Han Hai Tang Ergui

Chapter 385
Under the city of Yinzhou, the sound of shouting and killing resounded!
Dozens of whirlwind guns kept throwing stones at the west gate of Yinzhou.

The moat of Yinzhou, built on the water of the Wuding River, has also been dug with more than a dozen gaps, and the water of the moat is being drained away.

Opposite to the shouting from the city, was Li Yimin's embarrassing and somewhat terrified expression.

He vowed to Zhang Zhao that he would be able to persuade Li Yijing, the Yinzhou defense envoy guarding Yinzhou, to leave the city and surrender.

As a result, the envoy Li Yimin sent into the city was dragged to the top of the city by Li Yijing, who was in the city, and hacked, and Li Yimin was so scolded that he couldn't hold his head up.

Unlike Li Yimin's embarrassment and fear, Zhang Zhao didn't care about it.

Li Yijing refused to surrender, so Zhang Zhao had no burden to kill his whole family.

Yinzhou is not as terrifying a strong city as Xiazhou, and it is not that difficult to fight.

After filling the trenches and digging the moat, the Guiyi Army attacked from three sides.

Catapults slammed into the west gate, people from Fenjindu blasted the city wall in the south, and 1000 miners and [-] people from Ding Shenqi's department stormed the east gate.

Zhang Zhao himself led a thousand light cavalry and a thousand cavalry archers to ambush on the hillside outside the north gate.

Sure enough, after three days of fierce attack by the Guiyi army on three sides, hundreds of Yinzhou troops left the city, trying to slip away through the north gate.

As a result, they ran headlong into Zhang Zhao's ambush. After being killed and injured more than [-] people, they were all driven to the Wuding River and had to surrender.

On the fifth day, the trebuchet smashed a huge hole in the west gate of Yinzhou, and Fenjindu also blasted a section of the southern city wall.

Zhang Zhao drove the surrendered party members into the vanguard, and attacked Yinzhou City from three sides in one fell swoop.

In Yinzhou government office, the defense envoy Li Yijing brought his whole family, without Zhang Zhao doing anything, he lit a fire himself, and burned the whole family to death in the government office.

But Zhang Zhao was still not at ease, and the army marched into the city, identifying them one by one, to prevent anyone from Li Yijing's family from getting away.

At the end of the investigation, it was confirmed that Li Yijing and his three sons were buried in the flames, and Zhang Zhao was relieved.

However, this big search also had an unexpected harvest, that is, Zhang Zhaosou found out a large Han family in Yinzhou - the Zhang family.

If Zhang Zhao remembers correctly, the Zhang Pu who assisted Li Jiqian in defeating the Song Army and Li Deming in the initial establishment of Xixia should be a descendant of this Zhang family.

However, things are a bit difficult. At this time, the Zhang family is far from being as developed as it will be decades later.

Although they also control a large area of ​​land in Yinzhou, in fact, their family is a white glove of the party's big family who is not very good at farming.

Those lands looked like they belonged to the Zhang family, but they actually belonged to Li Yijing and other senior Yinzhou officials. The Zhang family was just the organizer of the production.

Moreover, they have no military power or political power in their hands. The only people who can be mobilized are farmers who are proficient in farming, and the whole person and animal are harmless.

This puts Zhang Zhao in a difficult situation. Zhang Pu was indeed nothing in history, but Zhang Zhao can't just look for the enemy in vain. Let's judge people for decades later.

At this time, the patriarch of the Zhang family in Yinzhou was an old man named Zhang Duan. He was tall and slender, and he seemed to have practiced some guns, sticks and bows, but more, he showed a literati temperament.

He was ecstatic about Zhang Zhao's arrival, couldn't he be ecstatic, the Zhang family basically took care of the more than [-] mu of land in Yinzhou for the party members.

Now that the party members are gone, even if they can get [-]% of the land, it will be enough for the Zhang family to eat and drink.

"My servant heard that the great king's family originates from Nanyang County?"

At this moment, Zhang Duan certainly didn't know that Zhang Zhao was thinking about killing his whole family, and thought that Zhang Zhao was thinking about other things.

But after kneeling on the ground for a long time, Zhang Zhao didn't see any question. His knee hurt a little, so he could only open the door and ask in a low voice.

Hearing this, Zhang Zhao waved his hand to signal Zhang Duan to get up, "That's right, a certain family originates from the Nanyang Zhang family in Nanyang County. After arriving in Hexi, the family ancestor established himself as the Long Tong Zhang family."

"That's really great! My Zhang family in Nanyang has been the prefect for the first time since the reign of Wei Ming Emperor Taihe, and it has been 700 years. It's finally a great king who is such a king. It makes people very happy!"

Zhang Zhaochang sighed, did he cling to it?

"Listen to what you said, are you also a descendant of the Zhang family in Nanyang? When the emperor is in power today, you can't say such things as the Lord of Heaven."

"Your Majesty taught me a lesson!" Zhang Duan hurriedly knelt down again after hearing this, and then took out a book from his waist.

At this time, it was decades before Bi Sheng invented movable type printing, and almost all books were copied by hand, which was very precious.

"The ancestor of the family was the magistrate of Rulin County in Yinchuan County in the second year of Kaiyuan. He moved here from Nanyang. There is a family tree to prove it!"

Zhang Zhao opened it and took a look. It was really the second year of Kaiyuan that he moved from Nanyang.

However, although the Nanyang Zhang family is as well-known as the Qinghe Zhang family, in fact the prestige of the county is false.

This is the period of the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, some poor families with the Zhang surname were virtualized in order to raise their families.

At that time, many celebrities of the Zhang family were born in a poor family, and they would always be born in the Zhang family in Nanyang.

As long as you are talented and educated and become a high-ranking official in troubled times, then you can call yourself the Nanyang Zhang family. Those who have already gained the prestige of the Nanyang Zhang family will not only not expose you, but will also pull you in. Everyone recognizes each other.

Of course Zhang Duan also knew this point, his Nanyang Zhang family and Zhang Zhao's Nanyang Zhang family could not be a family.

There is no kinship other than the possibility that the ancestors thousands of years ago were a single person.

He was also nervous, wondering if Zhang Zhao would recognize him.

Thinking back and forth in his mind, Zhang Zhao thought about it carefully. His siege of Xiazhou could not be completed in a month or two.

The Zhang family in Yinzhou on this side is a local local snake, managing more than a thousand farmers in his hands, and he is a very good person to provide logistics.

"Sure enough, he is a talented person from our family, get up!" Zhang Zhao closed Zhang Duan's genealogy and said softly.

Zhang Duan was overjoyed, his mouth was grinning to his ears, he took the genealogy, bowed to Zhang Zhaoyi respectfully and said.

"My lord, there are 130,000 mu of land in Yinzhou, including [-] mu of upper field, [-] mu of middle field, and [-] mu of lower field. They were originally owned by the Li family of Dangxiang. The state should belong to the king."

Zhang Zhao chuckled, and gave Zhang Duan a deep look.

"Yinzhou is really rich, but there is no rush to count the acres of land, Duan Weng can go back first and then make a careful count.

There is also the matter of raising food and grass, and Duan Weng has to take more care. If it is done well, the official position and property will naturally be bestowed. "

Although Zhang Duan is shrewd, he is just a white glove for Li Yijing and others. Now that Zhang Zhao is staring at him, he suddenly feels a terrifying coercion pressing on his head. , disappeared without a trace.

"The servant will collect the number of acres of land and the food and grass available for the army in Yinzhou within three days."

Seeing Zhang Duan go out, Zhang Zhao waved his hand to call Fanshun in.

"You led [-] soldiers and horses to station in Yinzhou, serving as the defense envoy of Yinzhou, to make the city of Yinzhou more comfortable, to stock up more wine and meat, and to besiege and suffer hardships in winter. Some plan to send sergeants to Yinzhou to recuperate in batches.

That Zhang Duan will come back three days later. If the field is less than 150,000 mu and the food is less than [-] shi, you should mobilize soldiers and horses, kill his whole family, and replace him with someone who can do things. "

"The last general obeys!" Fanshun knows the importance of Yinzhou. With such a logistics base and a comfortable city, it can give hope to the army besieging the city in the ice and snow, allowing them to look forward to plum blossoms and quench their thirst, and it is easier to survive this winter.

"Ten miles to the north of Yinzhou, there is a small town named Kaiguang." After ordering Fanshun, Zhang Zhao recruited Luo Yu'er.

"A certain family was missed a few days ago. To the north of Kaiguang, there is a family of Dangxiang Zhe who lived in the area of ​​Linzhou and Fuzhou.

Although the population under the Zhe family's rule is less than [-], the family has a history of hundreds of years, and they are local tyrants.

After you go, while consecrating and guarding, at the same time send someone to hold a letter written by someone to see the Jiedu envoy of the Yong'an Army and the governor of Fuzhou, Zhe Congyuan. "

Speaking of this, Zhang Zhao thought again and again, "It's better for you to go in person and tell Zhe Congyuan that this march is just a grievance with Li Yiyin and Dingnan Army, nothing else is involved."

After Luo Yu'er left, Zhang Zhao was also secretly startled. At this time, people had the best face. Among the four Jiedu envoys around Dingnan Army, Zhangwu Army in Yanzhou, Baoda Army in Yanzhou, and Liu Zhiyuan in Hedong, he all sent I sent an envoy and sent a gift to explain, but I forgot the Zhejia of Yong'an Army in Fuzhou.

Shouldn't this be seen as looking down on Zhejia?In case Zhe Congyuan was persuaded by Li Yiyin or Shi Jingtang to lead troops to rescue him, that would be troublesome.

In the shadow of a famous tree, the Zhejia army of later generations was powerful in the northwest, and they had been the Ping Fan in the Central Plains for hundreds of years. They were not only loyal, but also powerful in combat.

This Zhe family has resisted the successive attacks of Xixia and Khitan in history, and is still loyal after the Northern Song Dynasty is gone. It is exactly the person Zhang Zhao wants to recruit!Fortunately, there is still time.

However, this is what Zhang Zhao has thought about, because the Zhe family is also facing the most serious danger at this time.

That is the prefecture in the second state of Linfu where Zhejia is located, and also in the sixteen states of Yanyun.

The Zhe family has been the Ping Fan of the Northwest for hundreds of years, and has long been Sinicized, and he also believes that he is a Han in his heart, so he naturally does not want to become a Khitan.

After Yelude stabilized the situation in Yanzhou, he has been playing hard and soft, trying to win Zhejia.

Zhe Congyuan led the army and civilians in the prefecture, and they had actually resisted the Khitans for several years, but the prefecture was remote, and Zhe Congyuan was not a big shot, so he didn't attract the attention of all parties. Shi Jingtang didn't even know the prefecture he cut out , still resisting.

Historically, Fuzhou was the only one among the sixteen ceded Yanyun states that did not let the Khitan people succeed. The loyalty of the Zhe family can be seen.

As soon as Luo Yu'er left, Ding Shenqi came in again, after a little salute, this guy actually sat down on the bed carelessly.

"A certain family is old, not as youthful and prosperous as the king, and can't bear the pain of standing, please don't blame the king!"

Zhang Zhao chuckled, the smile on his face was extremely bright, and he was not dissatisfied at all because of Ding Shenqi's pretentiousness.

"Mr. Ding and I are both court commanders. Since you are older, you should be the elder of a certain person. Why should you be so polite!"

When Ding Shenqi heard Zhang Zhao's words, he was overjoyed at once, and felt that this Hexi area only had this achievement thanks to the support of the elders in the family and the protection of the ancestors.

But I also know that it is not bad to respect an elder like him.

Guo Tiance, who was in the distance, saw the smile and kind words on Zhang Zhao's face, and couldn't help but sweat on his back.

As King Zhang's close servant, he knows the King's temper better than anyone else.

Looking at the air, it is only for those who have the ability and character.

For someone like Ding Shenqi, I'm afraid she doesn't have that much tolerance.

Just looking at such a 'nuclear' smile and words at this moment, I am afraid that I am extremely angry in my heart. This Ding Shenqi probably will not live to be the governor of Suizhou.

He complained in his heart here, but the conversation over there was over, Ding Shenqi swaggered and smiled and cupped hands with Zhang Zhao.

"Since the king of Han said so, then I will listen to the king for the time being, as long as the king captures Xiazhou as soon as possible, and does not delay me to attack Suizhou."

"Definitely! Definitely! Please don't worry, Mr. Ding!" Zhang Zhao became more respectful and assured repeatedly.

Moreover, he was not only respectful to Ding Shenqi, after Ding Shenqi left, Zhang Zhao also looked at Guo Tiance with a smile.

"Tiance, you said this Ding Shenqi, what should I do to him?"

Guo Tiance's throat was so frightened by Zhang Zhao's smiling face that his throat became dry, and he hurriedly said, "Ding Shenqi has a military academy under his command, named He Zhizhi.

This person colluded with the Si family of the Yanzhou Party, and even married the daughter of the Si family. We held the handle, his wife and children in our hands, but ordered He Zhengzheng to pretend to have a grievance with Ding Shenqi, and annexed him! "

"This idea." Zhang Zhao stroked his chin and thought for a moment.

"That's not right. In the Guiyi Army, there must be no such incidents, let alone our orders, you come in, Manxiong."

When Man Xiong heard Zhang Zhao calling him, he walked in with a bang.

"Ten days later, someone will ask Ding Shenqi to lead an army to attack Funing County, which is also in Suizhou. Tiance, when you ask He Zhengzheng to attack the city, kill Ding Shenqi with a cold arrow, so don't say anything."

As he spoke, Zhang Zhao patted Man Xiong.

"After Executive He killed Ding Shenqi, you found an opportunity to clash with Administrative Officer He, and then accidentally beat him to death. After the matter is over, a certain Fa will send you to Yan Jin's place. You may be wronged for several months."

The wild bear grinned, "What's wrong with this? I went to Yan Chengjie's place, and without the king's control, a certain wild bear opened up to drink and eat meat. I don't know how happy he is!"

"Fuck you!" Zhang Zhao curled his lips in disgust.

"What do you know except wine and meat? You can't even be an official, and you don't know how to earn a family for your son and leave some family property."

Man Xiong got married after returning to the East, and now his son is almost two years old. Hearing Zhang Zhao mentioning his son, this idiot finally showed a loving expression on his face, but then he smiled.

"Please! Please teach him some guns, clubs and fists. When he is 14 years old, let him also serve as the king's bodyguard."

"You think so, quite thoughtful!"

Zhang Zhao was stunned for a long while, not knowing whether to say he was stupid or shrewd?

(End of this chapter)