Traveling through Tianlong: Starting from the Zhenlong chess game

Chapter 659: Three-party Victory
The Jin soldiers were extremely brutal in their looting of the people, and because of the follow-up of the subsequent troops, the same group of people had to be looted by at least four or five groups of Jin soldiers.

If a girl did not die, she would be raped many times by four or five groups of Jin soldiers.

Although the Song army's generals tacitly allowed their soldiers to plunder, burn and kill the enemy's civilians before the military system was reformed, this was the war tradition of that era after all.

Even though the Song army had done this kind of thing before, in their view, the Jin people's excessiveness had reached an outrageous level and left no way for them to survive.

Before the military reform, the Song army only had one day to enter the city to loot. Soldiers in the city took what they needed. But after one day, when the gongs and drums sounded, anyone who committed any illegal looting would be punished by military law. After that, there was a notice to reassure the people.

However, faced with the Jin soldiers' "draining the pond to catch all the fish" killing spree, the Song army could no longer bear it.

So a magical scene appeared on the eastern front, that is, the Song army also followed its previous military system, and after breaking the city, it allowed the Jin soldiers to rape and plunder as much as they wanted. But after twelve hours, the Song army would mark out a safe zone to accommodate those people.

According to the agreement negotiated by Zhao Mu and Aguda, the Song army would not care about the Jin army's seizure of the treasury and looting of the people's property. However, as long as the people fled to the Song army's refuge area, at least the Song army would save their lives.

Once, some Jin soldiers even had a direct conflict with the Song army. The reason was that a group of them were chasing a girl. The naked girl ran into the Song army's garrison area. The Song army stopped the Jin army's atrocities.

These barbarians who had escaped from the deep mountains and forests were naturally fearless. They wanted to force their way in, but the Song army was no longer as cowardly as before and refused them sternly.

This directly led to a conflict between the two sides, with both the Song and Jin armies suffering casualties.

Fortunately, Aguda stopped it in time, so it did not cause greater friction.

In response to this friction, Aguda sent Zongbi and Zongwang to apologize to the Song army and severely punished his soldiers.

Although this caused a great response in the army, Aguda and Wanyan Sheng were happy to see these things.

After all, their army had gone too far in killing and looting this time. The Jurchen tribe was not very populous, with only a few tens of thousands of people with their families. If they could control such a large territory with just these tens of thousands of people and cause too much resentment among the people, they would not be able to last long.

But in order to maintain the morale of the army, the leaders cannot restrict the soldiers too much.

The Song army restrained them, thus saving them from becoming bad guys.

Wanyan Sheng could also attribute this incident to the fact that "the Song people were using dogs to catch rats" and make the Jurchen warriors under his command hate the Song Dynasty and the Song people, laying the foundation for his military morale to conquer the Song Dynasty in the future.

Compared with the friction between Song and Jin, Murong Fu's side seemed much more harmonious. Because of Zhao Mu's military order, the Song army also helped Murong Fu capture cities along the way.

After the Song army and the several thousand troops under Murong Fu entered the city, no one looted. They just took control of the city as quickly as possible and sealed the treasury. As for those who surrendered, Murong Fu directly incorporated them into his own army.

After conquering several cities in succession, Murong Fu collected surrendered soldiers and recruited soldiers again. He now had tens of thousands of people under his command.

Although most of them were old, weak, sick and disabled, and had little fighting power.

But it's better to have something than nothing. What Murong Fu lacks most now is soldiers under his command. As long as they are willing to surrender and be loyal to him, he will naturally not treat them unfairly.

Murong Fu even received a complete Liao cavalry. Although there were only 3,000 people, their organization was complete. They were defeated by the Jin people and refused to surrender to them, so they directly joined Murong Fu's army.

Moreover, Murong Fu was very aware of the current situation. Every time he conquered a place, he would open the treasury to reward the officers and soldiers of the Song army who assisted in the siege. He also posted a notice to reassure the people not to harm them. Because of the negative example of the Jin people, Murong Fu accumulated a lot of popularity in a short period of time.

Even the people in other cities who were sheltered by the Song army and escaped the disaster rushed to Murong Fu's "Yan State" with their families.

Because of the collapse of the eastern battlefield, on Zhao Mu's central side, except for Youzhou City which was isolated from all external information, other cities experienced collapse or the military morale was shaken.

As the two fronts were advancing, Zhao Mu's side was almost there.

After seven days and seven nights of starving, both the Liao army defending the city and the Song army attacking the city were a little exhausted.

After all, this man is not made of iron, so he naturally can't stand staying awake for seven days and seven nights.

The Song army was better off because of rotations, but the Liao army guarding Youzhou City was exhausted. In the past seven days, they had not slept well or eaten a good meal.

The long-term harassment left them physically and mentally exhausted.

In the early morning of that day, Zhao Mu gathered all the generals in his tent and said, "Everyone has worked hard in the past seven days. We are in this state now. I believe the Liao army in the city is in even worse condition. Today is a good time to attack the city with all our strength."

Zhao Mu glanced at the hourglass on his desk and said, "It's almost dawn now, and now is the time when people are most sleepy. Have our troops been assembled?"

The vanguard general nodded and said, "Your Majesty, everyone is ready. We have been cooking since the second watch. Now everyone is full and waiting for Your Majesty to order the attack!"

Zhao Mu said, "Okay! Now that we are ready, let's get started. Send out orders to the three armies to launch a feint attack on the east and west gates. I will personally lead the main force of the vanguard army to attack the south gate. Let the ladders follow, and I will be the first to clear the way for you!"

"Yes!" With this yes, all the generals returned to the camp to arrange the battle. Half an hour later at dawn, the three armies of the Song Dynasty were ready to go.

Although Zhao Mu had chariots, they were useless in siege warfare. He just rode a warhorse in front of the team.

After a brief pre-war mobilization, Zhao Mu took the lead as bravely as ever.

He held the sword in one hand and the reins in the other, and rushed towards the south gate of Youzhou City at full speed.

The death squads of the vanguard army were also holding shields and carrying ladders and following closely behind Zhao Mu.

Hearing the shouts and cries coming from all directions, the Liao army defending the city reacted very calmly.

Everyone was yawning and preparing to fight. There was no energy at all.

But it was not their fault. Zhao Mu's strategy of wearing out the soldiers had made them somewhat desensitized. After all, the Song army would do this every morning and dawn, rushing to the city wall, hitting it twice and then retreating. Over time, the Liao army also thought that the Song army's attack this time was just a trick to tire them out, just like the previous ones.

Therefore, the Liao army defending the city did not take it seriously. Even many officers, when they heard the drums and shouts of the Song army, turned over nonchalantly, covered their ears and continued to sleep.

(End of this chapter)