Chapter 240: Capturing Nanyang

Of course, he understood that Shi Bin's words were correct, and Sai Zilong immediately agreed. And began to send people to observe more closely Sun Manbo and his family, friends, business partners and all other people who had dealings, and even his warehouse was watched by him.

And Boss Sun, who was hiding at home, was in a panic, most afraid that the Yuan people would find out that their spy had been killed and would have to take the account on his head, and he would have to pay it back when the time came.

However, Yuan Ren didn't seem to be so smart, and after the previous group of spies didn't reply to the letter, he didn't do much investigation and immediately sent someone over, and only asked a cursory question about the people he hadn't seen before, and the focus was still on asking Sun Manbo to cooperate with the salt sales.

Now that he has agreed with Shi Bin, of course Sun Manbo immediately agreed to the request of this group of Yuan people, saying that he would send salt over as soon as possible, and the nervous Yuan people spy didn't care about the life or death of the previous Yuan people, but just kept praising Sun Manbo for knowing the current affairs.

When he was about to transport the salt and leave, Sun Manbo felt that something was wrong, because he didn't find any trace of Shi Bin's men from beginning to end, and the laborer still looked like a yellow and thin face, sighing from time to time, giving people the feeling of being a miserable person who couldn't eat enough from the inside out.

Of course, Sun Manbo didn't dare to ask Shi Bin if there were agents in his salt transportation team, but even a fool knew that he would be placed, but seeing this, he had to admire Shi Bin's ability to train spies.

Shi Bin and Sai Zilong, who were hiding in the distance to watch the play, snickered when they saw Sun Manbo's puzzled and bitter appearance, maybe Sun Manbo understood that most of the spies in this first team would not be spies, but this feeling of not being able to prepare to grasp what was clearly happening in front of him was very unpleasant, and he could only bear it in order to save his life.

"My lord, when are our people going to go in? There are nearly 15 salt transportation teams, and six of them will go to Nanyang, how will the personnel be distributed? Is it all at once or is it something else? Sai Zilong asked cautiously, he obviously didn't approve of arranging all his subordinates in one way.

"Of course, you can't arrange all the soldiers in these teams, arrange three achievements, and most of the rest enter by other means, and you can contact them in the agreed way after entering the city."

"What the adults said is reasonable, we still have to guard against that Sun Manbo halfway backlash. How did the rest of the brothers get in? Change your clothes and pretend to be a fortune teller or a food teller as before? ”

"Well, that's good. But it's better to have a trader and a doctor, and the more scattered it is, the better, and you can't put all your eggs in one basket. Shi Bin smiled slightly.

Foot merchants and doctors?

The doctor is respectable, although it will attract some attention, it will not make people think badly, and Sai Zilong has no objection to this. But the footman has a somewhat treacherous feeling, and what good can that be? Sai Zilong was very puzzled.

Knowing that the strict Saida master would not listen to his orders in a daze, Shi Bin patiently explained: "Presumably you have already guessed a rough idea of this disguised as a doctor to enter the city, and this disguised as a foot merchant still doesn't understand it so well. ”

Sai Zilong nodded with some confusion.

"Not for anything else, just because they all have something to carry with them."

What to bring with you? You don't have to think about it to know that it's a medical box and a box for goods. After this, he, the old bandit, immediately understood the secret - make some compartments and put things out.

In order to keep Sun Man's bowl from being exposed, when he was transported to the third team of salt, Shi Bin went to Sun's Mansion to praise him well, praising him for being responsible, knowledgeable, not afraid of life and death, loyal to the Great Song Dynasty and so on. Seeing that Jingnan's transfer envoy came to praise himself, Sun Manbo, who was a little frightened, calmed down again and vowed to do a good job.

The compartment had been completed in less than two days, and Sai Zilong immediately took it to Shi Bin himself, looking at Shi Bin's smug smile, he couldn't help it anymore, and asked tentatively, "My lord, you must put something in this compartment, what are you going to put in?" Broken intestine grass or something else? ”

"I said, Zilong, are you too much, are we going to hibernate in, where can we get people killed? Wouldn't a little ground croton flour be good? Croton is colorless and odorless is the most suitable. Even if the foot merchant is found to have an accident, the doctor should be fine if he is found to have brought croton, right? ”

Knowing this, Sai Zilong immediately ordered people to do what Shi Bin said, and sent the last few spies into Nanyang City in two batches. The preparations have been made, and we are just waiting for Jia Yidao's Northern Expedition military order.

I thought that when I heard Shi Bin's report, Jia Rudao would immediately order the drumming to gather the generals, and after the pre-war meeting, he would be pulled. But I didn't expect that there was no movement for two days.

Shi Bin is an impatient and concerned soldier, of course he can't accept such a delay in doing things, and he can't tolerate his elite soldiers being thrown into the wolf's den and tiger's den in Nanyang like this.

From the third day, he sent people to Jia Rudao's mansion three times a day to urge, and it was not until the fifth day that he realized that this 'brave' father-in-law was afraid of war. In order not to be busy in vain, Shi Bin immediately suggested that he should lead the whole army, and Jia Rudao only needed to issue military orders in Ezhou City. It can also be regarded as 'strategizing in the strategic, winning thousands of miles away.' ’

Since there is such a way that can reassure him, Jia Rudao naturally accepted it happily, and immediately beat the drum and gathered the general's order.

Although he was very dissatisfied that Shi Bin, a junior, was the actual coach, but because of his identity and military exploits, he had to let everyone accept this fact.

When it was really time to send troops, Shi Bin of course changed the original unreliable arrangement of Jia Rudao. Although You Yan's subordinates arranged for the rear army to ensure the retreat during the march, they were still used as cannon fodder according to Jia Yidao's opinion when besieging Nanyang.

In order to prevent the Yuan people from being prepared, Shi Bin marched quickly, and within four days he arrived at Nanyang City, where he was so frightened that he almost fell off the female wall when he got up in the morning and yawned.

The camp that stretches for dozens of miles has surrounded Nanyang City, and now Shi Bin only needs to protect the left and right wings, and the grain road behind him is guaranteed to be smooth, and it is a matter of time before he takes Nanyang.

However, there are also many variables in which many places still have to be carefully scrutinized, and everyone thinks differently and wants differently, so they have to reach a consensus before they can start acting, even if it is superficially consistent, so he came to beat the drum again.

As soon as the pre-war meeting began, Liu Cheng and Xia Gui, two guys who had already joined Shi Bin, immediately expressed their resolute obedience to all his orders, and constantly gave their eyes to several other generals who were close to them.

Everyone knows why You Yan will take the 'initiative', but the dead Daoist friend is not the poor Dao, everyone is silent, just looking at him with some pity.

After the offensive began, You Yanbu naturally suffered huge losses, but he didn't dare to withdraw the army without authorization, the soldiers could be recruited again if they died, and the officials could not be bought again.

His motley army is not strong in the first place, and now he is used as cannon fodder, and less than half of the dead and wounded will make the army's morale fluctuate, and there is a faint tendency to collapse. Shi Bin naturally couldn't allow this to happen, and immediately sent Sai Zilong to kill several commanders in You Yan's army. With such iron-blooded methods, You Yan's army could no longer afford to retreat, so they could only attack the city head-on.

After three days of strong attack, the Yuan people in the city and the You Yan troops outside the city were already killed and wounded and exhausted, Sai Zilong ran to Shi Bin and said with a strange smile: "My lord, that You Yan and the Yuan people have been pinching for three days and have little strength left." I think You Yan's soldiers really can't fight, and the Yuan people in the city are not good at defending and it's difficult to bear, can you use our shadows? ”

"No, no, no, how can this work? As far as You Yan's army was damaged, isn't it too obvious that we 'borrowed a knife to kill'. It is necessary to let all the generals participate in the war, it is not good for them to be just spectators, and when the time comes, won't they have a greater opinion? Don't suffer from few, but suffer from inequality. ”

These words made Sai Zilong sober up, and immediately proposed that Lu Wende, Liu Quan, and Jia Gui should be the real main attackers, and when they wanted to break the enemy, they would come to meet with each other.

Shi Bin naturally agreed with this method very much, Lu Wende is Jia Yidao's faction, Liu Cheng and Jia Gui are his faction, and it is most suitable to share the military exploits and losses, so he immediately ordered You Yan's troops to withdraw and recuperate, and replace Lu Wende, Liu Cheng and Jia Gui.

They all understood that this was a rare and good opportunity to make meritorious contributions, and the commander of the army was his own person, of course, he would not treat them badly, and the merit of breaking the city would definitely fall on the three of them. In order to win this great achievement and leave a good reputation, the three of them naturally went all out and did not dare to slack off.

Suddenly, there were three waves of attacks, and the Song soldiers and Yuan people who were so crazy were caught off guard that they almost couldn't resist, but they also went crazy in order to survive. It's barely bearable, but it's also like a year.

However, since Shi Bin had negotiated with Jia Yidao before, he would take the big credit, of course there would be no problems with logistics, as long as Shi Bin urged the grain and grass, he immediately transported grain from Ezhou and it would not take long to arrive outside Nanyang City. As for the two wings, Shi Bin had already made a promise not to swallow the merits of these generals, and naturally there was no danger.

The siege is only half a month, and Nanyang City is in danger and may fall at any time. Since he had already buried the shadows, of course he couldn't do without it, and it was the most appropriate to use it at this time, so Shi Bin ordered Sai Zilong to immediately notify the spies in the city of the operation.

Although it is to encircle Nanyang City with three layers inside and three layers outside, it is not without loopholes to drill, this fake Yuan army 'post pawn' still rushed through the Song army camp and entered Nanyang City on a dark and windy night.

In order to make the Yuan people in the city less suspicious of the spies he sent, Shi Bin suddenly had another plan: he borrowed Xu Feng at the gate of the camp to perform a bitter trick. He was beaten to the ground, his flesh was blurred, and from a distance he looked immobile for at least a month. Only experts know that this 'serious injury' is actually a wound to the skin and not to the bones, and it will not take five days for Xu Feng to be alive again.

This made all the generals in the battalion feel that Shi Bin's military orders were like a mountain, and it also made the people who thought that Shi Bin was mostly acting no longer suspicious, and the Yuan people in the city were not very suspicious of this sudden postman. Originally, they didn't intend to lure the Yuan people out of the city, so the military information that the post guard gave them was real, so even the guard didn't suspect this 'post man', and he didn't restrict his activities.

Where can you let go of such a great opportunity? That night, the spy contacted most of the agents who had infiltrated the city and conveyed Shi Bin's order to seize the southern city on the night of his departure.

The Nanyang guard will soon have a reply from the 'post guard', asking for full reinforcements, and the news is smooth, plus those crotons, Nanyang naturally fell into the hands of Shi Bin.

Although Jia Rudao is greedy for life and afraid of death, he will never give credit to him, so Shi Bin immediately asked who would guard Nanyang. In order to seek full merit, Jia Nidao of course ordered Lu Wende, who was from his own faction, to stay temporarily. and sent a handwritten letter to Lu Wende, emphasizing that even if Zheng Qingzhi sent someone to take over, he would never give up.

The great success has been completed, Shi Bin of course returned to the army, and when he passed Ezhou, he was notified by Erzhuang to station the army outside the city first, and his father-in-law was waiting for him in the mansion.