Chapter 868: Capture Youzhou
Lu Jinsuo led the army to rush to the street, and the military advisor Jia Shu also arrived, "General, what's wrong?" β
Lu Jinsuo said angrily: "His mother, Daniel Zhang of the seventeenth battalion rebelled, that gambler is crazy, I have to cut him with a thousand knives!" β
Jia Shu was stunned, and he hurriedly said, "That's not right! I had just returned from the barracks inspection, and the brothers of the 17th Battalion were all in the barracks, but Daniel Zhang was not there. β
Lu Jinsuo couldn't help but be stunned for a moment, what was going on, he immediately ordered a school captain: "You go and investigate, who is pretending to be the seventeenth battalion?" β
Jia Shu hesitated and said, "General, will it be the Lu family, Daniel Zhang is also the deputy general of the Lu family." β
Lu Jinsuo's face sank and said: "There is no evidence for this kind of thing as a military division, it's best not to suspect it casually, and besides, the other party has a military crossbow, and the militia is not equipped with a military crossbow, unless the military division issued it to them." β
"Of course I won't, so be it! The general went to seize the city gates, and I came to investigate the matter. β
Jia Shu turned the dock and ran towards the militia camp, he always believed that the Lu family was suspected of collaborating with the enemy, but he couldn't find evidence, if the evidence was solid this time, he would definitely clean up the Lu family.
Many years ago, when he was only 16 years old, he was introduced to study at the Lu family, but after only three months, he was expelled from the Lu family school and kicked out of the school for stealing two yuan of money from his classmates.
He has always kept this old account in his heart, and he believes that one day he will clean up the Lu family.
Now that the opportunity has come, he can't let it go.
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The North City Gate was extremely fierce at this time, Zhang Yun led 500 soldiers and 2,000 soldiers to kill inextricably, and both sides suffered heavy casualties, but Zhang Yun's army never took a step back and held the North City Gate.
At the head of the city, the enemy's reinforcements came from the west, and the 100 soldiers who stayed behind in the city tower rushed up to resist it, resolutely not allowing the enemy to advance a single step.
"The handsome man is here!"
Someone shouted, only to see that in the firelight, Lu Jinsuo led 5,000 soldiers to kill, and at the same time, Youzhou soldiers ran out of the alley and went up the city along the road, the situation became very critical, Zhang Yun turned around and shouted, "Destroy the winch!" β
At the head of the city, several soldiers swung axes and slashed, smashing the winch that controlled the city gate and the winch that controlled the drawbridge, and two soldiers split more than a dozen axes in a row, breaking the iron chains of the two drawbridges.
Dozens of enemy soldiers came up from the road, stabbed the soldiers who were destroying the winch, and one soldier fought his last breath, picked up two iron chains and ran a few steps, jumped into the moat, and took the two iron chains down, the suspension bridge was completely damaged, and there was no possibility of pulling it up manually.
The city gate could not be closed, and the gate below had already been stucked by the Jin soldiers with iron rods.
The Youzhou army was attacking like a tide, and Zhang Yun's soldiers were losing and retreating, but the turning point came at the most dangerous time.
'Woo-'
The loud sound of the horn suddenly sounded at the city gate, and Pei Xin and Yang Xuanying led the cavalry to kill in, and they were like a sharp sword, killing the enemy directly.
10,000 cavalry rolled in from outside the city gate like a torrent, Zhang Yun had already led the army to the side, and more and more Jin cavalry came in, and the entire street became a battlefield.
Zhang Yun's soldiers at the head of the city also withdrew, and the head of the city could no longer control the drawbridge and the city gate, so there was no need for them to fight to the death with the enemy, and the infantry also began to kill into the city, and they killed the head of the city under the leadership of the general Zhou Fengxiang.
But Zhang Yun's men still killed more than 100 people, a trace of gloom flashed in his eyes, and he waved his hand and said, "Let's go!" β
Zhang Yun led more than 600 of his men into an alley and rushed to Lufu, he promised Lu Jingliang that he would rush back in time to protect Lufu.
Jia Shu, the military advisor, led more than 1,000 soldiers to surround the Lu Mansion, and he did not find the Lu Army's Blue Clothes Army in the militia camp, although the Lu Family's Blue Clothes Army may still be on duty outside and did not return, but Jia Shu believed that it was the Lu Family's Blue Army that attacked Beicheng.
He even suspected that Lujia Zhuang Ding had been replaced, and it was likely that the Jin army entered the city, and only they had the ability to attack the northern city.
"I'll bang the door open!"
Dozens of soldiers were holding a large log and slamming it against the gate of Lufu, while dozens of family members inside were desperately resisting the gate.
"Boom-" The bumper slammed into the door, and the gate shook violently a few times.
Jia Shu said viciously: "Come again!" β
Dozens of soldiers retreated with the knocking wood, they were just about to impact, at this moment, more than 100 crossbow arrows came intensively in the dark, and the soldiers of the Youzhou Army at the gate were hit by arrows one after another, and even Jia Shu was hit by two arrows in the back, screaming, and fell headlong.
Zhang Yun led his men to kill, and the remaining soldiers turned around and fled in fright, and the soldiers outside the wall also fled.
Zhang Yun stepped forward and stepped on Jia Shu's back, Jia Shu was shot and seriously injured, he slowly turned his head and saw Zhang Yun clearly, a touch of hatred flashed in his eyes, and he asked in a low voice: "You.... Who are you? β
Zhang Yun said coldly: "Zhang Yun, the general of the Jin army, have you heard of it?" β
"Sure enough..... I hate it! β
Jia Shu spit out a few mouthfuls of blood, but he didn't catch it in one breath, so he lost his breath.
The door slowly opened, Lu Chang, who was wearing armor and carrying a big gun, stood at the door, he saw Zhang Yun at a glance, a trace of gratitude flashed in his eyes, and he turned around and said loudly: "The head of the family is right, they really killed back." β
Lu Jingliang hurriedly walked out and asked, "General Zhang, where is His Royal Highness the King of Jin?" β
"He's already in the city, the situation outside is too chaotic, you all go into the house! I will lead an army to protect you. β
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In view of the strength of the Youzhou army and the support of the people of Youzhou for the Youzhou army, in order to avoid falling into street fighting, Guo Song adopted a strategy of combining dredging and blocking, he blocked the north gate and the west gate, but let go of the east gate and the south gate.
When Guo Song entered the North City Gate surrounded by 3,000 cavalry, tens of thousands of troops shouted Long live.
"Hooray! Banzai! Hoorayβ"
Lu Jinsuo was frightened, the other party turned out to be Guo Song, the king of Jin, Liu Changgan led hundreds of soldiers to rush over, shouting: "General, the east city gate is safe, withdraw the army quickly!" β
Without Jia Shu's advice, Lu Jinsuo also lost the courage to continue fighting, and he shouted: "Order the whole army to retreat from the east gate!" β
He immediately led thousands of troops to withdraw to the east gate.
This is also Lu Jinsuo's consistent style, the situation is unfavorable, take the best policy, when he found that the enemy still has 10,000 cavalry in Zhaozhou, he immediately retreated westward, fled back to Youzhou.
The Youzhou army in the city quickly assembled and retreated to the east gate, Guo Song did not give an order to stop it, and when all the enemy troops withdrew from Youzhou City, he ordered Pei Xin: "Those who do not surrender will be killed!" β
"Obey!"
Pei Xin and Yang Xuanying led 10,000 cavalry to rush out of the east gate and chase the enemy.
Guo Song immediately ordered martial law to be imposed on the whole city, and no one was allowed to leave his house without permission, and 20,000 troops patrolled the city to eliminate the dangers lurking in the city.
The army then took over the barracks, warehouses, government offices, and royal palaces.
The sky is gradually brightening, there is silence in Youzhou City, but in the warehouse area in the north, the soldiers are extremely busy, counting supplies and carrying goods.
Guo Song, accompanied by Sima Han Zongyu of the Yanwang Mansion, came to the famous Youzhou Cang.
Youzhou is the largest gold and silver inventory in the Tang Dynasty, and after An Lushan and Shi Siming captured Luoyang and Chang'an, they completely looted the private treasury of the imperial court, the inner treasury and countless wealthy and powerful, and transported countless wealth back to Youzhou.
In order to support the army, most of the copper coins have been exhausted, and a lot of gold and silver have also been consumed, but the inventory of gold and silver is still considerable, so that later Li Huaixian built a warehouse to store them, this warehouse is called Youzhou Warehouse, which has the largest reserves of silver and gold in the Tang Dynasty.
The doors of the three huge warehouses creaked open, and countless large wooden boxes appeared in front of Guo Song's eyes, stacked like a hill, there were thousands of them, and these large wooden boxes were about four feet long, wide and high, nailed very tightly, and numbered on them.
"What does this number mean?" Guo Song kicked a large box against the wall.
An old warehouse steward said respectfully: "Your Highness, Cai A in the number represents gold, Cai B represents silver, Cai C represents brass or white copper, if it is treasure armor represents gemstones, Bao B represents jade, and Bao C represents other treasures, such as pearls, tortoiseshell, coral, etc. β
"All six categories are concentrated here?" Guo Song asked with a frown.
The old steward hurriedly shook his head, "There is only gold and silver here, copper is in the warehouse next door, gems and jade are in the small warehouse, King Yan has to come to inspect every month, sometimes he will personally extract part of the inventory, he values these three warehouses very much, he said that when his son ascends the throne, all the wealth of the three warehouses will be transported to Luoyang." β
"He is fertile and does not flow into the fields of outsiders!"
Guo Song smiled, and saw that the box next to him was written 'Cai Yi One Hundred and Twenty-Five', which was estimated to be silver, so he said to the soldiers beside him: "Pry this box open!" β