Chapter Seventy-Eight: Exterminating the New Song Kingdom

The 200,000-strong army of the Great Song Dynasty began to assemble outside the city of Bianjing.

Military columns from Gyeonggi Province, Jingdong Province, Gyeongseo Province, Hebei Province, and Hedong Province, five provinces and twelve prefectures, came from all over the country, and then settled down and stationed fifty miles away from Bianjing.

The 40,000 forbidden troops are ready to go, this is the existing trump card force in Zhao Guangyi's hands, which is in charge of the commander Cao Bin, but the person they really obey is still Zhao Guangyi.

There are still 100,000 Xiang troops left, and these Xiang troops come from different backgrounds, basically all of which are armed forces in various places, such as the Yongxing Army, the Qin Feng Army, and the Liangzhejiang Army.

According to Zhao Guangyi's meaning, the Privy Council divided the forbidden army and the box army under the command of the former command department of the three yadian palaces, the guard horse army division and the guard infantry army division.

Cao Bin, as the commander of this crackdown on bandits, is responsible for commanding the three armies, Zhao Guangyi is the commander himself, he is only the supreme commander, and the specific combat plan is still planned by the following commander team.

10,000 forbidden troops, plus 50,000 Xiang troops, plus 30,000 Xiang Yong as the deputy commander of Mi Xinsuo, was mainly responsible for carrying out the encirclement operation.

The Yongxing Army and Qin Feng Army in the Xiang Army, plus 20,000 Xiangyong were commanded by Yang Ye, the general of the partial army, and were responsible for guarding the side battlefield as a partial army.

It took nearly half a month for 200,000 people to finally assemble in the north of Bianjing City.

The flag covers the sky, the crowd is crowded, the swords and halberds are numerous, and the momentum is solemn.

Zhao Guangyi, accompanied by hundreds of civil and military officials, inspected these soldiers under his command, and the huge military array gave him great confidence.

A full 200,000 army, this configuration, it is no exaggeration to say that it is a national war.

The Great Song Dynasty originally emphasized literature over military force, even if it had just opened the country, the domestic military reserves were only 500,000, this time Zhao Guangyi mobilized 200,000 troops at once, and his determination was already obvious, and he would not give up this time if he did not destroy the new Song Dynasty.

Zhao Pu, Xue Juzheng, Song Qi, Li Fang, Lu Mengzheng, Zhang Qixian, these prime ministers also accompanied His Majesty the Emperor to review this batch of troops, and saw the imposing soldiers, sharp and sturdy armor, and the huge number of soldiers, these literati were also a lot more relieved.

The craftsmen who were the overseers brought in the latest trebuchets of the Great Song Dynasty to show the emperor and the civil and military officials, this new type of trebuchet had a longer range, could be fired beyond the arrows, and could throw larger stones - specially prepared for the tall walls of the New Song Dynasty.

Seeing this kind of siege weapon, Zhao Guangyi stroked his palms and laughed, said three times in a row, and then ordered someone to reward the general as a prisoner, and promised that if this thing made a great contribution in wartime, after returning, he would be rewarded as a prisoner and a hundred silk horses, and those craftsmen who would be prisoners kowtowed one by one with gratitude.

In short, after reviewing a circle, Zhao Guangyi was in a good mood, with strong soldiers and horses, sharp swords and halberds, and more powerful siege equipment, how could this new Song Dynasty puppet dynasty not be destroyed!

Zhao Guangyi's mood was even better when he thought of the fall of the New Song Kingdom, and heard that there were many novelties there, such as trains that could run day and night without eating grass and drinking water, houses built of stone, and a huge new city.

Once the New Song Dynasty and the puppet dynasty fall, won't all these things go into his Zhao Guangyi's pocket?!

At that time, who else in the world will dare to take the "New Song Daily" and say that I killed my eldest brother and sought power and usurped the throne?!

I have destroyed the bandits, and the people in the world will naturally scatter birds and beasts.

And the Khitan will also be shocked because of seeing such a strong military force in the Great Song Dynasty, and after more than ten years of development, Zhao Guangyi is confident that he will wage war against the Khitan again.

Once the sixteen states of Yanyun are recovered, no matter what kind of stain he Zhao Guangyi has, he will definitely leave his name for eternity....

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How good Zhao Guangyi's wishful thinking is, Jiang Yin doesn't know much, but with an army of 200,000, he really sees it.

In the wilderness fifty miles south of Bianjing City, where the 200,000 troops stood, a thousand people were a team, a total of 200 square teams were densely gathered, and from the distant mountains, it looked like a large group of organized ants.

The Great Song Dynasty is finally serious this time, and it is not an exaggeration to say that the 200,000 troops are using the national capital.

China's feudal dynasties have always been the most intolerable thing is rebellion.

Regardless of the dynasty or generation, rebellion is the heaviest crime.

And Jiang Yin originally only occupied a Cangzhou city, which was not too able to touch the nerves of the ruling class, after all, it was a border city, and he occupied to help the Great Song Dynasty defend the Khitan, and Zhao Guangyi was also happy to see it.

However, as the hand of the new Song Kingdom stretched out longer and longer, and began to establish himself as the king and officially rebelled, Zhao Guangyi slowly began to lose his breath.

First, after the New Song Dynasty sent troops to exterminate the Khitan and beat the grass, he sent 20,000 troops led by Yang Jiushu, and then after the New Song Dynasty occupied Dezhou and Dizhou, he sent an army of 80,000 led by Pan Mei.

Unfortunately, the opponent he faced was not a normal human being.

Jiang Yin, who has a strange stone in his hand, can take anything away at will by wrapping it with his consciousness, and the army is just a toy in front of him.

Therefore, Yang Jiushu, Pan Mei, and Cui Yanjin were all captured by Jiang Yin one by one.

And the officials on the side of the Great Song Dynasty actually laughed that these people took the initiative to join the enemy.

But think about it, after removing the possibility of crossing that they don't understand at all, the 80,000 army was swallowed by the 20,000 rebels without blood, and there is really no other reasonable explanation except for Toucheng.

Standing on the top of the mountain, looking at the army moving under the mountain, Jiang Yin had already begun to think about how to arrange these people.

There is definitely no need to engage in war, Chinese fight Chinese, Jiang Yin feels very boring, even if it is used for military training, Jiang Yin will not let his army and the army of the Great Song Dynasty clash.

His artillery and explosives, the real cathartic target is on the body of those Tartars in the north, as for the Song people, every human life here is very precious to him.

However, some lives, such as the lives of white slaves, Jiang Yin doesn't value them very much.

Since the white slave trade in Europe got on the right track, those slave owners were crazy about captive serfs in order to enjoy more luxurious goods, and even this news has spread from the Byzantine Empire to the center of Europe, such as the Frankish Empire and the Kingdom of Italy, which have a strong interest in crystal cups and champagne.

Then there was a group of second-hand merchants in the Byzantine Empire who did reselling, they bought slaves from the Franks and Italy, and then went to Constantinople to exchange for goods.

No one in Europe slaughtered slaves at will, and many of them were even fed to prevent them from starving to death on the way to Constantinople.

And almost all of the serfs were packed up and sent to Constantinople, and then they were driven to the big ships in droves and sent to unknown distances.....