Five Dynasties River Mountains Fengyue

Chapter 518 The Difference Between Cloud and Mud
In early April, Youzhou was still chilly. Emperor Shi stopped at the Youzhou Palace, and the garrison had completely controlled the city defenses. Youzhou seemed to have returned to its old rhythm. Except for a new batch of defenders, it seemed that there was not much change. .

In the Jianing Palace, battle reports from all over the world flew in like snowflakes, and there were quite a few every day.

Fortunately, these complicated battle reports were all handled by Zhao Shijian, and they were streamlined and then sent to his desk for reporting to him, which was not so troublesome.

In Daliang, there is a whole team of prime ministers to handle these matters, while in Youzhou there is only Zhao Shijian, but after years of baptism and training, the daughter-in-law is fully capable of such a job, even better than those prime ministers.

The two are intimate and know each other's strengths and weaknesses. Of course, Zhao Shijian understands Emperor Shi's habits and hobbies. He knows what kind of official documents and reports he wants to listen to, what he likes and what he doesn't like. They are completely different.

No matter how much he emphasizes that the old men are practical and talk about people, they still like to show off their ability to find and extract sentences, and Emperor Shi is so angry that he wants to scold his mother.

Sometimes Emperor Shi wished he could fire the prime ministers in the Zhengshitang and let Zhao Shijian do it.

Of course, he wasn't prepared to do this, those things were too tiring and annoying, and from time to time someone had to take the blame, how could he let his own wife do it, of course those old men had to do it.

On the fifth day of April, Emperor Shi had just returned from Yuanhe Hall, when Zhao Shijian came over to him and said, "Juyongguan has been breached."

Shi Congyun was stunned, surprised and delighted, and happily took her hand and walked into the main hall of Daijianing Hall. Zhao Shijian said as he walked, "It's the news that Guo came in from the northwest. He and the striker Li Jilong met three days ago. When we arrived at Juyongguan at noon, we found that fighting had already started at Juyongguan.

They guessed that Yang Jiye's army might be starting from Daizhou and going to Fanzhi, Lingqiu, Weizhou, and Zhuozhou from the northwest, so they launched an offensive from the southeast back of Guancheng.

The battle went smoothly. On the same day, they attacked Guancheng from the south hillside. At night, they joined forces with the friendly army from the north. It was indeed Yang Jiye's army. "

Emperor Shi looked at the map and said with emotion: "This Yang Jiye's march is really fast."

Zhao Shijian agreed, "It's only been more than half a month. They traveled from Daizhou to the west, passed through Fanzhi County, climbed over the mountains and took down Lingqiu, and then went to attack Weizhou. Some went northwest to capture Zhuozhou, and then went southwest to attack Juyongguan. , This road crossed rivers and mountains, and traveled more than 700 miles."

Shi Congyun nodded: "It's really not easy. The Hedong Army is not as well-equipped as the Forbidden Army. I heard from Xiang Xun that the artillery only gave them one battalion, so they can fight so well.

They want to prove themselves too much, but this is also a good thing. "

Emperor Shi understood the feelings of the Hedong army. At the beginning of the Northern Han Dynasty, the Emperor of Liao Kingdom was regarded as his father, and he was looked down upon by the people of the world. Even after the Qin army took back Hedong, there were many people who looked down on them all over the country.

Because of this, the Hedong Legion has been suffocating to prove itself, and this time they finally got the opportunity to attack the Liao Kingdom.

The reported casualties also confirmed the desperate efforts of the Hedong Army Corps. They were part of the division, and their casualties were several times that of the main force that attacked Youzhou.

Emperor Shi thought for a while, and said to Zhao Shijian: "You write an edict to commend Yang Jiye's army on my behalf, and at the same time tell them not to act too hastily. A victory with a loss of [-] is unnecessary.

If you save people and lose land, everyone and land will survive; if you save land and lose people, you will lose everyone and land. "

Zhao Shijian nodded, and tacitly went to draft an edict for him.

The defenders of Juyongguan probably never expected that the Qin army would attack from the direction of Youzhou. They were fighting against the Qin army in the northwest, but they did not expect that another Qin army would come up from the southeast and kill them all at once.

Emperor Shi was very happy with the victory at Juyongguan, and he also understood the blood and courage of the Hedong Army. However, people are the foundation of everything. There have been many victorious countries in history.

That would be better than preserving strength and forming a confrontation, so the Hedong Army's courage is commendable and worthy of praise, but their tactics still need to be changed, and they can no longer fight with such a large number of casualties.

Emperor Shi did not expect that Juyongguan would be captured only a few days after Guo Jin led his troops out.

He marked the situation of the Qin army on the map, "In this way, Shuozhou, Huanzhou, Weizhou, Lingqiu, Zhuozhou, Juyongguan, Youzhou, and Shunzhou have been connected together. Next, we will look at Tanzhou and the camp. State, Pingzhou."

"Let's celebrate!" Emperor Shi looked at Zhao Shijian with a smirk: "It's hard to come to Youzhou, but I haven't tried it yet."

"Don't make trouble, there is a business!" Zhao Shijian refused, and she was seriously choosing words and sentences to write an edict, "These will be preserved and observed by future generations, and must be carefully considered and considered."

Emperor Shi didn't care: "Let them see, as long as the frontline generals understand it."

Emperor Shi did not wait too long in the direction of Tanzhou. Only on the eighth day of April, three days after the breach of Juyongguan, Tanzhou was also breached.

The battle report arrived in Youzhou in the middle of the night, the city was broken in the afternoon, and the battle report was delivered in the evening. Emperor Shi was sleepy in the middle of the night, and couldn't fall asleep immediately after getting up and reading the battle report.

Danzhou has been captured!
After the navy arrived in Tanzhou, ten naval guns of the navy bombarded the defenders of the Liao army in the river more than a mile away from the city wall.

However, because the ground troops did not arrive, the ten gunboats were very careful not to approach the east bank, and kept cruising after firing at the same time to avoid possible land counterattacks.

However, because the distance was too far, the farthest point of shelling was even two miles away, and the sailors were short of manpower, so they dared not go ashore rashly to confirm the results of the shelling, but kept shelling one after another.

As a result, three days later, when the land army arrived in Tanzhou, the Liao army in Tanzhou surrendered directly.

It was later learned that at noon on the second day of the naval bombardment, the Tanzhou defender who had been insisting on defending before went to the top of the city to check and deploy the defenses. As a result, the Qin army's navy also just started shelling.

The navy will pick up the Liao army to eat, and bombard the Liao army during the rest time. The purpose is that even if it cannot cause mass destruction, it will greatly consume the morale of the Liao army, harass them, make them restless, and make them feel like a frightened bird. After all, the navy is far away. In the rivers inside and outside, you are not afraid of counterattack.

But on that day, a cannonball cut off half of the head of the Tanzhou guard who had just ascended the top of the city.

The Qin army's navy didn't know the result of the battle, and continued to shell, but the morale of the Tanzhou defender collapsed.

In fact, the bombardment continued for three days, and the final statistics only killed 28 people, of which eight were ordinary people in the city, and no more than 50 people were injured.

But the morale of the Liao army in Tanzhou had completely collapsed. When the land army gathered under the city densely, they immediately opened the city and surrendered.

Tanzhou, an important town in the north that was originally thought to be more difficult to fight, was taken in this way, which was unexpected.

More than 2000 defenders surrendered. Only one soldier of the Qin army entered the city because of the narrow and crowded city gate.

When seeing the results of this battle report, Shi Congyun was both surprised and even more pleasantly surprised. This is another huge advantage of artillery, that is, being able to prostitute for nothing.

Indeed, in the face of the navy's attack style, they fought two miles away into the city, coupled with the mobility of the gunboats, the Tanzhou defenders could only be prostituted, and the Liao army could not effectively counter the Qin army's attack. , in theory, as long as the supplies are sufficient, they can keep shelling.

Even though the casualties in the city were not too many, there was no hope of counterattack, and the soldiers and civilians of the Liao Kingdom were most desperate only to be beaten.

Emperor Shi also realized another important strategic value of artillery. In theory, as long as the ammunition is sufficient and the waterways are unimpeded, the water army of the Qin Army can destroy a fortified city. For ten days, or even every three to five years, the bombardment has been going on for many years.

Whether it's the defenders or the civilians, facing an enemy who can't fight back and can only be beaten passively, sooner or later they will collapse.

"Now, only Yanzhou, Wuzhou and Yunzhou are left in the sixteen states."

"It's been less than a month since we dispatched troops"

The progress of the war was really fast, especially the large-scale use of artillery, which sped up the overall war process. In order to win the four or five states in the north, they fought against the Liao Kingdom for half a year, with about [-] casualties on the whole line, and finally sealed the victory. , and compared with more than ten years ago, this attack is completely different!
(End of this chapter)