The first-class concubine of the Song Dynasty

Chapter 438 Another Northern Expedition
In a warm spring season, Zhao Guangyi led the army to start the Northern Expedition.

This time the imperial conquest was different from Zhao Kuangyin's. This time, Zhao Guangyi had to rely on destroying the Northern Han to consolidate his position, so there was no room for loss. He was determined to destroy the Northern Han.

The team marched to the Northern Han Dynasty mightily, and it didn't look boring because of the charming spring scenery on the way.

After walking for about half a month in this way, the team finally arrived at the border between the Northern Han Dynasty and the Great Song Dynasty.

After the team came to Bianjing, they took a short rest, and attacked the Northern Han Dynasty at an extremely fast and crazy speed the next day.

At the same time, the Liao people, who had already received the distress signal from the Northern Han emperor, launched an attack on the Song Dynasty, but when they were about to attack Zhao Guangyi's team, they met Shi Shouxin's tenacious resistance.

This was what Shi Shouxin had discussed with Zhao Guangyi and the others. If they wanted to destroy the Northern Han, they had to prevent the Liao people from rescuing the Northern Han, and they wanted to destroy the Northern Han as quickly as possible.

The reason why Shi Shouxin did not return to the court after resisting the attack of the Liao people was to cooperate with Zhao Guangyi's Northern Expedition here.

Shi Shouxin is a veteran in the battlefield, and because he was only in charge of preventing the Liao people from rescuing the Northern Han this time, he fought with ease. More importantly, he had been preparing for this moment for several months.

The siege equipment of the Song Dynasty were those developed by Liu Wei before. The Yunlou, which was higher than the city wall, was pushed to the city wall of the Northern Han Dynasty. The soldiers of the Northern Han Dynasty had no power to parry at all. The first line of defense of the Northern Han Dynasty.

The second line of defense in the Northern Han Dynasty was set up by Liu Jiye. The city of Longzhou where he was located was extremely strong, with sufficient food and strong troops.

It can be said that Longzhou is a barrier for them to resist the Song Dynasty from continuing to go north, and if this barrier is gone, the Song Dynasty army will surely drive straight in and approach Taiyuan.

After breaking through the first barrier of the Northern Han Dynasty, the Song army marched towards Longzhou.

At this time, Liu Jiye of Longzhou had already received the news. When he got the news, his expression was solemn. For them, the Yunlou of Song Dynasty was too difficult to deal with. If they wanted to keep Longzhou, they had to break through the Yunlou. Only in this way can they resist Da Song's entry into the palace.

But how to break through the Yunlou?

Just when Liu Jiye was worried about this, Liu Jiye's wife, She Saihua, gave him an idea. In fact, She Saihua had already thought of this idea when she went to see Liu Wei, but she didn't expect it to come in handy so soon. .

And when Liu Jiye heard She Saihua's idea, he was overjoyed and said, "Okay, let's do what Madam said."

Two days later, the Song Dynasty army approached Longzhou City in mighty force.

Yunlou once again approached the city wall like a broken bamboo, but at this moment, countless rockets were suddenly fired from the upper floors of the North Han City. These rockets were aimed at Yunlou. As a result, the Yunlou immediately burned, and in a short while, the Yunlou, which was taller than the city wall, collapsed, and the soldiers of Song Dynasty immediately screamed.

The Yun Tower, which the Song Dynasty was so proud of, was destroyed by the fire attack of the Northern Han Dynasty.

Liu Wei frowned slightly. He knew the weakness of Yunlou when he built it, but as long as the enemy didn't use very fast fire to attack, then before the enemy burned the Yunlou with fire, the soldiers on the Yunlou should be killed. Those who can attack the tower, because the continuous crossbow equipped on the Yunlou is very powerful.

Now someone in the Northern Han Dynasty discovered the weakness of the Yunlou and destroyed the Yunlou in one fell swoop. If they want to attack the city, they can only rely on smashing the door with wooden stakes like before, or climbing up with a ladder.

There are not many soldiers in Kelongzhou City. If the city is attacked by this method, it will be a battle that hurts both sides.

Moreover, Liu Jiye is very good at defending the city. I am afraid that it will be difficult for them to take Longzhou City after suffering heavy losses.

On this day, Song Dynasty lost thousands of troops and destroyed many siege equipment. After noon, Zhao Guangyi had no choice but to withdraw his troops.

Frustrated emotions rippling in the army, the depression made people a little breathless.

Zhao Guangyi frowned deeply. At this moment, he was still able to remain calm. After thinking for a while, he sent someone to call Liu Wei and others into the tent.

"Now there is Longzhou City in the way. If we want to destroy Song Dynasty, we must break through Longzhou City. I wonder if you have a good strategy?"

For King Wu and King Wei, the more Zhao Guangyi failed, the happier they were, so they would not offer any suggestions at all, but it would not work if they didn't say anything, so they said something that seemed feasible, but when they actually did it, they were very happy. It was an unacceptable proposal. After these proposals were rejected by Zhao Guangyi one by one, both of them kept their mouths shut.

Since you don't agree with what we said, what else are we talking about?

After the two shut up, Zhao Guangyi cast his eyes on Liu Wei, Liu Wei thought for a while, and said: "We can divide our troops into two groups, one way will continue to contain Liu Jiye's troops here, and the other way will bypass Longzhou and go straight to Taiyuan As long as Taiyuan City is captured, Longzhou City where Liu Jiye is located will be isolated and difficult to rescue."

After Liu Wei finished speaking, Zhao Guangyi fell into contemplation. There were [-] soldiers and horses in the Great Song Dynasty, and only [-] were left after the two routes were separated. With [-] soldiers and horses approaching Taiyuan, is it possible to break through the city gate? As far as he knows, Taiyuan is currently guarded by [-] forbidden troops.

And Zhao Guangyi knew very well what Liu Wei said was true. If they wanted to approach Taiyuan directly, they had to send troops here to contain Liu Jiye. Otherwise, they would spare Longzhou City, and Liu Jiye would definitely attack them with Taiyuan soldiers. , and someone here restrained Liu Jiye's troops, even if Liu Jiye knew that Taiyuan was in danger, he might not have the intention to send troops to rescue it.

Therefore, Zhao Guangyi only needs to consider whether the people who lead the troops to Taiyuan can cope with the [-] Northern Han soldiers in Taiyuan City.

After pondering for a long time, Zhao Guangyi asked: "Liu Aiqing, who do you think can lead troops to approach Taiyuan?"

Liu Wei smiled: "It must be the Holy One."

"Oh, who is here to contain Liu Jiye's men?"

"Weichen is willing to restrain Liu Jiye again."

Zhao Guangyi thought for a while, and finally nodded: "Okay, since that's the case, King Wu followed me to spare Longzhou City and went straight to Taiyuan, and King Wei stayed to assist Liu Wei to contain Liu Jiye, but remember, I appreciate Liu Jiye's loyal ministers very much , if you can not kill him, don't kill him."

Liu Wei was very clear about Zhao Guangyi's words. After slightly nodding his head, he said with a smile: "Your Majesty, rest assured, as long as you want to subdue Liu Jiye to serve the Song Dynasty, I will definitely have a way to make him surrender to the Song Dynasty."

If other people said this, Zhao Guangyi would have doubted it, but when Liu Wei said this, he only showed a slight smile, and then ordered the army to form two groups, one of which let him spare Longzhou city.

(End of this chapter)