Han Hai Tang Ergui

Chapter 576 This is the teacher of benevolence and righteousness
Many people have the impression that Caishiji is right in front of Nanjing.

But it's not. Caishiji is about forty or fifty miles up the Yangtze River in the Nanjing section.

Moreover, the specific location of Caishiji in different dynasties is still slightly different.

Caishiji is famous because this section of the Yangtze River can be said to be the best place to cross.

The rushing river is blocked by Jiangxinzhou in this section, forming a flow direction similar to a right angle.

After the water hit the shore here, it moved from east to north, and the flow speed eased up.

Moreover, due to the existence of Jiangxinzhou, the Yangtze River was divided into two, and this Jiangxinzhou is very close to the right bank, with only about 500 meters of river surface.

In addition, Jiangxinzhou couldn't build a city wall due to its soft geology, making it impossible to defend.

So once attacked, Jiangyou's defender will directly change from having the natural danger of the Yangtze River to defending the river with only 500 meters.

This is already a headache for the defenders, but unfortunately, because the Yangtze River has changed its flow here, it has been eroded continuously for thousands of years, and a wide plain has been formed.

It's like a landing field specially built for landing soldiers and horses.

For thousands of years, Caishiji has become the favorite landing point for attacking Jiangnan.

When the Northern Song Dynasty destroyed the Southern Tang Dynasty, it landed at Caishiji. Hundreds of years later, it was also the place where King Hailing sent a big gift package to help Yu Yunwen to make his name through the ages.

However, the environment for crossing the river at this time is far from being as good as it was during Wan Yanliang's time.

Because the Jiangxinzhou at this time only began to form in the Tang Dynasty, and it had to be slowly accumulated until the turn of the Song Dynasty before it became the most suitable for crossing and landing.

Moreover, if Zhang Zhao wants to reach Caishiji, he still needs to win Hezhou, and before he wins Hezhou, he still needs to pull out the nail of Chuzhou, otherwise he will be in danger of being cut off by Chuzhou.

Zhang Zhao was indeed angered by the surprise attack by Chen Huo and others. Of course, it was Li Jing's attitude that made Zhang Shengren very angry.

Because all along, in Zhang Zhao's impression, Li Jing in history was a coward who was incompetent, cowardly, and could easily be beaten and laid down by Guo Rong.

what?If Guo Rong hit you, you fucking kowtowed obediently and begged for mercy. You didn't even dare to take the title of emperor, and offered it to the fifteen states in Huainan and Jiangbei with both hands.

I, Zhang Shengren, came ten years earlier, and you haven’t even offered a gift until now. I have captured Yangzhou, and you still want to take back Chuzhou, right?
Kind!You have kind!

Zhang Zhao was so angry that his stomach was about to explode. He left Zhao Yanjin's father, Zhao Hui, to stay behind in Jiangbei's camp.

Brother Nan, right?I'll give you a pot of your Wuma Chusan little brother, let's see if you kneel or not!
. . . .

Three days later, Zhang Zhao arrived at the northwest of Pukou, at the foot of Laoshan.

This old mountain is not the old mountain where the old mountains fought, but the Laoshan Forest Park in Nanjing. This mountain is the remaining vein of the Huaiyang Mountains and traverses the entire Pukou District of Nanjing in later generations.

To the southeast is the Yangtze River, across the river is Jiangning City, to the northwest is Chushui, to the northwest of Chushui is Chuzhou, and further down is Hezhou, where Caishiji is located. The geographical location is very important.

By the time Zhang Zhao arrived, Li Cunhui had already led his army to defeat Laoshan, and Murong Xinchang and Gao Huaide had already led their troops to join Li Cunhui here.

After Zhang Zhao arrived, Zhou Jun with more than 40,000 people was placed around Laoshan.

However, the main force is still the [-] cavalry that captured Yangzhou earlier and the [-] cavalry brought by Zhang Zhao himself.

The remaining 5000 people were soldiers from the Southern Tang Dynasty who were captured in the First World War in Yizheng. They were captured as cannon fodder.

When Zhang Zhao's big banner and Huang Luo's canopy arrived at Laoshan, Guo Ting, the governor of Chuzhou in the Southern Tang Dynasty who had been paying attention to the movement here, was about to go crazy.

He kept sending messengers to Jiangning with letters of pleas for help, regardless of human life.

However, it was no surprise that all of Guo Tingzhi's requests for help were intercepted. Zhang Zhao detained all these messengers, and was going to send one or two across the river after Chuzhou was captured.

Of course, Guo Tingzhi’s request for help was not only sent to Jiangning. Liu Renzhan, the governor of the Qinghuai Army in Shouzhou in the Southern Tang Dynasty to the west of Chuzhou, and Huang Yanqian, the governor of the Luzhou Baoxin Army, both received Guo Tingzhi’s request for help. .

Zhang Zhao looked at the messenger going away, and waved to Li Cunhui not to arrange for anyone to chase him. If he could bring the Qinghuai army from Shouzhou and the Baoxin army from Luzhou together, Zhang Zhao would be very happy.

Just as he was about to arrange to attack Chuzhou, Zhao Pu came in with a letter and a guard in brocade clothes.

Going to Jiangling and ordering Gao Congjiao to send troops, and going to Changsha to order Ma Xifan to send troops, that is nothing.

At that time Zhang Zhao was indeed dizzy with anger, but Jean calmed down quickly, Ma Chu didn't care, they were about to start a chaos soon anyway.

But Gao Conghui can't do it. This person is really capable. If he gets Ezhou (Wuchang), it will be a small loss.

However, Zhang Zhao was too worried. Gao Conghui was quite capable, but he lost the life to display his ability. This gentleman would die of illness in more than a year, only seven or eight months later than Liu Zhiyuan.

But it is impossible for Zhang Zhao to remember so clearly!So he ordered Ma Chu and Nanping to send troops, but it was just to scare the envoys of the Southern Tang Dynasty and Li Jing.

However, after Zhang Zhao opened the letter in Zhao Pu's hand, he couldn't help frowning.

Because this letter was written by Wuyue King Qian Zuo. The letter was written sincerely and humbly, expressing his willingness to send troops to attack the Southern Tang Dynasty.

This is for picking peaches!

This Qian Zuo sent a fifth-rank official to worship last year, but now he is anxious to write a letter expressing his willingness to follow the imperial court's arrangement to attack Southern Tang.Of course, it wasn't Qian Zuo who suddenly knew his allegiance, but came to grab the territory.

Zhang Zhao pondered for a moment, then asked Li Xiaojie beside him, "Does the guard in Jinyi know why the King of Wuyue suddenly wanted to send troops? But what happened to the border between Southern Wu and Wuyue?"

Li Xiaojie quickly replied: "The minister is about to report to His Majesty. Yao Yanhong, the commander of the Southern Wu Jinghai Institute, immediately led a thousand remnants to flee to Jinghai after Yizheng was defeated by our army. It is said that he has taken refuge in Wuyue. Wei is still checking."

Zhang Zhao nodded understandingly. With the current traffic and chaotic situation, it would not be easy to get information in Jiangnan where the foundation is not deep.

"It seems that this is true. The Qianyue Kingdom tasted the sweetness when the Wang Min Kingdom was destroyed. Now we see that the elites of Southern Wu have been defeated by us, and they want to come up to occupy the territory."

"Li Fang, write back to King Qian Zuo of Wuyue immediately, and tell him that we will punish Kuangren and let him guard the gate of the country to guard against the collapse of the Southern Wu army."

When Zhang Zhao first arrived in Tokyo last year, Li Fang was recommended by Liu Tao. Zhang Zhao also appreciated his talent and learning, so he took him with him to listen to him.

Hearing that Li Fang was about to go down, Zhang Zhao suddenly waved Li Fang to stop.

"In addition, I have to tell Qian Zuo that I haven't received the tribute for the Shangyuan Festival this year. I hope he can make it up for the Shangyuan Festival next year.

Try not to use too harsh a wording, but don't let Qian Zuo feel that I don't care. "

This is the function of the pen. In these aspects, words and sentences can be used appropriately, but ordinary people can't do it.

After dealing with these matters, Zhang Zhao immediately started to attack the city.

The army used the prisoners of the Southern Tang Dynasty as cannon fodder, and 3000 people from the Xuzhou Wuning Army were the main force.

The rest of the cavalry dismounted and sealed off the city with the divine arm bow and wooden single crossbow. Fenjindu began to prepare gunpowder coffins on the spot, and Shenjiying began to assemble catapults and erect nest carts.

Guo Ting said that at the head of Chuzhou City, he personally took his personal guards to 'fight the fire' everywhere. This man was also a famous general in the Southern Tang Dynasty and had always been loyal.

In history, when Hou Zhou attacked Haozhou, Guo Tingwei was the one who defended until the end. After Hou Zhou captured Niuma City, he had to surrender.

Before that, he was still at the Wokou Pontoon Bridge and Dingyuan Village. After fighting, General Wu Xingde of the Later Zhou Dynasty was only spared. He was considered a very capable general in the Southern Tang Dynasty.

But no matter how capable you are, you must have soldiers!
It's hard for a clever woman to cook without rice. Chuzhou originally existed as the second line of defense in Shouzhou.

The effect is that once Shouzhou is captured, Chuzhou can immediately recruit Shouzhou's defeated soldiers, and then organize defenses in Chuzhou City and Qingliu Pass, so there are more supplies and fewer elite soldiers.

At the time of the original design, the Southern Tang Dynasty did not consider the situation that the enemy army would come from Yangzhou. Therefore, including Guo Tingzhi's tooth soldiers, there were only less than 2000 people, and the city was built as a backup.

Now surrounded by 40,000 people and attacked, tens of thousands of cannon fodder were forced by swords and ants to attack the city, and strong bows and crossbows suppressed the top of the city. People rushed over from the four gates, and they didn't know what they were digging.

Guo Ting said that after less than an hour, he couldn't hold it anymore, so he had to abandon the outer city and retreat to the inner city.

Zhang Zhaoli was on the horse, and the people around him were all beaming. Although the defenders of Chuzhou retreated to the inner city, they strengthened their defense capabilities. Because the inner city is small, 2000 people are enough.

But Chuzhou is actually more difficult to fight in the outer city, because it is a majestic city!The moat, female wall, urn city, and enemy towers are all available.

If there were [-] defenders in the Southern Tang Dynasty, they would have to fight for at least a month, or even a month without hope.

Now Guo Ting said that if he retreated and only attacked the inner city, it would be easier.

"The flags of the Tang Dynasty were erected outside the four gates, and You Yi's army spread everywhere to let the people of Chuzhou leave the city. Our army will not hurt anyone or rob a penny.

Order Jinyi to guard Jinyi and wear a white helmet as a military judge. Anyone who commits crimes will be taken down immediately. "

Guo Ting said that he pushed to the inner city, he stood on the inner city gate tower, his face was serious, his brother Guo Tingzan said in a low voice.

"There are more than [-] people in Chuzhou, and it is a wealthy city. It will take at least ten days and a half a month for the Zhou army to clean up all of these. By then, the Qinghuai army and imperial reinforcements from Shouzhou will arrive."

What Guo Tingzan said was actually what Guo Ting called Yangmou.

According to the virtues of the soldiers at this time, they won a big city like Chuzhou with tens of thousands of residents, so why not rape and plunder as much as they want?

Without half a month, it is impossible to gather combat power at all.

"The general is incompetent, and he feeds the enemy with the people, and we are ashamed!"

Guo Tingwei hadn't spoken yet, Li Yanzou, the military recorder beside him, looked at Guo Tingwei and said with pain on his face.

Guo Ting said that he was speechless and could only cover his face and sigh.

But before he could sigh, he saw Guo Tingzan pointing to the distance, so surprised that he couldn't speak.

It turned out that Zhou Jun didn't enter the city alone, but set up Tang flags everywhere, surrounded by You Yiqi, waving the king's flag, and reading the Zhou Lord's edict aloud.

Seeing that Zhou Jun did not enter the city, Guo Tingwei hurriedly asked his younger brother Guo Tingzan to go down to the city to investigate.

After a while, the people of Chuzhou began to tentatively leave the city, only to find that the Zhou army did not kill or loot, but those young generals kindly opened the way for them.

Wang Jiulang has gained a lot of weight, but this does not prevent him from being able to speak well.

Standing at the west gate of Chuzhou, he shouted loudly to the people leaving the city, and he spoke the Jianghuai official dialect promoted by the Southern Tang court.

"My lord is the lord of destiny, the lord of benevolence, he naturally loves the people, the army came to Chuzhou only to punish the stubborn, don't worry, just leave the city.

If someone's house is damaged, Dazhou Shaotianzi will pay compensation with internal money.

If anyone is robbed, raped or even beaten by the officers and soldiers of the Great Zhou Dynasty, he or his relatives and friends should immediately report to the Li Sanchen Banner, and the Son of Heaven will personally uphold justice for you.

If anyone who is not open-minded wants to make trouble, be careful and ruthless! "

Don't commit adultery, don't plunder, don't kill, and if you destroy your house, the emperor will pay you compensation, and the people of Chuzhou will gradually feel at ease.

In fact, their requirements are very low. They don't care if they pay for the damage of the house, as long as they don't hurt them.

As a result, Zhou Jun took half a day to finish what Guo Tingzan thought would be done in ten days and a half.

When it was time for food in the evening, many people who went out of the city did not bring food. Zhang Zhao even had people cook white rice porridge with pickles to entertain the people.

Anyway, these things are all from the Southern Tang Dynasty that was looted. The army is not short of food, and no favor will be given for nothing.

After Guo Tingzan hurriedly went back to report, the Southern Tang army in the inner city was silent, even Guo Tingwei was silent.

Li Yanzou, the recorder who said we were ashamed to join the army, was also silent, and it took him a long time to say something in a low voice.

"This is the teacher of benevolence and righteousness!"

(End of this chapter)