Chapter 103: Night Attack on Daimyo
Liaocheng County Yellow River Ferry, here is one of the seven ferries built by Jin Bing, there are more than 100 ferries, the first batch of 200,000 loads of forage has arrived at the ferry, tens of thousands of people are carrying the forage in a long line, sending it to the warehouse on the wharf in an endless stream.
Of course, the boats on the wharf first transported the Jin soldiers across the Yellow River, and then transported grain and grass supplies around the Beiqing River into Jishui.
Therefore, more than a dozen grain and grass warehouses were also built on the wharf, and the grain and forage transported from the Daimyo City were first placed in the warehouse, and then transported by ship to Yunzhou.
Tens of thousands of people lined up in more than a dozen teams, looking like ants from a distance, hundreds of Jurchen cavalrymen held leather whips in their hands, fiercely supervising the people to carry the forage, the slightest slack, the leather whip was fiercely pumped away.
This time, Wan Yan Xian also approved the Jin soldiers to transport 1 million quintals of forage and 300,000 stone of grain to the south, of course, it cannot be in place at one time, and it will take a month to transport it to the wharf in batches, and then transfer it to Yunzhou.
Wanyan Zonggan was about forty years old, he was the eldest son of Wanyan Aguta, it is said that Wanyan Aguda was born to a female slave, which caused his status in the Jin country to not be high, but Wanyan Xian still valued him very much, and specially transferred him from Huanglong Mansion and appointed him as the chief general of the Jin soldiers in Hebei.
Wanyan Zonggan had never fought in the Great Song Dynasty, and he was also full of expectations for this time to suppress the Liangshan bandits.
Next to Wanyan Zonggan is the Han official Zhang Wenzhu, who will serve as the governor of Jingdong and Jingdong, and will be in charge of the government affairs of Jingdong and Lianglu, and will assist Wanyan Zonggan in exterminating the Liangshan bandits.
"General Zonggan, it's not early, let's cross the river first!"
Wanyan Zonggan nodded, and ordered to the left and right: "Pass my order, and the army will start to get on the boat and cross the river!" ”
More than 100 ships are large ferries of 3,000 stones, which can transport 10,000 cavalry at a time, and 30,000 horses can all be transported across the river in one day.
'Woo-' the horn sounded.
The Jin soldiers who were resting got up and lined up one after another, and a group of Jin soldiers led their horses and began to walk towards the big boat.
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Yan Qing led 10,000 troops on a roundabout march, went straight to the Daimyo's Mansion, stopped and walked all the way, and finally arrived on time at nightfall thirty miles north of the Daimyo's Castle.
The soldiers rested in a wood, while Yan Qing leaned against a big tree and closed her eyes, patiently waiting for news from the scouts while considering the siege tactics for tonight.
In fact, the intelligence scouts in the Daimyo City had sent them a lot of information about the city in a row, and Yan Qing probably knew more about the Daimyo City than the enemy generals stationed in the city.
The Daimyo City is nearly three zhang high, the city wall is wide and thick, the structure is tight, it has been overhauled in Zhenghe for three years, it is made of fired big blue bricks, this structure is exactly the same as Jingzhao City, they have done experiments, the ordinary earth-shaking thunder can not collapse it, only with the explosion type earth-shaking thunder placed in the city wall, the city wall can collapse, but it is useless to put it outside, the city gate is also wrapped with pig iron, extremely thick and solid.
But it has only one weakness, that is, the water gate, the water gate of the major cities in the Central Plains is much the same, made of about half a wrist thick iron bar, in the form of a grid, this kind of iron mesh gate can be blown up with ordinary earth-shaking thunder, as long as they attack the water gate, almost can be tried.
Of course, if the defense of the army at the head of the city was problematic, then they didn't necessarily have to blow up the water gate.
This time, they brought three light ladders made of bamboo, and if conditions permitted, Yan Qing still wanted to use these three ladders, so that there would be no need to alarm the defenders in the city.
While pondering, there was a rapid sound of horses' hooves in the distance, and the sound of horses' hooves did not stop, indicating that the scout had returned, Yan Qing stood up and walked quickly out of the woods.
Under the moonlight, two scouts rode over, but one of the scouts was still carrying a person behind him, which made Yan Qing couldn't help but be slightly stunned.
In a moment, the three of them walked up quickly, and the two scouts were a thin man, Yan Qing suddenly recognized him, "You are ..... Chen Jiang! ”
The person who came was the intelligence scout Chen Jiang, he saw that Dutong recognized him, his heart was very excited, and he hurriedly stepped forward and knelt down on one knee to salute, "Humble Chen Jiang, see Dutong!" ”
"Hurry up, please!"
Yan Qing hurriedly helped him up and asked in surprise, "Why did you get out of the city?" ”
Chen Jiang said: "We all estimated that we would all arrive today, so Lao Wang asked me to come out at night to have a look." ”
Yan Qing suddenly heard what he said, and hurriedly asked, "How did you come out?" ”
"Of course it came out of the city wall."
Yan Qing was overjoyed and hurriedly said, "Let's go to the woods to talk." ”
He beckoned the two scouts to go in as well.
"Are the brethren all right?"
"The safety is still safe, but three brothers have been requisitioned to carry forage, and on the other side of the dock, it can be regarded as exploring the situation at the dock!"
Yan Qing invited him into a marching tent, and there was a wooden model of a famous city in the tent, Chen Jiang's eyes lit up, "This is good!" ”
Taiyuan stepped forward and looked around, and praised it: "Like, it's too similar, it's exactly the same." ”
Yan Qing smiled: "Let the two scouts talk about it first." ”
The head scout saluted, stepped forward and introduced: "The moat of the Daimyo City is about two feet and five feet wide, the water is relatively deep, we dived into the water gate, and found that there are three water gates, all of which are iron fences, of which there is a road between the first iron fence and the second iron fence, leading directly to the city, it is estimated that it is convenient to collect taxes, if we blow up the first iron fence, we can go directly to the city through the road, which is an advantage, and secondly, the defense of the opponent's city is very weak, and it has not entered the wartime state at all, it is the defense level of peacetime, and there is no patrol, only four towers have some soldiers guarding the gates. ”
Yan Qing nodded, and asked Chen Jiang again, "Where did you get down to the city?" ”
Chen Jiang pointed to the northwest corner, "I have been going up and down the city from here, and there are several city bricks missing here, so there is a foothold on the city wall, which is relatively easy to climb." ”
"What do you mean you keep going up and down from here?" Yan Qing grabbed his words and continued to ask.
In order to avoid the patrol of the golden soldiers, the lowly position needs to be in place every day before dawn, and leave after dark, and the only way to return to the city is to climb the city wall."
"Have you ever encountered a castle patrol or any other danger?"
Chen Jiang shook his head, "Regardless of the Jin soldiers or the Ji army, they didn't patrol the defense, speaking of which the Jin soldiers are a little better, at least there are still people standing guard at the head of the city at night, but the Ji army, I have observed for two nights, and after the third watch, there are no people standing on the city tower at all, and they are all asleep." ”
"If they are all asleep, then how can they open the gates on time?"
"Then a husband will come and wake them up."
Yan Qing immediately asked the four commanders to be invited, and in a moment, Zhao Wu, Chong Lie, Wu Baoguo, and Cao Li all hurried over.
"Tonight, we will attack on the third watch, the generals let the subordinates have a good rest, and the two corrections will set off!"
"Obey!"
The four commanders bowed and saluted, and then went to their respective armies to make arrangements.
Yan Qing considered all kinds of details and tried her best to make no omissions, so that people could inform the Ruan brothers by the Yellow River.
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Two corrections, 10,000 troops left the woods under the cover of night, and rushed along the official road towards the Daimyo Castle.
Before the third watch, the army arrived in the north of the daimyo castle, and the army stopped a mile away from the northern city.
In the distance was the swarthy city wall, Yan Qing looked at the city wall from afar, and after a while, a scout rushed over, bowed down and said, "General Qiyu, there are indeed no soldiers standing guard in the city tower." ”
This should be Chen Jiang's description, after the third watch, there were no more standing soldiers, and it was clear that the Daimyo's Mansion was still in a non-wartime state.
Yan Qing immediately said to Chen Jiang: "Brothers, rely on you." ”
Chen Jiang nodded, he suddenly felt that the pressure on his shoulders was extremely heavy, and if there was an accident, he would be guilty.
He glanced back at the fifty soldiers and waved his hand, "Let's go!" ”
He ran to the northwest corner of the city with fifty soldiers, and disappeared into the night in a moment.
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