Great Song Pirate

Chapter 669 Spring in Liaoyang Mansion
Zhao Xu stood on the long corridor outside the main hall, took a deep breath, felt the scent of flowers in the air, and asked Li Gang beside him, "Are all the northern armies ready now?"

With a hint of a smile, Li Gang nodded and replied: "Your Majesty, the Zongwang army has now reported back, and their [-] elite soldiers have already prepared, and they will start sending troops to attack Zhending in three days! Taiyuan's Taoist army has also returned Said that they are ready and will send troops to attack Xinzhou in a few days; Shandong Lu led a small number of soldiers and horses and has taken Banqiao Town. Zhang Qing has regained control of the soldiers and horses and has begun to move towards Laizhou. Uncle Zhang The night army has already started to leave Jinan the day before yesterday, and cooperate with Lu Chengjun to approach Qingzhou, as long as Qingzhou is captured, the Jiaodong area will be regained soon!"

Zhao Xu nodded and said, "Very good! This time I won't let Xu Yi down again! I hope he can fight better in Liaodong! How is the material situation now?"

"Return to the Holy One! The food, armor and money from the southern roads are gradually being transferred to Bianliang, and distributed to the soldiers and horses of the roads. Some are still on the way, but the overall situation has improved a lot. The Holy One announced to the world Let scholars and merchants donate to support the army. In the past month, nearly ten million donations have been received, and Chen Dong has presided over the dispatch of supervisory censors to various places to inspect local officials. It is estimated that it will not take a few years. The world will be clear and bright!" Li Gang hastily said again.

"Since Xu Yi has already said it, I will let him see if I can let the people of the world live and work in peace and contentment!" Zhao Xu seemed a little angry when he said this. Yi told him exactly what Yi said, Zhao Xu was a little upset, he didn't believe it, he couldn't manage the country well, now he wants Xu Yi to see, he Zhao Xu is not a soft emperor, otherwise, he himself I feel ashamed to see people!
"What the Holy Majesty does is in the eyes of the subjects. If it takes time, why worry about the Great Song Dynasty not regaining its national prestige? It is my great Song Dynasty's good fortune to have an emperor like His Majesty!" Li Gang also laughed.

"Li Xiang has also learned to flatter me today! This is not good! Although loyal words are harsh and sound unpleasant, I still hope that it would be better for you to beat me up from time to time!" Zhao Xu turned around and looked at Li Gang with a smile and said. .

"I don't dare!" Li Gang quickly bowed and said...

Xu Yi returned to Gaizhou City again. Watching the snow outside the city gradually melt, Xu Yi also took a deep breath and said, "This winter is finally over! It seems that we should do something!"

"The last general is ready! The army can move out of the city at any time!" Li Bo stood behind Xu Yi and said with a bow.

Xu Yi nodded and replied: "Very good! Send the order down, and the troops will go out tomorrow morning!"

After a winter of preparations, the strength of the Fubo Army in Liaodong has reached an unprecedented level. In addition to the 2 soldiers and horses of Yang Zaixing, Gao Jun and others in Liaoyang Prefecture, the Fubo Army has assembled more than [-] troops in Gaizhou. Soldiers and horses, and the third division was reorganized to form a strong army comparable to the first division.

In addition to these three reorganized divisions, Liaodong also reorganized more than a dozen regiments of soldiers and horses. Although most of them are not enough to fight against Jinbing in the wild, they are more than enough to defend the city!In addition, the Fubo Army has also formed a large-scale militia to organize the people for drills, and they can support the Fubo Army at any time.

After Zhao Xu repented, Song Dynasty provided Liaodong with sufficient material guarantees, and the money and food were very abundant, which no longer made Xu Yi worry about it, and the arsenals on Liuqiu Island and Dulong Island started working overtime. Weapons were also continuously transported to Liaodong. Sun Hai's fleet had also withdrawn to Dalian Port, and dozens of elite large warships had been re-armed. Attack the fleet.

And after Xu Yi was entrusted by Zhao Xu as the King of Jinghai, his reputation was greatly improved. Some Song people who were not very optimistic about the Fubo Army, seeing that they might not have much chance in the Song Dynasty, so they took boats and went to the In Liaodong, you can either join the army or find a small official. In short, it provides more sufficient resources for the manpower of the Fubo Army. An official of the Song Dynasty can be regarded as honoring his ancestors if he can be a part-time official in the Fubo Army, and the root of the Fubo Army is still from the Song Dynasty, so it will not cause too much resistance among scholars or the world. They also feel that although Xu Yi is king, he is still of one mind with the people of Song Dynasty!
In this way, Xu Yi finally didn't have to worry about human affairs anymore, so during this period of time, he was mainly busy selecting some capable people to serve as soldiers in the army, or returning to the local government and appointing them as small officials , and sent a lot of talents to Liuqiu Island, and handed them over to Gao Xu, Jia Qian and others to enrich the talents on Liuqiu Island.

Seeing that the weather has started to get warmer, under such circumstances, Xu Yi, Ma Zhe, Li Bo and others re-formulated the battle plan after some calculations. It is a good thing, at least the pressure on Gaizhou has been relieved a lot, and a lot of troops have been freed up for them, so that they can do some other things.

So after some discussions, Xu Yi made another bold plan, which is to use Liaoyang Mansion and Gaizhou as bait to contain the two armies of Zong Han and Zong Pan. Division, send troops from Gaizhou, take the water route, give full play to the advantages of the Fubo Army, and attack Jinzhou!
Doing so can catch the Jin people by surprise. As long as Jinzhou City is captured, they will gain another important stronghold in western Liaoning. It can threaten Laizhou again, it can threaten Xingzhong Mansion and Dading Mansion to the west, and it can threaten Guangning Mansion to the north, and then the Jinren can be busy for a while again!

So after the plan was formulated, Liaodong was busy again for a long time, and the busiest one was probably Sun Hai, the commander of the navy!

Sun Hai assembled a large-scale fleet at Dalian Port day and night, and after loading sufficient supplies, he led the fleet to the temporary pier outside Gaizhou, waiting for orders here, and sent a small number of ships along the After sweeping the coast, the Jin people could not understand the movement of the Fubo army from the sea, and they also sent ships from time to time to harass the Jin people's garrison along the Bohai Bay, which made the Jin people unable to deal with it. This action by the Polish army unleashed a smokescreen.

And Xu Yi personally rushed to Gaizhou, where he and Li Bo reorganized the soldiers and horses of the third division, added a group of elites, and gathered heavy troops here, creating an illusion for the Jinren, as if they were ambush. The Polish army will send troops from Gaizhou to support Liaoyang Prefecture.

After half a month of busy work, everything is finally ready, and the battle in Liaoyang Mansion has already begun.

After Yang Zaixing had been operating in Liaoyang Mansion for so long, how could Liaoyang Mansion be a comparable city to Taiyuan Mansion, with their fortifications everywhere, when the two armies of Zong Han and Zong Pan arrived ten miles away from Liaoyang Mansion, Already in a state of embarrassment!

How could Yang Zaixing, who is good at using strange soldiers, let them walk to Liaoyang Mansion so swaggeringly!As soon as the scouts discovered that the two armies started to move, they laid out layers of obstacles on their only way, so although the two armies had accepted the lessons of Zong Qiang and Zong Qiang before and walked cautiously, they still It was unavoidable that the difficult raiders of the Fubo Army would give them a slap from time to time. Even if the losses were not heavy, they would not be able to move fast, and they would march cautiously in fear.

Both Zong Han and Zong Pan sent a lot of scouts to explore the way ahead, but from time to time there would always be some extremely accurate crossbow arrows flying out from the forest or the mountain, hunting down these scouts, making their scouts dare not leave at all Dalu can only act together, which greatly affects the effectiveness of their investigation!
In this way, the two armies walked cautiously and stumbled all the way to Liaoyang Mansion. After finally accumulating the morale of the winter, they were beaten down a lot. The food and grass of Zongpan's army was also burned by the Fubo army's surprise attack. On the way The forward also ran into Xiao Jianfeng's cavalry regiment and was killed.

This gave Zong Pan a thorough understanding of the terrifying strength of the Fubo Army. In this confrontation, Zong Pan also learned that the Fubo Army may not necessarily be better than their golden men in riding skills, but Fubo The discipline of the Jin army is stronger than that of their Jin army. Even in the face of death, no one backs down. He has only seen that kind of momentum from the most elite soldiers and horses of the Jin army, and he has seen it before. He had never seen such a situation in the confrontation with the Liao army, so Zong Pan completely put away his arrogance, and set up a camp outside the city of Liaoyang Prefecture step by step.

When Zong Han and Zong Pan met up to check the situation of Liaoyang Mansion after camping outside Liaoyang Mansion, they took a deep breath, just looking at the various fortifications criss-crossing outside Liaoyang Mansion. At that moment, both of them felt that their heads had grown a few times.

"It's no wonder that Alu and Wuben lost so badly back then. The Fubo army really has a good defense!" Even Zong Han, who has always been arrogant, couldn't help sighing when he looked at everything in front of him.

Zong Pan worriedly looked at the hedgehog-like Liaoyang Mansion in front of him, and said, "Brother Nianhan! Liaoyang Mansion is already in such a situation now, how should we attack?"

As for the siege, Zong Han feels a headache when he thinks about it. A Taiyuan mansion made him feel disheartened for half a year, but he didn't take it down. He doesn't have much confidence in this Liaoyang Mansion, but he is a battle-tested veteran after all. After examining the situation in Liaoyang Mansion in front of him, he pretended to be calm and said: "In the current situation, it seems that our The fine cavalry will not be of much use. The scouts reported that the cavalry of Fubo Army Xiao Jianfeng had retreated into the city. We have no chance to confront the Fubo Army cavalry. We can only advance steadily to the city and attack Liaoyang. Let's let the Liao and Song people take the vanguard and gradually flatten these damned fortifications outside the city! The damn Fubo army actually dug up the outside of the city like this! If there are no large numbers of artillery, I'm afraid it will be very difficult for us Into the city!"

After hearing this, Zong Pan also felt that it was reasonable, so after the two discussed, they immediately divided up their troops, surrounded the Liaoyang Mansion, and began preparations for the siege.

Although the army of the Kingdom of Jin has already approached the city, after a winter of preparations in Liaoyang Mansion, the soldiers and civilians in the city have long been accustomed to this kind of military control, knowing that this day will be faced sooner or later, so there is no panic in the city. They all got a little excited, looking forward to teaching the Jin people a hard lesson here, so that they can also taste the power of the Fubo army.

Yang Zaixing led his generals to inspect the top of the city, looking at all kinds of defensive equipment lined up on the top of the city, patted a three-bow bed crossbow newly made by craftsmen in the city with his hands, and leaned over again. He picked up a huge crossbow like a flat shovel and weighed it, then said with a smile: "Fortunately, there are some skilled craftsmen in the city, otherwise, this thing is really hard to make! But this thing is indeed costly. This arrow will almost use up ten catties of iron, and it is really a waste of money to fight!"

"Yes! This thing is really powerful, but it doesn't work well when placed on the city wall. This thing can only be fired flat. It is far less convenient to use than the ballista created by our lord. However, it is more powerful and can be fired at one time. There are so many arrows, it’s best to use them on positions outside the city! It’s best to deal with groups of golden soldiers!” Gao Jun nodded his head.

"That's right, it's a bit wasteful to put it here. In the afternoon, I ordered people to transport all the bed crossbows to the positions outside the city, but people should prepare kerosene and be ready to set them on fire at any time. This time Zong Han, Zong Pan is here, I don’t think they will launch an attack recklessly, I’m afraid they will eat away at our positions outside the city little by little! This battle probably won’t take too long! Use these things to grind them first, save gunpowder Use it, let them be happy first!" Yang Zaixing said after raising his binoculars and inspecting the Jinbing camp outside the city.

"No problem, isn't this what we want? My lord wants us to hold them here and grind them to death slowly. It's best for them to fight steadily. I'm afraid it won't be interesting for them to eat the fortifications outside our city." It’s time to attack the city! Hehe! Don’t worry about the bed crossbow, the most important thing on it is the mechanical parts, the rest are made of wood, it’s no pity to burn it, it’s not as cheap as a golden man!” Gao Jun said to Yang Zaixing.

"Hey! It seems that I will be free for a while! After only two battles, I let my cavalry hide in the city. I am really aggrieved!" Xiao Jianfeng stood on the other side of Yang Zaixing, with a dissatisfied expression on his face Said.

"Why are you in a hurry! This time you will fight the battle! Now we only have your 5000 cavalry, but they are all our elites. Can I let you take them out and wipe out all our money? No way? Don’t worry about this matter, when the golden man loses his temper, he will let you go out to have fun!” Yang Zaixing said to Xiao Jianfeng.

Seeing all his generals talking and laughing, the soldiers on the top of the city felt more at ease, aren't they the golden soldiers?I'm afraid they are a bird, isn't there a marshal of a golden man imprisoned in the city now?So after Yang Zaixing and the others made their rounds, the soldiers on the city wall also started talking and laughing.

After the Zong Han and Zong Pan armies surrounded the Liaoyang Mansion, they finally started to act. The soldiers and horses responsible for clearing the fortifications outside the city formed an array outside the city, and moved towards the outermost area amidst the rumbling drums. The trenches came over.

When they approached the trench, there was a sudden shout from behind the low wall on the other side of the trench: "Let go!..."

After the shouts rang out, the gun carriages that had already been arranged were dragged by many soldiers, their long arms suddenly raised, and irregular boulders soared into the sky, flying across the sky A series of arcs, with the sound of the wind, fell heavily towards the golden army approaching the trench.

The golden soldiers could only watch these huge boulders fall towards their heads, but they had no way to do anything. In such a dense array, at most they could only instinctively raise their hands, covered with cowhide wooden shields, like deceiving their ears and stealing their bells. He blocked his sight so that he would not have to see these stones fall.

As the stones fell, a red mist immediately rose up in the dense formation of golden soldiers, and there were screams and the sound of weapons and bones breaking.

Under such a blow, anyone's power is insignificant, and there is no such thing as fairness or unfairness. Anyone who is hit will immediately have broken bones and bones, turning into a bloody pool of rotten flesh. The guy's lower body was hit by a stone, and his bones and flesh from the hip bone down were all bloody. The guy screamed in pain, and desperately pushed the boulder with both hands, but he couldn't shake the boulder at all. Desperate, he stretched out his hand to pull the legs of the companions passing by, crying for them to help save him, but everyone knew that he was finished.

An officer walked up to him, with no expression on his face, swiped the waist knife in his hand, and slashed across his neck. The screams of the wounded soldier stopped abruptly, and a bloody arrow shot out from his neck. The eyes that were originally full of fear immediately became lifeless, and then fell limply on the still somewhat muddy ground, ending his painful life.

"Continue to charge! Stand here and wait for death!" Holding the bloody knife in his hand, the officer sternly shouted at the surrounding soldiers who were staring at him in a daze.

After seeing the blood, these golden soldiers all understood, so they raised their shields again, howled, and continued to rush towards the trench.

After accepting the baptism of the boulder rain, the group of golden soldiers finally approached the trench, but at this time, the baffles of some gaps in the low wall were suddenly opened by the Fubo army, revealing a bed crossbow at the back. The bed crossbows have been opened by the soldiers of Fubo, and there are rows of huge arrows on them.

The golden soldiers walking in the front row seemed to have their eyeballs falling out of their sockets, and they stared wide open, and they couldn't help but let out a sound of exclamation. They also knew that they didn't know how many people would die here in today's battle. But when faced with such a terrifying weapon like the bed crossbow, he still couldn't help but feel cold from the inside out.

Behind each bed crossbow stood a Fubo soldier with a mallet in his mind. Following the officer's order, they waved the mallets vigorously and smashed them on the machine crossbow, on the crossbow stand. The three tightly stretched bows exerted force at the same time, pushing the featherless arrows in front, and flew out together with a whistling sound.

The huge arrows on these bed crossbows are arranged in a fan-like manner. When fired, they immediately swept out in a fan-like manner. After flying flat for a certain distance, they immediately broke into the array of golden soldiers. , the arrow clusters as wide as a flat shovel immediately began to crazily cut up the human body. The first person hit by the arrow was often split in two by such a huge force, and the upper body fell down, and various internal organs were mixed with blood. It was everywhere, but the lower body was still standing on the ground, and it took a while before it fell down. The remaining intestines in the abdominal cavity immediately flowed out on the ground, and the appearance was extremely horrible.

These huge arrows didn't stop because they hit the target. After splitting an enemy, they still maintained a huge inertia and moved forward in the crowd, as if plowing the black soil with plow blades, forming passages in the crowd. Even if the arrow can no longer maintain a straight flight path, it still has great power. The arrow shaft like a human arm sweeps across, and the people on the road it passes are swept away, and the tendons are broken and broken. A single arrow would take away at least a few lives. After more than a dozen bed crossbows were fired at the same time, they killed more than 100 golden soldiers at once, causing a bloody storm in the attacking golden soldier formation.

A crossbowman stared dumbfounded at everything in front of him. He had never thought of such power, and he couldn't help but clicked his tongue: "My God, this thing is really scary!"

But before his words fell to the ground, the golden soldiers also began to fight back. The archers raised their left arms one after another, loosened the tight bowstrings, and a rain of arrows covered the low wall where the Fubo army was hiding. The crossbowman was stunned, and immediately hit three arrows on his chest. His body shook violently, and then he backed up twice. Shooting these three arrows, he cursed: "Damn, I almost died! It hurts so much! What are you looking at! I can't die, so hurry up and give these bastards another guy!"

He no longer cared about the wound on his chest, and immediately shouted wildly to the brothers around the bed crossbow. I have trained many times, and I am very proficient in using it. After some busy work, I reloaded the bed crossbow. The injured crossbowman roared wildly. include the above.

As a result, blood rained again on the side of the trench in front of them, and the crossbowman was obviously unlucky this time, and was hit by a golden man's arrow in his neck, and his body swayed and fell down...

(End of this chapter)