Guide to Traveling through the Northern Song Dynasty.

Chapter 344 0339 [Mr.

Jianzhou City is not only defended by soldiers, but also has a lot of food!

The military rations at Jianmen Pass had to be transported to Jianzhou City first, and then the civilians were organized to transfer them.

Let's put it this way, as long as the guard's mind is fine, he won't be afraid even if the Jianmen Gate is bypassed.

Enemies running around will be stuck between Jianzhou and Jianmen.There is only one road to go there, and there are no villages along the way. If you go to the countryside to grab food, you can't get it. If you drag it for a month, you will become a starving soldier.

Moreover, troops can also be dispatched from Jianzhou and Jianmen to carry out a north-south pincer attack on the enemies behind them.

Li Jinyi led a thousand elite soldiers and only carried dry food for a few days, speeding up to be the pioneer.

In the north of Cuiyun Corridor, there is a depression sandwiched between mountains, with an area of ​​only 0.1 square kilometers.It used to be an overnight place for caravans, but now it has become a small food transportation station, and a stockade has been built on the northern mountains to prevent rebels from sneaking up on the Su Xiaodao.

Li Jinyi was still at the foot of the mountain when he was discovered by the soldiers in the village, and smoke billowed quickly.

"Soldiers are precious and fast, and they don't care about their lives. The whole army abandons their armor and follows me to attack!" Li Jinyi raised his gun and shouted.

A thousand elite soldiers took off their rattan armor and began to advance at an accelerated pace. Affected by the terrain, they lined up in a long snake formation and went up the mountain.

There were only three hundred officers and soldiers defending the stronghold. Seeing Li Jinyi rushing up desperately, the officers abandoned the stronghold and fled.Anyway, the smoke has been ignited, and the mountain here is not steep, so it is better to retreat to the dangerous Cuiyun Corridor and guard.

Still the same sentence, for a few military salaries, there is no need to fight desperately with bandits!
Li Jinyi captured the cottage without losing an inch of his troops, but continued to chase forward: "Don't stop, rush all the way to Cuiyun Corridor!"

A thousand elite soldiers chased and killed them from Hanzhong to Jianzhou. They were all winning, and they no longer regarded the officers and soldiers as human beings.Just now when they abandoned their armor to attack the mountain, some people were still afraid, but seeing the officers and soldiers fleeing, they were so excited that their morale burst.

The officers and soldiers were so frightened that they couldn't figure out why they were chasing after the bandits broke through the stronghold.

They chased and fled and approached the depression at the foot of the mountain.

Hundreds of stones of grain have been piled up at the small grain transportation station, with a hundred or so officers and soldiers guarding the grain, and five or six hundred grain transporters are resting.

When they saw the smoke from the mountains ahead, they became panicked. They didn't know how many rebels had killed them, and they didn't know whether Jianmen Pass had been breached.

"Run away!"

The three hundred defeated soldiers in the stronghold fled down the mountain, and some fell down halfway.

"run!"

The grain transporter was the first to react, fleeing towards Cuiyun Corridor in a swarm.

Immediately afterwards, the grain detaining officers and soldiers also began to flee.

Li Jinyi led his troops to the small food delivery station, didn't bother to look at the food, and continued to chase forward.

There is also a cottage built on the mountainside to the north of Cuiyun Corridor.

The defenders of the cottage didn't understand what was going on at all. They had just lit the beacon to deliver the news when they saw nearly a thousand defeated soldiers fleeing in embarrassment.Ever since, the officers of this cottage also fled with their soldiers in a daze.

It is worthy of being the officers and soldiers of Sichuan who were defeated by the barbarians...

Li Jinyi rushed up to the Cuiyun Corridor in one breath, but he couldn't catch up anymore. He was so tired that he put his hands on his knees, bent his waist and gasped for breath.

His soldiers were also lying on the ground in twos and threes.

After resting for a while, Li Jinyi divided his troops to defend the Cuiyun Corridor, and sent the rest of the soldiers back to get the rattan armor, and by the way received hundreds of shi of grain from the depression.

Before Shi Yuangong and Deng Chun led the main force to arrive, Li Jinyi rested for a day, sent dozens of people to guard the food, and led the troops to continue to advance.

After passing Cuiyun Corridor, there is a small town four or five miles ahead, later named Hanyang Town.

It was prosperous due to the commercial transportation of the Shu Road, and there are many inns, and the guest rooms are mainly Datong shops.Now it has also become a grain transportation station, but when Li Jinyi arrived, the grain had been emptied, and even the residents of the town fled in large numbers.

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But it is said that the officers, soldiers, civilian husbands and common people who fled back from the area of ​​Cuiyun corridor spread all kinds of news along the way.

Some people say that the bandits came from Su Xiaodao.

Some people say that bandit soldiers have broken through Jianmen Pass.

Some people said that the defenders at Jianmen Pass had surrendered and they took the initiative to let the bandits come over.

Regarding the number of bandits, there are three thousand, five thousand, ten thousand, twenty thousand, thirty thousand, fifty thousand... all kinds of messy theories.

From Hanyang Town to Jianzhou City, the actual distance is nearly 30 miles, and there are several military villages along the way.The few officers and soldiers stationed mainly focused on delaying the enemy and delivering news. They all lit up the beacon fire and then abandoned the village to escape. They felt that it would be safe to hide in Jianzhou City.

More and more soldiers and civilians fled back to Jianzhou City, and panic quickly spread in the city.

Huang Gai, the transshipment envoy of Fuludu in Chengdu, and Huang Gai, the envoy of Sichuan Zhizhi, personally led troops to garrison Jianzhou.As for Jianmen Pass, Gao Jingshan was in charge of defending it, and Lizhou prefect Huang Deyu was also there.

The Bashu area was still recruiting soldiers and food, but Huang Gai couldn't wait any longer, so he headed north with the recruited soldiers.He stuffed 500 people at Jianmen Pass, and led 5000 people to set up a stronghold to guard Jianzhou.

"Zhishi, the sword gate is lost, it is better to retreat to Lutou Pass (Mianzhu Pass)."

The speaker was Lu Shizhao, commander of the Sichuan Imperial Army.

Sichuan not only has forbidden troops, but also a large number, reaching more than [-] at its peak.

Of course, these are all figures on paper.

Decades ago, the imperial court came to clean up, reorganize and abolish, and the Void Forbidden Army in Sichuan has only ten thousand people left.

Huang Gai said angrily, "Who told you that the sword gate is lost?"

Lu Shizhao replied: "Many of the rout soldiers who fled back said the same thing. Moreover, Gao Jingshan, the commander of Jianmen, has an old relationship with the Zhu family father and son, so he might lead his troops to follow the bandits."

"No, Vice Envoy Gao is loyal to the emperor and patriotic, so he will definitely not follow a thief." Huang Gai shook his head again and again, but he was actually a little worried.

But Lu Shizhao said: "Knowing people, knowing the face, but not knowing the heart, the bandits have already occupied Lizhou. If they go to Jianmen Pass again, they will have the potential to separate Bashu and Hanzhong. Gao Jingshan surrendered with Jianmen Pass, and he will be reused by the Zhu thief. He may be appointed as a false prime minister. He is just a transfer envoy, so why don't he want to be prime minister?"

"Don't say such things again, my deputy envoy of the Great Song Dynasty is comparable to bandits and bandits?" Huang Gai scolded sharply, "Go back and defend the city, don't let bandits come in!"

Lu Shizhao left angrily, muttering something in his mouth.

The more Huang Gai thought about it, the more frightened he became. What if Gao Jingshan really switches and surrenders?
Gao Jingshan has friendship with Zhu's father and son, so he is not suitable for leading troops to defend Jianmen.But with so many officials in Sichuan, none of them dared to go to Jianmen Pass, not even Huang Gai himself, so he had to push Gao Jingshan, who was the most courageous, to go up.

Huang Gai began to struggle, should he defend or retreat?

If Jianmen is lost, it is useless to defend Jianzhou, it is better to retreat to Lutou Pass.

But if the sword gate is still there, wouldn't it be possible to leave the friendly army and run away?
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Jianzhou City was built at the confluence of two rivers, facing the river on one side and mountains on three sides, making it easy to defend but difficult to attack.

To the northwest of Zhoucheng, two mountains stand across the river, and Huanggai has a fortress in each.The mountains and rivers are steep, and they are connected with the state city to form a three-dimensional defense system.

If you can't win by surprise attack, let alone capture the city by the five thousand rebels, if you don't pay attention, you will have to explain everything here.

But when Li Jinyi's thousand vanguards arrived, they hadn't done anything yet, and the officers and soldiers on the hilltop in the north abandoned their strongholds and fled, scrambling to cross the river and flee to Zhoucheng.

Li Jinyi was dumbfounded, he had never seen someone so afraid of death!
He took advantage of the situation to seize the empty village on the mountain, and then waited for the main force to arrive.

Two days later, Shi Yuangong and Deng Chun arrived with their troops.Fortunately, hundreds of stone grains were seized halfway, otherwise their army rations would almost run out.

Moreover, the broken soldiers didn't have time to take away the food in this army camp...

When the food is sufficient, there is no need to attack other places immediately, and you can play with the officers and soldiers in Jianzhou.

"Jianzhou has a large number of officers and soldiers, and it cannot be easily attacked." Li Jinyi said.

Deng Chun had been here before, and of course he knew that it was easy to defend but difficult to attack: "You can try a feint attack. Most of our soldiers have rattan armor. They pretend to be defeated and jump into the river. The rattan armor can float up. The officers and soldiers must think that our army has been defeated and may go out of the city to pursue it. Let the soldiers who don't have rattan armor cross the river in advance to ambush, and kill the officers and soldiers who are chasing. If they can't fight, they will go to the west to capture Yinping County."

Two months ago, Deng Chun would never have dared to use this kind of strategy, because feigning defeat would most likely turn into a rout.

But the rebel army, which has won consecutive battles, not only has high morale, but also has a sense of psychological superiority when facing officers and soldiers.As long as you make it clear to each soldier in advance, feigning defeat to lure the enemy is very likely to succeed.

Li Jinyi suddenly said: "I led the troops all the way, and all the officers and soldiers along the way fled. Even the current military stronghold was taken without a single soldier."

Shi Yuangong's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he shook his feather fan and said, "The morale of the officers and soldiers is so low, it can be frightened. There are many flags in the military camps in the mountains, and the grassmen wear armors as soldiers, and let the peasants beat drums and make noise every day in the camps. The soldiers go down the mountain at night and leave in the daytime!"

Deng Chun and Li Jinyi listened to the admiration, and they all praised: "Mr. Shi is really smart, he can come up with such a clever plan!"

The premise of the intimidation strategy is that the morale of the officers and soldiers is not high, and they have long been frightened.

On the same day, they played drums in the army village for a show. The officers and soldiers of Jianzhou across the river thought that the rebels were going to cross the river to attack, so they were so frightened that they quickly dispatched troops to defend.

But the rebels and civilian husbands made straw people in the village, and the soldiers went to sleep one after another.

When it was dark, [-] soldiers went down the mountain in the dark, leaving [-] soldiers and civilian husbands to defend in the stronghold.

After walking for a few miles, turning around a valley, the soldiers of the rebels stopped to rest.In the middle of the morning, they swaggered back, and under the watchful eyes of the officers and soldiers on the other side of the river, they returned to the military stronghold on the mountain in a neat lineup.

For several days in a row, sometimes I came back in the morning, sometimes in the afternoon, and sometimes in the evening.

The defenders in Jianzhou City became more and more fearful, because the bandit army on the opposite mountain had "increased their troops" to 3 to [-]!

Frightened, Lu Shizhao, the commander of the imperial army, ran to Huang Gai and begged, "Registrar, withdraw the troops quickly, the sword gate is definitely gone, and Gao Jingshan has surrendered to the bandits!"

Huang Gai stood at the top of the city, staring stupidly at the mountains on the other side.

He was already skeptical, but now that Lu Shizhao was instigating him, Huang Gai was basically sure that the Jianmen defenders had surrendered.

"Withdraw the troops and retreat to Lutou Pass (Mianzhu Pass)!" Huang Gai finally made a decision.

Shi Yuangong's unreliable trick actually succeeded, it's simply outrageous to open the door for outrageous - outrageous home!

Gao Jingshan and Huang Deyu are still holding on to the Jianmen Pass, how could they have thought that the coach in the rear has already slipped away?
(End of this chapter)