Chapter 404: Occupy Jiaozhou
Song Yuanyan, the king of Jiaozhou, sent Wang Ba to lead 10,000 soldiers to Zhaoqing City to support Duan Beishan. At the same time, Wang Ba was reminded that he must be more careful to guard against the enemy's ambush.
However, despite Wang Ba's extreme caution, he was still ambushed by the Yang family's sister and brother forces, who had already been ambushed halfway.
There was not much left of the 10,000-strong army, and it was defeated and retreated to Jiaozhou, where it was intercepted and killed by the troops of Lu Changping and Di Wanjun on the way. Kill Wang Ba to the point of losing his armor and being embarrassed.
When he fled back to Jiaozhou, there were only more than ten soldiers left with Wang Ba.
When Song Yuanyan, the king of Jiaozhou, saw that Wang Ba was defeated, he already knew that he had fallen into the trap of the other party again. This made him regret it.
Then, the bad news was not only one, it didn't take long for the deserters of Zhaoqingcheng to flee to Jiaozhou City.
Later, Duan Beishan also fled to Jiaozhou with more than 100 people. After seeing Song Yuanyan, Duan Beishan pointed at Song Yuanyan and scolded.
claimed that if he had sent rescue troops earlier, Zhaoqing City would not have been lost, and his 15,000 soldiers would not have been wiped out.
After the Yue brothers and Gao Hongxiu and Luo Sikou commanded the army to capture Zhaoqing City, according to Xiao Ding's instructions, they did not intercept the soldiers who had fled and the main general Duan Beishan. Therefore, Duan Beishan fled to Jiaozhou City with more than 100 remnants.
When Song Yuanyan heard that Zhaoqing City had been lost and the reinforcements he had sent had been wiped out, he suddenly felt a chill in his heart and almost fainted. Even Duan Beishan pointed at him and scolded, he couldn't care about it.
What he thought about at this point was, what should he do next? There are only 10,000 defenders in the city, and they must not be able to defend Jiaozhou City. If the troops are transferred from Jiangzhou again, it will be far away and the water will not quench the thirst of the near, the mountains are high and the roads are far away, and they will not be able to pass in a short time. What's more, the troops in Jiangzhou are already overstretched, and there are only tens of thousands of soldiers left on the border, if they are transferred out without authorization, and the Da Tubo country in the southwest sends troops to attack, then there is no power to fight back.
After Duan Beishan scolded Song Yuanyan, he was still angry, sorted out the remnants of the defeated soldiers, a total of less than 500 people, and took the soldiers to leave Jiaozhou City directly and returned to Dali.
Song Yuanyan didn't stop it, he knew that he couldn't stop it. Duan Beishan was already angry with himself and had a misunderstanding about himself, even if he explained it himself, he wouldn't believe it.
At this time, a guard suddenly came to pass the ceremony, saying that the vulture wanted to ask to see the prince.
Song Yuanyan hurriedly followed the guards to the room where the vulture tooth was recuperating.
When Wu Tuya saw Song Yuanyan, he struggled to stand up, but Song Yuanyan hurriedly stopped him and said, "General Wu, don't move, don't misplace the bones that have been repaired!" ”
Wu Tuya didn't dare to move when he heard this, he smiled apologetically at the king of Jiaozhou and said: "The last general was ordered by the king of my family to come to help the prince, but unfortunately I am incompetent, tens of thousands of troops have been lost, and now I am seriously injured and can no longer serve the prince, so I want to lead the remnants of my Great Southern Barbarian Kingdom to return to the Great Southern Barbarian Kingdom early tomorrow morning, and ask the prince for permission." ”
As soon as Song Yuanyan heard that the vulture tooth was also going to return to the Great Southern Barbarian Country, he nodded after a little muttering, seeing that the vulture tooth was seriously injured, and he could indeed no longer fight for himself, and many of his generals were also injured, and they have not yet recovered. The barbarian soldiers they brought over, and the remaining two thousand or so people, stayed in Jiaozhou City, which did not play a big role, and besides, these barbarian soldiers could only be led by barbarian generals, and the generals under their own command could not be commanded.
"Okay then, then early tomorrow morning, I will send someone to arrange a send-off banquet for the generals." Song Yuyan said. In fact, he was still thinking in his heart that this vulture tooth was seriously injured, if there was any accident in Jiaozhou City, the responsibility would fall on him, and if he left, whether he was dead or alive had nothing to do with him.
Early the next morning, Song Yuanyan arranged a send-off banquet and personally saw off the barbarian generals such as the vultures.
Just sent the vulture and other barbarians out of the south gate. The guards of the north gate came to report that the enemy had come to attack the city.
When Song Yuanyan heard this, his heart trembled, he knew that there were only 10,000 defenders left in Jiaozhou City, and he would not be able to resist the enemy's attack no matter what.
So, he hurriedly sent generals to command and defend the city, and at the same time, he was thinking about his own way back.
It is not surprising that Xiao Ding launched an attack on the city today, he has already figured out the situation in Jiaozhou City, and knows that there are only 10,000 defenders left in the city
Without the echo of Xiguan City and Zhaoqing City, Jiaozhou City is a lonely city. If you have more troops than the other side, how can you justify not attacking?
Taking advantage of your illness to kill you, beating the water dog is Xiaoding's favorite thing to do.
The attack on Jiaozhou City has been securely won, so let it go. This time, Xiao Ding personally led all his generals and a total of 50,000 troops to attack Jiaozhou City, and only a few hundred soldiers were left in Xiguan City and Zhaoqing City, which was almost no different from the empty city.
Song Yuanyan saw that the opponent's army was pressing the border, and he was menacing, and knew that it was difficult to escape today.
While sending his generals to the city to command the defense of the city, he sent people to prepare all the ships in the city, and then asked his sons Song Yinbei and Song Yinpan to organize the family, bring some gold and silver, and prepare to leave Jiaozhou City and retreat to Jiangzhou.
The battle did not last long, and the soldiers at the head of the city did not dare to poke their heads out of the city under the tremendous power of the crossbows and medium-sized crossbows. But they didn't dare to show their heads, but Xiao Ding's side took the opportunity to rush up, and soon they all came to the city wall and the city gate.
It didn't take long for the soldiers to climb the walls and engage in hand-to-hand combat with the soldiers at the top of the city. It didn't take long for the gates to be slammed open. An army of 50,000 rushed forward. He who climbs the city climbs the city, and he who enters the gate enters the gate.
At this time, the king of Jiaozhou had already boarded the big ship that had been prepared in the south city gate and in the Zhu Yue River. I heard the news that the other party had breached the city gates. He hurriedly ordered all to retreat.
How many soldiers can be saved still have to be saved. After all, if you want to make a comeback in the future, you still have to rely on the soldiers.
When the defenders heard the order to retreat, they all scattered in a hurry, who would fight for their lives if they could escape!
There were less than 5,000 defenders left in the city at this time, and they escaped from the south gate, jumped on the boat they had prepared before, and then went all the way west, upstream, and fled straight to Jiangzhou.
Xiao Ding led his troops to successfully occupy Jiaozhou City, but failed to capture the king of Jiaozhou, and he also felt a little regretful.
The rest of the things are some aftermath work, issuing a list of Anmin, welcoming Song Yinzi and the Ninth Princess into Jiaozhou, counting the spoils of war, counting the number of soldiers killed and wounded, and other trivial matters.
When searching the palace of Jiaozhou, he found a lot of valuable items in the palace, as well as a lot of gold and silver that could not be taken away, and there were several large boxes. It is estimated that there are tens of thousands of taels.
These finances were all searched out of it, and Xiao Ding naturally couldn't take it for himself, so he could only register it and confiscate it all.
However, after the number of soldiers injured was counted, the total number of dead and wounded in yesterday's attack on Zhaoqing City and today's attack on Jiaozhou City was about 5,000.
Of course, for meritorious soldiers, Xiao Ding will also have a reward, anyway, it is all silver collected in the palace, and he can't take it for himself, so it's better to send a favor and send it to the soldiers, otherwise it will be cheaper after confiscation Song Yuanting's dog emperor.
This time there was a big victory, and Xiao Ding decided to hold a celebration banquet, and at the same time hold a reward conference to reward meritorious people in public. Including generals and soldiers.
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