Jiangning City, known as impregnable, only defended for about two hours, and the south gate, together with its urn city, was bombarded by the artillery army commanded by Li Yongtang.

Seeing that the situation was very good, Ma Guangda immediately issued an order to charge for a general attack, intending to take Jiangning City in one go.

For a while, the soldiers of the Li family army outside the city, like a flood pouring down from a high mountain, were overwhelmingly slaughtered into Jiangning City.

Li Zhongyi put down the monocular in his hand, shook his head and sighed: "This is the so-called impregnable? ”

Zhu Niang took the monocular handed by the man, pursed her lips and laughed softly: "Your Majesty, have you forgotten?" You once said that the appearance of artillery has swept the so-called famous generals who defend the city into the pile of old papers of history. ”

Li Zhongyi smiled dumbly, this is really what he said, and now it is repeated by Zhu Niang, it is word for word!

However, Li Zhongyi was not wrong at all, in the era of artillery, the so-called famous generals who defended the city were likely to become the laughing stock of the victors.

Today's Li Jiajun has rehearsed a set of effective combat plans on how to attack Jiancheng.

In addition, after rigorous training, the proficiency of the gunners of the artillery corps has greatly increased, and the hit rate has also been greatly improved.

The oil seller in the old text, every spoonful of oil is one or two, no more, no less, to put it bluntly, he is familiar.

Li Zhongyi stayed calmly in the big tent of the Chinese army, writing and reviewing the official documents sent by the army and various places, there was no way, as a superior person, he had the responsibility to dispose of the official documents.

Han Xianglan, who was silently writing abridgements on the side, peeked at her man from time to time. The fall of Jiangning City meant that half of the Southern Tang Dynasty had been destroyed, but the man looked very calm and did not look very happy.

Why is that? Han Xianglan couldn't figure it out.

There are already many fortified cities that Li Zhongyi has breached, not to mention anything else, just Kaifeng, the world's largest city, was taken by force.

Although Jiangning City is very rich, according to intelligence, the wealthy households in the city have fled and run, and there are not many left.

The wealthy households have all run away, which means that Li Jiajun's source of living money is missing a large chunk, how can Li Zhongyi be happy?

In the second half of the night, Ma Guangda, who was covered in gunsmoke, came to meet Li Zhongyi with the joy of victory.

Li Zhongyi ordered his subordinates to serve refreshments, Ma Guangda grabbed the teapot and poured it violently with his mouth to the mouth of the pot, which made Li Zhongyi laugh.

Ma Guangda is still the same Ma Guangda as before, his personality has not changed much, and he belongs to the type that Li Zhongyi likes and can be completely tolerated.

When Li Zhongyi himself was eating in the barracks, he often carried a big bowl, just squatting in the pile of soldiers, gobbling up and blowing nonsense, and he was very harmonious with everyone.

As the old saying goes, on that mountain, you have to sing that song!

You usually don't fight with the soldiers, but when it's really time to die, who will stand up and die for you without fear of death?

"Your Majesty, after the soldiers laid down the treasury, they all pasted seals, but, Li Congshan thought **, although the people were rescued, but the account books of the treasury were almost burned." Ma Guangda's report made Li Zhongyi sigh.

Li Congshan, the duke of Southern Chu, wanted to ** after the defeat, which in itself proves that Li Yu did not mistake his seventh brother.

However, there is no choice but to let the flowers fall, no matter how loyal Li Congshan is to Li Yu, he can't solve the reality that his combat power is not as good as others.

"Well, I didn't expect that Li Congshan is so loyal and brave, you must treat him well, don't let him die." Li Zhongyi was full of emotion, the Li family in the Southern Tang Dynasty also had blood and bravery, but he really didn't expect it.

Ma Guangda arched his hand and said: "Your Majesty, the minister has given a death order to Li Congshan's family, if Li Congshan has a good one, they don't want to live, please forgive the emperor for the crime of trespassing." ”

Li Zhongyi couldn't help laughing, and said lightly: "The general of the aspect already has the right to dictate, what are you guilty of?" ”

"Thank you for your understanding."

If you ask Ma Guangda what he is most convinced of Li Zhongyi, he can definitely be ranked first!

As a superior, Li Zhongyi's transparency of the situation has far exceeded the imagination of his courtiers.

According to Ma Guangda's introduction, after the defeat of the Southern Tang Army, in order to flee for their lives, they trampled and slashed each other in front of the West Gate, resulting in countless casualties.

Li Zhongyi sighed and said: "Flesh and blood compatriots cannibalize, sincerity is a great tragedy!" ”

Ma Guangda also sighed: "If our army loses, it will never be like this, and this is still Li Cong's good governance of the army." ”

Li Zhongyi nodded and said: "The way to govern the army is to be faithful, benevolent, brave and strict, and all of them are indispensable. ”

Ma Guangda said with a smile: "With the strictness of our army's military law, those who retreat without the order of the general will be killed!" ”

As far as military law is concerned, it seems that there are not many beheadings in the Li family's army, but in fact, the meticulousness of the orders in the army is simply outrageous.

In the warlord armies of this era, most of them used the severe punishment of seventy-two beheadings on the surface. In fact, the so-called seventy or twenty slashes gave the lord a great deal of discretion.

To put it bluntly, it is the rule of the army, and no word from the chief general works.

In the Li family's army, there is obviously no room for the chief general to interfere in military law. The chief officers of the Judge Advocate General's Department all regard themselves as Li Zhongyi's eagle dogs, but they are afraid that they will not be able to find out the private tricks of the main generals, which will make the main generals very jealous.

"Your Majesty, there is nothing left in the treasury of Jiangning Mansion. It is said that it was Li Congshan who took out all the gold and silver treasures in the treasury and gave them to the officers and soldiers of the Southern Tang Dynasty. Ma Guangda's words made Li Zhongyi feel pain.

The huge Jiangning City can be called the second city in China, and the treasury has been emptied, how can Li Zhongyi, who is waiting to make up for the shortfall of the troops, be willing?

"This matter is not trivial, we must recover the stolen goods as much as possible from the defeated army of the Southern Tang Dynasty." Li Zhongyi gritted his teeth when he said, and Ma Guangda was shocked to see it.

The average emperor only looks at whether the city has been captured and whether the enemy army has collapsed. However, Li Zhongyi is completely different from them.

Every time Li Jiajun conquered a city, the first major thing was to seize the government treasury or the state and county treasury.

Today's Li Zhongyi seems to have a big family, but he is helpless, the officials and soldiers and horses that need to be supplied are really not a small amount, and they have to spend money on everything!

"Alas, Yaoming, I'm a little tired, I'll rest outside the city tonight, and it's not too late to enter the city tomorrow." Li Zhongyi didn't say anything, but Ma Guangda already understood.

Ma Guangda was secretly ruthless: The defeated soldiers captured must be thoroughly searched, even if it is in the cracks of the stones, oil must be squeezed out!