Chapter 57: The Battle of Xinzhou
"Niangniang, I've brought the medicine." The palace maid Wushuang took out a pack of white paper wrapped medicine powder from her cuff and gave it to Empress Guo.
Empress Guo took the packet of powder from the hands of the palace maid, her hands began to tremble excitedly, and a strange smile flashed on her face, and then a person said to herself: "Haha, the drug, this is the medicine, this is a life-threatening medicine, the one who wants me to die wants him to die first......"
The palace maid on the side looked at Queen Guo's face, she was so frightened that she quickly turned her head away, no longer looking at Queen Guo's face, and she felt that if anyone provoked Queen Guo, a pack of machine medicine could solve her opponent, Wushuang thought so much that she felt that she should not offend her master, otherwise she would hit this god one day, and her little life would be gone.
Empress Guo didn't know what the palace maid Wushuang was thinking, she didn't care about Wushuang, the palace maid, she only cared about her life, the days to come were long, she didn't want to stay in the cold palace of Changmen, and lived a life of worrying and being afraid every day.
The night was already very deep, and Empress Guo had fallen asleep under the service of the palace maid, but in the Yangchun Palace, a bleak wind and rain were spreading, and Liu Jiyuan had no good way, and now Liu Jiye had led 10,000 soldiers and horses out of the city gate and went to the mountains in the north.
Liu Jiyuan hasn't fallen asleep so late, Emperor Daxing's Zigong has been stopped in the Yangchun Palace, Liu Jiyuan always has an inexplicable feeling in his heart, he always feels that a pair of eyes have been staring at his back, making him uncomfortable, and he looks at the lonely Zigong, but like a giant beast crawling in the clearing, with teeth and claws.
"Your Majesty, it's late at night, please go to bed." Wei Degui on the side has been serving Liu Jiyuan since Liu Jun's death, for him, it doesn't matter if the emperor changes, as long as he is still favored by the emperor of the dynasty, not to mention that he doesn't feel neglected at all.
"I, I can't sleep, Senior Officer Wei, you go down first." Liu Jiyuan shouted angrily, in recent days, he has worked the national funeral of the former emperor, not to mention, he has to work hard in the war, and after a few days, he has lost a lot of weight, and his temper has become more and more irritable.
"Yes." Wei Degui didn't dare to disobey the new emperor's wishes, so he obediently retreated.
After Wei Degui left, there was only one living person and one dead person left in the entire Yangchun Palace, Liu Jiyuan got up from the dragon couch, and then put on a silk dark cloud dragon pattern shirt.
He walked to the front of Zi Palace, and the whole person began to laugh rather than smile, because the nails of the coffin in Zi Palace had not yet been sealed, and Liu Jiyuan didn't know where to get the strength, so he suddenly removed the heavy board......
Liu Jiyuan didn't know what he had done, he only felt that after a period of catharsis, his mood was slightly better, he was now the head of a country, he liked this feeling of possession, and he also liked to command others condescendingly and control others, and now that Liu Jun is dead, his true nature has begun to slowly reveal......
Only by living and defeating others can there be a chance to live, and the dead are usually ravaged by others......
It was late at night, Liu Jiyuan didn't take off his clothes, and fell asleep.
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On the other side, Liu Jiye went out of the capital Jinyang and went north, at this moment he was about to reach the front of the northern front, the Fenhe River in the west was still in the dry season at the moment, it was slowly flowing from the west to the east, and the towering city tower on the east side of the river had been together with the Luliang Mountain on the opposite bank, looking at each other from afar.
Ahead, Liu Jiye led the Han army to go to the place is Xinzhou, this place is known as the "key to the north of Jin", the Yellow River, the Fen River, the Hutuo River, the Sanggan River all flow within its range, it is adjacent to the Great Wall and Yunzhou and Shuozhou in the north, the Yellow River in the west, the Taihang and the east of the river in the east, and the south Ping Shiling Pass is adjacent to Taiyuan, Yangquan and Luliang.
The undulating mountains have become tall in Liu Jiye's eyes, and people are always small in front of nature, but Liu Jiye believes that he can overcome them.
As soon as it was dark, Liu Jiye asked people to lead the army to be stationed here, the bonfire had been raised, and the camp tent had been set up. We'll leave again tomorrow morning.
Liu Jiye stationed the army, as soon as the mountain entered the night, the temperature dropped a little, and the wind blew very coolly.
It is said that after the Song army captured Yanmen Pass, Zhao Kuangyin led a large army down from Yanmen Pass to replace the state, and now it is estimated that the itinerary is almost to Xinzhou.
If the two armies arrive in Xinzhou, there will be a fierce battle here, and Liu Jiye feels that if he defeats the Song army here, the main force of the Song army will also suffer a lot of losses, which will be a disaster for the Song army.
Liu Jiye waited here for two and a half days, two and a half days later, a battle was about to start, and at this moment it was late May, the weather was getting hotter and hotter, there was not even a trace of moisture in the air, and the drying up made the plants everywhere droop their leaves, and the emotions of the officers and soldiers in the army were also consumed by the heat.
"Urgent report-" At this time, the Han army scouts suddenly entered Liu Jiye's military tent and hurriedly reported the battle ahead.
"What? Found traces of the Song army three miles ahead? Liu Jiye was also looking forward to it in his heart, and the Song army he thought about day and night was not far from the city of Xinzhou.
"There are quite a few Song troops, according to the estimates of the last general and others, there should be as many as thirty or forty thousand."
"Thirty or forty thousand? That's really a lot, but our army is not a persimmon to be held at will, and this time the Song army will definitely go and never return. You should quickly send your troops to set up the formation, so that the soldiers at the head of the city can start to pay attention to the movements around them, and let the defenders start to wait for them..."
"Order." The scout immediately retreated and headed for the head of Xinzhou City.
At this moment, one mile north of Xinzhou, surrounded by mountains, the terrain is also a little low-lying and difficult to walk.
The flag on the high flagpole of the Chinese army was blown by the wind at this moment, Zhao Kuangyin took a deep breath, seeing this situation, he immediately put his fingers on a sword pinned to his waist, and then swiped it, he drew out a three-foot long sword, and the bronze sword body became more and more dazzling in the noon light, making people's eyes dizzy.
"The whole army is advancing rapidly, and in half an hour it will be under the enemy's city gate!"
Suddenly, the whole battalion sounded the sound of the horn of "woo", and the soldiers and horses of the camp tents of various departments also emerged at once, and the army of black pressure was like an ant colony, like a tide surging forward, and it became more lively.
Gao Huaide lifted the spear with iron all over his body, he squeezed this spear tightly, he hadn't killed people happily for a long time, and today he was bound to let the enemy army understand the spear he was carrying, as if there was a feeling that the spear was already there, and the chrysanthemum had brought it.
In a short time, the Song army had already rushed to the city of Xinzhou, and the sound of vibration in the city of Xinzhou was suddenly gone, and there was a strange silence around.
"The one guarding the city gate is General Yang Ye of the Han Kingdom?" The Song soldiers under the city gate shouted.
"It's Yang." Liu Jiye said.
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Battles began to fought, and all wars often came according to their brutal cruelty, and the two sides began to fall into a fight......
Killing and being killed are staged every day, it's just a matter of who can survive the killing.
The roar of artillery shook the big city of Xinzhou, and the pupils in Liu Jiye's eyes narrowed several times.
During the battle, their side lost a lot of numbers due to artillery.
The potholed ground, the smell of gunsmoke, and everything that was broken were caused by artillery, which was more terrifying than the equipment of other projects.
The war lasted all night, the Song army in the second half of the night has reduced the offensive, gradually shrinking the force, Zhao Kuangyin knew that they actually did not use all their strength, according to the Privy Council staff report, Yang Ye is Liu Jiye This person is a fierce general, this person marches and fights well, is a good talent.
It's just that now he is serving the Han State, and Zhao Kuangyin suddenly has a desire to cherish talents, so he ordered not to storm Xinzhou City, but to persuade him to surrender and serve the Great Song Dynasty.
Liu Jiye breathed a sigh of relief in the second half of the night, and the Song army did not take a strong attack for the time being, so that the Han army also had a chance to be empty, so that they could quickly alleviate the shortage of troops defending the city.
The city of Xinzhou was defended, which was an incentive for the Han army.
Liu Jiyuan looked at today's battlefield and some crumbling city towers, he was very afraid of the artillery of the Song army, if this thing was full firepower, this Xinzhou City would probably not be able to eat this thing.
There is no unbreakable city in the world, only unbroken cohesion.
…… Early this morning, the sun had just risen, and everything around was covered in fog, making it difficult to see the direction.
"Why didn't the Song army attack the city this morning, is it still going to blow up the city?" Liu Jiye learned the power of the Song army's artillery last night, he has been sending the Han army to guard it tightly, as soon as the Song army's artillery came, the Han army always suffered countless casualties, Liu Jiye saw the power of the artillery clearly.
Now that the Song army did not use artillery, Liu Jiye didn't know whether the Song army had no artillery or deliberately deceived himself, he had not entered a drop of water and rice all night, but he didn't feel tired at all, and his tense nerves made him very sensitive to his surroundings.
Liu Jiye thought for a while, and later, suddenly there were a few loud "booms", and a big stone fell directly on the city tower, setting off a puff of dust, and suddenly the broken stone bricks splashed up all of a sudden, making several soldiers around them so frightened that they hugged their heads and ran around.
"Ahh
"The unification of the world is imminent, why should General Yang Ye stick to the corner of the pseudo-Han Dynasty, I have always asked the new monarch Liu Jiyuan is really a violent person, is he a Ming monarch? General Yang Ye is known as Yang Invincible, and has been friends with the Khitan for many years, "Standing not far from the city gate, came a general wearing golden bright light armor, he looked mighty, rode a jujube red horse under his crotch, held a pair of heavenly sticks, stood at the forefront of the Song army, and shouted towards Liu Jiye at the head of the city.
Liu Jiye heard the sound and looked down from the city gate, and after watching for a while, he concluded that this person was Zhao Kuangyin, the official of the Great Song Dynasty.
Zhao Kuangyin saw that Liu Jiye had poked his head out, he was very happy, and said: "General Yang Ye, for the sake of the peace of the world, you should think carefully, now the Yang family in Linzhou has also sent troops to the east, and the Han Kingdom is not far from the country." ”
Liu Jiye heard Zhao Kuangyin say this, he knew that his subordinates were now trapped in Luliang Mountain, and they would not hold on to this place for a long time without reinforcements from the forbidden army, and the other side of Fenshui had been occupied by the Song army, and their way of coming had been cut off, and the mountains and mountains in the distance were like gathering, the waves were like anger, and the mountains and rivers were like this, and no matter how hard he persisted for a few days, it was also the result of this, what should he do, there were still his wives and children to take care of in Jinyang City, Liu Jiyuan felt that it was difficult to choose
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