After getting the Divine Arm Crossbow, Han Chang laughed more and more, and became more confident in the secret mission to invade Cangzhou, and the longing in his heart became more and more beautiful and strong. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

The spring breeze is proud, and the horseshoe is urgent.

Han Chang led the army to rush into Cangzhou unimpeded, looting the dried grain that the people fled in a hurry and had no time to pack up along the way, and there was no need to attack the rural castle with the large village as the center and several nearby villages gathered to build and defend a refuge place when Zhao Gonglian was in charge of Cangzhou, and gradually accumulated enough food for more than ten days.

These country castles are generally not big, but they are all built of stones, bricks and cement, more than ten meters high, much higher than Zhaozhuang City, strong and easy to defend, several villages gathered, many young and strong, self-made swords, guns, shields, stones and other defensive equipment are complete, even if they are not good at fighting, it is not so easy for the fierce Liao Kou to break the fort and loot the necessary food, and must pay the price of human life.

Han Chang easily solved this problem by taking advantage of the summer harvest time difference, preserving his troops, ensuring the speed of the army, and gaining the most precious time.

Moreover, the wheat that was not dried was semi-dry, not wet, not soft or hard, which was more suitable for people and horses to eat directly when marching and fighting.

Those Khitan generals who strongly opposed him in advance to attack the Song Frontier and directly start a war with the Song army, and were worried about causing trouble for the Song army's resistance, saw such results, and no longer despised and resisted Han Chang, and turned to praise one after another. As for whether he is really convinced, he is willing to be driven around by a Han person, this has become a mental activity, and he will not make trouble again on the surface.

Han Chang also deliberately passed through Cangzhou Mansion to appear in the city, intimidating and threatening Zheng Juzhong Shi Fu Lian, and also to test whether these two fools dared to play clever tricks and risk attacking the Liao army.

Zheng Juzhong saw that the well-equipped border army was so easily broken by the Liao army, thinking that the Liao army was as powerful as the legend, even if he stayed in the city protected by the high wall, and there were 6,000 defenders of the city under his command, including 2,000 forbidden troops, he was also scared to death, for fear that the Liao army would hate Cangzhao and attack Fucheng to retaliate, how could he have the heart to command the attack.

Shi Fulian, the head of the soldiers and horses, was also pale.

The border army that he had personally trained was still vulnerable, and this was not a light blow to him, and he completely lost his confidence and courage in defending the Liaokou before, and only nervously arranged to defend the city.

Han Chang swept the frightened Song army in the city with contempt, and snorted disdainfully at the extremely powerful stone Fu Lian, who was dressed in armor, but did not take the opportunity to burn and loot the wealthy Cangzhou people, but stopped the greedy clamor of some generals, and led the army to leave rampantly in the laughter of the army laughing at the Song army, and waved the army straight to Zhaozhuang, the base camp of Cangzhao's hometown.

The task entrusted by Han Chang to the Liao Emperor and the Yan King was not to rob Cangzhou at all.

Destroying Zhao Zhuang and destroying the Cangzhao family was his primary goal of this heavy expedition, and it was also the only goal of Cangzhou.

As for looting everywhere, it was a matter of the Liao armed forces that came spontaneously behind the army.

From the perspective of looting alone, Han Chang also had a clearer understanding than the Khitan generals who led the army in the past.

Cangzhou people are brave and good at fighting, but when it comes to the root, the confidence and courage to defend the family and resist Liao do not come from the local government and county government of Cangzhou, but from Cangzhao, the overlord of the land. The Cangzhao family is the spiritual pillar of the Cangzhou people to resist the invasion of the Liao State. If Cangzhao does not fall, the spirit of resistance of Cangzhou people will not be extinguished. On the contrary, if Cangzhao perishes, the confidence of the Cangzhou people will collapse.

Without a spiritual pillar, even if they have received military training, they can fight, kill, and dare to fight, and they are vulnerable to the more brave and fierce Liao people.

Therefore, concentrating on the priority of eradicating the Cangzhao family is also the best plan that is more conducive to looting the overall situation.

"The people of Cangzhou are not like other places in the Song Kingdom, and there are very few large households. The few remaining law-abiding families were not purged by the iron-fisted Marquis Wencheng when he was in power, including the Chai family, a descendant of the royal family, who was just a landlord of some land. Be law-abiding and virtuous, and make a fortune if you don't trick people into crooked ways? What can be a big profit from farming? How much money can I get if I rob it? The people of Cangzhou are rich, but no matter how rich the small people are, they are just not short of food and clothing, and the family has a little copper money and scattered silver savings. ”

"The Cangzhao family is different. Including us Liao, who in the world doesn't know that the Cangzhao family is rich? Well? ”

"Destroy Zhao Zhuang, rob the Cangzhao family, and the countless jewelry treasures accumulated in Zhao Zhuang are ours, not to mention the cash cow that keeps making a lot of money. Robbing only one Zhaozhuang is far more money than robbing the people of the entire Da Song Beidong Road, and it is many times more. Who doesn't know that Cangzhao is rich and rivals? Well? ”

"We led such an elite army to attack the castle of the small people, and there were many dead people who took time and effort but reaped the harvest, so what's the point?"

"Swinging heavy troops to break Zhao Zhuang, killing the Cangzhao family, and robbing the wealth of Cangzhao is what our army should do, relieve hatred, glory, and benefit our Great Liao State, and hit the confidence and spirit of the Song people, our Great Liao Kingdom from His Majesty the Emperor to all the princes and ministers are satisfied, and we ourselves have money and benefits. The credit, the future, and the money are all at once. How beautiful is that? Well? “

"Hit Zhao Zhuang. Break the myth of undefeated. Otherwise, let's mobilize the people to come here, and it will not be enough to lose people's money. Let the people of the world underestimate my Da Liao warrior. ”

Han Chang and the deputy commander of the Khitan who knew the real goal of this mission, the Khitan warrior general Tuo Erbuhua, cooperated, and used these words to persuade the fierce and greedy generals and tribal nobles who were too subtle not to rush to burn and kill the common people to make a fortune and plunder, dispel the dissatisfaction of the generals with the inability to divide the army and wantonly commit murder and looting, and trick everyone to actively follow them to destroy Zhaozhuang.

The generals listened to the bewitchment, and sure enough, they all screamed with excitement.

Especially the aristocratic lords of Liaodong, who fled to live in Yanyun but could not change their arrogance and arrogance, and were more greedy and ferocious, were even more excited when they thought of the mountains of wealth and countless treasures of the Cangzhao family.

These hard-to-serve and hard-to-dispatch Khitan barbarians finally stopped secretly resisting Han Chang's military orders, and one by one they arrogantly brandished their scimitars and shouted: "Destroy Cangzhao, break the myth of undefeated, and raise the majesty of my Daliao warriors....... "Yunyun." No longer repeatedly looking for things to do and delay them, but actively urging their subordinates to seize the time and go all out to march.

Han Chang was secretly complacent, taking advantage of the urgency of the generals to burn and loot Cangzhao and the unprecedentedly high mood for war, along the way, even the Cangzhao family usually opened factories and gathered many large castles of refuge villagers during the war, ignoring the attack, shouting that the troops were concentrated to destroy Zhao Zhuang, kill all the Cangzhao family, the dragons were leaderless and self-defeating, and everything was at their fingertips.

Each city has telegraph communications, and it can be learned in time that the Liao army's heavy troops came to attack Cangzhou this time is really to attack Zhao Zhuang and want to destroy the Cangzhao family, and the villagers who took refuge in the castles and were very nervous breathed a sigh of relief, glad that they did not have to defend the city and fight to the death with the fierce and dirty Khitan barbarians, and the whole family was safe, at least for the time being. After many people calmed down, they couldn't help but worry about the safety of the Cangzhao family, which brought them a happy life and was also a spiritual pillar and survival dependence. Even ignorant children hate and curse the damned Khitan barbarians.......

After Li Zhu and Liu Wen, who were in charge of guarding Zhaozhuang, grasped the dynamics and objectives of the Liao army, they couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief while frowning.

The intelligence of prior reconnaissance and judgment is correct. The arrangement of the response in various places in advance is also correct. It would be good if the Liao army did not divide its forces to attack other castles.

Otherwise, with the strength of the guards of the castles everywhere, mainly relying on the armed resistance of the villagers who took refuge in the meantime, although there are many people, and they often receive military intensive training in their spare time, at least they know military common sense, how to form formations and groups to cooperate in the war, and they will also fight, but the people are not united, lack of war experience and tests, are deeply afraid of fighting, lack of confidence and courage, and are not strong in equipment and combat effectiveness, and it is difficult to withstand the bloody and terrifying battle of the siege for a long time, once the castle is breached, the whole city will be finished.

Barbarians are not like the Song people, who talk about benevolence and love for others, and benevolence is invincible to the king of the world, nor are they like those civil and military ministers of the Song Dynasty who were corrupted by Confucianism and were accustomed to judging the affairs of the world out of thin air according to their own upbringing and mind, and they were also kind and tolerant to the people of the enemy country.

The barbarians only believe in the scimitar in their hands, only believe that the strong dominate everything and have everything, and killing too heavily is not a deep sin that the Song Dynasty ridiculously insists on condemning and opposing, but who kills more and more ruthlessly, the more brutal and bloody, the more appalling it is, the more terrifying it makes the people of the world fear and fear them, who is more heroic, the most glorious and majestic warrior with merit and promising.

The rulers of the Liao State hated Cangzhao too much, hated it for too long, and implicated that even the ordinary people of Cangzhou hated it to the core, and they couldn't be wiped out.

If the castle elsewhere in Cangzhao is broken, you can imagine how fierce this Liao army will be, and under the madness, they will do all the evil things that exterminate human nature, and no matter how weak and innocent the dolls in the city are, they will not escape the butcher's knife.

At present, there are only 2,000 regular troops in the base camp of Zhaozhuang, and there is no way to rescue and support other places.

This little force can only defend Zhaozhuang, even if there are many more advanced weapons and combat power than the opponent, it is impossible to block the attack and plunder when going out and fighting ten times the Liao army, only the worst result is that there are heavy casualties under the siege, and the strength is exhausted, and even Zhaozhuang has no troops to hold the worst result.

Compared with the bad situation of passively fighting fires everywhere but unable to reverse the situation, it is a fortunate thing that the Liao army came to attack Zhaozhuang and fight the strength of Zhaozhuang's defense of the city.

Looking at it this way, it is also a good thing to have the ambition to destroy Han Chang, a hardcore traitor opponent who has the ability and confidence to destroy Zhao Zhuang in one fell swoop.

The more confident Han Chang was, the more eager he was to destroy Zhao Zhuang, the more Li Zhu and them were less passive.

Han Chang led the army to rush violently, and in just two days and one night, he rushed through Cangzhou from the junction of Mozhou and Cangzhou in the northwest to Zhaozhuang, the easternmost point of Cangzhou, but when he arrived at Zhaozhuang, he was not in a hurry to rely on the absolute superiority of troops to immediately and firmly encircle Zhaozhuang as those generals and nobles imagined and urged to suggest, but ordered the army to temporarily stop and rest in the distance two miles away from the west river of Zhaozhuang. Without an order, no generals and aristocratic tribal armies are allowed to send troops without authorization, and those who dare to violate the order will blame the ruthlessness of military law.

This move caused the generals who were anxious to make a fortune to complain.

"We have such a strong force, no matter how much Xiao Zhaozhuang can fight, it is also a country village, even if it is the regular army of the Great Song Dynasty guarding here, how much strength can it have? What's more, it can't be Song Jun, it's Cangzhao Xiangyong. Isn't the onslaught flat all at once? Do you need to be cautious and avoid so far, and rest or something? ”

But Han Chang was unmoved, and when he reached the goal, he became unhurried.

He carefully studied Zhao Zhuang and pondered why the Liao army had failed several attacks in the past.

Every time the Liao army came to fight with Zhaozhuang for various reasons, no matter how many soldiers there were or few infantry and cavalry, whether they were elite or not, they not only did not destroy the rural village fort of Zhaozhuang, a remote place, but the whole army was wiped out again and again, and there was not even a wounded who could escape back alive to explain the situation of Zhaozhuang's armament, which is too strange.

Only the Liao State itself knows how many troops, how many assassins, warriors, and promising spies have been quietly buried in the remote place of Zhaozhuang.

This cannot be publicized.

On the contrary, internally, it is necessary to try to cover up the fact that Zhao Zhuang has been plotted, so as not to inexplicably destroy the whole army again and again, deal a heavy blow to the arrogance of the Liao people, dampen the courage and confidence of the Liao army and people to deal with the Song people, and the sense of national superiority and national pride, and more resolutely deny the military invasion and defeat in the small Zhao Zhuang for the Song court, so as not to grow the prestige, morale and courage of the Song State, so that the Great Liao will lose face and lose face.

In short, in dealing with Zhao Zhuang, Liao Guo has repeatedly suffered dumb losses and dry sulking.

Han Chang has always felt that Zhao Zhuang's combat power and destructive power are incredibly strong, and even too unreasonable.

In the Eastern world, in terms of the combat effectiveness of soldiers, the most powerful in the past was the Western Xia. The most proficient at fighting were the Tangut people. It should be regarded as a golden army now. They are fierce beasts, and they cannot be regarded as human beings.

Regarding Xia Jun, in fact, it is a recognized fact in the hearts of Song and Liao Jun, but they are just unconvinced and unwilling to admit it.

The Song army had never fought with the northernmost Jin army, and had not even been in contact, only heard some sporadic rumors that were difficult to know the truth or falsehood, and had heard that the Jin army was small but brave and invincible, and fought the strong and arrogant Liao State, which had always been conceited and brave, and the powerful and arrogant Liao State was helpless and defeated again and again. Although the country of Jin is small, it cannot be governed. But the Great Song Dynasty from top to bottom, from the central to the local, from the common people to the army, are all blindfolded and ignorant of external affairs, and like to judge unknown distant things with their own thoughts and insights, and still do not believe in how terrible the Jin army is, let alone believe that the small Jin Kingdom can destroy the Great Liao. Only Marquis Wen Cheng insisted that Liao would be destroyed by the Jin army.

The Jin army was not the most powerful in the hearts of the Song people. But it is an absolute fact that the Liao army knows this best.