Became a feudal lord in the late Northern Song Dynasty

Chapter 154 I won’t retreat

The status of craftsmen in the Song Dynasty was not high, and the status of craftsmen who mastered so-called "exotic skills" was even lower.

The old craftsman named Qiu Sangou was originally named Qiu Ergou. When he was young, he was ignorant and provoked people. The other party said that his name was taboo, as if he was the second eldest official in the Song Dynasty. Now you say The second child is a dog. Isn't this a big taboo?

Qiu Sangou didn't know how his dog-like name could offend the emperor. That day, he begged a scholar and gave him a hundred coins and half a leg of pork. He was three years older than the scholar, but he looked like him. descendants.

The scholar sat on a chair, read the book lazily for a while, and said casually: "Just change one word."

Now, he, Qiu Sangou, was also standing, and the man in front of him was sitting, but this time Qiu Sangou lived up to his name, and was really kneeling on the ground like a dog.

The sitting one is like a mountain, standing in the distance, and the standing one is like a willow, swaying in the wind.

"Your Majesty, I know about artillery carriages, but... what is artillery?"

The artillery cart is a catapult, and Qiu Sangou is a craftsman who retired from the army. When Hejian Mansion fell this time, I thought it was nothing to do with a commoner like him. God knows what madness the King of Han surnamed Liu had, and he actually ordered the entire city to be raided. of craftsmen.

There is plenty of money in the treasury, and there are plenty of women on the streets. Go grab it, unless...

Qiu Sangou, who was already sixty-five years old, took a look at his withered chest and felt that the majestic king should not be like this.

"I heard that you know gunpowder." Liu Ling said lightly.

"The villain does know the formulas of several medicines, but you said that you want to make explosive gunpowder, and that the gunpowder can push the big iron ball out. It's not that the villain doesn't want to live, but he doesn't dare to deceive the king! "

Qiu Sangou begged bitterly. If he hadn't heard what the King of Han said, he wouldn't have dared to answer so directly.

But unexpectedly, the king of Han just shook his head and threw two silver hairpins to him.

"Pack up your belongings and settle your family. Don't even think about running away. We will set off with the army in the afternoon. If you dare to run away, I will kill you if I catch you."

"The villain dare not, dare not"

Qiu Sangou knelt on the ground. It took him a while to realize that the man had left. He didn't even dare to sit on the chair where the man had sat to rest. He sat down on the ground and muttered with a grimace.

"This is amazing."

Outside the gate of the government office, soldiers brought a white horse. After Liu Ling got on the horse, Han Fang walked out of the government office, holding several case files in his arms.

"Your Majesty, do you want to continue marching?"

"We have only been fighting for four days, and we have already captured Hejian Mansion. We can take two more steps forward." Liu Ling paused for a moment while looking at the majestic government office next to him, and asked: "That man named Liang Chamberlain, ran away?"

"Two hundred horsemen chased him for forty miles overnight and couldn't catch up. The road was right. People along the way said they had seen him, but he couldn't catch him, so he had to come back."

Even the cavalry of the Zhenyuan Army could not be chased away, which shows how capable Liang's servant is at running away. I don’t know whether Zhao Guan’s family sent chief officers to the front line based on their ability to lead troops or the speed of escaping and surrendering. Anyway, as soon as Hejian Mansion was broken, the north and south of Hebei Road suddenly became restless, like another wave of locusts.

It's just that at this time, the locusts no longer fly to wealthy and prosperous places, but to remote places.

"What a great Song Fenghua."

Liu Ling patted the white horse and headed towards the city gate without looking back. The surroundings were filled with horse hooves and the sound of armor clashing could be heard endlessly. Countless black armored cavalry followed silently, with their retinue surrounding him.

At this moment, the sound of opening a window suddenly sounded from the small building on the street. A woman leaned half of her body out of the window, preparing to smash a bamboo pole down. The impact point was probably Liu Ling's head. Immediately, two cavalrymen came over. In just a short moment, he unhooked the bow and fired the arrow. Two arrows went into his face and one into his chest.

Immediately, a dozen soldiers broke open the door on the first floor, and several screams soon came from inside.

Liu Ling did not look at it and continued to follow the team. Han Fang looked at the small building with interest and said with a smile: "Your Majesty, it is probably a Song Dynasty hook bar."

His words were very certain, because he saw that in addition to three women who were dressed more elegantly, there was also a middle-aged man with a wretched appearance who was dragged out of the small building by the soldiers.

"Beat these people with sticks and let them go. The body of the woman who did it will be dragged to a mass grave outside the city and let wild animals eat it."

"Here!"

When the Zhenyuan Army entered the city, Liu Ling ordered that no one be killed unless they put down their weapons. Anyone who dared to resist would not be killed.

He stayed in Yingzhou City for a day and a half, that is, when he was leaving, he killed the prostitute. This was not his personal order. All over the city, a prostitute died.

Therefore, Liu Ling felt that his madness was largely due to being spoiled.

Hejian Mansion was originally an important town in Hebei, but it was destroyed so easily. No wonder he wanted to take two more steps forward.

"More than twenty miles south of the city, there is a Song army heading towards Yingzhou City."

Liu Ling nodded slightly and said, "I understand."

Outside the city, Yelu Yanshan looked at the oncoming Song army and shouted three times in excitement: "Zhi Niang thief."

Liang Zhe led the front army to rush and kill wantonly, not only because he knew the Song people very well, but also because Liang Zhe had a large number of heavy cavalry, and he felt uncomfortable if he did not attack him for a day.

Now Yelu Yanshan is leading this front army, and he has begun to appreciate the joy of being in charge.

The combat effectiveness of an army can be seen.

How was the formation, what was the armor rate, how the front army was arranged, whether it was a flower formation or a pure formation, no one is blind, and besides, they were all generals who had been fighting for many years. According to the report of the sentinel, Yelu Yanshan knew that this battle merit would be his. In hand.

However, he was still cautious.

After all, there are many cases of deliberately using the old, weak, sick and disabled to lure the enemy into battle. After all, the size of the Song people is there. Yelu Yanshan was a Liao general and had a century-old grudge against the Song people. I am afraid that the Song people will suddenly rise again at this time. once.

"General, the Song people are attacking."

The Song general on the opposite side was obviously eager to fight. Yelu Yanshan suppressed the excitement in his heart and said: "The front army is stationed in place, and the two wings are ready to respond. When the enemy is close to 120 steps, start firing arrows."

"Here!"

"Archer, let go!"

Hundreds of arrows shot through the air. The first round of arrows had very low accuracy, but starting from the second round, the Song Army's front army began to lose a large number of troops in just an instant. At this time, the Song Army's left wing rushed out of five or six A cavalryman shouted to them in rough Liao dialect:

"My general is here to surrender!"

"We surrender!"

"Don't shoot, don't shoot, we surrender!"

Less than half a month after Liu Ling went south, the situation in Hebei and Hebei was already in ruins. When the Song Jiang bandits made trouble here a few years ago, Hebei tolerated him and it became a disaster. It is said that a general who pacified Song Jiang was arrested after the war. The imperial court was promoted seven levels in a row.

But now no one dares to "pacify Liu" anymore. Yanyun's army is clearly heading south. In addition, Tong Guan deployed a lot of Hebei troops when he sent troops. The two Hebei armies simply have no courage or strength to resist.

The general trend is sweeping across.

There was an old man riding a skinny donkey and taking a few servants with him, walking silently on the official road. Opposite him was a group of soldiers.

The old man walked towards the direction of the defeated soldiers, exchanged a few words, and asked in a deep voice: "I, Zongze, although you are defeated soldiers, your home is here, your family members and parents are here, how can you bear it? Throw them to Beilu?

If you are a man, follow me to guard Jizhou! "

The old servant listened for a moment, and when the soldiers hesitated, he whispered in his master's ear: "The imperial court asked you to be the peace envoy, you..."

Zongze said calmly: "I don't have steel teeth and sharp teeth, so I can't make peace with him, but at least I have to bite him for Da Song."

"Master, why do you bother when there are so many military and horse cities in Hebei?"

"Master said, even if there are tens of thousands of people, I will go there."

　It's too cold. My fingers are about to freeze off. Please take a break and update again during the day tomorrow. It's really too cold to bear.

　　

　

(End of this chapter)