547 For Survival (I)
Taiyuan can be said to be one of the famous hard cities in Chinese history, Zhao Kuangyin sent the whole country to attack the Northern Han Dynasty before his death, and the halberd sank in the sand under the Taiyuan city, hundreds of thousands of people took turns to attack, and they were stunned that they failed to capture the Taiyuan city.
Maybe it might be captured, but Zhao Kuangyin died at that pass, the cause of death is a mystery, and the Song army retreated.
After the internal problems of the Song Dynasty were dealt with, after Zhao Guangyi won the emperor's throne, he was anxious to establish his position in the army, and led his troops to the north to attack Taiyuan for the second time, and this time he finally won it, but it was still very hard.
Taiyuan's tenacity made Zhao Guangyi almost hit his head and bleed, but behind the Song army was the unified Central Plains and Jiangnan, which was the power of a country, and Taiyuan, as the capital of the Northern Han Dynasty, had no potential to fight the Song, so Taiyuan was still taken.
Zhao Guangyi was annoyed by the huge loss, and at the same time had palpitations, so he ordered the burning of Taiyuan City.
However, Taiyuan City was an indispensable link in the configuration of the Song frontier defensive front, so three years after the burning of Taiyuan, Zhao Guangyi ordered Pan Mei to build a new city in Tangming Town, on the opposite bank of the Fen River, thirty miles northeast of the ancient city of Taiyuan.
The current Taiyuan also originated from that time, but such Taiyuan is far less tough than when it resisted the Song army.
In order to guard against Taiyuan, Zhao Guangyi ordered Pan Mei to make various small moves on Taiyuan New Town, which greatly reduced the defensive effectiveness of Taiyuan City itself, which could not be compared with the Northern Han Dynasty.
But Zhao Guangyi could not have imagined that when the Jin soldiers invaded the south, it was the relatively weak Taiyuan City that he had been guarding against that made the Jin soldiers suffer almost the only defeat, Taiyuan City insisted on not surrendering, and in a state of isolation, the heroic and tenacious Taiyuan City held on for more than 250 days, and finally fell.
Ironically, despite the general trend, Wang Yu, the general of Taiyuan, still led the hungry and tired soldiers to persist in street fighting, and finally broke through the city with the imperial appearance of Song Taizong enshrined in the Taiyuan ancestral temple.
Zhao Guangyi probably couldn't have imagined that Taiyuan, which he burned down, became a heroic soldier of the Zhao Song Dynasty who guarded him.
After five dynasties and ten kingdoms, although Taiyuan has not had the original status of influencing the whole country, but the strategic position is still important, in order to guard against Mongolia, there are two in Shanxi on the nine sides, the Taiyuan city rebuilt in the Ming Dynasty has the signs of recovering the original magnificent momentum, and because there is the stationing of the king of Jin, so the political status has also been improved.
This time, in order to prevent the Mongols from going south, Wang Shiyang moved the Jin Wang's family to Qi County in the south one step in advance, so as not to encounter the tragedy of the fall of the Qingwang family when Ningxia City was breached.
After the Ningxia Rebellion was pacified, although King Qing's youngest son was rescued by Xiao Ruxun and saved his bloodline, but at that time, all the officials who did not fulfill their responsibilities suffered from it.
Wang Shiyang was strict and did not allow himself to encounter such a situation, so he first transferred the treasure of King Jin, and then carried out the defense work of Taiyuan City, and at the same time strictly restricted the entry and exit of people in Taiyuan City, just for fear that there would be fine work to enter.
And now that the northern captives are defeated, Wang Shiyang had told the Taiyuan guards before going north that the war is not over, and the war control cannot be over, although no one is still allowed to enter and exit at will, but the residents in the city can be allowed to go out regularly and quantitatively every day, but he must take care of it.
Soldiers are arranged to guard the road, and you can't just put the details in, and everyone who goes out must pass the roll call verification when they come back.
Liu Xi is well versed in this middle joint, and he told Pull Like that with Taiyuan's city defense, if they are allowed to close the city gate, no matter how many siege weapons the Beiyu have, don't think about taking Taiyuan quickly, Taiyuan is really very suitable for defense, and they have only one way, which is to blend into Qiao Cai's team.
Rick shook his head at the moment.
"What if it's discovered? There are few warriors under this king who can speak Chinese, and it is easy to be exposed, how can they get in? ”
Liu Xi really wanted to scold.
"We don't want to go in, but to approach the city gate, and kill the soldiers guarding the gate, take the city gate, so that the Ming army does not have the possibility of closing the city gate immediately after discovering it, and at the same time let the army hide in a hidden place, once they start to grab the city gate, the cavalry commando team will rush into the city as fast as possible!
The Ming army didn't know about our existence, although they were on guard, but they were not so guarded, they didn't let people go out to pick wood for a day or two, and now the defense is far less strict than the first few days, as long as our team can approach their city gate, they can suddenly attack!
As long as our cavalry enters, Taiyuan will be finished! We can directly break through Taiyuan City, even if the Ming army wants to defend, it can only fight with us in the streets, and the defense facilities of the outer city wall of Taiyuan City are completely meaningless, Taiyuan is in fact taken by us, and then, the king can do whatever he wants. ”
Pulling Rick looked like he suddenly realized, and slapped Liu Xi's shoulder, almost slapping Liu Xi to the ground.
"Hahahahaha! Strategist, although there are many fools in you Han people, there are also smart people like you, this king is very happy! Hahaha! ”
Liu Xi scolded a few words, and then put on a smiling face in front of Tuo Lik.
"I just hope that after the king breaks through Taiyuan, he can let go of his grandfather, grandmother and mother, and his grandfather and grandmother and mother are in Taiyuan City, and I really don't want them to be hurt."
How could Rick not agree?
"Hmmm! Good! You are a filial son, filial children are generally very loyal, this king wants to see your loyalty, after the city is broken, this king will give you a team, you can bring it over to protect your family directly, this king will also tell his subordinates not to hurt your family, how? ”
Liu Xi was overjoyed: "Thank you, King!" ”
"Hahahahaha!"
Leaving the house, Liu Xi took a deep breath of the air full of blood, and suddenly felt that his legs and feet were a little weak.
In order to survive, he killed many people, and it is foreseeable that in order to survive, he will kill more people, can people like himself really continue to live? When it's all over, can you really be alive?
However, even if it is not good to die, before you die, you must take away those who pushed yourself to this step, and for this, at all costs!
Liu Xi began to plan, with his keen sense as a regional leader of the merchant gang, he observed that when the Ming army arranged for the residents of Taiyuan City to go out to pick wood, they all arranged special routes and escorted and monitored the army, but because the range of wood mining was relatively wide, in order to avoid blind spots, several directions were specially arranged.
There are about 600 people in each direction, and 100 soldiers are arranged to escort and monitor to ensure that every resident of Qiaocai is standing out and standing back, and the city will not be mixed with the fine work of the northern captives, and ten cavalry to deal with emergencies, and if they find that it is not good, they will escape and report back as soon as possible, and immediately close the city gate to prepare for the defense of the city, and the people outside the city ......
It doesn't matter anymore.
In order to ensure the safety of Taiyuan, it is helpless for those people to be abandoned, such an arrangement is very appropriate to be honest, if it is not for the intention of burning jade, Liu Xi will not take the risk.