Chapter 458: Breaking the Elm Forest

On the way forward, Shi Bin did not feel very happy because of the abominable cage of Lin'an, but constantly felt vicissitudes and desolation. Abandoned fields are everywhere, and deserted villages abound. This gave Shi Bin the idea of ousting Li Zong from power as soon as possible and replacing him himself.

Anyway, he was not a loyal servant of the Zhao family, so he wouldn't have any guilt about doing this. What's more, this is to let the people of Li live and work in peace and contentment, so there is still a sense of achievement.

"What are you thinking?" Xu Feng saw that Shi Bin's face was cloudy, and thought that something big was going to happen, so he immediately came over to ask.

"It's okay, it's just a little touching to see this barren field and decaying village." Shi Bin said with a smile.

Hearing this, Xu Feng immediately said that Shi Bin was benevolent, but also said that Shi Bin should not spend energy at this time to feel the mountains and rivers broken, but should quickly go north to end the battle and expand his territory as much as possible. On his Shibin's territory, he implemented benevolent government to protect the people of Li.

After Xu Feng's reminder, Shi Bin realized that he had put the cart before the horse, and he didn't want to deal with the problem but sighed that the situation was critical. Somewhat ashamed, he immediately ordered a rapid march north, and it was necessary to reach Yulin within ten days.

Traveling 450 miles a day is absolutely non-stop, and there is no time to even bury the pot to cook, and when you are hungry, you will nibble on the side of the road. There was no formal camp, so when I was sleepy, I leaned against the tree and squinted, leaving three or five people to do the open and dark sentry.

Within eight days, Shi Bin led his men to ride 500 elites to Yulin City. Knowing that Shi Bin had arrived, Chen Yan and Li Tingzhi immediately went out of the camp to greet the victorious general who came to relieve the siege. The two of them were so polite, of course, Shi Bin was also very polite, not only did not put on the shelf of the commander, but also constantly comforted Chen Yan and Li Tingzhi, who were obviously ashamed.

"Lord Shi, Lord Li and I have embarrassed the Great Song Dynasty this time, and it is really incompetent that we haven't captured Yulin, the city of projectiles, for a whole year." Chen Yan said ashamedly.

Tens of thousands of horses besieged a city garrisoned by less than 5,000 yuan, and it was indeed humiliating that the city was not broken for a whole year, Shi Bin sneered. However, in order to unite people's hearts and ensure the smooth attack, Ming Mian said: "Actually, this situation can't be completely blamed on the two adults, you have fought too few times with the Yuan people, and you don't know their bloodthirstiness and cunning. It's not a big sin not to be able to break the city, as long as we work together to make the Northern Expedition successful. ”

"Lord Xie Shi is forgiving." Chen Yan and Li Tingzhi said in unison, "We are willing to provide for the saddle before and after the horse for the adults to send, which can be regarded as a thank you and pay some tuition." ”

"I won't say much about these polite words, I will give you a promise, even if it is broken in Yulin after the day of Zhao Zaifuding, I Shi Bin will remember the two of you, and I will not let you be busy in vain. As for Cho Jae-fu, I'll deal with it. Shi Bin smiled.

Such a promise made Chen Yan and Li Tingzhi immediately no longer depressed, and their spirits were lifted as if they had been beaten with chicken blood. thanked Shi Bin again and again for his magnanimity, and once again said that he would resolutely carry out his orders without the slightest discount.

What Shi Bin hopes to get most is the attitude of Chen Yan and Li Tingzhi, since he got it, he is completely relieved that he doesn't have to worry about the two of them disobeying the yang and yin, and dares to let go of his hands and feet.

After a long and rapid march, the bones of the people on the horse were about to fall apart, so after that, Shi Bin said that he was going to rest, and the specific matters would be discussed the next morning.

After entering the barracks that Chen Yan and Li Tingzhi had built for themselves, Shi Bin said, "Xu Feng, I see you have something to say." Now there's no one, let's talk. ”

"My lord, do you really believe that Chen Yan and Li Tingzhi will act in full accordance with your orders?" Xu Feng asked with some concern.

"I believe it. Although the two of them are not strong, they are still reputable. Moreover, at this time, it is harmful to them to not believe in their words, so why should they disobey me? ”

"Li Tingzhi is not worried, but Chen Yan..." Xu Feng frowned when he said this.

Knowing Xu Feng's worries, Shi Bin smiled: "It turns out that you are afraid that Chen Yan will say one thing to me and do another." ”

"Exactly, after all, it was the adults who took his position as the coach, and the people's hearts are unpredictable, so it is difficult to guarantee that he is not inconsistent."

looked at Xu Feng with a smile and thanked him, and asked him to rest assured, but before Xu Feng could answer, Shi Bin stopped paying attention to him and went to sleep by himself. Shi Bin looked so confident, Xu Feng knew that he didn't have to worry, and he couldn't bear the tiredness and went to rest.

Shi Bin hadn't gotten up yet, and Chen Yan and Li Tingzhi were a little anxious. Because now Shi Bin is the coach, if they want to attack, they should be ordered by him, the coach, and they can't overstep their authority. But now the boss is not up, and the order is not good. It would be a bit ridiculous if it was because this gave the Yuan people a chance to breathe, causing the siege to be blocked again.

At the beginning of the battle, the two dared to enter the barracks to wake up Shi Bin, but now they didn't dare. One is because the two of them are not good at fighting, and the other is because Shi Bin promised them that they would share the credit. If it disturbs the coach's rest and provokes Shi Bin to retract his promise, it will be bad.

Holding back like this made Chen Yan and Li Tingzhi too unhappy, and when they were about to burst into the barracks to wake up Shi Bin, Shi Bin walked out of the barracks and stretched his waist.

Seeing that the two of them were standing on the side, their faces were a little ugly, Shi Bin smiled and said, "What are the two adults doing standing here, why don't you come in and sit down?" ”

Where are you still in the mood to sit? Chen Yan was more impulsive, and said: "Lord Shi, Master Li and I came here to ask you to issue an order to attack the city, we all know that you need to rest all the way, so I didn't let you wake you up, who knows that you have slept until now." ”

Although Li Tingzhi was not as impulsive as Chen Yan, he just kept silent, but he also looked unhappy.

"The two adults are really conscientious, it turned out that they were afraid that the Yuan people in the city would be relieved. Shi can say very responsibly here, I can definitely go down this Yulin City in one go, and it is useless for the Yuan people to slow down no matter how long they slow down. Shi Bin smiled.

No matter how much gas you have, it's useless? If others said this, Chen Yan and the others would never believe it, they would only think that the person was making nonsense without knowing the height of the sky, but they had to believe Shi Bin when he said this, but they couldn't think of where Shi Bin's confidence came from, so they were a little confused.

"Have you been looking for the straw that broke the camel's back?" Shi Bin said with a smile.

The two smiled awkwardly, saying that it was true, but they just didn't find it.

"Two, Shi feels that there is actually a key to open the gate of Yulin City in front of you, but you haven't found it."

There was already a key to open the gate of Yulin City in front of them, but they didn't find it? Chen Yan and Li Tingzhi felt incredible after hearing this, they attacked secretly, stormed, persuaded to surrender, pretended to retreat, and used almost all the methods they could think of but still didn't break through Yulin, how could there still be a key in front of them?

"Isn't it strange for you two adults?"

Of course, I can't admit that it's incredible, because it's too embarrassing, Chen Yan and Li Tingzhi just didn't speak, looked at Shi Bin and waited for him to give an answer.

"Your mistake is that you shouldn't have surrounded Yulin like an iron bucket at the beginning, so that the Yuan people in the city didn't see the slightest hope of life and had the heart to fight to the death, even if there was persuasion and feint retreat, it was useless. The Yuan people are not our Song people, they are ashamed to surrender. Once you have the heart to fight to the death, don't even think about surrendering, not to mention that you have been besieging it for nearly a year. ”

The heart of the battle? Chen Yan and Li Tingzhi originally wanted to completely annihilate the Yulin Yuan army, so they surrounded Yulin to the ground, but they didn't think that the Yuan people were not only not crushed because of this, but instead had the heart to fight to the death, resulting in an unfavorable battle.

"Your Excellency, do you mean that we want to make a way for the Yuan people to escape?" Chen Yan said tentatively.

"It's not to flee but to escape from the city, let's just ambush them outside the city and annihilate them." Shi Bin said with a smile.

It turned out to be a three-and-one-missing style of play, which was really old-fashioned, but I am afraid it was the most effective way to deal with the people of Yulin City. Everyone spares their lives, and with the hope of life, no one will want to die. I'm afraid I will know when the time comes

It's a trap and people will break through and want to break out of a way out.

So Shi Bin gave the first order to the barracks: stop the attack for one day, change the army at the south gate from 30,000 to 5,000, and ambush the extra 25,000 people on the way to escape from the Yuan people.

Looking at the movement of the Song army outside the city, the Yuan people in the city were puzzled. The Song people did not continue to increase their forces to capture Yulin, but stopped the attack and withdrew most of the troops at the South Gate, why was it convenient for them to escape?

As Shi Bin expected, the Yuan people in the city immediately divided into two factions, one faction said that they should firmly defend the city and wait for the Yuan people north of the Yellow River to come to support. The other faction said that it should seize this rare opportunity to quickly evacuate Yulin and carry out a 'strategic shift' to escape back to the north.

The combat effectiveness of the Yuan people, who were no longer monolithic, naturally decreased a lot, and the east gate of Yulin was occupied by the Song army in less than three days, and the Yuan people and the Song army fought street battles.

Street fighting is known to be the most unfavorable for the attacker, and casualties can even be greater than during the siege. In just one day of street fighting, the Song army suffered more than 3,000 casualties. Since Shi Bin has always had low casualties in wars, in his opinion, as long as there are thousands of casualties, the battle is lost. This was something that Shi Bin could not tolerate, and immediately ordered to stop the attack and only hold the east of the city.

In this way, the Yuan people have a chance to breathe and hope for life, and they want to escape from Yulin and return to the north more and more.

Shi Bin was only five days after he came, and Yulin was breached, and Chen Yan and Li Tingzhi had to admire from the bottom of their hearts and became even more humble in front of him.

"Two adults, now Yulin City has been broken, but the Yuan people don't seem to want to leave very much, they should be afraid of being ambushed outside the city, so we have to find a way to let them leave Yulin 'at ease'." Shi Bin smiled slyly.

"Dashuai is right, he has to find a way to let them leave 'at ease'. They thought they had to feel that they would be sure to survive as soon as they left the city. Chen Yan said.

Are you sure you'll be able to survive as soon as you get out of the city? This is a good idea, so how can you make the Yuan people think that they will definitely survive as soon as they leave the city?

Now there are 80,000 Song troops in Yulin, and even if they go out of the city, they may be entangled, so it is not easy for the Yuan people to have this idea.

"Dashuai, I have an idea." Li Tingzhi said.

"But it doesn't hurt to say it."

"I think the reason why the Yuan people would rather fight in the streets than dare to go out of the city is because they are afraid that they will be entangled by our army and cannot get out of the city. The key problem is that there are too many of our troops to make them suspicious. So we have to find a way to make the Yuan people think that the reduction in the number of our troops is not enough to entangle them. ”

The decrease in numbers is not enough to entangle the meta-people? That's a good idea. As long as the cavalry is not surrounded by too many infantry, they will definitely be able to escape, so as long as the Yuan people are given the illusion that the Song army is under-armed, everything can be solved.

As a result, in the following battle, the intensity of the Song army's offensive was reduced, and the number of camps outside the city was significantly reduced. Seven days later, it looked like less than half of the 80,000 Song troops remained.

Since the Yuanren guard general can defend Yulin alone for a year, he must not be a reckless man, and immediately sent a lot of scouts to find out the news. The news brought back was: the Song army built a pontoon bridge at the crossing of the Yellow River and prepared to cross the river to support Lü Wende.

Lu Wende's road is not something that the Yuan people of Yulin can care about, what they have to care about now is how to escape back. Since only half of the Song army outside the city was left and all of them were infantry, the Yuan people were naturally no longer afraid, and fled from Yulin City on the night they got the news.

But what the Yuan people didn't know was that the Song army outside Yulin City actually had a full 70,000, and the Song army at the ferry was only 10,000, just a camp for 40,000 people.

The cavalry of more than 1,000 people who escaped from the south gate could not escape the fate of being completely annihilated, and were completely annihilated in a small ravine near the thirty miles outside the city. So far, Shaanxi has been completely recovered.

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