The rise of the prince

Chapter 747

There were many days of wind and rain in summer. After the weather cleared, the roads outside Yanshan Prefecture were muddy. The gatekeepers organized officers and soldiers to fill the roads with stone slabs to make the muddy roads easier to walk on.

Outside the city gate, there is a sparse forest at the foot of the dark mountain, and the broken and lush weeds in front of the gate are covered with splashed mud. Men, women, old and young are lined up, some are leading cattle and sheep, some are pushing a wheelbarrow, and they are heading to the city. rush.

"Move quickly, don't delay!" The officials at the gate kept urging, with a stern face, pushing the crowd from time to time, looking hurriedly, and looking into the distance from time to time.

The sky is densely covered with clouds, and under the distant sky, a few beams of light shine through the clouds to the earth, like a dazzling sharp sword, piercing the earth from Yunxiao.

Wei Chaoren stood at the top of the city, watching the crowd below enter the city one after another.

He believed in his own judgment. There were a large number of people escorting food at Shanhaiguan, and some people left the customs to clear the road, and the trees on the side of the road that were taller than horses were cut down.

Moreover, behind Shanhaiguan, the smoke from the kitchen was much thicker than before.

As a veteran in the battlefield, Wei Chaoren has fought battles for most of his life. Although he cannot say that he has won every battle, he is experienced. He can guess the approximate number of Jin troops north of Shanhaiguan by looking at the stove that lit the fire.

A month ago, the Jin Army stationed more than 1000 people in Shanhaiguan, at most no more than [-]. Shanhaiguan is an important pass, so it is reasonable to station so many people.

But then there was more and more smoke from the kitchen, until today, he speculated that the Jin people had accumulated more than [-] troops behind Shanhaiguan.

Although Shanhaiguan is dangerous, it is not like Yanshan Mansion. The surrounding area is open and radiates many villages. It is the center of this generation and can support many people. It is a real big town, and it is not a problem even if there is a permanent army of [-] people.

So the meaning of the actions of the Jinren couldn't be more obvious. They gathered troops in Shanhaiguan!

To gather troops at Shanhaiguan, there is only one possibility, and that is to go south!

Therefore, Wei Chaoren sent scouts to patrol the north of Yanshan Mansion to monitor the movement of the Jin army, and at the same time ordered the people in villages and towns outside the city to enter the city as much as possible to seek refuge.

Yanshan Mansion is more desolate than the Central Plains city, but as an important town in the north, it has experienced many wars, but there are many designs in the city that are suitable for war.For example, it is wide enough to accommodate the surrounding people in times of crisis, and there are latrines dug every fifty steps at the foot of the city, so that when a large number of people gather in the city, it will not be smelly and disease-ridden.

Sometimes these latrines are more useful than an army of [-] soldiers. The most important thing is to have good soldiers, not to have many soldiers.

"If you want to defend Yanshan Mansion, it's not good if there are too many people." Wei Chaoren said, his lieutenants, and Wei Yubai in military uniform followed him.

"There are too many people, and it is troublesome to supply food and grass. If so many people gather in one place, it is easy to cause plague." Wei Chaoren frowned, but he couldn't just sit back and ignore the lives and deaths of the surrounding people. If the Jin soldiers went south, they would still be outside the city , the end must be miserable, burning, killing and looting are indispensable.

"The prince said that he only needs to guard for a month. If the situation is not right, he will send reinforcements." Wei Yubai said.

Wei Chaoren nodded, and then said to his daughter, "I've never told you about the 1 people you brought here. Whether it's clothes or weapons, how do you plan to arrange them?"

"We can camp outside the city."

"I'm afraid there are too many dangers." Someone said: "If there are too many Jin troops, I'm afraid it will be difficult to deal with."

"It's okay. We are stationed in the south of the city. If the Jin army attacks the city, we can harass it from outside. If the Jin army is too strong to resist, we will retreat to Qigou Pass and stay with Xingping Hejun. If the city is too crowded Many, once the Jin army goes south in a big way, it will be a big trouble if we are all besieged in the city."

Wei Chaoren nodded: "I'm not at ease with Xingping's defense of Qigou Pass, so I'll deploy as you said, but please remember, don't fight hard with the Jin army. Since the King of Jin wants us to defend it, we can do it if we can defend it." .”

Seeing his daughter nodding, he felt a little relieved. There really shouldn't be too many people in the city, and he also gradually understood King Jin's ambitions.

King Jin didn't want to defend the Kingdom of Jin, he seemed to want to severely damage the Kingdom of Jin and cross the Shanhai Pass
If such a thing had happened before, he wouldn't even have thought about it. Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures had troubled the imperial court for more than a hundred years, and they had killed hundreds of thousands of soldiers, but they never took it back, let alone crossed the Shanhaiguan Pass.

But he didn't expect that one day, someone would kill all the way to Yanshan Mansion and take back most of the sixteen prefectures of Yanyun. This person was the King Jin who had saved his life.

He was also shocked when he heard that King Jin took back Yanshan Mansion. Not only did he do what no one could do in a hundred years, but he also thought that King Jin was too young
Thinking back slowly now, he was still somewhat resistant to the various actions of King Jin before, because he didn't believe it, and he didn't believe it based on his half-life experience.

But thinking about it now, what King Jin has done can be measured by what he knows and experienced?

Maybe it was because I thought wrongly at the beginning, King Jin can't be saved by ordinary people.
Thinking about what he did at a young age, a hot flame ignited in his heart, to end the affairs of the king, to win fame, glory, praise, and leave a name in history, who would not desire it, but more often, Even if the courtiers want to, the emperor who enjoys the glory and power does not want to
But now seeing King Jin's actions and his ambitions, Wei Chaoren couldn't help but feel hot in his heart, looking at the distant sky, holding the cold and hard bricks tightly with his hands, it seems that there are more expectations in this world.

When the rain stopped, the weather cleared up completely, and the muddy road outside Yanshan City began to dry up and crack, leaving only some shallow puddles, and the weeds that had been trampled on the roadside grew tenaciously again.

The scouts from the north began to go south into the city one after another, and most of the news they brought was not good.

A few days later, at the head of the north side of Yanshan City, from a distance, one can already see the dense figures of people swaying under the flags on the plain under the black and gray mountains.

The dark golden army has crossed the Shanhai Pass and headed south.

As far as the vanguard troops looked up, the north avenue of the city was already covered.

In the afternoon of the same day, Ma Gujia, a vanguard of the Jin Army with more than a thousand people, had arrived at the foot of Yanshan City.

The bell at the head of Yanshan City kept ringing, the figures were shaking, and the sergeants were nervously deploying their defenses. However, the Jin striker did not stay too long. Instead, he ran around the city for half a circle outside the city, shouting something, and the Han soldiers also listened. don't know.

Subsequently, more than a thousand people camped beside the road outside the city.

That night, the atmosphere at the top of the city was tense, and the guard posts were changed in batches. Wei Chaoren went to the top of the city to see the Jinren's camp in person.

At noon the next day, a large follow-up troop of the Jin people arrived, flying a banner that everyone could not understand, but the Zhongshuai flag had a golden background, and the defenders guessed that it was probably a certain Wanyan royal family, and became even more nervous.

The majority of the follow-up army was infantry, lined up densely on both sides of the avenue, and the lush weeds were trampled into flat ground. The main force of the Jin army was less than 5000 people. Wei Chaoren said a number after looking at the top of the city, [-] people.

The commander of the Jin Army was obviously someone who had fought battles. After the main force arrived for a whole afternoon, he did not rush to attack or send people to shout. Go up and set up camp, then set up the horses and bury the pot to cook.

It was not until the afternoon that envoys who could speak Chinese were sent close to the city wall and shouted for the defenders in the city to surrender, otherwise they would destroy Yanshan City!

The morale of the Jin army was very high, and they shouted in unison outside the city, and the momentum was so loud that it really scared many soldiers in the defenders.

Wei Chaoren made a decisive decision, ordered to release arrows, and shot the messenger to death under the city, showing his determination to defend the city, and also put an end to the fearful soldiers and generals.

The Jin army was furious, and the vanguard cavalry circled the city for half a circle, cursing in words they could not understand, and then the Jin army began to cut trees on the spot to make siege equipment.

The war is imminent.
(End of this chapter)