Iron gun Yang Tiexin

From the beginning to the end of the battle to attack Hangzhou City, it only took about two hours in total.

The Song Army, who was used to idleness, was not determined to fight. In addition, there was no Nie Zhizhou, the boss, to take charge of the overall situation, and he was attacked unexpectedly by the Yingzhou Army. The result was not surprising. Although the Song Army had an absolute advantage in numbers, The whole battle process basically showed a one-sided situation.

In the end, the Yingzhou army only paid the price of hundreds of casualties, and occupied the entire city of Hangzhou.

Moreover, because the Yingzhou army blocked the door fast enough, none of the Song army in Hangzhou had time to escape.Although there were quite a few people who saw the opportunity as quickly as the servants of the Zhizhou Mansion, they were blocked by the Yingzhou Army just after running less than two streets, let alone seeing the city gate.

When all the dust settled and Yang Tiexin entered the city with the main force, it was almost dawn.

The most important thing is to implement a curfew and clean up the remnants of the Song army.

It turned out that Yang Tiexin had made up his mind to stay in Hangzhou for a while.

At this point in the battle, in Yang Tiexin's view, the basic goal has been achieved.

Hangzhou City is only fifty or sixty miles away from Lin'an, the capital of the Song Dynasty. If you march at a high speed, you can reach it in half a day.

If the Yingzhou army had gained a firm foothold in Hangzhou City, His Majesty Ningzong of the Great Song Dynasty would not be able to eat or sleep anymore?Especially since the fall of Hangzhou was so mysterious, there was no warning in advance, if His Majesty Ningzong can rest assured, it would be a hell of a thing!

But in fact, Yang Tiexin was a little bit uncertain at the moment!

The most critical part of occupying Hangzhou this time is to quietly open the gate of Hangzhou city.

But this kind of simple method is obviously not feasible in Lin'an, the capital of Song Dynasty!

If it is a strong attack, under the condition of insufficient preparation.Facing Lin'an City, which is high and deep, Yang Tiexin's Yingzhou army is probably not enough.

In case the battle was delayed until Qin Wang's divisions from all over the Song Army arrived, facing hundreds of thousands of Song Army besieged, no matter how elite the Yingzhou Army was, how conceited and scheming Yang Tiexin was.I'm afraid I will also hate the city of Lin'an.

Therefore, Yang Tiexin made up his mind. Before turning Hangzhou City into an iron bucket, he will not provoke Lin'an for the time being, and let His Majesty Ningzong have a nightmare for a while!

Moreover, there are many things that satisfy Yang Tiexin in this Hangzhou city. For example, Hangzhou city is solid, has sufficient food and grass, and is backed by the Qiantang River.You can retreat from the waterway to the sea at any time, really, you can attack when you advance, and you can defend when you retreat!

Moreover, after Dinghai is guarded, the three areas of Yingzhou, Dinghai, and Shandong can be truly connected by sea.

In addition, Yang Tiexin can also attack Zhejiang and Fujian by sea at any time. Even if he can't occupy these territories, he can still disperse the troops of the Song army and consume the supplies of the Song army.

In fact.Almost at the same time that Yang Tiexin occupied Hangzhou, the mainland of Yingzhou Island had already taken action.

And the goal of this action.It is the largest port in the Southern Song Dynasty, Quanzhou Port.

As the largest foreign trade port in the Southern Song Dynasty, Quanzhou Port is naturally heavily guarded!

That is the Great Song Navy with a total of three thousand.

Although this number may seem small, in fact, in this day and age, the location is almost a barbarian place like Fujian Road.To have 3000 troops stationed, that is already quite important!

You know, even as the largest foreign trade port in Song Dynasty, in fact, within a year.There are only forty or fifty foreign ships entering and leaving Quanzhou Port, which is a relatively good year.

In recent years, due to the rampant corruption of officials, overseas trade has become more and more difficult, and many foreign businessmen have seldom come to Song Dynasty, so that at least, only two or three foreign merchant ships arrived in Quanzhou a year.

As for those businessmen from the Song Kingdom, many of them could not bear the burden of the Song court's exorbitant taxes and went to the Nanyang Islands to do business.

It only manages dozens of merchant ships a year. On average, it takes five or six days to deal with the business of one ship. There are [-] Song soldiers guarding here, which is already regarded as the great importance of the Song court!

Compared with the absent-mindedness of Quanzhou Port in the Song Dynasty, Yingzhou Island obviously attached great importance to Quanzhou Port.Because, here is the first stop that the Yingzhou fleet departs for Songjing, and this is Quanzhou Port.

Occupying Quanzhou Port, for the Yingzhou Army, has far more strategic objections than occupying Dinghai.

So, after receiving his father's order, Xiao Yangkang called all the generals immediately to discuss the matter of going out.

Although Xiao Yangkang was smart enough, he was still a little numb in the face of such a big scene.

After deliberating for a long time, it was Xiao Yangkang's master, Changchunzi Qiu Chuji, who made the final decision and decided to send 3 troops to Quanzhou Island, taking Quanzhou in one fell swoop.

Similar to Hangzhou City, the defenders of Quanzhou Island never thought that one day they would encounter such a disaster.In addition, the Yingzhou army is making a surprise attack, and it has an absolute advantage in strength.

As a result, it took less than half a day for the Yingzhou Army to take the whole of Quanzhou under control.

The next step is the development plan of Quanzhou City.

According to the order sent back by Yang Tiexin before, that is to occupy Quanzhou Port.

Yang Tiexin didn't ask to occupy the entire Fuzhou Road, mainly because he was worried that Yingzhou Island's national strength was not enough to support such a three-front battle.Therefore, Yang Tiexin's request is to fight steadily, and after occupying a place, he must turn it into his own solid territory.

In this regard, even if he is as arrogant as Qiu Chuji, he still respects Yang Tiexin's opinion.

After capturing Quanzhou Port with a thunderbolt, Qiu Laodao just ordered to sweep up the counties and counties around Quanzhou. As for Fuzhou, the seat of Fujian Road, Qiu Laodao did not send anyone to harass.

The local official system in the Song Dynasty was quite wonderful.

Inherited from the Jiedushi system in the Tang Dynasty, the local military and political chiefs in the Song Dynasty were also called Jiedushi, but generally they were not military generals, but civil officials.

Even so, the emperors of the Song Dynasty were still afraid that these Jiedu envoys would rebel, so they would not give any intellectual Jiedu envoys a chance.Generally speaking, only Song family members have the opportunity to take up this position.

Ordinary literati, even if they are named Jiedushi, have no chance to serve as Jiedushi.

For example, in Yuanfengzhong, "Zhenjiang Army Jiedu envoy inspected Taifu Han Jiang as Kaifu Yitong Sansi and sentenced Damingfu". Although Han Jiang was Taifu and Kaifu Yitong Sansi, he was He is the Jiedu Envoy of the Zhenjiang Army, but he can actually hold only one official position, and that is the so-called "Judging Daming Mansion". As for the others, they are all false strings.

Except for the governor, other observations, group training envoys, defense envoys, and governors are basically the same!

This kind of situation where local top leaders fail to perform their duties has basically become the norm in the Song Dynasty, and those who can really perform their duties are considered special cases.

Compared with Zhongtu, Fuzhou Road was far away from the heart, so naturally no foolish or weak-minded cultural person of the royal family insisted on going to such a place to serve as a Jiedu envoy.

It is precisely because of this that although the Yingzhou Army made a fuss on Fuzhou Road, in fact, for a long period of time, the news of the occupation of Quanzhou Island did not spread to Lin'an, and His Majesty Ningzong was able to breathe a sigh of relief because of this. ,

Even so, His Majesty Ningzong is still very heavy at this moment.

However, there is another person who is more depressed than His Majesty Ning Zong, and that is Lord Prime Minister, Shi Miyuan. (to be continued..)