Tumeng: I am a national advisor in the Golden Family

Chapter 496: Making great progress, Zhang Yong finally arrives at Lin'an Mansion
Now that they have defeated the Yangtze River, the outcome of this war has been decided. The Southern Song Dynasty has no natural dangers to defend, and the only few passes have been breached by themselves.

More than 200,000 troops marched all the way down the river. The water and land armies began to advance at the same time, with great momentum.

The army marched for a few more days and arrived at Huangzhou City. Before Zhang Yong could send an envoy to the city to persuade him to surrender.

The garrison in the city immediately left the city and surrendered. His movements were so fast that even Zhang Yong was startled.

The Huangzhou guard was quickly brought to Zhang Yong, and Zhang Yong also received him very warmly.

After accepting the surrender of the Huangzhou defender, Zhang Yong promised to treat the people in the city well and directly integrated the thousands of Huangzhou defenders.

Huangzhou City is well built and can be regarded as an important defensive town. There are several fortresses around it, which can be regarded as a good defensive fortification.

But the Huangzhou garrison had only a few thousand soldiers and horses under his command. Facing Zhang Yong's more than 200,000 troops to resist stubbornly, there was no way to survive.

Didn’t you see that Marshal Meng’s hundreds of thousands of troops were all annihilated by the King of Guanzhong’s army, and they were annihilated in a city-defense battle?

Surrendering at this time is actually not shameful at all. The civil servants of the Southern Song Dynasty were still military generals. Are they stupid? Are they stupid?

Not at all, and there are very few foolish and loyal people.

Occasionally, when encountering some stubbornly resisting cities, Zhang Yong would use cannons to blast them away, and then enter the city to destroy the resisting troops. All officers, soldiers and people would not have any trouble.

As for the general who insists on resisting, Zhang Yong will directly order the execution of the three tribes. How can you maintain your loyalty? As long as you resist, I will kill you, it's that simple, and all the command and combat officers will die together.

You resisted, set an example of resistance for others, and maintained your loyalty. Do you still want me to bury you generously? That will definitely kill you.

However, I will not let all the people or officers and soldiers be buried with you. I will only kill your family. On the way to Hangzhou, Zhang Yong killed a few such die-hards.

And it was the kind where everyone, regardless of gender or age, would be killed. Under this policy, some pass guards were indeed frightened, and they even began to surrender before Zhang Yong's army arrived.

As for those who surrender, there will naturally be many benefits. The people in the city will be saved, and they will also receive some rewards from Zhang Yong.

This creates a stark contrast.

In this situation, you would be a fool not to surrender.

More than half a month later, Zhang Yong's army arrived at Jiangzhou Prefecture, and then called the defenders of Huangzhou City and some defenders of Ezhou Prefecture in the Southern Song Dynasty, intending to ask them to go to Jiangzhou Prefecture to persuade them to surrender.

Zhang Yong has found out clearly that there are only more than 8,000 defenders in Jiangzhou City, and they have no ability to resist his army.

A group of generals who surrendered nodded and soon came to the city and began to persuade them to surrender.

However, the Jiangzhou Prefecture's general was quite tough, and Zhang Yong's attempts to persuade him to surrender did not work. Basically, all the Southern Song generals sent to persuade him to surrender were shot back with arrows.

In this case, Zhang Yong did not intend to be polite to the other party. He ordered the entire army to rest for a day that day, and then that night.

The Jiangzhou garrison actually rushed out from a secret passage and wanted to sneak attack the military camp, but Zhang Yong beat him back.

This time the Jiangzhou Prefecture's guard came for a sneak attack. Instead of running out of the city gate, he took a secret passage along the river.

I brought thousands of troops with me to try to frustrate Zhang Yong's side, but you are very brave! With a few thousand men, he dared to sneak attack on my army of hundreds of thousands.

Zhang Yong was not polite to such warriors. After repelling the night attack that night, he directly formed a formation early the next morning, equipped with heavy artillery and trebuchets, and began to launch explosive packages for bombing.

Even at night, they did not stop attacking, but continued to unleash artillery fire on Jiangzhou City.

After a day and night of bombardment. At noon the next day, Zhang Yong launched a general attack, and several heavy artillery blasted open the city gate of Jiangzhou.

Some scattered ships in Jiangzhou were also defeated by the Guanzhong naval forces. In the afternoon of that day, Zhang Yong entered the city.

Captured all the generals in Jiangzhou Prefecture.

Then he ignored the pleas of some surrendered generals of the Southern Song Dynasty and beheaded all the middle-level and upper-level officers in Jiangzhou City, including their families and all the children.

A total of seven to eight hundred heads were chopped off by Zhang Yong that day. There was nothing he could do. Sometimes if you don't be ruthless and kill them, some people would think you are soft!
This is the end of stubborn resistance. If it were in the West, such a city would be massacred directly, leaving some defenders in Jiangzhou Prefecture.

After promoting some officials, Zhang Yong led the army in two groups, one to Longxing Prefecture and the other to attack Anqing Prefecture.

These two prefectures belong to the rear. When Lin'an Prefecture asked for help before, they even sent reinforcements.

He didn't have many troops. Zhang Yong divided 50,000 troops into each of these two areas to fight, while he led the remaining troops to advance toward Lin'an Prefecture.

Now the Sichuan-Sichuan area, Xiangyang Prefecture area, and Chuzhou area have been successfully connected. Only some scattered small towns are still resisting, but there is no way back.

It took Zhang Yong's army a full month to break through Anqing Mansion. The guard general of Anqing Mansion was defeated and committed suicide. All the family members and relatives of the guard general were slaughtered on Zhang Yong's order.

For some areas in the south, Zhang Yong also deliberately wanted to massacre local famous families, otherwise, these famous families would sometimes do bad things.

Therefore, there is another excuse for this massacre, which is to weaken some prominent families in the Jiangnan area. If the generals resist, then it is a justified killing.

After all, there are more or less people from these famous families who are officials in the officialdom. As long as the city resists, Zhang Yong will say nothing.

They massacred high-ranking officials and their families.

This situation really scared some wealthy families. Once these wealthy families discovered the generals guarding the city and wanted to resist desperately, they would directly and secretly contact Zhang Yong's army.

Then find a way to open the city gate and let Zhang Yong's army enter the city.

Zhang Yong, who took the initiative to avoid the fate of his family being slaughtered, chose to accept it. After all, there was a point in killing these famous families.

A few days after Anqing Mansion was captured, good news also came from the direction of Longxing Mansion. Some of the defenders of Longxing Mansion chose to surrender to Zhang Yong's army.

They also secretly opened the city gate and put Zhang Yong's army into the city. The defender who stubbornly resisted was killed by them.

After Zhang Yong learned about this, he immediately issued a military order that all generals who surrendered would not be held accountable, as was the slain guard.

All the family members and three clans were slaughtered, and the generals who participated in the defense of the city with him met the same fate.

But all the ordinary soldiers, as well as the local people, were treated well.

Such a cruel approach really scared many people in Xinzhou, Jizhou, Hengzhou, Wenzhou and other prefectures and counties surrendered one after another.

The left army sent by Zhang Yong did not choose to resist Zhang Yong's army. After attacking Longxing Prefecture, the left army advanced all the way and directly hit the hinterland of Wenzhou, completely cutting off all retreat routes in the Southern Song Dynasty.

At this time, Lin'an Prefecture had been gradually isolated. Even through the Yangtze River waterway, the navy troops sent by Zhang Yong also attacked Jiangping Prefecture. After capturing Jiangping Prefecture, they blocked the waterway of Lin'an Prefecture.

Immediately afterwards, the navy was sent to cooperate with the army to attack Qingyuan Mansion. It took several days to capture Qingyuan Mansion with ship-based artillery and other artillery, and took Taizhou along the way.

Shaoxing Prefecture, which was only a hundred miles away from Lin'an Prefecture, was also directly attacked by Zhang Yong's son, Guo Kan, with troops. At this time, Lin'an City was completely surrounded.

The sea route was blocked by Zhang Yong and the land route, Shaoxing Prefecture and Qingyuan Prefecture. Pingjiang Mansion has been sealed by Zhang Yong.

The war with the Southern Song Dynasty lasted for half a year. Zhang Yong led the main army to Lin'an Mansion. At this time, almost four months had passed since his eldest son besieged Lin'an Mansion. In the past four months, Zhang Yong's eldest son had repelled several groups of Southern Song troops who came to serve the king. He would take the lead in the battle, which greatly boosted the morale of the army. The army from Yangzhou Prefecture to the Central Plains and the army from Hebei continued to attack. support.

Until Shi Tianze came to join him with his army. The siege of Lin'an Mansion officially began. Zhang Yong led the army to conquer Ezhou, Huangzhou, Jiangzhou, and Anqing Prefecture.

The battle to destroy the Song Dynasty, which lasted for more than half a year, finally reached the final step, attacking Lin'an Mansion.

As long as Lin'an Prefecture is captured, the Southern Song Dynasty will have no retreat, although more than half of the land is still unconquered. But the more southern land.

The management authority of the Southern Song Dynasty was also getting weaker. As long as the troops were sent there, Zhang Yong could conquer all these areas without even having to go there himself.

"My son, I pay homage to my father!" Zhang Yong's eldest son brought Shi Tianze, Zhang Rou, Guo Kan, Debu Hua, Tulu and other generals to the outside of the city early to welcome Zhang Yong's army.

"Hahaha! Get up, you did a good job. This time we were able to advance to Lin'an Prefecture, and the progress was so smooth. You part of the army must have contributed a lot." Zhang Yong stepped forward and helped his eldest son and all the generals one by one. He stood up and spoke.

The army led by his eldest son did play a key role this time, quickly conquering Yangzhou and threatening Lin'an Prefecture.

The Southern Song Dynasty was shocked, the command system was in chaos, and the morale of the frontline soldiers was extremely low. This gave Zhang Yong an opportunity to quickly launch a cross-river campaign and completely tear through the Yangtze River defense line.

The army from Chuzhou launched a fierce attack and quickly attacked Lin'an Prefecture, threatening the capital of the Southern Song Dynasty. is a key to this battle.

Zhang Yong did not want to pursue the royal bloodline of the Southern Song Dynasty for several years like the Yuan Dynasty in later generations. The Southern Song Dynasty was a relay race between little emperors.

Therefore, after occupying the entire Yangtze River waterway, Zhang Yong would send troops to attack Jiangping Prefecture, use Jiangping Prefecture and Qingyuan Prefecture as naval bases, and completely block all the sea outlets of Lin'an Prefecture.

Completely eliminate the intention of the Southern Song Dynasty emperor to escape, or the royal family's intention to escape.

"Your Majesty, it has only been less than seven months since the war began, and we have already captured half of the Southern Song Dynasty.

Now as long as Lin'an Prefecture is captured, the land in the south will be your land. "Shi Tianze said.

Since ancient times, it has been so easy for the north to defeat the south.

"Well! You have been here for several months. How is the situation in Lin'an Mansion now?" Zhang Yong led many generals into the military camp, sat in the general's seat, looked at everyone and asked.

After the two armies merged, Zhang Yong's troops had reached 250,000. Twenty years later, he was finally heading towards the supreme position.

"Report to the prince! The only army in Lin'an Mansion was when King Qin's army came over in the past few months. They came out of the city to fight, but they were basically repelled by us." Shi Tianze said.

Just kidding, once the cavalry troops cross the Yangtze River, the north will have no chance, not to mention the troops coming from the Central Plains and the troops coming from Hebei besides the cavalry troops.

In terms of land warfare, the southern army is also defeated, not to mention the firearms army in Guanzhong is not a vegetarian.

Several rescue armies came from the Southern Song Dynasty, but they were all repulsed. Until half a month ago, the King of Guanzhong completely captured Qingyuan Mansion and Pingjiang Mansion, completely cutting off all Lin'an Mansion's retreat routes.

"Father, from my perspective, there should be enough food and grass in Lin'an Mansion, but it should not be supported until next year! If we launch a strong attack, we should be able to capture Lin'an quickly." Zhang Dingguan said.

His father fought all the way from Xiangyang Prefecture to Jiangling Prefecture, to Changde Prefecture, and passed through Ezhou, Pohuangzhou, Jiangzhou, Anqing Prefecture, Longxing Prefecture, and Shaoxing Prefecture, which took four or five months.

He brought the army to join him, but on his side, he was stuck in Lin'an Mansion for nearly five months.

Originally, the early stage went very smoothly. Both Yangzhou Prefecture and Jiankang Prefecture were captured, but only Lin'an Prefecture. After the arrival of the army, Zhang Dingguan also organized several projects, but they all ended in failure.

"Hahaha! The mission of your army is to besiege. I didn't want you to attack the city, so I didn't equip you with any sharp artillery.

The artillery is all on my side, so my side will naturally advance faster. "Zhang Yong patted his son on the shoulder and said.

How could he not see what his eldest son was thinking, but what Zhang Dingguan did this time made Zhang Yong very happy. There was no mistake in the siege of Lin'an Mansion.

After hearing Zhang Yong's comfort, Zhang Dingguan nodded.

His father was really good at predicting events. He had thought that the battle in the Southern Song Dynasty would last for several years, but he didn't expect it to be as his father expected.

This battle will not last more than a year, or even end in eight or nine months. As long as Lin'an Mansion is captured, although there is still a large area of ​​land left in the Southern Song Dynasty, it is no longer important.

"Your Majesty! How will we fight in this next battle?" Guo Kan asked.

After joining the army of the King of Guanzhong, he had the opportunity to make contributions and stand out. This time he launched a war, and he conquered many enemy cities, annihilated many Southern Song troops, and accumulated a lot of combat experience.

Finally, he lived up to the expectations of his adoptive father and the King of Guanzhong.

"Well! How many firearms reserves do we have in the army?" Zhang Yong touched his chin, looked at the quartermaster, and asked.

After fighting this way, when Jiangning Mansion was undergoing repairs, a wave of firearms were replenished. I don't know how the gunpowder consumption in the army was.

"Your Majesty! We still have more than a hundred Thunderbolt rockets in our army, and 1/4 of the gunpowder for all firearms and shells is left.

If a comprehensive bombing of several city gates of Lin'an Prefecture was carried out, it would take a few days at most before it would be exhausted.

If gunpowder and artillery shells are transported from Sichuan and Sichuan, or from the Guanzhong and Central Plains areas, it will probably take more than a month. "The quartermaster immediately stood up and said.

The Guanzhong army is indeed advancing very fast, and they are advancing with great success, but the pressure on logistics is also very heavy. In addition to transporting grain and grass, the transportation of firearms, shells, and some consumables is also a big problem.

The most important thing is that not that many were produced. It had only been half a year since the war started, and all the ammunition that had been stored in Guanzhong for several years had been used up.

Artillery is indeed powerful, but the shells are not cheap either! In this battle to destroy the Song Dynasty, King Guanzhong had almost used up all the firearms wealth he had saved over the years.

"Well! There should be a new batch of artillery shells produced in Sichuan, Sichuan and Guanzhong. Let's send people to start transporting them first. As for Lin'an Mansion, I plan to send envoys in." Zhang Yong thought for a moment and said. .

Now more than 200,000 troops are besieging him, and both water and land routes, Zhao Yun's escape direction, have been cut off.

Under this situation, the royal family and civil and military officials of the Southern Song Dynasty have all been locked up in Lin'an Mansion.

The neighboring Shaoxing Prefecture, Qingyuan Prefecture, and Pingjiang Prefecture have all been captured by Zhang Yong's army.

The pressure in the city is now quite high. If someone is sent to persuade them to surrender, maybe the emperor of the Southern Song Dynasty will really come out to surrender. After all, this is an old tradition.

"My lord, what you say makes sense. As soon as your army arrives, the defenders in the city will naturally know about it.

Their morale will only become lower. Sending envoys at this time will indeed have unexpected effects. "Shi Tianze touched his chin and said.

"Yeah! We still have more than 100 thunderbolt rockets. Let me use half of them tonight and fire fifty of them at Lin'an Prefecture. Then early tomorrow morning, we will send envoys to persuade them to surrender." Zhang Yong made a final decision. .

After Zhang Yong's army arrived, the entire Lin'an Prefecture fell into despair and had been besieged for four months. Instead of waiting for reinforcements, the main army from Guanzhong arrived.

"Woo! Dear gentlemen, our country, the Song Dynasty, has been established for more than three hundred years. Are we going to perish at the hands of a few people?" Zhao Yun sat on the dragon chair, wiping his tears and looking at Wen and Wu kneeling below. Baiguan said.

　Dayuan has the highest proportion, currently

　　
　
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