Chapter Ninety-Two: Taking Over Taiyuan and Cutting Off the Way of Retreat

Song Xiance, the military advisor of the Dashun Army, knew that since the Yaogang people had sent troops, they would definitely do something in the process of their retreat, and they would not be left alone. But he also knew that the advantage occupied by the kiln people was fatal to them. That is, the Yaogang people have a fleet of steamboats, they can move freely along the Fen River, and they can stop their ships anywhere to intercept them. And the most convenient way for them to retreat was to walk along the Fen River, so Song Xiance had to set up a lot of blocking points along the way to prevent the interception and attack of the Yaogang people, although he knew that such preparations would not have much effect, but he could not help but prepare.

What made Song Xiance strange was that from the beginning of the evacuation, for four consecutive days, the people of Yaogang actually amplified the evacuation of the Shun army all the way, and there was no obstruction. This made Song Xiance feel very bottomless.

Song Xiance suddenly figured out that in the process of their retreat, there was no supply of grain and grass, and if the retreating team raised their own grain and grass along the way, it would inevitably delay a lot of time, and the retreating team would be more scattered. At that time, the kiln gang people will naturally take action. But there was no way to understand it, he didn't know that the kiln people would make a move in that place. However, Song Xiance took a gamble, and he concluded that the kiln gang people would do it in Huozhou. Because this is just Taiyue Mountain (Huoshan) on the way down to the south, only Huozhou on the side of the Fen River is a passage. This is a must-go passage on the retreat of the Dashun army.

Besides, due to its special geographical location and environment, it has always been a battleground for soldiers. Both sides have their eyes focused on Huozhou.

There is another reason why Ouyang He and Chen Yufeng chose to be here, because there is a cottage stronghold of the Yaogang people on Taiyue Mountain, and Lin Feng and Wei Xiang are guarding here with their people. Li Zicheng and their people didn't touch them when they passed by. But they were familiar with the terrain.

When Li Jing sent someone to the mountain to inform Lin Feng and Wei Xiang that Yaogang was preparing to intercept the retreating Dashun army here, Lin Feng and Wei Xiang were so excited that tears were about to fall. They stayed here, and they felt very uncomfortable when they heard that there was a great change every day in the kiln. Especially when they heard that Li Zicheng led a million-strong army to attack Yaogang, they were very worried about what would happen to Yaogang. However, when Huozhou and the Yaogang branches in the nearby counties of Huozhou retreated to their Taiyue Mountain, they knew that since the Yaogang people had arranged everything in an orderly manner, there should be no major problems on the Yaogang side. However, after the war started, they were cut off from the Yaogang side. Although they were very well prepared materially in advance, and they didn't have to worry about eating and drinking, they didn't have to worry about the torment of family news, and it was even more uncomfortable.

Since more than 500 people were allocated from Lishan to Taiyue Mountain, they also recruited some people, plus the original people of Taiyue Mountain, there are now more than 1,500 people here. In addition to organizing everyone to carry out construction and production, Lin Feng and Wei Xiang did not delay military training. After Li Jing sent people over, after arranging the affairs on the mountain, the two of them took 500 elite soldiers down the mountain to cooperate with Li Jing and their actions.

After Chen Yufeng and their side discovered that Li Zicheng's army had begun to retreat, they immediately sent a message to inform the Yaogang side. When the Yaogang side got the news, they immediately called Yangqu County and told the Yaogang People's Army here that the Dashun Army had begun to retreat.

The Yaogang people got the news that the Dashun army had begun to retreat, earlier than many officers and soldiers of the Dashun army knew. They approached the front of the first line of defense of the Dashun army, and saw that the Dashun army here was still reinforcing the fortifications, and knew that the soldiers of the Dashun army here had not yet received the order to retreat. The Yaogang army here did not attack hard, but sent letters to them with bows and arrows to inform them.

"Brothers of the Dashun Army, don't work hard to repair the fortifications anymore, your brigade has begun to retreat."

"Brothers of the Dashun Army, your grain and grass in Jiaocheng have been taken away by us, and another grain and grass base, Fenyang, has also been isolated from you by us, and you will soon run out of food. Your food is not enough for you to eat on the way back to Shaanxi. It's better to surrender to us, we don't have to worry about food and drink here, and we still have military pay. ”

"When you don't have anything to eat or drink on the road, we'll wipe you all out. It will be miserable when that day comes, so it's better to surrender! ”

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Yaogang's side began a constant psychological offensive. Soon the psychological offensive of the kiln gang people worked. There were soldiers of the Dashun Army running over in front, especially after they learned that a large group of people had indeed withdrawn first, and there were even groups of soldiers of the Dashun Army running over. The first thing these soldiers who came over would ask if the kiln was as good as it was rumored.

Among the people who received them, Yaogang specially arranged a lot of soldiers who came first, and they said that the new soldiers were more likely to believe. The easiest thing to convince them is that they eat hot meat buns. This is a real benefit, and many soldiers have shed tears. They said they hadn't eaten meat for a long time, and they had almost forgotten the taste of meat. Li Zicheng's army expanded rapidly, and the average army could only eat two meals a day, and it was not necessarily dry. Only those elite cronies are entitled to three meals a day. After eating the steamed buns, some of them took the initiative to go back and inform the soldiers who were still hesitant over there and asked them to come over early.

In this way, the front line was lively, and many soldiers ran over every day. At the beginning, the generals of the Dashun army came to send people to arrest these defecting soldiers, but after two days, no one cared. The Yaogang People's Army took over the first line of defense of the Dashun Army, and the Dashun Army withdrew without resistance.

In the past few days since Chen Yufeng and Ouyang He led their troops away, Zhang Zhimu and Yan Boju have been on duty in the command center, they are worried about the front line, and they have no mind to do anything else.

By the third day when the Dashun army began to retreat, the Dashun army was already in chaos, and Zhang Zhimu ordered Zhao Jinli's first division, which remained in Yaogang, to send a regiment to defend Yangqu.

The two infantry divisions and five cavalry regiments in Yangqu County were all dispatched to surround Taiyuan, but not to engage with the retreating Dashun army, and informed them that they could leave the city casually after putting down their horses and weapons.

The so-called defeat is like a mountain, and the soldiers of the Dashun Army who stayed behind and retreated all knew that being left behind was equivalent to being abandoned. Only a small number of people laid down their weapons and left the city. After most of the soldiers put down their weapons, they went directly into the ranks of the Yaogang army. Because Song Xiance arranged for Li Zicheng and them to retreat quietly, Taiyuan City was taken over by the Yaogang people without being destroyed.

In the end, according to statistics, there were more than 40,000 soldiers of the Dashun Army who surrendered. More than 5,000 war horses, more than 13,000 horses, more than 1,000 camels, and countless carts were captured. For other substances, Lu Chengxiang took people to count them for a long time and didn't count them.

Taiyuan is too big, and there are 10 cadres and 100 policemen sent by the kiln gang people. The officials of Taiyuan Prefecture appointed by Li Zicheng were also captured alive, and the kiln cadres who took over took over all of them. These people, after Li Zicheng occupied Taiyuan, still did a lot of work. At the very least, the public property in Taiyuan is almost counted. It is a pity that Song Xiance took away all the gold, silver and jewelry collected in Taiyuan.

After arranging the takeover of Taiyuan, Zhang Zhimu ordered the cavalry to continue to follow the Dashun army, where they retreated, the Yaogang people took over wherever they went, and tried to let go of people and not materials. To the south, from Taigu and Qi County to Jiexiu, and to the east from Pingyao to Mengxian County, people were sent to take over.

The communication engineering team organized by Yang Chang and his team also followed the line accepted in front of them and began to erect poles. Since there is no shortage of manpower in the kiln gang now, the obvious sign that the kiln gang people take over the area is that there are people digging pits and burying poles on both sides of the road.

In the area that was taken over, the cadres sent out by the kiln gang were very urgent to help everyone plant the land, and if there were no seeds, the cadres of the kiln gang would help them raise seeds. There was no food to eat, so the Yaogang people brought food. The people of these new towns had never seen such an official. It didn't take a few days for the influence of the kiln gang people to be revealed. The orders issued by the kiln gang and the things organized, the people will take the initiative to respond positively.

These officials sent by the kiln gang were not very accustomed to working like this at first, but after they saw them working like this, they were sincerely loved by the people, and they had never felt this way in their hearts, which was completely different from the official authority deliberately established when they were officials in the past. They knew that they were because after two years in the kiln, their thinking had changed a lot. Without the experience of working and living in the kiln, they can't accept the idea that everyone is equal. Not to mention the people they manage are like a family, working hard for them. They also had to admire the cleverness of Zhang Zhimu's ideas. Only then did they better understand the truth of the world for those who won the hearts of the people.

According to the original plan, after the local stability taken over by the Yaogang people, the establishment of an autonomous committee was announced, and the officials sent by the kiln gang were called the director of the autonomous committee. The first announcement of the Autonomous Council was that all sectors would be exempt from taxation for three years. All walks of life are encouraged to resume production, and those who have difficulties can raise them with the Autonomous Committee, which will provide assistance as appropriate. In particular, agriculture is encouraged. If a farmer does not have seeds, the committee will provide them free of charge after verification.

On the night of the fourth day when the Dashun army began to evacuate Taiyuan, after Li Jing's men and more than 500 people from Taiyue Mountain had a round, Li Jing wanted to take advantage of the night to sneak into Huozhou City, but when they came to Huozhou City, they found that this idea did not work at all. Huozhou City was full of soldiers, and there was one not far away, each with a torch. There are also mobile patrols, which are constantly moving around the city. It seems that Da Shunjun has added 10,000 points of caution.

Seeing that he couldn't enter the city, Wei Xiang said, "The city will be attacked tomorrow." We can't wait and do nothing. I think we blew up the small bridge south of Huozhou. Let their carriages not cross the bridge. We may be able to block some more people from the Dashun Army tomorrow. ”

Li Jing only understood after asking that there was a small river to the south after Huozhou, which was connected to the Fen River, and it happened to be on the way to the south. If this small bridge is blown up, the carriages of the Dashun army will not be able to cross, and they will not be able to carry anything with their baggage.

Li Jing said: "Okay! We'll be right over tonight. ”

However, when Li Jing and the others came to the vicinity of this small bridge, they found that it was not easy to blow up this bridge. Song Xiance had already thought of this key place, and he sent many people to guard both sides of the bridge.

Li Jingxin said: It seems that today's Dashun army is fully prepared to fight with us. But Li Jing didn't want to work in vain and do nothing. He had already seen that the Dashun army had only placed many people on both sides of the bridge, and there were almost no precautions in the river. Li Jing found five special forces soldiers with good water skills, and asked them to sneak under the bridge from the water with ** and blow up the small bridge with ** bags.

When the five special forces soldiers went into the water, Li Jing and the others shot at the Dashun army on the side of the bridge in the distance to attract their attention.

The water in April was still very cold, and although the five special forces who went into the water were still frozen on their cowhide shoulders, they gritted their teeth and insisted on swimming quietly under the bridge. The Dashun army was also nervous when they heard the gunshots, and some of the musketeers also blindly shot into the distance "bang", fighting for their own courage.

In fact, Li Jing led people to rush to the bridge with a charge, kill the soldiers guarding the bridge, and blow up the bridge. But Li Jing didn't want to expose his numbers, and their power was to be used as a surprise soldier. Li Jing and they did not attack from a distance, and the soldiers of the Dashun Army guarding the bridge would not rush out, and they were more afraid of the rifles of the Yaogang people. But just when the two sides were at a stalemate, there was a "boom", and the small bridge was blown up into the sky.

It turned out that the five special forces, after swimming down the river to the bottom of the bridge, put the **bag under the bridge and put it down, ignited it, and they went down the river and left far away. As soon as they felt that they had left a safe distance and had just landed on the shore in response to their comrades on the shore, the bridge was blown up.

The Dashun army guarding the bridge never expected that the Yaogang people in the distance had not yet attacked, but the bridge behind them was blown away. However, the officers of the Dashun Army guarding the bridge understood that the shooting of the kiln men in the distance was to attract their attention, and the people who were covering the bridge bombing did it.

As soon as the explosion passed, the kiln gang people disappeared. The angry officer of the Dashun army guarding the bridge stomped his feet. In fact, the bridge was blown up, he should feel lucky, otherwise Li Jing led people to rush over, and they would be even more unlucky.

The small bridge was blown up, which was equivalent to cutting off the retreat of the Dashun army's brigade from Huozhou.

A decisive battle between the Yaogang People's Army and the Dashun Army is about to start here.

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The Song and Yuan armies went to war in Japan. The Mongols annexed Western Europe and moved on to Africa. --Progress of "Memories of the Southern Song Dynasty".