Chapter 617

"Really took it down?" The ink soaked in the tip of the brush in Han Zhongyan's hand dripped on the official document he was processing, and he was still unaware of it.

"Exactly, whether it is Yanzhou or Qintuokou, it can almost be said that it is intact, because it is a surprise attack to capture the city, so the losses of our army are minimal,......" replied the messenger who had been sent by Zhe Kexing to report with excitement on his face.

"More than 2,700 enemies were killed, nearly 5,000 enemies were captured, and the rest fled, with 3,000 iron armors, more than 8,000 horses, about 10,000 quintals of grain, in addition to 2,000 cattle, more than 30,000 sheep, and the Yanzhou Mansion Treasury also sealed the 300,000 quintals of taxes to be paid to Xingqing Mansion this year, in addition, the salt warehouse in the city also has more than 35,000 quintals of fine green salt......"

"I heard that Yanzhou produces a lot of salt, which is rare in the world, and it can get 200,000 quintals of salt a year, it seems that it is really not a boast." Only then did Han Zhongyan notice the huge drop of ink on the official document he wrote, and quickly brought a piece of clean rice paper and covered it to absorb the ink.

"This good news will be put here by this official first, you go and have a good rest, come here, and quickly copy two copies of this good news, one to the army of the general of the seed master, and the other to Huanzhou, and hand it over to Master Su."

"If such good news can't be delivered in time, presumably Master Su will definitely blame the old man at that time."

Putting down the pen and pacing around the house a few times, Han Zhongyan sent out another military order, and soon, among the 30,000 defenders who stayed in the Dingbian Army, 10,000 foot soldiers were transferred and went straight to Yanzhou.

Since Yanzhou has been taken, there must be no room for mistakes, and there will be more viable forces, so that General Zhe and they can attack from Yanzhou with peace of mind, and strive to control the entire Jianing Military Division in the hands of the Great Song Dynasty as soon as possible.

When the messenger sent by Han Zhongyan delivered the good news to the hands of the Seed Master Dao, at this moment, the 40,000 elite divisions of the Great Song Dynasty led by the Seed Master Dao could only reach about thirty miles south of the Great Wall, and the distance was already only more than fifty miles.

For such news, while all the generals of the Great Song Dynasty were smiling, they couldn't help but feel a little more jealous of the victorious uncles and nephews of the Zhe family.

On his side, he was still on the march, but it was good over there, and it only took one night and half a day to already pocket Qin Huokou and Nayanzhou.

If this is on your own side, if you can't take the Hongzhou and Youzhou, wouldn't it mean that the family army is not as good as the family army?

Seeing the generals under his command staring at each other and biting their cheeks with a posture of struggling for their lives, the seed master was both moved and quite helpless.

At this moment, I can't help but be a little envious of the uncle and nephew of the Zhe family, it seems that Lord Xiao Wang is the lucky star of the Great Song Huben, this is really not wrong, last time, wasn't it because he was with Zhe Keshi.

As a result, Na Zhe Keshi got a lot of credit, and this time it was such a combination, in the past, it was regarded as a daunting way by the border army of the Great Song Dynasty, and the Qin camel mouth, which was easy to defend and difficult to attack, was actually easily taken down, and it would not have taken much to even capture the entire Yanzhou, if it were not for the luck of Lord Xiao Wang.

Not...... At least the Seed Master Dao is more willing to think so, after all, he will not admit that the Seed Army is inferior to the Folding Family Army.

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"Okay, generals, everyone must be very happy for the old generals, but we can't just be happy for them, after all, Hongzhou is not far away, and the pass of the Great Wall Ridge is now under the control of the Han army under Liang Yikui, after the Great Wall Ridge, it is only twenty miles away from Hongzhou, and at that time, you have to cheer me up......"

"Although Liang Yikui has agreed to surrender to my Great Song Dynasty, but before Liang Yikui has laid down his arms, you all give me caution, if there is slackness and recklessness, something happens, Hugh blames a certain kind of military law ruthlessly."

"No!" Dozens of generals in the tent were heartbroken, and they saluted the planter in a uniform manner, and then quickly scattered and rushed to their respective teams.

After a short rest, the army continued to rush towards the Great Wall Ridge Pass in the northeast, and it was imperative to arrive in the evening and take over the defense of the Great Wall Ridge.

Finally, at the turn of the night, the army arrived at the Great Wall Ridge Pass, the guard was Liang Yikui's henchmen, the army of the Great Song Dynasty was still ten miles away from the pass, and the Guanzhong guard had already led dozens of cavalry to meet in Guannan.

And with Liang Zuo as the introduction, the army continued to move forward, the master of the road under the command of 10,000 fine horses, 30,000 foot soldiers smoothly passed through the Great Wall Ridge Pass, set up camp to rest, the army has been on the road for two days in a row, the soldiers are tired, if it is not a good rest, who knows what kind of accident will be there when it arrives in Hongzhou.

And the defense of the Great Wall Ridge was naturally handed over to the Song army, and the general of the pass led his soldiers and horses, and he would act with the Song army.

And at this moment, two full days and two nights have passed since Sa Chen rushed to the city of Hongzhou and took care of the nearly 10,000 Tie Guan Li.

The 10,000 reinforcements from Yanzhou have arrived here, making Sa Chen's command, in addition to the original 10,000 Yanzhou troops become 20,000, plus 20,000 garrison troops, and more than 3,000 defeated troops all the way, Sa Chen's soldiers and horses have reached more than 43,000 people.

Not...... This does not include the bald version of Tie Guan Li of the 10,000 party items, if you count those guys, then there are more than 50,000 elites under Sa Chen's command, which is definitely the most he has ever led an army in his life.

And then did it work? In the Hongzhou City in front of him, although Liang Yikui's soldiers and horses are inferior to him in terms of numbers, the problem is that he still has 10,000 party items on his side, not to mention that he was originally going to fight a surprise attack and a sabotage war.

There was no preparation for a difficult siege battle at all, so there were no decent siege weapons in his hands at all.

These problems, which originally made Sachen feel painful, were solved at noon the next day when the reinforcements sent by Yanzhou arrived.

Not...... This is actually a counterstatement, and it should be said that all these problems are nothing compared to the bad news received at noon the next day, that is, more than two hours ago.

That was the place where he had garrisoned before, the most important place of wealth in the south of Western Xia, Yanzhou, the place where salt was produced, had been captured by a group of Song troops from Qin Huokou.

Remember, they didn't include, nor attack, but especially had already captured Yanzhou. When he first got the news, Sachen thought it was these stupid ruffians playing a bad joke without nutrition.

It's just that when the authenticity of this news was confirmed, Sa Chen's whole person was directly stunned, it was Yanzhou, in the eyes of the Western Xia court, its importance was almost no less than that of Yanzhou, the land of the Hetao, which produced good horses.

It was like a blink of an eye, and it was captured by the Song army. When he learned that Qin Huokou guarded Li Bing and Yanzhou Shi Ye also descended to the Song Dynasty, Sa Chen jumped to his feet and scolded.