my causal simulator

Chapter 337 The Great Cause and Effect
Li Gang's arrangement really worked, or in other words, it should be Lin Shuhang's advance arrangement that worked...

The prefect of Taiyuan Prefecture on the left front, Zhang Xiaochun, is quite talented. Because the border is close to the Liao Dynasty, he has been training the soldiers diligently during the ten years he has been in office. Since the first batch of recruits from the Yingtian Army graduated two months ago , when allocating to various places, this Taiyuan Mansion was the top priority of the northern front, and it was also one of the two offensive routes chosen by the Jin people in history when they went south to attack the Song Dynasty for the first time. How could Lin Shuhang not pay attention to it?
At that time, the best grades among the first batch of students, Yang Bangyi, Wang Gui, Liu Feng and others were all assigned here. Lin Shuhang not only took Prince Zhao Heng with him, but also paid out of his own pocket to send a few people a letter to start military reconstruction. At the same time, he also ordered the Ministry of Households to appropriate a special military training fund in Taiyuan.

However, Zhang Xiaochun's soldiers had already been trained to a certain extent, much stronger than most of the corrupt Song Army, and Yang Bangyi, Wang Gui and others introduced some new concepts in the training of the Yingtian Army. The Fubing has expanded its recruitment to more than 2000 people, and about half of them have been eliminated through the same recruit training. Now, although there are only more than 7000 left, after two months of training, all kinds of logistics and materials have been piled up desperately. People in this era can be regarded as absolute elites, even if they are not as good as the terrifying physical fitness of the Yingtian Army in Bianjing, which was trained by the nine-star body training technique, but at least the laws and regulations are strictly enforced, the discipline is strict, and even if you are willing to go out, you will have no worries. These are absolutely incomparable to other armies of this era.

With such an army, and Zhang Xiaochun's background as a Jinshi, he admires Confucian generals like Yang Bangyi very much. With his full support, the entire military strength of Taiyuan can be said to be completely new.

Before the previous imperial court's order arrived, Taiyuan had already entered a state of combat readiness in advance.

Under Yang Bangyi's suggestion, Zhang Xiaochun voluntarily gave up those villages and towns in the river valley and plain in the south, and moved their residents. All the food and resources in the villages and towns were moved to Taiyuan, and other houses and all the things that could be used but could not be moved were all taken away. Burn it with a big fire, put out a strategy of strengthening the walls and clearing the country, and then use the high walls and thick walls of Taiyuan City itself to resist.

Since Taiyuan was surrounded by mountains on three sides, and only the south was an open plain, it was difficult for the Jin people to even siege the city. The 20 troops could only be stationed in the river valley plain in the south of the city and attacked the city several times.

But although there are only a few thousand defenders in Taiyuan, they have strict discipline and high morale, and these defenders are different from the so-called "thieves with troops" in the past, and almost all of them are descendants of Taiyuan people. Attracted by the high salary of Ying Tianjun, they were deceived, but now that they have practiced and stood on the top of the city, their relatives and relatives in the city will naturally also worry about it Naturally, they all followed suit, and those who were young and strong came to help move things down, and those who were not young and strong also tried to help prepare supplies, such as helping the city to burn boiling oil, cutting arrow shafts, etc. one heart.

Can you not be single-minded?If your son is standing on the top of the wall, you can only have one heart.

Such Taiyuan, plus Zhang Xiaochun has never forgotten to repair the city wall every year and thicken it several times in these years, so although the Jin soldiers attacked fiercely, they were all blocked back and returned without success.

Marshal Wanyan Zongwang of the Left Route Army is also the most skilled marshal in the Kingdom of Jin. He is now the most respected son of Wanyan Agu. Under Yan Zonghan, just because he is a prince, he doesn't have to compete with his subordinates for merit.

This man has experienced battles and is well versed in the art of war. He has made several tentative sieges, and he can already see that the morale of the Taiyuan defenders is high. All villages and towns have been burnt to the ground, and the nearest city is already in Fenzhou, which is nearly a hundred miles away. Such determination and courage to fortify the wall and clean up the wilderness have already made Wanyan Zongwang feel secretly shocked, since he did not expect the reaction of the people of Song Dynasty. So fast, let alone the Song people's strategy is so extreme, completely different from the original imagination of the army going wherever the wind goes.

Under such circumstances, it is far from a matter of three or five days to attack Taiyuan by force, even if you want to attack at all costs. Although Ma Zhan can hang and beat Song people, but if you want to talk about climbing walls and attacking cities, this is really not what they are good at. Although many large siege equipment were seized in Daliao when the Liao Dynasty was destroyed before, this is the north of Taiyuan. What about Taihang Mountain... It is impossible for those large siege equipment to be moved from the mountain road of Taihang Mountain with the army.

But if you want to give up this difficult bone and go south directly, but that is tantamount to selling your back to the Song people. This Taiyuan City is obviously guarded by famous generals. If you sell such a big flaw, the other party If you can't catch it, you will be a ghost.

What's more, the logistics supply of the entire Left Army comes from the Taihang Mountains. Even if a small number of ships are temporarily organized to transport through the Yellow River, they still have to pass through Taiyuan. If Taiyuan cannot be taken, let the army move forward , it's not just a matter of being attacked from the front and rear, even the logistics supply line may be difficult to keep, not to mention that they are still strong and clear, you can't find a place to rob within a hundred miles of here, Fenzhou a hundred miles away Maybe there is still a defensive arrangement. When the time comes, if the front is blocked and then intercepted, if the logistics are cut off for a day or two, there is no need to fight, and your own army will collapse first. That is absolutely impossible.

This hand is solid and clearing the field, which is really difficult for Wanyan Zongwang, so he has to order the army to stay where he is, and at the same time send people to strengthen the protection of the logistics line, and at the same time immediately control the nearby piers along the Yellow River. Let's talk about Taiyuan's sleepiness.

At the same time, they sent people to Datong Mansion, which is the closest to here, and the officials there quickly prepared large-scale siege equipment, and at the same time organized ships to transport these siege equipment from the Yellow River Basin.

It's just this coming and going, plus the preparations for the siege equipment, then I really don't know when I will have to wait, at least one month, at most two or three months.

The dignified second prince, one of the great golden gods of war, gathered a large army to go south, but was trapped in the first pass of Little Taiyuan, Wanyan Zongwang was also extremely depressed.

On the right front, Han Shizhong and others began to withdraw their troops as soon as they received the news from the imperial court, and retreated into the Daming Mansion.

Frankly speaking, the quality of the army here is much worse than that of Taiyuan City.

The daimyo and Zhendingben were the first barriers against the Liao and Jin Dynasties in the Northern Song Dynasty. There were many defenders stationed there, but if there were too many people, there would be chaos.

Even if Han Shizhong, Yue Fei and others had already carried out a large-scale disarmament in Zhending before, they cut down the 20 troops originally recruited from Tong Guan to 7, sent the others back to their hometowns, and ordered them to take their government seals to the village. Their respective hometowns went to the government to ask for severance pay, and at the same time trained the remaining [-] people.

But this kind of large-scale military training is very different from the small-scale elite training of the Ying Tian Army, and it is difficult to see results in a short period of time. In one or two months, nothing can be achieved at all. The combat power is still below the average line.

At the same time, the original defenders of Daming Mansion were not much better.

Liang Zhongshu, the former magistrate of the great name, was directly attacked by the Liangshan bandits who had not yet become popular in the Water Margin. How good is his army's combat power?It can be said to have rotted a nest of bears.

Therefore, although there are famous generals in the world such as Han Shizhong, Zong Ze, Zhang Shuye, and even the underage Yue Fei, it is difficult for a clever woman to cook without rice. showdown.

Just relying on the high walls of the Daming Mansion, he couldn't hold out, while stepping up his military training in the Daming Mansion, he let the golden men who shouted outside him scold the world and humiliate him, but he turned a deaf ear to them.

So Wanyan Zonghan also suffered from the same situation as the second prince on the left, feeling a little bit overwhelmed...

But Daming Mansion is different from Taiyuan. There is no mountain in the north, but a smooth road, so it is easier to pull the siege equipment from Yanjing, but it is slower and cannot keep up with the speed of the army.

Wanyan Zonghan had only been stationed outside the city for about seven or eight days. The siege equipment had already arrived, and the large-scale siege began.

Wanyan Zonghan fought many tough battles when he destroyed the Liao Dynasty, and he is no stranger to siege warfare. Basic siege equipment such as ladders and charging cars often do not play a decisive role, but more of a psychological deterrent and fatigue bombing , so that the defenders at the top of the city are kept under high-intensity pressure and tension at all times.

But Daming Mansion originally had more than 4 defenders, plus more than 7 people who had withdrawn from Zhending, a total of nearly 12 defenders were divided into four armies, A, B, C, and D by Han Shizhong and Zong Ze. The day is rotated, one army guards during the day, and the other guards at night. During wartime, the four armies are deployed at any time, and the rotation is based on the casualty rate to minimize the psychological pressure on the defenders.

Wanyan Zonghan planned to dig a tunnel again, but Yue Fei, who was surveying with the army in the middle of the night, found that the well in the north of the city was empty, so he suspected that the enemy was digging a tunnel.

After all, he was a person who had learned Lin Shuhang's Little Zhou Tian's mind method. He had clever ears and eyes, and in the dead of night, he soon heard the sound of digging under the tunnel. It was so miserable that the whole north of the city wafted a smell of burnt meat for several days, which lingered for a long time.

The tunnel was not dug, and Wanyan Zonghan immediately switched to poisoning.

Taiyuan City is close to the waters of the Yellow River, and there are abundant underground river water resources. There are countless wells in the city, but anyone who understands geography and water conditions can easily find the source of underground rivers for these wells in the city.

Among the Jin people, there are also those who are good at this method. They found a large underground river channel in the north of Taiyuan, and used it to poison in large quantities.

As a result, the city was indeed recruited, and there were large-scale poisoning incidents in several places in the north and east of the city. Not only civilians were poisoned, but many soldiers guarding the city fell ill.

Although it was discovered quickly and all wells and water sources in the city were temporarily controlled, panic had already spread, causing morale in the city to plummet.

Although Han Shizhong, Zong Ze and others were trying to appease morale, they also ordered the prisoners in the city to test the poison of the well water in the city to check for poisonous water sources.

But even so, the panic is still there. Whether it is soldiers or civilians, it is impossible for everyone to see the scene of the death row drug test with their own eyes. What's more, if you tried the drug this morning, you may be taken from the city by the golden man again in the afternoon. Poisoned outside?This water is always uneasy to drink, and it always makes people anxious and panic.

In this matter, even Han Shizhong, Zhang Shuye and others were a little confused for a while.

It's Yue Fei again...

Find hundreds of large fish in fish ponds in the city, tie them with grass ropes, and throw them into the well. If the fish dies, the well water will not be edible. It will need to be sealed for a period of time, and new fish will be put in again to observe the changes and further investigate the fish died of natural causes. The reason, so as to determine whether the well water is poisonous.

And if the fish is alive, there is no doubt that it means that the well water is non-toxic and can be eaten with confidence.

The big fish was jumping in the well, and everyone who fetched water could see it, so there was no need to say a word of superfluous nonsense, all doubts were naturally dispelled, and at the same time, a few new fish were found out in time. The poisoned well made Han Shizhong, Zong Ze and others look at him with admiration, and they were astonished by the child.

He really deserves to be Lin Taiwei's younger brother... This is simply too wise and close to a demon.

Even though Wanyan Zonghan is a famous general of a generation, the ones gathered in this city are even more famous for a long time, and there are still a bunch of them... Therefore, even though Wanyan Zonghan has frequently used skillful hands and clever schemes, and his methods of attacking the city are various and strange, but this However, the city is still guarded tightly and as stable as Mount Tai.

The battle of Daming Mansion also fell into a stalemate due to this, and they could not stand against each other.

The front lines on both sides are maintaining stability, but after all, the two cities are under siege, and the news cannot be spread. Naturally, the imperial court cannot predict the specific situation on the front line. All I know is that Taiyuan and Daming Mansion have been captured by the Jin people. Surrounded, perhaps the destruction is only in the blink of an eye.

The battle situation on the front line is unknown, only some news from the rear came back, and the court has started frying pots again in the past few days.

This time, the Cai party has found an opportunity to completely attack the princelings, and there are various attacks in the court every day.

"Xixia has surrendered to the Jin people. Instead of agreeing to a peace agreement, they dispatched the Xiangqing Army to increase troops to Xiping. Now there are [-] troops stationed in Xiping Mansion. They don't dare to act rashly and cannot divide their troops to rescue Taiyuan!"

"Qizhou and Qingzhou used to have [-] government soldiers, but because of the reconstruction of the Heavenly Army, all [-] government soldiers were disbanded. Now there are only thousands of new soldiers, and it is difficult to mobilize the big names to help!"

"Taiyuan is even worse. A large amount of military expenditure was allocated before. I heard that more than 3000 people were recruited, but after a few interactions with the Yingtian Army in the past, they were cut down to 3000 in less than two months." There are many people, and now there are more than 20 gold guards and [-] troops. Isn’t this ridiculous? Taiyuan must be lost!”

"Zhending's original 20 defenders, although 13 were cut by Han Shizhong and others, there are still as many as 4. Adding the original 12 defenders of the daimyo, a total of [-] people were actually defeated by just five Wan Jinbing was besieged in the Daming Mansion, not daring to go out of the city to meet them, they are extremely cowardly! Humiliate my Great Song's prestige!"

"Liang Zhongshu, the former magistrate of the Daming Mansion, has been working hard for more than ten years, and managed the daiming well. If he was still there, how could the Jin people be so arrogant!"

"This Ying Tianjun, this Han Shizhong, this Zongze, Zhang Shuye and others all got their positions because of that Lin Chong, but they didn't want to end up harming our Great Song Dynasty. Even if Lin Chong died, he was also a sinner through the ages! "

(End of this chapter)