Traveling through Tianlong: Starting from the Zhenlong chess game

Chapter 661 Nothing Gained

The war finally ended, and the Song army began to clean up the remaining troops and search and count the treasury.

However, this time Zhao Mu and the soldiers were a little surprised.

This is because the current Youzhou City, Nanjing of the Liao Dynasty, has become an "empty city".

"Empty City" doesn't mean that there is nothing here. It means that there is nothing here that Zhao Mu wants.

All the Liao nobles and their families in Youzhou City had left. Besides armor, weapons, and food, there were not many other items such as gold, silver, and jewelry in the warehouses of the government offices in the city, although it could not be said that there was none at all.

Zhao Mu's army looted the entire treasury of Youzhou City, but ultimately only found 500,000 taels of silver.

However, this amount of money should only be the salary for the defenders in the city for a few months.

Although they did not find the silver and women they wanted, there was a lot of food in the city. It seemed that the Liao army was planning to turn this place into a military fortress to defend the south gate, and then fight the Song army to the death here.

But in the face of absolute military strength, this level of resistance is as futile as the Maginot Line.

However, Zhao Mu did not get all the food because after the city was captured, the defenders in the city began to burn the warehouses.

By the time Zhao Mu's army rushed into the city, a small half of the grain had been burned, and even a number of houses had been set on fire.

In the end, the Song army demolished two streets of houses and dozens of grain stacks to prevent the fire from spreading further. The fire was finally put out. Of course, Zhao Mu would compensate the people for the demolished houses later. Although the people would not come to him for it.

After a day and night of searching, confiscation, cleaning and counting, order in Youzhou City was finally completely restored.

Zhao Mu counted his casualties and clearance situation this time.

Although Zhao Mu made his best efforts, he still suffered heavy casualties this time. The central army he brought out this time had a total of 150,000 men. After seven days of siege, he lost 30,000 men.

Among them, more than 10,000 were killed, more than 8,000 were seriously injured, and the rest were slightly injured to varying degrees. However, they were unable to exert effective combat power in a short period of time, so they could only be temporarily placed here or sent back to Xiongzhou for recuperation.

Although the casualties were heavy, it was a great victory in the hearts of the Song soldiers. Zhao Mu only lost 30,000 people, but the Song army chopped off nearly 100,000 heads this time. The main force of the Liao army on the southern line had been completely annihilated by Zhao Mu.

Moreover, this time it was a siege war, and the target was an absolutely strong city like a secondary capital of a country.

This kind of casualties was not only acceptable to the Song army, but in everyone's mind, it was already a very small loss.

When the chief clerks informed the soldiers of their statistical results, everyone cheered and shouted "Long live Emperor Zhong", and regarded him as the god of war in their hearts.

Perhaps it was because he had fought too many favorable battles, and this loss ratio was unacceptable to Zhao Mu. So when Zhao Mu reported his victory to Zhezong, he also listed his own faults.

After that, Zhao Mu sent the news of the fall of Youzhou City to Zhezong as quickly as possible. After resting here for a few days, Zhao Mu would go to the next target, break through Shanhaiguan, and prepare to go out to fight. With Youzhou City in hand, the throat of the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun was in hand. The purpose of this battle was achieved.

Although Zhao Mu did not gain any substantial benefits from this battle, he also left behind many valuable things, such as the Nanyuan Palace.

After Zhao Mu stabilized the situation in Youzhou City, he moved in openly.

Zhao Mu sat in the lobby, feeling the same feeling that Qiao Feng had felt back then. However, Zhao Mu sat there for a long time and still didn't feel it. Perhaps it was because he and Qiao Feng had different status.

Before Qiao Feng became the King of the Southern Courtyard, he was just a beggar. From a beggar to a prince with a mighty army, that feeling is something Zhao Mu cannot understand.

After all, Zhao Mu was born into a royal family. Although he was not the crown prince in the Dongping County Prince's Mansion, he was also a prince. Later, he was made a marquis, a king, and now an emperor. So he couldn't feel it at all.

I even feel that this King of the Southern Court is nothing special.

When Zhao Mu was sitting in the main hall, Li Canghai, dressed in the clothes of a dragon guard, slowly walked over. When she got close, she took off the beast-head mask of the dragon guard, revealing her face full of sorrow.

Seeing his beauty worried, Zhao Mu asked, "What's wrong? Is there something that makes you unhappy?"

Li Canghai looked at Zhao Mu and said, "The Jingguan outside the city are all the heads of my Liao soldiers. How can I be happy?"

Zhao Mu sighed and said, "This can't be helped. After all, the new military system that Your Majesty and I have drawn up to record military merits based on the enemy's head is unavoidable. But this also applies to the soldiers. Look at the people in the city, aren't they all fine? Did our army loot, rape women, burn and kill people after entering the city?"

Li Canghai heard this and said, "That's true. Compared to our Liao Dynasty, your Song Dynasty did a good job. But that scene really made me nervous."

Zhao Mu stepped forward and hugged her, saying, "Don't worry, our army has won a great victory. We have entered the city and settled down. Shouldn't Master Uncle comfort me?"

Seeing this, Li Canghai hurriedly pushed Zhao Mu. She said, "You have tortured me for seven or eight days. Let me rest for a while. Besides, you have entered the city now, it is not difficult to find a few women to accompany you."

Although Li Canghai resisted, Zhao Mu had no intention of letting her go. Zhao Mu said, "Of course it's difficult. The Song army has a clear ban on robbing and raping women. If I, the leader, break it, how can I convince the others in the future?"

"Besides, this is just an empty city. All the nobles and officials of your Liao Dynasty have fled. Where can I find those young ladies to have fun with? There is only one garrison commander left here as a scapegoat. But this guy is quite courageous. He committed suicide after the city was captured. I admire him very much. So I rewarded him with a decent funeral and left him with a complete body."

Zhao Mu was now trying to take action against Li Canghai. He smiled and said, "Since we haven't captured the nobles and young ladies of the Liao Dynasty, I will have to trouble the Great Shaman to stay with me for a few more days."

Although Li Canghai's legs were still trembling, she had no choice but to obey Zhao Mu's roguery. After all, as he said, if she didn't accompany him, then the women in this city would be in trouble.

Although Zhao Mu had issued an order prohibiting the act of forcibly abducting women, there were always more solutions than problems in this world. As long as he wanted, his soldiers could come up with ten thousand excuses to please him.

Li Canghai sighed helplessly. This was the last small contribution she, the great shaman, made to the girls of the Liao Kingdom.

(End of this chapter)