Tumeng: I am a national advisor in the Golden Family

Chapter 481 You don’t understand the people, Yangzhou City surrenders

Wu Xingquan nodded and waved his hand to let his men leave. It's a pity, General Yang, you are a loyal minister, but we are not the same. You want to accompany the Song Dynasty and the Zhao family who serve the general to perish together, but we Won't.

We have to find our own way, find our own way out.

That night, at the home of a deputy general in Yangzhou City.

A subordinate official from Yangzhou Zhizhou came to visit.

"It turns out to be Lord Ling. I wonder why Lord Ling came here?" the deputy general asked quickly.

After the Yangzhou magistrate took office, he was very good to these generals, and the relationship between the two parties was relatively harmonious.

The only person who did not have a good relationship with Yangzhou Zhizhou was their chief, Yangzhou Guardsman Yang Yun. (Give him a name!)
Normally, he is very polite and polite to these generals, and even pays them out of his own pocket from time to time. There were also ordinary soldiers distributing some food and drinks.

In general, the prestige of this Yangzhou magistrate in the army is even higher than that of Yangzhou. Master Yang Yun is even taller.

"General Xu, I have come here this time to discuss important matters, which are related to our lives and fortunes."

"Sir, please speak! I am all ears." The deputy general did not dare to be negligent and immediately invited the person to his house, closed the doors and windows, and said.

"General. That's the way it is. You should think about it yourself."

"Has Lord Zhizhou really decided?" The deputy general took a deep breath and asked with firm eyes.

"Yes! And to be honest with this general, yesterday, we received another secret report that Jiangling Mansion has surrendered to the Guanzhong Army. Now the entire Yangtze River defense line only remains in Ezhou and Huangzhou." Yangzhou officials spoke.

"What? You, you mean Jiangling Mansion, Jiangling Mansion actually surrendered? Master Liu actually surrendered to the Guanzhong Army?" the deputy general asked in disbelief.

That's Mr. Liu Zheng Liu! It was Marshal Meng who single-handedly promoted him. Unexpectedly, he didn't expect that even he would be surrendered, and that he would be handed over to Jiangning Mansion in such a serious condition.

What does Jiangling Mansion represent? These generals know very well that it is the lifeblood of the entire Yangtze River, and the base of the entire Yangtze River Water Transport Division is there.

The water transport navy relied on Jiangling Mansion to control the entire Yangtze River Basin. Now this important military advisor. The important town was actually captured by the King of Guanzhong, and he surrendered voluntarily. Now the Guanzhong army has a very good navy base.

For the Song Dynasty, this was indeed news like the sky was falling.

"Master Lin, how did you receive the news that our Yangzhou City has been besieged?" the deputy general of Yangzhou City asked.

"I won't hide it from you, sir. This was done intentionally by the Guanzhong army. He deliberately let the envoys enter the city. It was just to let the news spread in the city." The official surnamed Ling said.

So that's it, that's it. No wonder the Guanzhong army just besieged them a few days ago, and it wasn't until yesterday that they started to launch artillery attacks.

The purpose is to defeat all the momentum of their defenders step by step! The morale of the defenders was now extremely low. If there is more bad news. Not to mention these generals, the mood of ordinary soldiers has already collapsed.

"General, this city can no longer be defended. Now why don't we surrender to the Guanzhong army together? The person outside the city is the eldest son of the Guanzhong King, the eldest prince of Guanzhong. What do you think?" Lord Ling asked.

He took a big risk today. If the other party didn't agree, he could be killed on the spot.

"Master Ling, I am not ignorant of current affairs. Master Yang Yun is indeed loyal, but we are not from the same group after all. I am willing to follow Wu Zhizhou and join the King of Guanzhong." The deputy general immediately knelt on the ground and said.

After joining the Guanzhong army. These generals no longer need to fear persecution from the civil service group, and the treatment of some other officials in Yangzhou City is basically not any worse. The treatment of surrendering voluntarily is very different from that of a city that has been breached.

"Okay! I know you will promise me, General. We are doing this for the sake of the people in the city, and for the sake of all the soldiers. Yang Yun is indeed loyal, but he is loyal to the Zhao family and the world. Great Song Dynasty. And our loyalty is to the people of the world." Lord Ling said.

"Don't worry, sir. Such foolish loyalty is not what I want."

After hearing this, Master Ling nodded with satisfaction, and after the two of them discussed it again, Master Ling said goodbye and left.

The same scene was staged in some other generals' mansions. Now Yangzhou City has reached a desperate situation, and the news of Jiangling Mansion's surrender is indeed a bombshell.

Even if there were still a trace of loyal generals, they all disappeared at this time. Everyone clearly understood one thing, the Zhao family was over, and the Song Dynasty was about to end.

The next day, the Guanzhong army was still carrying out ferocious artillery attacks. This time, many ordinary generals had a tacit understanding and asked the soldiers to withdraw.

No matter how Yang Yun yelled for the soldiers to go upstairs, no one would listen to his orders.

"Master Yang, if we stand on top of such artillery fire, we will die. Why let our brothers' lives go to waste?"

"Yes, we are all born from parents and grown from flesh. Aren't the lives of these soldiers valuable?" another general said.

"What do you mean? As soldiers and generals, shouldn't we defend our country and die for our country?" Yang Yun said.

Since yesterday, the Guanzhong army has begun a fierce artillery attack. This is obviously a posture to attack the city. How can we relax our vigilance under such circumstances?

"We also understand the King of Guanzhong's style of play, which is to bombard the city with cannons and not send troops at all. If we want to launch an siege, it will be a few days later. If we stand up now, it will only increase casualties in vain." A military commander said. .

"General You should also have read the report of the King of Guanzhong's attack on Xiangyang City. The bombing continued for six or seven days, but not a single soldier was sent. The most brutal battle will be later. Naturally, we have to use all our strength. Just show off at the last minute.”

"General Yang. Most of the wounded soldiers carried out yesterday are dead today. How did these brothers die? Or were they blown up by artillery fire from Guanzhong? According to your strategy, let all of us stand at the top of the city. "Come on, isn't that a living target for the enemy?" a general guarding the city gate said.

"Even if you are injured by the firearms of the Guanzhong army, you will die without a chance of survival. Even if you are lucky enough to survive, you will still die afterwards."

"We don't have the magic medicine in Guanzhong's army that can treat the wounded." At this moment. not only. Some generals and even some lower-level soldiers began to clamor.

Seeing this, Yang Yun didn't say anything anymore. If he said anything else, the morale of the army would be disturbed.

In this situation, let alone some generals. Even the soldiers were already complaining and very dissatisfied with him.

But all my playing methods are based on the military manual! When the enemy comes to attack the city, shouldn't we stand on the tower to face them?

I have been familiar with various military books since I was a child. I even read a lot of classic battle cases since the founding of the Song Dynasty. All the city defense battles were completely different from the city defense battles I experienced!

The records in the classics are that the enemy came with ladders and carried out a tentative siege, and then was repulsed.

What followed was a siege that lasted for months or even years. Such a siege to defend the city was all about attrition.

But the Guanzhong army seemed to have completely broken this tradition, turning the siege into a fortified battle, using firearms to completely blast open the city's gates.

At this moment, Yang Yun realized that all the military books he had read before and all the classic battle examples he had seen were useless at this moment.

Because of a new strategic approach, a new tactic emerged.

It was indeed very easy to defend the city in the past. As long as there are enough food and supplies in the city, the enemy will not be able to attack it no matter how many troops it has.

But times have changed now.

At this moment, Wu Xingquan, the governor of Yangzhou Prefecture, came to reward the army with a large cart of food and wine.

This time there was a lot of meat, including some roast chicken and roast duck. Although each soldier did not get too much, at least he had a mouthful of meat to eat and a sip of wine to drink.

"Meet Wu Zhizhou." Yang Yun stepped forward and said.

Why is this Wu Zhizhou here again? You don’t have to come every day to reward the three armies, right? "General, what happened? The enemy is outside. How can we mess up our position?" Wu Xingquan said.

"Wu Zhizhou, this is what happened." Yang Yun told everything that happened today.

"General Yang, let me be fair. You have your difficulties, but you have also seen the situation on the city wall. The soldiers standing there would be committing suicide. How about I give you an idea? Do you think it will work?" Wu Xingquan said.

"Master Wu, please speak."

"Master Yang, if the Guanzhong army comes to attack the city, then their own people will have to find a way to climb the tower. If they continue to fire, it will be easy to cause accidental damage. At this time, the Guanzhong army is consuming us.

It is better to let the soldiers hide under the tower first to reduce casualties. If there is a cry of killing from outside the city, then the soldiers can then climb up the tower to defend. "Wu Xingquan said.

"Master Zhizhou is right. The artillery fire of the Guanzhong army is fierce, but they will not attack their own people. If they really send troops to attack the city, then the artillery fire will be stopped, and then we will defend before going up to the city tower."

"That's right. When the Guanzhong army begins to attack the city, we will go up to defend the city." A large group of soldiers also started shouting.

"Okay! In that case, let's wait until the artillery fire stops before we go upstairs. If anyone dares to retreat, I will kill them without mercy," Yang Yun said.

Seeing this scene, Wu Xingquan smiled and nodded. To put it bluntly, this Yang Yun is also a nerd. Although he is a military general, he has read military books since he was a child.

He has no understanding of the world at all. It is simply the biggest mistake of the imperial court for such a person to guard one side. Call him brave, but he is not very brave.

This man's martial arts skills are not even as good as most of the generals in the military camp. You can say that his fighting skills are excellent! He didn't have any clever plans, the only thing he had was his loyalty to the Emperor of the Zhao family.

"Come on, come on, all officers and men, eat these wine and meat first. Tomorrow, I will send you some food, including wine and meat." Wu Xingquan said.

At this time, Yang Yun didn't realize it at all. His prestige among the soldiers has dropped to a freezing point, while the prestige of the ignorant state has risen to an extremely high peak.

After the bombardment ended that night, Wu Xinquan recruited a group of generals. At this time, except for Yang Yun and Mr. Yang, all the generals in Yangzhou Prefecture were basically on his side.

Late at night on the third day, all the generals and other officials from Yangzhou Prefecture gathered in the Zhizhou Prefecture.

"Generals, it will be a long night and many dreams. We will take action tomorrow." Wu Xingquan said.

All soldiers now. There are also generals who have been won over by him. This Yang Yun has completely lost the hearts of the people. It is time to take action. There is no need to keep him anymore.

"Lord Zhizhou, we are willing to follow you." All the generals knelt on the ground and said.

"Okay! Everyone, from now on we will work together under the King of Guanzhong, and there will no longer be those corrupt officials to plot against you." Wu Xingquan said.

On the morning of the next day, under Yang Yun's disbelieving gaze, his personal bodyguard was directly killed, and then he himself was tied up with ropes by his subordinates.

"You, what are you going to do, what are you going to do? Let go of this general." Yang Yun struggled and said.

A dozen of his personal guards had been hacked to death by a large number of soldiers and fell in a pool of blood. The leaders were several of his lieutenants.

"Young person named Yang is unpopular. We can't blame you for this."

"You don't treat your brothers as human beings? All you think about is the Zhao family emperor who is loyal to you, so we don't want to follow you!" a military general shouted.

"We are eating the emperor's salary, and we have to worry about being loyal to the emperor. You are traitors and traitors, why are you rebelling?" Yang Yun, who was tied up, cursed angrily.

He couldn't understand that a general should be loyal to the imperial court and loyal to the emperor. Why? Why are you rebelling? He could understand one or two people rebelling, but everyone rebelled collectively.

He was a little confused. Could it be that his way of running the army was wrong? Shouldn’t there be strict requirements for governing the army?

"Just be loyal to your Zhao family! We won't accompany you anymore."

"You are loyal to your family, and your family is loyal to the Zhao family, which will naturally promote you. But everyone here is different from you, General Yang." Wu Xinquan walked over and said.

You have lived in such an environment since you were a child, so you naturally think that the emperors of the Zhao family are benevolent kings, and you naturally think that the Song Dynasty is extremely stable, but since the establishment of the Song Dynasty.

How many turmoils broke out, and how many loyal ministers and generals were unjustly killed? You don’t know how many battles we have suffered, how many territories we have lost, and how many vassal states we have lost!

The children of high-ranking families cannot understand the sufferings of the people at all. Only officials like me, who studied from a poor family and gained fame step by step, and military generals who rose up from the bottom of the people step by step, can understand the difficulties of the Song Dynasty. Only then can we appreciate the suffering of the people.

How many of us have studied hard for ten years and practiced martial arts in all weathers for ten years, but none of us can match your background. All it takes is a word from your family, and your brother and you can be in a high position.

Even your future son, this is family.

You are the real reason for the downfall of the entire Song Dynasty. All officials have been won over by your family. If there are not enough civil servants, they will use military force to get them.

The literati group has been messed up by you, the captive Confucians, and now you have extended your hands to the military generals, and let you wear away the blood of the children of the Han family and turn them into pigs and dogs for the emperor of the Zhao family.

It is the Han nation that really cannot hold its head high.

"More than a year has passed since I entered Yangzhou. Have I treated you well?"

"Haha! Ordinary soldiers, you beat and scold us at will. You don't treat us as human beings at all. You just ask us to die, and you dare to speak harshly."

"If you treat us well, how can we turn against you?"

Several generals who caught Yang Yun spoke.

When you first arrived in Yangzhou and took office? He gave us all three things to do when a new official took office.

He even killed one of our brothers on the spot because he was late for a meeting. After that, he beat and scolded the soldiers in the barracks.

When the former guard general was here, we could still eat some meat every month, but after you came, you actually cut off this meat. What do you mean by reducing Yangzhou's military expenditure?
There are strict requirements for everything, whether it is training or food and accommodation, but the more strict you are, the more the soldiers will dislike you.

You don't regard your brothers as human beings at all. If you don't want to share the hardships with us, how can you share the joys with us?

"Yang Yun! Yang Yun, you are not a leader, and you don't understand the people. Cut off his head." Wu Xingquan said.

"How dare you! Ah!"

A general raised his sword and dropped it, and a human head fell to the ground.

"Okay, okay, good kill, good kill." All the soldiers present cheered collectively, they were disgusted with Yang Yun to the core.

"Everyone, we will bring in the envoys from the Guanzhong Army and the war will be over." Wu Xingquan said to all the officials, generals, and soldiers.

At noon that day, the envoy of the Guanzhong army had just knocked on the city gate and saw the governor of Yangzhou Prefecture, leading a large group of officials holding the official seal of Yangzhou, respectfully leaving the city and surrendering.

The envoy did not dare to neglect, and immediately took these people to the camp of the Guanzhong Army. After all, it was confirmed that this strong man was not a fake. All the officials came out collectively, and the city gates were wide open!

"We and all the officials in Yangzhou Mansion are willing to surrender to the prince of Guanzhong."

Zhang Dingguan was a little confused. What was going on? My messenger hasn't even entered the city yet, and you came out and surrendered?
(End of this chapter)