Five Dynasties River Mountains Fengyue

Idle is also idle, he thinks it's fun, although it doesn't do much.

It's like using firecrackers to blow up cow dung when I was a child. It's useless, but I just feel happy.

Filling it by yourself, and then watching the trebuchet throw stones the size of a millstone to the Shouzhou city wall is the same. It's useless, but it's fun and fun.

After Li Chong came in, he folded his hands and stood beside him. While Shi Congyun worked hard with the soldiers to move the stones, he took the time to tell him, "It's almost time. The best way to deal with the enemy is to divide and disintegrate."

"Is there any difference?" Li Chongjin asked him.

Shi Congyun asked Luqiu Zhongqing, who was standing in the distance, to come and listen, "Of course it's different, we used to be gentle and avoid death, and many things in the world don't know how to cherish them once they come too easily.

Our pardon was given too easily. For all the soldiers and generals in the Southern Tang Dynasty, as long as they surrendered, they would be spared death, so they would not value it so much.

Before, it was because they still had the fighting spirit and the ability to counterattack. I didn't dare to force them to death. Who knows if they will come back with a desperate counterattack. "

As he spoke, he put down the stone in his hand, panted heavily and clapped his hands: "It's different now, after so many days of siege, their food is about to run out, and people are too hungry, so there is no need to fear their counterattack.

At this time, we can force them. What we have to do is to punish the culprits and ignore them. After they are disintegrated from the inside, they will naturally collapse. "

Li Chongjin was puzzled, but he didn't say anything, while Luqiu Zhongqing and the several officials around him were also a little puzzled, Luqiu Zhongqing cupped his hands and said, "Marshal, how did you split up?"

Shi Congyun said: "It's very simple, label them and treat them differently.

At this time, the Tang army's ability to not surrender is nothing more than the high-level generals supporting and gathering the army. At this time, the relationship between the generals and the soldiers must be divided. "

Everyone looked at him, waiting for the next sentence.

Shi Congyun ordered: "Luqiu Zhongqing brought five carts of money over there, and wanted to let the soldiers of the Tang army know three things.

First, the officials forgive all Southern Tang soldiers, as long as they surrender to absolve them of their crimes, but all Southern Tang Army commanders and above senior officials are not allowed to forgive.

Second, within ten days, the soldiers who are willing to surrender throw down their weapons and immediately surrender to the south. After ten days, our army will launch a full-scale attack and kill everyone on the riverside.

Third, all Southern Tang soldiers will be rewarded with a reward of [-] yuan for every head of the Southern Tang Army Commander level and above that they bring!If many people work together, they will share [-] yuan equally. "

As he said, Luqiu Zhongqing and other civil servants next to him had already taken notes with Mao Notes, and Shi Congyun said to Li Chongjin: "I will let Luqiu Zhongqing and others go to the north to assist you, find someone to write more letters and shoot them into his camp. Send people to ride horses outside the camp to publicize it loudly, so that all the soldiers of the Southern Tang Dynasty know.

At the same time, you are also preparing, if you still resist after ten days, you will be shot.At that time, they were probably almost hungry, so it wouldn't be too difficult to fight. "

Li Chongjin looked at him with distasteful eyes, swallowed, nodded to him, "I know." Then he got on his horse and left in a hurry.

Luqiu Zhongqing said, "Marshal's method of disintegrating and disintegrating is really ruthless and hits the nail on the head."

Shi Congyun smiled triumphantly, "According to both military and political issues is the fastest way to win." …

In mid-March, more and more people from the Southern Tang army surrendered along the Huaihe River, and even internal strife broke out. People came and went along the Huaihe River, and many river networks intersected.

In this season, the number of business travelers on the Huaihe River has decreased by [-]%, and the rich and prosperous place with a large population has also changed into another look.

Wherever the flames of war went, burning, killing, looting followed, and the people in Huainan had been unable to farm normally for two consecutive years.

Just like the battle in Zhengyang, it was a beautiful battle for the Zhou army, but in the battle of tens of thousands of people, almost all the fields around the site were trampled down by people and horses. In autumn, many people could not eat food.

Afterwards, there were many incidents of burning, killing and looting in the army. Fortunately, Li Gu was still there to restrain them for a while, but Li Gu couldn't make too many restraints.

But the north was not completely over yet, and there was an incident with the Baijia Army in the south. A Baijia army robbed their grain transport convoy west of Xiacai, wounded more than a dozen soldiers, and killed two grain transporters.

When the matter was reported to Shi Congyun, Zhang Yongde was furious and asked for a thorough investigation. At the same time, he led his troops to flatten the place where the Baijia Army was located.

Shi Congyun temporarily suppressed it on the grounds that the fighting in the north was tight and it was not appropriate to divide the troops.

These so-called "white armored soldiers" are actually ordinary people in Huainan. When Zhou Jun first arrived, because of the heavy taxes in the Southern Tang Dynasty and strict treatment of the people, many people in Huainan welcomed them and offered to provide fodder for Zhou Jun.

As a result, the generals of the Zhou army did not take it seriously, and many generals like Zhao Chao and Bai Yanyu even asked for bribes and allowed the soldiers to plunder, but the officials did not punish Zhao Chao and others, but let them go, which caused the local people to be very disappointed. Casting armor, closing the village for self-defense, known as the "Hundred Armored Army".

Later, when Shouzhou was besieged, the officials also ordered the township soldiers from the north to encircle and suppress these "white armor troops", but they were defeated and returned home.

Because the war in Shouzhou was tense, the officials didn't care about these things when they returned to Daliang, and now they are making trouble again.

However, Shi Congyun knew in his heart that it was not the right time for the Baijia army to make trouble at this time. They were able to win before because the battle in Shouzhou was tight, and the main force in the Southern Tang Dynasty was still there. Guo Rong sent out all Huaibei township soldiers. Militia, training is slack, equipment is at their own expense, and morale is not high.

Now Shouzhou is hopeless, and the main force of the Southern Tang Dynasty is about to collapse in his hands, and the Zhou army's forbidden army can completely free up their hands to deal with them.

Making trouble at this time is almost tantamount to courting death. If Zhang Yongde really leads his troops there and finds out which village is responsible, they can be wiped out in an instant, leaving no one, man, woman, or child behind.

He didn't let Zhang Yongde go, because he probably understood why these people dared to take risks to snatch their food.

The Huainan War has been fought for two years, and the number of forbidden troops, township soldiers, and militias stationed near Shouzhou has reached about [-]. Many people are starving to death, so they dare to take the risk.

The government has issued orders to appease the people, but where the army is present, these orders are useless, and it is difficult to restrain the army.

Shi Congyun sighed in his heart, many things in the world are difficult, right and wrong cannot be explained clearly, as a general, he can't indulge the people to rob the army food, but the people also have their own last resort.

But no matter what, things have to work out.

On March 27, great news came from the north that [-] Southern Tang soldiers attacked and killed an army commander, and rushed out of the Southern Tang camp with his head to surrender to the Zhou army.

Hundreds of Tang troops chasing after them were shot back by Zhou Jun with bows and crossbows.

After Luqiu Zhongqing got the news, he immediately reacted, fulfilled his previous promise, and deliberately stood in front of the north gate of Daying to let the Southern Tang Army on the opposite side watch, and loudly commended their achievements. The size was distributed to 27 Tang soldiers.

The effect was immediate. That night, the Southern Tang army, who couldn’t go hungry any more, rioted. Led by more than a dozen commanders, about 3000 Southern Tang soldiers rebelled and rushed out of the camp, killing their superiors. Army surrendered.

The soldiers who were ordered to pursue them dropped their weapons halfway through the chase, and surrendered to the Zhou army along the way.

Counting the number of people after dawn, more than 5000 people surrendered to the Zhou army that night, and the people in the Southern Tang camp were panicked.

........

Shi Congyun, who got the news, was pleasantly surprised and thought, now the top generals of the Southern Tang Dynasty might start to worry about their own heads, and fear that someone would chop off their heads and exchange them for money while they were sleeping that day.

If you are afraid of death, it is almost time to surrender.

Sure enough, that afternoon, Li Chongjin's envoy hurriedly crossed the Feishui River to Shouzhou City and reported to him, "The commander of the Southern Tang Army, Zhu Yuan, the recruiter from the north, sent an envoy to meet General Li in the big tent, and begged the commander to accept their surrender!"

Shi Congyun was overjoyed, after so many days, it was almost time to harvest!

Immediately tell him: "Go back and tell Zhu Yuan and other Southern Tang generals that if you accept their surrender, you can also protect them from death in front of the officials, but they will come to the city of Shouzhou to find my commander to surrender."

Chapter 157, Handsome Talent

Shouzhou has been an isolated city for more than a year. Since Li Gu besieged the city last year, there has been no reinforcements.

During this period, only when Liu Yanzhen was defeated, some soldiers ran to the city of Shouzhou to seek shelter. Liu Renshan collected them and stayed in the city.

Since then, there has not been a single soldier in the city.

"Shi Congyun ordered people to capture Tu Shanshui Village, then cut off the waterway, and surrounded Zhu Yuan's army by the Huai River.

Zhu Yuan's mother always thought that he was going to fight the Zijin Mountain camp, but he didn't expect that he had been staring at Tu Shan..."

In the compound of the Governor’s Office in Shouzhou City, Sun Yu, the deputy envoy of Yingtian, was reporting to Liu Renshan. The yard was very dilapidated, leaving only bare tree stumps. All the decorative trees were cut down, and the bark was removed after being boiled. The bitterness is also something that barely satiates one's hunger.

Two Siyang soldiers in front of them were carefully cooking a pot of porridge in clay pots, so clear that they could see the shadows of people.

Liu Renshan didn't speak for a long time, and after waiting for a while, he said, "You can stay here and eat."

Sun Yu hesitated to speak, and nodded.

After the porridge was cooked, the soldiers carefully filled a bowl for each person, and then the two of them mixed some water into the earthen pot and drank the rest.

In the past two days, there have been two moderate spring rains, and the rain of apricot blossoms wets the clothes.

The spring rain was originally so gentle and gentle, but Liu Renshan felt a piercing chill, which made him feel terrified, made him dizzy, powerless and hopeless, and dared to wake him up from his dream in the middle of the night. , I lost a bit of weight again, and my eye sockets were sunken, far worse than before.

Liu Renshan didn't make a sound while eating, following the lesson of not talking when eating and sleeping, and drinking half a bowl of water after drinking, flushing all the grain residue in the bowl into his stomach.

Sun Yu was worried, and only drank half of a bowl of porridge, "Jie Shuai, I'm afraid Zhu Yuan can't hold on anymore, that Shi Congyun is too powerful, I underestimated him..."

"Well, it's not just you." Liu Renshan nodded, handed the bowls and chopsticks to the soldiers under him, and then stood up: "At the beginning, the old man saw that he was wandering outside the city every day, so he didn't have any serious business, so he went to move it to the trebuchet himself. Stone....."

"Jie Shuai!" Sun Yu was a little surprised.

"This old man will not underestimate any enemy, even if he is a young child." Liu Renshan looked at him: "What's more, he defeated Shu Kingdom and Liu Yanzhen's army."

Speaking of this, he sighed: "It's a pity that staring at him every day still can't see his way, can't guess his thoughts.

At first we thought he was going to concentrate his forces to attack Shouzhou, but later we thought he might want to attack Zhu Yuan's army on the east side of Zijin Mountain. Until now, after dozens of days passed, we gradually figured out that what he had been staring at was Tu Mountain. "

"What a ruthless vision, a unique use of troops, and a good general.

Probably this is in the midst of strategizing and decisive victory thousands of miles away... It is not easy for the emperor of the Zhou Dynasty to dare to use him. It is not everyone's decision to ask a young junior to hang in Huainan to recruit envoys. "

"Marshal..." Sun Yu was speechless. He had never heard Liu Renshan praise someone so much. Courage, courage.

I didn't expect that Shi Congyun's evaluation would be so high today.

"You don't have to be surprised." Liu Renshan shook his head with a wry smile: "In the whole of Huainan, we have [-] soldiers, but in the past month, Shi Congyun was in Shouzhou, going back and forth to both sides of the Feishui River, but step by step our [-] troops Play around.

In the end, the Tu Shanshui village was lost and the navy was lost. Zhu Yuan's 5 or [-] people might not be able to keep them. They would either starve to death or surrender.

In this way, the entire battle situation in Huainan became obvious. After this battle, the Zhou army could no longer resist. "

"Is it so serious! Haozhou, Sizhou, and Chuzhou are all in our hands. Lin Renzhao, Jieshuai, Zhu Yuan and others are all used to fighting." Sun Yu said hastily.

Liu Renshan nodded, "As a leading general, it's right to look at the victories and losses, and it's also right to think about who can fight and who can't.

But recruiters like Shi Congyun will definitely think higher and wider. Under his calculations and planning, the general trend of Huainan is now fixed, and the gains and losses of one city and one pool can no longer affect the overall outcome.

Originally we had [-] troops in Huainan, but now Tushan was defeated, the main force was trapped, and our Shouzhou was besieged. The scattered troops scattered all over the place were only about [-], and they were not all gathered together. scattered all over the place.

The Zhou army used tens of thousands of troops and hundreds of thousands of auxiliary soldiers and civilians. At this point, it is no longer a matter of individual bravery. Even if individual generals can fight, they cannot change the overall situation. "

Sun Yu had a look of disbelief, he didn't expect the situation to be so bad.

"This is the difference between general talent and handsome talent.

There are many generals in the Zhou army, their first fierce general Shi Yanchao, Li Jixun who was defeated by the old man, Han Lingkun and Murong Yanzhao who came from our city to fight Yangzhou, etc., but they all only know how to kill and fight, and they don’t know how to go further When you think about it, you don't know how to win the overall situation.

So even if they were able to fight again and defeated our North Korean army repeatedly, they still couldn't tell the final outcome after fighting with them for more than a year.

But Shi Congyun is different, he can not only fight..."

Liu Renshan sighed again and again, "As soon as he took office, he directly mobilized troops from Yangzhou, Liuhe, Chuzhou, Qingliuguan and other places, and gave up a large area of ​​land, and also concentrated his troops near Shouzhou.

Just when we thought he was going to concentrate his forces to attack Shouzhou, he confronted Zhu Yuan in Zijin Mountain, and when the old man thought he was going to fight Zhu Yuan, he unexpectedly took down Tushan.

Now, I also understand what he is thinking, Huainan's priority lies in Shouzhou, and our army's priority lies in the navy!

He has seen it clearly from the very beginning, far more transparently than anyone else, we are not wronged..." At the end of the speech, Liu Renshan's voice gradually became softer.

"It's not impossible for Zhu Yuan to fight to the death..." Sun Yu said unwillingly.

Liu Renshan's face became serious, "It's a big taboo for military strategists to stand against the water, not everyone is Han Xin.

You haven't fought any battles, but based on the experience of this old man in half a lifetime, it is almost courting death. Not everyone who is forced to death can fight back vigorously. In [-]% of the cases, he surrendered directly.

Zhu Yuan dared to do that because he relied on Tu Shan's navy. Without him, it would be like digging his own grave. He must surrender in a few days. "

Speaking of this, anyone can hear the sadness and helplessness in it.

Sun Yu's Adam's apple rolled, he hesitated to speak, and finally asked in a low voice: "Jieshuai, what about Shouzhou?"

Liu Renshan closed his eyes, shook his head with a long sigh and said, "Don't you think it's not surprising that the people who fell out of the city recently were not intercepted by Zhou Jun and brought back more and more news? It must have been done by Shi Congyun on purpose." .

Let us know the situation outside the city, the more we know, the more desperate we become.

Shouzhou is also hopeless now..."

"Jieshuai!" Sun Yu didn't expect Liu Renshan to speak so directly.

"There is no need to say those deceitful words now. I know why you came to see me today, and I know everyone's thoughts." Liu Renshan looked at him and said seriously.

"Shouzhou City cannot be defended no matter what."

"The old man's health is not as good as before, and the bark porridge eaten for half a year at the age of more than 50 is almost to the limit.

This old man's life can't be said to be magnificent, at least he has done some things. Loyalty, filial piety and righteousness are in his heart, and he has never overstepped. In the last journey, he doesn't want to be greedy and forgetful, and ruin half his life's wisdom. "

"Jieshuai..." Sun Yu immediately became nervous when he heard Liu Renshan say this.

"This old man can't last long, and neither can the city of Shouzhou. When the time comes, you and Zhou Tinggou will bring people to surrender to the Zhou army. If Shi Congyun and the Zhou emperor keep their promises, they will forgive you."

"But Jieshuai, it's not worth it. Last year when we were defending the city, the lord sent someone to reward the Zhou army outside the city. Why..."

Liu Renshan raised his hand to stop his next words, "Everyone has his own ambitions. To defend Shouzhou City, this old man has put in too much effort. I have made up my mind. You don't need to say more, and don't say anything about it for now. Wait for the opportunity." When we arrive, the old man will tell you again."

Sun Yu couldn't say much anymore.

.......

"Marshal thinks it's impossible for Liu Renshan to surrender?" Luqiu Zhongqing asked puzzled.

Shi Congyun nodded while sharpening his knife. The Tang army in the north was about to surrender. He originally wanted to hold a surrender ceremony under the city of Shouzhou in a grand manner, and then hit the morale of the Shouzhou defenders.

As a result, the continuous spring rain for two days made it difficult to carry out the surrender ceremony.