Chapter 580: Show of Force
As a political regime, Cochin's heartland has always been in Hualu.
After the ancestors of the Li Dynasty usurped the throne, they thought that Hualu was narrow and not suitable as the imperial capital, so they issued the "Edict on Moving the Capital", believing that the precedent of the ancient Shang and Zhou dynasties to move the national capital should be inherited and the capital should be moved.
The Yue people regarded themselves as the orthodoxy of the Central Plains after the Shang and Zhou dynasties, which can be seen, and they even shouted:
"In the area of the house world, the dragon and the tiger are in the momentum, the position of the north and the south, the east and west, the country and the mountains are suitable for the back, the other is wide and flat, the soil is high and cool, the dwellings are contemptuous and sleepy, all things are extremely rich in Fufu, all over the country, Si is the resort, the sincerity of the Quartet will be the key meeting, and it is the capital of the capital of the world."
With heaven and earth in the middle, the Celestial Empire regarded itself as the upper kingdom, and changed Daluo City to "Thang Long City".
This is to catch up with the Song Dynasty, if it was in a time like Tang and Ming, with these words, he would have come to clean him up a long time ago.
As a result, Thang Long City was repaired by successive kings, because the country was relatively small, and any rebellion could hit the capital.
There are not a few cities around Gongwei, such as Bac Ninh, Hung Yen, Xinghua, Ninh Binh...
"This is Thang Long City, and the order given to me by Shaozai is to clear all the surrounding towns and fortifications within ten days, and cut off the route they may choose to flee south." Fang Qifo pointed to the center of the sand table and said slowly.
The surrounding generals looked at each other, especially the generals of Jiaozhi, all of them felt that he had taken the wrong medicine, or had not sobered up after drinking.
Ten days? We've been fighting for a year, and we're still fighting north of Bac Ninh.
Fang Qifo didn't seem to be joking, this was a big tent in the military camp, and it was not a place for jokes. As soon as he arrived in the army, he was no longer idle, but his demeanor was calm and serious, and his demeanor was calm and calm.
Everyone couldn't help but feel a pang in their hearts, knowing that the current battle situation in Jiaozhi was not like the past, and it might be a real thing.
The soldiers and horses of the Great Song Dynasty, which had been silent for a long time, finally took action, and the northern Jiaozhi army looked at the Song camp, countless armor soldiers came out of the camp, and launched all kinds of huge siege equipment, and their hearts were complicated.
If these things had been taken out earlier, Thang Long City would not have been a problem at all, and Li Xingzhi, the commander of the soldiers and horses in the northern Cochin, was the younger brother of Queen Lan Ying and the son in law of the current head of the Li family, a wealthy family in the Li Dynasty.
Around him, the expressions of the generals were different, but no one dared to speak.
In the camp of the Song army, the siege equipment can be described as varied, the first to come out of the crash, each of which is the size of a house, with eight wheels on each side, wrapped in cooked cowhide, inlaid with iron sheet to prevent fire and smashing, as well as a variety of anti-bow and arrow wood rolling stone cover, below is a huge collision wood suspended with a cow tendon rope.
Ladders, stone cannons, rushing cars... Liu Zhongwu, surrounded by a group of iron horsemen, crossed among the soldiers and said with a smile: "These acropolises are well built, but they are shorter, thinner, brittle, and smaller, and the folk forts in the northwest are also fifty percent higher than them." ”
Several Han generals laughed on the horse, and Liu Zhongwu said: "Shaozai let us clear the outer city within ten days, while you are moving forward bravely, you must also beware of stray arrows, and beware of enemy dogs jumping over the wall." ”
On the third day of the Song army's entry into the front-line battle, they connected Xing'an and Xinghua, and occupied the only way to the south from the east, isolating Thang Long City from the southern Cochin.
In Beijiang City, Yang Lin inspected the wounded barracks, and as the battle advanced like Thang Long City, the number of wounded soldiers carried down here increased day by day.
Pacing into a tent, I saw Lang Zhong and the strong men of the army busy. One of the soldiers was unarmoured, and one of the men was cutting through his clothes with scissors.
"I've seen Shaozai." Seeing Yang Lin coming in, Lang Zhong hurriedly hugged his fists. In the past few days, Yang Lin has been in the rear, almost all the camps in the logistics, and no one does not know him.
Yang Lin glanced at it, waved his hand, and said: "Don't use these customs in the future, once the war starts, the most important thing is for the military doctor to save people, and nothing can be delayed." ”
Lang Zhong tore open the shirt of the calling soldier and immediately scolded: "Thief bird, poisonous again!" This cochin barbarian was also vicious, and he smeared poison on the arrows, and the flesh on the brother's chest was black. ”
Yang Lin looked at the injury, it was really black, and couldn't help asking: "What kind of poison is this, do we have an antidote?" ”
The military doctor shook his head and said: "There are all kinds of poisons on the arrows, no one can tell what poison it is, it is useless to take medicine, and the wound will fester!" The wounds on his hands and feet could only be cut off, and the brother's chest was injured, so he could only wait for his skin to fester, and slowly die of pain. ”
The soldier who was lying on the bed and was screaming seemed to hear Lang Zhong's words, and then began to howl and cry, and his voice became more and more desperate and miserable.
"Give me a good time!"
The military doctor glanced at Yang Lin, and although Yang Lin felt uncomfortable in his heart, he still nodded.
"Where are you from and do you need a message home?"
At this time, the pawn stopped howling, gritted his teeth and said: "I am a native of Xiashi Village, Siming Prefecture, South Guangxi Road, and my whole family was killed by the Jiaozhi barbarians. ”
Yang Lin nodded and said, "Don't worry, when we break the city, we will chop all his mother's dog barbarian soldiers into slices." ”
This man was really in extreme pain, and when he heard this, he couldn't bear it anymore, roared, grabbed the knife, and wiped his neck.
Although Yang Lin felt uncomfortable in his heart, he also knew that there was no way to do it, and he would die if he fought.
If you don't fight this battle, Jiaozhi will invade the Great Song Dynasty every few years, and every time you burn and loot, like the hometown of this little soldier, there are not a few people who are slaughtered.
The last time the Jiaozhi Li Dynasty invaded the Song Dynasty, it killed tens of thousands of border Song people, kidnapped 60,000 women and children, and slaughtered seven walled cities. The traffickers of the Song and Vietnamese countries on the South Guangxi Road trafficked thousands of border people from the Northern Song Dynasty to Vietnam every year, and the traffickers were enslaved for life.
Only by fighting peace can casualties be avoided, which Yang Lin is used to seeing in the battle of war, and has long seen it clearly.
At this time, Lu Qian hurried over, saw Yang Lin coming up, and said, "Shaozai, the Zhenla people sent five thousand troops; The bull roaring barbarians of Tuojiang sent 3,000 troops to help in the war; The mourners sent six hundred troops. ”
Yang Lin nodded and said, "Let them be stationed on the spot first, and wait for the Japanese soldiers to surround the Song Mansion, and let them watch the battle in front of the battle." ”
The meager combat power of these people is not worth mentioning at all, and they are all the masters who are being oppressed by the Jiaozhi Li Dynasty on weekdays.
When the Li Dynasty was first established, Li Taizu personally conquered Julong, and in the war, he "burned his tribe, captured its leader and returned, and the thieves were destroyed". This record is to kill the mourners. Li Renzong "captured his cave chief Wei Peng and waited for hundreds and returned", bullying was a bull roaring barbarian, and the Zhenla people were abused by Li Chao for a long time.
When the Japanese soldiers besieged the Song Mansion, Yang Lin wanted to use this battle to show his force and let the hundred tribes in this place bow down.