On the southern front outside Youzhou City

The artillery forts on the high platforms of the mound of earth everywhere were constantly spewing out shooting smoke, and the black cannonballs were like a swirling flock of crows, making a whirring wind, flying up and down the walls of Youzhou City in a dense trajectory that most people could not see clearly with the naked eye.

From time to time, clouds of earth mist and debris burst and burst on the seemingly sturdy fortifications, or among the hidden crowds behind the city saucer and the female wall, splashing and exploding into patches of blood or stumps.

The sheep and horse walls built outside the moat, together with the defenders behind them, after a dozen artillery regiments and heavy grenadiers using flying fire mines, were no longer left, and only a corpse buried in the rubble had not been cleared;

It is only between the Kaiyang Gate and the Yingchun Gate, which are at the opposite angle in the southeast, that the front line constructed by the two sheep and horse walls relies on the support of the condescending stone cannons, bed crossbows and fire canisters on the top of the city, which can barely support it.

However, this kind of perseverance with all his might was also worn down and destroyed little by little under the cost and result of the gradual destruction of the large equipment in the city.

After all, although the defenders of the city head were attacking the enemy from a condescending position, it was really a bit of a loss and disadvantage to rely on these preset and assembled stone cannons and bed crossbows at the head of the city to shoot at the earthen platform forts built by the Huai army.

Not to mention the touching hit rate and landing error of these catapult stone cannons, which are assembled by hand and roughly observed with the naked eye by experience, how many chances can the same coarse stones of counterweight fall on those earthen forts that are less than a few steps;

Even if it is a bed crossbow that is said to be accurate and sharp, unless there is a narrow opening in the middle of the fort that sticks out of the long pipe, even the turret itself, which is made of wooden support baskets and earth, cannot be shot through, but can only be nailed straight to the top, which is only used as decoration.

Moreover, even if a certain artillery fort is accidentally fallen, collapsed, or knocked over by a stone on the top of it, the damage to the artillery itself is negligible; Once the dead and wounded have been treated and the scene has been cleared, and new gun mounts and bunkers have been replaced, it is often another point of non-stop fire.

However, the stone cannon and the bed crossbow position that were hit at the head of the city did not have such luck and opportunity; It is just a matter of being smashed head-on by the heavy iron ball, even if it is affected and injured by the bouncing and flying iron ball, it is impossible to escape the fate of being torn apart and disintegrating.

Not to mention that the result of every hit is a tragic scene of at least a dozen casualties among the operators and soldiers on the side of the equipment, compared to the other party's half of the earthen fortress that has been knocked down and almost bloodless, not to mention how much it can hit and wear down morale.

However, they still tried to hold on, and among the gates that were opened from time to time, there were also one defender after another rushing out to support the friendly forces behind these broken sheep and horse walls, so that they would not collapse in the next moment.

However, suddenly, whether it was outside the Kaiyang Gate or the Yingchun Gate, these defenders who were hiding in the sheep and horse wall and desperately shooting arrows could not be suppressed by the noise on the high part of the city wall behind them, and the dull roar turned back;

However, I saw that behind the east corner wall of the city between the two gates, as the landmark building of the Fabao Temple and the battlefield observation post, the seven-level brick and wood tower built on the east corner platform - the Elephant Tortoise Tower, was bombarded by a jumping egg from the heavy artillery fortress on the high platform outside the city, and the volley hit the side between the five and six floors; Suddenly, large pieces of wood and broken bricks burst out, and a small piece was clearly missing in the volley.

Then, in the midst of all the attention of the people above and below the city, the elephant tortoise tower, which had been given the hope of the public, shook quite heavily and laboriously, spilling tiles and decorations like flowing springs, and in the terrifying terror of the people at the top of the tower, it still regained its footing.

However, among the sergeants on the top of the tower, who were in charge of watching and sending letters, some of them were unbearable and collapsed immediately; The other party was almost desperate to push and knock over, and those who tried to organize and stabilize his comrades, abandoned their duties and rushed downward;

It was as if there was some kind of chain reaction, and the rest of the people fled as if they had just woken up from a dream; Then, in the tremor of the staircase they scrambled to run, the waist of the tower, which had been mutilated a small part, also made an overwhelming creaking sound again.

Then, as the sixth layer suddenly cut off the retreat and couldn't retract the momentum, desperately screaming and struggling to fly out of the air, the damaged Elephant Tortoise Tower also seemed to have received some kind of traction and inspiration, and chased after the human body that fell down and fell into a piece of blood and mud, and most of the body of the tower above the damaged part was also collapsed and the thick top with golden decorations was swept down and smashed on the city wall in the east corner not far away.

Suddenly, the clouds of smoke and the debris and fragments that fell almost covered the area of the city wall that was at least a hundred steps long; And in the very short time that it was said to be fast, it all happened irreversibly.

The rain of arrows and stone bullets that were densely projected on the head of the city also stopped in an instant, and turned into some kind of terrible, miserable cry and chaotic noise.

And under the city, it is a different situation and situation,

In the face of the Huai army pioneers who took the opportunity to attack alternately like surging waves, there were also those layers of undulating guns and blades that were hidden in the filling of the moats and ravines, reflecting a series of snowy and reflective spear tips; The guards huddled behind the sheep and horse wall couldn't help but show a certain expression of despair in their irrepressible paleness.

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On the night the city had been cleared, I received a surprising piece of news.

"About the internal response? Willing to beg? ”

I looked at the announcer in front of me with a slight surprise.

"You can open a gate first, as a sign of sincerity."

After that, I knew who the other party represented.

They are those Han Zhongyan, who was pushed to power by himself at the beginning, and turned around and launched a military mutiny to the Jiangmen family and its remnants who were in a mess;

It is said that with a bad move, not only did they fail to make a challenge through the group that joined forces, but they overthrew Han Zhongyan, who was defeated; On the contrary, the other party secretly subdued the people in key positions, etc., and led the people into the city and justifiably disposed of these "people who committed chaos" on the spot.

Therefore, these generals have been in Pinglu for generations, and the authority and interests they have maintained in the army have been stripped away; The privileges and huge ancillary properties enjoyed in the local area were liquidated and deprived one by one, and used to buy off the new soldiers and promoted cronies; In a sense, it can be said to be the most bitter and hateful existence and potential opposition group.

It can also be said to be one of the biggest potential helpers for me to travel through Youzhou City.

But in a sense, I don't want to leave behind these generals who have been in the local area for a long time, even if the opposition has been purged and suppressed by Han Zhongyan; Isn't it better to paint and sway on a brand new "blank paper" after paying the corresponding price and twists and turns?

There is no need to pinch your nose and tolerate the residual influence and interests of these capitulationists in the local area, and leave them a channel to continue to rise and grow in the future.

After all, there are already a number of local remnants that have to be taken over with Andong Dao, which is enough for me to slowly concoct and clean up. The potential resistance they posed to the policies I was implementing in Anton, as well as the infiltration and influence on Huai Town, would take a long time to digest.

As for the generals of Pinglu Dao, they were much more chaotic and complicated than those of the feudal princes of Andong; In Andong Road, I at least have the banner and reputation of Zaixing Roche.

According to the tail of the hands left by the Northern Dynasty in Pinglu Dao, in order to prevent the recurrence of the rise of someone like the Zhang family, a three-generation powerful minister, and the rise of the land of Pinglu, the strategy of differentiation and control was adopted for Pinglu Dao, which had gathered heavy troops all year round;

For example, in the jurisdiction of Pinglu Dao, there are not only the Andong Battalion that is specifically responsible for the affairs of the Northeast Raid, but also the Youzhou Governor of the Raole Governor's Mansion and the Songmo Governor's Mansion outside the enemy's fortress, and the Pinglu Road in Hebei Province, there is also a separate capital and three water and land transportation division, so as to be in charge of the requisition and transfer of money and grain and the transportation of troops and supplies.

Then, in the place, it was deliberately divided into the front of the mountain (inside the mountain) and the back of the mountain (outside the mountain) according to the north-south direction of Yanshan; Then, the core four towns represented by Lulong, Fanyang, Youzhou, and Yingzhou represented each other, and represented the main elite generals and warlike divisions in Pinglu in addition to the various Beijing troops, Zhuwei, and various autumn defense troops directly controlled by the Andong Xingying.

Then, within the four major towns that belong to each other, there are also various town defense soldiers under their jurisdiction, unity soldiers under different states, local native soldiers, archers and other system differences; The consequence of this is that various factions and generals are multiplied, and they are constantly fighting each other, and only orders from the imperial court can make them act in unison;

Although the Northern Dynasty had fallen after the Great War between the two capitals, the Andong camp, which was able to control the entire army and the general army, no longer existed; However, the situation left over from this system has been inherited, and it has become a complex political atmosphere in which the generals, large and small, who have held all levels of military positions and the corresponding mountains and private armed forces, discuss matters together, and only when the interests of the majority are coordinated can a complex political atmosphere be formed with a joint force with the outside world.

Therefore, in the era when Su Yuanjing was still sitting on the nine sides, no matter how weak the center of the Luodu court was and its authority was exhausted, it could still mobilize and extract the power of Pinglu Dao, and even after leading troops out of the fortress, he used the established strategy and continuous prestige left behind to affect the strategic direction and situation of Pinglu Dao to the surrounding areas.

After confirming that the Northern Dynasty had fallen, the Jiangmen led by the four towns of Pinglu Road also did not have enough sense of existence in the malicious series of major events in the North because of various internal disunity and disputes, and even the mood of wait-and-see.

Therefore, to say that this Youzhou Jiedu envoy and the governor of Pinglu Dao, Han Zhongyan, who was born behind the mountains and did not have a direct background in the four towns, was able to suddenly rise to the occasion and get an overview of the overall situation, and then took advantage of the unfavorable opportunity to resolutely purge the Jiangmen family.

At least, when his upper-level figures in the four towns of Pinglu had withered one after another, and the elite soldiers and strong generals had all been withdrawn, he rose to prominence with the background of the local government bureaucracy in Lulong Town, and gradually gained prestige by tidying up and tidying up the place, and even won the recognition of other veteran generals, and finally seized the nominal power and fame under the balance of all parties.

Regardless of the specific military strategy, the rise route of such a character alone is an adversary and target worthy of my solemn treatment. ，

However, how can I use such an opportunity and wedge to maximize the prior benefits and purposes? Cat flutter Chinese