Became a feudal lord in the late Northern Song Dynasty

Chapter 215 Punch and run away

In the past, on the Yinshan grassland, the sudden appearance of the fire dragon chariot as a weapon of war gave the Jin army great panic, and the few Jin soldiers who were lucky enough to escape back to the country continued to help expand this panic.

So much so that in the Jin court, a minister openly said that the Han people were invincible with the help of fire dragons, and were immediately dragged out of the court by the Jin Emperor's order.

Anyone with a little bit of brains should be able to figure out from the description that the Han army probably invented a kind of firearm, and this kind of thing was actually in the treasury of the Liao Kingdom before. It was nothing more than some flammable arrows and war weapons. How could it be possible for a car to reach the point where the so-called "fiery dragon surges and the red sea rolls"?

But now, the Jin defenders in Xinguan City began to realize that the so-called "Fire Dragon" might not be a rumor. In addition, the Han army also had a large number of siege equipment. More than sixty artillery vehicles surrounded Xinguan City from three sides. They continued to bombard the city wall with stones.

Outside the city, the Han army's military formation was endless as far as the eye could see from south to north, and arrows were as dense as rain. After bombarding by artillery carts for a long time, it was discovered that the city wall of Xinguan City was made of rammed earth slabs, a solid wall, and extremely strong. Halfway through The artillery carts above changed the throwing objects, replacing boulders with a large number of sealed earthen jars filled with flammable fuel.

The earthen jars began to drip oil in the air. When dozens or hundreds of earthen jars hit the city wall in waves, countless oils splashed down the city. Then, dense flames appeared in the three army formations of the Han army. , as the captains from various places gave orders, countless flaming arrows fell from the sky.

War usually involves throwing away money.

The Han army was quite knowledgeable in how to use money to kill enemies.

More than 20,000 Han troops surrounded Xinguancheng and began to attack the city in rotation. Throughout the day, the arrow and artillery attacks never stopped. At night, more than 2,000 newly surrendered soldiers of the "first camp" began to advance the attack. City equipment.

He said that he intercepted and killed the reinforcements sent by Xinghua to Xinguan on the way, and then sent someone to take the head of the Jin army general outside the city to persuade him to surrender. Immediately afterwards, the old Liao officials and surrendered soldiers in the city immediately started a riot. , killed the Jurchen dignitaries and officials in the city, and took the initiative to open the city gate and surrender.

"We attacked the city in daylight and suffered more than 900 casualties. The number of soldiers who broke into the camp first was about four groups."

A former army Sima finished his report loudly and handed the book to the desk with both hands. Liu Ling took the book and opened it for a while. Another announcement came from outside.

Under the dark night, dozens of military camps, large and small, were brightly lit. Soldiers with established structures were constantly retreating to the military camps, or leaving the camps. New Guancheng was never given time to breathe. After one night, the moat outside the city was filled in. Most of it.

The actual area of ​​Bei'an Prefecture is actually quite large, but there are only two or three main cities. It is a vast area with few people and a lot of waste land.

"The defenders in the city have surrendered, and the new building has been destroyed!"

All matters have been rehearsed over and over again in advance, and relevant documents and procedures have been issued. From the beginning, the new building city was like a duck about to be put on the assembly line. When the city gate opened, there were only procedures waiting for it. , cook it cleanly.

At the same time, the staff specifically reminded Liu Ling to pay attention to iron ore in their documents.

After the city was broken, Li Liangfu of the former army ordered that all the Jin Army defenders who were willing to surrender should be included in the establishment of the First Deng Camp. As for those who refused, they would all be killed on the spot.

Theoretically speaking, Yanyun was originally the real Nanjing of the Liao Kingdom, while Zhongjing Road was the "intimate area". Xinguan was originally just a small city. Although it was relatively strong, it still could not withstand the crazy offensive of the Han army.

After the civilians in the city, regardless of their original place of origin, were counted by specialized military officials, a team general and a military commander were responsible for leading the army to escort the entire population in the city to the south of the Great Wall.

In other words, in less than two days, the Han army had captured a state. Liu Ling's staff's assessment and judgment of the Jin Kingdom's military manpower would naturally change again.

There were about 1,500 defenders in Xinguan City, and the city wall was considered strong. However, it was still breached in less than a day. At dawn the next day, Yelu, who was responsible for bypassing Xinguan and attacking Xinghua City, Dashi sent back the news.

Yandi and Yunzhong were originally called Nanjing Road and Xijing Road respectively in the Liao Kingdom, and the place where the Han army is currently attacking was the original Zhongjing Road in the Liao Kingdom.

To the north of Yandi and east of Yunzhong, there are many iron ore deposits in both places and adjacent to Zhongjing Road, and there are even more iron ores in Zhongjing Road.

Among them, there is the extremely famous Tanshan Mountain. Liu Ling was thinking about how much benefit he would get from taking Tanshan Mountain, but that would mean that the original plan of shooting and running would need to change. He would have to lead his army to tear a hole in Zhongjing Road and destroy his power. The roots are here.

Bei'an Prefecture, which is extremely easy to capture, obviously does not meet this requirement.

"Your Majesty, there is an error in our map." Han Fang stood up, walked to Liu Ling with a small map in his hand, stretched out his hand and pointed: "Originally we expected to have many cities and passes along the Great Wall. Now according to the Comparing the maps collected from Bei'an Prefecture, we found that many of them are in Zezhou."

Before he finished speaking, he added: "This includes Songting Pass."

Although it had only been two days since the Han Army's Northern Expedition, there was still no sign of the main force of the Jin people leaving. Now, the reason seems to have been found - 80% of them were stationed at Songting Pass, intending to defend the city or wait for work.

Even though the Liao people didn't pay much attention to running Bei'an Prefecture, the Han army's next step to the north was Zhongjing, which was surrounded by many passes and cities; to the east, it was Zezhou, which is now known to have a large number of cities. and a pine pavilion pass.

Both sides can be called iron walls.

From Bei'an Prefecture to Zezhou and Songting Pass, there is a distance of more than 200 miles. If tens of thousands of troops go another 200 miles north, their food and salary expenses will definitely exceed the limit.

Liu Ling rubbed the pen in his hand and thought silently.

"Gongmei."

"I'm here." Han Fang raised his head.

"Now that Bei'an Prefecture is captured, if we withdraw our troops immediately, the Jin people may not dare to pursue and invade. We have gained a lot of population and iron ore, which seems to be good."

Han Fang nodded: "Yes."

Liu Ling still wanted to touch Songting Pass. Didn't you see that Bei'an Prefecture was easily captured by the Han army? If we don’t try it forward, who knows how low the Jinren’s bottom line will be?

Han Fang suddenly spoke and said: "I was originally a former minister of the Liao Kingdom. I have read some records of grain transportation on the Zhongjing Road. Among them, the places where a lot of grain is consumed are these passes."

"you mean"

"Right now, our army has entered the territory of the Kingdom of Jin to fight. The latter has a serious domestic food shortage and is unlikely to hold on to the city. Moreover, our troops in the Northern Expedition only have 30,000 soldiers and more than 70,000 auxiliary soldiers and civilians. They are known to the outside world as 300,000. , but the Jin people may also be able to see part of the truth."

Han Fang paused and said: "Right now, it's not that our army is eager to fight with the Jin Army in the field, but that they are always thinking about fighting with us."

Once the war started, those on the Han army's side would be the elites and family members accumulated by the Han king, while the Jin people would be able to consume the "excessive surplus" population and reduce the food burden. At the same time, once the war started, it meant that they would At home, they faced off against their elite troops.

Now the Han army may not be afraid of the extremely weak Jin army in field battles, but the casualties will definitely be huge by then.

"Send an order to Shi Liai and ask him to lead the people to build the city pass at Tanshan Mountain."

Liu Ling put the pen on the table and stood up.

"Then, immediately send someone to vaccinate Master Dao. I want to talk to him in the army."

(End of this chapter)