Qian Song

Chapter 257 Sweeping Hebei River East (Ask for a monthly ticket!)
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The soldiers of the army who were about to make great contributions were stunned.

The soldiers and civilians in Taiyuan City who were still hesitating whether to surrender or continue to resist were also stunned.

At this time, Mingjin withdraws troops? !

Both sides of the city walls were blown out with such big gaps. In the case of the Dagan Dynasty with 10,000+ troops besieging the city and many sharp weapons, it can be said that Taiyuan City is 100% about to be breached this time.

Many officers and soldiers of the Gan army and the soldiers and civilians in Taiyuan City couldn't figure it out, why did the Gan army withdraw their troops at this time?
How to do?
What else can I do?
Don't say it's just that the city wall was blown up, even if their sabers were already on the necks of Zhang Xiaochun and Wang Tin, and the troops were withdrawn from the rear, they had to take back the sabers, otherwise they would be guilty without merit and would be punished by military law. .

With deep resentment and resentment, all the soldiers had no choice but to go back the same way.

Seeing this, Wang Bao hurriedly arranged for people to block the two gaps that were blown out by the Qianjun.

But at this moment, Zhai Jin rode alone to the city of Taiyuan.

Seeing this, Wang Teng immediately ordered someone to shoot Zhai Jin with a bed crossbow.

Who would have thought that Zhai Jin's first sentence would be: "Wang Zhi, if you shoot me, all the soldiers and civilians in Taiyuan City will be buried with me."

Wang Ting was unmoved by the words, and still signaled the crossbowmen on the bed to prepare quickly.

Zhai Jin may have guessed that Wang Ting would not be easily intimidated by him, so he took the initiative to say: "This is not what I said, but my emperor's golden words."

As soon as Zhai Jin said this, Wang Bao's heart tightened!
Wang Ting glanced out of the corner of his eye, and saw that the soldiers of the Song Army who had followed his order to adjust the bed crossbow stopped immediately, not only that, but there were also many soldiers of the Song Army approaching the bed crossbow. "Those bed crossbowmen dare to act rashly, and they will draw their swords to face each other."

joke.

When a front-line general talks about massacring a city, it may be just talking.

But if an emperor talks about massacring a city, it is absolutely impossible to just talk about it.

It must be known that when the emperor was angry, millions of corpses were buried and blood flowed for thousands of miles.

What's more, you have no jokes. Once you say something, it's hard to follow and change it.

Without waiting for Wang Bao to answer, Zhang Xiaochun, who was afraid that Wang Bao's wrong words would anger Li Cun, took the lead and said, "I am Zhang Xiaochun, the deputy envoy of Xuanfu in Hedong and the prefect of Taiyuan. Dare I ask the general's name?"

Listen to the gongs and drums, and listen to the sounds when you speak.

Zhang Xiaochun opened his mouth, and Zhai Jin guessed that he should have a good chance to surrender this time.

Therefore, Zhai Jin cheered up and said: "I am Zhai Jin, the deputy commander of the left army of Dagan Yanshan, and I am here to pass on my emperor's oral instructions."

Then, Zhai Jin said in a loud voice: "Zhang Xiaochun, Wang Zhi, I forgive you for more than eight months in Taiyuan City. During this period, I borrowed your Taiyuan City to encircle and fight for reinforcements. I defeated the main forces of Zhao and Song Dynasties three times. Today, there is only one city left in Hedong, and the rest are gone." I have gained everything, this battle is over, you two are loyal ministers of Zhao Song, but Zhao Song is not virtuous, and will be destroyed by me, not the two of you who can stand in the way, only a cup of tea for the two of you If the city surrenders, if you resist stubbornly, the people of this city will be buried with you two."

After Zhai Jin read Li Cun's oral order, many people in Taiyuan City looked at Zhang Xiaochun and Wang Teng, expecting them to say the words of Kaesong's surrender.

Seeing this, Zhang Xiaochun said to Wang Fu: "The city is about to be destroyed. Emperor Daqian called for gold to withdraw his troops. He was pity for the lives of the soldiers and civilians in my city. He didn't want to do more killings. A few months ago, there was no food in our city. It was Emperor Guangqide of Dagan Give food to the soldiers and civilians in my city, so that the city can be full of life. I have heard that I know how to repay you, and there is no good thing. And if my city has the strength to fight, I will give up my life to accompany the gentleman. However, the victory or defeat is already clear at a glance. Fighting again will be in vain. Moreover, the soldiers and civilians in our city have stood firm for Zhao Song and not surrendered in August, and have lived up to the Zhao clan. It is time for us to know the current affairs."

At this time, Zhai Jin shouted under the city: "Master Zhang, Wang Zhi, my emperor is not good at killing, Annan, Zhancheng, Khitan, Jurchen, Tatar, my emperor has all killed decisively, but since the Song Dynasty, my emperor has never killed Don't pull out the butcher's knife to face each other, and also strictly ordered the generals from all walks of life not to kill more. For all the soldiers who surrendered to the Song army, my emperor ordered people to arrange and rescue them properly. Killing each other, up to this point, is the Zhao family's immorality, not giving the people a way to live, how can they offend our people, we should forgive it."

Hearing Zhai Jin's words, Zhang Xiaochun looked around at the soldiers and civilians who were about to surrender to Kaesong, and then heaved a long sigh: "Ah! Xiaochun is a minister, and Xiaochun should bear this crime on his shoulders."

After finishing speaking, Zhang Xiaochun said loudly: "Now the two walls of Taiyuan have been broken, and it is difficult to defend them. Emperor Shengren will definitely not embarrass the soldiers and people in our city, so everyone obeys my order and surrenders."

As soon as Zhang Xiaochun finished speaking, Wang Tian suddenly picked up the saber in his hand.

Zhang Xiaochun froze, thinking that Wang Bao was going to kill him.

Who would have thought, but Wang Ting said: "My general, the city has been destroyed, and if he can survive, he should die for the city."

After all, Wang Ting swung his knife to cut his own neck.

Fortunately, Wang Xun, Wang Tin's son, had sharp eyesight and quick hands, and hugged Wang Tin aside, and the others also hurried forward and snatched the saber from Wang Tin's hand.

Not long after, Zhang Xiaochun asked Wang Ting to surrender with him.

The city of Taiyuan was broken.

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At the same time, Zhao Li wiped out all the pro-Song areas in northern Hebei.

When Li Cun returned to Hebei with Zhang Xiaochun, Wang Ti and others, the Gan army had already reached the city of Zhongshanfu.

Zhongshan Mansion is an important warehouse and military town in the Hebei area of ​​the Zhao and Song Dynasties. Its city is solid, with tall walls, wide and deep moats, and urns are built on each gate.

In addition, under Zhan Du's management, there are rolling logs and rocks, artillery, and crossbows on Zhongshanfu City.

Last year, when Li Cun led his troops to the south, he wanted to capture Zhongshan Fucheng.

——If Li Cun could win Zhongshan Fucheng and Hejian Fucheng at that time, then Li Cun could almost win half of Hebei.

But at that time, Zhan Du, who was then the pacifier of Zhongshan Fulu, poured water into ice and resisted tenaciously, which made Li Cun feel helpless when he faced a city for the first time.

in fact--

At that time, Li Cun was also in a hurry to go south and did not go all out to deal with Zhongshan Fucheng. Otherwise, if Li Cun was really serious, he might not be unable to break through Zhongshan Fucheng. After all, Li Cun's knowledge is here.

Needless to say, to make Li Cun anxious, Li Cun made a bunch of hot air balloons, let the soldiers fly over Zhongshan Fucheng, and threw explosives and thunder from the top down, which will definitely make everyone in Zhongshan Fucheng Drinking a pot of people can even scare them to death.

In the end, Li Cun captured all the more than 30 states and counties around Zhongshan Mansion, and cleared all the high-ranking officials and nobles here, and then asked Han Shizhong to lock up the city of Zhongshan Mansion and lead his troops around the city.

Now, Li Cun is going to get serious with Zhongshan Fucheng.

The results naturally speak for themselves.

Zhao Li used Zhai Jin's method of breaking Taiyuan City to Zhongshan Fucheng.

Even if the guard is Zhan Du, after the city wall was blasted, he would have to be tied out of the city by his subordinates and dedicated to Li Cun.

Next, Li Cun sent Zhao Li to sweep the prefectures and counties under Zhongshan Prefecture again.

Afterwards, Li Cun locked his target in Zhending Mansion.

The strategic position of Zhending Mansion is almost comparable to that of Taiyuan Mansion.

The danger of Zhending Mansion's control of Taihang is absolutely the key to Hebei, Taiyuan will be shaken by looking west, and Fan Yang will be shocked by going north.

In the words of Song Qi, an official of the Northern Song Dynasty, a famous writer, historian, and poet, it is: Heshuo is the foundation of the world, and true determination is the foundation of Heshuo.

If the Dagan Dynasty can capture Zhending Mansion, then the Dagan Dynasty can completely connect the armies of Hedong and Hebei.

At this time, the Tianwei Army under the Zhending Mansion gathered more than 4 horses from the Zhao and Song Dynasties.

This day, the Tianwei Army is located at the eastern foot of the Taihang Mountains and controls Jingxing, one of the eight Taihang Xings. From here, they can pass through the Taihang Mountains and connect Hebei and Hedong.

At the beginning, the planting division was headed from here to Hedong.

Therefore, the Tianwei Army is a battleground for military strategists.

General Song, who guards the Tianwei Army, is Zhongshi Dao and Zhongshi Min, the cousin of Zhongshi.

Knowing that Li Cun led the army to the south again, Zhong Shi Min Jianbi cleared the field, and moved all the soldiers and civilians to the depths of Tiantai Mountain to avoid the disaster of war.

At the same time, Zhong Shimin vigorously recruited brave men to strengthen the city's defenses, guarded the pass, and ambushed the main force in the Jingxing Valley, intending to fight the Gan army to the death.

After Li Cun heard the news, he decided to wipe out this part of the Song army before attacking Zhending Mansion.

Therefore, Li Cun led his army straight to Jingxing.

Now that he has become emperor, Li Cun will definitely not be able to direct the battle in person anymore.

So Li Cun delegated the command of this battle to Wang Yan who was captured by Li Cun along with Zhai Jin.

When Wang Yan was young, he had a bold and unrestrained personality and loved reading military books. Later, he was ordered by his father to go to Bianliang City, Tokyo, where he was attached to the Gongma Children's Institute. After Zhao Ji's personal test, he was awarded the title of Qinghe Captain.Later, he joined the Jingyuan Army and fought against Xixia twice with the Taoist Zhong Dao, and made great achievements in battle.

When captured by Li Cun, Wang Yan, whose official career was not going well, was only a small officer at the commanding level.

However, Li Cun unexpectedly promoted Wang Yan to be the leader of his own personal guard, and personally brought him by his side to influence, teach and gradually subdue him.

Today, Wang Yan is already a confidant among Li Cun's cronies.

——After Zhao Li was released by Li Cun to lead the army, it was mainly Wang Yan who helped Li Cun manage his personal guards.

After taking the order, Wang Yan made arrangements to lure the enemy against Zhong Shimin's ambush. He first let the bold and cautious Niu Gao lead 3000 troops into the valley.

After being ambushed by the Song army, Niu Gao set up defenses with chariots and stood by for help.

At this time, Wang Yan personally led the army to cross the Taihang Mountains through the trail and detour to the rear of the Min tribe of Zhongshi.

Unexpectedly, since most of the Song army was a temporary militia and lacked military training, their combat effectiveness was obviously not as good as that of Li Cun's personal guards, and their weapons were even worse than Li Cun's personal guards.

As a result, before Wang Yan led the main force to outflank, Niu Gao led three thousand personal guards to defeat the Song Army of the Min Department of Zhongshi.

Zhong Shimin saw that the strength of the two sides was too different, so he quickly led the remnant army back to the Tianwei Army City.

Wang Yan, who made a detour in vain, led the Qianwei Army and You Yi Army to follow closely behind, and surrounded the Tianwei Army.

After persisting for two days, the Tianwei army was breached. In order not to disgrace the loyalty of the Zhong family, Zhong Shimin chose to commit suicide when the city was broken.

After Li Cun learned of this, he sighed, and then asked people to bury Zhong Shi Min Haosheng.

After the Tianwei army was captured, Li Cun ordered his troops to advance eastward, turned around and rushed towards Huolu.

Li Miao, the prefect of Zhending Prefecture, and Liu Xu, the governor of the army and horses, felt that the city of Huolu was too small to withstand the attack of the Gan army, so he ordered that all the [-] Song troops stationed in Huolu be withdrawn to Zhending. In the city, they planned to stick to Zhending City and wait for the rescue of Zhao Song Dynasty.

The last commander-in-chief and magistrate of Zhending Mansion was Liu Fan.

Last year, under the leadership of Liu Fan, Zhending Mansion was built into one of the strongest cities in Hebei.

At that time, Li Cun saw that Zhending Prefecture was not easy to attack, so he also bypassed it.

Later, Zhao Huan asked Liu Fan to reinforce Zhongshan Fucheng, appointed Liu Fan as the deputy envoy of Hebei Xuanfu, and ordered him to lead [-] troops to Liaozhou, and Liu Fan took all the elite of Zhending Mansion away.

After that, Li Miao, the former privy secretary's deputy, was sent to Zhending Mansion as a comfort envoy and prefect.

——Tang Ke, Geng Nanzhong and other Zaizhi of the Song Dynasty wanted to send Li Miao to the Dagan Dynasty, but Li Miao was unwilling to go. They thought Li Miao was timid and fearful, so they sent Li Miao to the city of Zhending Come on the front line to fight against dry army.

After Li Miao took office, the copper coins in Zhending City were less than 200 million, and the defenders were less than [-].

Li Miao mobilized Zhending's rich and powerful families to contribute money and food to fight against the enemy together, and recruited thousands of brave men to actively prepare for the battle.

Not long ago, Li Miao found out that the Qian army was attacking Zhongshan Mansion. He quickly sent more than [-] waves of people to take the small road to report to the Zhao Song court that the Qian army had gone south, reminding the Zhao Song dynasty to prepare early.

When the Gan army approached the city, facing the tens of thousands of troops led by Li Cun himself, many people in Zhending Prefecture saw that the Gan army was more than ten times their size, and there were no reinforcements outside and no strong troops inside, so they persuaded Li Miao to open the city and surrender. .

As a result, he was beheaded by Li Miao in public.

The defense envoy of Jizhou and the soldiers and horses of Zhending Fulu are all in charge of Liu Xu, and they are also determined to live and die with Zhending.

At the beginning of the battle, Liu Xu personally led the soldiers to station on the city wall, and took the lead to win the respect of the soldiers.

Li Miao was an out-and-out literati who didn't understand military affairs at all. Seeing that the generals of the Gan army attacked the east of the city in the dark, he ordered Liu Xu to shift the focus of defense to the east of the city.

Liu Xu led the troops to go.

As a result, the dry army blasted the west wall and rushed in.

Coincidentally, Wang Yun and Li Ruoshui came to Li Cun's tent of the Chinese army at this time. On behalf of Zhao Huan, they expressed their willingness to cede Hebei and Hedong to the Daqian Dynasty and hoped that Li Cun would withdraw his troops.

But Li Cun ignored the two of them and threw them into the sightseeing group.

On that day, the city of Zhending was breached.

But Liu Xu still brought a lot of people who were willing to follow him to fight against the Gan army.

But there are too few people who are willing to follow Liu Xu and continue to serve the Zhao Song Dynasty, and there is no way to stop the pace of the army.

In the end, Liu Xu and several cronies were trapped in a small courtyard.

Zhao Xu knew that the situation was over and it was impossible to turn back. He turned to his younger brother and said, "I am a general, can I be killed by thieves?"

After finishing speaking, Liu Xu untied his belt and prepared to hang himself.

Fortunately, Niu Gao led his troops into the courtyard in time, rescued Liu Xu from the tree, and escorted him to Li Cun.

Li Miao heard that the city had fallen and the Qian army had entered the city, and wanted to commit suicide by throwing himself into the well, but he was stopped by the people around him, and then he was also brought to Li Cun.

Li Cun didn't meet Li Miao and Liu Xu directly, but threw them into the sightseeing group like Zhang Xiaochun, Wang Tian, ​​Zhan Du and others.

At the same time, Zhao Li broke through Hejian Mansion and swept Hebei.

At the same time, Wu Lin was also sweeping Hedong.

The dry army pushed to the Yellow River across the board, and was about to come to the city of Bianliang in Tokyo again...

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