Jinzhou, a place of long-term war.Shi Yanchao also fought here with bloody battles, and now the city is standing on Xiang Gong.
Xiang Gong raised his head and raised his chest, pressed his sword with his left hand, and took a deep breath in the wind.The breath of war seemed to be heard in the wind, but now there is nothing you can't see or hear.
Will Murong Yanzhao quietly open the city to surrender?All the Jinzhou army was in his hands.Zhang Jianxiong said softly.
The atmosphere was already very tense, and Li Jixun's vanguard was less than 200 miles away from Jinzhou; Xiang Gong had military power, and the frontiers of Hedong and Hebei were deployed to control all border troops from Hedong to Hebei, but he only had two thousand Zhen'an troops in his hands to be his own.
After a long time, Xiang Gong turned his head and said: No, I believe anyone Murong Yanzhao surrenders; but he is just unwilling to surrender to Li Jixun... because Zhao Kuangyin may be in Li Jixun's army.
Zhang Jianxiong may not understand the messy things in the general's circle, but Xiang Gong knows them very well.
Xiang Gong has never been in the imperial guards, and he was the local governor at the highest level. However, since Wang Pu recommended to participate in the Battle of Shu, he entered the Tokyo power circle and learned a lot of things.
After Zhao Kuangyin took office, his attitude towards Gao Huaide and Murong Yanzhao was similar.
Gao Huaide was kicked from the Palace Front Office to the Guard Office, and Murong Yanzhao went from the Palace Front Office to the local government to be the governor.
Xiang Gong is not very clear about the specific gap in the middle, but the actual results can be used to guess the process.
Zhang Jianxiong was worried and said: This battle is difficult!The lord only has two thousand cavalry in his hand, and Murong Yanzhao may only have seven or eight thousand soldiers. I still don’t know what he is thinking... Li Jixun is approaching the city immediately, and Li Chongjin also arrived in the northern Han territory, so he must be coming for us.What are the 60,000 troops attacking Jinzhou in total?
Xiang Gong said: Although Li Jixun has three cities, all the soldiers and horses are at most 20,000. His big battle may have temporarily swept up some messy people; Li Chongjin had only seven or eight thousand soldiers in his hand, mainly the Gange army, which was recruited by the Huainan surrendered troops. The Huainan army had good combat strength and a little loyalty. Li Chongjin's strength was slightly greater than Li Jixun.
No matter how much we count, it is five or six times our troops.Zhang Jianxiong sighed.
Xiang Gong said in a very affirmative tone: Guo Shao will come to save me.
It is possible, but Guo Du Dianping had just taken office and Tokyo couldn't take care of himself, just because he didn't know when he would come.Zhang Jianxiong said.
No!If you don’t understand him, Guo Shao will definitely provide timely reinforcements.Xiang Gong shook his head and thoughtfully said, Guo Du Dian is a person who is very good at seizing the opportunity. Xinkou saved Shi Yanchao and impressed me deeply.He is also a person who is very good at cooperating with his companions... At that time, Xinkou was in critical condition and surrounded by enemies, so his brother was unbearable, but if Guo Shao had not been on the side, he would have died thousands of times!
Xiang Gong seemed to be convincing himself and murmured: I believe he can see the situation in Jinzhou and will cooperate with me tacitly!
Zhang Jianxiong still stubbornly said: If Guo Du’s inspection fails to come, we will be completely finished.
...A few days later, Li Jixun's troops came to the city.
Xiang Gong and Murong Yanzhao stayed behind closed doors and couldn't stand out.
Li Jixun set up camp and deployed ten miles west of the city, neither approaching nor besieging the city, and the siege was slightly insufficient.
Except for the scouts who occasionally clashed in the wilderness, the two armies showed no signs of war.
At this time, Zhao Kuangyin had already arrived at Li Jixun's central army.The two sighed and sighed, only the world was vicissitudes.
After a while, Zhao Kuangyin stopped talking and asked: Brother Li, I will give you that prescription to prepare gunpowder, but has it done?
Li Jixun said: It has been purchased and filled with twelve coffins.Charcoal is easy, but it is a little difficult when there is too much sulfur. The worst thing to get is saltpeter.Fortunately, it is not too far from Guanzhong. I sent someone to Guanzhong more than two months ago to contact the dealer to buy it with a lot of money. The dealer transported some from Hanzhong and Longyou one after another, and several trips back and forth were finally heavy.
In the Battle of Shouzhou, Guo Shao issued a military order to break the city within one month, all depends on this thing.Zhao Kuangyin said that Jinzhou is strong and Brother Li is not strong enough, so siege is the worst strategy.You can try to send Xiaozuo in to contact Murong Yanzhao to try to get apart, while preparing to use gunpowder to explode the city. If Brother Li's troops rushed in, they will have more than twice the advantage.
Li Jixun said: If the attack is not broken, I have to wait for Li Chong to come.
Zhao Kuangyin nodded and said: That's exactly what it is.If Li Chong advances and attacks together, he can occupy Jinzhou and think that he can retreat; if Brother Li conquers Jinzhou alone, you occupy Jinzhou and ask Li Chong to enter Jiangzhou in the south... But it is better to capture Jinzhou quickly to avoid Tokyo's support; after capturing Jinzhou, immediately divide the troops to the southeast to strengthen Zezhou's defense.If you defend properly, it would be easy to take a few months.
The next day, Li Jixun and Zhao Kuangyin began to deploy siege fortifications in an orderly manner.
There were more than 40,000 people in total, but only 20,000 of them were soldiers; more than 10,000 were rural brave men and prisoners brought from all over the country. The rural brave men still lacked weapons, each with almost only a long spear or a wooden shield, and there was no armor at all.
The rest were all those who forced the recruitment of the people and even women who transported food and worked.
Li Jixun's troops did not plan to surround them from all sides.They first divided the main force into three battalions, and stationed one battalion on each side of the south side of the city; 3,000 cavalrymen five miles northeast of the city were stationed.
Then he drove the prisoners to build fences and trenches on the front of the south gate, and gradually advanced to the city, with three layers of fortifications; heavy troops were set up in the south.
There are also some craftsmen who are busy working in the camp to build various tools such as catapults and ladders.
(Jinzhou has been looted for dozens of miles in a radius of tens of miles; Li Jixun first took away the three cities of Heyang, and then took Jiangzhou, which had empty troops as a guard, and then snatched the periphery of Jinzhou and Jiangzhou because they had no reliable sources of supply.)
For a time, the open ground outside Jinzhou City seemed to be the construction site for building the main hall.
The sound of sawing wood, the sound of jingling and beating, and the sound of people carrying wood and pounding rammed earth... were heard in a circle, a busy scene.
On both sides were flags like clouds, and there were a group of men and horses, and the troops were still pressing.
Looking out from afar, several generals walked around the wall, and many soldiers stood on the wall, but the defenders did not fire a single arrow, because no weapon could reach the construction site outside the city.
Behind the barriers, eight authentic tunnels were being dug quietly, using houses, tents and trenches as conceals, so that people in the city would not see where the authentic tunnels were.
Zhao Kuangyin rode his horse to a tunnel and looked at it. He turned around and saw Li Jixun. He rode forward and said: When he dug the front fence, he would open the hole upward, one for breathable, and the other for determining the location. After that, he would only have more than a hundred steps to reach the bottom of the city, and find a hidden place to make a small hole in the middle, so you don’t have to worry about the direction being too biased.At night, I quietly asked someone to use a rope to measure the distance of the city wall, and just dug the tunnel under the wall.
Li Jixun said: During the Battle of Huainan, Brother Zhao was in Yangzhou, and he was so clear about the tactics of the Battle of Shouzhou. It is really admirable.
I don't know how Guo Shao dug it, but it should be almost the same.Zhao Kuangyin said, digging tunnels to hide gunpowder, just like the previous "hole attack" method, the hole attack must be dug into the city and digging further... There are many generals in the army who understand hole attack, and there are other requirements, such as wood support to prevent collapse, and you can't get it wrong if you know how to dig it.
Li Jixun said: Brother Zhao came to take charge of the city bombing.
Then I will take the order.Zhao Kuangyin bowed.
...On a sunny afternoon, the autumn air was clear and the sky was very clear, but the ground below the city was filled with dust.Xiang Gong stood on the city tower and carefully observed the fortifications below. He had not planned to take the initiative yet.
The deployment was very rigorous, unlike Li Jixun's style.Xiang Gong said without looking back that when Li Jixun was in Huainan, he wanted to capture Chai Kehong's reinforcements. Because he was careless, he was ambushed by the weak soldiers of Chai Kehong's anti-China soldiers and was defeated. He was not a careful person at all... Zhao Kuangyin should have been in Li Jixun's army.
The man next to him with a round cheek is Murong Yanzhao, the governor of Jianxiong Army. Murong Yanzhao's expression changed slightly when he heard Zhao Kuangyin's name.
Xiang Gong grew much whiter, his cheeks were flat, his facial features were straight, and his beard was very shallow.Xiang Gong remained silent, Yu Guangli had already taken Murong Yanzhao's expression into his eyes.
Murong Jieshuai looked over there... pointed ahead in Gong.
Murong Yanzhao said: The dust is too big and you can’t see anything.
Look carefully at the new soil behind the barriers.Towards the archway, Zhao Kuangyin was digging a crypt.
Acupoint attack?Murong Yanzhao frowned.
Xiang Gong said: It's too difficult to attack the acupoint. I think Zhao Kuangyin wants to use gunpowder to explode the city.In the world-famous Battle of Shouzhou, Guo Du ordered the inspection to blow up the city wall with gunpowder.Zhao Kuangyin may have already obtained a solution... So Zhao Sanlang used gunpowder to plot assassinate Guo Du at the Datong Temple Inn.
Hey, General Xiang knows a lot!I have heard of the story of the Zhao family Sanlang, but I heard the story of the assassination for the first time.Murong Yanzhao said.
Xiang Gong said: More than 2,000 cavalry of Zhen'an Army under my command will be deployed on Chengnan Avenue. If the gap is blown open, Zhen'an Army will be the first to quickly block the gap; then Murong Jieshuai will reinforce me when he sees the opportunity.
Murong Yanzhao said: Be sure to obey the order of the capital!
Xiang Gong said again: In this way, defending the city depends entirely on building a strong army.Once the city is broken, the creatures will be ruined, and you and I will die without a place to bury you and I will die!I hope Murong Jieshuai will hold on to the death.
Get order!Murong Yanzhao's expression condensed, and he was about to take a step back and raised his head to see him.
After hearing this, Xiang Gong turned around and said: Zhang Jianxiong, you immediately sent someone to seal the Heng Street in the south of the city and the main roads in the north and south, and issued a notice that these two roads will no longer be passed. Those who block the route of dispatching troops will rectify the Dharma on the spot!
Zhang Jianxiong clasped his fists and said: The last general is in charge!
Xiang Gong raised his head and raised his chest, pressed his sword with his left hand, and took a deep breath in the wind.The breath of war seemed to be heard in the wind, but now there is nothing you can't see or hear.
Will Murong Yanzhao quietly open the city to surrender?All the Jinzhou army was in his hands.Zhang Jianxiong said softly.
The atmosphere was already very tense, and Li Jixun's vanguard was less than 200 miles away from Jinzhou; Xiang Gong had military power, and the frontiers of Hedong and Hebei were deployed to control all border troops from Hedong to Hebei, but he only had two thousand Zhen'an troops in his hands to be his own.
After a long time, Xiang Gong turned his head and said: No, I believe anyone Murong Yanzhao surrenders; but he is just unwilling to surrender to Li Jixun... because Zhao Kuangyin may be in Li Jixun's army.
Zhang Jianxiong may not understand the messy things in the general's circle, but Xiang Gong knows them very well.
Xiang Gong has never been in the imperial guards, and he was the local governor at the highest level. However, since Wang Pu recommended to participate in the Battle of Shu, he entered the Tokyo power circle and learned a lot of things.
After Zhao Kuangyin took office, his attitude towards Gao Huaide and Murong Yanzhao was similar.
Gao Huaide was kicked from the Palace Front Office to the Guard Office, and Murong Yanzhao went from the Palace Front Office to the local government to be the governor.
Xiang Gong is not very clear about the specific gap in the middle, but the actual results can be used to guess the process.
Zhang Jianxiong was worried and said: This battle is difficult!The lord only has two thousand cavalry in his hand, and Murong Yanzhao may only have seven or eight thousand soldiers. I still don’t know what he is thinking... Li Jixun is approaching the city immediately, and Li Chongjin also arrived in the northern Han territory, so he must be coming for us.What are the 60,000 troops attacking Jinzhou in total?
Xiang Gong said: Although Li Jixun has three cities, all the soldiers and horses are at most 20,000. His big battle may have temporarily swept up some messy people; Li Chongjin had only seven or eight thousand soldiers in his hand, mainly the Gange army, which was recruited by the Huainan surrendered troops. The Huainan army had good combat strength and a little loyalty. Li Chongjin's strength was slightly greater than Li Jixun.
No matter how much we count, it is five or six times our troops.Zhang Jianxiong sighed.
Xiang Gong said in a very affirmative tone: Guo Shao will come to save me.
It is possible, but Guo Du Dianping had just taken office and Tokyo couldn't take care of himself, just because he didn't know when he would come.Zhang Jianxiong said.
No!If you don’t understand him, Guo Shao will definitely provide timely reinforcements.Xiang Gong shook his head and thoughtfully said, Guo Du Dian is a person who is very good at seizing the opportunity. Xinkou saved Shi Yanchao and impressed me deeply.He is also a person who is very good at cooperating with his companions... At that time, Xinkou was in critical condition and surrounded by enemies, so his brother was unbearable, but if Guo Shao had not been on the side, he would have died thousands of times!
Xiang Gong seemed to be convincing himself and murmured: I believe he can see the situation in Jinzhou and will cooperate with me tacitly!
Zhang Jianxiong still stubbornly said: If Guo Du’s inspection fails to come, we will be completely finished.
...A few days later, Li Jixun's troops came to the city.
Xiang Gong and Murong Yanzhao stayed behind closed doors and couldn't stand out.
Li Jixun set up camp and deployed ten miles west of the city, neither approaching nor besieging the city, and the siege was slightly insufficient.
Except for the scouts who occasionally clashed in the wilderness, the two armies showed no signs of war.
At this time, Zhao Kuangyin had already arrived at Li Jixun's central army.The two sighed and sighed, only the world was vicissitudes.
After a while, Zhao Kuangyin stopped talking and asked: Brother Li, I will give you that prescription to prepare gunpowder, but has it done?
Li Jixun said: It has been purchased and filled with twelve coffins.Charcoal is easy, but it is a little difficult when there is too much sulfur. The worst thing to get is saltpeter.Fortunately, it is not too far from Guanzhong. I sent someone to Guanzhong more than two months ago to contact the dealer to buy it with a lot of money. The dealer transported some from Hanzhong and Longyou one after another, and several trips back and forth were finally heavy.
In the Battle of Shouzhou, Guo Shao issued a military order to break the city within one month, all depends on this thing.Zhao Kuangyin said that Jinzhou is strong and Brother Li is not strong enough, so siege is the worst strategy.You can try to send Xiaozuo in to contact Murong Yanzhao to try to get apart, while preparing to use gunpowder to explode the city. If Brother Li's troops rushed in, they will have more than twice the advantage.
Li Jixun said: If the attack is not broken, I have to wait for Li Chong to come.
Zhao Kuangyin nodded and said: That's exactly what it is.If Li Chong advances and attacks together, he can occupy Jinzhou and think that he can retreat; if Brother Li conquers Jinzhou alone, you occupy Jinzhou and ask Li Chong to enter Jiangzhou in the south... But it is better to capture Jinzhou quickly to avoid Tokyo's support; after capturing Jinzhou, immediately divide the troops to the southeast to strengthen Zezhou's defense.If you defend properly, it would be easy to take a few months.
The next day, Li Jixun and Zhao Kuangyin began to deploy siege fortifications in an orderly manner.
There were more than 40,000 people in total, but only 20,000 of them were soldiers; more than 10,000 were rural brave men and prisoners brought from all over the country. The rural brave men still lacked weapons, each with almost only a long spear or a wooden shield, and there was no armor at all.
The rest were all those who forced the recruitment of the people and even women who transported food and worked.
Li Jixun's troops did not plan to surround them from all sides.They first divided the main force into three battalions, and stationed one battalion on each side of the south side of the city; 3,000 cavalrymen five miles northeast of the city were stationed.
Then he drove the prisoners to build fences and trenches on the front of the south gate, and gradually advanced to the city, with three layers of fortifications; heavy troops were set up in the south.
There are also some craftsmen who are busy working in the camp to build various tools such as catapults and ladders.
(Jinzhou has been looted for dozens of miles in a radius of tens of miles; Li Jixun first took away the three cities of Heyang, and then took Jiangzhou, which had empty troops as a guard, and then snatched the periphery of Jinzhou and Jiangzhou because they had no reliable sources of supply.)
For a time, the open ground outside Jinzhou City seemed to be the construction site for building the main hall.
The sound of sawing wood, the sound of jingling and beating, and the sound of people carrying wood and pounding rammed earth... were heard in a circle, a busy scene.
On both sides were flags like clouds, and there were a group of men and horses, and the troops were still pressing.
Looking out from afar, several generals walked around the wall, and many soldiers stood on the wall, but the defenders did not fire a single arrow, because no weapon could reach the construction site outside the city.
Behind the barriers, eight authentic tunnels were being dug quietly, using houses, tents and trenches as conceals, so that people in the city would not see where the authentic tunnels were.
Zhao Kuangyin rode his horse to a tunnel and looked at it. He turned around and saw Li Jixun. He rode forward and said: When he dug the front fence, he would open the hole upward, one for breathable, and the other for determining the location. After that, he would only have more than a hundred steps to reach the bottom of the city, and find a hidden place to make a small hole in the middle, so you don’t have to worry about the direction being too biased.At night, I quietly asked someone to use a rope to measure the distance of the city wall, and just dug the tunnel under the wall.
Li Jixun said: During the Battle of Huainan, Brother Zhao was in Yangzhou, and he was so clear about the tactics of the Battle of Shouzhou. It is really admirable.
I don't know how Guo Shao dug it, but it should be almost the same.Zhao Kuangyin said, digging tunnels to hide gunpowder, just like the previous "hole attack" method, the hole attack must be dug into the city and digging further... There are many generals in the army who understand hole attack, and there are other requirements, such as wood support to prevent collapse, and you can't get it wrong if you know how to dig it.
Li Jixun said: Brother Zhao came to take charge of the city bombing.
Then I will take the order.Zhao Kuangyin bowed.
...On a sunny afternoon, the autumn air was clear and the sky was very clear, but the ground below the city was filled with dust.Xiang Gong stood on the city tower and carefully observed the fortifications below. He had not planned to take the initiative yet.
The deployment was very rigorous, unlike Li Jixun's style.Xiang Gong said without looking back that when Li Jixun was in Huainan, he wanted to capture Chai Kehong's reinforcements. Because he was careless, he was ambushed by the weak soldiers of Chai Kehong's anti-China soldiers and was defeated. He was not a careful person at all... Zhao Kuangyin should have been in Li Jixun's army.
The man next to him with a round cheek is Murong Yanzhao, the governor of Jianxiong Army. Murong Yanzhao's expression changed slightly when he heard Zhao Kuangyin's name.
Xiang Gong grew much whiter, his cheeks were flat, his facial features were straight, and his beard was very shallow.Xiang Gong remained silent, Yu Guangli had already taken Murong Yanzhao's expression into his eyes.
Murong Jieshuai looked over there... pointed ahead in Gong.
Murong Yanzhao said: The dust is too big and you can’t see anything.
Look carefully at the new soil behind the barriers.Towards the archway, Zhao Kuangyin was digging a crypt.
Acupoint attack?Murong Yanzhao frowned.
Xiang Gong said: It's too difficult to attack the acupoint. I think Zhao Kuangyin wants to use gunpowder to explode the city.In the world-famous Battle of Shouzhou, Guo Du ordered the inspection to blow up the city wall with gunpowder.Zhao Kuangyin may have already obtained a solution... So Zhao Sanlang used gunpowder to plot assassinate Guo Du at the Datong Temple Inn.
Hey, General Xiang knows a lot!I have heard of the story of the Zhao family Sanlang, but I heard the story of the assassination for the first time.Murong Yanzhao said.
Xiang Gong said: More than 2,000 cavalry of Zhen'an Army under my command will be deployed on Chengnan Avenue. If the gap is blown open, Zhen'an Army will be the first to quickly block the gap; then Murong Jieshuai will reinforce me when he sees the opportunity.
Murong Yanzhao said: Be sure to obey the order of the capital!
Xiang Gong said again: In this way, defending the city depends entirely on building a strong army.Once the city is broken, the creatures will be ruined, and you and I will die without a place to bury you and I will die!I hope Murong Jieshuai will hold on to the death.
Get order!Murong Yanzhao's expression condensed, and he was about to take a step back and raised his head to see him.
After hearing this, Xiang Gong turned around and said: Zhang Jianxiong, you immediately sent someone to seal the Heng Street in the south of the city and the main roads in the north and south, and issued a notice that these two roads will no longer be passed. Those who block the route of dispatching troops will rectify the Dharma on the spot!
Zhang Jianxiong clasped his fists and said: The last general is in charge!
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