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Chapter 433 There is no water on the mountain

Ding Chou (20) in March of the first year of Yuanyou.

When the dawn sun fell on the towering top of Beizhang City.

boom!
A loud noise, more violent than thunder, suddenly sounded from under the city wall of Beizhuang City.

The rammed earth walls began to shake and crack.

Then it collapsed!

With the collapse of the city wall, Beizhang City was no longer in danger of being defended.

Arranged in front of the Song army, the chieftain soldiers from the Liu family in Silang Prefecture and the Wang family in Menzhou were dumbfounded.

The wall of Beijia City, which was indestructible in the eyes of these people, collapsed with an incredible loud noise.

An entire section of the city wall collapsed.

Nong Kexiang, who was sent by Nong Zhihui to assist the Song army in attacking the city, immediately shouted frantically: "Charge!"

Then he raised the Teng Shield in his hand, led his own bodyguards, and rushed towards Beizhuang City.

Behind him were thousands of crazy chieftain soldiers.

For these chieftains, they could not understand why, in their opinion, the walls of the seemingly majestic Beijia City collapsed after a loud noise.

Therefore, it can only be attributed to the power of gods and Buddhas.

Since the gods and Buddhas are on his side, then, what else is there to worry about?
Kill it.

Di Yong reined in his horse and looked at the completely collapsed Beijian City wall.

Then he turned to look at Yan Yuan, who was smiling at him.

"Yan Guan Gou." Di Yong asked, "Are firearms so powerful?"

Yesterday, after surrounding Beiji City, Di Yong was still worried about how to capture such a strong city.

Yes, Beizhi City is a fortified city in the land of Jiaozhi.

The city has high walls and thick walls. Even if it is placed along the edge, it can be called a "military stronghold".

If you want to capture it, you must have several times the number of troops and besiege it for dozens of days.

If we attack by force, the price paid will be unimaginable.

Just when Di Yong was worried about how to capture Beiji as soon as possible, Yan Yuan came to ask for advice.

So what happened now - it took just over an hour, using the gap before dawn, the Song Army dug a tunnel under Beijian City, and then stuffed a small coffin into it.

Then what we see now happened.

Di Yong once guarded the border and saw the firearms manufactured by the Ordnance Manufacturing Bureau.

But most of those firearms have no effect other than scaring people and creating smoke.

But now, under the northern city, there was a thunderous roar, blowing down an entire section of the city wall.

Unbelievable!

Can firearms be so powerful?It’s really unimaginable.

Yan Yuan smiled, cupped his hands and said, "This is the reason why the two generations of Holy Masters, the late Emperor and the Guan family, focused on manufacturing the weapons bureau, and it is also the way Li Ding died!"

Yan Yuan bowed to the Bianjing and Yongyu mausoleums respectively: "The late emperor was sacred, he could climb high and reach great distances, and he knew the wonderful uses of firearms. He was recommended by his descendants, so he was awarded to the official family... The official family inherited the legacy of the late emperor and developed the wisdom of the sage. , using Shen Kuo's talents and the palace's internal funds, after going through hardships, he finally obtained this weapon for the military and state."

"From now on, there will be no strong city in the world."

In order to blow up Beizi City, Yan Yuan spent all his money and put one hundred kilograms of extremely precious gunpowder into a coffin.

Now it seems that the force was obviously too much.

Next time, a rammed earth city wall less than two feet high like this will collapse with thirty or fifty kilograms of gunpowder.

I am afraid that only the fortified city of Beilu requires hundreds of kilograms of gunpowder.

Di Yong listened to Yan Yuan's words and watched the chieftain soldiers rush in through the gap in the collapsed city wall in the north.

This city, the transportation hub of Jiaozhi in the north, an important town similar to Yangzhou in the Song Dynasty, was destined to fall into the hands of the Song army.

"The late emperor was sacred, and the officials were saintly!" Di Yong was filled with emotion.

This is a sigh from the heart.

"This thief Li Ding has done so much harm to our country!" Di Yong spat, cursing Li Ding who had been demoted to Yingzhou.

He understood that after this battle, Li Ding would be nailed to the pillar of shame.

Stink forever!

……

The battle in Beigu City came to an end after an hour.

The defenders in the city actually completely lost their will to resist after the city wall was blown down, and they all knelt down and asked to surrender.

Even the officials and generals of Jiaozhi were like this.

The reason why it took an hour was mainly because the chieftain soldiers were busy catching prisoners.

Men and women, old and young, were screened one by one.

By the time Di Yong led his army into the city, the chieftain soldiers were already cleaning the bloodstains on the streets of Beizhang City.

Dozens of heads were hung in front of the state government gate in Beizhang City.

These people were all scholars with Jiaozhi meritorious service selected by the chieftains from Beijia City.

They used to be the high-ranking scholar-bureaucrats in this northern city.

He has countless privileges and enjoys superior treatment.

They originally thought that the Song army would treat them with courtesy when they entered the city.

But all they waited for was the butcher's knife.

The chieftains loyally carried out the orders of the generals who came to the Song Dynasty with the highest efficiency: Jiaozhi scholars who betrayed the teachings of the saints and helped the tyrants were beasts, beasts, everyone can find and punish them!
Although there is no reward for this general order.

But they were meticulous and carried out the work extremely meticulously.

They not only executed those scholars with meritorious status, but also those without meritorious status who were found to have participated in the Shenglong Mansion examination room.

All their books, articles, and poems were found and burned.

In addition to the official atlas and household registration files of Beijiaocheng, all other texts and books that could be found were also burned.

These toasts are not stupid.

They knew very well that doing so would benefit them and their descendants' future rule on this land.

In fact, after Zhang Dun issued the order.

In Menzhou, Silangzhou and Sumaozhou, large-scale purges began.

The Liu family, the Wang family, and the Zhang family were originally worried about offending the Song Dynasty and did not dare to deal with the scholars in their territory who gave them a headache.

it's good now.

The Great Song Dynasty's Jingluo Xianggong loosened the chains that bound them.

They immediately started to search the territory according to the map, and arrested and executed those guys who had disgusted them in the past.

Liu, Wang, Zhang and other families now have an unprecedented level of recognition of the Song Dynasty.

The mutual trust between the chieftains and the Song Dynasty has also reached an unprecedented height.

Even scholars in the Song Dynasty were allowed to be killed.

This means that the Song Dynasty did not want to set up officials in the north of Cochin.

These lands belong to them.

The Emperor of the Song Dynasty did not even ask them to pay tribute, as long as they surrendered.

Naturally, the morale and fighting will of the chieftains also reached their peak.

Di Yong has received the news that Liu Yin from Silang Prefecture and Wang Jing from Men Prefecture have personally led their troops, escorting cattle, sheep and fine wine, to work for the army.

It belongs to the food pot that has been filled with pulp.

Di Yong rode his horse and walked to the gate of the government office in Beizhang City. He looked at the heads hanging in front of the government office and at the countless books that had been burned to ashes.

He let out a slight breath. To be honest, he didn't know what kind of disturbance Zhang Dun's order would cause if it were sent back to Bianjing.
But he knew that wherever the Song army went from now on, the Jiaozhi rebels would no longer have room to move around.

Killing all the scholars is actually killing all those who potentially support the Cochin rebels.So, he smiled and greeted the chieftains who were already kneeling in front of the government office to greet him.

"You are loyal to the country and have bravely killed the enemy. I will definitely report your merits to the emperor!" He jumped off his horse and helped the chieftains up one by one.

The toasts opened their mouths and smiled brightly.

After Di Yong entered the city, less than an hour later, he received a notice from Tian Shiru in Beizhang City - tens of thousands of Jiaozhi soldiers had left Taiyuan early yesterday morning.

The commander of the troops was Li Changjie, the pseudo-captain of Jiaozhi.

After receiving the report, Di Yong was greatly excited.

Immediately summoned the generals to discuss arrangements to fight Li Changjie.

At the same time, he ordered people to report the matter quickly to Zhang Dun, who was supervising the battle in Xiping Prefecture.

……

After two days of trekking, Li Changjie's army finally arrived at a mountainous area less than [-] miles away from Beizhuang City.

Here, Li Changjie received a piece of bad news - Beiji City had fallen, and less than a hundred people could escape.

The rest were all captured by the Song army.

When Li Changjie heard the news, his body on the horse trembled. He could hardly believe his ears.

"Beijing was safe and sound yesterday, why did it fall today?"

"Report to the Lieutenant..." The Jiaozhi man who was brought to Li Changjie said with a sad face: "We wanted to hold on, but suddenly the earth moved and the city wall collapsed..."

"The Northern Army swarmed in, and everyone in the city shouted: God's punishment, God's punishment..."

Li Changjie's expression changed, and he immediately took out the sword from his waist and chopped off the man's head with one strike.

He stretched out his hand to wipe off the blood on the sword and said sternly: "The evil words are confusing the people and disrupting the morale of our army. This will be done carefully by the Northern invaders!"

He stared at the other people who had escaped from Beizhang City and asked sternly: "What do you think?"

With a plop, these people knelt down and kowtowed tremblingly: "The Taiwei is wise, the Taiwei is wise!"

Li Changjie turned his head and looked at the generals gathered around him and said: "The northern invaders are cunning and the chieftain is cunning. There must be a chieftain who colluded with the northern invaders and took my city as a gift."

The generals opened their mouths.

Although they knew very well that what Li Changjie said was unlikely.

Since the fall of Juili Pass, Li Changjie has ordered the cities including Taiyuan and Beijian to "drive out all the chieftains' troops."

Although he didn't know the battle at Juili Pass.

However, there is only one explanation for the rapid advance of the Northern Army - the chieftains rebelled.

Therefore, it is impossible for Beijiu City to have any more chieftain soldiers. Even if there were, the Beijiu defenders would not be stupid enough to give these people a chance to dedicate the city.

But looking at Li Changjie's expression, they could only raise their hands and say, "What the Captain said is absolutely true!"

Li Changjie waved his hand and issued a military order: "Send my order to the general and set up camp on the spot!"

The northern piece has been lost, and we must immediately set up camp, set up defenses, and dig trenches.

Because the Northern Army cavalry is very powerful.

Sure enough, after Li Changjie's order was issued, only half an hour later, the Northern Army cavalry appeared in the distance.

They rode horses from a distance, observing the movements of the Cochin army and the actions of the Cochin people, and then quickly retreated.

Another hour passed, before dusk, more figures of the Northern Dynasty cavalry appeared on the horizon.

There were hundreds of riders, and they were moving far away from the edge of sight.

This made the people of Cochin very nervous.

Li Changjie had to mobilize a group of archers and set up a blocking line under the escort of infantry.

On the other hand, Li Changjie personally led a group of people to a nearby hill, and immediately ordered young men to go up the mountain to cut down trees.

These mountains serve as good defensive strongholds.

As long as you occupy this place, you can gain a condescending advantage.

You can also put baggage and valuable ordnance on the mountain to prevent it from being stolen or burned down.

Of course, as a veteran, Li Changjie also knows the importance of food channels.

So he immediately sent an elite force to explore and advance on the road they came from to prevent the Northern Army's cavalry from bypassing the rear, cutting off their retreat, and harassing their food routes.

As long as we get through tonight and early tomorrow morning, the Jiaozhi army can retake the northern part and open the road to Guangyuan Prefecture.

You can alternate between retreating to the rear and retreat to Taiyuan.

Of course, Li Changjie knew that retreat would be a dead end.

Because his army simply did not have the ability to retreat in an orderly manner under the threat of the Northern Army's cavalry.

Only victory is his only way out.

Fortunately, he already knew from the people who escaped from Beiji City that the Northern Army had only more than 1 troops to attack Beiji.

In terms of military strength, he has an absolute advantage!

Thirty thousand elite soldiers and at least [-] young and strong civilian men sent from the conscription.

7 horses!

Even 1 pigs can kill the more than [-] Northern troops.

……

at dusk.

Di Yong rode his horse and looked in the direction of the Jiaozhi people's barracks from a distance.

The barracks where the Cochin people camp stretch for more than ten miles. Even though they are far apart, the noise of the Cochin people can still be heard.

"Looking at the barracks, I'm afraid there are tens of thousands of troops." Di Yong said.

Xu Keqiang, who was beside him, said: "Reporting to the general manager, I estimate that the number of the bandit army is about 3 to [-], and the number of young men is twice that number!"

"They have also cut down all the trees on the mountain and are building a fortress."

"If our army takes the initiative to attack, this battle will be difficult to fight." Xu Kenan is a veteran of wars.

He fought his way out of the mountains of corpses and sea of ​​blood along the edge, so he could see at a glance the current strengths and weaknesses of the Song Army.

There is no need to doubt the combat effectiveness of Yulong's number one general.

If Jiaozhi soldiers come out to fight, Yulong's first general can be used as an arrow. As long as the chieftain soldiers maintain their formation, the battle cannot be lost.

However, if the Jiaozhi people shrink back and take advantage of the favorable geographical location to build defenses, it will be really difficult to defeat them for a while.

And time is of the essence.

If it is delayed for a long time, until it rains, it will be extremely detrimental to the Song Dynasty.

Because the war may last for a long time.

The imperial court may not support confrontation with the Cochin people in the southern jungle.

How to do?
Xu Kenan also felt a headache.

After all, that was tens of thousands of people.

Di Yong looked at the mountains in the distance and suddenly narrowed his eyes.

He asked around: "Is there water in these mountains?"

Shaking his head left and right: "I don't know."

"Ask the local chieftain if there is water in these mountains?"

Soon, Di Yong got the answer he wanted - there was water in these mountains.

But there are very few, at least they cannot meet the drinking water needs of more than a hundred people!Moreover, the mountains are not suitable for digging wells.

and so……

After Di Yong got the answer, he burst out laughing: "The Jiaozhi thief actually made the same mistake as Xu Xi did back then!"

Xu Xi built Yongle City. Everything was good, but there was no water on the mountain!

The results of Yongle City prove that once an army is trapped on a waterless hilltop, it will soon perish due to lack of water.

(End of this chapter)