The peaceful days pass quickly, this is the spring of the seventh year of Xuanhe, March is the season of strong greenery, people put all their hopes on this green, hoping for a greater harvest.

The wealthy imperial capital is still full of joy, and the prosperity has attracted more businesses to develop in Beijing. When many people were crying out to start too late, they were surprised to find that some customers were overflowing, and a big sign was hung on the door of the store that was making money every day, which read: This store is transferred!

Could it be that the name of the store was changed to this store?

But if you look closely, the name of the store is still hanging high, that is, this store is indeed going to be transferred. In an instant, the merchants who came to the store gathered, this is a prosperous shop that has been making money for a few days, and whoever has a plate will hold a hen that lays golden eggs. Among these shops are the famous Natural Residence Hotel, Jinghong Music Place, Qiushui Fashion Clothing Gallery and so on. These industries in Liangshanbo are extremely sought-after, and the store is like an auction in later generations, and the merchants continue to raise the price before the store is closed.

In October of the seventh year of Xuanhe, the Jin soldiers invaded, and the capital suffered the most serious crimes, how could Song Jiang from later generations let his property become the wedding dress of the Jin soldiers, transfer and recover the funds, and at the same time let the expatriates withdraw from the capital safely.

The shops were transferred first, and the personnel were evacuated one after another, but Master Li and the hostages were not able to evacuate. However, Song Jiang was very aware of this history, and the imperial court was in a mess after hearing the news of the invasion of the Jin soldiers, and even the throne was passed on to each other, and who else would notice that a few people were no longer in the capital.

Huizong has been particularly comfortable in recent years, since there is an autonomous region, it seems that the luck of the Great Song Dynasty has improved suddenly, not to mention that the treasury is full, and I can't hear the ministers say that there are thieves and gangsters there again. Externally, the Great Song Dynasty of the sixteen states of Yanyun already owned twelve states, and the Jin people just swallowed their anger and sent envoys to strongly protest, and the imperial court casually sent an official to fool things up. Huizong's heart was itching, and if he worked a little harder to take back the remaining four states, he would become the real emperor of the ages. However, Tong Guan had little effect on recovering the four states through diplomacy, and the Jin people also played Tai Chi pushers, and these savages learned quite quickly.

After failing to make a plan, Huizong suddenly had an unprecedented idea: he wanted to recruit Yelu Yanxi and use his status as emperor to let the Liao people who surrendered to the Jin State surrender to the Great Song Dynasty.

This is a once-and-done strategy, a real soldier who surrenders without a fight, and forms a devastating blow to the Jin Congress. Although it seems that the possibility of success is very small, Yelu Yanxi, who lives like a fugitive, is also a good choice if he becomes a comfortable prince under the protection of the Great Song Dynasty, and it is very likely that he agrees. Chong'er was also restored under the protection of the Qin State, why wouldn't Yelu Yanxi imitate it?

So a team of Song Dynasty envoys with Huizong's edict crossed the mountains and mountains to find the fleeing emperor.

Tong Guan was anxious, if Yelu Yanxi was found, he would be shelved, like a red pepper basking under the eaves of a farmer's house in winter, which seemed to be a bunch of red, but it was actually a condiment. His activities are becoming more and more frequent, and he wants to fight to take back the four states before the arrival of Yelu Yanxi, even if it costs ten times the price of Youzhou.

In fact, the Jin Kingdom is also fooling Tong Guan, they don't want to give the four states to the Song Dynasty at all, they covet the wealth of the Song Dynasty, and they also see the weakness of the Song Dynasty, the reason why they don't do it now is because a man named Yelu Yanxi is still alive, and they are also looking for it all over the world.

The two countries rummaged through the cabinets, Yelu Yanxi finally couldn't hide, and led his troops to flee, but unfortunately he was first discovered by the Jin people, and was defeated and captured.

This time the Liao State is completely finished, and the Jin Kingdom is also working day and night, sleepless night, but letting a few hard-working nephews stay in the capital is to bury a few time bombs around him, Wu Qimai doesn't want these nephews to work together to remove themselves from the throne.

Seeing several nephews chattering together all day long, the worried Wu Qimai had a chill down his spine, and he made up his mind to keep his nephews away from the capital and find some trouble for them to do. As a result, Wu Qimai's subordinates continued to speak ill of the Song Dynasty at military meetings, and many ministers who had prejudices against the Song Dynasty immediately began to attack them viciously, especially Wanyan Zongwang, who had suffered losses, was even more angry. The empathetic Wu Qimai immediately took the case, scolded the Song people for being ungrateful, and went against Dajin everywhere, privately letting Zhang Jue go first, recruiting Yelu Yanxi behind, and sending troops to crusade.

Wu Qimai was worried that the night would be long and dreamy, so he gathered 200,000 soldiers and horses in a very short period of time, and the soldiers were divided into two ways to attack the Song Dynasty. The East Route Army was led by the second prince Wanyan Zongwang, taking Pingzhou and attacking Youzhou; The Western Route Army was led by the eldest prince Wanyan Zonghan, and set off from Yunzhong to attack Taiyuan. Then cross the Yellow River to join Kaifeng and attack Bianliang, the capital of the Great Song Dynasty.

July is the wheat ripening season, and seeing the busy scene of farmers harvesting wheat along the way, Tong Guan's heart is also infected with the joy of farmers and full of hope for the future. He was going to negotiate with the Jin people and get the remaining four states back, and he was full of hope that this would be like this bumper harvest.

Tong Guan passed by Taiyuan City, the prefect Zhang Xiaochun and the governor Wang Yu greeted outside the city, Wang Yu was once Tong Guan's general, Tong Guan also liked his integrity and bravery, so he stayed in Taiyuan City for half a month.

On this day, Tong Guanzheng and Zhang Xiaochun and Wang Yu discussed how to quickly return to Sizhou from the hands of the Jin people, but saw the sentry scout hurriedly report: "Wanyan Zonghan led an army of 100,000 to raid and came, and he has already connected Keshuo Prefecture and Daizhou, and is now rushing to Taiyuan!" ”

The three were stunned.

Wang Yu hurriedly asked if the news was accurate, and the sentinel said: "What the villain said is absolutely true! According to rumors, Wanyan Zongwang led an army of 100,000 to take Youzhou, and their goal was the capital! ”

"The Jin people have just established a country, how dare they do such a thing?"

Tong Guan asked himself, and then thought of Jin Bing's fierceness, and thought of his pastime of Wanyan Zongwang in Pingzhou, and immediately panicked. He hurriedly said to Wang Yu: "Zhengchen, go and close the city gate to prevent the Jin people from taking advantage of the situation!" ”

Wang Yu didn't understand why Tong Guan, who had seen the big scene, was so panicked, and said that he was concerned about the safety of Taiyuan, and his heart was in turmoil for a while, and he said calmly: "Don't worry, Wang Yu calculates that the Jin soldiers will not arrive in Taiyuan until the day after tomorrow at the earliest, and we have enough time to set up defenses." Taiyuan City has high walls, sufficient food, and the generals are single-minded, and Taiyuan City must be able to defend it. In addition, the king of the county himself sits in Taiyuan, and the golden soldiers who will be able to fight with the prestige of the king of the county will lose their armor and abandon their armor. The king of the county and the prefect of Zhang sat down for a while, and Wang Yu went to set up defenses. ”

After Wang Yu left, the prefect Zhang Xiaochun settled Tong Guan to find Wang Yu, preparing to discuss the method of resisting the enemy together. Zhang Xiaochun had just said a few words to Wang Yu at the south gate, when he saw a horse coming to report, and Tong Guan slipped away from the north gate.

The two were shocked, the enemy was approaching and needed a respected person like Tong Guan to command the overall situation, how could he escape? The two hurriedly rode after them.

Tong Guan understood that the two of them chased after him to go back to Taiyuan, so he didn't want to throw his life in this ancient city, and he wanted to go back to Beijing to enjoy happiness. Tong Guan said coldly: "What is the reason why the two of you blocked the way of this king?" ”

Zhang Xiaochun arched his hand and said, "Where is the king of the county?" ”

Tong Guan sneered: "Where is this king going, do you still need to report to Governor Zhang?" At the moment of the great enemy, you do not defend the city, but spend precious time here, how can you be worthy of the people in the city? ”

Tong Guan was ashamed to teach the two of them and said: "The capital is in crisis, this king wants to defend the Beijing Division, get out of the way quickly!" ”

Wang Yu arched his hand and said: "The king of the county stays!" Defending Taiyuan is to defend the Beijing Division, if Taiyuan is lost, there will be no barrier on the West Road, and the Jin people can kill the Beijing Division by riding a horse and Pingchuan. Wang Yu begged the king of the county to sit in Taiyuan and resist the Jin soldiers! ”

"On behalf of all the people of Taiyuan City, Zhang Xiaochun implores the king of the county to return to the city!"

Tong Guan saw that the two of them wanted to hinder his escape plan, and immediately rushed angrily: "This king is Xuanfu, not to defend the land, leave me to guard the city, so many people in Taiyuan eat for nothing?" You two are unreasonable to stop this king, if the Jingshi is in trouble, Your Majesty is sick, it is not too much to destroy your nine clans! Get out of the way! ”27KK

Wang Yu looked at Tong Guan who was leaving on the horse, and felt melancholy, this run messed up the military spirit of Taiyuan City, and lost the ambition he once had.

Tong Guan, you are still a selfish deserter after all, and even if you have the title of county king, you can't hide your cowardly behavior.

"Throw a grenade!"

Liu Shengli let out a tiger roar, and the soldiers at the head of the city lit the cumbersome grenades in an orderly manner and threw them into the dense group of golden soldiers. A series of violent explosions sounded, and the golden soldiers besieging the city were torn apart, and their souls were frightened, and the smoke and dust immediately flew under the city, and they could not see within ten steps under the city wall. The timid retreating Jin soldiers and the advancing Jin soldiers were chaotic and crowded with each other, if they didn't know that they were all their own family, they would have already slashed at each other.

The violent explosion made the golden soldiers stop for a while, and when the smoke and dust dispersed, they saw a tragic scene: there were stumps and flesh everywhere, flesh and blood everywhere, howls of pain everywhere, and half-dead golden soldiers wriggling everywhere. Some of the golden soldiers who were not dead screamed and searched for a part of their bodies, some of the golden soldiers looked stupidly like wood at the brains or internal organs of their companions scattered on the ground, and a few golden soldiers who had been blown out of their stomachs, trying to crawl out to escape from danger, and their intestines were long and unaware of it.

The bulky grenade that was thrown down this time was the first batch of grenades made in Qingfeng Mountain, and it had never been used, especially after the appearance of the string grenade, it could only wait lonely in the warehouse. It happened that this time to support Taiyuan was a battle to defend the city, and all these grenades were moved from the treasury to Taiyuan City, and they wantonly vented their loneliness to the Jin soldiers under Taiyuan City. These grenades are bulky but powerful, containing iron filings and gravel, and they have a wide area after exploding, making them an excellent weapon for defending the city.

A month ago, Liu Shengli led a convoy of regiments to Taiyuan, and at the same time brought many new weapons from Liangshanbo to Taiyuan, including grenades, repeating crossbows, long-range hard crossbows, and light artillery. Song Jiang's original intention was to ask Liu Shengli to help Wang Yu train a group of teams using gunpowder weapons, so he sent troops over early, not wanting the Jin soldiers to invade three months earlier than in history, and came at the right time.

The battle at the north gate of Taiyuan City was the most intense, and a large number of troops of Wanyan Zonghan were used to attack the north gate, and Wang Yu decisively placed Liu Shengli's regiment at the north gate to defend against the enemy. Although the east and west gates were attacking, the soldiers of Taiyuan City still had the ability to resist.

These more than 1,000 soldiers have become a beautiful scenery at the head of the North Gate, and their tall figures are like iron-blooded arhats, who are not afraid of life and death to shoot and kill the golden soldiers who are besieging the city. The soldiers of this regiment were all wearing special armor made by the Liangshanbo Arsenal, ordinary arrows could not penetrate at all, and they wore iron helmets with face protection, only their eyes were exposed, and unless the arrows hit the eyes, they would not do much damage at all.

Liu Shengli divided 200 warriors to shoot the archers of the gold soldiers, and the rest of the warriors used crossbows to shoot calmly, and the warriors of Taiyuan City were responsible for throwing stones, rolling logs, and overturning long ladders. Of course, the archers of Taiyuan City were not idle, they hid behind the Liangshanbo warriors, shooting arrows one after another, hunting the lives of the Jin soldiers. Later, most of the archers of the Jin soldiers were shot dead by the Liangshanbo soldiers, and the archers of Taiyuan City boldly showed their heads and looked for targets to shoot arrows. The grenade was thrown down when the Jin soldiers were at their most dense, and the gunpowder weapon effectively destroyed the Jin people's living force and blew up the morale of the Jin soldiers.

Seeing that the defenders of Taiyuan sacrificed such a lethal weapon, the Jin soldiers were frightened and cowered. Seeing this, Wanyan Zonghan said: "After all, there are a few gunpowder weapons, and the order must not stop the attack, and those who dare to retreat will be killed on the spot!" ”

The drums of the attack sounded rapidly again, and the general who commanded in front of the battle announced the order that the attack would not stop, and the golden soldiers attacked again.

It was a repetition of the last attack, but for the frantically attacking Jin soldiers, the city head used some more grenades. The two sides stuck in front of the city gate for two hours, and the Jin soldiers retreated helplessly after leaving the corpses all over the ground.

Repelled the attack of the Jin soldiers, the whole city of Taiyuan smiled, especially admired the soldiers of the autonomous region who had made great achievements. In their eyes, these warriors are the King Kong sent by God to save Taiyuan, and they are the Dinghai Divine Needle in their hearts, and their Taiyuan City is as stable as a rock. It can be seen from the joy on everyone's face that they have come out of the shadow of Tong Guan's departure and are full of confidence in defending the city.

Wang Yu was shocked!

It's not that he hasn't seen Liang Shanbo's combat effectiveness and gunpowder weapons, but compared with a few years ago, it can be said that there have been earth-shaking changes. The explosive power of the gunpowder weapon was secondary, and the superior combat power of the fighters was the main reason for his shock. Not to mention that they are not chaotic in the face of danger, they regard death as home, not to mention their outstanding archery skills and super skills, but only their absolute completion of assigned tasks in battle, their classification and cooperation with each other in battle, and their ability to read battles are not comparable to ordinary teams. If the officers and soldiers of Taiyuan were replaced, under the same conditions, the city could be defended, but it would definitely not win so easily and chicly. They must have a messy defense, blind arrows, grenades thrown under the city at will, not to mention the waste of weapons, and the damage to the golden soldiers is not fatal.

And they ...... This battle is so fought, beautiful! Enjoyable!

This is the invincible soldier of the world! How did Song Jiang train?

Thinking of Song Jiang, Wang Yu was embarrassed, this person couldn't be described in words, as if the world was under his control. Who would have thought that the Jin Congress would suddenly make a move against the Great Song Dynasty, but Song Jiang thought of it a few years ago, not only did he think of it, but he also sent people to support Taiyuan in a timely manner. Song Jiang fulfilled everything he said to himself in Liangshanbo, whether it was to suppress Fangla or resist the Jin soldiers, but at that time he was still a prisoner of Song Jiang, how did Song Jiang know that he would have today's status?

The enigmatic Song Jiang! The enigmatic Liangshanbo!

After the celebration banquet, Liu Shengli asked to see Zhang Xiaochun and Wang Yu, and after the ceremony, Liu Shengli went straight to the topic and said: "The defense of Taiyuan is a protracted war, in order to save food in the city as much as possible, the last general thinks that this kind of celebration banquet should not be held in the future." When he came, Commander Song repeatedly explained that he would stick to Taiyuan City and drag the Jin soldiers, so that they would not dare to enter and be unwilling to retreat, so that they could effectively protect the land of Jingshi. The Jin soldiers may besiege Taiyuan City indefinitely, and our difficulties will become greater and greater, so ammunition and food must not be wasted. Commander Song said that as long as we hold on, in a certain period of time, he will send troops to wipe out the Jin soldiers under the city. ”

Zhang Xiaochun and Wang Yu both nodded in praise, and Liu Shengli said: "When I came, Commander Song also told me many ways to defend the city, and the last general knew it by heart. At the end of tonight, we will build fortifications outside the city, and I hope that the two adults will send more people to build them overnight, and destroy as many golden soldiers as possible tomorrow! ”

This is a good thing, and they hurriedly sent someone to follow Liu Shengli out of the city.

The next day, the Jin soldiers came to attack early, and when they stood at the head of the city, Wang Yu was puzzled, Liu Shengli repaired such fortifications overnight? Can two earthen walls, one and a half men high, one about a hundred paces from the city and the other about two hundred paces, ward off the enemy? It seems to be beneficial to the Jin soldiers, who hide behind the earthen walls to protect against arrows at the head of the city.

Liu Shengli understood Wang Yu's doubts, and he smiled and said, "It's too late to explain in detail to the adults, the Jin soldiers are about to attack, can the adults allow the last general to make some arrangements for the soldiers?" ”

Although Wang Yu couldn't understand the wonderful use of the two walls, he believed that Liu Shengli would never do useless work, and he said loudly: "All the soldiers are quiet, and listen to General Liu's arrangement!" ”

Liu Shengli said in a loud voice: "Brother archers in Taiyuan, listen, the first wall is about a hundred steps away from us, this is the effective distance of the bow and arrow, and your target is the golden soldiers who cross the wall." You hide behind the soldiers of the autonomous region and shoot arrows, don't feel ashamed to do so and show your head at will, the archery skills of the Jin soldiers are not bad, and if you shoot one person, our defense force in Taiyuan will be reduced a little. The soldiers of the autonomous region use repeater crossbows, and the golden soldiers eighty paces ago are your targets. Bow and crossbow archer Listen, the second wall is about two hundred paces away from us, and you have set your sights on the golden soldiers who have climbed over the second wall. Remember to tell you not to shoot blindly, and strive to destroy an enemy with one arrow! ”

Wang Yu heard it, but he still didn't know what the effect was, and when he saw that Liu Shengli had made complete arrangements, he said loudly: "Did the soldiers hear clearly?" ”

"Hear me clearly!"

"If you hear it clearly, you will do it according to General Liu's arrangement, if anyone violates the rules, the military law will not forgive!"

"Obey the general's orders!"

Liu Shengli said to Wang Yu again: "My lord, prepare a team of 1,000 people, everyone will take a big sword, and when the Jin soldiers are defeated and retreat, they will rush out of the city gate to kill the enemy." Please rest assured, entering these two walls is like entering hell, they can't go back, but there is no turning back on the bridge, and there is no return for the golden dog! ”