Song Dynasty Cannon Fodder Counterattack Record

Chapter 183 Attacking Beizhou ([-])

Before entering the boundary of Hebei Road, you can see a scene of chaos.

The Maitreya Sect is indeed very powerful in Hebei Road. After the incident in Beizhou, not only a large number of Maitreya believers gathered in Beizhou, but also many groups haunted and attacked the government troops who went to Beizhou to suppress them.The officers and soldiers who were attacked naturally wanted to retaliate, so the common people in the fighting area were unlucky. Even if they were not affected by the fighting, they might be ransacked by the officers and the Maitreya Sect, so they fled one after another.

At the same time, 3 officers and soldiers surrounded Beizhou, requiring a large amount of food and grass. Naturally, they needed to conscript civilians for transportation. As a result, a large number of civilians were arrested and died on the way.Therefore, it has only been one month since the Beizhou uprising, and many places in Hebei have been empty.

Li Buqi felt blocked when he saw this depressed scene. According to his idea, the farce should end soon, but Ming Hao was in charge, so he had no choice but to follow without saying a word.Fortunately, Ming Hao is also a responsible person. He rushed all the way to the city of Beizhou, gathered all the generals and read out the decree, and then began to exercise command power. There were 3000 people, and then they asked: "The imperial court's tens of thousands of troops gathered under the Beizhou city. If they say they can't take the city, it's fine, but they are defeated in field battles with bandits. What's the reason?"

Wang Xin, the manager, quickly said: "I want to appease you, the thief is cunning. In the past few battles, we used fire bulls to charge the battle. Our army was unprepared at the beginning, so we suffered a few times. But after a few times, we were prepared. I can always kill some cattle this time, and I don’t think there are many cattle in the city, and I haven’t used fire cattle in the past few days. Now our army has entered the city and completed the siege.”

What Wang Xin said, Ming Hao actually saw it in the battle report, and the reason why he asked again was because he meant to beat the generals, so he looked at Wang Xin coldly and said: "It's good that the thief is cunning, but you all You are a general, if you are careful, how can you let the thieves succeed repeatedly? You are all people in charge of the army, how can this appearance make His Majesty feel at ease and the people feel at ease?"

Wang Xin's face turned red all of a sudden, but he didn't dare to defend himself. Mai Yunyan, Wang Kai, Hao Zhi and others also quickly knelt down: "I'm guilty, please appease me." The new Beizhou sitting next to Minghao Zhizhou Gao Jilong was also embarrassed.Although he was urgently transferred from Cangzhou after the Beizhou uprising, he was also the nominal commander in Beizhou city, and he could hardly absolve himself of the blame for the defeat.

Ming Hao said with a cold face: "Originally, this old man should read your book, but it is important to quell the rebellion. When I am employing people, I will not pursue this matter for the time being. You should follow orders and go all out when attacking the city. If anyone steals Playing tricks, the old man will definitely not spare him, and he will be punished for both new and old crimes!"

Wang Xin and the others hurriedly said: "The rank must obey the orders and move forward desperately. Please rest assured."

Only then did Ming Hao ask: "How is the preparation for the siege now?"

Wang Xin said: "At present, the army has surrounded Beizhou on all sides, but the walls of Beizhou are high and thick, easy to defend and difficult to attack. The lower officials have ordered to cut down trees to make siege equipment. Now stone cannons, ladders and bridges have been built. Dozens were completed."

Ming Hao said: "Okay, let's build it with all our strength in the army. After five days, we will start to attack the city. There must be no mistakes."

Wang Xin's face turned bitter, and he hesitated for a moment before saying, "Appointment to appease. Beizhou has always been guarding against the invasion of the Liao army. All the big trees have been cut down, and the wood for the siege equipment has been felled from far away. And there are many people around. There are Maitreya believers harassing the officers and soldiers, so the equipment that can be made in five days may not be enough for use."

Ming Hao ignored Gao Jilong's repeated winks and said angrily: "If Beizhou does not go down, the Maitreya Sect will not give up. They will harass everywhere and the people will be displaced. And Beizhou has a large army, so the people can only be requisitioned to transfer food and grass in the severe cold, so there is a lot of delay. I don’t know how many people’s bones are filled in the gully in one day. Beizhou is also close to the Liao Kingdom, so it is difficult to guarantee that the Liao Kingdom will not take advantage of the opportunity to raise troops, so the pacification of Beizhou is a matter of national security. How can you be afraid of difficulties at this moment when you are living on the state’s salary? This official decides Let’s attack the city in five days, and anyone who flinches will be killed!”

Now Wang Xin and the others felt bitter.However, Ming Hao sang a high-profile voice to lift up the country and the people. These veterans in the officialdom understand that if they oppose Ming Hao’s order, then a big hat cannot escape. If Ming Hao fights against them again, they will be defeated It is possible to be dismissed from office and sent to prison, so no one dared to say anything, and everyone only took orders.

After giving the order, Ming Hao looked at Li Buqi who was sitting next to him: "Jun Supervisor Li, you have always been resourceful, and now the military situation is urgent, but if you have any good ways to attack the city, you might as well tell them, so that the officers and troops can reduce losses."

Now everyone looked at Li Buqi, especially the generals looked eagerly.We all know that Li Buqi is capable, and I hope he can come up with an idea, so that the siege of the city may be easier.

But Li Buqi said: "The first thing to do in battle is to adapt to local conditions and the time. The situation in Beizhou City is not clear to the lower officials, and there is no good way."

Ming Hao said: "The situation in Beizhou has been clearly stated in the military newspaper, what else is unclear? Li Junjian must have some ideas when he said that 3 people can capture Beizhou. Let's listen to it. It’s good to brainstorm.”

Now the eyes of the generals became eager again—Li Buqi dared to say that there must be a way to capture Beizhou with 3 people.But Li Buqi still said calmly and firmly: "At that time, the lower officials only said that 3 people were enough for the time being, because the lower officials were young and inexperienced, and did not dare to follow the command of the military report only, and how to attack the city needs to be checked on the spot. At that time, we considered the difficulty of transporting food and grass and stationing in the field when there were too many people, but after deciding how to fight, we might still need to increase our troops.”

When Li Buqi said that, Ming Hao had no choice but to say: "In that case, let's go down to the city and have a look."

So all the people got out of their tents and got on their horses to get out of the camp, and ran around Beizhou.

Beizhou is not far from Chanzhou, and it is at the forefront of defending the Liao Kingdom. Therefore, the city walls and moats are renovated every year, and the outside of the city is also bare.

When Li Buqi and the others went around the city to observe, the defenders on the city wall found them, and soon gathered a large group of people, and there was a faint shout, but they couldn't hear what they were shouting from a distance.Li Buqi took out his binoculars and looked towards the top of the city. He could see that the people on the city were waving their flags and shouting with high morale.At this time, someone fired two javelins with a bed crossbow. Wang Xin and others yelled "Protect the commander" and surrounded Ming Hao and Gao Jilong and retreated. The range of the crossbow is not so far, so don’t panic!”

Sure enough, the strength of the two javelins had weakened and the direction had been blown off, and they fell into the soil at least 50 meters away from Li Buqi.Wang Xin and the others blushed again.They wanted these civil servants to feel that Beizhou had excellent armaments, easy to defend and difficult to attack, but obviously Li Buqi couldn't be fooled, so they had to circle the horse back and stand beside Li Buqi's horse.

The output of binoculars is extremely low now, and only the commander-in-chief such as Ming Hao can get one. Wang Xin and others are not high enough.Li Buqi handed the binoculars to Wang Xin and said, "Let's have a look."Following Li Buqi's example, Wang Xin put the binoculars over his eyes and almost fell off his horse: "Is this clairvoyance?"

Li Buqi said: "This is called a telescope. In the future, the generals will definitely have one. It seems that the morale of the thieves is very high?"

Wang Xin introduced with a solemn expression: "Mitreya taught the thieves to be vicious, and stabbed the six characters "Yijun defeated Zhao Desheng" on the faces of the people in the city, forcing the people in the city to fight desperately with the heavenly soldiers, and some of them took mad drugs to go into battle, so Thieves are brave and sloppy."

Li Buqi asked: "Have you ever tried to surrender?"

Gao Jilong next to him said: "The imperial court transferred this official to recruit security for the culprit. It's just that the criminal is very resolute and there is no room for negotiation. I think it is impossible to recruit security."

Wang Xin respectfully returned the telescope to Li Buqi, and Li Buqi gestured for him to show the telescope to the other generals as well.Then he said: "Kochi prefecture only recruited the leader of the thieves, right? Haven't you tried to recruit the thieves below?"

(End of this chapter)