to the situation of the unconscionable cannon, and it was also because the Song army all gathered together at that time that Hong Tianlei looked so scary.

In fact, because Hongtianlei uses black powder, and its anti-injury projectile body is still cast iron, this makes Hongtianlei not only have a small explosion power, but also have less shrapnel, and it can not fly far, whether it is the killing radius or the actual penetration Power is greatly reduced.

The operators of the Huben Army Fireworks have done tests, and some thunderbolts thrown very close to the pigs can only cause some flesh injuries to the pigs, and some thunderbolts are even worse, they can only be blown in half. Not much use at all.

In addition, due to the characteristics of black powder that is easy to be affected by moisture, it is extremely difficult to store Hongtianlei. It is really troublesome when it rains, and sometimes one box after another is scrapped.

In fact, it means that Li Cun does not have the conditions to make yellow gunpowder now, otherwise Li Cun would definitely not make this troublesome black gunpowder.

But Mr. Zhong said that they don't know the details of Unconscionable Cannon and Thunderbolt.

The key point is that the Huben Army has a real record of annihilating more than [-] elite Song troops on the northern front. It is impossible for the generals of the Song Army on the western front not to believe in the strength of the Huben Army.

Then the problem is coming.

In fact, the Song Army on the Western Front, which is not much stronger than the Song Army on the Northern Front, can defeat the Huben Army that wiped out the Song Army on the Northern Front?

If they can't fight, will their Song army on the western front be wiped out by the Huben army?

If the Song army on the western front was also wiped out by the Huben army, would the Song Dynasty perish?

What should the Song Army do on the Western Front?
What should Da Song do?
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