On the tenth day of the second month of the ninth year of the Republic, when the sky was overcast and bright, the arch gate of the north gate of Taiyuan Mansion City suddenly opened after a noisy night. The republican cavalry who was close to the Taiyuan city wall to reconnoiter was startled, and thought that the Song army was going to go out of the city for a decisive battle, so he hurriedly assembled his team and stopped him.

When I took a closer look, I found that it was wrong, because it was not the Great Song soldiers who came out, but a group of ordinary people who drove cattle and sheep, carried bamboo pipes, and held clay pots.

What does that mean? Do you want to flee? Flee to the west! The north and east are battlefields, and war is about to start at any time, what are you ordinary people doing here? Who is it to be killed by mistake?

A group of scout cavalry (named scout cavalry, which can actually do heavy cavalry work) belonging to the First Infantry Division lined up under the leadership of Captain Zhang Gao, the "second-generation knight", and blocked this group of people who were suspected of being Taiyuan fathers and elders.

"Who are you waiting for? Why do you get out of the north gate of Taiyuan? What do you want? A loud Zhou cavalry didn't wait for people to get closer, so he shouted and asked questions.

At the same time, the rest of the cavalry formed a shock formation under the command of Zhang Gao. The knight in half-armor, everyone has horses in his hand, and he is murderous, and he is an incredible elite at a glance! scared a group of Taiyuan people enough.

However, this group of ordinary people did not run away, but launched a white-bearded old man, always seventy or eighty years old, who looked like a rich man. The old man did not walk on foot, but rode on a donkey, supported by two servants beside him, and wore a Confucian costume of exquisite workmanship, sewn with the finest Tianjin cloth, and a Dongpo scarf on his head.

The old man, supported by two servants, rode on a donkey, and staggered towards the cavalry of the Great Zhou Kingdom, and it didn't look like he was going to fight.

"Ladies and gentlemen," he didn't get too close to the fierce and vicious Zhou cavalry, so he hugged his fists on the back of the donkey and said, "The old man is the king of Yangqu County, Taiyuan Prefecture, and he is polite." ”

The prefectural priest of a county is a worthless sesame official, and is generally awarded a special performance name jinshi. That is, the kind of person who has failed many times in the Ministry of Rites exam. This old man is obviously in such a situation. However, he is not cuoda, because his ancestors have produced two jinshi, and he is a first-class famous family in Taiyuan City. Flipping through the family tree is from the Taiyuan Wang family!

Great landlord!

"Sect Wang," Lieutenant Zhang Gaozhang also arched his hand, "where are you going?" This is the battlefield, and the war is about to begin, so you old man should flee and go west. ”

Looking at Zhang Gao's polite appearance, the old face of the old teacher Wang was also relaxed, and he said with a smile: "This captain, there is no need to fight, the old man was entrusted by the gentry of Taiyuan Mansion to go out of the city to meet Wang Shi." ”

Greet the king? It doesn't mean that we are the Republican Army, right? Zhang Gao was stunned, and then looked at the group of ordinary people who followed Wang Lao's instructions out of the city, all holding bamboo pipes and clay pots. This is probably the meaning of eating pot pulp to welcome the king?

"You Taiyuan City want to surrender?" Zhang Gao asked uncertainly.

"It's not surrender," Elder Wang shook his head and said with a smile, "We're here to welcome Master Wang into the city!" It was the thieves of the weak Song Dynasty who fought with the soldiers of the Great Zhou Dynasty, not the gentry and common people of our Taiyuan city. Last night, the thieves of the weak Song Dynasty ran away and washed all over the city, and now they have fled...... Therefore, the gentry of Taiyuan City discussed it, and pushed the old man out of the city to meet Wang Shi. ”

What the? That's it? Too fast, right? Don't even give us a chance to pursue!

Including Zhang Gao, all the cavalry of the Zhou State were disappointed for a while.

Because Taiyuan is now a "two-city plan", there is a west city on the west bank of the Fen River, and the east and west cities are connected by pontoon bridges. There was no second pontoon bridge available on the Fen River near Taiyuan, and it was impossible to wade, and the ferries and fishing boats were also cleaned up by the Song army. So when the Song army in the eastern city of Taiyuan withdrew through the pontoon bridge, the Zhou army outside the city could not pursue.

They didn't even have a way to detect the Song army retreating. Because there was a rammed earth wall between the west gate of Taiyuan East City and the pontoon bridge, and the pontoon bridge was also covered by wooden planks, it was impossible to visually observe the Song army's withdrawal.

Moreover, the time for the Song army to evacuate was at night, and the visibility was not enough.

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"What? Ran away? ”

"Taiyuan is a strong city, why don't they defend it?"

I was also a little surprised to see Wang Laojiao's edict and a group of Taiyuan fathers, Li Xiaozhong and Wu Yiyong.

In fact, they are all having a headache about attacking Taiyuan City!

Taiyuan is 750 miles away from Yizhou, where the Hedong Army started, and there are large sections of mountain roads in the middle with poor road conditions. Therefore, the heavy artillery transportation of the siege lagged behind the plan, and the two siege artillery battalions equipped with 12 catties and 18 catties of running have just entered the bottle pass, and they will not be able to reach Taiyuan City in less than a month.

In fact, not only did the 12-kilogram and 18-kilogram artillery not arrive, but even the 6-kilogram field artillery standard of the Republican infantry division was not pulled to the Taiyuan front. Only the 4-pound cavalry guns belonging to the 3rd Cavalry Division had just arrived.

The city wall of Taiyuan is high and thick, and it is difficult to collapse the city wall with the 4 catties of cavalry artillery that have been transported.

And Taiyuan not only has the east city, but also the west city located on the other side of the Fen River!

If you rely only on 4 catties of artillery, 6 catties of artillery and simple siege equipment, I am afraid that you will not be able to defeat it for a month.

Therefore, Li Xiaozhong and Wu Yiyong both thought that they could not defeat Taiyuan for the time being, and they were ready to go around the city, but as a result, people welcomed the republican army to come......

"Replying to the words of the two lieutenants," I have been invited to a fortress on the east mountain, and when I heard the two generals of the Great Zhou Heavenly Soldiers ask, I hurriedly touched my white beard and replied, "The thief soldiers of the weak Song Dynasty have long been frightened by the Great Zhou Heavenly Soldiers, how can they dare to fight?"

Moreover, the hearts of the people of Taiyuan have never been weak in the Song Dynasty, since the establishment of the Northern Xinjiang of the Great Zhou Dynasty, they have looked north to the king's division, and now they finally see that they are all attached. If the king's army attacks the city, the people will be within. If the weak Song thieves do not leave, they will inevitably be trapped internally and externally, and the whole army will be annihilated. ”

And this kind of thing?

Li Xiaozhong and Wu Yiyong looked at each other and couldn't believe it.

"Two lieutenants," Elder Wang said again, "the old man is not very clear about something, can you ask?" ”

"Excuse me." Wu Yi is brave.

"Is my Great Zhou Heavenly Dynasty going to open a branch and take scholars, and not to suppress the merger?" Old man Wang asked.

That's the most important question! The scholars and doctors in Hedong don't care who is the emperor, they only care about whether they can take the imperial examination and whether they can continue to occupy the land and collect rent......

"Oh," Wu Yiyong nodded, "Our ruling government has decided to open the imperial examination on Hedong Road, and the examination will be held within the year, and those who are selected can take the examination in Tianjin next year. ”

As soon as I heard that there was an imperial examination to be examined, several Taiyuan scholars dressed as Confucian scholars present were a little excited.

Taiyuan in the Song Dynasty is no better than Taiyuan in the Tang Dynasty, it has declined badly in all aspects, and the style of writing is not prosperous. The number of jinshi was also the lowest among the dozen or so prefectures in the Great Song Dynasty.

Therefore, the Taiyuan Juren have been miserable in the results of the imperial examination over the years, and they are not even comparable to many counties in the south of the Yangtze River.

A famous Jinshi is resting in Taiyuan, that is a heavenly existence!

And this time the Great Zhou Dynasty opened the imperial examination, there is no doubt that it is an opportunity for Taiyuan talents.

The Great Zhou Heavenly Dynasty won't be able to hit Jiangnan for a while, right? That is to say, there will be no Jiangnan lifter to participate in Tianjin's rite test next year, maybe not even Henan, at most, it will be Hebei and Hedong's lifter than Wencai.

Why should Taiyuan Mansion produce a batch of jinshi now?

Wu Yiyong said: "As for the land annexation, my country has not suppressed it. Private land has always been freely available for sale. ”

The grange granted to knights and soldiers is state-owned land, and knights and soldiers only have the right to use it. In order to ensure the quantity and quality of soldiers, the state must of course stipulate that the right to use the grange cannot be transferred, and property cannot be inherited from separation.

In the Zhou State, private land has always had the right to dispose of it freely.

The so-called suppression of annexation is mainly achieved through the vast majority of state-owned land, rather than through the prohibition of the transfer of private land.

Wu Yiyong said: "As for the land issue in Taiyuan Prefecture, this official and General Li are military officers and will not intervene, and there will be a magistrate appointed by the republican government to deal with it later." If there is anything you don't understand, you can ask them.

However, the official knows that the ruling government of our country recognizes the land ownership rights and interests of the landowners in the annex road. ”

Li Xiaozhong said again: "Old man, can we send troops into Taiyuan City now?" ”

"Yes, yes...... The people of Taiyuan have long been ready to greet each other on the road and eat pot pulp to welcome the king! ”

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The change of ownership of Taiyuan City is not seen in the military newspaper of the Great Zhou Republic, but the harmonious scene of the people of Taiyuan rejoicing to welcome the king.

And in the concert presented by Liu Guangshi, the commander of the Xuanfu Division of Hedong, it was a bloody battle of earth-shattering ghosts and gods!

In the battle, the Zhou army used a huge cannon weighing 10,000 catties, and the projectile weighed 30 catties! In addition, it uses a giant flowering bomb that is filled with gunpowder and will explode! That's really a dozen miles of erosion!

Under the bombardment of artillery, the city wall of Taiyuan collapsed, countless houses in the city were destroyed, officers and soldiers were killed and wounded, and the exploding flowering bombs were on fire again, and half of Taiyuan City was burned to the ground, and the grain and gunpowder reserves of the defenders in the city were burned. had no choice but to use hand-to-hand combat to resist the onslaught of 100,000 thieves in turn, and finally suffered all the casualties and had to break through...... Now Liu Guangshi, the commander of the Xuanfu Division of Hedong, has led his troops to retreat across the Yellow River, enter Shaanxi to rest, and prepare to recruit troops to replenish them, and then return to Hedong.

Therefore, Liu Guangshi's determination is commendable, and the soldiers of the Hedong Army look quite brave, but this can't change the reality that Hedong Road will soon be broken through by the East Thieves!

The Eastern Thieves will soon be on the Yellow River, and the Western Capital Luoyang of the Great Song Dynasty and the Imperial Mausoleum of Gongyi may be broken by the Eastern Thieves' soldiers!

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