Chapter 333: Shock
Yunzhou, the most important military town in the northwest, has changed hands several times, the first was in the hands of the Liao State, and was later conquered by the Jin army, and then the Yinshan War, the Jin State three-way army was defeated, at that time there was no Han army to say, it was the Longwei army, the Zhejia army, the new army coordinated to fight, and finally won back Yunzhou.
Later, Song Huizong Zhao Ji issued a holy decree, and Yunzhou handed over Liu Fa, the envoy of Xihe Road, to his son Liu Zhengyan, and then ceded to Western Liao. Later, he returned to the Han army, but Lu Junyi's buttocks were not warm up in Yunzhou at that time, so he came to Yue Fei to make a switch. Yunzhou has changed its owner several times, everything has changed, only one has not changed, that is, Yunzhou's defense is getting stronger and stronger, Yunzhou has almost become the largest city in the world, and the area may not be as good as Bianjing, but the defense is definitely comparable.
When Yunzhou was conquered by the Han army, the flaws in Yunzhou's defense were exposed, and Yue Fei, a famous general, could not fight on the battlefield in a short time, so he could only spend his time and energy on the defense of Yunzhou.
Cement, a cross-era product invented by the Emperor of the Han Dynasty, was used for the first time in all aspects of building cities. The tall Yunzhou does not need to be demolished and rebuilt, in that case, the project is huge, and it is by no means possible to be completed in three or five years. But repair, reinforcement is the biggest role of cement, not only cement, even the Peng family's latest steel bar is also put in use, the concrete of the Han Dynasty finally appeared on the stage, the outer city of Yunzhou is a zhang taller, the inner city, the urn city is rebuilt.
The incomparable financial resources of the Han Dynasty and the recruitment of tens of thousands of hardcover have made the reinforcement work of Yunzhou City extremely smooth. However, in the inner city, when the urn city was not yet built, 200,000 Song troops came and directly besieged Yunzhou City.
There are generally two kinds of sieges in ancient times, the first is the lack of one in the siege, which is the most common, because the siege of three is missing one, which is to give the defenders the opportunity to go out of the city, so that they can abandon the city and flee early, which can take the city as soon as possible, and the casualties will not be very large, which is the first choice of the attacker, and it is also the defender who is willing to encounter. The second is the appearance of Yunzhou now, besieging the city on all sides, which is to tell the party defending the city to either surrender or defend it. If the defenders have the awareness of death or the absolute strength of the strong, they will defend to the end. Otherwise, the defenders of the city will surrender directly, because they know that the consequences after the city is broken are very serious, since they can't stand it, it is better to surrender, once the city is broken, there is no reason to survive.
Wang Yuan, the envoy of the Northwest Xuanfu, and the generalissimo of the western conscription army, regardless of the opposition of the generals below, directly ordered the city of Yunzhou to be surrounded.
In the face of the powerful Han army, this siege on all sides was obviously extremely stupid, but Yao Pingzhong and others had no way to convince Wang Yuan, so they could only besiege the city first and then attack the city.
According to the strength of the defense capability of Yunzhou City on all sides, the strength of the western army on the four sides is also different. The strongest Liu Yanqing and his son Liu Guangshi led the troops and horses of the headquarters to besiege the south gate, the weakest Quduan besieged the north gate, while Yao Pingzhong and Liu Qi surrounded the east and west gates, and Liu Zhongwu was stationed in the Chinese army, responsible for logistics and assistance, guarding materials and other duties.
The 200,000-strong army surrounded Yunzhou, and tens of thousands of tents were densely packed, going up far to cover the sky and the sun, and the murderous atmosphere was full of murderous spirit.
It was difficult for the Western Army to fight against the Jin cavalry in the encounter, but the combat effectiveness of the siege and defense of the city was still extremely strong, and it could be said that it was not inferior to the Han army, or even above the Jin army.
Besieging the city, but not attacking the city, this is a bit unexpected by Yao Pingzhong and others, but they are not willing to attack rashly, you must know that Yunzhou City is high and deep, and the casualties if you want to break the city are very large. For more than 100 years, the Western Army was known for its fierceness and bravery, and it had always been brave and unscrupulous when it went into battle to kill the enemy. However, since the establishment of the Han State, the minds of Yao Pingzhong and others have changed, they are loyal to the Great Song Dynasty, and finally the Zhao family, but they have learned to protect themselves, because they know that the war loss is easy to replenish and difficult to replenish, and even after the loss, it cannot be replenished.
The northwest is sparsely populated, barren and scarce, and it has always been necessary to rely on the supply of the imperial court to be able to gain a foothold, but the court has changed drastically, and the strength has been greatly inferior to before, and what is even worse is that the supply of the imperial court needs to pass through the Han State, which is already very difficult, but now to attack Yunzhou is equivalent to starting a war with the Han State, that is, it will no longer be able to get supplies from the imperial court in the future, and the Song State will have the ability to destroy the Han State, otherwise no materials can be sent to the northwest.
If you can't replenish it, the greater the loss, the greater the impact, once the whole army is wiped out, then just like a breeder, the former No. 1 general in the northwest now has nothing, and can only be a man with his tail between his legs, and he will no longer have the former style. Not only that, but the head of the seed family seems to have disappeared from the seed master, and the seed family has also disappeared from everyone's field of vision. After the death of Liu Fa, the second general, if Liu Zhengyan hadn't scolded Zhao Gou, who was still King Kang at the time, he wouldn't know what it would be like now. But despite this, the Liu family also left Xihe Road and went to the capital with 30,000 Liu family troops.
The Northwest Jiangmen is a kingdom-like existence in the northwest, and it is simply the existence of the kingdom in its own territory, but it is only in its own territory, but once you leave the northwest and go to the capital, the tiger has no tiger claws, the eagle has no wings, and the dragon has no dragon scales, what kind of style is there.
Yao Pingzhong, Qu Duan and others will not let themselves follow in the footsteps of Liu Zhengyan, they know that Yunzhou is going to attack, but the strength still has to be preserved, now since they are not allowed to attack, why not do it?
Wang Yuan is not unwilling to attack the city, it is Kang Lu, the supervising army, who does not allow blind attack, this is the meaning of Zhao Gou, the son of heaven, this official who has always been suspicious is frightened by Liu Zhenglong, afraid that once he attacks Yunzhou, the Han army will attack in a big way, and he is afraid that someone in the northwest will collude with the Han State in private, this time just to make a verification.
The western army surrounded Yunzhou with three layers inside and three layers outside, but there was no chaos in Yunzhou City, which shows that Yue Fei managed the army in a good way. Since Yunzhou belonged to the Han Kingdom, all the residents were moved away, but 50,000 young and strong middle-aged women were moved. Now Yunzhou is the largest military city in the world, and this layout is to prevent the Western Liao army from marching eastward and preventing the Jin army from invading, but he didn't expect that the first one to attack was the Western army, which made Yue Fei very angry.
Loyalty to the country is the most contradictory in Yue Fei's heart, loyal to the Great Song Dynasty and serving the Han Kingdom. In the heart of this unusually conservative general, the Zhao family is orthodox, and the Great Song Dynasty is fundamental. However, the Emperor of the Han Dynasty had the grace of knowing him, which made Yue Fei reluctant to go to war with the Song army, otherwise he would not have taken the initiative to apply for transfer to Yunzhou.
What should come or can't hide, Yue Fei wants to fight the Jin army the most, and the last thing he wants to face is the Song army. But today, the Western Army is killing the door, the soldiers have the duty to protect their families and defend the country, Yue Fei can only face the battle, and he only comforts himself in his heart to face the Western Army, not the Song Army.
In fact, the most powerful cavalry of the Han army is the cavalry, there are 20,000 elite Han iron cavalry and 30,000 infantry in the city, which can completely take advantage of the fact that the western army has not gained a firm foothold and rush to kill the western army by surprise. However, Yue Fei gave up, he didn't want to take the initiative to attack the Song army, it was considered to leave a line, but once the western army attacked the city, then it would give the strongest blow to the other party.
The 50,000 men in the city were divided into three teams, and they worked day and night to build the inner city and the urn city, while the 50,000 army began to busily reorganize the army for battle, and countless rolling stones and logs were moved to the city, and even artillery was moved to the city.
Yue Fei is not good at defending the city, at least he thinks so, in this case, Yue Fei is even more attentive, guarding the city day and night, inspecting the loopholes, to be foolproof, to be lower than the Western army to attack the city.
You must know that the combat effectiveness of the Western Army attacking the city and the combat power of the Han army defending the city are comparable, and now four times the strength of the siege is there, and the defensive pressure is huge, Yue Fei knows that Wang Yu has been defending Taiyuan for seven months, and has killed and repelled the Jin army seven times, but despite this, in the end, if it is not for the Han Emperor to defeat the Jin army and capture Yan Zonghan alive, Taiyuan Mansion will still be conquered.
The Western Army besieged Yunzhou for nearly a month, but there was no news from the imperial capital, which means that the emperor of the Han Dynasty would not arrange troops to aid Yunzhou, and whether he could hold Yunzhou could only rely on himself.
After Yunzhou City was besieged for a month, although there was no war, the people began to panic, after all, this kind of siege on all sides, once the city was broken, it was a river of blood, no one wanted to be killed by mistake, and no one wanted to die under the chaotic army.
Yue Fei's intuition told him that there must be traitors from the Western Army among this group of people, and it is no wonder that not all of these people are big Han people, many of them are recruited from the northwest.
On the second night of the small disturbance in the people's house, Yue Fei found Song Zhong, the person in charge of the Dragon Soul Society.
Yue Fei said bluntly: "The people are making trouble, why don't you stop it, what do you mean if you don't arrest it?" ”
"General Qiyu, the Dragon Soul Society has been monitoring for a long time, and the reason why it hasn't moved is to see how many people are spies of the Western Army, and then wipe them out." Song Zhong knew that Yue Fei was very disdainful of the Dragon Soul Society, so he didn't want to go around in circles, he pondered for a moment and said: "The Western Army has been besieging the city for more than a month, although there has been no siege, but it has caused panic, but it is normal. However, the people's troubles were obviously the spies of the Western Army who were tempting, seeing the reaction of the Han army, and then waiting for the opportunity to win over the people below to pave the way for greater civil strife. ”
"Say no more, it must be subsided in three days. There can be no idle sound in Yunzhou, there can only be one voice, that is, to defend Yunzhou, the city is in the people, and the city is broken. ”
Yue Fei didn't like to play any conspiracy, and he was very disgusted with the Dragon Soul Society, an organization that couldn't stop it, and if he didn't stop it this time, it made him even more tired of it.
After coming out of Yue Fei, Song Zhong gathered his subordinates.
Song Zhong said coldly: "Say, what are the gains." ”
Fan Xian, the leader of the first group, said: "Zhang Sanshu, who came from Jingyuan Road, is a spy of the Western Army, and there are thirteen people under him who have already instigated more than 30 fellow villagers to make trouble. ”
"Liu Yu of Qin Fenglu is a spy of the Western Army, with seven people under him, and he did not make trouble, but he privately attracted more than 70 fellow villagers to form an alliance, and it seems that he has a plot." It was Guo Zhongyou, the leader of the second group, who spoke, and finally said: "These people seem to have weapons, and it seems that there are problems in the army. ”
Liu Zhijia, the leader of the third group, and Wen Lizheng, the leader of the fourth group, who had been in charge of the internal affairs of the army, were dumbfounded, and the two immediately fell to their knees and pleaded guilty.
Song Zhong waved his hand and said, "Three days later, in the early morning, the head of the city hung out. ”
Seven hundred and thirty-seven people were secretly hung at the head of the city, and no one knew how to hang them, among which four hundred and fifty-eight people were migrant workers, and the rest were all military people, among which Liu Zhijia and Guo Zhongyou's heads were even more terrifying. Of course, the most shocking thing is Yue Fei's brother-in-law's head, but these are no longer important, the most important thing is that Yue Fei personally read out the crimes of these people, and issued a wartime ban, which contains ten must-kills, thirty-seven prohibitions, and the lightest crime in it is also to beat thirty military sticks.
You must know that in that era, the thirty military sticks would shed their skin even if they did not die, and such strict military regulations could only be formulated by Yue Fei, and only Song Zhong had the courage to implement them.
Song Zhong stood on the highest lookout platform in the city, raised his true qi and shouted: "These seven hundred and thirty-seven human heads are personally supervised by the official, as for their crimes, Marshal Yue has already read them out just now, and the official will not repeat them, but if anyone violates them again, I will let him try the thirty-six sentences of the Han Dynasty and then die." Today, this official will tell you all about the 36 sentences. ”
Speaking alone, the entire Yunzhou City can be heard clearly, and even the soldiers of the outpost barracks of the Western Army outside the city can hear it. It shows how strong the internal force of Song Zhong is, if you talk about the ranking of the individual combat power of the entire Han Kingdom, it is obvious that the Emperor of the Great Han Dynasty ranks first, but this Song Zhong is definitely the top 20 combat power, otherwise he would not have come to Yunzhou, in a sense, he is the supervisor Yue Fei, if there are signs of collusion with the Song State, then Song Zhong has the right to cut first and then play.
When the third punishment was read, some people began to pee their pants in fright, howling and crying, and when the tenth punishment was read, the entire Yunzhou City cried. At the time of the seventeenth punishment, more than 300 people came forward to confess their guilt. On the twenty-seventh punishment, some people began to faint in the Western army.
Yue Fei's willpower was firm enough, but after listening to the thirty-six punishments, the clothes on his body were soaked, and he knew what Song Zhong meant, not only to deter those spies in the city who might be hidden, but also to deter himself, which was beyond doubt.
The announcement of the 36th National Punishment shook everyone's heart, and 100,000 people in Yunzhou were determined to live and die with Yunzhou, and they were united to defend against foreign enemies.
The Western Army outside the city was also shocked, knowing that this battle was destined to be cruel, and if Yunzhou City was not full of blood, it would not have thought of breaking the city. Take a hundred plating and read the latest chapter of "Da Song Super Bully Claw Book House" for free for the first time.