Great Song Pirate

Chapter 707
As the time entered October, the temperature in the north began to drop sharply, and there was not much time left for Xu Yi's army to attack the city. Once the Yanshan Mansion could not be taken down before the heavy snow blocked the road, then they would be the same as last year. In winter, Jin Kingdom besieged Liaoyang Mansion, and fell into a dilemma. The army could only retreat to Jizhou City, which was not what Xu Yi thought.

So after the army surrounded Yanshan Mansion, Xu Yi immediately ordered Li Bo and other generals to attack the city, ordering them to be stationed in Yanshan Mansion before the heavy snowfall. At this time, Yingchun personally escorted some supplies Coming from Dading Mansion to work for Xu Yi's army, the morale of the army immediately increased.

When the soldiers saw that the princess came to reward them in person, how could they be hesitant to go forward!So the offensive and defensive battle of Yanshan Mansion officially started with the arrival of the Spring Festival.

In fact, don't look at the Fubo Army fighting so smoothly, but Xu Yi knows that the situation is not as optimistic as outsiders think. Although his Jinghai Kingdom has so many territories, the entire Liaodong plus the Zhongjing Road area, that is, With a population of more than 100 million, even with the addition of the 20 people gathered on Liuqiu Island over the years, the actual population controlled by the Jinghai Kingdom will not exceed 200 million.

However, the Jinghai Kingdom's army has grown to an unprecedented [-] people, and an average of less than ten people can support a soldier. Even though he has accumulated a large amount of wealth in the past few years, he still cannot withstand such a large army. With such a consumption, fortunately his army has been fighting very smoothly. Most of the time, it relies on the army to eat and snatch all kinds of supplies from the enemy for military use. Liuqiu Island's support has long since declared bankruptcy!
Now that it is winter again, it will be very difficult to deal with the army's winter clothes and boots alone. If it is not for the large quantities of supplies obtained from the two cities of Dading Mansion and Liaoyang Mansion, it may be a problem how so many soldiers and horses can survive the winter this winter. Fortunately, Yingchun transported a large number of winter clothes to Yanshan Mansion at this time. If not, his army would be frostbitten in a few days.

And Yingchun also saw Xu Yi's embarrassment. After rewarding the three armies in the army, he didn't delay here. Instead, he said goodbye to Xu Yi and went to the south of Hainan to return to Liuqiu Island. He personally supervised the production of various military supplies on Liuqiu Island. Xu Yi was very grateful, and sighed that he was lucky to marry such a wise wife in his life, and his children were all born in the south, and they were not used to the weather here in the north. Back to Liuqiu Island, after all, Xu Yi is most at ease there.

But this time when Xu Yi came to attack Yanshan Mansion, Jin Wushu also made full preparations in Yanshan Mansion. After the defeat of Jizhou, Wu Shu led the troops and fled back to Yanshan Mansion, and immediately forced the people of Yanshan Mansion to be recruited, and they wanted nothing in and out of the city. After building fortifications, preparing armor, and rushing to manufacture various defensive objects, when Xu Yi led his army to attack outside the city of Yanshan Mansion, it had already become a fortress-like fortified city.

As a result, it caused great difficulties for the Fubo army to attack the city. It took them five or six days to clear the Jin army outside the city. This was completed with the cooperation of the Xiang army. , and the extraordinary army of the Xiang Army could not stay in the north so far. After completing the removal of the Jin Army outside the city of Yanshan Prefecture, they walked all the way to the seaside of Pingzhou, boarded a boat there, and returned to Liuqiu Island.

In order to capture Yanshan Mansion, Xu Yi ordered the craftsmen of the Craftsman Battalion to rush to manufacture a large number of various siege equipment outside the city of Yanshan Mansion. Only six or seven hundred of the counterweight-type stone launchers were built in one go, as well as various ladders, Leading carts, trench carts, rush carts, etc. were continuously driven out by the artisan battalion and put into the siege of Yanshan Mansion.

And this time Jin Wushu was also ruthless, as if he wanted to swear to live and die with Yanshan Mansion, he personally inspected and supervised the battle in the city, repelling the attacks of the Fubo Army time and time again.

Although the Fubo army has sharp firearms such as artillery, when facing such a fortified city, the artillery is still not powerful enough. In addition, there are dozens of artillery in the area. Apart from concentrated use, they can pose some threats to the city wall. If they were dispersed, it would be good to make a hole on the city wall at most, not to mention that after the Battle of Jizhou, they had consumed a lot of ammunition, which was not enough to blast the city wall of Yanshan Mansion with artillery.

Therefore, after Li Bo summed up his previous experience in the application of artillery, he concentrated all the artillery near the east gate of the city, and deployed more than 300 heavy-duty trebuchets in front of the artillery positions, mainly trebuchets, supplemented by artillery. Stopping and bombarding the city wall on the east side of Yanshan Fucheng.

Under the operation of more than a hundred people, huge stones were thrown one by one on the city wall of Yanshan Mansion with a giant trebuchet. Every time a huge stone fell, a huge deep hole was left on the city wall. The power was not much less than that of the Leigong Cannon , Some stones fell directly into the city. Anyone who was touched by the stones, the houses in the city were all inappropriate.

Standing on the city wall, Jin Wushu felt the continuous violent vibrations coming from his feet, and his mouth felt bitter like eating Coptis chinensis. He remembered how majestic he was when he followed Zongwang to Bianliang City!They used the trebuchet a lot at the beginning, and they never thought at that time that it would turn over today, but he himself became the turtle in the urn, and was attacked like this in Yanshan Prefecture.

But now he has no choice but to stick to the Yanshan mansion and wait for the heavy snow to come. If the Fubo army can't stand the cold, he will have to retreat. If not, then he will have to flee to Datong mansion!

The battle has reached such a point that Jin Wushu is really desperate. Yanshan Mansion is a big city, but when the Jin people defeated Yanshan Mansion, according to the agreement of the Sea Alliance, it should be returned to the Song Dynasty. So Jin Guo played a trick. When he captured Yanshan Mansion, he plundered the city and moved all the people in the city to the north to Zhongjing Road and Linhuang Mansion. In the end, he only gave Da Song one The empty Yanshan Mansion!

Now when it's their turn to be besieged, it is even more difficult to recruit some strong people in the city to help defend them. As for the ordinary people in the city now, they were moved from the Hebei area after Song Dynasty took over. , Now he ordered these ordinary people to act as cannon fodder and work for their Jinjun, how difficult it is to imagine!

Although these ordinary people were afraid of the Jin Army's butcher knife and had to help the Jin Army with work, many of them did not work hard and their work was not good. When the Fubo Army first attacked the city outside the city , these ordinary people immediately ran away, leaving only a thousand households in the city who did not escape, and now there are only [-] soldiers and horses under his command left in the huge Yanshan Mansion. I don't believe that I can survive this winter.

What made Jin Wushu even more worried was that their food became even more scarce after the Battle of Jizhou. The remaining food in the city was only enough for his army to eat for more than ten days. Siege, just besieging the city without fighting, can starve them to death.

So when the Fubo army began to attack the city on a large scale, on the surface Wushu made a posture of swearing to live and die with Yanshan Mansion, but in essence, he had already started thinking in his heart, what should he do next!

Wu Shu knew that the history of his Kingdom of Jin in Youyan might come to an end here. Now he can be said to be besieged on all sides, and there is no hope that anyone will come to rescue him. Several places in the Song Dynasty were originally left behind. The number of the Jin army is not too many. Under the threat of the Song army, self-protection is a problem, let alone come to rescue Yanshan Mansion, let alone Wanyan Zongjun of the Datong Mansion in the west. The procrastination is also exhausting, the strength of the troops is already stretched, and I still expect myself to go to help, how could I come to rescue Yanshan Mansion?

So from the moment Xu Yi arrived at Yanshan Mansion, Wu Shu was thinking about what to do. After much deliberation, he finally made up his mind.

On the third day after the Fubo army started to bombard the east gate outside the city, the city wall was also bombarded with potholes everywhere. When it seemed to be crumbling, the Jin army in the city, mobilized by Wushu, began to Gathered together, everyone brought food that could last them five days, wrapped up all the soft things in the city, and then suddenly opened the west gate, and led by the cavalry, led by Jin Wushu, killed After leaving Yanshan Mansion and breaking through the resistance of the Fubo Army in the west of the city in one fell swoop, he ran along the Sanggan River and headed towards Fengsheng Prefecture without any reluctance to fight.

As a result, Xu Yi and Li Bo were a little caught off guard, and immediately mobilized Li Bin's You Yi army to chase after them, but after all, the reaction was still a bit slow, and they only caught up with some old and weak soldiers who were left behind, while Jin Wushu and him However, the elite cavalry escaped successfully and fled all the way to Fengsheng Prefecture like bereaved dogs, leaving a dilapidated Yanshan Mansion to Jinghai Kingdom.

Xu Yi was a little dumbfounded by the ending in front of him. Originally, he planned to fight Jin Wushu again in Yanshan Mansion, and even made preparations for a long-term siege. He even predicted how many soldiers he would lose. , but just when he was about to strike the Wushu army in Yanshan Mansion for the final blow, Jin Wushu ran away like a rabbit!

Xu Yi felt that he had thrown a punch with all his strength, as if he had landed in the air. It is said that he made a mistake in his prediction at the beginning. If he could collect the grain reserves in Yanshan Prefecture in advance, he probably could have predicted Jin Wushu's decision this time, but it is because he does not have a corresponding intelligence system in Yanshan Prefecture. , resulting in this outcome.

Li Bo and other generals were also very astonished. They never expected that Jin Wushu, such a huge coach of the Jin Kingdom, would make such a choice when his soldiers were approaching the city. They were all ready to attack the city, but Unexpectedly, Jin Wushu would lose Yanshan Mansion, so he ran away just like that.

After looking at each other for a long while, everyone couldn't help laughing bitterly. It seems that they still overestimated the army of Jinwushu. The current army of Jinwushu is no longer as fierce as before.

"Forget it! Let's run away! Let's talk about how to solve the Golden Wushu later, let's go to the city to secure the people first, and the brothers are freezing outside the city!" Xu Yi shook his head and laughed.

Only then did the generals respond one after another, someone entered the city and opened the gate of Yanshan Mansion, tens of thousands of troops filed into the city of Yanshan Mansion.

When Xu Yi entered the city, he couldn't help being stunned by the sight in front of him. After they entered the huge Yanshan Mansion, it seemed like a dead city. Looking up, there were not many ordinary people at all, only a few ragged ordinary people were listening. After the Fubo army entered the city, fearing that the Fubo army would be angry with them, they went out of the house and knelt down on the side of the road to welcome them.

After the Fubo army took over the entire Yanshan Mansion and checked the population of Yanshan Mansion, Xu Yi was stunned by the number. In his impression, Yanshan Mansion is the Beijing of later generations, although the scale is far smaller than that of later generations Beijing is so big, but it is impossible that there are only a few thousand old and weak people in the city!
After checking the treasury in the city, they found that they were in the same situation as when Song Dynasty took over Yanshan Mansion. Not a grain of grain was left for them.

Only a part of the tents and luggage of the Jin army were found in a warehouse. These things were left behind by Wushu in order to travel lightly when he fled. In addition, it can be said that they have nothing to gain, and they have to take out food to appease the people in the city.

Such a result really made Xu Yi cry a little bit, but no matter what, the iconic city of Yanshan Mansion was finally taken down by their Fubo Army, and the threat to the south of Jinghai Kingdom was also lifted. It can be regarded as the biggest harvest of this autumn post-autumn expedition!Xu Yi could only comfort himself by talking about it.

Just when Xu Yi was about to send Li Bo to continue to lead the troops westward to attack Fengsheng Prefecture, Ma Zhe, who had been silent all this time, suddenly stopped Xu Yi.

"Wait a minute, my lord! Fengsheng Prefecture cannot be defeated now!" Ma Zhe said to Xu Yi.

"Oh? The weather is not too cold now, we can continue to pursue Jin Wushu, why do you say Fengsheng Prefecture can't fight now?" Xu Yi was a little strange, so he asked Ma Zhe.

"My lord, please listen to my minister. The most urgent thing right now is not to chase Jin Wushu. Jin Wushu is already in a state of panic like a bereaved dog. It doesn't make much sense to chase him or not. After the defeat of Jin Wushu's army, , There is no possibility of reversing the original, why bother to hunt him down in such a hurry?

Moreover, Fengsheng Prefecture has been run by the Jin people for many years, and the terrain there is easy to defend and difficult to attack. After Wu Shu led the troops there, he greatly strengthened the strength of Fengsheng Prefecture. The holy state is gone, but it may be dragged there, unable to advance or retreat!

Now, I am afraid that what the lord needs to pay attention to is not the Jin army, but should look to the south!This time we sent troops to attack the Wushu army, but the officials of the Southern Dynasty ordered all the soldiers to stand by and watch. Now, my lord, I should think about how to get along with the Southern Dynasty in the future!

As far as I can see, there is still time, my lord should take this opportunity to go south immediately and attack the Hejian Mansion. There are not many defenders of the Kingdom of Jin there, and with Wushu's defeat and fleeing, morale will definitely drop , as soon as the lord arrives at Hejian Mansion, it is expected that the Jin Army will flee. If he moves quickly, it is not impossible to take Hejian, Zhending and other places a year ago! Ma Zhe shook his head and explained to Xu Yi his views on the current war situation, vigorously encouraging Xu Yi to send troops to Hejian Mansion as soon as possible, and calling Da Songkou the Southern Dynasty, which seemed to be somewhat contemptuous.

After listening to Ma Zhe's words, Xu Yi's heart skipped a few beats. Ma Zhe was really shameless, and he turned his mind on Da Song so quickly, urging himself to take this opportunity to get some money from Da Song. Cheap, this suggestion is simply too tempting. Now that Yanshan Mansion has fallen into his hands, the threat of the Jin people in the south can be said to have basically been lifted, and the army of Jin Wushu is indeed nothing to worry about. It is only a matter of time before the entire area north of Shanxi is conquered. At that time, no matter how hard Jin Wushu's soldiers and horses struggle, they will either be wiped out by his army, or they will have to flee to the northwest grassland. This is completely in his interest. .

Moreover, Hebei and other places are now a blank area of ​​power. Zhao Xu made a wishful thinking, because he quickly eliminated the Wushu army, and fell into the open space, giving up the great opportunity to recover Zhending Hejian and other places. The Jin army is already at the end of its strength, and it has no intention of fighting with itself!If he could capture Hejian Mansion and Zhending Mansion now, it would be like getting another trump card to bargain with Zhao Xu!

But when he thought of this, he suddenly hesitated again. If he did this, it would run counter to his original idea. He had never thought of turning against Da Song at all, even though he had threatened Wu Min at the beginning, saying that he would Ask Zhao Xu to settle accounts, but in fact, it is just to scare Wu Min. He has no intention of going to war with Song Dynasty after the Jin Kingdom is settled. If Hejian Mansion and other places are taken down, then Zhao Xu will definitely not do it. It is not guaranteed that they will really send troops to fight against their own Jinghai country.

He is confident that he will not be defeated in the war with the Song army, but he also knows that he has not yet solved the Dajin Kingdom, and he is unable to fight on both sides. No matter how weak the Song Dynasty is, it is still a camel. His Jinghai country is countless times stronger. Once he is dragged into the quagmire of war by Song Dynasty, it is really unknown whether his Jinghai country can withstand the two sides of Song and Jin.

Seeing Xu Yi lowering his head in thought and the expression on his face constantly changing, Ma Zhe knew that Xu Yi was engaged in a fierce ideological struggle and was hesitating about his proposal, so he grinned slightly and continued: "My minister Knowing what the lord thinks, the lord, as a Han Chinese, couldn't bear to raise troops to attack the Song Dynasty, and let us Han people kill each other, this I deeply admire!
But this time, if the lord goes south to capture Hejian Mansion and Zhending Mansion, no matter from any aspect, the lord is not at fault morally!
Now the Hejian Mansion and other places were originally occupied by the Jin army, not the control area of ​​the Southern Dynasty. It is only natural that the Lord was taken from the hands of the Jin people.
Furthermore, even if we take a step back, the officials of the Southern Dynasty are dissatisfied with the lord's capture of Hejian Mansion and other places.How difficult is this? "

As soon as his words fell, Li Bo on the side was the first to quit, and immediately said: "How do you say this? Since you have repeatedly encouraged the lord to send troops to attack Hejian Mansion, why did you ask the lord to return those places to you later?" What about Da Song? If that’s the case, why would we bother to go to Hejian Mansion and ask the soldiers to exchange their lives for those places? If this is the case, it would be better to rest here, if Da Song wants to take back those places , let them send troops to take it back and pull it down! Why are we wasting so much effort?"

"No! Even though I said that Hejian Mansion and other places can be returned to Da Song afterwards, I didn't give them for nothing! General Li is a military commander, and he doesn't know how expensive he is if he is not in charge of the family! Our Jinghai Kingdom has just been established. The family background is not very rich! Do the math! We only have such a small place and so few people, but we can support so many soldiers and generals of you. This is enough to eat and drink! Which one does not cost money?

And in the next step, the lord will continue to go north to fight to the death with the Dajin Kingdom. Every time the army moves, money will be demanded everywhere!As for places like our Jinghai Kingdom, apart from Liuqiu Island, which has been in operation for many years, they are still considered prosperous, while Zhongjing Road and Liaodong and other places have long been poor after years of wars. Count on the king to give them money to spend!Where did these military funds come from?Has General Li thought about it? "

Hearing Ma Zhe's question, Li Bo immediately became dumb. He is a general, and he only needs to manage how to fight. How could he think about these things!Hearing what Ma Zhe said, this is really the truth. It costs money to fight a war, and it also costs money to raise soldiers. Although they have fought well in the past two years, in terms of money, the generals like Li Bo are really good. I didn't care about it, I just know that Xu Yi has never been stingy in rewarding these soldiers and generals. It seems that the issue of military resources is really something that has to be considered!

At this time, Xu Yi's mind also started to come alive, he already understood Ma Zhe's meaning, and a slight smile appeared on the corner of his mouth!How could he forget Da Song, a rich man!I don't have any money, but Da Song is very rich, even if the court has no money, the place is rich and rich, just let Zhao Xu scrape some, it will be enough for Jinghai Kingdom to spend!
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