Qian Song

Chapter 229 Bianliang City Broken? (Ask for a monthly pass!)
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On the morning of the sixth day, Guo Yaoshi took Song Jiang, Yang Zhi and other [-] horse troops to the outside of Bianliang City in Tokyo.

but--

Song Jiang, Yang Zhi and his party did not immediately attack Bianliang City in Tokyo.

——Led by Guo Yaoshi, they headed directly to Moutuogang in the northwest of Bianliang City in Tokyo, and then set up camp here, waiting for Li Cun to lead the army.

This Moutuogang is actually the place where the Tiansi Supervisor of the Zhao Song Dynasty was located, which is also a place where the Zhao Song Dynasty raised horses.

At this time, there were more than [-] excellent war horses in Moutuogang, and there were also mountains of grain and grass.

The key point is that Moutuogang is surrounded by water on three sides, like a sandbar, and it is backed by Wuzepi, which can be used as a barrier.

It is of course Guo Yaoshi's suggestion to set up camp here at Moutuogang.

In fact, as early as when Guo Yaoshi came to Bianliang City, Tokyo a few years ago, Guo Yaoshi had already been to Moutuogang.

At that time, Zhao Ji especially wanted to win over Guo Yaoshi, so he sent Cai You to bring Guo Yaoshi to play polo here in Moutuogang.

Guo Yaoshi is a very scheming person. At that time, he thought that Moutuogang was a good place to build a camp, so he kept this matter in mind.

Now, this place with favorable geographical location and military supplies is really used by Guo Yaoshi, and Guo Yaoshi made another contribution.

In the evening of the next day, Li Cun also led [-] elite horse troops to the city of Bianliang, Tokyo, and then under the guidance of Zhao Liangsi, he went to station in Qingcheng, a suburb southwest of Bianliang City in Tokyo.

Here is the Zhai Palace where the emperors of the Zhao and Song Dynasties held suburban sacrifices, and the environment is much better than that of Moutuogang.

At this time, Li Cun had actually learned that Zhao Ji fled to Shaanxi, and most of Zhao Ji's dozens of children escaped and were scattered in Zhou counties.

In this regard, Li Cun was very disappointed, and felt that he was one step too late in rushing to the end.

——In this case, if Li Cun takes down Bianliang City in Tokyo, Zhao Ji will definitely restore the ancient capital of Chang'an immediately, or one of Zhao Ji's sons will become the new emperor of Zhao Song Dynasty with Zhao Ji's support.

Let's put it this way, only one Zhao Gou escaped in history, and one more Southern Song Dynasty came out.

Although it cannot be compared with Li Cun, Zhao Ji is quite capable of giving birth. There are a total of 32 sons. Excluding Zhao Huanhe who is dead, there are still more than 20, plus other royal families and clans. By the way, there is also Zhao Kuangyin That branch, if it can't take the Zhao family in one pot, it may take many years to fight for the Zhao Song Dynasty to be completely wiped out.

In short, knowing that Zhao's royal family and clan have all fled, Li Cun's interest in fighting against Bianliang City in Tokyo has already faded.

There are some words that Cai He did not say wrong.

That is, although Bianliang City in Tokyo is the capital of the Zhao and Song Dynasties, it is nothing more than a city. If Li Cun cannot capture the person Li Cun wants, Li Cun will at most get a city that currently does not have much strategic value That's all.

It can be said that at this moment, Li Cun has little interest in conquering Bianliang City in Tokyo.

Even, Li Cun was thinking, otherwise he would withdraw at an appropriate time, so that Zhao Huan would deceive Zhao Ji, his brothers and sisters, and all the royal family and clan of the Zhao family back like in history, and then fight back by himself. One time, wipe out the Zhao family?
But Li Cun just thought about this kind of thing.

How can Li Cun explain to his subjects if he does not get enough benefits for such a mobilizing teacher?

So we still have to keep fighting.

But how to fight and to what extent, Li Cun still has to carefully consider it.

Five days later, Zhao Li led more than 4 infantry troops and [-] reserve soldiers serving as civilian husbands to the city of Bianliang in Tokyo.

——Li has many dangers, such as the Yellow River Bridge in Junzhou, where he left a lot of defenders to avoid trouble when he goes back in the future.

Then, according to Li Cun's instructions, Zhao Li set up a number of military camps on the four walls of Bianliang City in Tokyo, except for the front guard army and the rear guard army who came to Qingcheng to station. Shut up around.

——Due to the lack of troops, Zhao Li could only set up camp in sparse formations, and then openly held up flags in the countryside, going back and forth between various military camps, so that the soldiers and civilians of the Zhao Song Dynasty did not know how many troops they had.

The soldiers and civilians of the Zhao and Song Dynasties standing on the city wall outside the city can vividly remember the siege of the city by the army of cadres, and most of them have fear on their faces.

But at this time, Li Cun did not attack Bianliang City in Tokyo.

Again, this Tokyo Bianliang City is easy to fight, but what is really difficult is other things.

Such as supplementary troops.

For example, food and supplies.

Such as retreat.

Therefore, Li Cun took Guan Sheng as the main general, and ordered Guan Sheng to lead his [-]-horse army to go south to meet part of the Dongfu army and part of the Zhongfu army led by Cao Cheng and Wang Sheng, and then helped Cao Cheng and Wang Sheng to open up Bianliang in Tokyo. The waterway from the city to Huainan will be used for Li Cun to dispatch troops, transport food and supplies in the future, or return to the south in case of bad conditions in the future.

Li Cun besieged and did not attack, leaving Zhao Huan and his ministers at a loss.

Zhao Huan discussed with the civil and military officials of the Zhao and Song Dynasties, or we Song Dynasty sent envoys to negotiate a peace?

After someone put forward this suggestion, it immediately got the support of many people.

Zhao Huan saw that although many people agreed to negotiate a peace, no one took the initiative to ask Ying to be the envoy of the peace, so he appointed Li Wei, a member of the Privy Council of Tongzhi, as the envoy, and Zheng Wangzhi and Gao Shi as the deputy envoys to Qingcheng to discuss the peace.

Before negotiating peace, Xu Churen said: "Nowadays the gangsters are in full swing, and we have not assembled the army of King Qin of the Great Song Dynasty, so we must not disagree. However, peace also needs to be planned and measured. If there is a strategy and a measure, China's situation will be safe. Otherwise, There are endless disasters, and China’s safety depends on it.”

Zhao Huanjun and his ministers discussed that it is absolutely impossible to cede land. If Hebei and Hedong are also ceded to the Dagan Dynasty, then the Central Plains will definitely not be guaranteed. Three to five million taels were given to the Dagan Dynasty, and three to five million taels could also be given to the army in gold and silver. In addition, Li Yan, Zheng Wangzhi, and Gao Shi were asked to bring some gold, silver, jewelry, and some wine and fruit as Zhao Huan's gifts. A meeting gift for Li Cun.

After Li Yan, Zheng Wangzhi, and Gao Shize arrived in Qingcheng, Li Cun asked Han Fang, Xiao Qing, and Zhang Yuangong to be in charge of connecting with them.

As soon as the two sides met, Han Fang said: "My family's conditions have not changed much. The two families are separated by a big river. Your family will compensate my family with 1000 million ingots of gold, 2000 million ingots of silver, and 1000 million pieces of silk. Then retreat, or your capital city will be destroyed."

At this time, Li Wei was supposed to come out to argue with Han Fang, but as soon as Li Wei arrived here in Qingcheng, he saw that the army was strong and full of murderous intent, so he was so frightened that he didn't dare to say anything.

Seeing this, Zheng Wangzhi had no choice but to take over the task of the chief envoy, saying: "If your dynasty decides to use the great river as its boundary, it is really a request by force, and my dynasty will never agree. It is not that our dynasty is weak militarily, it is actually a new one. The emperor succeeded to the throne for more than ten days, and everything was not going well, and the inland states and cities were not prepared for battle, so the army of the noble dynasty drove straight in. The current situation is so far, so let's not talk about it, just say that I am the emperor and the new emperor Ascension to the throne is a waste of time, so I don’t want to go to war with your dynasty. I would like to give you some old coins and gold and silver for the army, so that the army of your dynasty will retreat. If the two dynasties can reconnect with each other, it will be enough to shine in the annals of history , highly praised by future generations, I also hope that the emperor of your dynasty will withdraw his troops as soon as possible for the sake of the innocent people of the two dynasties."

Xiao Qingdao: "Since my family's army is here now, it's definitely not for your family to pay a small amount of money to settle this matter."

When Zheng Wang heard it, he knew that the terms of the peace talks expected by the two sides must be very different, but he still bit the bullet and said: "My emperor can grant 500 million taels of old coins, and 500 million taels of silver for the army. These numbers are not easy. out."

Xiao Qing said: "The reward army silver has been told to your family, 1000 million ingots of gold, 2000 million ingots of silver, 1000 million silk, and [-] cattle and horses. This number will never be changed."

Zheng Wangzhi heard the words and said: "The big mouth of this land is no different from the big river as the boundary. It is very difficult to discuss."

Zheng Wangzhi also said: "We must want the conditions of the land, but we have no intention of negotiating peace. Since our dynasty was seized by the noble dynasty, half of the territory is no longer what it used to be. There are only three or five places that produce gold and silver. There are also fixed annual tributes. The local government still cannot contribute according to the fixed quota for some reason, and since there is annual tribute, it must be used every year. How can I have so much savings in my dynasty? As for horses, I don’t produce them in my dynasty. Fanbo bought one or two thousand horses, and there were some who died, were sick and lame, and there were not many left. And the cattle are all outside the city, and the people in the city don't do farming. How can there be cattle? I hope the emperor of your dynasty will understand. "

Seeing that the requirements of the two families were so different, Han Fang went to ask Li Cun for instructions.

After listening, Li Cun said: "Words are something you can't get on the battlefield. Let him wait until he goes back, and take that Li Ye back too."

During the entire process of the first negotiation between the two parties, Li Wei, the chief envoy, was obsequious and dared not say a word.

Seeing this, many people laughed at Li Yan: "This is a woman's ear."

Li Yan, Zheng Wangzhi, Gao Shize, and Li Ye, who had come to discuss peace before, had just returned to Bianliang City in Tokyo.

Zhao Li followed Li Cun's order to attack the city.

It was already dark at this time, Zhao Li followed Li Cun's instructions and deployed suspicious soldiers to beat drums on all sides, but only launched the main attack from the western city wall.

The reason why Li Cun gave Zhao Li such an order was mainly because Wu Desi, the pro-military Duwei Mansion and the Military Intelligence Department had already ascertained the defense information of the Zhao Song Dynasty.

Li Cun looked at the names of the city wall guards and generals, and concluded that Liang Fangping, who was in charge of guarding the western city wall, must be the weakest, so of course he had to attack from the weakest place.

After the two sides started fighting, Xu Churen climbed up the city wall himself and gave instructions: "Those who are near will hit them with thunder and wood, those who are far away will shoot them with bows with divine arms, and those who are far away will reach them with bed crossbows and cannons."

After fighting against the Daqian Dynasty for so many years, the Song Army certainly developed some firearms.

For example, Zhentianlei, which is modeled after Hongtianlei, is modeled after a cannon made without conscience.

However, because the ratio of gunpowder in the Zhao and Song Dynasties was problematic, it was not like the granular black gunpowder used in the Dagan Dynasty.

This makes the firearms of the Zhao and Song Dynasties much less powerful, not to mention, there are various problems.

For example, the Zhentianlei of the Zhao Song Dynasty, because its power was not enough, the operators of the Zhao Song Dynasty, in order to ensure that the Zhentianlei could kill and injure people, could only make it bigger. Because it is too heavy, it cannot be thrown far at all.

There are also the cannons of the Zhao and Song Dynasties.

In order to pursue the legendary power of "one shot can kill and injure a large area", the caliber of the Zhao Song Dynasty's cannons was really as thick as the fake cannons made by Li Cun back then.

In order to cope with such a thick cannon, the Zhao Song Dynasty could only make the explosive package one meter square.

After such a large explosive bag is exploded, its power will naturally not be small. Even if the gunpowder ratio it uses is wrong, it is not granular black powder.

But the problem is that if the cannon has achieved this level, it must be extremely bulky, which makes it impossible to pull it out to fight. It can only be placed on the city wall and fixed, becoming a so-called sitting cannon.

Also, the shortcomings of the unconscionable cannon are all reflected in the cannon, such as lack of accuracy, easy bombing, and its extremely slow rate of fire due to the cumbersome loading process. It can even be said that it is unconscionable. The shortcomings of the cannon are magnified a lot when sitting on the cannon.

As far as accuracy is concerned, there is no hope for the shells fired from the cannon, except that the direction cannot be wrong.

This is also one of the reasons why the firework of the Zhao and Song Dynasties has been unwilling to hand over the cannon to the Song army, and the soldiers of the Song army are also unwilling to use the cannon. In fact, this thing is really useful in actual combat. is very limited.

It is because the caliber of the cannon is too large, so the soldiers who use it have to put more propellant to make it fire, and it is condescending to shoot down on the city wall, which leads to the problem that the range of the unconscionable cannon is not far enough. The gun has been greatly improved.

——The farthest range of the sitting cannon is almost catching up with the bed crossbow.

After all, Xu Churen was also a scholar, and he had never actually been on the battlefield. The key point was that he didn't understand firearms at all.

Therefore, after Xu Churen learned of the power and range of the cannon, he was very pleasantly surprised, and quickly pulled it from the firework to the city wall as a defensive weapon.

Many of the defenders in Bianliang City, Tokyo are recruits who have never been on the battlefield. Taking a step back, even those veterans, most of them have never used firearms. Therefore, they have no idea what their defensive weapons can produce. what a disaster.

in short.

After it got dark, Zhao Li followed Li Cun's instructions and sent troops to feign an attack in the east, south, and north directions, and then personally commanded his subordinates to attack the city in the west.

According to Li Cun's favorite style of play, Zhao Li used scaffolding to build a large circle of arrow towers higher than the city wall on the other side of the moat a few days ago.

At this time, with the end of the war, the bed crossbows, tiger squatting guns, and divine arm bows on the arrow tower immediately began to shoot at the Song army in Bianliang City, Tokyo.

To be honest, because the Song army in Bianliang City in Tokyo has a large number of people, relatively complete defense facilities, and a large number of bed crossbows, at the beginning of the battle between the two sides, there was no firepower suppression that the dry army expected.

Seeing this, Zhao Li could only arrange for death squads to forcibly cross the moat on rafts.

The Song army fought very tenaciously. While shooting at the Qian army, they also used bed crossbows and divine arm bows to shoot and kill the death squads of the Qian army who forcibly crossed the river.

The death squads of the Gan army suffered heavy casualties, but they did not retreat and continued to organize attacks.

Seeing that the Song army fought well, Xu Churen personally came to reward those wounded soldiers. Zhao Huan also sent his servants to praise those brave soldiers with his imperial pen at the first time. Precious items such as fine wine, silver bowls, and silk were rewarded to those brave soldiers.

This made the soldiers of the Song Army cheer and cheer, and their morale was greatly boosted.

however--

Fighting such a thing is not just about morale.

What Song Jun didn't know was that Zhao Li was actually crossing Chen Cang secretly on the Mingxiu plank road.

——While fighting against the Song army, Zhao Li ordered five hundred soldiers with good water quality to drink strong wine, and then took two explosives packs each to swim across the moat in places where the Song army could not see in the cold winter months. Then pile the explosive packs at the foot of the city wall.

When Song Jun found out, two or three hundred explosive packages had already been piled up.

Under the shooting of the generals of the Song Army, the death squads of several subordinate soldiers risked their lives and ignited the explosives.

"boom!"

After a huge explosion that shook the sky and the earth, the solid city wall was blown down with a big gap.

Seeing this, the soldiers of the army who had been preparing for a long time immediately took the raft down the river, and then forcibly crossed the river, rushing towards the gap.

On the other side, after being shocked, Xu Churen quickly led the reserve team to plug the gap.

After this incident, the Song army's defense stopped.

Many soldiers of the dry army seized this opportunity and crossed the moat on rafts.

After crossing the river, the generals and soldiers of the army immediately resisted the ladder and attacked the city wall.

Seeing this, Liang Fangping, who was in charge of guarding the western city wall, ordered the soldiers of the Song army to shoot all arrows, and wait for the soldiers of the Qian army to approach before shooting.

The people who participated in guarding the western city wall did not understand Liang Fangping's intentions, and thought that Liang Fangping was preparing to defect to the enemy and wanted to let the army into the city.

As a result, thousands of people arrested Liang Fangping in the clamor, and then clamored to send Liang Fangping to Kaifeng Mansion. Some people took the opportunity to spread rumors, saying that there were people from the Daqian Dynasty hidden in Liang Fangping's house, which caused many people to sneak away Go down the city wall to loot property from Liang Fangping's house.

This series of messy things led to great chaos on the west wall.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, the Gan army crossed the moat in large numbers and began to attack the city violently.

At the same time, the bed crossbow on the arrow tower, the god arm bow, and the tiger squatting cannon were fully fired, and finally suppressed the firepower of the Song army.

In order to restore the disadvantage, the soldiers of the Song Army desperately loaded the projectiles into the cannons, hoping to bombard the arrow towers of the dry army with one shot.

But things backfired, because the propellant charge of a certain seat was loaded too much, causing the seat charge to explode, and then all the surrounding projectile charges and giant explosive packs were ignited.

As a result, it is conceivable that after a series of huge explosions, the city wall was almost razed to the ground, and the nearby Song army was either killed or ignited. They jumped into the moat by themselves, looking for a chance to escape death .

Zhao Li did not expect such a thing to happen.

But after reacting, Zhao Li immediately organized a large army to launch a fierce attack on the gap that was blown out and the city wall with almost no defenders at the same time.

All of a sudden, the morale of the soldiers was high, because they saw the dawn of breaking through Bianliang City in Tokyo...

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