The daily life of Dali Siqing

Chapter 561
"Good news! Good news! Jinyang good news!"

As soon as he rode a Pegasus into the center, the news of the victory was passed to the Dudu's Mansion.

At the moment, Li Hongyi, a scholar of the Jianji Temple, is on duty at the cabinet center.

Although the wind and waves in Gyeonggi are calm, everyone's hearts are raised.

The natural danger of Tongguan does not bring a sense of security to Gyeonggi, and it is the person who sits in Jinyang City who can make the princes and ministers in the capital feel at ease.

Unmoving as a mountain, as firm as a rock!
"Lord Li! Great victory in Jinyang."

Li Chengguang, the right servant of the Ministry of War, handed over the battle report from Jinyang. Yu Yanyi was not there, and Li Chengguang was the temporary head of the Ministry of War. Undertaken by Li Chengguang.

Hearing this, Li Hongyi got up suddenly, and the corner of his clothes brought a large number of memorials on the desk and fell on the ground of Jianji Hall.

It stands to reason that it is impossible for Li Hongyi's city to lose his composure. The battle in Jinyang is really too urgent.

On the contrary, Li Chengguang, who has been in charge of military affairs all year round, is more stable.

But Li Hongyi couldn't control it anymore, and took over the bamboo tube for victory from Li Chengguang.

The original wax seal had been removed by Li Chengguang, and Li Hongyi took out the middle paper from the bamboo tube.

After reading the content on it, Li Hongyi's hands were already trembling slightly.

As expected, he is the person most favored by the emperor and the former chief assistant of the cabinet, Fan Xiwen, Yu Yanyi's talent, he is not as good as him!
On July [-], Biebai, the vanguard general of Houjin, approached Jinyang with [-] elite soldiers from the Eight Banners.

General Fuguo and Bachelor of Wuyingdian Yu led the army to meet at the east main gate of Jinyang City.

At that time, the army lined up against the city, fought hard, and defeated the enemy's front army head-on.

The ambush troops on the flanks and rear flanks took advantage of the situation to fight out. After the defeat, the Jin Qianjun under the city of Jinyang severely damaged the enemy general Biebai, beheaded more than 1 people, captured [-], and handed over [-] horses.

With [-] soldiers and horses, they defeated the [-] elite soldiers of the Eight Banners head-on, killed [-] enemies, and captured [-] enemies.

This is not a small victory in the original Longwu Army!

But now, this victory was won by a mixed army of old and new.

Among the 3 people in Yu Yanyi, although there are [-] elite soldiers of the Shenwu Army, the rest are the Beiman Army and Beicao Army from Jingchu and Chuzhou.

The translation of the Beiman Army and the Bei Cao Army is the reserve service, which is a higher level of training than the militia, and the record is not without glory.

Of course, what shocked Li Hongyi the most was that Yu Yanyi led a bunch of second-line reserve troops and dared to go out of the city to fight with the Houjin Army!
There is a difference between killing and injuring the enemy while defending a city and defeating the enemy in a frontal field battle.

This good news is like a ray of dawn, breaking through the haze caused by the two major defeats at Yaoerling and Tumubao.

Da Zhou can fight!

It must be because of this that Yu Yanyi chose to go out of the city to fight a field battle with the enemy's vanguard.

"Zhengming, I will report this good news to the Son of Heaven immediately. After you copy this good news, the whole city will announce it!"

Zhengming is Li Chengguang's word.

"The subordinate takes orders!"

After Li Chengguang copied a copy, Li Hongyi hurried into the palace with this good report.

It is said that it is reported to the emperor, but it is actually reported to the queen who hangs the curtain. The current emperor of Zhou does not spend half an hour awake every day.

What Emperor Zhou needs to do most now is to live well.

If he is alive, the world will be able to stabilize the overall situation, even if the dark tide is surging, it will not come to the bright side.

If Emperor Zhou died at this time, then Great Zhou would really be on the verge of collapse.

"Your Majesty, see Master Li of the Jianji Hall outside the hall!"

Yuhuatian has been accompanying Emperor Zhou all these days, not daring to leave half a step.

The queen who was accompanying Emperor Zhou got up. She was not from a famous family, but just a commoner's daughter. , needs her to stand up.

"Please wait for Master Li in the side hall, and I will go there immediately."
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Just when people in Gyeonggi were excited because of a great victory in Jinyang City, the situation in Jinyang City was still grim.

The battle lasted all day, and finally when dusk fell, Mohe retreated back to the camp.

After a day's fighting, the Jin army suffered a lot of casualties.

A chief who was in charge of counting casualties entered the account, holding the results just calculated.

"My lord! Mr. Kong! We lost [-] warriors in our siege today! Minor and serious injuries, too many to count!"

The number of casualties made the current supreme commander of the Jin army a little distressed. He had been fighting all day and had not been able to touch the top of the city wall. So many people had been killed or injured. Yangcheng.

But fortunately, none of the casualties this time were Nurhachi's direct descendants, so they were pulled in as cannon fodder and were the first to attack the city!
Nurhachi set his sights on Kong Youde. After getting in touch these days, this Kong Youde is indeed talented, resourceful and cunning. As a Zhou, he must be better than them in attacking the city. Maybe he will have Method.

"Mr. Kong, look, what should we do now?"

For the Mohe people who died today, Kong Youde didn't feel bad at all. What he was thinking about was how to take Jinyang City in the shortest time. It didn't matter how many people died or how much they paid.

As long as Jinyang City is captured, all casualties will be worth it.

To capture Jinyang is to capture Zhou Ting's psychological defense.

Kong Youde pondered slightly, and then said: "There are two most important things right now."

"Sir, please speak!"

"First, my lord, you need to go to the Zhou army to find a group of people who are good at operating siege equipment! The accuracy of today's catapults is really too low. Without the help of catapults, it is absolutely impossible for us to break through Jinyang. of a fortified city."

Nurhachi nodded in embarrassment. Indeed, the level shown by the Mohe engineers today can no longer be described as unsatisfactory, it is simply extremely inferior.

At the end of the day, eighteen large catapults fired a total of 180 giant stone bombs, and only four of them actually hit.

An average of 45 stone bullets can hit one, and this hits no one!

It's fine if you just can't hit the opponent!The key point is that the stone bullet hit him, and there were nearly 400 Mohe soldiers who were not injured by the stone bullet.

In the third round, the commander of the army also learned to be smart. In order to prevent his own people from being injured, he first ordered the catapult to be thrown.

After two rounds, no matter whether they hit or miss, the catapults stopped attacking, and the pawns attacked again!

Originally, Nurhachi was afraid that Zhou Jun's craftsmen and soldiers would not work hard, but now it seems that he has no vision.

No matter how hard these people paddle, they won't be hit four times.

Two of the stone bombs hit the city wall head-on without causing any casualties.

What really produced effective damage to the Zhou army were only two stone bombs.

"Second!" Kong Youde moved closer to Nurha Chi's side and whispered, "Your Highness only needs to..."

After hearing Kong Youde's ingenious plan, Nurha's eyes lit up.

"Mr. is indeed a great talent!"

"Ha ha ha ha"
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While Kong Youde and Nurhachi were discussing, Yu Yanyi was also stepping up his efforts to reorganize his armaments and count casualties.

"Yu Shuai, only Dongzhengmen and Dongzhaomen were attacked by Houjin in today's battle, and the other six gates have not found any trace of the enemy!"

General Xu Qin of the Imperial Forest Army reported today's battle situation to Yu Yanyi with a stack of papers.

Although this person is not very old, he is vigorous and resolute in his actions, and he has the style of a general.

"How about the casualties?!"

"A total of 110 and seven soldiers of our army died for the country, including one school lieutenant, three captains, and five captains. Six of them were seriously injured and 220 were slightly injured."

Compared with the casualties of the Mohe tribe, the casualties of the Zhou army as the defender of the city were much smaller, and nearly a hundred of them were killed or injured by the giant stone bombs from the catapult.

One of them happened to hit a crowded place, causing huge casualties, and the rest of the people were basically injured by Mohe's bow and arrow.

Yu Yanyi nodded and said, "Pass down this commander-in-chief order to treat the seriously injured with all our strength, and the pension for the soldiers who died for the country will be paid at twice the original standard of the Ministry of War! This matter is for you to watch in person. If anyone dares to ask Among them, reach out, no matter who it is, I will cut it off."

"Yes!"

The reason why Yu Yanyi asked Xu Qin to keep an eye on this matter was because Xu Qin was not just a general of the Imperial Forest Army.

A general in the Royal Forest Army is not enough to deter greed. His real origin is the Zhongshan Palace.

The grandson of Zhongshan King Xu Tiande, the third son of the contemporary Zhongshan King!

King Zhongshan, King Qiyang, King Kaiping, and King Dongou are the four most powerful Lords of the Great Zhou Dynasty, and they are also called the Four Kings.

In addition, the King Zhaojing of Qianning, who was later granted the title of Nobody, formed the representative of the founding military of the Great Zhou Dynasty.

In this dynasty, although the emperor reorganized the army and reorganized the twelve guards into six armies, the power has weakened, but the Zhongshan Palace is still a towering tree in the army.

For example, Li Chengen, the commander of Tiance Army, was originally under the command of King Zhongshan.

Yu Yanyi wanted to coordinate the overall situation, so he couldn't handle it himself, but with Xu Qin personally intimidating the army, no one would not open their eyes to this pension.

"Also, ask someone to count the ordnance needed for the city defense! If there is any shortage, someone will replenish it immediately, and the city defense will be the first priority in all matters."

"Yes!" Xu Qin got up after taking the order, and went down to do it.Today's siege is more of a test, and tomorrow's Mohe attack will be more ferocious, and Zhou Jun needs to race against time to repair the city defense.
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Qingzhou.

A group of soldiers and horses are besieging the Mohe cavalry.

This is a cavalry of the Mohe tribe who came south from Youzhou. They were looting in Qingzhou, and they ran head-on into the Dengzhou guards and horses who were going to Jinyang for support.

Dengzhou County is a county under the jurisdiction of Qingzhou, facing the sea in the east, and it is a place where Japanese pirates are active.

Although large-scale invasions were rare, small-scale looting did occur from time to time.

Especially after Li Taibai guarded Jin'ao Island in the East China Sea with one sword, all the Japanese pirates in the East China Sea ran towards Qingzhou.

The pressure on Qingzhou's coastal defense increased greatly. In view of this situation, the cabinet sent someone to transfer Qi Yuanjing from Yuezhou to Dengzhou County.

In the previous granary case, Qi Yuanjing made great contributions in escorting grain and grass, so the Ministry of War promoted him to be the commander of Japanese preparations, and trained troops to prepare Japanese troops along the coast of Yuezhou.

Originally, he was stationed in Yuezhou, but was later transferred to Qingzhou by the imperial court.

This time he led troops westward to support Jinyang.

Although Qi Yuanjing only has 8000 people under his command, he must go!
At the junction of Qingzhou and Qizhou, Qi Yuanjing met this Mohe ranger.

Although there were only 800 Rangers, they didn't take Qi Yuanjing's troops seriously!
Qingzhou and Qizhou had no more combatable soldiers. Ordinary county soldiers would be killed by Mohe cavalry after a short charge. Therefore, the eight hundred Mohe cavalry did not regard Qi Yuanjing's army as an opponent. But I didn't expect to hit a hard stubble!
This army of soldiers and horses is not comparable to the rangers they encountered before. The moment the two sides met, they immediately formed formation.

Spears and strong crossbows fought in formations, making it impossible for the light cavalry to break through the formation. Instead, they were divided and surrounded by the soldiers and horses relying on their strength, and gradually died tragically.

By the time the eight hundred Rangers were dead or injured.Qi Yuanjing's soldiers and horses only slightly injured 21 people, seriously injured [-] people, and [-] people were killed by arrows.

At this moment, it was almost noon, and the sun was scorching, and the march began at Yin time, and the soldiers had not yet had a serious rest.

So Qi Yuanjing sent an order to the whole army, found a forest to rest, and seized the time to light a fire and cook.

And he himself took out a pen and paper, and recalled the battle just now. There are still flaws in the army formation, and there is still room for improvement! ——
The next day, the battle under the city started again.

But this time, it was not arrows, flying stones, or vicious Mohe soldiers with swords and shields who acted as the vanguard this time, but thousands of Dazhou people without weapons.

These people who were plundered by Nurha Chi's orders, were driven by the Mohe people with scimitars and bows, and walked towards the moat with sandbags on their backs, followed by murderous Mohe soldiers to monitor their actions.

As they threw sandbags into the moat one by one, the people of Dazhou began to return and continue to carry sandbags.

Seeing this scene, Nurha Chi and Kong Youde also wore smug smiles on their faces.

Thirty percent of the moat that was half filled yesterday has been filled.

The soldiers on the city wall looked at each other in dismay.

Facing the wolf cubs of the Mohe tribe, they will not be soft in the slightest.But now that the target has become his own people, how can the soldiers deal with it?

On the city wall, Yu Yanyi's expression was normal, and he didn't seem to care, but his hands were clenched tightly, his skin was already pinched, blood seeped from between his fingers, and he was also struggling and hesitating in his heart.

It is a vicious and effective way to use the people of the Great Zhou Dynasty as a shield and let the Zhou army throw a mouse-like weapon.

The flying stone crossbow arrows on the city wall dare not fire, and the stones and logs are rolled into decorations.

Zhou Jun's biggest advantage was offset by more than half!

If the Mohe soldiers who followed the common people were really allowed to approach the city wall, then today's city wall would definitely become a mountain of corpses!

"Sir, it really is a clever plan!"

Seeing that there was no response on the city wall until now, Nurhachi couldn't help laughing and praised.

"My lord is absurd, I'm just taking advantage of Yanyi's mentality! Noble people like them care about reputation the most. If he really dares to order arrows to be released today, his reputation will be rotten!"

"Hahahaha!"

Kong Youde and Nurhachi were laughing wildly, while the Jinyang City Wall was full of whispers from soldiers and generals!

"Yu Shuai! How should we act!?"

Zhao Tianlin on the side seemed a little anxious. If he didn't do anything, the Mohe soldiers would approach the moat!
The corners of Yu Yanyi's eyes are also slightly moist, as determined as Yu Yanyi, what else can he do now?
(End of this chapter)