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Chapter 371 0367 [Rotten Tokyo City! 】

Boom boom boom!

The frequency of siege artillery bombardment gradually slowed down, and later on, the intervals between each salvo became longer and longer.

After each shot, Hu Zhong had to lead a group of gunners to carefully inspect the barrel, breech and iron hoops outside.

Once cracks are found, they cannot be used anymore.

There is no other way, the main body of the siege artillery is iron wood.

Although the hardness is five or six times that of ordinary trees, no matter what, it is still wood after all. How can it be as strong as steel?

If it weren't for the copper core embedded in the barrel, it would be useless after just a dozen shots.

Unknowingly, the sky gradually became gloomy.

Boom!

A thunder exploded from the sky, suppressing all sounds.

The power of heaven and earth cannot be compared to artillery.

Han Shizhong looked up at the sky, his expression becoming increasingly gloomy.

It is going to rain!

Once it rains, the firearm is useless!

Just when he was about to order a fierce attack, a messenger rushed over with his horse.

"Pass on His Majesty's oral instructions to withdraw the troops with gold!"

"Ugh!"

Han Shizhong punched his leg unwillingly, gritted his teeth and said, "Ming Jin retreats!"

Dangdang Dangdang!

The harsh sound of golden drums sounded on the battlefield.

On top of the city tower, Yue Fei hit He Guan on the shoulder with an iron spine. Just as he was about to take advantage of the victory, he suddenly heard the sound of golden drums in his ears.

After taking a deep look at He Guan who was retreating into the crowd, Yue Fei shouted: "The whole army obeys the order and evacuates in an orderly manner!"

Upon hearing this, the Qingzhou Army immediately gathered together, with the shield bearers at the front, and the rest evacuated from the ladder in an orderly manner.

He Guan was guarded in the formation by his personal guards, with cold sweat dripping from his forehead. He gritted his teeth and asked, "You thief, do you dare to leave your name?"

The hammer just now broke his shoulder bone, causing excruciating pain.

Yue Fei replied loudly: "Commander of the Qingzhou Army, Yue Fei is the one!"

He Guan said harshly: "Okay, I will remember you!"

"Brigadier, retreat quickly!"

The shield bearer behind reminded him.

Yue Fei didn't waste any time and backed up to the city wall.

Upon seeing this, the Song army immediately surrounded him, and Yue Fei made a move to take the firearm from his waist.

Seeing this scene, the Song army was so frightened that they all retreated.

Taking this opportunity, Yue Fei laughed loudly, climbed onto the ladder, and quickly climbed down.

Falling to the ground, a drop of rain fell from the sky and landed on the back of Yue Fei's hand.

Gradually, there were more and more raindrops, and soon they formed a curtain of rain.

This is how the sky in summer changes.

Not long after, heavy rain covered the sky.

Inside the commander's tent, Shi Wenhui was reporting the battle damage: "The Qingzhou Army lost more than 800 people and injured more than 2,000 people. The Song Army Camp lost 3,000 people and injured more than 5,000 people. In addition, two siege cannons exploded."

Han Shizhong looked ashamed and said: "The last general has failed in attacking the city, please punish me!"

"If God doesn't do his best, what does it have to do with you?"

Han Zhen waved his hand indifferently.

Seeing the gloomy faces of Wu Bao, Yu Jun and others, and the depressed atmosphere, Han Zhen suddenly smiled and said: "Why are you acting like a dead mother? Is it possible that you really plan to capture Tokyo City in one day? If it is so easy to do so, Come down, the Jin people have already entered the city, how could they wait for us to come."

It is not normal to defeat such a powerful city, and it would be abnormal to defeat it.

Han Shizhong said angrily: "Your Majesty, I just feel aggrieved. Brigadier Yue had already established a foothold on the tower at that time. If it hadn't suddenly rained, if he had worked harder, he would have had a chance to capture Nanxun Gate."

Han Zhen shook his head: "It's not that simple. There are a large number of crossbowmen hidden in the tooth passages and turrets of Wengcheng. Once the Song army on the tower is defeated, you will face a volley of divine arm crossbows from all directions."

When the city was just being attacked, Han Zhen boarded the chariot to watch the whole process.

The Divine Arm Crossbowman Battalion deployed by the Song Army has not yet exerted its force.

Han Zhen's eyes fell on Yue Fei and asked with concern: "How serious is Peng Ju's injury?"

"Thank you for your concern, Your Majesty. The skin injury is not a problem."

Yue Fei's upper body was bare, revealing his strong muscles. His chest was wrapped with a layer of gauze, and a trace of bright red blood appeared on his right chest.

Wu Bao suggested: "Your Majesty, although this battle was not captured, the Song army suffered heavy casualties and morale dropped sharply. After the rain stops, we can regroup and capture it in one go."

"If we continue fighting like this, after taking Tokyo City, there won't be much left of the 80,000-strong army."

Han Zhen waved his hand and rejected the proposal. Today's battle itself was just a try.

It's best if you can capture it. If you can't capture it, then besiege it.

Shi Wenhui asked: "Your Majesty, do you want to besiege us?"

"That's right!"

Han Zhen nodded.

Shi Wenhui frowned and said, "But there are more than a hundred granaries in Tokyo City, which store a large amount of grain and grass, enough to support the entire city's expenses for a year."

Han Zhen shook his head and said confidently: "There is still so much food and grass. It can last for half a month. In addition, there is a more important point. There is not much coal reserve in Tokyo. In a few days, the people and soldiers in the city will be gone." I can only eat cold food.”

After formulating the strategy of going south to attack the Song Dynasty, he sent Xiaochong to inquire about the situation in Tokyo City.

At the same time, the boy Qiu Niu was also sent over.

It can be said that Han Zhen knows everything about the situation in Tokyo.

The first is coal.

At the beginning of the Southern Song Dynasty, a Song Dynasty man named Zhuang Chuo recalled: "In the past, there were millions of families in Biandu, all of them relied on charcoal, and none of them burned firewood."

In fact, by the time Huizong of the Song Dynasty succeeded to the throne, no one in Tokyo used firewood or charcoal for cooking, but coal.

Firewood and charcoal are scarce and expensive, and ordinary people cannot afford them.

Especially after the coal stove briquettes invented by Han Zhen were introduced to the Zhao and Song Dynasties, the proportion of coal use increased because it was so convenient.

This results in Tokyo’s annual coal consumption being extremely large, around half a million tons.

According to Xiaochong's statistics, once the supply is cut off, the stocks of the major coal trading houses in the city will only be enough to support the people of the city for ten days.

Then there is food. There are more than a hundred large and small granaries around Tokyo, but most of them are outside the city.

There are only thirty-eight granaries in the city.

First, he paid compensation last year, and then Han Zhen took advantage of Jiang Suyi's three daughters and extorted another 500,000 dan, including the 200,000 dan who later went north to fight against the Jin Dynasty.

In addition, hundreds of thousands of troops have been stationed around the capital for more than a year. They are eating horses and chewing them. There is not much granary left in Tokyo City.

According to normal circumstances, the summer harvest will begin in two months.

Grain and grass from various routes in the south will be gradually transported to Tokyo City to ensure the daily needs of the people in the capital.

But as the Jin went south, all plans were disrupted.

Moreover, after Emperor Huizong of the Song Dynasty fled to the south, he did not stop. He continued to make troubles and withheld the grain and grass shipped from the south to Gyeonggi.

When the Jin people went south for the second time in the previous life, they still could not capture Tokyo City and finally chose to besiege it.

There was a shortage of food and coal in the city. Officials colluded with wealthy businessmen to take advantage of the country's financial difficulties and secretly sold the grain in the granary to businessmen, who then sold it at high prices.

As a result, many people in the city starved to death, wailing everywhere, and soldiers from all walks of life mutinied due to lack of food and clothing.

It was at this critical juncture that Sun Fu chose to take a risk and use Six Ding Liujia to boost morale.

And Guo Jing is just a failed version of Joan of Arc.

According to the Shinto inscription in Wanyan Lou’s room:

[Breaking the siege and going out to fight, the king saw the sharpness of the enemy and did not counterattack. He sent the living women to lead the elite troops to intercept it. The enemy was in chaos. The king then supervised the troops to fight. He had arrows in his hands, straightened the bridle and raised the spear, and galloped to attack the enemy. Defeat, rush to the city]

It can be seen from this that the so-called Six Ding Liujia magic soldiers are not some trash fish, but the best among the best. They fought all the way into the Jin Army camp. Wanyan Loushi was hit by an arrow in his hand, and the Jin Army was almost about to kill him. rout.

In desperation, Wanyan Loushi sent his eldest son and daughter to lead the Jurchen elite to fight to the death to stop Guo Jing.

Subsequently, the Jin army took advantage of the situation and entered the city.

If that arrow had hit Wanyan Loushi's head instead of his hand, history would probably have been rewritten.

Sun Fu will also become the hero who can turn the tide and support the building from collapse.

This is why later history books and literati did not criticize Sun Fu verbally or writing.

Because everyone knows that Sun Fu is not to blame for this matter at all.

Wen Tianxiang even admired Sun Fu very much and regarded him as his idol.

After the Jin army captured Bianjing, when the two Huiqin sects were put in prison carts, only Sun Fu stood up and shouted: I, the minister of the Song Dynasty, and the prince Fu are also to die!

The only difference between Sun Fu and Yu Qian is that Yu Qian defended the capital, but Sun Fu did not.

"can."

After listening to Han Zhen's analysis, Shi Wenhui nodded in agreement.

Otherwise, if we really want to attack by force, even if we can capture the city of Tokyo, there will not be much left of our 80,000 troops.

Han Zhen knew that Han Shizhong and other generals were holding back their anger, and that he could not let the 80,000 troops stay here forever, so he called them by name: "Han Shizhong, Wu Bao, Yu Jun, Zhang He!"

"The general is here!"

The four people's expressions perked up and they all responded.

Han Zhen ordered: "The four of you will each lead 1,000 Qingzhou troops and 5,000 Song troops. The troops will be divided into four groups, armed with field artillery and firearms, to capture the northwest and south roads of Beijing."

As long as the North and South Beijing Roads are captured, Tokyo City will become an isolated city.

As for King Qin’s army... let’s go through Song Huizong first!

"The last general takes command!"

Xiao Wu and others looked happy.

Han Zhen continued to give the order: "Yue Fei, Huang Kai, you two wait until the rain stops, use siege guns to bombard towers all over Tokyo City day and night, pretend to attack the city, and don't give the defenders a chance to breathe."

"I have given you a verbal order to order Wu Jie to lead his troops south and attack the Jianghuai River."

Looking at the city of Tokyo in the rain from a distance, the corners of Han Zhen's mouth raised slightly.

The most prosperous and majestic capital city in the world today has long become filthy and rotten under its glamorous appearance.

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Torrential rain.

On the three city towers in the east, west and south, Song troops braved the heavy rain to clean up the corpses on the towers.

Generally speaking, when attacking a city, the attacking party's battle losses are much greater than those of the defending party. The more powerful the city, the higher the ratio.

The Song army who defended the city lost a thousand lives, and the attackers had to kill at least three to five thousand lives to fill the gap.

However, the Qingzhou Army held firearms, which reversed the battle losses on both sides.

In this siege, the Song army suffered nearly 10,000 casualties and countless wounded.

Moreover, the power of firearms and siege artillery made the defenders fearful and demoralized.

Li Gang and Sun Fu, who had just comforted Zhao Huan, immediately changed their expressions and became worried after walking out of the hall.

Sun Fu looked worried and said: "The Korean thieves have sharp weapons and the soldiers suffered too much damage in the battle. In this attack on the city, nearly ten thousand soldiers were killed, and as many as seven or eight thousand were injured. If there were more attacks, there would be one hundred thousand defenders in the city." , I’m afraid there won’t be much left.”

Li Gang said firmly: "The only option now is to hold on and drag King Qin's troops from all over the country to come. By then Han Zhen will have to retreat if he doesn't want to retreat!"

"I am afraid that I will hit the back, Li Bangyan, Cai You and other treacherous people to persuade your Majesty to negotiate peace."

Sun Fu's worries were unfounded. The Jin army's previous withdrawal gave the officials confidence.

But if the Korean rebels attack fiercely, there is no guarantee that the officials will not be instigated by Li Bangyan and others and choose peace talks.

"We can only do our best."

Li Gang sighed, and then said: "The most urgent task now is to summon the doctors in the city to treat the wounded soldiers."

Sun Fu said: "I have sent someone to handle this matter."

"That's good."

Li Gang nodded and suddenly asked: "By the way, how much food is left in the city?"

Sun Fu muttered: "There should be about two million stones left. Later, I will personally go to various granaries to inspect them."

"I will leave the matter of food and grass to Sun Shangshu, and I will go to express my condolences to the soldiers guarding the city."

"it is good!"

After the two said this, they immediately parted ways.

(End of this chapter)