Chapter 304: Quietly entering the city

Not to Zhao Tianyou's surprise, Jingzhou was not affected by external forces this time, just Chen Yijie's years of planning, he had already done eighty percent of the city's destruction. Yu Dali rebelled against the deputy leader of the city gate of the Han army, scraped together a hundred single knives for him, and Chen Yijie sent people out of the city after he had weapons.

His subordinates rode a donkey without horses, ran for two days before rushing to Suizhou, and handed over a letter written by Chen Yijie to Chen Longfu.

"General Zhao, I don't think you will fight in the future, Du Hu and I will make you a carriage, you can sit on it with a fan, pinch your fingers every day and calculate, we will not be able to fight Yuanda one day." It's really a good expectation, there are already heroes and heroes in Jingzhou City who are preparing, we just need to send someone outside the city and enter the city to take over at the right time. ”

Zhao Tianyou took the letter and looked at it a few times, it was not that he could pinch it, but he knew that there were several reasons that affected the trend of the battle, and they had all undergone fundamental changes. The previous reliance of the Yuan army has been finished, and it is almost an impossible task to forcibly suppress the 100,000 Han people in Jingzhou City with those thousands of people in the city.

As time passed, there was no need for the Song army to take care of Jingzhou, and only those people in the city could drive the Yuan army away by their own strength. But now that the letter has come, it just so happens that Chen Longfu has not taken credit alone along the way, so it's better for you and me to let him get this low-hanging fruit.

"General Chen, I think this matter is very important, after all, there are 8,000 iron cavalry of the Yuan army in Jingzhou, how can it be so easy to get it. It's better to do this, let General Chen lead an army to set off, completely wipe out the Yuan army in the middle, and then we will wait for you to rectify the defense of Jingzhou and Jingmen, and then I will send troops from Suizhou, and we will besiege Xiangyang. ”

Can Chen Longfu not agree, these two credits are almost in vain, but the state chronicles will record that it was the Song Dynasty who led Chen Longfu to lead the army to recover the two places, and quickly got up to thank Zhao Tianyou for his luggage. He is Wen Tianxiang's direct subordinate, and his current identity is different from Du Hu's, although he led the Northern Expedition, but when he acts, Zhao Tianyou still has to call the shots, and he inevitably feels that he bows his head in front of Du Hu.

If he leads the army alone and recovers Jingzhou and Jingmen, it will be newly included in the jurisdiction of the Great Song Dynasty, which will not only add luster to his face, but also pave the way for his future career.

The Yuan army in Jingzhou had no way to retreat north, that is, there were no regular defenders in Jingmen, and Xiangyang did not send troops to recover, and it was even more impossible for Wuliji. So once Chen Yijie started an incident, the direction in which Wuliji's Yuan army was most likely to flee was to flee to Yichang along the river bank and defect to the Yuan army stationed in Shu.

However, with the current strength of the Song army, it does not have the ability to fight on multiple sides at the same time, such as Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan and other places, Zhao Tianyou is not in a hurry to send troops to occupy it. As long as the army in the middle road has been going north and one day to the capital of the Yuan Dynasty, there is no need for Zhao Tianyou to order the conquest, I am afraid that those tribal forces in various places will rush to pull down the local garrison Yuan army, so as to show loyalty to the Great Song Dynasty.

Zhao Tianyou has read history and knows very well that the terrain of these places is dangerous, that is, modern mechanized troops cannot completely gain the upper hand in combat, and it is still necessary to cultivate local forces and bow down to the method of self-government.

Besides, there is an undercurrent surging in Jingzhou City, Wu Liji is sitting on pins and needles every day, he always can't think of the reason why Xiangyang didn't send troops to recover Jingmen, could it be that he gave up Jingzhou together? This is the gateway to Shu Dao, if there is no Jingzhou, the Yuan army that has entered Sichuan to fight will fall into a situation where there is no chance of being a Jedi, and even some grain and grass support will not be obtained.

But he only has 8,000 cavalry in his hands, and it must be too few for him to recover Jingmen, and he doesn't dare to leave Jingzhou rashly, in case he goes out of Jingzhou and then reverses, he can't even find a place to cry.

"All city gates must be strictly guarded, although there is no military intelligence, but the city gates must not be opened at will. Only at a fixed time every day, the vehicles transporting vegetables and grain can pass, and other idlers, if they dare to resist, will be killed by me. ”

"Yes, General!"

Uligi had the urge to kill people every day, but this was actually the reason for the emptiness and fear in his heart, and he no longer dared to rest in the official residence in the city, so he moved to live in the military camp in the southwest of the city. Once there is a matter of government affairs, whether it is a Han official or a general, they will be unified in the barracks to work and deliberate, and while closing a door, there is another opportunity.

Unconsciously, the vehicles that entered and exited the east gate to pull vegetables and grain were very frequent, and since the order had been issued, the sergeants guarding the city in these vehicles were not so careful. Of course, the most important reason is that Yu Dali's contribution was to rebel against Li Baoshan, the deputy commander of the East Gate, and he was on duty at the city gate if he had nothing to do, so the vehicles naturally went in and out very smoothly.

"Don't look at it, it's all grain and vegetables, hurry up and let it go and don't block the door, it's time to close the city gate in a while!"

"Yes, Commander Lee!!"

There are officials who speak, these little soldiers naturally don't bother to pay attention, and there are broken silver that the firm respects in private, and they check that it is all pretentious, and it is originally a matter of fooling the chief.

The closure of the Yuan army to themselves prevented the Han people from approaching them, and at the same time reduced the control of the situation in the city.

Wu Liji also knew that this was a very important thing, so he specially summoned Chen Yijie, praised his ability, and doubled the amount of silver, and then told him to go to the streets more often, to master everything that happened in the city, and there must be no accidents.

Chen Yijie naturally patted his chest and agreed, ensuring that not a single human face would be mixed in the city.

He really did what he promised to do, promising not to mix in one person, but to mix in a vanguard force. The carriages came in and out frequently from the east gate every day, and the carriages of the trading houses were used, which sent the vanguard elite of the Song army into the city, and the soldiers of the firearms battalion also came, as well as a large number of weapons and ammunition, and even three sub-mother cannons were disassembled and pulled into Jingzhou.

When everything was almost ready, Chen Longfu's army was discovered by "chance".

"General, the Song army sent a large army from Suizhou, and it is already sixty miles away at this time."

"Ah, sixty miles away? Why did you go earlier, didn't the fast horse scouts have to be released a hundred miles away! ”

"General, the scout found the Song army a hundred miles away, and when he just returned to the city, it is estimated that the Song army has reached sixty miles away!"

Uligi sighed, what should come will always come, the more frightened he is every day, the more he can't avoid this matter.

"Order, close the four cities, and no one is allowed to enter or leave here."

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